THE CHIMNEY CORNER.

THE DISRUPTION A TALE OF TRYING TIMES.

CHAPTER XXlX— continued.

During the whole night Mr. Bacon, Robin, and Neddie worked hard, pack ing up all sorts of portable articles, books, manuscripts, musical and philo sophical instruments, clothes, dishes, and even many of the smaller articles of household furniture—such as fire irons, bellows and cooking utensils— for the bachelor thought it thrifty to keep only one set of such things, and ■Carried them with him in all his migra tions. At an early hour in the morn ing, Mr. Bacon, with his attendants and entire travelling equippage, reached the pier of Leith, and embarked for the north. When passing out of the har bor, he stood on the steamboat quarter deck, and surveying with a mournful look the distant spires of Edinburgh, which were gleaming under a bright autumnal sunrise, he thus addressed his rustic companion—‘Look yonder, Mr. Afleck, how glorious and secure the city appears ! There is not a cloud over it to denote coming danger. And yet I tell you there is danger at hand— imminent danger. The public build ings, you see, may not be razed to the ground, but the institutions they are connected with must come down. And whose fault is it? Not mine cer tainly ! My conscience clears me of that, I have done all I could —at least all I have been permitted to do— to save the country; but you know how I have been treated. The Church of Scotland, which bristles the city yonder with her steeples like a hedgehog, is in the throes of death, and will soon become a putrid carcase crawling with loathsome disease. Mark my words, Mr. Afleck. She will die of this Non intrusion mania. She is frantic, and gnawing her own vitals. The vice of democracy in her constitution is kill ing her, and it would be little matter if the mischief could stop there. But it can’t. The thing is impossible. She will involve the whole body politic in her ruin. Revolution and anarchy must ensue. No social order can exist after the common herd of man kind—the immense masses who have only hands and stomachs —begin to act for themselves, as if they had brains to think with.’ ‘ And what div ye think the common folks’ skulls are filled wi’, if it’s no wi’ brains ? ’ ‘Nothing, sir, nothing. They ere empty —quite empty —or are just filled with a stuff incapable of thought.’ “ To be shure, there’s but few o’ them crackit, so it’s no easy to see a sample o’ their stuffin’ as lang as the life’s in. But if they -were a’thegither toom, as ye seem to think, I dinna see that they could do muckle mischief.’ “It's not to be thought, Mr. Afleck, that you can be a judge in the case. You must allow me to say you are one of the canaille yourself, and must na turally have a bias in your judgment.’ “ Weel, aweel, maybe., I’m glad ye think I ha’e ony judgment ava —biast or biast. But here’s what puzzles me, Mr. Bacon —ye miaca’ the Kirk o’ Scotland up hill and doon brae, and ye ken what ye said to the Queen and Sir Robert Peel anent it. Noo, sir, if it’s this black and that black, ye should -shurely be glad to think it’s gaun a’ to pigs and whussles.’ “So I am, since the remedy I was ready to apply has been rejected. But had my voice been hearkened to, the church might have been saved, and converted from a public nuisance into an engine of incalculabe power for good. By the slight change of giving it an Episcopal constitution, its fiery spirits might have been tamed, and its ambitious men gratified. That trouble some little fellow, Candlish might have been made peaceable enough by add ing a bishop’s mitre to his stature; Dr. Chalmers might have been smoothed down with apostolic unction from the hands of a true successor of the Apostles; and the bully Cunningham might have been taught to speak softly and reverently of the dignitaries by making him one himself. Yes, Mr. Afleck, the problem that baffled King Charles and Laud, and the last James and Lauderdale, I could have solved had I been permitted. I could have tamed the wildness of the Presby terian monster, and made it a docile draught-animal in the car of state. But I have been prevented by the insolence of office, and particularly by the fatuous stupidity of Sir Robert Peel. On his head then be the blame; I wash my hands of it.”

“If I was you, Mr. Bacon, I wad put everything richt at A uchterbardie, and let Sir Robert Peel and the Kirk o’ Scotland fecht doug fecht bane.” This broad hint sobered the philo sopher, and made him dull and taciturn for the rest of the voyage. He sat in

moody silence, chewing the bitter cud of his reflections, while Robin and Neddie gave the contents of their stomachs to the fishes of St. Andrew’s Bay, They landed in the course of the day at one of the northern seaports, and pursued their journey inland to Auchterbardie. The country they traversed was so bleak and barren, that Robin Afleck began to doubt if the land of promise he had pictured to himself and Jean Brown would' be found flowing with milk and honey after all. But by-and-by they reached a more inviting district. The dreary tracks of moorland gave place to wooded knolls and cultivated hollows, in which the land seemed tolerably rich. On many fields crops were still

standing, and displayed an appearance ’ that gratified Robin’s practised eye ex ceedingly. But the villages were few, ' The farm houses widely scattered, and . the labourers’ cottages of the meanest - description. Here and there was seen a church of toy-like smallness, and - generally in bad repair. The ruins of ancient castles were pretty numerous, and a chance old turretted mansion, ’still in a habitable state, now and then came into view. One of these was •seen far to the westward, as the sun was near setting. Pointing towards it, Mr, Bacon said—“ Yonder is Auchter bardie,” and Neddie was sent forward to announce the Laird's approach to " his land-steward or grieve, Mr. Roderick

M'Corkle. The man in fact had constituted himself a kind of general agent or fac totum to Mr, Bacon in all matters con nected with Auchterbardie. He had been born on the estate a few years

before Mr. Bacon himself, and had contrived to gentleman, in spite of all his ‘high aspirings and visionary greatness, in a kind of perpet ual minority. He was a fiery, presum ing little cockatrice of a person, and maintained a disasterous ascendency over his master by sheer imprudence. He was, in fact, the master, and Mr. Bacon only a sort of unavoidable in cumbrance, in whose name all the business of the property had to be managed, but whose will was seldom if ever consulted. Mr, Bacon even stood in considerable awe of him, and never willingly ventured to incur his displea sure. The poor factor-ridden gentle man, .therefore, expressed spine regret that he had not, on this 'occasion given Mr. M‘Corkle earlier notice of his coming, that he might have had matters prepared to receive him. Robin Afleck, however, would by no means admit that the omission was to be regretted.- On the contrary, he-main tained that it was highly proper, and that it might be greatly advantageous for Mr. Bacon to visit his property without giving previous warning, that he might be able to judge how it was managed in his ab sence. This point continued under discussion till they reached the Auchterbardie property, and here Robin had all his eyes about him to observe, as well as the fading light would permit him, the state of fences and the general style of cultivation. Everything appeared in the most wretched condition, and Robin was loud and unsparing in his condemna tions of the slovenly management that was on all sides evident. When they reached the gates they found the porter’s lodge without either roof or tenant. The main gate hung wide open, and one of the pillars was prostrate and in pieces. The park wall was in.ruins, and in many places could only be traced in a heap of nettle-covered rubbish; the lawn itself had become a jungle of brambles; and the avenue, which was neither wide nor long, but had once been shaded with stately elms and trimly gravelled was now green with a wilder ness of weeds, and encumbered with blown-down trees, rotting where they fell. The state in which the house was found may be gathered from the following letter from-. Robin ; Afleck to Jean Brown"; — “Auchterbardie 7th September 81402 “ Deer jeen,—you will be supprized to noe that i am Hear but if ye kent All thatt i Have suffered Since you left embro ye wood be supprized Att knowthing and Thankfool that i am in The land of the leaving after We partit I gaed daunderin Hame sing ing til mysel ‘ Off aw the ants the win can blaw’ (for ye sea jeen yere Aye uppermost in my Mind when i hae knowthing Else til Fash me) Weel just before i got intil my ludgings Saunders drouthythrapple stoppit me and . .

. . . . but the steem bott Was a dour theef and snoovt awa and snoovt awa tho the water was jaupin Up till the Lum tap soe At last and length we cam Ashore at a touh red with tiled houses and gott to Our feet on dry laun again But sitch laun As ye never clappit your gleg.Twa een On i can compart to knowthing but jist what it is a Muir battering thick wi quarries and noe a bush Ont bigger than, a broom cowe but the gruri aye grew Better the farer We gaed till wee Cara to Auchterbardie and here its jist as gude grun as Ever a modiwart bort a hole in but jeen of all the places yee Ever saw am Sure ye wad give this The gree for a sluggarts den Mr bacons ain person is noe Hawf soe ill guided as this fine Bit of property and his House in embro dirty as it is is Like dalkeith pallace compart with the,house he has . here when we had managed to sprauchle through the Weeds and rotten timmer in the Avenue and got up till the door of the house (a house big enough for a kirk but not a hale Window in it all) wee were met on the mooly stairs by Mr makorkale He is a Wee man with a red Face and the een of a Wulcat the Gallant Neddie had gotten him drink ing In the only room in, the house that can be leavt in Alang with a Minister body something of Doctor Snapper dudgeons kind and When he heard that mr Bacon Was coming he stormt and swore jist the same as if he Was the Maister poor mr Bacon the man then When he Met us He 'maist pro vokit Me at tbe first Word to dust His coat till him he curlt his Brows at mee and asked mr Bacon what he had brocht Me for and rar Bacon the cuif hardly durst own me for a Freen it was lang before we got onything either to eat or drink and then wee got jist the tail of the Factors feast its my opinion jeen mr. Bacon Has been Driven daft or at least been keept from Being like ither folk by This etlercap of a Boddy for I see he has not a word to say In his ain House but 111 .hole out makorkle before I be moriy. days aulder or yee may say am noe Better than a cuif mysel i wad tak him by the nose at yince if i could get 'mr Bacon to back me but he Cannot bee per swaded to Risk a rippet With him soe i Must .wait till Mr Duncason comes and i think i May drive my pint Then Jimes is to be here as shoon As he can steer and i think hell, be Shure to help me in this gob for though he aye gloomt When there was Onything funny to be dune with mr Bacon he canna but Wish to get him rightit When he sees him Impost on noo jeen ye think i am Scant of rumlegump tion wi nac mair sense than a hen could baud in its steekit nieve but yell surely Alloo im right in this Business dont think Mind ye that its , only, for mysel that im working To ;be shure if i Could get makorkle awa from auchter bardie his place wad fit me fine for he has a snug twa story hous for Himsel no abune a gun shot from the big hous and An income gude Eneuch to keep it Het and fou All the year round but i Could mak it a gude Change for mr Bacon as weel as for Mysel he needs Knowthing but the like of me for his factor and you jeen for His factors wife between Us i think we could mak auchterbardie a different place And mr Bacon a different kind of Man and Noo jeen fare ye weel yeel hear from me again When onything comes Out of my prospects the nip i got from you at Habbies how ye ken yersel What for is aye blue yet and i wish it was just to get again Im Maybe noe just sae douce as i should be but ye ken jeen ye must just put up with Me since im your Ain faithfool ‘Robin Afjleck.’

The happy thoughts he had thus so imperfectly expressed put Robin so much in key for singing that he did not cease till he had extemporised the following ditty, which he hummed over to himself, and encored the per formance more than once with great applause: — JEAN BROUN—A SONG ' Tune — M Within a mile o’ Embro* Toun ” My Jeanie is sonsie, light-hearted, and young, Wi’ a bonnie face brimfu’ o’ glee ; There is music to me, in her glib merry tongue, And aye love and truth in her e’e, O, she is a winsome quean ! My laughing, rlaffing, charming Jean, She makes foul weather fair? Wi* her it’s summer a' the year ; I canna, maunrq winna, sha’na Koose her main

As for me, wanting Jean, I’m a blatc, simple duel But wi’ her I’m three times a man ; 1 could loup o’er the moon my head turns like awheel, For she’s atled to me heart and han’. Mayna I be proud and croose 1 How can I be dull or douce? It needs but little lair Through a’ her fun to see wi’ me She canna, winna, downa Ony man compare !

It was rare luck for Jean, and guld fortune to me, Our hiring at All Hallow Fair ; I cttlccl at only a pnir ploughman’s fee. But the prize o' my life met me there. Happy was that hiring day 1 Jean herscl’ will ne’er say nay ; Though whiles wi’ saucy air, But just to tease me, she pretends She canna, winna, manna, muckle For me care.

What care I for toil, or a bare, scoury coat 1 I’m rich in the heart o’ my Jean : Wi’ nae laird in the lan’ would I nifler my.lot— i’m the richest man ever was seen 1 I.onus dead set on works gear Keep your bargains cheap or dear—- Your wealth I weel can spare ; In riches cash can never buy Ye canna, manna, shan’a ever Match my share, (To be continued —commenced on Yuly 2 6. )

CHISPA’S LETTER

(From the Ashburton Herald, Oct. 9.)

I am not yet so bald that you can see my brains.”—Longfellow.

The Agricultural and Pastoral Associa tion have issued their annual bill, and as an effort in the printing line they have achieved a success. The credit of that success is attributable probably more to the P. D. of your establishment than to the august Association. The poster in ques tion has some peculiar features about it, other than that connected with the print ing art. The general regulations give a heap of instructions as to the manner in which a candidate for pastoral honors must act if he expects to win a prize, and are very distinct as to the amount to be parted with for entrance fees ; but a hiatus is to be found under the heading of “ Catalogue of Prizes. ” Now, Ohispa hasn’t anything to enter, but he has some acquaintances who might go in for enter ing a swingletree, a fat pig, or a scarifier ; and these friends are anxious to know if they get a prize, what the spondulix will amount to. As my friend Mr. Branson would remark, I, as amicus curia:, would recommend them to issue a new pro gramme, and state what they intend giv ing for tip top exhibits. I. have read in your reports that silver medals, and bronze medals, will be given as prizes, and no doubt leather medals and wooden spoons, and such other honors as people do not care to win, will also he given, but the Association ought, you know, to say what amounts or rewards they will give to the best quadruped in each class.

It has become fashionable of late for purveyors of bread and beer to publish the analysis of Professor Bickerton as to the quality of their goods ; and I have no doubt but that the existence of such an officer as the Public Analyst is a great preventative to our getting poisoned either in our platters or in our cups. But I was considerably astonished to find the other day that the bread I eat is composed entirely of water and ashes. The pub lished analysis of the bread in question says, on the authority of Prof. Bickerton,. that it consists of 43’04 per cent, of water and ’9O of ash. Flour don’t seem to be one of the constituents of this baker’s bread, and yet it seems to me to be a very palatable article. I think my friend, Mr. Thiele, must have sent his pump instead of a loaf to the professor. Perhaps some of the sellers of malt liquor will favor mo with an analysis of the quantity of pump used in the manufacture of their goods. I know from the best of all tests —the proof of the. pudding is the eating—that Mr. Thiele’s bread is very wholesome eating, and the professor bears me out when I say so ; but the said professor, when he gives an analysis, has no right to give only half the quantities, leaving ordinary men to think that there are only water and ash in the staff of .life’provided by as honest an old baker as ever stood up to a table. I should say that analysis is science run mad.

I seriously think I will alter my occupa tion. A newspaper hack is always con sidered by the business community as a bad mark, and as a contradistinction a butchers’ hack is looked upon as a “good line.” My remarks touching butchers arise from a most extraordinary anomaly, at least it appears so to my mind. At the sale yards sheep are constantly on the rise, and at the butchers’ shop the dead jumbuck seems to lose his value in direct ratio to his price when, alive under the hammer. Why this, or thusly? Fore-quar ters seem to be sold at exceptionally small prices, and on asking for one at standard rates a day or so ago, I was handed a sheep’s head. The joke is old, the head is no doubt the fore part of our Avoolly-faced friend, but I don’t quite, see that I and the rest of the unemployed should be subjected to such a swindle. But seeing that things have arrived at this stage in the butchering line, I intend starting next week myself. Hay Smith and old Blueskin will give mo an old wether and a side of pork between them, and with a bit of luck and plenty of cheek I may yet hope to be able to do well. I think we should look out for rise in prices shortly.

As the Borough Council couldn’t give me a show at the standard six bob a day, I went up country to look for a job ; and I may as well say at once that I didn’t find one, I wont up what they call the “forks.” I found old Philip Tisch, but he had neither “ forks nor knives ” forme to operate with. However, I got round the old boy for a pint, and ho told me to go on to the next shop—only a mile or two he said—and I would get a job at the Forest. Well, Invent that “ mile or two,” which proved to be a long ten miles, and got into the sweetest country I have yet sot eyes on. This part of the land seems to be constructed of three concomitants —Birch, Boulders and Beer. Birch the inhabitants live on, that is to say they exist indirectly on the outcome of the post and rails and stakes which by their ingenuity they manufacture out of the scrub which grows on the hill. The Boulders they make their roads with, and, “ ye gods and little fishes!” Such roads. I should like to see just one chain of the best of their roads laid down in front of Councillor Ivess’ office, and then you would hear a howl of indignation which would reach from the Snares to the Three Kings. Their third comfort, Beer, is their saving point. The population in this district have a cur rency of their own. They do not reckon up posts or rails or stakes at so much per 100, but at so many pints ; and when a splitter or bushman, or whatever he calls himself, considers he has converted a sufficient quantity of trees into; market able timber, he there and theh travels over the Boulders, and converts the Birch into Beer. This umbrageous community have been very modest in their demands to the County Council, they have only asked for one boon, and that has been granted. They petitioned the august body for a grant of a reserve for a most

important purpose. What think ye, my heavers ? A cemetery ! nothing less. And it was a wise request —verb sap.

Law is law. You can.shoot a man, or at all events threaten to do so, and I pre sume you can give him a jolly good dress ing down, and nothing will be said about it, if you can only scare up a question about who owns the ground the fight takes place on. M‘Cutcheon was on his pistol powers with Hume, and nearly sc?red the life out of the poor ploughman, but the magistrate has no jurisdiction because of a dispute that was hanging over the land, and because o£ this dispute Hume has to be in continual danger of being made food for worms, and nothing can be said. I can assure you this is law. CmsPA.

THE ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1880.

Printed and published by Horace- - Weeks and Charles Dixon,, at.. their " Printing Office, Eas: Street, Ashb.arton Tuesday, October is, 1880/ " ' u >L '*



A Glass Manufactory. —A glass manufactory is to he started at Auckland at once, Mr. Michael Cook having leased the front of the City Council site for the purpose.



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To builders and contractors we offer special inducements, having a heavy stock of Leamington Patent Ranges (2ft Gin to 4ft Gin); Cindrella, Queens, Victoria, Vesper, and Kaiser Stoves, Register Grates, Carpenters’ Rim, Mortice, and Plate Locks, and general builders Ironmongery. We have also on hand an extensive stock of painters’, glazier’s and paperhangers materials, consisting of Red and White Lead, Paints, and Colors, of all kinds ; Raw and Boiled Linseed Oils, Turpentine, Varnishes, Brushes, Window Glass, of all kinds; Putty, Paperhangings, etc., etc. Carpenters and joiners would do well to call and inspect our stock of Tools. We are now landing a shipment of American Goods, containing a great variety of Tools and Yankee Notions. A large stock of Rod, Bar, and Sheet Iron, also a large and good stock of Black smiths’ and Farriers’ tools on hand. A limited assortment of Patent American and Colonial Washing Machines. ;—o Grocery Department, The above Department is now w r ell stocked with New Season’s TEAS, in half-chests . and boxes; Green and Pekoe Tea, for mixing purposes. Superior Mauritius SUGARS, white and brown Crystals and Counters. “ Venus Twist” and “ Nail Rod” TOBACCO ; “ Centennial” Cut-up Tobacco'(Golden Leaf), in quarter-pound tins and half-pound packets. PIPES of every description. Currants, El&mes, Sultanas Muscatells, and Figs (all New Fruit) ; Jordan and Shell Almonds, Barcelona 'Nuts, Neaves’lnfant Food, and Robinson’s Patent Groats and Barley. French Prunes, Bottled Fruits, Essences, Spices, etc. A large stock of English and Colonial Con fectionery. A full assortment of Pink’s, Morton’s, and Crosse and Blackwell’s Pickles, Sauces, Potted and Preserved Meats, Fish, etc. New Jama, Marmalade, Red and Black Currant and Apple Jellies. Van Houten’s and Fry’s Extract of Cocoa, in quarter-pound and half-pound tins. Cheese Rennet Extract and Extract of Annato. PERFUMERY AND PATENT MEDICINES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. China and Glassware. We invite inspection|of this Department in particular/ as we have just unpacked Nineteen Crates of General CROCKERY, consisting of richly enamelled and gilt, white and gold, enamelled and plain Toilet Sets ; .white and gold China Cups and Saucers—small size ; Dinner Services, complete ; and Soup Turreenes; Hot-water Jugs, in sets, etc., etc. And Eight Casks of GLASSWARE, consisting of Sets of Cut and Pressed Decanters, Water Caratfes, Tumblers, Wine, Custard, and Jelly Glasses. ' O—; INSPECT OUR STOCK BEFORE PURCHASING ELSEWHERE. ERIEDLMDE R BR OS Agents Colonial Fire Insurance Company.



Business Notices. GRATEF UL COM FORTTNG EPPS’S COCOA. BREAKFAST. BY a thorough knowledge-pf the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful application of the fine properties of well selected cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctor’s bills. It is by the judicious use of such articles of diet that a constitution may be gradually built up until strong enough to resist every ten pency to disease. Hundreds of subtle maladies are floating around us ready to attack wherever there is a weak point. We may escape many a fatal shaft by keeping ourselves well fortified with pure blood and a properly nourished frame.— See article in the Civil Service Gazette. Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold only in packets or tins, labelled : J AMES EPPS AND CO., HOMOEOPATHIC CHEMIST, LONDON. 91 °G Medical. AD VICE TO MOTHERS.'—Are you broken in your rest by a sick child, suffering with the pain of cutting teeth ? Go at once to the chemist and get a bottle of Mrs. WINSLOW’S SOOTHING SYRUP. It will relieve the poor sufferer immediately. It is perfectly harmless ; it produces natural, quiet sleep by reliev ing the child from pain, and the little cherub awakes *•' as bright as a button.” It has been in use in America, and is highly recommended by medical men. It is very pleasant to take ; it sooths the child ; it softens the gums, allays all pain, relieves wind, regulates the bowels, and is the best known remedy for dysentry and diarrhoea, whether arising from eething or other causes. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup, and see that “ Curtis and Perkins, New York and London,” is on the outside wrapper. No mother should be without it. Sold by all medicine dealers, at Is. l^d. —Depot, 493, Oxford street. WHO is Mrs. WINSLOW? As this question is frequently asked, we shall simply say that she is a lady who for upwards of thirty years has untireingly devoted her time and talents as a female physician and nurse, principally among children. She has especially studied the constitution and wants of this numerous class, and, as a result of this effort and practical knowledge obtained in a lifetime as nurse and physician, she has com pounded a SOOTHING SYRUP for Chil dren. It operates like magic, giving rest and health, and is, moreover, sure to regulate the bowels. In consequence of this article, Mrs. Winslow is becoming world-renonned as a benefactor of her race. Children certainly do rise up and bless her. Especially is this the case in this city. Vast quantities of the Soothing Syrup are daily sold and used here. We think Mrs Winslow has immortalised her name by this invaluable article, and we sincerely believe that thousands of chil dren have been saved from an early grave by its timely use, and that millions yet unborn will share its benefits and unite in calling her blessed. No mother has dis charged her duty to her suffering little one, in our opinion, until she has given it the benefit of Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. Try it mothers, try it now.— Ladies’ Visitor, New York City. YALUABLE DISCOVERY for the HAIR. A very nicely perfumed Hairdressing, called THE MEXICAN HAIR RE NEWER, now being sold by most Che mists and perfumers througout the coun try, at 3s. Cd. per bottle, is fast super ceding all the old restorers and dyes for the purpose of changing grey or white hair to its natural original color, for it will positively restore the hair in every case of greyness to its original color, with out dyeing it or leaving that offensive smell which most of the hair preparations of the day do. This preparation has never been known to fail in restoring the hair to its natural color and gloss in from eight to twelve days. It promotes growth and prevents the hair falling out, eradicating dandruff, and leaving the scalp in a clean, healthy condition. It imparts peculiar vitality to the roots of the hair, restoring it to its youthful freshness and -vigor. Daily applications of this preparation for a week or two will surely restore faded, grey, or white hair to its natural color and richness. It is not a dye, nor does it con tain any coloring matter or offensive substance whatever. Hence it does not soil the hands, the scalp, or even white linen, but produces the color within the substance of the hair. Read the follow ing from Mr. Nathan Berry, Chemist, Walkden : “ One of my customers told me the other day he had had grey hair for thirty-five years, and after using one bottle of the Mexican Hair Renewer I sold him, it was restored to and kept its natural color.” It may be had of any respectable Chemist, Perfumer, or Dealer in toilet articles in the kingdom, at 3s. (id. per bottle.—Prepared by HENRY 0. GALLUP, No. 493, Oxford street, London. COCKLE’S ANTIBILIOUS PILLS— These Pills consist of a careful and peculiar admixture of the best and mild est vegetable aperients, with the pure ex tract of the flowers of the camomile. They will be found a most efficacious remedy for derangement of the digestive organs, and for torpid action of the liver and bowels, which produce indigestion and the several varieties of bilious and liver complaints. They speedily remove the irritation and feverish state of the stomach, allay spasm, correct the morbid condition of the liver and organs subser vient to digestion, promote a due and healthy secretion of bile, and relieve the constitution of all gouty matter and other impurities, which, by circulating in the blood, most injuriously affect the action of the kidneys ; thus, by removing the causes productive of so much discomfort, they restore the energies of both body and mind. To those who indulge in the luxuries of the table these pills will prove highly useful, occasioning no pain in their action, unless they meet with an unusual quantity of acrid bile and acid matter in the stomach and bowels. To Europeans on their arrival in India or China they are recommended as a preservative against the fatal disorders peculiar to tropical climates. Their occasional use, if com bined with the strictest attention to diet, will be frequently found to remove at once, by their influence over the secre tions, that congestive and unhealthy con dition of the liver which is so often the earliest antecedent of severe febrile and constitutional disturbance. It must be understood that these pills are not recommended as containing any new or dangerously active ingredients; on the contrary, they are characterised by a remarkable simplicity of combination, and whatever merit they may be found to possess depends as much upon the selec tion of pure drugs, and the unusual labor and attention bestowed upon their subse quent preparation, as upon the acknow ledged peculiarity of their composition, They are not recommended as a panacea, nor are they adapted to all complaints; but as a mild and efficacious aperient and tonic in the various forms of indigestion, it will not, perhaps, be*an exaggeration to state that they have been resorted to under all systems of diet, changes of cli mate, or atmospheric alternations with an extraordinary degree of success for upwards of seventy-eight years. This celebrated family aperient may be had throughout the United Kingdom in boxes at Is l|d, 2s 9d, 4s Gd, and 11s Od, as well as in India, China, New Zealand, and the Australian Colonies. .



Medical. Keating’s Powder. Keating’s Powder. Keating’s Powder. Keating’s Powder. Kills Bugs, Fleas, Moths, Beetles. This Powder is quite harmless to ANIMAL LIFE, but is unrivalled in destroy ing fleas, bugs, cockroaches, beetles, moths in furs, and every other species of insect. Sports men will find this invaluable for destroy ing fleas in their dogs, as also ladies for their pet dogs. ' ’ / THIS ARTICLE has found so GREAT a SALE that it has tempted others to vend a so called article in imitation. The PUBLIC are CAUTIONED that the tins of the genuine powder bear the autograph of IHOMAS KEATING. ' Keating’s Worm Tablets. Keating’s Worm Tablets. Keating’s Worm Tablets* A PURELY VEGETABLE SWEETMEAT, both in appearance and taste, furnishing a most agreeable method of administering, the billy certain remedy for INTE S T 1 NA L .or THREAD WORMS. It is a perfectly safe and mild preparation, and is especially adapted for children. Sold in tins by all Chemists and Druggists. Proprietor, THOS. KEATING, London. 956 c ENO’S FRUIT SALT. THE PHYSICAL BASIS OF LIFE. - GOOD FOOD. How to enjoy good food that would other* wise cause Bilious headache, disordered Stomach, Poisoned Blood, See. —use ;• ENO’S FRUIT SALT. r .f A NATURAL APERIENT. ENO’S FRUIT SALT, when.taken with water, acts as a natural aperient, its simple but natural action removes all impurities, thus preserving and restoring health. If its great value in keep ing the body in health were universally known, no family should be without it. : ‘ ‘ ‘ ’ TYAGGED, WEARY, AND i out ! 11 ■■ ■; Anyone whose duties require them to under go mental or unnatural excitement or strain— EIsO’S FRUIT SALT is the best knovtyt remedy. It acts like a charm. It allays ner vous excitement, depression, aud the injurious effects of stimulants and too rich food, - 1 Its power in aiding the digestion is most striking. It also restores the nervous system to its proper condition (by natural means).’ Use ENO’S FRUIT SALT. You cannot overstate its great value in keeping the blood pure and free from disease. ■ ENO versus STIMULANTS. Ann sufficient amount of exercise frequently deranges the liver. ENO’S FRUIT.SALT is peculiarly adapted for any constitutional weak ness of the liver, A world of woes is avoided by'those who keep and use ENO’S FRUIT SALT.—“AII our customers for Eno’s Salt would not be without it upon any consideration, they having received so much benefit fromit.— Wood Brothers, Chemists, Jersey, 1878.”; Every travelling trunk and HOUSEHOLD in the world ought .to contain a Bottle of ENO’S FRUIT •SALT, prepared from Sound, Ripe Fruit, as a Health* giving. Cooling, Sparkling, and Invigorating Beverage for any Season. It is the best pre ventive and Cure for Biliousness, Sick He’acl ache, Skin Eruptions, Impure Bleed, Fevers, Pimples on the Face, Giddiness Feverishness, Mental Depression, Want of Appetite, 'Sour ness of Stomach, Constipation, Vomiting, Thirst, &c., and to remove the effects of errors in Eating and Drinking. .: ENO’S FRUIT SALT.— From the Rev. Dr Hurst, Vicar of’Colloriy;—‘‘l have used your Fruit Salt for many years, and haye verified your statements. The thanks of .the public are due to you for your unceasing, efforts to relieve suffering humanity. Long may you live to be a blessing to the world.”: ’' ; ENO’S FRUIT SALT.—'“After suffering for nearly two and a half years from severe headache and disordered stomach, and after trying almost everything and spending much money without finding any benefit) I was recommended by a friend to try ENO’S FRUIT SALT, and before I had finish '1 one bottle I found it doing me a great deal of good, and now I am restored to my usual health; and others I know that haye tried it have not enjoyed such good health for years.—Yours most truly, Robert Humphreys, Post Office, Barrasford. ” Agents for New Zealand, „ MESSRS. KEMPTHORNE, PROSSER, AND CO. STEEDMAN’S SOOTHING POWDERS FOR CHILDREN CUTTING TEETH. R CAUTIC N TO P UKCHASERS. The value of this well-known Family Medi cine has been largely tested in all parts Of the world, and by all grades of society, for upwards of FIFTY YEARS. : ; Its well-earned-exten sive sale has induced SPURIOUS IMITA TION S, some .of which ,in OUTWARD APPEARANCE so closely resemble, the ori ginal as to have deceived 1 many purchasers. The proprietor therefore feels, it due to the public to give a special caution against the use of SUCH IMITATIONS. - Purchasers are therefore requested carefully to observe the four ■ following distinctive characteristics, without' which none ydfe genuine;— ; :■ I '■ ■■■' ■=’' Ist—ln every case the words' -JOHN STEEDMAN, - CHEMIST, WALWORTH, SURREY, are engraved pn the Government Stamp affixed to each packet. and—Each Single. Powder has directions, lor the dose, and the words, John, STEEDMAN, Chemist, Walvyorth, Surrey, printed thereon. 3rd —The name, Steedman, is always/spelt with two EE’s. ' , r . . 4th —The manufacture is carried oh solely at Walworth, Surrey. • ' Sold in Packets by all Chemists arid'Medi cine Vendors. ■' : * 1 ' - Sold by Kempthorne, Prosser and Co., Auckland. ; • ■ r; / .{63 THE ASHBURTON GUARDIAN/- gUBSCRIBERS in the Country are Particularly requested to communicate with the Publishers if their papers are not properly addressed. .The number of Sub scribers has increased so rapidly that ‘un less great care is taken in giving orders, as to address and how to be sent, the papers may be left at the wrong place. ... All orders will receive prompt attention. - .