The Ashburton Guardian.

COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AND SPORTING RECORDER.

VGL. I.—No. 151. J

ASHBURTON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1880.

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Auctioneers and Commission Agents- PRE D K . E/st Street (Close to the Railway Station) Ashburton, Land and General Commission Agent. Orders taken for—Sydney Drays, Newcastle Coal, and Malvern (by the truck load), Build ing Materials of all kinds. Fencing Wire, Agricultural Implements, English and Ameri can, &c., &c. 1 pAVI T T , Surveyor, Civil Engineers, &c. f CE. FOOKS AND SON, pi CENSED SURVEYORS -AND LAND BROKERS Under the Land Transfer Act, Government Contract Surveyors, Triangle, Wakanui Road, near Post-office ASHBURTON. 5 W. H. BRISTOW, A UTHORISED GOVERNMENT SURVEYOR, Licensed Under Land Transfer Act. Ford and Newton’s Buildings, (next County Council offices, Hereford street, Christchurch. 104 a Hotels. PORT TTTINE 0R T W IN E FOB INVALIDS. NVALIDS. rpHOS. QUILL begs to inform the inhabitants of Ashburton and district that he can supply them with PORT WINE OF THE FINEST QUALITY (suitable for Invalids), as shipped direct by Warre Brothers, of London, one of the oldest houses in the Oporto Trade. Note Address— QUILL’S WHOLESALE BOTTLING STORES, Commercial Hotel, (Near Railway Station), Ashburton. 7510-336 c JOHN TISCH begs to inform his friends and the public that he has TAKEN THE ALFORD FOREST HOTEL, Alford Forest, First-class accommodation at moderate charges. Wines, ales, and spirits of best quality. Good stabling and paddocks. Horses and buggies on hire. JOHN TISOH, Proprietor, Alford Forest Hotel. 5980 Boarding House, &c. RAKAIA RESTAURANT. LT 1 NBREWS begs to inform t f| • the inhabitants of Rakaia id Surrounding District that he has iken the premises lately occupied by C. . Howell, and has opened them as a estaurant and Boarding House. MEALS Is. BEDS Is. A. J. ANDREWS, Proprietor. Business Notices. 1130 NOTICE TO FARMERS AND OTHERS. rTTHEN you want any Copper, Zinc, W * Iron, or Tinware made or re »aired, it will be to your interest to con ult ; JOSEPH HYDE, Moore street, Ashburton, And he will cure all complaints cheaply. TO FARMERS. THE UNDERSIGNED are CASH PURCHASERS of WHEAT, OATS, and BARLEY, and are prepared to SHIP WHEAT to the English markets on farmers’ account at the lowest possible cost. P. CUNNINGHAM & CO., 5610 Ashburton and Christchurch. Conveyances. THE LONGBBACH COACH ! THOMAS COTTON wishes to inform the travelling public between Ash burton and Longbeach that he has taken over the Coach Business from Mr. George Willcocks, and hopes for a continuance of the support hitherto accorded to his pre decessor. The fares by Cotton’s coach are exactly 3d. per mile ordinary fares, and l£d. per mile for Saturday return. They are as under— Longbeach to Ashburton, ordinary 55., return Bs. Waterton to Ashburton, 3s. 6d, ordi nary, 6s. return. Ashton to Ashburton, 3s. ordinary, 5s return. Wheatstone to Ashburton, 2s. 6d. ordinary, 4s. return. The coach leaves the Booking Office, Baldwin’s Central Hotel, each day at 3.15; Post Office, 3.30. 4o ECOOKSON, Wills Street, runs the , MAIL COACH from Ashburton Railway Station to Green Street, Alforc Forest, and Mount Somers, every Tuesday and Friday, returning Wednesday and Saturday at 3 p.m



Saunders Bros. RANGITATA. FOR SALE, in convenient sized farms, about 3,600 ACRES of the* best Land in the North Rangitata District, being rural sections Nos. 32311, 32312, 32264, 82265, 30788, 30789, and 30790. The land is all fenced, and ready for immediate occupation; water can be ob tained within fifty feet of the surface, and excellent crops have been grown in the neighborhood this season. For small capitalists this is a rare op portunity to obtain good land at a very slight advance on the Government price. Portion of the property is not more than three minutes’ walk from the Ealing Railway Station. TERMS EXCEPTIONALLY EASY. EDUCATION RESERVE 1999. THIS reserve will shortly be offered fo cropping, in lota of convenient size. Well adapted for growing barley, a portion (110 acres) in crop this year yielding up wards of 33 bushels per acre. KAIAPOI BOROUGH RESERVES, Nos. 2184, 2185, 2186, 2187. THE whole of these reserves will shortly be offered in lots, for one crop or a longer period. Excellent crops of wheat, oats, and barley have been grown on the properties this season. SAUNDERS BROS, MILLERS, GRAIN MERCHANTS, AND COMMISSION AGENTS. ASHBURTON. AGENTS FOR THE LONDON AND LANCASHIRE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, 1 ! 'AND THE WALLSEND COLLIERY. 692 g



Miller. NOTICE. • WESTERFIELD MILL. TO FARMERS, BAKERS, & OTHERS. rjIHE Westerfield Mill is now in full work, and the public can be supplied with FIRST-CLASS FLOUR on most reason able terms. Every attention will be given to Public Gristing, and farmers from a distance can have grist done immediately after de livery. Apply to the Miller, HENRY BOWERS. Grain stored on liberal terms, 389c-7960 Medical. MEDICAL HALL. Established 1874. J. M. C AMBRIDGE, DRUGGIST, FAMILY AND DISPENSING CHEMIST, Has always in Stock— SPONGES—Honeycomb and Turkey Toilet TRUSSES—Common Circular, Cole’s, Sal mon and Ody’s, Mocmain, &c. ELASTIC STOCKINGS Knee Caps, Wristlets, and Anklets Abdominal Belts in Silk and Thread. FEEDING BOTTLES—Mather’s, Maw’s, Dean’s, Stocker’s, Ayrton and Saun ders’, O’Connell’s. INFANTS’ FOODS—Liebig’s, Hard’s Neave’s, Ridge’s, Nestle’s. COD LIVER OILS—De Jongh’s, Lang ton’s, Mdller’s, Foxe’s, Southall Bros. PERFUMERY—Piesse and Lubin’s, Rim m’el’s, Gosnell’s, Briedenbach’s, Low’s, The Crown Perfumery Company’s HORSE AND CATTLE MEDICINES. HOMCEOPATHIC MEDICINES—Leath and Ross’s, Turner’s, and Martin’s. TEETH CAREFULLY EXTRACTED 2 Stationer H. M. J ON.ES, Baring Square, LAW & COMMERCIAL STATIONER, BOOK AND MUSIC SELLER. Toys, Fancy Goods, Violins, Strings, Concertinas, &c. Magazines, English Papers, & Periodical'» by each Mail. Bookbinding Executed with Despatch. 150 Timber Merchant REDUCTION. CHEAP ! CHEAP !! CHEAP !!! AN unlimited supply of every size of BUILDING TIMBER now on Sale by the undersigned, at 12s. per 100 ft, and upwards. Always in stock:—Stakes, Posts and Rails, Firewood, &c., at cheap rates. . ALPHEUS HAYES. Timber Merchant, East street, Ashburton. N.B.—Orders for Bridging and Culvert Timber supplied on the shortest notice. 7380 Butcher J OSEPH WARD, FAMILY BUTCHER, Wakanui Road, near Post Office, is A CASH PURCHASER of POULTRY and NATIVE GAME, which will be sold at Reasonable Prices, at his Shop, near Post Office. 672 g Watchmaker, &c PRACTICAL WATCH & CLOCK MAKER, JEWELLER, &c. C BOBT. MURRAY, MOORE STREET, BEACH ROAD, ASHBURTON. RM. guarantees all work entrusted to , him to be turned out thoroughly satisfactory and in good working order. A well-assorted stock of Watches, Clocks Jewellery, Spectacles, &c. Watch Glasses and Keys, of the best quality, fitted. All Watch and Clock Work and Jewel lery repairs, executed on the Premises. MOORE STREET (Next Door to the Road Board Office), BEACH ROAD, ASHBURTON. 7300‘06g



Business Notices. Thomas Crompton, WHOLESALE MANUFACTURER OF GALVANISED IRON SPOUTING, RIDGE CAP, DOWN PIPING, COLONIAL OVENS KITCHEN RANGES, PORTABLE WASHING FURNACES, CLOSET PANS, LEAD WASHERS, &c. Tr\ HAS the pleasure of informing his numerous Friends that having Re • \J m moved into his newly-erected and extensive Manufacturing Premises in Armagh Street (Exactly Opposite his old Workshops), which have bee* fitted,up with the most modern appliances for the production of work in the various branches of his Business, he is now prepared to execute any order entrusted to him with despatch and and of the best quality of material, and the Lowest Price which it is possible for Steam Power and Machinery to effect. Note the Address— ARMAGH STREET, Near Manchester Street, Christchurch. 106° French Cafe, TRIANGLE, CASHEL STREET, CHRISTCHURCH. Hot Breakfast, Luncheon, Tea, and Supper, Is. Each. LUNCHEON FROM ELEVEN O’CLOCK ON SATURDAYS, Visitors to Christchurch will find every Accommodation at the above Establish ment. Beds Is. WINES AND BEERS OF BEST BRANDS. EDWARDS AND GALBRAITH, IHg Proprietor. Aitken and Eoberts, FURNISHING AND GENERAL IRONMONGERS, CASHEL STREET WEST, CHRISTCHURCH. DIRECT SHIPMENTS RECEIVED EVERY MONTH. PRICES VERY REASONABLE. GOODS FORWARDED PER RAIL SAME DAY AS ORDER RECEIVED. WE are now opening ex Helen Denny, Otago, Hudson, Abermyte, &c., A LARGE AND VARIED ASSORTMENT OF FURNISHING AND GENERAL IRONMONGERY, to which we invite your special attention. _ Particularly:— Cheese Presses, Single and Double—Churns—Calf Weaners —Weighing, Chopping, Washing, and Knife Machines—‘Vowel and Home Washers —Mangles—Ranges— Grates—Mantelpieces Fenders Bedsteads Lawn Mowers—Oils and Paints— Pumps—Wire Netting—Picks, Shovels, Garden Tools—Builders’ and Contractors’ Ironmongery—Electro-Plated and Britannia Metal Goods —Table and Pocket Cutlery. AITKEN & ROBERTS, Cashed Street West. 108 g ON SALE AT THE Birmingham and Sheffield Warehouse, COLOMBO STREET, CHRISTCHURCH. CHAFF-CUTTERS, Horse-gears, Grist Mills, Ploughs, 3 and 4-h.p. vertical Engine (portable and stationary, by best makers), Oat Bruisers, Harrows, &c., Pumps and piping of every description, Wind Pumps, Oils, Paints, and Colors, Plough and Cart Traces, Back-chains, Haines, &c. Anvils, Bellows, Vices, Bar, Rod, and Sheet Iron, and all materials required by Engineers and Smiths, Rope Packing, Plough Reins, &c., &c., “ Cotterill’s ” Patent Fireproof Safes, Unpickable Locks, Kitchen Ranges, American Stoves, Register Grates, Marble Mantel-pieces, choice assortment of Gas Fittings Chandeliers, &c. Electro-Pneumatic House-bells, splendid assortment of English and American Plated Ware, consisting of Cruets, B. P. and B. M. Teapots, &c., &c. Forks and Spoons, Cutlery of all kinds, Fenders and Fire-Irons, Coal Vases, Travelling Trunks and Bags, Baths, and a very large stock of Builders General and Furnishing Hardware. Intending purchasers are invited to inspect the stock. Prices, will be found con s derably reduced, although the quality is the same for which this establishment has been noted for the last twerity-fbur years. EDWARD REECE, PROPRIETOR. SBg STODDARD’S Temperance Family and Commercial HOTEL, MANCHESTER STREET, CHRISTCHURCH, Near Railway Station. mHE EXTENSIVE ADDITIONS to the above Hotel will shortly he com pleted. Visitors will find all the accommodation of a First-class Hotel, on moderate terms. STODDARD AND PARSONSON, 110g-764c Proprietors. STATIONERY, SURVEYORS’ AND ARCHITECTS’ REQUISITES, Etc., Etc., Etc., AT NEAR COST PRICE FOR CASH, FOR A SHORT TIME ONLY. Surveyors’ and| Architects’ Instruments—Parallel Rulers, brass and ebony— Plotting Scales, ivory and boxwood—Set Squares, vulcanite and peartree—Boxes Mathematical Instruments—Spring Bow Pens, sets and singly—large assortment of Oil and Water Colors, boxes and loose—great variety Sable-hair Brushes—splendid lot of Account Books, large and small—Desks, Workboxes, and Albums—Notepaper and Envelopes, cheap—Prize Books, School Books, &c , in abundance—Sabbath School Requisites supplied at ENGLISH PRICES. ; R. Binstead, BOOKSELLER AND STATIONER, CASHEL STREET, CHRISTCHURCH. 109 g Hudson, Eidley, & Co., GENERAL IMPORTERS, HARDWARE, STATIONERY, &c., &c., Wholesale and Retail, MANCHESTER STREET, CHRISTCHURCH. 128 g Parker and McDonald, CANTERBURY LABOR EXCHANGE, Registry Office for Male and Female Servants, MANCHESTER STREET SOUTH, CHRISTCHURCH. (Established 1858.) PRIVATE ENQUIRY OFFICE FOR DISCOVERY OF MISSING FRIENDS, NEXT OF KIN, HEIRS AT LAW, LEGATEES, Etc. N.B. Best and Cheapest Office in Town for the Sale or Purchase of Freehold Properties. Houses and Land Let or Sold. Certificates of Births, Deaths, and Marriages obtained and forwarded. Rents and Debts collected. ORDERS PER POST OR WIRE PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. 107» C. W. DUCKWORTH, GROCER, HIGH STREET, ‘CHRISTCHURCH (Near Strange’s Buildings.)! Goods Delivered at'Ohristchurch Railway Houses To Let at Sumner. 420



Business Notices. CONTINUATION OF XHE Great Sale AT ORR AND CO.’S., W E Have made still further reduc tions in various lines of Goods, as we desire to clear out all our old Stock FOR CASH In preference to carrying it over to another season. Our motto is SMALL PROFITS AND QUICK RE TURNS, and we are glad to find the public ap preciate our efforts to serve them ; hence the EXTRAORDINARY GROWTH OF OUR BUSINESS since coming to Ash burton. Prices of Goods at Home are greatly advanced, but wc having purchased largely previously, our Customers will get the full benefit. Drapery. Lot of Japan Silks, at Is. per yard. worth 2s. 6d. Dress Goods, as low as 6d. per yard. Winceys, at from sd. to 9d. Black Goods, at all prices. Stays, at 2s. to 7s. 6d. Wool Shawls, at 7?. 6d. to 12s. 6d. Flannel, heavy, sn lOd. to Is. 3d. Colonial made Flannel, from Is. 2s. to Is. 6d. A Job Lot of Ladies’ Jackets. Collars and Culls, from 6d. per pair. Real Welsh Homespun, at Is. lOd. ; all wool. 25 Costumes, dark colors, at 20s. each. 1 Lot of Childrens’ Costumes, at 4s. to 7s. 6d., to clear out. Millinery. 6 doz. Straw Hats, at 6d. each. 2 ~ ~ ~ at Is. ~ Trimmed Hats, at half usual prices. Trimmed Bonnets very low. Blankets, Etc. Bine Blankets, at 10s. 6d to 15s. 6d, Superior Blue Blankets at 17s. 6d. Kaiapoi Blankets, at 20s. Towels, at 6d. each. Turkish Towels, at Is. to Is. 6d. Boots. A few dozen Children’s Boots left, at Is. per pair. Boys' Heavy Lace-ups—a Bargain—at 4s. Ladies’ Kid Boots, from ss. per pair. Gents’ Boots, at our usual low prices Clothing, Etc. Men’s Overcoats, from 355. to 555. Men’s Waterproof Coats, as low as Bs. 6d. Men’s Heavy and Leather Bound, from 16s. to 255. Men’s Suits, from 395. 6d. to 675. 6d. Mens’ Tweed Pants, from 10s. 6d. to 15s. 6d. Men Hats, at 4s. 9d., ss. 6d., to 7« 6d. Carpets. A great variety of Brussels Carpets, at 2s. under usual prices. Best Tapestry Carpets, at 3s. Gd. Best Kidder. Carpets, very cheap. Felt Carpets, from 2s. 6d. to 3s. 6d. per yard. Floor Cloths, in great variety. Cocoanut Matting, all widths, very low'. China Matting, unusually Cheaj). Dressmaking. Dresses and Costumes made to order promptly. Prices moderate, and perfect fit guaranteed. ORR AND CO. ASHBURTON AND RAKAIA. 915 u



Coal Merchants fpHE UNDERSIGNED are now selling THE BEST SCREENED OLD LAMBTON NEWCASTLE COAL, AT LOWEST CURRENT RATES. W. MONTGOMERY & CO., [Limited], ASHBURTON. 82 | Tailors James McDonald, PRACTICAL TAILOR, East street,' Ashburton A good Stock of Tweeds and Cloths on liai d. Summer Goods open shortly. 172



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Business Notices. GOODS. N B W GOODS. NEW GOODS, Stationery. NEW GOODS, Letter Balances. NEW GOODS, Damping Brushes. NEW GOODS, Water-wells. NEW GOODS, Carbonic Paper, NEW GOODS, Account Books. NEW GOODS. Small Morocco Ledgers, NEW GOODS, Yellum Address Labels. NEW GOODS, Thick Commercial Envelopes. NEW GOODS, Pocket Pen & Pencil-holder, 1/- NEW GOODS, Foolscap from 16/6 per ream. NEW GOODS, Lead Pencils. NEW GOODS, Ink Bottles. NEW GOODS, Drawing Papers. NEW GOODS, Strongest liquid Gum. NEW GOODS, Memo. Account Books. NEW GOODS, Gum Tickets. Ac. &c. &c. WEEKS AND DIXON, Wholesale and Retail Stationers, Opposite Railway Station, Ashburton. OFFICE AND HOUSEHOLD STATIONERY PAPER BAGS, ACCOUNT BOOKS, &c. Commercial and Law Stationery Notepapers in great variety Envelopes of the newest styles Inkstands and Bottles Pens and Penholders Pencils and Pencil Cases Account and Pocket Books, Etc. Biscuit Baps Flour Rags Milliners’ Bags. Wholesale and Retail. LIBERAL DISCOUNT FOR CASH. WEEKS AND D lON Sahndwps Buildings, EAST x REE T ASHBURTON.