The Ashburton Guardian.

COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AND SPORTING RECORDER.

VOL. I.—No. 08. J

ASHBURTON. TUESDAY, MAY 11, 1880.

[PRICE—TWOPEN CE.



Auctioneers and Commission Agents. ALFRED HARRISON, AUCTIONEER, COMMISSION AGENT, ETC. SALES, Sales of Stock, Mer chandise, Furniture and Effects, also Pigs, Fowls, and General Produce. WEEKLY SALE Every SATURDAY at 12 o’clock. SALE YA"DS ATTENDED. Entries can bo made at my office or at the Yards. Agent for the Transatlantic Eire Insurance Company. Bg-252c dmeston bros! & gundry (LATE BULLOCK AND CO.), ASHBURTON, General Merchants Auctioneers, Stock, Station, Estate, and Commission Agents. Sales of Stock, Farm Implements, &c., will be held at their Yards, Ashbur ton, and the Tinwald Yards, on alternate TUESDAY'S. CASH ADVANCES Made on Stock, Produce, &c., consigned for Positive Sale. EDMISTON BROS. & GUNDRY. 19 FARMERS AND OTHERS. Messrs, acland, Campbell, & CO. are prepared to supply Farmers and others with Station Stores, Fencing Wire, Fencing Staples, Standards, &c., at Lowest Rates, and of First-class quality. AGENTS FOR THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY. CAPITAL £2,000,000 NSURANCES EFFECTED AT LOWEST RATES. ACLAND, CAMPBELL & CO., Auctioneers. W. R. BOYLE, Agent, Ashbukton. Go pREDK. P AVI T T , 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. * MESSRS. POYNTZ & CO., L AND, STATE,



Auctioneers, &c. J. E. BUCHANAN AND CO., AUCTIONEERS, LAND AND ESTATE AGENTS, ASHBURTON. PROPERTIES. THE following, amongst other PRO PERTIES, are placed in the Auction eer’s hands for LEASE and SALE: — ASHBURTON— A splendid paddock of 5 acres near Township. Six acres close to N. E. Belt. Sections near Gas Works. House and garden, Burnett St. Capital 4-Boomed House, Peter St. ASHBURTON FORKS— -190 acres with splendid Creek. 200 acres in crop, fenced and sub divided. Good house and out buildings. WAKANUI — 100 acres near Moffatt’s Mill. 150 acres in crop. SEAFI ELD -400 acres fenced and subdivided. 196 acres fenced and subdivided. DROMORE - 400 acres fenced and subdivided. Good Stable and Cottage. CHERTSEY— A few Township Sections. 150 acres near Railway. J. E. BUCHANAN & Co., 4. 15q Auctioneers.



AND GENERAL COMMISSION AGENTS. Rents and Debts Collected. Money advanced on Freehold Security. 7 WILLIAM ADAMS, Accountant and Genekal Commission Agent. W. A. has started busines as above in the Cottage next Road Board Office, A sh burton. Tradesmens’ books kept, Accounts Rendered, Rents Collected, Letters Written, business or private, Contractors Partnership Accounts Adjusted. Charges Moderate. WILLIAM ADAMS, Next Road Board Office, Sl2g Ashburton. W. R. BOYLE, Moore street, Ashburton, Accountant, land, estate, and GENERAL AGENT. Loans negotiated. Absentees represented. Agent for the Victorian Insurance Com pany. Certificated Accountant in Bank ruptcy. 458 g Insurance. ■\TORTH BRITISH AND MERCAN TILE INSURANCE COMPANY. Established, a.d. 1809. Capital ... ••• ... £2,000,000 Losses already indemnified... £5,000,000 Reserve £1,156,000 Ashburton Agents— -3800 POYNTZ & CO. Conveyances. METHYEN TO ALFORD FOREST. JOHN TISCH begs to inform the pub lic that his COACH LEAVES AL FORD FOREST DAILY at 9 a.m. for the Methven Railway Station, to meet the 11.25 a.m. train from Christchurch and Rakaia, and returns to Alford Forest at twelve o’clock. Parcels and orders punctually attended to. All unstamped letters taken along the road to be charged at parcel rates. JOHN TISCH, 5970 Alford Forest. THE LONGBEACH COACH ! * GEORGE WILLCOCKS respectfully acknowledges the liberal support which he has received during the short time his Coach has been running, and soiicits a continuance of the same. The fares by Willcocks’ 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, ss. .return. Wheatstone to Ashburton, 2s. Gd. ordinary, 4s. return. The coach leaves the Booking Office, Quill’s Commercial Hotel, each day at 3.15 ; Post Office, 3.30. 292 g



ECOOKSON, Wills Street, runs the , MAIL COACH from Ashburton Railway Station to Green Street, Alford Forest, and Mount Somers, every Tuesday and Friday, returning Wednesday and Saturday at 3 p.mj



Saunders Bror. RANGITATA. FOR SALE, in convenient sized farms, about 3,500 ACRES of the best Land in the North Rangitata District, being rural sections Nos. 32311, 32312, 322G4, 322C5, 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. HIS reserve will shortly be offered for cropping, in lots 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, 21SG, 2187. HE 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.



Business Notices. CE n t TRAL SHOEING FORGE, Tancred street, Railway crossing, (Opposite Orr and Co.’s.) ROBB and BURNS, Agricultural Im plement Makers, General Black smiths, Wheelwrights, Machinists, &c., heg to announce to the public of Ashbur ton that they have commenced business as above, and hope to merit a share of public support. HORSE SHOEING GUARANTEED TO SATISFACTION. 560 g GREENSTREET FORGE Ashburton Forks. WILLIAM REYELL, Blacksmith, Wheelright, and Agricultural Machinist, HAYING considerably extended his Business Premises, can guarantee all work entrusted to him to be executed in a thoroughly competent manner, and with despatch. 359 g JOHN CANTERBURY FOUNDRY, CHRISTCHURCH, Sole Agent for the M'SHERRY GRAIN DRILLS, Will have on sale for next season a full assortment of these machines, varying from 10 to 17 hoes. Hoes, spring and peg, six to seven inches apart. Reapers and Binders by M'Cormick and Wood. Wire and extras for same. All kinds of plough fittings, shares, &c., kept on hand or cast at short notice. Fencing standards and wire, millstones, grindstones, flour dressing silk, leather and indiarubber belting and hose, reaper sections, machine oils, field gates, horse shoes and nails, rivets, bolts, nuts, plate and bar iron, steel, and every requisite for smiths’ work, all kinds of engine and boiler mountings, boiler and gas tubes, &c. ,&c. . , Machinery of every description made on the most modern principles and design. Estimates and drawings furnished on application. • Indents to’Great Britain or America ■ executed on favourable terms. Sole agent for Aveling and Porter, 5 Rochester, England. 6 and 8-h.p. Trac i tion Engines by them on sale. I Sole agent for John Wallace and Co., 1 of London and Dundee, manufactures of 1 Rolled Joists, &c. Sizes, prices, and cata logues on application. 312



SAUNDERS BROS, MILLERS, GRAIN MERCHANTS, COMMISSION AGENTS. ASHBURTON. AGENTS FOR THE LONDON AND LANCASHIRE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, THE WALLSEND COLLIERY. 6920 AND AND



MARBLE CHIMNEY PIECES—ALL PATTERNS AND DESIGNS. WASHING, WRINGING, MANGLING MACHINES— ALL SIZES IN STUCK. Business Notices. IRONMONGERY. IRONMONGERY. CHEAPEST HOUSE IN CHRISTCHURCH F. CROSS & CO., WHOLESALE AND RETAIL IRONMONGERS, Cobner of Colombo and Hereford Streets, opposite Bank of New Zealand, CHRISTCHURCH, BEG to call the attention of their Customers and the public generally to their varied and well-assorted stock of every description of BUILDERS’ AND GENERAL IRONMONGERY, BRUSHWARE, &c., &c.; also, always on hand, a large stock of Oils, Paints, Paperhangings, Varnishes, &c, ; also, now landing, ex Elmiranda. from New York direct—Two and Three-Pronged Hay Forks, all lengths ; Two and Three-Bow Hay Rakes ; American Scythe Snathes, Lawn Mowers, and every description of Yankee Notions. FLY TRAPS ! FLY TRAPS ! FLY TRAPS ! RANGES. RANGES. RANGES. CHEAPER THAN EVER. F/NROSS & CO. have now on hand one of the Largest # Stocks of Scotch and Leamington Ranges in the Colonies, and are now offering them at considerably reduced prices, and would call the attention of Architects, Builders, and the public generally to an inspection. RANGES —Watson and Gow’s “Etna,” with cast-iron oven and boiler, 3ft wide—£s. Ditto os above, with oven and side boiler, and bright bands and mould, 3ft. Sin. wide— L 7 10s. Leamington Ranges, all sizes, from 2ft. 9in. to 6ft., and all prices from £4 each. REGISTER GRATES —Fine cast front with brick back—7d. per inch. Ground front and brick back—lOd. per inch. Wright’s Patent Bivalve, with steel and ormolu bead, all sizes and patterns, from 60s. each. FURNISHING DEPARTMENT. Being overstocked in this Department we are determined to sell at a little over cost, and give our Customers the benefit of the in creased tariff, also to make room for shipments now landing, and to arrive, we invite recent arrivals and others to an inspection. We have also now landing ex Hurunui—OlL CLOTHS, all Widths ; CARPETS of every description ; HEARTH RUGS ; Hessians, striped for Cabinet makers; Scrim, &c., Ac. Also, to arrive per Hereford, Pleiades, and other vessels— -White Lead, Oils, Varnishes, and Colors of every description. All Goods delivered Free within One Milo of Post Office. Country orders carefully packed, and every attention given. 452 g FURNISHING GOODS OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS. CARPENTERS’ TOOLS AT REDUCED PRICES.



WM. ANDERSON, SADDLER AND HARNESS MAKER, Ashburton, Has always in STOCK a complete assortment of every description of Saddlery, Harness, Whips, Saddlers’ Iron mongery, &c., imported direct from Eng land. Goods to order manufactured on the premises of the best Materials, and at the lowest rates. 11



H. M. J ONES, Barxnu Square, LAW & COMMERCIAL STATIONER, BOOK AND MUSIC SELLER. Toys, Fancy Goods, Violins, Strings, Concertinas, &c. Magazines, English Papers, & Periodicals, by each Mail. Bookbinding Executed with Despatch 150



jyj-R. FRANCIS PHILIP O’REILLY, Barrister, Solicitor, & Conveyancer, TANORBD STREET, ASHBURTON, Next Messrs. Orr and Co. ’s. 362 a „ NOTICE TO FARMERS AND OTHERS. WHEN you want any Copper, Zinc, Iron, or Tinware made or re paired, it will be to your interest to con sult JOSEPH HYDE, Moore street, Ashburton, And he will cure all complaints cheaply. 4C90 T. CHAMBERS, Jg OO T AND SHOEMAKER, East Street, Ashburton. Boots and Shoes of all kinds Sewn or Pegged. Repairs Attended To. 48



J OSEPH WARD, FAMILY BUTCHER, Wakanui Road, hear 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



The Oldest Established Business in the County of Ashburton. D. WILLIAMSON AND CO., DRAPERS, GROCERS, IRONMONGERS, TEA, WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS. The Best House in Town for MEN’S, BOYS’, AND YOUTHS’ READY-MADE CLOTHING. CELEBRATED BOOT AND SHOE DEPOT. MEDICAL HALL. Established 1874. 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 OlLS—Dejongh’s, Lang ton’s, Mbller’s, Foxe’s, Southall Bros, PERFUMERY —Piesse and Lubin’s, Rim mel’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. c AMB RIDGE,



TINWALD STORE. JAMES ESOOTT, GENERAL STOREKEEPER IRONMONGER, DRAPER. &c., &c., &c. 390 g T. A. GATES, gABINET MAKER, &c., SAUNDERS’ BUILDINGS, ASHBURTON. All kinds of Furniture, Picture Frames, &c., on Sale and made to order. FUNERALS FURNISHED _ ~Bl7g NOTICE. WESTERFIELD MILL. TO FARMERS, BAKERS, & OTHERS. rjTHE 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 terras. 389c-796g



Hotels. BUTLER’S FAMILY HOTEL, ASHBURTON. J. F. BUTLER (Late of Araliura, West Coast) ~|ptEGS to inform his friends and the public generally that he has opened the above large and commodious hotel, which is situated at the CORNER OF CASS AND HAVELOCK STREETS, And is convenient to the Railway Station. Excellent accommodation for travellers, families, and boarders. All wines and spirits of vhe best brands. One of Alcock’s best billiard tables. 965a-417g 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. A con veyance meets the 11.35 a. m. train at Methven Station, returning at once to Al ford Forest. 598 g THE WHEATSHEAF HOTEL, Wheatstone. Q H. WILLCOCKS, the Proprietor, of the above fine Hotel can now offer Acom modation which cannot be surpassed in any house in Canterbury, and wishes to inform his friends and the public generally that everything in his power will be done to make his patrons comfortable. The rooms are splendidly furnished and well ventilated. First-class Stabling and Paddocks in connection with the Hotel. Wines and Spirits of the Best Brands. G. H. WILLCOCKS, Proprietor, 138 Wheatsheaf Hotel. Boarding Houses. CENTRAL TEMPERANCE HOTEL, Baring Square (Near Town Hall). RE-OPENING of the above commo dious and centrally situated Pri vate and Commercial Hotel.



Business Notices. N EW GOODS. N EW 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, Vellum 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. &c. &c. &c. WEEKS AND DIXON, Wholesale and Retail Stationers, Opposite Railway Station, Ashburton. OFFICE AND HOUSEHOLD STATIONERY PAPER BAGS, ACCOUNT BOOKS, &c.



T. BROADBELT, PROPRIETOR , Is prepared to give Superior Accommoda tion to Boarders and the Travelling Public on REASONABLE TERMS. Weekly Board and Lodging ... £1 Weekly Board 14s* MEALS AT ALL HOURS. Dinner on Saturday from 11.30. Beds (single), Is. 6d. Private Room fob Ladies. 153—624 a ii milium Millers, &c. NEW FLOUR. H“|\/rOFFAT begs to inform the • IVB inhabitants of Ashburton and surrounding districts that his NEW FLOUR MILL AT WAKANUI IS NOW IN FULL WORK, And is turning out a really First-class Flour. Bakers and the Public can rely on all orders being promptly attended to on the most reasonable terms. Cash Buyers of Wheat and Oats. Special attention paid to Gristing, and Farmers from a distance can have their Grist ground by return 31 Surveyor, Civil Engineers, &c. C E. BOOKS AND SON, CENSED ol T *IVEYORS &ND LAND BROKERS Under the Lana Transfer Act, Government Contract Surveyors, Triangle, Wakanui Road, near Post-office, ASHBURTON. 33 Building Materials. SHBDRTON STEAM SAW MILLS SASH AND DOOR MANUFACTORY. G. PARKIN, Proprietor, BUILDER AND CONTRACTOR. Moore Street, Every description of Timber and Building Materials in Stock and supplied on most reasonable terms. Plans prepared and Estimates Given on tl e shortest notice. 26g—392c ALMANAC for 18S0, printed on a neat card, with Ashburton Direc tory, Postal and Railway Guide, can be obtained gratuitously at the “ Guardian ” Office.



Commercial and Law Stationery Notepapers in great variety Envelopes of tlie newest stylos Inkstands and Bottles Pens and Penholders Pencils and Pencil Oases Account and Pocket Books, Etc. Biscuit Bags Flour Bags Milliners’ Bags. Wholesale and Retail, LIBERAL DISCOUNT FOR CASH. WEE.KS AND DIXON? Saunders’ Buildings, EAST STREET, .ASHBURTON.



Business Notices. tames McDonald, PRACTICAL TAILOR, East street, Ashburton. A good Stock of Tweeds and Cloths on hai d. Summer Goods open shortly. 172 LATEST STYLES FROM LONDON & PARIS. CRAIGHEAD & GO., Merchant Tailors, TANGRED STREET, (Next Orr & Co.) PERFECT FIT GUARANTEED. 982a-4450 DON’T! PLEASE! DON’T! STOP! DO STOP! STOP before you give your next order for a Suit of Clothes. IF you want Style, Fit, and Quality, try the Undersigned. READ the following, then call and in spect the Goods. 850 YARDS READY TO OUT. 350 JUST ARRIVED—The best Stock of Winter Cloths to be got for money. SUPERIOR in quality to anything ever yet shown in Ashburton. S SAMPLES 1 to [7O SELECT FROM ) Comprising the following : German Cloths, plain and fancy, the most fashionable _ . Beaver Cloths, suitable for Winter Scotch Tweeds, assorted Mosgiel ~ ~ Kaiapoi ~ ~ West of England Cloths Bedford Cords Irish Frieze, &c., &c., &c. CALL and inspect this Splendid Assort ment before you order. MOTTO: Small Profits and Quick Returns. Terms—Cash. S' TYLE and Finish second to none. ES £1 Is. Cash for a Pair of Trousers £3 15s. Cash for a Tweed Suit. The Address is— G. J. F. LUBLOW, THE TAILORING DEPOT, Triangle, Ashburton, Between Post Office and Baldwin’s Central Hotel. 782g-390c BRICKS. rjIHE UNDERSIGNED having COM



PLETED choir KILN at Ashburton, are prepared to SUPPLY BRICKS, equal tc any made in the Colony, at any Station up or down. Samples to be seen at the Company'*, Offices, Ashburton, Rakaia, and V inslow W. MONTGOMERY Sc CO [Limited] L 32 TO FARMERS, LIVERY STABLE I KEEPERS, SPORTING MEN, AND OTHERS OWNING HORSES. GEORGE KIDD, Moobe Street, BEGS to announce the fact that the PRICE for SHOEING hacks and light draught HORSES is now REDUCED to 7s. per set, and that all horses of this description will be specially attended to by himself. Horses liable to cut are shod on a prin ciple of George Kidd’s own invention, which has proved an effectual cure for brushing. All kinds of blacksmith’s work, and repairs to agricultural machinery of any description done on the shortest notice. GEORGE KIDD, 75c-5260 Moore street, Ashburton. BREAD I BREAD J Co-operative Bread and Biscuit Factory. Triangle, Wakanui Road, Ashburton. A. THIELE, . BEGS to inform the public that he is now in a position to SUPPLY BEST BREAD, 6d. per 41b. loaf, unsur passed. Delivered daily to all parts of the Borough, also, Confectionery, &c. Mixed Biscuits reduced from Is. to Bd. per lb. > Wedding Cakes made to Order. 986a-8700 Advertisements received for the GUARDIAN up to 9 pun. at the scale charges, afterwards at double ratea for insertion over the leader]