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HYDROPATHY AND ALLOPATHY.

To thu Editor. Sir, —I have read with some interest y the articles “Hydropathy” which have appeared in your columns from the pen of Mr. Alfred Saunders. I have looked from day to day for the fulfilment of his promise to show v'tithe material advantages to be gained r M.the practice of hydropathy against tliJse of allopathy. I had better state that T have been, and to a certain extent still am, a student of allopathic medicine. lam not a medical men, be cause I am not qualified, but still I take some interest in Mr. Saunders’ letters, because I am opposed to hydropathy as a general tiling. Still, lam opentoconviction, and should like to hear a little more from him on this subject. In his last letter he said, “In allopathy or homeopathy we are made to believe that it is indispensable to know exactly the name and nature of the disease in order that the allopathist may administer a poison that produces a disease of tlie opposite character, and the homeo pathist a poison that will produce a disease of the snne character as that from which the patient is suffering. It is not neces sary now to enquire which of them is right, and it does not require a very powerful intellect to see that they cannot both be right, although both “legally qualified,” but as long as they can make us believe that an accurate knowledge of the exact disease is necessary, and an accurate administration of the exact poison to cure it, they stand a good chance to keep matters in their own hands, as, although they make grievous mistakes in such matters themselves, they never tell tales of each other, and no one else would be listened to. ”

in speaking of hydropathic treatment he say r s, “ There is no room for mystery 7 about such common-sense treatment. There is no need to walk the hospitals to learn it." He makes a very sweeping chargj against medical men generally, when he say's “ they make grievous mistakes ” in their treatment, and from the general tenor of his letters lie seems to cast such slurs and insinuations that I am inclined to think they know nothing, that the .years they 7 have spent in acquiring their knowledge have been worse than wasted, that they 7 have left the “ great seat of medical knowledge” with just as ranch, if not less, knowledge of real practical utility than they had on entering. Hydropathy may he good when in the hands of “legally qualified men.” I don’t use this term in the satirical way in which Mr. Saunders does, but I mean men who have made medicine their study, who have extensive and precise information on all subjects conducive to a knowledge of the human body 7, and who necessarily know the signs and symptoms of disease in every 7 phase and of the virtues of the remedies to he em ployed.

Mr. caend-.-;- sp- lucre b u■■ *>o='-<l io Walk til 0 bospii id- t.'i loam liy il 1n j >:■ til V . him! that hydropathy i- the <*uly true method of treating disease. I would like to ask him if ho would abolish all medical men,, medical schools, and medicine in toto? and have all the diseases that flesh is heir to attended to by people whose treatment is only book lore, who have no idea of cause and effect, who arc utterly unable, from want of projier education, to distinguish between a sign and a symptom of disease. Suppose a patient complains Of cough, expectoration, dyspmea, hectic fever, night sweats, and emaciation, how are his relatives to tell the name or natm e of the disease. They may know from their-syuvutoms that it is some chest affection, but whether it is con sumption or ymppv.ionia or any other disease they will be utterly unable to say. Suppose, in addition to theabovesymptoms, there is cavernous respiration and expec toration of at first a frothy mucus, after wards of a more viscid and opaque sputum, often mixed with small round particles of tubercular matter, with pus; or with streaks of blood, will the relatives be any the more able to define the disease now than they were before ! I think not. Well, the first are symptoms of consump tion and the second are signs of consump tion —symptoms because they occur in other chest affections, and signs because they appear only in that disease. E.xpec toration pure and simple is a symptom, but sputa is a sign. Supposing all these signs and symptoms are showing, how is the ignorant (I use this word only in a professional sense) hydropathist to tell the proper treatment to be adopted. Will lie turn to his Smedley, Priessnitz, or Mrs. Nicholls for information, and rigidly fol low the law laid down by them on such a case ? Then again in febrile and inflam matory disorders, how are they to dis tinguish one from the other ? How will they distinguish scarlatina from measles unless the characteristics have been pointed out ? How will they tell the difference between scarlet and typhoid fevers? How will they tell when scarlatina co-exists with typhoid fever, as it some times has done ? And how is it possible for ignorant people (I mean professionally) to decide between malignant scarlatina and diphtheria, these having so many re semblances and so few differences that satisfactory evidence of their being distinct diseases is wanting. The chief argument, and a strong one in favor of their being distinct, is that tlie one forms no pro tection against the other. Then again, there are some cases of scarlatina which soon lapse into profound coma, easily mistaken by ignorant people for narcotic poise n’ng. and how are they to tell that it is net so unless they know the signs of such cases, and how are they to know these signs unless they have “ walked the hospitals,” and seen and studied such cases day by day ?

There is a form of disease which none but medical menare conversant with, or can understand in .any way—latent disease. Its existence is a fact most important in its bearing, both on our treatment of disease and the expectations we form of its success. Fur instance, the lungs, heart, liver, or kidneys, which have seemed to perform hieir ‘ fqiiciioiis well so long qsthey ji-'eyc pot exposed"' to' any unusud} §tyaiii', piay prove quite ipicqual tq the straijge >vopk imposed upon them by the conges, tion which attends the cold stage of febrile and inflammatory disorders, by the quickened circulation of the hot stage, or by the quick development of poisonous matters in such diseases as typhus, typhoid fevers, scarlatina and cholera. Let the functions of tho lungs be greatly hindered or those of the kidneys wholly suspended, and the blood will become charged with a poison which the frame already diseased s powerless to eliminate. How, will the hydropathic hook lore ex plain this ? I trow not. They may get a smattering of knowledge, but a little fi dangerous flijqg, ppd oft times leads to disastrous results.

Mr. Saunders, from liis stand point, con demns in a wholesale manner all drugs as “ poison,” and would have us believe that all the deaths certified to by “legally qualified medical men ” were due to the wholesale administration of drugs, in other words —poisoned. This terrible charge he would lcad,us to believe in by the extracts he makes the works of several medical men eminent in their day, but nowjiiQst of-them efl'ete. He does not give us the opinions *of the eminent a' of this 'Ay; own day, such as Tapper, er/HaSffH, Scott, Al|ison,''Beal', and a4iost of' other men liighet' tliap Sir tjohn Forbes, whom I deny being the highest authority. Mr. Saunders insinuates that if all the patients above referred to had been treated hydropathically they would not have died ! They would then, I sup pose, be still living—a truly grand p ( !d

army of martyrs to circumstances. To ignorant people the quotations made must be terrible proof of the charge made by Mr. Saunders, but it must be remembered that the works he quoted from were in tended only for medical students, and not a 1 captaudum vulgus. They are mostly lectures delivered by Professors to their students, and the remarks quoted by Mr. 8. wore intended by the lecturer, to show the imperfections of medicine at that time as a science, and its difficulty as an art, and to stimulate the students to an increased study and energy to remove its imperfections, and to redeem the mistakes made in past years. Rome was not built in a day, neither was medicine, nor can it attain without careful observation and study that perfection which Mr. Saunders attributes falsely to hydropathy. Disease was sent by the Almighty as a part of the curse for “ man’s first disobedience;” and however perfect medicine as a science may be, our efforts can only be palliative, and no min lias any right to arrogate to bis paiticular system, pet scheme, or bobby the virtue of perfection, considering that it is only subservient to the will of God. Sight scams to have been lost by Mr. S. of the great differences existing between one individual and an other, and that there are many original and many' acquired differences between man and man. The llrst are those con vey r cd by the terms temperament, dia thesis, hereditary disposition, and idiosyn cracy'; to these can be added those depen dant on sex and age. The acquired differences are due to air and climate, place of above, supplies of food and water, habits, occupation and mode of life, and in some instances to diseases previously undergone, and latent maladies uncon sciously existing. When, therefore, the original differences bet ween man and man, and the various and complicating influ ences to which the body is exposed in all states of society, but especially in highly civilised communities, are taken into con sideration, no very great additional argu ment will be needed to establish the first great principle on which the practice of medicine hinges—that in health and (by natural inference) in disease, every func tion of the body varies indifferent persons within wide limits of intensity. This fact is the key' to the imperfection of Medicine as a (science, and its difficulty as an Art. To define disease we must first have de fined health, for the one is but the nega tion of the other, and in like manner the description and right understanding of disease depend upon the description and right understanding of health. Wc say 7 disease is present when any structure of the body is changed, of course provided that change is not the direct and imme diate effect of external injury ; or when any function is cither unnaturally torpid, active, or altered in character. Diseases, of course, vary 7 much in their nature, in their form or type, in their duration and course, in their terminations, and in their occurrence. Most diseases terminate in complete recovery 7 , a considerable number in partial or incomplete recovery 7. Some di«'?a.”‘’s tyrtnirah' in mot;*stasis, or Iran'

b”'cure lii'iu rite parr. fir.-i aMm !,i ,1 i., s .me .itvlii-r—ii "in tin' Joint.-- io i n' st. .iuao.li. be:<rt, or brain, in gout ; ..r b; extension to a texture similar to the one originally attacked, as when acute rheumatism, hav ing commenced in the fibrous textures sur rounding the large joints, seizes upon those in and about the heart. Some dieases ter minate suddenly by discharges, eruptions, or external inflammations, and the con duct of these cases, and in fact of disease general!)', requires treatment at the hands of—not ignorant empirics, men whose practice is but the result of mere experience, whoso knowledge is limited to cases whose characteristics and idiosyn cracies warranted certain treatment which, if employed in other cases of the same disease, might have proved fatal, and in consequence think that form of treatment suitable in eveiy case—but skilful men, men who have made the consideration of diseases in every phase, their nature and effects, the study of their lives, whose practice combines the result of not only mere experience hut deep and care ful study of the structural form of the human body, who are able to form a correct diagnosis, who have a knowledge of the nature of the disease itself, of the constitution of the sufferer, and of the virtues of the remedies to be employed—■ essential preliminaries to judicious treat ment. The object to be aimed at by the medical man will of course vary with each case; in one it will be sufficient if the as certained cause bo removed; in another it may be necessary to restore the healthy function or repair the diseased structure; in a third, all that we may bo able to do will be to palliate the suffering the disease occasions. It must be borne in mind there are many difficulties besetting the path of medicine, both as a subject of scientific enquiry and of practical applica tion—difficulties which may never bo thought of by an ignorant public, such as the variable severity of diseases bearing the same name, the changes that occur in the progress both of acute and chronic cases, and the unequal strength of our remedies, and when we reflect that, prior to the setting in of any given disease, the constitution of the patient originally marked by peculiarities traceable to here ditary predisposition, has been subse quently modified ; that the disease itself may vary within wide limits of intensity ; that it passes naturally through many different phases ; that it may fall under our observation and treatment at any part of its course ; that the remedies pre scribed, being of variable strength, may be administered with more or loss care and regularity, and the patient be tended with greater or less watchfulness and skill. When we takc’all these circumstances into consideration, we cannot be surprised that medicine should be the most imperfect and uncertain of sciences, a conjectural and most difficult art. It will, I think, be well to speak of that vis medicatrix natui’ic —that power inherent in the human frame to right itself when suffering from severe disorders. And it would be unwise and unjust on our part to withhold from nature what is her due, for whatever we might like to do, we can only at best assist her, and it is to the interest of the iqedical attendant to extol the, powers of nature, am| qttv.jbvjte jin'them vnqch of the gjnccegji usually'ascribed to bis treatment. It is only by this acknowledgment that the public can bo rescued from quackery. Tho homoeopathist, or as some one says, “ the slave of au hypo Miosis invented by a heated enthusiast, and mainly suported by imaginary sensations developed by experi ments cm Ids own pei'son —attributes to infinitesimal doses virtues simply ridicu lous, and results simply impossible ;” but the regular practitioner can explain the ures alleged to have been thus effected by that very vis medicatrix which so con stantly assists him in his own treatment, and to which lie so rightly attributes much of his own success ; and it is often a task of extreme difficulty to determine whothey, a patiqnMs recovery' has happened through the treatment adopted, or independent of it, or in spite of it. Tho best physician may often decide wrongly ; the ignorant quack and equally ignorant public arc utterly unable to form an opinion. As one medical man says : “after all that can be done in its study, the science of medicine must remain extremely imperfect, and the art of healing very difficult. Its general jirinciples, derived originally from parti culars made up of many variable elements, must be re-applied in practice to iudiyb dual instances as cqm.plicatqd as tipse pyt of yyhjch |hey iyere Vnlginally 'formed, sb jikat' precision is, in the nature of things,’ impossible', find' certainly of very Tare attainment'.” —I am, Ac. Eve’s Grandson.

A QUERY.

T« THE EdITOH. SiKj—Can yoij me at what pi^e

I can transact business at the R.M. Court? I have just left there (3 p.m.), having waited since 2.30. No one is in attend ance, and no notice is on the door or else where.—lam, Ac. One and Sixpence an Hour.

A Female Politician. —A lady 7 applied to have her name placed on the Auckland electoral roll, and the R.M. after some chaff, acceded to her request. I.O.G.T.—The Dawn of Peace Lodge held its meeting on Monday evening, at the Templar Hall. There was a large meeting. One new member was initiated. A large .amount of business was transacted, amongst which was a resolution in favor of affiliation with the Degree Temple. This is a step in the right direction, and we think it a pity 7 that the Star of the East Lodge did not come to the same conclusion. The prevailing idea amongst members that the Degree Temple will he antagonistic to the lodges in a financial aspect is utterly 7 wrong, because the aim of the Temple is to he supported by 7 its own members, not by degree fees, as is generally supposed. The Temple is but an advanced lodge, where, through the more impressive manner in which degrees are conferred, owingto the amount of time at the disposal of the Temple over and above that at the disposal of the subordinate lodges, greater interest is taken in, and a greater number of members take, their degrees, thus augmenting instead of reducing the finances of the subordinate Lodges. Bro. Harding, from Napier, gave a resume of the work of the order in Napier, and he was deputed to carry back to his lodge the fraternal greetings of the Dawn of Peace. Bro. Ashwood detailed a desperate picture of woe occurmg in this town, in the case of a father drinking himself to death, a mother in the lunatic asylum, and a family 7 of small children running at large totally 7 uncared for and starving. A committee was formed to act in conjunction with one from the Star of the East Lodge to en deavor toeffoct the father's reform and pro vide for the children. It is to hoped that the police will see to this matter, and we also think that the Episcopalian clergyman, a member of whoso flock (we are informed) the poor man is, might also stir in the matter. A more touching and truly 7 strik ing corroboration of a drunkard’s home, as depicted by Dr. Rosehy in his late lecture, than this case could hardly 7 he found. —Communicated.

THE ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, THURSDAV, MAKUH 4, 188(1.



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THURSDAY, 4th MARCH. BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEE. TO FARMERS, INVESTORS, AND OTHERS. ■TITESSRS. EDMISTON. BROS. & J* a G UNDRY have received instruc tions from the Mortgagee to sell, BY PUBLIC AUCTION, At their rooms, on THURSDAY, 4th MARCH, 210 ACEES - 210 R.S. 27452, 27453, 27454. These sections have been veil selected, and we can recommend them to the atten tion of farmers looking out for a really good piece of land at a low figure. The greater part of the purchase money can remain on mortgage on the property. Terms at sale. Sale at 1.30 p. m. EDMISTON BROS. A GUNDRY, 0630 Auctioneers. For Sale. POYNTZ AND CO. FARMS FOR SALE. ON EASY TERMS OF PAYMENT. Messrs poyntz a Go. have th® following properties for sale : Ashburton, Timvald, Rakaia, and Wins low, both for sale and to let. Apply, POYNTZ AND CO. 107 Ashburton. FOR SAT-E, I J.OQO ACRES Tussock Land, lads i" siiii. piiivbasors. in Very 1 .ibi-i'id Terms. 71 Saunders bruS. TO PRINTERS. MACHINE FOR SALE. 171 0 R SALE.— . One Second-hand Double Demy Tape Printing MACHINE, in thorough working order, with rollers, moulds, Ac., complete. This machine has been replaced by a Double Royal Wharfedale, which necessitates removal of the Double Demy Machine formerly used for printing the “ Herald ” and “Guardian,” for hand or stcampower. Can he seen and all par ticulars obtained at our office. For a Country Office this Machine suits admirably, as it can easily be turned bj- band, for which we have fitted a ily wheel and handle. Pmci £7O. WEEKS & DIXON. Ashburton, January 14, 1870 Educational. MISS GOODGER has much pleasure in informing the Ladies of Ash burton that she is about to open a PRIVATE SCHOOL, and solicits their patronage. subjects : English, French, Music, Plain and Orna mental Needle Work. Rkfuuef.s : The Very Revd. Dean of Christchurch, and J. P. Rested, Esq. Terms on application to MISS GOOD GER at the Somerset Hotel, Ashburton. Fur address, sec future Advertisement. 124 c -501 o Public Notices. I HEREBY e-ivo notice that I will not be responsible for any debts my wife, MARY ELLIS HARRIS, may contract, she having left her home without just CftUSC E. WHEELEY HARRIS, Ashburton, March 2nd, 1880. TO FARMERS. mHE UNDERSIGNED are GASH 1 PURCHASERS of WHEAT, OATS, and BARLEY, and are prepared to SHIP WHEAT to the English markets o;i farmers’ account at the lowest possible cost. P. CUNNINGHAM A CO., oOlci Ashburton and Christchurch. CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL. NOTICE TO PARENTS. mHE above school WILL BE OPENED X nn MONDAY, March Bth, 1880. JOSEPH MEGSON, 559« i Chairman. NOTICE. RATING ACT, 1870. WHEREAS at a sitting of the Assess ment Court for the District of South Rakaia, held this twenty-first-day of February, 1880, at South Rakaia, be fore me, Frank Guinness, Judge, it having been proved that no valuation list jiad been prepared as requjypd by the said Act, I, therefore, under the provisions of clause 28 of the said Act, order that a valuation list he prepared, and I appoint FRANCIS GEORGE PARRY LEACH to he the valuer for the said district. I do fix THURSDAY, the 11th day of March next, the day for the completion and inspection of the said list, and the last day for delivering objections thereto shall he MONDAY, the 29th day of March next. The Court will gjt at two o'clock p.m. on Mfiiqlay, the otl’iday of April next; for the purpose of hearing and determining all objections to the valuation list for the said district, FRANK GUINNESS, 551ii-10Sc Judge. Tl/ri. FRANCIS PHILIP O’ERIRLY, - Coxvkyaxoeu, TANCRED STREET* ASHBURTON, Nqxt Messrs. Orr and Co.’s, 302 c;



Public Notices. THE EDUCATION HOARD OF THE DISTRICT OF NORTH CANTERBURY. ELECTION OF COMMITTEES. rnUE householders of the under-mcn- JL tionod school districts, that is to say, the districts of Ashburton Forks, Kyle, Longbeach, Mount Somers, Seafield, Tin w.ald, Willowby, Having failed to elect Committees at the annual meeting held on 20th January, the Board, in pursuance of the powers in that behalf conferred by the Education Act, 1877, section GO, hereby directs that a PUBLIC MEETING of the householders in every such district bo held on MON DAY, the twenty-second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty, at seven o’clock in the evening, for the election in each district of seven house holders (section 64) to form the Committee for such district for the year ending with the fourth Monday in January next. The place of meeting shall be the schoolhouse in each district, and this is understood to mean the main schoolhouse in any district which has more than one school. The Board further directs that the first meeting of each school committee he held in the place appointed for the election, and immediately after the election upon the same evening. J. Ah COLBORNE VEEL, Secretary. Christchurch, 21st Feb., 1880. 5380 ASHBURTON COUNTY COUNCIL. fid HE Ashburton County Council in 1. tending at the next Session of the General Assembly TO APPLY for BOR ROWING POWERS, to < nab)e it to pro vide a WATER SUPPLY for the plains between the Rakaia and Ashburton rivers, notice is hereby given, that the following list contains the numbers of all the sections which are within the boun daries of the district now proposed to he brought within the operation of the Act. The Council will be willing as far as practicable to include an}' other land, on application by the owner or occupier being made to it for that purpose. The Council calls the attention of the settlors on the Acton Run and in the Sea tteld district to the fact that their land is not included within the district above alluded to, hut the Council will amend the plan should application to that effect be made by a suiiicient majority of the settlers in those districts. Plan of the district is on view at the Council Chambers. By order, F. MAIN WARING, Gink. A.-hhuiTiiu, I'*fJsi*t*:ii - v J2, .1 ssii. 529 c



Public Notices. OTICE is hereby given that after this date the Resident Magistrate’s Court at South Rakaia will OPEN at 2 O’CLOCK y. m. on the days appointed for holding Court. By order, A. MAKEIG, 549 g Clerk of Court. WHEAT. riIHE undersigned are Casli Purchasers J_ of Wheat in any quantity. Farmers can arrange to ship Wheat through ns to the English Market, on terms, and re ceive liberal cash advances thereon. P. CUNNINGHAM & CO., Ashburton. OATS. The undersigned are Purchasers of Oats for Gash in anv quantity. P. CUNNINGHAM & CO., Ashburton. BARLEY. The undersigned are Cash Purchasers of Prime Malting Samples, good color. P. CUNNINGHAM & CO., Per G. M. ROBINSON, 539 g Ashburton. GRAIN. JYJESSRS. ROYSE, STEAD, & CO. are prepared to PURCHASE GRAIN or to make ADVANCES ON GRAIN consigned to thorn for sale or ship ment. C. PERCY COX, Agents for ROYSE, STEAD, & CO., 4930 Ashburton. TO FARMERS, LIVERY STABLE KEEPERS, SPORTING MEN . ANO OTHERS OWN I N't ; HoRSES. G E t • l: G K K I I • 1 • . I A!»i*»cr, Sti;kkt. U>EGS in announce the fact that the : ■JL> 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, 7oc-52(»g Moore street, Ashburton. Business Notices. BREAD!BREAD! Co-operative Bread and Biscuit Factory. Triangle, Wakanui Road, Ashburton, A. THIE LE, JTEGS to inform the public that he is ' now in a position to SUPPLY BEST BREAD, (id. per 41b. loaf, unsur passed. Delivered daily to all parts of the Borough, also, Confectionery, Ac. Mixed Biscuits reduced from Is. to Bd. per lb. Wedding Cakes made to Order. 122c-570u CE -7TRAL SHOEING FORGE, Tailored street, Railway crossing, (Opposite Orr and Co.’s.) ROBB and BURNS, Agricultural Im plement Makers, General Black smiths, Wheelwrights, Machinists, Ac., beg 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. 8600 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 H ARLES REID, ASHBURTON SHOEING FORGE, Corner of East and Dodson streets. A large and varied experience in the manufacture and repair of Agricultural Implements and Machinery, warrants C. R. in guaranteeing sound and satis factory material and workmanship. Horses safely and scientifically shod on the spot. 252 R CULLEN, GENERAL CARRIER and FORWARDING AGENT, Burnett street, Ashburton. Trains at tended daily, and all orders promptly at tended to, 4COg WM. ANDERSON, SADDLER AND HARNESS MAKER, Ashburton, HAS always in STOCK a complete assortment of every description of Saddlery, Harness, Whips, Saddlers’ Iron mongery, Ac., imported direct from Eng land. Goods to order manufactured on the premises of the best Materials, and at the lowest rates. 11



Bussines Notices. TO FARMERS. f gIHE undersigned are CASH BUYERS Of Wheat and other Grain, or will make LIBERAL ADVANCES On shipments to London on grower’s account. DEERING’S TWINE BINDER. NOTICE TO FARMERS. have this day APPOINTED MESSRS. FRIEDLANDER BROS. SOLE AGENTS for the DEERING TWINE BINDER fur the county of Ashburton. MASON STRUTHERS & CO. Christchurch 10th. February, 1880. % The Deering Twine Binder AWARDED GOLD MEDAL W At Ashburton, six machines competing. THE DEERING TWINE BINDER took the SPECIAL PRIZE at the Oamaru trial etc. AVING been appointed sole agents for the above machines, we are now prepared to TAKE ORDERS for the coining season. As only a LIMITED NUMBER can be supplied, all who wish to make certain of securing those favorite machines for next season should order before the depar ture of next San Francisco Mail. FRIEDLANDER B R .°. S AGENTS FOR THE COLONIAL FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND SOLE AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED ALTHOUSE SELF - REGULATING WINDMILLS.