THE CHIMNEY CORNER.

A LOVE STORY.

In the autumn of 1860, among the visitors at the pretty watering place, Clevedown, on the south coast, was Arthur Golding, a good-looking, stalwart young fellow of nine-and-twenty, who had run his yacht iuto Clevedown Bay at the earnest solicitatation of Mr, Burnet, the father of a college chum. It was the holiday season, when most Lon doners were at the sea-side or in Scot land ; and Golding, tired of law, was glad of the opportunity of a' quiet cruise round the coast of Sussex and Hampshire, with an occasional look in at the Isle of Wight. Arthur was tired of another estate besides that of law, and his young friend Frederick Burnet, also a young barrister had set about seriously to look for a wife for him. “I tell you what, old fellow,” said Frederick at last in chambers ; “ you can’t do better than marry Miss Wrax all. ”

“And who,” languidly asked Arthur Golding, filliping the ash from his cigar, as they looked over the London leads at the London sparrows, “is Miss Wraxall? It’s a hideous name. ”

“ Yes, isn’t it 1 Golding’s a better : make it Golding. At all events, come to Clevedown, where my father is going this season, and where I am to join him and the family, and where Miss Wraxall is to be as well. She’s a splendid girl. ” So it was arranged that Golding should moor his yacht in Clevedown Bay, and try his fortune with the desirable Miss Wraxall. Frederick wrote to his father, and procured a warm invitation for Arthur; and when the London season terminated, the two young men looked cheerily forward to their next meeting by the sea.

In September Arthur Golding arrived at Clevedown. Mr Burnet had rented fer the autumn a roomy house on a down overlooking the English Channel, whose breakers tumbled incessantly against the foot of the cliff near the summit of which the house stood. To the right of this residence, facing the sea, were various other villas scattered around the coast. To the left was the coast-guard station, and further on, a lofty headland over hanging the Channel, known as Cleve Cliff. The cliff sloped concavely towards the sea, whose waves had hollowed out a cavern in its rocky sides. At the summit, approached with difficulty even from the land side, and from the sea quite inac cessible, an old and tims-eaten railing of wood afforded hazardous protection gainst falling into the ocean. Behind hese rickety rails was a seat, from which the view was magnificent. When Arthur Golding ran his yacht ashore farther down the coast where there was landing, he found the house pretty full, and among the visitors the desirable Miss Wraxall. Assuredly his friend had not exaggerated her attractions. Tall, dark, of majestic figure, and a southern type of beauty, almost startling in the suddenness with which it fascinated the beholder, hers was the loveliness most splendid when at its dawn, but apt to wane as soon as maturity is reached. The black bands and coils of her hair roofed a brow singularly white for so irune a beauty ; but the chief expression lay in the eyes —dark eyes that blazed rath ex ilian lighted at the merest approach of excitement—eyes which were most lovely but might be terrible. A strong and passionate nature was revealed by glimpses in the quick waking of those eyes. A nature which could evidently love ardently, and might hate fatally. “Your friend—Miss Wraxall, I think you call her—is remarkably handsome,” said Arthur to his hostess the evening of his arrival.

“ Clara ? Yes, Clara is generally admired and used to admiration,” answered Mrs. Burnet. “You know she is not only handsome and clever, but rich. To do her justice, though, admiration has not spoiled her. I think she is utterly in different alike to flattery and devotion. ” “Money has spoiled her, of course,” thought Golding, “as it does most women. She regards all men as mercenary who approach her with a civil word. It’s plain my plan, supposing I cared to go in for Frederick’s absurd suggestion, would be to adopt the reverse of civility. That is, if I wanted to make an impression. But I must study her a little first.” Whatever course his study might lead him to, it is certain ho put his plan into immediate operation. He was barely civil to Miss Wraxall from the first. In a day or two he contradicted her openly. He would artfully start a general discus sion, in which he foresaw she would take a certain side, whereupon he would imme diately adopt the opposite side and brow beat her. All this too, without seeming to pursue the subject, but with contemp tuous indifference, which at first galled her and raised her .anger. Then her dark eyes would flash out their rage, and bitter words sprang to her lips. Having suc ceeded in rousing her, he would apologise and retire, with a sarcastic smile, which told her plainly ( for she was quick-witted at reading expression) that he deferred to her sex, and not her individual judge ment ; that he yielded to politeness, nut to conviction.

Now Clara Wraxall was strong-minded in some things, and despised the vantage ground of her sex. She liked to meet an intellectual antagonist in fair fight, and beat him out of the mental field; and Arthur Golding manifestly showed her that, as a woman, she was not worth arguing with at all. This line of conduct tvas a new experi ence to her. She had been accustomed to smooth suitors, who deferred to her in all things ; suitors who were fascinated by her beauty, suitors who sought her mo ney, who were afraid of her wit. But here was plainly one—no suitor either— who cared for neither beauty nor wealth, and who scorned her mind. At first she was piqued, then enraged, then interested. She would conquer this handsome and independent antagonist, this man who actually in her presence dared to call his soul his own. She laid her entrench ments for his subjugation. Once more she offered mental battle, but with a repetition of the old result. Then she fell back on her beauty, and put on her most winning and dazzling airs. But Arthur held mockingly aloof, though lie laughed to himself to see how well his plan was working.

(to be continued.)

OHISPA’S LETTER.

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

(From Ashburton Herald, May 8.)

It is a very wrong thing for you, sir, to put stories in your paper like that about the bachelors and the stray cow that roused them out of bed

“ At the noon of night on an Autumn eve.” I have had my windpipe jeopardised a hundred times since the yarn appeared. First one representative and then another of the various colonies of bachelors in town have been down upon me, breathing threatening and slaughter for the yarn. It was in vain I told them I was respon sible only for my own column, and not for every yarn, good, bad, and indifferent, that appeared in the paper. It was no go. They would have it that the yarn was mine, and so I have had to bear the brunt of their wrath. I don’t mind that, since my friend, Sergeant Felton, has gone into uniform again, and has a good substitute for the departed Maroney in the new man. But the queerest affair js that most'of the bachelors seem to think

it was no business of mine that they milked a stray cow. Am I justified in coming to the conclusion that she idea is not a new one, and that the incident you related is not singular in Ashburton ? Bravo, milk away, my boys. I look upon you as pub lic benefactors, for if you keep emptying the lacteals of every stray cow that comes about you, you will have no need of a pound.

Merchants of Ashburton, wipe this out if you can :—“ Another battle ! In con sequence of the encroachments made by the enemy (credit) on my pens, ink, paper, postage stamps, bank interest, &c., &c., there is bound to be another engagement in the course of a few days ; the scene' of action will probably be somewhere between my own shanty and the ‘ Cri terion.’ Scouts will be tin-own out at once, headed by Brother Jink, and the indemnity will be considerably increased should the contest be carried into the in terior. No quarter will be given till the whole is ‘ shelled out ;’ so keep your powder dry, and ‘ look to your priming,’ as the big guns L A W and R. M. will take some licking. Oats are cheap, and the war horse is in prime condition ; there fore, ‘ take time by the forelock’ is the parting cry of H. Billf.ns. —[Advt.]” I get the foregoing from the Akaroa Mail, a paper that was planted by my old friend, Joe Ivess, and his experience in municipal affairs in Akaroa he was never tired of re peating. I never expected very great or very good things from Akaroa, even if Joe’s resplendent wisdom did consider it good enough for him to put in one of his eighteen-monthly periods in. But this scream from the local Josh Billings is good. May he find LAW and the R.M. a good investment. Here we find them a very unprofitable spec altogether.

There was a huge commotion |at the Police Station one day last week. [ got a straight tip about the trouble, and went down to see. There were the Sergeant and Constable Rouse, and .Constable Clark, and Constable Beaumont, and the others, all in a terrible state of agitation. I asked what was up that they should show faces blanched with terror, and creep about

“ Whispering with white lips.” After they had had time to settle a hit, I was able to get out of the agitated Rouse the one word “ murder.” It came from between his jaws about as unwillingly and accompanied by as painful an expression of countenance as came the last tooth I had pulled by my friend Cambridge from my own upper gum. “ Murder ! ” I felt queer indeed, but then I am a good citizen, and I told the Sergeant that i fl ny aid of mine would be useful in tracking the assassin he could command me. He expressed his joy, and led me to the evidence he had obtained. Carefully opening a drawer in his own private office, he pointed with great awe to an open matchbox, and in it there lay an ordinary bone button. I looked up to his face in quiringly. “That button,” said he, “was brought to the station to-day. It is evi dently the means of suspension that the dead man used when in life for his trousers, for you see it is palpably a trousers button.” I took in the possibility at once of the button having been used for fastening suspenders to, “ but,” I asked, “ where is the dead man 1” “ That’s just what I want to know,” he said. “ The button was found right in the centre of a pork pie, and it stands to reason that wherever that pie was baked there was a man murdered—else how could his buttons get about like this ?” I could not deny the logic, and went off to investigate. So did the Sergeant. We went to every bakehouse in the town, but not a baker would own to that button, or to any knowledge of it. Each had his full staff of men upon his establishment, and as the button was an article of male apparel, the dead man couldn’t be a woman. We made every inquiry, but we only succeeded in enraging one baker, getting chaffed by a second amusing a third, and getting kicked out by a fourth. (Note —It was I who was kicked out ; and if I was sure of getting a summons served, I would proceed for damages against that kickist. His name, however, rhymes well with kicks, and I may yet sing a song in his honor). But we could find no trace of the dead man’s body, though there were many suspicious thoughts ran through our minds, and the awful rage of the first-mentioned baker makes those thoughts still more suspicious. But notwithstanding our failure to find the dead man, I feel sure there has been murder done—else how could a braces button get into a pork pie 1

THINGS IN GENERAL, xv. 1 O, shade of Pope ! inspire heroic story ! I sing the glories of a lawyer’s wig. - An Arab steed did yield his tail - his glory— r To crown the sable gown —the ancient rig - Of learned men who follow legal lore ; be 1 Sure few of them catch it, as the cunning : . P'g. j. With well-greased tail, escaped capture s endeavor, ’ Our lawyers grasp it never—hardly ever. • ' XVI. I But suitors pay the piper for !h’ intention— All cannot win, and someone, sure, must ’ lose. Our law's are natural foes of comprehension ; ' And our Supreme Court is the very deuce. Olympian Judges give tluir whole attention I To subtle points, and quarterly amuse Themselves at Wellington hearing appeals, i Demurrers, rules nisi —cards the Devil deals. I XVII. [ The wig I sing did once on Afric’s plain Woo the soft breezes from the Middle Sea, t And spicy gales from India’s sunny main Did fan the tail of Arab, bounding free. Heir to a hundred steeds ; but, still, in vain The gallant Arab before Time did flee ; Rude Time was swifter than sirocco wind— The Arab died, and left his tail behind. XVII I. In early times this tail to wig had grown— I cannot be exact about the date, As ’(is not stratified ; nor is it known If Iron age or Bronze saw it in state ; But to a Christchurch artist—Brice—’twas shown. And, not all vantageless on P ’s pate, It met the artist’s critical regard, Who said, “ It cannot go befoie Judge Ward.” |XIX. T’was all rumfoozled, and it lacked a tail, Poor Hamlet’s ghost was better furnished there, He could unfold one, but this wdg did fail. To show a stump ; and so with anxious care, And various implements, Brice did assail The tangled scheme. Belinda’s lock so rare Was not more big with fate; and as Pope’s measure Immortalised her lock, so I this treasure. XX Outside the statute, it was by parole Agreement mended, and at three pounds ten, Securely packed, it was sent to its goal, The railway station hard by where I pen These flowing lines, but on the legal roll, The most particular of legal men Is he whose name was on the band-box placed. This ancient wig was not quite to his taste. XXI. Goods bargained and sold, the declaration stated, With work and labor as the cause of action, While the Professor to be compensated For all his toil under this legal paction, Brought ’gainst defendant so t’was fated This wig should grace the Courts, a great ; attraction ; But not expected to look quite so well As when it graced they noble brow P—. XXIX | The case is pending before Mr. Mellish, • Lawyers and barbers will be there to see Plow legal wits will suitably embellish ‘ A brainless wig amieus curies ! <■ O, Duces Tecum ! you’ll look rather swellish, When this famed wig will thy exhibit be. ( Not Eldon’s wig, of which Tom Moore once

wrote, Reached greater fame than when it found a Poet.

THE ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, TUESDAY, MAY 11, 1880.

Printed and published by Horace John Weeks and Charles Dixon, at their Printing Office, East Street, . Tuesday, May n, 1880.



XXIII. But now forsaken in the dark recess Of rial way store, it lies in siatn quo ; Disowned by all, no longer doth it press The teeming brain, altho’ it soon may shew Its glories in the legal fray, nevertheless. And notwithstanding, as aforesaid, it lie low. And there I leave it— Fame, but sad condition, While evidence is taken on commission. Chispa. THE ROYAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF THE FINE ARTS IN SCOTLAND. Founded in 1833. Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1847. THE object of this Association —the first established in the United King dom for similar purposes — is to advance the cause of Art in Scotland, by afford ing encouragement to its professors : I. The Association is composed of Annual Subscribers of One Guinea and upwards. 11. The Funds of the Association are appropriated to the purchase of Modern Works of Art, in Painting. Drawing, or Statuary, and to the execution or purchase of Engravings, Etchings, Bronzes, Bas reliefs, Models, or other productions of Art, for distribution among Subscribers. A portion of the Funds is also devoted to the acquisition of Modern Works of Art towards the formation of a National Gal lery. 111. A General Meeting of the sub scribers is annually held in July, when a Committee of Management is appointed for the ensuing year, and when the different Works purchased for the Associa tion become, by lots publicly drawn, the property of individual Members —Sub- scribers being entitled to one chance fci every Guinea subscribed. IV. Each Subscriber of One Guinea



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KEATINGS COUGH LOZENGES, COUGHS, ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS, ACCUMULATION OF PHLEGM. Composed of the purest articles. These i Lozenges contain no opium nor any deleterious ■ drug, therefore the most delicate can take i them with perfect confidence. Their beneficial j effect is speedy and certain. This old un | failing family remedy is daily recommended by the most eminent Physicians. (In use nearly 60 years). MEDICAL TESTIMONY, July 25th, 1877. 22, Cold Harbour Lane, London. Sir, —Your Lozenges are excellent, and their beneficial effect most reliable. I strongly recommend them in cases of cough and asthma. You are at liberty to state this as my opinion, formed from many years experience. J. Bringloe, M.R.C.S.L., L.S.A., L.M. Mr, T. Keating, Indian Medical Service. Dear Sir, -Having tried your Lozenges ing to ipient tions. be bes .S. 5 are sizes, lough amp. AT, most only certain remedy for INTESTINAL or THREAD WORMS. It is a perfectly safe and mild preparation, and is especially adapted lor children. Sold in tins by all Chemists. Proprietor, THOS. KEATING, London, Export Chemist and Druggist. GRATEFUL—COMFORTIF G. BREAKFAST COCOA. “ By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful application ol .he fine properties of well selected cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with ? delicately-flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors’ bills. It is by tne judi. cious use of such articles of diet, that a constitu. tion may be gradually built up until strong enough to resist every tendency to disease. Hundreds of subtle maladies are floating arcund us, ready to attack wherever there is a weak point. We may escape many a fata shaft by keeping ourselves well fortified with pare bicod and a properly nourished frame.”— The Chi! Service Gazette.



SOLD ONLY IN PACKETS LABELLED JAMES EPPS AND C Homoepathic Chemists, London,



Business Notices. as- THIS ADVERTISEMENT SHOULD BE CAREFULLY READ AND RE MEMBERED BY EVERYONE IN- TERESTED IN FENCING. THE PATENT OYAL SAMSON FENCE WIRE Has now been before the public for four years, and during that time 5,000 TONS HAVE BEEN SOLD Giving very great satisfaction, in proof of which we hold numerous testimonials from well-known colonists ; and the demand is daily increasing to such an extent, that numerous spurious imitations have lately been introduced in the various markets of [ Australia and New Zealand, for the solo I purpose of damaging the reputation of the Patent Oval Samson Wire. The Samson Wire By using the Patent Oval Fence Wire you get a better and cheaper fence than any other, and the best proofs are the imitations already referred to. comprehensive circular as to its advantages, with numerous testimonials from well-known colonists, will be posted to any address on application. The state Forests of Victoria are fenced j with the Patent Oval Samson Fence Wire; i the one at Dookie is, without doubt, the | best Wire Fence in Australia, and people I come from great distances to see it. PRICES GREATLY REDUCED. The public, when purchasing, are there -1 fore cautioned to see that each coil bears f a tin tally thus : > [ PATENT OVAL SAMSON WIRHfc IN OVAL ; And the Patentee’s Tally or Trade Mark : M B R 5 IN PADLOCK. e i I by the Whitecross Wire Company, Warrington, England. r r Was patented and introduced four years ago in Victoria, New South Wales, - Queensland, and New Zealand ; and the ■ principal claim set fourth was its being made > Oval to prevent fraud. Yet, in the face of £ these patents, firms—many of respecaltry t standing—have, for the sake of a paltry, , commission, lent themselves to the intro- ’ j duction of various spurious iftiitationa, s which render them liable to actions at law, i and annoyance and disappointment to the users. We would point out to intending pur chasers that any persen erecting Oval Wire Fences, other than the Patent Oval Satn j son, renders himself liable for damages. r The Patent Acts on this point are very / explicit ; therefore, after this notice no . excuse can be made. Wehave had instances brought undercut - f notice where some persons have been so un principled as to mix the Spurious Oval - Wire amongst the Patent Oval Samson in - order to make a sale, and damage the i the reputation of the genuine article.



We have a great aversion to take legal . proceedings in this matter, but shall be compelled to, in self-defence, unless these practices are at once stopped. ADDRESS M Lean Bros. & Rigg 3 IMPORTER s 69 ELIZABETH STREET, MELBOURNE. TRADE MARK : MB R * IN PADLOCK. ” We undertake through our agents, to deliver the Patent Oval Samson Wire at any port in Australia or New Zealand, ither direct from England or Melbourne. Inquiries by telegram promptly answered. REWARD.—Fencers throughout the Colonies who can give information as to the erection of Oval Wire Fences, other han the Patent Oval Samson Wire, will find it to their advantage to communicate with Messrs. M’Lean Brothers and Rigg, 69 Elizabeth Street Melbourne. TO PRINTERS. MACHINE FOR SALE. For sal e.— One Second-hand Double Demy Tape Printing MACHINE, in thorough working order, with rollers, moulds, &c,, 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 steampower. Can be seen and all ticulars obtained at our office. For a Country Office this Machii suits admirably, as it can easily be turned 71 by hand, for which we have fitted a wheel and handle. - Price £7O WEEKS & DIXON