A. requisition has been sent to the j Mayor, asking him to call a meeting to protest against the property tax. The Dame, corvette, has arrived from Samoa, and will probably remain here till -j the end of June, when she will proceed , to Wellington to meet the Commodore, i and receive a from the Raleigh. ] During her stay Solomon Islands, j the Danse visited most of the islands of c the grifev: and discovered a fine, pre- t viousljMmknown harbor. During the last ? four months the ship has been employed j at the Samoan Islands in upholding the , claims of King Malisowa. There have c been constant quarrels among the rival a parties, which have frequently called for interference, and only a few days before £ she left an outrage by the people of Lufi- j Luff on the Royal party necessitated the r destruction of the town. Seamen and ( marines, in the face of an army of 3,000 £ men, who were assembled in the neigh borhood, landed and destroyed the whole v settlement. r Four houses, with a bakehouse and c stable, in the Kyber Pass road, were en- a tirely destroyed by fire on Sunday morn- j ing. The damage is estimated at L 460. j Two men, Kingsley and Townsend, who had been under police surveillance, in- j duced Major Westrupp to play with them t at chicken hazard in the Cosmopolitan a Hotel on Saturday night. They won LGB. r Westrupp gave a cheque for the amount, a but afterwards stopped the same, and v communicated with the police. Gallagher, j the landlord, has been summoned for per- r mitting gambling. e Ten more boys absconded from the s Naval Training School. Seven have been 0 captured, and the whereabouts of three £ are still unknown. t The Hinemoa arrived last night. She t sailed to-day at noon with the Auckland j members of the House of Representatives, a and Judge Fenton. a Hamilton', May 29. a The Waikato Times denies, on autho- p rity, the Hew Zealand Herald s state- g ment that Rewi made a speech saying that £ he withdrew his lands from the control of a the King ; also, the Herald's statement p that Rewi will not take possession of the j. house built for him by Government at p Kihikihi until the Crown grant is handed j, to him. 01 o Wellington, May 31. p The schooner Colleen Bawn, which left p here for Havelock on the Ist instant, is c missing, and is supposed to be lost. _ j Ur. Grace will move the Address m p Reply to-morrow in the Legislative Coun- £j 01 During May 101 births and 29 deaths £ were registered, while 22 marriage certifi- £ cates were issued. . „ h Nelson, May 28. p At eleven o’clock last night a dray was p discovered in the Waimea river, at N elson, p a little above Plebby Bridge, and it w r as r afterwards found that the horse was attached. The harness showed that the p animal had almost freed itself before it a was drowned. The horse and dray were v being driven yesterday by a man named p John Krusea, a settler of long standing, d and it is conjectured that in attempting j, to ford the river the dray was washed v down the river by the fresh. The body 0 has not yet been discovered. p Timaru, May 31. p Frank Fowler, a Malay, has been coni- p mitted for trial for rape on a girl of six- j teen at Temuka. . n For tripping a constable and rescuing a p Edward Phillips was sen- a tencethmvorty-eight hours,’ without the t option fAfeit fine. Phillips excused him- f self b ' IjUmhad just been discharged c from * and drink took a strong effe^W|^HL Dunedin, May 29. A man named Lockhart had a differ ence with his wife on Thursday night and s struck her. The woman died suddenly. 0 An inquest will be held on Monday. „ Dunedin, May 29. p Mr P. C. Neill’s Beaumont Station, of c 70,000 acres leasehold, with 20,000 sheep, | were sold to Mr. Alexander Brown, of j Green Island, to-day. Price withheld. 0 The escort has brought down 4,0000z5. of gold. t Invercargill, May 29. -j At a meeting of the Eastern District Reform Association, motions were carried j expressing strong disapproval at Mr. Shanks not having addressed theMataura 1 electors, and stating a want of confidence , in him. A requisition is in circulation, 3 requesting his resignation. , Invercargill, May 31. 1 At the Police Court, Joseph VVevels, licensee of the Edendale Hotel, was fined L 5, the full penalty, and L2 , 15s. costs, for supplying a rabbitter named Reid with drink while intoxicated, ( the Magistrate remarking it was a bad case. 1

SHOCKING BARBARITY TO A PRIEST.

* ■ Allusion was made a short time ago to the exploits of a party of Spanish ban ditti, who, aided by the village alcade, pillaged a number of dwelling-houses. A fresh instance of the audacity and im punity with which these ruffians carry on their lawless calling, and strike terror into the minds of the rural population, is now given. Recently, while the inhabitants of the villages of Rhodes, in Lerida, were assembled in the parish church, their devotions were abruptly interrupted by the entrance of a band of robbers, their faces blackened to prevent recog nition, and carrying poignards, revol vers, or other arras. Three of these intruders went resolutely towards the pulpit, and, without wasting any time in words, dealt the officiating minister a heavy blow on the head, which stretched him senseless. In this state he was bound with cords and carried out of the church, the brigands threatening anyone present who at tempted to leave the building or give the alarm with instant death. The unfortu nate priest was conveyed to his residence, placed in an arm-chair, and brought back from his swoon. One of the four ruffians present ordered him to indicate the place where 500 ounces of gpld they knew to he on the ‘premises were kept. The priesi replied that he was ignorant of what thej were alluding to, which answer wai punished with fifteen poignard stabs or the arms and legs. The question was then repeated, and received the saim reply, upon which a further infliction o: cuts with a knife and heavy blows with i stick was resorted to. The victim pf this barbarity, upon being" replaced in hi; chain, admitted now that he possessed ; little money, about 3,000 reals. This de •duration exasperated the bandits, wh next tortured their captive by lighting a quantity of straw over the flames c which they held the priest's face until hi hair eyebrows, and eyelashes were ablaze The’ heartrending cries uttered by th sufferer brought at length the female sei want to the scene, but before she coul offer any resistance or seek help she wa stabbed. It was finally decided tin since the robbers had been deceived i their expectation of finding a rich bool 3 the priest should be shot, and he ha been told to kneel down prepan into execution of tl one of the band, who ha bepn ransacking the house, returned wit the news that he had discovered the fii hundred ounces of gold. This was treasure deposited in the keeping of tl priest the previous day, and which h conscience forbade him to give up. Ha ing obtained what they wanted tl brigands made off, such being the tern they inspired that no one dared to pursi them.

A WONDERFUL DOCTOR WITH A ROMANTIC HISTORY.

There is now in Paris a physician, by birth a Dutchman, whose miraculous cures are attracting the attention of all classes. His name is Schmitt. It was at first believed that he was a humbug, but it is now generally acknowledged that by his discovery of a medical plant previously unknown to Europeans, ho has rendered a great service to medical science. His life reads like a fairy tale. While still very young, he entered the navy .of his country, and made a voyage to Borneo as assistant physician in a man-of-war. Wounded in a sea fight between the Dutch fleet and a tribe of Javai’cso, he lay for a long time in the hospital at Java sur rounded by native physicians, who fre quently spoke in his hearing of the wonder ful healing properties of certain tropical plants directly or indirectly to dangerous wounds. At first he resisted the ap plication of these remedies in his own cise, but, gangrene having set in, all remedies proving powerless against its advance, he finally consented to sub ject himself to the treatment of the native physicians. Under their hands he shortly recovered. Then he decided to resign his naval commission and devote all his energies to the study of the recipes of the Javanese physicians, who are also the priests of Brahma. But this was no easy task ; these priests are all jealous of their secrets as were the old magi of the East. After three years of continual study, and after colouring the skin with the juice of various plants in order to pass for an Indian he presented himself to one of the leading members of the priesthood. He had the good fortune to please the latter, whose slave he became. For seven years he lived in this condition, and, as a matter of course, was present at all the ceremonies and sacrifices of his adopted religion. Amid these scenes the learned doctor pursued his scientific re searches in the forest, seeking to wrest from the mysterious Indian vegetation all its secrets in order to introduce them into Europe. His experiments turned particularly toward a certain plant called guaco, which was valued in Java as an antidote against tne bite of poisonous snakes. From various ap plications of this plant he discovered that it could be most effectually employed in curing all kinds of sores and other diseases of the skin and the blood. At last the slave physician and priest grew tired of Brahma and his worshippers, and 311 e fine morning ran away from his temple and made his way to a ship about to sail for Europe. As soon as the ship had reached tlio high seas, remorse seized him, and he feared him that he had not learned enough of the science to which he had sacrificed everything. He longed to return. His ship was wrecked and went to the bottom a few miles from Hong Kong. After drifting almost for two days it sea, he was taken up by a Japanese vessel and carried to the English colonies in India, where he made new studies and liscoveries. The ex-priest of Brahma lias followed a variety of callings. After svandering through all the principal cities if Europe he has at last settled in Paris, in the faubourgs of which he intends to build a private hospital where he will con tinue his marvellous cures with guaco. Among the valuable qualities of this medicine is its effects in the treatment of hydrophobia, a use to which it has been applied by Dr. Schmitt. His experiments thus far seem to have been most success ful, and permit the hope that a radical cure has been found for rabies.

A NOVEL FIRE ESCAPE.

Man is the creature of impulses. If a steamboat disaster occurs, nearly every one except those that are drowned, patents a life-preserver. If a fire destroys life and property, fire-escapes at once en gage public attention, until a new opera is brought out or some one is murdered. A late conflagration prompted a life insur ance company to offer a premium for the best life-saving apparatus in case of fire, the trial to take place in a large fire-proof building, and a great crowd assembled to to witness the result. Jones was the first inventor who gave an exhibition of his patent arrangement. It was an endless wire rope running on drums, which moved by internal clock-work, were ar ranged to run through all the rooms of a dwelling; and at night, upon going to bed, each member of a family would strap themselves to the rope by a steel-band, and upon the breaking out of a fire it would start by automatic movement, and pull each sleeping member of a family out ®f bed, and carry them down safely through the window. Jones and his family dressed to represent sleeping in mates of the house, retired to bed in three rooms, and everything being in readiness, a pile of shavings was lighted on the ground floor, and smoke and flame puffed out of the window. The next moment an alarm-bell sounded, the rope started, and Jones shot out through the window, fol lowed at intervals by Mrs. Jones and three children. The crowd shouted in admiration, and it was evident from the way clones rubbed the smoke from his eyes that he had just waked up. As he reached the ground he said, with a smile of confidence on his face, “ You see, gentlemen, what a grand success this is 1 ” He had hardly spoken these words when he shot up like a rocket into the burning building again followed by Mrs, Jones and the children, They disappeared through the smoke of one window, and the next moment shot out through another, and down again; but still the energetic and relentless wire carried them until the Jones family began to look liked smoked herrings ; and it was remarked by a by-stander that Jones hadn’t as much hair on his head as when the experiment began, and another sug gested that Jones had been going up for his hat. “ For heaven’s sake, gentlemen,” said Jones frantically, “ go up there some of you, and smash that drum-wheel ; it is set to run twelve hours, and it will drag us in an out of those windows seventeen hundred times if you don’t stop it.” The Jones family had some clothing on wher the experiment began, bqt they were clothed ip copfusiori and smoko when i| ended ; and Jones remarked as he wipec the sweat from his perspiring face, tha he had only planned for getting out o the building, and never thought of th endless rope carrying them back again.

THE ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1880.



Wanted. Wanted known—That 6. ha« kins J the Tinwald Bootmaker, ha REMOVED to premises Opposite th Tinwald Post Office, where he is still ope to Sell first-class Boots and Shoes at h nsual Cheap Rates. AH kinds of Boo' Made and Repaired. 805g—dll WANTED’ SPLIT, in the Alfox Forest, 300 Cords of Firewooi 2,000 Posts and Rails, and 10,000 Stake All black birch. Apply to P. TISCH, 880 s Ashburton Forks. For Sale. pAR Framed BICE HIVES. T. , Oasks, &apnder§ ! Buildings. 821 JUST ARRIVED —Young Ladh Journals for APRIL, and oth Magazines. H. M. JONES, Stationer, 300 c East Street and Baring Square. OFFICE and Pocket Diaries for 18S H. M. Jones, Stationer, Bari Square,



Edmiston, G-undr; SATURDAY, sth 700 ACRES OF TUR To be let for one IN BLOCKS OF 40 TO AT LAGMO] VfESSRS. EDMISTO; iVi & Co. have receiv from D. McLean, Esq., tc LET BY PUBLIC . At their Rooms. f East_ Strc OH SATURDAY, JU] 700 ACRES OF TUI In Blocks of 40 to 2 Situate on the Lagmohr Es best Agricultural Land in To produce 70 Bushels 1 We would particularly d. tion of those persons now c for land for cropping to qualify of the land being with a market close at ham dace, and a railway runnin Estate. TERMS—RENT PAlr MARCH, 181 Plans with full partic obtained at the offices of tl Sale at 2 o’elo EDMISTON, GUNDI 906 g Acland. Campbell, PRELIMINARY IS GREAT CLEARING AT WESTERFIELD Messrs, acland, & CO., have receiv from J. C. Hawdon, Es sale BY PUBLIC AU( In about Three Weeks, a h Really Good DRAUGHT HORSES, ALSO A VALUABLE ASSOR FARMING IMPLI AND MACH I N I CATALOG Will be issued from the CL Ashburton Offi ACLAND, CAMPB; 896 g Tenders. WAKANUI ROAD TENDERS TENDERS are invited ing works ; No. 23 —Seafield road &c., adjoining F* No. 24 —Beach road, path on east s Belt to Trevor’s 1 Specifications can be see Office, Moore street, and paniedwithspercent. depo; with No. of contract, will 10 a. m. on THURSDAY, FOOKS 887g-493c Surveyors



Public Notices. rjVOWN HALL. FRIDAY, 4th JUNE. GREAT ENTHUSIASM CROWDED HOUSES ! THE AMATEUR DRAMATIC COMPANY Will perform that splendid drama of Black-Eyed Susan, WHEN MISS FLORENCE COLVILLE (MRS. HOSKINS) Will appear in the title role,, supported by the FULL STRENGTH OF THE COMPANY. The whole to conclude with the screaming farce of John Smith* Piiices of Admission ; s- d. Dress Circle (up-stairs) .. 3 0 Front Seats ... ••• 2 6 Back Seats 2 0 Stalls 1 0 BOX OFFICE for Dress Circle up outside staircase. 517c-908g V. NOTICE R. AFTER this date the sitting of the Resident Magistrate’s Court, South Rakaia, will be held on the second THURSDAY in each month at 11 a.m. By order, A. MAKEIG, 878 g Clerk of Court. Y. R. Ik the District Court of Christ church, Holden at Ashburton. IN THE MATTER of the Debtors and Creditors Act, 1876, and of the Acts amending the same, and of the Bankruptcy of GEORGE RICK ARD, of Chertsey, Farmer, a Debtor. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that ap plication will be made to the above honorable Court at its sitting next after the expiration of ten clear days from the _ day of the publication hereof for an order of discharge to be granted to the said debtor. Dated this 31st clay of May, 1880. BRANSON & PURNELL, 9030 Solicitors for the Debtor. DISSOLUTION OF PARTNER SHIP. TWT OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the PARTNERSHIP hitherto sxisting between Messrs. Cosgrave and Murray, trading together as Blacksmiths, Vlount Somers, is hereby DISSOLVED iy mutual consent. Dated this 4th day of May, 1880. EDWARD COSGRAYE. !19a JOHN MURRAY. NOTICE. MOUNT SOMERS ROAD BOARD. "VTOTICE is hereby given that Mount Somers Road Board ;o STOP a ROAD from the South East :orner of R. S. 23518 to the South East ;orner of R. S. 19975, and to take in ex ;hange thereof a road from the aforesaid south East corner of R.S. 23518 to the South East corner of R.S. 24989, joining Government road at the South West cor ler of R.S. 25614. Plans of the above now deposited at the Road Board iffice, Mount Somers. Dated this Hth day of May, 1880. By order, 1 WENTWORTH COOKSON, Jun., Surveyor to the 1410 Mount Somers Road Board. MOUNT SOMERS ROAD BOARD. TAKE NOTICE, the Valuation List for the Mount Somers Road District 'or the year 1880 is now open for inspec ,ion at the Road Board office, Mount Somers. All Objections thereto must be eft at the Road Board office, on or lefore the 22nd day of June 1880, iddressed to the Assessment Court, and a :opy of every such objection must be left it the Road Board office, Mount Somers, lot less than seven days before the sitting if the said Court. I. WENTWORTH COOKSON, Jun., Clerk to the Mount Somers Road Board. Mount Somers, May 27th, 1880. 905 g Business Notices. DENTISTRY. R. J. P. ARMSTRONG Surgeon and Mechanical Dentist. (From Dunedin) an be consulted, for the present, at uill’s Commercial Hotel. Mr. Arm rong will meet Patients at the Rakaia [otel every THURSDAY until further otice. 513c-907g McSHERRY DRILLS. SHIPMENT of these cclebratec ___ Drills is expected shortly to arrive. They will range in widtn from 6 feet ( inches (12 Hoppers) to 10 feet (11 Hoppers). Orders taken by the undersigned, FREDK. PAVITT, , Ashburton, For the SOLE AGENT, JOHN ANDERSON, 646g-240c Canterbury Foundry. HORSE FEED. HORSE FEED. CRUSHED OATS. ily THE Undersigned are prepared i CRUSH OATS in any quantity, WOOD & CO., 511c-909g Ashburton Brewery. REDUCTION IN THE PRICE O BREAD. 140 ng be ;he 3a r EDWARD TAYLOR has reduced tl Price of his best Bread to sd. Cae at shop, and if delivered by cart, EDWARD TAYLOR, Saunders Buildings, ASHBURTON. 119 c



Business Notices. TO FARMERS. undersigned axe 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 for the county of Ashburton. MASON STRUTHERS & CO. Christchurch 10th. February, 1880. The Deering Twine Binder AWARDED GOLD MEDAL At Ashburton, six machines competing. THE DEERING TWINE took the SPECIAL PRDZE at the Oanrnru trial etc. JJAVING been appointed sole agents for the above machines, we are now prepared to TAKE ORDERS for tht coming season. As only a LIMITED NUMBER cai t i r 3 be supplied, all who wish to make certau of securing those favorite machines f< next season should order before the depai ture of next San Francisco Mail. ? FRIEDLANDER B R .°. AGENTS FOB THE COLONIAL FIRE AND MARIE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NE ZEALAND ~ SOLE AGENTS )F FOB he THE CELEBRATED ALTHOUSI SH SELF - REGULATING WINDMTLI I



Business Notices. All Hot I All Hot I Hot Pies ? Hot Tea, Hot Coffee, AT ALL HOURS, rjp H O M A s EAST STREET. 492 c c 0 T O N CO., HORSE CLIPPERS, 24 Years’ Colonial Experience. HORSES BROKEN IN TO SADDLE AND HARNESS. Moderate Charges. Apply Baldwins Hotel, or Brighton Boarding House, Triangle. 842g-450c HORSE BREAKING. THE undersigned is now prepared to Undertake the BREAKING of HORSES to double and single harness, also to saddle. Mr. Willcocks has had a very consider able experience in Australia, and his success there as a Trainer is sufficient guai’antee as to his ability. All orders to be left at the Coach Office, Commercial Hotel, Ashburton, or the Wheatsheaf Hotel, Wheatstone. 403c-816g GEO. WILLCOCKS. PRACTICAL WATCH & CLOCK MAKER, JEWELLER, &C. \ BOBT. MXJBBAY, MOORE STREET, BEACH ROAD, ASHBURTON, HAYING had over thirty years’ ex perience in some of the leading establishments in England and Scotland, trusts by good workmanship and atten tion to business to merit a share of the patronage of the inhabitants of Ashburton and County. A well-assorted stock of Watches, Clocks, Jewellery, Spectacles, &c. Watch Glasses and Keys, of best quality, fitted. All Watch and Clock Work and Jewel lery repairs executed on the Premises. Specimens of Workmanship by R.M. shown in the window, AT MOORE STREET (Next Door to the Road Board Office), BEACH ROAD, ASHBURTON. 824q-429c LATEST STYLES FROM LONDON & PARIS. CRAIGHEAD & CO., Merchant Tailors,. TANCRED STREET, (Next Orr & Co.) PERFECT FIT GUARANTEED. 982a-445a SW BEBUCTION. CHEAP! CHEAP! ! CHEAP!!! N 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 limber supplied on the shortest notice. 738 c J. R. CHAPMAN, -pAINTER, GLAZIER, PAPER HANGER & SIGNWRITER, Importer of Paperhangings, Whit Lead, Glass, &c. The trade supplied at lowert Wholesal Prices. 1 M. McCALLUM, ATCHMAKER AND JEWELLE] Every description of Jewellery made t order and repaired. Electro-plating and Gilding. Hair plai and Devices done. Watches and Clocks accurately Repairec Diamonds and every description of Stom substantially Set. Clocks from 7s. 6d. each. Do., wit alarm, 15s. CASHEL STREET, Next Bank op Australasia, Chris church. 22 CHERTSEY. A. R. MARKHAM Hi LS 8a (Next Montgomery’s, Chertsey), GENERAL STOREKEEPE; HAVING taken over the store Messrs. Orr and Co., and increas the stock, is prepared to supply first-ch articles in Grocery, Drapery, Ironmonge] Agentfor THE ASHBURTON HERAL 4



Business i^orices. Dissolution OF Partnership. ORE AND CO., ~jp>EG to announce that they intend to DISSOLVE PARTNERSHIP on Ist SEPTEMBER. They will therefore, on Saturday, May Ist, offer the whole of their superior stock, amounting to over £20,000 worth of DRAPERY, IRONMONGERY, AND GROCERIES, AT COST PRICE. The reductions in price extends to every Department in our Business, And we trust our Customers will pay PROMPT CASHI DURING SALE. All Goods will be marked in plain figures with Red Ink. All outstanding accounts must he paid at once so that partnership accounts may be adjusted. ORR & CO., ASHBURTON & RAKAIA April. 24th, 1880. P.S.—A Large Shipment of Drapery Goods just opened up ex Pallala. Guns! Guns! Guns! POWDER. SHOT. CAPS. ORR AND CO. H AVE now on hand a very fir j assortment of BRBECHLOADING double ani SINGLE-BARREL GUNS, [ta J And as these have been imported dire d. from the manufacturers, we are prepar to Sell at’the most EeasonahleJPrices -ix- j From|£2 10s to'£2s. !lo OR R AN D CO R, of sed ass r - li 9c JD. 423



£IO,OOO rate of interest. Ashburton. TO LEND, in sums to suit borrowers, at lowest P; P. O’Reilly, Solicitor, 424c-8350 NEW ZEALAND TRUST AND LOAN COMPANY (LIMITED). QAPITAL £1,000,000. SUMS OF £BOO to £20,000 READY TO BE ADVANCED UPON FREEHOLD SECURITIES. Information can be obtained upon appli cation to J. C. M‘DOWALL, Manager, 578 a Hereford street, Christchurch. FURNITURE ! FURNITURE !! Made to Order by rjHAELES Jg RA D ER ’ PRACTICAL CABINETMAKER, FURNITURE DEALER, &0. Chests of Drawers, 3ft. 6in. x 3ft. 6in., with five drawers, Price 70s. Scotch Chest of Drawers, with six drawers, '’rice £5 10s. Kitchen Cupboard, from 30s. Do. with Dresser, from 40s. Venetian and other Blinds, Curtain Poles, Oxford and other Picture Frames made to order. Furniture repaired and renovated. GREAT SOUTH ROAD, TINWALD, * Beyond Clark’s Grain Stores. For Sale, a Light Waggon, nearly new, in good order, Price £22. A good chance for anyone requiring a useful conveyance cheap. 346 c HALLO! HALLO! QUILL AGAIN. REDUCTION IN PRICES. BOTTLED WINES & SPIRITS. T. qlTill, SEEING the necessity of a Wholesale Bottling, Wine, and Spirit Store in Ashburton, has determined to supply that want, and therefore begs to submit the following list of Prices, every article guaranteed to be of the best and purest description. PRICE LIST. Brandy Flasks, 2s. and 4s. per flask. Fine Old Port, per Bottle, ss. and 6s. Superior old Dry Montelado, (old Sherry) DA & 6s. Very old Scotch Whisky, per Settle ss. Fine old Irish Whisky, per Bottle, ss. Superior old Jamaca Rum, per Bottle, ss. Fine old Martelle’s Dark Brandy, per Bottle, ss. Hennessey’s Brandy, per Bottle, 6s. Superior Square Gin (J.D.K.Z.), per Bottle, 6s. Superior Old Tom (Swain Booth’s), per Bottle, ss. All other brands equally Reduced. QUILL’S Assorted Dozen of Best Winea and Spirits for £3 10s, containing— -3 bottles Brandy 2 „ Port 2 ~ Rum 2 bottles Whisky 2 ~ Sherry 1 „ Old Tom (Ready packed, and forwarded to any part of the County on the shortest notice.) One trial will prove to Quill’s customers the quality of his taps. COMMENCING MONDAY, 26th APRIL. f Open from 7 a.m to 6 p.m. during winter months. Note Address— T. QUILL’S, WHOLESALE BOTTLING STORES, Commercial Hotel, (Near Railway Station), Ashburton. 751g-336c TINWALD STORE. NEW PROPRIETORSHIP ’ JEPHSON & DAVISON, IN announcing to the inhabitants _of Tinwald and district surrounding that they have succeeded to the business hitherto carried on by Mr. J. Escott, in the Store in Tinwald, trust that they will merit the patronage bestowed on their predecessor. J. and D. desire to inform their friends that no efforts will be spared on their part to enjoy their good opinion, and if keeping only the best quality of goods, dispensed with civility and care, and a desire to obtain only a fair and reason able profit on their transactions, will command success. J. and D. mean to be successful. Farmers and others will find their wants well supplied, and on satisfactory terms, at the Tinwald Store, and residents in Tinwald will do well to call where they can be served with an article equal to any to be found elsewhere, and at a figure equally cheap. JEPHSON & DAVISON, GENERAL STOREKEEPERS, ic Tinwald. 8510 FOR SALE, ) ON VERY REASONABLE TERMS, 3Ct 163 ACRES OF LA N D AT WAKANUI. , 100 Acres Cross-ploughed, ready for Wheat. 50 Acres, skimmed for Barley; well fenced. A good Stable, and . an abundant supply of water on the farm. The favourable terms on which this farm may be purchased offers an indue ment rarely to be met with. Further particulars, apply to POYNTZ & CO, . 3-9 g WANTED KNOWN—That the cheap est and neatest CARDS may ba had at tlie [ GUARDIAN OFFICE.”