The Ashburton Guardian.

YOL. I.— No. 108

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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 DS ATTENDED. Entries can be made at my office or at the ’ Yards. Agent for the Transatlantic Fire Insurance Company, 60-252 c I7IDMISTON BROS. & GUNDRY 'J (latb bullock AND CO.), ASHBURTON, General Merchants Auctioneers, Stock, Station, Estate, and Commission Agents. Sales of Stock, Farm Implements, &c., will he held at their Yards, Ashbur ton, and the Tinwald Yards, on alternate TUESDAYS. 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, Ashburton. 65 pREDK. pAVITT, 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- i mg Materials of all kinds. Fencing Wire, Agricultural Implements, English and Ameri- ' -can, &c., &c. ~ 1 MESSRS. POYNTZ & CO., y A N D , S T A T E, GENERAL COMMISSION AGENTS. Rents and Debts Collected. Money advanced on Freehold Security. 7 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 Building Materials. Ashburton steam saw mills SASH AND DOOR MANUFACT O*R Y. 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 the : shortest notice. 260—392 c Insurance. AT ORTH 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— -8800 POYNTZ & CO. Conveyances. METHVEN 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 Methvpn Railway Station, to meet the J 1.25 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 he charged at parcel rates. JOHN TISCH, 597 g Alford Forest. THE LONGBEACH COACH ! aEORGE WILLCOCKS respectfully acknowledges the liberal support which he has received during the short time his Coach has been running, and gpiicits a continuance of the same. The fares by Willpocks’ coaph are exactly 3d. per mile ordinary fares, and lid. per mile for Saturday return. They are as under— ‘ Longbeach to Ashburton, ordinary 55., return Bs. Waterton to Ashburton, 3s. 6d. ordi nary, 6s. return. Ashton to Ashburton, 3s. ordinary, 5s return, Wheatstone to Ashburton, 2s. 6d. *■ ordinary, 4s. return. The coach leaves the Booking Office, Quill’s Commercial Hotel, each day at 3.15 ; Post Office, 3.30. 2920 Wills Street, runs the MASH COACH from Ashburton Railway Station to Green Street, Alford Forest, and Mount Somers, every Tuesday and Friday, returning Wednesday and af. 55 tv m ;



Business Notices. NEW SHOP. FUST OPENED, TO MEET REQUIRE MENTS. OARSTENS0 ARSTENS & 00, TOBACCONISTS, anct Goods and Stationery Depot, PROSPECT BUILDINGS, East street, Shop ormerly occupied by Weston. ood £ ick of Cigars, Tobacco, and Pipes of every description. HAIR - CUTTING, SHAVING, AND SHAMPOOING on the premises. Licensed to sell Postage Stamps. 766g-366c W. MONTGOMERY & CO., [Limited], EAST STREET, Ashburton. 32 T. A. GATES, CABINET MAKER, &c., 1 J SAUNDERS’ BUILDINGS, ’ ASHBURTON. .1 kinds of Furniture, Picture Frames, <Src., on Sale and made to order. FUNERALS FURNISHED. do GRAIN. ESSRS. ROYSE, STEAD, & CO. jprepared to XJBCHASE GBAIN 4 to make .DVANCES ON GRAIN isigned to them for sale or ship nt. 0. PERCY COX, Agents for ROYSE, STEAD, & CO., la Ashburton, Blacksmiths, &c. C )E 'TTRAL SHOEING FORGE, Tahcred street, Railway crossing, (Opposite Orr and Co.’s.) i 088 and BURNS, Agricultural Im j plement Makers, General Black ths, Wheelwrights, Machinists, &c., to announce to the public of Ashbur that they have commenced business as ve, and hope to merit a share of public port. DRSE SHOEING GUARANTEED TO SATISFACTION. 5600 GREENSTREET FORGE, Ashburton Porks. WILLIAM RETELL, smith, Wheelright, and Agricultural Machinist, IYING considerably extended his Business Premises, can guarantee rk entrusted to him to be executed thoroughly competent manner’, and lespatch. 359 g OHNNDE R S O N, CANTERBURY FOUNDRY, CHRISTCHURCH, Sole Agent for the M‘SHERRY GRAIN DRILLS, have on sale for next season a full tment of these machines, varying 10 to I*7 hoes. Hoes, spring and six to seven inches apart, apers and Binders by M‘Cormick Wood. Wire and extras for same. 1 kinds of plough fittings, shares, &c., on hand or cast at short notice, ncing standards and wire, millstones, stones, flour dressing silk, leather indiarubber belting and hose, reaper ns, machine oils, field gates, horse and nails, rivets, bolts, nuts, plate bar iron, steel, and every requisite miths’ work, all kinds of engine and r mountings, boiler and gas lubes, &c. chinery of every description made e most modern principles and design. furnished on



Business Notices. EW GOODS. 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, Yellum Address Labels. NEW GOODS, Thick Commercial Envelopes. NEW GOODS, Pocket Pen & Pencil-holder, 1/- NEW GOODS, Foolscap from 16/6 per ream. NEW GOODS, Lead Pencils. NEW GOODS, Ink Bottles. NEW GOODS, Drawing Papers. NEW GOODS, Strongest Liquid Gum. NEW GOODS, Memo. Account Books. NEW GOODS, Gum Tickets. &c. &c. &c. <2 a 3 m t i h 1 WEEKS AND DIXON, } Wholesale and Retail Stationers, Opposite Railway Station, Ashburton. * ] OFFICE A2® HOUSEHOLD STATIONERY 3 K PAPER BAGS,' ACCOUNT BOOKS, &c. c Commercial and Law Stationery Notepapers in great variety Envelopes of the newest styles Inkstands and Bottles Pens and Penholders Pencils and Pencil Cases Account and Pocket Books, Etc. } Biscuit Bags Flour Bags Milliners’ Bags. r l WHOLESALE AMD RETAIL. LIBERAL DISCOUNT FOE CASH. WEEKS AND DIXON Saunders’ Buildings



Business Notices. PATRONISED BY ALL CLASSES. THE GREATEST DISCOVERY OF THE AGE. SINBE'B TRADE MARK. PURE EXTRACT ofKEROSINE WILL NOT IGNITE IF LAMP IS UPSET. Burns in any Kerosine Lamp ; gives a brighter light, lasts longer, is free from smell and free from danger. Sold by all respectable grocers and storekeepers throughout the colony; The next time you want Oil for your Lamp try a tin of “ Niner’s Extract. ” Sold in pints, quarts, half-gallon and one-gallon tins. Wholesale and Retail Agents for the Ashburton District— O R R A N D C 0., Ashburton and Rakaia. 316c-7350 BEST NEWCASTLE LAMBTON COLLIERY. 50s. f®RTON -1 A PER CENT. DISCOUNT for CASH. SPRINGFIELD .COALS 40s. PER TON. 10 Per Cent. Discount for Cash.. To be delivered in my yard. Acconnts to be paid monthly. 3S9C-773G C. PERCY COX. Tailors. james McDonald, PRACTICAL TAILOR, East street, Ashbuetob. A good Stock of Tweeds and Cloths on tiai d. Summer Goods open shortly. L 72 DON’T! PLEASE! DONTI STOP ! DO STOP ! S' r R TOP before you give your next order for a Suit of Clothes. P you want Style, Fit, and Quality, try the Undersigned. HAD the following, then call and in spect the Goods. (YARDS READY 1 350 360 TO CUT. JUST ARRIYED—The best Stock of Winter Cloths to be got for money SUPERIOR in quality to anything ever yet shown in Ashburton. I SAMPLES 1 70 T 0 70 (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, , (t 0., etc. 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. EC £1 Is. Cash for a Pair CONOMY ) 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 Boarding Houses. CENTRAL TEMPERANCE HOTEL, Baring Square (Near Town Hall). T) E-OPENING of the above commo- JL\) dious and centrally situated Pri vate and Commercial Hotel. T. BROADBELT, PROPRIETOR, Is prepared to give Superior Accommoda tion to Boarders and the Travelling Public on - REASONABLE TERMS. Lodging ... £1 ... Ids. J and HOURS, hom 11.30.