• and the liabilities must be met m cnecr ways. He said the tax would no doubt be imposed and he should bo epad if the deputation -would furnish him witn facts and figures, showing the cost of pro duction of beer, and the estimated result of the tax, and how it could be worked with the least possible objection. Wellington, June 28. A telegram received by Captain Edwin to-day, reports that several shocks or earthquake have been experienced at Taupe. • • A mass meeting of the unemployed will be held to-morrow to consider their posi tion. Nelson, June 26. The case against Acton Adams, M. H. R., for perjury, concluded last night a little after eleven. An hour and a half was spent in selecting a special jury out of a panel of thirty-six. Mr. Connolly, who defended, challenged ten. Messrs. Fell and Bunny, for the prosecution, ordered twelve to stand aside, and 'when the list was got through hut nine jurors were in the box, the remaining num ber not attending and those for whom a medical man did not vouch, were fined L 5 each. The list was again com menced. Mr. Fell then claimed to try certain jurors, but he ultimately agreed to take the first twelve by ballot, and the case then proceeded. For the prosecution, Baddeley (Clerk of Court), Judge Broad, Mr. Donald (purchaser of Marahan), Mr. Thomas (late owner and mortgagee of the same), Mr. Edward Moore (solicitor, who took notes at the District Court), and Mr. Jones (articled clerk to Adams), were the witnesses called ; but the case for the prosecution was not so strong as it was belore the Magistrates. At the conclusion of the case for the prosecution, Mr. Connolly said be should call no witnesses. Mr. Fell addressed the jury for half an hour, making a good temperate speech. Mr. Connolly followed for an hour and a half in a most effective speech, the Court being crowded. The Chief Justice summed up, occupying two hours, and the jury retired ; and having, in the mean time, asked a question of the Judge, in just over half an hour they announced their verdict “Not guilty,” which re ceived some applause. His Honor ex pressed his entire concurrence in the ver dict. Ltjnedin, June 28. At the City Court this morning, the Bench ordered a criminal prosecution for exposure of a child, against Mrs. Ferguson, who figured in recent divorce cases. She left her infant on a door-step of a house in which Ferguson had placed his own children. Inveecakcxll, June 26. At the inquest on Mrs. McFarlane, the wife of the landlord of the Clinton Arms Hotel, the verdict returned was “ Alcohol ism.” The jury censured the husband for allowing his -wife access to the bar. Weaver’s Hotel, at Edendale, has been closed by the Licensing Bench. The land lord tried to transfer it to an undischarged bankrupt, but the Bench would not allow it. The refusal is in consequence of the recent case of lambing down. The Western Rabbits District Com mission have arranged with a chemist, Riverton, to supply poison at a nominal rate. One farmer bought LlO worth and killed enough “bunnies” to recoup the outlay by their skins.

THE WOLF AT THE DOOR.

Sentimentalists, with a fullstomach and a knowledge of how they can always find the means to keep it so, talk very prettily of the dignity of labor, and rod out high sounding sentences about the horny handed sons of toil, who are their country’s backbone and its pride. Oh yes ! there is : much dignity about labor —every “ horny- • handed son of toil ” will tell you that; but he will at the same time bo ; perfectly ready to inform you that it is not the dignity of the labor ho cares a rap for, it’s the money he wants. He can do without the dignity—it brings no bread and butter; but he can’t do without the money—it stocks the cupboard. At the present moment there is a scarcity of employment, and when that occurs there must of necessity be a scarcity of both the dignity admired and lauded by the poet and the sentamentalist, and the money wages so earnestly desired by the worker. Recause the worker is unable to live without wages, and cannot exist on dignity, he very naturally casts about to find some means of stocking his cupboard. He cannot find work. Tramping a weary round lie is met with a regretful shake of the head here, a scowl there, a commiserating word at the next place, perhaps a good round curse at the next, while a day’s work at a low figure is a god-send. This is the ex perience of too many working' men in New Zealand at this moment. Private employers cannot supply work. Public works have ceased, and whatever the future may be, the present is very, very dreary. Is it to be wondered at that bodies of men, who often rise in the morning not knowing where their next meal is to be procured join together to raise a cry for work, and besiege Govern ment with their clamor ? There is nothing to be surprised at in it at all. But it is surprising that because they do so they should he classed as ne’er-do-wells —idle persons who will not work when the chance is. There are men who deserve to be branded as such—too many, we dare say but we have no right to brand the whole lot in that way, for it cannot be denied that there are hundreds, ay thousands, in this colony to whom life at this moment is a weary struggle for bread. The will is there to earn it, if the opportunity were not lacking. They have not been trained to tell a smooth story, and can only, speak in the tones they heard at Nature’s knee. These tones are rough may be, but they are natural, and they are as true as natural —“ We have no bread.” But the unemployed are blamed for this outcry by some who ought to know better. They are blamed for appealing to Government, and it is pointed out to them that Govern ment is not responsible for the absence of work. Government, to be sure, cannot compel private employers to em ploy hands, and with an empty treasury they cannot fill the blank with public works. But it was Government who brought the main body of workers here— it was agents in Government pay who painted New Zealand in the roseate hues that attracted so many “horny-handed ones” to the colony, and, therefore, some responsibility must rest with Government for placing more labor on tlie colonial market than the market can absorb. The men are perfectly justified in appealing to Government, and Government by doing what they can to relieve the “ jam” are only doing their duty ; for the men who now seek work, many of them, have tramped over the country, in good times and bad ; have shown their grit by toiling at hard work in the day and sleeping in a comfortless tent at night, enduring hard ships that the man at Home is never called upon to face, and would shrink from encountering.. By all means let the worthless men be denounced, but let us be careful that they only receive censure, and that the willing and honest but suffer ing toiler be not included in the general condemnation. It is more often the worthless but - glib-tongued_ loafer who obtains such work as is a-goiug than the deserving man, who quails before the humiliating ordeal of begging literally begging—his “ brother worm to give hun leave to toil.”

MARK TWAIN’S LATEST.

Mark Twain’s latest production is a letter giving Ids opinion of private secre taries, in which he sits down rather hard upon Mr. Kirby, private secretary to Postmaster-General Key, The letter has caused a great deal of amusement among Mv. Kirby’s associates in the post-office, and that gentleman feels very much tom up in consequence, and probably will not be anxious to tackle the subject again, at least not for some time. Some days ago Mr. Kirby took occasion to write a letter to Mr. Clemens (Mark Twain) in which he had the temerity to criticise some com ments made by that gentleman upon a recent order of the post-office department, saying that “it was to meet just such hardened cases as yours ; and I also send you a copy of the postal laws, and hope you will take the trouble to look into the matter thoroughly.” It seems in the letter received in reply that Mr. Clemens did look into the matter thoroughly, and Mr. Kirby thinks now that he made too searching a study of it. Among other things in hia letter Mr. Clemens says : “My callow friend, when you shall have outgrown the effervescence of youth, and acquired a bit of wordly experience, you will cease to make mistakes like that. This is, you will recognise, the simple wisdom of minding your business. You seem to think you have been called to account. This is a great error. It is the post-office department of the United States that has been called to account. There is a difference here which you seem to have overlooked. I will point it out. You are not the post-office depart ment, but only an expensive and un necessary appendage to it. Grave, elderly public instructors like me do not call private secretaries to account. The mistake you have made is simple ; you imagined yourself the dog, whereas you are only the tail. You endeavored to wag the dog. This was injudicious. You should have hung quiesent until the dog wagged you. You seem to have gathered the impression, somehow, that you are a member of the Cabinet. This is an error. Your chief is one of the guns of that bat tery ; you are not. You are not a gun, nor a load, nor even a ramroad ; neither do you supply ammunition ; you only serve as a stick to fire it off. you are not a barrel of molasses, but only the faucet through which the molasses is discharged. You are not a boot, but a boot-jack. Do you perceive 1 The thing lam trying to convey to you is that it does not become you to assume functions that do not be long to you. The newspaper slip which you enclosed to me I will return by one of my private secretaries. I keep eleven of these things, not for use, but for display.

THE ASHBUETON GUARDIAN, TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 1880.



Thanks. —An Irishman s,t the im mediate risk of his life, stopped a runaway horse a few days ago. The owner came up after a while, and quietly remarked “ Thank you, sir.” “ An’ faith, an’ how are ye goini to divide that, betwain two of us ?” replied Pat.



Jameson and Roberts. TMs Day, TUESDAY, 29th JUNE. IMPORTANT CLEARING SALE AT Wood’s Farm,. DROMORE. „ Messrs, jameson & Roberts (in conjunction with Messrs. Robert Wilkin and Co.) are instructed by the Trustees of Wood Bros’, estate, to sell by auction, without reserve, on the Farm, at Dromore, on TUESDAY, 29TH JUNE. All the Stock and Implements, consisting of— -15 useful Draught Horses Drays, Tip-carts, and Frames Ploughs, Harrows Reapers and Binders Mower and Reaper Grass Stripper Broadcast Sower Cambridge Rollers Rakes, Forks Pig Troughs, Grindstones Lot of Harness Horse Covers Tarpaulins, Tools, Tunics Potatoes, Carrots, Mangolds 50 Fowls 6t Merino Ewes 4 Fat Pigs Chaff-cutter, Horse-power &c., itcc., Ac. Sale to commence at 11 o’clock sharp. Luncheon provided. A Train leaves Ashburton at 9.30 a. m. for Dromore station, which is only half a mile from the farm JAMESON & ROBERTS. ROBERT WILKIN & CO., 9G9g Auctioneers. Alfred Harrison. SATURDAY, JULY 3. 12 o’clock. HARRISON has received instructions from Messrs. Saunders Bros. t<s Sell by PUBLIC AUCTION, at his Yards on above date, the following valuable stock and plant;— 7 1 1 2 2 1 2 1 2 1 DRAUGHT HORSES (GOOD) YEARLING HACK CAMBRIDGE ROLLERS D.-F. PLOUGHS S.-F. PLOUGHS SETS HARROWS CHAFF CUTTER DRAYS SPRING CART (nearly new) 7 1 1 2 2 1 2 1 2 1 And a quantity ef Harness and Sundries. Without reserve. Sale at 12 o’clock sharp. ' ALFRED HARRISON, 996 g Auctioneer. K. F. Gray. IMPORTANT SALE OF FREEHOLD TOWN SECTIONS, IN THE TOWN OF TEMUKA ON TUESDAY, JULY 6th, 1880. KF. GRAY has been favored with , instructions from W. Grant,_Esq., to SELL BY PUBLIC AUCTION, At his Salerooms, Temuka, on the above date, ALL THAT VALUABLE BLOCK OF LAND, being part of Rural Section 2417, containing by ad measurement 30 acres (more or less), having a frontage on the Main South road, joining the north side of Te muka, and fronting on the Main Line of Railway. The whole of the above block of land has been surveyed and cut up into Quarter and Half-acre Business and Building Sites, and conveniently sized Sections for Market Gardens and Villa Residences, and will be sold upon the fol lowing unexceptionably favorable terms, viz.: 25 per cent. Cash 25 per cent, in Twelve Months 50 per cent, in Three Years, Bearing Interest at 8 per cent, per annum. Lithographed Plans of the above may be seen at Temuka, Timaru, Point, Win chester, Geraldine, and Ashburton. ‘ Sale at 1 o’clock sharp. K. F. GRAY, Auctioneer. The Auctioneer desires to draw the attention of capitalists and others to the above Important Sale, as the terms are so liberal that those possessed of limited means may become owners of Valuable Freehold Sections on the most easy terms ever offered to the public as the land is very rich, and well adapted for nurseries or gardens. 945 g Lost. LOST, between Waterton and Ashbur ton, a Lady’s ULSTER. The finder will be rewarded by leaving it at Quill’s Hotel. 952 a • Wanted. WANTED KNOWN—That O. Haw kins, the Tinwald Bootmaker, has REMOVED to premises Opposite the Tinwald Post Office, where he is still open to Sell first-class Boots and Shoes at his usual Cheap Rates. AH kinds of Boots Made and Repaired. 806g—417c



Edmiston, Gundry & Co. THURSDAY, Ist JULY. By Order of the Mortgagee. ESTATE OF W. TURTON. 'I yTESSRS. EDMISTON, GUNDRY, IVI_ & Co. have received instructions to SELL BY PUBLIC AUCTION, ON THURSDAY, Ist JULY, The Mortgagee’s Interest in SECTION No. 754, WILLS STREET. This is one of the best sections in the Township of Ashburton, being situated immediately opposite Baldwin's Central Hotel. Sale at 2 o’clock. EDMISTON, GUN DRY, & Co., S9sg Auctioneers. For Sale. I>AR Framed BEE HIVES. T. A. 3 Gates, Saunders’ Buildings. 828 a To Let. STUBBLE LAND TO LET. GOOD STUBBLE LAND, on the Lag mohr estate, within easy distance of a Railway Station, TO LET. Apply for particulars to 977 a D. M‘LEAN, Lagmohr. Public Notices. In the District Court of Christchurch Holden at Ashburton. IN THE MATTER OF The Debtors and Creditors Act, 1576, the Acts amending the same, and of the bankruptcy of RICHARD HENRY BURGESS, of Alford Forest, Laborer. THIS IS TO NOTIFY that the said i- Richard Henry Burgess has this day filed a statement that he is unable to meet his engagements with his creditors. The first meeting of creditors to be held at the District Courthouse, Ashburton, on SATURDAY, the 3rd day of July, next, at 12 noon. Dated this 28th day of Tune, 1880. C. CAVENDISH HURRELL, Clerk of the District Court. F. P. O’Reilly, Solicitor for the Debtor. 9910 V. R. In the District • Court of Christ church, Holden at Ashburton. IN THE MATTER OF The Debtors and Creditors Act, 1876, the Acts amending the same, and of the bank ruptcy of HENRY CAPE-WIL LIAMSON, of Cambridge, School master. 'T'HIS IS TO NOTIFY that the said Hesry A Cape-Williamson has this day filed a statement that he is unable to meet his engagements with his creditors. The first meeting of Creditors to be held at the District Courthouse, Ashburton, on SATUR DAY, the 3rd day of July next, at n a.m. Dated this 28th day of June, 1880. C, CAVENDISH HURRELL, Clerk of the District Court. F. P. O’Reilly, Solicitor for the Debtor. 990 G THE EDUCATION BOARD OP THE DISTRICT OF NORTH CANTER BURY, TINWALD AND DUNSANDEL DIS TRICT SCHOOLS. TENDERS are invited for an ADDI TION to each of the above Schools. Those desirous of tendering can see conditions, specifications, and drawings at my office, or at the house of Mr. Joseph Ward, Burnett street, Ashburton. En dorsed tenders are to be sent in to the Chairman of the Board not later than 3 p.m. on WEDNESDAY, June 30th. The Board does not hind itself to accept the lowest or any tender. T. S. LAMBERT, Architect. Hereford street, Christchurch, June 24th, 1880. 590c-988g Y. R. NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. (Christchurch Section). AYLESBURY STATION (MALVERN BRANCH) ASHLEY STATION (NORTH LINE). ON the 7th JULY the Officers in charge of these stations will be WITH DRAWN, and on and after that date the stations will be treated as FLAG stations. FREDK BACK, General Manager. General Manager’s Office, Christclmrch, June 16, 1880. 983 g Patent Office, Wellington, May 18, 1880. PATENT for an improvement in pack ing tins. JOSEPH PIPER, of Christchurch, tinsmith, has deposited at this office a specification of the said inven tion ; and I have appointed Friday, the Ist day of October next, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon, at this office, to hear the said application and all objections thereto ; and I require all persons having an interest in opposing the grant of such Letters Patent to leave, on or before tbe 27th day of Sep tember next, at this office, particulars in writing of their objections to the said application, otherwise they will he pre cluded from urging the same. W. S. REID, Patent Officer. S. Carrol, ! Patent Agent. 986 g MEDICINE. ASTRINGENT, a certain cure for Diarrhoea in Children or Adu Is. 6d. and 2s. 6d a Bottle. CAMBRIDGE’S BLACK CUR RANT COUCH ELIXIR, Is. 6d. and 2s 6d. a Bottle. CAMBRIDGE’S ORANGE QUIN INE TONIC WINE, 2s. 6d. and 4s. 6d. a Bottle. ’ CAMBRIDGE’S EXTRACT OF BARK, CURES SORE, TENDER, and CRACKED NIPPLES. CAMBRIDGE’S ESSENCE of RENNET, 3 Drops will turn a pint of milk into delicious sweet curds, Is. and 2s. 6d. a Bottle. J. M. CAMBRIDGE, Chemist, MEDICAL HALL. N.B.—Teeth carefully Extracted. 2s. 6d. 50c



Public Notices. NOTICE. A PUBLIC MEETING will be held in the Wakanui School-room on the 9th JULY at seven o’clock, for the pur pose of ELECTING a LIBRARY COM MITTEE to act for the ensuing year. 984 g A. G. EARLE, MOUNT BUTT ROAD BOARD. ROAD CLOSED. “'IVT'OTICE is hereby given, that the J3l West Coast Road from the North Corner of Broom Park to the second cutting North, is CLOSED until further notice. Methven, 7th June, 1880. 932 g WELLINGTON COLLEGE. A MATHEMATICAL Master is re quired who must be ready to com mence work on the 20th September, 1880. Salary, £350 per annum, and a capitation allowance of 10s., Application, with testimonials, to be sent in, addressed to the Principal, on or before the 31st July next. KENNETH WILSON, M.A., Principal. Wellington, June 11, 1880. 987 g NOTICE. EDWARD TAYLOR, BAKER, Saunders’ Buildings, BEGS to intimate to his customers and the public generally that he has this day disposed of his Business to W. White, and .solicits a continuance of support for his successor. ACCOUNTS. MR. W. WHITE is AUTHORISED to COLLECT ALL DEBTS due to me in respect of my Bakery Business due at this date. EDWARD TAYLOR, Baker, Saunders’ Buildings. Ashburton, 9th June, 1880. 552c-937g j Business Notices. ASHBURTON HAIRCUTTING ROOMS. REDUCED PRICES. E. A. GARNETT, Hairdresser, East Street, 1 WILL REDUCE his PRICES from June 19th, in order to meet the times, as follows : 0 GENTS’ HAIRCUTTING 0 BOYS’ haircutting, under 12 years 3d. 3d. SHAVINO Bd. A large and well-assorted stock of Tobacco, Cigars, Perfumery, and Fancy Goods, at greatly reduced prices. I Note the address — E. A. GARNETT’S Old-Established Haircutting Rooms, East street, Ashburton. Agent for the sale of the Ashburton Guardian and Evening Herald. 565c-959g W. WHITE, CONFECTIONER AND BAKER, SAUNDERS’ BUILDINGS, ASHBURTON, BEGS to announce that he has taken the business lately carried on by Edward Taylor, Baker, &c., Saunders’ Buildings, and trusts by supplying a first class article at a moderate price, to merit a continuance of public support. Best Bread, 41b. Loaf, sd. Gash, [6d. Delivered. ] 928g-550c c V.V. I M TON C O . HORSE CLIPPERS, 24 Years’ Colonial Experience. HORSES BROKEN IN TO SADDLE 1 AND HARNESS. Moderate Charges. Apply Baldwin s Hotel, or Brighton Boarding House, Triangle 842g-450c PRACTICAL WATCH & CLOCK MAKER, JEWELLER, &c. & BOBT. MURRAY, MOORE STREET, BEACH ROAD, ASHBURTON, HAVING 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 1 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. 824 G-429 TO HOTELKEEPERS AND OTHERS. WE have been supplied by the Go vernment Printer with a Stock of BILLS now , before Parliament, with a view to supplying those who desire intelligently to follow . the debates in the House. The first instalment com prises the batch submitted by the Statutes Revision Commissioners and THE NEW LICENSING BILL. Price —2s. Each. WEEKS|!AND DIXON,



Business Notices. Dissolution OF Partnership. 0- ORE AND CO., ~|2>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 CASH DURING SALE, All Goods will be marked in plain figures with Red Ink. f f f All outstanding accounts must be 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. ORE AND CO. AYE now on band a very fine assortment of BREECHLOADING DOUBLE AND SINGLE-BARREL GUNS, And as these have been imported direct from the manufacturers, we are prepared to Sell at the most Reasonable Prices— From £2 10s to £25. ORR AND CO IS 9c-9o



Business Notices. LATEST STYLES FROM LONDON & PARIS. d Craighead & Co,, Merchant Tau.ors, TANORED STREET, (Next Orr & Co.) PERFECT FIT GUARANTEED. 982a-445a SEDUCTION. CHEAP! CHEAP!! CHEAP!!! A 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 Timber supplied on the shortest notice. 738. a NEW SADDLERY. &c„ &c. J. TAIT, & CCX, PRACTICAL SADDLERS & HAR NESS MAKERS, Wilis Street, Ashburton, (Next to Cookson’s Stables), HATE recently opened up a Choice Assortment of First-Class Goods, comprising— Doable and Single Harness Shaft and Leading Harness Saddles, English and Colonial Horse and Saddle Cloths Rugs and Waterproofs Bridles, Bits, Martingales Whips, Spurs, Gloves Brushes, Combs, &c., &c. From the best makers, which will be sold at most reasonable prices. Harness of every description made to order, or repaired on the shortest notice. J. TAIT AND CO., (Next Oookson’s Stables), Opposite Railway Station, Ashburton. 915 g J. R. CHAPMAN, JpAINTER, GLAZIER, PAPER HANGER & SIGN WRITER, Importer of Paper-hangings, White Lead, Glass, &c. The trade supplied at lowert Wholesale Prices. 17 McSHERRY DRILLS. A SHIPMENT of these celebrated Drills is expected shortly to arrive. They will range in widtn from 6 feet 6 inches (12 Hoppers) to 10 feet (17 Hoppers). Orders taken by the undersigned, FREDK. PAVITT, Ashburton, For the SOLE AGENT, JOHN ANDERSON, 646g-240c Canterbury Foundry. T. R HODDER & 00. HAVE much pleasure in announc ing to their friends and the public generally, that their stock of WINTER DRAPERY, MILLINERY, MEN’S AND BOYS’ CLOTHING HATS AND HOSIERY, BOOTS AND SHOES, IS NOT TO BE SURPASSED FOR QUALITY AND ASSORTMENT, Each Department being replete with everything suitable for the season. JUST TO HAND— A Very Large Assortment of Melbourne Clothing, MADE ESPECIALLY TO ORDER. T. R. HODDER & CO. having been encouraged by their greatly increased trade in the Clothing Department, have ENLA RGED THEIR PREMISES, Enabling them to keep a Larger and More Varied Assortment. Tailoring In all branches by most experienced hands. SUITS, RIDING TROUSERS, HABITS, &c., made on the most im proved principle, at the shortest notice, and as cheap, or cheaper, than any house in Canterbury. T. R. HODDER and CO., seeking to Encourage Local Industries keep a well assorted stock of Kaiapoi, Roslyn, and Mosgiel Manufactured Goods. Boots and Shoes, Imported and Colonial make, from the best Christchurch and Dunedin Manufacturers. T. R. HODDER & CO., while not pro fessing to sell everything at GOST PRICE, are prepared to meet EXISTING COM PETITION and to encourage all Cash Purchasers. An experience of twenty six years Colonial storekeeping has taught our Firm the value of a Cash Grocery Business, which they have found succeed so well in Ashburton since bringing down the prices of many leading commodities, which course they are still prepared _ to continue and show their preferring PROMPT CASH, rather than risk long credit with large profits. Ironmongery AND Crockeryware AT LOWEST FATING RATES. : Sole Agents for Singer’s Sewing Machines Sole Agents for Wanzer Sewing Machine. Agents for’Norwich Union Fire Insurance Company. T. R. HODDER & CO. 407c-948g



An- Item About the Doctors. —Dr. Johnston, when giving evidence in a civil case at the Feilding R.M. Court, on Friday last, tendered a bit of information which may prove of interest to the ailing ; public. In the course of his remarks he said “It is generally understood by our profession that the person who calls and gives the order for us to attend anyone 1 makes himself responsible for the fees.” The Big Money. —lt is a curious fact, remarks an exchange, to be remembered by those who advocate giving “big” money at race meetings, that the most important races in England have not a single shilling of added money attached to them. The Two Thousand Guineas, Oaks, Derby, and St. Leger are all sweep stakes. The first race is not so called because two thousand guineas are added to the stakes, but simply we believe, from the fact that the value of the race used to be about that sum. It now' usually amounts to between three and four thousand guineas. The Property Tax. —The following is from the Thames letter of the Free Lance ; —“ Sir George Grey’s opposition to the Proparty Tax ought to open your eyes to his real character. After all his howling about taxing the rich, as soon as the tax is put on he is the first to move and get the burden taken off his knicknacks and put upon the poor man’s beer ; and I believe he will never rest till he forces the re-im position of the tea and sugar duties. Grey has certainly slipped up his poor man this time, and yet thousands of poor men join in the stupid cry “ Repeal the Property Tax.” lean understand people who have it to pay crying to get out of it, but to hear people w T ho are as free of property as I am, getting into an excited state about it, seems to me the height of utter insanity. lam quite content to let those possessed of five hundred pounds worth of property pay the tax. ” Diphtheria. —The following recipe for the treatment of diphtheria is worth knowdng ;—“ Put a tea-spoonful of sul phur into a wineglass of water, and stir it with a finger instead of a spoon, as the sulphur does not readily amalgamate with the water. When the sulphur is well mixed it is to be given to the patient to gargle, and after gargling to swallow it, and in ten minutes the patient will be out of danger. When the fungus is too nearly closing to allow the 'gargling, the flour of brimstone should be blown through a quill into the throat, and after the fungus has shrunk to allow of it, then the gargling. If the patient cannot gargle, take a live coal and sprinkle a teaspoonful of flour of brimstone on it, let the sufferer inhale it by holding the head over tha shovel, and the fungus will die. Brim stone kills every species of fungus in man, beast, and plant in a few minutes. Liberal Landlords. — A correspondent of the Daily Telegraph gives the following hint to New Zealand land-owners :—“lt may interest some people to know how landlords who are not English treat their tenants. Messrs. Hagin and Carr are American holders of a ‘Mexican grant,’ in Keru County, California. The grant was for fifteen square leagues, and comprises about 90,000 acres of splendid land, mostly open.valley land. They do not wish to sell at present, so they rent it on the following terras, in lots of 100 to 640 acres They build a house’, barn, and outbuildings,furnish seed, provisions, etc., for the settler until he can supply himself, and if need be a portion of the term, and on the bush land only ask a return of the outlay from the crop of the farmer the fourth year. On clear land ready for the plough one-fourth of the crop, and a return of the advance made within three years. The Coming Giant. —Much interest has been excited in Brooklyn, New York, by a young giant, by name Jack Shields, who has lately been engaged for exhibition at a museum in that place. Shields, who is a Texas boy, eighteen years old, is at present little more than 7it. in height, but he is in training to be the “giant of the future,” and it is expected that he will beat any giant ever exhibited. He comes of a family of gigantic proportions. His father, a farmer in Texas, is 7ft. high, and his brothers and sisters are of like 1 proportions, but they have done growing. : An agent who was lately scouring the 1 country in search of giants came upon the 1 Shields family, and at once saw that he had a treasure in Jack, | whose services he ’ secured with some difficulty. The agent 1 set forth the other day to a reporter of the ’ New York papers the difficulties attending 1 on “ licking a giant into shape,” as illus ! trated by Shields. “We are,” he said, ! “training him to be a giant, and we r think that he will grow to be the tallest 1 man in the business. He needs watching. Having been accustomed all his life to lower himself to talk to his companions, - and to allow his arms to hang loosely by r his side, and to spread out his legs, he is ; yet raw and awkward for the giant busi ness ; but now he is getting to hold up t his head keep his feet together, and throw f his shoulders back, to keep himself in shape, to take and getjnore height. ”



Business Notices. £IO,OOO rate of interest. Ashburton. TO LEND, in sums to suit borrowers, at lowest F. P. O’Reilly, Solicitor, 424c-835g NEW ZEALAND TRUST AND LOAN COMPANY (LIMITED). QAPITAL ... ' ... ... £1,000,000. SUMS OF £BOO £20,000 READY TO BE ADVANCED UPON FREEHOLD SECURITIES. Information can be obtained upon appli cation to J. C. M'DOWALL, Manager, 578 g Hereford street, Christchurch. PATRONISED BY ALL CLASSES. THE GREATEST DISCOVERY OF THE AGE. ... NINE E ’ S, : TRADE j)\j| MARK. PUEE 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-735g HALLO! HALLO! QLftLL AGAIN. REDUCTION IN PRICES. BOTTLED WINES & SPIRITS. T . Q iTI LL , 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) ok. & 6s. Very old Scotch Whisky, per Settle ss. * Fine old Irish Whisky, per Bottle, ss. Superior old Jamaca Ruin, 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 Wines 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.) *r (Jr* One trial will prove to Quill’s customers the quality of his taps. COMMENCING MONDAY, 26m APRIL. 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 FOR SALE, . ON VERY REASONABLE TERMS, 163 ACR E S OP, LA N D AT WAKANUL 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 induce ment r-arely to be met with. Further particulars, apply to ■ POYNTZ & CO. . TIN WALD 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 spiited' 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, G E N.E k A L : S T:0 R E K E,E P E R S i Tinwald. 851©