THE CHIMNEY CORNER.

A MIDNIGHT VISITOR.

( Concluded)

“ Oh, that’s it, is it ?” I muttered gruffly, “a new dodge;” and my friend must have heard the rattling of a few coppers, for he exclaimed — “ No, sir, not that —not that. lam no beggar. Listen, I have money.” And true enough I heard the clinking of what sounded like three or four half-crowns in a person’s hand. “ I want help, for lam hunted from place to jilace, and all for patriotism. ” “ Whew !” I whistled ; “ the mystery thickens,” and I felt my wife clutching my shoulder tightly as she came forward and leaned out.

“If you have the feeling of a man for a fellow-creature, give me shelter for the night, and a crust of bread, and I will bless you ; my wife and little ones shall pray for you, and thank the generous man who protected the hunted fugitive.” That last bit did it; my wife enlisted upon his side in a moment. Wife and children to pray for me, and so on ; she was taken in directly. “ Oh, Edward,” she whispered, “it is one of those poor misguided Fenians,” and she leaned further out of the window, so that the visitor could just see her. “ There is a heavy price set uxjoii my head,” whispered the voice, “ and even now the bloodhounds of the law are upon my track. Let me not ask in vain. But for the sake of those at home, I would not keep up the struggle, for I am faint and weak and unmanned,” and there came up something uncommonly like a sob. “ Oh, Edward,” whispered my wife, “ pray help the x>oor creature.” • ! All very line,” I whispered again ; “ but if his story is true, he has broken the laws ; and why should I mix myself up by sheltering one of the mad-brained party 1 And besides, who’s going to let a stranger in at this time of night 1 How do I know that he is not a thief ? ”

“ Edward ” exclaimed my wife indig nantly, “ for shame. Suppose you were in the same position ? ” and then a great deal more passed between myself and my master, terminating in another parley out of the window.

“ Well,” I said, “ What do you wish me to do ? ”

“ Only to give me rest for a night, sir,” whispered the voice—“concealment till some time on the morrow, for I am tracked ; ” and I could not help noticing the peculiar Irish-Araerican nasal twang with which he spoke ; and, besides, that sounded American, “ tracked. ” “ But are you alone ? ” I said. “ Quite, on my honor,” whispered the man.

“But really, you know,” I said, “it don’t seem reasonable for me to admit you, a stranger, in the middle of the night. Perhaps you are armed.” “Yes, yes,” whisjiered the voice ear nestly. “ I am armed, I have a revol ver ; but I am willing to put my trust in you in every way, if you will not betray ine.

"If I wanted to betray you,” I said, “ I should shout for the police ; ” and then, leaving the window for a moment, I thought to myself, “I’ll test you, now, my fine fellow.” On the landing was a small closet de voted to my foibles, and in a few seconds I returned with my brass multiplying winch, and silk twist with which I had landed more than one pike during my fishing expeditions ; and then, throwing down a few yards, 1 said— “it is not likely that I can admit an armed man ; so if you are what you pro fess to be, fasten yonr pistol to that line, and let me draw it up.” The line was caught in a moment, and thenlfeft a few jerks, followed by the voice whispering, ‘‘ Be careful, for it is loaded,” when I drew up and held in my hand what felt in the dark like a revolver.

Well, that seemed conclusive enough ; so, closing the window, my wife and I de scended to the drawing-room, where by the light I could see that I had hold of a rusty-looking pistol, capped, and, I pre sumed, loaded ; but to make sure, I tested it with the ramrod, and then removed a cap, to see if I coidd detect the powder in the nipple. All right, loaded, not a doubt of it. And now, feeling prepared in case of wrong, and pretty well satisfied as to my visitor’s character, I drew up the blind, and opened the French window. Of course I knew how wrong it was, but really, when a poor hunted wretch ap pealed to you for help, who could think of betraying him ? The very thought of it seemed repugnant; and then I hesitated, for this might be Colonel Kelly himself, for whose capture three hundred poudds were offered.

If I had had a doubt before of my visitor’s being a genuine case, it left me as I opened the window, and stood with pre sented pistol while he came in; a hand some, pale, bearded fellow, just in accor dance with the descriptions I had read of Kelly ; while his first act was to listen for a moment at the window, close it hastily, and then run to my wife, and kiss her hand.

“ For the sake of my wife and children,’’ he said, “save me.” “ Why,” I exclaimed, “ you 'must be ” “ Hush ! ” he whispered, turning to me with a faint smile ; “ mention no names, for your conscience’ sake. There is a heavy reward offered for my apprehension, but I feel sure you would not wish to gain it ? ” “ Oh, no, oh, no ! ” exclaimed my wife, who was affected even to tears, while really the poor fellow’s state appeared pitiable : worn, jaded, and hunted-look iug, he seemed to start at every sound, while his eyes wandered restlessly from side to side, as if seeing danger. Wo gave him some wine, which he drank with avidity while some cold chicken and brtad seemed to be quite devoured ; though he apologised again and again in the most gentlemanly way for his intru sion. “I have been to anxious and hard pressed even to cat,” he said, “ for days past. Every exit seems watched, and how to take a passage I hhrdly know. Money I am pretty well provided with ; and now, if I could only once get clear, though my heart might still with my cause, I would run no more risks, for the of those at home.

1 forbore to question him, thinking the less 1 knew the better ; while from simi lar feelings, no doubt, the poor fellow said little except upon different subjects, until he seemed to be unable to hold up, but kept on dozing off to sleep, and start ing up. i cannot help ir, ’ he said at last; “for two nights I have not closed my eyes. If lam taken lam taken, for nature will hold out no more,” and he sank back in his chair.

“Lie on the sofa,” avid my wife gently; and he rose with a grateful smile and lay down, while she arranged the pillows for his head.

“You will not play the part of Jael,” he said, “and treat me as she did Sisera ? ”

“No, indeed,” exclaimed my wife, smiling, while he kissed her hand again, too tenderly, I thought, and she blushed. She sticks out to the present moment tl at she did not ; but I’m sure she did, and I didn’t like it a bit. Why couldn't he have said “ Thank you,” without kissing hands ? He had only to have done it once more, and, Fenian or no Fenian, 1 should have turned informer. Fh e minutes after he was breathing heavily, in the deep, heavy sleep of a man utterly worn out; and after a whispered consultation, w'o agreed to leave him

where lie was, locking tlio drawing-room' dour fur our own protection, of course, and so that the housemaid should not come iu and see him in the morning. “I moan to take your revolver,” I said, aloud ; but there came no answer, and— accidentally, of course—l kicked over the poker, which rattled loudly in the fender, when our visitor started up. “ Oh Edward 1 ” exclaimed my wife. “ Wo shall lock you in,” I said, as I turned down the gas a little way, and I shall take your revolver away, but wo mean no treachery.” “ I am weak, faint and utterly worn out,” he replied, in his slightly American intonation. “lam in your hands, and if you betray me, the curse of my wife and children will cling to you. But there,” he said hastily, “ I do not doubt you ; the sight of your dear lady’s candid face would give mo faith.” We left him and retired to bed, after carefully locking the drawing-room and passage doors ; and in spite of the adven ture, I slept pretty soundly, though I must own to having been rather gruff when wo wont np-stairs, and not quite satisfied. But I remember no more till I was in the midst of a dream, wherein half a score of police v.'ere breaking into my drawing-room with sledge-hammers, to get at the Fenian ; while all the time it was not the police but the Fenians t.iemselves breaking upon the police van, and I could not make out how it was till I woke to find that it was neither, but the housemaid Jane hammering at our bed room door, because she could get neither into dining-room nor drawing-room. ’ Of course, there was nothing for it but ’ to get up and go down, which I did, feel ing very tired and cross at being roused' ' out of bed soon after six ; while my -wife must hurry up too, and somehow she 1 managed to be down as soon as I did ; though I never knew her to be dressed so ’ quickly before. However, I must say , that I was not surprised to find the poor : fellow gone, and the Erench window lott just ajar. “ [to be continued.]

CHISPA’S LETTER.

(From Ashburton Herald, April 24. )

“I am not yet so bald that you can sec my brains. ” —Long fei.low.

The land fever has again set. in, and it is gratifj'ing to Chispa to notice that some of our most noteworthy residents, who have been in the habit of crying down what is termed “ light land ” have gone in a docker for the lightest of it at a toler ably heavy figure. I thought the late hard times would have led to very cautious dealings in fee simple, and I do not say for one moment that the purchasers have not been cautious, as they arc about the knowingest of our local land speculators, and have a very clear idea as to how much any aero of land in the County is worth as a spec. At the same time I can’t sec how Fairfield land is going to give a grand re turn at the prices it was sold at. A pur chaser of, say an acre block has to pay say L3s—and a lot of them paid that figure, or gave paper as an equivalent —then he has to fence it, another LlO ; and he can’t live on it without water, which in that locality means L3O for a well; so that without any provision for a house h'a acre costs him L 75, and after obtaining it what will he do with it'? I have ashed myself the question several times since that sale, and 1 have not as yet solved the problem. The land won’t grow cabbages. One acre isn’t much account as a sheep run, and dairy farming is out of the question. One advantage in connection with the acre lots is their continguity to the cemetery ; and as a consecpience burial expenses will be reduced to a minimum. But it is to be hoped the occupants of these acre lots will not attempt to defraud the Cemetery Beard by digging their own graves on their own sections ; for, if they do, they will on some of the sections have a long job before them to excavate a grave deep enough to bury all the anathemas they will utter as to the nature of their pur chases.

I beg to offer a hint, in Connection with the above sale, to the Ashburton Borough Council, and I give the advise gratis. Let our City Fathers hire John Matson to blow about our rising township and its prospects. Hoist a few Union Jacks once a week ; send Bullock’s cart and hell and another Union Jack around, and get John on the spout, and lie would he cheap at a thousand a year, and my very dear friend, Mr. Thomas, could do the business in such small villages as Leeston, Rangiora, or Christchurch, in the interests of the firm. “ There’s no mistake about it, gentlemen” (a favorite expression of J.M.’s). This auctioneer can wheedle bids out of folks who attend auction sales just to watch and see who are going to make fools of themselves, and who arc going to buy things they don’t want. At the wind-up of the sale these watchers have to dive into the lowest depths of their own tr s pockets to pay up for listening to John Matson. I always reckoned him a smart man, but his sale of Fairfield surpasses all his previous efforts.

Duck shooting is the most fashionable form of diversion now a days, but from my experience of the business I think the more correct way of stating the case would bo “shooting at ducks.” St. George’s Day is a holiday served to all patriots, and it was resolved by a party of gunnists to slaughter ducks in honor of the patron Saint of our beloved father land. Six dogs, six guns, six sportsmen, and one unfortunate horse, with a trap containing the before mentioned, went out to battle against anything with wings, and the result was a complete success, from a sportsman’s point of view—that is, all hands got wet through. After wading in the river for some nine hours, the six sportsmen, each with a gun, a dog,’a flask, and other impedimenta, succeeded iu bringing home—item, one grey duck ; item, four swamp hens, one being in an advanced state of decomposition ; item, one rat, very ancient, and intended for presentation to Dr. Haast for the Museum ; item, six shocking bad colds, with the corresponding consequences of rum hot and butter on arrival at home. This is what my acquaintances describe as a “grand day out, my boy;” but I always notice they start with a promise to bring me home a present of a couple of paradise ducks, and return with a glowing account of the long shots they tried, and the way they made the feathers fly and how very hard the ducks were to kill— and, all sorts of excuses, except ducks. The only bag I have heard of in this 'neighbourhood was made one day by an amateur who tried the Wakanui creek near Hay Smith’s. Ho made a very decent record, not only of ducks, but pigeons as well. Hay Smith’s poultry didn’t muster very well that night; and as he is afraid that the new chum will, on his next visit, mistake the southdown rams for red-deer, he has let the bull dog loose in anticipation and laid torjiedoes about the farm ; that is what Hay Smith told me, but I don’t want the new chum to believe it.

When I first thought of leaving the roast beef of Old England to attack the like dish of this colony, I was given to understand that I should find on my arrival that every man was an amateur at the profession he followed. My very dear friend Fitzroy, as he wiped a tear of farewell from his squinting left eye, told me that not a single man from the Premier of the Colony down to the most ordinary loafer had been bred to the avocation lie made the business of his life. New Zealand people, said Fitz., were not particular as to how their work was done, nor as to who did it, so long as

they were able to get along with it “ some- , bow.” Julius Yogel was an old nows- | paper man, and as hard up as editors usually are, and Fitz., with a wink slyly introduced between his weeps, gently hinted that editors in public matters were a failure, away from the gonial if some what narcotic atmosphere of their sanc tums. Fitz. assured me it was a fact lie had found undergraduates of Cambridge tending sheep, chopping wood, digging gold, working as carpenters, doing house painting, and all sorts of things by turns —one down, ’tother come on—just as necessity demanded. An old college chum he knew had taken to house paint ing, and ho was such a don at° it that he could cover more space in a day than the best painter that ever wielded a brush, but then this chum of his brought common sense to his aid, and as he worked by contract, and not by the day, he used a whitedwash brush instead of the trilling thing commonly slung about by our local artists, Chapman and Savage. If a man had cheek enough and gab enough he cmld shine as a lecturer ; if he had drunk whisky with a member of Parliament he could become a Resident Magistrate ; if was not afraid of poison ing anybody he would succeed as a doctor —a few good strong smelling things being all that was wanted for his pharrnacopia ; if he possessed more assurance and a bet tor muscle than the Magistrate he could no in and win as a lawyer. I fancied Fitz was pitching me a yarn, but as I knew that squint eye of his had winked in many lands, I was constrained to take in the statements of my much travelled friend, and believe that I had found Utopia at list. When I had been a fort night in the colony I found out my mis take. They didn’t paint with whitewash brushes, and every man didn’t do his own horse-shoeing. There were men to be sure bolding x JoS itions * or which. their only qualification was the fact that they had got the job, and there were merchants who had got lie hind the counter by some inscrutable means, and if they did not make money they made a very respectable “smash,'’ and never required to tackle hard work again. I fancied I could find a certain moiety of truth, to be sure, in old Fitz s yarn, but iu the main he was certainly wrong. True, every second man you meet, has “ been a journalist myself, you know, and know all about it, you know.” We have an aristocracy of lawyers, Go vernment officials, bank clerks, editors, auctioneers, commission agent, and others who live on the finger-lickings that are to be had, as the Irishman says, between “ getting and giving.” As soon as one chap makes headway at one thing he finds he has a rival or two to fight, and so the list of tweed-coat-men is increased, yet all seem to get along somehow, and to do well and prosper. The only profession that won’t brook amateur professors of it is the bar. I should say we had plenty of legal men in the colony without intro ducing amateius, hut everybody doesn’t seem to think so, and as a consequence we are to have a great ado over the poaching of a firm of commission agents on the pre serves of the legal profession. I’ll bet you two hats the amateurs beat the pro fessionals in this struggle. Chispa.

THE GARDENER.

NOTES FOR THE PRESENT MONTH, BY A PROFESSIONAL GARDENER. APRIL. KITCHEN GARDENING. The principal crops will new be either all sown or planted, and the encourage ment of their growth the object of atten tion ; but, where omitted last month, Onions, Cabbages, Cauliflowers and Turnips should be sown at once, to insure success. If not done before the middle of the month, it is better to defer sowing until spring. Where Brocoli have been planted during summer months, and grown freely, flrowers would find it very advantageous to cut the roots, which is easily done by inserting the spade under each plant. For instance, go down one side of the row and come back on the other. Care should be taken not to cut too close to the plant. Brocoli treated as above will resist the frost much better; for by choking its growth at this season it gets hardy as a natural consequence, and will come in ready for use much earlier than it would if not disturbed. Earth up all crops of gi’owing Celery. Care should be taken not to allow the earth to get in between the leaves, which is done by holding up the leaves with one hand, while with the other, use a piece of slate or other flat 00l to draw the earth carefully round each plant, which keeps all the leaves together until you have followed with the spade and banked up. Care should also be taken not to earth up too much at once, as it only tends to weaken the plants. By treating as directed, say once in ten days, the trouble will be well repaid by the pro duction of fine heads of blanched Celery for either cooking purposes or desert. Make a general clearance of all ground not wanted for present sowing or planting. Dig in in a rough state, so that it will bo exposed to the action of the weather. Dig Potatoes ; gather Onions, as they r : pen, and store them in a dry place. Vegetable Marrows and Pumpkins should also be gathered as they ripen, and stored in a dry, warm place for winter use. When properly stored they will keep nearly all winter, and are much prized when such vegetables are scarce. Strawberries may now be planted from the runners. Either make new plots or fill in any blanks in old beds or borders. After selecting plants for all new planta tions, let all the runners that remain he trimmed off, care being taken not to cut off all the loaves, as is too often done not f illy by amateurs but by persons calling themselves professional men. It is most barbarous treatment, as it tends to weaken the plants and the result—the following summer —is that there will be little or no fruit. Having got the runners and weeds cleared, put a good covering of well decomposed manure over the bed, and let it lie on the surface. Don’t dig it in, as is the general practice. In this way it nourishes the plant at the root and mulches the ground in summer. FLOWER GARDEN. Plant Bulbs of the following kinds— Hyacinthus, Crocuses, Snowdrops, Liliums, Narcissus, Jonquils, Daffodils, and Tulips —any of the above. For window decoration, plant in pots in a good mixture of loam, rotted manure, and sand. Plunge the pots in sand, and keep them there until the bulb begins to grow, when it might be removed to where it is required to flower. To those who desire an early display of annual flowers, by a careful reserva tion of those self-sown which abound at this season in great .numbers, and sow ing again in spring, the flower garden can be kept going from early spring until late in autumn. All tender plants, such as Geraniums, Cinerarias, Oupheas, etc., that have been turned out during summer should now be brought in and housed to protect them from frost; and all herbaceous plants that have done flowering cut down, so as to give the garden a neat appearance. THE ORCHARD requires little care at this season, further than gathering the fruits as they ripen, and keeping the ground clear of weeds, but where young fruit trees have been planted last year the ground should be kept dug round them and free from weeds, as, by keeping the ground loose, it en courages the growth of wood, keeps the trees healthy and better able to resist the attacks of blight. It only too often hap- : pens that trees are planted, and that once done, the} 7 are never looked near again ; and still those to whom the trees belong wonder why their trees do not grow like

their neighbors’, who cultivate them in a proper manner. A few trees properly cultivated is much better than a larger number cultivated indifferently.

THE ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1880.

Printed and published by Horace Join Weeks and Charles Dixon, at Printing Office, East Street, Ashburbn r Thursday, April 29, 1880.



Useful Information. VACCINATION. By an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, it is made compulsory upon every parent to take his child, within six months of its birth, to the Medical Ofhccr appointed by Government forthc district, or to some qualified Medical Practitioner, to have the child vaccin ated, and on the eighth day following to take the child back again for inspection. For breach of this law a fine not exceeding 40s. may be recovered before any Bench of rMagis trates. If the child be properly vaccinated, the Medical Officer 01 Practitioner is to give a certificate of the fact. If the child be not sus ceptible, or unfit to endure the process, another certificate is to be given, which will clear the parents of the consequences. Children, al though vaccinated, whose vaccination certifi cates are not forwarded to the Kegislrar of the district are still liable to a fine of 40s. Inno culation with the virus of small pox is a crime punishable by a penalty of £lO, The word “ parent ” means lather, mother, or other per son having the care, nurture, or custody of the child. SLAUGIITER-lIOUSE LICENSES. “The Slaughter-Mouse Act, 1877,” pro vides that “no license shall be issued in res pect of any slaughter-house situated within half a mile from the outer boundary of any borough, unless such slaughter-house has been erected, or was in course of erection for that purpose immediately before the Ist December, 1577. If suchslaughtcr-housc is within theabove described limit, application for th* license must be made to the Council of the nearest Borough. If a slaughter-house is within any County, ex cept as aforesaid, the application must be made to the Council of such county. No license, jnot being the renewal of a previously existing license, shall be issued to any person, unless public notice shall have been given by the applicant for the same, once m each week for one month, immediately preceding the time when such application is to.be heard.” MOONLIGHT EVENINGS. The Moon at 3 days old shines till about 8 o’clock. The Moon at 6 days old shines till about half-past 10 o’clock. The Moon at S days old shines till nearly I o’clock in the morning. The Moon at 12 days old shines from sun down till about 4 in the morning. The Moon at 15 days old is full, and shines all night. The Moon at .18 clays old rises about 9 p.m. and shines till morning. The Moon at 21 days old rises about n p.m. and shines till morning. The Moon at 24 days old rises about 2 a.m. and shines till morning. The Moon at 27 days old rises about 4 a.m. and shines till sunrise. THE HOUSEWIFE’S TABLE, The fol’owing is a very valuable housewife’s table, by which persons not having scales and weights at hand may readily measure the article wanted to form any recipe without the trouble of weighing, allowance to be made for an extraordinary dryness or moisture of the ar ticle weighed or measured : Wheat flour, I pound is I quart. Indian meal, I pound 2 ounces are I quart. Butter, when soft, x pound is X quart. Loaf sugar, broken, I pound is 1 quart White sugar, powdered, 1 pound 1 unce ate I quart. Ten eggs arc I pound. Flour, 4 pecks arc I bushel. Sixteen large lablespoonsful are I pint. Eight large teaspoonslul arc : gill. Four large teaspoonsful are % gill. Two gills are % pint. Two pints aie 1 quart. Four quarts are I gallon. A common sized tumbler holds ]/ 2 pint. A commsii sized wine glass is % a gill. A tea-cup is i gill. A large wine-glass is I gill. Forty drops are equal to I teaspoonful. Four tcaspoonfuis arc equal to 1 tablespoon* ful.



REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, MAR' RIAGES, AND DEATHS,



BiKTi!^. — darcrls and all other persons pre ,;i\ ju a birth, ate liable under the Act for Kcgistra : on under penalty of £10; failing, the occuoier of house in which such birth took place is I’ablc. JUirlhs arc rcgistcrctl free up to sixty-two days, day of birth and of registra tian, both inclusive; afterwards up to six months, on payment of ss. penalty, and after declaration as to truth of particulars being duly made ; and beyond six months only after conviction before a Magistrate, and on pro duction of certificate of conviction signed by Magistrate or Clerk to Bench, and within one month of such conviction. There are other provisions as to registration of children found exposed, and registration of names within one year of birth. Marriages.—Marriages must be solem nized with open doors, between eight in the morning and four in the afternoon, in the presence of two or more witnesses. Persons objecting to be married by a clergyman, can be married in a Registrar’s office by a Registrar. Persons [desirous of being married must give notice to the Registrar of the district, and take out a Marriage Certificate; but before doing so, must have resided in the district three clear days immediately proceeding the application for certificate. The fees arc :—for JS'otice and Certificate, 2s 6d ; Marriage by Registrar, j£l ; and 2S 6d for Copy of Marriage Registrar. Persons wishing to be married out of the dis trict in which they live, can only do so by residing in the district in which they wish to be married for three clear days, and obtaining certificate from the Registrar of that district. And persons living in different districts must cither both reside for three clear days in the same district, or else obtain two Certificates, viz:—one from the Registrar of each of the districts in which they reside. Any person making false affirmation, declaration, nr repte sentation before a Registrar, is guilty of mis demeanour.



Deaths. —The occupier of house in which death occurs, and all persons present at a death, are liable for the registration within thirty one days; and failing these, the Undertaker or person so acting, under penalty of £10; but any of the persons liable may depute, iii writing, some person acquainted with par ticulars required to attend and register ; and the person registering ML ST in all cases take to the Registrar the Doctor’s Certificate of Death. In all cases of burial, the Undertaker or person so acting, must return to the Registrar within seven days, the Burial Cer tificate, duly signed by Undertaker and officiating Minister, or two householders pre sent at such burial. Undertakers not return ing such Burial Certificates nithin seven days arc liable to a penalty of ,i's ; and Clergymen officiating and not signing Burial Certificates are also liable to a penalty of ,£5. Any person not attending to register, alter notice from Registrar is duly given, is liable to a penalty of ,£2O There are various other provisions defining powers and duties of Registrar, and imposing penalties for neglect in complying with various provisions of th'* Act.



Business Notices. THE ASHBURTON GUARDIAN. gUBSCRIBERS in the Country are Particularly requested to communicate with the Publishers if their papers are not properly addressed. The number of Sub scribers has increased so rapidly that un less great care is taken in giving orders as to address and how to be sent, the papers may be left at the wrong place. All order .vill receive our prompt attention. WEEKS AND DIXON, Proprietors. I



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Railway Time Table. R EVISED RAILWAY CHRIST HURC H AND IJIRAIN ARRANGEMENTS. ASHBURTON SECTION. Miles 2 4 6 9 13 15 i 8 23 25 36 41 47 S 3 SOUTH. Stations. From Christchurch Addington Junction Middleton Sockburn Hornby Hornby Templeton Weedon's Folleston Junction ... Burnham Selwyn... Dunsandel Rakaia... Chertsey Dromore Ashburton NORTH. + Slop to allow passengers to alight only. ASHBURTON AND TIMARU SECTION. SC UTH. NORTH, RAKAIA AND ASHBURTON FORKS RAILWAY. TIMARU AND DUNEDIN SECTION SOUTH.



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