THE CHIMNEY CORNER.

THE DISRUPTION: A TALE OP TRYING TIMES. CHAPTER XXV— continued. “ You are mistaken entirely in your surmises?” said the student, almost choking with indignation. “I am keep ing back no circumstance which I need be ashamed to state. I was on the open street and with respectable com pany when my pockets were picked. I am not the stamp you take me for, and hope you will not insult me by unworthy insinuations.” “ Oh, no offence, sir; no offence intended. If you feel hurt at anything I have said, you have yourself to blame. Those who don’t speak * plump out, as to anything that happens to be taken from them, have generally some pretty good reason for being close; and if you choose to be close without any good reason at all, the fault is your own, you know, and no mistake. This is the wrong box to keep secrets in and speak of respectability. The two things don’t go together in a police-office, you may take my word for it. Please your self, however, and we’ll do what we can to find the money. But if we do find it, you must prove it to be yours, with out any doubt whatever, or you needn’t trouble yourself any more in the matter.” “ Should the money be found, I will have no further reason for reserve, and the fullest proof I can command will be forthcoming.” “ Well, master, if you will take my advice you will bring forward all the evi dence you have to produce just now. It may be of more use at present that it can be any time afterwards.” “Is there much chance that, by merely proving what bank the notes I have lost were of, they would be re covered ? ” “ Why as to that I can’t flatter you there is, for the town is swarming with light-fingered gentry from all quarters, and there is no guessing which of them have found the way into your pockets, or where your money may be hidden. But if you would be only frank enough to describe the sort of people you were with—” “ I have described them already. I tell you they were highly respectable.” “ And particularly if you could identify any of them —” “Identify them ! they were my most intimate friends.” “ And bring the charge home to any of them—” “ Bring the charge home to whom ? ” “They might at least be brought to punishment, even should your money not be recovered.” “ This is really more than I can stand.” “ Very well, don’t stand it then ; but don’t try to gammon us neither. If the people you were with were so very respectable, you wouldn’t be so unwill ing to name them. But I say again, master —just please yourself.” Repenting bitterly that he had ever gone on such an errand —instead of regretting, as he ought to have done, that he had not gone about it openly and without reserve —our hero was about to leave the office without deign ing further reply to his inquisitor, when the latter requested him to stop a little, and he would see if anything could be done in the case after all. The lieu tenant then called one of the criminal officers belonging to the Police Estab lishment, from another apartment, and stated to him clearly and rapidly all that the student bad communicated, taking care to place in a very striking point of view his refusal to disclose some material circumstances. “ Now,” said he, “ if you see any way of tracing the business on so slight a scent, you had belter set about it at once; but, for my part, I think it’s quite needless, unless the young gentleman chooses to tell you more than he has told me.” Here the officers -whispered together earnestly for a while—all the time eye ing Mr. Duncanson with inquisitive and suspicious looks. At length, the thief-catcher, who was a sharp-eyed, intelligent, but quiet-looking person dressed in plain clothes and without any distinctive badge, approached the student, and said, in a mild and confi dential tone, “This is really a very serious case, sir, and, for your own sake, you ought not to keep back any information you can give connected with it.”

James repeated his determination rather to give up all attempts to recover the money than to make his loss known to the only parties who could give any information in addition to what he had communicated; expressing, at the same time, his belief that anything they could say would be of little consequence —for he was sure they had neither kept a memorandum of the numbers of the stolen notes, nor observed any circum stance which could lead to the detec tion of the thieves. “ But did you not observe yourself what sort of people were jostling you and your friends at the time you sup pose your pockets were picked?” in quired the officer; adding—“ The illumination would surely give you light enough to to see those about you.” “ I recollect distinctly,” replied Mr. Duncanson, “ the appearance of two men who squeezed very hard against me at the time I pressed forward to save the young lady’s dress from being burnt, as I have described before. One of them was a stout-made, round shouldered person, with the lower part of his face muffled up in a spotted handkerchief; but I did not see his features properly, and could not identify him. The other was less in size and slighter made, and I would know him again anywhere, for 1 observed his features when I was struggling to get past him. He had a flat face, a very prominent chin, and wanted one of his upper front teeth.” “Very good. That’s what I call particular enough. I think I should know both the fellows by the marks you have given, if they were natives ; but I suspect they are not; and I sup pose you are not quite sure that they were the thieves.” “ By no means; only I think it highly probable.” “Just so. We must .see what can be done then, to find them out. Had you the money in a pocket-book, or case, or anything you could identify as yours ?” “Yes; in a green leather pocket

book, with my name on it in gilt 1 .'tiers. ’

“Very well, that is something, but not much either, for your book and the cash would not be allowed to keep company long together if they fell into hands experienced in the line.” “ And do you think think there is no hope of recovering the money.” “ Not much, I confess; particularly as you are determined to keep the affair so close. A good deal will depend, though, on who the thieves maybe. If they are stranger swells, they may be off with the railway and hundreds of miles away by this time ; or, they may be in the town yet and fairly out of the way of detection. But if the cash has been prigged by any of our native gentle men, they may be spending it freely, and it may be possible enough to ferret them out. You had better, however, come along with me and point out the chaps that squeezed so close to you last night, if you happen to get you 1" eye on them.” Mr. Duncanson was rather reluctant to comply with this request, for he thought a criminal officer strange com pany for a divinity student. His com panion did not propose to go far, for the High Street was becoming densely crowded with multitudes waiting in eager expectation of seeing the Queen pass on her visit to the Castle, and the officer’s object was to place himself and the student at the point of the greatest pressure, where in all probability the light fingered fraternity would have a few representatives. This point was exactly at the Cross, where a barrier was thrown across the street, at which the mock ceremony of presenting her Majesty with the keys of the city was to be performed. There, in a slightly raised temporary erection in front of the Salamander Land (a tenement so called because of its having stood unscathed when the neighboring houses were consumed in the great fire of 1824), the officer recommended Mr. Duncanson to take his station, and keep a sharp look out, while he him self moved about in the near vicinity, with a vigilance which nothing could escape. The scene was highly imposing. The street seemed a solid mass of human beings, except where an open way in the centre was kept by con stables and military, for the passage of the royal cortege. The tall houses on either side were stuck full of gaily dressed people who squeezed them selves from every window, and clus tered on every balcony and projection on which a footing could be obtainedJ The terraced roof of St. Giles wal loaded with hundreds of old an<* young, sitting huddled together eve* up to the highest ridge, as if they ha« taken refuge there from a deluge. O* platforms, erected for their accomodsH tion, various public bodies were a» sembled; and the boys and girls of thl principal public charities had conspicuß ous positions assigned to them. I* the immediate neighborhood of thd barrier, the Magistrates and Town” Council, in their official robes and insignia, occupied a raised gallery ; the Celtic society in their splendid tartans stood near; while both to the right and left, as far as the eye could see, the bright helmets and drawn swords of the Epniskillen Dragoons glittered in the sun. As may be well supposed, the student was not in a state of mind for sight-seeing, and the brilliant spec tacle afforded him little gratification. He looked in vain among the many thousands before him for any counten ance resembling the man with the flat face and protruding chin, or any person like his broad-built round-shouldered companion of the night before.

At length the Castle guns announced the Queen’s approach, and all eyes were strained towards Holyrood, ex cept those of our hero and the thief taker, which were wandering search ingly on every side, but all to no pur pose. No person answering the des cription already given could be seen. On came the royal carriage, preceded by a detachment of cavalry, and guarded by the Scottish Archers. Then followed ether carriages contain ing Sir Robert Peel, Lord Aberdeen, and a number of the highest nobility. The shouts which rent the air were in cessant and deafening—louder prob ably than any which had echoed in the closes of the Lawnmarket for centuries before. A Queen reigning in her own right now received the keys of Edin burgh for the first time since they were presented to Mary Stuart on her arri val from France. The pressure at the barrier to witness this ceremony was tremendous, and offered the fairest opportunities to the industrious indi viduals whose fingers are most at work while other people are all abroad at eyes and ears. And possibly there might be more than one chevalier d'ln dustrie in the crowd ; but not the least appearance of the individuals specially wanted could be seen.

After hearing the Lord Provost’s address, and most graciously returning the keys to him, the Queen moved on to the Castle, and the living torrent which rolled along High Street swept past to flood the Castle Hill, the Mound, West Prince’s Street, and every point where the royal lady might again be seen. Mr. Duncanson was disposed to give up the task he was employed in as hopeless, but the emissary of justice who accompanied him insisted strongly on making another attempt before the crowd should finally disperse for the day. Pie proposed that they should next proceed to the foot of the Mound, and there take up a position -command ing the turning into Prince’s Street, as he knew the concourse of people at that point would be great, immediately on the Queen’s departure from the Castle. Thither then they went, and found the crowd immense, and every moment increasing. An extensive and high raised gallery, which had been in part erected only the same morning, occupied the corner of Prince’s Street Gardens, facing both towards Prince s Street and the Mound, and was so com pletely crammed that they could obtain no footing on it, and it was not easy to find any place so well fitted for their purpose. They, however, succeeded in getting on a stair right opposite, whence they could see to advantage all that was passing. Here they com menced their scrutiny, and the officer directed Mr. Duncanson’s attention to several individuals whom he knew to be suspicious characters, but none of them resembled in the least the persons he supposed had robbed him. While casting his eyes around him on all

sides, in his anxious but fruitless seach, the student happened to look right across the gallery just mentioned, and observed on it Miss Montgomery and her aged father with • Mr. and Mrs. Calmsough. The sight of his Agnes rendered him thenceforth incapable of exercis ing much vigilance in any other direc tion. He knew it was next to impos sible that he could be seen by her, or those she was along with ; and at ease on this point, he forgot for the time all else in gazing on her lovely face, which he did, till his Argus-eyed neighbor noticed the intentness of his looks, and inquired—“ Do you see the scamps yon der, think you?” “No, indeed, Ido not,” was the reply. This by no means satisfied the thief-taker, who said in a grumbling tone —“Well, I think you should leave off staring at the pretty girls for the present; you may have a peep of them any day, but if you don’t get your eye now on the chaps we’re seeking, you may look a while again before you find them.”

The justice of this rebuke made the young man blush to the ears, and he re sumed his scrutiny of the faces around him.

The Queen and suite were by-and-by seen on the ramparts of the Castle; and, soon after, a second discharge of the guns announced that her Majesty was again in motion. Immediately the royal cortege came down the Mound, and t sweeping round into Prince’s Street, proceeded westward at a rapid pace, amidst the acclamations of the as sembled thousands. At this moment, James looked again towards to the Queen of his Affections to see how the scene affected her ;• and no sooner had his eye singled her out from the sur rounding throng, than, horrible to tell, the gallery on which she sat broke down, and precipitated its precious freight of human beings in a confused heap among the ruins. The student was stunned with horror, and for a few moments could neither see, nor hear, nor speak. (To be continued—commenced on July 26.)

CHISPA’S LETTER.

* “ I am not yet so bald that you can see my brains." —Longfellow. ( From Ashburton Herald , September 25. ) There are not wanting signs that all life has not left the Ashburtonian mussel. One down, t’other come on. No sooner have one swarm of auctioneers hived off for fresh fields and pastures new than a miliar. Mr. Thomas Quill, too, has left the “ bar” and has taken to the platform. I have just left his first sale, having heard his introductory address (pathetic, crossed with pluck), and seen him decide the immediate future of an army of pigs and other live stock, and dispose of a miscellaneous assortment of general sella hies. My friend Tom has found his proper vocation, I can assure you, and I must compliment him. I had no idea he had such an auctioneering “ go” in him, and the crowd that heard his energetic urgency to-day seemed to be just as agreeably taken aback as I was. Then, Matson, Cox, and Go. have no idea that Ashburton is a sinking ship. They’ve put up an ar rangement ’tother side the railway that looks big enough for St. Paul’s cathedral, and I have no doubt it will be more value financially to them and to this district than the said religious edifice will ever be. Last, but not least, youngest yet oldest (as an auctioneer) comes Friend Harrison, who still pegs away with unabated vigor and energy—his flag still flying, and his voice still clear. Long may all their flags wave and their tongues wag, their ham mers rattle and their sale rooms be thronged with good people of Ashbur ton, and long may thu good people of Ash burton have plenty of money to bid with and buy.

Sandy is turning out his tartans, rub bing up his.dirks and claymores, and all his braw relics of the time when his “ foot was on his native heath.” I met old Donald Macpherson yesterday. He was full of the Scotch concert. That is, I was able tofindthat out after hisexcitementhad died off a little ; for he was so full of his national rapture that he couldn’t speak a word of anything but Gaelic for full ten minutes. When he came back from memories of the Land of brown heath and shaggy wood. Land of the mountain and the flood, he knew no subject worth talking of but the “ coancert,” and its attendant display of tartans, highland “ brawns,” plaintiff music, wild music, pipe “ springs,” and a language as ragged as the rocks. “ Eli, maun, 'bit it’s graun !” He forced two tickets upon me, telling me that now was my chance to get a seat on the hem of Heaven, for the upper choir was sure to sing to the bagpipes ! Captain Jackson Barry 1 How are the mighty fallen. The friend of Sir Julius and the pet lecturer of England on topics Zelandiac pelted with rotten eggs by a Timaru crowd ! Oh, dear. The Captain can’t bo led to believe that he is a great buffoon, but the smell of those eggs ought to keep him in mind of the idea that Timaru has of him. Mr. F. P. O’Reilly is “up” on the “ Art of Memory.” He has such a long memory that, like the Yankee, he has to tie a knot on the end of it to carry it about with him. But he has a tolerable stretch of recollection. He read over a play-bill a yard long once to me one day. An hour afterwards he repeated it in full, and not a word askew. Fact, I assure you. And on Tuesday he will bear out by his lecture what I tell you. Fancy a man remember ing the terrible characters of the Chinese language as clearly as he does the twenty six letters of the English alphabet. Don’t promise anything rashly to Mr. O’Reilly, thinking he will forget. He knows not the meaning of the word. Chispa.

THE ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1880.

Printed and published by Horace John Weeks and Charles Dixon, at theif Printing Office, Eas - . Street,. Ashburton, Tuesday, September 28, 1880. -'



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Baldwin’s Fingering Yarns ; Paton and Son’s Alloa Yarns. IRIIo-mlrrvf a ln great variety, ! Cotton and Union Sheetings ; Floor Cloths IjQ from 12s. upwards, j choice patterns ; Cocoa Mats various sizes. WOOL GOODS, HOSIERY, GLOVES AND RIBBONS—A well assorted stock. Corsets, Silk Scarfs, Braids, Wool Fringes—all shades ; also handsome Black bilk Fringes, Piece Velvets, Ribbon Velvets, &c. A splendid assortment oi fecotcii Needlework. Ladies’ Cambric Handkerchiefs —bargains. The above goods are imported direct from the manufacturers, and will be sold REMARKABLY CHEAP, in order to reduce the stock. Outfitting Department. 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SUPERIOR BOOTS AND SHOES, OF ENGLISH AND COLONIAL MANUFACTURE. Implements, Etc, TO FARMERS WE CAN ESPECIALLY OFFER, AT REDUCED PRICES: Hornsby’s Ploughs, H., H.H., R. 8., and R.C., and extras for same; Reid and Grey’s Double and Treble Furrow Ploughs, and extras for same ; Drays, 2f, and 3 axles ; Zigzag and Flexible Chain Harrows ; Cambridge and Plain Field Rollers ; Broadcast and Hand Sowing Machines; best Ironbark 2,3, and 4-horse Swingle Trees ; Bentall s Chaff-Cutters and Corn-Crushers, all sizes ; Corrugated Iron, from 6to 9 feet, best brands ; Ryland’s best Fencing Wire, No. 6to 11; Fending Material, Consisting of Staples, Stakes, Posts, Rails, and Wire Strainers. Also a very largo Stock Douglas’ and Gould’s American Pumps, Force Pumps, and Piping (11. li and 2), and Farm and Station Stores of all kinds. have on hand a large assortment of Saddles, Shaft, Leading, and Plough HARNESS. Horse- Cloths in every variety. 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We beg to call special attention to the above, and have determined (to meet the present depressed times) to reduce the prices to lowest remunerative rates To parties furnishing we can offer advantages seldom met with, having just received a large and well-selected stock of .household requisites, comprising Single and Double English and French Iron Bedsteads, Fenders, Fireirons, Coal Vases, Scuttles, Fountains, Boilers, Kettles, Saucepans, Stew and Preserving Pans, all sizes ; Electroplated, Nickel Silver, Britannia Metal, and Tinware of all descriptions. 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Public Notices. PROSPECTUS OF THE Kaiapoi Woollen Manufacturing' Com pany, Limited. CAPITAL, £IOO,OOO, IN 4000 SHARES OF £25 EACH. DIRECTORS : Isaac Wilson, Esq., Chairman, G. H. Blackwell, Esq.,B. Paknham, Esq., And Two to be Elected after the Allotment of New Shares. BANKERS : Bank of New Zealand. SOLICITORS : Messrs. Gakkick and COWLISHAW. Regisxeebd Office ... ... ••• Chakles Stkeet, Kaiapox. THIS Company was established in July, 1878, with a capital of £15,000 in 15 shares of £I.OOO each, to carry on the business of Woollen Manufacturers, and accepted the offer of the Hon. J. T. Peacock, for the purchase of the Premises and Plant of the Canterbury Spinning, Weaving, and Fibre Company at about half its original cost, since which, considerable additions have from time to time been made to the buildings andplaut, the latter now comprising four sets of Carding Engines, and thirty-five Looms with, necessary machinery, which, with the addition of machinery just arrived, makes the plant veil-proportioned and very complete. The sum of £1',200 has been paid since stock-taking, for last additions to buildings and machinery just received per Loch Awe. , , ~ , The Manufactory, with the addition of the machinery per Locn Awe, though com plete in itself, will not however enable the Company to meet the greatly increased demand which has arisen for their goods, although j as hitherto, continuing to run a large portion of the machinery night and day, and having conclusively proved that the present heads of departments are capable of working a Mill twice the size of the pre sent one at a saving of at least £2,000 a year on the general working of the Company’s business, they have with a view to providing extended .premises and appliances, decided to increase the Capital from £15,000 to £IOO,OOO, the whole to be represented by 4000 shares of £25 each, of which the existing shareholders will be entitled to 825 fully paid up, in exchange for the shares now held by them (including the accumulated profit thereupon amounting to £3,744) ; of. the residue,. the Directors propose to issue at present only 1,600. The increased capital will ba applied to the following purposes, viz Paying off exist ing mortgage of £7,400 ; enlarging present premises and plant; establishing ■ pre mises in Christchurch ; and for the general purposes of the Company. The following may be enumerated among the special advantages in favor of Share holders, viz.:—The original plant was purchased at about half-cost, the staff is now well-trained and efficient, which will obviate the difficulties and avoid a repetition of the losses experienced during the first eighteen months of the Company’s operations, while the whole of the dead stock was cleared out previous to stock-taking, July Ist, 1880. A good and safe business has been developed, which is steadily increasing, and is capable of being worked up to a much greater extent. All the risks and expenses con nected with the formation of a new company will be avoided, and, as can be seen by a perusal of the last balance-sheet, the new Shareholders will at once, enter into possession of a good paying concern. The present Shareholders shew their faith in the concern in the most practical manner possible by taking the amount of £3,744 (accumulated profit, equal to 16 per cent, per annum on the paid up Capital) in fully paid up shares, instead of drawing the amount which they are entitled to do. The Company now offers to investors an opportunity to develop a Colonial Industry which has established for itself a good reputation and meets with popular support, and which will, it is expected,-shortly employ about 400 Lands, and at the same time securing to Shareholders a good return for the Capital invested. Intending Shareholders can obtain any information, with an order to view the Factory, from the Directors, or on application at the Office of the Company. The Share List will close on October Ist, 1880. . In making the allotment the Directors will take into consideration the order in which the applications are made. ■ ' The sum of £1 per share will be payable on application ; £2 10s. per share on allot ment ; and the balance in calls of not more.than 50s. per share at intervals of not less three months. In this manner the time for fully paying up will be extended to not less than two years and three months. All Applications with £1 per share deposit, to be forwarded to the Chairman of Directors not later than October Ist, 1880. BALANCE SHEET, JUNE 30,' 1880. STATEMENT OF PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT, For Half-year ending June 30, 1880. £ s. d. By Balance, December 31, 1879 1,041 7 I ~ Profit on Wool, Shipment No. 1 ... ..i 301 12 II „ Profit on Wool, Shipment No. 2 ... ... 150 o o Manufactures Account ... 11,982 2 1 ;£i3,475. 2 1 Examined and found correct. W. P. WILSON, Auditor. Forms of Application may be obtained by applying, either personally or by letter, at the Offices of the Company. ■ ISAAC WILSON, 123 g Chairman of Directors.



GRATEFUL COMFORTING EPPS’S COCOA. BREAKFAST. BY a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful application of the fine properties of well selected cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctor’s bills. It is by the judicious use of such articles of diet that a constitution may be gradually built up until strong enough to resist every ten pency to disease. Hundreds of subtle maladies are floating around us ready to attack wherever there is a weak point. We may escape many a fatal shaft by keeping ourselves well fortified with pure blood and a properly nourished frame., — See article in the Civil Service Gazette. Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold only in packets or tins, labelled : JAMES EPPS AND CO., HOMCEOPATHIC CHEMIST, > LONDON. 91 0 g POWELL’S BALSAM of ANISEED. Due de Montabor writes : “ Chateau de Montabor, Aveyron. Sir, —Having suffered for some time from an obstinate cough, accompanied with fever, continuous head-aches, and sleepless nights, I resolved after having vainly tried several other medicines, to have recourse to your BALSAM of ANISEED. I cannot resist, sir, the desire of making you acquainted with the really marvelous results which I derived from it. From the first dose I felt great relief, the bad symptoms grew feebler, the irritation of the throat was calming down, and I recovered the sleep which had nearly left me. The third dose delivered me completely, and I am now completely restored to health. Receive, sir, with the expression of my gratitude the assurance of my distinguished sentiments. DUO DE MONTABOR



KEATINGS COUGH LOZENGES. ROUGHS, ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS, Vj ACCUMULATION OF PHLEGM. Composed of the puiest articles. These Lozenges contain no opium; nor any deleterious drug, therefore the most delicate can take them with perfect confidence. Their beneficial effect is speedy and certain. This old un failing family remedy is daily recommended by the most eminet Physrcians, (In use nearly 60 years). MEDICAL TESTIMONY. ' July 25th, i 877. 22, Cold Harbour Lane, London. Sir,—Your Lozenges are excellent, and their beneficial effect most reliable. 1 strongly recommend them in cases of coughs and asthma. You are at liberty to state this as my opinion, formed from many years experience. J. Bringloe' M.R.G.S.L., L.S.A., L.M, Mr. T. Keating, Indian Medical Service. Dear Sir, —Having tried your Lozenges in India, I have much pleasure in testifying to their beneficial effects in cases of incipient consumption, asthma and bronchial affections. I have prescribed them largely, with the best results. W. B. G, , Apothecary. H.M. S. KEATINGS COUGH LOZENGES are sold by all Chemists, in tins of various sizes, each having the words, “ Keatings’s Cough Lozenges ” engrrven on the government stamp. Proprietor, THOS. KEATING, London. Export Chemist “wid Druggist- ENO’S FRUIT SALT. THE PHYSICAL BASIS OF LIFE. ENO’S FRUIT SALT.—“After suffering . for nearly two and a half years from severe headache and disordered stomach, and after trying almost everything and • spending much money without finding any benefit, I was recommended by a friend to try ENO’S FRUIT SALT, and before I had finished one bottle I found it doing me a great deal of good, and now I am restored to my usual health; and others I know that have tried it have not enjoyed such good health for years.—Yours most truly, Robert Humphreys, Post Office, Barrasford. ” Agents for New Zealand, MESSRS. KEMPTHORNE, PROSSER, AND CO.



Business Notices. ear- THIS ADVERTISEMENT SHOULD BE CAREFULLY READ AND, RE MEMBERED BY EVERYONE IN TERESTED IN FENCING. THE PATENT OVAL SAMSON FENCE WIRE . Efas now teen before the public, for four years, and during that , time , ' 5,000 TONS HAVE BEEN SOLD Giving very great satisfaction, in .proof, of which we hold numerous testimonial frpm well-known colonists ; and the demand i* daily increasing to such an extent, , that numerous spurious, imitations, hav© lately been introduced in the various marketSjOf Australia and New Zealand, Tor. the sole purpose of damaging the reputation, of, the Patent Oval Samson Wire. The Samson Wire By using the Patent Oval Fence Wire you get a better and cheaper fence: than any other, and the best proofs are the imitations already referred to. -■ ’ I comprehensive circular as to its advantages, with numerous testimonials from well-known colonists, will be posted to any address on application. The state Forests of Victoria are fended with the Patent Oval Samson Fence Wife; the one at Dookie is, without doubt, the best Wire Fence in Australia, and people come from great distances to see it, ?,, PRICES GREATLY REDUCED The public, when purchasing, are there fore cautioned to see that each coil bears a tin tally thus : , • PATENT OVAL SAMSON WIRE, IN OVAL ; - . ■ . And the Patentee’s Tally or Trade Mark:: — M - B R IN PADLOCK. Manufactured by the Whitecross Wire Company, Warrington, England. Was patented and introduced four years ago in Victoria, New South ’Wales, Queensland, and New Zealand ; and the principal claim set fourth was itsbeingniaae Oval to prevent fraud. Yet, in the face of these patents, firms—many of rcspecaltry standing—have, for the sake of a paltry commission, lent themselves to the intro-* duction of various spurious' imitations, which render them liable to actions atlaw, and annoyance and disappointment to the users. ’ j We would point out to intending pur chasers that any person erecting Oval Wife Fences, other than the Patent Oval Sam son, renders himself liable for damagep. The Patent Acts on this point are very explicit; therefore, after this notice no excuse can be made. ■ We have had instances brought under oUt notice where some persons have been so un principled as to mix the Spurious Oval Wire amongst the Patent Oval Samson in order to make a sale, and damage- the the reputation of the genuine article. We have a great aversion to take legal proceedings in this matter,; but 1 shall be compelled to, in self-defence, unless these practices are at once stopped. ADDRESS ; „ ~ r • • ':. tr M s Lean Bros. & Rigg 3 IMPORTER , i.-: . . . : T 69 ELIZABETH STREET, MELBOURNE TRADE MARK I M B R IN PADLOCK. We undertake through; our. agents, to deliver the Patent Oval Samson Wire at any port ,in Australia or New; Zealand, ither direct from. England or Melbourne. Inquiries by telegram promptly answered.- , ■ REWARD.—Fencers throughout* the Colonies who can give information-as* the erection of Oval Wire Fences,- other than the Patent Oval Samson Wire, 1 - Will find it to their advantage to comrtiufiicato with Messrs. M’Lean Brothers and Rigg, 69 Elizabeth Street Melbourne. * \ -j ,'i ; * U TO PRINTERS. MACHINE FOR SALE.''..V: F O R S A L: E Oiie Second-hand Double Demy Tape Printing MACHINE, in thorough working order, with rollers, moulds; &c., complete. This machine has been replaced by a Double Royal Wharfedale, which necessitates removal of the Double Demy Machine formerly used for printing -the “Herald’’and “Guardian,” fofhandor steampowor. Can be seen and all;-par ticulars obtained at our office. For a Country Office this Machine suits admirably, as it can easily be turned by hand, for which we have fitted a -fly© wheel and handle. Price £7O ' WEEKS & DISHfli: .1