grieved at that fact. But now that the clays of subsidies are past and gone, and rates are the only funds from which re venue is derivable for the maintenance of roads, perhaps it might have been as well if the County Council had appointed a man competent to do the work, even if ho was not the lowest tenderer. AiA in the Family. —The “ South Can terlnPr-Ttraes,” says:—“The Ashburton Jockey Cf h, which, like the Ashburton Borough Council, is chiefly in the hands of a family clique, held its annual meeting on Saturday last. The balance sheet is described as highly satisfactory. This, if we mistake not, is the first statement of accounts, satisfactory or unsatisfactory., that the Club lias exhibited for some years. ” I cut this from tire “Ashburton Mail.” The editor of the “South Canterbury Times” is the same Hogg who edited the “Evening News,” and in the dearth of news he seems to be feeling just now, be returns to his wallowing in the mire. Everybody knows why the par. should appear in the “ Mail,” the proprietor of which claims to be a man fond of speaking his mind. It is not a virtue to speak one’s “ mind ” when we know that “ mind” to be false, and a man who aims at being Mayor ' of the town, and sporting enough to bet on his chances of being so, ought to be con versant enough with the township’s history to know that every year since he came to it balance sheets have been published by both the Steeplechase Committee and the Racing Club. The General Government, though, have their eyes more widely open than the County Council. They don’t intend to let the chance of turning an honest penny slide. The latest notion is quite unique. Hitherto it has been the custom of far mers to put four bushels of grain in each sack, and, for the purpose of doing so exactly, a weighing machine invariably accompanies the threshing engine, and the bag man’s duty is to put in four bushels and no more. A movement was made last year in Christchurch on the part of the grain merchants to persuade the railway authorities to weigh all _ grain on its receipt at the station. This was not conceded to, on account of the amount of traffic during the season. Now, however, they seem to have altered their minds ; as ■ I notice they advertise the fact that they intend charging extra for all sacks con taining over four bushels. So, bagmen, you will have to be careful and not give too good weight this season. An unfortunate drunk yesterday couldn’t raise 10s. to save, not his life, but 48 hours’ of his liberty. I admired the innocence of his answer, and it reminded me of a similar case up north a good many years ago. The then stipendiary Magistrate, now long gone to where drunks are un . known, was a huge portly man, the very embodiment of Sir John Falstaff, with his fat rubicund visage, portly appearance, and gruff voice. Old John, as he was familarly known, never wasted many words on a drunk —his convictions were very summary—hut he sometimes was had. One of his most frequent visitors at Court was an eccentric old gardener who religiously tried all the taps in town when he did his marketing, and very often got run in. On one occasion when brought up he was duly fined 10s. or 24 hours, and he replied in answer to the question if he was going to par 7, “ Well, my lovely old boy, you can fine me if you like, but you’ll have to take it out in apples ” and the bargain was struck. Chispa.

CORRESPONDENCE.

- —« We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondents.

AN EXTRAORDINARY JUDGMENT.

To the Editor. Sib, —In this morning’s “ Guardian ” I see a letter from “ Justice,” which pur ports by its heading to answer mine on the same subject. As I wrote so that I might obtain information, I hoped to find some in “ Justice’s ” letter, but all I find is a dark allusion to some paragraphs, a letter, blank cartridge, a very common place assertion that courts of law do some limes make mistakes, a eulogium on Mr. Guinness, and a suggestion. Now, sir, if “ Justice,” instead of rambling about in this manner, instead of writing about so general a truth that judges sometimes err, instead of giving Mr. Guinness a good character, when no one said he had a bad one, had, from his personal acquaintance ■with the judgment as it actually is (for he appears to have read it) corrected the “garbled” judgment reported in your paper, his letter would have been of some use. It is a significant fact that the judg ment appears in the same “ garbled ” form in each of our local newspapers. As I have not “attacked” Mr. Guinness and had no reason to do so, I am sorry if Mr. Guinness feels aggrieved ; but if lie does, though he cannot, as “ Justice” says, reply to my letter, there is nothing to prevent him sending his judgment as written by himself to the local papers for publication. Yerbum sap.—l am, &c., * An Inquisitive Reader. January 24th, 1880.

THE RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

To the Editor. Sib, —l have not hitherto taken part in the correspondence on the above subject, nor should I he doing so now but for the letter signed “ Justice,” which appeared in your last issue. “Justice ”is attempt ing to play the old trick of drawing a red herring across the scent. As a professional man I cordially concur with the efforts now being made to im nrove the administration of justice in this district; for transactions hare occurred in connection with the internal economy of both the Resident Magistrate’s and District Courts, during the last few months, which certainly deserve investi gation, although I can quite understand that “ Justice ” may have reasons of his own for stifling such an enquiry, and for beslobbering the court officials. It is, however, of the utmost importance for the public interests that the business of our Courts should be purely and accu rately administered by competent and im partial officers, and that the fullest confi dence should prevail in this respect. I may observe that mistakes made in the Courts, are by no means, necessarily disadvantageous to the legal profession, inasmuch as they tend to promote litiga tion, but the suitors have to pay for them, and respectable solicitors do not cai’e about encouraging practice of this kind. The black sheep of the profession doubt less view the matter in a different light. I believe you went to the loot of the evil the other day when you observed that the late Government, in making the changes which they did, failed to ap preciate the importance of Ashburton as a judicial centre.—Yours, Ac., A Solicitor. Ashburton, 2Gth January, 1880.

POST OFFICE FOR WINCHMORE.

- To the Editor. your Tuesday’s issue of the Guardian a notice appears under the ■above heading which, if not corrected, may lead people to suppose that this is a thing that is urgently Required. From an intimate knowledgg of the district I can assure you that _ such is pot the case, for instead of being a thickly populated district the whole of the population for some miles consists of one family. The next neighbors are nearer to Barr Hill or to Mr. Passmore’s (Sherwood) than to Winchmore, where there is every probability of a township being formed, but there will never be one at Winch more, as the country round, especially

between there and the Ashburton river, is totally untltted for agricultural purposes, being too atoney, and the soil too shallow ever to admit of the land being of any use except for sheep. No doubt the Hon. John Hall's knowledge of the district will be a strong item against him granting what is more urgently required in more favorable parts of the district, for if this potbion is granted it would not be used by half a dozen per sons. In conclusion I may say that Barr Hill is not many miles .away, as your paragraph infers, but only between four and live miles at the most.—l am. Ac., Publico.

LANDLORD AND TENANT.

(From the Sheffield Telegraph. ) In these days when farmers' grievances are in everybody’s mouth, the following story is worth telling : —“ A fanner called on the late Earl Fitzwilliiuu to represent that his crop of wheat had been seriously injured in a field adjoining a certain wood where his lordship’s hounds had during the winter frequently met to hunt. He stated that the young wheat had been so cut up and destroyed that in some parts he could not hope for any produce. ‘Well, my friend,’ said the earl, ‘ I am aware that we liave frequently met in that field, and that wo have done considerable injury ; and if you can procure an esti mate of the loss you have sustained, I will repay you.’ The farmer replied that, anticipating his lordship’s consideration and kindness, he had requested a friend to assist him in estimating the damage, and they thought that, ns th.-. crop seemed entirely destroyed, LSO would not more than repay him. The earl immediately gave him the mono}’. As the harvest ap proached, however, the wheat grew, and. in those parts of the field which were the most tram pled the corn was strongest and most luxuriant. The fanner went again to his lordship, and, being introduced, said, ‘I am come, my lord, respecting the field of wheat adjoining such a wood.’ Lord Fitzwilliam immediately recollected the circumstance. ‘ Well, my friend, did nutlaliow you sufficient to remunerate you for your loss i’ ‘ Yes, my lord, but I find that I have sustained no loss at all, for where the horses had most cut up the land, the crop is most promising, and therefore I have brought the LSO back again.’ ‘Ah,’ exclaimed the venerable earl, ‘ this is what I like. This is as it should ho between man and man.’ Ha then entered into conversation with the farmer, asking him several questions about his family, how many children, and what was the age of each. His lordship then went into another room, and on returning gave the fanner a cheque forLIOO, saying, ‘ Take care of this, and when your eldest son shall become of age present it to him, and tell him the occasion which produced it.’ Thus, while meeting an honorable act with a generous return, Lord Fitz williara at the same time adopted a most effectual means of transmitting a lesson of integrity to another age, and of stamping the deed with bis approbation”.

THE PANAMA CANAL.

A paper in the Vienna Monthly Maga zine for the East, published by the Austrian Oriental Museum, gives an account of proposals which have been made from time to time for cutting a canal through the Isthmus of Panama. As far back as 1551 Francisco Lopez de Gomara, in his history of the two Indies, mentions three lines by which he believed the Atlantic might be connected with the Pacific. The three routes in dicated by this old writer are those which lately, after a lapse of three cen turies, have been again examined—namely the one across the Isthmus of Tehautee-- pec, to which Ferdinand Cortez had de voted especial attention; the Lake of Nicaragua route, which had attracted the notice of Gil Gonzales Davila ; and the shorter line across the Isthmus of Panama, of which mention has been made by Francisco Pizzaro. Unfortunately the prosecution of the enterprise, at a time when Spain still possessed the moans, power, and energy to successfully accomp lish it, was prevented by ignorance and superstition. Father Jose de Acosta, a member of the Society of Jesus, in a, work published by him in 1588, denounced the then apparently much talked of idea of cutting a canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific as an impious conception, asserting that the “ punishment of heaven would most assuredly fall upon those who presumed to endeavor to alter the wise arrangements of Providence.” Opposed by the Church, any project which may have been formed for uniting the two oceans was abandoned ; and after the accession of Phillip IT., Spain rapidly lost the last traces of the energy necessary for accomplishing any great enterprise. Through the succeeding centuries, how ever, the idea of cutting the canal con stantly occupied the attention of dis tinguished men of different nations, and in 1829 a mission was sent by the King of the Netherlands to Guatemala to enter into negotiations on the subject. Mat ters were progressing favorably when the revolution of 1830 proved fatal to the •scheme. In 1844, again, the Government of Nicaragua made overtures on the subject to the King of the Belgians, but the proposed plan was shipwrecked on political obstacles, and negotiations sub sequently entered into with France also proved fruitless.

NIHILISM IN RUSSIA.

Such inordinate severity as had been lately meted out to political offenders in Russia can hardly fail to meet with adverse comment on all sides. We learn that o eight-and-twenty persons, condemned to gether at Odessa a very short time ago, to various terms of hard labour in the Siberian mines, the average age was but twenty-three. Among this batch of prisoners there is a young girl of fifteen, whom it appears the Russian Government considers it necessary for the proper security and safety of the State, to confine for months with common criminals, and afterwards to send to associate for an indefinite period with the convict class in Siberia. And this dangerous criminal ap pears to have been guilty of no worse infraction of the law than that, being present at the trial and sentencing of a political offender, she thoughtlessly ex claimed, “ Kovaßki is condemned to death.” In the same black list we find a youth of eighteen, sentenced to twenty years’ hard labour in the mines, and two young ladies of twenty-two and twenty five, condemned to the same punishment for a term of fifteen years. It may not be out of place to glance at what this punish ment in the mines is like, taking the testi mony of a recent eye-witness, who visited one of these convict settlements a short time ago, with an official authorisation. He tells how, starting from Tobolsk, he made 1 ‘ a long drearv j ourney in a wretched car, until a high mountain rose before him. In its torn and craggy flank the hill showed a colossal opening, similar to the mouth of a burnt out crater. Fetid vapours, which almost took away the breath, ascended frorq it. ’’ Entering the opening of the rock, he then passed “ through a long, very dark and narrow corridor, which, judging from its sloping descent, led down into some unknown depth. ” Having now reached the interior of the mine, he found a part of the un happy prisoners resting from the labours of the day on beds of damp and rotten straw. Beyond this was a vast cavern, in which he saw large numbers of wretched

creatures, “ with shaggy beards, sickly faces, reddened eyelids, clad in tatters, some of them barefoot, others in sandals, fettered with heavy foot-chains. There was no song, no whistling. Now and then they shyly looked at the visitor and his companions. The water dripped from the s'one ; the tatters of the convicts wore throughly wet.” Considering the utter bopoleatnoss and misery depicted, the oft quoted and mournful words of Dante may well bo recalled to memory. “Lasciate ogui speranza, voi ch’entcate,” and indeed they may be applied with literal truth for the convicts seen here were all con demned to perpetual labour, and the tra veller was further told that no prisoners having once entered could ever hope to Uv.vo the place alive. “Charing Cross Magazine. ”

DISCOVERY OF GOLD ORNAMENTS IN THE CHERSONESUS.

❖ The Ciicrsonesus appears still to be rich in antiquities, notwithstanding the explorations and plunderings that have taken place by Huns, Tartars, and Cossacks during hundreds of years. In St. Petersburg the Hermitage contains a very interesting and valuable collection of costly relics, many of them in gold, beau tiful specimens of Greek art found in some of the tombs in the neighborhood of Kcrtch. Among the choicest are the laurel leaves of the finest gold which adorned the victor’s brow, with other objects carrying the observer back to the every-dry life of the period. In the tomb of a woman were found the very box of vci’million and the stencil with which the owner added to her charms some 2000 years ago, her “ household gods ” buried with her, and now unburied, showing that the customs of the fair sex of twenty cen turies past were identical with modern times in the matter of outward adorn ments. From an account published in the “Journal de St Petersburg” it appears that valuable treasures are yet to be ob tained in this rich field of antiquities, as will be seen from the details of the very costly gold ornaments that have just been discovered by the fortunate director of the Kerch Museum. Ho found, in the early part of September, near the road between Tcmruk and the station of Sennaia, a tomb of the 3rd century, before the Christian era, in the reign of Persidas 11. (/), King of Bosphorus. The tomb must have been that of a highly-born damsel. It was found to contain a gold collar of the thick ness of an ordinary lead pencil in one piece, -ornament with a lion’s head at each end; a gold crown, an inch wide, the outer part formed of rings linked together and ornamented with fine stones, in the centre is a swan, with Cupid on its wings; gold ear-rings with two pomwnuDiPos of oval form, and a small piece of malachite in the centre ; a gold chain with figures of a sheep’s head at the ends ; gold ear rings with pomegranates ; a very heavy chain; ear-rings of very fine woikinan ship; two bracelets of heavy work : a round gold broach and pin representing Venus holding Cupid in her arms ; four gold leaves; a pearl collar with clasp amulets ; three ve*y small gold rings ; a silver flagon; a silver lachrymatory; a silver vase ; cup ; silver spoon ; remains of silver articles ; and a tooth of the young girl.

SUNDAY SHOWS.

— In advocating the opening of the Ex hibition on Sundays, the Sydney “ Town and Country ” says :—On Sunday after noon last, 10,000 or 12,000 were in the Domain, shut out by a corrugated iron fence from one of the grandest exhibitions of art and science that has ever been held on the continent of Australia. The people, having nothing better to occupy 7 them, lounged about the grass, or gathered in a contemptuous spirit round the rant ing preachers located there in such num bers, and in such close proximity as to make up an amusing Babel. If a person stood at one point, the roaring of four different preachers could bo heard ; dis jointed, excited, objectless orations. Now and again a burst of laughter would drown the strains of well known hymns, and the comedy or satire on religion went on, till people went away dissatisfied with their walk and disgusted with the preachers. Doubtless the whole 10,000 would have gone through the Exhibition and derived profit from the inspection of the solid pro ducts of man’s skill and ingenuity. There was but one expression of regret that no leading man really allied to the interest of the industrial classes had taken the matter up. It was thought that in one week 10,000 names could be obtained to a peti tion for opening the building on Sundays. That we are out of harmony in this matter with Sabbath-observing England, the following extract from the London “Graphic ” will show. That journal says ; —“ Mr. Cross has recommended Her Majesty to remit forthwith the penalties incurred in the action ‘ Girdlestone v. the Brighton Aquarium Company,’ and in the letter announcing the fact he adds that he is of opinion that the changes which he has been given to understand have been introduced by the Aquarium Company in the opening of that estab lishment on Sunday's are such as render it unobjectionable on the score of public morality, whilst it is a source of innocent and instructive amusement ; and, as long as the company continue such course of action respecting it, he is unable, as at present advised, to see any valid reason for their being interfered with. This, and the news that Canon Basil Wiiberforce has signified his approval of Sunday' open air music by inviting the Southampton band to play in the deanery grounds to morrow (Sunday), are severe blows to the Lord’s Day Observance Society.”

THE FARMER.

NEW DISCOVERY IN BUTTER MAKING. (From the Times.) Dairying its the one branch of agricul tural industry which, by common consent, is to bo a mainstay of British farmers against foreign competition. New ap paratus, new processes, new systems are being introduced in. the cream-raising, butter-making, and chccsn-inaking, of our dairies; and where novel methods are not deemed indispensable, attention of a new' and important kind— namely, that of the master of the farm—is being devoted to the more perfect carrying out of the methods now in use. It has been found out that English dairymaids need to be instructed, especially in the art of making butter. They do not always churn sweet cream ; they do not churn at the right temperature ; cliey do not stop the action of the churn at that particular point when the butter has just come in little nuggets like rough marldcs ; they do not withdraw the bn!!enubk ami then wash the butter in the churn with re peated doses of salt water, until the water runs out clear ; they do not refrain from mixing in powdered salt after this ; and they do not work out work every drop of buttermilk by fluted wood roller, instead of squeezing and nibbing the butter by hand. The improved practice is being extended, and so awakened are the public becoming to the importance of keeping at home the many millions of money now spent in foreign i airy produce that even gentlemen by no means dependent upon farming are starting herds of dairy cows. You hear of baronets and men of lesser note building cow-houses at their country seats and entering upon the milk trade with their 50, 100, or 150 milch cows. Now, a discovery has been lately made which brings a new element into the cal culation of the future of the trade in butter. On the 24th July, Mr. G. M. Allonder put a churning of butter to the test, treating it in accordance with a new patent brought before him. The butter, in a muslin cloth, was placed in a firkin, without a particle of salt, and every pre caution taken to insure that there could bo no tampering with the experiment. The firkin remained on the premises at St. Petersburg Place, Bayswater, for three months, and, when examined on Oct. 24, it was as sound and sweet as when first put in. Practically this butter was ex posed to the atmosphere during the who’c time, seeing that air found free admit tance into the firkin. Without treatment the butter would have gone completely putrid ; but on smelling and tasting it on Friday we found it perfectly sweet, firm, and so excellent in flavour that we could not toll it from butter made the day before. Experts in the business, both in this country and in Ireland, have had samples, and pronounce the preservation wonderful ; the only difference they find being that newly-made butter (and this first-rate of its kind) has a peculiar aroma not quite equalled in the preserved butter ; while the Latter is considered a little “ dead,” so that just a trace of salt in it would be an improvement. The effect will be to drive all salt butter out of the market. In order to make it keep, the Irish and all imported butter is now mixed with 5 or 6 per cent, of salt. Under the new system 1 per cent, of salt will be ample for the purpose, and the cost of the preservative will not exceed half-a-crown for a 561 b. firkin, or little more than a halfpenny per pound. The difference in value between a very mildly salted and a coarse and strongly-pickled butter is at least 4d. per pound, and hence it appears possible that fortunes may be made by substituting preserved for salted butter, alike in the immense quantity shipped from Ireland in that brought from foreign countries. It is not possible to estimate the gain of being able to displace from our tables and from our cookeries the objectionable salt butter, the change being especially grateful to voyagers on ship-board and to countries, such as Brazil, which import the whole of their butter. One great feature of the trade in future will be the purchase and storage of butter in slimmer, when prices are low, for sale in winter, when prices rule higher—with considerable effect towards equalising the two seasoned prices to consumers. Pre served butter, of course, will not be able to compete with the choicest new fresh butter ; but, nevertheless, the result of displacing salted butters must bo immense. The butter, worked with a trifling quantity of the patent material (alleged to be per fectly harmless) directly after churning, keeps good and sweet for months without any particular packing or any care be stowed upon its situation or temperature, except that, like other butter, it has to be kept in a moderately cool place. Probably this new odourless, tasteless, and innocuous antiseptic may work other wonders with meat, fish, and like perish able food commodities.

THE ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1880.



England’s Grain* Want. —lt is now stated that Great Britain will require not less Gian 18,000,000 quarters of wheat from foreign sources during the present year. This at an average price will pro bably represent a payment of little short of L 50,000,000. “ Pinafore.” —Notice has been served, on behalf of Mr. J. S. Williamson, on Mr. Wade, the lessee of the Theatre Royal, Auckland, prohibiting the perform ance of “Pinafore.” Mr. Wade refuses to acknowledge the exclusive right of Mr. Williamson, and determined to play it till some better authority is shown. Harbor Defence. —Regarding the visit of Colonel Scratchley to Lyttelton, and the choice of battery sites made by him, the “ Press ” says :—Two sites for bat teries were chosen by him for the four guns now in the shed at port, and it is said a recommendation will be made to the Government to have four more fort guns placed upon the western point of Camp Bayq on the southern shore. The sites for the guns that are here are the point just to the eastward of Gladstone Pier, known as Sticking Point. And the next point is to the eastward. They are about a mile distant from Lyttelton, approached by the Sumner road, and two guns placed upon each. Colonel Scratchley one day last week took a run out in one of the jjmftll steam launches plying in the harbor to judge of their adaptability for torpedo service, and it is probable the Govern ment will be asked to obtain five or six small vessels for torpedo boats. In refer to the sites for the guns the surveying of them and construction of the batteries will be pushed ahead at once, and the guns placed in position, after which it is pro bable that a naval brigade will be organised to work them. Colonel Scratchley expects to return from Dunedin bqfore the end of the week.



Wanted. V VTA N TED, a SITUATION as Baker, * * by a first-class hand ; one who is accustomed to small goods. Apply to Mr. John M'Namara, Railway Hotel, Rakaia. 416 g SHEEP. TIT ANTED—To PURCHASE 5000 W Sound Mouthed Merinos or Cross breds, in lota. Apply to SAUNDERS BEOS. 313 Ashburton. WANTED, at once, a HOUSEMAID. Good wages. Apply Herald Registry. 4370 ■\jST ANTED, ROBERT COOPER, last * » heard of in Waimate, to know that his brother ISAAC COOPER, is in Ash burton, wishing to hear from him at once. Apply Ashburton Post Office. 4360 ITT ANTED Known, tli.A TWENTY Y y Words are inserted in this Column for ONE SHILLING prepaid, and FORTY Words for TWO SHILLINGS prepaid. WANTED KNOW r N, that Envelopes and Notepapor can be obtained, wholesale or retail, at unusually low rates at the “ Herald ” Office, East-street North. G 42 WANTED KNOWN—That Money can be saved by purchasing your Sta tionery and Account Books, for cash, at the “Herald” and “Guardian” Whole sale Stationery Depdt, Saunders’ Build ngs, near Station. t WANTED KNOWN—That Visiting W Cards, plain or mourning, can be obtained printed in various styles, at the “Herald” and “Guardian” offices, near the Rai w ay Station WANTED KNOWN—That the cheap est and neatest CARDS may be* had at the “GUARDIAN OFFICE.” FRANCIS PHILIP O’REILLY, Barrister, Solicitor, & Conveyancer, TANCRED STREET, ASHBURTON, Next Messrs. Orr and Co. ’s, 3G20 ADVERTISEMENTS received for the GUARDIAN up to 9 p.m. at tlie scale charges, afterwards at double rates for insertion over the leader



Auction Sales. UNDER DISTRAINT. Cameron v. Kelly. AT GREETSEY. JL. WILSON is instructed to sell , by auction at Chertsey on FRIDAY, THE- 30xir INST., At half past 10 o’clock, About 80 ACRES of BARLEY, and 70 ACRES of OATS, both nearly ripe. Now on the Farm of A. J. Kelly, about 1A miles from Station. Terms cash. 4310 SATURDAY, 31st. JANUARY, 1 o’clock. A LFRED HARRISON has received instructions from the owner to solll by public auction, at his Rooms on above date— TOWN SECTION No. 117, situated on Moore street, with 4-roomed HOUSE situated thereon. The section is most centrally situated, and the house, but lately built, is well finished, papered, and lined throughout ; Leamington range, registered stove, and other improvements. The above can be recommended as a splendid investment. Terms at Sale. 1 o’clock. ALFRED HARRISON, 4300 Auctioneer. Meetings. HOin IOULTUR] AL SOCIETY. rnas ADJOURNED MEETING of the i_ Horticultural Society will be hold on THURSDAY, January 29th, at Quill’s Sample Rooms, af 8 p. in. STEPHEN H. POYNTZ, ■'"So Sec., pro tern. MEET! NG. ’HIRE:: KING MACHINE OWNERS. A MEETING of threshing machine owners is hereby convened to bo held on WEDNESDAY, January 28th, at 3 p.m. at Messrs. Buchanan and Co.’s auction rooms, Baring Scpiare. Business : To consider and arrange, if possible, a tariff for the current season. G EARLE. 431 a THOS. CLARK. Tenders. TENDERS are invited for the PUR CHASE of 27 ACRES growing crop of OATS at Alford Forest. Tenders to bo sent in to the Undersigned, stating price per acre, on or before 4th February, 1880. W. T CHAPMAN, 432 a Alford Forest. Tenders for tying and stock ing 400 Acres Wheat, at H. Mof fat’s farm, Hinds, in 100 acre blocks. Tenderers can apply for one or the lot. Tenders to be sent in not later than THURSDAY, 29th inst. H. MOFFAT, 423 a Wakanui. THRESHING. riIENDERS are invited for THRESH i ING 5000 acres of Grain. Specification can be seen at the office of 360 g SAUNDERS BROTHERS. v - -Bill. R NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. KAWAKAWA RAILWAY. TAUMARERE CONTRACT—-FOE MA TION ONLY. LENGTH ABOUT ONE MILE. Public Works Office, Wellington, 15th January, 1880. WRITTEN TENDERS will be received at this office, until NOON on WEDNESDAY the 25th February, 1880, for the above contract. They must be addressed to the Hon. the Minister for Public Works, Wellington, and marked outside “ Tender forTaumarere Contract.” Plans and specifications may he seen at the Public Works Offices, Wellington, after the 21st instant, and at Auckland, Grahamstown, KawaKawa, Christchurch, and Dunedin on arrival of first mail after that date. Telegraphic tenders, similarly addressed and marked, will bo received if presented at any telegraph office by NOON of the same date, pro vided that written tenders in due form are lodged at a District Or Resident Engineer’s Office by the same hour, and accompanied by a cheque on some hank in the town where the tender is lodged ; such cheque to be specially marked by a banker as good for twenty-one days, and to be in favor of the Receiver-General’s Deposit Account only, and not to bearer or order. The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted. By command, JOHN BLACKETT, 439 a Engineer in Charge, North Island. To Let. TO LET.—A Comfortable Four-roomed COTTAGE in Moore Street, also a Two-roomed Cottage iu Cox Street. Apply to Saury Feibdlander, Tancred Street. 440 a THE Undersigned has the following Properties TO LET, with a purchas ing clause, or for sale on Liberal Terms of Payment : (y ACRES unimproved Land, about ~ 21 miles north of the Ashburton Township. Acres improved Farm, first-class land and well watered, situated on Longbeach. ACRES partly improved and situated about three miles from the township. ACRES near the above, unim provt d. ACRES partly improved, near Winslow. THOMAS BULLOCK. 50 137 Railway Notices- Y. MiiiL R. NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. (Christchurch Section.) NOTICE TO FARMERS AND GRAIN MERCHANTS. AT OTICE is hereby given that where bags contain more than four bushels of grain, the excess weight will in’ all cases bo charged for. FRBDK. BACK, General Manager. General Manager’s Office, Christchurch, Jan. 23, 1880. 977 a



Public Notices. CAUTION. A NY Person found removing Tim her p*\_ from flu; swamps in the Hinds, part of the Laghmor Estate, or fcrespasing thereon, after this date, will be PRO SECUTED. DONALD MLEAN January 10 th, 1880. 3Blg LONGBBAGH ROAD DISTRICT. ELECTION OF MEMBERS. I HEREBY give notice that Messrs. EDWARD G. WRIGHT, STEPHEN CHAPMAN, and JOSEPH CIARK have been duty elected to serve as Members of the Longbeach Road District for the en suing year. W. CUTHBERT, Returning Officer. Longbeach Road, 23rd January, 1880. 433 g WAKANUI ROAD BOARD. RATE NOTICE. ALL RATES for the year 1880 are collectable during April, and OVERDUE RATES MUST BE PAID forthwith. JAMES WILKIE, 418g—968a Collector. MOUNT SOMERS ROAD BOARD. NOTICE. MR. C. J. W. COOKSON, Jun. has been appointed COLLECTOR of ail OUTSTANDING RATES in the Mount Somers Road District. By order, C. J. WENTWORTH COOKSON, Jun. 425 g Clerk. MOUNT SOMERS ROAD DISTRICT. TAKE NOTICE that the Mount Somers Road Board OBJECT to the VALUATION LIST for 18S0 as a whole on the following grounds : —• Ist. That the Valuation List is not made out in five separate lists, one for each sub-division or ward, according to the provisions of the Rating Act, 1876, section 6. 2nd. That no proper description of properties valued is set forth, nor is a value set upon each section so as to enable persons assessed to appeal. 3rd. That initials are given in place of Christian names and names of firms, and more than one name is inserted in the first column, contrary to the provisions of the Rating Act, 1876. By order, C. J. WENTWORTH COOKSON, Jun. Clerk to the Mount Somers Road Board. 424 g MOUNT SOMERS ROAD BOARD. NOTIFICATION OF VALUATION LIST. TAKE NOTICE—The VALUATION LIST for the Mount Somess Road District for the year 1880 will be OPEN FOR INSPECTION from 15th January to 15th February, 1880, at John Hood’s Hotel, Mount Somers. All OBJECTIONS thereto must be left at the Road Board Office, Mcunt Somers, on or before the 15th day of February, addressed to the Judge of the Assessment. Court; and a Copy of every such Objection must be left at the Road Board Office, Mount Somers, addsessed to the Chairman of the Board, not less than Seven Days before the next sitting of the said Court. JAMES FRASER, Clerk to the Mount Somers 404 g Road Board. SOUTH RAKAIA ROAD DISTRICT. NOTIFICATION OF VALUATION LIST. PVTOTICE is hereby given that the iA VALUATION LIST for 1880 is now OPEN FOR INSPECTION at the Road Board Office, South Rakaia, up to FEBRUARY 16 next. All OBJECTIONS thereto must he left at the Road Board office, South Rakaia, on or before FEB RUARY 15,1880, addressed to the Judge of the Assessment Court, and a copy of every such objection shall be sent to the Chairman of the South Rakaia Road Board not less than SEVEN DAYS be fore the next sit line: of the said Court. A. MAKEIG, 4210 Clerk to the Board. LONGBEACH ROAD BOARD. NOTIFICATION OF VALUATION LIST. VALUATION LIST for the 'JL LONGBEACH ROAD DISTRICT will he open for inspection at the Road Board Office, Longbeach Road, till FEB RUARY 15th, 1880, and all OBJEC TIONS thereto must bo left at the Road Board Office, Longbeach, on or before the 15th February, 1880, addressed to the Assessment Court ; and a Copy of every such objection must be left at the Road Board Office Longbeach not loss than Seven Days before the next sitting of the said Court. WILLIAM CUTHBERT, Clerk to the Longbeach 401 a Road Board. WAKANUI ROAD BOARD. NOTIFICATION OF VALUATION LIST. THE VALUATION LIST for the WAKANUI ROAD DISTRICT will be open for inspection at the Road Board Office, Ashburton, till FEBRUARY 15tb, 1880, and all OBJECTIONS thereto must be left at the Road Board Office, Ashbur ton, on or before the 15th February, 1880, addressed to the Assessment Court ; and a Copy of every such objection must be left at the Road Board Office, Ashbur ton not less than Seven Days before the next sitting of the said Court. C. E. FOOKS & SON, Surveyors to the Wakauui 402 g Road Board. TOTARA ! TOTARA ! ! TOTARA ! ! ! NOTICE. To "members of Comity Councils, Road Boards, Contractors, and others. THE undersigned desires to notify that he is prepared to supply SAWN TOTARA (or Black Pine) for Bridges, Culverts Slabbing wells, or other purposes, of any dimensions, and in large or small quanti ties to suit customers. ALPHBUS HAYES, Timber Merchant, Bast street, Ashburton. N.B.—Building Timber, Firewood, Stakes, Ac., now on sale at the yards, East street, near Railway station, at lowest current rates, or can be delivered at any station along the line direct from the mills. Firewood by the truck-load at greatly reduced prices. 907a*—413g



Public Notices. SPECIAL NOTICE. Try nOFE3 S 0 It WALLENBURG, Oculist. Aubist, and Specialist (From Europe.) May bo consulted upon all Diseases <?f tiie Eye, Ear, and Throat, Deafness, Noises in the Hoad, Defective Sight, Cataracts, Amaurosis, Opthalmia, Gutfca- Serena, Loss of the Eyelashes, Inflamma tion, and all Diseases of the Eye, Ear, and Throat, treated upon new and scien tific principles. PROFESSOR WALLENBERG. HAS ARRIVED IN ASHBDRI ON, And may be Consulted at his Consulting Rooms at ■ MR. THOS. QUILL’S COMMERCIAL HOTEL, FOR A LIMITED PERIOD. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. Blindness and Deafness. (“ Oamaru Mail,” Dec. 15.) Professor Wallenburg is still kept busy with patients. We on Saturday received a visit from two persons upon whom he had operated. Their names are Mr. Nicholas Power and Mr. James McGrath, both of Waimate. The first-mentioned liad been deaf in one ear for 14 years. On Wednesday last he visited the doctor, and obtained some relief. On Thursday ho was perfectly cured, a grass seed and an accumulation of skin which had gat thered around it having been extracted. He told ns that he could hear better with the car that had been operated upon than ho could with the other. The last men tioned visited the doctor at the same time. He was slightly deaf in the left and totally deaf in the right ear. A growth having been extracted from the right ear, he entirely recovered Ms hearing. He told us that he could hear Ms own voice— a thing that he had not done for 16 years. The case of Mr. Alexander Aitchison is worth chronicling. He had been totally deaf in one ear for four years and slightly affected in the other. He is now perfectly restored, and was so gratified that he to day introduced a suffering friend to the doctor. Mr. Aitchison tells us that he could only hear his watch ticking by means of the diseased ear by pressing it tightly to it. Now, he can hear it at a distance of a foot, although his ear is stopped with wadding. (“ Oamaru Mail,” Dec. 16.) To the Editor. Sin, —About Professor Wallenburg and Ms cures. lam glad that in previous issues you have called attention to the work and remarkable success of the Pro fessor in a few days of his residence in this town. I only just wish to say that I can confirm the truthfulness of several of the cases mentioned by you, for I have seen the patients myself. I would like to urge upon the people of Oamaru and neighborhood the importance of having any affection of those parts of the body which he specially treats attended to at once, or when he has gone they will regret that they did not avail themselves of his skill. Such men as he are a blessing to humanity. Hoping this may lead to the relief of some sufferer or sufferers, I am, &c., > Ohas. E. Barley. (“ Oamaru Mail,” Dec. 22.) Mr. James Gibson, a shepherd employed at Station Pealc, called upon us this morn ing, and requested us to bear testimony to the fact that ho has been cured of almost total deafness by Professor Wallenbux’g. He had been more or less deaf for 30 years, but for the last 20 years his hearing had been getting gradually worse. Ten days ago Mr. Gibscn placed himself under the treatment of the Professor, and has so far recovered that ho experiences no diffi culty in hearing ordinary conversation. At the same time Professor Wallenburg introduced to us Mr. William MMAenzie, of Kakanui. He had been so deaf for 13 years that he had been unable to- hear ordinary sounds. On Saturday last he became a patient of the Professor’s, and obtained immediate relief. His hearing is now as perfect as could be desired..’, (“ Oamaru Mail,” Dec. 29.) To the Editor. Sin, —Permit me through your paper to direct the attention of the public to the following. At the request of a member of my con gregation, unable to pay, and suffering with eyes nearly blind and inflamed many years, I applied to Professor Wallenburg for advice and treatment gratis. He, wiib generosity and kindness readily granted the favor. I made the applica tion because I had learned from other clergymen that the professor is ever ready to give his services to the poor when asked to do so by any person on whose honesty he can rely on being assured that no deception is being practised on him. This person was under the care of several medical men, but without any beneficial result. Professor Wallenburg has had the case under treatment for about ten days, and now the eyes are perfectly well, and the person is likely to be able to earn his livelihood, to the great delight of all his friends, whose lasting gratitude Pro fessor Wallenburg has earned. 1 know of my knowledge three others who bene fittecl very much by the treatment of the worthy Professor. I write this letter without the request of any one ; but I consider it a duty owing to the Professor’s kindnesss ; and I recommend those suffering in eye or ear to apply to him whilst they have the present favorable opportunity. I hereby tender my best thanks to Professor Wallenburg for his charity to the poor.—l am, &c., Wm. Coleman, Roman Catholic Clergyman. The Eye and Ear. —Professor Wallen burg is effecting some raarmsllous cures in cases of blindness and deafness. At his invitation we visited the consulting rooms at the Albion Hotel, yesterday morning, when wo conversed with two or three out of a total of about thirty patients present. The first case brought under notice was that of James Robertson, of Morton Mains, who was suffering from heavy films in both eyes. Ho assured us that for the past six years he had suffered acutely, and during for years of that period he had been under medical treat ment without receiving any benefit—in fact he went from bad to worse. Placing himself under Professor Wallenburg’s treatment he speedly came round, and yesterday could distinctly see a hair at the ordinary reading distance. Richard At kinson, of Invercargill, who had been treated in Dunedin and Melbourne for impaired eye-sight, als bore testimony to the Professor’s skill. He had been totally blind of one eye, the other being consider ably affected, but could now distinguish the time on a clock a couple of chains off. Mrs. AY. Jerrett, of Riverton, was the next patient introduced. She stated that she had been suffering from deafness for the last six yeai’s, and during that time her husband had expended something like Ll6O in endeavoring to effect a cure. Under Professor Wailenburg’s treatment she had so far recovered her hearing that she could without difficulty hear a watch ticking. H. N. Bates was the next patient consulted ; he had been totally deaf of one ear for fourteen years, the deafness arising from an attack of scarlet fever. In England his case was regarded as a hopeless one, and this was the more serious since the remaining ear was com mencing to sympathise with the affected



Public Notices. one. He had only been underJbhe Profes sor’s treatment a few days, and could now hear perfectly well. Constable Buchanan, also states that the occulist has succeeded id curing him of partial deafnes. These are a few patients indiscriminately singled out from the patients in the, consulting room, and they certainly go to show that the Professor is thoroughly up to his busi ness. At present he has 75 patients under treatment. We would strongly urge all who. are afflicted with blindness or deafness to pay this oculist a visit, and at once, since his 'stay here is limited. “ Southland Times,” Nov, 25, 1879. (From “ North Otago Times,” Oamaru, Dee. 18, 1879.) There would seem to be some founda tion for the merits claimed for Professor Wallenburg’s treatment of diseases of the eye and ear, if we may judge by the re sults of several cases that have fallen under our notice. These are the days of discoveries, and possibly the Professor may have come across some special remedy for the disease of the eye and ear, or he may only be „an intelligent, sharp sighted man, ' better able than the generality of his fellows to see where the evil he would cure is best to be grappled with. At any rate, several long-standing cases which have only been- under his treatment for a week are already be ginning to show good signs, of total cure, and are really worthy of some notice by an impartial observer. The first of these is that of James Beale, who was formerly of the’ Cape Mounted Eifles, and lost the sight of one eye 14 jmars ago * in Africa, and who was treated dn vain by several army doctors when there, and by some medical practitioners in Weymouth, Eng land. About a 'Wttek ago he came to the Professor totally blind with one eye, and partially so with the other, which had begun to suffer in sympathy. He is now able to read small print with either eye, and in a few days, judging faom ap pearances, will be completely cured. Another caseds that of a son of Andrew Mel drum, a’baker, of Oamaru. .This boy, who has been partially blind for several years, and has been, operated upon and treated without any beneficial,, effect by several Hew Zealand professional men, applied to the Professor about a Week ago, and can now begin to see again very fairly, and is to all intents and purposes perfectly cured. Mrs. Kenahan’s case is an interesting one, both for the rapidity and the completeness of the cure of a most painful and seemingly hopeless malady. This lady, when she applied to the Professor, was afflicted by the Jwat violent inflammation of the -which was swollen as big as an egg, £thd continually discharging an offensive mat ter’. She was in great agony, and had not slept for more than a week. The sight was completely gone, and worse than all, the other sye beginning to show signs of suffering from. a like disorder. Sage medicos, who had- attended her from the commencement of the com plaint with a slight inflammation caused by a cold, began to beg her to make np her mind to lose both eyes, as no cure could be found. However, she is doing Well; now, at all events, wiih the swelling reduced, and the sight partially restored in the one eye, and the. other as, well as ever it was. George Gordon, a man of 79 years of age, who was almost entirely deed but a few days ago, can now hear words spoken in a low voice from the other side of the room, while the two children of Mr. Townsend, who have suffered from deaf ness for a long time, “Can. now hear the tick of a watch., .These cases are cer tainly interesting, as effectual cures of old standing diseases, after some of them have defied all the skill of the general practitioner, and whether the cure is due to the remedy or the matter of treat ment it is equally worthy of praise. Timaru has contributed its quota of tes timonials to the Skill in eye and ear cases of Professor Wallenburg. Since his ar rival here, a few days ago, his consulting rooms at the Grosveuor Hotel .have been beseiged with patients. An' idea of the number of cases treated may be formed when we mention that on visiting his apartments about'9 o’clock this morning wo found them thronged. From 6 a.m. he had been busily at work, and during the .three hours upwards of fifty cases had been treated. The best guarantee of the specialists success is that the."living wit nesses are both, numerous and well known. During our visit, which only lasted a few minutes, several cases of restored vision were introduced to our notice. One was the son of the landlord of the Masonic hotel, at St. Andrews, whose right eye, through the stab of a penknife, was rendered totally blind about three weeks ago. Medical advice was sought, and the lad was ordered to be confined in a dark room ; but the Professor, without subject ing him to any ordeal of the kind, or any painful operation restored" his sight in the shortspaceof twenty-four hours. Theladcan ' now read the finest type with his injured organ. Another boy named Edgier, from Temuka, has his sight in process of perfect restoration, after groping his way in the dark and suffering from cataract for the last three years. He received the attention of several surgeons, bitt after one or two consultations he isnowsofarrecoveredthat he can read with but slight difficulty, and the Professor assures us that in a few days he will be able to see perfectly." Chiarini’s Circus has contributed two cases, the patients, one of whom is one of the most accomplished of the lady performers, re maining behind for the purpose of under going Professor Wallenburg’s treatment. Henry Kent, a young man who tells us lie has been nearly blind from his infancy, after a six months’ sojourn in the St. George’s Hospital, London, without ob taining relief, demonstrated the efficacy of the Professor’s treatment, by reading an extract from the “ Otago Daily Times ” in our presence. Lastly two or three • cases of chronic deafness were brought under our attention which by dint of steaming, syringing, and operating, had been effectually overcome. ■ The "sceptical who are apt to run away with- the idea that every specialist, is a charlatan, need only pay a visit to the Professor’s consult ing rooms, and their impressions will be at once removed.— ‘ £ South Canterbury Times,” Saturday, January 10th, 1880. • 932a—376



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