THE CHIMNEY CORNER.

A CLOSE SHAYE. chapter vi— continued. “ And what are they ? ” said Pother, completely cowed and physically incapaci tated by the punishment he had received. “ You must leave France forthwith for eorae place out of Europe, and engage feever to return, and you must answer un reservedly a question of mine. ” Pother hesitated. “ I have only to put my head out of that door and shout, and you are a prisoner in the hands of the French police ; and I have only to telegraph to Mr. John Hudson, detective, now at Boulogne, to hand you over to the English authorities.” “I would gladly accept the first condi tion if I had the means of getting away,” said Pother. “I’ll see to that. Now answer this question—What became of the money and valuables you stole from the banker ? ” John was professionally curious on this point, for it had been a principal difficulty of the prosecution that the plunder could not be traced. “ It was hidden underground for some time after the robbery, and then brought here quite lately by my wife ; but as the booty consisted chiefly of securities, and I couldn’t negociate them without being found out, they have remained unused.” . “ Of course, after what has happened, I don’t mean to let you out of my sight till you are shipped off. Come along at once, get your things together, and we will then arrange for the journey. Take care you are rot discovered, for I don’t want to be tried as an aider and abbettor in your escape. ” William Pother, perfectly astonished and thoroughly ashamed, obeyed John Lloyd like a dog. When 1 arrived at Alphonse’s shop, I found the pair just starting for the bureau of the New York and Havre line of packets, whither I accompanied them, and saw the rest of the play to the end. chapter vii. From Havre on the following day, William Pother, and our remarkable female fellow-traveller from Folkestone sailed for New York. Their few effects were collected in a modest heap on the deck of the steamer ; but conspicuous by its absence was the black leather bag, which had been already dispatched anony mously by the mail to England, addressed to Mr. , banker, Liverpool. It con tained, no doubt, the securities and other valuables which by John’s assistance Mrs. Pother had brought into France. “ The scoundrel has a chance of reform ing now, and I think he will avail him self of it,” said John, as we left the docks. “ I am particularly glad for the fellow’s own sake that he didn’t cut my throat. By Jove, though, I will always shave my self in future ; it’s horribly unsafe trust ing one’s gorge to strangers.” Whether Alphonse ever forgave us for abucting his assistant “tfes capable,” this deponent showeth not ; neither doth he declare the motive which induced John Lloyd to act as he did towards Pother. The reader is at liberty to attribute the motive to generosity towards the n an, to John’s sense of justice for what the woman had done in warning him, to freak, or to the spirit which once said to a sinner, “Go, and sin no more.” CHAPTER VIII. Long afterwards I learnt the secret history of William Pother’s mysterious reappearance at the barber’s shop. After affecting his escape from Barn borough Gaol, he had lurked about Preston and the neighborhood for a couple of days. His wife, who had been instru mental in the escape, and who had under gone what woman alone will undergo for those they love, furnished him with a hiding-place and supplied him with clothes and a disguise. The dress of a plate-layer, a wig of shock hair, and a full moustache so effectually disguised him that even his wife averred she scarcely knew him. Purposely the work man’s dress was assumed ; Pother had been in the habit, before his conviction, of affecting fashionable attire ; and he thought wisely, perhaps, that the police would give his vanity credit for seeking a disguise—if any—in some sphere where purple and fine linen might take their place. He remained undetected, his where about unkonwn, though the police were active in their search after him, and were stimulated to exertion by the offer of the Government reward. It would never do, however, to remain in England. The question was, whither should he go ? Sufficient means were at hand, out of the proceeds of the robbery for which Pother had been sentenced, to enable him to go either to America or the Continent. At first he thought of America as the safest refuge; but the watch at Liverpool, he knew, would be strict and the chances were strongly against his getting through. A secret yearning, too, after Europe, with many of the capitals of which he was acquainted, induced him to turn his thoughts towards France, where he reckoned on remaining perdu for awhile, and then, if need were, upon flee ing elsewhere. It was quite certain it would not do for him to go by the ordinary routes. The watch would be too severe at all the usual ports of departure. So it was decided in the end that Pother should make his way on foot to Runcorn, or onej of the small Welsh Ports, and get a passage in some trading vessel to the French coast. He was to represent himself as a platelayer out of work, seeking for employment on a French railway. In order to save the plunder from recapture, or from being a source of trouble to the fugitive, it was arranged that Pother’s wife should go with it alone, and wait at Paris for her husband’s arrival Pother walked by easy stages to Run corn. No man questioned him, though he had frequently to converse on the sub ject of his own escape, and once felt un pleasantly conscious of being scrutinised by a police-constable, while he stood to read, on the wall of the police station, a description of himself, and an offer of one hundred pounds reward for his capture. At Runcorn he engaged with the master of a lumber vessel to take him to Nantes in consideration of his making himself useful while on board, the master promis ing to do his best to procure the platelayer employment on the railway from Saint Nazaire. The vessel sailed with William Fother on board. Arrived at Nantes, where his coming was not looked for, Fother quitted the Ship, and having managed to elude the kindly offers of the master, set out to walk to Paris, not caring to trouble the railways, and reckoning upon avoiding the inquisition of the police. In Paris, a city he knew thoroughly, he found his wife, who had prepared a lodg ing for him. After a few days of rest, greatly needed after the fatigues and ex citement he had gone through, Pother, who had determined to remain awhile in Paris, went forth to seek employment. He still wore a wig, but a neat and trim one, and in lieu of the heavy moustache he had adopted at Preston, he wore a slight French one, the whole disguising him yet more thoroughly than the others had done. He sought employment as a light porter, as a waiter at a cafe, and ( failing these, he put himself in the hands ] of an agent, who promised to get him i something, provided he was not too par- ] ticular about what he turned his hand to, i He could do anything, he said, from con- f ductor of omnibus to barber’s assistant, t He would prefer some employment in f

which the manual labor was not too heavy. Wisely, perhaps, he concluded to re main in Paris ; wisely, too, he concluded to get occupation. An employed man was less likely to come under the ultra inquisitive eye of the French police. The fact that he had been apprenticed to a barber in his youth, although he had ab sconded from his employment before he had learnt much of the business, suggested employment in this line, and Alphonse the hairdresser being in want of a helper, Pother had finally been engaged by him. William Pother fell fighting in the battle af Chancellorsville, a lieutenant in one of the New England regiments. His wife we have never heard of since she sailed for New York. CONCLUDED.

CORRESPONDENCE.

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

THE ALLEGED LARCENY CASE.

To the Editor. Sir, —Haying been summoned on Thurs day in the Ashburton Police Court under the charge of “feloniously stealing” goods belonging to Joseph Barieva, perhaps a s few words of explanation may not be out ; of place in vindication of my character, * and pro bonojmhlico. When I was first employed as washer ! woman by the person who calls herself Emily Evans, I was not aware that it was , a house of “ ill-fame,” and some time t afterwards I learned that the said Emily ; Evans had a legal husband in Wellington. 3 I sometimes spoke to her respecting the 3 immoral life she was living, and she fre t quently wept in my presence, and ex c pressed an earnest desire to reform her ways and return to her own home. She I ultimately requested me to write and ask i her husband to send for her, and I did so. t He replied, saying that if her repentance t was genuine, ho"would forget the past, t and arrange for their re-union. The day r previous to my getting this letter, Barieva f was arrested for having no visible means of support. At this time he was L 7 in my debt, and the said Emily Evans at once ordered me to take the furniture to I my house until my debt was discharged. * And out of pure kindness I sheltered this woman in my home, telegraphed her hus [ band for advice, and hoped to save her from a life of shame. In the meantime, 7 I have been most unjustly dragged into ’ Court, charged as a “ common felon,” and J have been subjected to great inconvenience and expense; and, in addition to this, there is an impression abroad that I have been encouraging characters of “ill-fame.” I wish the public to know that I should never have opened my door to this woman had it not been for the distinct purpose of assisting her return to her husband. He has communicated with me both by letter and telegram, and has been making ’ preparations for the speedy return of his wife, and I fondly believed that I was doing a Christianly action. But, behold the result! » There are several points decidedly untrue in the evidence given, especially by ' Bariera, who though sworn a rogue and a vagabond, was treated with all the grace g and courtesy of an honest citizen ; and the conduct of the judge, while Mr. Q O’Reilly was cross-examining him, might “ be severely criticised. One of the con ' stables, also, was very particular to say what he found when searching my house, evidently making it appear that I had concealed a portion of the goods, but he t never took the trouble to say that it was I B who pointed out the various articles to him, or he would never have discovered . them by his own acuteness, t But as the case was dismissed, I will 3 not further occupy your space, and will " thank you for the insertion of this letter . in your next issue,—l am, &c. r Ann James, i i To the Editor. 1 Sir —Not a little excitement was pro i duced in the town on Thura’ay by the 1 charge alleged against Mrs. James of 3 feloniously stealing, ard any one who was * present at the Court must have been sur -1 prised at the case lasting so long. It was , very palpable to any impartial hearer that 3 Mrs. James was perfectly innocent, 3 although every effort appeared to be made i to bring her in guilty. The Judge was 3 exceedingly deferential to Bariera while r pleading his own case, and occasionally rendered him good service on the plea of * his being a foreigner, and Mr. O’Reilly was impertinently corrected, simply because * his Worship had not sagacity enough to ! see the drift of Bariera’s cross-examina tion. Mr. O’Reilly repeatedly took ex -1 ception to some of the witnesses on the ' other side being allowed to be present in 1 the ante-room, but by some of the officers ' great reluctance to remove them was manifested. What staggered me most was ! the fact that Bariera, who admitted him self to be a rogue and vagabond, and is even now a prisoner for having no visible means of support, appeared yesterday as a respected householder, owning some L3O worth of goods, and the Police were present to defend his rights. Can any of yoi.r readers give a little light on the subject, and oblige New Chum.

THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.

STARTLING REVELATIONS. The Times’ special correspondent tele graphed as follows on Tuesday : The report of the Civil Service Commis sion, which will be laid on the table of the House shortly, is of a most damaging and sweeping character. The Commissioners commence by saying that they have not yet had time thoroughly to investigate the whole subject, but that it is necessary that reforms should be immediately instituted they consider it advisable that they should make what is practically an interim report as early in the session as possible. They further say that they have been unable to deal exhaustively with all the Depart ments of the Civil Service, and confine their report chiefly to the Public Works and Survey Departments. Speaking of the Civil Service generally they point out that close upon 11,000 persons, or nearly one-eighth of the adult male population of the colony are in Government employ, and recommend the extensive cutting down of numbers and the reduction of all salaries by 12| per cent. The principal portion of the report refers to the Railway Department in which they say there has been frightful waste and extravagance, more especially in the Middle Island, where they assert there has also been gross mismanagement. In support they instance that too many kinds of engines are in use, and that immense quanti ties of valuable stores have been and are going to destruction for want of pro tection from weather, etc. They point out the fact that had the supplying of the stores been thrown open to competi tion by calling for tenders, a great saving would have been effected; and they com ment severely upon what they allege t 0 have discovered, namely, that Mr. Con. yers holds an interest in a firm which re. ceives large orders from the Government. Mr. Lawson, Commissioner of Railways in the North Island, is also made th e subject of adverse comment. Amongst the specific charges of mismanagement the Commissioners state that in Nelso n one railway manager is getting a mostdi s . proportionately high salary on a line o n : which ouly two trains run daily. In th e Engineering department of the railways they say there is no consistency or general J agreement. The report is very severe o n i the fact that the Railway Department had 1 for some years back taken credit to itsel f I i

for a saving r. ; the rate of L 5 per ton on iron in the manufacture of points, &c., in the colony, this calculation being based upon the price of iron when at its cheapest years ago, while the fact is that, at the market price of iron during late years, the work has actually been done at a loss of L 5 per ton. They condemn the unnecessary cost of the lines of the Sur vey Department, and indicate mismanage ment in the fact that owing to bad surveys in the first instance, large blocks of country have had to be re-surveyed. The report also recommends the reduction of travelling allowances to all servants of the Government. The recommendations of the Commission are altogether very sweep ing, and will take the House by surprise when the report is tabled.

THE ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1880.

Printed and published by Horace. John Weeks and Charles Dixon, at their Printing Office, East Street, Saturday, June 19, 1880,



Medical. Advice to mothers.—Are you broken in your rest by a sick child, suffering with the pain of cutting teeth 1 Go at once to. the chemist and get a bottle of Mrs. WINSLOW’S SOOTIimG SYRUP. It will relieve the poor sufferer immediately. It is perfectly harmless ; it produces natural, quiet sleep by reliev ing the child from pain, and the little cherub awakes “ as bright as a button.” It has been in use in America, and is highly recommended by medical men. It is very pleasant to take ; it sooths the child ; it softens the gums, allays all pain, relieves wind, regulates the bowels, and is the best known remedy for dysentry and diarrhoea, whether arising from teething or other causes. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup, and see that “Curtis and Perkins, New York and London,” is on the outside wrapper. No mother should be without it. Sold by all medicine dealers, at Is. 1-^d. —Depot, 493, Oxford street. WHO is Mrs. WINSLOW? As this question is frequently asked, we shall simply say that she is a lady who for upwards of thirty years has untiremgly devoted her time and talents as a female physician and nurse, principally among children. She has especially studied the constitution and wants of this numerous class, and, as a result of this effort and practical knowledge obtained in a lifetime as nurse and physician, she has com pounded a SOOTHING SYRUP for Chil dren. It operates like magic, giving rest and health, and is, moreover, sure to regulate the bowels. In consequence of this article, Mrs. Winslow is becoming world-renouned as a benefactor of her race. Children certainly do rise up and bless her. Especially is this the ease in this city. Vast quantities of the Soothing Syrup are daily sold and used here. We think Mrs Winslow has immortalised her name by this invaluable article, and we sincerely believe that thousands of chil dren have been saved from an early grave by its timely use, and that millions yet unborn will share its benefits and unite in calling her blessed. No mother has dis charged her duty to her suffering little one, in our opinion, until she has given it the benefit of Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. Try it mothers, try it now. Ladies’ Visitor, New York City. VALUABLE DISCOVERY for the HAIR. A very nicely perfumed Hairdressing, called THE MEXICAN HAIR RE NEWER, now being sold by most Che mists and perfumers througout the coun try, at 3s. Gd. per bottle, is fast super ceding all the old restorers and dyes for the purpose of changing grey or white hair to its natural original color, for it will positively restore the hair in every case of greyness to its original color, with out dyeing it or leaving that offensive smell which most oi the hair preparations of the day do. This preparation has never been known to fail in restoring the hair to its natural color and gloss in from eight to twelve days. It promotes growth and prevents the hair falling out, eradicating dandruff, and leaving the scalp in a clean, healthy condition. It imparts peculiar vitality to the roots of the hair, restoring it to its youthful freshness and vigor. Daily applications of this preparation for a week or two will surely restore faded, grey, or white hair to its natural color and richness. It is not a dye, nor does it con tain any coloring matter or offensive substance whatever. Hence it does not soil the hands, the scalp, or even white linen, but produces the color within the substance of the hair. Read the follow ing from Mr. Nathan Berry, Chemist, Walkden : “One of my customers told me the other day he had had grey hair for thirty-five years, and after using one bottle of the Mexican Hair Renewer I sold him, it was restored to and kept its natural color.” It may be had of any respectable Chemist, Perfumer, or Dealer in toilet articles in the kingdom, at 3a. Gd. per bottle. —Prepared by HENRY C. GALLUP, No. 493, Oxford street, London. COCKLE’S ANTIBILIOUS PILLS— These Pills consist of a careful and peculiar admixture of the best and mild est vegetable aperients, with the pure ex tract of the fiowers of the camomile. They will be found a most efficacious remedy for derangement of the digestive organs, and for torpid action of the liver and bowels, which produce indigestion and the several varieties of bilious and liver complaints. They speedily remove the irritation and feverish state of the stomach, allay spasm, correct the morbid condition of the liver and organs subser vient to digestion, promote a due and healthy secretion of bile, and relieve the constitution of all gouty matter and other impurities, 'which, by circulating in the blood, most injuriously affect the action of the kidneys ; thus, by removing the causes productive of so much discomfort, they restore the energies of both body and mind. To those who indulge in the luxuries of the table these pills will prove highly useful, occasioning no pain in their action, unless they meet with an unusual quantity of acrid bile and acid matter in the stomach and bowels. To Europeans on their arrival in India or China they are recommended as a preservative against the fatal disorders peculiar to tropical climates. Their occasional use, if com bined with the strictest attention to diet, will be frequently found to remove at once, by their influence over the secre tions, that congestive and unhealthy con dition of the liver which is so often the earliest antecedent of severe febrile and i disturbance. It must be understood that these pills are not recommended as containing any new or dangerously active ingredients; on the contrary, they are characterised by a remarkable simplicity of combination, and whatever merit they may be found to possess depends as much upon the selec tion of pure drugs, and the unusual labor and attention bestowed upon their subse quent preparation, as upon the acknow ledged peculiarity of their composition, They are not recommended as a panacea, nor are they adapted to all complaints; but as a mild and efficacious aperient and tonic in the various forms of indigestion, it will not, perhaps, be an exaggeration to state that they have been resorted to under all systems of diet, changes of cli mate, or atmospheric alternations with an extraordinary degree of success for upwards of seventy-eight years. This celebrated family aperient may be had throughout the United Kingdom in boxes at Is Tgd, 2s 9d, 4s Cd, and 11s Od, as well as in India, China, New Zealand, and lie Australian Colonies.



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Business Notices. Dissolution OF Partnership. o OER AND CO., B EG to announce that they intend to DISSOLVE PARTNERSHIP on Ist SEPTEMBER. They will therefore, on Saturday, May Ist, offer the whole of their superio stock, amounting to over £20,000 worth of DRAPERY, IRONMONGERY, AND GROCERIES, AT COST PRICE. The reductions in price extends to every Department in our Business, And we trust our Customers will pay PROMPT CASH DURING SALE. All Goods will be marked in plain figures with Red Ink. f jf ff All outstanding accounts must be paid at once so that partnership accounts may be adjusted. til ORR & CO., ASHBURTON & RAKAIA April 24th, 1880. P.S.—A Large Shipment of Drapery Goods just opened up ex Pallala. Guns! Guns! Guns! POWDER. SHOT. CAPS. ORE AND CO. j~~|~AVE now on hand a very fine assortment of BREEOHLOADING DOUBLE AND SINGLE-BARREL GUNS, And as these have been imported direct from the manufacturers, we are prepared to Sell at the most Reasonable Prices— From £2 10a] to £25. ORR AND COf 1£ 9c-9o



Business Notices. TO FARMERS. npHE undersigned are CASH BUYERS Of Wheat and other Grain, or will make LIBERAL ADVANCES On shipments to London on grower’s account. DEERING’S TWINE BINDER. NOTICE TO FARMERS. have this day APPOINTED MESSRS. FRIEDLANDER BROS. SOLE AGENTS for the DEERING TWINE BINDER for the county of Ashburton. MASON STRUTHERS & CO. Christchurch 10th. February, 1880. The Deering Twine Binder AWARDED GOLD MEDAL At Ashburton, six machines competing. THE DEERING TWINE took the SPECIAL PR rz E at the Oamaru trial etc. been appointed sole agents for the above machines, we are now prepared to TAKE ORDERS for the coming season. As only a LIMITED NUMBER can be supplied, all who wish to make certain of securing those favorite machines fo next season should order before the depar ture of next San Francisco Mail. FRIEDLANDER B R .°. AGENTS FOB THE COLONIAL FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND SOLE AGENTS FOB THE CELEBRATED ALTHOUSE SELF - REGULATING WINDMILLS.



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Business Notices. FARMERS ! FARMERS ! FARMERS ! R. McKERROW AND CO., Cash Purchasers of Wool, Grain, and all kinds of Farm Produce, and are Iso prepared to make Liberal CASH ADVANCES on the above placed in their hands either for sale or shipment to the English or Colonial Markets. A Large Stock of Cornsacks, Wool packs, &c., for sale at lowest current prices. |R. McKERROW & CO., GRAIN MERCHANTS, RAKAIA. 30



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Medical. STEEDMAN’S SOOTHING POWDERS FOR CHILDREN CUTTING TEETH. CAUTICN TO PURCHASERS. The value of this well-known Family Medi cine has been largely tested in all parts of the ■world, and by all grades of society, for upwards of FIFTY YEARS. Its well-earned exten sive sale has induced SPURIOUS IMITA TIONS, some of which in OUTWARD APPEARANCE so closely resemble the ori ginal as to have deceived many purchasers. The proprietor therefore feels it due to the public to give a special caution against the use of SUCH IMITATIONS. 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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 dency 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., HOMOEOPATHIC CHEMIST, LONDON. 9120 Business Notices. 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