SHIPPING.

PORT OF LYTTELTON. Arrived. Saturday. Pelican, brigantine, from Tiarua. Hero, cutter, from Pelorus Sound, llinemoa, C. G. S., from Wellington. Yesterday. Tni, a.a., from Kaikonra. Lyttelton, p.s., from Port Chalmers. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Auckland, Satu day. Arrived—Prospectus, from Newcastle. Sailed —Orpheus, for Rarotonga, Timaru, Yesterday. Arrived—Linda Weber, from Lyttelton; Gatlin, from Oatlin River. Wellington, Yesterday; Arrived—Bowen, s s., from Foo Clmo.

COMMERCIAL.

Ashburton Guardian Office, Monday Afternoon.

Mr Alfred Harrison reports for the week as follows:—rWednesday, June-28. I held a sale at my rooms for John Hawdon, Esq., when I disposed of his household furniture, etc., as follows : Piano, L 59 ; dining-room suite, I. 28; drawing-room suite, L2O; bedroom suite, LIS los ; sideboard, LiS ; dining table, L 9 JOS : occasional tables, Ls 15s and 1,7 ios; also bedsteads and bedding, and a large quan tity of really good furniture at satisfactory prices, including gentleman’s saddle, 1.7; ladies’ saddle, 1,7 10s. On Thursday, June 29, I sold, at Methven. stock, furniture, and sundries, A fair amount was sold, but the attendance was not large. On Friday, June 30, I held a sale of limber, tools, etc., the property of the late Mr Geo. Compton, when all lots offered were sold at good prices. On Saturday, July 1, I held my weekly sale at my yards. There was a large entry in horses, a fair proportion changing hands ; also one cow. Not a single pig was penned, the cause being that prices cannot be obtained for them ; how ever, good carcases sold well. Fowls, is yd to 2s lid per pair; ducks, 3s nd to 4s gd per pain Implements slow of sale; light cart and tilt, Lro 12s 6d ; set harness, 1.3. Carcase, pork, Sjf’d to per lb ; rabbits, gd to is per pair. Potatoes, 50s per ton ; carrots, 30s to 403 per ton ; oats, 3s ; chick wheat, 3s to 3s 6d. Cheese, 5d to Tea, 21s. A large quantity of drapery sold well. The attendance was veiy fair, and a moderate sale found for most entries.

Mr I’. Bullock reports for the week ending July Ist—Horse Market: At the B.izaar, Bur nett street, on Saturday, there was about the usual attendance of country settlers and others, but very few draught horses were entered. The entries for the day were 18, out of which I sold 8 at the following prices, viz:—Medium draughts, Lio to Liß ; inferior ditto, L 4 15s to Ly 10s ; hacks and light harness horses, L 4 to L 5 ros ; scrubbers, a few changed hands at very low prices. Dray, harness, etc, at satisfactory prices. - Landed Property : I held a sale at the Bazaar on Saturday of sub urban allotments, improved farms, and other properties, including the Alford Brewery. For improved farms, there were no buyers, and the same remark applies to the brewery. I sold suburban allotments at the following prices: Lot 28, known as part of Mrs M‘Lean’s land, and fenced on one side, brought L2O ros ; lot 23, in Wm. Dawson’s estate, situated in the Allenton suburban district, Lio 10s ; lot 7, in the same district, nearer the Alford Forest road, part of block known as Alison Smith’s, L 9 10s. I also offered 15 Town Hall shares in Hay T. Smith’s estate, which realised 25s each. ■

DAILY MEMORANDA.

AUCTION SALES To-moreow, Tuesday, July 4. J. T. Ford and Co., at tho Tinwald Yards —Horses and Agricultural Implements; 11 o’clock. Matson, Cox and Co., at the Ashburton Yards —Stock. Thursday, July 6. H. Matson and Co., on the Sherwood Estate—Great Clearing Sale of Live Stock, Implements, Furniture, <Src.; 12 noon. Davies and Winter, at Rakaia—Fruit and Forest Trees and Sundries ; 1 o’clock. Saturday, July 8. Mr Alfred Harrison, at his yards— Horses, Pigs, Produce, &c.; 12 noon. Mr T. Bullock, at the Bazaar—Horses ; L3O p.m. Wednesday, July 12. Mr Alfred Harrison, at Mr Sycamore’s Farm, Winslow—Farm, Live and Dead Stock; 12 noon. MEETINGS, AMUSEMENTS, &o To-moerow, Tuesday, July 4. ashburton Permanent Building and ln vestment Society, Monthly Meeting, froth 6.30 to 8.30 p.m. Wednesday, July 5. Cv.nnty Council, at the County Council Chambers, at 11 o'clock. Thursday, July 0. Wakahui Road Board—Monthly Meeting, Road Board Office, Mooro street Monday, July 10.

Borough Council, at Borough Council Chambers, at 7 o’clock.

TRAVELLERS’ GUIDE.

Pbains Leave Ashburton foe Christ church and intermediate stations at 7.10 a.m., Il a.m., and (Express) 5.40 p.m. Trains Leave Ashburton for Timaru and South, at 6.50 a.m., 10.32 a.m. (Express),and 4.45 p.m.—the latter pro ceeding no farther than Timaru. bains Arrive at Ashburton from Christchurch at 10 20 a.m. (Express), 4.35 p.m., and 7.60 p.m. Trains Arrive at Ashburton from Timaru and South at 10.45 a.m,, 5.28 p.m. (Express), and 8.10 p.m.

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BIRTH.

Bestell —On July 2, at Winter’s road, Ashburton, the wife of John G, Bestell, of a daughter, stillborn.

DEATH.

Bland —On Sunday, July 2nd, Elizabeth, relict of the late William Bland ; aged 65 years.

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna Est Veritas et Prevalebit. MONDAY, JULY 3, 1882.

TOWN EDITION. [lssued at 4.40 p. m. j

Hunt Club.—The hounds will meet at the Gasworks on Saturday, at 2 p.m.

Business Mkm.—Mr Lancaster’s an nouncement elsewhere will be found of interest to “ Free Traders.” Timaru Wreck Relief Fund.—Sub scriptions in aid of the above fund will be received at the local banks and also at the Town Clerk’s office up to the 31st July. Westerfield Mill —lt will be ob served from our advertising columns that Messrs Matson, Cox and Co. are about to dispose of the above well-known mill, together with stock-in-trade, book debts, plant, etc.

Old Men's Home. —The master of the Ashburton Home asks us to say that ho is desirous of obtaining a piano for the use of the institution, and will be thankful to receive donations towards a fund for the purpose. New Method of Collecting in Churches. A new method of collection has been adopted in some of the Presby terian Churches in America, which may be worth imitation. Small boxes, with a slit in the top and glass in the sides, are fastened to the backs of pews. Then, before the sermon, the pastor steps to the desk, and after repeating I. Cor. xvi. 2, “ Upon the first day of the week let every one of yon lay by him in store, as God has prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come,” says, “ Let us further worship God by contributing to his service.” Then is heard all over the house the dropping of the change into the boxes. It requires but a minute of time, and the plan is pronounced most success ful.

Captain Burnaby. —As far as money goes (and it does not go very far with some people), Colonel Burnaby made a good thing out of his balonn voyage. His total expenses, including hire of the balloon and transport charges, were a trifle over LBO. For his little book Samp son Low and Co. gave him a cheque for L 250. He wrote it in a couple of days, working six hours a day. But then ho had to go up in the balloon as a prelimi nary, and that very nearly settled all subsequent proceedure by landing him down the Channel at the gate of the Atlantic. Moreover, Colonel Burnaby has always been uncommonly well paid. For bis “Ride to Khiva” he received only LSOO. For the “ Ride through Asia Minor ” he received a cheque for L 2.500 and is yet in receipt of occasional small cheques on account of his interest in the copyright.

The Dog and the Tkain. —Just as the train was leaving Hakaia for the north the other morning, a black collie dog sud denly made his appearance on the plat form, having followed his master, who was a passenger by the train, and despite the latter’s commands to “go away home,” and so forth, the dog evinced a decided desire to board the train, which moved away just as the animal was about to jump up. When the train reached the bridgs, a quarter of a mile away, the dog was following; his master, who was stand ing upon a carriage platform, still en deavoring to make him go back but in vain. The bridgekeeper seeing the dog ordered back, shut the gate, and the animal took to the water, swimming right across the river. On arriving at the opposite side, the dog was astonished to find that the train had considerably “ improved its lead,” and concluding the pace was too hot for him, went back with his tail between his legs. Ho evidently fancied the train had taken a mean ad vantage of him.

Marriage with Deceased Wives’ Sisters. —The people who want to marry their sisters-in-law, the Home Neivs tells us, can stan 1 it no longer. They have colonial practice with them ; they have the Queen with them, and all the royal family. They have the Arch bishop of C mterbury with them. With them, also, are the leaders of both Houses of the Legislature. The House of Com mons has repeatedly passed their Bill ; yetsisters-in-lawstill remain sisters-in-law, and are incapable of conversion into wives. It is intolerable. So the the brothers-in law are called upon to rise in their strength next month, and by a monster meeting demonstrate against the mon strosity. It is rather difficult to believe that the fierce democracy of the Great City will rise with a growl for the purpose of legalising matches between widowers and their deceased wives’ sisters ; but certainly the case of the marriage re formers is very bard. They have ex pected to pass their measure any time this twelve years, and at the end of every ses sion they find themselves where they were.

The Organ Egljp.-ed. —Peoide (says a home paper) are asking what is this now instrument that Mr Baillie Hamilton has put before the world. Those who hoard it at Harrow, and, above all, those who have heard it played on with greater free dom in its factory, see there has been de vised an instrument which provides greater variety of effect and greater volume and power of sound than an ordi nary pipe organ of twice its size. There is to be, it appears, an equal comparative reduction in cost. Consequently, in these days of economy in space and in outlay, it would appear that this new instrument will supply an acknowledged void—pro vided it is found, on further public trial, to fulfil the apparently justified anticipa tions of its inventor. It was noticed at Harrow that it possesses distinctly new and pleasing characters of sounds, which recalled to the hearer, with strange fidelity, many of the familiar tones at once of the pipe organ, of the softer wind instruments, and even of the human voice ilself. The sound is produced, wo believe, by wind that produces the gEolian character by the vibration of “ free” reeds, connected together in triplets, and cunningly bal anced by wire spirals. The human-like character is ad led by the means of a sounding-box of sma'l dimensions into which the windy vibrations pass, and which performs, and performs success fully, the corresponding functions of the thoracic cavities of the human body.

The Parliamentary Jaunt. —The visit of the Speaker and members of both H ousea of the Legislature to the Exliibi tion took place on Saturday. The Hine moa and Penguin got into Lyttelton bright and early on Saturday morning, and about 1.30 the Parliamentary visitors proceeded to Addington by special train. They were met at the Exhibition gates by “ the showmen”—as an honorable member called them in the House the other day— the Mayor and members of the City Coun cil. The Mayor did the welcoming, and M. Joubert the show business. Having rambled all round the building, the visitors were taken to the Art Gallery, where a nice collation enabled them to fortify the inner men. M. Joubert occu piied the chair, and on his right sat the Piimato, on his left Sir Maurice O’Korke (Speaker of the House of Representatives) and the Hon. Mr Scotland. The mem bers of the Ministry were “ conspicuous etc., etc.”—which occasioned considerable regret. 'J ho leader of the Opposition put in an appearance, however, and with him Messrs Joubert and Twopeny bad to be satisfied. Ihe lunch having disappeared, M. Joubert proposed in glowing terms the health of “her upon whom the sun never sets —the most gracious and beloved Vic toria, Queen of England and Empress of India.” Much enthusiasm, and “God Save the Queen ” by the Burnham drum and fife bind ! “ The Prince of Wales and Royal Family,” “ The Governor,” “The Ministry,” “Our Guests,” “His Worship the Mayor and Corporation of C.iristchurch,” “ The Promoters ” (pro posed by the Mayor of Christchurch, who dilated in glowing terms on the advan tages conferred on the colony by the New Zealand Exhibition), and several others. The luncheon was a great success.

Tenders. —The County Council invite tenders for work. Journalistic. The Nelson Colonist appeared as a penny paper on Saturday.

Prohibition Orders. —A number of orders restraining publicans from supply ing drink to animated beer-barrels have lately been granted by the Auckland ma gistrates.

Ashburton Horticultural Society.— The ordinary monthly meeting of the above will be held at Mr H. M. Jones’ upper room to-morrow evening at eight o’clock. The business will be the con sideration of holding a Spring Show, and the reading of a paper by Mr Elston.

A Lucky Reporter. notice in your paper,” said a Garden Palace Fayre lady to a reporter of Sydney Society. “If you ,” said the repre sentative archly. “ Oh, I can’t here,” she replied; “Just come behind my stall.” He got his kiss—a nice one—and yet all he wanted was “ If you please.”

Ladylike. —The new Duke of Grafton is that well-known “Poodle” Fitzroy who some eleven years ago tied himself up in the matrimonial knot with a young woman of pretty easy virtue, who, when offeied by young Fltzroy’s relations L 20,000 to “ cat ” him, said they might keep their money and be d : she meant to be Duchess of Grafton. And Duchess of Grafton she is sure enough.

To-mobeow’s Excursion to the Exhi bition. —Mr Pilkington, who is ever watchful of the comfort of the travelling public, has made arrangements for excur sion tickets, available for use to-morrow for the run up to the Exhibition, to be issued this evening up to half-past eight o’clock. Persons desirous of avoiding ihe crush at the ticket office in the morning are advised to get their tickets to-night. The Capture of Winiata. —Auckland speculators appear to think there’s money in showing Barlow, the captor of Winiata the murderer. Birlow was announced to appear at the Theatre Royal on Saturday night, and to give a narrative of adven ture, but the authorities prohibited his appearance, and an apology fiom him was read on the stage to the audience. Specu lators are endeavoring to get Barlow to come South and exhibit himself. Poultry, Pigeon, and Canary Snow. Attention is direcie I to the announce ment elsewhere respecting the second annual exhibition in connection with the Ashburton Poultry, Pigeon, and Canary Association, which takes place on the 2Lst and 22nd hist. Prizes will bo offered in one hundred different classes, and about a hundred exhibits will be disposed of by lot, in accordance with the 18th clause of the Gaming and Lotteries Act. Every visitor will have a chance of getting a prize.

Partnership Dissolutions. —The well known firm of R. Wilkin and Co. has dissolved partnership through effluxion of time, and will bo carried on under the old title by Messrs Robert Wilkin, James Wilkin, and W. J. Oliver.—Another well known firm, J. T. Ford and Co., has also dissolved, and will be carried on under the same title as heretofore by Mr J. T. Ford, on his own account. Mr Newton, the retiring member of the firm, will carry on an auctioneer’s business in conjunction witli his son.

A Poultry Fanc;ek. Ou Friday night Mr Homersham, of Ashburton, shut up twenty fowls in the fowlhouse at the rear of his premises. On going to let the birds out on the following morning, he dis covered that someone had saved him the trouble—the birds had flown, or at any rate had disappeared. If the fowlhotne was robbed (which does not seem certain as the birds may have got away of their own accord), the thief must have driven up in a cart, or vehicle of some kind, and having transferred Mr Homersham’s live stock from his yard to the bottom of the trap, have driven off. The matter has been reported to the police.

A Broken Window. —Some suspicions that the “ enterprising burglar” had been “ a-burgling,” or attempting to do so at their premises, were entertained by a well-known firm of drapers in Havelock street last evening, on finding a three by three sheet of plate glass broken in their shop window.' The “ foorce ” being intei viewed, the broken pane was inspected, and the conclusion arrived at by the ex amining constable that boys and not bur glars had caused the mischief. Boys ap pear to have been playing about in front of the shop, and one to have fallen through the window, whereupon the whole party no doubt made tracks with as little delay as possible. Lion Brewery. —We are pleased to re cord that Messrs Wood and Digby find the trade at their new brewery steadily increasing. As a consequence they have be: n compelled to erect additional cellar age accommodation, a second brick cellar of 20ft by 15ft having just been added. This new collar is beautifully cool, and is just now full of ale and stout. The space between the two cellars has been roofed over, and the shed thus formed furnishes a capital place for the storage and washing of empty casks, etc., gotta percha pipes bringing down both hot and cold water from the upper part of the building. Taps being fitted to these pipes the water is always available. The firm is now hay ing a cart built to their order, which will in a few days’ time be running about town to deliver goods, etc. Attention is di rected to Messrs Wood and Digby’s now announcement in our advertising columns.

The Late Fatal Fire in Dunedin.— Further particulars to hand from Dunedin state that Captain Kitchener served for many years in the 4(st Regiment, a greater part of the time in Jamaica, where he was married. In 1874 he was induced to come to New Zealand to manage the estate or his uncle. Colonel Kitchener, at Waihono, near Palmerston. He relin quished tiie management two years ago, since which fortune has frowned on him. Their circumstances became worse, and six months ago he opened a boarding establishment in the house where the fire occurred. As every article is destroyed, and not insured, the fire renders them absolutely penniless. General sympathy is expressed for the unfortunate family. The scene at the recovery of the bodies was heartrending. Captain Kitchener is fearfully bruised, and has sustained severe internal injuries. His life was at first despaired of (as is that of the baby;, now, however both the captain and his wife are out of danger. Mrs Kitchener thinks the fire originated through the care less use of colonial coal. “ A Mawkish Sentimentalist.” —Poor Sir George (says the New Zealand Times) must have felt hurt whan the House so thoroughly acquiesced in his statement that he was “ a man of mawkish senti ment aliry.” The chorus of “No, no,” which the lion, member for Auckland East expected was not given, and Mr J. C. Brown, from sheer force of habit, was just on the point of calling out, “ Hear, hear,” when a discreet friend stopped him. Anyone who objects to the flogging of a dirty ruffian who assaults a child, or a brute who tries to kick the life out of a woman, may fairly be described as a man of “mawkish sentimentality.” Then, Sir George must not forget that howoser great his gift of oratory, and however pure the motives which have prompted him, he has for the lost eight years been talking about the wrongs of the wretched serfs whose unhappy lot it has been to come this country to bo ground down by the tyrant landholders. Now, the majority of men don’t believe in the ex istence of the New Zealand serf and the tyrant landholder,and regard the Knight’s utterances on this subject as something worse than mawkish sentimentality.

An Owner Wanted. —-On Saturday morning a little girl found an excellent silver watch in Ashburton. The watch was handed over to the police, and now awaits a claimant at the depot.

Maori “ Women’s Bights.” —There was a wordy war, which narrowly escaped ending in a bout at fisticuffs between a leading Ngatihawiti of the masculine gen der and a Ngatihawiti of the female per suasion, at Marton yesterday. Attached to a gift of food, says the Ilungili/cei Advo cate, given to the natives was a L 5 note. The dusky “lord of creation” above mentioned imagined that as he was a pro minent man in his tribe, he might under take the “ shouting ” business, for which the “ fiver ” had evidently been intended by its donors. Ho invited a number of his friends to partake of the contents of the flowing bowl, and had dispensed LI in this kind of hospitality, when a “ lady” member of the tribe, who had a will of her own, a tongue hung well in the cen tre, and a pair of fists, that feared no foe, no matter of what gender, arrived upon the scene. She affirmed in a manner which brooked no contradiction that the L 5 present was the common properly of the tribe, and that no member of it had a right to expend even a fifth of the sum in treating his particular cronies. The “ shouter ” resented this petticoat inter ference very vigorously, but when the wearer of the petticoats loomed forth in all her terrors, he “ knocked under,” and beat a hasty retreat.

CABLE NEWS.

LATEST FROM EUROPE

[per redter’s agency.] Serve Him Right. London, June 30.

The editor of Fteihid has been sen tenced to eight months’ imprisonment for publishing an article justifying the Phoenix Park murders. The Australian Cricketers.

The cricqet match between the Aus tralians and eleven of Leicestershire was resumed to-day at Leicester. The ground was in good order, and a capi tal wicket was pitched. 'There was a large attendance. The Australians, with 63 runs to the good, went in for their second innings, and put together 115 runs. The home team, requiring 180 to win, then went in for their aeeond innings, but only succeeded in scoring 105. The Australians thus won the match by 74 runs. In the second innings of Leicestershire Gar rett bowled splendidly, taking seven wickets for 38 runs. Spofforth took two wickets for 54.

Money and tlie Markets- London, July 1.

Consols New Zealand securi ties are firm at last quotations. Ade laide wheat, off coast cargoes, are sell ing at 50s. New Zealand wheat, ex warehouse, 495; Adelaide flour, ex warehouse, 355; Australian tallow is unchanged at 42s fid for best beef, and 43s fid for best mutton. The total stock in London to-day was 8.800 casks. The Irish Repression Bill.

The Irish Repression Bill has been again under consideration in committee of the whole House of Commons, and after a very lengthy debate, and des pite great opposition, all the clauses have been passed. The Bill came up for consideration soon after the meeting of the House yesterday, and the dis cussion was continued during the whole of last night and until a late hour to-day, the sitting lasting in all for thirty-two hours. Great opposition was shown to the passage of the Bill by Mr Parnell and the Home Rulers, and their action was of such an obstructive and disorderly character that Mr Par nell and fifteen of his supporters were suspended for the remainder of the sitting. The obstruction nevertheless continued, and finally six more Home Rulers were suspended for disorderly conduct. The debate then proceeded more quietly, and, as already stated, all the clauses of the Bill were at length passed through committee. Preparing for the Fray. Active preparations continue for the despatch of troops to Egypt. A siege train of seventy-two guns is also being got in readiness at Woolwich Arsenal for that country. Pacified. Capetown, June 30. All hostilities in Zululand have now ceased, the rival chiefs of Ohau and Dahako having been pacified by British residents. More Preparations. Bombay, July 1.

The Indian Government is making preparations for the despatch of to,ooo British and native troops to Egypt, should their services be required. Arab! Pasha. Alexandria, July 1. It is reported that Arabi Pasha is about to proceed to Constantinople. Garfield’s Death Avenged. New York, June 30. Guiteau, the assassin of General Garfield, was hanged to-day.

AUSTRALIAN.

ri'.it reuter’s agency.] Produce. Adelaide, July 1. The breadstuff’s market continues very dull. Wheat, 6s to 6s 3d ; town flour, Li 4 ; country brands, Ll 3.

TELEGRAMS.

[per press association.] What the Whirlwind Did. New Plymouth, To-day. Yesterday morning Omata was visited by a whirlwind, doing much damage. A house was considerably damaged, the chimney being knocked down and the roof torn off. Several chains of fencing were also blown down, and two haystacks and a strawstack demolished. Several trees were torn up by the roots, and other damage done in the neighborhood. The Breakwater and the Gale. The gale on Saturday night and Sun day morning was felt severely here. The chimney of the house of the engineer of the harbor work's was blown down, and the roof of the mixing-house uncovered. The fury of the wind and sea was at times terrific, and the force of water tremen dous, but the breakwater withstood it all, which shows the substantiabiiity of the structure. Physic in Flames. Wanganui, To-day. A lire broke out in Wakefield and Hogg’s chemist shop last right. Shop and stock were entirely destroyed. Mr Hogg narrowly escaped. Tho stock was insured >n the Ojlouial office f<>r LBOO, and the building in the South Brit'sh for L 250. The Wreckage at Motonau. Wellington, To-day. The wreckage recently reported at Motonau, neat Fiaxbourne, has been

ascertained to he that of a small wooden vessel, and not that of any of the N.Z.S. Go’s fleet. Remanded. William Rattray, a Government clerk, charged with embezzlement, was re manded till Friday. Criminal. The Supremo Court criminal sessions commenced to-day, before Judge Rich mond. His Honor, in charging the grand jury, sa : .d there were only six cases on the present list, and he would be able to congratulate them on the shortness of tho calendar; but, unfortunately, it contained one charge of a brutal offence, with the class of which wo were only too familiar in this group of colonies, and to which he need not further allude. The Legislature of this colony had seen fit to increase the severity of the punishments awarded to this class of offences beyond that which was in use in England, though we had not as yet resorted to that in vouge is New South. Wales, where it was punishable by death. He wished he could say that he thought the increase in the severity of the law had been attended with a diminution in the frequency of the crime. He could not say that this was so, however, for the offence was still of far too frequent occurrence. His Honor added that these first days of criminal sessions, he must confess, seemed to him like days of sackcloth and ashes, in which they usually had to deplore the the prevalence of crime, and also he might say the impotence of mere law to suppress it.

The Damage to the City of Perth. Dunedin, To-day.

The City of Perth has been taken into the Graving Dock. Tho chief part which at present appears to be damaged is the stern. Her rudder is carried away, and about twenty feet of the kelson; and the keel, together with five {dates from the keel upwards, are completely torn away. Apart from this she seems in good con dition. The Fatal Fire at Dunedin. A large sum was collected on Saturday for the assistance ot the sufferers at the late fire. Captain Kitchener and infant are dangerous'y ill. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned. The iury expressed the opinion that Con stable Dwyer was deserving of praise for his exertions in saving life.

FOLLIES OF FASHION.

We extract the following from the Home letter of the Otago Witness : We are threatened with all sorts of horrors for spring wear. Huge pat terns are said to be in preparation for the new sateens and costumes. Full-sized dinner plates are but an item of the list. Cats catching mice, pug dogs, and foxes’ and horses’ heads are to be among the objects with which the new mode threatens to enliven spring materials. How dressmakers are ever to arrange their breadths without perpetrating hor rible anatomical dissections it is difficult to imagine ; but this anxiety sinks into the merest insignificance when com pared with that of trying to imagine the class of people who would ever want to buy such materials. The fact re mains, however, that these designs are to be thrust upon the fashionable world. There will be a battle between good taste and eccentricity, and we shall watch the struggle with interest, hoping, however, after all that has been done in the cause of cultivation, that the former may come off victorious.

THE WRECK OF A GASOMETER.

[“home news.”]

Since the introduction of gas we have had one or two startling experi ences in connection with gas-holders in this country, but we have had no acci dent precisely corresponding to one that has just befallen a huge receptacle of the kind in America. This was nothing less than the total collapse of a gasometer 99 feet in diameter, and capable of holding 300,000 feet of gas. Fortunately, it was only about one third full. The gasometer, it seems, had been standing shout thirteen years, and the character of the iron and work manship is now seen to have been such that it is considered surprising that it has stood so long. It went down eventually under a gale of wind, and the president of the company was present and witnessed the final collapse, as it fell, he says, there was a hissing sound, and a column of flame shot fifty feet high into the air, and the gasometer was rent and torn like a great balloon cut in pieces. There was no explosion; it was simply the collapse of the gasometer and the ignition of the gas, the whole 100,000 feet of which was consumed in about one minute. People near were momentarily blinded by the intense light, and of course many were very much terrified, but no body was hurt. The president of the company stood in a doorway within 30 feet of the receptacle when it fell, and says he had no fear. The possibility of one of these huge concerns blowing up was among the terrors incidental to the early use of gas. It is now gener ally known, however, that carburetted hydrogen is not in itself explosive, but it becomes so by admixture with a cer tain proportion of atmospheric air. The fact that there was no explosion to speak of was probably due to the ignition taking place at the instant of the crash, and before any such inter mingling could take place.

ALARMING RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

Narrow Escape of the Passengers.

[by telegraph.] Wellington, To-day. A serious accident that was very nearly attended with disastrous conse quences, occurred on Saturday night on the Wairarapa line, near Waitaki. Two trucks laden with timber ran off the rails and fell over a steep embank ment. The passenger carriages and engine fortunately kept on the rails until the couplings connecting them with the trucks gave way. No one was hurt, but the escape was wonderful. No cause is yet known for the acci dent. At the point where the accident occurred, there is a sharp curve, and the grade is iin 37. Several trucks left the rails at the same place some months ago. The two trucks which tumbled over on Saturday were about the centre of the train. Two other trucks were pulled off the rails, but not over the embankment.

THE PHŒNIX PARK TRAGEDY.

Home papers to hand by the last mail state that the excitement in Lon don on the receipt of the dreadful news from Dublin recalled the same day of the week more than a year ago when the news arrived of the murder of the Czar. The tidings reached only a comparatively small number of per sons on the previous night. The mem bers of the Fox Club, with which the name of Cavendish is so intimately con nected, little knew that one of their number was lying dead while they were dining, and at midnight the news had not reached Lady Brassey’s reception. The Attorney-General entertained at Greenwich several members of the Ministry, but they went home ignorant of what had occurred ; and it was only at the Admiralty party, where Lord Hartington had dined, that the appal ing story was circulated among the guests. The Prince of Wales, who had been at the German opera, first heard the sad tidings at the Marlborough Club. Mrs Gladstone, who was Lord Northbrook’s guest at the Admiralty, fainted away when told the terrible news from Ireland, and was conveyed home by Lord Baring. The circum stances of the crime are as extra ordinary as the crime itself is ghastly. The butchery was committed in open daylight, and within two or three hun dred yards of crowds of persons who were walking about. Lord Spencer had a distant view of it from the win dows of the Viceregal Lodge, but imagined that nothing more serious was in progress than a bout of horse play between a gang of roughs. A lad who was birds’ nesting was also a spectator from a tree but put the same construction upon it as Lord Spencer. So also did a certain Mr Greatrex, a lieutenant of dragoons, who was taking his dogs for an evening stroll. This gentleman, however, saw a good deal more than was seen by anyone else. He observed “ two men” —Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr Burke —knocked down and the other men remount the car. He remarked to the men on the car that it was “ rather rough work,” to which the men replied, “ rough indeed !” But he took no steps to check the flight ot the ruf fians, who he confessed he knew must have treated their victims brutally. The bodies were discovered lying in pools of blood by a couple of bicycle riders some half-an-hour after the foul crime was perpetrated. The reward of Lio.ooo for the discovery of the mur derers has been followed by the pro mise of a sum of Lsoo to anyone who shall give information of people har boring or concealing the assassins. As yet the police have not got upon the track of the criminals. The report that they had traced the car and horse proves to be untrue. The conviction gains ground that the butchery was committed by emissaries of some American-Irish Society, and that the weapon used was a bowie-knife of the sort which can only be purchased in America.

MONSTER HOTELS IN LONDON.

The lively development of hotel en terprise in this country, says a London paper, is one of the most marked fea tures of the day. It is essentially an age of travel, when people pass from one end of the world to the other as naturally as last century they would have crossed the street. But travellers are no longer satisfied with the accom modation and comforts of the older form of inn, and it is to meet their views that these monster caravanseraes are springing up everywhere. Only a year or two back the Grand Hotel at Charing Cross sprang up, like Aladdin’s Palace, on the site of Northumberland House. Now the same company have acquired the ground on which Hat chett’s Hotel stands, at the corner of Dover street and Piccadilly, and another vast hostelry is to be erected on this, one of the best and most cen tral situations of London. It is not easy to understand why these monster hotels thrive, but they are undoubtedly popular. Probably it is on account of the concentration. Everything almost can be done, as in an American hotel, without leaving the house. You can secure seats at the theatre, take tickets by any line, buy and sell shares, clothe your outer and feed your inner man all under one and the same roof. The vastness of the establishment, more over, instead of hindering, tends to im prove the management. Comfort and convenience become a matter of system. We may exchange our personal identity for the numeral of our bedroom door, but we thus become part and parcel of a great mechanism, which performs all its functions with the utmost regularity.

CAPTURED BY BRIGANDS.

The reappearance of brigandage in the distant neighborhood of Palermo so soon after the recent rejoicings at Naples, has painfully impressed the in habitants. The particulars of the treat ment of the ex-Syndic, Signor Notar bartolo, by the brigands have become known since his return. As soon as his companions had been disarmed by the pretended patrol, the ex-Syndic perceived his mistake. His captors were dressed in new Bersaglieri uni

THE ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, MONDAY, JULY B, 1882.



TO TOWN SUBSCRIBERS. Me Chaex.es Boobk is authorised to COLLECT Subscription Accounts due to Guaediau, and his receipt will be a suffi cient discharge. X7IDU CATION Act, 1877, Debtors XT and Creditors Act, and Amend ment Acts, Forest Trees Planting Encouragement Act, 1871, to be had at the Guardian Office, next Matson, Cox and Co. ’e. W * “twset. UPPORT LOCAL INDUSTRY. John Meech,



i'ABINETMAKEK, & UPHOLSTERER, Begs to invito his friends to inspect his forge stock of New and Second-hand Fur niture, consisting of Drawing-room and Bedroom Suites Chiffoniers . Book Cases Wardrobes Cheats of Drawers Tables Wash Stands Wood and Iron Bedsteads Cots, Cradles Perambulators . And everything required m household urnish'ng at the very lowest prices. Practical workmen kept for ali kinds of repairs. , , . , ■Furniture ’ bought, and high prices given. Furniture lent, on weekly and monthly payments JOHN MRECH, (I t: 11 NK T T STR E B rq.ji.isire rho M"U Office. Licensing act, issi, on sale at I Office’of this Paper.



Wanted tTTANTED KNOWN—The American VV Gem Studio will be OPEN for a short time longer. PORTRAITS, la per dozen. Come early. Opposite Mail Office. \ \r ANTED KNOWN—That the beat VV place to get Short Firewood and the best Coals (delivered) is from Hayks’ Coal and Wood Yard, East street. 6b9e \ XT ANTED KNOWN—That Robert \V Elston, Burnett street, Ashburton, having procured the Newest Apparatus, is prepared to SWEEP CHIMNEYS at very low rates. Any orders left at the Town Hall will receive prompt attention. f ANTED Known—The late Proprie tress of the A 1 Restaurant has Removed to those new and commodious premises of Mr Quill’s, Wills street, now called the London Dining Rooms, ad joining Elz Bros., Coach Builders, and to cone with dull times she is now offering BOARD and LODGING at IBs per week ; BOARD only, 13s. Meals at all hours. Gs3e ANTED KNOWN—Every descrip tion of Plain and Fancy P-inting, executed on the shortest notice, at the Guadian Office, next Matson, Cox, and Co.’s, West street. jl3 760 c Special Advertisements.



SC HO O L B O OKS. SC! io< )L STATION ER V. SCHOOL COMMITTEES SUPPLIED. Foolscap from IGs per Ream. Cash. Envelopes ~ (Is Gd per 1,000 ~ Note Paper, Five Quires, Is ~ A GOOD ASSORTMENT of Ledgers. Cash, Day Books, and Ledger Boohs IN STOCK. Toys Fancy Goods, Giewel Wools, &c. H. M. Jones. fT.VItONER AND BOOKSELLER, 203 d



iSB NEW ZEALAND GRAIN AGENCY AND MERCANTILE COMPANY, LIMITED. TO LEND, in sums of And upwards, on the security of Freehold Property, at Lowest Current Rates. ADVANCES to FARMERS are also made on Growing CROPS of Grain ; and also on Growing Clips of WOOL. Seed Wheat, Oats, and Barley supplied to farmers on most favorable term 3. Thcv have For Sale at Lowest Ratos— FEED OATS CHICK WHEAT FLOUU, BRAN & SHARPS CEMENT. Gr, Adams & Co. 1 MAKERS, JEWELLERS, AND IMPORTERS, HIGH STREET (Next W. J. Fisher s), CHKiSTcnuF.cn. WILLIAM HORNE, 518 e Agent. TjRACTIC. !AL ENGLISH WATCH-



Rotherham’s English Laver Watches, guaranteed genuine, capped and jewelled, £5 10s to £lO 10s. American Waltham Lever Watches, of world-wide celebrity, English Hall-marked cases, £3 10s to £5 10s? N.B. —See that the words “ Wal tham, Mass.” are engraved on the works. None are genuine without. Ladies’ Watches, in gold or silver cases, from 455. Every Watch is Examined, Timed, and Guaranteed for Two 1 oars. A splendid assortment of the Newest Patterns in Gold and Silver Jewellery. Novbltii'.s in Gkebnstonb. 4710 rr«,IlE BEST VALUE FOR READY X MONEY IS THE MEN’S AND BOYS’ CLOTHING Manufactured BY THE NEW ZEALAND Clothing Factory, Which can be purchased at their Retail Branches all over New Zealand. A SINGLE GARMENT AT THE WHOLESALE PRICE. Thousands of discerning customers testify that the New Zealand Clothing Factory’s Garments are the very best for READY MONEY. Ashburton Branch; EAST STREET. W. SPARROW, Managek. 692 c



BAT/r. PROGRAMME CARDS in very neat styles, with Pencils and Ribbons, printed at the Guardian Office, street. QANTERBURY MUSIC DEPOT. ASHBURTON BRANCH.



Milner & Thompson Desire to inform the - residents of Ash nrton and surrounding districts that they have appointed Mu H. M. JONES their sole Agent for this district, and invite nspection of the Instruments, Music, &c. now displayed in the SHOW ROOM above Mr Jones’ Shop. PIANOS by all the best makers— Broadwood, Collard and Collard, Erard, Pleyel, Bord, Challen and Sons, Ascher burg, Lipp and Sohn, Chappell, Ronisch, Beohstein, Kapp, and others. Sole Agent for John Brinsmead’s Gold Medal Pianos. Specialities Our Dresden Model Pianos, which took First Award of Merit at the Ashburton Exhibition, from £35 to £55. Harmoniums and Organs, from £7 10s to £SO. ORGANS. ORGANS. Organs now on Sale at Ll2 12s. A perfect Gem, L 25. PIANOS. PIANOS. New Stock, just opened up. The above Instruments can be pur chased on Deferred Payment from 20s per month. Orders for Tuning executed by a Brat-rla- '■ofessional. Pianos on Hire. 707 c



Special Advertisements. E W COAL YARD. Coals. Coals. Coals. The Undersigned desires to intimate to his Customers avid the Public generally that he has OPENED IN THE COAL TRADE, in conjunction with his present TIMBER and FIREWOOD BUSINESS, and has now on Stock and to Arrive, a large supply of the best Newcastle Coals, (From the Old Lambton Mine), which will be delivered to Customers to any part of the Town and Suburbs at the LOWEST POSSIBLE RATES. ALPHEUS HAYES, Timber and Coal Merchant, 4GBo East street, Ashburton.



LBERT FLOUR STORES, East street. F. W. QUAIFB Bogs to inform the Residents and Farmers of Ashburton and vicinity that ho has taken tho Premises lately in the occupation of Mr Henry Bovvers, Miller, where he intends offering the following goods : Flour, by the sack... ... £1 2 0 „ 501 b 0 6 G Sharps, per bag ... ... 0 6 6 Bran ~ ... ... 0 5 0 Oats, per bushel ... ... 0 3 4 Oaten Sheaf Chaff, per ton 4 5 0 SOAP. CANDLES. SOAP. Soap and Candles at unprecedentedly low prices, in large or small quantities, to suit all purchasers, viz.: — Good Pale Yellow Soap, 6d per bar Good Pale Yellow Soap, 10s per box Superior Pale Yellow Soap, 8d per bar Superior Pale Yellow Soap, 12s per box Candles—Good Composite, 6d per lb Candles—Superior Wax, Is per lb Candles -Carriage, Is 2d per lb. CASH. Ashburton'. 732 e



mHE LATEST NOVELTY FROM PARIS. THE WONDERFUL ANTI POPIJTKUMPTUAKI. On being wound up, it flies round and round upwards in the air, ascending to an immense height, flapping its wings in the most life-like manner. Price Is Od. AiSDREWES BROS., Booksellers, Stationers, etc., East street south. 334 e



O. Carstens & Co., (Lath Weston’s), PROSPECT BUILDINGS, rnOBACCONIST, FANCY GOODS i AND STATIONERY. Meerschaum Pipes, G.B. D. Pipes Nailrod, Twist, and Vanity Fair Tobacco A nice assortment of Accordions, Con certinas, Flutes, Violins, Mouth Organs, and Toys of every description, direct from Home. Haircutting, Shaving and Shampooing. EAST STREET ASIINORTON. 257 a RENTER BOOTS. WINTER BOOTS. C. HAWKINS, Bootmaker, East street, Ashburton, and Tinwald, has just received a Urge assortment of Strong and Useful Boots for this season of the year, which he is selling at Christchurch prices. 908 e



JSI 0 r 1 0 MOUNT SOMERS AGENCY. E . Mr W. H. Puddicombe ia authorised to collect money and transact all business n connection with The Ashburton Guardian in the Mount Somers and Alford Forest districts.



T A K E NOTICE. Everett Brothers Are still in Ashburton, and aro SELLING AS CHEAP AS EVER. Special : CALICOES FLANNELS WIFCEYS, and DRESS STUFFS. Bargains in LADIES’ ULSTERS, COSTUMES, aid WINTER SKIRTS. We have still a Large Stock of MEN’S SHIRTS, HATS, HOSIERY, &c. Note the address : v EVERETT BROS.. Havelock street, Next Harrison’s Auction Rooms.



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