The Ashburton Guardian.

ASHBURTON, FBI DAY, MAY 9 IHR4.

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VOL.. Y.-No. 1249



Auctioneers, Oommiss Alfred Hs A UOTIONEER, V fl MISSION AGI Sales, Sales of Sw Furniture and Effects, and General I VSXSLY SALE every 13 o'clock sharp, com Yards with HC AND SALES, IN T 1 require Town and Farm Prop® the books. No charj AGENT for THE NO fire insurance Everyclass of Bisks take AIFR&D Surveyor, Oivil En E. FOOKS i Architt OrviL Ewhbubb, Val*i SufeVSTOBS, ahd ■IE TRIANGLE, WA ASHBOBTO *■ Shippins CJHORTEST AND I 0 BOUTE TO GRI AND EUROPE, THBOI AND, vis SANDWICH The Pacific Mail Stea (under.’ contract with tl and New South Wales G ktchthe undermenti Passengers booked to pool, or Paris at a. th ' securing special advantaf For rates of Freight at tor fall information, app] WILSON, SAWTBI Badness No OTIOE OP . HARVEY, 800, EEB, has REMOVE let to the shop in Eaj ipied by Noalas ant tfy executed. u NITED FIRE A£ INSURANCE CC With Unlimited Liabi COLONIAL PROPE Fire and Alanine Insor lowest, tariff rates—leas 25 ALBERT RG M 13§1 West stree gOMEBSE T i P. Hush g Wishes u> inform his J pafalio generally that he Livery and Bait Stables 1 by Mr J. Mcßae, and I dr share of patronage.



Business lICENSING ACT, 1881, on Sale at J Office of this Paper F. S. Shearer, OF THE J May bank works, tinwald, begs to thank the public for theii past support, and takes this opportunity to intimate that he is ain position to Manufacture and Repair on the shortest notice all kinds of Machinery, such as— Flour Mills, Saw Mills, Wheels (cogged and water wheels), Combines, Engines, Hand and Foot Treshing Machines ; also, all kinds of Spring Carts, Drays, Traps &c. Shearer & Lewis, GENERAL BLACKSMITHS, AND Veterinary Shoeing Forge, Having secured the services of a first-class Shoeing Smith, defy competition. All orders entrusted to their care will receive prompt attention at reasonable charges. Agents for McCormick’s Reapers and Binders. Note the Address— Great South road, Tinwald. 590 d DANISH Seed Oats. THE Undersigned has a full Stock of COLONIAL CLOTHING DRAPERY FLANNELS, &o. Boots and Shoes, Large Stock of Groceries and Oilmen’s Stores. SPECIAL VALUE IN CHOICE TEA FEED AND SEED OATS. FLOUR, BRAN, AND SHARPS. All at the lowest prices possible. Genu ine value and no make-believe or sham. Large discount, and other inducements for cash. Families waited on weekly, or oftener if required. D. WILLIAMSON, East Street, Ashburton. 798-



W. C. Page BEG 5 to announce to the public of Ashburton and surrounding districts that be has commenced business as GROCER, &c., IN EAST STREET, near S. Hardley’s. W. C. Page having purchased his stock for cash, and being determined to sell for cash, will be able to supply Groceries etc., with a small margin of profit, thereby enabling the cash purchaser to obtain the benefit derivable therefrom. 1 174 Relief prom cough in five MINUTES, Bonnington’s Pec lOBAL OxYMEL OP OaKBAGEEN OB iBISH Moss (Registered). —The most certain and speedy remedy for disorders of the Chest and Lungs. May be obtained at most of the Storekeepers and Chemists throughout the Province. Sold everywhere.— Geokoe Bonnington, Christchurch. •yETERINARY MEDICINES. Absorbent Blister, the only rational cure for Splints, Spavin, Curbed flocks. Ringbone. Also a milder form for Strangles, thick ening of the Tendons, and Abscesses. Condition, Cough, Worm, Physic, and Alterative Balls and Powders, Driffield White Oil for Galls, Green Wcinds, Sore Teats, etc. Every description of Medicine for Horses, Cattle, Sheep and other animal? made to order. J. M. Cambridge, PHARMACEUTICAL OB h MIST, ASHBURTON, Formerly with Feancis Ouriss, M.R.J.Y.S., Dies, Norfolk England; Author of a prize essay on the “ Diseases of the Liver of the Horse," as read before the Royal Agricultural Society. jgONE DUST, BONIB DUST. We have much pleasure to inform our clients and others, that we have been ap pointed Sole Agents for the sale of Mr F. T. Mayo’s BONE DUST, for Canter bury, and we are prepared to supply same in quantities to suit purchasers. Bone Manure from bone meal to inch bone. Bones purchased in any quantit for /ash, either at our Stores or at the Mill, Hampstead, For prices and particulars, apply to FRIEDLAUiDER BROS., General Merchants, 8 430 Ashburton.



F. G. THOMAS, Surgeonj Dentist, will YISIT Ashburton every month, and may be consulted at Quill’s Hotel. 1065 IIS:: Reid and geats Latest Improved Central Disc Harrow, At reduced prices. Nearly 500 in use with new centre stay for seat and balan cing purposes. Has one extra disc, or is six inches wider than those of all other makers for the same given size ; discs 16 or 18 inches diameter as desired. They have three chilled bearing brackets in each wing of the 10 and 12 feet sizes, the imported makes having only two. All oil holes are in the top, and it is the simplest, best, and most durable disc har row in the market; and is row so well known that tes'imonials as to efficiency would be superfluous. Any size fitted with travelling carriage to pass through gates when so required. Carriage paid to the different Bailway Stations in accord ance with our catalogue. Cambridge Rollers at valued prices, serrated and plain, 20, 24, 26, and 30 inches in diameter, - and from 6 to 10 feet long. Broadcast sewers, for grain, grass and turnip seed. Farm and tip drays. Contractors’ tip road drays, etc. Single, double, and treble furrow ploughs. Drill or ridging ploughs. Drill and field grub bers. Harrows, zig-zag and flexible tripod harrows. Binding twine and wire, best qur'.ty. No. 8 fencing wire and standards, all sizes, punched to any guage, Note reduction in prices. Double speed reapers, £3O ; Single speed reapers, £2B ; etc., etc., etc. Reid A Gbay’s NEW ZEALAND TWINE BINDER At both the Oamaru and Taieri trials took Gold Medals as bes f Bnper and Binder in the field. Write for testimonials. Illustrated catalogues free on application to any of our offices at Dunedin, Oamaru, Timaru, Invercargill, Ashburton, Christ church, and Auckland. Bakaia. The New Zealand Loan Mercantile Agency Company are now representing ns in this district REID & GRAY



Drapery. I L M AM GAVIN, DRAPER, EAST STREET, ASHBURTON, ' Desires respectfully to intimate that, not having been able to sub-let the premises as advertised, he is now replenishing the Stock with WINTER GOODS, Which he will offer at VERY LOW PRICES He begs to thank his Customers for all past favors, and solicits a continuance of TINWALD AND MOUNT OMERS RAILWAY. MOUNT SOMERS AND A|fAMA ROYAL MAIL COACH. Somers, for A naroa Railway Station, at 7.30 am. and 6.36 p.m. every Tuesday and Saturday; returning to Mount Somer on the arrival of each train. Parcels and Luggage punctually attended to. Single fares, ?s; return, 3s. To suit the times. the same. 3 419 Conveyances. This Coach leaves Hood’s Hotel, Moun • JOHN HOOD



Business Notices. MERCANTILE UNION INSURANCE COMPANY (LIMITED. CAPITAL £250,000. Twenty Per Cent, of Profits Divided Annually among Holders. LOWEST RATES OF PREMIUM. STACKS, BARNS, AND AGRICULTURAL RISKS GENERALLY, on most Favorable Terms. Special Notice. —As this Company has been the means of Reducing Fire ult ‘ l “‘ Premiums, Insurers will best consult their own interests by heartily it, and so prevent a return to the Old Rates. Agents for Ashburton and District, ORR & CO. CANTERBURY BRANCH. aim yp g fern mssmssm SSSA as Establish so 1859 Capital t 1,000 POn • r /rr r [ffiSfUTY OF ShFFFHOL r fr- * rjpHß PREMIER COLONIAL COMPANY. FIRE AND MARINE RISKS, ALSO RISKS ON GROWING CROPS ACCEPTED AT THE LOWEST CURRENT RATES. George Jameson. AGENT, ASHBURTON. 24 T H E WONDER OF THE WORLD. Herman’s WORLD-RENOWNED SHEEP WASH AND CELEBRATED VERMIN DESTROYER. This preparation is known throughout the civilised world to be far superior to any thing yet discovered for eradicating tick, scab or lice on sheep, goats or cattle. It is sufficient to say that One Shilling Packet of the Powder dissolved in two buckets of water will wash Eighteen Sheep. This admits the most economial, as well as the simplest plan in the world for the cure and prevention of diseases incident to farm stock. By its use the firmer can secure the health of his stock at the rate of |d per head per annum. In all large Sheep Districts in Australia, South America, and Africa, no other pre paration is used. The vermin destroyer is also invaluable for the purpose of the Horticulturist; and it Is most extensively used by the Flower and Kitchen Gardener in Europe, America, and the British possessions in all parts of the Globe. One packet dissolved in two buckets of water will serve for over half an acre of ground and will effectually prevent blight and exclude all other garden pests. As a Vermin Killer it is an unrivalled specific. Its use will speedily exterminate nil household pests, such as bugs, cockroaches, fleas on animals, moths in furs, £nd insects on birds of all kinds, from the canary to the poultry. For this purpose simpl and plain directions are given on every packet. The powder can also be used in a dry state for the destruction of rats and mica. A little sprinkled on a slice of bread and butter, or a piece of meat or cheese is sought after greedily by those vermin, while the household pets such as cats and dogs will not toush it in any form, and are therefore perfectly safe. The above marvellous discovery has gained for Herman Bros, and Co., London, the silver medal at the .ntercolonial Exhibition at Melbourne, 1866, besides numerous testimonials from Government officia and all the elite of the medical faculty in Europe. HERMAN BROS. & CO. beg to announce that they have appointed CHARLES NEATE, Chemist and Druggist, East street, their sole Agent for Ashburton and vicinity, and from him the preparation can be obtained in parcels Price—One Shilling; or six packets for Five Shillings. Liberal reduction allowed to the trade. Manufactory—BEAUMONT SQUARE, MILE END ROAD, LONDON. 8 28 Crown iron Works, CHRISTCHURCH. PAINTED CORRI•, ATED IRON—The cheapest Building Iron ever introduced it is 40 per cent, below Galvanised Corrugated. To be had in 6,6, and 7 feet lengths. This ' now being extensively used for Stabling, Outbuildings, and Fencing. Thomas Crompton, tiMAGH AND MANOHESTTB STREETS, Chkistchukoh 9 447



MR LAURENCE OXLEY has been Appointed Agent for the Ash bur on Guardian at Sopth Rakaia. Agricultural machine shop. Charles Ray, WAKANUI ROAD, ASHBURTON, Engineer, Millwright, Reaper and Binder Expert. All kinds of Machinery repaired with despatch, and on reasonable terms. Ex tras of all kinds; orders taken for the latest improved reapers and binders, and the best twine. Sewing machines re paired. 10 800



forest hotel. John Tisch, Who has again taken the hotel at Alford Forest, would be glad to receive a call from his old friends and as many new ones as can make it convenient to give a look in. Good accommodation for horses. 1328



D. Lazarus, Lyttelton boardjng-house, Cameron street, next Baring Square, The Proprietor has much pleasure in calling attention to the above establish ment, where the travelling public will find first-class accommodation at all times, with civility and attention. Terms reasonable. 383 D. LAZARUS, Proprietor. HO PURCHASERS CROWN LANDS. FOR SALE—The NEW ZEALAND CROWN LANDS GUIDE for 1884 Price, Jne Shilling. Apply, “GUARDIAN ” OFT ICE. V. R. OF



Business Notices Hamburg - Magdeburg fire INSURANCE COMPANY. Sub scribed capita], £3,000,000. Mr Stephen E. Poyntz Ims been appointed agent for the above Company in Ashburton, and will be prepared to accept risks at lowest current rates, IVompt and liberal settle ments. James Henderson, 178, Hereford street, Christchurch, chief agent for Can terbury 1022 ACCOUNTS DUB to the under signed must be settled without further notice after the 26th INST., or legal pro ceedings will be taken. Philip Journeaux, BLACKSMITH, &0., 502 ASHBURTON. ART UNION. ART CNIONT. Hayes & Co., READY-MONEY DRAPERS, WILL give a PRIZE to every unsuc cessful holder of Four Tickets in the late Art Union, and will call particular attention to the following goods at prices never heard of : 200 yards Welsh Flannel at 7£d per yard ; 701 pairs Blankets, 3a 9d each, or 7s 3d per pair ; Rugs, Coverlets, and Quilts, at all prices, Sheetings, Calicoes, and Plain Goods of every description; Large Turkish Bath Towels, Is 3d ; quan tity of Wool Squares, 6d each ; about 400 Hats, nice shapes, from 6d each ; Ladies’ Kaiapai Tweed Ulsters (girls’ do.), from 3s 9d ; about 1,000 Black Ostrich tips, 3 for Is ; a first-class Black Velveteen, at Is 6d ; Check and Plain Homespun Dress Tweeds, from 9d and 1s per yard ; Esta maue Serges, in all colors, Is ; all wool French Cashmere, (Maroon, Navy, and Myrtle), 2s 6d wide width.



A Large Assortment of CLOTHING. Kaiapoi, Mosgiel, and Geelong Tweed Trousers, 7s 9d ; Trousers and Vest, 10s 6d ; Full Tweed Suit, 24s 6d ; Gents’ Long Ulster Overcoats, from 2i)s ; Oil skirts and Mackintoshes at lowest market prices; Tweed Shirts from 3s 6d ; Crimean, Cotton, and Fiax, at any prices. OUR BOOT STOCK is IMMENSE. Children’s Spring Sides from Is ; Maid’s do, from 3s 6d ; 100 pairs women’s Cash mere Boots, at 3s 6d. Colonial Boots, in Shooters, Watertights, Bluchers, and every other varijty, at prices that must please all. ‘ 11. & Co. draw particular attention to their Boot Protectors —so little in use and of so great a Boon to every one. One packet, with illustration showing how to use them, will be given to every purchaser of Boots to the amount of 10s. Observe the address—HAYES & CO., Ready-Money Drapers. 1 214 Public Companies. EW ZEALAND LOAN *Sr MER CANTILE AGENCY COMPANY (LIMITED). Capital, £3,000,000. Reserve, £210,000. Makes LIBERAL CASH ADVANCES on Freeholds, on Stations and Stock, and on growing clips of Wool. RECEIVES CONSIGNMENTS of Wool, Grain, Tallow, Leather, Hides, Skins, etc., for sale in New Zealand, Aus tralian, and London Markets. UNDERTAKES INDENTS of British, Continental, East Indian, and Ameri can goods, and Commissions in all branches of Mercantile Business. HOLDS PERIODICALS AUCTION SALESof Wool, Grain, Skins, Hides, Tallow, Live Stock, Land, etc, at its Salerooms, Warehouses and the Cen tral Markets, Special and Clearing Sales also conducted. Supplies WOOL PACKS and CORN SACKS, at Lowest Current Rates. AGENTS xN CANTERBURY FOR— Ruston Proctor and Co.’s celebrated Com bined Threshing Machines and Engines, acknowledged to be the Best Machines imported into New Zealand. Felton and Guilleaume’s Patent Galvan ised Steel-barb Fencing Wire. Candy’s Patent Cotton Belting. Maldon Island Guano. Further particulars on application at the Company’s Offices, Christchurch, Ashbur ton and Rakaia. JOHN COOKE, Manager Christchurch GEO. WILKIN i. g&r.t, Aanburt'. 0. W JUNE.' r ! P i Scholastic. Monastery holy name of JESUS. SELECT SCHOOL, ASHBURTON. Conducted by the Religious of “ Notrjc Dame des Missions, ” Terms ; Board and Tuition ... £95 per annum Day Pupils ... ... £6 per annum Extras : Music ... £2 2s. per quarter Drawing and Painting £2 2s. per quarler Laundress’s Fee ... £1 Is. per quarter No extra charge for the ordinary Lessons in Drawing and Singing. Payments to be made quarterly in ad vance, and one quarter’s notice to be given prior tc the withdrawal of any Boarder or Day Pupil. For further particulars .apply to the Rev. Mother Prioress, oj, in the mean time to Father Coffey. In connectkO with the Monastery there will be a Fbbb School. 3 499



Business Notices. A SHBURTON COACH FACTORY, Hatelook strut. Established 1876. , Baker & Brown, COACH Tttrrr jwt. cj Manufacture!- l; ouggies and carriages of English or American designs. Workmanship Guaranteed. Buggies repaired, re-painted, re-trim med, etc. 196 A. Sievers, WINE MERCHANT, 148, High Street, CHRISTCHURCH, Agent for SOLER & CO., New Zealand Wine Manufacturers, Wanganui. rjIHESE WINES were sent to the Mel bourne Exhibition in 1881; when com peting with those from all parts of the world they obtained SIX PRIZES. They also obtained FIRST PRIZE MEDAL At the Christchurch Exhibition, 1882 ; At Ashburton, 1881 ; And have recei. e<? from all Judges FIRST AWARD OF MERI 7 " 12 1099



TO CHRISTCHURCH. THE Cheapest Drapery SHOP iw CHRISTCHURCH is that one kept by LONARGAN AND LONARGAN, CASHED STREET, Opposite Press Office. » Whatever you want you are sure *o GET THERE, and >t HALF what you would PAY elsewhere. IT WILL PAY YOU TO GO THERE, 3 442 ARRIVAL OF New Tweeds, FANCY COATINGS, Etc., ■piRST-OLASS MATERIALS ONLY. Full particulars will be given in a few days. CRAIGHEAD AND CO., TAILORS AND CLOTHIERS TANCRED STREET, ASHBURTON.



Business Notices. STOP THAT COUGH! DON'T DELAY.—How can you stop it? Where is the Remedy. Bonnington’s PKCTORAL OXYMEL OP CARRA GEEN or IRISH MOSS (registered), can produce more evidence of real merit than any other article for the purpose. Sold everywhere. G Bonninoton, Christchurch. Dressmaking. UNDERCLOTHING. MISS KINGSBURY Begs to announce to her numerous patrons that she has remove 4 to Tancred street, opposite Mr Chapman’s, painters, Ashburton. List of Prices for making Dresses—Chil dren’s, 2s 6d to 7s ; Ladies', .6s to 12s 6d. Orders promptly attended to 3962 jyjRS KENNEDY & Miss CAMERON DRESSMAKERS, COMPTON’S BUILDINGS, Moore Street, Ashburton. Style and Pit Guaranteed. MRS HOOS, (Late of Melbourne), Dress and mantle maker, Tancred street, (Corner of Tancred and Gass streets), Ashburton. Pit and Style Guaranteed. Charges moderate. 3 396 An Apprentice Wanted. Robert Alcorn, GENERAL MERCHANT. FOR Quality, Cheapness, and Fit in Men’s, Youths’, and Boys’ Clothing and Boots of all sorts, go to R. ALCORN’S Corner Shop (attached to the Grocery, Ironmongery, Glass, and China Ware houses, where you will get everything of the best quality and at the lowest possible prices. TEA is my speciality ; —my 3s Tea is unequalled in Christchurch or Dunedin at the price, and unsurpassed at any price 689 d



10. W.STnrner. CANTERBURY FLOUR MILLS. ASHBURTON. NOTICE TO Farmers and others 4 rpHE BUSINESS OP THE ABOVE MILLS will for the future be Managed oB my behalf by my Son, Me. C. HARCOURT TURNER I'D Mr. DAVID H. BROWN Who will be prepared to PURCHASE’ WHEAT of GOOD QUALITY ** «Ho BATES THE CANIERBURY MILLS hare Sr RE-FIT IED THROUGHOUT with all the recent MANUFACTURING IMPROVEMENT adopted in Continental Europe and in America, including the CHILLED IRON ROLLER SYSTEM?, Th* WHEAT CLEANING MACHINERY is not surpassed in New Zealand. The quality of the LOUR frost. *h MILLS should therefore oommaad the the immediate attention of the Trade generally. ONE EXPERIMENTAL ORDER from Bakers is invited, in perfect Conti dsnce that it will be followed by regain demands for the Flour.



All who intend building, Are invited to 04LL at the YARDS OP J. T. BROWN, TIMBER AN 7 ' COAL MERCHANT Where they can be fully supplied with everything they require in TIMBER of all kinds, and every other lino at Lowest Current Rates. SPECIAL LINES LANDING. FENCING WIRE, IRON, CEMENT. American Dressed Shelving, and other Timber, large assortment. Special at ion to Country Orders, and shipped direct rom siding. J. T. BROWN, Office : Tttam stbket. Wholesale Depot: Railway Siding wmill, South Belt, Christchurch. {ll9



Baker Bros., OONTRACTORS, BUILDERS, AND UNDERTAKERS, Wakanui and Cass Strata, Ashburton. 167 m\wf Messrs Elz Bros., WHILE thanking the public for their liberal support, beg to intimate to their friends and customers that they hare greatly enlarged their premises, and wish to notify that they are now in a position to do all kinds of wor^ —from building new to repairing carriages of all descrip tions. A large and choice stock always on hand, which their friends are invited to inspect. All work is under the super vision of Messrs Elz Bros, themselves. Charges strictly moderate. Note the Address— WILLS STREET 'Next Cookson’s Stables), Ashburton. 395 e JgN COURAGE FLORICULTURE. Abbott and Eaynel NURSERYMEN & FLORISTS, Have for Sale— A Large and varied stock of Greenhouse Plants and Ferns, &c., at Million prices ; also, Out Flowers. HAND & TABLE BOUQUETS Made up on the shortest notice—at which will defy competition. Note the Address— MILL RACE ROAD, > Fuiedlanders 1 Bkick Kiln JP 0 R SALE. Binding Twine. Customers are requested to send in Orders as supply is limited. CRUSHED OATS, 2s per bushel. CHAP BRAN, POTATOES, Ac. JOSEPH CLARE 12X158 aa u Tmwa!d.



FARMERS’ GRISTS Will receive prompt and carets attention. WHEAT SPECIALLY CLEAN FOB FARMERS FOB Seed Purposes. For particulars apply at the Mift To Mb D. H. BROWN To Me C. HAROOURT TURNER Offices, Saunders’s Buildings, Or to Ashburton; 0. W. TURNER, CASHEL STREET, Christchurch. N.B.— Me Sampei, Saundehs, who the last two years has represented me Ashburton, retires from the appointees as from this date. Christchurch 11th Feb., 1834