SHIPPING.

PORT OF LYTTELTON. Arrived. Satcbbay. Mahlnapua, a. a., from Wellington. _ Wanaka, a.a., from Mannkau and way porta. Yesterday. Wild Wave, brig, from Newcastle. " - _ Sailed. _ ' Croat of/ tJto’ WkTo,: aohponer, for Camara. * *• ' ‘ ■ J Mahlnapua, B.B.'j'#or‘Akiroa and Dun *Sbu * •• Wanaka, to., for Wellington. fXXPFING TELEGRAMS. Pout Chalmers, Yesterday, Arrived Rotorua, from Lyttelton ; Taiaroa, from Timaru ; Beautiful Star, from Camara ; Farringham, barque, Cap tain Hayward, from Mauritius, via Ade laide ; Star of the South, from Grey month; Koranui, from West Coast; , Kakanoi, from Invercargill; Mahinapua, from Lyttelton. Bailed—Freetrader, for Auckland.

COMMERCIAL.

Asmurton Guardian Office, , j . f Monday Afternoon. Mr T, Bullock reports en the horse market lor the week ending Saturday,, May 31 ; —39 horses were yarded wf' the day’s sale, compris ing some very good draught horses and a few medium sorts of a good description, but there appeared to be very few buyers even at reduced prices, coi&dqueritljU only a limited number changed hands, and as there are such a number of horses being forced into the market just how under bills of sale, etc., I see no likelihood of amt improvement for a time.? (3g}t9 Wfere disposed ;of at the following prices, viz :—Light medium draught, Lg to Ll2 10s; do, of a superior description, up to L 26; aged draughts, L 6 5» to 3JB

DAILY MEMORANDA.

ATJOTjaNHSiIJK. ; Tvksdat, June 3. MataMhrOns >apd- C0.,-at the -Ashburton B^W^-St<ii6. 1 ‘ ‘ - •' 1 ■ MEETINGS, AMUSEMENTS, Ere. Tot Wat, June 3, Flemfagron at 6 p. m. St Stephan’s Sunday School —Entertain- aysfip iu*^e at 7.30 p.ra. Star # pf i3j-;G.3* Monthly. Meeting, in the Arcade Chambers, at . S p.m*3n/ >'t x:.f*-t •' 4i -- H r - Fbiday, Junk 6. Ashburton County Council —At Council Chambers, 11 a. m. , at S ,f " " Saturday, Junk 7 Wakanui iloaA::^oa*d{' ; at] RoaA Board office, Moore street, at 10.30 a.m. MosaaYi Jtmsi-9. • Borough Council, at Borough Council 01ftjnb»rs,,at7.30.

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna Est Veritas et Prevalebit MONDAY. JUNE 2, 1884.

The Committee of the Ashburton 1 County Hunt Club met at Qnili’s Hotel on Saturday evening. Present—Messrs Crisp (in the chair), Stitt, Quill, Saunders Wroughton and Dr Leahy. It -was re solved to accept Mr Smith’s offer to con tinue hunting the hounds during June and July, and the following meets were fixed for Jane, viz:—7tb, Mr Joseph Hunt’s, Wakanni ; 12th, Mr Andrew Dawson’s, Waterloo ; 21st, Chertsey ; 26th, Winslow. Mr P. A. Read was elected a member of the Committee in place of the late Mx John Carter. It was decided to bold Hunt Club Steeplechases on 'I hursday, 7th August, and a Com mittee was appointed to draft a pro gramme and report to the General Com mittee at a meeting on Saturday next. The following return of drunkards arrested and convicted from Ist January, 1879, to 31st May, 1884, was submitted to the Licensing Committee at their meeting to-day by Sergeant Felton : 1879, males 194, females 2, total 196 ; 1880, males 184, females 3, total 187 ; 1881, males 280, females 4, total 284; 1882, males 343, females 7, total 356 ; 1883, males 336, females 14, total 330 ; 1884, males 199, females 10, total 209. We would remind those gentlemen who are willing to act on Mr Purnell’s electoral committee that a meeting will be held this evening in Montgomery's buildings. The choristers at St Stephen’s church appeared for the first time in surplices yesterday (Whit Sunday). The robes were made by the .Ladies’ Sewing Class, Mrs John Grigg finding the material. Letters from beyond the colony are awaiting, the following persons at the Ash burton Post Office, having lain there over a month:—Emil Jansen, James Sinclair, James Stewart, Daniel Raftery. Edgar Bastings, who committed suicide on board the Liotomahana, was the brother ef Mr Horace Bastings, formerly M. H. R. H« was on a visit to Melbourne for the benefit of his health. He had been an hotelkeeper for many years. Robert Reid, chief steward of the Koranui, was found dead in his cabin* at Port Ohalmers at six o’clock on Saturday night. A bottle containing about an ounce of laudanum was found underneath him on {he sofa. Reid appears to have drank heavily at Lyttelton. The sup posed cause of death is heart disease: He consumed three ounces of laudanum.

A consignment of 500 sheep, sent from Gisborne by Mr Ciark, through the Loan and Mercantile Company, per Doric, re alised 7d a lb in London, the highest price given for any of her frozen meat.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile

Agency Company, Limited, are in receipt of the following cablegram from London, dated 30th May :—Wool : The sale pro gramme has been curtailed by five days. The next sales will comihence on 12tli August, and the fourth series on lltb Nov."

Tb» contractors for the erection of machinerynt Caswell Sound Marble Com pany have completed the work, and the plant has been taken over, 'the machinery works very smoothly, and gives every satisfaction to the Directors.

Sir Julius Vogel has definitely con sent the Ashburton seat, and efforts are be ng mode to form a strong committee to secure his return.

At: the Police Court this morning

Robert Alcorn, Esq , J. P., presided, and inflicted a fine of 20s for drunkenness upon a first offender. Tic-Doloureux, Toothache, or.any other neuralgic pain spcediiy yields to Baxter’s Anti- Neuralgic Pills. jCsoo will be paid for any case that Hop bitters will not cure or help. Doubt not. See. —[-Advt.] Holloway’s Pills. —Health or Wealth.— No sane person would -hesitate an instant in the choice between these two conditions. Now is the season to secure the former either by restoring dr confirming it. These Pills ex pel all impurities from the system which fogs, foul vapours, and variable temperatures in gender during winter ; this medicine also acts most wholesomely upon the skin by disgorging the liver of its accumulated bile, vud by ex citing the kidneys to more energuic action; ncreases the appetite for food and strengthens the digestive process. The stomach and liver, which most disorders originate, are fully under the control of these regenerative Pills, which act very kihdly yet most efficiently on the tenderest bowels.-—[Advt.] The;-Bad and Worthless

are never imitated or counterfeited. This is es pecially true of a family medicine, and it is positive proof that the remedy imitated is of the highest value.. _ As soon as it .has been tested and proved by the whole world that Hop” Bitters was the purest, best, and most valuable family medicine on earth, many imitations, sprung up and began to steal the notices in which the press and the people of the country had expressed the merits of H. 8., and in . e very way trying to induce sneering invalids, to me .'their stuff instead, expecting to make money on the credit and good name of H. B. Many others started nostrums put up in simi lar style to H. 8., with variously devised names-in which the word “ Hop ” or “Hops ” were used in a way to induce people to believe they were the same as Hop Bitters. All such pretended remedies or cures, no matter what their style or name is, and especially those with the word “ Hop ” or “ Hops ” in their name or in any way connected with them or their name, are imitations or counterfeits. Beware of them. Touch none of them. Use nothing but genuine American Hop Bitters, with a bunch or cluster of green Hops on the white label, and Dr Soule’s name blown in the glass. Trust nothing else. Druggists and chemists are warned against dealing in imita tions or counterfeits.

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

The City of Sydney arrived from San Francisco yesterday at 4p.m. She had fine weather save on the last two days, when there was a heavy gale. For Sydney there were 38 cabin and 31 steerage pas aengers. For Auckland—Cabin : Mrs fiaslett and daughter, Miss Duncan, Mrs Dart, Messrs Kennedy and 0. Lucian, Master Kennedy. Steerage : Messrs Friedlander, Hamberger, Jackson, Walsh, Anderson, Young, Aewby, Cruickshank, Gardiner, Rouse, Neil, Knox, Metcalfe, Doyle, Aldrich and Keelau. Summary of News. A cable despatch on April 21st on the situation of the mercantile marine of England says the depression amounts almost to a paralysis. The destitution and suffering of unemployed mm is on the increase, and public subscriptions are being organised at Newoastle-on-Tyne, Live-pool, Shields and Sunderland for the men. Mr Gladstone has announced his posi tive refusal io include a clause enfranchis ing women in the Franchise Bill. The authorities at Swansea are endea voring to induce the Government to send Americans by way of Swansea instead of through Liverpool as at present. A London despatch of April 28ch says Sir George Chatwynd will raise in the Joctrey Club the question as to what the stewards propose to do in regard to the charge of collusion of the jockeys with bookmake s to sell a race. A suit has been decided against Sir William Harcourt for election expenses, tie defended it on the ground that the man ey claimed had been paid by hia political agents. Lord Randolph Churchill is preparing r with Lady Churchill to make a tour of the | ( United States. Lady Churchill was for merly Miss Jennie Jerome, daughter of Leonard W. Jerome, of New York. The proprietor of the Ship Tavern in [ the vicinity of the Strand, seiaed the

effects of an absconding lodger on tbe2t»d, ; ’ and discovered a box containing twelve pounds of dynamite cartridges and.gun cotton. The lodger is being hunted Iby the police, who, however,.attach but little important to .the discovery. The Cavalry barracks in tbe course of erection at Portsmouth suddenly fell on April 28th, and injured thirty convicts engaged on the building. Lord Falmouth's racehorses were sold on April 28th. Sir John Willoughby bought the three Harvester for L 8,600. The three-year-old filly Busy body was purchased by Lord Arlington for LB,BOO. The total realised by the sale was L 85,228. ‘ The Ceylon Company, London, failed on- Mav sth, owing the late Oriental Bank L 400.000.

Mr Henry Labonchere will visit the United States during the year. He was formerly attxchi to the British Legation at Washington. English railway companies, owing to the dapression in the trade, discharged 2,500 employeaon the 7th and reduced the salaries of clerks 10 percent. Ten women were blown to pieces, and two others wounded, by an explosion of dynamite at Nobel’s factory on May Bth. Herbert Spencer declines to visit Aus tralia.

An English edition of the “Memoirs of Princess Alice” has been given to the public. The Government was defeated in the Commons on April 22nd in. an attempt to pass Dodson’s motion to restore the ‘ Cattle Bill- The defeat was due to' the fact that eighteen Parnellitea voted with the Opposition to display their power. The measure will probably be abandoned. Lord Colin Campbell, the youngest son of the Duke of Argyle, from-whem bis wife recently obtained a decree of divorce after private hearing, moved, on April 22 for a new trial.

The tunnel .under the Mersey to connect Birkenhead and Liverpool will be formally opened-on June 14th. The eldest daughter of the present Lord Lytton, aged 13 years, has finished, a storjr that gives evidence of literary ability. A proposition from Longman’s to publish it : was declined.

Lord Rowton, Beaconsfield’s ‘literary exaCutoiV'has found no memoirs amon| his effects, only a mass of parliamentary arranged rotes and letters, selections from which will be published in the autumn. It will take two years to prepare a memoir of the deceased Sari. i, (*T TELKGKAPH ) . , Auckland, To-day.. . The Pope is to issue an encycical let,-, ter against Fceethaaonary, alleging.that Freemasons are blind instruments for ob-. soure ends in the hand of their. chiefs, and that when their interests require it they do not ever shrink from crime. The damaged caused in Colchester by earthquake on - April 22nd, is considerable, and is estimated'at not less than L 10,000., The spire of the Lion. Walk Congrega tional Church, ilfiOft high, wps brought'to the ground, and there is scarcely a house that is not injured by falling chimnies. At Langents, 10 miles from Colchester, every farmhouse was damaged. The church, an ancient structure of stone, was shattered. Mr Rusden, in his new; “ History of Australia," advocates the' creation of an hereditary, order of hbbflity • in the colonies. Sir Henry Parkas, in a paper in the Nineteenth Century, favors the same idea. A. New York World's cable from Lon don, May Bth, eays that the-Grand Duke Louis Fourth, of -.Hesse, whose reported Morgantic marriage has been the subject of so much gossip, has suddenly made hia appearance in England, without his bride, and was the guest of the Queen at Wind sor, Castle. & t the date of the despatch the Queen haa settled L 20,000 on the bride of young Prince Louis of Batten burg, her grand daughter. . . . ... A despatch of IGth saya that the Duke of Edinburgh will take the channel and reserve squadrons on a sampler cruise in the Baltic, visiting Riga and Oronsbadt. The visit is designed to increase the friendship between Russia and England. The Standard of April 27, discussing the Greetley relief expedition,’ condemns the decision to place the Alert at Lyttel ton Island. It believes the Greetley party,, if it reached Cape Sabine in boats, would remain there, and concludes that on the whole he is probably at 5 this mo ment safe and sound at -.ady, Franklin Bay, and p ’ssibly has even reached Uper mavik. The article comes from a high Arctic authority. There is a sensation in political circle* caused by the withdrawal of Lord Ran dolph Churchill from the Conservative Union. It seems that Lord Randolph "Churchill, after becoming Chairman of the Union, ignored the Marquis of Salisbury’s central Conservative Com mittee. He claimed that the Council of the Union had the control of the entire Conservative party, and it had become a caucus. He appointed an Executive’Com mittee, consisting of Mr Gorst and Sir Henry Drummond Wolf, and that the. central Com ittee should work in i harmony. Lord R. Churchill looking I upon this as a vote of censure retired from the Association. The correspondence be tween the Marquis of Salisbury and Lord R. Churchill is so acrimonious that a re conciliation is improbable. Mr Gorst and Mr Henry Cecil Raikes have joined Sir R, Churchill, and they propose to form a new party. Prince Bismarck spoke on the Bth April in defence of the Anti-Socialist Bill. He stated that if the measure should he re jected the Government would discuss it with another Parliament. Should. this likewise eject the Bill the Government would be exonerated from all responsi bility, and could regard the further development of the social democracy with a quiet conscience. Owing to the discovery of a plot at Moscow to assassinate the Czar, the festivities in honor of the coming of age of the Czarovitch will be held at St Petersburg. Arrests of persons known to be Nihilists, or suspected to be of connection with the Order, continue without abatement. On the sth of May a large number of artillery officers were arrested on a charge of being connected with the murder of the late Chief of Polios, General Sutenkien. The explanation of these arrests is that do Gaeriff, who assassinated General Suten keio, was himself at one time in the artillery service. Several more students were arrested at Moscow, and the first number of a paper published in the Uni versity there, the Cheski Ivoncol , has been seized. The Secretary of the Board of Justico and a mistress of the School for Women at St Petersburg have also been arrested. During the trial at St Petersburg of the Black Bank Nihilists, Dubelski and his daughter, the prisoners, stabbed them selves, the father fatally and the daughter dangerously. The steamser State of Florida, which left New York for Glasgow on April 12th with about 167 passengers and crew, foundered on the 18th after a collision with the barque Pomona, off Chatham, New Brunswick. Both ships went down almost instantaneously, aud out of the steamer’s passengers and crew only 44, including the stewardess, escaped in boats, and out of the barque’s crew of 15 only tlie captain and 2 seamen wore saved. The c dlision occurred at 11.30 p.m , about 120 miles off the Irish coast, and the night, though moonless, was olsar, with a sea as smooth as glass. Next morning the barque was observed bottom up._ The survivors, after being 35 hours in the boats without food or water, were rescued by a Norwegian barque, the Theresa of > Christiania, trout thud port bound to ( t

'Quebec. On the 22nd, 24 of them were ' transferred aboard the ship Louisa, from Cardiff for Quebec. It is believed thu t ISO lives were lost. A passenger named Jas. Bennett says the p*nio aboard the doomed steamship was rightful. Only four lady passengers were willing to go into the boats, and only one woman, the stewardess, was saved by the exertions of the chief engineer, who lost his life in doing so. The captain and crew were shippad at Glasgow, and the scene outside the steamship office was received, is described as heartrend ing- • ' " ‘ . •' ■v»~—

ASHBURTON LICENSING MEETING.

Tho annual meeting of the. Ashburton Borough Licensing Committee was held in the Courthouse; there being present—/ Messrs D. Thomas (chairman), A, Orr^. R. Alcorn, T. Sealy and S. Saunders. BBNBWAI3. F. L. K, Hill applied .for arenowiLotr the license for the., Somerset Hotel. Mr' Joynt appeared in the support ' t>£ the application. .... Sergeant' Felton said that the granting ' of the license- would be opposed that ground that drunkenness was permitted there, and that men were allowed to wander about. tho house in a state of semi-drunkenness. In 1877 a similar' objection was made and upheld, and Mr Shearman, the than landlord, promised to shut the bar. In accordance witlr thas the bar was shifted- to Burnett stredt. Since then the place had been altered, and it was now one big, bar, the front, door of which opened on the street. Many ” complaints were made by ladies : and gbntlemen.' Three-fourthS Of the dittelren '3 men in tha : county came frd A tbe Somer ;set HobeL Hft~-hn.ndmi ni-a. vetipffi,, the post fivo yeara showing, that five out of six of the drunkenness dame ylbim there. The opposition was founded on section 38 of the Act. -v ; I v > ;The following evidence was given J H. W. houses, said that dutihg - thr last six |mouths a great deal of .drunkenness had existed in the Somerset Hotel; :t TheWJ ■wbre also a large nuqabec of half. drunken men hanging, about, the - froht,doop. r ahd obstructing the 'footp'ath. ' A.' rerara tjf : the rooms in the hotel - showed there . ' K inin ij

two public bars,' a tap., *tt>oni, a sitting '" room at the end of the pak&ge, opening on the latter v The ,house had the ~ worst sitting rooms of any hotel ih-jd^JAwn. IVTr Joynt said ha irl nof prepared to meet-this, as nothing was" bald’about «.the- j structure of the hotel fn thapartidiilaii of f i complaint. 7 1 *« *«-!' .iiMO.-r •'* CISfX Sergeant Felton said that ho'hhd raised?*! k the point to show the hotel was little more that a drinking shoptM draw 1 Attention to olause SO of^theAot.r-^ni;'!

Mr Joynt said that the clause referißdm* - to was simply being- used' by ‘theoffider/aaoh a trap, as it gave the police the opportunity -i of raising a general objection." Witness continued that he had himself noticed men hanging about the front and side entrances 'of the Somerset Hotel. Complaints had been made to witness by several -ladies and- gentlemen^..and the Resident Magistrate had complained to Mr. Hill that he had todeaye the foqtpatb,;. ' and had given appliMllg;* wfei •• ness had; locked- many, men upf ronLthere, i. himself, and given orders to constables to do the same. , V. ; r Cross-examined by ’Mr Joynt: Only *: one prosecution for'aUowiag drtfnkeabeSa-' -'' on the premises was instituted.against Mr Jdillj on account of the difficulty of , curing evidence to siistain a oOnviotlOn, ■-* Knew a drunken maawhea Jlfe ; JaW him. Witness understood that he held a permit to enter any- publichous? at any time in . the . day or night. ; CenudaredLthat .4ho~. conviction had not been sustained on account of the difficulty -6i 'getting the evidence,-of the. barman, and not, he thought, because thb , tOstitnohy bt*‘<ne|'l police was not believed - by the ResidentS. Magistrate. Me Hill had. been there over two years, and had not been proceeded against for allowing drunkuoss on the pro mises before April last. Witness had seen many man gradually getting ; drunk at the Somerset, but could not name of any partiodar man. "THe* ? men he could remember Gibb and Jerome Camille who, be 'konw, «*<* were kept at the ‘hotel. Had no r witness on this . point - on 1 account of the ■difficulty of getting thedl to'oome forward. In witaesa’s opinion a semi-drunken man,. \ was one wha was a nuisance tQ-„.himapl{ and others. Witness was then cross-" examined as to what Was hk ‘definition of a private bar, which he considered to bee - ' place where drinks are supplied ln - aroon&p' —Mr Joynt pointed out that in the intei? A _ pretation clause of the Act it .'said'nothing about a ** private bar. ” —Witness aih4. J c that according to - the law there Was one bar. When objections were raisediftjo 1877, the bar was shifted further.; <dewn<;t Barnett street, and witness was of opinion--. that.it should now bo moved to the back- ~ yard. Gould not say if -any hotdlfiy’, Christchurch had a. bar, ciitranoe.to which * was from the back-yard. Did not 'IwT up all the men found drunk, near ,the Somerset, as the cells were' 1 not lafge enough. In v eptember last 16 out of v 26 -^ r drunken men came from this hotel. '

H> M. Jpnes, bookseljey, gave, evidence Z 1 that he suffered inconvenienoefromthec proximity of the hotel to his shop. .On* , two specific occasions he had seen meq committing nuisances outside the hotel Id the public street. ‘ ' . . CroSs-examined by MrJoynt :The fcwO instances cited occurred in Maroh andf - April, when men came: in from harvest ing. Had not informed the police, be cause he did not regard the matter at' ’ serious enough. -- ■ To the Bench : Had seen- men brought out of the hotel, but 'not frequently. S. E. Poyntz and W. Qavia gave simi- r lar evidence. In cross-examination the | latter witness said that he could swear'' that that ladies could not go pact. the Somerset in the middle of April without being molested. , Constables Casey, Smart and Latimer - said that they had arrested more man for;,,- drunkenness at the Somerset than in all the other parts Of the town put together. in answer to the Bench, Constable Smart said that in. his opinion the position of the house accounted for the men con gregating there, and he could not say what' the liquor was like. ■ i.x /, W. Martin, clerk of the Court, said he"- had occasion to pass .the hotel five or six times a day. There’ were often: a good many men there, but hot'more at one corner of the street than at the other. .V Had never been molested himself. , -- i his closed the case for the police, add " Mr Joynt called the fallowing evidence 1 for the defence:— W. C. Walker, farmer, Yaletta, said that he was often at the Somerset Hotel,' and the house was, so far as he could judge, well conducted. To Sergeant Felton : Did not live in"" Ashburton, but came there onoe a month. ‘ Peter Davidson, commercial traveller, gave similar evidence as th management of the house. A large number of com* mercial travellers stayed there;: ; E. G. Crisp, solicitor, remembered . that when Hill was prosecuted it was proved in evidence that Mulligan and Camille got no liquor at the hotel, and that the barman refused to supply him. Had seen Camille in the Court on another charge of drunkenness. j s. B. Nelson,' builder, had ' h place of business opposite the set, ad had never' been jostled' in front of the hpum* nor had he heard any bad language. The place was well kept, according to witness's expert* enoe. Was in the hotel about three timet a week.

affirm Monday, jdne 2, 188*.



*i>a3Ss Yi£5GRAiifME ! cards in t«7 neat, atylpa,, with Pencils and Ribbons, printed at the Guardian Office, jqomkstio pattern depot* Mrs Hodge DRAPER AND DRESSMAKER, to' the Ladies' of AfcK bnrton and suuonnding districts that they will find- a‘^eat f saving of’time and ma teria! by Cutting their Dresses and Chil dren's apparel from the above Patterns, ladies.’ Di eiiJnr-- r Underclothing yaade _i the shortest notice, qfijce for Ferpale Seryants.^^ V f*n ? ;*■ •; * lOTO R 1 A HOUSE. A HEAVY STOCK OF ' in plbftPifßY 1 1,5"’ 5 " ?f CE.OT HIN G, w ‘ "Boots,' das. s' *b select from. : 1 ' yj Sterling Value! -Popular-Prices IT : The Shilling Table situ, the Attraction Dimnnt and Coe, Ready-Money . Drapers, Clothiers, &c. ’ L J.' Orr and Co). East and TanobedStreets, Ashburton. 9628 DANISH Sedct Oats. THE has a full Stock of COLONIAL CLOTHING DRAPERY : . ' FLANNELS, &o. Boots and Shoes, Large Stock of Groceries and Oilmen’s 1 Stores. jjtfHOiq^JEA'; FEED AND SEED OATS. FLOtffe, BRAnTaND SHARPS. All at the lowest prices possible. Genu- Ino.-VAlue and tnake-believe or sham. Large discount, and other inducements lor cash. Families waited on weekly, or ofteiuir'ifiiMiiiijedJO ' D. WILLIAMSON, East Street, Ashburton. 798 The motual assurance iir# "VICTORIA {LIMITED). Head Office; Ho *77, Collins street West, Melbourne. FOR LIFE ASSURANCE AND ENDOWMENTS. ■ Policy-holders Divide Profits. Head*Office for Middle Island, XTatv 7nalann • COLONIAL BANK BUD DINGS, Dunedin. Directors: • Hon William Bayles (Melbourne) Hon W. H. Reynolds, M.L.0., Chair man; John M. Ritchie, Esq., J.P.; John Roberts, Esq., J.P. WILLIAM WILLS, . Resident Secretary. OHBISTCHU RCHDISTRICT AGENCY Cttt CHimBRS, Hereford Street, (Oppoeite Bank of New Zealand.) W. H, BROWNE, District Agent. Local Agent, P, Ferdman, Bast street, ;«r ASHBURTON*



Wanted "IT'T’ ANTED—General Servant; one that can milk. Apply, |Mrs Habbis, Bailway Hotel, Winslow. 6 1076 WANTED —A respectable Youth, able to milk and look after horses. Apply to B. Oookson, Livery Stables, Ashburton. 51073 \XT ANTED Known One or two V\ boarders can be accommodated Mth comfortable lodgings at Mbs Wil liamson's, Tancred street, 6 1080 WANTED Known—Best Bice, Sd ; Sago, 4d ; Tapioca, 6d ; Flemington Factory Cheese, 6Jd per lb.—J. Mo Gregor, Tancred street, opposite the Arcade. 4 640 WANTED Known—The cheapest house in town to buy Millinery, Dolmans, Jackets, Dress Stuffs, etc., is H. C. Segers's, Sealy’s buildings, East street. First-class goods marked with a small profit. New goods now open. 2 234 WANTED KNOWN— Robert Elston, Bill Poster, Theatrical A«bnt, etc., Town Hall, Ashburton. Theatrical companies and others visiting Ashburton should ‘ communicate with the above. Orders by post or telegram promptly attended to. 7600 WANTED at once, 500 customers. Hayes and Co. having bought 500 pairs of sample boots are determined to! clear them at startling prices. Chif-- dren’sE.S., J a per pair; ladies’ kid E.5.,3s }ld per pair. -H. & Co. have also a grand lot of boys’ and men’s boots at prices that will astonish all. 4 749 ANT‘-iD Known—That every Pur chaser of Meat will save 50 per cent by, Purchasing their Meat at the London Butchery, Tancred street. All .'kinds of Small Goods constantly on sale. Meat delivered to any part of Ashburton or suburbs. Bahbb and Cd., Proprietors. 5 1060 WANTED Known—For sale cheap, aThree and Four-Roomed House, 'Half Acre of Land ; two frontages, situated »on East Belt, near Wakanui road. Terms easy. Also, 6 Acres in English grass, with county water race through it. Apply W. C. Datis, next Oddfellows’ Hall, Ashburton. 6 766 TXT ANTED Known—That Jones and VV Bkadshaw, next Mr Lancaster’s batchers shop, East street, are now offer ing Pig Feed, Chick Wheat, Horse Feed, et, etc., etc., cheaper and of a better class than any other in the tawn. All goods delivered free of charge in town. ’ 4 752 WANTED— The *public who are in want of Boots to inspect our win dow before purchasing elsewhere. As far as style and cheapness we are.determined not to be excelled. Boots for everyone, and. at any price. Large stock of women’s best prunellas from 7a 6d ; men’s half sole and wheeling, 4s 6d ; womens do, 3s 6d ; girl’s do, 2s 6d. Nokes, Leicester Boot Warehouse, Burnett street. 12 1107 VETERINARY SHOEING FORGE. WANTED Known—W. T. Kingston (late with J. R. Steel, Blacksmith) begs tp announce to the public of Ash burton and surrounding district that he has commenced business in a new shop erected on the Wakanui road, next O. Ray, Engineer, Millwright, etc. (nearly opposite Central Hotel), and trusts to re ceive a fair share of public patronage. All shoeing done in his usual style, and guaranteed the best workmanship. Re pairs neatly executed. Estimates given for builders’ ironwork. 3 552 Special- Advertisements.



E W W O B Copies of Mr Bowkon’s Book “ Cheese, Butter, and Bacon,” can bo c Hained this office.' Price, 2s.



FARMERS Store your Grain! THE undersigned having Leased from Mr T. Bullock that very commo dious IRON GRAIN STORE in West street, is prepared to RECEIVE GRAIN ! or any kind of Produce, and STORE the same at the very LOWEST RATE. 3 629 T. H. ZOUCH.



GRICULTURAL MACHINE SHOP. WAJKANUI 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- Charles Eay, paired. 10 800



CASH PCROHASERS OF WHEAT BEANS BARLEY PEAS OATS COOKSFOOT AND RYE GRASS SEED. They supply farmers with the best quality Large Oornsacks, at the lowest market rates, and will raa'ce liberal Cash Advances against Grain placed in their hands for shipment to London or else where. ROBERTS, PAXTON & Co. Late P. Cunningham and Op’s offices, Corner of Manchester and Lichfield Sts.. Christchurch, 3 623



Meech and Go. DO not, as a rule, care to blow about the Excellence of their Goods, but when they find that they can offer induce ments which no other house in Ashburton can possibly do, they feel justified in rushing into print to let the general public know that they will be studying their own interests by purchasing from the makers. MEECH AND CO., CABINET MAKERS, UPHOLSTERERS, UNDERTAKERS, &0., &0., &c., BURNETT STREET, ASHBURTON. Being supplied with the latest improved Machinery, they are able to turn out Fur niture, &c., in all the newest designs, and at prices which defy competition. - Farmers and others wishing to make their homes comfortable should pay this Firm a visit, and they will find that MEEOH AND 00. can supply every Household requisite at prices which, to meet the times, will really surprise them. Brackets and all other kinds of Cutting done for the trade. ' 376 ,



Special Adrertisment. E. C. Brown & Co, FASHION HOUSE, CHRISTCHURCH, J-yAVE muck pleuauru in announcing the ARRIVAL FROM LONDON OJ* EXTENSIVE PURCHASES Ex Aorangi, Bombay, British Queen, Ruapehu, and lonic, Including THE LATEST PRODUCTIONS Suitable for the AUTUMN AND WINTER SEASON.



THE ULSTERS, JACKETS, MANTLES, FUR CLOAKS, FUR CAPES & TRIMMINGS, DRESS MATERIALS, FLANNELS, BLANKETS Km, Etc., Are for Excellence OF Qoalijt and Design, THE CHOICEST EVER SUBMITTED



GREAT CARE HAS BEEN BESTOWED IN THE SELEC TION OF THESE GOODS TO MEET THE VARIED TASTES OF ALL CLASSES. The internal alterations to various De partments are now completed, which BENDERS THE SHOW ROOMS AMONG TH’HI MOST SPAOIODS in the COLONIES And gives Increased Accommodation t* DRESS, MANTLE-MAKING AND MILLINERY DEPARTMENTS, B. C. BROWN & Co, bog to return Thanks for Past Support, and Solicit a Continuance of Favors and Kind Recom mendations. Fob STYLE, QUALITY,} AND VALUE GO TO Ej 0, BROWN & 00., FASHION HOUSE, CSBIS CCH CEO H.



Special Advertisement < T A T I O' N E R Y, Commercial, Plain, and Fancy, ACCOUNT BOOKS PRIZE BOOKS SCHOOL BOOKS & REQUISITES (School,,Commifcteea supplied) j TOYS & FANCY GOODS. Andrewes Bros., BMUBbusKa, Stationbes, &e. ,§ ASHBURTON.



The undersigned is now landing PRIME N: GOAL for household purposes. {Also on hand, BEST NATITE COAL '• m BLACK PINK FIREWOOD. Building Timber at Prices to suit tho Times. ALPHEUS HAYES, Coalj ins Timber Merchant. WILLIAM COLLINS, Manager.



THE NEW ZEALAND Clothing Factory Are now Showing NEW MANUFACTURES FOR THIS SEASON. A Splendid Variety of Garments manu factured from the OEXEBRATED MOSGISL TWEEDS. Patrons are specially requested to inspect this season’s OVERCOATS, SAC SUITS, . TROUSERS, Trousers & vests, And our Grand Variety of CHILDREN’S and BOY’S CLOTHING. Every Description of Hosiery, Hats, Shirts, etc., AT WHOLESALE PRICES. A SINGLE GARMENT AT WHOLE SALE PRICE. 23 BRANCHES NOW OPEN. Ashburton Branch : EAST STREET. NEW ZEALAND CLOTHING factory.



GRAIN SEASON 1884. THE NEW ZEALAND LOAN AND MERCANTILE AGENCY COM PANY (LIMITED). Capital £3,000,000. Reserve Fund ....£210,000. RAKAIA, CHERTSEY, AND METHYEN AGENCIES. Mr 0. W, TURNER, the Company’s Local Agent, will be in regular attend ance.at CHERTSEY: ON TUESDAYS, from 11 a.m. till 2 p.ra. METHYEN; ON THURSDAYS, from 12 till 4 p.m. RAKAIA : At airtimes during the week. Every information aa to Cost and Arrangements for SHIPPING GRAI can be obtained on application to C. W. Turner, AGENT, 2 368 Rakaia, Ohertsey, and Methven. I F YOU WANT GOOD AND STRONG FURNITURE, ia jy TO GO DA y IS’S CHEAP FURNITURE AND BED DING MANUFACTORY, EAST ST RE S T SOU TH, ASHBURTON. fjIVBP.Y article Sold at Christchurch Prices and beat of material and workmanship.



FUNERALS CHEAPLY & COMPLETELY FURNISHED FOR SALE—A Compact Farm, con taining 130 acres, sub-divided into four paddocks by substantial gorse fences; well watered, and within an easy distance of a school. F. FERRIMAN. J MPOR.TANT TO AGRICULTURISTS DEATH TO THE BIRDS. The Undersigned has just received a consignment of DOWN’S FARMERS’ FRIEND FOR PREVENTING THE SMUT IN WHEAT, BARLEY, OATS, &0., The Ravages of the Slug, Grub, and Wire Worm, and the incursion of Birds and Vermin. It will also promote the Germination and Growth ef the Seed, and increase the produce of the Crop equal to a change of seed. A Tin is sufficient for Seventy-two Bushels of Seed, which can be dressed and fit to sow in a qaartor of an hour, and is easier and drier for the drill at the time of sowing than any other plan. Jn using it no Lime or Brine is required. F. FERRIMAN.



Special Advertisements. COMMERCIAL Stationery, Account Books, Presents, &c. jfl, M. JONES, East Street. 11 123 ENU I N E ROTHERHAM’S ENGLISH LEVERS from £5 10a. Genuine Waltham Levers, from £3 10a. All watches guaranteed two years. Special attention to repairs, which are guaranteed twelve months. G, ADAMS & CO, Practical English Watchmakers, 246 High street, Christchurch, Opposite City Hotel. 5 959 A. Persson CABINETMAKER, UPHOLSTERER & SHOP-FITTER, . Wakanui Road (near Post Office), Begs to thank his customers for past favors and to announce that he is now prepared to execute orders for all classes of suites of furnitflre in tapestry, repp, velvet, leather and horse hair, and to suit every one. Furniture upholstered and po'ished. Mattresses re-made and car pets re-laid. People from the country will. do well to pay J. A. P. ’a establish ment a visit before purchasing elsewhere. All work entrusted to him will be faith fully carried o«t, and his pricrs will defy competition. Agent for Walter Gee’s Venetian Blinds J. £. Mansfield, Monumental Mason FUNERALS CONDUCTED ON REASONALE TERMS.



J. BALLANTYNE & CO., HAVE now OPENED UP Extensive Sfaipmen*s of NEW WINTER DRAPERY. A large Choice and Magnificent assort ment in all the Departments, bought under Special Advantages from the manufacturers. All GOODS Marked at LOW PRICES, as their rule is to CLEAR OUT TUB STOCK EVERY SEASON. J. B. and Go. are Manufacturers of MENS’ YOUTHS’, and BOYS’ CLOTH ING, an industry which they have lately commenced on the .premises, and which has proved a great success, the cut and workmanship of all garments being under special inspection. Also, MANUFACTURERS OF HATS AND CAPS of every description. Is off every £ Discount for Cash. DUNSTABLE HOUSE, Christchurch. 5 1008 A P O L 0 G Y.



v> e promised some time ago to supply the public iritfe, full particulars of ouv new stock of winter goods ; but since a closer examination has been made, wa find the variety so much greater than we antici pated that with the limited space, at our command such a course would be im practicable. We may, however, state that * f . : Our Supply op ; : FA.N6Y COATINGS j : and • : TWEEDS : : From tpe Home Markets • : SURPASSES : : Anything We Have . ; . : Hitherto Received. • * * To encourage Colonial Manufactures, and assist in keeping Colonial wealth within the colony a» far as that can bo done by the efforts of a single firm, we have received a fine selection of T WEEDS from Kaiapoi and Oainaru ; also a splen did assortment of MOiGLEL TWEEDS, manufactured only for the bespoke trade.' As these goods have been awarded highest honors at the Sydney and Melbourne Ex hibitions, they require no further recom mendation at our hands. The success which we have already achieved in Ashburton, and the reputation we now enjoy for accurately fitting the human figure, will be a sufficient guaran tee that style, pit, and other essentials can always be relied on.



CRAIGHEAD AND CO., CLOTHIERS, TaNORED STREET. ASHBURTON. g A NKRDPT STOCK. Invoice value £1648. NEW GOODS. NEW GOODS JUST OPENED. Christchuch, May, 1884. — Sib, —We hereby accept your offer of £I2OO for the Drapery, Clothing and Fancy Stock in the Estate of Messrs Hudson, Ridley and Co., as shown on invoices, amounting to £1648, which are in our hands ior settlement by arbitration on behalf of the English credi tors. M. HARRIS! T t A. MOORE / lrU9teea - JOHN BALLANTYNE. English Creditors. £ s. d. 8 esses, Henry Parnell and Co., clothing, etc. ... ... 459 6 11 6 cases, Tillie and Henderson, containing 180 doz shirts ... 297 5 7 2 cases, I. and R. Morley, hoiseiy, collars and scarfs... 82 17 4 2 cases, Copestake, Hughes, Orampton and Co., laces, collarettes, curtains, etc. ... 92 3 3 2 cases, Sharpe, Perrin andCo, frocks, pelisses, robes, cos tumes, etc. ... ... ... 63 0 8 1 case, Rylands and Sons, Limited, containing ribbons and ties 61 18 7 3 cases, Smith and Lester, containing flowers, hats and bonnets ... ... ... 53 3 10 8 cases, Brown, Davies and Co., Limited, fringe, gimp, purses, crinolettes, under clothing ... ... ... 256 0 3 4 cases and bales, Caldicott and Sons, cretonnes, shirt ings, towels, flannels, serge 132 13 3 9 cases, David Hyath and Co., containing fancy goods of all kinds... ... ... ... 131 17 4 I case, A. E. Mackintosh, containing paintings, land scapes, etc. ... ... ... 17 14 2 46 cases. Invoiced va1ue...1643 0 2 This scock represents an actual retail value of £2300, for which we only gave £I2OO cash. Now we intend to offer it to you at the actual invoice price, by which you save nearly 10a in the pound in new goods, seasonable, and just opened, which will suit you these hard times and also pay us. SALE TO MORROW AT 10 a m H. B. MA Y AND 0 0., IHB HALL, HIGH SXiIEET, vhmteharoh. . 5 1014