DAILY MEMORANDA.

AUCTION SALES. Tuesday, February I 1?. Messrs Matson, Cox and C)., at the Ashburton Saleyarde—Stock Saturday, February 21. Mr Thos. Bullock, at the Arcade, Burnett street —Property and Sundries MEETINGS, AMUSEMENTS, Em This Evening St John’s Lodge—Monthly Meeting, m the Masonic Hall, at 7-30 Monday, February 16. Borough Council, at Borough Council Chambers, at 7 30 Arcade Chambers—Star of Ashburton, U.A.0.D., monthly meeting, at 7 30 Friday, February 20 Ashburton Licensing District—Election of Committee, at Tinwald Saleyards Friday, February 27. 4sfibnrton County Council—At Council Chambers, 11 a. m. Tuesday, Marcs 3. Tinwald School Committee Monthly Meeting in the Schoolroom Friday, March 6. Lonbgeaoh Road Board at Road Board Offioe. Saturday, March 7. Aakanui Road Board, at Road Board office, Moore street, at 10.30 a.m. Tuesday, March 10. Ashburton School Committee—Monthly Meeting, in the Schoolroom, at 7 30

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna Est Veritas et Prevalebit THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1885. Death of General Gordon.

Any uncertainty with regard to the fate of General Gordon was removed by a cablegram received yesterday, announcing that the redoubtable de fender of Khartoum had been killed during the Mahdi’s last and successful assault upon the beleagured city. Until the worst fears were confirmed there remained some lingering hope, even after the fall of Khartoum, that General Gordon would survive to receive a nation’s homage to the supreme self sacrifice, inflexible justice and indomit able courage he had displayed during the whole of his brilliant career and in a pre-eminent manner during the last year of his truly heroic life. The General was undoubtedly the most re markable soldier of the century, and although inspired by a singular aver sion to the pomp and circumstance and horrors of war, his exploits in the Crimea, in China, in Turkey, in Egypt and in the Soudan are without parallel in military history. Not only the British nation, but every civilised people and vast numbers of uncivilised people will deplore the death of this gal lant soldier. Nor can there be any doubtthatthesacrifice will prove to have been a most calamitous circumstance for the fanatical followers of the Mahdi. Several years ago, writing in reference to the unhappy people of Soudan, General Gordon said in his own peculiar simple and expressive lan guage :—“ 1 would give my life for them. How can I help feeling for them ? All the time I was there I used to pray that God would lay upon me the burden of their sins, and crush me with it instead of these poor sheep.” The same generous magnanimity has distinguished all his later relations with the Soudanese, and had he survived to witness the triumph of the British arms, his influence would have been employed, for the best interests of the disaffected natives. Reaching Khartoum on the r6th February last year, he anticipated no insurmountable difficulty in carrying out his instructions —to provide for the security of the garrisons and the evacu ation of the country. But he soon found that the task was far more for midable than he had expected; that Egyptian misrule, deceit, and infirmity had undermined his own previously great personal influence and that some thing more material would be required to effect the purposes of his mission. Early in March he was compelled to apply for assistance, but the British Government hesitated about rendering it, fearing, we presume, that it would involve them in a war of conquest, and replied that they desired to leave full discretion to General Gordon to re main at Khartoum if he thought ne cessary, or to retire by the southern or anv other route which might be found available. General Gordon accepted the position with characteristic forti tude and his self-reliant intrepidity against the hordes investing Khartoum has since attracted the admiration of the world.

The Moore Street Crossing, The Minister for Public Works is a gentleman who does not hurriedly form a determination, but having once decided upon a particular course bis resolution is not readily shaken. In his ministerial capacity, at least, he has occasionally displayed a tenacity of purpose which in more humble walks of life would be denominated obsti nacy. It is a characteristic with which we have little faults to find ; in fact, it is one we think likely to contribute much towards the ultimate tranquility of a colonial Minister, without neces sarily interfering with his efficiency. Mr Richardson has evidently made up his mind in reference to the Moore street crossing, and although in com municating his determination to the municipal authorities he departed very little from the ministerial stereotyped indefiniteness, the departure was quite sufficient to indicate the futility of any further pressure in that direction. We understand Mr Richardson to re cognise the advantages to be derived from the crossing, but his estimate of its importance was quite outweighted by his opinion of the danger it would present to life and property. While respecting Mr Richardson’s con cern for the important interests he fears to imperil, we cannot accept his pro positionthata multiplication of crossings would diminish the safety of traffic ; indeed we should expect the reverse to be the case in this instance, as the pressure upon the most dangerous crossings—Burnett and Tancred streets —would be much relieved. Experience, too, has shown that we may be over solicitous for our personal safety; that the removal of pusillanimous precau tions has not been generally followed by the calamities their supporters pre dicted, and that seljl-reliance and dis cretion are promoted by crediting people with a little prudence and allow ing them to take care of themselves.

The weakest woman, smallest child, and sickest invalid, can use Hop Bitters with safety and great good. See.—[Advt,] Indigestion and Liver Complaints.—For these complaints Baxter’s Compound Quinine Pills have proved a specific, acting povvertully on the liver and mildly on the stomach. Sold everywhere, or post free from J. Baxter, Chemist, Christchurch, fof 19 ot 44 stamps.

The Orchestral Society purpose giving a concert of Irish and Scotch Nation*! music on the 17th of March (St Patrick’s Day). The programme will comprise both vocal and instrumental music, and ought to be very attractive indeed. The pre liminary ad ertiaeraents will shortly ap pear.

\ ioliniats In Ashburton will no doubt he glad to hear that facilities for acquir ing proficiency on the “ King of Instru ments ” are now within their reach. For some weeks past Mr R. Wood, a gentle man who is well known as an excellent violin player and teacher, has been visit ing Ashburton every Sdurday for the purpose of giving lessons on the violin. Already Mr Wood has a good many pupils, and the number is steadily increas ing. Intending pupils, desirous of secur ing Mr Wood’s services would do well to communicate with Mr Sidney Wolf for Mr Wood’s terms, as it would be an ex cellent thing to have an artiste, like Mr Wood permanently, settled in Ashburton, a consummation only to be brought about by sufficient encouragement presenting itelf to a good teacher to take up his resi dence amongst us. Mr Wood has kindly consented to perform several solos at the promised concert by the Orchestral Society on c?t Patrick’s Day evening.

At a meeting of the local Exhibition Committee in Christchurch last night, Mr Oallis was present, and promised to re commend the Government to adopt a uniform charge of sixpence per square foot for exhibits.

A compromise has been effected between the Licensed Victuallers and the temper ance party in Christchurch in reference to the election of Licensing Committees. Five candidates have bean agreed upon, who will be returned unopposed for the city districts.

A correspondent of the Standard states that he repeatedly saw the iate Mr An drew Crosse, in his laboratory at Fyno Court, make experiments in subjecting milk to electric action, whereby it was kept sweet for weeks together. In the “ Memorials of Andrew Crosse,” p 219, the very simple arrangement is described : —“ Two cylinders of sheet zinc and sheet iron are severally placed in two porous earthenware tubes, open at the top, closed at the bottom, the same being filled with water, . . . and connected

at the top by a copper riband. . . . The earthenware vessels are placed in the ’fluid (milk or other), and the electrical action immediately commences, and the fluid becomes antiseptic in a few hours.” “ Mi'.k has bean kept sweet for three weeks by this process in the middle of summer ” (p. 221). At the Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning his Worship the Mayor fined a man named J. Strange 5* and costs for drunkenness, with the alternative of 24 hours’ imprisonment. It is probable that Remenyi, the vio linist, will re visit Ashburton in the course of a few weeks.

The following are understood to be the principal prize-takers in the district prize firing : Private Marshall (Ashburton), 41 ; Captain Wolfe (Christchurch), 36 ; Lieutenant Higgins (Christchurch), 34 ; Corporal Hamilton (Christchurch), 34 ; Bugler Savage (Ashburton), 33 ; Private McNally (Temuka), 33 ; Lieutenant Hel lish (Christchurch), 33. The Committee of the Ashburton Hos pital have fixed the following days and hours as those when visitors will be ad mitted to the institution. ’’ heae are— Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday, between 11 and 12 o’clock, and 2 and 5 p.m , ex cept under special circumstances, when application will have to be made to the surgeon. Dr Stewart, whose action in performing the operation on Strickland, the patient in the Christchurch Hospital, and who formed the subject of an enquiry, has been elected by the Hospital staff as their Chairman. Another excursion from Christchurch to Timaru came off to-day. The excursion was made up of two trains, one compris ing 29, the othe" 26 carriages. Two en gines were attached to each train, and the number of tickets sold was over 2,200. Quite & crowd of Ashburton residents were on the platform when the trains passed, which they did as before without stopping It is understood that an excursion train from Christchurch to Ashburton will leave the former station on the 25th inst. It is rumored that steps will shortly be taken to form a Working Men’s Club in Ashburton.

Last evening Messrs Golyar, Shury, and Quane, three enthusiastic followers of the piscatorial art, succeeded iri landing a very fine trout weighing 7JI s from the Ashburton river, near the railway bridge. A correspondent writes :—I am de cidedly of opinion that the burgesses of Ashburton are not sufficiently respectful ‘o their new burgomaster. When Mr Rudolf Friedlander became Mayor he had a high honor put upon him. He owned up to

that like the brick he is. But no sooner does he begin to exercise the little privi leges of hi* position than a lot of fellows want to take a rise out of him. Ha last evening sailed down the Tancred street footpath on a tricycle, and caused quite a rebellion. One fellow wanted him to ride his tricyo'o over a broom stick laid down on the path, and some other not very respectful things were done in con nection with the genial Mayor’s ride. This is not as it should be, and the citizens ought to support the dignity of the Mayoralty in the person of their Mayor. And, Sir, “ when he next doth ride abroad may you be there to see.” f^ e cordially a»ree with our correspondent’s wish.— Ed. G.] A Scotchman who had at an early period of his career come to London, and, as is proverbially the case with folks of his nationality, had remained In the metro polis, was at the bedside of his dying wife, who had originally come from the High lands, and had always retained a strange affection for the land of her birth. “ Promise me, Angus,” she said, “ that ye’il bury me in the Hielands ; I could never rest quiet down here.” “ Weel,” replied the prudent Angus, who did not relish the expense of rem ving the body to Scotland, “ weel, I’ll just see. If I find that ye canna rest quiet here I’ll hae ye removed to the Hielands. ” —Topical Times.

" German Syrup.” —No other medicine in the world was ever given such a test of its curative qualities as Boschee’s German Syrup. In three years two million four hundred thou sand small bottles of this medicine were dis tributed Jree of charge by Druggists in the United States of America to those afflicted with Consumption, Asthma, Croup, severe Coughs, Pneumonia and other diseases of the throat and lungs, giving the afflicted undeniable proof that German Syrup will cure them. The re sult has been that Druggists in every town and village in civilised countries are recommending it to their customers. Go to your Druggist and ask what they know about it. Sample Bottles 6d. Regular size 3s, 6d. Three doses will relieve any case.— [Advt.l

Holloway’s Ointment and Pills.—Coughs, Influenza.—The soothing properties of these medicaments render them well worthy of trial in all diseases of the respiratory organs. In common cb'lds and influenza the pills, taken internally, and the ointment rubbed over the chest and throat, are' exceedingly efficacious, When influenza is ep identic, ' this treatment is the easiest, safest, and surest. Holloways pills purify the blood, remove all obstacles to its free circulation through the lungs, relieve the over-gorged air tubes, and render respira tion free, without reducing the strength, irrita ting the nerves, u depressing the spirits ; such are the ready means of saving suffering when anyone is afflicted with colds, coughs, bron- ‘ chitis, and other chest complaints, by which so many persons are seriously and permanently afllicted ip most countries, (

The Committee of the Ashbmton Racing Club met at the Club’s room last evening. Present—Messrs Parnell (in the chair), Crisp, Quill, and Drs Leahy and Ross. The Secretary was directed to write to the Gera’dine Racing Club, calling their attention to the fact that they had fixed their Autumn Meeting for a date pre viously selected by the Ashburton Racing Club. It was resolved to inquire from the Methven Racing Club as to what steps they hed taken to enforce the Watts- Marmion diaqua’ification. A trial of the Peering Self-binder and Harvester took place o-day on the farm of Mr S. Mullins, WaVanui road. The

crops operated upon consisted of oats and wheat. The machine did excellent wort, and a detailed notice of the trial will be given in to-morrow’s issue. A meeting of the gentlemen who have taken in hand the providing of sports and other amusements for the Christchurch

visitors on the 25th, was held in Matson, Cox and Co.'s office this afternoon. The Mayor presided, and read a requisition he hac received asking him to call a public meeting to consider the subject. After some discussion, it was decided to delay any further action until after the public meeting, which will be held to-morrow evening

Just as we go to press we learn from Christchurch that the names of the win ners of prizes in connection with the district prize firing, are correctly given in a paragraph in this issue.

Wells’ “Rough on Corns.” | Ask for Wells’ Rough on Corns.” Quick relief, complete, permanent cure. Corns, warts, bunions, The N.Z. Drug Co., General Agents. 1

Skinny Men. —“ Wells’ Health Renewer restores health and vigor, cutes dyspepsia, itn potence, debility. The N.Z. Drug Co. General*) Agents. | I 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 .very way trying to induce suSering invalids to use their stuff instead, expecting to make money on the credit ana 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‘■r counterfeits.

LICENSING COMMITTEE.

The following nominations for the Ash burton District, Ashburton Borough, and Upper Ashburton Committees have been received : Ashburton District. Messrs G. W. Andrews, S. S. Chap man, O. T. Dudley, J. Grigg, C. J. Uarper, D. Thomas, and T Taylor. Ashburton Borough Mossrsfßobart Alcorn, F. T. Mayo, J. W. Sawle, David Thomas, Thoa. Sealy, S. Saunders, J. Tucker, J . Grigg, J. McLean Dunn, and D. McLean. Upper Ashburton. Messrs T. Bullock, O. T. Dudley, O. J. Harper, D. McLean, and S. S. Chapman. The elections for the Ashburton and Ashburton Borough Districts will take place on Friday, 20th instant. There being only the required number nomin ated for the Upper Ashburton they were declared duly elected.

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Sydney, February 6,

A meeting held at the Town Hall to protest against German annexation in the Pacific resulted in a fiasco. The only s jeaker of any consequence was Sir H. Parkea. The Mayor’s decisions were im pugned, and the meeting broke up in con fusion. The whole thing is looked upon as a miserable farce.

Communications have been passing be tween this and the Imperial Governments in reference to the annexation of New Guinea. If any more difficulties are placed in the way of the New South Wales Go vernment endeavouring to assist in the establishment of the necessary protec torate, they will decline to take any fur ther steps in the matter. The Hospital ship Faraway is now clear of patients. The convalescents have been removed to the quarantine ground. The English Eleven are having easy victories in Queensland against local twenty-two’s. The weather has been very hot all over the country. The Nelson >s going to Melbourne shortly to be docked. Votes are being taken this veek in con nection with the municipal elections, to decide the question of local option. Melbourne, February 6.

A serious bush fire at Mount Macedon threatened to envelope the residence now occupied by the Governor. The fire ap proached very near the house. The smoke and heat were frightful.

DEATH OF GORDON.

FURTHER PARTICULARS.

(Received February 12, 11 a m ) [retjteh’s telegrams—copyrjqht.] London, February 11,

Telegrams from the Soudan state that the refugees from Khartoum re port that Faragh Pasha opened the gates at Khartoum to the Mahdites on January 26, and that General Gordon rushing out of the palace to ascertain the cause of the commotion was slain on the threshold. Telegrams also state that nearly the whole and not merely a quarter of General Gordon’s adherents and their families were massacred.

THE SALVATION ARMY.

The annual report of the Salvation Army indicates that the organisation is still in full vigour. At any rate it passes the financial tost with something like flying colours. The total receipts for the past year have been considerably over saventy-four thousand pounds, and be* ; sides this the Army have had a spacious Congress Hall at Brighton, worth seven thousand pounds, given to them. In fact, so greatly have their halls and “barracks” multiplied, that we may hope, within a reasonable time, to find them holding all thoir services under the friendly shelter of their own roofs. If expenditure is a sign of activity, the Salvationists are certainly active almost beyond the bounds of pru dence, for they have managed, in one way or another, to run through the whole seventy-four thousand pounds, and have a balance of only four hundred and forty eight pounds—barely two days’ expendi ture—in hand, while the Treasurer is urgently demanding thirty thousand pounds in order “ to maintain the work ” One paragraph in the report will probably he the moat i.iteies..mg to the public, and will certainly attract the attention of tradesmen. I he trading transactions ot I the Army last year realised net profit of J

nearly seven thousand pounds, and we I read that the force has added to its mer- I can tile operations by the sale of “ musical I instruments, watches specially designed to I remind the soldier of his God and his 1 duty, mottoes and other articles for home use, all contrived with the same end in view ; and now last of all tea, and other things which cannot, except by means of covers or marks, have so direct a bearing on the

propagation of the truth, but which will | at least answer another great purpose which experience has taught us we may safely aim at—the raising of funds by trade profits.” The sale of musical instru ments as a direct stimulus to religion we can, from the Salvationist point of view, understand ; but scoffers might be inclined to ask in what a watch “ specially de signed” to remind the soldier of his God and his duty, differs from the ordinary

products of Waltham, Geneva, or Olerken well. Is there a new Salvation escape ment, or a combination of watch with alarum 1 Generel Booth tells his followers that the raising of funds by trade profits is a “great purpose” which, he has been taught by experience, is “ safe.” We will not deny that the raising of funds has,

with him, always been a great purpose, but that it is safe for a religious com munity to combine trading with van gelisation is certainly not the teaching of experience. Not to quote ill matured things said of soma African missionaries in the present day, did General Booth over read the history of the eighteenth-century Jesuits who tried the very experiment which he thinks safe with such scandalous |

results that France was driven to expel I them, and Popes to disown them ? We 1 doubt if he will succeed better than they I did in uniting the interests of Religion I and Mammon. When two men ride on a I horse one must ride behind, and in the I case supposed Religion is pretty sure to I get relegated to the back seat.— Standard, I Dec. 23.

THE CIRCUS.

Drury Lane, the Lyceum, and the Sur rey Theatres have each in their turn been I the scene of equestrian performances. In 1833, when Astley’s was closed for the season, Elliston engaged the troupe for the first-named house ; when the West minster Amphitheatre was destroyed by fire for the third time in 1841 the com pany found a temporary home at the Sur rey ; while in 1844 there was a short cir cus season at the Lyceum. Although there have been performing horses at least as early as the time of Queen Eliza-

beth, the circus was unknown in England 1 till 1767, when Johnson, who is repre sented in an old print as riding two horses, with one leg on each, not in a circle but in a straight tine, took some vacant, ground at the back of Fenton street, Is lington, and gave equestrian perfor mances. Three years later Philip Astley made a circle with ropes and stakes in a field near Halfpenny Hatch, Lambeth, and hy means of the feats of horseman ship there exhibited laid the foundation of his subsequent reputation and fortune. By 1772 Astley, who had formerly been in the cavalry, seems to have become so pro ficient in his new calling, that the bills of that date stat) that he would perform

fifty feats each evening. Philip Astley died in Paris in 1814, in which year An drew Duorow, who, by the way, once ap peared at Oovent Garden in a spectacular drama, first came into notice, as well as Clarke and Bradbury, both well-known circus names. The latter first “ created” the part of Dick Turpin, a drama founded on a story published in a cheap form, but differing in many particulars from Aina "worth’s, which was not then written. By about 1820 circus proprietors, several of whom had sprung into exist enco, began the “tenting” system, which has been carried on ever since. Not withstanding the demand for novelties, it is cmious that, so far as circus feats are concerned, there is very little that is new under the sun. Riding bare-backed was

practised as long ago as the end of the last century in Hughes’s Circus. To the ordinary spectator the tr dning of an ani mal to perform various feats is regarded as the most difficult part of the breaker's duty, whereas, in fact, the training of a trick horse requires a much shorter time than the making of a ring or pad horse. A trick horse can be made to perform in public in six months ; some require less time, some more; but it is seldom that an animal is fit to carry a rider round the ring with less than two years’ practice, and two and a half years is no uncommon time. Trick horses are by no means new

inventions, as one of the Arundel manu scripts show a horse standing on a tight rope o while in the time of Queen Eliza beth lived “ Morvea,” a bay horse belong ing to one Banks, who in an old picture is represented as directing with a whip the movements of the horse as the latter stands on his hind legs. Among otHer tricks, Morvea would tell the number of pence in any silver coin, while “ he not only knew the number of francs in a crown, but knew that the crown was de preciated at that time, and the exact amount of the depreciation. The system of teaching a horse depends a good deal upon the temperament of the teacher.

Many teach them by kindness; but in some instances there is every ground for believing that the horse is subjected to severe punishment before he is considered sufficiently perfect to come into the ring. When the -lesson is once learned, it is never forgotten., Many years ago Mr William Cooke, for a long time the lessee of Astley’s, bought and broke a very small pony, the smallest alive it was said. After performing for

ab iUt six years, he was sold, the pony being then about ten or eleven. Seven years later, when Mr Cooke was at Bris tol, a man came to him saying that he had a pony for sale that would be just the thing for a circus, as he was so small. “How old is he?’’ asked Mr Cooke. “ sdx,” was the answer, “ Bring him up here,” said the equestrian ; and the pony was accordingly brought. Mr Cooke at once recognised his old servant, told the man that the pony was at least seventeen* years old, and that he himself had broken him a dozen years ago, and that he would prove it. He then gave the pony his “cues,” andthelittle animal went through his tricks as readily ,as though h i had never been off the sawdust. In England of late years, the great difficulty has been

to get competent lady riders. As the numbsr of their feats is necessarily limited, they must be performed with the greatest possible finish, and when this perfection has been reached, the artistes betake themselves to America, France, or Spain, where they can command much higher salaries than an English manager would offer. Recently at a London circus the proprietors were put to such shifts for a lady rider that they were forced to dress up a boy in female attire, and give him a foreign name, under which he succeeded in earning applause night after night with out the segret being found out.

GENERAL GORDON.

The following epitome of the chief events of the career of General Gor don' is condensed from English papers by the Christchurch Press :He was the son of the late General Henry Gor don, and was born at Woolwich on Jana ary 28th, 1833, just fifty-two yean all bat those two fatal days by which the capture of Khartoum ante-dated the arrival of the relieving force. Ho first saw service to- ' fore the trenches of Sebastopol, where his capacity as an engineer officer procured him many encomiums. As one of'the | commissioners for settling the Russo- . Turkish boundary at the conclusion of the Crimean war he again came into promin ence, and for some years, while engaged I in these duties, be resided in Armenia. I He was one of the few men who have I ascended Mount Ararat, and one of the I fewer still, whose ascent of that mystic I mountain has been believed in. Ordered I to China in 1860, he went through the I Taku Fort war,' and was present at the I oaptu-e of Pekin. In 1863 the Chinese I Government were in great dUtrew.-v.Tbe. I Taepings were closing round them, and I the Manchoo race seemed in danger of

the extermination which the fanatical rebels had threatened Victory after victory had been won by the disciples of Hung, the “ Heavenly King," who for twenty years had been gaining ground in Southern China, and had recently poa- ' sessed himself of Nankin, h ung’s armed followers were numbered by the hundred* of thousands, and their five wings under bis five Wangs ranged the country far and near, torturing and destroying in the most approved celestial fashion in their steady advance to the cities of the sea coast. The British were asked to appoint a general to command the Imperialist forces in the place of the Yankee Burge vine, and Colonel Gordon was selected, .(e immediately took command of the Sunkiang force, then consisting of abont 4,000 men, and these formed the neuoleus j of the now immortal “ Ever Victorious Army.” Gradually the 4000 were added to, and thoroughly organised, and dar ingly led they cleared the Chinese I Empire of the dreaded Taepings. Fort I after fort was taken, town after town was I won from the rebels, and the march of 1 victory was never stayed. The “ Byer, I Victorious Army” grew, grew and grew, I and simply elbowed the Taepings out of I existence. The slanghter was terrific. I Cut of a hundred officers he lost nearly I one-half, but he rescued the Chinese Km- I pire from extinction and saved the lives lof at least a hundred thousand men. I General Gordon found the richest and I most fertile districts of China in the hands lof the most savage brigands. The silk I districts were the scenes of, their cruelty I and riot, and the great historical cities of Hangchow and Soochow were rapidly fol- I lowing the fata of Nanking and were _ba- I coming desolate ruins in their possession. I Gordon out the rebellion in half, re- I covered the great cities, isolated and nt- I terly discouraged the fragments of the I brigand power, and left the marauders I nothing bat a few tracts of devastated I country. All this he effected—first by I the power of his arms, and afterwards atiU I more rapidly by the terror of his name. I Honors and wealth were pressed I upon him, but, with the exception lof a few complimentary decorations, ( making him one of the greatest sal j acts I of the Etrperor, he left China witnout I taking a penny of reward ; and when I he returned to his country he refused Ito be lionised, and quietly resumed I hia duties as a Colonel of Engineers, j From 1863 to 1871 he was stationed at Gravesend engaged in fortifying the banks of the Thames, and during his leisure there did an immense amount of good work among the poor and needy. In the latter year he left England for Turkey, to assume the appointment of one of the Danube Commissioners ; from thence be went to Africa, where he had been re quested by the Khedive to succeed Sir Samuel Baker. The district thus en trusted to Gordon’s care was abont the size of India. He entered on his duties in February, 1874, and, with character istic energy, began with an expedition from one end- of the domain to the other. He ascended the Nile to with in a few miles of Lake Victoria, and tamed back only at the border of King Metsa’s country. Military posts were established all up the river, from Khartoum to the Lakes, and a steamer was taken overland in sections and launched on the Albert Nyanza.. To Gor don’s war with the slave dealers and his final defeat of the chief Zebehr we have not space here to allude. The difficulties of the task were enormous. Short of foodj short of men, the climate so unhealthy that nearly all the Europeans died or were invalided, he kept on his way ail daunted, and it was only when the Court intrigues became too glaring and the prisoners he tent to Cairo for'punishment were found dancing at the Khedive?*.

balls, that he resigned bis arduous task, (n December, 1876, he was back in Lon* don, but Ismail knew his value, and fol lowed him with invitations to return.

Trusting to the Khedive’s promises to let him have his own way and to honorably support him, he consented to re-enter the Egyptian service. On February 18th he left Cairo for Massowah, and thence on to Khartoum. Bound his palace gates.a huge crowd stood all day to catch a glimpse of the Governor * who held the. balance wheel.’ At the door was a letter

box for petitions. Every one coaid pat his

petition into it, and every petition war con sidered and j ustice promptly administered. When he became absolute ruler of the Soudan he warned Ismail that he would make it impossible for Turks and Circas sians ever to govern it again. He kept his word. By treating the people justly, by listening attentively to their end mercilessly repressing all fhose who defied the law, he accustomed the Sou danese to a much higher standard pf government than any that had prevailed in those regions before. He found little difficulty in making both ends meet, and the Soqdan at the close of his admlnistra? tion was no bnrden to the Egyptian Exchequer. In 1879 came the substitu tion of Tewfik for Ismail, and Gordon re signed. The old style of pillage and op pression was resumed, and the people who had tasted the sweets of justice raised the standard of revolt under the Mahdi,

From India Gordon went ot. a mission to Abyssinia, and then started for India as Secretary to the Governor-General, an appointment which was quite incompat ible with his independence, and he almost immediately threw it up to go to China, and bring about the treaty of peace be tween that country and Russia in connec tion with the Kuldja affair. Thence he went to Mauritius, and from there was ordered to the Gape. From the Capa he went to the Holy Land, and was at Jeru salem when a telegram from the King of the Belgians informed him that Stanley was going to give up command of the station on the Congo, and that he had been chosen as his successor. Arriving at

Brussels on January 17th he received a telegram from the British War Office, and he immediately returned to London and received the appointment which he held to his death. The subsequent history of the Governor-General of the Soudan la doubtless fresh in the minds of all one readers. ■

THE ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1885.



For eye, ear and throat DISEASED DR. SOHWARZBACH, M.D., may be Consulted at the Clarendon Hotel (private rooms), Christchurch, from 15th February, for about One Month. During-bis recent stay in Europe, DrS, eras again employed in revisiting the prin cipal Ophthalmic Hospitals, and making himself thoroughly acquainted with all the modern knowledge in regard to Dis uses of the Eye, Ear and Throat. 2 215 NEW TWEEDS ! NEW TWEEDS ! SUMMER SUMMER . SUITS. SUITS. Perfect Fit Guaranteed Craighead & Co., MERCHANT TAILORS, E have much pleasure in announcing to our friends and patrons, and 11 who may feel interested in the general ogress of our times that we have just ceived a splendid assortment of Tweeds, Coatings, Serges, etc., etc.. of the best quality and latest designs—suitable for the season we are now entering. LOWEST GASH PRICE in the latest or any style that may be required. All Goods Supplied at CRAIGHEAD & CO., Tancred street, Ashburton.



M P OUTANT NOTICE OS' Amalgamation. ORR & CO. AND ROBERT ALCORN. The business carried on for some years by John Orr, and known as Orr and Co., Importers of Hardware, Drapery and General Merchandise, and that carried on by Hebert Alcorn, as General Merchant has been AMALGAMATED and will in future be carried on under the style of OBR & ALCORN, in the premises hitherto occupied by Orr and Co. The premises in Saunders's Buildings, occupied by Bobert Alcorn, will for the present be kept open and where goods will be Sold at the Lowest Prices for Gash, but the Offices of the new firm will be at Orr and Go’s Buildings on and after Monday, the 16th instant. The Motto of the new firm will be small profits, small advertisements, large stocks and a large turnover. John Obe] [Robeet Alcorn ORE AND ALCORN, Importers of Hardware, Drapery and General Merchandise. 2 199



Ashburton permanent BUILDING & INVESTMENT SOCIETY. Tbe above Society pays Interest at the rate of E> per, cent, por annum for De posits at Call, per cent, per annum for three mouths, and 6£ per cent, per annum if fixed tor (J months or over j WARD, Manager. Ofiice ; Area e Chambers, Barnet street



VALENTINES. VALENTINE S— A Very Artistic Assortment. Inspection Invited. CHEAP STATIONERY. Superfine notepaper ... 5s per ream Cream-laid envelopes ... 6s per 1000 Foolscap, exceptional value Is per quire B O~O~K S. Books by various authors, and some of the latest editions. Toys and Fancy Goods incredibly cheap, to clear out surplus stock. B. Bevan, STATIONED, BOOKSELLER, &o. SAUNDERS' BUILDINGS, (Nest Shop to Qttlil’p Hotel.)



SELLING OEE FANCY GOOt)S, TOYS, BOOKS, STATIONERY, &a. 'of Must be boM—even if at a loss 17 A LB N TINEO ?V AIBNriNE»3 To Salt everybody at prices f iat cannot be beaten. Andrewes Bros.? Staxioheks, &o'., Ashburton,



Wanted. W A !X - Good General Servant, t once, office of this paper. 2 219



WA NTi D-^ituation by i\ hand, to feed or drive i machine. Apply to William Tiuwald. competent i threshing Beads i; aw, 2 200



WAITED —A Caretaker for the Ash burton Sa’eyards. Applications must be in writing, and forw.itdad :o my office on or before Monday, February 23 Georoe Jamfsou, Ashburton. 2 226



TTTAjSTED—Board and Lodging for a V T Girl, age 10 years', during the present term at the High School. Apply, stating terms, to Mr Heebiso, Alford House. 2 207



WANTED Known—Umbrellas at Is lid, six doz Buttons for Is, China Matting at 6d, Ladies’ Hose at 6d, Cor sets at 2s 3d, Shirting at 4£i, Towels 3id, 36 inch Oilcloth 9d, Calicoes Is 4i. Amjkkw Okr’s Cheap Sale 2 185



GLORIOUS NEWS —Monster Clear ing Sale: —Ladies’ Kid Boots 6s 6d, Girls', Infants Is, Men’s Elastic side, 8a 6d, Men’s Watertights 9s fid, jßlucher Boots 6 i fid, Canvas Slippers 2a fid. A. Okr’s Chtap Sale. 2 186



ANTED Known— That R. Lancas tee. starts the new year entirely on hia own account with a very light handi cap, which will onab'e him to sell meat cheaper than ever. With quality, clean liness and civility combined—defies com petition. So rally round to the Ready- Money Mea 1 - Mart, Bullcck’a Arcade 1 2



VST ANTED Known—Fresh Flounders ’• are daily despatched ‘ direct from our own boat, now fishing at Lake Elles mere. Delivery guaranteed within eight hours from time of catching. Ail orders received at. my shop will be immediately executed on arrival of the train. W, O. Page, East street, Ashburton. 11 2151



Known—Boots ! Boots 1 W That Hates and Co. are Clearing a few desperate lines of Boots, etc., to wit, Ladies’ Leather, 4s 6d; Men’s Shooters, Pegged, 10a ; Men’s Elastic sides, 9s, and a lot of odd lines that must bo cleared at once. 7 1278



WANTED Known Removed.— Jones and Bkadsbaw, Corn and Chaff Deal rs, have removed to the large premises in Havelock street near'y oppo site Mr A. Harrison’s auction rooms (lately occupied by Messrs Robinson and Townsend), where they will be better able to comply with the demands of their trade. Jones and Hbadshaw.



WANTED Known.—We are not to be beaten ! Good straw hats, 4£d, 6d, 9J ; black Cashmere, double width, Is 3d; print costumes, 2s 9d ; white calico, 2s 6d pec doz ; a lot of infants’ white and colored satin and merino hats and hoods, Is to 3s 61— usual price, 4s 6d to 12a 6d. H. C. £egees, ealya’ Buildings, East street.



\AT ANTKD KNOWN —Robert Elston, W Bill Poster, Theatrical Agent, etc., Towd Hall, Ashburton. Theatrical companies and others visiting Ashburton should communicate with the above. Orders by post or telegram promptly attended to. 760



SOMETH IK G worth knowing.—F. F. CLAYTON, Practical Tailor, pro fessed Coat and Habit Maker, is next Jones and Bradshaw’s, East street. F. P. C. is too well known as a master of hia profession to need further comment. One trial will prove it Gentlemen’s own ma terial made up ; repairs and alterations carefully attended to. 10 1952



WANTED Known—C. Hawkin's, of Tinwald, bavins; decided to com pete with either Christchurch or Ashbur ton, in price and qudity of Boots, will, Ist January, 1885, Sell for Cash Only, at the following reduced rates Men’s Harvest Bluchers, tips and nailed, 5s 9d; Shooter Boots, 10s 3d; Women’s Strong Lace Boots, 8a 6d ; Leather Elastic, 9a 6d; Children's all reduced from Is per pair. Motto—“ Small Pro fits and Quick Returns.” C. Haw in’s, Boot and Shoemaker. 12 2393



WANTED Knows—J. Meech & Co., are still Selling On and not Selling Off at saleroom prices. J. M. and Co’s Furniture is made for use as well as ornament and not for auction sales. The best materials are used, being specially selected, and combined with good workmanship, all goods are guaran teed of the best quality, and at the very lowest prices. East and Burnett street, Ashburton. 12 2342



Special Advertisements. Uimant and Coe, ARE authorised LOCAL AGENTS for Singer’s SEWING M A OHINES, and are prepared to receive PAYMENTS and afford all information in connection therewith. Treadle and Hand Machines on Time Payments. A supply of Machine extras on hand. CONNER EAST AND TANCRED STREETS, ASHBURTON. 11 2181



Cornsacks. OftjA BALES of OOENSACKS to AtJ\J arrive ex ship Atlantigue (now due), size 48 x 26£, 2£. Apply, at once, to HAYES & CO., 1 1 Arcade, Ashburton.



TO my readers and the reading public. Just to hand.—New Books.—Black Poodle, by Anstey ; Our Old Nobility ; The Cuckoo Clock, by Mrs Moleaworth ; We Two, by Edna Doyal; Poverty, by Platt; I Say No, by Wilkie Collins; John Bull’s Womankind, by author of John Bull and his Island; The Jilt, by Charles Keide; Good Stories of Man and other Aninula, by Charles Reade; Yeateged, by Geo F. Gumming; Pages in Waiting, by Edmund Yates; Notes on Ingersoll, by Bev L. A. Lambert, Roman Catholic Jesuit; My Own Child*, by Florence Marryatt; Life, Opinions, and Table Talk of Dr Johnson; American Society Novels; Inspiration; A Clerical Lympocium; Bos well’s Life of Johnson ; Magna Charts Stories; Taming Down without Banting; Money and Mechanism of Exchange, by S. Jevons; John Holdsworth'g Chief Mate; My Watch Below, by W. C. Rus sel; The Wonder of Nature; Death Shot, by Reed; How to live upon Is per Week; Stories of Waterloo; Secrets of Success ; How to Bead Character ; Christmas Number of Goodward’s Ohrystal Stories ; Longman’s Magazine; The Book of the Beginnings, by R. H. Newton; Mistletoe Bough; 160 Illustrated London Graphics, latest copies, to be sold cheap at Thomas F. Farley’s, PRINTER, BOOKSELLER, AND STATIONER, Faundees’ Buildings, Ashbdeton.



Special Advertisements. NOTICE TO CONSUMERS OF COAL, THE undersigned are now landing, ex a.b Hauroto, the Best Newcastle Coal Imported for the season A TRIAL SOLICITED They have also added to their stocks of Building Materials the following lines, viz, V.D.L Timber and Palings Kauri Timber, Flooring and Lining Roofing Iron, Doors and Sashes Lime, Cement, Poncing Materials, <Sc., And every requisite for the trade. MACPHERSON, FILMER AND CO. (late A. Hayes), SAWMILLERS, TIMBER, COAL, 4ND FIREWOOD MERCHANTS. East street, Ashburton,



25 Branches Now Open 25 j THE NEW~ ZEALAND Clothing Factory Are now Showing NEWEST STYLES in SPRING k SUMMER CLOTHING, Manufactured from the renowned Wear Resisting MOSGIEL TWEEDS The fit and workmanship of every gar ment is undoubtedly unsurpassed, while the large production and increased busi ness enables the proprietors to offer special advantages as to price. Men’s, Boys’ and Children’s Clothing in every variety at Wholesale Prices. Shirts, Hats, Hosiery, Blankets, Rugs, Portmanteaux, and every requisite at WHOLESALE PRICES. Note the address — NEW ZEALAND CLOTHING FACTORY, EAST STREET, Ashburton 25 Branches Now Open 25



Davis’s gURPLUS STOCK OF FURNITURE Now selling off at HALF-PRICE. Must be sold to make room for NEW STOCK. Parties about to Furnish will SAVE 50 Pb* Cent. BY PUOHASING AT W. DAVIS’S FURNITURE WAREHOUSE, EAST STREET SOUTH, Ashburton 9 1729



V. R. ~DE DENNIS O’CONNELL, BANKRUPT, Of • Manchester street, Christ church, and Lyttelton, CLOTHIER AND DRAPER. Marked price of Stock, £2,424 Actual Cost, £l,BlB Sold for £954. NOTICE OF BANKRUPTCY. In Bankruptcy. In the Estate of Dennis O’Con nell, of Christchurch and Lyttel ton, Draper. Tenders are invited for the pur ch sse, either separately or other wise, of the stock, fittings, and book debts of the business in Manchester street, Christchurch, and also in Lyttelton. The stock consists of clothing and general drapery, and is mostly new, the business having been carried on only since May last. It will be on view on and after Monday next, and the stock sheets can be inspected on the premises, Manchester street. Tenders will be received by the undersigned until 10 a.m, on Monday, Ist December. E. 0. LATTER, Official Assignee. Christchurch, 21st Nov., 1884. ACCEPTANCE OF TENDER. Official Assignee’s Office, December, 1884. Messrs H. E, May and Co., Gentlemen, —I have the plea sure to inform you that your tenders for the purchase of stocks in Christchurch and Lyttelton have been accepted, viz— Christchurch ... £1502 18 0 Lyttelton ... £315 7 0 £lBlB 5 0 At 10/6d in the £, being £954 9s. Yours faithfully, E. 0, LATTER. Official Assignee. Mr White, will deliver the stocks. Notice of Sale xo the Public. This stock, which really repre sents a retail value of £2,424, was bought by us of the Official Assignee for £954, so that if wo get one-half O’Oonnell’s price it will pay us handsomely, and that is all we want. We think you ate convinced that our sales are thoroughly genuine, and always worth a visit, especially if saving money is an object SALE COMMENCES SATURDAY, January 10. Terms Cash —No discounts or abatements of any kind. H. E. May & Co



Victoria House. iEASON «ALE COMMENCING ON JANUARY 16 XU, & CONTINUING y FOR FIVE WEEKS ONLY. REMARKABLE REALITIES ! GLARING REDUCTIONS ! 1 jSffEor Convincing proof and Special FfLsej See Windowb'^^ Dim ant and Coe, READY-MONEY DRAPERS, CLOTHIERS, Ac., 1q premises lately occupied by Off and Oo*, Coro East and Tauorod ASHBURTON,



Special Advertisements. Groceries CHEAPER THAN EVER AT JAMES McGREGOR’S, Tanored Street. Sugara—English Cut Loaf, 5d per lb Best White Crystal, 3|d per lb Best Snowdrop, 4d per lb (Reductions by the mat) Teas, la 3d, Is 6d, 2s, 2s 6d, and 2s 9d Box Tea from 12s 6d per box Canterbury Cakes, lOd each. Rice, 3d Mixed Biscuits, 61 Lunch Biscuits, 3d Currants, 61 Raisins, 7d New Figs,. Is per box Best Sago, 3d New Muscatels, la 6d Oysters, 6d Cairn's Marmalade, 8d Peacock’s Jams, 6Jd Herrings, 7d Keiller’a Marmalade, 9d Salmon, 8d Cheese, 6d per lb English Pickles, 8d Other articles equally cheap. james McGregor, Tanored Street, 12 2342



“ My mother drove the paralysis and neural gia all out of her system with Hop Bitters.- —Ed. Osivego Sun, See.—[Advt.] A'>other unfortunate.—Again we must draw the attention of our readers to the fact that a ,£2,424 stock of Clothing and General Dra pery, in the estate of Dennis O’Connell, tra ding in Lyttelton and Cristchurch, now bank rupt, was purchased by H. E.-May & Co., of the Hall, High street, for £954,- or only a little over 6ne-thlrd of its valde. If. E. M. : and Co. are now selling it at half the marke'd prio^ ? which surely ought tp secnre a speedy clearance. Don’t Die in the House. “ Romigh on Rats ” clears out rats, mice, beetles, roaches, osd-bugs, flies, ants, insects, moles, jack* rabb.ts, gophers. The N.Z. Drug Co., General Agents, I



“ Doctor,” aaidaa old lady the other I day to her family physical), “ kin you teH me how it is- that ' some folks Is fcoi|i> dumb i" “ Why. mem, why, pertain If, madam,” replied the doctor, “ it’s Of itfg to the fact that they name into thp world without speech !” “ La, me !” remarked the old lady ; “ now just see what it is to have a physio edioation ; I’ve axed my old m*n more’u a hundred times that,are samf