The Ashburton Guardian.

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ASHBURTON. MONDAY. MAT J_l.lHßs.

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tinrvavor. Civil Engineers, fte. C. K. FOOKS AND SONSj Architects, Cxm, Eksh'Xsbs, Vaivatom, Lkjxkbui gntniou, akd Luro Beokxes, triangle, wakanui road, Asububtow. Shipping. O HORTEST AND MOST DIRECT O ROUTE TO GREAT BRITAIN AND EUROPE, THROUGH AMERICA AND, via SANDWICH ISLANDS. The Pacific Mail Steamship Company fonder .contract with the New Zealand and New South Wales Governments) will ‘ ' i the undermentioned steamers as rMNDgen dwew w ««uuwu, pool, or Paris at a through rate, thus securing special advantages. For rates of Freight and Passage, and .or full information, apply to GARD’NER & PICKERING, Agents, 161, Hereford street, Christchurch. Conveyances. fJIINW. ALD AND MOUNT SOMERS RAILWAY. MOUNT SOMERS AND CAVENDISH ROYAL MAIL COACH. The above Coach leaves Hood’s hotel for Oavendish Rail way Station every Tues day Shd Saturday, meeting each train. Passengers by morning train may pro eeed hy Coach to Alford Forest, thence to Uethven in time for the .last train for Christchurch, or may return in time for the last train for Ashburton. I® JOHN HOOD P AUSTRALASIAN ABOELS EXPRESS. Parcels and Packages forwarded to any address, at cheap, through, inclusive rates. One charge. No extras. No trouble. No charge for booking or for collecting packages up to 661bs weight within the dty. Daily despatches by Hail, and to Great Britain, Europe and Australia by every eteexner. Extract from tariff, including all charges to Address of Consignee & a » cj i t B. € 2 W I € i r 3 * % s g- 8 r 0 8* 1 •sr We are now receiving parcels for Home to per Tongariro, sailing this month. Revised cheap rates. Insurance effected if desired. Tariff and al) Information on application t.UFF & GRAHAM, Box 937 Post Office, Christchurch ; and Lyttelton. Telephone 22. 8 1672 Business Notices. DANISH Seed Oats. mHE CLOTHING ••• has a full Stock •LONIAL DRAPERY FLANNELS, &a. Boots and Shoes, Large Stock of Groceries and Oilmen's Stores. SPECIAL VALUE IN CHOICE TEA FEED ANDBEED OAT , FLOUR, BRAnTaND SH EPS. ’ All at'the lowest prices possible. Genn die value and no make-believe or sham Luse discount, and other indhcemen or £h. - Famines waited w on weekly eftener if required. D. WILLIAMSON. Baa*. Stxxxt, Ashbvbto Builders, < Under. ‘ road’ aad-Osei »■ anc mwrni<)OoxaH,are>pwp«* d , to'tomisl i— J —tJTuneralson *pepW Country order*. wU ii£Eon. Jote the sd road and Oa* n loft at the Ash r;<* »« l6 « **



v?onauAi;tt iwu» gFOK Tns G BKW!). £4,000 320 CASH PRIZES. NINTH GRAND HAMBURG DRAWING IS NOW OPEN. To a purchaser of 25 programmes one will be given gratia. From the undoubted popularity and great success these drawings have ob tained throughout New Zealand the pro moters are enabled to bring them before the public every .two months. Although this Company has a large number of Horse Consultationists (about thirty) to contend against, some of whom under fictitious names have been mean enough to do their utmost to injure the promotersof the Ham burg Company, they cannot do so, as this Company is too well established and fa vo ably known with lhe(public all through New Zealand. The large number of applications that came in too late will be registered in the ninth drawing ; or if the applicant wishes, the money will be returned. The ninth grand drawing for L 4,000 will close the end of June, and the tenth Hamburg drawing will open on the Ist of J uly. This ninth grand drawing will consist of 320 money prizes, amounting to L 4,000 subscribed by 8,000 members at 10s each. The various Money Prizes will be dis tributed as follows ; I £3OO prize; 1 £2OO prize; 1 £IOO prize; 2 £SO prizes; 10 £3O prizes; 15 £25 prizes; 15 £2O prizes; 16 £ls prizes ; 160 £lO prizes; ICO £5 prizes. Total amount, £4,000; 320 money prizes. To a purchaser of 25 programmes one will be given gratis. The grand principle of these Hamburg Drawings is that a purchaser of 25 pro grammes is guaranteed a prize, aad the chances are in favor of the investor draw ing a large prize, as there are 220 large prizes to 100 small ones. To any inves tor of £2 the chances are only 6 to 1 against him drawing a prize, and the head prize or any other may be drawn by an investor of 10s. Read this.— In Boaz’s Grand Ham burg Drawings the greatest, odds are only 25 to 1 against an investor of 10a drawing a prize. But carefully note the enormous odds against investors drawing a horse or cash prize in any of the horse consultations. The marbles are replaced for each drawing ot the cash prizes, which gives the enormous odds against investors. This Company would simply ask investors to calculate the odds before placing their investments in any horse consultations; and this Com pany would not presume to tell the public that they have a number of chances and may win a number of prizes for a single in vestment of 10s. Note. —Prize winners whether winning large or small prizes are informed that their names will not be made public with out their written consent. This ninth grand drawing for £4,000 will take place under the supervision of a com mittee of eight subscribers, and the prizes will be paid over as early as possible after the drawing. Notice —Country cheques marked cor rect by Bank, only payable to a number, and Is added for exchange. Post-office orders preferred, made payable only to Boaz. Bank notes accepted. Two 2d stamps for reply and result. Registered letters and telegrams not received. Name and address of applicant should be plainly written. All letters must be addressed ■p nn _ Care Mr Mosely, DUtlZij Wholesale & Retail Tobacconist, ' I Box 64 Post Office. Dunedin. 121136 KJOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE N SUCCESS. ROBIN HOOD. took at our Dunedin Cup and Great Autumn results 'irst prize, Birthday Handicap, LI ,000, First prize, Grand National, L3OO. wo races and eight classes cash bonds. Apply Early. iUNEDIN BIRTHDAY HANDICAP, To be run at Dunedin, May 25, IFBS. N.Z. GRAND NATIONAL, b be tun at Christchurch, May 25, 1885. Will Close May 22. ,000 members at 10s. About 220 prizes, lach ticket has ten chances, and can obtain a prize in each of ten drawings. IKTHDA.Y Handicap Grand National. AH applications exceeding advertised number of 8,000 will be allotted as Extra Cash Bonds of L 5 each (less usual com mission), instead of increasing value of existing prizes, and will be called 9th class. We wish to be distinctly under stood that our drawings are always con ducted by a committee of shareholders, and that representatives of the Press are likewise present; and names and addresses of principal winners are always sent throughout New Zealand. From the number of people who inspect our books day by day, and the correspondence we receive (and answer) relative to our draw ings, distribution of pr'zea, and our busi □eaa generally, it seems almost superfluous to still say “our books aro always open for inspection;” yet such is the fact, and our ever increasing business shows plainly the result; Please send two 2d stamps for reply and result . P.O. orders preferred. la ex change on Cheques and Stamps. Coin and Notes must bo registered. Regis tered letters and telegrams received. Address—ROßlN HOOD, Care of Thos. Stapleton, Box 238, P,0,, Christchurch, Or care of Jnbal Fleming, Ottg^Bat^^olomb^aL^^^iSiSSSlLw 10.000 BOTTLES SOLD LAST I IT WINTER. USB DR ERNEST LOW’S Cherry Pectoral, L safe, pleasant, and reliable medicine for ;he ctire of Golds, Coughs, and all Throat md Lung diseases. Sold all over the colonies by Chemists md Storekeepers in la 6d and 2s 6d sottles. Wholesale Agents Harris and Son, md Kemcthorne, Prosser and Co. Christchurch ; or to the proprietor, fl. CITRON, 3 IUO Akaroa.



Consultations. _____ IHE GLOBE CONSULTATION CO. programme on the BIRTHDAY HANDICAP (Dunedin) AND N.Z. GRAND STEEPLECHASE (Chtiatchurch). To be run on 25th May, JBSS. 6,000 SHARES at 10a EACH, L 3.001 First prize Birthday Handicap, 1600 First prize N.Z Grand National Handicap, L4OO. About 100 Prizes. The above company, in presenting thei second programme, wouldcallspecial atten tion to the address of the parties en trusted with the correspondence. Havin; been entrusted by the Canterbury Jocke; and other with the sole manage ment and control of their totalisators which have given universal satisfaction t< the public, will be a hufficient guarantee as to the genuineness and successfu working of the consultation. Special advantages are offered t< investors in the Globe Consultation Com pany, by reason of the tickets beinj printed in such a rranner as to enable thi purchaser of a whole ticket to dispose o a half-share, and as each half of the ticke is numbered, the money will be paid t< holders of same on presentation. Letters to enclose two 2d stamps foi reply and result. Money orders accepted. Cheques marked correct wiih Is exchange added outside of Canterbury. Ten pel cent, deducted from all prize moneys. Programmes, with nomination and full particulars, sent post free on application. Address— GLOBE CONSULTATION COMPANY, Box 287 Post Officp, CaroHOBB-. & GOOD'VIN, Office— Dobba' Buildings, Cathedral 3 372 Square, Christcburch. Business Notices. ,OWLE'S pennyroyal and steel pills for females quickly correct all irregulari tieaand relieve the distressing symptoms so prevalent with the sex. Boxes Is l£d and 2a 9d, of all chemists. Prepared only by E. T. Towle, chemißt, Nottingham, Kng land. Wholesale of all the wholesale houses.—Beware of imitations. • 1 12 „; SIDNEY WOLF, From the Royal Academy of Music, Professor of Pianoforte and Singing, Begs to inform the inhabitants of Ashbur " ra and surrounding district that the fresh 'm commences on THURSDAY, the Bth instant. For terms apply to Mr Wolf, at hia residence, Cox street; or at Mr T. F. Fabley, alationer, Saunders' Buildings. Concerts, balls and parties arranged for. Pianofortes tuned, toned and regulated. 1 31 yrOUNT SOMERS & METHVEN JJL ROYAL MAIL COACH. On and after January Ist, 1885, the undersigned will run a Coach each Tues day, Thursday and Saturday, starting at noon from Hood's Hotel, Mount Somers, for Springbum and Alford Forest, there connecting with Duffs Coach from Methven returning same evening, tares—Spring burn, 2s, return, 3s; Alford Forest, 4s, return, a. 127 • T. HIX. » SHBURTON COAL AND FIRE WOOD DEPOT, r. s7bean Has for Sale at Lowest Rates— COAL (Newcastle and Native). POSTIS and RAILS, STAKES, WIRE.& OATS, BRAN, CHAFF, OBIOKWHEA!. Also, a first-class NEW EXPRESS with Reversible Seats. 1 Terms, if desired. E. S. Bean, West stkekt. 6 114 Public Companies. NEW ZEALAND LOAN & MER CANTILE AGENCY COMPANY (LIMITED). Capital, £3,000,000. Reserve, £210,000. Makes LIBERAL CASH ADVANCES on Freeholds, on Stptions and Stock and on growing clij 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 al branches of Mercantile Business, HOLDS PERIODICALS AUCTION SALES of Wool, Grain, Skins, Hides Tallow, Live Stock, Land, etc, at it Salerooms, Warehouses and the Oen tral Markets. Special and Clearin Sales also conducted. Supplies WOOL PACKS and CORI SACKS, at Lowest Current Rates. AGENTS iN CANTERBURY FOR— Ruaton Prootor and Co. 'b celebrated Com bined Threshing Machines an Engines, acknowledged to be th Beet Machines imported into Ne' Zealand. Felton and Guilleaume'a Patent Galvai bed Steel-barb Fencing Wire Candy's Patent Cotton Belting. Maldon Island Guano. Farther particulazs on application at tl Company's OfF-ies, Chriatcbnrch, Ashbu ton and Rakaite. JOHN COOKE, Manager Christchnrr.h **, n. SEORKTAN, Agent, Aahburto O. W JjtWE!



I Business Notices. ONE box of Clark'a b 41 pills is war ranted to cure all discharges from the urinary organs in either sex (acquired or constitutional), gravel and pains in the back. Guaranteed tree Jrom mercury. Sold in boxes 4s 6d each, by all chemists and patent medicine vendors. Sole pro prietors, The Lincoln and Midland Coun ties Drug Co., Lincoln, England. Whole sale of all the wholesale houses. 118 REID AND GR A Y'S New Positive Feed Broadcast Seedsower, For Sowing Grain, Grass, Turnip, Rape, Mangold, etc., and the Turnip Sower can be arranged, when ordered, to sow Lucerne or other small seeds simultaneously to the ' sowing of Ryegrass if desired. It is the only Sower in the Market that will sow with absolute regularity on either exces sively rough or very smooth land. It will sow any desired quantity of Grain or Grass by simply changing one wheel Corn Drills all Sizes. Jointed Pulverising Disc Harrows.— The Best.—Over 500 in use. Improved Prize Ohapfcuttees.—With cast-steel mouthpieces, when properly handled, make no long straws, conse quently chaff requires no riddling. They are in use largely all over INew Zealand, several of the large-sized machines being lately fitted up at Christchurch. Improved Double and Treble Furrow Plouohs.—The best, and consequently the cheapest in the market. 3,4, and 5 leaf harrows. Square linked chain har rows- New design of tripod harrows. 5 and 7 tined field grubbers. Cambridge rollers, 20, 24, and 26 inches diam. Plain cylinder field rollers. Horse gears for 1, 2,3, and 4 horses. Best iron-bark swingle-trees, Ropes and pully gear for 4-horse yokes. Threshing machine fit tings Belting all sizes. Iron and braaß castings of all kinds to order. Fencing standards cut and punched to any length and guage. * Drays made from best sea soned timber, with Gilpin axles. Gray's patent standard for folding sheep. Winner*, jf the Gold Medal at the Melbourne Exhibition for their Double Fukkow Plough, vide Jurors' Report:— " Plouohs—ln ploughs there is one ei hibit to which we wish to d>aw special attention as being the best, and that is the Double Furrow of Reir' and Gray, of Dunedin, flew Zealand, and con struction it is far superior to any other Bakaia. The New Zealand Loan Mercantile Agency Qompany are now representing us m this iiß*.rter *c ORAV T. A. GATES, PETER] [STREET PICTURES I W Framed Artistically. N E MAPS Properly Mounted. 'G NONE BUT THE BEST MATERIALS ONE BUT THE BEST E Cabinet-making Executed G W in inimitable style, N and Cheaply. I M fe D 0 1 L U UNDERTAKER & CABINETMAKER. -I/TOUE .VALUABLE THAN GOLD If a daily increasing demand and an endless number of testimonials are & ' criterion of the popularity of an article, then Dr Low's CHERRY PECTORAL is one of the wondess of the present en lightened age. During the past winter and spring diseases of the throat and lungs have been very prevalent, and it has been admitted on all sides that where ever this valuable remedy has been ob tainable, numbers of lives have been saved by its timely use. Always have a bottle in the house. SoldgeveTywhere at ". Is 6d and 2s 6d per bottle. Wholesale agents, Kempthorne, Proseer and Co , Christchurch, and at the proprietor, H. , Citron, Chemist, Akaroa. ATCHMAKERS EWEUERS, , Government Notice. HE PUBHO TRUST OFFICE I 1 OF NEW ZEALAND. j , Atention is directed to the provisions of s 'he Acts establishing this Office, and to l- the advantages placed thereby within easy ig each of every colonist. Subject to such provisions, the State to every per- J on : I.—About to make his or her Will or Codicil. 2. —Intending to provide for Wife and i- Children or others by deed of Settlement. d 3.—Settling Property by way of Mar o riage Settlement. w Z. —Desiring to renounce the Trusts of Will, having been appointed Executor or '- Trustee under the same. 5. —Having acted as Trustee, Executor or Administrator, wishing to be relieved oi che burthen of Trustee hip or Adminis ration, the option of usug the State ma le thinery, and gives an absolute guarantee r- against loss of funds by fraud, peculation, or dishonesty. Every information may be obtained f*«m ALEXANDER LEAN, Agent at Christchurch; Ot from R, O. HAMERTON, Public Trustee Wellington, R J ]2th May, 1882



Business Notices. BOWN IRON WORKS ARMAGH STREET, - Ohriatchnrch. Portable Kanges Burn Wood and Goal—in Four Sizes. PAINTED CORRUGATED IRON Vour. Five, Six and Seven Feet Lengths. 40 per cent. Cheaper than Galvanised Iron. 10 1988 GRIESSELICH AND CO. WOOL EXCHANGE, LONDON, SHIPPING AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Established 1865. Ship to order any description of British and Continental Goods upon 2£ per cent, commission, selected by buyers with Colonial experience, and attend to the prompt realisation of Produce at highest prices upon 1 per cent, commission. Orders to be accompanied by Letters of Credit or part remittance in Bank Drafts or Produce. Open Policies of Insurance for floating cargoes to cover sea risk*. References—Chief Office of the London and Westminster Bank, or Agra Bank, London, and most of the Colo-nal Banks. Current Price L'sts, Produce Reports, and any necessary samples or information on application. 1 35 BALLAMTYNE'S Great Sale. FIRST.CLASS 1/RAPERY & CLOTHING BEING SACRIFICED AT MARVELLOUS PRICES. THE Premises are shortly to be taken down and re built. The Goods must therefore be cleared out, so that all who jre likely to want Drapery should take the advantage of making an early call at DUNSTABLE HOUSE. NO DISCOUNTS. G L. Beath & Co.,' Having been declared the Successful Tenderers for the Entire Stock in the above Estate, will offer the same WITHOUT RESERVE, on Wednesday next, and following days, at ARGYLE HOUSE OASBEL STREET, CHRISTCHUROH 5 100 High Street. H. A'COURT, Kaiapoi Woollen Company. W. BIOK.ERTO;>, Sargoods, Dunedin. Trustees in the Estate. GREAT Drapery & Clothing Sale. N the Matter of the Assigned Estate of '. F. FOUNT AIN E, Clothier and Drapeb,



I Business Notices. JO THRESHING MACHINE PROPRIETORS. Threshing Books of all kinds and sizes neatly printed and bound to order at the Guardian Office, I' { CARD —To all who are suffering from . the errors and indiscretion of youth, nervous weakness, early decay, loss of manhood, etc, I will send a recipe that will cure you free of charge. This great j remedy was discovered by a missionary in South America. Send a self-addressed 1 envelope and sixpence to prepay postage to the Rev Joseph T. lonian, station D, New York City, U. S. A. 1 Caution. ■" OME unscrupulous firms are trying to rv _ force on the New Zealand penple a Nostrum, under the cloak that it is made in tha United States— WHICH IS NOT TRUE. Under this pretence they are trying to deceive the Public and Incautious Pur. chasers into the belief that they are the Genuine AMERICAN HOP BITTERS. We wish to warn all honest and unsus pecting people against this DECEPTION, and to call the attention once more to the facts that the Genuine American Co.'s BOP BITTERS Are put up in Squre, Panelled, Amber solored Bottles, with White Label on one side, printed in Black Letters, and Green Hop Cluster; and, on the other side, fellow Label, with Directions in Red Letters, in English and German, and the name of "Dr Soule" blown in every Bottle. This is the only form in which Genuine AMERICAN HOP BITTERS are put ELZ BROTHERS, VOACHBUILDERS, ; BRICK BUILDINGS (Opposite Cookson's Stables). We take this opportunity to inform our friends and the penera public that we have RECOMMENCED BUSINESS and by turning out but firat-clssa work at moderate charges hope to receive as before a fair share of patronage. To Re pairs, Re-painting and Re-Trimming, we pay particular attention. 1 152 O "I XM P er day to k e made by per c£X lu cCtf: sons of either sex, in their own looaJitie3, at work for us. New business. All meet with wonderful suc cess. Anyone can do the work. Capital not required. We will stsrt you. Outfit worth £1 mailed free. The employment is particularly adapted to the region in which this publication circulates. Boy. and girls earn nearly as much aB Fall particulars and instructions free. Now is the time—don't delay, but write to us at once. Address Sxinson ant> Co. Portland, Maine, United States. j O W ,• WHEELWRIGHT Wakanui road, Ashburton. (Next Ray's Machine Shop) Special attention is devoted to all kinds of repairs. Combined with moderate charges. 211199 Thos. Bullock. REVISED LIST of PROPERTIES X For Sale and to Let, etc. SUBURBAN. A small Farm containing 60 acres, with dwelling houae, neal town ; liberal terms Lots 18 and 41, each containing 1 rood 39 perches, Allenton Suburban District Lot 86, North-weßt Town Belt, con taining 1 acre, capital site for a private residence Lots 94, 95, 96, fronting the Wakanui road, good site for a house Lots 62 63, corner of Wakanui read and Town Belt Lot 22, containing £-acre, with five roomed house, Alford Forest road Lots 42, 43. 44, 62, 63, together with house, Allenton, near the Woollen Factory Lot 24, Alford Forest road, together with dwelling-house Five acres, first class buildine site, corner of Middle and Allan road TINWALD. Lot 43, fenced and planted, with three roomed house thereon Lots 356, 359. 360 Lots 8, 11, 101, McWurdo street Lots 234, 235, 236, 237, Anne street TOWN PROPERTIES. 777, Corner of Cox and William street 778, Adjoining fronting Cox street. 1090, Wills street, with five-roomed house, well situated 535, Peter street, with dwelling-house and blacksmith's shop 545, 554, 555, To let only, at a nomi nal rental. TO LET . Seven-room-d House on the Town Belt east, near the Parsonage, at a low rental jj'ive-roomed Cottage In Burnett street Commodious premises in ! ast street Blaoksmith's shop, together with dwelling-house, in Peter street Five-roomed houBP at Trevorton Four-roomed houee at Trevorton Four-roomed houco, Graham's road, Tiinwald Shop and boarding-house in Triangle Comfortable House, together with Stable, near the Woollen Factory Office In Arcane Shop sind dwelling in Moore street. 12a 6d per week—commodious boardiag house to let at the above rental MISCELLANEOUS: FOR SALE. Second-hand double seated Buggy Eight-horse power portable engine, cheap Barb wire No 8 and 10 fencing wire Spring carts, new Ploughs, harrows, drays Strong building for removal, suitable for granary or stable Quantity of mixed Firewood, from Wai mate, cheap Second-hand Drays Thomas Bullock, ARCADE, ASHBURTON-



'i be Standard Company. s PEOIAL NOTICE, THE LIGHT-RUNNING STANDARD SEWING MACHINE. The STANDARD has more T Improvements than all the other Seeing Machines put together 1 Has always been the best 2 and is now the cheapest. That it meets every require- ~ ment of a critical public is shown by its great popularity and in- - creasing sale throughout America, Euiope, Australia and New Zea land. =52 AGENT FOR ASHBURTON— W. C. Page, EAST STREET, Ashburton- Business Notices- P* sh ab sti 0 R N AND CHAFF STORE. CHAFFCUTTING. OHAFFCUTTING We are prepared to cut Chaff in any quantities, ou Farmer’s premises. Tones & Bradshaw HAVELOCK STREET. 1 67 FOREST HOTEL. John Tisch, Who has again taken the hotel at Alford Forest, would be glad to receive a call rom his old friends and as many new nes as can make it convenient to giv leok in Good aeco» odation for horses. 1328 3 C I I E A ft I ft ft ft FOR the Blood is the Life. —Clarke’s ® world-famed blood mixture is warranted to cleanse the blood from all impurities from whatever cause arising For scrofula, scurvy, skin and blood diseases, and sores ® of all kinds, its effects are marvellous. Thousands of testimonials. Sold in bottles 2s Gd and ll.s each by chemists and j patent medicine vendors everywhere Sole g proprietors, The Lincoln and Midland j Counties Drug Co., Lincoln, ngland 116 j WAR WITH RUSSIA.—At the pre- I sent juncture it would be difficult i for any one exe pt a prophet of the i highest rank to say whether or not the C present negotiations between England and 1 Russia wili lead to a general European I war, or whether they will end in smoke. I The absence of full information as to what 1 is transpiring between the two countries 1 may indicate that the political breeze is blowing harmlessly past; or, it may be C the awful silence which generally precedes a storm. In either case, we ought to be prepared for the worst. If a general war breaks out the price of nearly every article ft of ' ommerce will rise. Among other jj con m .'dities wool and labor will go up. £ Now is the time, therefore, to lay in a stock of clothing, before the general ad- C vance begins. In order that we may not be caught napping we have just purchased a Splendid Assortment of Winter Tweeds and other materials necessary to a well equipped tailoring establishment, which 3 we are prepared to offer at unusually low prices for cash. Regarding style and fit, C it is almost needless for us to repeat what C everybody knows, viz , that by our scion- 1! tific mode of cutting, and the care exer need by ns in fitting the figure, a mis-fit is an impossibility.— Craighead and Co., Merchant Tailors, Tancred street.



George Jameson. Bye Grass Seed. J AM A CASH PURCHASES* GEO. JAMESON, 7 239 Ashburton. To Farmers. I am a CASH PURCHASER OP WHEAT, OATS and BARLEY. GEO. JAMESON, 3 206 Ashburton. Sheep Dip. FOR SALE DIP, In 6 gallon drams AND JIHOMAS’S DIP, in 161 b tins and 1001 b drams. GEORGE JAMESON, ! 261 Ashburton. Pusiaess Notice. AR OR NO WAR! War or no war, we in Aahbarton mast 1 eat to live,” in other words, every one inst purchase tea, coffee, sugar and gene* al groceries. When about to do so I rould respectfully suggest that my shop e patronised, especially if purchases are 0 be for ready money. Mr Blank, a torekeeper, tells me that in {view of the reat number of stores, and cutting in rices, and general slaughter, it would oon be, in Ashburton, a case of the 1 survival of the fittest. ” I hope to be ne of the survivors, for I never was in a etter position to serve the public well in uality and prices of goods. I take this pponunity to thank my customers for be preference they continue to give my bop, and at same time to request monthly ustomers to settle promptly, thus en ding me to buy well, and to continue to srve them well, H. M. CARSON, igent for Nelson. Moate and Oo.’s oele* ra*ed teas, in packets, boxes and hall bests. Grocery, Fruit, Glass, Ohina, talian and Fancy Goods Warehouse, East breet, Ashburton. 2LAUGHTER I SLAUGHTER 1 I 5 Have You Rkad the Following ? lard Cash Prices, to be tamed into Cash. Ln Immense Sacrifice must necessarily take place when Cash is so scarce as it is at present, MESSRS HAYES & CO., 9ESIRE to inform the Public Generally, that they are determined to CLEAR IMMEDIATELY, ) NE-HALP OF THEIR LARGE AND AS SORTED STOCK OF JOOTS, CLOTHING DRAPERY AND MILLINERY, Amounting to £IO,OOO. SALE TO COMMENCE JANUARY 15th, 1885. Now Look at the Prices I Now Look at the Prices! DRESS DEPARTMENT. 3000 yards Print, 2|d originally 4£d Colored Satena, 4£d, were lOi Linen Ginghams, 3Jd, were 6d Dress Materials, various, 4Jd were 10£d Black Cashmere, la 4d, double width CLOTHING DEPARTMENT. A few Mclntoshea to be cleared at 7a fid Men’s Tweed Suits from 15a fid Blue Serge Suits, 12s 6d White Flannel Cricketing Suits, 19s 9d Men’s “Kapai” Tweed Trousers, 6s 3d Men’s White Shirts (linen fronts), 2s lid, worth 4s 6d Men’s Regatta Shirts, with collar, 3a 9d, worth 3s lid Men’s Brown Cotton Drawers, ll£d per pair Men’s Heavy Ribbed Drawers, Is lOd per pair Men's Umberllaa, 2a each MILLINERY AND MANTLES. Print Costumes, 2s lid, were 6s 9d Straw Hats, 4jd, worth Is 6d Knitted Petticoats, full size, Is 9d Leghorn Hats (trimmed), Is fid MANCHESTER DEPARTMENT. Heavy Twilled Sheeting, BJd, 72in wide All Wool Welsh Flannel, Is per yard All Wool Welsh Scarlet, 3£d per yard Green and Crimson Damask, 11J per yard Heavy Flax Shirting, reduced to 4Jd Heavy Union Shirting, reduced to fid Blankets from 6s lid per pair Turkish Towels, fid each Tapestry Brussels Carpets, 2s 4d, worth 3s fid Cotton Twded for boy’s wear, la 3d per yard BOOT DEPARTMENT. Men’s Heavy Shooter Boots, 10s fid men’s Bluchers, nailed, 6s fid Our immense Stock of. Women's Boots, all Reduced to startling prices Children’s Patent Leather Elastic Sides, Is 3d per pair, worth 2s fid HOSIERY DEPARTMENT. 3 pairs Women’s Colored Stockings for Ze fid Girl’s and Boy's Stockings, all colon, Children’s Socks, Id per pair Men’s Socks, fid per pair. All Remnants and Odd Pieces to be SWEPT OUT AT LESS TH HALF PRICE