DAILY MEMORANDA.

MEETING 5 , Etc t TuFSDAY, t i EPIEMBFK2B St Stephen’s Schoolroom—Lecture at 8 o’clock Friday, October 1 Dramatic Society—Meeting in Cddfellowe Hall at 8 o’clock A ecbv. Connty Council —At Connci Chambers, 11 a. m. Saturday, October 2 Waka’ ui Doad B srd — Monthly meeting at the Board’s office, Moore street, at II a.ra. Monday, Oct bf.k 4 Boron -h Council, at Borough Council Oh a at 7-SO

RAILWAY TIME TABLE.

Trains Arrive at Ashburton —From Christ bnrch snd the North, at 10.15 a.m. (express), 1.35 v.m., and 7.10 p.m. From Timarn. 10.45 a. ra. From Dunedin and South, 5.27 c.m. (express). From Mount Somers, 10.0 a.m Trains Leave Ashburton —For onnsi ’ church and North, at 7.10 a.m., 10.55 a.m., - and 5.37 p.rn. (express). For Dunedin and South, 10.25 a.m. (express). For Timaru, 4-45 p.m. For Mount Somers, 5.5 p.m.

THE ASHBURTON GUARDIAN.

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MAIL NOTICES.

Hails clone at the Ashburton Post Office follows ; For Christchurch and North at 6 a. in 0.30 ;-m., and 5 p.m., daily. For Chertsey Rakaia, <fco., at 10. oO a.iu and 5 p.m. daily. . „ , , For Dunedin,Tinwaid, Wmsiow, Hinds, JoliEtream, Rangitata, Orari. Winchester, md Geraldine, at 10 a.m. daily. For Temaka, at 10 a.m, and 4.30 p.m for Tima-ru a vA South, at 10 a.m., and ISO p-m., daily. For Grwenstreet, on W cor-cadays and turday«, at 10.45 a.m. - ~ For V.'akanni, Elgin, Seaview, Seafield, n d Kyle, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and *lurdsvß, at 6.30 a.m. For vlount Somers, daily at 4.30 p.m For Mayfield and Suapuna, on Mon days and Thursdays, at 4.30 p.m. For Ashton, Waterton and Loagbcacn, 4.30 p.m. daily. For Flemington, on Monday*, W ednes iavs, and Fridays, at 4.30 p. m. For Newlauda, on Tuesdays and *n at 10,30 a.m. Mails arrive at the Ashburton Post From Christchurch and Rakaia at 10.15 4.35 p.m., and 7.20 p.m. From Chertsey, &c, at 10.16 & and .§5 p.m. daily. ‘ w r . :0 Dunedin and Intermediate places 5.3' daily, s'- rfevmk'i audTimaruat 10.40 a. m .« 5 30 J.m dally. ‘ From * Graenstrect, Wednesdays ami S-itnrdays, at 10 a.ia. . from Mount Somers, daily at iU.O * From Mayfield and Raapuna, on Wed oesdavs and Saturdays, at 10.5 a.m. From Ashton, Waterton, and Long b achat 10a.m. daily. , . Fioci Ne'-vlands, on Tuesdays and rrj days, at 2.30 p.m. From Flemington on Tuesdays, Thutb diys 3 aud Saturdays, at 10a.m.

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1886. NOTES.

The Press Association is a vety useful institution, and on the whole, performs its task of collecting and disseminating telegraphic news among its clients fairly well. Nevertheless, those clients have new and then just cause for complaint at the want of discretion which is exhibited by the agency, or the local agents thereof, as to what news to send in extenso, what to supply in abbreviated form, and what to withhold altogether. Two penny half-penny race-meetings, for example, are often treated as matters of the first importance, while such im portant subjects as the Hall case at Timaru, receive but scant attention. Again, the evening papers are frequently put to the cost of wire charges, wholly I unnecessarily, for messages which (lave appeared in the morning papers oif the same day, and which can be much more easily set up from primed copy than from the pencil copy of the telegraphist on the abominable pink paper now, for some inscrutable how-nm-to-do-it reason, employed for messages re ceived. This sort of thing is vexatious enough, but it is worse still to be asked to pay wire charges for news that is a full day behind the fair, and which is not worth the trouble of setting up. A case of that kind occurred yesterday. At two minutes to 2 p.m. the agency wired us from Wellington a message detailing an application made to the Government by Messrs Perry and Perry, solicitors for Thomas Hall, charged with attempted wife-murder, asking that on exhuming the body of the late Captain Cain the analysis should be made by a medical man not connected with the laying of the charge, and suggesting that Professor Ogstoun, of Dunedin, should be employed, and also that a medical man to represent the prisoner and the Inspector of Police should be present at the exhumation. This we were told, the Government had agreed to, and (if was gravely added) “as soon as the necessary details are prepared the body will be exhumed.” When this piece of intelligence reached us neaily twenty-four hours had elapsed since the exhumation itself, all the details of which had been read by everybody at breakfast-time. The very agent who took the message to the telegraph office in Wellington must have read those details in the columns c £ the Wellington morning paper and, for all practical purposes, he might just as well have informed us of the fact of the death of Queen Anne as have taken the trouble to wire such day-before yesterday sort of intelligence.

The district of Wakanui must surely be the lawyers’ paradise, if haply there be any such thing as paradise attainable by the gentlemen of the long robe, sometimes, though very uncomplimen tary alluded to as the L)’s O. Albeit that sounds a little like the terminal syllables of the Italian panuliso, so that there may, perhaps, after ail be some little hope for them. But not to con cern ourselves with the future, Wakanui, if not a paradise, even from a lawyet’s point of view, must be a veritable Tom Tiddler’s ground, for it appears to grow the most fruitful crop of “ cases ” of any part of the district. What with disputed boundaries, con fusion of ideas as to proprietary right in particular pigs, and what not, there seems to be a perennial succession of causes celebtes. For example, yesterday Bench and bar were occupied for six mortal hours in listening to or arguing claims and counter-claims to the posses sion of certain of those interesting animals, the object to be attained being to decide whether a lady or a gentleman had “got the wrang soo by the lug.” The point seems to have been decided to the lady’s disadvan tage, but it is to be doubted whether the thrilling story of the case will he deemed worth the trouble of wadng through three or four columns of print by more than a select circle of our readers to whom it may possess the charm of local interest. To the lawyers no doubt the whole business will have

many golden recommendation, but we are sorry for the reporters, and Mr Baddeley is assured of our respectful commiseration. It is often very amusing to notice the blunders which are constantly made in the Old country by otherwise well informed people, including the editors ol leading journals, anent the geography and characteristics of this part of the world. Notwithstanding the large number of persons who have relations or friends in Australia or New Zealand, notwithstanding the books that have been published by travellers, and not withstanding the tons of letters and newspapers that go Home by every mail, delightfully hazy notions seem to be generally prevalent as to the relative position of places and as to our sur roundings, circumstances, manners,

and customs generally. A laughable instance of this sort of thing is thus related in the gossipy London letter of an exchange, in which, referring to the Colinderies, which is the slang ot the day for Colonial and Indian Exhibition, the writer says :—“ The gorgeous ignorance of people at Home concern ing New Zealand and its natural history was beautifully illustrated at the Exhi bition the other day. A gentleman in the costume of a dignitary of the Established Church, an Archdeacon or something of that sort, was marching about the New Zealand Court discours ing very learnedly to a little girl on the various objects. Presently they came to the big moa skeleton from the Canterbury Museum. ‘That,’ said the Archdeacon, ‘is the skeleton of a giraffe, but it is not a very large one, and it has lost its hind legs.’ His lecture on giraffes was cut short by a fat good-natured burst of laughter from a gentleman at his elbow, who told him he was Sir Julius von Haast, and the skeleton was that of a New Zealand bird. It is said the Venerable one fled precipitately, exclaiming, ‘ Dear, dear, dear, what shocking fibs these Natives tell, to be sure !’ ”

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Prince Napoleon Bonaparte, who ia making a tour of the world, is expected to visit New Zealand in November.

Within the last month the Reefton mines have paid over £3500 in dividends. Not bad for a “ poverty stricken ” country.

A work that wil' be read with interest by racing men of New Zealand is likely to make its appearance at no very distant date. Mr Henry Redwood is at present engaged in writing an account of his racing experiences.

There is a law in Switzer’and that compels every newly-married couple to plant six trees shortly after the ceremony of marriage. The trees ordered to bo planted on wedding days are the pine and weeping willow, and on natal days the birch.

Let us be thankful (says an exchange) that we can get reasonable good jam from Hobart and Nelson, and hope that our grocers will not be prevailed upon to patronise any of Yankee manufacture. The American Analysi f which ought to know, says that there is plenty of jam made in Now York, which is a very good imitation of raspberry, the materials of which are—oil of vitriol, impure glucose, algine, aniline, and raspberry ether.

Vincent Wallace, the composer of Maritana, Lurline, and other well-known operas, was, 36 years ago, working in tho bush near Sydney. Hearing of the successes of a

brother artist, he suddenly made his appear ance in the above city as a virtuoso of the pianoforte and violin, after which he gave concerts throughout Now Zealand aud America with great success. Finally settling in London, ho firmly established his claim as a composer by bringing out his most successful opera Maritana.

After a somewhat chequered career, the Great Eastern seems at last (says the Uomt News) to have a fair chance of a green and useful old age. Her debut at Liverpool as a floating temple of amusement has proved so successful that she is to become a peripatetic variety show under the rogis of Mr William Holland, who will take the nautical drama under his protection, and afte rsteeringhis ship to victory on the British coasts will finally take her to the colonies, where she will serve to remind our friends from Greater Britain of their 1886 experiences at South Kensington.

A meeting of the South Rakaia Sports Committee was held in the Library on Tues day evening. Present—Messrs J. Turner Buchanan, Pyke, Hardy, Oxley, Bruce, Beycraft, Limber, Miller, Rountree, Primmtr. and Childs. Mr Hardy was elected Chair man. The question of rules was gone into, and there was a long discussion as to the advisablencss of having an open race. It was eventually decided by a considerable majority not to have an open race, but to confine the district to the South Rakaia and Mount Hutt Road Board Districts, and five miles north and ten miles west of the Rakaia river. Pro grammes for horse races and athletic events were arranged, and the meeting adjourned.

The Auckland Herald's Matamata corres pondent telegraphed on Tuesday afternoon that vast columns of steam could be scan rising that day to a great height over Ruapehu, and it appears as though the mountain is in active eruption.

Judge Ward (says the Oamaru Mail) ia to receive the game salary as that paid to Judge Gidies, whoso place ho is to temporarily occupy (£I2OO a year). But it is, we believe, probable that he will be permanently ap pointed a Judge of the Supreme Court.

The balance-sheet of the Waiareka Dairy Factory for the year ending 31st August last, presented at a meeting of the Company held on Monday evening, showed that the loss to the Company upon the previous year’s work ings amounting to £SOO, had been made up by last year’s operations, and over and above this sum there was a profit of £IBO upon the year’s transactions. There was a sum of £35<5 to carry forward. The best known remedy is SANDER and SONS EUCALYPTI EXTRACT. Test its eminent powerful effects in coughs, cold, in fluenza, etc. —the relief is instantaneous. Thousands give the most gratifying testi mony. His Majesty the King of Italy, and medical syndicates all over the globe ore its patrons. Read the official reports that accom pany each bottle. We have no occasion to offer rewards in proof of the genuineness of our references. The official reports of medical clinics and universities, the official communication of the Consul-General for Italy at Melbourne; the diploma awarded International Exhibition, Amsterdam all these are authentic documents, and, as such, not open to doubt. We add here epitome of one of the various cases treated by Siegen, M.D., Professor, etc.: Burning of the right hand through the explosion of a small oil stove. The epirdermis on the volar and palmer side of the hand of the thirty-year old patient was completely separated and lifted up as far as the joint of the hand. The likewise lifted nails were hanging loose, and half of the phalanx of the nail of the middle linger was coaled. The wounds thus con tracted healed in thtee weeks under daily applications of Eucalypti Extract dressing The patient has etaiued the full use of hand.—(Advt,

Entries fertile annual horse parade under j the auspices of the Ashburton A. and P. Association close to-morrow, A rumor was current in town yesterday that a boy was struck by lightning during the thunderstorm on Monday evening, but as i far as we have been able to ascertain it has very alight foundation. At Wellington during the storm a flash of lightning struck the maintop-gallant mast of the barque Sophia R. Luhrs, lying in the harbor, and out away about 2ft of the pole bearing the weather cock. Three men who were on deck at the time were knocked down and rendered insen sible for a time. The Master of the Old Men's Home desires to acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of 7s poundage fees contributed by Mr Thomas

McKay. A lecture on “ Impressions of England,” the first of a series of three, was delivered in St Stephen’s Schoolroom last evening by the Rev H. C. M, Watson, of Christchurch. The attendance was not very large, but those who were present amply testified their appre ciation of the lecture. The proceeds will be devoted to the Sunday School Library Fund. The next lecture will be delived on Tuesday week by Mr T. Oates, who has chosen for hia subject “ The history of caricature and the grotesque ia art.”

The following characteristic incident, writes a correspondent of the Dunedin Evening Herald, occurred on Saturday night last. Scene, pavement in front of Wain’s Hotel. Two gentlemen in close conversation. A little ragged urchin, without a cap, touches one of the gentlemen and says—‘ Would ye look after my bag there till I run down and see if the oar is come ?’ Gentlemen (heartily) —‘ All right, my boy ; but where’s the bag ?’ • It’s o’er in the gutter there.’ Gentleman— ‘O, well; I’ll look after it for you-' Boy ran oft as hard as ho could. Our informant has a good laugh at the gentleman in charge* chaffing him with having got a job. Presently the boy comes back and seizes his bag. Gen" tleman in charge says—' Come here ; where have you to go ?’ Boy—‘ Bottom of King street.’ Gentleman —‘ Poor boy ;’ takes out his purse and gives him a coin. Other gen tleman to boy—‘ When you go home you can tell your father that the Premier of New Zealand looked after your potatoes.’ Boy— ‘My father is dead.’ Ere at omnes."

The Oamaru Mail expresses astonishment, as well it might, at the (act of Californian onions finding a market in New Zealand. “ We are astonished,” says our contemporary, “ with the knowledge that onions are im» ported from California and elsewhere for the use of this community—to a district possess ing land of the rarest quality for the perfect growth of this common vegetable. When it is mentioned that these imported onions fetched about £l3 per ton wholesale, the neglect of our farmers to cultivate a few acres is inexplicable.”

Mr Malcolm Graham, who has recently returned from Kimberley, writes the Grey River Argus from Sydney as follows :—“ I am fully convinced from my own observation that 70 per cent, of all who went to Kimberley are from New Zealand; and if it turns out a failure, that New Zealand will suffer more than the whole of tfie other colonies. Putting it at a low estimate, I reckon it has taken 70,000 golden sovereigns out of New Zea land.”

The bore of the Southern Cross Petroleum Co., at Gisborne, is reported to be down 1365 feet in solid rock, with oil and gas showing in the bore.

EJAII your own fault if you remain sick or out of health, when you can get Hop Bitters made by American Co. Read

CRICKET.

THE AUSTRALIANS AT HOME

['IHUTER fi nl.Sv.Hlva -flOPTKne’ : Loxdon, September 24. 'I he last roa'oh of the Australian team’s tour was commence I tc-day at Harrow eatr. The attendance was small owing to tho unfavourable stati of the weatler. The wicket was heavy in consequence of recent rains

The Home team went in first, and when elumpj were drawn had lost five wickets for 55 run*.

AUCTIONEERS’ REPORT.

Messrs Macpherson, Sampson, and Co. report on their weekly sale, held at the Central Auction M-rt on Saturday, 23th September : —Tho attendance on Saturday was better than tho preceding week or two, and the competition for the things submitted was rather keener. The entries in some of the things generally brought for ward were to a c rtain extent limited. The demand was more noticeable in poultry. Horses, £ll ; pigs, weanera, 3s 3d ; do, porkers, 6s 3d, 6s 9d ; poultry, turkeys, 5s 3d each ; ducks, 3s per couple ; fowls, 2s 6d. Produce—Danish oats, 2s per bushel ; chickwheat, 10s 6d per sack ; straw shall, Is per sack and £2 5a to £2 10s per ton ; early peas, Cd per quart ; cauliflower plants, 7d and 8d per bundle ; bacon, 4Jd to per lb ; ham, 5Jd to 7d per lb; mutt m hams, 4d per lb. Potatoes—The demand was very slight, and comparatively few were disp sed of at a decline of from 6d to Is per sack. The other lines of sundries were all disposed of to advantage.

TINWALD LIVE STOOK MARKET.

Me S. G. Staveley (for New Z island Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited) reports on Tinwald sale on 28th. September:—About 1500 aheap and aver age entries pigs and cattle to hand. Fair demand for young sheep continues. Fair fat sheep penned, Fat msr n) wethe sroa 'a 10i. good crossbred hoggets 9i 6 1, medium do 6s 9i, 7s, 7s lOd and rta 41 : 2, 4 aud 6- ooth crossbred wethers Os Gi ; ;«ged mixed ewes, with fair per centage lambs, 5j Id ; 4, 6 and 8-tooth merino wethers in forward condition, 6s 7d tofii lOd. Values nigs and cattle unchanged Fat cows £5 7s 6d to £9 10s according to quality. Messrs Macpheraon, S impson, and Co. report on the T nwald live stock sale, Tuesday, 28th September.—The genial spring weather we have had during the past fortnight is beginning to take effect on fanners and dealers, and stock of all descriptions are changing hands at de cidedly improved values. Although the day was beautifully fine, the supply and variety of class in sheep were but moderately represented. The bidding throughout was tolerably bri-k, and most of the lines found now owners. Cro sbred hoggets we:o the only class that was fairly represented, and they ” oved off at satisfactory figu*es The following are Hie prices realised for the lines cleared : Merino wethers, 6s Bd, Gs lOd, 10s ; cross bred wetlvrs, 9s Gd ; crossbred hoggets, 6s 9d, 7s, 7s Bd, 7s lOd, 8s 4d, 9s 6d ; cross'red ewes, with 90 percent, lambs, 5s Id. The supply of cattle was behind tho average, and with the exception of one or two, those offered were indifferent in proportions aud quality. Fat cattle aud stores wore in good demand, and went off quickly at an advance on former sales. Cows (fat), £5 7s 6d, £sl2s 6d, £9 10s ; springing, £4 2s 6d, £4 ss, £5 2s Gd ; £6 los ; in full profit, £5 ; two-year old h, ifera, £2 4) to £3 lls ; yearling steers, 335, 395, 43s ; vealers, Bs. There were a few pigs entered, which went off at a slight advance on the usual nominal figures— -7s fid to 27s fid.

MAGISTERIAL.

ASHBURTu/N —TUESDAY

[Before Mr H. 0. S. Biddeley, R.M] CIVIL CASES. Gibson v. Cole, claim £5, and Cole v. Gibson, claim £l2 6a—These cases were con-hided shortly nf er we went to press yesterday. John Gibson, F. Lowe, and Rosanna Burns gave evidence in support of Mrs Gibson’s claim. In the case Gibson v. Cote, judgment was given for defendant, and in the case Cole v. Gibson, judgment for plaintiff for £2 16s, to be reduced to £2s Is on the return of certain pigs, and costs amounting to about £B. Tue Court then rose.

CORRESPONDENCE.

We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondents.

THE CASE OF THOMAS GLEN.

TO THR EDITOR Fia, —Will you kindly allow me space in your valuable columns to contradict a statement made by Thomas Glen, a blind man, an inmate of the Home, at the R M. Court yes'erday. He informed the Maglstia e that he would sooner tali a a sentence in gaol than return to the Home in consequence of being annoyed by the inmates This statement was as false as it was ungrateful as be baa been treated with more than ordinary kindness by all persons connected with the Home. I am, etc , Thomas B. Fox, Master, Old Men’s Home.

KIMBERLEY.

[reutrr’s TELEGRAMS —COPYRIGHT ] Port Darwin, Sempteraber 28.

Official information has been received from Derby that ralbs of gold arrived there under escort from Kimberley Goldfield. Many diggers who returned from the fields have been disappointed because they arrived there without being properly equipped. -Those, how-> ever, now on the field are reported to be earning more than wages.

[PRR PB'SHS ASSOCIATION.! Auckland, September 23. By the Tarawara a number of Anck landera returned from Kimberley. They give discouraging accounts of the gold fields.

THE EASTERN CRISIS

[kkdter TELEGRAMS - COPYRIGHT ] Sofia, September 27- The Grand Sobranas has been con voked for the 24th of October. Notwithstanding the Russian ultima tum, the Regency has maintained an unyielding attitude, and the prisoners implicated in the arrest of Prince Alex ander have not been released.

BILL OF SALE

Punedin, September 28,

An important judgment in a bill of sale case was given by Judge Williams to day. A bill of sale in consideration of £IOO advance was given by one McGallum on 3rd November, and wis registered as a bill of sale and mortgage of stock on 25ih, more than twent -one days after execution. MeCal'utn filed on 9th August following. The deed not baing reg ; stered in time was void against the Assignee, but a subsequent deed to the first was executed on the 24th Apri l , which re cited that McOallum was indebted to the mortgagee in £IOD on the first deed. The mortgagee agreed to 'end ano ther £IOO and extend the time of pay ment of the first £LOO on the mortgagor executing the deed in question, (he stock mentioned in the first deed and other stock being given as aecuri y This deed was registered as a bill of sale and mort gage of stock in proper time. The As signee contended that the hill was void under the 4th section of the Chattel Securities Amendment Act, as it did not set f< rth a full and true statem nt, etc. The Judge decided that both bills were void as against the Assignee. His Honor also decided that a client who does not employ a solicitor can, it successful, claim ti have counsel’s c'ate treated aa disbursements and allowed.

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Mklbouknb, September 23

A. deputation from the Victorian shop kespira waited on the Government, and predated a petition containing 3003 signa tures, for the repeal of a compulsory olos ng clause in the Factories and Shops Act. §

A fisherman, named J. Loreo, and.two mates, arrived" at Gabo Island in a boat, having been blown away from Morgan Inlet. They had been five days out when they made the lighthouse, and daring that time had existed on oysters. They were mrch exhausted.

I 1 the Assembly a proposal that a news paper report of a nr eting opoi to the pre?s should be privileged was negatived. Sydney, September 25.

The speeches do ivered at the French Club by the Chief Justice sni Sir Patrick Jennings have caused a gcod deal of com meet on account of the sympathy m ni fested by the speakers with the proceed ings of the French in the New Hebrides, while at the same time the Agent-General in London is protecting against each action. Sir Patrick, on being questioned in the Assembly, denied that the Govern ment hid ia any way alt rad their policy. The estimates are being passed through the Assembly but slowly, as effuts are being made to effect reductions, and as the money has already been expended, they are considered useless for this year. A Civil Service Amendment Bill has been introduced for the appointment of Royal Commission lo make necessary reduction!'. The Customs BUI passed the Council with very It tie dirsussion. It ia rumored that the Council will relegate the Cry Rail vaya plans to a relest Committee to de lay the constiujtion of tho lines for an indefinite period. The Mercantile Marine Conference com menced its sittings in the Town Hall on Tuesday, Mr Storey, Vice-Chairman of the Chamber ©f G mmerce, presiding Mr E; Smith, of Howard, Smith and Sons, opened the proceedings in favor of the shipowners witl an exhaustive speech in which he treated the whole question in an able manner. Mr Burns, of Barns and Philip, Captain Hynes, of the A.S.N. Company, aud Mr Huddart, of Haddart, and Parker, followed in a similar strain. The Conference was adjourned till Monday. Alfred Reynolds the Newtiwn mur derer, la to be executed on October Btn. The unemployed are again agitating. The Colonial Secretary has warned them that the Government ecanaot give re munerative work. In the case of Moir v Proctor and another, a suit brought hy the master of the barque Clifton against Proctor, Jones and Co, of Dunedin, an agreement has been arrived at. The Judge said the defendants had in his opinion, dealt moat liberally with the plaint fl Wm. Lipman, abet by Benjamin Joseph in Brisbane street, has died, and David Levy is not expected to recover. Brisbane, September 23, A great fight took place between several hundred kanak h on a plantation near Bandabery on Sunday. Several were shot, but not fatally. Spears were also freely ««ed.

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

[Per Press Association]. Aucki4Nd, September 38- & new feature in connection with til* famous Stark property has cropped op. At a meeting of the Devonport Borough Oounc I Mr Stark’s attorney stated that he was not liable for the rates claimed on the property (£SO), on the ground that it had bsen sold to the Government before 'he end of the rating year ending April Ist. The Council decided to test the question, and taka proceedings sgainst Mf Sta k for recovery of the amount due* W viaikoton, September 28. The Commissioners appointed to en quire into the Stark Purchase will assemble at Auckland on sth October. A conple of actions for slander are mentioned as likely to occupy the Oonrfc shortly. One is.brought by T. Calvert, oimmiancn agent, against Jno. Bertie, pubictn, for alleged slanderous state ments mads at a meeting of creditors re flecting on the former’s character. The second action is against B Blower, publican, for alleged defamation of the character of a lata emp'nya. In each owe damages a e fixed ft £6OO Mastjerton, September 9. Scab has broken out in the Whareama district, on Mr Tiverton’s run. Dukbdiw, September 28. A deputation from the City Connell waited on the Premier regarding abont forty of the unemployed who were nnable to proceed to the conntry. The Premier said these men might be put on defence works, and the others sent np country. Men in Dunedin, Christchurch and Auck land seeking work should be prepared to go into the conntry. As for work abont towns, conntry settlers who had loat by the floods were more entitled to anca than towns. None of the bodies of the tour men drowned at Taieri month have so far been recovered. The new reenittions of the Acclimatisa tion Soc'ety p ’■ mit of Si nd»y fishing, and this condition *-«a aroused the opposition of land owners, who recently petitioned the Society to have them al'ared. This was not acceded to, and the land-owners in Waiwera district have resolved to pro , hibit fishing until their proposal be agree 1 to, and have appointed a Commit tee to prosecute tre passers;

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN [reciter's telegrams —copyright.] THE PROPOSED TESTIMONIAL.' London. September 37. The Prince of Wales has written a letter to the Committee which was formed for the purpose of presenting a testimonial to his Royal Highness for his exertions in connection with the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, de clining a personal present, and request ing that the funds which have already been collected shall be devoted to the Imperial Institute. The Committee have acquiesced in this proposal, believ ing that the desire of the donors would be to act in the way most acceptable to the Prince.

THE COLONIAL EXHIBITION. The Exhibition will be closed ob November loth. IMPERIAL INSTITUTE. London, September 28. An important meeting in connection with the establishment of the Imperial Institute was held at the Mansion House yesterday, a Committee being formed for the purpose of raising the necessary funds for carrying out the project. OUTRAGES IN KERRY. Agrarian outrages have occurred in Kerry, where nineteen Moonlighters have been captured. HANLAJPS OFFER. Hanlan has offered to row Beach OB the Nepean River, near Sydney. NEW HEBRIDES. La France declares that the slave ring io New Caledonia is at the bottom of the agitation about the New Hebrides* and advises the - evacuation of those islands by France. MINING COMPANY.

A Company has [been registered, with a capital of to purchaie the Bonnie Dundee mine at Charters .Towers, in Queensland.

FRIGHTFUL MURDER AND SUICIDE IN MELBOURNE

Amidst the hum of business and stir of traffic in Elizabeth street, Melbourne, on the 20th instant, an old lady ran out into the street in an ecstacj of terror, call lag upon everybody to save her dan ’hto* t who was being killed. Going with her into the hons>, some of the passers by discovered on the landing of the stain A woman, from whose throat bloo 1 waa flowing, and who has since died, and a little higher np the body of a man, with his throat all but severed, and who speedily expired. The old lady before referred to (Mrs Lad wig), who is the mother of tb» deceased woman, gives the folio wing par* ticulars of the tragedy. She says she was sitting with her daughter in the parlor. Her daughter was reading aloud Min Braddon’s story, entitled “ The One thing Neelful,” the conclusion of which had appeared in that day’s Age. Her husband looked in several timss, and was very friendly, proposin' that they should go to the Theatre. The last time he came in his wife asked what o’clock it was, and he took his watch from his pocket with the left hand, keeping the other under an apron he always wore in the oyster shop. Mrs Williams happened to look up again just then, and observing; that be had something under his apron, she asked, in a pleasant, caressing way,. “ What have you got there, Billy Y' aa* though she thought he had a surprise for* her. There was no reply. He made a rapid movement towards her, and his wffj went towards him, and looked at hlne in a questioning and alarmed manner. Then Instantly he drew forth a kails and struck her on the neck, saying, “ That’s what it is, fake it." Jumping from her scat, with the blood pouring from the wound and saturating her cloth ing and the carpet, aha attempted to go down stairs, bnt had only descended a few stairs, when she fell to the passage below, dead. Her mother was almost paralyse! with fear, but she rose and fol lowed her d snghter. Williams mads no attempt to follow, and, glancing back as she flsd, she saw him aittingon a chair catting hia own throat. The blood from the wound be inflicted on himself sported oat on the door and wall, and, dropping from hia chair, he fell on bis right side on the floor dead. William Williams was a young man of abont 26, and was a native of Kspunda (South Australia), where hia ' relatives used to carry on large marble works. His connections appear to have been very respectable. He was married to Miss Ludwig abont eleven months ago and the couple wore very much attached to each other but Williams was a mao whose temper wts eas ly ex it id and who bad lately taken to dciuk very much.

THE ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1888;



re IO'VLK’S P MNYi-'OY 'll AFD J STEEL PILLS FOR FEMALES Oficklv correct all irregularities, and tV-ieve the distressing symptoms so pre valent wth the sex. Boxes li l|d and Is 9 ! of all Chemists and Patent Medicine Vend >ra. < repaved only by The Lincoln and Midland Counties Drug Lincoln, England. Wholesale of all the Wholesale Houses Beware of Imitations.



■JgLACK, BBaTTIB & COMPANY, Criterion Mouse, 201, 203. 205. High street, CHBISTCHU RCH. We have the pleasure to advise onr Customers and the residents generally in the Ashburton District that we have ow received vary largo Shipments of NEWEST DRAPERY GOODS the Present Season. The advantages which we possess in being able to buy lo .Re Best British Markets, and the thorough experience of onr buyer, enables us to supply all Goods under OUR CASH SYSTEM A T » of business LOWEST P *» I 0 E S. We ond savour toglve our Customers best value proour b le, whatever Prices hey m.»v wish to pa chase Goods at, and Stock is go lakgjand well-assorted bat the most varied wants can bo sup plied. We append a list of onr Depart* .dents, in cash of which an immense Variety of most Kovel snd Fashionable will bo found DRESS DEPARTMENT HOSIERY department MANTLE DEPARTMENT DRESSMAKING DEPARTMENT MILLINERY DEPARTMENT DKeSS DEPARTMENT HOSIERY DEPARTMENT mantle department dressmaking department millinery department CLOTHING DEPARTMENT rM-Li CLOTHING DEPARTMENT tailoring"” department HOUSEIIOBL FCRNISBING Manufacture from various Ml’s Including AI’XLTS, FLANNELS & TWEEDS asitllrton manufacture, Jssh System anb Cash Prices. lack, BEATTIE &CO. GENERAL DRAPERY WARE HOUSE tailors, DR. SSM AEEB 'Wn RY.



Wanted. WANTED to LET 4-roomrd House and Half Acre of Land ; low rental: or to sell on very easy terms —H. M. Jones. QG'n ANTKD—Appren io s to the Dre<-a making —Ukr and Aloobn. 9738 ITTANTED TENDERS for ROLLINt* W 300 ACRES of CROP on Ardlui. Tend, rs be in by noon on September 30, addressed to A. J. Reid, South Rakaia, 9697 _ INK STANLS, Note" Paper, Paper Mache Ware, and all things that are beauti ful —H. M. Jones. •r-j y ANTED Known —That Ladies re- V r quiriog Nursing will find every accommodation at Mrs Woodwards, Alienl.de House, Cox Street, Allenton. WNTEO the Public to inspect a grand assortment of New Season a Tea and Sugars of all grades at prices to suit all classes of purchasers. Jas. McGregor, Tanored street. WANTED Known—The Lucky Jar cf Peas will be opened and counted on the 11th of next month, when £2O in prizes will be given away. Every purchaser to the amount of 10s has a chan re. Don’t delay—be in time. Hayes and Co , Arcade.



JUST OPENED —Choice assortment rf New Spring Dress Stuffs, Prints, Millenry, etc ‘he cheapest House in town for first class goods. Presents to the value of 2s in the £. Dressmaking on the premises. H. C. SeokßS, Mel ford House. Wanted known—Long looked for come at last. T- Honlt, having commenced bacon curing, he is able to supply a real good Pork damage at (id per lb at. the Factory, Moore at, Ashburton. Pigs cured in any quantity dried, smoked and delivered home at One Penny per lb. T. Hoult. 7 Special Advertisements. WANTED KNOWN THAT MRS STRIBLING HAS REMOVED from old premises in Burnett street (next to the Arcade), to the PANAMA BOAUDING-HOUSE, TANCRKD STREET (Lately occupied by Mr Lucas). 8°537 SERVANTS WANTED. SEVEN GENERAL SERVANTS and one COOK for Ashburton and suburbs. Also, one COOK and one GENERAL SERVANT for the country. Apply to Mrs Randall’s Registry ffice. A. W. BANDELL, FRUITERER, Ac., Town Hall, Ashburton. CBNTBAIi HOTEL. JW. MoRAE having taken the above t Hotel, solicits a share of patronage from tha people of Ashburton and sur rounding districts. Best Brands of Wine’s Spirits and Beers. Good Stabling—Feeds, Onk Shilling. Horses and Buggies to let on hire at prices to meet the times. For the convenience of travellers hansom cab will meet all trains. Trees Trees Trees THE undersigned has FOR SALE all kinds of FRUIT AND FOREST TREES, Pinna Insignia, Austriaca, Marhima, and Macrooarpa, by tens of thousands; other kinds in proportion. All kinds of cabbage plants, etc, on *ale. All orders by post or otherwise shall receive my best attention. N.B.—Gentlemen’s Gardens tastefully laid out All kinds of planting dona by contract. JAMES PORTER, CLIFTON NURSERY, 4 75 A lien ton, Ashbnrton.



NEW ZEALAND CLOTHING FACTORY The new goods for the WINTER SEASON .A KB SOW opened out. The Stock is THE LARGEST & BEST SELECTED IN THE T'=WN, And the variety of Style and Patterns in Men’s, Youths’, and Boys’ Clothing leaves nothing to be desired. Thousands of Men’s and Boys’ Suits, newest styles. Trousers and Trousers and Vests manufactured of New Zealand Tweeds, Every garment warranted shrunk Overcoats, Waterproof Coats and I egg>~gs in great variety Hats, comprisng every new stylo worn Children’s Jersey Suita, Children’s Men of-War Suits Ger'’emeu's Hosiery, Scarves; Oxford .kCgntta and White Shirts Rugs, Portmanteaus, and Travelling Bags The celebrated WEHTHEIM SEWING MACHINE. Time Payments. N.Z CLOT HING FACTORY, East Strf.f.t MACPIIERSON, SAMPSON, & CO Auctioneers, valuators, STOCK LAND, AND GENERAL COMMISSION AGENTS, Will hold their regular WEEKLY BALE of Horses, Cattle, Pigs, Poultry, Produce, and Sundries, at the CENTRAL AUCTION MART, Havelock street, EVERY SATURDAY, at 12 o’clock sharp. Specitd Sales conducted when required on very easy terms. A gents for— Mutual Life Assurance Society of Victoria. Limited. The Equitable Fire Insurance Associa tion of Now Zealand. Messrs Booth, Macdonald, and Co., Christchurch. P. McNeave’s Patent Footrot Appli cation. For Sale 2 Sec md-hand Spring Traps (nearly m vr) 1 Superior Second-hand Dogcart (almost new) 1 Blacksmith’s Patent Portable Forge Quantity Superior Hurdles Several Properties to Let or for Sale. At ACP HI RSON, SAMPSON & CO„ J 9693 Auctioneers



Victoria House, EE-ORG ANISATION OF BUSINESS. REDUCING STOCK RETIRING from the FANCY DRESS, HATS, and MANTLE EPARTMENTS of t'-ie trade. ,T.nrmfn PHENOMENAL VALUE now being givcn,and t-i be obtained nntrl AUGUST 20th NEXT. DIMANT AND COE, GENERAL DRAPER-!, CLOTHIERS, &0., East and Tancred streets, Ashburton.



Special advertisements. IN THE SUPREME COURT OF BANKRUPTCY THIS 3DA.Y Gr. ti. Beath & Co. offer the STOCK-IN-TRADE i or THOMAS JACOBS, DRAPER AND CLOTHIER Late of High street, Christchurch, and Akaroa, AT A DISCOUNT or 10 5 ,N J ira £ Aleo, the STOCK in the BANKRUPT ESTATE of SIMPSON AND HARPER, WOOLLENDRAPEBS, AT A DISCOUNT



6 8 gD. W THE £ TOTAL VALUE - £2210 0 8 0 D Unprecedented Bargains. Stock Sheets in course of publication. The above nro two of tlio Cleanest Ptocks over offered in Christchurch, Simpson and Harper having been in bnsb ness only four months, whilst the largest portion i f Thomas Jacob’s Stock was purchased by him this winter. PUBLIC NOTICE.



REMOVAL or THK Ashburton Branch of the Business OF H. J. WOOD AND CO. (Lato T. F. Farley) FRIEDLANDERS’ BUILDINGS ON THR Ist OCTOBER NEXT. WE beg to advise our valued cus tomers, the commercial and general public of Ashburton and district, that wo have leased from Messrs Friedla'ider Bros, the large commodious shop next the corner in their new buildings We shall remove to FRIEDLANDERS’ BUILDINGS on the Ist OCTOBER, 1886, and our Stock will bo la-gely increased with NEW DIRECT SHIPMENTS or BOOKS, STATIONERY, MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, And NEW MUSIC. Several Hundred Volumes and a Large Quantity of Cheap Reading to be Sold at very Low Prices during the nest few days.



H. J. WOOD & CO. Booksellers, Stationers, Printers, and Bookbinders, Importers of Pianos, Organs, and all kinds of Musical Instruments and Music, STATIONS US’ HALL Great Sale Extraordinary. ORR & ALCO RN On the Opening of the SPRING TRADE, BEG to announce to their customers and tlio public generally they have now opened up the greater portion of their Direct Importations for tlie Season All the LATEST NOVELTIES in DRESS MATE RIALS, including the new Glow.worm, Kyrle, and Canvas Cloths, and the newest thing* out in Printed Sateen, Oatmeal, and Zephyr Cloths. In Ladies’ and Children’s Straw Hats Bonnvts, Flowers, Ac., we are now show ing the largest and most attractive stock ever seen in Ashburton. Wo desire especially to call the attention of everyone to a SPECIAL PURCHASE of a SET of SAMPLES, representing the stock of one of the largest wholesale houses in England.



In th : s stock there are no less than 2242 different articles, comprising Costumes, Mantles, Ulsters, Children’s Dresses, &c , Pelisses, Ladies’ and Maids’ Corsets, Tunics, Aprons, Hats and Bonnets, Fur Capes, Underclothing, Q lilts. Towels, Toilets, Boys’ Suits of all kinds, Men’s Suits and Overcoats, Wool Shawls, &c Many of these articles are of a style and ipiality suitable for a wealthy city truue, and never before seen in Ashburton At the price we have purchased these goods we are enabled to SELL them at LANDED COST, and have a fairprofit, but saving over 50 per cent to the purchaser. Together with these goods, that are, without fear of contradiction, the cheapest lot ever sold in Canterbury, we have decided to reduce the whole of our stock ! o prices to correspond. igg- 'IhisFPKCIAL SALE will commence On SATURDAY NEXT, 18th inst Orr & Alcorn. 9646



ROYAL SALEYARDS, MoORB-fiTi'KET. DUX CAN & CHAWSHAW, Auctioneers, Licensed Lsni Brokers, Stock, Estate, and General Commission Agents, Accountants, Valuators, «&o. Regular auction rales every , SATURDAY at 12 o’clock, of Horses, Cattle, Pigs, Poultry, Produce, aad Merchandise. Straight up and down treatment, and prompt settlement guaranteed.



Special sales conducted as required Transfers, Mortgages, Leases, and such like documents prepared under the Land Transfer Act. Agents for the Victoria Insurance Co„ Limited. 9*560 DUNCAN & OIUWSHAW



TIMBER, TIMBER. TIMBER E are now receiving from Southland FRESH SUPPLIES OF ALL SIZES BUILDING TIMBER, Consisting of Red and White Pine Scantling, T. G. Flooring, T G. Lining, Plain and Dressed Weather boards. A Largo Stock of Kanri on hand, which bel n g stored in sheds is ready for im mediate nae. FOR COUGHS, Bronchitis Asthma, Coryza, Influenza, Con sumption, «frc. KAY’S COMPOUND OF LINSEED, Aniseed, Senega, Squill, Tolu, &c with Chlorodyne. KAY’S COMPOUND, a demulcent expectorant, for Coughs, Colds, and Chest Complaints. KAY’S COMPOUND, for Couehs, and Colds, is equally serviceable for Horses and Cattle. AY’S TIC PILLS, a specific in Neuralgia, Face-ache, &v. Con tains Qu’n n“, Iron, &o. COAGULINB. —Cement for Broken Articles, Sold Everywhere. Sole Makers:—KAY BROS., Stock port, England, Mills TUCKER AND RESTELL. September 18, 1886. $9060