The Ashburton Guardian.

YOU. V.—No. 1345

ASHBURTON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, JHHfi

PRICE-ONE PENNY



Surveyor, Civil C B. BOOKS AND SONS, Architects, IYIL Bn (JIB EBBS, VAI.VATOBB, LIOKCSTO StTKVK 70BS, AKD IiAMD BbOKSBS, TRIANGLE, WAKANUI ROAD, Ashbtjbtow. Conveyances i nINWALD AND MOUNT SOMERS £ RAILWAY. MOUNT SOMERS AND CAVENDISH ROYAL MAIL COACH. The above Ct»ach leaves Hood’s hotel f >r Cavendish Railway Station every day, meeting each train. Passengers by morning train may pro ceed by coach to Alford Forest, thence to Methven in time for the last train for Christchurch, or may return In lime for the last train for Ashburton. Parcels and Orders will receive every attention. Horses and Baggies on hire. , n JOHN HOOD AUSTRALASIAN qAROELS EXPRE&a- Parcels and Packages forwarded to any ddrass, at cheap, through, inclusive One charge. No extras. No trouble. No charge for booking or for collecting psickages up to B6lbs weight within the city. Daily despatches by Fail, and to Great Britain, Europe and Australia by every steamer. Extract from tariff, Including all charges to Address of Consignee : P 3 S W ■ £



ft. SL eiQ i i Wo are now receiving parcels for Home fo despatch per Tongariro, sailing this Ajonth. Revised cheap rates. Insurance effected If desired. Tariff and all information on application CUFF & GRAHAM, Box 237 Boat Office, Christchurch ; and Lyttelton; Telephone 22. 8_1572 Business Notices. BAKER BROS., Builders, Under takers, eta, Wakanul road and Cass street—B.B. desire to state that having the most recent and improved Hjsabsb and Mmntmvn Ooaoh, are prepared to furnish and conduct Funerals on special and most reasonable terms. Country orders will receive prompt attention. Note the ad dress, corner of Wakanui road and Cass t treetr. Orders may be left at the Aah -1 nrton Ooaoh Factory; or Box 16, Post Office Ashburton. Mount somers & methvbn ROYAL MAIL COACH. On and after January Ist, 1885, the undersigned will run a Coach each Mon day, Wednesday and Saturday, starting at noon from Hood’s Hotel, Mount Somers, ior Sprlngburn and Alford Forest, there . onneoting with Duff’s Ooaoh from Methven returning same evening. Fares—Spring burn, 2s, return," Ss; Alford Forest, 4b, lethrn, 6*. 1 27 T. HIX. MRS KENNEDY & MISS CAMERON DRESSMAKERS, mpton’s Buildings, Moore street, Ashburton. N.B.—Registry Office fcr Female Ser vants. ' ARRIVAL OF NEW BOOKS. COURT Life Below Stairs, Humorous Works of Theodore Hook,- Letters from Hell, Journals of Major-General Gordon at Khar toum, Stonehenge’s British Rural Sports, Newspaper Readers’Companion, Scottish Life and Character by Dean Ramsay, The Grey hound—by Stonehenge, Book of Snobs—by Thackeray. Macaulay’s Essays and Lays of Ancient Rome, Mayhews’ Horse Doctor, The Horse—by Stonehenge, Complete Works of Artemns Ward in 1 vol.. Choice Works Mark Twain —1 vol., Religions Anecdotes of Scotland by Adamson, Sheep, Cattle and Horse —by Tooatt, Sunday at Home, Leisure Hour, America—by Mackenzie, Nineteenth Century— by Mackenzie; Madagascar and France, Spons’ Mechanics Own Book, Short History of Our Own Times—by. Justin McCarthy, The Shadow of a Crime —by Hall Caine, Intrigues of a Poisoner —by E Gaboriau, Clarissa’s Tangled Web, Decameron of Boccaccio, Mine Own People—by L. M. Gray, The Maclise Portrait Gallery, Evan Harrington —by George Meredith, The Reporter’s Companion, Erie. THOS. F. FAELEY, BOOKSELLER, STATIONER, AND PRINTER, SAUNDERS’ BUILDINGS, ASHBURTON, m II -Cl fn Si A per day to be made by per sons of either sex, in their own localities, at work for us. New Dualneaa. AH meet with wonderful suc cess. Anyone can do the work. Oapltal not required. We will start you. Outfit irorth £1 mailed free. The employment is particularly adapted to the region in which this publication circulates. Beys and girls earn. nearly as much as men. Fall particulars and instructions malle ree. Now Is the time—don’t delay, but write to ns at once. Address Stinson Do Portland Maine. United States



Public Notices: Caution. SOME unscrupulous firms are trying to force on the New Zealand people a Nostrum, under the cloak that It is made in the 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 their attention once more to the fact that the Genuine American Co.’s . Are put up in Square, Panelled, Amber colored 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. :burton coal Begs to inform the inhabitants of Ash burton that he has a splendid lot of Bine Derwent Potatoss for sale. NEWCASTLE. WESTPORT, AND BROOKFIELD COAL at lowest rates. Firewood, Posts and Rails, Stakes Etc., , Potatoes, Chaff, Oats, Bran, Sharps, Etc. , BOP BITTERS FIREWOOD DEPOT. AND R. S. Bean R. S. BEAN, 419 West street, Standard Sewing achine.



THE LIGHT-RUNNING STANDARD SEWING MACHINE, The STANDARD haa more Improvements than all the other Sewing Machines pnt together I Has always been the best 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 Europe, Australia and New Zea land. WALTHAM (a-. &.6ENT FOR ASHBURTON- W. 0. Page, IST STREETS



Public Announcements. FRUIT TREES ! FRUIT TREES I FRUIT TREES ! ° RAFGIORA NURSERY. [ ® W. E, IVORY BEGS to inform his patrons in th< Ashburton district that orders fo; the season will be executed direct fron e the Nursery. My stock is very large ant grown, and consists of 2 and 3-year old Apple, Pear, Plum, Peach Nectarine i- Cherry, Apricot, Almond, Quince, Medlar , Walnut, Grape Vines, and Fruiting Treef e of Gooseberry Currants ; also, Pinef and other Shelter Trees. Catalogues or application. May 21, 1886. HQRIESSELICH AND 00 • WEAVERS’ HALL, , WOOL EXCHANGE, LONDON, , SHIPPING AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, i Established 1865, Ship to order any description ot British and Continental Goods upon 2£ per cent, commission, selected by buyers with Colonial experience, and attend to the prompt realisation oi 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 risks. References—Chief Oflice of the London and Westminster Bank, or Agra Bank, London, and most of the Colonial Banks. Current Price Lists. Produce Reports, and any necessary samples or information I on application 1 36 Agricultural Machine Shop, wakanui road, CHARLES RAY Repairs Engines, Combines, Chaff-cutters, Reapers and Binders, and all clashes of machinery. Special attention given tc Bicycles, Tricycles and Sewing Machines. Lawn Mowers repaired, sharpened and adjusted. Model work General repairs. 8 A WONDERFUL BOOK FOR Is. 100 CONTAINING THICKS AND DELUSIONS WITH CARDS 25 MARVELLOUS COIN TRICKS, For the performance of which only a common pack of cards and the ordinary coins of the realm are needed. ALL FOLLY EXPLAINED. Also, a large collection of AMUSING RIDDLES, CHARADES, GAMES, &c., 'And over 200 TRICKS WITH CONJURING APPARATUS. All illustiated, explained, and made simple, ■with a catalogue of English, French, and Ameiicau Novelties, Games, Toys, &e. Covering over 300 pages and illustrated with over 300 woodblocks. Toth books mailee free for Is. JACK AND HIS BRIDE. Mecnanical FIGURES DANCE to MUSIC and keep perfect time. Is 3d each, the pair 2s. THE WIZARD OF THE NORTH’S CHANGEABLE PACK OF CARDS Wonderful Changes with Lightning Rapidity Is 2d, post free. N.S.W. stamps taken at par; post office orders and postal notes preferred. If stamps of other colonies are sent add 2d in tho shilling for exchange. Take Notice. —To advdltisc our business we will for a short time send t Ae whole of the above mentioned articles to one address post paid f r 2a 6d. Address all orders: H. YORK & CO., 401 George street, Sydney. Lock Box 41, King street, Post Office.



Di Speer’s PR [VA TE DISPENSARY, now permanently established In Octagon Chambers, Boss’ Buildings, opposite Town Hall, DUNEDIN, for the Scientific and Speedy Cure of Chrooio, Nervous, and Special Diseases. Dr Speer Is a regu lar Graduated Physician, educated at Harvard College, U.S, He has devoted a lifetime to, and Is acknowledged to be the most expert Physician in his specialty In the UnHed States. Young men and Middle-aged Men, who suffer from Ner vous and Physical Debility, Loss of Energy and Memory, Eruptions on the Face, Mental Depression, Kidney and Bladder Troubles, Neuralgia, Rheuma tism, Scrofula, Salt Rheum, Paralysis, Fits, Spinal Disease, St Vitus’ Dance, Liver Complaint, Asthma, Catarrh, Heart Disease, Gravel, Piles, etc., and are tired of taking mineral drugs, will do well to come and try the Doctor’s method of cure —as it will, if properly applied, relieve them of their sufferings and restore them to health. The Doctor uses no mineral preparations; his treatment consists wholly in the use of vegetable remedies. Many are they who have Implanted in their sys tem, by improper use of calomel, seed, which produce an annual crop of dlseasd. To such be would say,comeand be healed. It matters not what your troubles may be, come and let the Doctor examine your cose. If it is curable, he will tell you sa; if it is not, he will tell yon that; for be will not undertake a case unless he is confident of effecting a core. It will cost yon nothing for consultation, so please call and satisfy yourselves that the Doctor understands your case. Dr S. cures Humors and Diseases of the Blood. To ladies who are afflicted by any of the following complaints,—Cold extremities, weak stomachs, lame and weak backs, nervous and sick headaches, constipation and indigestion, pain in the side and back leochorrea, etc, etc. —I wish it distinctly understood that I do not claim to perform impossibilities, or to have a miraculous power. All applying to me will receive my honest opinion of their complaints. No experimenting. I will guarantee a positive cure in every case I undertake, or forfeit L2OO. Consultation in Office or by letter, FREE. Charges Moderate. Examination and Advice LI. Gall or ad dress: Dr H. J. Speer, Dunedin. Office Hours: 9to 12, 1 to 4,6 to 8 p.m.; Sun days, 10 to 12. N.B. All Medicine ne cessary for a complete cure can be sent free from observation on receipt of symptoms.



Christchurch Advertisements. D.I.C. e ; SHOW DISPLAYS ' FOU i SPRING SEASON. s i AT tbs approach of another Feason the Public are invitrd to o r FIRST GREAT DIRPLiY OF SPRING NOVELTIES In all the DEPARTMENTS OF FASHION, We have great pleasure in issuing tl ia invitation, as we have never exhibited on any previ ns occasion such a RICH PROFUSION of Fabrics, Novelties, and Effects, The beauty of which transforms tho Fp ciot-s Warehouse, and callsiforth admiration and wonder. On this Special Occasion 'the Ware house will bo CPEN;still i»J p.m, on SATURDAY. EVERY ARTICLE AT WHOLESALE WAREHOUSE PRICE. THE DRAPERY AND GENERAL IMPORTING COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND, LIMITED, Cashel Street, CHEISTCHUKCH. B.|HALLENBTEIN, Chairman. E, O. BROWN, Manager.



J. Ballantyne & Co. HAVE OPENED TIIEIK NEW SPRING GOODS, And are making a very fine display of MILLINERY, MANTLES, COSTUMES, and all the varied textures and style in NEW DRESS MATERIALS for the coming Season. THE GENTS DEPARTMENT is replete with a magnificent STOCK OF AND MEN S MERCERY. DU NOTABLE HOUSE, Chkistciiuiicu, One Shilling oil the Pound for Cash. J 7 227



DE E R I N 6’ S E E B I N G' S Twine Binder. WITH LATEST IMPROVEMENTS for 1885 6. REDUCED PRICE—£SO. Every Machine with latest improvements, two knives and a supply of small extras. The agents being desirous that the Deering Twine Binder should retain the position which it has obtained as the FAVORITE MACHINE WITH THE FARMERS throughout New Zealand, and that the price should not stand in the wa|’ ( we have determined to sell all machines for coming season at FIFTY POUNDS. For simplicity of construction, lightness of draught, economy of repairs, strength and efficiency, it stands unequalled, whilst for excellence of work in the field, under all conditions of crop, it cannot be surpassed. In confirmation of its superiority, we refer to the many prizes obtained each year, and also to the testimonials from practical New Zealand farmers, as well as satisfaction expressed by every purchaser of machines. D. WILLIAMSON, Agent for Ashburton, Mrs Adams AGENT FOR MADAME WEIGEL'S PATTERNS, HAS now on hand a nice assortment of crewel wools, silks, filoselle, flossette, lace, braids, transfer patterns, now designs, crash, oatmeal and satin cloths for art needlework, five o’clock tea cloths, embroidery frames, etc. THE LITTLE SHOP (Next Mb Banger's baker



Sporting. J> AGING £JLUB. SPRING MEETING. THUBSDAyTnD FRIDAY, [November 25 and 26, 1886. President, E. G. Wright, ; Vice-Presi dent, J. Grigg ; Judge, Matthew St'tt Stewards, 11, Fried lander, W. B. Den shire, J. C. N Grigg, B. Friedlander, W. C. Walker, Dm Ross and Leahy; Treasurer—o. G. Fooks; Clerk of tire Scales, M, Friedlander ; Clerk of the Course, A. Hewson : Handi cappers, F. Cotton, C. C. Fooks, M. Stitt and Dr Leahy First race to start at 1 p.m. FIRST DAY. C 'Unty Hurdle Race, of 30 sovs ; over six flights of hurdles, about 3ft J 6in high ; nominaion, 1 sov ; accep tance, 1 sov. Second horse to receive 6 sovs from the stake. 1£ mile District horses only. 2, Welter Handicap, of 45 sovs ; nomi nation, 1 sov ; acceptance, 14 sov ; minimum weight, 10st. Second horse to receive 5 sovs from the stake For horses that have never won more than 25 sovs in one event on the] flat. 2 miles. 3, Ashburton Cup Handicap, of 12 sovs ; nomination, 1 sov ; acceptance 3 sovs. Second horse to receive 10 sovs from thestake. 14 mile. 4, County Plate Handicap", of 40 sovs. nomination, 1 sov ; acceptance, 1 sov. Second horse to receive 5 sovs from the stake. milo. District horses only. 5, Post Stakes, of 15 sovs ; catch weights; nomination, 1 sov, to be made to the Secretary immediately after the County Plate is run. The winner to bo sold by auction imme diately after the race for 15 sovs, any surplus to go to the funds of the Club. 1 mile. 6, Spring Handicap, of 50 bovs ; nomina tion, 1 sov ; acceptance, H eov. | mile.



SECOND DAY. 1. Handicap Hurdle Face, of 50 bovs ; over eight flights of hurdles, about 3ft Oin high ; nomination, 1 sov ; acceptance, 2 sov. Second horse to receive 5 sovs from the stake. 2 miles. 2, Racing Club Handicap, of 100 sovs nomination, 1 sov ; acceptance 3 sovs Second horse to receive 10 sovs from the stake 1| mile. 3 Ladies’ Purse, of 25 sovs; welter weights for age. Gentlemen riders. Entrance, 1 sovs. 1£ mile. District horses only. 4 Totalisator Stakes, of ""15 sovs; minimum weight, Bst ; nomination, 1 sov, to bo made to the Secretary immediately after the Ladies’ Purse is run. The winner to be sold imme diately after the race for 10 sovs, any surplus to go to the funds of the Glut). 4 mile. 5. Flying Handicap, of 40 sovs ; nomina tion, I sov ; acceptance, 1 sov. Second horse to receive 5 sovs from the stake. 4 mile. 6. Consolation ‘Handicap, of 20 sovs ; nomination, 1 sov, to bo made to the Secretary immediately after the Flying Handicap is run ; acceptance, free, to be notified to the Secretary within 10 minutes of declaration of weights. 1 mile. RULES AND REGULATIONS. 1. No entry will be received except on the condition that all disputes, claims, and objections arising out of the racing shall be decided by the Stewards, or whom they may appoint; their decision on all points connected with carrying out this programme to be final. 2. A district horse shall mean any horse that has been commonly resident in the district lying between the rivers Selwyn and VYaitaki from July Ist 1886, and up to the da*e cf the forthcoming meeting and owned by a person who has resided in the said dlstr ct during the same period. 3. Five per cent will be deducted from the gross of all moneys payable in accord ance with this programme for expenses of the course.



4. All nominations and acceptances go to the fund* of the Club. NOMINATIONS. All nominations to be accompanied by fees, name, age and description of horse, and colors of rider, and in the hands of the Secretary (address —Ashburton) not later than 9 p.m. on Monday November 1 1886. WEIGHTS. Weights for the first day’s handicaps will be declared on Monday November 15 1886. Weights for the second day’s handicaps will be declared at 9 o’clock on the evening of the first day’s racing. ACCEPTANCES. Acceptances for the first day’s handi caps must be made to the Secretary not later than 9 p.m. on Monday, November 22, 1886. Acceptances for the second day’s handicaps at 9 o’clock on the even* ing'of the first day’s racing. 0. 0. FOOKS, Secretary. BEWARE! BBWAREi! OF IMITATIONS. ASK FOR HOULT’S TONIC Herbal Beer. None Genuine except that bearing my label. Try It! Try it I I It Is one of the Best Medicinal and Summer Tonics ever offered to the Public. Delivered in Ashburton at dozen. Bottles not returned will be v .larged for. T. HOULT, EAST STREET, ASHBURTON.



Great Gift Sale OF DRAPERY, CLOTHING, BOOTS, GROCERIES, & PROVISIONS FOR THRFE MONTHS ONLY. HAVE S & CO, FINDING their Stock excessively large have determined to reduce it fully one-half hy making an IMMENSE SACRIFICE OF THEIR WINTER STOCK, And n addition to the reductions made, they will give a large number of VALUABLE PRIZES, For which every Customer Purchasing Goods to the value of 10s in either the Drapery or Grocery Establishment will have the opportunity of competing. The following is the Prize List : Ist PRIZE, value £5 2nd „ „ £3 3rd ~ „ £2 And 10 PRIZES, value 20s each. These Prizes will bo awarded to the lucky ones who shall guess the number of Peas in the large Glass Jar which will be placed on view in the Drapery Window, next the Arcade. Read this Carefully. THE GLASSjf JAR OF PEAS, Now on view, was filled by Messrs Dunn and Strachey, and was sealed by Mr J C. Duncan, Broker. Each Customer purchasing Goods to the value of 10s will be entitled to one guess as to the number of Peas the Lucky Jar contains, thus a Customer spending 20s would be entitled to guess twice, and, of course, for every additional 10s spent, another guess, and so on The Jar will be opened at the conclusion of this GREAT SALE by a committee appointed by those interested, when those who have been fortunate > enough to guess the correct numbers will be presented with the above ment’oned Prizes ; but, in the event of the exact ‘ number not being guessed, the nearest to tho correct number will be awarded the First Prize, and pro rata. I This is no deception, but the power of & READY MONEY BUSINESS. The following list of Bargains is worthy ( of special notice : White Calico, 24d per yard Grey Calico, 3£d per yard ' Grey Calico, yard wide, 2s 9d per doz Welsh Flannel, fid per yard Scarlet Flannel, 10id per yard Fine All-wool Saxony, Is per yard Cream ITo'hmd, 5d per yard Colored Bed Quilts, 3s 3d and 3s 6d Scotch Cloth Blankets, Gs lid, 8s 6d, and 9s lid psr pair Witney Blankets from 7a fid Checked Winceys, 4id and 5Jd Bleached Sheeting, 2 yards, BJd per yard, wonderful value Homespuns, 74d, fijtd. and lOld Double-width Cashmeres, all colors, Is 4Jd per yard Black Cashmeres, Is and Is 3d All other Dress Materials Greatly Reduced Ladies’ Wool Squares, 8d Men’s Heavy Tweed Trousers, 7s lid Men’s Tweed Suits from 10s 6d Boys’ Overcoats, 2s lid A grand line in Youths’ Tweed . Trousers, 5s fid ' Boys’ Suits from 4s fid Ladies’ Cloth Jackets, 4s Oilcloth, 1 yard wide, 64d A splendid Tweed, all wool, 2s fid A quantity of Black Velvet Buttons, Id per doz, and a lot of Remnants which must be cleared



Tn the BOOT DEPARTMENT there are some Special Lines which cannot be rubbed out. Wo are also paying special attention to Prices in our GROCERY DEPARTMENT. Hayes and Co. ARCADE Christchurch Advertisements. His Jjordsliip’s* HOTEL AND LARDER, LICHFIELD STREET, Christchurch. THE Propietor of the above Hotel begs to notify that he has engaged the services of one of the best Chefs in the colonies, with special instractions to pro vide the best LUNCHEON OR TEA, The bill of fare will comprise Poultry, Game, Fish, etc., etc., in season. Grills to perfection at any hoar. PRIVATE ROOMS FOE LADIES. Books of Tickets are now issued at reduced rates. A String Band will play all the newest music In dining-room from 12.30 to 1.30 each day 6 14 OUNTRY VISITORS TO CHRIST CHURCH Will find the three O’a— Com Four I Cheapness I! Convenience Central Hotel, Corner of Gloucester and Oelowba ■'•reel. 10 677 A Night Porter Kept In the country for ONE SHILLING. AT WALLACE’S



Business Notices. NOTICE TO OWNERS OF DOGS. I HEREBY give Notice that all Doga found Interfering with Sheep on this Estate will be destroyed, and the Owners sued for any damage done. DONALD McLEAN. 1 167 Lagmh or. KEATING’S POWDER destroys bugs, fleas, moths, bedtles, and all other insects, whilst qnite harmless to domestic animals. In exterminating beetles the success of this powder is extraordinary. It is perfectly clean in application. See the article you purchase la KEATING'S j rs Imitations are noxious and ineffectual, r Sold in tins, 6'd, Is, and 2s 6d each, by ail chemists. 1 2 WILHELM ZANDER has always on band a good variety of BEST TOBACCO, Including—Williams’ Ruby Twist, Yenna Navy Twist and Nailrod, high Admiral, Signet, Jnno, and other best brands, IN CIGARETTES— Old Judge, Welcome, Vanity Fair, Opera Puffs, Chancellors, Old Rip, Little Beauties Durham, etc, PIPES A Splendid Assortment, both In case and withont.



CIGARETTE & CIGAR HOLDERS— A large variety to choose from. Fishing Tackle, Cricketing Material, Footballs, Lawn Tennis, and a large stock of Fancy Goods of every 1 descrintion kept In stock. Ladles and Gentlemen’s Hairdressing Saloons, Wilhelm Zander, TOBACCOR IST AND HAIRDRESSER East street, Ashburton. Public Notices. rjlO WARMERS The Ashburton Woollen Manufacturing Company, Limited, Is a Cash Buyer of Wool Apply at the Factory. II 40 TO FARMERS



AND OTHERS S ARK PURCHASE R S OP Wlieat Oats Barley Bye Grass AND OTHER PRODUCE, FOR WHICH WE ARE PREPARED TO GIVE HIGHEST MARKET VALUE.



W oolpacks fKULL SIZE) Cornsacks TO ARRIVE Friedlander Bros. W. Fowke, BOOTMAKER, BEGS to Inform his friends and thi public generally that he has started business on his own account. He hopes by strict attention to business and making a good article, to secure a share of public patronage. Address—BUßß KT* i^AKET, ' r remises oooepUd o.t K» J Mecrh,



- Business Noticss ONE box of Clark’s b 41 pills is war ranted to cure all discharges from thd is urinary organa In either sex (acquired Of •a constitutional), gravel and pains in the back. Guaranteed free from mercury Sold In boxes 4s 6d each, by all chemists and patent medicine vendors. Sole pro prietors, The Lincoln and Midland Conn '* tiea Drug Co., Lincoln, England. Whole r sale of all the wholesale houses. \ New Seed-Sower I For Sowing Grain, Crass, Turnip, j Mangold, etc., and the Turnip Sower oearranged, when otuered, to sow Lucent i ether small seeds simultaneously towing of Ryegrass if desired. It is - nly Sower in the Market that will sow with absolute regularity on either exces aiyely tough or- very smooth land. It will sow any desired quantity of ef Grass by simply changing one wheel. Corn Drills all Sizes, J DINTED PULVERISING DIKC BAP.RO W 3. The Best.—Over 500 in use. Improved Prize OiiAPPCurraEs. —Wit/ oast-steel mouthpieces, when proper!} handled, make no long straws, conso queutly chaff requires r' riddling. Th are iu use largely all over New Zealan several of the large-sized machines bein lately fitted np at Christchurch. Improved Double and Treble Furrow Ploughs. —The best, and consequent,, the cheapest in the market. 3,4, and leaf harrows. Square linked nhaln h nr rows- New design of tripod harrows, and 7 lined field grubbers. Cambrido rollers, 20, 24, and 26 inches diam. PI»1 cylinder field rollers. Dorse gears for 2,3, and 4 horses. Best iron-bate swingle-trees. Hopes and pully gear foi 4-horse yokes. Threshing machine fit tings Belting all sizes. Don and brae> castings of all kinds to order. Fenclm standards cut and pucihsi to any length and guogo. Drays made fi_.n best sen eoned timber, with Gilpin axles. Gray patent standard for folding sheep. Winner*, jf the Gold Medat at thf Melbourne Exhibition for their >oubl* Furrow Plough, vide Jarors’ Report;— “ Plq'.’-us—ln ploughs there . one ex hiblt to which we wish to draw specie attention as being the beat, and that the Double Furrow of Belt, and Gray, Dar.sdin, Now Zealand, in finish and o a true iloa it is far superior to any other Bakaia. The New Zealand Loan Mercanili Agency Company are now renressn ting n ■a this district ■’IETP* % ft; \ E. KILWORTD, Architecture , and Mechanical Draughtsman, and Building - ontractor. Oflise:—Steam Bee Hive, Sarh, Door, and Cabinet Factory ttakanai Road, Ashburton. Workmanship Guaranteed at Lowest possible rates H 3



.:s SISUKTON FEIIMAiS J 3 N T i ; CILDLN'G &r vest ■'.isnt SOCIETY. The above Society pays Interest at raio of per cent, per annum for Da poatts at Call, 5 po>* cent, per annum fo» throe mouths, and per cent, per annua ii fixe;* tor 6 months or over. Office ; - Arcade Chamoers, Burnet tree* VALUABLE THAN If a Increasing demand and endless number of testimonials are criterion of the popularity of an then Dr Low’s CHERRY PSOTORAI one of the wonders of the present eu lightened ago. During the past wintj and spring diseases of the throat iangs have been, very prevalent, and has been admitted on all sides that where ever this valuable remedy has bet. ob tainable, numbers of lives have saved by its timely use. Always have cotile in the house. Sold everywhere la 6d and Sa 6d per bottle. Wholesale agents, Kempthorne, Prosser and Co Christchurch, and at the proprietor, H Citron, Chemist, Akaroa. Aahburtn Agent —Ghas. Neate, Chemist. j ward, .Han agar. ATGHP/iAKERS I tWEUERS o. .0



Government Notice. mHE PUBLIC TRUST OFFICE 1 OF NEW ZEALAND. Atcntion is directed to the provision* ,l:o Acts establishing this Offices, and o cha advantages placed thereby within easy cash of every colonist. Subject to such provisions, the State offers to every pe? sen : 1. About to make his for her Wih Codicil. 2. —lntending to provide for Wife an Children or others by deed of Settlement 3. —Settling Property by way of iagt Settlement. 4 —Desiring to renounce the Trusts Will, having been appointed Execute under the same. S.— Having acted as Trustee, Exeon io >r Administrator, wishing to be relieved ihe burthen of Trusteeship or Admin!l ration, the option of narag the State t • thinery, and gives an absolute guarante against loss of funds by fraud, peculate or dishonesty. ' . , Every information nAy be fr<nn ALEXANDER T,t?a Agent at Christchuv\ Or from R. 0. HAMERTON PablU Tnutt •f Wellington, Wlh M