DAILY MEMORANDA.

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RAILWAY TIME TABLE.

Arrive at Ashburton— -From Christ- Irnroh f.v.-I the North, at 10.15 n.m. (express), 1.35 u.m., and 7.10 p.m. From Timaru, 10.45 a.m. From Dunedin and South, 5.27 v.'m. (express). From Mount Somers, 10.5 B.ra j-m • * UTjuins Leavk Ashburton —For unnsi* church and North, at 7.10 a.m.,10.50 a.m., and 5.37 p.m. (express). For Dunedin and South, 1u.25 a.m. (express). For Timaru, 445 p.m. For Mount Somers, 5.5 p.m.

THE ASHBURTON GUARDIAN.

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MAIL NOTICES.

Slails close at the Ashburton Post Office foll'jvr* : For Christchurch and North at 6 am 0.30 a.in., and 5 p.m., daily. For Chertsey Rakaia, &0., at 10.30 a. m and 5 p. m- daily. _. , For Dunedin, Tinwald, Winslow, Hinds, 3old«res.m, Rangitata, Orarl. Winchester, ml Geraldine, at 10 am. daily. Far Temuka, at 10 a.m. and 4.30 p-m I - or Timam and South, at 10 a. m., and 130 p. u., daily. For Oroenatreet, on Weanesdays and taro . r , Rt 10.45 jv-ta- For Elgin, Sea view, Seafield, nd Ky’o, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and p Lur r b.V2, &t 6.30 ii.ni. For iount Somers, daily at 4.30 p.m For Miyßold and Raapuna, on Mon days Rnd Thursdays, at 4.30 p.m. For A. ah ten, Waterton and Loncbearh, 4.30 p.m. daily. For Fle-niugton, on Mondays, Wednos •4&TB, and Fridays, at 4.30 p. m. „ . For Sewlands, on Tuesdays and Krl at 10.30 a.m.

arrive at the Ashburton Post Front Christchurch and Rakaia at 10.15 ,va.. 4.35 p.ru., and 7.20 p.m. Ft Ghertsoy, <fe-c. at 10.15 t and .35 -ui. daily. Frovo Dunedin *nd Intermediate places •» ;n. dally. i _ Pomuka and Tioxaru at 10.40 a. ni n r, ,1) a. in daily. ’ Fruit. ' Greenatroet, Wednesdays and at 10 a. nj. , Prom Meant Somers, daily at 10.5

From Mayfield and Rnapuna, on Wed obsdavs 3D( i Saturdays, at 10.5 a.m. From Ashton, Watert.on, and Long each at 10 a.m. daily. • From Nea-landa, on 1 uesdaya and rrl vs. at 2.30 p.m. From P’lemington on Tuesdays, Than, uys, and Saturdays, at 10a.m.

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna Est Veritas et Prevalebit THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1886. “OCEANA” EXPLODED.

Yesterday we gave our readers some idea of the contents of the first portion of Mr Wakefield’s able paper in tho Nineteenth Century and now propose, as promised, to glance at the manner in which Mr Froude is taken to task in connection with his treatment of New Zealand. Mr Wakefield points out that New Zealand, of all the colonies, takes longest to see and is the hardest to understand, owing to its great extent of latitude, its unique variety of climate and formation and to the fact “ that it is divided into two totally different islands and into nine separate settle ments, having little more in common with one another than the states of the Union have.” It will readily be understood (says Mr Wakefield) “ that this ii a country which demands a i good deal of studying, if any know ledge is to be gained of it at all. Let us see how Mr Froude studied it. In his preface he says : ‘ The object ol my voyage was not only to see the colonies themselves, but to hear the views of all classes of people there ’ V i y well. How did he set about attaining that, object in New Zealand ? He arrived at Auckland on the 4th of M uch 1886. He made himself comfortable at the Northern Club for two days, durirg which time, as he says, he “ did Auck land,” a town of 50,000 pSople and one of the most beautiful and curious in lljp world. He then made the regular humdrum, cut-and dried tour of the hot laker,, in the regular humdrum, cut and-dried way, just as more than two thousand other tourists did lastsumraer; and noted down the most shallow remarks, probably, of what be saw or did not see, of any that were made by those two thousand casual sightseers. That took a week. He then went to Kawau, a secluded, island off the coast of Auckland, where SirGeorgeGrey lives in solitary state, and he stayed a week there, speaking to nobody except Sir George Grey, his visitors and servants, and a family in a farmhouse on the mainland, whither he was blown whilst on a boating excursion. He then re turned to Auckland, slept at the club, caught the steamer for Honolulu and San Francisco —and so ended his visit to and study of New Zealand. If he had candidly admitted that he saw nothing and learnt nothing of New Zealand; that he was tired and bored when he got there, and instead of making himself acquainted with the colony, went for a holiday at the lakes with Lord Elphinstone and enjoyed an intellectual lounge with Sir George Grey and then was glad to get home it would have been easy to enter into his feelings, and to respect his straightforwardness. But he does nothing of the sort. Having deliberately shirked the duty of seeing the colony and meeting its people, ho nevertheless presumes to give an elaborate account of it, and to pass a critical judgment upon them. He net only draw> a picture ol'Ncw Zea land which is equally offensive and pre posterous, but he publishes statements about its inhabitants so injurious that it was seriously considered whether some public means of refuting them should not be taken. Where did he get his information from? Did he ‘see the colony and hear the views of all classes of people there’? No, he saw the Northern Club and Kawau, and he heard the views of Sir George Grey and his servants, a Mr Aldis, and some man whose name he did not catch, or forgot, in the smoking room at the club. But mainly, and for all practical pur poses solely, he heard and adopted the views of Sir George Grey. Mr Froude lost his head completely about Sir George Grey ; and the things he says of him, while they make all sensible colonists chuckle with satiric glee, or burn with prosaic indignation, must even have made Sir George himself blush, if he have not lost the faculty of blushing bv long disuse. Mr Froude, on the strength of a week’s acquain- j tance, pronounces Sir George Grey , the greatest ablest, noblest, wisest, most pious, and beneficent man who ever deigned to waste his God given qualities on a.wretched colony.”

Mr Wakefield then proceeds to fill in a word-portrait of Sir Georgy as a man and as a politician, sufficiently flitter ing in the first resprct but by no means complimentary in the latter, his des criplion of the Knight of Kawau culminating in characterising him as the ame damnk of New Zealand politics. “ Yet this is the man (writes the critic) on whose sole, unsupported word Mr Froude deliberately formed his judg ment of the public men and the public life of this colony; and even on less responsible authority than his, if it were possible, he caimy promulgated the astounding invention that we intend to repudiate the public debt. It was Sir George Grey again whose jaundiced and distorted views on every topic of public interest he deliberately accepted as the views of the great body of intelligent and unprejudiced people throughout the colony. He swallowed everything he was to'd holus bolus , and probably invented or imagined as much as he was told. For instance, he makes the astounding statement that the colonial debt is thirty-two millions and the municipal debts are “at least as much more.” The municipal debts, including haruor loans, some of which are at 2 5 per cent premium, do not exceed four and a-half millions. But twenty or thirty millions more or less are neither here nor there to Mr Froude. Neither are such statements as that representa tive institutions have failed in New Zealand, whereas there is no country in the world where they work more smoothly; or that nobody can buy less than 20 acres cf Crown land—this on the authority of one of Sir Geo. Grey’s servants —whereas every facility is afforded for buying the smallest areas or acquiring them without payment on terms of occupancy and improvement; or, finally, that New Zealand politicians are a set of needy, self-seeking adven turers, whereas the colony glories in such public men as Sir Frederick Weld, Sir Edward Stafford, Sir Frederick Whitaker, Sir Dillon Bell, Sir William Fox, Sir John Hall, Major Atkinson, Mr Rolleston, Mr Bryce, and last, but not least, Mr Stout, the present learned Premier, who is as capable and high minded a public man as an) one of those over whom Mr Froude went into such raptures in Australia.” And hav ing thoroughly and ably com|Teted his exposk of the great historian, Mr Wakefield thus delivers the coup de grace —“ But it is futile to go on pick ing holes in a book which, like the Irishman’s coat, is more holes than stuff. Suffice it to say that a perusal of ‘Oceana’ gives us a totally new conception of how history is written. If this is the sort of work Mr Froude produces from the utmost abundance of (xrct, recent, and thoroughly trust worthy information, from facts patent to his own knowledge, from persons in coirsc* with him, from events progress ing under his own eyes, what are we to think of those monumental productions of his which have been compiled on dubious surmises and vague conclusions drawn from ancient and abstruse docu ments or from second hand sources corrupted or obscured by a thousand errors or misconstructions ? If * Oceana’ is his story of the Australasian colonies in our own day, beware of his books I on old countries in old times.”

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Master of the Ashburton Home desires to acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of clothes from Mr Hogg and Mr McAffsrty, a coat from Mrs Rutherford, and papers from Mr Paul, for the use of the inmates.

After the inspeo ion parade of tho Ashbur ton Biflea and Guards on Tuesday night several of tho non-commissioned officers of both companies underwent an examination before Major Nawall. Corporal Orr (Rifles), and Sergeants Clark, Gates, and Sparrow, and Oorprrais Koir and Purchase (Guards) were examined and each acquitted himself ereditably.

A. complimentary concert to Mr H. Gates was given in St Stephen’s Schoolroom on Tuesday evening. Thera was a large attend ance, and the Rev E. B. Otway presided. Vocal and instrumental items were con tributed by the following :—Mesdames Den shire, Thomas, Crisp, and Claridge, Misses Orr (2), Ma-terOrr, Messrs Thomas, Harnson, Kneen, Brooks, and H Gates. During the evening refreshments provided by lady friends were handed round. Next Tuesday tho first of a series of three lectures in aid of the Sunday School library fund will be delivered. Tho lecturers are to be Rev H. C. M. Watson, Mr T. Gates, and Rev E. R. Otway.

Mr W. Zander announces that he has for sale a few copies of a pamphlet regarding tho Hall case. Tho pamphlet, which is one of •I pages, contains well-executed portraits of the chief characters in this sensational case, and the demand fur it is so great that 1500 copies were sold yesterday in Timaru.

Attention is directed in another column to the opening of a grand bazaar by our Wesleyan friends, which according to report is likely to be the sensation of the season. We have been permitted to inspect some of tho articles to be offered for sale, and can confidently say that a more useful and choice lot of goods we have seldom seen. The ladies of ihi denomination have been diligently engaged for the last eight months plying their fingers and needles preparing for this event, and with tho very large variety of articles well made and of tho latest designs, wa should ■ay that the tastes aod requirements of all classes of purchasers will be met.

A Wellington paper states that a constable in the city police force has received a letter conveying the unexpected and welcome information that in consequence of the death of a relative he baa become the possessor of property worth about £II,OOO. It is also stated that on the death of an aunt, who has attained an advanced age, he will become the possessor of estates worth about £20,000. Wo call the attention of lovers of cricket to an advertisement which appears in another column. Although we have a large amount of talent available for the old time-honored sport, yet, for some undefined reason, the Ashburton Club did not, during last season, take the place for which its members could make it worthy. We trust that tho meeting called for Saturday evening will bo largely attended, and that during the. coming season the Ashburton Club will take up a good position amongst the leading clubs of the province, a position easily attainable by practice and peresevorance.

Sometimes the woman who kneads bread the least needs it the most.

A zealous preacher, who loved smoking as wall as ho ought, in a heated discourse, ex claimed, aiming bis rifle at some of bis hearers, “ Brethren, there is no sleeping ear on the train to glory." One of the party whom he aimed to hit responded, “ No, brother, nor smoking car either.”

The usual weekly meeting of the S'ar of ] the East Lolge. No 02, I 0.G.T., was held in 1 tho Orange Hall last evening. Ti-.ere was a good a'tendance. The usual routine business was disposed of, and it was resolved that on and after October 8 the meetings of the Lodge should be held in the Aroade Chambers, and to have an open meeting on October 15. The Lodge then went into harmony, and after an enjoyable meeting had been spent, was closed in due form. Mr R. Lancaster had some fine looking lamb—the first of the season—on view at his shop fn Burnett street to-day. It is of the Southdown breed and came from the farm of Mr Blake at Maronan.

This is given as an infallible cure for gout; —First, tho afflicted person must pick a handkerchief from the pocket of a maid of fifty years who never had a wish to change her condition. Second, he must wash it in an honest miller’s pond. Third, he must dry it on the hedge of a person who was never coveteous. Fourth, ha must send it to a doctor who had never killed a patient. Fifth, he must mark it with the ink of a lawyer who never cheated a client. Sixth, apply it to the part affected, and a cure will speedily follow.

In the course of an obituary notice on the

late Hon J. Bathgate the Daily Timex writes —“ Always of a sanguine and cheerful dis position, he had a profound affection for and belief in the future of the colony in which be bad cast his lot. We have bean told that the last words written by him shortly before bis death in a diary whiah he regularly kept (after referring to tho recent rise in wool) were these—'lt is to ba hoped that better times are at hand, and that the colony will see a renewal of prosperity. Latex Deo ' ” A very successful meeting of the Ashburton Debating Society was held in the Aroade Chambers on Wednesday evening, Mr D. H. Brown presided. The subject being “ A night with poets occasion was

tajken to refer to the merits of the following authors, viz., {Longfellow, Gordon, Thomas Moore, and Max Adeler, the rendition of selections from each, together with the merits of the writers being freely criticised. The audience, although not a large one, was highly appreciative, and was extremely liberal in applause. The next meeting of the Society will be held at an early date, when a subject of interest and importance will be debated.

The correspondent of the Press says : —An application has been made to the Government for authority to exhume the remains of Cap tain Cain, the father of Mrs Thomas Hall. It is alleged that for soma .time before his death he was subject to unaccountable, fits of sickness and to other special symptoms, and that] he once remarked, "If it were not absurd I should think someone was trying to poison me.” The application for exhumation is based, I understand, on (he declaration of the medical attendant that he had reason to suspect that the death of the deceased gen tleman was caused by poison. The matter is now under the consideration of the Govern ment, and it is said will receive very earnest and careful attention.—A telegram which ap pears in this issue states that the Government has given its sanction to the exhumation.

A meeting was held in the Library, Sooth Bakaia, on Wednesday evening, for the purpose of considering the advisablenesa of holding athletic sports and horse races on Boxing Day. There was a good attendance, and a number of apologies for absence were received. Mr Hardy occupied the ohair. Tne treasurer of the Committee £t%ying the management] of last year’s sports reported that there was a balance to the credit of the Committee of £l9 7s lOd, and that there were also a number of hurdles and other effects on hand. It was decided that sports should be held on December 37. Officers were appointed gas follows : —President, Mr E. S. Coster; vice-president, Mr W. L. Allan. Horse races; judge, Mr W. Lyttelton ; starter, Mr H. H. Seoretan ; clerk of the course, Mr T. E. Upton ; clerk of the scales, Mr L. Oxley. Athletic events: judges, Messrs J. Turner, Holmes, and Hartnell; starter, Mr C. A. C. Hardy. Mr Pyke was appointed treasurer and Mr Reyoraft secretary. A Oommittes was appointed as follows ;—Messrs Primmer, Makeig, Roundtree, Miller, Mulligan, Lambie, Howell, Doig, Bruce, Buchanan, H. Harrison, Childs, Bussell, and'Limber. A number of recommendations were made to the Com mittee, which was instructed to prepare a draft programme for submission to a meeting to be held on October 6. The meeting then adjourned. Mr J. Corbett, of the Forks, had his well known horse, Captain, rather severely gored by a cow yesterday. The cow has a rather black record, having some lime ago rushed Mr Corbett. Since then she has had to have her head secured by a rope to her foreleg, but yesterday while being driven into a paddock the rope snapped and she turned and rushed at Mr Corbett, who was mounted on Captain. Oae of the brute's horns entered the horse’s shoulder, making a gash several inches deep. The wound, though it is severe, does not yet seem libaly to be attended with any very serious consequences, but, of course, it is difficult for a tew days to say how the accident will result.

The Works Committee of the Borough Council met this morning and decided to put the unemployed upon willow planting in tho riverbed and clearing out the watercourse and reservoir in the Domain. It is proposed te erect two dams in the Domain, one to serve the purposes of an intercepting reservoir and the other to be erected at a suitable site for a swimming bath, but, before these can be put in hand, certain preliminaries will have to be arranged.

We are informed by the Secretary of the Ashburton Racing Club that the efforts put forth by the Club to induce the Railway de partment to run evening train* from Orari to Ashburton on September 30 and October 1, the dates of the Geraldine Races have been attended with success. Local sportsmen will be able to attend the meeting without suffer ing the inconvenience experienced last year.

The best known remedy is SANDER and SONS’ EUCALYPTI EXTRACT. Test its eminent powerful effects in coughs, cold, in fluenza, etc. —thqytelief is instantaneous. Thousands give the most gratifying testi mony. His Majesty the King of Italy, and medical syndicates all over the globe are its patrons. Bead 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, arid, 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 tho 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 banging loose, apd half of the phalanx of the nail of the middle finger was coaled. The wounds thus con tracted healed in three weeks under daily applications of Eucalypti Extract dressing The patient has etained the fnllluse of hand.—-(Advt.)

SPIRITUALISM AND MESMERISM.

Thft Rev 0. D. Oi c' 1 . delivered a lie n f on Tmsdy night at Wioabw cn Spiritual Jam and Mysmariam ; their history, phe nomei)'. and dinners. Thera was a fair gathering for the elza of the place, and several had oma a dUterce of 7 to 10 miles The Rev A; Biake who was calls I to the chair, the meottog iu the usual way, briefly intro duced the lecturer. The attention given and the hearty applau e at the close, aho .ved the appreciation of the audience. At an Interval some sacred songs were, effectively aong by a choir composed of friends from Willowby and Tinwald ; and at the close a vote of thanks moved by Mr Molvor was oordialiy carried. The leoturSr began by objecting to the name “ spiritualism " as a misnomer, spiritism wou'd more correctly describe it. He traced the history of it to ;ho Fox family in America In 1847; ‘4B, who were un willing at first to ascribe the unsought phenomena to any other than natural oousaa. In consequence of these, however, even miterialists who experimented be came convinced cf the reality of phenomena which could not be erplained by natural cans os ; and they had since become the subj-et of investigation by members of the London Dialectical Society in the years 1869, ‘7O wm came to the cor c u sion that they were brought about by the agency of invisible beings. The Rev Joseph Cook had recently made the matter the subject of several hotures to a Boston audience, in which he stated that all cou’d not he accounted for bv fraud, and that there was a resi donm pointing to a psychic force con trolled by men only or by men and spirts. The lecturer s ated that a dis tinction mast be drawn between per-

formanoea where certain results ware ex pected by an audience, and private In* ▼eatigathns; In the former, as results could not be commanded, there was often an admixture of fraud He then detdled bona tide investigations con- ' ducted by himself and a friend. A message came purporting to bs from his own mother to be sent to hie eldest siste<-. He understood the meaning as his friend oonld not, but he also perceived the snare. And the lecturer gave his audience to understand that as we were naturally moat carious to have command cations from departed friends, evil spirits were ready to take advantage of this to personate anoh friends, and draw us on. As for his friend, who'was an artist, he was so susceptible a medium, as to became more and more subject to spiritist in fluence, until at last it interfered with his business and his nerves became upset. Besoming alarmed, he quitted the study of spiritism for ever The lector r stated he had never suffered beean-e he would never surrender his will. He de tailed the stages or st’ps in investigation as of musical instruments ; (3) writing or speaking ; (4.) Materialisation. He pointed oat, to all who would take his testimony, the da-'gar that lay in the sur render of the will to the spirits, who were evil spirits and who having once gained accets to the body as to a dwel ling, might return unsought, bringing with them others worse than themselves Oar Saviour had referred to this, and, in His day, evil spirits bad obtained access to the bodies of men. In the Word of God were fields of truth open for ns to explore, and a s ifficient ground of faith and practice ; while from ancient times endeavours t > communicate with spirits were expressly forbidden. His i-veanga lions led him to conclude that the-e were beings living about and among ns ; that they purported to be spirits of the de parted ; that they were evil spirits, and by playing on the weakness of human nature beguiled unstable souls. The t-ee would be known by its frn t, and ths fruit as far as .religion la concerned was a vague deism : the denial of a real heaven and bell ; and the diminishing of the sense of responsibility for sin. The result of yielding to spiritism was a kind of fatalism, a dependence on the favor and assistance of spirits ; whi'e, at the same time the authority c{ the Bible was ridlcnUd, and signs and lying wonders were wrought, with which to decisive, if possible, the elect. The lecturer proceeded, after an inter val, to gve the history of mesmerism, which had often, like spiritism, been dragged into contempt, after the death of its founder, Mesmer, in 1813. He de tailed the four stages —sleep, control of personality, clairvoyance, and trance, or, ns it was wrongly called, universal illumi nation. Under mesmerism the power of dissimulation was lost—a presage of the state of matters at the Day of Judgment. There was some force, not magnetism, not electricity, connected with will, brain, and senses, called pyschic force. There was a danger in mesmerism, as in spiritism, arising from a drain on the vitality and the surrender of the per sonality to the will of another.

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Auckland, September 22,

The Labourer's Union last night strode from the roll the name of a member who took a prominent part in the unemployed meetings, who had been oo'lecting money ostensibly for the Union, which he never accounts for. Ii is suggested to prosecute Him for obtaining money on false pre tences.

The Star correspondent telegraphs from Alexandra that be has obtained soecimons of gold and quartz, got by prospectors and Natives in the King Country.

At a meeting of the Auckland Mercan tile and Pastoral Company, the following resolution was carried: —“That the Direc tors be empowered to carry on the busi ness of the Company with a view to winding It up i f found necessary, and that at the end of the financial year the Direc tors be empowered to make two calls per share

The North Now Zealand Farmers* Co operative Association's premises were in sured in the United for £1303, the build ing £3OO : damage, £IOOO. Wellington, September 22. The Government bare received a cable message rtitiog that the Admiralty have presented to the colony the eight 64- pounder gone which Admiral Tryon lent dating the war scare. The gaos, along with the carriages, are said to be valued at £3CO each. On Monday next the Colonial Treaanrer will , receive a deputation from the, Chamber of Commerce »e the cable rates between Anatralia and New Zealand. An application was made fora new trial In the libel action Yogel v Evening Frets, bat ' was adjourned until Wednesday next. Dunedin, September 22. Mr Dick has retired for Dunedin Central. Mr Bracken fa announced as a candidate. During the construction oi a taH-raoe at Blacks two nuegets. weighing 2oz and 3oz respectively, were found. A little girl named Agnes Fletcher, be tween two and three years old, was killed to day by being run over in the street by a cart. An action was commenced m the Supreme Court arising out of the case of Burke v Eliott, which haa been before the Court for about three years, Eliott brought an action against Eliot (solicitor) and Burke, to recover money alleged to have teen paid under a threat of criminal proceedings. The pa?e is not concluded.

HINDS

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Wednesday.

There is nothing startling from this quiet place. Farmers are very busy sowing and harrowing; runholders are also busy sowing grasses and clover. The recent fine weather has allowed many to bum tussock, and things geoer* ally have had a good clean up. The Railway Department are busy with the new cattle yards, which, when completed’ will be a great convenience to stockowners.

I hear our friend the hotelkeeper is going to clear out, trad* being dull . The householders meet to night to elect ' a new School Committee. It is to be hoped some useful business will be trass acted, for the school, in efficieney and attendance, has fallen off very mate risll since our late mister, Mr 6. CL Manning, left it. If parents would unite to assist, and the Committee . unite to work for the interests of the children, we might have one of the best schools in the North Canterbury Educa tional District. I will apprise you of the results of to-night’s meeting.

REVOLT IN SPAIN.

[SBUTXB'S TELEGRAMS—COTTBIOKT.] Madrid, September 2L Serious disturbances occurred in this city to day, arising out of a movement is favor of the establishment of a republic for Spain. A small portion of tbs Madrid garrison revolted in support of • republic, and marched through the prin cipal streets. The authorities prmptly called out a force of loyalists, who attacked the rebels and fired, killing two officers. The remainder, finding they were not supported by the populace or the ether troops, fled to the railway station, where they seised a train, and fled from the city. Madrid has been declared to be in a state of siege.

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

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MR GLADSTONE. London, September 21. Mr Gladstone arrived in London to day from Bavaria. MR GLADSTONE AND SIR G. GREY. Mr Gladstone has written to Sir G. Grey expressing his gratification at there being fifty members of the New Zealand Assembly favourable to Home Rule, which Mr Gladstone states is necessary to secure the happiness of Ireland, and tee safety and renown of the Empire.

QUEENSLAND SEPARATION. Dr Ah came has presented the Colonial Secretary with a monster petition in favor of the separation of North from South Queensland; The Hon E- Stanhope, in receiving the same, said the Government must de cline to consider the petition until it was in receipt of the views of the Queensland Ministry on the subject of the proposed separation.

LAND LAW AMENDMENT. The debate on the motion for the second reading of Me Parnell’s Irish Land Bill commenced to-day. Mr Gladstone spoke, and expressed his concurrence with the necessity of tem porary relief being afforded to the Irish tenants. He stated he would vote lor the second reading. Mr Mathews, Home Secretary, in a forcible speech, demanded the rejection of the Bill. It is expected the division will be taken to-night.

AQUATICS. A sculling match took place to-day on the Thames, between Kemp and Bubear, for j£ioo a-side. It resulted in a victory for Bubear. THE NEW HEBRIDES. ; At an interview between the Hon. E. Stanhope, Secretary for the Colonies, to-day, Mr Garrick, Agent- General for Queensland, was informed that Government entetjtaios hopes of an amicable settlement with. -Frifece of the New Hebrides question, and that the question of deportation of criminals to the Pacific is still under considera tion between the British and French Governments.

Sir F. D. Bell, in a letter to the Timm, suggests that France and Eng land should act in concert with regard to the New Hebrides, France to have jurisdiction over the island, but to undertake measures to prevent the place becoming an Alsatia.

AUSTRALIAN.

CONFERENCE Sydney, September 22. A conference has begun between the representatives of the Shipowner* Association and the Seamen's Union over the questions in dispute. At yesterday’s sitting Messrs Smith and Burns stated the case clearly on behalf of the shipowners. MELBOURNE WOOL SALES. Mxutoumrn. Septom i «r 22. Messrs Goldsborough held the open ing wool sale of the season to large attendance of buyers. For j&loip offered there was keen compctitkMl. Two thousand bales were soW.'Avcnsgp greasy merino sold at pd per lb ; good scoured realised ar^d. MELBOURNE MARKETS. The Manager of the National Mort gage and Agency Company, revievdflg the local markets, reports as follows’:- Shipping wheat is steady at $s .gd to 5s 6d pet bushel; malting barley, per bushel, 3s pd to 4s 6d ; Kew Zealwd oats, feed sorts, for which there iwaode rate enquiry, 3s 3d to 3s rd; milling descriptions, in fair demand, 3* to 3s ?d ; New Zealand o«t& under bond, slow of sale, 25 6d to as 8d per bushel.

THE EASTERN CRISIS

OMINOUS. [rkutkb’s tueo&ams—copyright] Soria, September SI. The Russian Government has urged the postponement of the trial of those implicated in the deposition of Prince Alexander. The Regency has, however, declined to interfere with the course of justice, or await tine arrival of General Kaulbars, the newly-appointed Russian Agent in Bulgaria.

THE ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1886



KIMBERLEY GOLDFIELDS. iTarlv Seed Potatoes Go<>c> Derwent Potatoes Sound Oinioos. snd quantity of Apples by the case. J. CANNING, FRUITERER AND CONFECTIONER Bm( street. Ashburton. r gLACK, BEATTIE & COMPANY, Criterion House, 201, 208, 205, High street, OHRISTCHU ROH. We have the pleasure to advise our Customers and the residents generally in the Ashburton District that we hare cw received very large Shipments of N k\VE=T DRAPERY GOODS th. Present Season. The advantages which *e possess in being able to bay in „he that British Markets, and the •iborr tu-H experience of cor buyer, enables os to supply ell Goods unoer our cash system of business AT LOWEST PAIGES Wo ilaivior t glva our Customers best v- proca? b le, whatever Prices hey wish to pj Goods at, and Sj. f:ii **» so Li-, i G - AND WELL- ASSORTED J r:' (he moat var ed wants can be aup piicd. We append a list of our Depart jpente, in each of which an Immense Variety of most Novel and- Fashionable L ill be found DLIKSS DEPARTMENT HOSIERY DEPARTMENT MANTLE DEPARTMENT DRESSMAKING DEPARTMENT MILLINERY DEPARTMENT DReSS DEPARTMENT Li OSIER? DEPARTMENT MANTLE DEPARTMENT B E RSMAKIN G D SPARTMKK T MILLINERY DEPARTMENT CLOTHING DEPARTMENT D SDili CLOTHINC4 DEPA R TMENT tailoring department HOUSEHODL FJRSI3BING MtstJFAcrcitiS from various M i s Including ANKRTS, FLANNELS & TWSED3 of AS FILL RTON MANUFACTURE. JaSH S J3TEM AN"J CASH PRICES. LA K, BEATTIE &GO.* O, >SRaL drapery ware house tailors, dressmaker mill BRY.



Wanted. 7 ANTED Known- T-at a competent VV P>i!lard-mirkcr has taken the Bit Mird Hoorn of Butler’s Family Hotel. Pool every evening 9852 WANTED to LET 4-roomed House and Half Acre of Land ; low rental; or to sell on very easy terms —H. M. Jones. 9673 ATTANTED Known—That Ladies re- W qniring Nursing wdl find every accommodation at Mbs Woodwabds, Allen 1 le House, Gox Street, Allenton. +9689 V\7 ANTED Known—That W. Zander VV has for sale a few phampleta of the story of the Hall case. As these will be mid very shortly immediate application ia n scea^ary. $9691 WNTEO the Public to inspect a grand assortment of New Season’s Tea and Sugars of all grade*, at prices to unit all classes of purchasers —Jab. McGbiqoe, Tancred street. i ANTED TENDERS for ROLLING ! VV 300 ACRES of CROP on Ardlui. Tend rs be in by noon on September 30, addressed to A. J. Beid, Squth Rakaia. 9697 WANTED Known—The Lucky J»r of Pess will be opened and counted on the ll<h of next month, when £2O in prize? will be given away. Every purchaser to the amount of 10s has a chanre. Don’t delay—be in time. Hayes AND Co., Arcade. JUST ('PEN ED—Choice assortment < f New Spring Dress t tuffs, Prints, Millenty, etc I he cheapest House in town for first class goods. Preseuis to the value of 2a in the £. Dressmaking on the premises. H. C. Segkbs, Mel ford House. . \TT ANTED KNOWN —Long looked VV for come at last. T. Honlt, having commenced bacon curing, ho is able to supply a real good Pork Sausage at 6d per lb at the Factory, Moore st Ashburton. Pigs cured In any quantity dried, smoked and delivered homo »» One Penny per lh. T. Hopit. 7__!ilZ Special Advertisements. fir ANTED KNOWN W THAT MRS STRIBLING HAS REMOVED from old premises in Burnett street (next to the Arcade) to tho PANAMA BOARDING-HOUSE. TANCRBO STREET (Lately occupied by Mr Lucas). 8 C '637 SERVANTS WANTED. SEVEN GENERAL SERVANTS and one COOK for Ashburton and suburbs. Also, one COOK and on* GENERAL SERVANT for the country. Apply to Mrs Randall’s Registry ffice. A. W. RAND ELL, FRUITERER. Ac , To«n Hall. Ashburton. CENTRAL HOTEL.



XW. MoRAE having taken the above , Hotel, solicits a share of patronage from the people of Ashburton and sur rounding district Best Brands of Wine’s Spirits and Beers. Good Stabling—Feeds, Ohb Shills a. Horses and Boggias to let on hire at prices to meet the times. For the convenience of travellers hansom cab will meet ad trains. Trees Trees Trees THE undersigned has FOR SALE all kinds of FRUfT AND FOREST TREES, Finns Inaiguis, Auatriaca, Maritime, and Macrocarpa, by tens of thousands; other kinds in proportion. All kinds of cabbage plants, etc, on sale \ll orders by post or otherwise shall receive my beat attention. N.B.—Gentlemen’s Gardens tastefully laid out- All kinds of planting done by contract. JAMES PORTER, CLIFTON NURSERY, 4 75 Allenton. Ashburton. - NEW ZEALAND CLOTHING FACTORY The new goods for the WINTER SEASON ARB SOW OPENED OUT. The Stock is THE LARGEST & BEST SELECTED IN THE T‘ >WN, And the variety of Style and Patterns in Ulon's, Youths’, and Boys’Clothing leaves nothing to bo desired. ; Thousands of Men’s and Boys' Suits, newest styles. Trousers und Trousers and Vests manufactured of Now Zealand Tweeds. Every garment warranted shrunk Overcoats, Waterproof Co its and T ogg-.-gs in great variety Hats, compris ng every new stylo worn Children’s Jersey Suits, Children’s Men of-Wnr Suits Hosiery, Scarves; Oxford ..egatta and White Shirts Bugs, Portmanteaus, and Travelling Bags The celebrated WERTHEIM SEWING MACHINE. Time Payments. N.Z CLO r RING FACTORY, East Strkbt MACPHEHS JN, SAMPSON, & CO AUCPIONK ERS, VALUATORS, STOCK LAND, GRNERMj COMMISSION AGENTS, Will hold their regular WEEKLY SALE of Horses. Cattle, Pigs, Poultry, Produce, : and Sundries, at the CENTRAL AUCTION MART, Havelock street, EVERY SATURDAY, at 12 o’clock sharp Special hales conducted when required on very easy terms. Agents for— Mutual Life Assuran e Society of Victoria Limited The Equitable Fire Insurance Associa tion of New Z s.iland. Messrs Booth, Maodona'd, and Co., Christchurch. P. McNeave’s Patent Foolrot Appli cation. For Sale 2 Secind-hand Spring Traps (nearly new) _ . 1 Superior Second-hand Dogcart (almost new) 1 Blacksmith’s Patent Portable Forge Quantity Superior Hurdles Several Properties to Let or for Sale, M'crHBR'ON, Sampson & 00.. |9693 Auctioneer*



Victoria House. RE-ORGANISATION OF BUSINESS. REDUCING STOCK R ETIRING from the FANCY-DRESS, HATS, and MANTLE EPAHTMENTS of the trade. . ■ . . PHENOMENAL VALUE now bein' given, and ti be obtained until AUGUST 20th NEXT DIMANT AND COE, GENERAL DRAPER ? , CLOTHIERS, &a., East and Tancred streets, Ashburton.



Special advertisements. IN THE SUPREME COURT OF BANKRUPTCY THIS DAY Gr. L. Beath & Co. ypiLL offer the STOCK-IN-TRADE OF THOMAS JACOBS, DRAPER AND CLOTHIER Late of High street, Christchurch, and Akaroa. AT A DISCOUNT or JLO 8 IN THE Also, the STOCK in the ESTATE of £ BANKRUPT SIMPSON AND HARPER, WOOLLENDRAPERS, AT A DISCOUNT or 6 s BD'8 D ' " TH ‘ £ TOTAL VALUE - £2210 0 8 0° Unprecedented Bargains. Stock Sheets * in course of publication.



The above are two of the Cleanest Stocks ever offered in Christchurch, Simpson and Harper having been in busi ness only four month*, whilst the largest portion ■ f Thomas Jacob's Stock was purchased by him this winter. PUBLIC NOTICE. R E KO V A L OF THE Ashburton Branch of the Easiness H. J. WOOD AND CO. (Late T. F. Farley) TO FRIEDLANDERS’ BUILDINGS ON THK Ist OCTOBER NEXT. tTTTE beg to advise our valued cus- V\ tomers, the commercial and general public of Ashburton and district, that wo have leased from Messrs Friedln'.der Bros, the large commodious shop next the corner in their now buildings Wo shall remove to FRIEDLANDBRS' BUILDINGS on the Ist OCTOBER, 1886, and our Stock will be largely 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 daring the next few days. H. J. WOOD & GO. Booksellers, Stationers, Printers, and Bookbinders, Importers of Pianos, Organs, and all kinds of Musical Instruments and Musis, STATIONERS' HALL.



Great Sale ORR & ALCO RN On the Opening of the SPRING TRADE, BEG to unnounce to their customers and tins public generally they have now opened up the greater portion of their Direct Importations for the Season All the LATEST NOVELTIES in CRB'S inc'uding the new Glow-worm, Kyrle, and Canvas Cloths, and the newest things out in Printed Sateen, Oatmeal, and Zephyr Cloths In Ladies’ and Children’s Straw Hats Bonnets, Flowers, 4c., we are now show ing the largest and most attractive stock ever seen in -Ashburton. We desire especially to call the attention of everyone to a SPECIAL PURCHASE •f a SET of SAMPLES, representing the stock of one of the largest wholesale honses in England. In tlrs stock there are no less than 2243 different articles, -comprising Costumes, Mantles, Ulsters, Children’s Drosses, &c , Pelisses, Ladies’ and Maids’ Corsets, Tunics, Aprons, Hats and Bonnots, Fur Capes, Underclothing. Quilts. Towels, Toilets, Boys’ Suits of all kinds, Men’s Suits and Overcoats, Wool Shawls, &c Many of those articles are of a style and quality suitable for a wealthy city trad*, 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 to prices to correspond. C3T This SPECIAL SALE will commence On SATURDAY NEXT, 18th inat Orr & Alcorn. 9(546



TIMBER TIMBER. K lire, ikovi fr »» Mills FRESH OF BUILDING TIM I Consisting of lied and S antling, T G. F Lining, boards. A Large Stock of Kauri ( bei ■ g stored in sheds is mediate use. TUCKER AND September 18, 1886. ROYAL, SALEY Moohe-htkbb DUNCAN & CRi Auctioneers, Licensed L Stock, Estate, aud Commission Ag Accountants, Valus Regular auction SATURDAY at Horses, Cattle, Pigs, Poi aad Merchandise. Straight up and down prompt settlement guaran Special sales conducted Transfers, Mortgages, such like documents prej Land Transfer Act.



Balmy sleep, good digestion, rich blood, elastic step and cheerfulness in American Co/s Hop Bitters. Bead and etieve