yidual soldier should be carefully trained m the use of his weapon, and converted ■ so far as possible into the skilful marks man. This is necessarily a very expen sive process, and a due regard for economy has suggested the adoption of different modes of training a soldier to aim and manipulate his rifle m the armies of the Continent. Speaking broadly, the Eng lish musketry instructor aims at a higher standard of excellence than his confrere m Germany, Russia, and France, where the training of the soldier m the use of his weapon is effected more on the parade ground than at the butts. It has always been the practice of nations maintaining comparatively small armies to supply the deficiency of numbers by the super excellence of their markmanship. This was the case with the archers of England m the days of the Plautagenots, and the remark still applies to Switzerland. Tn England many projects have found favour to effect the main object of making the English soldier a good shot at the lowest possible cost. That which has been received with most approval by the military authorities is the system of practice with miniature ammunition and reduced charges. The Morris tube, by which a pistol cartridge is used for prac tice with a tube that can be applied equally to the Martini and the new magazine rifle, has for some time been adopted by the War Office. There is now invented a safety range with splashless targets, which stop and catch the bullets after they strike a scoring card which records the result of the shot. The merits of these targets have been practically proved by experience at Ilford, Walker on-Tyne, and Windsor.

CORRESPONDENCE.

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

THE PRICE OF MEAT.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Kindly allow me a few remarks on the price of meat m reply to your cor respondent "Father of a Family." I think he cannot be very well acquainted with cuts of beef, as he says rump steak, sirloins, and a few prime cuts off the ribs, together make a considerable part of the hind quarter. He also appears to think Mr Tasker was trying to mislead because he was a few pounds out m calculating the weight of a beast. If the profits of Mr | Taskerarelarge, what must they be to some •who signed the uniform price, and whose cuts of beef do not cost more than half the price per 1b ? It is well known no butcher can cut a better class of meat —although I am not one of his customers.—l am, etc., One who knows something of the Trade.

The Hutchison Charges.

[per press association.] Wellington, September 9. The defences m the Whitaker and Hutchison libel were filed yesterday The first plea is a traverse of allegation of publication ; the second raises the question whether the publication is within the Parliament Priveleges Act ; the third alleges the charges were made without malice ; the fourth that they were made for the public benefit; the ftfth and principal defence pleads justification on the ground of the allegations being true m substance and m fact. As for the personal charges, it is alleged that plaintiff and other two ministers were respectively liable to the Bank of New Zealand m large amounts, which they were unable to dis charge if called up~>n to meet the same m t c ordinary courje of business. As to the public charges, it is alleged they were treated by Ministers as competent and ; proper for a Parliament to deal with.

SPORTING

GERALDINE RACES

[from our special correspondent.] „ Orari, September 9, The meeting is being held m splendid weather, and thre is a fair attendance. Hurdles. College Boy, 9st 61b ... (Blackmore) 1 Romulus, lOst 71b ... (Kingham) 2 Victor, 9st 121 b (Walls) 3 Four started. Time, 2min 58secs. Dividend, £4 14s. District Stakes ; six furlongs. Jacob Faithful, Bst 71b !.. (McGrath) 1 Zealandia, Bst 71b ... (H. Jackson) 2 Invader, Bst 71b (Brown) 3 Five ran. Won easily by four lengths. Time—lmin 22f sec. Dividend—£B Bs. Geraldine Cup ; 1|- miles. Prime Warden 75t... ... (Cusden) 1 Bay King 6st 71b (Ray) 2 Liberator 6st 111 b ... (I. Price) 3 Six run, won cleverly by half a length. Time—2min 40sec. Dividend—£2 ss.

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS

[pEK PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Mall Mvirvic***. Wellington, September 9. It is understood that the British Government offer £19,000 as annual subsidy if the 'Frisco Mail Service is re tained, but decline to contribute anything if only the Direct Service is maintained. It iB believed that with this subsidy, and the American grant of £12,000, along with post-ages, Government will see their way , to assure the House that a fortnightly tervice alternately by 'Frisco and direct steamers can be arranged at a small loss Port Chalmers, September 9. Sailed : Doric, for London, via Lyttel ton. The cargo from this port was 544 bales wool, 400 do rabbit skins, 89 do sheepskins, 77 do leather, 6 'do hair, 300 bugs antimony, 81 casks peUs, 2122 sacks ■oats, 590 cases cheese, 100 drums glycerine, 19 packages sundries, 8053 ■carcases mutton, 31 cases kidneys, 1 case Jiares. 36 non-union laborers accompanied her to complete her loading at Lyttelton.

Latest Cable News.

HOME AND FOREIGN.

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] /Received Sept. 9, 11 a.m.) A DUELLING CRAZE. Pajbis, September 9. M. Mormix, author of the Boulangist revelations, has foughta duel with M. Labruyere, editor of '■' Le Gil BIm," during which the latter was wounded, M. Mormix lias «,rran»ed several other duels.

CRICKET.

London, September 8. The match for the benefit of the cricketers fund between the M.C.C. and the Australians began at Lords to-day. Sporlbrth is playing for the Marylebone Club. The latter has lost one wicket for 97 runs.

COLLISION IN THE CHANNEL.

The ship Lochnagar, bound to Hawkesbury, collided with a vessel m the Channel, and put into Falmouth for repairs.

THE MARKETS.

Wheat averages m the country jnarkets 34s 6d.

Mails per Manapouri close at Auckland on Thursday, 11th instant, at 3 p.m. Mr Gladstone, m an address which he de livered at the giving of prizes at a ladies' college, dilated upon the advance which has been apparent of late years m the position of women, who are now, he said, relieved of much of the shameful injustices which they were formerly compelled to endure at the hands of their self-styled superiors. "A greater change still is im pending," said Gladstone, "but any at tempt to alter fundamentally the relations the Almighty himself has established by drawing women out of their own sphere into man's will never succeed." In a recent issue of the "Argus" is an elec tioneering advertisement which eclipses any the of the kind ever seen m the colony. It is the publication of some 2600 names of the electors of the Melbourne Province who signed a requisition to Sir B. Benjamin, M.L.C., asking him to allow himself to be re nominated as one of their representatives m the Legislative Council. The space occupied is a little over .four and a half columns of the "Argus," the names being printed m double column. It is almost needless to say that the prayer of the largely signed requisition was acceded to. There is (says a contemporary) a statute of Canute, 1017, forbidding Englishmen to sell their children for slaves. We doubt if this statute has ever been repealed, and m the light of nineteenth century labor, it would seem as if its proviso might even now be brought into effect with advantage. The question simply hinges on the definition of the word " slavery," and m our mind the word need not of necessity imply complete mechanical subjection. The employment of children m the place of their parents at adult work is a species of slavery as repre hensible as any form, but we call it by another name. It's like our illegal lotteries : we call them art unions. Even if it is the raffling of a pig, we call it an art union. But to call a pig a work of art is simply an im moral evasion of the truth for an ulterior i object. And so it is with a lot of our modern types of slavery. Fortunately mankind has at last reached the stage of grasping properly this juggling with facts, and has determined to right it. Baby farming as a fine art, the em-, ployment »f miniature men, and the principle of " your necessity is my opportunity," will shortly be relegated to "tales of the past." The twentieth century will astonish the spirits of our forefathers even more than the nineteenth has done.

THE MISER'S DIAMOND NECKLACE.

In the year 1740 there lived m the Latin quarter m Paris, a famous miser named Jean Avere. The wealth con cealed m the obscure rookery where he resided was believed to be fabulous, and was no doubt really very great. Among his treasures wais a celebrated diamond necklace, of immense value. This he concealed so carefully that he ultimately forgot its hiding-place himself. He sought diligently for weeks, and, failing to find it, became almost insane. This rendered him even less capable of re membrance, and he took to his bed broken m body as m mind. A few weeks later a doctor and an old woman, who had some times done odd jobbs about his house, were both at his bedside, seeing that the end was near. As the clock m the neigh boring tower tolled one, he ceased his low muttering and sat up and shrieked, "I remember where it is now. I can put my hand on the necklace. For God's sake let me go for it before I forget it again !" Here his weakness and excitement over came him, and he sank back among his I rags, stone dead. Physicians find students I are familiar with these sudden outflash ings of memory at the great crisis of haman fate. Let the reader consider this while we relate an episode m the humble career of a signalman, Andrew Ag§e, who may b« found on duty m his box at Culgaith, a little station on the Midland, twenty-three miles south of Carlisle. Mr Agge is on duty nearly every clay, and must break his fast without leaving his post. The confinement and mental strain tell on the system. The strongest men cannot stand it long without feeling its effects. It makes one think of the passionate exclamation m Tom Hood's "Song of the Shirt," "Oh, God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap." Our friend had been at the same work for many years, although he was only thirty-five when these lines were written. In 1884 he began to feel that he was about to break down. " I don't know what ails me," he would say, " but I can't eat." What he forced down produced no sense of sa! isfaction or strength. Some times he was alarmed at finding he could scarcely walk on account of giddiness. He said to himself, " What if I should be seized with this at some moment when there is trouble on the line, and I need all my wits about me ?" Other features of this ailment were pains m the chest and sides, costiveness, yellow skin and eyes, bad taste m the mouth, rising of foul gas m the throat, etc. The doctor said Agge must give up his confining work or risk utter disability. He could not. Wife and children were m the way. So he remained at his post and grew worse. But his work was al ways right, telegrams were properly re ceived and sent, and no train got into trouble through any neglect or fault of his. His disease—indigestion and dyspep sia—took a step further, and brought on kidney and bladder trouble. The doctor at Appleby said, '' Mr Agge, you are poisoned with the foul stuff m your stomach and blood." His doom seemed to be sealed. It was like a death warrant. Six months more rolled by. On duty one morning he was attacked with so great and so sharp a distress he could neither sit nor stand. He says:; ' I tumbled down on that locker and lay there all the forenoon. Signals might be given, the telegraph needle might click, but I heeded them no more than a man m the grave heeds the beating of the rain against his own tombstone." He was alone at first, but help arrived, and the poor signalman was carried home. Physicians labored on his case without avail. Around his bed were his five little children, the mother being absent m an institution, to be treated for a serious ailment. Here he lay for weeks, part of the time unconscious. Nothmg was to be done but to wait for the end. Then the torpid faculties awakened for a moment. Memory flashed up, and he recalled the fiu-t that a medicine which he had used ■with benefit yeevs before, and then thrown aside and forgotten, was concealed m a secret jilaca at the signal box. He sent for it, and took a dose. Soon his bowels moved, the kidneys acted, the pain was ceased, he felt better. With brightened ( hope he sent to Carlisle for more. It arrived. He used it, and m a few days the doctors were astonished to find their patient out of doors, and on the road to recovery. He regained his health com pletely, and, m speaking of his experience said to the writer, ''What a wonderful tiding it was that, on what promised to be my death-bed, I suddenly remembered Tvhere I had put that half-used bottle of Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. That flash of memory probably saved me from death.

THE ASHRUBTON GUARDIAN, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1890.



WHEAT. WHEAT. WHEAT CASH BUYERS R O L L 1 T & C 0., CANTERBURY MILLS, AS-HBU RTO N, ARE still prompt Cash Buyers of Prime Milling Wheat at highest market ratea Flout, Bran and Sharps always on hand. Gristing by patent Roller process done on the shortest notice. GEOfiGE JAMESON 'ASHBUBTON AND RAKAIA HAS FOR SALE THE FOLLOWING FARM SEEDS' RED AND WHITE CLOVER COW GRASS AND ALSYKE RYE GRASS—COCKSFOOT [ETC}] ETCj WE HAVE ALSO IN STOCK,— TUENIP SEEDS Sjfccial attention is paid to the SEED DEPARTMENT, and. none but those of the best quality and description are imported ] Station-holders and Farmers can always rely on getting the newest seed obtainable} ARTIFICIAL--rod CHEMICAL MANURES. T HAVE, FOR^SALE m Large or Small quantities;— GUANO SUPERPHOSPHATE HIGH-CLASS SUPERPHOSPHATE DISSOLVED BONES POTATO MANURE BONE DUST ANIMAL GUANO.' GEOJRGS JAMESON, ASHBURTON AND RAKAIA] 8 155 MY CLOYEES FOR THE SEASON HAVE JUST COME TO HAND, Per Ship " Nelson, v THEY AEE Al IN QUALITY [AND LOW IN PBICE. THEY ARE HURST and SONS, op LONDON" CHOICEST SEEDS. INSPECTION INVITED. SAMPLES SUPPLIED. D*. THOMAS, ASHBURTON. D. THOMAS' (Lace of Matson, Cox awn Co.) AUCTIONEER, LAND,?NSURANCK, and ESTATEfAGENT, VALUATOR, WOOL and GRAIN BROKER^ ASHBURTON; TOANS Negotiated. Weekly Sales of Live Stockf; Timvald and Ashburton A . alternately. Fortnightly Sales of Sheepskins, Fat, and Hides on FRIDAYS. Sales of Wool throughout the Season; Grain bought and sold on Commission. Clearing Sales as per arrangement} LOIN DON AND LANCASHIRE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, I have been appointed Agent for the above Company and am now prepared t % take risks on^Buildings, and Growing Cropsjjat current rates. WOOL- WOOL. WOOL, .TATTERSALL'S, WEST STREET, ASHBURTON I AM Prepared to make LIBERAI CASH ADVANCES against the Growing Clip of WOOL, placed mmy hand for SALE m Ashburton, or Shipment to Eng nd. ■ WOOLPACKS. TWINE, OIL, RABBLE &c..[SUPPLIEDT D. THOMAS. ? ASHBUBTON



NOTICE.— Anyone found Tres passing m pursuit of game or otherwise on che Riversdale Estate on and after this date will be prosecuted. J. R. WILLIAMS. Riversdale, 24th May 76 riIHE FARMERS CO-OPERATIVE JL FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION OF CANTERBURY, LIMITED. (To be registered under " The Companies Act, 1882.") -ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS.— CAPITAL . : £100,000, Divided into 20,000 Shares at £5 each, Payable as follows :— Ten Shillings per share on application, Twenty Shillings per share on allotment, Twenty Shillings per share m one month, if required. Balance, if re quired, by calls of Five Shillings per share at intervals of not less than three months. Provisional Directors. Messrs S. Bailey*, W. Boag*, F. H. Britten* M. S. Campbell* J. Campbellt, C. Ensor*, J. Gainniaek*, J. Grigs;, J. Gough* J. Haydon* J. Hardiet, B. L. Higgins* W. Henderson.*, R. B. Holds worth*, J. J. Herrick*, W. B. Howellt, A. B. Imvood*, J. Kellandt, D. M'Millan*, F. D. S. Neave*, A. Par sons*, ,J. Pasjet, H. W. Peryman* ,7. Bennie*, R. H. Rhodest, E. P. Scaly*, J. Talbott, J. Wilsont. * Directors of the N.Z. .Farmers Co operative Association of Canterbury, Limited, Christchurch. t Directors of the Canterbury Farmers' Co-operative Association, Timaru. : Bankers : Bank of New Zealand, Christchurch ; National Bank, Timaru. Solicitors : Harper and Co., Christ church. Secretary, pro tern : A. H. Turnbull. Applications for sliaue must be made upon a form to lie obtained from the Secretary pro ton., ;it the offices of the New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative As sociacion at Christohurch, or from the Canterbury Farmers' Co-operative As ssociation at Timaru, and must be for warded to eit of the above addresses, together with the amount payable on ap plication. Where the number of shares allotted is less than the number applied for the surplus money forwarded will be; credited m reduction of the amount pay able on allotment. Copies of the proposed Memorandum and Articles of Association may be in spected at either of the above-mentioned offices, or at the offices of the Solicitors of the Association at Christchurch. Applications for shares will be received up to and including Wednesday, the 30th day of September next] 8*144 VEGETABLE SEEDS. EARLY SEED POTATOES,— Including "THE BEAUTY OF BATH," Which last season produced on Mr Doherty's land, Tinwald, the enormous yield of some thing over SEVENTEEN TONS PER ACRE. TTtfFTY POUNDS (SOibs) of "The JD Beauty of Bath " Seed produced THIRTEEN and THREE-QUARTER BAGS of Superb Potatoes. A. W. RANDELL jFRUITGROWEB, &c, ASHBUR TO N. 8 39 We SPARROW TAILOE AND MEN'S MERGER. EAST STREET.



£20 REWARD. IN consequence of the amount of Poach ng going on m the Creeks on the Lagnihor Estate, the above reward will be paid to anyone giving information that will lead to a conviction. From this date No One will be per mitted to FISH m the Creeks on the Laghmhor Estate. DONALD McLEAN Laghmor, Ist April, 1889. BOOKS— Thousands of Books oi every kind, including books on History Travels, Science, Religion, Fiction, ifcc. ttc. Account Books and Stationery o every discription. A cheap line of En velopes at 5s per thousand. Fancy Goods, including Albums, Photo Frames, Writing Case Work Boxes, Purses, Ladies' Hand Bags, Games and Puzzles. Music—A large Stock. Pianos, Accordians, V olina, Coiicetinas, &c. All Goods reduced for Cash. L. F. ANDREWES & CO. Stationers' Hal ____-^_ _.^ cv JL <5j Tt made by person of either sex, m their cwn localities, at work for us. New business. All meet [ with wonderful success. Any one can d > the work. Capital not required. We will start you. Outfit worth £1 mailed free. The employment is particularly ; adapted to the region m which this publi- ' cation circulates. Boys and girls earn nearly a much as men. Full particulars and instructions mailed free. Now is the ■ time—don't delay, but write to us a once. ' ddress Stinson and Potrtland. Mime, nited States ~~MISS ESSTE~IACI^ OF TIMARU, HAS Commenced Tuition of Piano and Singing m Ashburton. Miss Lack will receive pupils at Masonic Cottage, William street, from eleven a.m. till nine p.m. on MONDAYS, and from nine a.m. till twelve noon onTUESDAYS. For information regarding terms, &c, apply at H. M. Jones' Music Warehouse' r at Masonic Cottage. 168 2 rpREES. TREES.—For Sale twelve or I fourteen thousand one and two year-old Macrocarpa ; finest plants m the district. Come and see for yourselves. Also five or six thousand Pinus Insignis, one and two years old, and all sorts of early Potatoes and all sorts of Cabbage Plants, Gooseberries, Currants, and Rhubarb. Apply MATTHEW ROONEY, Burnett Street East, Ashburton* CHEMIST, EAST STREET ASHBURTON. T}RFSCRIBES For COUGHS, CpLDS, RHEUMATISM, SKIN DISEASES, AND Other Minor Ailment;-: BROOKE'S ANTIBILIOUS PILLS, ! Is Per Box, | Are the best all round Family Medicine j "" SEEDS, PLANTS, &c~ TREES. TREES. TREES. X A a ain tender my best thanks to my j numerous Customers and Correspon dents for the support I have received from them, and assure them that I shall still conduct my Business m the future as I have m the past, and all orders by post r otherwise will receive aiy prompt atten tion, My Apple Trees are all worked on the blight proof stock, and are clean and well grown ; also Pears, Plums, Cherries, Apricots, and all kinds of small Fruits. I have one of the largest stock of Forest Trees m Canterbury, about 40,000 Larch, two years old, 40,000 do. one year old, and 100,000 Pinus Insignis, one and two years old. Cupressus Macrocarpa, I have a grand liner I make this a speciality. All my seedlings have been transplanted, being equal to those m boxes. I have about 100,000 one and two years old, also Roses and Fancy Shrubs m great variety, trees supplied and planted by nu will be guaranteed for 12 months. Cata* logue sent post free on application. JAMES "DORTER AMES I ORTER, NURSERYMAN and SEEDSMAN AjuLENTON ASHBCJJRTO&



T?/-\T\J- WATCH and CLOCK JLIjUmI fflS^iSSxlf MAKEB > JEWELLER, Ac. Murray iIiPM nast ,f' . : iS^S Ashburton A LAIcGE and Varied Assortment of New Jewellery, Plate &c. A magnificent /~Y. Stock of Watches and Clocks, at prices ranging from a few shillings to £30. Every Watch or Clock sold will be guaranteed. I make a special line o High Class English Watcliea. Well appointed Worshops under my personal superintendence assures all work being turned out promptly and m first-class condition. EVERYTHING SOLD WARRANTED CLOYEBS. CLOVERS. CLOYERB 117 E ARE LANDING,— ex "Nelson and ex "Carrie L. Tyler.' RED CLOVER, WHITE CLOVER, COWGRASS, ALSIKE, TIMOTHY, etc., etc. ALL O;F CHOICEST QUALITY, For which we are now Booking Orders at LOWEST CURRENT RATES "YT7 E HAVE ALSO FOR SALE MACHINE DRESSED RYEGRASS and COCKSFOOT. FRIEDLANDER BROS.



Public Notices. Wool Wool Wool T IBERAL CASH ADVANCES Made on the ensuing WOOL CLIPS At the Lowest Current Rates of Interest. GEORGE JAMESON, Ashburton and Rakaia. 9§19 'Xj OW T>EING QOLD AT " The Corner " A LINE OF BROWN and GREY Imitation MOLESKIN, 4£d Per Yard, Usually Sold at Is. A SPECIAL PURCHASE OF "TUpN'S (^IHIRTS and QUITS AT A LARGE DISCOUNT. • A LINE OF T ADIBS' TACKETS, JU J HALF PRICE. W7 I /COLLIER . s*l. V.y ol l ier, "THE- CORN SB." FISHING SEASON, 1890-91. FISHING TACKLE. F| S LE H | CX 1890 NG TA 1891 TUST arrived, ex " DORIC " from best t) Englishh and American Manufac turers a large and well assorted stock of all Fishing requisites. Rods, Lines, Reels, Minnows, Flies, Gaff Hooks, single, double and treble, Mountings, assorted Hooks; Waterproof Stockings, India Rubbercrack pro of Gum Boots, water proof Fish Bags. In great variety, including latest pat terns. Every article of the season at loAvest prices. Fishing Licenses can now be obtained from me. ALSO.—New Stock of CRICKETING and TENNIS MATERIALS. W. ZANDER, Direct Importer Fishing Tackle. Tobbacconist and Fancy Goods. Ladies .and Gentlemen's Hairdressing 9|30 Saloon. THE MIDLAND COUNTIES WATCH COMPANY OF VYSE STREET, BIRMINGHAM, ENG Send for # Send for Catalogue <kj# Catalogue containing v*fl^iF!<>v t containing 1000 Illus- /f§,fQ^%. 1000 Illus trations and /fy^T^^r Orations and 1000 unso-m^3»''SyUooo unso licited Testi- «prjfvf/Mf licited Testi monials, for- \r\Jf monials, for warded gratis 6*"' warded gratis and post free and post free to any part to any part of the world. of the world. All at wholesale Cash Prices. 255. Let every reader of this send for our beautiful new Illustrated Catalogue, con taining 1000 unsolicited testimonials, and over 1000 fine copper-plate Engravings of Watches, Jewellery, and Electro Plate, sent gratis and post free on application to any part of the world. R. Ambrose, Esq., Cloyne Terrace, Queenstown, Ireland, Feb. 11th, 1886. '' It gives me much pleasure to testify as to the excellent time-keeping qualities of the Watch I received from you. I have tested it with a gun fired here every day by electricity at one o'clock, Greenwich time, and have never found it vacillate even one minute. I have great confidence m recommending your Company.' Gentlemen's Fine Silver Watch, flat crystal glass ... 25s Ladies' Fine Silver, fiat crystal glass highly finished movements ... 25s Youths' Fine Silver, flat crystal glass 25,s Ladies' Gold Levers, m exquisitely chased oases ... 70s Gents' ditto, engined turned cases 80s Gents' Silver Keyless Levers ... 60s Gents' Silver Keyless hrnting cases 67s 6d Gents' Fine Gold Keyless Levers strong heavy cases 100 b Gents Fine Gold Keyless hunting case ... ... 140s Ladies' very heavy Keyless, m 18 carat engraved cases ... ...100s Post Office Orders must be made payable to the Company's Manager, Mr A. Percy, on receipt of which, with Is extra for Postage, any watch will be forwarded per 'arcels Post to any part of the world. London Office and Show Room, — 15 QUEEN VICTORIA STREET, E.C (Near the Mansic House FAIRFIELD ESTATK" rpHE UNDERSIGNED are now Pre- I pared to SELL IN ' . LARGE ok SMALL BLOCKS ON MOST FAVORABLE TERMS OF PAYMENT. GEORGE JAMESON, THOMAS BULLOCK, §34 Joint Agents.



WANTED. "ly/TEN to assist m LOADING VESSELS AT LYTTELTON. Apply afc once. 9 43 FRIEDLANDER BROS. MEN m charge o' Threshing Machines experience great difficulty m dressing clean without a considerable portion of the grain being blown away with the chaff. This difficulty can be effectually overcome by using FLAVALL'S PATENT DRESSING BOARD. F. FLAVALL, is prepared to alter any machine and fit Flavall's Patent Dressing Board into the machine at a very small i cost. F. Flavall fitted six of Flavall's , Patent Dressing Boards into machines m this district last season. All have given first class satisfaction. F. FLAVALL, is prepared to fit up machines with all the latest improve ments, viz. : THE 12ft SPRING SHAKERS, NEW BOTTOM DRESSING APPARATUS, with FLAVALL'S PATENT DRESSING BOARD, New top or SECOND DRESSER with 3ft riddles, and to make the old Threshing Machines do the threshing and dressing equal to new machines. SEE FLAVALL'S TESTIMONIALS. Peter Strket, ABHBURTO N. fc). Jr> S E V M O U R SURGEON DENTIST, 215, Colombo Street (new Buildings near Corner of Gloucester Street.) ESTABLISHED ~~. 1869 SCALE OF CHARGES : Extraction. 2s 6d per tootli; Fillings, 5s per tooth. A reduction made where a number require attending ARTIFICIAL TEETH The charges for Artificial Teeth are made with a view to strict economy, regulated by such circumstances as cases present, or such materials as v tients prefer. Par ticulars given on pli ation. Consulta tion free. Nitro ') ide Laughing Gas) administered wlie . red, Attendance .m. to 6 p.in 15 Cclombo Chuiwchuuch.



MR D THOMAS FBIDAY, 12th SEPTEMBER, 1890. Great Clearing Sale AT WESTERFIELD. D THOMAS has received instructions . from C. G. Hawdon, Esq. (who has sold the Avhole of the We-sterfield property), To Sell by Public Auction at the HOMESTEAD, WESTERFIELD, ON FRIDAY, SEPT. 12, 1890, His well-known CARRIAGE PAIR (grey), well matched, quiet, and fast. WEIGHT CARRYING HUNTER. Also another HUNTER, likely to make a 'Chaser. 2 Three-year-old FILLIES, one of them very promising. Also a number of other good Light and Heavy HORSES. WAGGONETTE (with Hood), Double- Seated BUGGY, and Single-Seated ABBOT BUGGY. Large Quantity of English HARNESS and SADDLERY, by Peate, of London. Small Herd of PURE-BRED JERSEY CATTLE. H-| Store BULLOCKS, and a lot of IJ. MIXED 04TTLE. iOA y ery Prime Fat MERINO _LZU EWES. nr\ bacon pigs. OA STORE PIGS. Number of Implements, including MANURE TURNIP DRILL, SPRING DRAY, &c. Large Quantity of various descriptions of TOOLS. 3 Large STACKS OF OATS. (One month given for removal.) Quantities of Wheat, Oats, Belfast Manure, &c, &c. Sheep Feeders. HA TONS OATEN SHEAF JiVJ CHAFF. Fencing and Barbed WIRE, &c, FUR nTt U R E, Including First-class PIANO, and a very large number of SUNDRIES too numerous to particularise. Fire-proof Safe, 2ft x 3ft. Fishing Tackle. Lawn Tennis Sets, etc. No Reserve. Luncheon provided. Sale at 10.30 sharp. A COACH WILL LEAVE ASHBUR TON ON ARRIVAL OF FIRST TRAINS FROM TIMARU AND CHRISTCHURCH. CATALOGUES AT SALE. D. THOMAS, *189 Ashburton. UNION STEAMSHIP j COMPANY, (LIMITED.) IT O TJE_C E IN consequence of the Disorganisation of Shipping Labor, the Directors re gret they are UNABLE TO ADVERTISE THE RUNNING OF STEAMERS AS USUAL. Intending PASSENGERS and SHIP PERS will receive ALL POSSIBLE INFORMATION at the Company's Offices. GEORGE JAMESON, Agent, Ashburton,



Public Notices MISS BARRATT'S SCHOOL, Cameron Street, West, XT' ILL Ro-open on MONDAY, 15th VV iu S t. Subjects taught: English, Music, Singing, Drawing. Cameron Street, Bth September, 1890, 9 31