Carried by 37 to 30, and consequently Major Steward's motion was shelved. , mr Hutchison's charges. The Hon T. W. Hislop gave notice to move on Tuesd*y that the manuscript report and proofs of the speech of the member for Waitotara, made on July 2 last containing accusations against the Govern ment, be referred to the Reporting and Debates Committee for comparison with the "Hansard" report. Mr Hutchinson, by way of personal ex planation, said he had received a letter from Mr Hislop on this question, which showed that the Minister for Education was under a misapprehension. He had been previously challenged by Mr Hislop to say whether or not he had altered his speech made m the House before he sent it to the Premier, and he now desired to state that any corrections he made m the speech were necessary ones. He had no objection to any persons investigating whether or not the report was a correct version of what he had stated m the House. THH HONORARIUM. On the motion for going into Com mittee of Supply, Mr Stewart (Dunedin West) moved as an amendment—" That having regard to the reductions which the House has been making m the Estimates, and especially m the salaries of Civil Servants, with a view to further retrenchment the House should resolve to reduce the honorarium paid to members by £50 per session, and that the Government be requested to bring m a Bill this session to grre effect to this proposal." He said he did not want to occupy the time of the House, but he pointed out that if members were not prepared to sacrifice themselves, they had no right to reduce the salaries of the Civil Servants as they were doing. Mr Brown seconded the amendment pro forma. Mr Buxton was m favor of raising the honorarium instead of reducing it. He also looked on the amendment as a joke. Mr. Reeves (Inangahua) said if Mr Stewart had moved to abolish the honorarium altogether, he should support it; but lie could not vote for the amend ment. Mr Fisher also regarded the proposal as a joke. The honorarium was the meanest recompense to members for the time they spent attending the sittings of the House. Mr Pyke thought £300 a year was not too much for members to receive. The amendment was put and lost by 49 to 20 IN COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY. The House went into Committee of Supply for consideration of the Estimates. Mines and Lands department—lnspect ing Engineer, £500. Mr Grimmond's motion to strike out ihe item, Inspecting Engineer, £500, was lost on the voices. Mr Goldie'a motion, to reduce the item £500, by £50, was lost by 24 to 17. Mr Fish moved to reduce the item, three Inspectors of Mines, one at £325, two at £250, by £275. Mr Fergus suggested that the extra Inspector at £250 should be allowed to to remain, and that the Committee might strike off the extra £25 given to the Chief Inspector. Mr Fish agreed to that. Item reduced by £25, by 13 to 11. Geoglogical and Meteorological Depart ment, £3350. Mr Fisher moved to reduce the vote by £675. Carried on the voices. Mr Thompson moved to reduce the miscellaneous vote £12,540, by £1500, including £500 for the School of Mines, Ofcago University ; reducing the Thames and Reefton School of Mines, £1200, by £100,- reducing by £400 for special re presentation at Dunedin, and at the Paris Exhibition ; striking out £200 for assay and metallurgy inspection, Dunedin University, and £500 of the vote for contingencies, £2000. After considerable discussion, The Hon T. Fergus said he was willing to take £1000 off the total vote if it were left to his discretion to make reductions m the vote where he thought most desir able. Mr Thompson's motion to reduce by £1500 was lost by 19 to 15. Mr Thompson (Marsden) moved to reduoe the vote by £1475. Mr Thompson (Auckland North) said attar the last division it was hopeless to endeavour to effect a reduction. (Left sitting at 2 a.m.)

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[PR% PBBS3 ASSOCIATION.] Xiabor Vrotitilos, Aucklaki), August 9. A meeting of the Auckland Trades and Labor Council was held last night, when various matters affecting trade interests were considered, The principal discus sion was on the Whitcombe and Tombs dispute, and the Maritime Council's attitude. It was unanimously decided fco support the Maritime Council m every legitimate way, though it was hoped that Whitcombe and Tombs would refer the matter to arbitration. A matter of local interest m connection with the Bakers and Harbormasters' and Engineers' Association was also considered. The Bakers' Society dispute is over the apprentice question, whilst that of harbor* masters and engineers is m reference tc the diecharge of their membera from the Devonport Ferry Company's service, through, it is alleged, their forming a Union- A deputation from the Auckland Council was appointed m both instances to interview the masters, and endeavor to settle the points m dispute. I, and Wantvd for ftettloment. Woodviilb, August 9. A public meeting last night decided to petition the Government to open the forest reserve on Tararua range for settle ment, and for amendment of the Land Act, whereby a third of the purchase money of perpetual lease lands should be returned to local bodies for road construc tion, m the same way as on the deferred payment system. Woodvllln Hallway Terralnnn. In reference fco the railway terminus, the Mayor stated it appeared the Com missioners had broken, faith with the deputation who recently interviewed them m Wellington, and a Vigilance Committee was appointed to watch the action of the Commissioners, and endeavor to secure the interests of the district m the matter of railway communication.

Cost and Productiveness of Labour.

The United States Commissioner of L»bor is preparing to transmit to Congress hia first report on the cost of production. The Commissioner has been engaged on the report for several months, and has ob tained some very interesting and valuable material. The purpose is to ascertain all the elements that enter the cost of pro duction of a manufactured article, and Congress extended the inquiry to foreign countries m order to obtain facts bearing the tariff question. The Com missioner's report will embody data that have never been presented m any official report m any country. It will undertake to give with precision not only the elements of cost m the production of an article, but the efficency of labor m differ ent countries and m different lines of industry, and the relations be tween efficiency, wages, and manner of living- The labor will be reduced to the hour basis, and ,it will be possible to determine, by an examination of the tables, the precise relations be tween wages m the Europen countries and the United States, and the relation between the work performed m each

country for those wages. The coat of management, the cost of repairs, them-1 terest on invested capital, will all be set' forth with a fulness which will admit; of the most searching comparisons. Where a product is composed of more Lhan one material, each of the raw materials will be followed to its source and the cost of producing it set forth. The report on iron and steel will be sent to Congress' within a few weeks, and those on cotton and wool will follow soon after. The other reports upon which the Commis sioner is to work are on glass, linen, silk, and lumber. These facts will be of use from a theoretical standpoint and m tariff" and industrial discussions. They are so full and precise that they are likely to have a still further use for the practical business man. By comparing the state ments for different establishments he can learn what others m his line of business are spending for the different elements that enter into their products, and can correct his own methods by the study of those of others. The hours of labor, the wages paid, the cost of raw material, the cost of subsidiary materials, the cost of management, will all be set forth and can be studied by the intelligent business man. !

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London, August 9. The total amount of reserve m the Bank of England is £11,426,000. The proportion of reserve to liabilities is 36-64. Consols, 96£; New Zealand 4 percent inscribed stock, 104|; 3| per cent, 95. Wheat, Adelaide, 38s 6cl; Victorian, 38s 3d ; New Zealand long berried, 37s 6d. The market is steady. No 1 best Scotch pig iron, f.0.b., m Clyde, 46s 9d ; market firmer. Sugar beet, German, 14s 3d; Java, 15s 9d. Bank rate of discount 5 per cent; market rate, 4^ per cent. Money is m moderate demand.

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TEN MONTHS' SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

There is an old saying that physicians are a class of men who pour drugs, of which they know little, into bodies of which they know less. This is both true and untrue at the same time. There are good and poor lawyers, and good and poor doctors. The trouble with these medical gentlemen as a profession is that they are clannish and apt to be conceited. They don't like to be beaten at their own trade by outsiders who have never studied medicine. They there fore pay, by their frequent failures, the penalty ot refusing instruction unless the teacher bears their own '' Hall Mark." An eminent physician—' Dv Brown-Sequard of Paris —states the facti accurately when he »ays : " The medical profession are so bound up m their self-confidence and conceit that they allow the diamond truths of science to be picked up by person entirely outside their ranks." We give a most interesting incident, which illustrates this important truth. The steamship "Concordia," of the Donaldson Line sailed from Glasgow for Baltimore m 1887, having on board as a fire man a man named Richard Wade, of Glasgow. He had been a fireman for fourteen years on various ships sailing to America, China, and India. He had borne the hard and exhausting labor, and had been healthy and strong. On the trip we now name he began for the first time to feel weak and ill. His appetite failed, and he suffered from drowsiness, heartburn, a bad taste m the mouth, and costiveness and irregularity ct the bowels. Sometimes when at work he had attacks of giddiness, but supposed it to be caused by the heat of the fire room. Quite often he was sick and felt like Tomiting, and had some pain m the head. Later during the passage he grew worse, and when the hip reached Halifax he was placed m the Victoria General Hospital, and the ship sailed away without him. The house surgeon gave him some powders to stop the vomiting, and the next day the visiting physician gave him a mixture to take every four hours. Within two days Wade was so much worse that the doctors stopped both he powders and the mixture. A month passed, the poor fireman getting worse and worse* Then came another doctor, who was to be Tisiting physician for the next five months. He gave other medicines, but not much relief. Nearly all that time Wade suffered great torture j he digested nothing throwing up all he ate. There was terrible pain m the bowels burning heat m the throat, heartburn, and racking headache. The patient was now taking a mixture every four hours, powders, one after each meal to digest the food, operating pills one every night, and temperature pills two each night ito stop the cold sweats. If drugs could cure him at all, Richard had »n idea that he took enough to do it. But on the other hand pleurisy set m and tht doctor, took ninety ounces of matter from lm> right side and then told him he was sure to die. Five months more rolled by and there •>■ another change of visiting phyaiciansh The new one gave Wade a mixture whica he said made him tremble like a leaf on tree. At this crisis Wade's Scotch blood asserted itself. He refused to stand any more dosing, and t»ld the doctors that if he must die he could die as well without them as with them. By this time a cup of milk would turn sour on his stomach, and lie there for days. Our friend from Glasgow was like a wreck on a shoal, fast going to pieces. We will let him tell the rest of his experience m the words m which he communicated it to the press. H« says: "When I Avas m this state a lady whom I had never seen came to the hospital and talked with me. She proved to be an angel of mercy, for without her I ■hould not now lie alive. She told me of a medicine called ' Mother Seigel» Curative Syrup,' and brought me a bottle next day. I started with it, without consulting the doctors, and m only a few days' time Iwas 0M t of bed calling for havi and eggs for breakfast. From that time keeping on with Mother Seigel's great remedy, I got well fast, and was soon able to leave the hospital and come home to Glasgow. I now feel as if I wan m another world, and have no luess of any kind." The. above facts are calmly and impartially stated, and the reader may draw his own conclusion. We deem it best to use no names although Mr Wade gave them m his original deposition. His address is No. 244, Stobcrose Street, Glasgow, where let ter* will reach him, Kmtoii

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(fkom our own cobkespondent.) Wellington, August, !). Mr Feldwick will move on Tuesday, on the House going into Committee of Supply for the repeal of the following Acts, m order to test whether permanent charges therein made shall be subjected to annual appropriation :—New Zealand Institute Act, New Zealand University Act, Auck land University College Act; and also that the Civil Service List Act shall be amended for the same purpose ; and also that the Public Revenues Act should not be valid until appropriated by the House, Mr Bep.thaiu' has given notice to move, on the House going into Committee of I Supply, that Government .should ask the ' House to vote a sum of money for the

purpose of introducing to the colony a desirable class of immigrants, suitable for occupation of the Crown Lands of the colony. ___

STARTLING EVENT IN A VILLAGE

To the Editor of "Saturday Night,', Birmingham. I recently came into posses sion of certain facts of so remarkable a nature, that I am sure you will be giad to assist m making them public. The follows ing letters were shown to me, and I at once begged permission to copy them for lie Press. They come from a highly responsible source, and may be received without ques tion. MESSAGE from George James Gost mug, L.D.S., R.C.S.I. ,Ph. C.1., Licentiate m Pharmacy and Dental Surgeon. Stowmarket, July 18, 1889. To Mr White, The enclosed remarkable cure should, I think, be printed and circulated m Suffolk, The statement was entirely voluntary, and s genuine m fact and detail, —G.J.G. "To the Proprietors of MotherSeigel's Syrup." " Gentlemen.—The following remarkable cure was related to me by the husband, Mary Ann Spink, of Finborough, Suffolk, was for over twenty years afflicted with rheumatism and neuralgia, and although comparatively a young woman at the time she was attacked (she is now fifty), she was compelled, m [ consequence, to walk with two sticks, and even.then with difficulty and pain. About a year and a half o,go she was advised to try Mother Seigel's Syrup, and after taking three bottles and two boxes of Seigel's Operasing Pills, the use of her limb tvas restored, and she is now able to walk three miles to Stowmarket with ease m three quarters of an hour. Any sufferer who deubts this story win fully ascertain its truthfulness by paying a viwit 1o the village and enquiring of the viikgur,', who will rcetify to the facts." "Appended is the husband's signatu to the stctement. " (R. Spink), G. S. Soatling, Ipswich Street, Stowmarket. , This is certainly a very pitiable case, and the happy cure wrought by this simple but powerful remedy, must move the sympathy of all hearts m a common pleasure. This poor woman had been a cripple for twenty of her best years; years m which she should have had such comfort and enjoyment as jlie has to give. But, on the contrary she was a miserable burden te herself and a source of care to her friends. Now, at an age when the rest of us are growing feeble, she, m a manner, renews her youth and almost begins a new existence. What a blessing and what a wonder it is ! No one who knows her, or who reads her story, but will be thankful that the good Lord has enabled men to discover a remedy capable of bringing about a cure that reminds us if we speak it reverently—of the age of miracles.

THE ASfIBtJRTON CTiJIBIAN, SATORPAY, AtTCrtJSf 9, 1890.



CLOVERS. CLOVERS. CLOVERS. , 117 E ARE LANDING,— ex "Nelson" and ex "Carrie L. Tyler." RED CLOVER, WHITE CLOVER, COWGRASS, ALSIKE, TIMOTHY, etc., etc. « .:..-■ ALL OF CHOICEST QUALITY, For tfhich we are now Booking Orders at LOWEST CURRENT RATES. "TT7E H-AVE ALSO FOR SALE MACHINE DRESSED RYEGRASS and COCKSFOOT. FRIEDLANDER BROS. ■PTTRE • 'lEAS ; ; ; : STANDARD '■ : OEYLON A.ZLT> INDIAN; ■ ■ :; T. EA S. \;V MANUFACTURED BY MACHINERY UNDER EUROPEAN SUPERVISION. | THE CEYLON AND INDIAN TEA ASSOCIATION Lfl^j : COLOMBO, CALCUTTA. ;_■■'.. ■ -; . " &nd ■ ■" ■■. PRINCES STREET, DUNEDIN, ONE TRIAL SOLICITED. JOHN G. RESTELL SOLB AGENT, ASHBURTON. "O^Vk^ i&?&**ttti WATOH»n4 OLOOK ' Ashburton A LAItGE and Varied Assortment of New Jewellery, Plate, Sec. A magnificent: /\. Stock of Watches and Clocks, at prices ranging from a few shillings t» £30. Erery Watch or Clock sold will be guaranteed. I make a special lino c High Glass English .Watchea. Well appointed Worshops under my personal superintendence assures all work being turned out promptly and m iirst-class condition. EVERYTHING SOLD WARRANTED W HEAT. WHEAT. "WHEAT "CIBH BUYEBB ROLLIT & C 0., CANTERBURY MILLS, ASHBURTON, ARE still prompt Cash Buyers of Prime Milling Wheat at highest market rates Flour, Bran and Sharps always on hand. Gristing by patent Roller process done on the shortest notice. COAL. COAL. (■OAL. WE have just landed " Ex Jessie," a Shipraemt of Household Coal of PRIME QUALITY. Timber. Timber. Timber. Ex " Zior " 20,000 ft W.P. Flooring and Lining. Bx " Spray " 30,000 ft Red Pine Boards and Scantling. ■ In Stock, Lhne, Cement, Bricks, Roofing Iron, Boors, Sashes, Gates, Hmrdlo Fencing Wire, (Barbed and Plain.) Iron Standards to Order. WE HAVE JUST "OPENED UP A Splendid Assortment of Varnishes and Ready-Mixed Paints. AIso,—PICTURE-FRAME MOULDINGS of the Best Quality and Choicest Patterns. Lovers of the Fine Arts should inspect our Stocks. W. H, COLLINS St. CO. TIMBER AND COAL MERCHANTS . ASHBURTON. GEORGE JAMESON ASHBURTON A 1S TB lIAKAIA ;has for sale the following FAItM SEEDS, RED AND WHITE CLOVER COW GRASS AND ALSYKE : RYE^GRASS— COCKSFOOT ETC ETC. And to arrive per ship " Wairoa" from England a large Stftck of^tk; bettt TTJKNIP SEEDS Sjtttal attention is paid to the SEED DEPARTMENT, and nor.o but those of the best quality and description sire imported Station;holders and iTarmcrs c*n always rely on getting the newest seed obtainable]



FIRST-CLASS AMERICAN ORGAN NEW. A Opportunity offers to obtain one ; Jl\. of Cornish's celebrated American Organs on exceedingly favorable terms Height 45 inches, Length 46 inches, width 23 inches. Five Octaves, 14 stops, 2 octave couplers, and 2 knee swells. Above can be supplied direct frem the Manufactures at considerably less than usual price. Apply " Mail" and " Guar. dian Office. CLEARING SALE. STOCK MUST BE REDUCED. IJ. SPEp k '{I). TDREVIOUS to Stock-taking, being JIT very heavily stocked, we have decided to hold a C^LJEAJEfcING SALE GRLAf REDUCTIONS REGARDLESS OF COST. Heavy Dress Tweeds 10M, reduced to 7|d. Double width Cashmeres 3s 6d. reduced to Is lid. Dress Goods Is 9d, reduced to Is 2d. Ashburton Flannel, Is 3d, now ll^d Good Heavy Flannel Is 3d, reduced to Is. Cretonnes 4a lid a doz, Towels from 3-Jd each. White Sheeting, double width, 7id. Women's Corsets 3s 6d, reduced to Is lid White Lace lOd a doz. Women's Large Umbrellas Is lid each. Men's Cord Trousers 7s 6d, worth 10s 6d Men's Tweed Trousers 10s 6d, reduced to 7s lid. Men's Tweed Suits 18s 6d. Men's Tweed Suits 30s, now 2f>s Boy-j, Tweed Hats Is each. BOOTS. BOOTS. A Job Lot of Women's and Children's Boots must be cleared Regardless of Cosh, Men 8 Bbachers.6s 9d, Men's Shooters 10s 6d, worth 13s 6d. BARGAINS. BARGAINS. W, W. SPENCER'S THE ARCADE WM. SPARROW TAILOR AND MEN'S MERCER EAST STRESS W. T. Kingston, VETERINARY SHOEING FORGE AND General Jobbing Smith Next Cookson's Stables, opposite the Railway Station. THE best accommodation for Horses and convenience possible for Customers. SHOEING. Draught Horses... 7a Hacks , , dn To meet the heavy rise m the price of Iron, we have a large stock of Shoes made from scrap and old iron, which for wear it is well known cannot be beaten. Made on our own premises. GENERAL SMITH WORK OF ALL 7*45 KINDS.



TpOR the Blood is the Life-Clark's world i'Jj famed Blood Mixture, warranted t cleanse the blood from all impurities from ' whatever causes arising. For scrofula, I scurvey, skill and blood 'diseases,' and sores of all kinds its effects are marvel lous. Thousands of testimonials. Sold m bottles 4s 6d, and lls each by chemists and patent medicine vendors everywhere Sole proprietors : The Lincoln and Mid land Counties Drug Co., Lincoln England. NOTICE. TREES ~ TREES! I THE Undersigned, have opened a • Nursery on my own account and am prepared to sell FRUIT and FOREST TREES of the choicesb sorts at prices not to be beaten. Having had 28 years' experience at Home and m the Colonies, I have grown none but the best sorts of Fruit Trees, knowing that a great many" that are planted out are shy bearers and some that do bear are inferior m quality. I have also a very choice collection of Roses and Shrubs. Gardens laid out : work done by contract or by clay. Old fruit trees re-grafted with choice sorts if required. Hoping to get & fair share 0 public patronage. Note the Address,^ —• J. MILLICHAMP, Nurseryman, Terrace Nursery, Tinwald. Letters addressed to Ashburton P.O. will receive my prompt attention. 6*l mREES. TREES.—For Sale twelve or 1 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, 8 41 Ashburton. TREES. TREES. About 100,000 FRUIT TREES Of all descriptions, including 2000 Apple Trees of Choice Sorts. All strong and Healthy. TjlOR SALE at Moderate Prices. The undersigned is also prepared, as usual, to undertake the PLANTING OF FOREST TREES At Lowest Current Rates. WM. GARDNER, Tinwald. SEEDS, PLANTS, &c TEEES. TEEES. TEEES. Xi&ain tender my best thanks to my 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 ..ny 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 Fruit*, 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 line. I make this a speciality. All my seedlings have been transplanted, being equal to those m boxes. I have =ibout 100,000 one and two years old, also Roses and Fancy Shrubs m great variety, trees supplied and planted by mj will be guaranteed for 12 months. Cata logue sent post free on application. TAMES ~r>ORTEK J AMES JTORTER, NURSERYMAN and SEEDSMAN Ax, LENT ON ASHBURTQJS "SEAM'S FHUIX~TBEEB... ■fNCLUDING Apples, Pears, Plums, JL Cherries, Peacheje, Apricots, Nectarns ines, and allother fruits. The merits of all the varieties have been subjected to severe tests during the last 15 years, and the stock is now admitted to be the Largest and Choicest m Canterbury, probably m the colony, to select from, all warranted, and at your own prices. SEALY'S FOREST TREES Of all kinds, innumerable m quantity, well-grown and hardy—all kinds, all sizes, all prices. SEALY'S ORNAMENTAL TREES, &c Choice m quality, numerous m quantity. SEALY'S MACROCARPA? Tens of thousands m number. A" large quantity specially grown for fencing at very low prices. SEALY'S ROSES" Endless m variety and choicest m quality SEALY'S CATALOGUES Forwarded free to any address on application, Nor-—I will only be responsible for Trees ordered direct from'the Nursery or through; Mersjis J. Sbaly and Co. THOS. SEALY, Nurseryman, River bank, Aahburton,



CLOVERS . BYEGUA.SS COCKSFOOT THAT WITjL GEOW. ■ ' ■ _ 0 ■ ' •....■■■•■■ /~\UR Stocks of CLOVERS, Ex Rimntaka, from London, will bo found fresh and clean ; and as they are of English growth, there is no fear of American weeds, or Californiaii Thistle. Samples and quotationa at Lowest Current Rates on application JOHH OEE & CO.



MITCHELL & TURNER Drapers, Clothiers, MEECHANT TAILOES CAEPETS AND LINOLLUM9 KAIAPOI HOUSE TANCRED STREET. i



IN BANKRUPTCY. TO FELLMONGERS AND OTHERS. D THOMAS has received instructions . from the Deputy Official As sigkee m the Insolvent Estate of C. Homersham, of Ashburton, Fellmonger, to Sell by Public Auction (on the ground) on WEDNESDAY, 13th AUGUST, 1890, At half-past two o'clock, p.m., The Equity of Redemption of R.S. 23096, containing 26 acres, more or less, upon which are erected all the Buildings that are necessary for the carrying on of a large and suc cessful business. ALSO— Q Bales Slipe WOOL. -i O Bags Slipe WOOL. 1 i X New WOOLPACKS. Avery Weighing Machine, Wheel barrow, Casks, Sundries, &c, &c. ALSO— a cows. Terms at Sale. D. THOMAS. X WJLBO.VS X MERCANTILE OFFICES. ALL persons interested m Commerce should subscribe ta the British Volume of " Wilson's Mercantile Directory of the World, being THE ONLY DIRECTORY OP GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND ever published, enntaining lists of all the Manufacturing, Wholesale, and Principal Retail Trades Price 355. Prices of Directories of any parts of the World on applcation. COMMERCIAL INQUIRIES regarding the standing of any person or firm anlwered on receipt of full name, trade, and P.O. value 2s. DEBT RECOVERY and Collection of Outstaneing Accounts undertaken on receipt of instructions and fee jo 2s. j Ot RCULARS printed, folded, addressed, and despatched for home and foreign countries. AGENCIES undertaken or arranged for the sale of manufactures, patents and specialities m every country- COfcSIGNMENTS of every description of goods sent to suitable markete, and sold for account PATENTS procured c igns, trademark copyrights rogittered at home and abroad, GOODS of e> /cry kind supplied at whole sale prices. Prospectus free on application to WILLIAM WILSON AND SONS, Stalbot Court, Eastcheap London, E.C. Branches and connpctioi> m every part of the Wr r d MERCANTILE INFORMATION sup plied, advice tendered, and ques tions of all kinds answered by experts.



MILES AND CO. TINWALD YARDS. TUESDAY, 12th AUGUST. SPECIAL ENTRY. rj AYRSHIRE and JERSEY HEIFERS ( and COWS, to calve early m Sep tember. MILES AND CO. Auctioneers, 8t59 GEORGE JAMESON, Agent. ~ MR" D~ THOMAS" I' ASHBURTON. PRELIMINARY ADVERTISEMENT. Timber Business AND VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PREMISES. For Sale by Public Auction m the latter end of the month of August, 1890. MR D. THOMAS has received in structions from Mr J. G. Restbll to Sell as above by Public Auction, His valuable Borough Lease for 13 years, upon which are erected comfortable offices, and all the shed room re quired for carrying on a large business. The Lease and Good Will of the Timber. Busines to be sold m one lot. A grand chance for an energetic man. D. THOMAS Auctioneer.



' MR T BULLOCK SATURDAY, AUGUST 16th. TOWN SECTION 698, centrally situated m Cameron street, next to Reid and Gray's. Three Sections m one Block, corner of Havelock and William streets, numbered 465, 466, and 467. T.S. 296, Rakaia, near the Railway Station. MR T. BULLOCK will sell the above Sections by Auction at the Arcade on the above date, At 12 noon. T. BULLOCK, 8*57 Auctioneer.



ASHBURTON COUNTY HUNT CLUB. POINT TO POINT STEEPLECHASE. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13th, 1890. A SWEEPSTAKE of 1 soy. each. First horse 75 per cent, and second horse 25 per cent of stake. , Minimum weight 12 stone. About four miles. Entries close at the Commercial Hotel at 12 noon on day of race. Full particulars from the undersigned. | E. J. FOOKS, ' 7t(54 Hon. Secretary. AMALGAMATED SHEARERS AND LABORERS' UNION. ASHBURTON BRANCH. A Committee meeting of the above Ol Union will be held m the Orange Hall, on TUESDAY, August 12th, at 8 p.m. Members and Laboring public are inrited to attend. By Order 8J62 Wm. McRAE. Secretary ASHBURTON COUNTY COUNCIiT rpENDERS are invited on the 13th JL inst., for cutting and planting 7QOQ pillow sticks, Head Works Ashburton- Rangitata water supply. Also erecting about hftlf a mile of fencing. For par ticulars, apply WILLIAM BAXTER, • 63 County Engineer.



Rink To-Night. N.Z. BAPTIST HOME MISSION. Oddfellows' Hall. AN EVENING WITH JOHN PLOUGHMAN. MR. THOMAS SPURGEON will Exhibit " John Ploughman's Pic tures " as Limelight Dissolving Views on TUESDAY NEXT, at 7.30. Admission, Is. Children (under 12), 6d. Tickets can be obtained at Messrs Jones, Davis, Andrews, and Flavell. 8t49



Caterers for festive gathering m the Odd fellows' Hall, onjoccasions when a canvas annexe has been made use of as a supper room, have frequently complained of mean thefts having occurred m connection with their business. Last night, Mr W. C. Davis was victimised m this way by some larrikins who managed to lift the tilt and make oft with over half-a-dozen large plates of pastry. Public Notices. T OST—lOs Reward.—A Lady's Seal- JLj skin Hand Bag, containing a sum of money, on Racecourse or Allenton road. Finder will receive above reward on returning to Mr G. F. Scott Ashburton. 8§54



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