MAIL NOTICES.

Mails close for the following planes as uuder.subjeet to the necessary attentions :— TUESDAY, November 29. For Northern Ports, New South Wales and Queensland,per Hauroto, at at &,3IJ a.m. WEDNESDAY, November 30. For United Kingdom and Continent oi Europe, etc. (specially addressed Orient steamer only), and also for Australian Colo nies, per express (to connect with s.B. Mana pouri at Port Chalmers), at 1830 P-™?, late fee letters, guard's van express, at 12 55 p. no. Due in London on Jannary 13. For the United Kingdom, Continents of Europe, and America and West Indies (via San Francisco), Sandwich Islands, etc., and also for Northern Ports of New Zealand, per Takapuna, as follows:— Ordinary letters, books, and newspapers, at O.l£> p.M». : registered letters, at 5 p.m. ; money orders, at 3p. in.; late fee letters, mail van, express train, at 6.55 p.m. This mail will be due in London on January 4.

ENGLISH MAILS.

HOME WAKD—-DIRECT MAILS. Coptic, sailed October 15, due London November 25. ,i' ' Kimutuka, sailed October 27, due London December 7. lonic, sailed November 12, due London December 23. OUTWARD —DIRECT MAILS. Kaikoura, sailed October 15, due November 28. Tongariro, sailed November 14, due December 80. HOMEWARD —SAN FRANCISCO MAILS. Monowai, left Auckland November 5, due London December 7. OUTWARD—SAN FRANCISCO MATLS. Sailed October 29, due Colony November 80. ■ ■ ■;;■••■■ ■•'■■ The letter-box will be cleared for des patch of correspondence from Ashburton Post Office to the under-mentioned places as follows:—

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1892.

The advance in prices at the London Wool Sales will be very welcome to wool growers, though it is but a short (step on the way back to the prices of twelve months ago, Perhaps, under all the circumstances the advance is as much as should be expected, for a tele gram received last Friday states that the Bradford wool-combers are willing to book orders at old rate,3 for their product. It is to be hoped that an im provement in trade will corns with the new year, for present prices are disas trously )ow, and owst seriously effect the position of holders of" heavily mortgaged estates and runs. There is hope for the future in the change of Government in the United States that will follow the Presidential election, but the tariff can scarcely be changed in tiime to, affect the present season's woo}. The session of Congress w^'ch is now in progress will continue until March 4 next, when President Cleve land will be formally nominated, asd will tdce the oaths of office, then be coming de facto president, General Harrison retiring. Congress will then adjourn until November next, and, until that time, a year hence, the tariff question cannot come up, unless brought un by £ha present President and his Government whiph is, unljfcely. Sir Roderick Cameron., the American commercial magnate who is now visit ing New Zealand and has been inter viewed in Auckland and Wellington, holds this view, but is sanguine that when once New Zealand wools art ad mitted free of duty they will find an enormous demand in the United States; indeed h. c expects that jbhe bulk of the New Zealand wools be absorbed by America, as their quality generally adapts them to the requirements of American manufacturers. He says Ameripap buyers always gjve the best prices at; MelWrnj* aaN? and often put up the average price by 3d or 3d per pound, He is convinced that the admission of Ngw Zealand wool into the United States will ?»jsp |he pripe of every pound of wool by at least a penny. He points out that America jj«W a population of 70 millions who need >eollfln goods, and that the Anlerican production qf w0.0.1 has not kept pace wjth the increase of popula tion wool must be imported. Even with the present duty of 6d per pound Air f 3rica TinjpGrte4 $O,QOQ bales of Australasian wool last year. The duty amounted to more than /§ per cent, on its value in the colony.. So! unbearable a burden had the present i tariff proved that even Ohio, *n the in terests of whose woolgrowew the heavy import duty was imposed, was at the election carried by the Democrats and Major McKinley, the author of the tariff, defotftj }n !> is own dl^ rif' Thereto, c it is certain l£at men if the woof duty is not'altogether abolished it | Wifi be greatly reduced, to the' great j %mtZ* Qf Zealand farmers.! Meantime, V e^a»«?W to ,that the; iL^stQcks lield tar&rt ffiWPff cor the preo. " ••»«. Jili\ lead to a further advan^, c j ?e reflected at the local sales,

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A special general meeting of the Ashbur ton Horticultural Society will be held to morrow evening. The train arrangements for the Dunedin show and races will be found in another column. Fifty thousand coupons were sent tn a Melbourne newspaper office to tip the first three horses in the Melbourne Cup, but not one exactly .struck them. The value of the estate left in New Zea land by tne Hon A. G. Tollemache, was £464,'.:0L 153 lid, on which £35,640 duty is p o yable to the Government. The service of song, " Uncle Tom,' by Tipton, will be given in the Presbyterian Church on Tuesday, December 6. The service is in aid of the Sunday School library fund* Messrs Shury and Stephens returned j this morning from the Rangitata, having secured thirty-eight fine fish averaging six pounds each, the largest scaling thirteen i pounds. Sixteen of the fish were landed in two hours this morning. Of the Cape weed, which, will shortly be coming into flower, it has been said that when persons have walked in pastures when the plant is in full bloom, the pollen, which ia produced in quantities, rises like dust, and is inhaled into the lungs to their injury. On Saturday, about noon, a two-roomed cottage at Wheatstone, owned by Mr P. Hyland, ilemingtcn, was burned down. The building, which was insured for £65 in the Liverpool and London and Globe Office, was empty at the time, locked, and had* not been used for a week, so that the fire can not been accounted for. Mr 0. E. Hugo lectures on Wednesday first in the Orange Hall upon the subject of physiognomy. Mr Hugo's lectures were so well appreciated when he last was here, and he is so well-known in connection with the subject, that it is quite superfluous to quote opinions from the preus. Mr Hugo wiU also be in daily attendance after the first lecture at the anteroom of the hall to supply charts, during the hours advertised. At the Supreme Court, Blenheim, on Satur day the appeal case, Philpott v Hyde was dis missed with costs. The divorce case, Wells v Wells of Havelock, and McKinnon, at present of Glenoamatu was concluded] There was no appearance of respondent or co-respondent. The husband's petition for a decree nisi to be made absolute, wag granted, to take effect at the termination of three months. A policeman while on duty in the early morning (says the Blenheim " Times') observed a man suddenly stop at a lamp post and kick at it. The policeman went up *<o the man and asked him what he wanted there. To this the man replied " Wantsh to get in, course." "There's nobody living there," said the policeman." " ¥esh there is." said the wayfarer,." for I shee a light upstairs." The policeman found lodgings for him till daylight. By way of winding up the season of the Riverside Mutual Improvement Society and Glee Club a social was held by the members on Friday evening in the school. The President, Mr David Johnston, in opening the business, gave a resume of the Society's history, detailed its objects which are in dicated by its name, and explained its system of management. A programme of music was gone through, the leading items of which were contributed by a contingent of both amateurs and professionals from Ashburton,,who had been organised by Mr Speight, the secretary, ; nd kindly conveyed to Riverside by Mr Joshua Tucker. An excellent supper had been provided by the ladies belonging to the Society, and dancing was engaged in heartily till an early hour. There were between forty and fifty members ml friends present ;audtheusual hearty votes of thanks were passed before parting. Reft rring to the recent hostile demonstra tions ou the occasion of the election of the Lord Mayor, Mr Labourshere cays in ."Truth" :—The riotous demonstration of oertain of the City Liverymen against the election of a Roman Catholic Lord Mayor was, of course, highly disgraceful to the Corporation of London, but what else is to beexpested? Men do not gather grapes of thorns, nor figs of thistles, ami, for similar reasons, they do not expect liuvtalily, eu* lightment, or good manners from a horde of civic boobies engaged in performing a ceremony which is "both a farce and an anachronism. But the man whom I most pity in connection wish these proceedings is Mr Beaufoi Moore. After the manner of the nervous Protestants whenever, it is a question of allowing a Roman Catholic the same privileges as other citizens, this frenzied prophet saw in his mind's eye " the fires of Smiihfield rekindled," with the additional horror of " the thumbscrew and the rack being brought from their resting places to furnish amusement for the Jesuits at the Mansion House." Immediately after this vision, Alderman Knill was elected. The inference would seem to be that to his civic colleagues the prospect of the Prophet Moore being led to the stake or lajd u.p,on the rack at the Mansion House was by no means displeasing. And really, though I am not a Roman Catholic myself, I have often been led by No-Popery Boacerges of the Moore type to wonder whether the mediaeval torturers had not more provoca tion than they have generally been credited with. The thunderstorm in the Ashburton Forks district on Friday produced very remarkable cloud effects in that locality. Soon after the thunder commenced, and before rain or hail fell, a dense dark body collected over the mountains and hung there fcr a con; gideruble time, flashes of lightning dis charging therefrom at intervals. Suddenly two currents of wind appeared to meet, and forming a whirlwind drew some of the upper clouds down and formed an im mense column, pointed and perfectly still at the bottom, which reached down to the bush above Pudding Hill. The upper portion, howeyer, had a very rapid rotary motion, apparently bringing down fresh clouds into, the column, wh)ch was visible fpr perhaps qver ipn minutes, gradually and then suddenly diiappearing. The effect was. very grand, the dark thunder clouds, the bright wliite ones in tfye whirlwind, and the background of darksgreen and variegated bush, and the mountains lit up by brilliant flashes of lightning and alternating glimpses of sunshine, forming a picture that may not be seeu again for many years. The thunderstorm of Friday, which was of a mild character jn Ashburton, was (jevere towards the hills—"terrific " is the adjective our Alford tjorreepqndent uses to describe it—and lasted from one o'clock to nearly three, a rainfall of 1.90 inch being experienced during that time. Ihis fall represents a tremendous downpour of rain, and accounts fqr the sudden freshet in the flyer, tye havo heard pf r,o great dapige doae'in consequence, of the flood, except to some of the creeks aijd forlls, and' the in jury to thg.e is not. serious. A Gisborne |e|egrarn says a cyclone pf considerable Violence"cut "a trapLlr. hree chains wide along a portion of Poverty Bay'j-'lat at noon, rooting up and breaking down trees, levelling several buildings, and doing considerable damage. Fragments of several sheds were carried half a mile. No' one was hurt. J!rom lavergargill comes this on the sub ject;—A violent ihiipdprstorm accom -1 pan;§d by a phenomenally heavy rainfall passed over the town at one ofclock. The weather has been unusually dry for the past two months, and the rain will do a great amount of gqqd. rain Wi|s yepy heavy in other parts of the colony.

TELEGRAPHIC.

HOME AND FOREIGN.

(PER PIiESS ASSOCIATION.)

EXHIBITION POSTPONED.

Loweon, November 24. The International Fire Brigade Ex hibition has been postponed until August next.

AQUATICS.

George Bubear, of England, and Hosmer, the Toronto sculler, row for the. championship of the Thames in January.

CHICAGO EXHIBITION.

The Pacific and Oceanic Steamship Company have arranged to contract for the conveyance of New South Wales' exhibits for the Chicago Exhi bition. Dr Renwick, the N.S.W. executive commissioner to the Exhibi tion, who has just returned to London, has advised that the R.M.S. Alameda is too small for the purpose.

COLONIAL DEFENCE.

Victoria, Adelaide, Western Aus tralia, New Zealand, and Tasmania, acting on Sir A. Clark's suggestion, intend to request the Imperial Govern ment to place their respective Agents- General in closer touch with the Colo nial Defence Committee.

IRISH AFFAIRS.

The supporters of Mr Justin Mc- Carthy remonstrate with the Govern ment for continuing evictions and sending priests to prison in connection therewith, and also for not removing from office a large number of those who, it is alleged, are opposed to the welfare uf the Irish people. The Go vernment resent interference, and de clare that they are doing the best they can to advance Irish interests,

BURNING OF A THEATRE.

Lincoln Theatre has been burned down.

UGANDA

Mr Jephson, who was with Emm Pasha in Wadelai, will probably be ap pointed Imperial Commissioner to Uganda When the country is evacuated by the British East African Company. The report of the British South African Company is hopeful of success attending the expedition.

CUTTING MILITARY HARNESS

Harness of the 4th Hussars, sta tioned at Colchester, has been cut. A recruit has been, arrested in connection with the affair.

PERSONAL.

Owing to the disputes that have arisen about the collection of funds, Princess Marie of Edinburgh, has de clined to accept the diadem which the Roumanian ladies proposed to present her with. It was to be worth £14,000. The Princess suggests that the money should be devoted to charity.

DAHOMEY.

Paris, November 26. Colonel Dodds has arranged to place Dahomey under native rulers, but sub ject to French authority. The * majority of the Dahomeyans deserted their king at the last. The French are striking a medal to cele brate the success of the expedition. Colonel .Dodds has been instructed to arrange for the future administration of the country. Behauzin is to be deposed, and Taffa succeeds him.

THE MONETARY CONFERENCE.

But- iiV,h , 2sti.viuuer 26. It is bxpeoted that England will submit to the Monetary Conference a plan for increasing the monetary use of silver by international agreements, after the American proposals have been submitted. The latter oountry pro poses the unrestricted coinage of gold and silver into money by full debt-pay ing Powers, fixing the ratio in coinage between the two metals, and establish ing a uniform charge to the public for the coinage. Sir Charles Rivers "Wil son, one of the British delegates, supports the American proposals so fai> as the desirableness of increasing the use of silver as a currency. France, fio^and, Spain, and Mexico support America, while Russia, Italy, Rou mania, Switzerland, and Greece reserve their opinion for th,e present. On Monday j Rjothsohilds will propose to enter into a State agreement for pur chasing silver at a fixed price. Mr Turnbull, of Adelaide, has suggested to the president of the Confarence that copper coinage should, he abolished, and silver coin 61 small value be consti tuted. The American delegates at the Monetary Conference are proposing to extend the us 3 of silver currency.

A COLLIERY ON FIRE.

Washington, November 26. A colliery at Raton, New Mexico, caught fire, and it is reported that 100 men are still below. Their families are gathered at the mouth of the pit, and are in a state of terror and excitement.

THE AMERICAN MINISTRY.

Mr Edward J. Phelps, who was United States' Minister in London when Mr Cleveland was last President^ is mentioned as likely to be appointed Secretary of State.

WB, EL.AOE,

Mr J. G. Blame b&a suffered, a re lapse, and his rnedieaj advisers now regard his condition as very critical.

FIRE.

Npvy Yqks, November 2S. The suintner residence qf Mr Yan derbilt in Newpqrt has been destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at £60,000.

THE CANADIAN MINISTRY.

Ottawa, November 26. Sir J. C. Abbott, the Premier, has resigned on the ground of ill-health, and Sir J, S, D, Thompson, Minister of Justice, is engaged in forming a new Cabinet.

MAGISTERIAL.

ASHBURTON—MONDAY.

(Before Messrs D. Williamson and A. Harrison, J.P'a.) Malicious Mischief.- George Camp boll, Percy Eden, George Leonard, Joseph Donovan, George Spicer, and Herman Booth, all boys apparently ranging from eight to twelve years of age, were charged with having thrown eggs, to the damage of the property of the Ashburton Fire Brigade, on the evei i lg of 16:h inst. Campbell and Eden pleaded guilty, and the charges against Donovan and Booth, with permission of the Bench, were withdrawn. After hearing the evidence of Constable Hunt, the boys Booth and Donovan, who had turned •• Queen's evidence," and F. Sokes, the Bench, having severely lectured the boy* and pointed out to them what petty offences such as i hey had been guilty of might lead to, convicted the accused and ordeied them to come up for sentence when called upon. Assault.- George Wirth, who did not appear, was charged on the information of Samuel Elliott with having assaulted him by striking him in the face with his fist. Mr Cuthbertson appeared for the prosecution. The evidence of Elliott was to the effect that he had been engaged to do some work for the circus proprietors, and when he applied for payment the accused committed the assault. The Bench decided to fine the accused £3, and costs, amounting in all to £4 Bs.

Tinwald Town Board.

A meeting of the Tinwald Town Board was held on Friday. Present - Messrs M, Redmayne (Chairman), J. Gudsell, T. Williams and T. Stone. CORRESPONDENCE. From E. G. Wright, Esq., stating that the Railway Commissioners had con sented to have the whole of the South , Road running through the district vested i in the Board. From Clerk Selwyn County Council, re assistance to local to bodies. The letter wis ordered to be acknowledged with thanks. From Charitable Aid Board, forwarding list of recipients of aid. Clerks were instructed to acquaint the Board of the | change of residence of one of the recipients and the list was ordered to be posted in the office for public inspection. maintenance of south road. Mr Stone reported that he and the Chairman had waited on the County Council with a view of obtaining assistance in maintaining the South Rood, but that the matter was deferred for consideration until next meeting. WATER SUPPLY. Mr Gudsell pointed out the unevenness of the distribution of water, and it was resolved to have a new culvert put down opposite Graham's Road, parallel to rail way line. TREE PLANTING. The Chairman thought it was time steps were taken to urge the Railway Commissioners to plant the reserve with deciduous trees. It was resolved to write to the Commissioners. WOR4S. Mr Williams drew attention to slate of the creek, and Mr Gudsell offered to see that the matter was attended to. Some details connected with the works having bean reviewed the meeting adjourned. -

Grain and Produce.

The following i& the Chridtchurch Corn Exchange report for November 26 :— '.Vheat—We have carefully read all the foreign reports we can get hold of with regard to this cereal, and, comparing prices at ports of export to markets of consumption, we can tnly arrive at the conclusion they are all more or less unre liable ; but one thing, however, that appears to us pretty clear is, the world's supply is considerably in excess of the demand, and the effect on all markets it is hardly necessary to point out to holders of shocks. We have been for weeks past almost alone in suggesting the prices we are likely to get tor the quantity still held here. Oats—The demand is only limited, and prices about the same as last. The little change there is is for the worse. Potatoes—The season is now altogether over. It has been a disastrous one to the producers, but they have the power in their own* hands to improve prices for another year if they will only use. it. We refrain from pointing out the , cause of the low prises, bat emphatically , state thers was no earthly reason why any farmer should have sold below £1 pei' ton at country stations from the fork to the finish. The following are prices to farmers, f.0.b., packages extra, potatoes and miller's goods excepted):— Wheat, prime, 3d 2d. Barley, feed, Js 9d to 2s. Oats, feed, Is 7d to Is 9d ; milling, Is lOd to Is lid. Potatoes, 10s at stations. Roller flour, £Jl> Bran, 555. Pollard, 6Qs^ Dajry produce as last.

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION)

Had Jftewtlt of »■ lafaac.

Wellington, .November 28. . While the infant child of Mr' Spencer was last night playing wiMi a small toy cup, the cup (tot into the child's mouth, and it was choked before assistance could be rendered.

MMrrl««l Wf^Biva** Property let.

In the case of the Colonial Bank v, Mac Donald, claim of £500 and costs against .a married woman, the Chief Justice delivered judgment againßt the Bank on the ground that the statement of claim did not show that the woman had separate property at the date of the con tract forming the subject of action.

THE UNEMPLOYED.

?ER PRESS ASSOCIATION,

London Ndve aiber 86. Four hundred of the unemployed interviewed Siy E, C, N. Braddonwith regard to immigration to Tasmania. He replied that labourers were not wanted in. that colony, The Acting- Agent-Gpneral of Yictoxia baa de n oil need proposal to send the sweepings of England to the colonies, and has stated that Melbourne is already glutted with w«ifs and strays. The police have forbidden the unem ployed to. march through the streets at micjnight. Sir E. C. Braddon (Tasmania) and i Sir W. Blake (Victoria) disuaded the unemployed who interviewed them from emigrating. Sir J. C, Bray (South Australia) encouraged miners to go to the colonies,

THE RECENT FIRE.

froapect JBuilcliiiff*. THE NEW SHOPS AND THEIR : TENANTS. But little time was lost in undertaking thi work of reinstating tho buildinirs destroyed by the fire last July, which, an in* m the shop of the New Zealand Clothing Factory, demolished that cbtab khment, and spreading on either (tide, very considerably damaged Mr James McGregor's tobacco shop and hair-dress ing saloon on the south side, and made short work of nearly the whole of Prospect Buildings on the north Hide. The (Jlothing Factory's shop was rebuilt almost immediately, that is to say, the work of rebuilding was commenced almost immediately after tho fire* and not long ago, we gave a detailed description of the new shop, which is now in full swing. For some time MX JAMBH M'gREGOK, whose premises, as has been said, were only partially damaged, made shift with what was left, and the empty shop next ,door to southward of the damaged build ing. Speedily, however, the workmen commenced operations, and very soon almost new premised) took the place of what had been so very nearly destroyed. Mr McGregor's establishment is lofty and roomy, and.his front shop, devoted almost wholly to the weed, contains enough of it to keep the whole county busy for a. long time offering up burnt offering*. The smoker who cannot be fitted to his taste in "Mac's" establishment with either pipe, something to put in it, cigar, cigarette, or the many and varied little etceteras that belong to the use of tobacco, must be fastidious to » degree. In the large saloon behind, presided over by Professor Kirk, are to be Been evidences of careful attention bestowed upon the comfort of patrons, and whether it be a rough beard of a harvest lime's giowth that requires mowing down, the soft down of one of our curled darlings that needs coaxing and cultivation, a luxuriant.or scanty crop of hair for tonsorial treatment, provision has been made in the Professor's department for the operation being per* . formed with as little feeling of martyrdom to the owner of the hairy crop as can be imagined—for most men, while thej prefer to be not overburdened with hair on either face or head, sit down iv the barber's chair with a feeling akin to penance. The comfort of Mr McGregor's establishment, however, re duces this feeling to a minimum, and well it might, for all the latest appliances that the inventive genius of the age has contributed to improve the tonsorial art, have been appropriated by Mr McGregor, and Pro essor Kirk. PROSPECT BUILDINGS. There are people who spoke slightingly of the wooden structures, known as Prospect Buildings, whioh were burnt down; sneeringly designated them " old. shanties" ; and even hinted that there being offered up as a burnt offering to the fire king was not altogether an unmixed evil. Yet in. 1877, when Mr J. R. bteol built them, rhey were not by any means looked upon as small potatoes. Their style of architacture was not classio, nor did they rear an im^msing front to Bast Street and the railway, proclaiming to the passengers by the express that Ash burton meant one day with her buildings lo emulate " the glory that was Greece, and the grandeur that wax Rome.'* But the then people of Ashburton thoughc all that of them, and more, and it Vras only when big banks, large grain stores, and brick buildings far larger than poor." Prospect" lifted their heads sky ward, and we fancied ourselves equal to holding an exhibition that Prospect Buildings began to take a back seat in public estimation. We held that ex hibition, too. No small thing either, although Mr John Grigg called us a "jumped up town" for our pains, when we wont to the County Oouacil asking that, theq wealthy body to help to make up the leeway on the feger. Bo* the old wooden building did good service in its cay and has played many parts, doing duty at one time as a boarding house, and at others, during its life of fifteen years, finding accommodation far businesses of nearly every kind that has been earned on in the borough.. With the burning of the wooden building was wiped out a page or two of \shburton local history, but from the ashes has arisen a range of, shops in brick, faced with the white stone from ■Mount Somers quarries, that certainly are an improvement on the old house* ; The new shops, except in some, small detail are built in keeping with the style of front of the premises of Messrs John Orr and Co., whose ironmongery and grocery flank the premises of M» McGregor above noticed ; and occupy the same site to a foot that was covered by the buildings they replace. The old buildings were origically divided into four shops with a right of way between. To supply the demand that then existed for business places, the, right of way had to be included, and although somewhat narrow was never without a tenant. To a great extent the old ground floor plan has been followed, and the little shop of the old building reappears in the new, b»t of course sharing m the general im provement. The shops- are now all occupied, with the exception of the one next the Clothing Fac- ' tory, but we understand Mr Thomas Bullock, the landlord, has a tenant in view for it. The brickwork was done by the Messrs Crum, Mr Stocks doing the stone work, Mr J, W. Hardlry the plumbing, Messrs Muir and Reid the woodwork, and Messrs W. H. Collins and Co, the painting. Beginning with the first occupied shop at the southern end, we find that MR S. iUUSK, WATCHMAKER AND JBWKIXKR, is the tenant, and that he has not come very far shor* of his advertised intention of fitting up his premises in a style second to none in Canterbury. As all the tenants were anxious to get back to their old sites as soon as possible, and to dis , pense with the makeshift arrangements j they had been compelled to make, they ; wero admitted to the new shops while there was still something to be done by the builders. But such work as remains to be done,—while it will add to the ap pearance of the premises when finished and will hot, in the doing, interfere with business—can proceed.ts Kir Julius Vog«l ultimately found it necessary to proceed with public works, "leisuiely." So that all Mr Salek would like to see is not yet done, but soon will be. Saturday week was Mr Salek's opening day in his new premies, but it was not till Saturday last that he got the shop to his liking, and we made our visit nf inspection in the even ing. The whole of the internal fittings have been specially made for the shop by Mr H. A. Vesty, and the window arrange ment is a special feature for the display of Mr Salek's stock which is certainly high class in electro-plate and silver ware. A centre case is fitted with a semicircle of blue velvet,.the curve servine admirably to display watch guards, gold watches, bangles, brooches, and so forth. This case is flanked with cases containing silver .ware that afford a strong* contrast mith 1 its brilliant glitter, reflected as ifc is in the mirror backs of the oases. Mr Stlek had a short Califomian experience, and has been inoculated with American ide%s of window dressing. Hence are ro be found occupying places here «nl the»a in the window iiovelties by way of ornament not seen everyday" in the window of a jewel-. Jer. For instance statuettes itt martte and in bpjnas of knights in armour^

THE ASHBURTON GUARDIAN: MONDAY, NOVEMBER % 1892,



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Burnhatn and Dunsandel daily) . . ... -.. 3.1 Jhertsey and Rakaia (daily) 6.30 3.15 .8.2 Christchurch and North (daily) ... ... ... 6.30. 3.15 6.2 and on Mondays, Wed nesdays, and Fridays.., 10 30 Orotrore (daily) ... ... 6.30 Eiffelton and Willowby. Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays... ... 10.30



COMPETITION IS THE LIFK OF TRADE. I IMMENSE SUCCESS OP G. J. NEILL and COY Drapery, Clothing, and Boots. AUR Expenses being so small, and being satisfied with Very small^ profits, J we are enabled to tJELL CHEAPER than any other house in Ashburton. WE DEFY COMPETITION. INSPECr OUR GOOBS. SEE OUR PRICES. The very latest in Dress Materials, 4sd yard Cashmeres and Merinos, all colors, marvellous value White Calico, yard wide,. 3s lid dozen. Come and see it Ladies' Corsets and Underclothing, a specialty Ladies' Short Silk Sunshades, 3s 6d CLOTHING. CLOTHING M WWES SJS^fSELi- ridiculous price. BOOTS. BOOTS. BOOTS. Every one wondere how we can Sell Boots so Cheap, j THE SECRET IS CASH-SMAIiL PROFITS, AND QUICK RETURNS. | Men's Colonbl made Shooters, nailed, 8s 9d i Men's Colonial made Bluchers, 5a 3d Men's Leather Elastin Sides, 9s lid A TplcM me of Women's Strong Shoes, worth 9s 6d for 6s 9d | Ladies' and Children's Tan Shoea, all sizes Tba largest atook of Children's and Girls' Patent Strap Slippers, all sizes, VERY CHEAP AT G. J. NEILL and GO'S, FRIEDLANDER'3 BUILOINGS, CORNER OF EAST * MOORB STPBBTS. GreatTabgain^ HARDLEY BROS. TTAVB PURCHASED A LARGE STOCK OF FOUR-BUTTON TAN KID GLOVES, which will fee cleared at 2s 6d a pair; a splendid quality. DRESS GOODS in endless variety, All Shades in COLORED CASHMERE, at Is 9d a yard, worth 2s 9d. Guaranteed ALL-WOOL DRESS SERGES, at 9d a yard. PRINTS at from 3d a yard. GINGHAMS and MUSLINS in great quantity. 80 Pieces of FLANNELETTES at from 3s 6d a dozen the best variety to choose from. HARDLEY BB ■ »&'■ HILLIKEBY, BE PA RTif B NT. This is replete with all the Modern Novelties in BO n^ts, hats, laces, ribbons, collablttes, feathers, FLOWERS, TIES, etc. ' NORFOLK JACKETS, Creoie and Colored at 2s lid. DOROTaY CAPE^, with shaded Silk Hoods, 9s 6d worth 15s. «w ii. ■■■ — J i.—Hi ■ ill—l BOOTS. GBE&T EEDUCTIONS. MENIS SHOES 7.6 d, WOMEN'S ELASTIC SIDE BOOTS at 3s Ud, CHILDREN'S BOOTS from Is a pair, HARDLEY BROS. Would like everyone to read this and Note the Address : AROAD.E, BURNETT STREET. EMPOKITM OF FASHION. New Zealand Clothing Factory, EAST gTBEET. EW ANli CHOICE GOODS AFE SToPENED FOR THE APPROACHING EN SEASON. perfection of Taste and Best Value in cents' « bow cMSmrejHJwßa«T«, warn, umomr, &o. n^kr^i^tA TK>Orts. SOOTS. The Fin«.t cSSS-i^ and Gent«> BOOTS ,nd SHOES in the District, The V mew Reliable Goods, every pair of them. GENTS SUITS MADE TO MEASURE. TXrWECTION INVITED. NO ONE PRESSED TO BUY. IN Ss for W«rtheim Celebiated Sewing Machnie. Agents for The Woroen's^nd btore Mat' !*ew Zealand Clotmn^ gr S^SALEK'S - KEW JEWELLERY ESrABLISHMEKT. m xirnir m iS=i STOCK IS NOW OPENED UP. THE MAG IFICKNT nT h e PuWc to the fact that bavin* BSALUK beir« to ra. w *™! S* 9S \tvle, he is showing a Stock which for . favorably with any in Ohristbhonh. quality, price, »»d *^ **££ the Vequireni^ of the Ashburton District in L to now in a f-f ooto ""^ and i's showing a Larger Stock than has ever ete»y branch of tne Jl'jrr **i - - t a«id additionaj assistftnce hwpw four* is now ccmiiJete in lfc<l art* X tf u Vvi»g their work do» e promptly and obtained, custo. n»erß m *' l" * satisfactorily. g. SALE It, WATCHMAKKR AND JEWELLER.



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COIKMANB AND So > it'UCAIYFTE Ex tract is the only genuine in the market, and was a Yarded medaia and diplomas at Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide, boating all competitors. For all affections of the Chest and Luna;s Consumption, Asthma, Coughs, Colde, Gravel, and Kid"ey Com plaints, ifc has no equal. Agents— AsHBUKTQiS' PHUG COJIIANY, !



Wanted m m i METHVEN Bjarding House To Let. Apply Vivian Rouse, Methven. __ 1U149 ("^ RAN~D Cake Competition, Friday VT and Saturday; valuable prizes; see circulars. Entries close Thursday ninht —W. G. Murray, Secretary. 113:182 __ ■\\J ANTED, a strong Boy, to milk and W make himself useful. For part:cularF, apply W. T. Kingston, Veterinary Forge. 11185 jI;|HE. UAWbON KING, of Man *-**- Chester will lecture in the Odd fellows' Hall on Monday next at 8 p.m Subject—"Patriotism." Collection to defray expenses. 11J138 CHRISTMAS and New Year Cards, Booklets and Calenders for 1893, now to hand. New, chaste, and pretty designs—H. M. Jones! OTOCK-TAKING Clearing Sale till '- December 11, to make room for new goods for Cbrtetmas trade. Reductions all round.—H. M. Jo»es. WANTED Known that S. Salek, Watchmaker and Jeweller, has removed to new shop near New Zealand Clothing Factory. 10 213 11/ ANTED Known—Grand Display y > of all the newest shapes in Ladies' Summer Hats. Special sample shipmert. One of each ghape ; at S. W_ Alcorn & Cob. WHY not Bake your own Bread when you can get 501 bs of the Best Roller Flour fox* five shillings cash or five shillings and sixpence booked at Robert Alcorn's, Saunders' Buildings. . 11 31 BHEARERS8 HEARERS can rely on getting the celebrated 8.8.A. brand of Sheep Shears at Robert Alcorn's, Saunders' Buildings, WANTED Known—lee Creams, Ice Creams, for the hot weather, always ready at H. G. Flower's, Confec tioner, East Street. SOMERSET Meat Mart. The oldest, the largest, tha best, and the cheap est. Small Goods a specialty. Full weights guaranteed. A trial solicited. —W. J. Siloook. 4t182 ANTED Known—New Flannelettes at extraordinary prices ; 3s lid and 4s lid doz. Thirty per cent under price.—W. H. Collier. WANTED Known—Dr Scott's cele brated Electric Corsets can only be obtained in Ashburton at W. H. Collier's, "The Corner." WHY should we let; the rain water off our roots rot our buildings and run to waste when Haroleit will find and fix spouting at 4d per foot. Also good Water Tanks, guaranteed, from thirty shillings. Note his address—J. W. Hardley, Plumber and Gasfitter, East Street. WANTED— Ladies to inspect our new and beautiful stock of Sum mer Dresß Materials, Delaines, Pongee Cloths, Prints, etc., now open at S. W. Alcorn & Cos. VrTANTED Known—Pumps, Pumps, W Pumps. I have on hand the largest stock in town of Pumps, Piping, (las, Steam, and Water Fittings. Manu facturers of Galvanized Steel Gutters, Spouting, Ridging, and Down Pipe to any strength, size or pattern. —3 W. HaKoLBV, East street. WINDMILLS supplied and fixed. Hot and Cold Water Services laid on. Baths made to any size or pattern. Klectrio Bells fixed, and all kinds of Plumbing work done at lowest rates. Workmen sent to all parts of the district. —J. W. Hardley, Plumber and Gasfitter. REBUILDING Sale.—Men's No. 3 Vests Is Men's be3t Colonial Tweed Trousers 7s lid, Men's best Colonial tweed Trousers and Vests 12-i 6d, Boys and Youth's Tweed Trousers 2s lid, Men's Leather Shirts 2s 6d, worth 4s 6d> Ladies Prumella Boots Is. The whole stock will be slaughtered as the premises are to be pulled down in February.—Ajsprew Obr, 11- 109 YJrTANTED Known-^Rebuilding Sale, t T Real French Merinos, guaranteed, Is, Is 4d, and Is 6d, al! colors. Prints 2s per dozen, Silk La.cc Is per dozen, Double Width French Dress Goods Is 6d, former price 3s 6d, Lace Curtains 2s lid, Towels 3d each, lot Umbrellas Is 6i, Sunshades J. 3 IJI and 2s 6J, halt price. Muslin Embroideries id, woith ls.- Andrbw Orr. XI 110 Christmas Cards for Old Country friends, New Zealand ferns, Fire Serins at halt price. New supply of Tiddlidy Winks, Halma and other games. Foreign Stamps, 25 for 6d, or 1000 for 6s 6d. New Birthday cards, Reward cards, Wedding cards, etc. New Books every mail.—L. F. ANDREWES & Co., Sea. tioners' Hall, f jtTANTED Known—Tint J. M< »isoh VV keeps the best stock of Boots in Ashburton, for this reason that he pays cash and is not under or bound to any ! ono firm like many in the trade, which enables him to procure and supply the public with the Best Colonial and English makes ; and his well-known make needs no recommendadan. Always on hand Best Sole Leather, used for repairs and done at once.—J. Moison, Impermeable Bootmaker, Town Hall, East Stipet, next Court House.



TIFWALB TOWJj BQAPD, ALL Kates unpaid on November 29th inst., will be sued for without further notice. By Order, C. E. FOOKS & SON, llf 170 Clerks to the Board. WE have several Blocks of Land ,<*n this Estate for sale on easy terms of payment. For particulars apply to T. BULLOCK, °?. Or MILKS AND CO., * Ash burton and Tfokaia Health: Tiik New Method shows how much can be done without drugs by the secrets ot flushing, massage, exercise, diet, deep breathing, etc. Flushing is all that is in.a now famous secret pamphlet ; but here, jbsegidgs that there are other important prin .qiplea, aus $ye times the matter at less money, an^ no pkd^s of secrecy. Of the original work .liy-DV fforosifc, .i*Av '* New York •J^orid-" remarked :-~" The book is a «*ode! ,91 te'l^ity an 4 compression."' J.t will un 49,ui).te,4t^ iWfifrte a resolution in the popular jtpe.a&oej£t ,of 'pr/e{/j|pl^t diseases. It is the VB-Q&t ; P|facticable_, sensible^ a^ instructive ''-••** teoic pye£ pi,iblisli,e : d ,911 a hit.. •**•--. «^»'gf.4.tly,e!nlarcecl 1 Edition, topic J-j" ''**itf&SlflßlVtf edited by just pubUshcd in 0.. "■'**«& ilv§^P: W. Come Johnston, l(iu, 4/fe'J" descriptive catalogue, with spe-r" during July, sent ppst free to any address. Kdvt) . TO MAKE Nicest Sconea, Nicest Pastry, Nicest Cakes, U£eAui,SKBBQOK's Self-Raisir.g Flour,



SPECIAL NOTICE. TO BUYERS OF BOOKS, Etc. New Zealand Bible, Tract, and Book Society Now open at Shop, Tancred Street; opposi'e Arcade, And will remain open UNTIL WEDNESDAY, DEC. 7, Only, WITH a large and well-assorted Stock of Evangelical Literature, consisting of Theological Works, Sun-, day School Library Books, at Special Discounts, Teachers' Helps, and all other Sunday School Material at Published Prices. Family, Pulpit, Pew, and Pocket Bibles, Prayer Books, Church Services, and Cathedral Psalters; Sunday School Reward Cards and Tickets, Christ mas and Birthday Carets Illuminated Texts for Walls. Splendid Collection of NEW GIFT AND PRIZE BOOKS. The new Annual Volumes of Boys' Own, Girls' Own, Quiver, Chatterbox, Sunday, fit C - * KF" TILL DECEMBER 7 ONLY, TaNCRED STBEET, opposite Arcade. (Shop lately occupied by N.Z. Clothing Factory.) J. R. MAODOJSALD, 11 113 Agent.



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