Fire at Greymouth.

Greymouth, November 28. A fire broke out after ten o'clock this morning in a building belonging to Messrs Hunter and Russell, carpenters, which was totally destroyed, as also the adjoining building, the drill shed, occu pied by the Volunteers. The insuwncesare notknown. A hitch occurred with thesteam fire engine, causing delay in getting to the fire. In a very few minutes everything was gone beyond redemption. The only things saved were the properties of the Amateur Mikado Company, who lost nothing. The Volunteers lost all their ammunition, and their big gun was nob got opt. Frequent explosions occurred during the fire. Bignell and Russell lost all inside their building. The drillshed was the best hall in the town, with a handsome and roomy stage. Insurance on Russell and Bignell—Stock £200 iv the Victoria, building £200 in the Prvanix; drillshed—building £350 in the Straits Company, scenery £100 in the Manchester j Qilmer's cottage, £75 in the Manchester office.

Crisis in France.

[PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION]

(Received Kp^ember 29,11 a. m.) Paris, November 28. The French President |s blamed for causing the present political crisis, be cause he »nduly limited the right of M. Dupuy to get rid of his Radical colleagues. Up to th,e present there is no solution of the crisis.

The Trouble in South Africa.

THE MATABELE.

MORE COMPLICATIONS.

(Received November 29,11 a.m.) Capetown, November 28. The B*chunaland police are endea voring to prevent four thousand natives .upd'er Gabo tpffl. affecting a union jpitfc King Lobenguela. M&ny tjf phfi Ip^upias are .wiling to surrender it tlie fcipg 'to papered.

MAIL NOTICES.

Mails close for the following places as under subject to the necessary alterations :— WEDNESDAY, November 29. For the United Kingdom, Continents of Europe and America, and West Indies (via 3an Francisco), Sandwich Islands, etc., and also for Northern Ports ef New Zealand, per Takapuna, as follows:—Ordinary letters, books; and newspapers, at o.l£s p.m.: registered letters, at 5 p.m. ; money orders, at 3p. m. Due London January 3.

Ashburton Guardian Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1893 LARRIKINS AT ELECTIONS.

Three ia:' one matter in connection with yesterday's doings in Ashburton which calls for special notice, and it is with every desire to make allowance for the influence of election time on certain sections of the community that we say some of the proceedings of those, who can only be termed larri kins, were a disgrace to the town. It is intolerable that nobody could appear in the streets after dark last evening without running the risk of being covered with flour or befouled with unsavoury eggs, Scarcely a building in the central portion of Ashburton escaped being bombarded with these I disgusting missiles, while in tome cases stones were used, as broken windows— among them a valuable plate glass shop front—sufficiently prove. It has been said—by way of excuse we presume —that this sort of thing is always done here at election times. But this only aggravates the offence, while it reflects no credit on those whose business it was to put a stop to it long ago. Fun and frolic are all! very well in their way/but there was very little of either, for those whose duties compelled them to venture, into the streets last night, if we may judge from their appearance on ' reaching any friendly shelter that was handy. But if such doings might have been tolerated in the past—the bar baric past shall we say—it is quite evident that under the new regime which introduces the gentler sex into election strife they can no longer be endured. There were a good many small boys engaged in the senseless pastime of egg pelting, although older larrikins were very much in evidence, but that only makes more imperative the necessity for rapressive measures. The streets are certainly not a proper training ground for boys of tender years, least of all at a time when the savage part of human nature is per* mitted to disport itself at the expense of the public. We believe the police were kept pretty busy last night * dis arming' the younger portion of the larrikin crowd, but we are inclined to think it would have been more effective, if they had selected one or two of the older ones to make an example of. It is only fair to say that the latter exercised some amount qI discrimination in selecting those who should be the recipients of their favors, and no member of our staff had personally anything to complain of with regard to them. But the fact that the streets were rendered so unpleasant that no one would venture willingly into them, is a condition of things that pannot be tolerated—even at election time.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ariel Bicycle meeting to-night. Entries for Ariel race meeting close to night with the secretary at Mr F. Clark's shop, " Boy, which is the quickest way for m* to get to the railway station 1 " Accommo dating boy: " Run." The nominations for the Ariel Bicycle Club are the largest that have yet been received for any bicycle race meeting held at Ashburton. The famous Italian tenor, Tamagno; has been engaged for a six months' season at Buenos Ayres in 1894, for which he is to re #eiye §(X) f OQOf., or £2Q,000. 1 'A French decision has set at resfc a poiat which possibly n verbally argued er«ry day, especially in holiday time, vw,., has a pas senger legally appropriated a siat in a railway carriage by placing his bag or poitmanteau on it? It is so oemmon, and yet so convenitnt, but the mean spirited people who do remove such signs of appro priation will learn, in France at least, that it is illegal of them to do bo, and that by such a placing of luggage on the seat a passenger who has paid his fare has in faob secured that seat. The first verdict was to Itlie obutraiy, fejjifc the later and the more just o»e it'fti favor'©! th« first comer.

Mamma: "You were gone for a long time, } Bobby." Bobby: "Well, Aunt Mary and I got j over a fence and stayed there a long time 'cos thsre was a cow in the road, and Aunt Mary said she didn't wank to scare it with her red hat." A recent strike of women in Vienna caused an investigation to be made, which elicited the fact that one of the work people in the factory there labored daily for 23 years and had never received more than Is 2d a d«ty. The Rangitata electorate ia not an isolated case of a candidate polling less than a tenth of the total votes polled. In the Bay of Plenty election two candidates polled less than the required number—the lowest having two votes. At the County Council meeting to-day Mr Hugo Friedlander was unanimously elected chairman for the ensuing year. The Mt. Somera tramway was leased to Mr A. E. Peache for a term of fourteen years at £100 per annnm, he to pay £150 towards re pairs. The steamship agents in New York, in September, reported a novelty-the emigra tion from the States exceeds the immigra tion. The number of emigrants to the Mediterranean has doubled, and those going to Bremen are from ten to twenty per cent more numerous than the arrivals. This is attributed to the closing of mines and factories in the United Sates. A Home paper reports that a woman was buried at Kirkham recently, who died through being confined of her thirtieth child. She was the wife of a local farmer, and had only been married twenty years- The woman had six lots of twins. Of the thirty children, >ix are now living. Both husband and wife were of immense propor tions, the woman weighing over 20*t, It teems that a Prussian frontier official at Myslowitz shot a Russian soldier on German territory. The Russian was pur suing a runnaway cow, which had carreered across the border. The Prussian official called three times to the man to stop ; but the Russian, evidently thinking more about his cow than crossing the Rubicon, took no notice of the^ summons, and was shot down. The ladies behaved very nicely on Tuesday —and were sometimes vtry characteristic— sometLnes very funny. Two electresses were entering the booth and chatting pleasantly the while. " Silence !" shouted a police man in a voice that startled the female voters. But the next moment one of them scornfully informed the bobby that " We didn't come here to be dummied." Half a dozen of the lately enfranchised fair were talking over the candidates each specially favored, one declining to divulge the name of " her man." "Oh! I know," said another, "its that horrid old—(pity compel* us to withhold his name), and if he gets in I won't speak to you again." The line-of-battleship Benbow, one of the "wooden walls" which took part in the bombardment of St. Jean d'Acre, has been condemned at Sheerneas as unfit for further employment, and instructions have been giv,*n for her to be sold out of the Royal Navy. The Benbow has for more than twenty years past acted as a floating coal depot in the Medway, and is to be replaced by the wooden frigate Forte, which has passed out of hand at Sheerneas on September 6, after undergoing repairs and alterations at a cost of £800 to fit her for service as a coal depot. In Tilty Church (Essex), one Sunday, the vicar, about five minutes after he had begun his sermon, caught a young farmer who sat in a pew under the pulpit, in the act of looking at his watch. The vicar suddenly stopped in his discourse and, leaning over the pulpit, exclaimed, " What, are you tired already?' In surprise the farmer looked up, and encountering the gaze of the preacher, said, "Do you mean me?" "Yes," was the reply, whereupon the farmer, who was not a little offended, rose and walked out of the church. Later in the day, seys the " Essex County Chronicle," the vicar sent a little note to the farmer, tendering an apology. When aChmaman desires to marry, his parents intimate that fact to a professional " matchmaker," who thereupon runs through the list of her visiting acquaintances, and selects one whom she considers a fitting bride for a young man, and then she calls upen the young woman's parents, armed with the bridegroom's - card, on which are inscribed his' ancestral name, and the eight symbols which denote the day of his, birth: If the answer is an exceptance of his suit, the bride's card is sent in return, and should the oracles prophesy good concerning the union, the particulars of the engagement are written on two large cards, tied together with red cord. In Canada there is a religious census, and the results lately published with regard to places of worship are interesting. No body who knows anything of the Dominion will be surprised to find that the Church of England is a small minority. Of a total of rather more than 10,000 places of worship, 32 per cent belong to the Methodists, 17 per cent to the Presbyterians, 17 per cent to the Roman Catholics, 16 per cent to the Church of England, 12 per cent to the Baptists, and six per cent to all others. But the Church seems to be rapidly recovering lost ground. During the past ten years the new churches erected have been—Church of England, 415 ; Presbyterians, 411 ; Baptist, 324 ; Methodists, 322; and Roman Catholic, 299, Shorthand would seem to be within measurable distance of reaching a speed of 300 words a minute. In a reecent number of "M'Ewan's Phonagraphio Magazine" the editor criticisesthe writing of leading experts, shows that they employ too elementary a style, and argues that by adopting the author ised briefest reporting style the holder of the 260 wordsa minute certificate would write 324 word* t 1 minur,e without any additional muscular effort. The increase in speed is to be obtained hy a higher cultivation of phrase ology or joining words together, thus reducing the liftings of the pen, each of such liftings being equivalent to one word. One of the rapid writers whose shorthand is criticised lifts the pen four tiroes in writing "and beg to inform you," whereas the whole may be written by means of one character. The form of lawlessness known as lynch ing is on the increase in the Southern States, of America, and the "Nation" observes that the victims are always negroes, that the murderers are never punish ad, and the simple murder often fails to satisfy the lynching parties, who resort to torture and such forms of mutilation as would be ex pected only of the most savage Indians. There is less excuse in the Southern States, because in all of them the machinery qf the Jaw is in the hands of white men, and if the accused negroes are guilty, the law furnishes an adequate met>ns for their punishment. There remains, however, in the South, a feeding that punishment under due process of law is too dignified for a negro accused \ of a crime committed against a white man. A Southern correspondent of the "New York Evening Post," discussing a few weeks ago the reason why the Southern States attract so few immigrants, placed the fre> quency of lyucbiug at the head of the list of cauiei, | |

COMMERCIAL.

FBR PKSSh ABBOCIJTIOR.

(Received November 29, 11.10 a.m.) London, November 28. At the wool sales there was a crowded attendances of foreigners. 7500 .b^les were offered. The bidding was spirited among tti9 foreigners, but the home buyers were quiet. Prices ware about on a par with the September closing rates, but faulty sorts were occasionally weaker.

ASHBURTON MARKETS.

Messrs Miles and Company Limited, (E. W, Hamner, auctioneer), report as follows upon the weekly stock sale held at the Tinwald yards on Tuesday,, 28ih November : —Owing to the political ex citement of election day there was only a small attendance at this sale and to this may also be attribute! the exceptionally small entry of about 850 sheep and eight head of cattle. Of this number fifteen pens were sparsely occupied with butcher's sheep, all shorn comprising 200 crossbreds and merinos mostly dry ewes. Trade throughout the auction was again slack, although most of the entries were cleared on behalf of owners. Fat cross bred ewes realised 10s Id to 12s sd, and a pen of mixed ewes and wethers was passed at 12s 31. A few merino lambs reached 8s 9d and 8s lid, crossbred* selling at lls 9i. Dry merino owes in fair condition made 6s 4d for medium quality, and we made the best price in this class at 7s 9d for good sorts. The demand for ewes with lambs at foot was very limited, and sales were again hard to eftect. We topped the market in this class for a well grazed line of ewes with 100 per cent of good forward lambs on account Mr Doherty at 10a 6d, all counted. The next price obtained for backward ewes with medium percantage was 7s 2d dewn to 6s lid for smaller lambing. For the eight head cattle there was brisk bidding, considering the attendance, and satisfactory sales were made, two fat cows changing hands at £6 7a 6d and £6 10s. Springers, £6 6* to £6 ; yearlings, £2 10 i 6d, all being cleared at auction. We sold 46 crossbred ewes with 46 limbs at 10a 6d per head ; 23 merino ewen (fat) at 7s 9d ; 20 crossbred ewes at 10s 41.

CABLE NEWS.

The new tariff will reduce the McKinley sugar bounty 8 per cent per annum, An influenza epidemic is again raging in Berlin, and many deaths have resulted. Large n ambers of people are pro strated by influenza in London, which is spreading throughout England. The net profits of the Chicago ex hibition amounted to 1,800,000 dollars (£360,000). Goods to the value of £2,000,000 were sold by exhibitors. An analysis of the coal obtained from the Cremorne boring shows it is a good household article with excellent steaming properties. As a result of the discussion on the importation of Chinese into Australia the Orient Steamship Company has de cided to introduce no more Chinese passengers from Colombo. A severe gale swept over Brisbane, and much damage was done. At Goodna nearly every window was broken by the hall and the crops in the district were severely damaged. The ({ Southern Cross," a religious journal published in Melbourne, handled Mr Seddon hotly on the alleged ground that he perverted the opinion of the paper on women's franchise in the course of a speech. The Minster of Trade and Customs is making an enquiry as to what the effect would be on the revenue if the proposal to make Melbourne a free port were carried out. Last year the pitotage and tonnage-dues of vessels arriving in Ballast were a little over £1000. ; „ - Mr Gladstone snubbed the House or Lords for what he termed the dicta torial proposal for a joint committee to inquire into the question of better ment. The House of Commons, he said, would not alter its decision. The New South Wales Government have decided to construct a new tunnel through the Blue Mountains at a cost of a quarter of a million, thus doing away with the great zigzag there; which, though a stupendous engineer ing feat, is the reverse of economical f»m a railway point of view. The police party have discovered a magnificent pastoral country in the vicinity of Osmond river. It is well grassed, timbered, and watered. The blacks are the finest physically in the colony, but extremely hostile. A half caste, supposed to be a descendant of one of Lichardts exploring party, was found among one tribe. Sir G. R. Dibbs says that the New South Wales Government intend to oppose the third reading of the Abolition of School Fees Bill, as they regard the measnre in the light of an electioneering cry. The Government do not intend to drop a single measure they have in hand, consequently it will be impossible for the session to close before Christmas. The New South Wales Cabinet ras considered the petition of the con demned man Glasson, which states that the plea of insanity was set up against his will. He adheres to the story he originally told to the police, that he was in the Bank but was coerced by others. - The Cabinet has decided that there is no cause to interfere with the sentence, and the execution will take place on Wednesday. At the Rifle Association meeting the Intercolonial Match, which will in future be known as the Federal Match, was won by the Victorian team, with a score of HI 9, New South Wales coming second with 1415. The other scores were—South Australia 1397, Tasmania 1382, Western Australia 1328, Queensland and New Zealand did not compete, There was excellent shooting between the two leading teams. Slack, of Sydney, made 49 out of a possible 50 at the SQOyds range. A Chinaman, who was a second class passenger on the mail train from Bpurke, was robbed duping the journey, and thrown out of the carriage window. He was subsequently picked up in an insensible condition. Two arrests have been made in connection with the affair. It appears the China man jumped from the train owing to having been robbed, He is in a onti cal condition. Other passengers were frightened to interfere. Another man has been arrested.

THE GENERAL ELECTION.

THE FOLUNO.

To a very great extent the polling on Tuesday was an experiment. The numbers on the roll had been doubled, and the element introduced that caused the in crease was—the women. Hitherto elec tions have been confined to men, and men, dealing with men, have not on election day always handled each other, as the saying goes, with kid- glovei. We need not refer to the sometime* frequent rough and tumbles of the past, nor the rough "chaff," which was not always "dressed for company" that went on round the gate of the Courthouse. Male voters know all about that. But the election as it was carried on was a credit to the men of the town. No female came to the poll who was not treated by the manly fellows around both the library and courthouse booths as ladies should be, and the ladies them selves have had nothing so far bat kindly words to say oC the attitude and conduct of the orowd. At nine o'clock both booths in the town opened promptly and Mrs F. Ferri man, it is understood, was the lint lady — indeed the first elector—to record her vote at the main booth. Arrangements had been made to take at the main booth only the votes of electors whose surnames began with A along th* alphabet to M. The other letters hud to go to the Übrary. This was certainly a mistake, as for the first few hours of the polling it took quite half an hour—in some oases more^-for a person to get through the Ooorthouse crush and reoord his or her tote, while at the Library the process lasted a minute. We have nothing to say against any of the officers, but we simply reoord facts. The rush upon the Courthouse was severe, : and the recording of votes went oh very' slowly indeed for the first four hours of the day. At noon the congestion was somewhat relieved, but the voting was still tedious. We cannot say how many voted by noon, because everybody was so busy that nobody had time to count, but early in the day Mr Wason's committee fearing a difficulty in getting many of his suppor ters' votes recorded; tent off Mr Wason's superb four-in-hand drag, piloted by Mr Gerald Coward, and . Mr Wason's loyal and plucky spouse, to Elgin, as the nearest voting place where no alphabetical red tape interfered. This helped a good deal to relieve the glut, and many country people, who had come in to see how things were going on, in* tending to vote here, turned tail and went back to booths where the alphabetical shibboleth was not inbisted on. "The chariots raped in the streets," and every candidate had plenty of thesti on hand to bring voters to the poll, and good work each Jehu did for his roan. Xt both booths in town there were tents erected for the commictee of each candidate, and it was pleating to note that the Women's Political Association, acting for themselves, and independently of any candidate, although they favored Mr Waby, did gocd work in instructing timid electresses hew to mark their papurs. The ladies who had charge of that booth were like Cte«r'a wife, and we at least •re perfectly satisfied that they abused no confidence The polling went on steadily all day, the friends oi each candidate being per fectly satisfied that their favorite would win in a cmter, although cooler heads were dubious indeed, and hot at all anxioui to say who was the likaly winner, either in this electorate or the one across the water. At six o'clock both polling places were promptly closed, the record ing of votes ceased, and after a spell to refresh exhausted nature, the counting of them beg*n vigorously. At dusk the town was given over to the usual saturnalia of flour and the sulphuretted hydrogen that 611b the air when the shells of ancient then fruit are broken. The Guardian office had to be closed, as the fools who are fond of rotten egg throwing would not nermife any one to go in or come out without receiving delicate attentions of the kind | referred to, and while the manager w*a only too anxious to supp'y any informa tion regarding the elections that reached tha office, he failed to see the fun of keeping open the office simply to make comers and goers targets for the shock ingly poor shots the larrik'ns pro red to be. Only a few people were hit, but the office doors, walls, «nd windows received ample heave offerings.of flour, rotten eggß, and eggs containing chickens with an unfilled mission. The Ashburton and Rangitata results, indevail are given below:—

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Majority for Martin, §7. AUCKLAND, Bay of Islai?i*| — Houston M ... 1406 Trounuon 0 ... 1182 Returns to come cannot affect result. Bay oi Plenty— *W Kelly M — 1162 Colonel Burton O — 961 RevCJordon M P 583 Thames— •James Mcoow»n M ~ 1660 Edmund H. Taylor M - 1339 Waipa— . Gerald Peacock 0 — — FW-Luig.. O — — No figures telegraphed. Lang wm rt« tyn»«*t

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-IIHIS SPACE is RESERVED for particulars of NEW GOODS, comprising GOLD AND BILVEB JEWELLEKY -AND IIIC^II CLASS SIIiVKR A B.P. WARE For the CHRISTMAS TRADE, to be opened up by S. SALEK, WATCHMAKER AND JEWELLER.



"Wanted. I ANTED Known—To let 4-roomed Cottage, Hampstead, near Beach Road.^As_T^BKß» l _______l^2l3 Four Shearers at once. Apply D. Tjg!^___HJH "|7<OUND, yesterday morning. Parcel J- opposite Salvation Army Quarters, Burnett Street. Owner can have same by paying advertisement. Apply Salva tion Army^ J£_ M~ITILEWELLYN~OWEIN ) wishes to postpone all lessons during the present week, in consequence of an illness. J 1 216 MUSINGS in Maori Land by Bracket Ujs and Lyrics do., Birthday Books, Diaries.—H. M. Jonks. f|>HAT which brings most light and JL hope to poorest homes is Titan Soap. 11 j?3 VMAS and New Teir Cards in great -A- variety. Gelatine hand painted and plush packets ot cards from 3d»-—H. M. Jones. ": OW does McKay cut your hairi As you like it. {Shakespeare). Jime3 McKay, Hairdresser and Ornamental Hairworker, East Street, next Bank of New Zealand. I1 *126 ANTED, Everybody to use Titan Soap, greatest marvel of the «ge. fl. Zander, Sole Agent. 11 10l TWENTY-EIGHT Pounds to 100 Tons of Tonnage and Sons* Celebrated Fish Guano may be had fromMßa Whittington, agent. Cabbage Plants, Celery, Lettuce, Radishes, etc. ONT wash yourself. Titan Soap does the work. No rubbing. No machines. _1L. 1? 2 W"~^ "I NT E D Known—loo Ladies Fashionable bunshadesat Andrew PUR'S. 11172 WANTED Known -A manufacturer's Stock of Shot Silk black and colored Sunshades and Umbrellas at half price.—Andrew Okr. H 17 j r | HE Best Nickel Watch in the Market X for 15s. Usually sold by Jewellers at from 20s to 25a each. Specially made in England to our order.—John Orr and Co. I**2 WANTED Known— Spectacles, eye protectors, Goggles, Folders, and everything in the optical line at b Salek's, Optician. ANTED—Buyers of drapery and clothing, to see the value we are offering.—Mitchell & Terser. BOOKS in great variety to suit all classes of readers, at the Railway BookSiail. 7 10& WANTED— Mothers of families to know that we cannot be beaten for value in Drapery and Clothing.-- MircHELL & Turner. lj OMERSET Meat Mart. The oldest O the largest, the best, and the cheap" est Small Goods a specialty. Full weights guaranteed. A trial solicited. —W, J. Siloock. *flB2 WANTED Known—" The Corner " is j showing a magnificent New Stock of Drapery and Clothing.—W. H. Collier. ' Ti . ANTED Known -W. H. Collier's YV noted four-clasp Kid Gloves, 2s 6d, have just arrived in all Bizes. WANTED Known.—To make room for Spring Boots I will give ten per cent for cash. Repairs done at once cheaper than ever to stay bad times over at J. Moison, Premier Bootmaker. 8 18 WANTED Known—Some wonderful job lines n Drapery, etc., now oeing sold; also presents to all purchasers. H 0. Sbobhs, Melford flouse^ B^iTS"to~measure, during the sale, 49s 555, 80s, 70s, »nd 755, Fit and workmanship guaranteed.—R. a.ujo»N, Saundera' Buildings. WANTED Known-ForfarMfcd ;Tick» ings, 4£d ; Brown Hollands, 4|d.- Andrbw Orr 11175 W~ ANT^r^nown^6cTpieces black and colored French Merinos and Cashmera. at U 4*d to Is Bd.-Ajnn»w Ore* __ 1X I7r ANTED "Known—For Election Week, 100 Pairs Boots, 2s 0d per pair.— Andrew Ork. ILiil WANTED Known—That A. J. Walker repairs Bicycles, Sewing Machines, Lawn Mowers, Medical Coils, and all descriptions of light machinery. D" ON"! Forget to sendfour Bicycles along to the Old Kindergarten to oe repaired, at moderate rates. RAILWAY Book Stall.—A very large aodchoise lot of books to select i^RISTMAS Cards for your friends in V/ the Old Country at L. F. Andrewes and Co. Hi? MEDICAL Coils made and repaired on the shortest notice at easy prices afc A. J. Walker's, Old Kinder garten. £F yot want fiistclass fruit go to Adams' for Fiji, Tahiti, Auckland »nd Sydney Oranges, Citronß, Lemons, etc. DIARIES for 1894.-L. F. Andkewes and Co. 11 I 6 BOOKS in good order and complete bought or taken in exchange. New Stock arriving every week. Circulating Library.—J. MaksdeN, Newsagent. EW A*intfs~"V<4usnes, Boys' ,and (Girls' Own AAnutfs, Little Folks, Chatterbox;, Children's friend, Chilfjl's Companion, Bristish Workman and Workwoman, Band of Hope, Sunday, Family Friend, Yeung t»gl»nd, all at lowest prices—L. F. An»*ew kj anj» Co. Stationers H»U.



Wamea WANTED.— Everyone to know that we have too much Stock, and too little money.—MiTciuLT. and Turner. BANG I Bang! Bang I Guns 1 Guns ; Guns! by the oest makers and fitted with all the latest improvements. Powder, Shot, Caps, Cartridges, Wads, and Cases at J. W. Hardlkt's, East Street. Guns repaired. WANTED Known—For good value in first class Drapery, Millinery, Boots, Clothing, etc., go to Meijord House. Beautiful presents now giving away to all purchasers.. « TTHEBE do you gee your Xronmon- YV geryl At Hakdl»ts of course, where we get the best value in Sheet Lead, Nails, Locks, Hinges, Plough Chains, Rope, Wire Knotting, Gorse Knives, Spades and Forks, Lamps, Fender and Fire Irons, and anything you require WANTED Known—6o Pieces Fashion able Prints at 4id; 50 dozen Towels from 4|d ; White Counterpanes, 30 per cent under usual price.—Andrew Obk. 11174 WHO is your Plumber 1 Why W . Habdley, who Is a Manufacturer of Spouting, Ridging, Steel Gutters, Baths, Sinks, Tanks, etc., and who lias on hand the largest stock of Pumps and Pipe in town. , SALE, SALE, of Books, Stationery, Fancy Goods, Music, etc.. Fire Screens, Pictures, Glass Ornaments, Christmas Cards, Cricket and Lawn Tennis Material, Photo Albums and Frames, and hundreds of other articles are to be sold af a great sacrifice for Cash during this month only, at L. F. Andrewes & Co., Stationer's Hall.- Gold, Cr*ld •■ December © fIAIOKR* Saaa'Eaealrptf Extract There are imitations of Eucalypti Extract in th market now, products of simple distillbtiOn forming rude resinous oils. In order that these crude oils may not be taken, Oar Pure Volatile Euca lypti Extract, which is recognised by the medical division of toe Prussian Government to be of perfectly pure origir, as per information forwarded to us through the Consul at Melbourne, March 3, 1878 we state :— It is proved by tests made by the Medicial Clinics of the Universities at Bonn and G-reifswal ', Prussia, and reported by Dr Schulz, Professor of Pharmacology at Bonn, and Professor Dr Mosler, Director of the Medical Clinic at GreifswalJ, that only products that are saturated with oxygen and freed of acids, resinous and other substances, adherent to primary distillation, will develop the sanative qualities proper to the plant, SANDEB & SON'S EUCALYPTI EXTRACT according to these authorities, and according to Pro fessor Dr Lister, of England, and to Drs Bauer, Mclntire, Wood, Hazard, etc., of i.merict, Is the only extract correspondingto scientific tests, and the only one which possesses the proper therapeutic value. All other crude oils are to be classed among the tnrpentines, which have, when nsed as medicine, no therapeutic effect and are abandoned as an internal medicament. These so called Eucalypti Extracts which may have received dist netiin at Exhibitions »s commercial articles and are used for mechanical pur poses only are discernible :— 1. By tbeir deficiency in pungent odour (which our product, the only genuine Eucalypti Extrac de velops most freely through its surplus of oxy • ). S By their alcoholic thin and mobile appearance, being reduced in specific density through the presence of acidic S. By their taste, the result of the contracting ten dency of resins and tennates. If these crude oils, to eallel eucalypti extracts are ipplied by mistake in awoe of croup, bronchitis, diph theria, internal inflammations, dysentery, wonridr, the thec»nsequeticesre most appalling. For safety alway ask always for Hanfler and *•■• 'Eacalrptl Extract and get the old, well-tested iai reliable pmmrvtion.—Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia,— <t%i»«l«ir anil I>m Boyd caa wlu Holloway's Pills.—lmportant for the delicate. It is difficult to determine which is the more trying to th« human constitution, the damp,cold days of autumn and winter, or the keen, dry, easterly winds of spring. Throughout the seasons good health may be maintained by occasional doses of Tiolloway's Pills, which purify the blood and act. a; wholesome stimulants to the skin stomach, liver, bowels and kidneys. This celebrated medicine needs but a fair trial to convince the ailing and desponding that it will restore and cheer them without danger, pain or inconvenience. No family should be without a supply of Holloway's Pills and Ointment, as by a timely recourse to them the first erring function may be reclaimed, suffering may be spared, and life saved



NEW ZEALAND Clothing Factory SPECIAL DISPLAY OF NEW GOODS FOR THIS WEEK. BOOTS HATS NEW PATTERNS BOOTS ■ xs ,rt , . HATS in Men a Boys' & BOOTS Youths' Suits; HATS BOOTS HATS BOOTS Tennis Shirts v roots Cricket Shirts HATS BUUIH -, .. , . Cycling Shirts HATS BOOTS "" HATS BOOTS . _, „ All New Goods. HATB BOOTS — HATS BOOTS White Shirts Regatta Shirts HATS BQOIS Oxfor(J ghirt- hats BOOTS The L^^ Stook HATg BOOTS in Ashbrrton, HATS BOOTS HATS BOOTS TIES. TIES. TIES HATS s BOOTS cc our Special Dis play in Windows. HATS BOOTS HALLENSTEIN BROS. ALEXVHENDRY, Manager' 1



The bust Kemeot For INDIGBSTIOK-Korton' 1 Camomile Pills »>■• confidently, reoomnended as o l simple remedy for Indigestion, which ta theoauset nearly all the diueases to which we arc .snhjecai Norton's Pills, which •' Justice "oalM the •« Naturra Strcngtliencr of the Human Stomach," uct as a pnwee ful tonic end trentle aperient, are mild in their o|>cm tion, and safe nr tt any clrcumst»noof. Sold r bottles, at Is IJd 3« I«| t|Vt . medlolAQ **** m hrougboat m» world*