The Ashburton Guardian.

VOL. XIV. NO. 305 i

Ashburtois : Monday, August 14, 1898,

price: one penny



fcsusiness Notices. We RUN UP DOCTORS BILLS! THIS ELECTRIC CURE IS THE BEST. XTEALTH without Medicine, Hum- OL bug, or Quackery! The weak, depressed, rheumatic, paralytic, nervous, and debilitated may quickly recover health, strength, tone, and vigor by usina Cuhnington & Oo.'s Direct Acting Medical Ooils, as used in the Ohristchurch Hospital and by ill the leading medical practitioners and medical electricians throughout the colony. Sufferers should write for circular and full particulars to OnxiraraTO* & Co., Electricians, 190 Gloucester street, Ohristchurch. 9 5



I Business Notices ~~mk PMFOMERY. 11, Place de la Madeleine, Paris, F E GRAND'S SPECIAL PRODUCTS I j Savon-Oriza (Oriza Soap)— From the for , mule of Dr O.'Revell. The best soap for rendering the skin white and soft, Sweetly and refreshingly scented (rose, green and white). i SAvon-Oriza-Velonte, exquisitely per fumed for the toilet and baths. Saron-Oriza (Oriza Soap)— No. 2, extra fine, in boxes, S cakes. 12 exquisite perfumes, No. 1. ' Oriaa-Savon-Incorore, superior quality,' rose tea, white heliotrope and white ! flolet. Aqua-Oriza—New toilet water, refreshing to the skin. Oriza-Hay—A toilet water wth the perfume o new mown hay. Orka-Aciduline—Toilet vinegar, aromatic and disinfectant, specially adapted for adieV toilets. Orlza-Scotch-Lavender— Sprigs of Scotch lavender flowers; a rich toilet water, de-Cologne-Oriza— The high-life toilet water Oriza-Water- Concentrated and lasting. Extract of superior Eau-de-Cologne. Gouttes - Oriza • Dentifrice —An extract for preserving he teeth and gums in good health and preventing decay. Oriza-Dentaire, in paste or powder, for whitening the teeth without affecting the enamel, Ess Oriza -et - Oriza-Lys—Perfumes for scenting linen and the handkerch c without staining. Orlza-Oil—Variously perfumed; for ren dering the hair soft and brilliant, and preventing It from falling off. Oriza-Lacte (Oriza Milk)—An emulsive lotion, refreshing tonic to the skin, removing re spots and preventing wrinkles on the face. Oreme Oriza (of Ninon de Lenclos)—For producing a beautiful white com plexion with the clearness and velvety softness o* youth. Or Bilino-Coldrante (the best hair dye)— For Instantaneously dyeing the hair to any shade and with no danger to health. boxes, each with brushes comb, ctus, and bottle ; or in boxes, the bottle only without accessories Ess-Oriza- Incoiore Violette of the very most exquisite perfume, quite a nosegay of violets. BS-0m» Suave white lotrope Bou quet of the fit wo?



RSI soothing! LpJpOWpERSI B^w us^^BFarCHILDKtM CUTTING TEETH.B BELIEVE FEVERISH HEAT, PREVENT FITS, CONVULSIONS, ETC.



t^on during the period of T*«thln«. • The word. "JOHN STUDXAK, Jfe Oh«mlat, Wnlwerth, •iirrw" .^L An tkgtrni o* tb» Oottrimmt Stamp <tfte«sto«o<* ream- Sold Bt KEMPTHOHNB PROSSER & 00.



"OR COUGHS, COLD 3, BBONOHITI3, ASTHMA, " Influenza, Consumption, &c, &o „„-„„ CAY'S COMPOUND 8338N08 OF LINSEED, Aaiwed, Senega, Sqaill, Tolu, &o (AY'S COMPOUND, a domulcant expectorant, lor Coughs, Colds, and Chest Complaints CAY' 3 COMPOUND, for Coughs and Colds, Is equally serviceable tor horse 3 and cattle XAY'S TIC PILLS, a specific in Neuralgia, Faceacne, V &c. Contain Quinine, Iron, &a LnnJM CATHAETIOUM PTLLS, digestive, correa tire, and agreeably aperient Cement for Broken Articles. Sold O ererywhere. Manufactory, Stockport, England



ONE box of Clark's B 41 Pills Id war ranted to cure all discharges from the urinary organs in either sex (aoqulred or constitutional), gravel and •£■ in the back. Guaranteed free from mercury. Sold in boxes 4s 6d each, by all chemists and patent medicine vendors Sold proprietors, The Lincoln and Midland Ctonnties Drug Co., Lincoln, England For sale by the wholesale Houses.



TTK)R the Blood in the Life. Clark's world Jj famed Blood Mixture is warranted to cleanse the blood from all impurities, from whatever cause arising. For scrofula, scorvy, Eczema, Skin and Blood Diseases, aadsores of allkinds, its effects are marvel. loub. Thousands of testimonials. Sold n bottles 2s 9d, and 11s each by chemists and patent medicine vendors everywhere. Bole proprietors : The Lincoln and Mid and Oeuntlea Drag Co, Lincoln, England. fITOWLBS' PENNYROYAL A&D fI Steel pills for females quickly correct all irregularities, and re fieve the distressing symptons so preva lent with the sex. Boxes Is 1W to 2s 3d. of all Chemists and Patent Medicine Yen fSrJSLT^ oiTou yAsLIN^| CO., Lincoln, England. Wholesale of all the Wholesale Houses, Beware of imita - ttons



PAR OIDIUM MANTJTAOTtTKED BY Gounelle Jeune, SALON—FRANCE. Sole Agents for Australia: GEO. BURK FRANCART & CO., 3 ftOMKIISKH FI.ACI, MELBOURNE. A MOST powerful Insecticide, and guaranteed to destroy Oidium, Mil dew, Vine Parasites, Chlorosis, and Para sitical Insectß of Plants, Vegetable Gardens, Is now in use in most of the Vineyards in Victoria and gives great satisfaction. The Par Oidium has been tried in the great Western District on Peach Trees with great nncow" ORPHAN OIL, The great discovery for Phylloxera, Codlin Moth, and disease in Sugar Cane. For Pamphlets and a\ information apply *° GEO. BURK FRANCART & CO., 3 Somerset Plaoe, MELB OUBNE.



ttEATING'S LOZENGES ■^EATING'S LOZENGES TREATING S LOZENGES "A Sißm* PAOt aboot" BEATING'S rtOUGH LOZENGES. Ask throughout the A TERRIBLE COUGH TERRIBLE COUGH TERRIBLE COUGH 94, Commercial road, Peckham, July 12. "Dear Sir,—l am a poor hand at express to. jSiS&m, but I should like to thank yoi 7 Your Szenges have dene.wonders in Jedevinc my terrible cough. Since I had 52S»t£m of 'Tracheotomy'(the »»« 2 thflSe Emperor of Germany, and unlike Sm ia*ak Qo&, I»« ■*«» *live) Performed JTSt Barthotomew'. Hospital, no one could ™S>lvha°ehadamore rTiolent cough; it K?»W »t times that it quite exhausted I? The mucus, which was very copious lITTERLY UNRIVALLED 11TTERLY UNRIVALLED SffigHteattogVCoußh Lowmges ii^under itatld. The operation was ft •P 66*1^ wture of the case the throat irritation is ijjrpGHTINGOLD -fIfEIGHT IN GOLD TffEIGHiJ IN GOLD r Jnedv for Oougljs, Hoarseness, and Throat CX »re wfd ii tin- by all Chemists.



THE UNIVERSAL SINAPISM MUSTARD LEAF IS of an easy employ, clean, takes little space, is ready for immediate use and acts promptly. Everybody should always have »t hand a few Mustard Leaves, for they are known to prevent a great number of In dispositions. , The Sinapism Is employed with success In cases of Neuralgia, Diseases of the Throat, Palpitations of the Heart, Convulsions, Lumbago, Bheumatism, Congestion* Paralysis, and Apoplectic Utfa Prepared with choice Mustard Powdei the Universal Sinapism possesses all the qualities of conservation and activity. Directions for use accompany each ™pta- PARIS: P. Meuley, 135 Rue St-Antoine. To ba had from all Chemists and fron Australian Dreg Company ~tcd. Sydney



10W VITALITY DR OHUROHILLS Syrup Hypophosphlte of Lime prescribed by the faculty for the cure of Consumption, Ohroni Cough and General Debffitj Xt nitalns two of the principal ingrs* dients necessary for building up the Human Frame, and which are considered deficient in the above complaints, viz., Phosphorus and Lime. Ib cannot be tor ghlyrecommended for Delica Childre Or Churchill s Compound Syrup o HYPOPHOSPHITES U real Brain Feed, and in cases Muscular and Nervous Exhaustion »J Sred a world-wide reputation. Eacn bottie bears Dr ChuichiU's signature Price, Prepared oily by SWANN nHEMIST WANNJ (jHEMIST, PARIS



B^S, Clffi S PILIS 1 Rl*ncard. 40, rue Bonaparte, Paris. oWb Druggi-ta and Chemißt. through the Oolong ,__



THE ASHBURTON GUARDIAN. From and after the 3&th November, 188 a he terms of Subscription to thu journal will be as follows, viz :— IF PAID IN ADVANCE. , Per Quarter .- 6s 6d, by post, 9s 6d nr booked. Per Quarter .- 7b 6d. by post, 10- 9d „ Half-year.... 15s Od, by post, 2ls 6d Year .... 30s U, by post, 43s Od Birth Marriage, and Death Notices, if, paid toi at the time ot insertion, to oa, \ i booked, 4» each. Stamp- m»Y w •«* aB payoje» » ,



AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF Labor Saved TN SCRUBBING Passages and Floors TheNewHOUS BEMAn?S FRIEND. Obtaimble from all Ironmongers, Store keepers, etc., and wholesale from the nmnufacterers. Cunnihsto* & 00.^ ,190 ftloncesbnr Strwt, ohrißt«hurott, »**



Business Notices] , New Zealand Insurance Company. ESTABLIShITd ' L. «.. 18 59 CAPITAL^ONE MILLION. THE PBEMIEB AND WEALTHIEST COIiONIAL COMPANY, NOTED FOR PROMPTNESS AND LIBERALITY FIRE AND MARINE RISKS. ALSO,- RISKS ON GROWING CROPS, THRESHING MAOHLSTES, &0., ACCEPTED AT LOWEST TUBRENT RATES MILES & CO., LIMITED. AGENTS'



DEATH ,TO PARASITES I I SHEEP TIORIMAGNIFIED* FLUID mfffsS POWDER (non-poisonous.) gm882888988999 (poisonous.) C M dudr«c«m«a4«4b Flock. IT *»« •■* *«€»HMiif>«d«id toy- J 1"*: W. Gbbaed, Canterbury ... 61,000 R. D. McLban, Hawke's Bay 58,000 M. O. Obbeia, Canterbury ... 6,000 Walapoa Station, Gisborne ... 20,000 nV. O. Ruthkwobd, Amuri.. 20,000 Ida Valley Station, Otago ... 30,000 G. W, Moßae, Amuri .. 19,000 Scottish and New Zealand In >A.S*mons, Marlborough .. 46,000 vestment Company, South- F. H. Richmond, Marlborougl 13,000 land ... ... ... 17,000 And by owners of over 6,00 C 000 sheep And by many other well-known * lock in New Zealand, and man millions Owners. W33-. a. per Another well-known Powder Dip costs ha / QalUm Fluid makes 100 Gadona Dip, as much again. Compare the prices Chief Agents-BLACKBURNE & 00 , Chrutchuroh. distbict AGBNTs-Miles and Co., Limited. Ashburton and Bakaia.



TO-DAY. SPECIAL SALE. OF Ladle*' and Children* Ulsters, Mantles, Capes, and Fnr-JLlned Cloaks. ALSO, OP A WELLINGTOxNJ WAEEHOUSEMAN'S ENIIKE STOCK iNevr Season's Dress Fabrics, kLL THE NEWEST AND BEST GOODS OF THE SEASON AT LESS THAN One Quarter Producers' Cost W. STRANGE & CO.. OHRIBTCH IT R.OHV



IF. YOU LIKE NICE TEAtASKskYOUR CROCJR MR j NELSONS GDLMtSPffißygiALfl WWW wMal k^k^Ll I^l *&*f**Lr CCLraßATEDl£mE]BEna^l^^| PURE INDIAN CHINA&CEYtON TEAS! PROCURABLE lH.___m_jJft Miles and Co., Limited Plough Shares, CTTE ARE PREPARED TO SUPPLY BOTH HORNSBY'S AND RANSOM'S, at prices hitherto unheard of in Aahburton, being in direct communication with the makers, and having received large shipments from both manufacturers SEEDS. We have for Sale Large Stocks of FRE3H, GENUINE, AND RELIABLE SEEDS, Specially Selected] Including Colonial Bed and White Clover and Cowgrass, Timothy, Ryegrass and Cocksfoot. Imported Red Clover, Cowgrass, White Clover, and Alsyke, Clean Seed Wheat, Oats, Barley, etc., of best quality. MANURES HIGH-CLASS MANURES suitable for all conditiona of soil. Anglo-Continental Superphosphates guaranteed at time of shipment to contain 3713 per cent of soluble Phosphates, Bonedust, Guano. Station X Farm i tores. We always keep in stock the following leading lines—Flour, Bran, Sharps, Oatmeal, Tea, Sugar, Currants, Raisins. Kerosene (Royal Oil Brand) Candles, Soap, Fine and Coarse Salt, Boiled and R»w Linseed and Castor Oils, Red and Black Tattoo Oil for Branding, Hematite, Sheep Netting, best drawn annealed Fencing Wire, all numbers, Iron Standards, Barbed Wire, Drain Pipes, eto. Auction Sales, Stock, etc. "ASHBURTON AND TINWALD—WEEKLY. 2hinds and rakaia-monthly. Bales of hides, skins, tallow, and wool, held fortnightly at ashburton Mites and Go., Limited. ill. W. HANMEB, Auctioneer. flt hliSmi rton anil TCakala.



DATID THOMAS, (Late Matson, Coi, and Co.) A UOTIONEER, LAND, INSURANCE, iND ESTATE AGENI^VALUATOR A WOOL AND GRAIN BROKER, ASHBURTON. Loans Negotiated Weekly Sales o! Live Stock—Tmwald and Ashburton alternately Fortnightly Sales of Sheep Skins, Fat, Hides, etc., on FAI DAYS Sales of Wool throughout the season Grain Bought and Pold on Commission Clearing Sales as perjurrangement AGENT FOB- Matson and Co., Christchurch Colonial Investment Company, Dunedin National Mortgage Company, Christchurch Booth, McDonald, and Co., Ohristchurch White's Sheep Dip Brantford Reaper and Binder London and Lancashire Insurance Company Graham's Foot Rot Composition Redwood's Scaly Blight Specific Wright, Stephenson and Co,, Duaedin Planet Jupiter Garden and Field Tools, D, TjH OM A8 f ASHBURTOES Grass Seed Cleaning. Having Erected (regardless of cost) one of the Best Grass Seed Cleaning plants in Canterbury, I am now prepared to CLEAN RYEGRASB as it ought to be done at Reasonable Rates. J D, Thomas, ASHBURTON. I fun a Cash Purchaser OP WHEAT, OATS, BARLEY, RYEGRASS, ETC. [INJiARGE ORJ.SMALL QUANTITIES David Thomas, ASHBTJRTON ASHBUBTON SKIN SALES. laHALL HOLD A [FORTNIGHTLY SALE OF SHEEPSKINS, FAT, HIDB TALLOW, &c-,!throu%hout the aeason, Bterting from FBIPAY, JUNE 23, 1893.



Busjness Notices. j \SI BURTON PJDRMANENI BUILD ING AND INVESTMENT SOCD3TI. Offices : Takcred Stkebt, AsnBUKTOK. 'X'O Encourage the saving of small sums X the Society will take MONEY ON DEPOSIT In sums of One Pound and upwards, In terest 5 per cent on the following condi tions :— Sums of One Pound and Bpwarls received on Deposit, and Interest will be allowed on every complete Pound deposited, to be reckoned from the day on which a complete Pound shall have been deposited, up to the day on when the money shall be withdrawn, A Depositor may withdraw the whole lor part of che sum deposited, but not In less sums than One Pound, except when closing the account. Deposits taken for 3 months at 6 per cent ,-,  6  By tt for longer periods it o  For particular* apply EDWD, STEPHENS, Manager.



Jons 61. RKSTEiiii, GBATN A WOOL STORES, WEST STREET, ASHBURTON. GRAIN MERCHANT, SHIPPING,^ FINANCIAL & COMMISSION % AGENT &o. CASH PUKCHASER 0» WHEAT, BARLEY, OATS RYEGKASS SEED, etc. COMMODIOUS STORAGE AT CURRENT RATES. ALWAYS "ON SALE— \ Cornsacks, Woolpacks, Twine, Supet phosphates, T>earl-Guano, Genera' Farm and Station Stores, &c. Gape Barley, Grass, Clover, Turnip and other Seeds of the best quality, AT LOWEST CURRENT PRICES. AGENT FOR THE New Zealand Loan and M rcaiitlle gency Company, Ld. Union Fire and Mfrlne Insurance Company. Howard's Digging Ploughs. Cooper's Sheep Dip, Sutherland's Manure, aw.



JOB PRINTING. POSTERS, Dodgers, Billhead* Programmes, Men: orandum Forms Wedding Cards, Meiuoiiam Gads, In vitatlon Cards, Order Blocks, Tareshing Machine Books, Receipt and Delivery Books, Banquet Menur, and TSoketi of all kinds. THE ASKBUftTOI PffBIKHIK fit LIMITBD, Having s supply of Superior Jobbing Tjpe, Fancy Cards, and Special linej of Paper, eaa execute rety description of Printing on the shortest notice, in the best style, and at reasonabte rates; Tucker and Bean TTAVB FOR BILK ILL KINDS OF COAL, WHITE ft BLACK PINE FIREWOOD LIME AND CEMENT AND . ' BUILDING MATERIALS "'"'. of every description. PRODUCE. CATS, BRAN, CHAFF, Ac. SPECIAL TO THRESHING MACHINE PROPRIETORS, Just Landing—Splendid Shipment of NEWCASTLE COAL Tucker & Bean, COAL, TIMBER, AND GENERAL ; PROPUnB MKKCHANTS. '",[ THE RONGO PAI TENEI Kbi KOUTOU KATOA /.. flfacbenn Stewart's i NEW CURE FOR ASTHMA. "',. EW CUBE EOR CROUP : XV CURE FOR DIPHTHERIA : TEW CURE FOR eHRONIO BKONCHITTS. Preptred from the Mountain and foreai '"'■[ Plants of New Zealand] In >^thma the New Cure has proved Itse to be Head and Shoulders Above All Ocher Remedies 1 . , r npHE NEW CURE Is the only Spedfi X yet discovered for Diphtheria. In Croup He NEW CURK hat no rival It saves emetics, looting fires, hot baths, and all the attendant worry incidental of the arrival of the Midnight Monster; In typhoid Fever the NEW OCJRI disinfects, soothes, and give* refreshing sleep. The NEW CURE is the only trw Lang Disinfectant In no instanc has a death occurred from diptherla trhen the *' New Cure hss been free! / ased from the first oatM of the disease, and so great are its pro tective powers, that the complaint ha* never been known to spread to «tkei ;'■ members of the family. /J The New Cure, fe il ; GrindelU RobM* Ci«ar Asthma Tobaoco, Ss 6d



j JOHN O. BEBTELL, In conjunctioA with the jricwr a*EA.r.Aaro ioais * scww cistiiw *»K3i<!ir. r«., M. JOHN R BLASD, Auctioneer. Auctioneers, Wool Brokers, Land and, Financial Agents, &c, ara prepared to trtinsao*. Farm and Station Business on the most favorable terms. WOOL. WOOL. WOOL LIBERAL CASH ADVANCES MADK AGAINST ENSUING CLIPS. CoTßTaission on Advances, and at the LOWEST CURRENT RATES OF TNTFRBST



IT IS THE BEST, SG * "«n •••'..•: ■■-.•» Sold by all Grocers and Storekeeper* in Ashburton district. Wholesale by ANDERSON and CO., ; Coffee and Spice Factory, Timaru.



AWING TO THE JSUOQESS mmcß has ATTENDED MY BUSINESS, 1 find It neoeaiuy to PROCURE ASSISTANCE Which I am now endMYorlng to do. T TAKE tbe opportunity to thank the Public of Ashtanon - for their kind patronage, and to ■ay that I hope to contlnae to merit their support. B E. Bonnlngto*, CHEMIST & DBUGGIST EAST STREET, ASUBURTCN.



Fruit Trees. ' HAVING DECIDED to give up NURSERY GARDENING, and attend entirely to mv business of PRO DUCE DEALING, I offer my large stock of Apple and other Trees at LOW PRICES. They Rre all of the best sorts obtainable, and having grafted them myself can gU3iantee they are true to name. ALSO,— A Grand Lot of ORARI POTATOES CHEAP. 2001bs Sack Best Stone FLOUR 14s 6d. BRAN, SHARiS, ROLLER FLOUR, and all kinds of FARM PRODUCE. A Splendid Line of ONIONS. j; THOMAS, H.VVELOCK STREET. THE isEW ZE~ AND SHIPPING COMPANY'S LINE. REDUCED FARES FROM LOW DON TO NEW ZEALAND. A RRANGEMENTS can be made XA_ with the ARent-General in London to procure pasbftges by the above line at the following greatly reduced rates :— Second Saloon £28 Os Intermediate £1» 18s rhird Class ... £13 Os Fcr further particulars apply at officos MILES Sr CO., Limitbd, Ashbnrtch And Rakß».



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[A CARD]. ÜBS A. O. CLARIDGE, TEACHER OF PIANOFORTE & ORGAN, COXSTREKT, aSHBURTOK •jlebms on Ifplwaiioh.