THE BEST CREAMERY.

HINGS ESSENTIAL TO A SUCCESS FUL CREAMERY.

on the Live and Let Live Prln- These Factories Will Go on Mnl- HtlplyinE— A Creamery Manager Most Be ■ Clwui and Have Backbone—Trickery. H At the lowa State Butter, Cheese and Kgg convention Mr. O. T. Dennison, of Hfoson City, addressed the convention Xt "What is Best for the Creamery." "Every creamery operator and Hrery patron of a creamery has his Hpinion as to what is best for the crfcam- Hry, and I can only give my opinion from Hie standpoint of an operator, leaving Krai*to be brought out in the discussion Hbfttfcxay follow. B"Threeessentials to a successful cream- Hrr are: honesty, cleanliness and intelli- Hence. These three graces are as be- Horaing to the patron as the operator. HTou may differ as to the order of preced ence and contend that cleanliness should Be placed first or intelligence first, but Bach is absolutely essential to success in Hbe-creamery and in the dairy as well. ■ Bvary transaction in and about the Hmamery must be honestly done, else Hhat confidence between patron and op- Hrator essential to the success of each is Horever gone. There is a mutuality of Mttlmmt that renders dishonesty of either Kdnous to both. The "tricky" cream- Kry man soon has "tricky" patrons, and ■tehonest patrons drive him fco dishonest Bricks by which both are losers. The Briamery must be managed upon the Broad principle that to be profitable to She-owner it must make dairying profit- Bble to the patrons. That narrow, self- Bb management {hat pays as little for Bulk and cream as possible will never best for the creamery nor for the pa- HT The creamery should be an educator B> all the community in cleanliness, Bonor and general intelligence upon all ■bury matters. The creamery man must Be progressive and abreast of the times— Spreading the latest and best thoughts Bpon all matters pertaining to dairying, Bairy breeding and dairy feeding. It is Best for the creamery that it be operated Bpon business principles, and not upon Bay catchpenny plan. There must be intelligence in operating the creamery, B> the end that the best work may be Bone with the least cost of fuel, ma- Bnrials and labor. The honest creamery Bum will compel his patrons to be honest Srith him and each other by refusing Bulk or cream from him who is not Bieanly in his work as well as from him ■who adulterates. ■ No remedy is so effectual in bringing Bulk or cream to a proper percentage as Bhe whispered news, "They won't take ■go-and-So's milk at the factory," and no ! Hiews travels so fast. Some decision of ■Character is required, but a manager ■without "backbone" is not fit for the ■creamery. Managed upon the live-and ■ltt-live basis, the creamery will go on [multiplying in numbers, manufacturing ■the raw materials produced on our ■farms, developing the resources of lowa, ■restoring the wasted fertility of the ■farm, of the soil robber, developing the ■ true dairy cow, spreading intelligence, I building homes, developing better men land women, of higher intelligence, ■higher thinking and bettor living.

Wisconsin Dairy School.

The University of Wisconsin has add ed to its other admirable courses a dairy ■gbool. This year the dairy course will open Jan. 5 and close the last of March. I>r. Babcock, inventor of the milk test, ■will give twenty lectures during the term, There will be four sub-courses of instruction. Dr. Babcock's lectures will comprise in the first sub-course such top ics as cream raising, the churning and preservation of milk, etc. The second gub-course will be devoted to milk test ing, with laboratory instruction. Then comes the third sub-course, butter mak ing, and the fourth, cheese making. The milk test instruction will be one of the most important parts of the course. The student who carefully learns his les3ons here will bo able to de termine the amount of butter fat in milk, and also to tell whether milk ia Skimmed or whole, and whether it has been watered or otherwise adulterated. JH& will be made acquainted with all kinds of cream separators and butter extractors, and made to understand the highest market standard for butter. At the close of the course the young man ©r woman who has successfully passed the examinations, and has had eight months' practical experience in a com mercial cheese factory or creamery, will, if his work is satisfactory, receive » dairy certificate from the University Of Wiironsin. In a dairy state like Wisconsin the benefits of a school like this cannot be estimated. ______

Notes.

The poison tyrotoxicon is believed to t» generated in cream that has not been gufficiently aerated. We have known good customers to be lost to milkmen on account of the animal odor in the milk they sold. To aerate properly take the jnilk in the open air, dip it tip by the dipper fnll, hold it up high and pour it 1 either through a strainer or into a vessel other than that from which you took it. The point is to let the air all through it. The best batter color in winter is car rots fed to the cows. Use the milk tests on the farm and in the creamery. Some very good and simple ones have been invented. The fanner will thus find out whether he is feeding unprofitable cows, and the creamery man will find out whether he is paying unprofitable farmers. Here is a touch from Field and Farm: MA historian writes that butter was un known to the ancients. If this is true it is equally true that ancient butter is not unknown to the moderns." ) The honest way for creameries to pay jfor milk is by the test system, accord ing to its richness, not its quantity. ■ lowa, too, will have a dairy school. One is soon to be established at tlxa Ames Agricultural college.

WIVES.

As wife and mother woman fulfil a her destiny. There is a vast amount of infor mation floating about as to what consti tutes a good wife. Men who are never known to evolve an idea have an opinion in this direction, Poets, philosophers, and sages have all touched upon this subject. The annals and the classics contain undis puted truths concerning wives. There are axioms and epigrams and sonnets and epi taphs setting forth the excellencies of woman in this state of life to which it has pleased God to call her. All of the ideas that have been preserved are from the pen of man himself. Woman has always learned of her husband as St. Paul bade her. She has been a sort of satellite revolving about man. A great many beautiful things have been said about her. She has been called the power behind the throne, and it has been said of her that the hand which rocks the cradle rules the world. These senti ments are very gracefully put, but, con. sidering the amount of trouble and warfare in life, it is evident woman as a power has not been a success. Society thus places the responsibility on her irresponsible shoulders, and the world wags on. There are so many different kinds of wives, it is quite impossible to make men tion of them all. There ia the hopeful wife, and the complaining wife, and the tearful wife, and the frivolous wife, and the selfish wife, and the meek wife, and the door-mat, and the self-respecting wife, and the wife of the future. The selfish wife and the frivolous wife get the best husbands. They make them. They could take the truant husband of the delicate, complaining wife, and of the teariul wife, and make model men of them. They know how. The man who uses his wife for a door-mat could even be made over by the selfish wife. He would be as much sur prised as any one else at the transforma tion which she would bring about. The hopeful wife and the tearful wife never have a very successfnl career. The former materializes happiness out of every thing—even the sunshine and good health make her thankful, and she is glad affairs are no worse, and she is sure they will be better. But they won't. Hope requires a different foundation from her fancy and her general inability. The wife who lives on hope grows to be an old woman, wrin kled, heartsick and lour. The tearful wife materializes unhappi. ness out of everything. Her tear wells are near the surface, and her chin quivers on the slightest provocation. She is not the most inspiring wife. The complaining, fault-finding wife usu. ally gets a good husband. He grows pa. tient and tolerant of the increasing woes of his better half. Sometimes he wonders what she will worry about next. He grows slow of speech as years roll on, and his shoulders bend a good deal. He doesn't have a very good time, but he never com plains. He lets her do all the complaining. He grows to look like her. The quality of meekness does not flourish in women as it once did, Meek wives are going out of fashion along with the oak and vine theory. But they have one promise to count on—" Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." The wife who permits herself to be uti lized as a door-mat is not always alive to the situation. Every woman knows some other woman who is a door-mat. A drun kard's wife usually occupies this position. Everything seeks its level in this world. The strongest weapon of the successful wife ia strategy. She is the power behind the throne, and she rules by artifice. The wife of the future will be the power on tli e throne, and she will rule naturally because she is capable of ruling. The wife of the future will do her own thinking. Her day has already dawned. The few women who have opened theu 1 eyes are called advanced women. The advanced woman is the woman who fs ahead of her time. But the times will catch up with her one of these days. It is impossible to say what the world will do when woman is developed. The adage " A good wife makes a good lius. band " oilers woman a mere hint of the im. perfections of her work through past ages. It's high time she was up and doing. The self-respecting wife is the wife who de mands and receives. Woman is the maker of the human race. How can she excuse herself for her inefficiency ?''—A T«w York Recorder. ♦

THE ROMANTIC HISTORY OF A RING.

A gentleman well-known in business circles as a bold speculator is one of tb e regular customers of a well-known money. lender in this city, and his usual pledge is ft ring, a story of which is thus told: " This ring has a history, and a romantic one. It has been pledged numberless times, and the owner would not sell it for any price, on account of its history, which he has related to me minuutely several times, and whioh I know to be authentic in every particular. I can give names, except in later generations, just as he lias told me. " Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, one of the signers of the Declaration of Indepen dence, had two beautiful daughters, who went to England in 1794. One married the Duke of Leeds, and the other Richard Wel lesley, brother of Sir Arthur Wellesley afterwards the Duke of Wellington. At the marriage of the latter, which took place at the Castle of Dublin, the bride received this ring from Sir Arthur Wellesley. " You will see the two figures, painted by Nomar, a celebrated miniature painter of that date, are beautiful in design ar.d exe cution, and the manner of the setting of the pearls and rubies, to the eye of the connois seur, prove it to bn genuine without a doubt, This ring was worn at Brussels the night before the battle of Waterloo, at the ball described in Byron's ' Childe Harold.' " To make along story Bhort, the ring de scended, generally by will, through different members of the Carroll family, until it came into the present owner's hands by gift from LetHia, the last of the Carroll, now mother superior of a convent in Baltimore. From the Duke of Wellington to a pawnshop— does not this furnish food for thought ?" — Detroit Free Press-.

Nothing cures a man of meddling faster than letting him burn his fingers. People who do much work are too busy to tell how tired they are. When you get so you do not need any nd vice you are ripe for the first sharper who oomes along. How unfortunate it is that few brain workers know enough to care for their bo dies, those patient beasts of burden.

A SUITABLE BIRTHDAY PRESENT.

Dick and Maggie had been married twelve months. Dick's birthday coin cided with the anniversary of this auspi cious occasion, and on the evening be fore, Maggie stood thinking of a present for Dick. Here the click of the gate latch inter rupted her thoughts, and she flew to open the door. Dur'ng the progress of their evening meal, Maggie was so unusually quiet that Dick finally noticed it and asked : " What's up little woman? Anything gone wrong to-day?" "No. Why?" " You seem so quiet." " Oh, I've been thinking." " That's nothing new. What about ?" •'I can't think of any thing to give you. You have eveiything." "That's so. Don't give me anything. You have given me yourself. That will do for one while." " What rubbish 1" she said, with a pleased blush. "Anyway, I waat to give you something." " Well, get something we will both en joy—something we need about the house. That will do first-rate." The next day, as soon as Maggie had finished washing the dinner dishes, and had tidied the kitchen, she donned her stylish walking suit and set out for one of the two hardware stores of the village. Not finding anything that suited her raiher fastidious taste, she left an order with the proprietor to be sent to the city and filled. Then visiting some other stores to complete her list of presents, she turned her face homewards with a feeling of satisfaction that the problem was solved. The following week, Maggie invited her mother, Mrs. Ripple, and the girls, Annie and Katie, to spend a long day with her. Pa Ripple was to come home with Dick at noon. It was an occasion when Dick and Maggie felt very anxious that their little establishment should have its "best foot foremost ;" for, al though the family had dropped in singly time and again at mealtime, this was their first attempt to have them all at a formal dinner. The table looked very pretty in all the bravery of bridal linen, chiria, and silver. As Maggie proudly surveyed it, she heard her father and Dick come in. The latter came out, his arms fnll of bundles. "See her, Pet," he began, in a pleased tone ; " I saw them unpacking these grapes and oranges as we came along, and I thought they would give jusC the right look to the table. And look at this " —opening a long package-—" I re membered how I have had to carve with the butcher-knife all along, and thought it would never do with all our finery to day, and [ saw this nice carving set at Hardy's, and I couldn't resist. Perhaps it was extravagant,' 1 he continued, an swering an inexplicable look on her face, "Is it all right?" "Yes, of course, you clear fellow !'! she answered, swallowing a great many un spoken thoughts. "It is just what I was wishing for. Now go in, and make yourself charming while I take up dinner. lf "You are sure you are pleased? I thought it would just suit.'' " Yes, yes," she said hurriedly. " Go, or things will scorch." When all were seated aiound the glit tering table, and Dick, with a flourish, took up the new carving knife and fork, Annie and Katie exchanged glances, and then looked at Mrs. Ripple. "Something new? 1' asked the latter. " Yes/ said Dick. "I got them to-day. I was tired of carving with the butcher knife." Katie looked at Annie again, and both giggled. " Whnt's the joke?" said Dick. "Nothing," said Katie. Pa and Ma Ripple were both smiling now, and Dick looked stupidly from one to the oilier. * " I declare, I don't see anything funny," he said, at last, "Tell him!" " Tell him !" cried the two girls, now laughing outright. " Yes, do," said Dick. "There, there, girls, don't be silly! They are laughing, Dick, because when we went to the city shopping two weeks ago, we all settled on a handsome carving set as a present for you and Maggie, for we remembered you had none, and thought it would please you both." "Did you?" cried Maggie : "and only last week I left an order for one at Steele's for Dick's gift, because he told me to &et something we both wanted, and I thought we needed that most of all." " There ! I knew you were not pleased, somehow, when I came with this. No wonder." "Ha, ha, ha! He, he he! Ho, ho, ho!" Long and loud they all laughed, some of them beginning again, and so starting the others, every time there was a pause. It was a merry meal. As they arose from the table there were sounds of an arrival in front of the house—wheels, then the gate latch click ing, and voices. Going out, they found Dick's father and mother just in from their home in the country. As soon as the confusion had subsided, they were told the "carving-set joke." They were not so much amused as had been ex pected, but looked at each other and said : " Well, did you ever ?" "Now, what's the matter !" exclaimed Dick. "Why, pa and I," said his mother, had sent for one, too. We noticed, when we were here last, that you didn't have one." Here the old lady's voice was drowned in shouts of laughter. How they laughed, and laughed ! "I hope and trust, 1' said Dick, finally, wiping his eyes, "that nobody else has noticed that we haven't a carving set."— Good Housekeeping,

TWO LONG-FELT WANTS.

Jinks :" Ry George ! I've struck it. I'll be rich in five years." Winks: "What at?" "Going to start ai> intelligence office." " Huh ! Nothing new about that." "Wait till you see me. I'll have a regular line of cabs, and send 'em round every morning to all my customers." "What for?" " To leave a fresh girl and take yester day's girl away. Just think of it ! For the mistresses, a new girl every morning ; Tor the girls a new place every day. There's millions in it."— Puck.

All men nre not homeless, but some men are home less than others. There is many a dynamiter who is afraid to give his mother-in-law a blow ing- up. " Pat, Pat, you should never hit a man when he is down !" Tat : " What did I work so hard to get him down for?"

ALL ABOUT THE "QUEEN'S PIPE."

The Queen's Pipe is undoubtedly the biggest pipe in the kingdom ; in fact, she has several—one wherever there is a ' bonded warehouse for the storage of to bacco —and the smallest of these is as big as a tobacconist's shop. The Queen's Pipes are distinguished not only for their magnitude, but also for the enor mous quantity of tobacco they consume. The biggest one, for instance, which is at Victoria Dock, London, and which is the one usually meant by the Queen's Pipe, consumes about 1,000 cwt. of to bacco in a year. The man who smokes an ounce of tobacco a day is considered a pretty heavy smoker—this is less than twenty-four pounds a year. Thus, then, the Queen's Pipe consumes about as much as five thousand heavy smokers- This seems to be an enormous waste, re presenting in money, if we take the to bacco at fourpence an ounce, more than £30,000. Not long ago the writer went down to the Custom House at Victoria Dock to see this extraordinary pipe. He was first of all shown round the extensive warehouses in which the tobacco is stored on being unloaded from the ship and previous to its being removed by the manufacturer on payment of the duty. The tobacco is packed in bales and in big barrels or hogsheads. The tobacco leaves, which are big enough, if they were only strong enough, to make a mode rately sized fan, are all tightly com pressed together in these bales or hogs heads, and are, of course, carefully exa mined by the manufacturer before he pays the duty—as much as 3s. 2d. per Ib., or more than three times the price. The Customs officials also carefully ex amine the tobacco. Now the result of all this examining is that considerable quantities of tobacco fall on the floor in little bits that cannot be picked up ex cept with shovel and broom. Some of the tobacco leaves are so dry that they almost fall to pieces on being merely picked up. Again, the manufacturer often finds a quantity of tobacco damaged ; perhaps the vessel it was brought over in has been in collision, and water has got amongst the cargo. In such cases he naturally considers whether it is worth his while to take the tobacco out of bond and pay the heavy duty on it. If he thinks it will not pay him to take it, he abandons it. Sometimes bales are only partially damaged, and in such cases the tobacco is " garbled —t hat is, it is picked over leaf by leaf, the good being put on one side and the bad on another. It is this damaged tobacco and the sweepings of the warehouses that go mainly lo fill the Queen's Pipe. We then proceeded to view this ter rible monster of destruction itself. At the entrance was a Customs officer to check everything that went in and to see that nothing went out. Further on was a shed full of rubbish. The rubbish comprised dust swept from the floors ol the warehouses, bits of broken barrels, and tobacco leaves so bad that nobody would have them. At the end of the shed was a big furnace—the Pipe itsel/ —which has never been out for seven years, and then only because it needed repairing. As to the tobacco that is here de stroyed, it is good for very little else ; at any rate it is not good enough to enable the importer to sell it at a profit after paying the duty on it ; if it were, depend upon it fie would not abandon it. It seems to be a common notion that the tobacco consumed by the Queen's Pipe is what is captured from smugglers ; and recently a member of Parliament asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if nothing could be done to stop this sinful destruction. That member had evidently never seen the Queen's Pipe nor the stuff that it destroys, and from his reply, we should imagine that neither had the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The reply was that it had to be so de stroyed to protect honest traders, evi dently implying that this tobacco was brought into the country by dishonest traders or olheis seeking to evade pay ment of the duty. First of all, the to bacco that is destroyed by the Pipe is not manufactured, and would not be smoked by any smoker if he had it for nothing. Then, if it were manufactured, no smoker would buy it. Again, how ever, smuggled tobacco, which is good, is not destroyed, but is sentfor consump tion to Broadmoor Lunatic Asylum and other public institutions. Besides tobacco, cigars and cigarettes lhat have been abandoned are consumed in the Pipe. These, however, amount to very little, as being more valuable they are more carefully packed, and conse quently the quantity damaged is com paritively insignificant. Coffee and other dutiable goods that are abandoned are destroyed in the same way. Damaged tea used to be destroyed also in this way but it is now exported to Germany, where an important dye is made from it. S»; jU ff is thrown into the Thames at the Nore. It is taken thither in a boat 'under the charge of a Customs officer. In the way that such things are usu ally stated, without explanation, we are generally shocked at the seeming ex travagance. It would, however, be a more evtravagp.nt course to keep these damaged articles—at least until they could be applied to uses that have not yet been discovered for them. At pre sent the cost of storing them would far exceed their intrinsic value.

(i I have always wondered," said t'.ie newly-arrived missionary to the grenial cannibal, " what became of my prede cessor." " Oh, he," returned tht canni bal, " he has gone into the interior.'' Brown : " But, do you think that Ro binson's judgment is good ?'» Jones :" It ought to be good ; in tiptop condition, in fact, I don't think it has ever been used."

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tVorlli British and mercantile INSURANCE COMPANY, Incorporated by Royal Charter and Special Acts of Parliament. AUTHORISED CAPITAL, £3,000,000. SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL, £2,750,000. PAID-UP CAPITAL, £687,500 TOTAL ASSETS NOW EXCEED £11,000,000. RESULTS FOU 1892:— FIRE DEPARTMENT. NET PREMIUMS, after deducting Re-insurances £1,467,318 12 4 NET LOSSES by Firs, after deducting Re-insurances ... 998,384 1 This embraces not merely all Losses actually ascertained and paid, but a full Estimate of all Claims that had arisen prior to December 31. THE FIRE FUNDS, after providing for payment of the Dividend, and irrespective of the Paid-up Capital, are as follows :— Reserve ... .« ... ... £1,550,000 0 0 Premium Reserve ... 489,106 4 1 Dividend Reserve .., 150,000 0 0 Balance Carried Forward ... 62,447 18 8 £2,251,554 2 9 ASHBURTON AGENT—F. F JERRI Iff AUT. See that Substitutes are not imposed upon you—PUSHED FOR GAIN FORD'S [SCOUR AND LUNG-WORM MIXTURE. By Royal Letters Patent. THE RENOWNED SHEEP MEDICINE! RICE, 17* PER GALLON, IN TWO GALLON" TINS ,^WILL DRENCH 320 SHEEPI F. FERRIMAN, ASHBURTON, PATENTEE & PROPRIETOR. WALTER A. WOOD. TUBULAR STEEL MOWER; HAY RAKE. To Our Farmer Friends. WE GREET YOU IN 1893 WITH A FINER LINE OF HARVESTING MACHINES THAN EVER BEFORE. OUR RELIABLE MOWERS, HAY RAKES, REAPERS AND BIND ERS LEAD EVERYWHERE. Walter A. Wood Mowing and Reaping Machine Company, Send for Annual Catalogue. HARVESTER AND BINDER. ENCLOSED GEAR REAPER; F. FERRIMAN, LOCAL AGENT. PROFIT AND LOSS IN CUTTING CHAFF I Depends entirely on the machine you use. TO MAKE IT PAY it must be done EASILY RAPIDLY, EFFECTIVELY, and ECONOMICALLY. This can only be accomplished by getting a machine that will Cut the Chaff, Clean ib from all Impurities, and put it into bags at the one operation, and this is exactly what i Andrewes & Beaven's TRAVELLING CHAFFCUTTERS, with SELF-ACTING AUTOMATIC BAGGERS do, Made in four sizes, as under—ZEALANDIA No. 3, with llin. mouth, three Knives, Riddles, Elevator, and Patent Single Bagger. Capacity up to ten tons per day. CANTER BURY No. 4, with 12in. mouth, three Knives, Riddle, Elevator, and Patent Double Bagger. Capacity up to 18 tons per day. CANTERBURY No. 6 with 14in. mouth, three or four knives, Riddle, Elevator, and Patent Double Bagger. Capacity up to 24 tons per day. AUSTRALASIAN, with 14in. mouth, four Knives, Extra Knife Wheel, Riddles, Gearing Balance Elevator, Patent Double Bagger, and Bag Supports. Capacity up to 30 tons per day. Every one of the self-acting Baggers on these machines is fitted with the New Patent Chaff Screws, so that the chaff ia NOT crushed or broken, and at the same time the power is reduced One-third, and up to 1201bs of oaten sheaf chaff has been put into an ordinary grain bag. The bags are supported by our Patent Bag Supports. Then again, every machine is fitted with the New Diamond Hard Chill Monthpieco (which is as smooth as glass and harder than steel), or with Detachable Steel Slips, as preferred. Improved Feeding arrangement, which is always Sure, always Positive, always Reliable. Improved Straight-bladed Knives, which cut through hard, dry stuff quite easily, besides + a king only about half the usual tune to sharpen. The best and finest Steel Spindles throughout, besides large and wide brasses, giving ample wearing surface. Extra Strong paring and Balanced Fly Wheels, and tots of other good points. A No. 4 Canterbury m ® chine recently cut 96 tons of hay \n SIX days, besides travelling^Sixt miles, as 'his onnt was divided amongst 14 farmers. F. FEEEIMAN.



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EX ARAWA. FtohlDg Tackle. FISHING TACKLE. YME ARE LANDING A LARGE ASSORI'MENT OF FISHING TACKLE FOR THE PRESENT SEASON HICKORY, CANE, GREENHEA RT, and BAMBOO RODS With Snake Rings and Bickerdycke End Rings. Winches of all kinds. Devon and Whitebait Minnows. Braided Water pt oof Silk Lines, I All sizes. Traces, Swivels, Gaffs, Flys, Hooks, Wading Stockings, Fly-Books, Ferrules, And Anglers" Goods of all kinds. WE ARE ALSO SHOWING AN IMMENSE VARIETY ©F Silver AND Electro-Plated tioods BY THE BEST MAKERS. INSPECT OUR WINDOWS. John Orr & Co., IRONMONGERS AND PROVISION MERCHANTS. Zealandia Boot Store TANCBED STREET, ASHBURTON. THE steadily increasing demand for the "ZEALANDIA BRAND OF BOOTS Shows they aae still as popular as ever with the Public of Ashburton. For style, durability, and comfort they cannot be beat. A Large Stock of Ladies', Gents', and Children's Boots and Shoes always in stock at prices to suit the times. REPAIRS DONE AT REASONABLE RATES J. Bishop's* ZEALANDIA BOOT STORE, TANCRED STREET A NEW AND POWERFUL INVENTION. "The Crystal §oap' HAS ALREADY been tried and proved to be the Best Household Cleanser In the Market. The following are a few of the numerous testimonials already received: — Messrs Craighead Bros. Sirs, —I have used your Soap and find it excellent for all cleansing purposes.— Mks Williamson, Ashburton. Seaview, September 16, 1893. To Craighead Bros. I tried your Soap and found it answered very well for washing and scrubbing.— Mrs P. Stbwabt. Tinwald, September 19. Craighead Bros. Sirs,—l have used your Crystal Soap and find it a great labor-saving soap for scrubbing and washing. Io is also ex cellent for cleaning glass and tinware.— Mrs M. A. Woods. Wakanui Read, Ashburcon, September 16, 1893. Messrs Craighead Bros. Dear Sirs,—Your Crystal Soap for washing and cleansing purposes give perfect satisfaction. I can highly recom mend it.—P. Anderson. To be obtained from J. Orr & Co,, H. Zander, R. McCallum, G. Light, Working Men's Co-operative, Ashburton, and from J. Gudsell and J. Robinson, Tinwald. MANUFACTURED ONLY BY CRAIGHEAD BROS., ASHBURTON