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Ashburton Guardian Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1893. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

New South Wale 3 has been assigned nine awards for her fruit exhibition. Mr Pnrnell will address the Ashburton electors at Elgin on Saturday and at the Oddfellows' Hall on Monday next* A lady has been appointed Deputy Re turning Officer at the Sheffield polling place. It will be to onr readers advantage to read G. J. Neill and Co.'s new advertisement announcing great reductions in consequence of their being in want of cash. Lord Charles Beresford has submitted to the Admiralty a naval shipbuilding pro gramme to cost eighteen millions sterl ing. At the R.M. Court this morning—before Mr A. Harrison, J. P.—three first offerders for drcrakenness were dealt with, one being rfined ss, and the other two convicted and discharged. The annual meeting of the Victorian Rifle Association has opened. New Zealand is represented by two marksmen. Howe, of Wellington, scored 42 in the Any Rifle Match, two points below the top score. Wt are requested to draw attention to the notice which appears in another part of this issue referring to the opening of a depot for the sale of books in connection with the New Zealand Bible and Book Society on the preijnses recently occupied by Mr Harry Friedlander. There was a fair attendance of ladies at the Oddfellows' Hall on Tuesday afternoon, when Mr Wason addressed the meeting. At the conclusion of his address, several questions were asked and answered, and votes of thanks to Mr Wason and to the chairwoman closed the meeting. At St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Rakaia, on Sunday evening considerable interest was evinced in the new organ, which was used in the service for the first time. It is a handsome instrument in carved walnut case, and is of rich tone and powerful compass. The oigan was manu factured by Karn and Co., of Woodstock, Canada, and imported through Mr J. Doherty, of Lower High street, Christ church. Mr John Holmes, who for some years sat ia Parliament for Christ church, and has lately returned from a visit to the old country, will address the Ashburton electors in the Oddfellows Hall on Friday evening on the prominent political questions now before the public of New Zealand, such an address on the eve of a general election should be listened to with much interebt. The Premier the Hon R. J. Seddoa speaks in the Arcade on Friday evening. Mr Purnell addressed a crowded meeting of the Ashburton electors at the Doric Schoolroom on Monday evening. Mr W. Morrow occupied the chair. Mr Purnell spoke for about an hour and a half upon the various political topics of the day, and was frequently most warmly applauded. After a number of questions had been asked and answered, Mr Higgins proposed, and Mr Harrison seconded, a very hearty vote of thanks to Mr Parnell for his address, which was carried unanimously atridst applause. The usual compliment was also passed to the chair. On Tuesday the County Engineer met a number of Hapipstead residents at the Gas Works, and the original scheme for supply ing the Hampstead residents with water was generally agreed to, and the work will be proceeded with as soon as the required con tributions are paid, and the consent of the Town Board is given to the outfill going through a part of the district not included in the water supply district. It is also understood that a portion of thi« water will be carried past the school grounds, as pro posed by Mr Crooks, the Chairman of the School Committee. This also is subject to the approval of the Town Board, whose con sent will no doubt be accorded in both cases. According to some official statistics just published, it appears that in Belgium 1,489,174 grown women are employed daily in trade or manufacture, and only 189,619 of the women of Belgium devote themselves ex clusively to the duties of the household 101,018 women ate tarders on their own account; 192,114w0men possess independent situations or follow the liberal professions—as artists, musicians, actresses, physicians, dentist*, and other callings. This list does not include the nuns of Belgium, who are 21,242 in num ber—a significant proportion of Belgian womanhood, unparalled in any other Europe, an State. The licensed nurses of the sick and mid wives are returned as 2331. Eight thou sand seven hundred and thirty-one women ate employed by the State as school teachers, and conservatoires in the post and otber public offices, The latest form of entertainment which has been introduced in New York by an American lady of fashion (aays the "Pall Mall Gazette ") is a Turkish bath party. As few people are rich enough to have Turkish baths and all the accessories appertaining thereto attached to their establishment, it is the custom for the hostess to hire the most luxurious cf the public baths for the after noon or evening, and thither invite her feminine friends. No expense is spared to make the entertainment of a most sumptu ous character. Flowers, perfumes, and fine linen are every where in profusion, and skilled attendants in the art of massage are in waiting on .the guests. After the bath, which lasts three or four hours, supper is served ; bewitching neglig<ss are exchanged for the smartest of frocks and the ether sex is admitted. It is hardly necessary to add that invitations to entertainments of this description are only accepted fey young people. It is not quite the kind of amuse ment to commend itself to elderly ladies.

THE GENERAL ELECTION.

MR WASON AT THE ODD FELLOWS' HALL.

Mr Wason's meeting at the Oddfel lows' Hall last night was well attended. In the absence of the mayor, Mr Hugo Friedlander was voted to the chair. Mr Wason said — In challenging me to leave Govern ment measures alone, and come again before you and speak to you upon the affairs of the country at large, a chal lenge that I had no hesitation in taking up and coming before you on the first convenient opportunity, I admit that although I adopted the usual constitu tional course, perhaps your political insight is keener than mine, perhaps you recognise that things are becoming so mixed up that after this election existing parties may be non-existent. From that point of view you are en titled to demand from your would be representative, from anyone offering himself for your suffrage?, the very fullest exposition of his own view*, and not merely hostile criticism upon bills that may ntver again see the light of day, giving you my own views on political matters generally. Well, as the challenge has been laid down, I am not afraid to take it up, and again in popular phrase, to face the music. First of all, I wish to say, that while I have attacked the Government for various bills v hich they wish to force upon the country, I have only done so in their corporate capacity as a Govern ment. I have not the slightest personal feeling against any member of the Ministry. But it seems to me that as I spoke before, I should follow the ordinary constitutional practice, and disagreeing with the policy bills of the Government (the little labor bills) such as Compulsory Arbitration and Conciliation Bill, compulsory closing of shops, compulsory repurchase of land, the great policy of oompulsion through out. Government interference, Go vernment inspection, Government in capacity, which if carried out as proposed would have cramped our energies, dwarfed our industries, swathed us like one of those poor little babies one sees abroad, so that the community could have moved neither hand nor foot, and it was my duty to criticise freely and to show plainly the vexatious nature of these measures. J wish also to take the opportunity of stating I absolutely repudiate and deny the statements that are being indus triously circulated that I have spoken disrespectfully of the working classes of the community. For twenty-five years I have been on the very best of terms with them, and it has been most pleasing to me going through this con text to find the very hearty support that I am receiving from working men with whom at one time or another I have been brought into personal con tact. If thinking of the trouble that I honestly believe the Government have brought upon the country, in an angry moment I likened them to a fungoid growth, in my mind I was com paring them—l was thinking of the vampires of society that fawn on, flatter and gently soothe their victims all the while that they are draining their life blood, and it must require the very cleverest ingenuity to distort that statement into one that bears a semb lance of reflection upon the working classes, but in these times any stick is good enough to beat a dog with, but perversions such as that will only re coil upon those who start them, upon those who draw the bills and upon those who endorse them. PARTY GOVERNMENT. I should have been glad to have spokeu more fully with reference to party government on the last occasion upon which I addressed you ; because I agree, to some extent, with those who would like to see it abolished. Al though I should like to see it abolished I do not think it within the limits of practical politics meanwhile ; but we can do this, we can minimise its evils, we can lay down by law a resolution of the House, that no Government shall go out of office unless upon a d rect vote of want of confidence. Members elected to the House should vote carefully upon every bill that comes before them, entirely irrespective of who brings it down, whether Go vernment or the Opposition. Under existing party Government, parties on bo oh sides are compelled to vote, some times indiscriminately, for or against bills simply on account of their party. All Governments are anxious to show a good record, and bring down, and probably hope to pass very many bills, many unnecessary bills; and they often have to drag unwilling supporters at their chariot wheels, who prefer to vote for an obnoxious measure rather than see the existence of the Govern ment imperiled. No Government should make a bill a party question, no Opposition should oppose bills because it is a party question. We do not want everlasting change and unrest. Nine man out of ten in the country do not care twopence whether Mr Brown or Mr Smith is at the head of affairs, as long as the machinery goes along fairly smoothly. "Change just for change is like them big hotels, Where they change plates and let you live on smells." A great reform in our system, a great improvement in our legislation, ■will be established, if we carry out that very simple reform. TAXATION. Of all questions before the public, before the individuals of the com munity, is the question of ways and means; the question of earning our daily bread, the question of paying our debts; and as with individuals so with the Government of the country, taxation, finance, is by far the most important question before the electors at the present moment. I don't *ant to go back to ancient history. I don't want to substitute the property tax in stead of the Land and Income Tax. We have the Land and Income Tax with us and it has come to stay. I want no hurried fitful change of taxa tion, I don't even want to abolish pro gressive taxation ; it also has come to stay, I only want the most glaring anomalies, the most unjust features done away with. Take the income tax first. We have here two degrees of taxation—6d in the pound between £3QQ and £1000 a year, one shilling in the pound o¥er 4JJOQJJ a year. While it might not be unfairly argued thatiU progresfliro Ux is right for

land, it i« also right for all forms of capital, I must urge upon you the fact, that we have thirty millions of borrowed money, which is lent to private investors, and a gradu ated progressive tax on that sum would simply mean so much more extra interest to the English capitalist, or so much withdrawal of capital and a further crippling of our energies and resources. But where I think we could alter the income tax, where I do think it is grossly unfair and unjust, is to tax the income that a hardworking professional man or tradesman spins out of his owa interior as a spider spins his web j a man whose income dies with him, who has heavy in surances to pay to provide for his wife and family, I say you cannot argue with any degree of fairness that a person in that position should pay the lame income tax as one who derives his income from fixed securities, one who has no need to make any pro vision for his family, ona who has no need to labour, one who is like the lilies of the field who toil not, neither do they spin, and are contented to exist beautifully. I say that profes sional and traders' incomes, income 3 the result of personal exertion, should be charged one half the tax of incomes that arise from realised wealth. I don't want to abolish this tax, I only want to reform it. LAND TAX. At the risk of wearying you, I must give you a few figures, which have often been given before, but which cannot be too indelibly impressed upon your memory, with reference to taxa tion on land, and with reference also to the giant strides which are being made towards the single tax:—£looo on deposit, taxation, nil; £1000 on land, taxation, £2 Is 8d; £2000 on deposit, taxation, nil, £2000 on land, taxation, £7 5s lOd; £3000 on deposit, taxation, nil; £3000 on land, taxation, £12 10a lOd j £5000 on deposit, taxa tion, nil; £5000 on land, taxation £25, 8s 9d; £7000 on deposit, taxation, 7s 6d ;• £7000 on land, taxation, £32 16s 3d. I do not think any investor, coming into this country, anxious to settle amongst us, considering those facts, would be at all desirous of going into the wilderness and buying land, when he felt that taxation of that sort would be at once imposed upon him. While I want you to consider those figures carefully, I want also to assure you that I am not in favour of any hasty or ill-considered alterations in the law. The argument that land is of a limited extent and that legislation should say—" We disapprove of large holdings" is a specious one, and in these days of agricultural depression, not only here but all over the world, with so much land offering at reason able rates, some countries even offering to give it away, I do not think the argument is necessary. But looking to the future I am not prepared to say that it is unreasonable th it the state should cast a reasonable amount of dis approval on the acquiring of large estates. There seems to be some con fusion existing in the minds of many with reference to the present taxation on land. What you will have to con sider is this, that we have now double taxation on land; first we have the land tax pure and simple ; second, we have the graduated land tax. Perhaps the most glaring injustice of the graduated land tax is that while it pro poses not to start until the sum of £5000 has been reached, yet if a man has £5005 worth of land he has to pay graduated tax upon the whole amount, while the man who has only £5000 worth does not pay it at all. The ex emption to be of any value, to be of any fairness, should absolutely exempt his £5000 from taxation, and virtually say to the owner "as long as you do not exceed £5000 worth of land we do not consider you as a nuisance, as an encumbrance upon the state." We cannot get over the fact that this tax is imposed as a penal tax and a warn ing. Again where the graduated land tax presses unfairly is in this way, in nine cases out of ten it is the taxation of debts. Many of us, myself among the number, have bought our land and have then pledged our resources, our credit, to borrow money to improve that land. We have built houses, we have purchased endless costly machinery, we have planted trees we have put up miles of fencing, we have imported cattle, sheep, pigs and horses at a great cost, we have changed the face of the country; and that borrowed money, that capital borrowed by us, has been distributed almost entirely among the wage earners ( of the country. It has gone from us, but it has not been wasted; it had j enabled many an industrious man to create a happy peaceful home for him self, of acquiring by his industry and thrift, and by his savings, a com petency, if not a fortune. Employers of labour in Canterbury for the last twenty years have not as a rule, made much for themselves ; they have simply acted as a distributing medium of capital, and it is neither fair no honest to tax them on their debts, pro gressively too, on the money that in ninety-nine pases out of a hundred has been spent in wages and improvements, and in developing the resources of the country. Relieve the country of that stigma, of that injustice, and much good will have been effected. And even we might say for the future that in order to prevent the accumulation of heavily burdened estates into indi vidual hands the progressive tax should be imposed somewhat as it is at present, then the grave injustice of taxing men progressively upon money which they have borrowed for the public good, punishing them, penalising them for their exertions would be re moved. Although Ido not want to see the graduated tax abolished I say it is far too complex, and above all, presents no decree of finality. I should say that it would be a fair thing under the present circumstances, for land to the value of £5000, while paying the ordinary land tax, to be exempted from the progressive tax. From £5000 up to £20,000 we might have graduated progressive taxation of |d in the £. From £20,000 to £40,000 $d in the £ „ £40,000 to £80,000 |d „ Over £80,000 Id in the £.. But it should be also laid down as a fixed principle that the highest scale of the progressive tax should not ex ceed the amount of the ordinary land tax settlement of the land. I quite hold with those who say that the policy of the country should be to settle our

lands, (the 20,000,000 acres Govern ment say they have suitable for settle ment) to prevent the aggregation of the population in large centres, and to hold forth every encouragement for men and women to go forth into the wilderness and make homes for them selves. To get the most out of our land we want all classes of settlers upon it. If you cut up all our land into small farms and force on settle ment by bringing in people from other places, as sure as the sun will rise to morrow you will bring down the rates of wages; you will do worse even than that, you will make it almost im possible for a man to get employment at any price. You pratical men and women know, as well as I can tell you, that it is impossible for a man, unless he has a certain extent of land, to pay wages at all; and often he toils, his wife and family toil, and do not at the end of the year succceed in saving the ordinary rate of wages which is paid to the ordinary farm hands. I remember once hearing a distinguished Frenchman on the occasion of a dis cussion upon agricuture, telling us that he had just returned from his native parish in Brittany, where he found things very bad indeed; grinding poverty, relentless toil, •verlasting hardships, things to which we are here happily strangers. He then went on detail a conversation he had with a parish priest, who told him that the whole trouble was, that the farms were so small that they could employ no i labor, and could hardly find food and clothing for the occupants, and that there were no possible outlet for the energies of the young men and women who were attaining maturity; but, he went on to say, good is arising out of this evil; no less than seventy families having recently left this district, and sold their lands; thus making more room for those that are left, and have gone to Canada where they wi;l have more scope for their energies. We do not want to produce that state of things m this country, and the country will be in a far more prosperous state it those who are coming on can find work when they want it, at remune rative rates, which will enable them to save money and acquire land for themselves. T have been associated, more or less, with the farming com munity of this country for five arid twenty years, and as fa; as in me lay I Have always done my best to further their interests, and I shall do bo now. I shall certainly do so, if I have the opportunity. You have been told that I am simply the nominee of some large holders; you and I know better than that; but still there may be some, in fact there are some, whose aim and object it always is to create strife and disunion between employers and employees. Well, do you think I should have been such a fool a3 to have offered myself to this constituency simply as the nominee of a few indivi duals, a few fat men ? After all, how many are there in this constituency? Number them on your fingers, and you will hardly require both hands. lam here in the interests of all classes, and there is not a working man or woman in New Zealand who will not feel that I am fighting their battle when I put, m a straightforward manner, before them the necessary consequences of a f orcingon of settlement, of parcallingout the country so that, in a few years there will not be a day's work or a day's pay fora young man who feels he must hive off and start for himself. We have now farms in this county of all sizes ; farms that can hardly sup port and allow a fair wage to the pre sent occupant, if it were not that many of those are enabled, now and again, to earn good money on larger farms things would often go hardly with them. We have these larger farms that absorb, during the year, an im mense amount of labor, and that labor, you know as well as I do, often cornea from the smaller farmers and from their sons, that they may send out; that ig, they send out their surplus capital and labor where it can find fair remunera tion. I do not balieve that any stranger ever visited Canterbury with out being struck at the immense amount of work that has been done here. Good wages and good work have made the country what it is, and at the present time there is not a coun try in the world where the average farming community is so well off as they are here. They at any rate will,. I am convinced, aid me in fighting this battle against this socialistic nonsense of the present day. lam sure of this that they will be no parties to pulling up the plant of prosperity and confi dence, like a child that plants a flower one day and pulls it up the next to see how much it had grown. EXEMPTION OF IMPROVEMENTS AND UN EARNED INCREMENT. I am obliged to the "Lyttelton Times " for having in an article which it devoted to me the other day re minded its readers tha^ on one occasion I made the irreverent remark that the unearned increment was all " bosh." So it is, and the unearned incre ment and the question of the exemption, of improvements are very closely allied. I am not in favor of exempting improvements, although personally I benefit by the proposal* To exempt improvements is simply another stride towards the goal which I dread, namely, the single tax. There is no such thing as the unearned incre ment. If you think you have it, or that I have it, or somebody else has it, as you come down to enquire you will find yqu are wrong, that it is abso lutely impossible to fix it, that it is a mere " will o* the wisp;" and that every penny of realised wealth in the country has been hardly wrought for, and has cost, probably, its full value in hard labor. Think of the number of men who have gone down in the struggle to subdue the country, and when the ac counts were balanced all that would have to be taken into consideration, Unearned increment, if there is such a thing, we are all receiving it. If any of you get injured you go to excellent hospitals, and you receive care and at tention that kingdoms could not have purchased but a short time back. You never sit down to a meal but you re ceive unearned increment in every article of food you use ; you have un earned increment in every article o£ clothing you wear; only It" is not unearned, it has all 1 been toiled for—ali been wrought for; it is the surplus savings, the surplus labor of those who have gone before. However, the exemption, oTiuuprqytt

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f Very Sorry. Alas, too true 1 CT7E ARE VERT SHORT OF CASH, ASD WE MUST HAVE SOME. ' NOW IS A GOOD CHANCE. G. J. NEILL and Co, rOood Washing Muslin 3s lid dozen Good Washing Prints 2a lid dozan j Strong Cotton Shirting 3s lid dozen N«w Dreßß Goods, doable width. 10& d White Calico 2s lid dozen White Doable Bed Sheeting B£d CLOTHING. CLOTHING- Men's Colonial Tweed Salts 19s 6d, guaranteed aU WuOL Men'a Tweed Soits 16s 6d Boye 1 Tweed Suits 4a lid Men's Straw Hats 6d Men's Strong Cotton Shirts Is 9d Men's Woollen Sox 8W BOOTS- BOOTS. BOOTS. Our Boots are all Guaranteed to gire Satisfaction or we will replace them. Men's Colonial Nailed Shooters 7s 1 Id Men's Bluchers 4s lid tl , Women's Strong Leather Shoes.6s M, reduced to 6s lid Women's Strong Elastic Sides 8s lid, reduced to 5s lid Women? and Children's Tan, Leather, and Canvas Shoes in all sizes Call and Bee our Window. Call and Set our prices. No one pressed to Buj. q, j. "TiiVr~d go., FRIEDLANDER'S CORNER. _ PBBLIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT. BE THE ASSIGNED ESTATE OF MESSRS HARDLIY BROS.' STOCK OF Drapery, Clothing, millinery, Boots and Shoe*. AROADB, ASHBURTONj — TO — ' W. W. SPENCER. \ SELLING VALUE Three Thousand Odd. fl'flE PURCHASER [of this Magnificent Stock is determine! to clear the whole ci t ont of the Premises, and it must be SOLD within a short period. TREMENDOUS SACRIFICE, TERRIFIC SLAUGHTER, TERRIBLE REDUCTIONS, Will be shown on erery item]>f the Stock. — ;q; HEADS OF FAMILIES AND OTHERS. A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEND yew Crelifc Talancea to your great advantage You most bay no* j the Reduction effeoted on »U Goads will compel foa. Hard time?, low pri. es of Grain, sewcity of labor all ten Is toempel «ll to seek the Best and Cheapest market for their fljnjrfnw&ta, and ON THE EVE OF A FINANCIAL CRISIS AUo wain W to clear this Stock at any Cost, and turn the whole of it Into SOLID GOLD. SPECIAL. Wi htTi UM El«f an Caws of Special Job jLines"' which |wlll all be offered to you at IRRESISTIiaE IBICES. GATALOGU\E\S jlre In courae of preparatio i and'will be Issuel In a few days, meanwhile the whole Stock Is being re-marked in RED LETTERS, and will only be SoW at those prioca from date of Sale, [COMMENCING Thursday, Noyeinber 23, AND COfctiNUED TILI* FURTHER NOTICE, 111132



*PHTS SPACE is RESERVED for particulars of NEW GOODS, comymiog GOLD AND SILVER JEWELLERY —AND— man ci«a»i MiiVER * b.p. ware For the CHRISTMAS TBiDB, to be opened up by S. SALEK, WATCHMAKER AND JEWELLER, _^



Wantea ' WANTED Known -W. H. Collier's noted four-clasp Kid Gloves, 2s 6d, have just arrived in all sizes. WANfED"ToTjetPour-roomed House, Princes street. Apply to John H. Maynard. 11^62 SUITS to measure, during the sale, 49s 555, 60a, 70s, and 755. Fife and workmanship guaranteed.—R. Alcorn, Saanders' Buildings. STRAWBERRIES in any quantity at Hoult's 6d per lb. BRSONS willing to Lend Convey ances to Mr Wabt's Committee on Polling Day, please communicate with E. H. Andrews, Secretary, or any of the Committee. Committe meeting To-Night at 7 sharp HO ia your Plumber 1 Why W . Habdlky, who Is * Manufacturer of Spouting, Ridging, Steel Gutters, Baths, Sinks, Tanks, etc., and who has on hand the largeat stock of Pumps and Pipe in town. ALL interested In the Direct Veto Question are invited to meet at the Flemington School on Wednesday, 22nd Inst, at 8 p.m. 11*137 OW does McKay cut your hair? As you like it. (SJiakespeare). James MoKay, Hairdresser and Ornamental Hairworker, East Street, next Bank of New Zealand. 11*125 BTAIN Good Vegetables and Grain by using Tunnage and Sons' cele brated Fish Guano. Particulars at Mks Whittington. Marmalade, Jams, Bana nas, and all Fruits in season. W* ANTED Known—That A. J. Walkke repairs Bicycles, Sewing Machines, Lawn Mowers, Medical Coils, and all descriptions of light machinery. D~ ON'T Forget to send your Bicycles along to the Old Kindergarten to oe repaired, at moderate rates. BOOKS in great variety to suit all classes of readers, at the Railway Book Stall. 7 102 f^HRTSTMAS Cards for your friends in V> the Old Country at L. F. Andrewfr ant} Co. 11 17 FOR Bread, Scones, Paatry, etc., you will find Jumbo Baking Powder unsurpassed. WANTED Known—" The Corner " is showing a magnificent New Stock of Drapery and Clothiag.-W. H. Collier. WANTED— Mothers of families to know that we cannot be beaten fur value in Drapery and Clothing.— MircHBLL & Turner. WANTED Known—Spectacles, eye protectors, Gogg'es, Folders, anil everything in the optical line at S. Salek's, Optician. ANTED Known—For good value in first class Drapery, Millinery, ffojts, Clothing, etc., go to Melford flocsß. Beautiful present* now giving away to all purchasers. WANTED. —Everyone to know that we have too much Stock, and too little money.— Mitchell and Turner. EDIOAL Coils made and repaired on the shortest notice at easy prices at A. J. Walker's, Old Kinder garten. E AIL WAY Book Stall.—A very large and choice lot of books to select rW n. 7 103 £F you want fiistclass fruit go to Adams' for Fiji, Tahiti, Auckland and Sydney Oranges, Citrons, Lemona, etc. ANG! BangTßangT"GuTlß' Guns! Guns! by the best makers and Itted with all the latest improvements. Powder, Shot, Caps, Cartridges, Wads, «nd Cases at J. W. Hardlbt's, East Street. Guns repaired. BOYS' and Girls' Own Paper, Family Reader quarterly parts, Tit Bits. Weldon's Journal, Ref iew of Reviews for October.—H. M. Jones. Dl\R'T^ for 1894.—L. F. Andrews* and Co. 11 16 •"I HE Best Nickel Watch in the Market J. for 15s. Usually sold by Jewellers at from 20a to 25a each. Specially made in England to our order. —John Orr and Co. » 192 BOOKS in good order and complete bought or taken in exchange. Mew Stock arriving every week. Circulating Library.—J. Maksdkn, Newsagent. W~~ ANTED— Buyere of drapery and clothing, to see the value we are offering.—MitcHEM, & Turser. rfiHE Boys' Illustrated Annual, The X Plize, Infant's Magazine, Chatter box, Story after Story, Little Dot, Children's Friend, British Workman.— H. M. Jones. NEW Annuaf^olumes, Boys' and Girls' Own Annuals, Little Folks, Chatterbox, Children's Friend, Child's Companion, Biistish Workman and Workwoman, Band of Hope, Sunday, Family Friend, Young Fngland, all at lowest prices -^L. f t Andrewes and Co., Stations' Hag. WHERE do you gee your Ironmon gery? At Hakdmtv gof course, where we get the best value in Sheet Lead, Nails, Locks, Hinges, Plough Chains, Bone. Wire Knotting, Gorse Knivei, Sp*fa« #»d Forks, Lamps, Fender and Fire Iro*«, and anything you require CjALE, SALE, of Books, Stationery, O Fancy Goodi, Music, etc., Dire Screen. Vktovna, Glass Ornaments, Chris mas Cards, Cricket and Lawn Snt Material, ™oU> Albums and Frames, and hundred «* "ftjjjjgjf »re to be sold a* a great sacriu^ IW* v w " during this month only, at L. *. ." Andrewes & Co., Stationer's Hall. I



Wanted. W4NTED— Girl about 14 or 15 to assist in Housework. Apply Mrs James' Fruit Shop, East street. 11 159 OST, Cycling Waperproof Cape, Finder would oblige by leaving at Mail Office. 11 1W 8"" TUDY Health and use Jumbo Brand i Baking Powder. Purest and best. /^OF FEE as a Beverage is more pala \J table and wholesome than Tea. Use Oriental Coffee. / ORIENTAL Coffee is the blend of the \_7 Choicest Ceylon and Mocha. Try it_ _____ 11 7 ANTED Known.—To make room YV 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 being sold; also presents to all purchasers. H 0. Segehs, Melford House. Public Notices. TOE ASHBURTON WOMEN'S LIBERAL ASSOCIATION. A LL Members and intending Members -**• sre earnestly requested to attend at the Templar Hall at 3 o'clock TO-MOR ROW (Thursday). Business important. S. V. EDWARDS, 11 154 President. [a card.] MR H. C. ORBELL, SOLICITOR, ASHBURTON. Office : Montgomery's Buildings, Corner East and Burnett Streets. SPECIAL NOTI0e!~~~ WANTED KNOWK. XT EW ZEALAND BIBLE and B3OK IN SOCIETY has opened a depot in the shop lately occupied by Mr Harry Friedlnnder with a large and well assorted stock of New Books. Cnrds, etc , includ ing New Prize Books and all the New Annual Volumes, Boys Own, Girls orn, Chatterbox, Sunday, New Xmas Cjrds, etc.— N.B. —Will remain until DeciKnber, 7 only. J. K. MacDONALD,; 11 104 Agent. ALLAN DALE COAL COMPANY, LIMITED. WE have appointed MR JAMES ELLIOT 11,I 1, Coal Merchant, Ash burton, Agent for the Cuunty, wfto will supply Customers in large or snail quantities. The Allandale Coal is the best produced on the Eastern seaboard. It is an excellent Steam Coal, unrivalled for Bakers, and a god Domestic Coal, burn ing with a flame, does not sparkle, and leaves a white ash. It Is both Cheap and Excellent. JAMES ELLIOTT, COAL MERCHANT, ASHBURTON. 11 145 TT7 ANTED~ KNOWN— "~" That a Bottle of Cambridge's Herb Beer Kxtract will make eight gallons of Finest Herbal Beer. No boiling required. Od a bottle. That a Od packet Cambridge's Ginger Beer Powder makes iwj gallons of the old-fashioned Stone Ginger Beer. That four drops of Cambridge's Es sence of Rennet in a pmt of new milk makes delici in Bweet Curds and whey—much stronger and Cheaper than the imported rennet. These wholesome Summer Beverages supplied wholesale and retail by the Manufacturers. THE ASHBU TON DRUG CO, LD. 11 149 NEW ZEALAND CiiOTiunro Factory SPECIAL DISPLAY OF NEW GOODS FOR THIS WEEK. BOOTS I BATS NEW PATTERNS BOOTS fcMe^Boy.'* HATS BOOTS Youths' Suits; HATS BOOTS \ FATS BOOTS Tennis Shirts * Cricket Shirts HATS BOOTS Cycling ghirtß HATg BOOTS " HATS BOOTS All New Goods. HATB BOOTS HATS BOOTS White Shirts I Regat'a Shirts HATS #OOTS g s t grd Shirte hats BOOTS The Largest Stock BOOTS ln Ashburton, HATS BOOTS — BO q TS j TIES. TIES. TIES s „ _ _. HATS BOOTS ' $?e °^v?Acial Dis play in Windows. HATS BOOTS _ ' i ' HAfcLENSTEIN BEOS. ALEX HENPR^T, Manager



Holloway's Pills.—Nervous Irritability; Jfo part of the human machine requires more constant supervision than the nervous eyatern—for upon it our health—and even life depends. These pills strengthen the nerves a»4 fare ito W«P gener»l purifiers of the blood, ' Nausea, headache^ giddi ness, numbness and mental apathy yield to them. They relieve in a summary manner those distressing dyspeptic symptoms, stomachic pains, fullness at the pit of the stomach, abdotnal distension, and regulate alike capricious appetites and confined bowls—fye commonly accompanying signs of ' defective or diminised nerve tone. Holloway's Fills are' particularly re^m mended to persons of studious and seaeu tary habits, who gradually fall into "a nervous and if ritabU; state, unless some such f«sor.a)jyi 1,6 octtwionajly t*keD,