COMMERCIAL.

Sydney, Octobar 17 Wheat, chick 2* 8d; milling, nominally, 2s lOd. Flour, roller brand, siominally £7 5a to £7 10s. Oats, prime feeding, 2i lOd. Maize, prime, Is lid. Barley, rape, nomi nally, 2s 3d. Bran, 7&d. Pollard, 6JJ. Peas, Prussian blue, 4a. Potatoes, local grown, £1 5s to £1 103; Circular Heads, £2 to £2 s*; New Zealand, £2 s<. Onions, £11 10s to £12. Butter, dairy made, 7d to 8d ; factory, 8d to 9d. Cheese, prime, sd. Baccn, prime cured, sd. Melbourne October 17 Wheat, 29 Id. Mour £5 7s 6d to £5 15s. Oats—a pood demand; Algerian, la 8d ; stout, Is lOd. Maize, Is lOd. Barley, quiet; Cape, Is lOd ; EDg i*h, is 9d. Bran s£d to 6d. Pollard, 6Jd to 7d. Potatoes, £1 oa to £117s Gd. Adelaide, October 17 Wheat, 23 Oid. Flour, roller brands, £5 7a "3d to £5 lOst Bran and pollard, 6^d to 6£d each.

ASHBURTON MARKETS.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited (A. W. Steele, auctioneer), reports on the stock market for the week as follows:—There wa3 a fairly large yarding at Tinwald on 16th inst. Mheep —The fat pens were well filled, but thtre was not much competition. In the store pens, hoggets were again very con spicuous, but were not so eagerly enquired after aa in previous sales, and a large proportion were passed in. Merino and crossbred ewes, with a fair percentage of veil grown lambs, are in demand, and for this class of Sheep the bidding was brisk. Several lines of shorn sheep were yarded, afso a pen of early lambs, which realised 103 and 11s. The sales comprised shorn croas bretla 10s 9J, merino v/ethtrs, prime, 9=T to 12a, crossbred two-tooths 8s 3d to 15s, cross bred hoggets 6s 4d to liis sd. A line of shorn hoggets fetched 7s Bd, crossbred ewes and lambs ranged from 12s 9d to 16s Id. One fine line of 70, with 150 per cent of lambs, realising 17s Id. Sound mouth merido ewes, with a fair percentage of lambs, brought 7s 7d. Cattle.—Cows in full profit sold at from £4 17a 6d to £7 7s 63. Stores £2 to £4 ss, and fat cattle brought £6 to £7 14s. During the week we sold privately a line of two-tooth crossbred wothers at 11s 6d, and a small line of orossbred ewes, with lambs at foot, at 16s 9d.

Miscellaneous Items.

At Tomboye, near Praidwood, New South Wales, a lad named Milner Phillips was shot dead. He was playing with his grandfather, P, Stewart, and was prepar ing for a shooting expedition, In doing SomothiHg to a gun in his bedroom the weapon exploded, the charge entering the boy's body in the reigon of his heart. Death was instantaneous. In one of the oldest ruins in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico (says an American paper), a number of very rare and in teresting Images, formed in metal, have been uncovered. The images represent people o? Oriental appearance and dreas, m well as priests in their robes of sacrifice. They bear hieroglyphics of unknown characters and are elaborately wrought, •with fine art lines bhown in every cuive. The images found thus aro of gold, either wholly or in part* and are coated with some unknown enamel, which has pre- j served t hem from all harm in the many years they have been buried in the soil. Mrs Pyne, wife of a plumber, met with a .serious a- oident on Wednesday m the shop of Black, JBeUitie and Co,, dr»pers,Ohrist church. Two of the employees were moving an empty case on the upper floor clo*e to two large rolls of cocanuc matting, which were standing' one upon another. The case struck the lower roll and tilted it, and it is supposed that as it fell back aga'ns' 1-. the wall the shock Shot the upper one forward and sent it flying over the railing surrounding the ' well' for admit ting light to the ground floor. T ie railing w?s about 6va feet ftcm the rolls of net ting. Mrs Pyne was sitting before the counter on the ground floor and the roll of matting struck her on the baok. It is believed that her spine is seriously injured and she is now in a critical condition. A Scottish poet is in trouble. A com munication which he received from fcho Prime Minister, ' got into hi* head ' with such disastrous results that hy found him self before ;v magistrate, charged with the untomantic oifence of drunkenness In virtue of his much writing of politic il and topical verses, he was ambitious enough to aspire to the vacant po-t of Poet Laureate. Accordingly hn applie-i t.)Lord Rosebery, and he told the magistrate that tbeanswer made him^'take to tliiiik.' Itdid n<«t transpire whethor hia excessive pota tions were induced by the c tngratuktions of his friends or by an an attempt on his part to drown his sorrow at a polite * decUned vdth thanks.' The magistrate, caring for none of those things, sent the unfortunate genius to prison in default of payment, of a fine of s*. Thft teetotallers must see to it that the Prime Minister's letters are in future purged of thtse alcoholic tendencies. At the. Anglican Synod at Wellington on Wednesday Achbishop Fancourt, in referring to the Divorce Bill recently rejected by the Legislative Council, fa;d the Bill contaioed a clause whereby, had it become hw, the grounds on which divorce might have baen obtained woald have placed the law of the land in direct opposition to the Jaw ot the church and to the law of God. It would likewise have opened a door to all manner of collusions, ani would have tended to sap the very foundations of society. Happily it was thrown out, of it would have met with the strongest opposition from the church, if not from the whole Christian community. As it was constantly laken f >r granted that what the State had imde lawful was regarded by the Church as lawful, ha took this opportunity of stating that the Church did not regard oivorce as setting ufcher man or woman free to marry again, and that no clergyman was at liberty to solemnise such marriages, nor to eolemise a marriage between a man and his deceased wife's sister.

THE AfcfifeTJKTOft GUAifcDIAJN: OCTOBER 19, 1894.

Printed and published by the Asbbnrton Publishing Company, Ltd, »t their fteair «>rintint» office, Burnett Street Ashburton FRIDAY, October 19, 1894,



SHEARMAN BROS., GROCERS AND IRONMONGERS. Reductions. Reductions. For OASH^ONLT. 701b Bags No. 1 Snowdrop ROLLITT'S Supreme Flour, Sugar 16s 251b 2s, 5()lb 3s IOJd, 561b Bags No. 1 Snowdrop 1001bs7s 6d, 2001bs 14s Sugar 12s 9d Neave's Food lid per tin Caustic Lye, for Soap making, Candles s^d per lb, 121bs for lOd pfrtin, 12 tins for 8s 6d 5s 3d Marmalade in glass jars 8d Corn Flour (Brown's) 3Jd lb, Choice Figs 6d per lb 121bs 3s 3d Rock Salt 5s 6d per cwt Edmond's Baking Powder, large 251b " Blue Bell" Oatmeal 2s 6d tins, lid tin, 12 tins 10s 6d per bag, 4 bags 9s lid Cream of Tartar (pure) Is 2d lb, Finect Sago, Tapioca, and Split 121bs for 12s 3d Teas If d lb, 71bs for Is Baking Soda 3d lb, slbs for Is Sheep Tongues lOd per tin, 9s 31bs of our noted 2s Blended Tea 6d dozen for 5s Lemon Peel 8d lb, 71b tins 3s 6d Essence Coffee, large bottles, Is New Currants (cleaned) 3fd lb Fine Salt 5s per cwt. Eleme Raisins (cleaned) 4Jd lb White Pepper Is 2d lb. 121bs Dunn and Hewitt's Cocoa 8d lb for 12s Sunlight Soap Is 2d box of six Safety Matches 4d per dozen, 6 Tablets dozen for Is 6d NONE BUT THE BEST BRANDS OF GOODS KEPT IN STOCK. Full Weights Guaranteed. Goods delivered Daily. Nimmo and Blair's reliable Vegetable and Flower Seeds always on hand Sole Agents for Tiger Teas and " Blue Bell * Oatmeal. SHEARMAN BROS., MARKET HOUSF. Grand Show OF NEW GOODS EX PAKEHA. JUST OPENED—SUMMER NOVELTIES Mantles, Jackets, Gapes, Blouses. THE NEW DAGMAR LINEN COSTUME OLOTfI. BEAUTIFUL SELECTION OF NEW MILLINERY,)i?LOWERS, RIBBONS, FEATHERS, ETC. A CHOICE DISPLAY OF Fashionable s Novelties FOR SPRING AND SUMMER WEAR. The Latest in Cotton and Wool Dress Fabrics Choice Goods for Blouses. Sunshades and Umbrellas Crepons, Muslins, Delaines, Linens, Drills, etc. Lace insertions, Edgings, and Trimmings Handkerchiefs in Silk, Linen, Muslin and Cambric Ravishing Millinery, BEWITCHING BLOUSES. MANTLES, JACKETS, CLOAKS AND CAPES, CURTAINS, LIBERTY MUSLINS AND CARPETS, Oilclotbs and Unoleums. MITCHELL I TURNER A BKILLIANI? DISPLAY OP New Washing Fabrics. New Linen Effects, New Printed Nainsooks, New Mysore Zephyrs, New Pandora Gloths, New Printed Pongees. New Prints, New Cambrics, New Drills. New Muslins, , * ■■' New Sateens, New Galateas, . Etc., Etc. G. I. BEATH & CO., TANOEED STBEET.



Important Announcement /.} —: Retiring from Business, :— ROBERT MURRAY PRACTICAL WATCH AND CLOCK MAKER, rjESIRES to announce to his Customers and the Public generally, that ho has decided to RETIRE from BUSINESS, and in order to more easily dispose of his Business has resolved to REDUCE his large and Costly Stockjby SELLING>b a'great sacrifice. The WHOLE of the STOCK, comprising- OVKK £3000 WORTH OF WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELLERY, PLATE, ETC. Will be offered AT PRICES NEVER BEFORE OFFERED to the Ashburtor public, many of the lines being reduced as much as 40 and 50 per cent, £10 10s Watches, reduced to £8 8s | £5 10s Watches, reduced to £3 15s I Eight Day Clocks to Strike, fromJlSs 6d Silver Watches from £1 5s | Vory'Strcuj; SERVICEABLE WATOHKS in SOLID NICKELSCaees, REDUCED From 21s to 15* A veryflarge and'well-solected Stock of HIGH-CLASS DIAMOND, ENGAGE MEKT, WEDDING and KEEPER RINGS. GOLD AND SILVER JEWELLERY OF ALL PRICES AT A TREIIIEItfDOITg ftEDirCVIOST ' OFF MARKED PRICES. SPERLING SILVER AND ELECTRO-PLATED WARE AT MANUFACTURERS' PRICES. Having a VERY HEAVY STOCK of Watch and Clock Repairing Materials 'at present; the PRICE of WATCH and CLOCK REPAIRS will be. GREATLI REDUCED. Watches Cleaned ... ... 5s 6d Mainsprings ... ... ... 4s 6d Clocks Repaired and Cleaned from 2s ALL GOODS MARKED IN PLAIN FIQUBES. W. H. COLLST& CO. Timber. Timber. Timber. —JUST LANDED- Ex Invercargill — 30,000 ft RED PINE Ex Rosamond — 25,000 ft FLOORING and LINING Ex Enterprise — 17,000 ft FLOORING and LINING From Little River — 29,000 ft TOTARA Dry Flooring and Matchlining Always in Stock. Ironmongery of Every Description, Paper Hangings of Artistic Designs. PAINTING BY COMPETENT WORKMEN, and none bub GENUINE : Materials used. W- H COLLINS <Sc CO. fßoyal Insurance Company I Grey Valley Coal Company. AGENIS FJR I Springfield Pottery Company 1 Corben and Co's Celebrated Enamelled Mantelpiece I McKenzie 1? Furniture Renovator \_Black Ball Coal Company JOHN WILSON, PAINTER, GLAZIER & PAPERHANQBE, Corner ot Arcade and Burnett Street, Ashburton NEW SEASON'S WALL PAPEES Just Arrived BEST ASSORTMENT IN TOWN. ESTIMATE OF HOtJSE DECORATIONS GIVEN "FREE. »• 1



USE LITTLE'S SHEEP DIP FLUID DIP, the best Non-poisonous Dip Used and Recommended by Owners of ovbr 5,000,000 Sheep in N.Z. alone. PRICE (in casks) 5s 6d per gallon. 1 Gallon Fluid makes 100 gallons Dip A POISONOUS DIP, combined with Glycerine—the outcome of many years' experience, Wonderfully Successful, Is displacing all other Poisonous Dipa. Sales have TREBLED each year since introduced. EXTERMINATES VERMIN, K«EPS WOOL SOFT & BRIGHT, EASILY MIXED Cheapest and BEST POISONOUS DIP in the Market. _____ __ T >-,— (In Improved Irop Kegs) 50s per owt NOTE JPBICE.— ■ ) In Oages o f io, 101b packets) sOs per oase One Owt. Makes 1,000 gallons of Dip. Chief A-iareiitfll— BLAOKBURNB & 00 , Clhrktohuroh. disteict agents-Miles and Co., Limited, Ashburton and Bakaia. 10 19 X Anderson, BOOT "W AJBEHOUS-, EAST STREET. BOOTS- BOOTS. BOOTS npHE Largest and Best Assorted Stock in the District to Select from ALL BEST ENGLISH AND CONTINENTAL MAKES IN STOCK. Our COLONIAL GOODS are made at Our Own Factory, so that we are able to GUARANTEE SATISFACTION AND SELL AT LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICES. Every Description of Boots and Shoes marie to order. Material and Workmanship GUARANTEED. Be sure to Call and Inspect Goods before Buying elsewhere. 8- ANDERSON BOOT MANUFACTURER AND IMPORTER, J. NICHOLAS, Manager, East street, Kepaibs Done Same Day as Brought R. JB. REBTELL, COMMISSION AGENT, ARCADE. AGENT FOR WALTER A, WOOD, BINDER, --- -_-*■--- -_-«.-■ Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society A. LAWEIE, "■"• Landells and Preston, Burnett Si'rebt, Ashburtox, Agekts for the AUSTRAL CYCLE AGENCY, ci a rvnor>ni t»tttt T\T\Tfl a the Largest °y°le ImPorters in the SAIiINDBKS' BUILDINGS, Southern Hemisphere, incor porated with the John Griffiths Cycle Corporation. THE AUSTBAL CYCLE AGENCY ARE THE j SOLE AUSTRALIAN AGENTS FOR : Messrs Plumber and Co., Ltd., Beeston, ma cm a>vx> i?t?ti Coventry, Wolverhampton ; The Premier JiAfei blKAJiil Oycle (j 0> Ltdj Coventry; The Raleigh Cycle Co, (exclusive of Victoria), Notting i ham ; The St George's Engineering Co j {exclusive of NSW and S A), New Rapid, I Birmingham ; The Referee Cycle Co, Ltd, I London; William Bown, Ltd, Aeolus Bearings, Birmingham; The Cycle Com ponents Manufacturing Co ; Messrs Thomas Opposite Railway Station, Warwick and Sons, Warwick Rims, Birmingham ; The Westwood Wheel Co, Westwood Rims, Birmingham ; Messrs R F J Hall Manufacturing Co, Birmingham; I Messrs Harrison Carter, Carter's Gear Case, ' Birmingham; Messrs Thomas Smith and Sons, Saltley, Birmingham ; Messrs W and A Bates, Rubber Manufacturers, Leicester ; The Auto Machinery Co, Coventry. AQT4 PTTP'IYIW Holding such Agencies as the above, we AQlii>UivlUJN. are j n a position to cater for the Cycling community, as no other firm in Canter bury can. Wakanui Mill, EE-OPENING. PIANOFOETB edwin~thomas AMEMCAN OEGAN, Bf as'oar-™llTOlohißfrienaßandth6 | 7 public that he has RE OPENED his THEORY OP MUSIC AND HARMONY. Wakanui Mill. The superb roller, n r plant lias keen c»mpsetely overhauled by IMPS W'BOW/YtcW FOX, the expert from Manchester where it was Pupil of London Masters, mad T e ' nd 6everal new ™achine ß added, With Certihcatea from Trinity College, h0 that liour second to none in the colony London, can now be produced. XT7 ILL Commence Teaching the above Mr James Cockbubn has tho manage- VV at the School oi? Music and at ment of the Mi[l flo thafc f ; ct ncr residence, Irevorton, Ashburton, , - „ J on October 16, and will be pleased to S"«™tee *™ the excellence of the make arrangements with intending pupils product is secured, as soon a.s possible. Grists left at Mk J. Thomas' store MRS FOX will teach on Two Evenings (opposite Mr Harrison's), will be carted of the week for the convenience of those Free of Charge, and tho ?mstino will be Examinations. . r i * ~"~~~ Terms: Two Guineas per quarter, to tuWlfi "Fhf\tYiriQ commence from any date. LUVYIfI i UUUIUb, Highest testimonials fi-oiu former PRQPKIETGft I pupils- 10 18 g 1831



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Stud Notice 3. fi\EE STANDARD-BRED AMERICAN 1. TROTTING STALLION, General Tracey, Will be in Ashburton every Saturday, travelling via Willowby on Fridays, and return home via Wheatstone, Flenaing ton, and Waterton every Monday. PEE—Four Guineas. Service fee ss, both payable on first service. Mares grazed free at Longbeach up to January 1, 1895. Every care taken but no responsibility. 9 208 JON GRIGG. mO STAND THIS SEASON AT HINDS, and travel surrounding districts, HE THOROUGHBRED ENTIRE fet. Iresu •; By Gorton, dam Leg9rdemain. For fees and further particulars apply THOS. HuLMES, 9-171 Hinds •TO TRAVEL THIS SEASON, the JL THOROUGHBRED STALLION YOUNG CHEVIOT In the Wakanui, Ashburton, Seafield and Methven districts. For particulars apply 9 192 0. BENNETT, Wakanui. THE CARRIAGE STALLION Toronto three years, by Texas, dam Twilight, by Traduoer, (imp.), will serve a limited num. ber of mares at his owner's place, visiting Aahburton once a week. W, BEGC, 9 180 Ashton. STUD HORSES. NOTICE TO HORSE BREEDERS. Tl/I R J. R. BEGG'S Carriage Stallion Boomerang Will travel the same Districts as last year 9 146 Blackwood Abdallah WILL Stand this Seasen at Owner'? Stable, Ashburton. TERMS.—£4 4s for Season, Good paddooking at Is 6d per week ; all care taken but no responsibility. Groomaje fee, s*l. 9 212 MAX FRIEDLANDER TO STAND THE SEASON at my Farm, Lismore, The Well-known Stallion Arsryle, By the kins; of stallions. Young Banker (imp), dam Blossom by Lincolnshire Hero. Terms : 255, payable at firat ser vice. For further particulars, apply to 10 42 L. FROST, Lismore. Emcofirasre 43 en nine I«ocf1 Industry. LN order to keep our large staff of tailors fullj employed during the winter, we are now offering EXTRA ORDINARY INDUCEMENTS to our Customers Compare our New Patterns in New Zealand Tweeds — Good, Heavy and Durable for winter wear MKN'S SUITS to MEASURE FROM £2 15s to £3 10.3. TROUSERS to Measure from 15s to 21s Men's Waterproof Tweed Uvercoacs made to measure. JJ^ Kvery Coat guaranteed thoroughly Waterproof Ladies' Waterproof Mantles made to ft!e.asura in the Latent styles BOOTS and SHOES in all best makes. p*t- Every pair warranted to wear well. New Winter Shirts, Hats, Ties, and Men's Underclothing, etc, Good and Cheap. — OKAIGHEAD & BERRYMAN, THE LE DING TAILORS AND OUT FITTERS, ASHBURTON Veiaie Flower. SINGING. THE IHIBD TERM will commence September 11. Miss Flower will be pleased to receive intending Pupils as early as possible at her residence, Cox Street. 9 56 ALLANDALE COAL COMPANY Limited. Saving- of 25 per r«nt. on Your Coal Kill. H4VB APPOINTED JAM *JW KLLIOTT, COAL MERCHANT, WEST STREET, Agent for the County. ALLANDaLK is the best native coal produced on the Eastern Seaboard. It i" an excellent Steam Coal, unrivalled for Bakers, f-plendid Domestic Coal, does not sparkle and burns with a flame, Note the Address— JAMES ELLIOTT. WEST STREET, Opposite D. THOMAS. Newcastle Coal, Westport Coal, Fire wood, Stakes, Posts, etc. in stock. KJJLES THE WOFILD THE PREMIER TEA OF THE WOfJLB. Jtichent and loveliest flavonv. ■ Bfoi'O tfconomical than any other ijinS. Eccopimended by the Medical Faculty. All Injurious Ingredients removed. Promotes digesiion^-strejigthein the eon fttitution. It's numerous competitors are falling away like magic. A BLESSING TO MANKIND. Prices, 2a 6d and 2s pc Ask your Grocer for i! t HKNRY ZAN BK R Wholesale Ageat



id Alf DJEtt"* $«n* Biical.rpi Extract There ar • imitations of Eucalypti" Extract in th market now, products of smple distillation forming mile resinous oils. In order that these crude oils m\v not be taken, Oph Pobb Volatile Eucalypti Extract, whic"i is recognised by the medical division of ibe Prussian Government to be of per fectly pure origin, as their information for .varrted to us through the Consul at Melbourne, March 2,1878 n« state : - ... U proved by te»M by fi* \fe.I roU (Jmic« ot he Universities at Bonn an Griefswal' , Pawsia. and teporteri by Dr Echulz, Professor of Parmaeology. at Bon, i.^d Professor Dr Metier, Director of the >. ertical Clinic at Greifswald, that only product' that mre saturated with oxygen aud freed of a'-ids, resinous and lotlier substances, adherent to primary distillation, will developo the sanative qualities proper to the plant according to these authorities:, and according to f'ro tsor Be Lfcter of England, and to l>rs Bauer, clntire, Wood, Hazard, etc., of America, is the only extract correspond ing to scientific tests, and the fnly on which poss-'&ses th* proper therapeutic vale. ; Sander «fc Son's fc-ucALvpxi Extract AH other crude oils are to be classed among the <bur.pei.'tiues, which fa <-ye, when used as medicine, sin tberaper.tic eflect and are abandoned as an internal aiedicfiueat. Tiifii-e so called Eucalypti .Extracts ■trh eh may have received distinction at iijcufbitions as &.ißtnercipl articles *re used for mechanical par ose« are o-.iy ditfcern'Me:— JAy their deficiency Jn pungent odour (Which our tnvduut, tiie unly gennit.e tucal,\pti Extracts de velopes moßt freely through its surplus of oxygen) By their »lcoh.ySic thin and misbiie appearauue Yeing reenced <U specifl; density through th presence of acids By their taste, the result of th contructiug ten (ieiicy of re^ns aud ton nates. If theMO crude oils so called eucalypti extracts ar upplied by mistake in cases o croup, bronchitis, diph 'tberia, internal iufammations, dysentery, wounds, tti ■oijußutiuences are appaliiug Fora-ife y always ask (o •.SAMJK.U AND BON'S BOCAT.YI'TX EXrEAOT and ire rtbe old, well-tes ed ani reliable preparation. —j&ajjci aursti VictoriuAustraliu, «ANPJiK A3N TD SDK'S



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