Ashburton Guardian Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1894. THE INFLUX.

The Wellington Trades Council has addressed a letter to the Queensland Trades Council, which is in effect an open letter to all the Trades and Labor Councils in Australia. In it the state of trade in New Zealand is very fairly set forth. The scarcity of work for skilled labor of all kinds is dwelt upon, and the abundance of unskilled labor is pointed out, this abundance increased as it must be by accessions of skilled workers who finding no employment at trades to which they have been trained must perforce seek any kind of work they can do, or try to do, so that they may find bread for themselves and their dependents. The letter shows that while this is the state of affairs here, it is useless for men to come from Australia in the hope of bettering their condition in New Zealand. If they do come, and succeed in finding work, they only do so to the exclusion of some one else already here. But the chances are that they will not find work, or only miserably intermittent employment, btill, men from Aus tralia are arriving in numbers by every vessel, and the greatness of the increase has forced itself upon the notice of the Trades Council of Wellington, whVin the interests of the immigrants them selves, as much as in the interests of the working population here, have written this warning to the working men of Australia. We trust it will have the intended effect. New Zea land has millions of acres yet unoc cupied for agriculture,—millions which have as yet been but lightly touched by the foot of the white man, if trod at all by the European, so that in the colony there is room and to spire for a large population. But much has yet to be done before those acres aje open for settlement. But Australia is larger still in her area of unoccupied Jands, and she, too, has much to do before those lands can ofter a home for the many who aro seeking it. Our population is yet but small, and their wants are few, while the skilled workmen among us could produce manufactures far in excess of our wants. That being so, no help in thjLs connection is. wanted from outside | until provision k mf*d© ty t^e opening

of our unoccupied lands for the admis sion of a population that can enter u^on them, and provide in themselves a market for our manufactures, and an outlet for our surplus labor, skilled and unskilled. The population of Australia is also small for the extensive area of land she has, but she too has her hands full of difficulties before her un occupied land can be made habitable and productive, and population settled upon her wastes. Meanwhil" she has an unemployed population larger than the whole population of New Zealand, or at least a population of workers a very large proportion of whom would gladly seek other fields. Naturally they turn their eyes eastward to the land of the tui, and following their gaze they meet only disappointment. The closing paragraph of the letter is couched in the language of kindly warning. It admits the degree of prosperity the colony is enjoying but urges that it cannot absorb the large numbers who are arriving from Aus tralia in quest of work, and gives ad vice to those who are contemplating such a step to weigh well the risks that inevitably must await them if they de cide to throw their lot in with the tolonists of New Zealand—aa advice ■we trust will not be lightly rejected.

TEMPORARY INSANITY.

During the last three months an epi demic of suicide has been running its course in New Zealand, and so fre quent have been the cases of people attempting their own lives that the New Zealand " Times" has devoted a leading article to the gruesome subject of self-murder, and suggests a remedy. The writer holds that a man who believes in eternal punishment— which is of all evils the worst which the human mind can conceive, or as some thinkers would put it, has yet conceived—must be against suicide. He believes in the doctrine of punish ment ; he accepts the commandments, of which one stands inexorably against killing (whether in the shape of murder or suicide), and so long as he is in pos session of his senses, so long will he refrain from suicide. The article then goes on to say that it is only when the mind of such a man gets so far off the balance as to destroy the reasoning faculty that he will adopt suicide as a legitimate means of escaping from difficulties. Hence the verdicts of " Temporary insanity " which are the leading feature of a, very large propor tion of the history of Coroners' Courts. The writer refers to the time when such verdicts were impossible, and every suicide was denied the rites of Christian burial and his unblessed re mains wero deposited in a hole at cross roads in '' ignominious un-christian fashion." Wonder is expressed that the fact of suicide bsing so manifestly unreasonable was not always regarded as proof of aberration of intellect. In these days the tendency to suicide is accepted as a sign of madness, but a madman is not treated by us as one " possessed," but as one afflicted, and is treated tenderly,—with firmness, certainly, but not the less so wich kind ness. Every care is taken to prevent suicide by those so afflicted, and when such care has proved fruitless, the same merciful consideration is extended to the reputation of the suicide, and 11 tempoaary insanity " tempers the old horror of felo It se. The •'Times" remarks that whether these verdicts are too numerous, regard being had to the evidence on which they rest, it would be difficult to decide off-hand : each case must be judged upon its merits. And then the question of prevention I is discussed. " The question of prevention divides itself into two categorics —that dealin with the I sane and that dealing with the insane. The latter belongs generally to the question of insanity. Nothing special can be devised. Whatever may be the reason for the growth of insanity—whether drink, gambling, vice, the fever of speculation, the lack of self control, the stress of *llfe—whatever it may be governs the growth of that portion of suicide which iß^due to insanity, it. i", we | fear, beyond the reach of Legislatures." Just so But jn regard to sane suicide, .says this writer, the case is different It is absurd to have laws punishing people by terms of imprison ment for attempting suicide. These terms of imprisonment are imposed be cause they did not succeed in killing themselves, and the law is therefore practically an encouragement to suicide. And then comes a suggestion which takes the breath away— " Now many sane suicides are due to a very palpable motive— the desire to benefit relatives. Confiscate the whole of the pro perty of a sane suicide, nullify his life insur ance policy, and you will at once stop suicide from becoming; a benefactor of families and a defrauder of insurance companiei. Of course, aiders and abettors ought to be punished, and they are under the Criminal Code liable to imprisonment for life. At tempted suicide is liable to only two years, and property is not touched. As we have said, this is virtually a premium on suicide. j A. change in the direction we have pointed out, which would be returning a long way back towards the old law, would effectually ! lessen the number of suicides of sane people. I A man who deserts his post in the battle of i life cannot be personally reached ; but if he knew that the property he leaves to his nearest and dearest could be reached, he would not desert." Surely " temporary insanity " must be the verdict upon the condition ot this usually able writer when he allowed his pen to write the foregoing. Be cause some poor unfortunate whom " unmerciful disaster followed fast and followed faster, 1 until, seeing but a blank and hopeless future before him and maddened by the thought, raised an unholy hand against his life—are the children of that moral coward to be deprived any benefit he in his better moments had provided for them ? Who is to be the judge after he is dead of his sanity when living—-the sapient members of the coroner's jury who »• §a.t" 00 him ? Aud. excelling judges

they would be. Pass such a law and the evidence the jury would look for would be whether the deceased had made any provision for his wife and little ones. Evidence of the fact would be sufficient evidence to them that the man must have been mad or he would never have taken his own life. It takes able medical men some times all they know to decide upon the sanity of a man, and it was only last Friday that two medical men gave certificates at Gisborne affirming a man's insanity, which they would not have done had they not learn ?d that the man had the same week gone to the cemetery and exhumed the body of his two-year old child, cut the head off and cariied it home. On the strength of this act the doctors certified to the man's insanity, but the man's counsel held that he was only drunk. The certificates, however, were all powerful with the Court, and the man was committed to the asylum. How many suicidesoccur the inciting cause of which is wholly unknown to the people among whom tbe victim lived, and is quite untraceable by the police ? And yet this writer would lay upon coroners' juries the responsibility of deciding— after his death—upon the insanity of a aian when he was living, and upon that decision confiscate all the man's savings, nullify all he bad in the matter of life insurance with a view to his children's future. The suggestion is not one whit less revolting than if a return had been proposed to the old b*rbarous course of cross-road burial with a stake through the carcase. Less so, in fact, for the poor corpse would feel neither pain nor shame over the treatment, while his children under "New Zealand Times" law would have to starve. " Temporary insanity " surely is the matter with the writer.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There is an old Baconian proverb which Bays "God hangs the greatest weights on the smallest wires." This was admirably illustrated at the recent Australian Cycling meeting, where W. T. Tallow, of New South Wales, who scales 14st 101b t rode a racing machine weighing 231bs. The Railway Commissioners and represen tatives cf frozen meat and insurance com panies had a conference at Christchurch on Monday morning for the purpose of con sidering how best the facilities for shipment of frozen meat could be improved. After a lengthy discussion several improvements were decided upon and will be put into operation at an early date. A first attempt at poetry by a very modest poet has reached us. He puts neither his non-de-plume nor his patronymic to his effu sion, which is a rhyming advertisement of the tradesman in Tancred s'reet. His last line runs—" But now I must stop for I am starting to sneeze." We hope he did sneeze, and that he sneezed himself into a resolution never to write verses again. • For the fund to defray expenses of the representative team of the Ashburton Fire Brigade at the annual gathering ot the Associated Brigades at Napier, the following donations have been received:—Borough Council, £3 3*; Mr John McLachlan M.H.R., £2 2s; Mr D. Thomas, £1 Is; Mr H. H. Stephens, £1 Is. Mr William Pollock, in acknowledgment of the Brigade's services at the fire on his premises on February 4, sends £1 to the Brigade's funds. Taking the equivalent of all intoxicating drinks in proof alcohol, the figures for the various Australasian colonies stand as follow per inhabitant for the year 1892, except in the case of Tasmania, for Jwhich colony the figures ia gallons are for 1891:—New South Wales, 2.67; Victoria, 3.24; Queensland, 2.46; South Australia, 2.43; Western Aus tralia, 3.68; Tasmania, 2.00; New Zealand, 1.77. This makes New Zealand the most sober of all the colonies and yet the figures show that in this colony the consumption of spirits was 0.71 gallons per head, whilst in Tasmania the quantity was only 0.69 per head. Lord Tenyham, who is taking up the question of the unemployed in the House of Lords, is the eighteenth baron of his name, and is, prehaps, the only member of the peerage who is a clerk in a solicitor's office. By a habit of marrying twice, aud often to parsons' daughters, his forefathers have not left Lord Teynham as rich as he might be. But he evidently prefers honest toil to gilding his escutcheon with an heiress' money, for not long ago he sent to the Times a letter he bad received from "aColonel," offering to introduce his lordship to a young Australian lady with a fabulous fortune. Lord Teynham is 26, unmarried, strong on Church questions, and in favor of " Better ment." At a meeting of the Christchurch City Council last night the Mayor stated that his Excellency the Governor had written to him with respect to an annoyanca which had been caused on account of his coachman having been summoned under the new by law for driving at other than a walking pace over one of the street crossings, considering that a little courtesy should have been shown him and that such hasty steps should not have been taken. They had put him to con siderable trouble and caused him needless annoyance. The Mayor stated that he had replied to the effect that the Council was. very Borry to have caused his Excellency annoyance, but that it was not altogether its fault. The police had in hand the carrying out of the by-law, and while it was to be re gretted that in this instance the Governor of the colony should have been annoyed, the police could not be blamed for not respect ing persons, About half-past twelve on Sunday morn ing Detective Benjamin and Constables Ramsay and Gough were standing on Colombo street, near the Bank of New Zea land, when they heard a loud crash, the sound apparently coming from Cathedral square. The two constables went round by the Post office, and the detective searched along the back of the Bank of New Zealand. After searching for some time Detective Benjamin heard a noise as of some one moving about in the back yard behind the Bank. The only way into the yard was over a high wooden gate, and as this could not be very ! easily scaled, the night watchman at the Bank was roused. It was then found on go ing into the yard that a man, who was evi dently fuddled with drink, had found his way in there by climbing over the gate,, and the noise was caused by his knocking down a shelf attached to the gate on the inside, and on which were a number of bottles, eta. The man could give no clear idea of what he was about, and did not know where he wasi He was immediately taken to the look' up,,

The unusual phenomenon of a halo round the sun was visible at midday yesterday. A girl named Alice Jarvis died on Sunday in Christchureh from peritonitis—-the result qf e*ting unripe fruit. The monthly edition of " The Triad " is to hand, and can be obtained from Mr Horace Gates, East street, IV embers of the Ash burton Kifle Club are requested to attend a meeting this evening to arrange matches, etc. A meeting of temperance people will be j held in the Wesleyan Church to-night to I discuss matters in connection with the licensing elections and other business, 1 he Aehburton Chess Club holds its annual general meeting at Mr Horace Gates' Booms, East street, on Friday evening next, at eight o'clock. It is understood that all chess players in the district will be welcomed. The contractor for constructing the trench' for the targets and the mound to protect the workers on the New Zealand Kifle Associa tion's range at Hillaborough has completed his work satisfactorily, A different method has been adopted on this range from that usually pursued. Instead of cutting a deep trench for the targets to swing in, a shallow one aboat two feet six inches in depth is all that has been cut, but the mound has been built up the necessary height to preserve the markers from danger. The mound it faced with sods on both sides, and is three feet inside on the top. If protected at the endß with timber to keep cattle from knock ing down the sod wall, and sown with grass on top the mound will never or seldon re quire repairs. Some of the timber for the target shed is on the ground, and the w«rk of cutting down fences that are in the way is in progress. The frames of the small targets are finished. These are made of 2 inch by 1£ inch white pine, and if the, weather is at all windy they will probably be found to be altogether too light and weak. Major Sommerviile arrived last week to supervise the arrangements for the meeting of the Association, which opens on March 1.

Ashburton Horticultural Society.

TBMlt. There wan a fair show of frait considering that bat few of our orchardists exhibited, la the open class two excellent exhibits of blackberries were shown by cottage growers, but we have seen better peaches produced at that show than were Bhown in either the open or the amateur classes. Nectarines and apricots were fairly creditable, but the plums, as they always are here, were superb, and in the competition for heaviest those shown were monsters. In apples, however, there was an excellent display of clean, well '' ?rown, finely flavored fruit, in which Messrs Rule, Porter, and Taylor came well to the front. Mr J. E. Hurdley, of the Mount orchard, showed a superb collection selected for export, gaining first honors, Mr Taylor's exhibit, also a fine one, being second. There was only one entry in pears—that of Miss Chalmers ; but there was a fair show ot fil bt»rts and walnuts. In t&e former Mrs R. Friedlander was first and second, and in the latter Mr W. fl. Rule was second, Mrs R. Friedlander being first.. MrJ. E. Hurdley was the only exhibitor of the growers' col lection of fruit. In the amateur division the classes were not well filled, but in some caso3 better than in the open. Mra W. Mitchell had all the honors in peaches, but no nec tarines were shown, and the apricots, al though well entered, were not the best we have seen on that table, AH round the plums were very good, especially Mrs Paul's dish ; but it was in apples that the amateurs shone best, and both cooking and dessert kinds were a grand display. In pears again there was only one entry—Mra J. Hunt's and in filberts Mra R. Friedlander was one, more champion.

CABLE NEWS.

The marriage of the i)uke of Hessa takes place on April 22. The Indian budget shows a deficit of 350 lacs of rupeeSj or about £2,000,000. A hundred and thirty-five Rouma nian cavalry officers have resigned by way of protest against the severity of the cavalry inspectors. The Minister of War has advised Mr Reid, the Victorian Commissioner, to consult General Sir R. Buller regard ing the appointment of an Inspector- General of Colonial Military. " The Times " thinks the decision of the Victorian Government to lend money to farmers requires the utmost caution, as a Government ought not to accept securities which Banks would i reject. A yacht conveying the Empress of Austria stranded on the Spanish coast, near Almaria, on the Mediterranean. The situation was perilous, but those on board were rescued by a steamer. The Socialists in the French Cham ber of Deputies demand that the State shall control the export and import of wheat, regulate prices, and abolish middlemen. The naval authorities at bydney state that the Orlando will continue to be the flagship, and that the Orescent is merely to bring out relief crews, and returns Home with the time expired men. A forger standing in the dock in the Buffalo (U.S.A.) Court suddenly drew a revolver, ordered those present to throw their hands up, and escaped, locking the door behind him. It is be lieved the weapon was secretly handed to him by an accomplice.

SPORTING.

DJ.C. AUTUMN MEETING.

Dunk din, February 19. The following is the final payment for the Dunedin Cur ; two miles and a distance. st lb fit ib Prime Warden 9 1 Ich Dien ... 7 6 Liberator ... 8 3 Tempest ... 613 Dilemma ... 7 6 Remembrance tf 11

CORRESPONDENCE.

We do not hold oarsetves responsiole Tor the opinions expressed by our correspondents.)

A SUGGESTION.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Taking into consideration the steady decline in the price of wheat dur ing the past two years, and the poor prospect, so far as we can see, of any material rise in the value of this cereal within a reasonable time, might it not be a good thing if the- Agricultural and Pas toral Association called a meeting of farmers and others to disease the position of affairs and to get some expression of opinion as to the best way in which to utilise profitably some of the rich lands there are close to as, which during the past two years, where laid down in wheat, hare barely returned the oufclay, and will this season, at present prices, apparently do less. lam not a farmer myself, and have therefore no suggestion to make be yond the above, bub we have plenty of hard-working and hard-headed farmers and business men among us, with a great deal of hard-earned capital at stake; and a meeting of the kind might elicit some very useful information, and possibly be the means of directing the energies of some of bur farmers in'o more profitable channels than they are now running in.— I am, etc., Interestbd.

MASONRY.

At the close of his lecture en the *■* Talmud' on Sunday afternoon at the Masonic Hall, the Rev A. Ohodowjki, Rabbi of the Christchurch Hebrew con* gregation, said the circumstances under which he was addressing his audience permitted him to speak of the great principles which permeated the masonic order—charity, equality, tolerance, and truth. Masonry was so ancient that its origin was nearly lost in the labyrinth of ages. It was held by many that it was instituted by Moses, who deputed Joshua as his successor. But most people agreed that Solomon, the wise King of Israel, was the first born of the great brother* hood. Who shall go back and trace the date of its hoary age, when they knew that its birth was divine. Its existence eternal? Its glorious principles were practiced by the most noble of men before and since the time ot King Solo man, but its essential principles were formulated as a system by this wise monarch, who left the psalms as an im mortal heritage, and philosophy which should torm the foundation of transcen dental knowledge and human experience. Thus clad in the pure garb of her sacred mission, Masonry emerged like a beauti ful apparition, with an ineffable smile rt truth and peace in her eyes, ever pointing upwards. Gliding onwards through dark ages of ignorance and strife she carried the divine message of charity in her right hand, and the trail of her glory will never end, for the bright halo of her presence will shine for ever and ever with an« dimmed lustre on the dark shadow of life, while he? disciples will continue to garner her harvest which has been made golden by her smile, binding it all into the sheaves of one great tillage. If every beneficent action is masonic, how much U to be said of the glorious order, and the principles which form its superstructure — charity, equality, tol sration, and truth. If thesa four sisterly attributes were universally practised, the whole of this terrestrial kingdom would become one sublime temple wherein, masonry has established a divine sway. Mankind would look upon the errors of their fellows with compassion and toleration. Their practical need of each other would demonstrate equality. Through truth they would learn humility. And charity would take up her position as the guardian angel of her other three angelic sisters. When they took the his tory of one poor heart that has sinned and offended, and represented to them selves the stuggles and temptations of that poor soul, the Drief pulsations of joy, the feverish inquietude of hope and fear, the feebleness of purpose, the pressure of want, the desertion of. friends, the scorn of the world ; and also, too, when perhaps hope has fled—they could have little heart for aught else than thankfulness within and charity without. To be a true member of the great masonic order, a man must be a steward and dispenser of God's bounty to mankind. No thought of worldly position should be in his heart, " How poor a. thing Is pride when nil as slaves Differ but in their fetters, not in their graves." . Masoiiry teaches us that we Inherit in our manhood an essential equality, not only in the lodge, bud outside in the marts of life- True nobility was the nobility of the soul, and the children of God are the children of one Father. Of such are composed the pillars of our ancient craft. The great structure of morality which has reared Itself lies on theoe principles with a solid masonic foundation. It was truth, perfect and regular. He would tell them that the signs and symbols of masonry were of no value except the Bpirit were present. Thfl soul la the life, the body but the mask. Did a mason but come to lodge and witness all the symbols which re present the divine doctrines of masonry, and then go out and act in flagrant opposi tion to its teaching—such conduct would be a libel on the sacred name of masonry. The true interests of the inner ganctuary of masonary are best advanced in the exterior conduct of life. Their labtrs were not to be carried on by confused bickerings and the noisy warfare of ignorance and strife. They should be symbolised by the divine grandeur and sublime regularity of Kins; Solomon's temple. By quiet and orderly methods he and his coadjutors reared the wonder ful edifice the Temple. Without hammer, without axe or iron tool their purpose was accomplished. The soul was lodge! within the temple of the bcdy. Let them fashion it without the hammer of conten tion, tha axe of division, or any tool of mischief. The rev. gentlemen concluded his lecture with prayer.

THE WEATHER.

ALFORD STATION. The following is the Meteorological report for the week ending February 18, 1894:— *

THB ABHBOETON fICARPI&N ! TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1894.



Shade. High Date. — —— in Low. i High Sun. Monday ... 56' 12' HO-" Tuesday ... 45- 77* 155' Wednesday 47' 58' 112' Thursday... 48- 63' 112* Friday ... 45- 81* 146' Saturday... 50* 74' 146; Sunday .... 45. 68* 144*

1 , State of weather.

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HABVEST CHEQUES, OF 1804, i WILL FIND THEIR WAY TO ti. J. NtiILL and Go's AS THEY GIVE THE BEST VALDE IN ASHBURTON FOR READY MONEY DRAPERY AJSD CLOTHING. Women's Hats 6d Turkey Re<? sjd Women's Ribbed Hose 6d Men's Tweed Suits 16s 6d Chiffons in al» colors Is 3d, reduced to Men's Cslonial Tweed Baits 19a 6d B|d Boys' Tweed Suits from 3a lid Washing prints 2a lid doz A few Boys' Washing Suits left, to be White Muslin 3a lid doa cleared at 33 Pd Summer Dresses 3a lid Boys' Caps 6d each Cretonne 3|d Men's Braces 8d Double- bed Sheeting 9M 20doz Men's Merino Socks 6d Berlin Wool Is lid - BOOTS. BOOT©. The Best and Cheapest Boots in New Zealand are to be had afc G. J. NEILL AND GO'S. Men's English Balmorals 7s lid BabieS| Slippers Is pair # Men's Strong Leather Shoea 7s lid Canvas and tan Leather Shoss, in all Men's Nailed Shooters 7s lid sizes at ridiculous prices Women's strong Leather Shoes 5s lid A very large assortment of Children a Women's strong Elastic-slde Boots 8s and Maid's Gem shoes m Tans and 6d, redneed to 5s lid Black. Good and cheap WI GUARANTEE SATISFACTION. SMALL PBOFITS AND QUICK EETUBNS AT "8. J. NULL & GO'S, FRIKDLANDER'S CORNER. jEAST STREET, Re The Assigned Estate of Messrs Hirdley Bros* —— ■ *»; o;< ■ "■ QEK the Value in OoCPRINTS REDUCED to HALF PRICE WASHING DRILLED REDUCED FROM % to B|d. All Ilrcss Materliftls 8B»D0ED TO NEARLY UALtf THE FORMER PRIDES, FOR INSTANCE PLAIN CASHMERES, REDUCED FROM 16*0 TO 9d. STRIPE AND CHEUK ALL WOOL DRES3 TWEED REDiJCED JFROM Un TO 80, AND ALL OTHER DRE3B MATERIALS EQUALLY REDUCED. HEOK GINGHAMS REDUCED FROM LO&d TO 6^o ALL MANCHESTER GOODS SUCH AS CALICOES, STOCKINGS, FLANNELS, BLANKETS, HOLLANDS, TICKING, 2SHIRTINGS, SELSEIAS, FLOOR-CLOTHS, JETC, REDUCED TO COST PRICE. MEN'S SfIIBTS,;HATS, SOCKS, TIES, Etc, REDUCED TO COST PRICE, AND IN MANY CASES VERY MUCH!UNDER COST. Men's and Boys 1 Clothing. E OUR MEN'S ALL WOOL COLONIAL SUITS AT 32s 0d AND 35s 80, NOT TO BE BEATEN IN THE COLONY] THIS HOUSE HAS ALWAW3 BBBS NOTED FOR THE VERY BEST VALUE IN BOOTS BUT NOW COME AND BBJr. ... W. Si'ENCS?. iiiaOß ASHBUKTOH I



Wanwa WANTED, situation as help, good needle woman. Apply Mail office, Saturday, from 2 to 3 2 131 AN Exhibition of Bicycles will be held on my Premises, early in March.—H. M. Jones. 2 140 \ SHBURTON Rifle~club meet to- Jt\. night at B—at Mr Clara's, Tobacco nist. Election of Oomoiittee, arrange matches, etc. 2 138 Known—Tomatoes, good * * ripe Grapes, Piutns, Apples, etc., at Mar>D£n's Fruic Shop, below Mitchell and Turner's. . 2 109 fT)O Let—That House at present {.ecu JL pied by Dr Hunter, Tancred street. Apply A. Okb. ' 2 66 YSTERS and Fresh Fish of alFsorts arrive evening per express at Deep Sea Fibhing Co.'s Shop, Burnett street, Ash burton. 2 62 /H OOD Sheaf and Straw Chaff; very VJT cheap for cash. Also, all kinds of Mill and Farm Produce.—J. Thomas, Havelock street. ■ 2 2 "t 17 ANTED Known—Spectacles, eye W protectors, Goggles, Folders, and everything in the optical line at S, Salek's, Optician. WANTED Known -W. H. Oouibb's noted four-clasp Kid Gloves, 2s 6d, have just arrived in ail sizes. WANTED Known.-No reasonable offer will be refused tar the balance of our Summer Dresses, Milli nery, and Mantles. — Mitchem, and Turner. f%i 0 family can be happy without Health ■A-' Tea when once tried. 236 / i REAT Clearing Sale of Drapery, vX Boots, Clothing, etc., at Melford House, from 20th February to 20th Maroh,-—H. C. Seqbrsu A SK your grocer for Health Taa, and /Tl when once you try ifc you will be satisfied with no other.—Henry Zawdbr, Wholesale Agent. 2 43 'IiH&T which brings most; light and ■*■ hope to poorest homes is Titan Soap- 11 183 riHOIOE Ornaments, Folding Screens", \J Own make in ladies' and children's underclothing, Aprons and Pinafores. Mrs Alcobn, Saunders' Building. tpiRT Class Drapery, Boots, Clothing, ••• etc., to be sold cheap at Segbrs' Sale, from 20th Februwi to 20th March. —Melford House. WANTED Known^-"The Corners showing a magnificent New Stock of Drapery and Clothing.—W. H. Collieh, WANTED Known.—To make room for Spring Boots I will give ten per cent for cash. Repairs done at once cheaper than ever to stay bad times over at J. Moison, Premier Bootmaker. 8 18 WANTED, Everybody to use Titan Soap, greatest marvel of the age. fl. Zander, Sole Agent. 11 181 "ANTED Known. — ou7 ~Ghmp Slippers aie selling in dozen?. Children's from Is, women's Is 9J. Buy one pair and you will buy more. — MITOHELT, AVD TCRNBB . i GUNS ! Guns! Guns ! My new stock of Guns just to hand direct from the manufacturers. Double and Single Barrel Breech Loaders, Rifles, etc. Inspection invited. No old stock to select from at J. W. Habdley's, Sporcmg Repository. / by smo \J in« "Stars and Stripes." Whole sale at Zandkr'f. 2 38 IWXrfIOE! Notice"! Sport for ail. •*** Guns let out on hire or sold on fcime payments. Having a professional gun* smith on the premises, I undertake to re pair Guns of any description. Gunfittings in stock. Prices low.—J. W, Hakdley, Ironmongers, etc. DON'T miss our Great Sale. For one month only, from 20ch February to 20th March. Drapery, Clothing, Boots, etc.—H, C Segers, Melford Bouse. "tT 7" ANTED Known.—To Harvesters VV —Dungaree Jackets and Overalls, Harvest Hats and Shirts and Suits of all [kinds, at prices to meet the times.— I Mitchell & Tobnbb. IF yon want fitst-ciass fruit go to Adams' for Fiji, Tahiti, Aackland ' and Sydney Oranges, Citrons, Lemons, ! etc. SOMERSET Meat Hart. The oldest the largest, tha best, and the cheap eat Small •xooda a specialty. Full weights guaranteed, A trial solicited. —W, J. SlicooK. MBS ALCOBN has on sale for the Holidays vaiied assortment of Toys, Dolls, Prams, Fancy Goods and Christmas Presents. Saunders' Buildings BANG 1 Bang 1 Bang ! My new sea son's stock of Ammunition to hand Eley's, Kynock's and, Club Cartridges, Powder, Shot, Caps, Wads, Cases and all sporting materials of the first quality at J. W. Babbley's, Gun Emporium, W~ ANTED Known—That A. J. Walkeb repairs Bicycles, Sewing •lachinea, Lawn Mowers, Medical Coils, ; and all descriptions of light machinery. DON'T Foratet to send your Bicycles along to Vhe Old Kindergarten to oe repaired, at moderate rafrea. MEDIOAL Coils made and repaired on the shortest notice at easy | prices at A. J. Walker's, Old Kinder garten. MR JOHN MAESDKN, ot the Rail way Book Stall, will open a Boob and Stationer's Shop two doors below Mitchell and Turner's, on SATURDAY, 10th ot February. Books and Stationery at the lowest possible prices. Books clean, complete, and in good order will be taken in exchange. Circulating library. 2 47 ALENTINES, Valentines. Boxed, Love cards, Booklets, and Comic. Fire Screens, Pictures, Glass Ornaments. Christmas Cards, Cricket and Lawn Tennis Material, Phptq Albums and Frames, and hundreds of other articles »re to tos sold a fr a great (sacrifice for Cash during this month only, at L. F Andkewes & Go. StatbiwW Hall, "^KEATING'S POWDER destroys Bugs, fleas, Moths, Beetles and all other insects whilst quite harmless to domestic animila i fet exterminating Beetles the success of itfeis jl*owde/? in extraordinary. It is per ! tfecfcly clean in application. See the article ! you purchase ; ia $RATWS'S, as imitations are nojdous and ipeffectyaU ims, bd, Is ,and 2i 6d each. Sold by all chemists theTbest tea "••* CASTTftEBCJRT for tne raoney» and ' '- ' --Ha &uy ewess M satrf ngency. i -atess as.



-:TIME :- TUST landed direct from the Manu facturers a large stock ot 0' 0 0 IL L L 0 0 0 0 C C X X X s, s, s. Eight-day Strike* Kitchen and Dieting Room Clocks, also Marble and Fancy Clocks in Great Variety, at very Low Prices. SAVE 20 PER CENT & BUY FROM 8. JSALEK, WATCHMAKER, MANUFACTURING JEWELLER, AND OCULISTS' OPTICIAN. Sole Agenl for Lazarus' Spectacles a*d Paiehted System of Sight Testing. NEW ZEALAND CiiOTiiiira Factory. THE "BISMAKCK," HIGH-ARM SEWING MACHINES, have all the latest improvements. A Firat-olasa Machine at a moderate rice, IT 18 SIMPLE, DURABLE, LIGHT RUNNING, NOISELESS. OUR Mb B. Hallbnstein, while in Germany, seeing the great success of the New " Bismarck " Sewing Machine succeeded in obtaining for our firm the solejproprietorship for New Zealand. HAND MACHINE, With beautiful polished cover and all ac cessories £5 10a. FAMILY MACHINE, With new and handsomely designed stand £8 10s. HAND & TREADLE COMBINED, Highly .finished Table andlCover £9 10s. ■MM* Any of those machines can be hai on the time payment system 2s 6d per week. Our Agent will have the pleasure of calling on you at an early date. NEW ZEALAND CLOTHING FACTORY. HALLENSTEIN BROS.. ALEX. HENDRY, Manager fWMMMMWWMMMM I'"' 1 JXLA.IIL. IMOXICJ3S, Mails close for the following places as under subject to the necessary alterations: — TUESDAY, Februare 21. For Northern Pdrts, per Waihora, at 6SO p.m. WEDNESDAY, February 21. For United Kingdom, Continents of Europe and America and Weßt Indies (via San Francisco), Sandwioh Islands, etc., and also for Northern Ports of New Zealand, per Takapuna, at 6.50 p.m, Due London March 28. For Northern Ports and Australian Colo nies, except Tasmania, per Wakatipu, at 10.3U a.m. SATURDAY, Tebruary 24. For Australian Colonies, per express to connect with Manapouri at Port Chalmers, 1J3.30 p.m. _ ~ TO CORRESPONDENTS. W. T. X..—There are no military distinctions outside her Majesty's service.



fiAirUKn« Stttt»Bncaiyp«l K«*ri»ct There are imitations of Eucalypti Extract in the market now, products of simple distillation forming rude resinous oils. In order that these crude oils may not be taken, Our Fare Volatile Kaca- i Irntl K3ttr«c*, which is racognised by the medical division of the Prussian Government to be of Deiffectly pure origin, as per information forwarded to us through the Consul at Melbourne, March S, 1878 U^s'oroV"" d by tests made by the Medicial Olinica of he Universities at Bonn and GreifswaH, Prussia, and reported Dy Dr Schufe, Professor of Pharmacology at Bonn; and Professor Dr Mosler, Director of the Medical Olinio at Greifswald, that only produces that are saturated with oxygen and freed of anids, resinoug and other substances, adherent to primary distillation, will develop the sanative qualities proper to the plant, according to these authorities, and according to Pro Sr Dr Lister, of England, and to Drs Bauer, Mclntire, Wood, Hazard, etc., of America, is the only extract wrrespondingto scientific tests, and the only nnp which nossesses the proper therapeutic value. SANDffiR & SON'S EUCALYPTI EXTRACT All other crude oils are to be classed among the turpentines, which have, when used as medicine, no therapeutic effect and re abandoned as an internal mSment These so a called Buoalypti Extracts which may have received dlst nction at Exhibitions as cammeroial articles anaV9 used for meohanical pur r^ffifS^Wnt odour (which our pjoduot, the only^naine Eucalypti Ejtrac de velops most frealy thro««a its ««pl»s <»' °*y '"■ )■ 2 "By their alcoholic thin and mobile appearance, being reduce i n speo^o deaßity through the 18. iySete taste,the roault of the contracting ten denoy of resins and tennates* .... . .„ If these crude oils, so callol en<»lyp« extS ta J ,.*l e applied by mistake in oa*» of croup, b -onohltis, dtph theria, internal inflamwations, dysentery, wounds, the theoongequenoesremost appallln?. *« •tf*>r l^*S Eitrmtt and get the old, waU-toted and reliable preo»r<»tlQn.-,SandhUMt, Victoria, 4.asfcr a U



TTEALTH TEA. ia a boon to hara»nity JOL a blessing to mankind, a real elixir of life. - BfINBY 3ASDBK, Wlwl««Je Agenti, * *•



VO more indigestion, no mocd nervous -*-" naas fcotn taiuls[iag in t3o much Te drinking for those who drink Health 'tea. Henry Zander, Wholesale Agent. 242



BMOKE8 MOKE Star and Stripes,- 10 in a Packet. —H. Zah^bp^ Wholesale AgeQt. ~ s| w