MAIL NOTICES.

Mails close for the following places as under subject to the necessary alterations:— WEDNESDAY, Afril 18. For United Kingdom, Continents of Europe and America and West Indies (via San Francisco), Sandwich Islands, etc., and also for Northern Ports of New Zealand, per Takapuna, as follows :~-Ordinary letters, books, and newspapers, at O.IS p.m. ; money orders, 3 p.m. ; registered letters, 5 pm. Due London May 23.

Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1894. THE WINTER'S OUTLOOK.

The most optimist of us cannot lay ' the flattering unction to his soul that the outlook for the winter is cheerful. So far as we can see, the bottom has completely fallen out of the market for the Canterbury farmers'staple—grain^ and never in the history of cropping in this county has the grain grower been offered so low a price for wheat as he has this year. The man who can get 2s a bushel for his crop this season may think himself lucky. The English market is certainly reported as looking a little more hopeful, but to be of any real benefit to the farmer in Canter bury its hopefulness must rise a little higher than what " 10,000 quarters of Victorian wheat sold at 25s 3d" indicates. And that is the latest quotation we have received from Lon don. We cannot see the slightest indication of a rise in wheat prices in the near or even distant future, the competitors throughoutthe world being too many, and their output too great. Sheep are not very high in price either, but mutton is a product from which there is more hope of obtaining a remunerative return than there is for cereals. The only market which seems at all sound for the colonial farmer is that for dairy produce, and this, when the article is right, yields a fair return. With but a cheerless outlook for the farmer himself, what must it be for the farmer's man ? The farmer having no margin of profit on his year's work left for himself has nothing to spend, and he must there fore confine the operations of his farm to just such work as is an imperative necessity, and so his sphere as an employer of labor will be very materi ally limited. The condition of the farmer always affects the tradesman. Given a good harvest and fair prices, the natural result is a fair amount of spending money, and the merchant will dogood business; but an indifferent hat vest, and only chick wheat prices for the best sample gro^n, mean curtailed spending power, and stagnant business in the shops. And so all round the pinch is felt. Then, in addition to our own working men, notwithstand ing the efforts of the Government to warn them off, swarms of laborers have come over from Australia. Those swarms to a considerable extent re lieved the congestion on the other side, but only to cause a congestion here. The new comers are now in competition with the resident New Zealanders, and their presence will not tend to improve the lot of the men who have been for years earning their living in this colony. Then the flax trade is far from being as brilliant as it was some time ago, as the manilk and sisal fibres are running it very i close, and the prices obtained for our flax are not by any means a great incentive to enterprise to those in the industry. The North Island seems to be quite as bad as the South, for there we find that but little is now to be made at gum digging, the market for that product of the kauri forest having also fallen very considerably, and both agriculturist aad pastoralist in the north are suffering from exactly the game depression that affects their brethren in the south. It cannot be said that the collapse in the grain market was not foreseen. We have had warnings innumerable of the increase of the grain output of America, both North and South, but more particularly of late years i n South America, aa the farmers of the Argentine Eepublic, having found sheep growing for wool and fat unprofitable, and finding that they could not com pete with the Australian Colonies in the export of frozen mutton, even with a Governmental bonus of a farthing per lb, stepped out of the pasteral in dustry altogether, and put their hands to the plough. Argentina wheat is at present swamping the English market, and keeping prices low. It ia evident then that something else must be grown besides wheat that the outside world will buy, and as we have said above, the only market for colonial produce that seems really sound is that for butter and cheese, Where batter factories have been established in this colony, and conducted on proper busi ness lines, and in conjunction with crea merles planted at convenient points, farmers within reasonable distance of these creameries have found that they supplied a market for dairy produce that very considerably increased the annual income of the farm, and with but little extra labor. It is never wise to put all one's eggs in one basket, and most of our men of the plains have hitherto done so, depending almost wholly oe their grajn crops for a return. It has now become impera tive for such as can do so, %o pay more attention for grazing for milk than p hey have hitherto done, and to crop jess, as Ki&i^y of .them haye certainly begun to do There is abundance of f,eed in the country Jus,t now, and a rise may J?e hoped for in sheep, which the #kiuse iff % F#ed Stages twffl igr

wool will considerably enhance in value no doubt, but as far as can be seen the best hope lies in a great ex tension of the dairying industry, with its accompanying raising of pork, and in the frozen meat trade which New Zealand was the first to start, and now heads by a long lead, although Vic toria is rapidly coming up to her, while that colony is also showing her the way in the matter of dairy pro duce export.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An elderly woman named Mrs Theatston died suddenly at Chrißtchurch yesterday. A house belonging to John Giff kins at Styx, Christchurch, was destroyed by fire yesterday. At the Ghristchurch City Council last night notices of motion for the erection of three new bridges over the river were given. The Dunedin " Star" says there is but little likelihood of any member of the Dunedin Licensing Committee signing a con ditional license for race meetings, sports, or smoke concerts. In Wellington harbor yesterday, a fire broke out in the linea closet on board the Union Company's steamer Poherua, but it wa9 extinguished by the employees and Harbor "Board men before the arrival of the brigade. The damage was very slight. The Te Korero met on Friday last at the Arcade. Mr E. Saunders in the chair. Fifteen new members were elected and several proposed. The business for the evening was the " question box,'* in which every member present took part, and several interesting debates followed the questions. At next meeting the business for the evening will be a debate, which Miss Graham and Mr E. Saunders will lead. The truth concerning the Tennyson-Smith divorce case has at last been made public, and it is now beyond doubti true that the Tennyson-Smith, of temperance lame, was not concerned in it. The "Age" recently contained a report of the case, from which we learn that Eva Smith, of Nicholson street, Fitzroy, nought a divorce from her husband, Tennyson Launcelot Smith, of parts un known, journalist. The parties were married on August ill, 1880, in Sydney. On June 13, 1890, while |they were residing at Haw thorne, he left her, and she had not seen him since. When last heard of he was at Valpa raiso, South America. A decree nisi was granted. This settles the question as regards Tennyson-Smith, the lecturer. Following are the handicaps for the Ariel Club's road race to be held to-morrow :— T. Clarkson scratch, J. Forbes s£min, J. B. B. Griffiths s|min, John Wilson 6min, J. Andrews 6mins, W. Woods 6min., Alfred Prichard 6£min., T. Hawkins 7^min, J. Burns 7smin, E. March Bmin, W. H. Pord Bmin, R. Couch B|min, James Wilson 9min. A. Anderson 9min, R. Dunlop 9&min, J. Ford lOmin, C. Henry lOmin, A. Mackay 12min. The course will be from Mr Stone's hotel at Tiawald to the first water race on the Wheatstone road, from thence to the Lagmhor gate and hick to the hotel. The limit man will start punctually at 2.30, and a drag will leave Mr Clark's shop at two o'clock for the scene of the race. According to a correspondent of the " Washington Star " they are paying rather dearly in Chicago for their magnificent World's Fair, which has left the city in a deplorable economic condition. It is esti mated that there are 175,000 men idle, '•practically on the streets of the town," These include all classes, so that " men in patent leather shoes and silk hats have been put to work as laborers on the drainage I canal and in cleaning the streets ; and I ven ture to say that every profession is repre sented by the men who have thus been given an opportunity to earn a bare existence." As a result, crime stalks abroad in the city. "A man whose appearance is in any way prosperous displays his wisdom in walking through the darker streets of Chicago a 6 night, by taking the middle of the road, with a gun of large calibre in his right hand overcoat pocket ready for use; and thousands of the most solid citizens of Chicago are care fully following this rule for self-preserva tion." The Mayor is trying to drive the indigent out of the city, regardless, appa rently, of what is to become of them. There really ought to be an adage to the effect that truth is stranger than fiction; such a proverb would fill a long felt want. Incidents happen every day that no novel ist would dare to use except in the most dreadful of penny dreadfuls. For instance, there was that occurrence on the Scotch express. As the train was rapidly leav ing the station at Edinburgh, a man who had not time to open the door suddenly precipitated himself in through the win dow of one of the carriages. The com partment was full, but ha forced his way in, and as the carriage was one of those with a corridor, he spent his time excit edly pacing up and down this passage. At midnight, with the train running at about sixty miled an hour, the man let down a window and tried to throw him self out. A passenger caught him by the coat-tails, and a fierce fight ensued, the stranger trying hard to throw himself out into the night from the flying ex press train, and the other endeavouring to save his life. Other paiaengers jumped up to assist, but to the horror of them all, the man disappeared in the darkness. The passengers tried to have the train stopped, but without avail, and the ex press ran on until they came to New castle, where the man was faund on the engine. He had it seems, caught on the footboard, although the train was going at a tremendous rate, and he had worked his way along the rushing express until he came to the engine, upon which he clambered. No reputable novelist would dare to use such an incident in any work of fiction.

The Kakaia bridge is now open to all traffic as usual. Mr Alexander Btodie, who died at Auck land on Monday, came to the colony in 1863 with the Royal Engineers, and erected the military telegraph during the Waikato war. A British film claims that with its outfit of cask-making machines a cask has been made from beginning to end—staves, heads, and hoops—and put together in about five minutes. According to the " Lancet," the warmest places in England are Falmouth, llfraeombe, 1 and Ventnor, their winter temperature being 44 9, 44 0, and 44-2 respectively. At the Salvationists 1 gathering on Monday evening nearly 300 people were present. The occasion was the farewell of Mr James Wilson, who is about to leave for London. The gathering was a very enthusiastic one. Colonel De Quincey died on Monday at Auckland after a brief illness. He was Sergeant-at-Arms in the House of Represen tatives, and was the last surviving male descendant of the celebrated English essayist, Thomas De Quincey. An extraordinary incident of the recent frost was revealed at an inquest at Liver pool. A widow named Strettell, aged 62, slipped in her yard, and was unable to rise. Water from the tap fell on her hands and froze them in a solid mass to the ground, and she died from exposure. Can any of our local gardeners—professional or amateur—beat the pumkin grown by Mr James Stevenson, the stationmaster at Ashburton? The baby squash he has just removed from his garden to his office can be played " chuck ball ' with by any man able to chuck about 87Jibs easily. The Westport "News" Bays that the Buller County Council is at its last grasp, and much of the correspondence before it con. sisted of demands, more or less threatening, from creditors, to one or two of whom the money has been owing for three years, To resign as a body has been suggested, as the advance promised by the Government is slow in coming. The Secretary of the Marine Department has received the following telegram from the Collector of Customs at Wefltport:—" The master of the Janet Nicol reports passing a large piece of wreckage 2J miles off shore, abreast of Flaxbourne. It was thirty-five feet long by fifteen wide, probably decking or the aide of a vessel. It was in the track vessels and dangerous. Swaggers are becoming so numerous in thiis district (says the " Rangitikei Advo o&te ") that farmers find them a big tax on their resources. One farmer informs ub that for the last six months it has cost him LI a week to supply them with food. If this state of affairs exist for lone;, with the low prices ruling for grain and stock, he thinks the farmers will have to stand aside and let the swagger take possession, and take to the road themselves. Of the gentleman who has assumed the management for Mrs Prichard of the Dis. pensary, the Palmerston North •' Times'' says :—The friends of Mr F. E. White will be gland to learn that he has obtained the position of manager of a large drug business at Ashburton. Mr White leaves for his new sphere of action this week. Mr White has taken a very active interest in Friendly Society work as a member of the Orient Lodge of Oddfellows, and has also been an active member of the Bowling Club. He has also for a number of years filled the position of Secretary of Manawatu Kilwinning Lodge of Freemapons. The first of a series of winter entertain ments was given by the St Andrew's Band of Hope in the Oddfellows' Hall, Rakaia, on Monday evening. The building was crowded with an enthusiastic audience, and several were unable to gain admission. Miss Campbell, the secretary, presented a good programme of vocal and instrumental music, and recitations, and the Rev Mr Riddle gave a short address. A vote of thanks to the performers, and to Miss Thompson, for the efficient manner in which she played the various accompaniments andhymos, brought to a close a very successful and enjoyable meeting. Five more meetings will be held, and judging by the present popularity of the Society, a larger hall will have to be engaged for the next one. The Christchurch City Council on Monday night were informed by the City Surveyor that the Sanitary Committee recommended the sinking of a deep well at the rubbish depot of the corporation, in order to put out the fire in the rubbish there which has now been burning for some years past. The fire was first lit to act in the same way as the expensive destructor used by fche Wellington Corporation, but it has now burned through ! the different layers to a good depth and has | become dangerous and offensive. The i ordinary methods of putting out the fire have been tried ineffectually, and now it is' proposed to flood it out by means of the deep well. The proposal brought up a discussion, commenced by Cr Gray, which resulted in the matter standing over for a iortnight.

Sir Georage Grey in England.

(Received April 17, 10,uO a.m) London, April 16 In the course of an interview to day Sir George Grey dwelt at length on the destiny of Anglo-Saxon fede ration, which he declared weuld eventually dominate the world, with its council meeting in London, Wash-1 ington, Sydney, Melbourne, and Auck land.

Wreck of a Fishing Boat.

Wellington, April 16. News has been received that a Welling ton owned fishing boat containing two men —Fred Hendricksen, her owner, and Henry Nelsea—capsized on Thursday morning last between Marawakapakapa and New Harbor, D f Orville Island. Both men started to swim for shore and kept together for a time, then Nelson forged ahead, Hendricksen telling him not to get excited, fbut "to take it easy, and they would be all right. Nelson, however, got one hundred yards ahead, and Hendrickgen saw him no more. After swimming about a mile Hendricksen reached land, but was carried back by the heavy surf five times before he could land. Both men had on their gum boots and clothes. Hendricksen made an un successful search for his mate. Nelson was unmarried, and it is baiieved he had no relatives in the colony.

CORRESPONDENCE.

(.We do not hold ourselves responsible ior the opinions expiessed by our correspondents.)

THE COMET.

TO THE EDITOR. Sib, —In your lsdue of April 5, you produced a Sydney telegram, informing us that a brilliant comet has made its appearance. In the same issue, you ad vised us that the comet had been seen (from Ashburton, I presume) in the even ing, situated eastward of the Southern Cross, and near the Milky Way. Now, I have a glass of sufficiant power to enable me to see Jupiter's moons, when the planet is favorably situated for observa tion ; and with the aid of this glass I very soon found the object referred to in the paper, and made sure^l had the comet right enough. So, with a view to find out which way he was travelling, I made a ( careful map of a few of the stars sur roundinp him. This was six days ago. This morning, the sky being free from clouds and the moon set, I got up to have a good look at what I. believe to be an interesting stranger j but, I found he had never undergone the slightest change of place. I am therefore convinced that; what we have been gazing at is not a comet at all, bub a stellar cluster so re motely situated in space that it appears when viewed through the medium of magnifiers of low power to be merely a small nebular patch. Now, where is the comet ? Surely some one in the county is the happy owner of a celestial globe. If such a fortunate individual exiafcs amongst us, it is to be hoped he will kindly tell us through the medium of your paper which constellation the direc tions given by the Sydney astronomer would place the comet in. It appears by the telegram that the comet was discovered at a point in the heaveus agreeing with right ascension 2 hours 33 minutes—-S. decllnatioa 55 degrees 35^minutes. In case any one has got a celestial globe, but like my elf may have almost forgotten how to use it, the following instructions from Dr Lardner's " Museum of Science and Art," which bears upon the matter In question, may refresh his memory. The instructiofls are as follow :—" To find the place of an object on the celestial globe, when its right ascension and declination are known, find the point on the equator where the given* right ascension is marked. Turn the globe on its axis till this point be brought under the meridian, The» count off an arc of the meridian (north or south of the equator, according as the declination ia given) of a length equal to the given declination ; and the point of the globe immediately aider the point of the meridian thua found will be the place of the object. By this rule the position on the gbbe of any object of which the right ascension and declination are known may be immediately found." — I am, etc.. D. Oliver. April 14.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Wellington, April 16- Mr S. Carroll, acring secretary of the Incorporated Institute of Accountants of New Zealand, has received back the memorandum and articles of association of the pronosod Institutes They have been signed by the first members of the Council of the Institute resident in Wellington. Kapler, Dunedin, and Obristchurch, and only await the signatures of the Auckland representatives to enable the association to be registered.

LABOR.

Sydney, April 16. Mr Rae, a member} of the bhearers' Council, denies the statment of the pas toralists that they have made no re duction in the shearing rates, and he claims that a substantial reduction has been effected. He says that the shearers will strongly resist a reduc tion and will also fight against the clause which it is alleged practically makes the employer sole arbiter of all disputes. Mr Rae declares that this point is of more vital importance than the question of a reduction in rates, and that if the reduction is assented to would result in the death of the shearers' union. In his opinion there would be trouble in the matter, and fully 20,000 shearers would be affected by the struggle. Taking the average reduction all round at 2s per 100 sheep, Mr Rae contends thatHhis would mean a gain to the squatters ior loss to the shearers of £60,000 per annum.

A Canadian Sunday.

A country town of a Sunday after noon in Canada is the quietest of exist ing things. Everything in. it seems lifeless. Not a sound is heard from any side. One's own cough startles one in the very streets. Two cows slowly bend tbeir way homewards; an over-ripß apple falls heavily in an un kempt front garden-—even these signs of semi-life are a relief. Rows of youth, all dressed in sombre black, and all smoking cigars, tearfully if not won derfully made, lean against the •walls lof the inn at the corner, or stand in silent knots about the horse-gnawed 11 hitching-post." The jaded afternoon sunlight falls slantingly and weariedly on untidy plots in which weeds strive for mastery successfully with flowers, on empty verandahs with blistered paint, on the dusty grass encroaching ever on the street. I entered the inn. It is chilly, »nd in the common room ' which serves many purposes a battered stove lacking two-thirds of its mica radiates a dry and suffocating heat. On deal chairs, mostly tipped up, sit the youths but just now lounging without. They say nothing; only they sit and smoke and spit—how they spit! They themselves probably are all un conscious of the incessant salivary sharp-shooting; but I—l—sit in ter ror, like a nervous woman dreading the pistol-shots on the stage. Soon church bells begin to clang. No one heeds them, nor are they ovei-inviting j one is cracked, they are not in har mony, and they seem to be ringing a race in which the hindmost is to win. In the space of about an hour, however, the youths begin to move, as if with the feeling that at last will come a small relief from the awful ennui which they cannot express. When church is coming out, they go out and draw up before the doors. A heavy yellow light streams across the street, and with it issues an odour, perhaps of sanctity but much polluted by kero sene. Greetings follow between the out-coming damsels and the waiting youths, and curious raucous laughs in tended to be tender are heard disap pearing into darkened ways, feoon all is again hushed, and but for here and there the low and lugubrious sounds of hymn tunes played on old and middle aged organs, the little town might be a buried city of the last.—Arnold Haultain, in Blackwood's Magazine.

The Tower Bridge.

The Tower Bridge, which a ea.ble message of a recent date stated is now finished, spans the Thames between Towerhill and Horsleydown Stairs. Next to the Forth Bridge it is the greatest structure of its kind in the world. It was commenced in June, 1836, and has cost abouti £1,000,000. It is designed upon what is technically ' known as the " bascule principle/ 1 j which, put succinctly, describes a bridge whose roadway lifts to allow the passage of objects of greater height—a drawbridge, in fact, on the tilting prin ciple sometimes used in mediaeval mili tary architecture. The bridge is in three spans, with two great masonry piers rising from the bed of the river. At this point the Thames, is not less than 940 feet broad, and the depth ol water in mid-channel varies, according to the tides, from 30 feet to 35 feet 6 inches. At a distance of 270 feet from either bank these great piers, the largest in the world—2o4 feet it length and 100 feet broad—are built rising from foundations 27 feet below the river-bed. These two piers aloiu cost, including staging, £110,122 The masonry id of finely-jointed Cornish granite, lined internally with brick work. Each pier contains a great chamber in whicti works the heavily weighted balance of the lower roadwaj leaf, each of these two leaves weighing little short of 1000 tons. When the two leaves, each 100 feet long, are closed, the lower roadway of the bridge is practicable for all kinds of traffic, pedestrian and wheeled; but the space of thirty feet only between roadway and high water is insufficient to allow of masted vessels passing. It is to allow tall ships to pass that the drawing principle comes into play. The powerful hydraulic machinery placed at the Surrey side of the bridge is capable of raising the 2000 tons of iron and steel, composing this moveable roadway, in two minutes, »nd it is confidently stated that the opening of the roadway, the passage of a ship, and the closing again will take only five minutes. Wheeled traffic would be delayed for that space of time, while the foot passengers will ascend by staircases or by lifts, which carry thirty persons at a time, to the two parallel bridges that cross the centre span at a height of 135 feet above the high water mark, descending: again to the level of the fixed roadway on the other side. The centre draw bridge, and the two great towers that carry the fixed footbridges, arethfdis* tinguishing features of the Tower Bridge. The total length of the budge, including approaches, k exactly half-a -mile—2oo feet longer than Waterloo Bridge, which has hitherto been the longest across the Thames. The width of the lower road varies from 60 feet between the parapets on the side-spans to 50 feet on the drawbridge, and tha gradients of the approaches are, at their deepest, only 1 in 40. There have been from 500 to BQO workmen engaged upon the construction, and out of this number Bight fatal acci dents have happened in as many years. The foundations absorbed 70,500 cubic yards of concrete, and in the building generally have been used 31,000,000 bricks, 19,500 tons of cement, 235,000 cubic feet of granite, 15,000 tons of iron and steel, and 2,000*000 rivets*

Disappearance of a Pas senger.

Sydney, April 16. During the voyage of the Tarstwera from Wellington «, saloon p«ssengef named Samuel Fergusson disappeared on the evening of the 12th, and no traqe of him could he found.

f Wbj.:uitotoi«, April J7. [ The Samuel Fergusson, referred to as being lost from, tha Tunwera between I here and Sydney was a well-to-do farmer ; hailing from the Goulburn district, New- South Wales. He had been fifty-fiva years in Australia,, and when he left Sydney on March lit to come to New Zealand to see a relative at Blenheim* tt was the first time lite had set foot on a vessel during that period. He left Wel lington in capital spirits, {fa was ag©^

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Wanted ij ALE ab Melfori House still on until |kj further notice.-—H, 0. Sbgebs. TXT ANTED Known — Men's strong • » » Tweed Suits from 16s 6d ; shirts from 2s 64.—Arcade House. 4 24 WANTED Known. — Embroideries from Id a yard, Corsets 3s lid,. Ladies' Ulsters fmm4s lid, Ladies' Gloves four pair for Is, Kid Gloves four huf^.ona Is 6d.— Arcade House. 63 \ ITANTED Known—W. H. Coixier's VV noted four-clasp Kid Gloves, 2s 6d, have just arrived In all sizes. riHOICE Ornaments, Folding Screens", \J Own make in Ladies'and Children's Underclothing, Aprons, and Pinafores.— Mrs Aicorn, Saundera' Buildings. WANTED Known.—Cheviots, Hop sacks, Diagonals, Fast Dye Serges, Tweeds and Fancy Dressea, &o , with Trimmings to match at Mitchell and Turner's. WANTED Known—ln consequence of the scarcity of money, we have extended our Sale till further notice. — H. C. Sbgbrs, Melford House. PRED. S. JEFFRIES, Manufacture ing Confectioner, has opened a Shop in East street, next " The Corner,' for sale of all kinds of superior Con fectionery. Nothing inferior sold. No cheap cigarettes. 3§114 WANTED Known. — For Millinery, Mantles, Jackets, Ulster, and Macintoshes, Ladies' and Children's Underclothing, try Mitchell & Turner. TO" ANTED Known. —Ladies are * * invited to inspect the Novelties in our Dress Department and Show Koom without being pressed to buy.—Mitchell and Turner. THAT which bringa most light and hope to poorest homes ia Titan Soap. 11 18 SALE now on- White Calico 2s lid per dozen, Towels 2a 6d per dozen, Lace, Curtains, from Is lid per pair, at Arcade House. 4 27 WANTED Known —Spectacles, Eye Protectors, Goggles, Folders, and everything in the optical me at S. S&lek's, Optician. HEALTH TEA is more economical than ordinary tea. It undergoes a prooess whereby the injurious ingre dients are eliminated, whilst it renders the release of the better properties of the leaf more easy. Henry Zander, Autho rised Agent. WANTED Known—Tomatoes, good ripe Grapes, Plums, Apples, etc., at Marsden s Fruit Shop, belor Mitchell and Turner's. 2 109 "TTISITthe Sale. Trimmed Millinery * going at any price. Ladies' Under clothing reduced to 20 per cent, below cost. —Arcade House. 4 64 "ANTED Known—All"goods in Show Room to be slaughtered at any price.—Arcade Fouse. 4 28 WANTED Known-L W Pants 3s lid, Flannel Shirts 33 9d, Worsted Socks 6i per pair.—Arcade House 425 XF your mind is troubled ; nothing else will give the troubles so thoroughly away as Health Tea. Try it.~-HBNRY Zanubr, Wholesale Agent. 1 F you want first-class fruit go to Adois *• for Fiji, Tahiti, Auckland and Sydney Oranges, Citrons, Lemons, etc. OYSTERS and Fresh Fish of all sorts arrive evening per express at Deep Sea Fishing Oo.'s fcshop, Burnett street Abhburton. 2 62 fXTANTED Known—The whole of the * » stock co be sacrificed by order of the Purchaser, Arcade House. 4 26 (^ROSHED Oats, 5j per sack. Al J kinds of Farm and Mill Produce cheap tor cash.— J. Thomas, Havelock screet. TEN Crates—New goods from the manufacturers in R. Alcorn's sale. Tea sets for six persons, 93 6d ; 40 piece Tea Sets frcm 15s ; Bedroom Sets from Bs. Large coloured hand or gilt, very handsome 19s 6d. t TTHAT is most essential to a tea YV drinksr's happiness ? Why, Health Tea, and don't you forget it. Henry Zander, Wholesale Agen*- T7*XTENBION of Sale at Melford -t-^ House. We are still selling nearly all our Goode, with New Stock added, at reduced prices.—H. C. Seokrs. WANTED Known—To make room for Spring Boots I will give ten per cent for cash. Repairs dene at once Cheaper than evei to stay b<id times over at J. Moisofc's, Premier Bootmaker. TT; ANTED Known—The Corner is W showing a magnificent New Stock of Drapery and Clothing.—-W, H. Collier. BANG ! Bang i B»n s I My new sea son's stock of Ammunition to hand Eley'fi, Kynock'a and, Cluo Cartridges, Powder, Shot, Caps, Wads, Oases and aH sporting materials of the first quality at J. W. Hartley's, Gun Emporium. "VTOTICE I Notice! Sport for all. IN Guns let out on hire or sold on tim«s payments. H&ving: a professional Gunsmith on the premises, I undertake to repair Guns ot any description. Gun fittings in st^ck. Prices low.—J, W Hardlby, Ironmonger, etc. WANTED Known. — Men's Twaed \ Suits 15s 6d, Men's Tweed Trous-ers 7s lid, Mens 1 Strong Flannellette Shirts 2s 6d, Mens' and Boys' Boots and Shoes greatly reduced.—Arcade House. 465 MRS AU3ORN fraa on sale for he j Holidays a yaried assortment of j Toys, Dolls, Prams, Fancy Goods, and | Christmas Presents—Saunders Buildings, j BOYS' three garment long trouser Suits for 10s. Men's Colonial! made nailed Shooter Boots at 7s 6d per pair at R. Alcorn's sale, Anhburton Clothing Mart, Saunders' Buildings. 1 115 MR John Marsden, of the Railway Bookstall, has opened a Book and Stationer's Shop two doors below Mitchell #1$ Turner. Bonks and Stationery at me foweßji Dos&ible prices. Books clean, complete, a&sji i^ good order will be taken in exchange. Circulates library. £71 ASTER Cardp, and Booklets, f Ira •^ ' Screens Pictures. Glass Ornaments, Christmas Catds, Cricket and Lawn *f!esnjs Material, Photo Albums, and frWB?» ? n(* hundreds of other articles are (a W poU afc a great sacrifice for Cash during this Jo><»* ffaly at L. F. An©rbwes & Co. Sfettonejrf Haft, GUNS 1! Guns! @unS'! My new stock _ " of ouns Just to hand direct from the'manufacturers. Double and Sinde Barrel Breech Leaders, Pses, etc. In -1 spectlon invited. No oid stock *o select from at J. W, Hakdley's kpwiiifrg i Kepoeiterjrt



||AafWKli& Sous Kncalyptl Extract There ar n Imitations of Buoalyptio Extract In tbe market now, products of simple distillation forming rude resinous oils In order that thsse crude oils mny not be taken, Our Pure Volatile Eucalypti Extract, whic h is recognised by the medical division of ihe Prussian Government to be of per fectly pure origin, as their information forwarded to us through the Qonsulat Melbourne, March 2,1878 we state : - ! I is proved by tests by the Medical Clinic of the Universities at Bonn and Grief swal', Prussia, ani reported by Dr Schulz, Professor of Parmaeology, at Bon, and Professor Dr Mosler, Director of the Medical Clinic at G-reifswald, that only product? that i Bre saturated with oxygen and freed of a^ids, resinous J and other substances, adherent to primary distillation, will develope the sanative qualities proper to the plant j according to these authorities, and according to Pro- I fessor Dr Lister of England, and to Drs Bauer, Mclntire, Wood, Hazard, etc., of America, is the only extract corresponding to scientific testa, and the fnly one which possesses th« proper therapeutic val'ie. Sander & Son's Eucalypti Extract AH other crude oils are to be classed among the turpentines, which h *ye, when used as medicine, no therapeutic effeot and are abandoned as an internal medicament. These so called Eucalypti Extracts which may have received distinction at Exhibitions as commerciel articles are used for mechanical pur poses are only discernible:— 1 By thpir deficiency In pungent odour (which our product, the only genuine Eucalypti Extracts de velopes m«st freely through its surplus of oxygen) By their alcoholic thin\and moolle'appearance, being recuced in specrflc density through the presence of acida « By their taste, the result of the contracting ten dency 1 of resins and tennates. ■< If these crude oils, so called eucalypti extracts are applied *>v taistake in caaesoE croup, bronchitis, diph theria, internal infammations, dysentery, wounds', the corisfequenCes are appalling ■ For safety always ask for SANDBR AND SON S EUCALYPTI EXTRACT and get the old, we,H-tes«ed anil reliable preparation.^-Sand .burtfcVicWitt, Australia. ■ v '"^ ' •



An Auckland correspondent, wiring to the"Otago Daily Times," says:—"Sir George Grey was 82 years old on Satur day, having been born at Lisbon on April 14, 1813. He will probably arrive in time to 6pend his birthday in England. The "Herald" says:—'lt is now many years since the aged statesman has cele brated his birthday away from New Zealand—the solony which owes so much to him—and friends throughout the length and breadth of this country, who will wish Sir George, though the oceans toll befcweeen them and him, " many happy returns of the day," cannot but feel some anxiety as to \-he effects *of the voyage upon one so far advanced in life. It is stated that Sir George is to have an audience with the Queen. This should ! prove a most Interesting meeting, and re calls to mind the personal unofficial letter, dated December 4, 1860, which Sir George, while Governor of South Africa, had the honor of receiving from her Majesty. In this letter the Queen con veyed "her warm thanks for the very great kindness Sir George Grey showed our child during his most interesting tour in that colony," and goes on to mention the benefit to Prince Alfred in having "witnessed, the manner in which Sir Geqrge Grey devotes his whole time and energy to promote tb,e happiness and wel fare pf his fellow creatures." Citizens of every party will unite in the hope that Sir George Grey may have a pleasant voy age and return to his adopted country in renewed health.' " It will be seen from our cable news that Sir George apparently arrived, iv England cro his birthday,



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