Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1894 SUICIDE.

There has been of late rather an epi demic of suicide m this colony, and one case m particular—that of George Probert, a man whose wealthy brother died and left him only a hundred pounds, bequeathing the rest of his for tune to the purposes of the Wesleyan Church—has been prominently before the public. George Probert evidently fretted over this action of his brother, and ultimately made up his mind to take his own life, preferring to leave his room where his company would, as he feared, be a burden upon his fairly well-to-do children. Dr R. H:. Bake well, whose name used to be familier to readers of Canterbury papers at one time, and is still familiar to Auckland readers, which city he honors with his medical labors, has something to say about suicides. He has something m particular first to say about George Probert. After telling the story of the bpotheil disinheriting the old man, and the latter's suicide at the age pf seventy, m fear lest his inheritance should run out before his life, fche worthy doctor goes on to say that " such a suicide is a noble example of independence of character, and that instead of a slur on his memory by a yentiot pf insanity, a man of such civic virtue d.esei'vas a public funeral far more than most of those who get it m jthis country. A man of seventy-foutf .cannot ,earn his living m the colony— he r#ust make way, even if capable, for younger men. T.h.ere was therefore no alternative for Frobert than suicide or dependence upon his childU'en. % should do exactly the same m bis posi tion." Judging fronj the readiness with whiph people take to suicide as a release from trouble Pr Bakewell's views are held by a fairly large proper? tion of the colonial population. The cjoptor, however, is writing with the object mops particularly of combatting the verdict of ,th.C5 Coroner's jury that Proberfc was temporarily i/jsane, f?u* before be d^ls directly witH that question he thu« moralises a way that will astonish a few people, j£e says-—"lf there is one thing of which a man has the absolute right of dis posal it is his life. I question whether of any species of property he has the, absolute right of disposal. But as no man is responsible iov b.ejng born, 9M the burden of living lias been Int/st upon hiw, it seems to me that his right

to terminate his life at any nioraent is > unquestionable, and nothing but a relic of mediaeval superstition prevents that ri^ht being publicly recognised. Ifc may be a cowardly evasion of duties and responsibilities which he has volun tarily undertaken (as e.g., when a man j has a young family to raaiutain), or it I oiay indicate great weakness of mind, as where a man m middle age or youth will not face some trouble, but the right appears to me unquestionable, and its exercise m many cases a most meritorious act" Hiving thus told us that we have all a perfect right if we wish to emulate the last act of the Werfcher whose sorrows the English poet satirised — Still he sighed, and pined, and ogled, And his passion boiled and bubbled, Til he blew his silly brains out, And no more was by it troubled, Ihe goes on to let us have his opinions about the sanity of people whose only sign of aberration is the self-murder they have committed. He says:— " The verdict of insanity ought never to be returned except when there are actual delusions, or other proofs of insanity, apart altogether from the suicide. To say that a man is insane because he terminates his own life is an absurdity so glaring that one wonders how even a coroner's jury can give utterance to it." But somehow the average Briton haa an idea fixed m his mind that a man must have " gone wrong " —very far wrong— before he lifts his hand against his own Hfe, and while that idea holds a place m the British mind, and especi ally the British colonial mind, there will be a tendency, and a great tendency, on the part of coroners' juries to be merciful to the memory of the suicide. Merciful, we say, for Britons have been taught to look upon self-murder— the crimeof the execrated Judas Iscariot—-as quite as heinous m the sight of the Almighty as the murder of a fellow creature. And looking upon suicide as thus heinous, they mercifully read the ,sinful act as that of a madman. A man who will attempt his own life has not a very well balanced head anyhow. Perhaps,! after all, he is better out of the way — at any rate it would be worse if he were to turn his attention to the cutting of the thread of lives other than his own. A suicide, m spite of the doctor's opinion, will always be lightly esteemed and his memory will not be cherished, unless it is well understood that the act was that of a person not responsible for his actions, Goethe caused an epidemic of suicide by his book the " Sorrows of Wer'ther " —made suicide fashionable indeed— and every hare-brained or dyspeptic student who did not fancy that the world was to his liking went out of it m search of another, and it wag the thread of the story of that work that Thackeray satirised, concluding his skit with these lines : — Charlotte when she saw his body, Borne before her own a shutter, Like a well conducted person, Went on cutting bread and butter.

Mr Jes^b Colmk(W, spaaking aba Dairy Farmeru' Conference inSw tzarland, said : -—''In travelling from .small faiuis. B isle to Zurich, no ona whose eyes were not l)ltn&ed -with prrj idicc o<>ukl fail to see the immense advantages of a peasant pro prietorship, not only from an economic, but al&o from a sociil point of view ; and he trusted the British representatives would not go home wit out carrying tha 1; important lesson with them. The British people were the only people m the world who had a landless peasantry, and that was a position that was full of danger What made Switzerland so scable a coun try was that it had a people who were anchored to the soil. On the other hand, England had a proletariat, a wage-aarning class, who cmld be marched anywhere they liked. He asksd 1 horn seriously how they could expect a people to love their country, to love their native land, if they were denied their right or privilege of having any of it for themselves ? He trusted that the principles which had roada Switzerland a great, prosperous and con tented nation would soon be introduced into England, for no country could be either great or prosperous unless its great ness were bastd on the prosperity of a numerous, contented, and loyal peasantry.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Commercial news on fourth page. Statistics show that there are over ten thousand tenantless houses within the metropolitan area of Melbourne, Customer (m bank): 'la the cashier ont v CleriE : * No, sir. He won't be out for nine years.' The Tauranga Natives are ploughing up a very large area of new ground thi-f season, with the object of planting mates. The Sydney Bulletin saya that one free laborer's tally at a Queensland shearing shed for a day's work was one ram, and ho had to kill that Defore he got the fleece off. A female miser died m P^vris, and her friends cast lots for her furniture. A statuette fell to her daughter, and she was about to dash it to the ground m vexation, when bank notes and securities, valued at £2000, roliei out from the interior. The Auckland correspondent of the Otagu Daily Times talegraphs that Sir George Grey's friends have received a cablegram from him from London. He has not yet determined whether he will go to the Continent or proceed to the Gape.. According to an exchange die young blood of Stratford are m the habit of tak? ing possession of church goers' horses on Sunday evenings and riding to a neigh boring township to indulge m "beers."! They are always considerate enough ro be back before the close of the service. The Gazette notifies that ih has been decided to bring into operation, from the 29 h instant, subsection 1 (a) of section 21 of the Dairy industry Act. The Govern ment have agreed to provide, free of cost, for the freezing and handling m and ont of store, oi all butter for export ; and for' this purpose have arranged with the under-noted :—The Auckland Freezing Company, Limited, Auckland ; the Well ington Meat Export Company, Limited, Wellington j the LytteJton Harbor Board, Lyttelton ; and M es§rs Iryins and Steven eon, Dunedin. The Governmentuunderr r take no duties m connection with the shipping of produce, and the exporters must make their own arrangements for transit to and from store. On the despatch of any p^odtjoe full particulars (brands, weights, etc^ of the eoi>sjgf3^jsnt must be forwarded, addressed to the grader at the Government cool store. The fallowing haye been appointed Inspec tors and .(traders under-" the 'Act;— Augusb Bosk, Joseph"Tilson Lang, Hugh Robertson Me William, and Alfred''Arthur Thornton.

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At the Wesley*n Church to-morrow, 1 selections from the anniversary music rendered last Sunday will be repeated. At Lyell Bay a few days ago more than forty fjwl belonging to a resident fell down dead from no apparent causa. The Mv cum authorities at Wellington have beiK asked to examine the body of one of tha birds, De James, the Health Officer at Welling- { ton, has ordered to the Hospital a ca3e of scnr'et fever f-oai the steamer Gothic, wh ci recently arrived from London. Tho disease is of a mill type, and the tna'.ter has baen reported to the Colonial Secretary. The Wairarapa Times reports a very large number of swaggtra touring through that district. Over fifteen of these unfor fcinate men were passed travelling between iiJketartuna and Pahiatua on Tuesday, at many parts of the road being up to their b-jot topi m mud, and drenched to the skin with the pouring rain. The story is told how Chauncoy Depew, when a lad, bought a spotted dog from a circus proprietor. He took this dog oub m the rain, when to his horror the spots were soon washed off. He complained to the showman from whom he had bought It. • Great Scott,' said the man 'There was an umbrella went with th*t dog. Did'nfc you get it V The Bishop of Norwich is shocked at * the distressing levity with which marri age * are frequently regarded.' He recently offered a stem protest against 'the not uncommon levity of the average fashion able wedding party ; the church crowded with sightseers', gazing as at a menagerie ; the irreverence m God's house ; the whispered comaaents on the bride and her dress ; the murmured laughter, and vulgar horseplay at the door of the church, oftenr times within the eacred house itself.' ' At a meeting of the Wairapapa Relief Fund Committee last evening Mr Bird occupied the chair. Donations were re ceived from Messrs Mitchell and Turner , and from Mr Bird. Mr Andrew Orr, on behalf of the Presbyterian church, stated that the proceeds of the collection taken at the Rev John McNeill's lecture on Tuesday afternoon would ba given to the fund. The offer was received with thanks. It was decided that subscription lists be placed at the banks, at the Borough Council Office and at the Mail Office. The meeting then closed. Sergeant; Wakelin, of Christchuroh City Guards, who returned recently from England, where he had been to take part m the National Rifle Association meeting at Bisley, did £ome great shooting last week. On Thursday he scored 100 out of a possible 105, at 200, 500. and 600 yards, and on Saturday made 90 at the same ranges. The former score la believed to be the record for the colony at those ranges. Sergeant Wakelin used a Webley-Martini rifle. These were not selected scores, as is often the case, one of them being made m a match. The last number of the Revmv of Kevkivs, io referring to " Political temper m New Zealand," says "No other Colo nial Legislature works so hard as the New Zealand House of Representatives. St not seldom sits from half-past two m the afternoon till half-past five the next rooming. On October 5, it sat for over .twenty hours continuously, and during the sime week there were four sittin»sin sucosssbn, when the House did not rise till four a.m. £uch a strain is unfavour able to either good temper or cool judg ment." The programme for the thirty-fourth annual meeting of tha New Z3alai.ll Riflo Aasociarion, to be held at Trentham, Wellington, beginningon Thursday, March 14, Ins been issued. It has been drawn on much the game >iocs as previous ye ars and the pr<z i money oft'jred is £1200, ex clusive of trophies. The principal inno vation is the broi>«a medal match, par ticulars of which were recently published m a circular. Owing to the complaints of previous years of compe'ifcors living out of camp, thus aiFordin? the caterer no guar antee as to the number he had to provide for, a new rule has been inserted m the regulations to the effect that cash com, petitor mast deposit 12s 6d with his entries. This 12s 6d will be taken as pay ment m advance of one half of the weekly aharge, the balance to be paid to the cat erer, but m the case of competitors not beiag m tha camp they will b * given eight single n?eal tickets for their 12s 6d, these to be available for any meal at the caterer's tables. An oid miner writes m the Ballina Pilot as. follows:—The phenomenal disco veries of god at Coolgardie recall the won derful find at Tarnagulla, Victoria, m the fifties. A party of Maoris from Poverty Bay (New Zealand) discovered a mass of gold-bearing stone, which they called Poverty Reef, after their native place. If ever a mine was ironically named this one was, for no less than £1.346.000 worth of gold was taken out of ie, though the whole property was only sQoft long and 430 ft broad. The Maoris did not get much of the gold, but a party of white men, who were told of the find by a negro, were made wealthy through it. A Mr King obtained £12,000 worth of gold out of one of the claims, and a Mr BeU sold out a half-share m another for £10,000 after he had obtained £35,000 by working there, AMr Baker mada £26,000 out of 9|ft of ground which he discovered had been wrongly included m one of the sur veys. Another party, Messrs King and Hawkins, brought to the surface 70! b weight of gold m seven weeks. In 1864 all the claims were amalgamated, and the land was then sold for £240 per foot. A claim adjoining, called the Prince of Wales, yielded £160,000 worth of gold. Our cablegrams told us of the suicide on the Prince ai Wales Birthday of Major Andrew Russell Inglis, one of the best known and lnost popular of Victorian military officers. Further information. is to the effect that he committed suicide at his residence m Toorak by shooting him self with a service revolver. He was a brother of Mr J. O. Inglis, the owner of Mama, who won the Melbourne Cup m 1884, and married, when very young, a daughter of the late Br Tracy, of Collins street. As the suicide occurred m Cup week the public was not slow to jump to the conclusion £hat the deceased had plunged upon the races and was driven to ( desperation by his losses. Such, however, could not have been the case. In years gone by Major Inglis was a comparatively heavy "punter," but within recent years his betting transactions have been of the most modest description, for the simple reason thab his credit with the book makers would not permit of his at tempting to "go for the gloves," The real reason for the suicide might have be come public property bub for the inter vention of his family, and there is little doubt he long meditated the deed, and chose Cup week m order to f orca the j public to the conclusion they have so promptly .arrived at as to his motive.

Sunday will be recognised as. Temper ance Sunday m the Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist churches. As announced by Messrs Miles and Company on Tuesday last at the usu*l Stock sale the Urge line of meriuo wefhars formerly advertised to b? offered at Tin ' wald Ssileyards on Tuesday, 27th instant, have been disposed of privately. Mr Justice Oonoliy h-is granted an order m the c*se of the Union Steamship Co.b pmy v the barque Examiner, for i>e sale of the vessel without appraisement by public auction. This is the vessel which foundered m a gala and wm towed into Russell by the Rotouuhana. At Auckland, owing to the friction between milk suppliers and factory owners as to the percentage obtained from milk teats, the former interviewed Mr lawry, M.H R>, who has telegraphed to the Government urging them to eend a qualified Government officer to test, milk, with the view of settling the difficulty. We (Nb'th Otago Times) are informed 1 by a settler of the district that the Govern ment intend to buy the whole of the Ardgowan Estate, and not 1,00) acres of it »s at first stated. He said that this information ia thoroughly reliable, as he got ib at Kurow, which knows more of the intentions of the Cabinet than any other place m the colony. A contractor m the Bush is said to have ( supplied the Government with timber, and while waiting to get his money f om the State was, according to the Woodville Examiner, threatenel with penalties by the Government because he did not pay hla men fortnightly. The contractor, of course, could not pay unless he was paid, and it was really the Government that was keeping back the men's wages. inspecting the would-be lady mayor of Tapanui. the Courier m its leading columns says:—We do not think that Mrs Mary Grace Bellamy possesses any of the business qualifications out of which a good mayor could be evolved, and without any ' experience of public affairs (m the colony, at any rate) it would be little less than a crime to place her at the head of municipal affairs m the Borough of Tapanui. While the Ouracoa was at Samoa, a petty officer named Preston, a sober, steady man fell upon a sword bayonet, which passed through his body and pro truded eight inches from his back. By a marvellous chance the vital organs were uninjured, though life at first was de spaired of. Now, however, he is steadily recovering, and on his arrival at Auckland he was taken to the hospital. It is stated the affair 'was accidental. The Vienna correspondent of the Lon don Standard says that on one of the estates of Count Potocki, m Galicia, the very rare went of a mother, daughter, and grand-daughter each giving birth to a son on the same day has occurred recently. The mother is forty-eight, and the infant son is her sixteenth child. The daughter, who has just presented her husband with his eighth, is 33 years old ; and the grand-daughter, who was married last year, is not yec 16. All the three new born sons are strong and healthy, and the same may be sud of bheir mothers, who belong to the Polish peasant class. The Rev .; ohn McNeill will preach m the Oddfellows' Hall on Tuesday after noon, commencing at two o'clock. His reason for lecturing m Ashburton In the affernoon and not the evening is that he will address audiences at Ttmaru on Mon day night and Christchuroh on Tuesday night. A large crowd should be present, as" wherever ihis genial Scotchman has appeared and spoken ho hw beer enthusiavtic^Jy received. 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The Mount Hutt Storm Water.

At the Supreme Court yesterday His Honor Mr Justlca Denniston gave his decision on the motion for leava to serve notice on third parties under rule 95 The case was, he said, an action brought by the Road Board for damages and an injan'ction m respect of an alleged stop page by the defendant of a natural water channel on his land, whereby the flow of storm water from the road of the plaintiffs was obstructed. As a defence the defen dant alleged that owing to the operations of two riparian owners immediately above the plaintiffs, a very much larger amonnt of water than the ordinary ard natural storm water flowed on to the road and on to his land, and that the plaintiffs had permitted or had not prevented this. To prove this would be part of defen dant's case. If he succeeded m doing so, then if (as the plaintiffd on the argument of their motion had contended) it was not a defence to the action, it mia;ht well be,;/that the defendant would be en titled to an injunction against such riparian owners, who T^ere the parties sought to be joined. On the other hand, the allegations, if proved, would be a de fence against the action, the defendant would be interested m establishing them against the proposed third parties with a view to abating the injury to himself caused by their action. To grant the order would not embarrass the plaintiffs m the trial. His Honor granted the order Rspi'ayed. Mr Beswick appeared for the plaintiffs, Mr Andrews for the defendant. Mi Beswick moved for a special jury. Mr Andrews said that, under the circumstances, he would ask that, the c»se j should stand over til) February. Hia Honor eaid that it cou|d not yet be seen what the effect of the order jua,t granted would be, and it was impossible to fix the day of hearing, and he would allow the matter to stand over sine die. The question of costs was reserved.

EXPLOR ATI ON IN THE ARCTIC REGIONS.

The Peary Expedition.

New Youk, November 22.

Lieutenant Peary, m charge of the exploring expedition, writing from Cape Fork on the west coast of Green land, on Baffin's Bay, states that the party met with terrible storms while crossing the ice. The thermometer at times registered 50 degrees below zero, and the sledge dogs were frozen. Ha adds that he will await spring, beford continuing to explore the interior.

Terible Hardships.

The steamer Falcon, with members of Lieu^nanfc Peary's Polar expedition. irrived ab Newfoundland on September 15 •ill well, lieutenant Peary was not among them. With characteristic faith m future possibilities he intended to winter In Greenland m order that he might begin again next year the work of exploration, m which, though twice baulked by diffi culties, he is not yet defeated. Tht alcon saiiel from Newfoundland on July 14. 1893. for Bowdoin Bay m Inglefield Gu'f, 35 miles north of M'Cormick Harbour. She took supplies for two year.?, and the party consisted of twelve men and two women, including Mv Peary. On March 6of the following year Lieutenant Peary started on hts northern journey with eight men, twelve fledges, and ninety-two dogs. He advanced 134 miles m thirty-one days across the inland ice, and an altitude of 5500 ft waaattsined. The party experienced bad weather almost from the outset On March 19 an equi noctial gale set m, and lasted four days, the temperature ranging from 45 leg to 60deg below zero, while the wind blew at the rate of forty-eight miles an hour. The hardships experienced by the party sur passed all previous Arctic records. Macy of the dogs were frczsn solid, »nd others had to be chopped out of the ice. With the exception of one, however, all the members of the party escaped injury, bub . as their means of locomotion had become greatly crippled through the loss of dogs, a section of the expedition was left behind, and Lieutenant Peary, with Messrs En triken, Baldwin, and OHrke, pushed on alone for another fourteen days, m which time only eighty-five miles were covered. Many more of the dcgs died, and Entriken became unfit to travel further, so that m the end the party had to turn back when only on6-fourth of the distance to Inde pendence Bay had been covered. The sledges had to be abandoned, and only twenty-six dogs out of the ninety-two re turned alive. The headquarters at Bow doin Bay was reached on April 18 last, and all the members of the party soon recovered from the hardships they had undergone, Simultaneously with the story of Lieu tenant Peary's difficulties is published Mr Walter Wellman's narrative, m which he tells of aa Arctic mnter such as the ex plorers have rarely straggled with. There is an old theory that no ice is formed on the sea, but Mr Wellman describes how the ship m which ha sailed from Spitz bergen had to make her way through water where they actually saw the ice [ forming what he calls a gelatinous film. [ She had literally to move acres cf this ' rubber-like ice aside every rod of her advance. At length, however, the Rag noaklJarl met with drifts and packs that, ' closing round, crushed her stout ribs, and Mr Wellman's party, like Lieutenant • Peary's, hid to make for the portt from which th>y had sot out Peary proposes to stare northward again next spring, and { Wel'man has also resolved upon another 5 attempt to make a dash lor the North " ] Pole.

THE WAIRARAPA DISASTER.

WfiLum.TON, November 23 From enquiries m*de by the Mayor of Wellington, where £1350 was collected I for the Wairarapa fond, it appears that Ohrlstchurch has collected about £500, and Duuedin, apart from £500 taken from the Olutha fund, only £100. The Mayor, however, exp'ains that a vigorous canvass would be made if more money was wanted and the local districts made their necessi ties known. Four of the Wairarapa crew, who are now m Wellington, state that each re ceived 31s worth of clothes and 10s m cash, and that no member of the crew received more. They assert that some of the paswngers c*me on m the Wairarapa m nothing more than they stood up m and now h%ve comprehensive wardrobes and some cash from the funds. One passenger who was saved precisely as he had come on board ship at Sydney, re ceived from Mr Barter £10 and two orthree suits of clothing. They strongly resent the continued reflections upon the crew, many of whom did everything they could to save life and lost all they possessed on board.

The Markets.

London, November 22 New Zealand Four Per Cent Inscribed Stock, 107 ; Three and a half, 102. New Zealand long-berried wheat, ex warehouse, steady at 25s ; South Australian wheat, ex warehouse, 25s 6d: Victorian, 25a. New Zealand frozen mutton, firsb quality, 4£d per 1b; second, 2|d. Lamb, first quality, sd. i At the wool sales competition was slow and irregular compared with the previous sales. Merinos of fair quality were from |d to Jd per Ib, and faulty and inferior were from to Id lower. Crossbreds were M lower.

CRICKET.

ENGLAND V. NEW SOUTH WALES.

i Sydney, November 23 The weather was fine for the opening day of the cricket match -England versus New Sonth Wales. The home team were the first to bat, and at the conclusion of the day's play h«»d lost 5 wickets for 246 runs,. Scores—lrdale 134, Richardson 49, Gregory 6, CaUoway 8, Farquhar; 1, Donnan not out 28, Howell not out 9, Extras 11. Ird*le who played a fine innings never gave a single chance, and was eventually run ont.

On Wednesday a cricked match was played m the Domiio- between the Ashburton CC. and a team representing the Selwyn Cricket Auociation, and resulted m a win for the Association by ten wickets. The scores wire—first innings, Ashburfcon 27, Selwyn 79 ; second innings—Ashburton 62, Selwyn 13 for the loss of one wicket. In the second innings Fleming, Simpson, and Thompson reached double figures for Ashburtoit, and for Selwyn Dr Withers m the first innings scored 29 A match will be played on the Domain ground on Wednesday next, 28th inst, against the Dunsandel Club. The team to represent/Ashburton will be picked from the following, who are requested to practice :—Messrs Cathbertson, Makeig, Mitchell, Moffatb, Percy/ Denshire, Russell, [fpton, Sharp, Andrews, Davis, Dixon, Lawry, Lane. Any of the above who are unable to play are requested to inform the Secretary at once.

THE ASHBUKTOJS GUABDIAH ; SATUKDA?, KOVEMBEE 24, 1894.



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Wanted WANTED Known — Spectacles, Eye Protectors, Goggles, Folders, and everything m the optical lire at S. | Saxek's, Optician. TI, ANTED Known—The Corner is W showing a magnificent New Stock of Drapery and Clothing.—W, H, Collier. TTOLLOA ! What's This ! 36 Sard's JLjL m Packets for Is, and 25 for 9d j single Cards from 2d to 2a each. New Year's, Christmas, Text, and Birthday Cards, Cheap and m great variety, a choice lot of New Books suitable for Christmas and Birthday Presents. Cir culating Library, Terms easy. Eight Id Books for 6d, four 2d Boi;k* for 6 I, two 41 B?oks for 0.1, three 6:1 Books for Is, Plain, Fancy, and Mourning Stationery. Picture Books. Scraps, etc.—-J. M-susden, Bookstall and Shop. NOTICE! Notice Sport for all Guns let out on hire or sold on tini9 payments. H&ving a professional Gunsmith on the premip.es, I undertake to repair Guns of any description, Gun fittings m stock. Prices low.-—J, W Haudley, Ironmonger, etc WANTED Known -That if you are m want of a first class article m sum mer Boots and Shoes, you cannot do better than call at J. Moison's ; you will get the very best at red need prices. As for hia own make, they are well known to the delight of the wearers, throughout the Australasian colonies. Repairs well done and at once Premier Boot Maker, Town Hall Boot Store, East street, ABhburton.



Wanted. TXJTANTED, a Girl to moke herself T w useful; also a General Servant.— Davis' Regutiy Offioa. 11 150 1 O^T between Dune n's yard and Lj Woo'lon Fact, rr, lady's black serge j <cke.~. Finder kindly leave at " Mail office. 11 149 \\J ANTED Ktv wn.— Sti a wherries and VV Cream it W. 0. Paoe\s, Netherl.y all through the season. 11 147 PRIMITIVE Church, To-morrow • Preanher, Kov 3. Cocker. Evening —A Temperance Sermon. Temperan™ friends or foes invited. 11 146 WESLEYAN Church, To-morrow. Temperance Sunday, and repeti tion of Aimiversaiy Music \>y the Sunday School, assisted by the choirand c rcheetra Morning—Rev C. Abertiethy. Eveaing —Rev T. G Brooke. Subject: *' Butter m a krdly dish." The public cordially invitei, especially temperance people. 11J.48 WANTED, by married man, situation on farm as working manager; wife housekeeper, cook for tew men ; good at butter and bread making; good references. Apply, Mail Office. 11139 I^HE Rev. JOHN McNEILL, the Scottish Evangelist, will visit Ashburton on TUESDAY NEXT. 27th inst. Service m the Oddfellows' Hall at two o'clock. Sankey's Hymns. Collec tion for Wairarapa Uelief Fund. 11 128 WANTED Known — Mrs Hooper (monthly nuree) is open to accept engagements. Apply, by letter, to Mrs Hooper, Alford Forest Road, Ashburton. 11*134 ' "OEAUTTeULand useful Presents to _Q all purchasers of 2s 6d and upwards. —H. C Segers, Meltcrd House. WANTED Known—Special line of Gents' Regatta Shirts, all sizes, with or without collars, 2a 6d,—W. H. Collier. OY'S and Girls Own Annual, British Workman and Workwoman, Infant's Magazine, The Prize, Child's Companion, Children's Friend, Little Dot, Family Friend, Band of Hope, Young England, and other New Books at Lowest Prices.— L. F. Andrewes and Co. 11 98 OWN Make m Ladies'and Children's Underclothing, Aprons, and Pina fores ; also a good assortment of Calicoes, Muslins, Flannelettes, Trimmings etc., ab Mrs Alcorn's now shop, Baker's Buildings. "PRESENTS. We are now siving ±T Presents to aU purchasers of 2* 6d and upwards.—H. C. Segebs, Melford House. . TCE CREAM, Ice Cream, Ice Cream, J_ now ready at H. A. Flower's, East street, Ashburton. Ice supplied at shortest notice, 10 114 fVTANTED Known—Holders of W Present tickets can now get them changed.—H. C. Segers, Melford House OYSTERS, Fried Flounders, and Whitebait every right at Jewitt's, Deep Fea Fishing Company, opposite Mail office. " 9 168 WANTED KNOWN —Dressmaking prices to suit the times. Material dresses from 8s 6d, Prints from 7s 6d. Fit and style guaranteed.—Miss Murphy, Old Kindergarten, East Street. 13 EOENT Arrivals —Ladies' and Gentle -*-*^ men's Summer Boots and Shoes, Cricketing and Tennis Shirts. Unlimited selection of Snmmer Ties and Hats — Mitchell auo Turner BLANKETS bought at Edwards Bennet's Sale, a special line of DouWe Blankets at 7a 9J. Ex*rahrge and heavy 15s 6d and 16i 6d.--Robert Alcorn, Baker's Buildings. ROBERT ALCORN has opened m Baker's Buildings, nexb the Court house, with a stock of Clothing, etc , bought at Edwards, Bennett's and th? Kaiapoi Sales, the cheapest lot of goods ever brought to Ashborton, Also an assortment of Boots. t EDWARDS, Bennett's Sale. Grand lot new and fashionable Furs and Mantles ; half price. Come and take your pick at Mrs Adasw, WANTED —Every Lady to try Madam Balcombe's .Patent Ex panding Belt Corset (registered), guaran teed whalebone throughout. Orders left at Mr E, Hall's, Herbalist, Ashburton, will receive prompt attention. 10 86 WANTED Known—That owing to the success of the Sale now being held up at Saunders' Buildings, opposite Rail way Station, v> will be continued for another twenty-eight days. I am not advertising a few cheap lines, but the whole of the stock. Don't lose the oppor tunity of securing genuine bargains—A Law bib. 7 366 TO LADlES.—Spring Cleaning.—We have just received Three Oises of Curtains and Liberty Muslins, together with new Patterns m Carpets, O Icioths, and Linoleums. China Matting from B£d per yard.—Mitchell and Turner. LARGE Puf chase Embroideries afc Edwards, ' Bennett's Sale ; over ninety pieces to ehepse from. Ladies' Trousseaux made on shart notice. Orna ments, Fancy Goods, and Dolls' Prams at Mrs Aloorn's new shop, Haveloclt Street WE Hold » Large Stock of the Latest JSovelties m Materials for Blouses and Walking Tresses. Just opened, ex Pakeha and lonic, Dress Goods of choice selection, Sunsha3*>s and Umbrellas.— Mitchell and Tchnee. BANG ! Bang i Bi*ug 1 My new sea aotj's stock of Ammunition to hand Eley's, Kynock's ;»nd, Cluo Cartridges, Powder, Shot, Caps, W»ds, Cases and all sporting materials of the first quality at J. W. Hartley's, Gun Emponum, GUNS ! Guns ! Guns ! My new stock of ounej ust to hand direct from the manufacturers. Doable and Single Barrel Breech Leaders, Rijfes, etc. In spection invited. No old stock to select from at A. W. Hardley's Sporting Repository S~~WEF.PING Reductions. —Is Books for 9d, Is 6d Books for Is, 2s Books for Is 6d, 2i 6d Books for 2a, and all others at equ»l ra'e of reduction at 1 L. F. Ani>khw>:s and Cos., Cash Sale. 018 /•"IHMSTMAS aftdNgw Year Cards for \J the Home Mail- A he^jitiful assort ment just opened up, Packets x?f o*s:dß of choice designs from .3-1 upwards. Writing Papers and Bnvefapes, Pocket Books, Purses, Writing Caees, Jnk stances, Pictures, Music, Aecordeong from 7* 9d ( Concertinas, Violins, Banjos, Zither Harps, Photo Frames and Albums, Scrap and Postage Stamp Albums, Indoor Games, and a great , variety of good? t@o numerous to ' mention ; all at greatly reduced prices for cat.h this month at L. F. AufcßEav/ss 1 and Co !s Cheap Sale. ' f imi 11 'ZIIZJ ' nr»O LET—Cottage m Grey street, ' T. 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Oj^rv-PRICE R-quired for Small 3Z,0 I SJtCriON of Good Land at Ha-npstead, with COTTAGE of 3 Rooms and fccallery. Very easy terms of pay ment. T. BULLOCK. 1-ICRE, Capital Building Site, wsll pituated m Cox Street, being T.Ss 7^6 and 797 ; for sale on veiy easy terms of pay menc. T BULLOCK. TO LET, at a low rental, small chop m the Arcade, next but one to Tailored stree', T BULLOCK.



T OLE T. ' SEVtiIN-R )OMED House at AHentor, now occupied by Mr Fargu on. { Apply 11 57 FFIEDLANDER BROS. THERB are two qualities of Heakh Tea, both unsurpasbed for strength parity and lovely flavor. Pr;ce«, 2s 6d »»id %« vvr Ib. Abk your grocer for Htitlth Tea, and *cc that you yet 1\ Wholesale at Zakdeu's



Business Notice-. NEW COODS. NEW GOODS. T O ME E iTfl TIME S. OW[N() to the scarcity of money and dulness of trade generally, we are over stocked. To ensure n speedy clearance, we have marked the whole of our Stock at the Very l«ow<'M Po*sll>l«* Price, NOW IS YOUR TIME. MAKE NO MISTAKE. G J. J\~E 1 L lAS IS THE SHOP FOB A GENUINE BARGAIN. New Prints, guaranteed to wash, 3h\ I New and Fashionable iJresa Goo Is, double J New Galateaf, very strong, (ii 1 " . width, wo^th 2a far Is 31 New Delainf-3, very pretly, 7-id, guarantee! j Calicos, 2s llil dozen to wash | Double-bed .Sheeting, white twill, 9| 1 New Dreaa Gor Is sslid, dress worth double | Towels, 2^l ; Cotton Shirting, 4Jd MI LLINERyT"mILLI NE KY IN ALL ITS BRANCHFS EXCEPTIONALLY CHEAP. Strong Corsets, 4s 6d now 2s lid I Children's Sunshades Is Ladies' Sunshades of every description j CLOTH! NG." CLOTHING. Men' 3 Suits, 13a 6d Boys' Tweed Suits, 4s lid Men's Colonial Tweed Suits, 37s 6d now 27s Straw Hats for men and boys at any price ' 6d Hats, Socks, Shirts and Ties at your own Men's Colonial Tweed Suits, 453 now 32a 6d j price BOOTS?" BOOTS. We were never beaten, and we defy competition. All oui 1 Colonial Boots aie made specially to our order, and we guarantee them. If not as good as recommended, we will replace them. -JUST TO HAND— 120 pair of Ladies' Lace Shoes, 4? lid Children's Tan Shoes and Slippers a specialty Ladies' Tan Strapped Shoes, 6s ild with sox to match Ladies' Canvas Shoes, tan and black Men's Colonial-made Shooters, nailed 7s lid Ladies' French Glace Kid Shoes, the best to j Men's Colonial-made Shooters, nailed 8s lid be had m Mew Zealand ! Men's Balmorals and Cookhatna of every Men's Bluchers, 4» lid 1 description, COME AND SEE. G. J. NE ILL'S JFRIEDLANDER'S CORNER, EAST STREET, ASHBURTONj -JUST ARRIVED «r\* TTUBST SHIPMENT OF NEW SEASON'S FRUIT FOR j CHRISTMAS TRADE- Finest New Currants Finest New Sultanas" 1; Finest New Yaleucia Raisins (all cleaned by cmr new process) Also, Finest new Prunes FINEST NEW TURKEY FIGS, All of which we intend to Sell at The liowest Possible Prices. SOLE AGENTS FOR THE FOLLOWING— Peerless ai» «l Premier Teas. Peerless Tea, 31l|S for 5s Peerless Tea, 61bs for 9s 9d Premier Tea, 31bs for 5s 5d Premier Tea, Clbs for 10s 5d RAWLINGS' SOAP MANUFACTORTj (First Prize at the Chriatchurch Show, 1894) j POTTER'S HEEBAL BEER EXTRACT— 7d per Bottle, 12 bottles for 6s 6d. Sufficient to make six gallons of Splendid Herbal Beer' — REMEMBER — WE BUY BOR CASH, SELL FOR CASH, MAKE NO BAD DEBT?, therefore we are able to SELL CHEAPER THAN ANY HOUSE IN ASHBURTON. FLTSTCHEK BROS-, WHOLESALE AND KETAIL GROCERS, &c, EAST STREET, ASHBURTON, AND TOWER HIGH STREET, CHRISi'OHURCtf. llic |jarge*t, the Choicest, Mie newest, and the Cheapest STOCK OF riOLD AND SILVER JEWELLERY, SILVER A PLATED WARE, (j CLOCKS AND WATCHES, 14 TO BE FOUND AT THE JEWELLERY ESTABLISHMENT OF H. SAL.EX, WATCHMAKBB & JEWELLER, EAST STREET. Watches Oleane'l and Guaranteed twelve months ss. lijst English Mainspring 4-5 fid iniOMl'TNEf-S AND SATISFACTION. -