BIRIH. Oothbbrtson—At Wills street, Ashbur ton, on March 30, the wife of R. M, Cuthbertson, solicitor, of a son.

Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1894. RATING.

There came into force on the first day of April of this year the Rating Acts Amendment Act, 1893, which makes some important changes in the law relating to the levying of rates. It relieves the Ooramissioner of Taxes of the duty of making assebsments and compiling valuation rolls on behalf of any public body, and places each such public body under the necessity of making up its own valuation roll. This duty public bodies may discharge either once a year or once every three years, as they may see fit. Probably in oldand well settled districts thefcriennia valuation will be adopted, County rolls are to be the standard from which all other rate rolls are to be made up, so that where counties exist under the Counties Act, the Road Districts' rolls will be compiled from the county roll, and where the Counties Act ia not in force the Road District roll will be the standard. Assessment is to be made, in the option of the local body compil ing the roll, either on annual or capital value; the Act laying down no cast iron rule, but leaving the settlers in the district, through their local representa tives, the right to determine, by resolu tion, which is the most suitable or con venient for the particular locality. A three months' tenant is to be deemed the occupier, and may enjoy the rate payers' franchise if he applies for it at the proper time, and with the consent lof his landlord. The local body may approach the Colonial Secretary to have appointed, in the interests of the district represented by the body apply ing, two assessors or reviewers to sit with the Judge of the Assessment Court to hear objections to the valuations. All rates twelve months in arrear are to be subject to interest at the rate of ten per cent—a clause that ought to be very helpful |toj the rate, collector,

When sales of property take place, the vendors must give notice to the local body of the change in proprietorship, otherwise the sellers will remain liable for the rates, although the property is mo longer theirs. Lands and buildings belonging to a university or any incor porated college are to be free from rates, so that no endowment of our local High School will be required to contribute to the exchequer of the ; local body in whose district it may be situated. Buildings that have re mained unoccupied for six months are to be subject to only half rate 3, if due notice has been given to the local body. This exemption has hitherto been allowed only in the case of water rates, but is now extended to all rates. Unlet lands vested in School Commis sioners are also to be exempt from the payment of rates. With certain ex emptions all native land, the title to which has been ascertained in the Native Land Court, and of which there is a European occupier, is to be liable to rates, but native land must not be sold to make good arrears of rates without the sanction of the Trust Commissioner. In several respects the new Act is an improvement on the law hitherto in force,

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

I Train arrangements for Timaru races next Thursday are advertised. A creeper has appeared at Verteules Hills, Brazil, which entwines itself so ' tightly about the trunks of trees as to kill the latter almost at once. " What is the lesson taught us in the parable of the five wise virgins ?" asked a Sunday school teacher of her pupils. " That we should always be on the lookout for a bridegroom," said the smallest girl in the class. Letters from places beyond the colony addressed as under were received at the Aehburton Post Office during the month of January and are still unclaimed:—D. McAlister, James A. Huggins, .Charles Ross, J, Salmon, David L. Thompson. A Wellington young lady, who spent last Christmas at an English country house, writes to her friends here that the weather was very severe—frost and snow—but she rather enjoyed it. One of the servants, remarking this, said to her, " You don't seem to feel the cold miss, but I suppose you come from a very cold place." The young lady explained that New Zealand was not a very cold place, and that such weather was quite unknown there. The servant girl replied, " But is not New Zea land the place the frozen mutton comes, from, miss?"—" Post." The connection between typhoid and impure water has been long established. If a city wants to be free from this disease, the water must be been to. There has lately been an outbreak of typhoid at Footscray, a suburban borough of Melbourne. Dr McCarthy, the health officer at Footscray, has sent a sensational report to the Board of Health on the%haractei of the Van Yean water consumed in certain quarters of that borough. His inquiries showed that the Van Yean water in the affected area was simply horrible, the amount of solid filth be ing about one-third to the bottle. He had no hesitation in Baying that the filth was sewage, and finding no other cause for the outbreak of the disease, he attributed it to the water. Some time ago it was announced that the Princess of Walea had resolved to with draw from society. This now appears to be not quite a fact, though not altogether unfounded. It is hardly correct to say that she has announced any " resolve " on the subject. The Princess ha 9to a con siderable extent withdrawn from society ever since the death of the Duke of Clar ence ; but she would have attended this season's Drawing Rooms if the state of her health had not reodered it advisable for her to pay another visit to Italy and Greece. The Princess of Wales has not attended a single ball since her eldest son's death, and a year ago she intimated hor intention of not going to any function at which there was to be dancing, so that she was not seen at either of the State balls last season, and the proposed winter balls at Sandringham were abandoned because the Princess ob jected to them. Recently a frightful death befel Mr J. M'lnnes, aged seventy-seven, a resident of Shepherd's Flat, near Buninyong. He was taking a, bull, it was his business to tend, to water, when the animal became savage, and turning upon him, gored him to death. The shocking occurrence wag not witnessed, and his fate only became known when Mra M'lnnes, alarmed at the lengthened absence of her husband, went to search for him, andfound his mangled body. The bull must have worked its will, and a very wicked will, too, upon the unfortunate man. One gaping wound showed where a horn had been thrust right through the body, and he was so mutilated that it would appear that the infuriated animal gored and stamped upon him until it was satiated. Besides the injuries to the body the clothes were torn to threads. As may be imagined, Mrs M'lnnes was terribly shocked at finding the dead and mangled body of her unfortunate husband. James Ball, a bootmaker, of 75 Ocean, street, Mile-end, was charged at Thames Police Court with unlawfully pretending to tell fortunes. Annie Boyd described how she had visited defendant's house twice to have her fortune told, the second occasion in company with a detective. The detective said that he went with the last witness to Ball's house, and there were three young ladies waiting in the parlour. Defendant told them to wait, and afterwards called them into his room and sang a sort of " in cantation song," and then told the girl's fortune. He told her " she was going across the water,' 1 and a lot more nonsense. De fendant afterwards to!d witness' fortune. As they were going Ball said, " What about my price?" Witness said to his Mend, "Give him 25." On May 4, 1891, the defendant was sentenced at the North London Sessions to twelve months' hard labor for similar offences, after four previous convictions. Mr Mead convicted defendant, and sent him to the sess'ona for sentence as an incorrigible rogue and vagabond. Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— Health's Defences. None save the strongest can with impunity pass through the sudden transitions from wet to diy, from cold to muggy weather so prevalent during the autumnal and early winter months. In fluenza, bronchitis, cough, sote throat, or quinsey will attack those most watchful of their health; but they can readily arrest any of these complaints by rubbing Hol loway's Ointment twice a day upon the skin over the affected parts, and by assisting its corrective action with appropriate doses of his Pills. This well-known, cafe, and easy mode of treatment efficiently protects the invalid both from present and future danger without weakening or even disturbing the system m the •lightest degree,

£ The Palmerston North local option poll is | void. | Following are the vital statistics for Ash burton for the month of March:—Bir'hs 18 ; marriages 4; deaths 10. , A little fellow looking rather squeamish j went into a Scotch grocer's shop, and, with I a very doleful look, asked for a pennyworth of salts. During the operation of weighing the article, he said to the grocer, " Dinna gie's full wecht, for it's me that has to tak' 'em." In passing sentence at the Reading Assizes upon James Bowyer, aged thirty-live, con victed of a criminal assault on Florence Austin, aged eight, at Bray in January, Lord Coleridge remarked he was pleased that the Criminal Law Amendment Act permitted Her Majesty's judges to pass exemplary sentences upon such offenders, and as long as he remained on the bench he should avail himself of the opportunity. He thereupon sentenced the prisoner to penal servitude for five years. The Payne Family will pay Ashburton & visit on Saturday, April 7, and also give one of their grand sacred concerts on Sunday evening. Both programmes will be specially selected from the extensive repertory of secular and sacred gems for which the Payne Family are famous. Since their last visit here they have added two more lady artistes to the company, viz., Miss Bella Handricks, eolo violinist, a native of Victoria, and Miss El fie Morella, soprano soloist, from the Guild Hall of Music, London. Both these young ladies are under special engagement for this tour. The prices of admission will be 2a and Is. The reputation of this company is so well established that it is needless for us to say they will draw large audiences- They appear at Bakaia on Friday, April 6. On Friday afternoon a pleasing ceremony took place in the Longbeach school. Miss M. A. Hepworth, having been mistress for the past three years and eight months, a short time ago sent in her resignation to the School Committee. This intimation was received with a general feeling of regret throughout the school, and the scholars quickly determined that they would not let her leave them without giving her some slight token of the esteem in which she had been held during her labors amongst them. Accordingly, on Friday afternoon, Mr Watson, in a few feeling words, referred to Miss Hepworth's retirement;, and asked Misses W. F. Cobband Lucy E. G. Watson, on behalf of the school, to make the presen tations. These took the form of a very beautiful illuminated album, handsomely bound in morocco, and a pair of very pretty vases in Bohemian glass. Miss Hepworth, who was quite overcome by this unexpected expression of appreciation, asked Mr Watson to thank the children for their kindness. The school was then dismissed, and each of the children gave Miss Hepworth a hearty shake of the hand, silently wishing her success and happiness wherever her lot ia life may fall. At a meeting of the School Committee, held on Saturday night, Miss Todd, of Chertsey, was recommendsd for the appoint ment of mißiress of the Longbeach school. Oa December 14 John Way was engaged with five others in letting down a new wire rope into a coalmine in Rhondda Valley. Some length of the rope was sent on first. Way and his companions followed after in the "cagg." The end of the rope did not pass through the loops at the side of the shaft, as it should have done. The rope coiled about like a serpent. The " cage as it descended came upon the coils, and was turned over to such an angle that three men were thrown out and hurled to the bottom. Way aad two others wsre left suspended in mid-shaft. How long might they remain there ? How could help come ? Would the " cage" turn over again, and throw the three out ? These questions flashed through Way's mind. He proposed to descend by one of the permanent ropes that guide the cages from top to bottom, then go up another shaife and so get help. His companions entreated him not to run the risk, but his brave heart impelled him. He left the cage, with hands ,and legs he clung to the wiry guide. He slid down about) 120 yards. He was heard to cry out, "Oh, I am going!" In a few seconds more he was gone. The flesh had been torn off his hands, his nerves had been overstrained, his failing power let go the guide rope, he fell eighty yards, and was dead ! John Way was a highly respected member of a Methodist church in Pandy, where he was organist, treasurer, etc.

TIMBUCTOO.

The French are fortifying Timbuc too, as a basis of commercial and mili tary operations in West Africa. Tim buctoo has been but little spoken of since 1881, when M. de Freycinet, boldly contemplating a railway across the Soudan from Algeria to Senegal, via Timbuctoo, sent out a surveying expedition under Colonel Flatters, which was massacred. This calamity caused a lull of some years in African exploration. Colonel Bonnier is doubt less the man who has made the recent conquest; for, as temporary commander in the French Soudan, he had, accord ing to previous despatches, set out from Djenne with gunboats for Timbuctoo. It is believed that there was a scramble between the naval and military com manders as to which should first enter Timbuctoo, and that Colonel Bonnier feels aggrieved. He is to be summoned home to explain the reasons for his having marched on Timbuctoo without instructions. The town is not on the Niger, but ten miles from it, on a tributary which is navigable for small boats in the rainy season. It stands at the convergence of the routes be tween the Western Sahara and the Soudan, and its trade is in salt brought from Taudeni and the quarries of the desert, in millet from Massina, and in the kola nut brought by caravans from the southern rivers and the countries bordering on Ashantee. It is governed by a council, presided over by a mem ber of an old family, and pays tribute to the Tuaregs. Situated on a bare, arid plain, almost devoid of trees, it is dependent for supplies on M assina, which last year fell under French supremacy. The exactions of the Tuaregs have almost ruined its trade, but this nomad tribe is not ex pected to give the French serious trouble. Lieutenant Caron in 1887 estimated the population at only 5000, whereas Lenz in 1880 reckoned it at 20,000, and Earth in 1853 at 13,000. In 1826 Major Laing was murdered on his return journey from Timbuctoo, but in 1828 Rene Caillie brought back an account of the town, and Barth and Lenz also returned safely. In 1887 Caron could not get beyond Koriome, the nearest point on the Niger, and in 1889 Lieutenant Jamie, after a skir mish with the Tuaregs, had also to turnback. The X Debats " and "Le Temps " dwell on the prestige which the occupation will confer on France iv Central Africa,

CABLE ITEMS.

M. Flourens, Paris, will probably' be prosecuted for disclosing diplomatic secrets. Thousands of peasants in Kurok and • Oxenbury, Russia, are dying of starva tion. The Government of Montenegro has appealed to the Sultan to put a stop to Albaniin raids. Mr W. Robertson Smith, Professor j of Arabic at Cambridge University, is dead, aged 48. Several financial syndicates are applying to Mr Huddart to be allowed to assist in floating his Atlantic Com pany. News has been received from Manilla that General Blanco with 3000 troops is trying to suppress a serious Malay outbreak in the Philiipine Islands. Gold has been discovered at lallan gatta, 205 miles N.E. of Melbourne. The reef yields from lOoz (?) to 7oz to the ton. Columbian sealers are indignant at! the new modus vivendi regarding the Behring Sea fisheries, and declare it allows Americans to seize British vessels. A dwelling in McKandree, Virginia in which eight children and a servant girl were sleeping, was destroyed by fire, and all were burnt to death. An expert has reported that the working of the Cremorne coal dis covery in Sydney Harbour would be easier than the majority of Belgian mines. M. St. Hilaire, a well-known French statesman, says that war between France and Germany is inevitable, and every day France's opportunity for revenge draws nearer. Gold exhibits from Western Aus tralia are attracting much attention at the Imperial Institute, and Spinks, the head of the well-known jewellery firm, has offered to purchase the whole lot. Jabez Balfour is writing a narrative of the Liberator Permanent Building Society failure. He expects the profits will be sufficient to pay the creditors twenty per cent. " The Times " urges the construction of railways in Great Britain at a cost of about £1000 per mile, and advises that the expensive standard of the 1 trunk lines should be abandoned, with a view to bisect the farming districts in remote parts of the kingdom. Mrs Gordon Baillie has been com mitted for trial on a charge of fraud in connection with the purchase of some pictures. For the defence it was urged that the pictures were being purchased on credit. The accused has not been released on bail.

LABOR.

Vienna, March 30. Twenty thousand gas workers em ployed in the city have struck work in support of the eight hours system. They wish to leave the oity in dark ness, and are using violence to prevent their places being filled.

The War in Samoa.

London, March 31 It is believed in the United States that the Powers interested will uphold Chief Justice Ides treatment of the Samoan chiefs, Washington, March 31. The Chairman of the Senate Com mittee on foreign relations declares the Tripolite agreement is entangling, and considers the Alliance had better be ended. Sydney, ipril 1. Owing to the war in Samoa it is expected that the Bapid and the Ger man warship Falke leave for the scene this week.

"NEW AUSTRALIA"

JUondon, March 30. Sir G. R. Dibbs has not notified Sir Saul Samuel, Agent-General, of the return of the Paraguay emigrants to Australia, and Sir Saul doubts tbe truth of the report that the settlement has entirely collapsed.

Matabeleland.

Capetown, March 31 The last of the indunas, Gambo, ■who is a brother to King Lobengula, has sent a messenger offering to surrender to Dr. Jameson. A payable alluvial goldfield is re ported to have been discovered in Matabeland.

Panic at Santander.

Madrid, March 31. The hull of the wrecked vessel con taining dynamite has been demolished without causing a further explosion, and the residents are returning to their homes.

THE MARKETS.

(Received April 1, 10.20 a.m.) Lokbok, April 1. Tallow, medium mutton, 25a ; beef, 245» The English wheat market is changing a little for the better, without quotable change in price. The Continental is life less, and the American shows a general advance. e even thousand five hundred quarters of Australian wheat, March and April shipments, have been sold at 255. Colonial butter is selling at 100j per cwt. New Zealand factory m«de butter by the Nairnshire is bringing 965.

Liquor Riots in America

Washington, March 31. Attempts to enforce the liquor laws in South Carolina have caused a riot at Darlington. Twenty detectives, who were searching for concealed dram shops, were driven into the swamps and killed by rioters. Several citizens were also killed, and many wounded. Three companies of States troopss have been disbanded for refusing to proceed to Darlington to assist in preserving order.

Babylon and Assyria.

Notwithstanding all the boasts of nineteenth century civilisation, it is really wonderful what a little difference three thousand years have made in some things. This is clearly shown by Professor Bevan in a recent lecture upon the " Cuneiform "Writing and Literature." Even the reading-books and the grammars of the boys and girls in ancient Assyria bear a marked resemblance to those used to-day. From one of these inscriptions Professor Bevan gives the following quotation: — " A table, his table, a complete table; the table is in the house of the man." "Where," asked the lecturer, " is the boasting of modern education in the face of such facts as these V Baby lonian and Assyrian children in 1000 b.c. spoilt as many copy-books as Eng lish children in 1094, a.d. 111-formed characters and bad spelling revealed the fact. They made a mess of the clay tablet with a metal stylus, as modem little boys and girls do of the fair white sheet of paper with a metal pen. With muddy fingers, or with inky fingers, said Professor Bevan, the human child is ever the same. Educa tion at Babylon was widespread, and there were few who could not read and write. Handwriting took divers forms. Some cursive texts were so fine that it had been suggested that they were written by the aid of a magnifying glass. This had been confirmed appar ently, by the discovery of a magnifying crystal, now in the British Museum. A literary people like the Babylonians needed libraries, so libraries were formed. The Assyrians imitated them, and hence the great library at Nineveh, due to Assurbani-pal, better known as Sardanapalus, who employed an army of scribes writing and editing old texts. The ancient Accadian was pre served as a learned language, like Latin to-day. The Semitic dialects of Babylonia and Assyria differed from each other to about the same extent as the dialects of Middlesex and Ox fordshire. The literature was volu minous. There were scientific tables of the cubes of numbers, the mathe mathical unit being 60, and geometrical forms. Astronomy was cultivated even in the primitive Accadian times, when the sun spots and comets were observed, and eclipses calculated. The milky way was called "the long robe" There were State obj servatoriesj from which the reports of the observers were sent to the king. Geology was studied, as appeared from the list of rocks and soils, and geography as shown tby lists of countries. Natural history was nofc neglected, and medicine in somerespeets bore a striking resemblance to that of modern times. In short, the greater part of our learning, save physical science, was known to these ancient people. We had ample records of commercial, transactions in the con tract tablets, dealing with various matters, from the purchase of a wifej whose average market value was £2 10s, to the loan of half-a-crown. Interest was at four per cent, and house property varied in value. The documents were sealed by the un lettered with their thumb nails.

A Negro State.

A negro difficulty in the United States has keen crying out for a solu tion for many years now, and is as far off being solved as ever. The negroes are not a decaying race like our own Maoris, but they are fruitful and they multiply. The annual increase of the white population is 2.9 per cent., whereas that of the negroes is 3.4, This differeace far more than makes up for the slightly higher death-rate of the blacks. Many thoughtful Americans see in this increase of the negro race a standing menace to the institutions of the country, and seriously suggest that the whole of the black population should be deported back to Africa, Although in the United States the two races are theoretically equal from a political and social point of view there is a natural and growing sense oil real inequality, and probably the M'hitea and the blacks are to-day further asunder in their sympathies the,n at the close of the civil war. A new solution of this racial difficulty has been recently suggested by Mr 0. E, Smith, himself a "negro, of the Roger Williams University of Nashville. In an article on this question he de clares that his own and the white race cannot live harmoniously to gether. "The gulf between tho races grows wider every day. Legis lation against the Negro grows more frequent." The Negro, he continues, is too weak to stay a^ong the whites and fight the conflict out, The .only alternative is colonisation. Mr Smith is against deportation to Africa, and he advocates the plan of a separate Negro State in America. But he in sists that the negroes should be allowed to remain in the South, where they feel at home, and where the climatic conditions are favourable to their development. He says: "Assuming it could be carried out, it would put both races for ever at peace, and make the Negro a zealous patriot, who would lose no occasion to defend, in truth, his household goods and his hearth. It would give the Negro an everlasting friendship for the whites for thtir 4 extraordinary donation, and for not/**^ alienating him by sending him to Africa or some other foreign landi The Negro is suited to the South, and! the South seems suited to the Negro, He knows its peculiarities, and what crops and animals may or may not be expected to thrive well there." This question is one of the rocks ahead for the people of the United States, and! its consideration will require all the determination and sound common sense with which they are generally credited if a catastrophe is to be* avoided.

THE ASHBUBTUJS GUA&PIAfI : MONDAY, APRTL 2, 1894.



Business Notices. By R°ya*'fSjSsJl Letters Patent. JOSEPH FORD'S Scour and Lung Worm Mixture. THE RENOWNED SHEEP MEDICINES. OTHILL, WATSON & CO, Ofhces, Esk Street Warehouse Railway. Inveruargill, N.Z. 6th March We have been selling Ford's Lung Worm Mixture for the past four years, and uring that period have not had a single complaint. On the contrary everyone we have asked have expressed themselves pleased with ' the results obtained from ita use. Yours faithfully, Tothill, Watson Co. Fram WRIGHT STEPHEN SON. & CO, High Street, Dunedin. March 2, 1894. Although we have acted as agents for Ford's Scour and Lung Worm Mixture for he last two ysars and have supplied sheep breeders regularly dv 'ing that period we have not yet had a complaint, in fdCb we have heard nothing bub favourable reports from aU who have used it. Yours truly, Wright, Stephe son and Co* MR F FEU&IMAN, """"" Ashburton Jane 12, 1893. As the mixture appears to be steadily gin wing in favor here, it might be as well to •end another few cases as some of the runs are now buying a case at a time.—Scours thfully, For the Marlborough Farmers' C-o-Cperative Association, Limited, E MEADJManago". The United Farmers' Alliance, Limited, Wellington, Branches: Wanganui, Palmers ton Nofth. February 2, 1894. vVe have had no complaints from those who have used the mixture, so cdnnot but onolude that it has given satisfaction.— Youna faithfully, 0 D. MULLINS, General Manager. Special Prices for this Month AT G» J* Neill and Co/s THE CHEAPEST HOUSE IN ASHBURTON FOR DU&PBRI!, CnbOTMINO, A.N» BOOTH.



Long Lace Curtains Is 9d pair Double Width Dress Goods 9£d Cretonne 3Ad Dress Goods 3a lid doz; Double-bed White Twill Sheeting 9|d i^rge Tarkish Towels B^d # rey Calico 2s 3d doz. Women's Ribbed Hose 6d pair fcton Shirting, very strong;3£d Double-bed Quilts 3s lld.each rong Ticking s£d Heav Porfar;sJd CLOTHLIIVO. CLOTHING, Boys' Tweed Suits 3i lid Men's Shirts at any price # Men's Tweed Troupers 10.5 61 now Gsjlld Men's Mermo Sooks only 6d pair Men's Colonial Tweed Suits only 19d M Men's Ties at half price. Men a New Zealand Tweed Suits^33d 6d Men's Colonial-knit Woollen Sooks only H ow29i6d 9|dpair BOOTS, — BOOTS, In Boots we defy competition, all our Booba are made speoially to our order. We guarantee every pair to give satisfaction* Women's Elastic-side Boots 8a 6d, now Men's Balmoral Boots l(b 6d, now 7s lid 5a Hd Men's Bluchers 5a Women a Kid Shoes 7s lid, now 5s lid Men's Nailed Shooters 10s U, now s lid Women's Leather Shoes 7s Bd, now 5s lid Wamen's Carpet Slippers Is 6d Children's Patent Leather Shoes and Slippers in Bndlesa Variety afc G. J. NEILL AND GO'S, FRIEDLINDER'S CORNER, TERMS CASH.



**Jjo<^ AUTUMN 1894 WINTER <^^^^^- "O ¥ the ss •' Doric ' and other ■^^BpJJife'UGllSKP^' recent vessels we have received 4^l) our JJ IN AL Shipment 0! Goods for the Coming Season; the : '^S?s% r' ■ st°ck is mw °omplete and /■'-' <Jm^ °f|III]LI^I¥BSlir \^^^fe- Trimmed and Untrimmed in *§SgC P^^^^B*^^^^^^'mAni^ STRAWS, &c, of the 0%%£%*- ■-§ /T ]p§S& fm%?% Lat«t Fashion, FLOWERS, ?.^<xsiiliPK y -^m^y^' FEATHEES, AIGRETTES, &c, '^^^^^^^ \ /^'^fe'^^^^^ at Prices to Suit the times. Ladies' Jackets and Ulsters In alt the NK^'BST DESIGNS. BRAID, ASTRACAIS and other Beaver Trmminin f>r Ja.;k.-t^ »r wh"l as for Dresses are one < f tha most noticeable features of the NEW SJKASOS'3 GOODS, _^_ ; CHILDREN'S TUNIGS I,i H!nAl<wfi V-i-inty in New «nd Pretty Styles. . rtPl . M _« H rTD motu SHAW, WOOLLENS/HATS »nd HOODS, GLOVES HOSIMR\, |UR TRIM MINGS, BBALD TRIMMINGS, LACKS, &c, &c, All New and Taateiul* THE STOCK OP Dres* Mace rials i-i Very Choice and includes the . NEW HOPSA^K CLOTH, DIAGONALS, SERGES, TWEEDS, English and Colonial nmn xivt 3 » landless Variety and all *had«s of color. Some Special lines of ,„„„.. , BOYS' and MEN'S COLONIAL CLOTHIN3, FLANNELS, BLANKETS, and General Drapery in all Qualities. V. H."COILIE» " The Corner."



A card ] ■lyriss jyr o bride, LADIES' NORSE, BurnetC Streec Wost (a few door=s frorrt I D.-ill-hed), j 8*157 ASHBURTON. REWARD £10. A.SHBUR.TOS stfWKP FARMER^ , MUTUAL PROTECTION SOOIBTV. A REWARD of £10 is offered by j 11 ' **■-)..ve Society for such mformi'ion as w-n ©cure tlm onvicik.il «i any person found ilty of fIifKEP STSiLISG in the Ashburton County. j *3(s Jloa. the i



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Waßted. %1 / ANTED, Gia between 16 and 17 V v years of age. Apply for address afc Mail office 4 2 Clocks, etc., (all guaran teed) at wholesale cost for one mon^h only. Now's your time.—Lums den's. 3 219 ■ ■ ~* 1 WflY grumble about the price of Bread and Meat when you can get 501b best Roller F our for 4s and good Fresh Butter at 6d per 1b at R. Alcorn's sale. Saunders Buildings. 3 116 I/IRED. S. JEtFRIES, Manufactur- JD 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 CHOICE Ornaments, Folding Screens, Own make in Ladies' and Children's Underclothing, Aprons, and Pinafores.— Mbs Alcokn, Saunders' Buildings. ALE at Melford Houae still on until 0 further notice.—H, 0. Segers. fT7 ANTED—Buyers lor High-class VV English Cycles, Ladies' and Gentlemen's Safeties, light and rigid, reliable pneumatic tyres. Low price, cash.—Walker. 3 155 WANTED Known—Tomatoes, good ripe Grapes, Plums, Apples, etc., at Mabsden's Fruit Shop, beioir lliteholl and Turner's. 2 109 WANTED Known.—ln consequence of the scarcity of money, we have extended our Sale till further notice. — H. C. Segers, Melford House. WANTED Known.— Men s Heavy Ribbed all wool Pants 5s 6d, Heavy Knitted bocks, double heels and toes, Is.—Mitchell and Turner. 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 tad times over at J. Moisott'g, Premier Bootmaker. XF your mind is troubled : nothing else will give the treubles so thoroughly away as Health Tea. Try it.—Henry I Zander, Wholesale Agent. OYSTERS and Fresh Fish of all sorts arrive evening per express at Deep Sea Fishing Uo.'s Shop, Burnett street Ashburton 2 62 I~)QN'T wash yourself. Titan Soap •*-* does the work. No rubbing. No machines. I 182 1 BUY and Sell for Cash, therefore I *- Sell Oat Sheaf from Is 3d per sack or £2 2s 6i per ton. J. Thomas, Havelock street. HEALTH TEA. "Delightful, "Wholesome," Refreshing." All Grocers. Wholesale at r/4nnEu'B. I F you want first-class fruit go to Adams *• for Fiji, Tahiti, Auckland and Sydney Oranges, Citrons, Lemons, etc. |l/f EDIOAL Coils made end repaired •*■"■*- on the shortest) notice at easy prices at A. J. Walker's, Old Kinder garten. MRS ALCoaN has on sale for he Holidays a varied assortment of Toys, Dolls, Prams, Fancy Goods, and Christmas Presents—Saunders Buildings. [J EaLTH TEA is more economical Q than ordinary tea. It undergoes a process whereby the injurious ingre dients are eliminated, whilst it rendera the release of the better properties of the leaf more easy. Henry Zander, Autho rised Agent. BUYS' three garment long trouser Suits for 10s. Men's Colonial made nailed Sh-ioter Boots at 7s 6d per I pair at R. ALCokn's sale, Ahli burton Clothing Mart, Saunders'Buildings. 1115 "TT/ ANTED Known—The Corner is YV showing a magnificent New Stock of Drapery and Clothing.—W, H. Collier. f "FAYING tried Health Tsa and _OL found it Al, I sell ir.—J. Thom\s, Produce Dealer, Havolock street 3 104 GUNS ! Guns ! Guns 1 My new stock of Guns just to hand direct from the manufacturers. Double and Single Barrel Breech Loaders, Rifles, etc. In spection invited. No old stock to select from at J. W. Hardley's Sporting Repository. X^XTENiION^or" Sale~~lt Melford J-^ House. We are still selling nearly all our Goods, with New Stock added, at reduced prices.—H. C. Seorrs. WANTED Known.—Waterproof Rugs and Aprons, Heavy Trap Rngs from 4s 9d, Heavy Grey Blankets 9a 6d.— —Mitchell and Turner. WANTED Known —Spectacles, Eye Protectors, Gogales, Folders, and everything in the optical me at S. S&xek's, Optician, 'Ti yTANTED Known—W. H. Collier's VV noted foar-cl»sp Kid Gloves, 2s 6d, hwe just arrived In a'l siz^. BANIi ! Bang t Bang 1 My new sea son's stock of Ammunition to hand Eley's, Kynock's and, Cluo Cartridges, Powder, Shot, Caps, Wads, Cases and aU sporting materials of the first quality at J. W. Hardley's, Gun Emporium. WANTED Known.—Waterproofs to measure, all styles und patterns. Litest shapea and designs in stock.— Mitchell & Tubkek. T^TOTICE! Botioe! Sport for all. JLN Guns let out on hire or sold on tims payments. Hiving a professional Gunsmith on tho premises, I undertake to repair Guns ot any description. Gun fi tings in st^ck. Prices low.—J. W. Hardley, Ironmonger, etc. MR John Marsden, of the Railway Bookstall, has opened a Book and Stationer's Shop two doors below Mitohell and Turner. Books and Stationery at the lowest possible prices. Books clean, complete, and in order will be taken in exchange. Circulating libiary. jj < ASTER Cards, and Booklets, Fire ' ' Screen*, Pictures. Glass Ornaments, Christmas Caids, Cricket and Lawn Tennis Material, Photo Albums, and Frames, and hundreds of other articles are to be sold at a great sacrifice for Cash during this month only at L. F. Andrewes & Co. Stationers' Hall. KEATING'3 POWDER destroys Bugs, Fleas, Moths, Beetles and all other insects whjlat quite harmless to domestic animals In terminating Beetles the success of this Powder M> extraordinary. Ifc is per fectly clean in application.^ See the article you purchase is KEATJLNG'S, as imitations are noxious and ineffectual, Tins, 6d, Is nd 2s 6d each. by all chemists, slTUghterFng ucensk WE hereby give notice that we intend, afc the County Council meeting on April 6 next, to apply for a Slaughtering License for large and small cattle for Suburban Sections 25 and 26. MILLAR & CO. Hmdß ? M%rch 10,1894, 3 88



WEDDING- PRESENTS, BIRTHDAY PRESENTS, AND PRESENTATIONS, PAY a Visit to the Jewellery Establish ment of 8. Salek, WATCHMAKER and JEWELLER, Where is to be seen the LaBGEST and FINEST PTOOK in the District of— SILVER AND SILVER-PLATE WARE, GOLD AND SILVER \ JEWELLERY, and Other HIGH-CLASS GOODS Suit able for PRESENTS AT LOWEST PRICES. Watch, Clock d Jewellery Repairing SPECIALTY SPEOTAOLES to suit »U Sights? NEW ZEALAND Clothing Factory* nnQ those looking about for » good J_ Waterproof Coat for the Winter, j CALL AT THE FACTORY IN EAST STREET. ELECT YOUR OWN PATTERN. OVER 100 TO CHOOSE A FROM. No perished goods in stock. AH sewn seams. Waterproof Coats with Cape Waterproof Coat Macfarlane Waterproof Fishing Outfit Waterproof {Shooting Cape Waterproof Waders Waterproof Riding Aprons Waterproof Ponchos Waterproof Bicycle Capes. SPECIAL SPECIAL. SPECIAL LADIES' WATERPROOFS LADIES WATERPROOFS LADIES' WATERPROOFS MADE TO MEASURE. NEW ZEALAND CLOTHING FACTORY AND WATERPR 1 OF MANFAOTURERS ALEX. HEN DRY, Manager.



IMLfIJtJU IVOTJLCI-S, Mails close for the following places as under subject to the necessary alterations s— THURSDAY, April 5. For United Kingdom, Continent of Europe, etc. (for specially addressed corres pondence only), per Doric, at 630 sum. Due London May 15.



NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. 1N Consequence of the Longbeach -* Coach le-.ving Ashburton at 4 o'clock during the winter months, THE "GUARDIAN" WILL GO TO PRESS AT 3.50. fAD v ERTISEMBNTS Must therefore be lodged at this Office At 2 30 p.m. ASHBURTON PUBLISHING COY. April 2.



HAarDERfc Sons Eucalypti Extract There ar-• imitations of Eucalypti" Extract in the market now, products of simple distillation forming rude rpsinous oils In order that th°se crude oils nny not be token, Our Purk Volatile Edcaltpti Extract, whic 11 is recognised by the medical riivision of ihe Prussisn Government to be of per festly pure origin, a? their information forwarded to us through the Consul pt Melbourne, March 2,1878 we state : - t i 3 proved by tests by the Medical Clinic« of Ithe Universities at Bona and Griefswalri, Prussia, ani reportei by Dr Schulz, Profe«sor of Parmacology. at Bon, and Professor Dr Mosler, Director of the Medical Clinic at Greifswald, that only product." that are saturated with oxygen and freed of a^ids, resiQOGs and other substances, adherent to primary distillation, will develope the sanative qualities proper to the plant according to these authorities, arid according to Pro fessor Dr Lister of England, and to Drs Bauer, Mclntire, Wood, Hazard, etc., of America, is the only extract corresponding to scientific tests, and the rnly one which possesses th« proper therapeutic val-ie. Sander & Son's Eugalypti Extract ■ All other crude oils are to be classed among the turpentines, which h • ye, when used as medicine, no therapeutic effect and are abandoned as an internal medicament. The?e so called Eucalypti Extracts which may have received distinction at Exhibitions as commercial articles are used for mechanical pur poses are only discernible:— 1 By their deficiency In pungent odour (which our product, the only genuine Eucalypti Extracts de velopes most freely through its surplus of oxygen) By their alcoholic thin and mobile appearance, being recuced in specific density through the presence of acids 8 By their taste, the result of the contracting ten* j dency of resins and tennates. ' If these crude oils, so called eucalypti extracts are applied by mistake in cases of croup, bronchitis, diph theria, internal infammations, dysentery, wounds, the consequences are appaUtng For safety always ask for SANDER AND SON'S EUCALYPTI ESTHACT and get he old, well-tes'ed and reliable preparation.—-Sand i hurst, Victoria, Australia, SANDER AND SON'S,



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