Hampstead Town Board.

The ordinary meeting of the Hampßtead Town Board was held on Monday. Present —Messrs Crooks (chairman), Andrews, Tasker and Elliott. Apologies were re- ( ceived from Messrs Kickman and Mac pherson. CORRESPONDENCE, i Correspondence was received from the County Council notifying that in future payment of costs in connection with the subdivision of districts must be guaranteed by the petitioners ; from the Treasury ad viaing payment of subsidy; from the Wakanui Road Board in reference to the formation of a footpath by the cemetery and a road from Mr Bullock's gate to Milton road. It was resolved to pay a share of the cost of these works. banger's resignation. The ranger's resignation was received and accepted. ROLL. An application to transfer lots 20822 reserve 1261 from Charles and Agnes Catherine Beard to Edward Ernest Bax was i granted. j CtJLVERT. Tho clerk was instructed to give Mr Meaclem notice to put in a cnlvert at his gateway, Beach Road. GENERAL RATE. Mr Andrews moved that at the next meet ing of the Board a general rate of |d in the pound be struck on all rateable property in the district for the year 1894-5, payable on October 1, and that the rate book be open for inspection at the collector's office from August 18 to September 3. ACCOUNTS. Accounts to the amount of £23 were passed for payment and the Board adjourned.

School Committees.

HAMPSTEAD.

The monthly meeting of this Committee was held last evening. Messrs Crooks (Chairman), Orr, Hendry, Sage, VVatson and Andrews being present. Apologies were re ceived from Messrs Blackler, Strange and Bickman. master's report. The Master's Report showed the average attendance to have increased to 317. The master also applied for some requisites and thanked the Committee for the consideration extended to him during his late illness. The Committee wxpressed their gratifi cation at Mr Brock's early recovery and resumption of duties. CORRESPONDENCE. Several letters from the Board dealing with amor matters were read, as also a new scale of salaries recently adopted. MEMBER OF BOARD. The names of seven candidates for the vacancy on the Board were received, to gether with private circulars from several ■of them, and it was unanimously resolved to Tota for Mr John Rennie of Doyleston. MAGIO LANTERH. Mr W. G. Murray wrote bringing his lime light apparatus under the notice of the ■Committee. VISITING COMMITTEE. Last month's Committee reported things to be generally in good order, and Messrs Andrews and Orr were appointed for this month. PRIZES. It was decided to invite the master to confer with the Committee on the subject of prizes at next meeting. ACCOUNTS. ' Two small accounts were passed and the Committee adjourned.

LONGBEACH.

Longbeach School Committee held its usual monthly meeting on Monday evening. Present—Messrs Gollina' (chairman), Honey well, Ledstone, Read, Shutt, and Houston. The chairman stated that there was a balance of £12 in hand. The master re ported the number on roll to be fit'fcy-Bix; average attendance forty-one, It was resolved to vote for Mr T. S. Weston for eeat on Board of Education. Ifc was resolved to have the fences and grounds put in thorough repair, Mr Shtitfc to attend to same. Accounts for £4 10a were passed for payment and the meeting adjourned,

SUPREME COURT.

Wellington August 7 At the Supreme Courfe Reginald Bleckley was convicted of forging and uttering a cheque for £10, and remanded for sentence. Wellington, August 6. Frank Masters, with a previous bad record, pleaded guilty to indecpnfc assault on a child of tender years, and was sen tenced to Sevan years' Imprisonment.

COMMERCIAL.

(Received Aug. 8,11, a.m.) Sydney, August 8. Chick wheat, 2a 8d to 2s 9d; milling, nominally 2s lid to 3s; flour, roller brands, nominally £7 5s to £7155. Oats, prims feeding, 2s to 2s Id. Barley, Cape, 3s. B*»n. 6|d; pollard, 7|d. Pdas, Prnssianblue, 3s 9d. Potatoes, locally «own, £2 7s 6d to £2 15s;. Circular Heads, £2 7s 6d to £2 10s. Onions, £9 ISs to £10. Butter, dairy made, 9d to lOd, factory, Is. Cheese, 3£d to 4d. Bacon, prime cured, sd. Melbourne, August 8. Wheat, 2s Id. Oats, Algerian, Is 8d ; stout milling, Is lid. Barley, Cape, 2$ I<J j prime malting, 6s 3d to 5s 4d. Bran, 6§d ; pollard, 7|d. Adelaide, Aug. 8. Wheat, 2s Id. Bran, 6|d; pollard 7£d. '

VICTORIAS FINANCE.

Melbourne, August 8. The debate on Mr Shiels' motion that the Victorian Budget proposals are unsatisfactory is proceeding.

Loafers in Ahsburton.

Thr«« month*' Sentence

At the Magistrate's Court this morning —Messrs W. G. Rees, Donald William i son, and Adam Jackson, Justices of the Pe&ce, on the Bench—Henry Carpenter and John F. Trist, on remand from last Tuesday, were charged with vagrancy and with begging. They pleaded not guilty. The evidence given by the Sergeant of i Police, and several residents in town was j somewhat lengthy, and went to show that 1 the accused had come to Ashburton on July 27. and had immediately commenced a round of visits to respectable peoplp with a story of their destitute condition, but at the same time asking for work and expressing a willingness to do anything to earn a crust. They had been successful in obtaining assistance in clothes, food, money, and shelter, and a little work for which they had been paid. The Sergeant ! said that on their appearance before the 'Court laat Tuesday, Trist denied ! having been previously convicted, but at the police station he had been examined, and the tattoo marks—faith, hope, and charity—mentioned in the Police Gazette for his identification were found upon his arm. There were found in possession of the men documents mapping out their journey south, and giving lists pf the people they proposed calling upon to ask for help, and it was in the Sergeant's knowledge the men were neither more nor less than clever loafers who made a living in this way. When the men were arrested Trist bad no money, but Car penter had 143 6d in his possession, and both men were arrested opposite the Somerset Hotel. They were not drunk but were in liquor. The Sorgeant would be the last man to harass a man for honest poverty, but these men were carrying on a system of mendicity when they were in possession of means to satisfy their im mediate wants. There were only too many really deserving poor in the town in whose favour the efforts of the charitable would be more wisely directed than wasted on men of the class to whom the accused belonged. He did not complain of the men asking for work but of their obtaining money and clothing on the plea of destitution. He did not think there was one man in Ashburton legitimately poor and anxious to work who would not get assistance, in fact he (the Sergeant) would be the first to assist. The manner in which these men asked for work was really begging. The accused had little to say in defence. They stated that the whole thing had been highly colored. They had not been able to get work in Christchurch and so had taken the road for it to Dunedin, and had merely stopped in Ashburton a few days in order to obtain work and money to proceed further South. Mr Bees addressing accused said:—• The Bench have considered the case very thoroughly and have come to the con clusion that you are guilty of trying to obtain money and assistance under false pretences. You have been wise enough and cunning enough to try to get out of a scrape by asking for work and by working when you got ib, but that hasn't prevented you from making false statements. Yon had money in your pos session at the time you were begging. The bench consider this a concocted scheme for obtaining money under false pretences. Tr;et must have known very well what the consequences would be as he had been convicted before. I don't know anything about Carpenter, but he has been in bad company and got into bad habits. The brnch sentence Trisfc to three months' infjrisonment and Carpenter to two months. And 1 wish to say that is is such men as you who shut the pockets and hearts of liberal people to good men who want, assistance, and prevent the working man from getting work when others would be willing to give it to him.

Ashburton Horticultural Society.

The annual meeting of the Ashburton Horticultural Society was held in the Arcade Chambers on Tuesday evening. There was a fair attendance, and Mr W. H Rule occupied the chair. The treasurer read the annual report, showing that after discharging all debts the Society had a bal»nce in hand of £12 19a Bd, and members' subscriptions due £2 la. The income during the year, including tho previous year's balance, was £96 Is 2d, and the expenditure £83 0s 6d, showing a loss on the year's transac tions of £15 5a 9d. The election of officers then took place and resulted as follows :—President -Mr E. W. Hanroer; Vice-President—Mr S. H. Graves ; Pattons—Messrs C. J. Har- Ser. Gr A. M, Buckley. John McLacWan, LH.it.,, Bon. Major Steward, M.H.R., and David Thomas j Treasurer—Mr W. H. Rule ; Secretary—Mr F. Makeig ; auditor —Mr A- J. Miiller ; Committee — Messrs \V. Bickerstaff, R. E. Lechner, R. Elston, W. 0, Davis. J. Tucker, P Andergon, W. W. Smith. James Tanker, T. Jackßon, E. J. Paul, J. C. Oawsey, B. Baker. A vote of thanks to the chair closed the meeting.

The Science of Swearing

Pall Mall Gazzette- Professor Gargoyle haa travelled to and fro in the earth culling flowers of speech. His collection, however, only approaches completeness in the Western departments of European language. Going eastward, he found such an ap palling and tropical luxuriance of those ornaments as to despair at last alto gether of even a representative selec tion. * They do not curse/ he says,' at door handles and shirt studs,' and other such trifles as will draw down the meagre discharge of an Occidental, but when they do begin —. I hired a promising-looking man at Cal-1 outta, and after a month or so refused to pay his wages. He was unable to get at me with the big knife he carried, because the door was locked, so he sat on his hams under the verandah from a quarter past six in the morning until nearly ten cursing—cursing in one steady unbroken flow—an astonishing spate of blasphemy. First he cursed my family from me along the female line back to Eve, and then, having toyed with me personally for a little while, he started off along the line of mv possible posterity to my remotest great grandchildren. Then he cursed me by this and that. My hand ached taking it down,* he was so very rich. It was a perfect anthology of Bengali blasphemy—vivid, scorching, and varie gated. Not two alike. And then he turned about and dealt with different parts of me. I was really very fortu nate iD him. Yet it was depressing to think that all this was from one man, and that there are six hundred million people in Asia. 'Your common Englishman now scarcely curses at all. A more colour less and conventional affair than what in England is called swearing one can scarcely imagine. It is just common talk, with some half-dozen orthodox bad words dropped in here and there in the most foolish and illogical manner. Fancy having orthodox bad words S I remember one day getting into a third class smoking carriage on the Metropolitan, Railway about one

o'clock, and finding it full of rough working men. Everything they said was seasoned with one incredibly stupid adjective, aiad no doubt they thought they were very desperate characters. At last I asked them not to say that word again. One asked me, 'What the ' —I really cannot quote these puerilities—'What the idiotic word that mattered to me V So I looked at him quietly over my glasses, and I be gan. It was a revelation to these poor fellows. They sat open mouthed, gasping. Then those that were nearest me began to edge away, and at the very next station they all bundled out of the carriage before the train stopped, as though I had some infectious disease | And the thing was just a rough imper fect rendering of some mere common places, passing the time of day as it were with which the heathen of Alepf • used to favour the servants of the American missionary. Indeed, if it were not for the ladies there would be nothing in England that one could speak of as swearing at all. They have agreed to consider certain words, for no very good reason, bad words. It is a pure convention ; it has little or nothing to do with the actual meaning, because for every one of these bad words there is a phrase or synonym considered to be quite suitable for polite ears. 4 Coming back to wrathy swearing, I must confess I am sorry to see it decay. It was such a thoroughly hygienic and moral practice. Cer tainly, didn't you know that? Any scientific person will carry me out in this. You see if anything annoying | happens to a man, or if any powerful emotion seizes him, his brain under the 1 irritation begins to disengage energy at a tremendous rate. All primitive men and most animals swear. It is an emotional shunt. Your cat swears at you because she does not want to scratch your face, and the horse, because he cannot swear, drops dead. So you see my reason for regretting the decay of this excellent and most wholesome practice."

ROAD BOARDS.

UPPER ASHBURT/)tf.

The usual monthly meeting; of the Upper Ash burton Road board was held on Mon day. Present —All the members. CORRESPONDENCE. From the audit office, Wellington, re turning the Board's balance sheet for the year ending March 31 duly certified From Mr E Herring, Alfcrd House, stating it would be to the public interest if the Board took action against drivers of traction engines who rake out ashes on the public road, and as they usually do this close to bridges or creeks it is all the more dangerous to travellers. He himself narrowly escaped an accident on Saturday last through this cause.—The Board de cided to have the matter looked into. From the Ommissloner of Crown Lands, stating in reply to a letter from this Board, that the Main South Road is a public road for the full width of two chains, and a3 such is under the contro 1 of thfi Board as much as any other public road in the district. From the Ashburton County Council, forwirding copy of a resolution passed,at the Council's last meeting, as follows • — '* That in future payment of all costs in connection with the subdivision or sever ance of districts must be guaranteed by the petitioners." The above cost to include cest of preparing special order by this Council. From the South Rakaia Road Board > stating that as the part of the Chertsey— Mitcham Road (which this Board Bsked them to contribute towards shingling), was in this Board's district, it could not contribute to the work. BOLL ALTERATIONS. The Clerk was instructed to insert on { the rate roll lot 153, part R.S. 10092, to the name of Mr Murray Hobbs, in place of that of Mr T. Bullock, all rates being paid to date, BATE. Resolved that the notice of motion re striking rate be held over till next meet ing. WORK*. The Clerk stated the following works had been let: —Formation of some 25 chains of road from the north branch; A.shburton river, to the Winchmore Rood opposite reserve 1402. Fords If where re quired on Wilson's Road, Shingling— Some 20 chains of the Main South Road at the Chertsey end of the district. Clearing tussocks off the road boundary between this road and Wakanui Road at Dromore. Drains—The cleaning out of i the drains on the swamp roads, Hinds, ACCOUNTS. Accounts amounting to £71 10a 4d . were passed for payment and the Board adjourned.

THE AfIHStJMO* tttTAttbUg! WMfflflDAt, AUGUST 8, _J894



0. DIGBY, IN thanking his old friends and thfc public tor their support in the past, begs to notify that he intends resuming his former business as a BUTCHER, and trusts by supplying Meat of the Beat Quality at reasonable prices to merit their further favors and support. O. DIGBY, (Next H, Zander's) X Eaßt Street, Ashbuccon. THERE are two qualities of Health Tea, both unsurpassed for strength. pnrity and lovely flavor. Prices, 2s 6d and 2a per Ib. Ask your grocer for Health Tea, and see that you get It. Wholesale at Zander's; CARSOW * CO. TEAS PURE Indian b 9d, pura Ceylon 2s and 2s 4d. Our own Blends, Is 9d, 2s and|2s 4A. Nelson Moate »nd Cos., Arab and Countess Teas. Just to hand a consignment of the famous MONARCH TEA, of which the Poet says :— " It is Monarch of all it surveys, its right there is none to dispute From the Hub all round to the sea. Every taste I am sure it will suit." PROVISIONS. Best Brands of Butter, Cheese. Roll Bacon, Oatina, Germina, etc. DAIRY REQUISITES. Bran, 2s 8d sack, Milk Buckets, 2s 3d, Churns, Strainers, Cream Cans, Milk Pans, Scales with weights, 7s 6d, Batter Pats, etc. FARM REQUIREMENTS. Bluestone, 3d lb, Pough Shares, /tein Cord, Manilla Rope, this, Turpentine, Lamp Black, Horse Brushes, Is 3d, Gorse Knives frcm 3s 6d. Handles of every sort. ! Saws, Al6B. Files, etc Yates* New Gar* , den Seeds just arrived. '- ■ Holloware and Household Ironmongery '• of every kind. If you contemplate mak i ing any improvements to your property, 1 we can give you valuable information, which will enable you to effec s^nsider able saving. Enquiries solicited, jtetters and telegrams receive our prompt atten tion. Wanted, Dairy Produce of eveiy description. Top price given* CARSON AND CO., WHOLESALE & RETAIL GROCERS & IRONMONGERS, I OPPOSITE UNION BANK. Sporting:. TINWALD HARRIERS. SPORTS MEETING TO BE HELD AT The Kennel?, Tinwald, ON WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15. (To be run under the (Rules of Racing.) PROGRAMME. (Approved by the C. J.C.) 1 — Light Weight Hunters Steeplechase.—For trophy value 5 soys., with a sweepstake of 1 soy. HclHed. For qualified hunters. No weight under list 71ba. About four mile* 2.—Welter Hunters Steeple 1 r^hase. Ft ■ >•• v value 5 soys, vvi ■■ ■■> *■-■ =')»- ■■>• -I' 1 soy. adjtiri. Fur qu iitied hunters. No weight under 14st. About, three miles. 3. —Ladies' Bracelet— Of value of 5 soys. For horses, the bona fide property of farmers resident in the Ashburton District that have never started in any advertised race. Entrance 2s 6d, to go to second horse. No weight under 12st. Four furlongs. 4.—Farmers' Hack Hurdles.— Of the value of 5 soys, with a sweep stake of ds added. For horses the bona fide property of a farmer in the Ashburton District that have never started in advertised race. One mile, over four flights of hurdles. No weight under 12st. s.—Farmers' Open Handicap.— Of the value of 10 soys., with a sweepstake of 10s, to go to the second horse. For horses the bona fide property of a farmer resident in the Ashburton District. About one and a quarter mile on the flat. 16.—Open Welter Handi cap.—Of 8 soys, with sweepstake of 5s added. Second horse to receive 1 soy from the stake. Six furlongs (flat). Post entries. Handicapper.— Mr A, J. Kelly. Entries oan be made with Mr F. P. Claridge, the Kennels, on or before Monday, August 18. Entries finally close with Mr A. J. Kelly, Central Hotel, at 9 p.m. on Monday, August 13. Any horse may be re-handicapped The Master reserves to himself the ri»ht to refuse any entry. 7 146 G. A. M. BUCKLEY, DOLLAR C-IGARTS'! TP.B*-3d. No ho;dui-4 or photos—Hb»KY ZaWDJSK, Wholesale ftgeat.



Miss * arson, MUBIO TEACHER, BEGS to intimate that she has re moved to William Street, off Wakanui Road, and opposite Mrs Homer sham's, where she will be happy to meet her pupils, and intending pupils for Pianoforte or Organ. For term? and farther particulars apply to Mbs Robert Alcorn, Havelock Street. 10 AN GIVE, during August, an increased price for Carcase Pork — 1201bs tolßolbs. 7*173 DAVID THOMAS, Ashbarton. AF AC r.—Anyone drinking Hbaith Tea and discarding all other brands, will certainly add ten years to his life Just your try it. To be had from all Grocers. JDrawina: A Pain ting: Classes. Mrm r w7h. t ait A TTENDS on TUESDAYS at Mr XA. Gates' Dresden School of Mjisic to give lessons In the above subjects. All information can he obtained from Mr Gates or from W. H, T*it, Timaru. Old Paintings renovated and repaired. Por traits painted. 8 36 NO Stimulant has given so much favor with the Natives as Health Tea. It must be good ; ask your Grocer for i. THAT which brings most light and hope to poorest homes is Titan Soap FATHERS, MOTHERS, Sisters, Brothers. A SAVING OF SEVEN TO TEN SHILLINGS IN THE (£) POUND, By Attending the GREAT CLEARING SALE , Now Being Held in SAUNDERS' BUILDINGS, I Opposite RAILWAY STATION. A. LAWRIB, HAVING purchased from the Trustees of Mr Robert Alcorn the well as sorted stock of Ready-made Clothing, Hats, Shirts, Hoisery, Drapery, Boots, Groceries, Crockery, and Ironmongery, at such a large discount off the cost price— enables him—and he Is fully datermined— to sell to the public at prices hitherto un known in Asbburton. The Goods, jone and all, are of First Class Quality,'and no rubbish will be offered. The following few lines quoted will suffice to show the reductions madf. Men's Colonial Tw<»ed Trousers 15a 6:1, reduced to 10s 6d. Men's best Saddle Tweed Trousers 21s, reduced to 15s 6d. Men's Mole Trousers Si 6d, reduce^ to 64 9.1 Men's Tweed Coat- 18- 61, r.du.-.ci • 12s 6H ; 25s r^dm- d oi^. Men's Wai rprnof •'• v ■ 32-* 6 * d ( t-7- ; 37* 6.1. ■ uc ■ ■• 128 < Men's auit-. 40s reduced t<» ttl- ; 45s reduced to 32s 6d ; 65-, redu to 40 . All Wool Shirts 8s 6d, reduced to 6s ; 10s 6d, reduced to 7« J Us 61, reduced t.. 7a 6d. BLANKETS. 10 x 4— White 18? 6d, reduced tc 13s 6d. 10 x 4—Superior 22s 6J, reduced to 13s 6d. 11 x 4--Grey 27s 6d, reduced to 20.-, 6*. BOOTS. Men's Nailed Shooters 14s 6d, reduced to 11s 6i ; 13* 6d, rtduced to 9a 6d ; 103 t>d, reduced to 7a 6d. Men's Heavy Watertight* 153 6d, re reduced to Us ; 16s 6d, reduced to 13s. m . . „ Girls' Morocco Boots 7s, reduced to Women's Calf Boots (lice) 12s 6d, re duced to 9a 6d. Women's Strong Kip Lace Boots 9a 6d, reduced to 6s 6d. All other Goods equally reduced in price. GROCERIES-COST PRICE, CROCKERY at English Laaded Cost Price. The above wil how the Genuineness of this Great Sale. Don't mistake the address, ..—.■•— A- LAWRIE, SAUNDERS 1 BUILDINGS, Oppoosite Railway Statio TO LET— Dwelling in Moore Street 'TOWN Section 60. J- Acre Kermode Street, offers for the purchase of this on account of the mortg^e are^vited —-——*— | p*{\ Xer.s Tux.'.p L- it ■• ' l» l&U „„* T>BDI(U)OK .



—SMSWaMS—SMBMSS^—B^^^>M " ■' . ' I Bu-ii*»'s«i Notices ROBERT MURRAY^ (p\ PRACTICAL -^ \|f HOROLGGIST, GOLD* SILVERSMITH, I'tc, }sf /^SSj^^ EAST STREET, ASHBURTON. i^OSS W^Vr*y] GREA.T REDUCTIONS Nj^gj^jP^ IK THE PRICE OF WATCH & CLOCK REPAIRS. ——o I N Consequence of the prevalence of HA.RD'TIMES and having an E«eptionally I Large htock of all kine ß of WATCH and CLOCK REPAIRING MATERIALS and Requisites, _ « «. . •»* X MUREAY has decided to make a SWEEPING REDUCTION in the price of BtyfJi* A*l» gives his PERSONAL ATTENTION to tfow branch of the business, and w a DIRECT IMPORTER of all materials, etc, K-. M.CJ««AY is able to do thia without in «ny wav Bacrificimr the EFFICIENCY of the work done, and Customers may rely upon hir M aEnSg gth^ and SATISFACTORY WOR< hid by him during Fourteen Years' Residence in A»hburton. Watches Cleaned and Repaired 5s 6 D Clocks from ... ~. 2s °D



Public Notices Cheap Drapery. Cheap Drapery OALE OF EDWARDS, BENNETT *^ and Co's PBAPERY STOCK BARGAINS IN TWEEDS. HEAVY TWEED at Is Cid per yard BARGAINS IN DRESS GOODS. DOUBLE-WIDTH CASHMERES Bid per yard BARGAINS IN BLANKETS. HEAVY WHITE BLANKETS from 8s lid BARGAINS IN- . -i FLANNELLETTES. FLANNELLETTES from 3d per yard BARGAINS in I ULSTERS. STILISH ULSTERS from 2s lid BARGAINS IN BOYS* SUITS. BEST COLONIAL SUITS HALF COST BARGAINS IN HOSIERY. GOOD CASHMERE HOSE Is per pair YOU MAY EXPECT BARGAINS AND YOU WILL GET THEM W. H. COLLIER, "THE CORNER.' RfiILIZITIGV WALE. £750 WANTED IMMEDIATELY. mHE TIME HAS COME AND WE ARE NOW COMPELLED TO REALIZE ON THE WHOLE OF OUR WELL ASSORTED STOCK OF General Drapery, ClothlDgr, Boots, Shoes, etc. EVERY LINE WILL BE GREATLY REDUCED IN ORDER TO EFFECT A SPEEDY CLEARANCE. ' THIS WILL BE A GENUINE AND BONA FIDE SALE. *§ "VTO "DEASONABLE /^VFFER OEFUSED. SALE ON Friday. June 29, AND FOLLOWING DAYS, UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE, W. W. SPENCER & Go, ARCADE HOUSE, 155



FubJic Notices. HENRY ZANOEF. Starvation Prices. - PKIGE IJST - FOR Strict Cash Only, until further notice :— Best Silk Dressed Roller Flour, 1001bs7s6d Best Silk Dressed Eoller Flour, 2001bsl4s Kerosene (170 test, natural gas) only few eases in stock White Crystal Sugar 2|d per lb Finest New Currants (cleaned) 3fdperlb Eleme Raisins 4Jd per lb Sultanas 4f d per lb Fine White Sago If d per lb White Flake Tapioca If d per lb Split Peas If d per lb Best Japan Rice 2^d per lb Corn Flour (Brown's) 3£d per lb Pearl Barley 2d per lb / Bryant and May's Safeties 7jd dozen Vinegar Is 6d per gallon Valencia Raisins 4Jd per lb Electric Candles 121bs for 5s 3d Sheep Tongues lOd per tin 1000 Vestas, full count, 5d per box 'HEALTH TEA. Health Tea Most wholesome Tea in the World. Jam, assorted, in 21b bottles, Is per bottle Red Herrings; Is dozen Sardines, large tins, 8d per tin Sardines, small tins, 4|d per tin Cups and Saucers 4s per dozen Tumblers 3s per dozen And all other goods IN ALL DEPARTMENTS too numerous to mention AT EQUALLY LOW PRICES. A Genuine Reduction all round, the CASH in wanted. WINES & SPIRITS, ALES & STOUT, of Best Brands, in Stock. — REMEMBER — Patronise those who circulate the money in Ashburton and who have a stake here not those who take your money and send it to Chriatchurch. REMEMBER—AII goods delivered Henry Zander, GENERAL MERCHANT AND DIREOT IMPORTER, LOOKJ LOOK? JOHN ORE, & CO IRONMONGERS AND IMPORTERS GENERAL MERCHANDISE. WHEltf we say we are selling Cheaper than any House in Ashburton, one glance at the following prices will convince everyone that we MEAN WHAT WE SAY:— Rollitt's Supreme Roller Flour —251bs 2s, 501bs 3s 10|d, lOOlbs 7s 6d, 2001bs 14b 701bs splendid White Sugar for 15s 8d Best Mauritius Sugar, 2Jd per lb Pearl Barley, 2d per lb 251bs new Oatmeal, 2s 4d Best Japan Rice, 2Jd per lb 150 test Kerosene, 6s a tin, 12s a case Neave's Food, lid tin, 12 tins 10s Gd Saj?o, Tapioca, and Split Peas, Ifperlb Sheep Tongues, 10 per tin, 9s 6d per dozen tins Bryant and May's Safety Matches 7^d, 12 packets 7s 3d Candles 5Jd per lb, 121bs 5s 3d White Pepper Is 2d per lb, 121bs 12s Caustic Lye for soap making lOd a tin, 12 tins 8s 6d Edmonds' Baking Powder, large tins 10|d, 12 tins 10s 3d Cream of Tartar Is 2d per lb, 121bsl2s5d Corn Flour, Brown's, 3M per D, 121bs 3s 4d Essence of Coffee, large bottles Is, 12 bottles for Us 5d New Currants, 3f d per lb lemon Peel, 8d per lb, 21bs Is 3d, 71b tins, 3s 6d . Raisins, washed, 4Jd per lb Sultanas, 4fdper lb Baking Soda, 3d perlb, s£lbs Is 31bs of our 2s Tea, 5s Id Washing Soda* Id per lb Fine Salt, lewt bags, 5s 1000 Vestas 5d a box, 4s lOd dozen TEA.~TEA- We are prepared to quote Special Prices for Tea in 51b, 101b, 201b, and 401bs lots, that will "Astonish the Natives." JOHN OBR & GO, ASHBTJRTQN,



Fnt c rfcai nm c nt- . fJDDFRLLOVVS' fj AL L SATURDAY, AUGDST 11. I icub•■■ry- p *<l CONCERT COMPAT<Y CONCERT COMPANY; MewfoiPT- *padn. Admission—3si and 2s. Sox plan at F Ci^uk's, Hal dresser. See Dunedinand Christohurch papers. 837 Wm. ANGUS, Business Manager. Government Notices. NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. GRAND JSATIONAL STEEPLE CHASES, AUGUST 9 and It, AND INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION AT CHRISTCHURCH. EXCURSION TO CHRISTCHWRCH, AUGUST 9. ON the 9th inst. an Excursion Train from Timaru for Christchurch will be due from Rangitata at 8.8 a.m., Hinds 8.38, Winslow 8.53, Tinwald 9.3, Ash burton 9.17, Chertsey 9.46, Rakaia 10.0, arriving at Chnstchurch at 11.45 a.m. Return fares to Christchurch by this train from Timaru to Ealing inclusive 10s firsfc-clasßj 7s second; Hinds, Windermere, Winslow 8s 6d and 6s 6d, Tinwald to Rakaia inclusive 7a and ss. Passengers to return by ordinary 440 p.m. train from Christchurch same day, and go on from Ashburton by Special Train leaving for Timaru at 8.10 p.m. The 7.20 a.m. train from Ashburton to Christchurch will NOT RUN on August 9. Passengers can travel instead by the Excursion Train notified above. The train from Methven to Kakaia will start at 825 am. on the 9ch, Lauriston 9.2, arriving at Rakaia at 9.45 a.m., to connect with the Excursion Train. Return Tickets to Chriatchurch afc 183 first-class, 13s second, can be obtained at Orari, Ealing, and intermediate stations on August 8, or for Excursion Train on 9ch, available for return till 14th. The iourney must be started on the de.y of issue of the ticket, and may not be broken within the first twenty miles. B*l2 BY ORDER. Public 'Notices> a LL ACCOUNTS against the assigned j estate of Mr F. M. Rickman are requested to be sent into the undersigned | on or before SATURDAY, August 11, j otherwise they will not be recognised. 8 40 JOHN ORR AND CO. ASHBOBTON COUNTY COUNCIL. "VTOTIOE is hereby given that the J_N Balance Sheets of this Council for the year ending March 31,1894, are on view ac the Council's Offices, Ashburton, during office hours. By Order, F. MAINWARING, Clerk. Ashburton, August 6, 1891. 8 88 NOTICE. mHOSE debiroud of subscribing to TESTIMONIAL to be presented to Mr A. H. Shury, Will oblige by forwarding subscriptions to the undersigned. T. BULLOCK, B§3o Chairman of Committee. MRS HOOPER, Monthly Nurse* offers accommodation to patients at her residence, Alford Forest roid, near Mr Cunningham's Store. Ten minutes' walk to a doctor. THE PREMIER TEA OF THE WORLD. ." Blchest and loveliest fl*vou?, More ecqwjnfiipal than »n? ether H"a- Recommended by the Medical Faculty. All Injurious Ingredients REMOVED. Promotes digestion—strengthen! the con- Btitution. It's numerona competitors lire falling away like magic. A BLESSING TO MANKIND. Prices, 2s 6d and 2; per lb Ask your Grocer for it» HENRY ZANDER Wholesale Agent. DULL TIMES. GREAT CASH SALE OF BOOKS, STATIONARY, FANCY GOODS, MUSIO, &c, &o ' FOR ONE MONTH ONLY AT L. P. ANDKEWES & COS. TTUNDREDS OF POUND? WORTH MUST BE SOLD AT A GREAT SACRIFICE FOX CASH. SALE NOW ON. I*. F. AEDREWES & CO., STATIONERS' HALL. 169 NO more Indigestion ; no more ncr vcusnesa from indulging in too much tea drinking, for those who drink Health Tea. One trial will convince you. Henry Zandeu Authorised Agent



DOLLAR CTGERETTEB 3d per packet HEALTH TEA. is more economical than ordinary tea. It undergoes a process whereby the injurious iugre dientß are eliminated, whilst it renders the release of the better properties of the leaf more easy. Henry Zandkk, Autho rised Agent. TIME IS PRECIOUS. "— ♦ — Time is precious when you want to catek » train, but it is priceless when the question of health is considered. Do not delay a moment if you suffer any of the symptoms of Bright'a Disease, Bladder, Liver, oi Kiduey Disease, Rheumatism, Nervousness, Dyspepsia, Dropsy, Diabetes, Gravel, Female Weaknesses, or Prostration. Take one or other of Warner's Safe Cures as pre, scribed in Warner and Co. Limited's pamphlets. Warner's Safe Cure was a great medioal discovery, not a sneaking imitation of some other medical preparation. Warner's Safe Remedies are made on honor, none but the purest and best in aredienta entering into their composition. They are not cheap in any sen*e of the word, and cannot be sold in competition with cheap and nasty decoctions. trust our friends,#for their own good, will insist on having what they ask their chemist for, and i not be put off with any vile substitute on imitation for " Warner's Safe Cure" on any , other of" Warner's Safe Bemediei,"



GOOD afternoon, Mrs Smith. Not feelhjg well? Have a cup of Health Tea! Nothing so invigorating and strengthening i My word, Mrs Brown, this is simply lovely, Wholesale jtud retail at ZANPfi&'s* -



| fFwo young men named Edward Bennett and James TithelF have been arrested at Wellington for,burglaripusly entering the warehouse of Mr Hawke, in Harris street and stealing £9 worth of cigarettes.. A portion of the goods wlrch were sold to small tradesmen were recovered. MAIUEB & §onn Kucalypt ISxtrac There ar* imitations of Eucalypti <• Extract in the market now, iiroducts of simple distillation forming nide resinous oils. In order that these crude oils may not be taken, OUR PUBK ToLATIIB EtJCALYP-rf Exteact, whic *» is recoernised by the medical division of ihe Prussian Government to be of per fectly pure origin, as their information forwarded to us through the Consul at Melbourne, March 2,1878 "We Btdto • — is proved by teits by the Medical Clinic ■ of he Universities at Bonn and Griefswal'', Prussia, and teported by Dr Schulz, Profe«sor of Parnwcology, at Pon, wud Professor Dr Mosler, Director of the Medical Clinic at Greifswald, that only products that are saturated with oxygen and freed of acida, resinocs and other substances, adherent to primary distillation, will develop* the sanative qualities proper to the plant according to theee authorities, and according to Pro ssor Dr Lister of England, and to Drs Bauer, olntire, Wood, Hazard, etc., of America, is the only extract corresponding to scientific tests, and the Pnly on which possesses the proper therapeutic val'ie. Sander & Son's Eucalypti Extract All other crude oils are to be classed among the turpentines, which h we, when used as medicine, no (therapeutic effect and are abandoned as an internal medicsiaent. These bo called Eucalypti Extracts which may have received distinction at .Exhibitions as commercial articles are used for mechanical pur poses are only discernible:— By their deflcisney 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, I being recnced in Bpeciflc density through the presence t>£ acids By their taste, the result of th contracting tan dency of resins and tennates. If these crude oils, s» called eucalypti extracts are applied by mistake in cases o croup, bronchitis, diph theria, internal infammations, dysentery, wounds, the consequences are appalling For safety always ask fo Sander and son s Bocai.ypti Extract and ae r the old, well-tes'ed and reliable preparation.-~Snnei hurst, Victoria, Australia. SANDER AND SON'S