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Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1894. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Messrs Miles & Co., Limited, having relinquished tha agency for the Union (Shipping Company, Mr F. Ferriman has taken it over. Cools;ardie is stated by a recent visitor I to have grown in nine months to 20 times its previous size, and properties which I could have been bought for between £20 ; and £60 have risen in price within the I [ same period t^o between £2000 and £3000. There were at the time of his latest visit a lot of men knocking abouti doing nothing | —such men as are always found on a gold j field, unwilling to leave the town—but [ most of the people on the field were I occupied, and profitably so. Cbndenseiß are at work all over the field converting the salt water from the mines into drink able liquid,

An Auckland Press Association telegram states that a petition, with 1000 names, h» been sent to Wellington against the Advances to Settlers Bill, and that others will follow. At noon on Tuesday a horse, which belonged to the late Mr W. De Troy, had been driven in a dog cart to the Rangiora station. Here it was tied by the reins to tno wheel. Being startled the animal attempted to get away, was pulled by the rein and reared, falling on its head with such violence on the footpath as to kill it instantly. Tabes of glass made by lightning are often found in sand. The electricity passes into the ground and melts the silicious material, forming little pipes, the inside diameter of which represents the'bore' ofthe'thunderbolt.' Suchtubes, measuring as much as 27 feet in length, ! have been discovered. This mornings about nine o'clock, two young men, the sons of Messrs Profcheroe 1 and Butterick, discovered Mr Henry Smith, a farmer residing at Elgin, lying on the Elgin road in a state of insensi bility. They had him conveyed to the • hospital, where ifc was found he was suffering from concussion of the brain, but the full extent of his injuries cannot ! yet be ascertained. Mr Smith left town ' in his trap last night about five o'clock, 1 and had evidently lain where he fell during the whole night. ' The blacks in the Alligator district in the northern territory of South Australia are cannibals. An authority who should know something of their customs [ emphatically states that some tribes think nothing of killing and eating a member [ of another tribe when the fancy seizes or , superstition prompts them. He instances the tact of a black fellow that was bitten by a snake and died. The tribesmen came i to the conclusion that their warrior had ■ been ' sung to death' by another tribe, i Accordingly they set out for vengeance, i and came back in due time full of it in a i double sense. They had killed and eaten l the first man they caught belonging to the family of suspected singers. A movement is being originated In Mel bourne having for its object instituting a Parliament of unpaid members. Itispro t posed to call a meeting of the mayors ol the cities and towns, the presidents of ; shires, and heads ot other public bodies 1 of Victoria, to formulate a scheme for re placing the present Parliament with one of say, forty unsalaried members. The originators hope to obtain a ' patriotic ' patty,' constituted of men who will think [ Bolely ot the good of the country, without exalting place and pay before everything, They consider that such a Parliament would raise the moral tono of tbe com munity, and raise the country in rhe eyes of all civilised people. To this complexion have some Victorians seriously come as one result of eighteen months of the present Government and twenty-seven months of the present Assembly. A, committee meeting of the Ashhurton Amateur Cycling and Athletic Club was held on Tuesday evening. All the mem bers were present. Correspondence was read from the following gentlemen accept ing offices :—D. Thomas, Esq, T. Rollitt, Esq. S. H. Graves, Esq, J, McLachlan, M.H.R., J. C. Wason, Esq, W. James, Esq, Hugo Friedlander, Esq. C. Hood- V/iiliaras, Esq, R. Sneddon, Esq. Messrs John Orr, R. jfriedlander, Major Douglas, and Father O'Donnell were elected honorary members, Messrs Brock, A. P. Williamson, R. E. Dowle, and J. Thomas were elected active members. G. A.. McLean Buckley s Esq, has presented the Club with three medais—gold, silver, and bronze — for a twenty-five mile road record, to be competed for during the season, the road to be taken is from the 1 Tinwald und of the b idge to the Water ton Hotel and back* It was resolved to lhank Mr Buckley for his kind oiFer. The opening run will be held next Wednesday, " starting from the Post Office at 2.30 p.m. I> was decided to hold four bicycle races and four foot races in the Domain during the afternoon. Education in Oorea is of the Chinese order —the committal of whole books to memory. On all other subjects than knowledge of Chinese, ignorance is the fashion when it is not a reality. Philoso phical speculation is stated to be common, bu*; Corean notions of natural science are indeed very chaotic, if the following story may be accepted :—A well-known mer \ chant of Chemulpo was asked by one of ■ his native employees—a man of some education—whether or no he had ever seen a dead sparrow, that is fco say, a " sparrow which bad died a natural death. 3 The person questioned did not; remember that he had. He was then asked how the foreign savants accounted for such a phe nomenon, for such it was, considering the vast number of sparrows in the world and the huge families they reared every year. The answer to this query being unsatis factory, the Corean gave his explanation, which is the popular one. He said that dying sparrows betook themselves to the ) seashore, dived into the mud and became clams. ' How else,' he triumphantly added, * could you account for the number V of clams along the coast ?' An English traveller gives the following description of Chemulpo, the portof Seoul, the capital of Corea: Besides its position m <jhe nearest port to China, Chemulpo is * "ceat iraporfcanoa »9 being the port of oj. d ''""^ft&ttnl pf opyea, from which it Seoul, tno ■• 4 t m \\ m distant, is aboub twenty-. -*n ideal harbour Chemulpo is by no means. -« Qw tide for, owine: to the fall and rise v ««,„,. being thirty-six feet, very little wa» remains at ebb tide, onlyanarrow channel 1 in the middle, just wide enough for a 1 steamer to swing in, while tbe mat of _ the harbour is one vast mud flat. The river H>n, upon which Seoul is situated, flows into the sea a little to the north of Chemulpo, and enterprising persons to whom time is snosno object sometimes trust themselves to a Japanese steam launch which plies between the two places. Owing, however, to the shifting bed of the river, its shallownesa, numerous sand banksandthestrongcurrentatebb tide, the navigation is very difficult, and fcheEnglish tourists, after spending a night stuck on the sand bank, are glad toget ashore and I finish their journey on foot. It Is there ! fore evident that Seoul cannot be captured I by the ironclads of either party. A j^reat revolution in feminine attire is being accomplished silently and unob served. A fashion writer in an "English 1 paper says:—' In a sborfc time I look for the abolition of the word • petticoat,' in ' borh its actual and symbolical sense. The petticoat has become the underskirt in common parlance, and now the underskirt is vanishing, "Women who * drees,' in the sense whioh all women understand, even those who from circumstances or indifference only *waa'' clothes,' have abandoned the underskirt, and are wear ing knickerbockers, ' although,'says Mrs Humphreys, f fcfoe change is unperceived by the public at'large-' It has now become % regular case of supply an<i demand, and many of the best West End dressmakers .frre turning out knickerbockers with walk 7 in* costumes, travelling dresses, and tennis skirts. The favorite material for summer material is silk, and for ordinary ■ occasions light cashmere, cloth, tweed, or: homespun. I observed some of the bast-; dressed women at a large garden party tht other day—discreetly, but curiously— and I was obliged to acknowledge that the abolition in its turn of the successor fn the petticoat has added to the freedom of movement and good * carriage'of the girl of the period, and I am assured of the increase of comfort which it has effected. So, I suppose, it would be irrational to regret the demise of a fcinse i honored garment, especially as the sab titution of the knickerbocker seems to , <ffer security against the return of the crinoline. 1 l

Foot-Rot in Sheep.

BY DONALD OLIVER.

Sir,—-I expected that one or other of j the delegates who attended the late agricultural conference would have given a paper on foot-rot, dealing with this very important subject in a much more elaborate manner than was done by Mr H, F. Gray, Mr Gray's ideas on the value of prevention are good, no doubt, and are seldom, I should think, dis regarded by flockmasters who have made sheep management a study. I'he majority of owners now-vdays, however, have not had opportunities of knowing much about the diseases of sheep ; nor ii they had, would it be possible for many of them to adopt the chief course in the direction of prevention-~namely, the changing of their flock from damp to dry ground when required. And to expect them to apply remedies to the feet of ! their whole fluck, when they could only find, perhaps, half a dozen lame ones among them, would, in my opinion, be quite as irrational as it would be to expect that our medical gentlemen would insist on every individual in Ashburton taking medicine for the cure of typhoid fever, because half a dozen people in the town may be found suffering from that malady. Mr Gray tells us that foot-rot is ex tremely contagious. Now, even in England, according to their best authority on such matters, the pre ponderance of evidence leads to the opposite conclusion* Spooner, however, mentions a kind of foot-roc, forming part of the foot and mouth disease, which was contagious. He concludes the account of its pathology by saying : *' The hoof a in many instances would slough off, and sometime fungus in large quantities would be thrown out, particularly if the animals were exposed to much moisture." vv'e, fortunately, have no foot and mouth disease in New Zealand yet. I have had some rather unpleasant experience since 1 came to this country in connection with sheep affected with fungoid excrescences around their feefc, and I consider that any person keeping about him sheep &o affected, uncared for, ought to be very severely dealt with. Dr Randall, of the United states, is of opinion that foot rot is contagious; but at the same time he admits that different countries and climates may be subject to the appearance of the disease under different circum stances. He also admits that many intelligent farmers have told him that they were confident foot-rot originated spontaneously where sheep were kept on tall, rank feed. Had Dr Randall ex perimented by putting, occasionally, one or two sheep affected with foot-rot along with others that never had the disease, on country that was never known to give foot-rot, then he would have been able to decide as to its contagiousness or other wise. He does not seem, however, to have done this, although he tells us in his "Sheep Husbandry in the South" that he communicated the disease to some sheep by inoculation ; but that proves nothing, us many diseases may be transferable by inoculation that are not otherwise infectious. My experience with foot-rot in the form in which it attacks sheep in these colonies has been pretty extensive ; yet, I have never known it to be trans mitted by infection or contagion. It ought to be within the comprehension of eveiy farmer that ifc needs no Randall, Spooner, or indeed any great authority from other countries, to carry experi ments in connection with this, disease to a true and convincing termination. I have, myself, over and over again,experimented with a view to settle .this question: in New Zealand, and also extensively in Victoria. Moreover, in my teens 1 had to attend to the c-tre of foot-rot, under one of the best and most extensive sheep farmers in Scotland. So ifc will be seen that I have had ample oppor unities to become acqaainted with the subject I am writing upon. Everyone engaged in sheep farming should understand at the outseb that our domestic sheep of to-day have been modified bj man to suit, various habitats, foreign altogether to those for which nature seems originally to have in tended them. Naturalists inform us that animals nov in existence, possessing the generic characteristics of sheep, and fronu which they believe our domestic races have descended, are only to be found on (hemountains and elevated plains of the world. So we need not be at all as tonished that nature sometimes refuses to keep them sound for u<, whan we confine them to habitats inimical to their well being, in wet seasons. We cannot help sometimes doing this, of course; but we can, by making usa of the accumulated knowledge gained and committed to writing by eminent authorities, along with the intelligence we ourselves possess, get) to the bottom of many diffi culties which surround us in matters pertaining to cheep. The burning ques tion of contagiousness, or none con tagiousness of foot-rot, could he settled without any difficulty within a single ] year. Notwithstanding the numerous ex periments I have already carried out in connection with this question, I have jusfr nqw concludedjanother. I borrowed two foot-rotted sheep from a friend, out of a few he had bought for dog meat. I have had them along with a small mob of my own, in a paddock by themselves for two months j they all parap together at night, <*nd keep together—the paddock being small—during the day. Now, if the be rev" 1"8 *n conta3'otl ware correct, my few hoggets w? uM. have foot-rot long ago; but they haveriCti fie smallest sign of anything of the kindabonfc Jhem. It v to be hoped that a few others will do as 1 am doing, and endeavor to have this im portant question settled. Experiments should not be tiied where % ground is abnormally damp, nor where rank, Eng lish grass exists; because sound sheep mighb in such places contract the disease spontaneously, and ont^gion would he sure to get the credit of causing ifc, Dr. RandaW, srho was always his own operator, cured his foot-yc^hed sheep on seyeral occasions with a single dressing. After washing their feet, be parent the affected ones in a careful and deliberate manner j when a sheep was finished it wag lifted and placed standing in a tub of very warm saturated mhtloa of fclyeatone. There it had fco efcsnd foj? fcen minutes, during which time another sheep was put in. Before the third one was lifted into the tub, the first was lifted out, and so the process went on. In a work published by Dr Randall in 1864, he expressed himself, in reference to keeping the solution of bluestone warm, in similar terms to the idea propounded by M-- Gray at.the conference. He says : —" If I had to g© through another war with the hoof rot, I would .construct $ vat which would hold eight or ten sheep — j perhaps with a grate oyer the fluid to prevent accidents—and I would contrive some mode to keep the water hot after it was poured into the vat" Now, In dry 'weather, on dry land, I have no doubt that Randall's method, although exces sively slow, would cure foot rot. It will not. howeyer, ,cure it with one dressing in wet weather, as i onpe proved with fourTasmanianmerinoramp at Wepjerfield. The .question is^often put to me, whfi* is the bast; thing for .curing foot-rot I In reply to this, I em say that a great many things will cure the disease j but the effi cacy of any, or all of them, will depend on the state of the weather, the nature of the ground and feed the cheep are turned out on after being dressed, as well as on the care with which the whole operation has been carried out—driving sheep a mile .04' two immediately after being •, dressed, will, w§ great measure, neutra- j r Hee aU the good thftt has been done, i

\ Before I proceed to give a detailed ac-1 count of what I have found, in my cx i perience, to be the most Buitable reme ( dies ia these colonies, I will quote from Dr Randall a passage which illustrates what ought not to be done. He says :— I *• The American farmer, who has from/ one to two hundred infected sheep, dur ing the first year when the disease ia violent, drives them into a stable—a small one, so they can be caught easily-— once in. ten days or a fortnight. An un occupied afternoon—generally a rainy one when nothing else can ba done—is selected. Possibly a little straw is put on the floor of the stable ab first—but in half an hour every foot is full of soft dung. The farmer, his hired men, and perhaps a boy or two, sit down to tho task. Each is armed with a thick, broad bladed, dull • jack knife/ The whole party then pro ceed literally to 'cut and scar ' Some of the feet are cut down deeply into the quick, so that blood gushes trom them in streams—others which have too tough hoofs, have them left half an inch thick at the sole—covering up, very likely, rapidly developing ulcers. Blood and dung and ' medicine' are left applied in almost eqaal proportions to each foot. To < crown the whole proceeding, the sheep are turned out as fast as * doctored ' into the rain, or into web grass, so that in ten minutes time, not a trace of the remedy applied remains on the foot, In such flocks the disease is barely kept at bay ; it is never cured." lam afraid the above satire is a pretty true picture of how some $ew Zealand farmers set about curing footrot. Can it be expected they would succeed 'I Whatever remedies are to be applied to the feet, the preliminary paring must be done thoroughly and carefully, with keen edged, thin biaded knives, kept con stantly as sharp as razorst The bUde to be used between the claws should not much exceed a quarter of an inch in breadth. Ironmongers keep toe nippers for reducing hard, long hoofs ; they must however, ba very carefully used by persons not ac quainted with the anatomy of the foot, or they are sure to make frequent miacalcu lations and cut the toe artery. The best of operators will draw blood occasionally, but this should be avoid3d as much as possible. It is not wise to use the knife on a foot that is only beginning to show disease. The foot at this stage will feel abnormally hot, and will probably show swelling at the coronet. The only good that can be done to a foot in this condition is to bleed it at the toe artery. Then mark it so that it can be easily seen the next time the flock is fetched in, by which time it will have supperated, and be ready for treatment. When a sheep has two or more bad feet, they should never all be denuded of ex ternal protection at the same time. The man who would do this, and then drive the pooi animal any distance, ought to be flogged with a cat-o'-nine-tails. The best way in such cases is to pare one foot pro perly, and open orifices in the sidea of the other affected foot, or feet, into which a portion of the specific being used _ should be insinuated. Sheep in this predicament must come in several times for dressing, so they ought to be marked, or kept separate from the main flock. ARSENIC. TIII3 is the best and cheapest remedy I know of when large numbers of sheep re quire to be treated, but I have known fearful blunders made with it by new be ginners. Arsenic, unless properly dis solved, is one of the wcrst things that could possibly coma in contact with sheeps 1 feet newly pared. I never used a sample of arsenic that did not require, after coming to the boil, to be kept boiling tor seventeen minutes. It is never sufficiently boiled till the opaque milky appearance of the fluid has altered and .become semi transparent. It is alwajs economical, and facilitates work, when extensive foot rotting k going on, to boil arsenic three times the required strength ; because in ordinary warm weather, one bucket of the solution boiling hot will be found, when mixed with two backets of water, to be just about the proper heat for using. There will always be found in arsenic, a residuum that no boiling will dissolve. The use of soda, except for softening hard water containing lime, cannot add to the curative properties of arsenic. From one minute and a half to two minutes is all the time I used to keep sheep in the arsenic trough. The solution 1 kept generally at about three inches deep. T 1 have always used three ounces of arsenic to one gallon of water. But the insoluble residuum re ferred to above, added to what is carried off by evaporation during the seventeen minutes boiling, reduces this strength considerably* It will, however, still re main quite strong enough. The amount of liquor evaporated ia considerable, and should be made good by adding water to the boiler after the arsenic has been dis solved, and then heat the whole up again to the boiling point before using ic. Sheap, to receive the full benefit of arsenic, or any other remedy, should, when pared, be turned on to battsns, they should never leave battens till they are made to walk into the trough, which should have a handy little gate at each end of it, and a small draining yard at the end of exit. They should be allowed to walk out quietly on to a grassy surface t and this surface should not be wot with' rain or dew, otherwise the work becomes more or less nullified, and the owner will most likely declare that the remedy was useless, I never put sheep through arsenic hotter than could be borne by my hand. I have experimented with arsenic againat many other remedies, and always found it equal to the best of them, as well as a hundred times cheaper than some of them. When foot-rot was rampant in the western district of Victoria, a certain chemist near Melbourne advertised a care for the disease, and claimed for his specific that it would heal foot-rot without paring the feet at all. My principal and I con sulted aboyt the great remedy, and a sample for experiment was ordered, which came up in a pound jam jar, and cost ten shillings. It wag a bluish paste. There were no small sheep owners in Victom in those days to witness the carrying out of the experiment;, befc got representa tives Irom all th« neighboring stations for this purpose. We pared and bathed with arsenic the feet qf six sheep : a like sum: ber with bl^e atone, Then we rubbed the Melbourne pasto on th.c lame feet of an other half dozen. We marked each, lot differently, and at the end of a fortmefht we all met The arsenic had cured its half dossen, the solution of blao stone had cured some, and tha others had to bs treated again. The Melbourne remedy turned out, as we all expected, utterly useless when applied to the un pared feet. We applied it again to the same feet af ber carefully paring them, and at the end of another fortnight we held a second inspection, and found all theshntp cured. We then considered the Mel bourne remedy to be quite equal to arsenic, but the .cost of ft W»s so great fcliat no one could afford to use It. About nine years ago a man called at Westerfield with a specific for foot-rot, which he was extolling very highly 5 it was a whitish substance—be was selling It at five ehill inps a pickle bottle. Anyone buying a sample of it could never forget it, as it smelt worse than Avernus. I made very cateful experiments with it against arsenic, and found the latter by far the freest remedy. jyLUESTONJS. ' • When used in the fluid state bluestone should have the strength of "saturated aola'ion," which nieans, when mentioned in connection with foot-rotting, rtiafc tha mineral be dissolved in moderately hot crater until she water refuses to dissolve any more of it. Hot water will t&b c more i blueatone in solution than cold^ water 1 would do. Hence, if the solution is kept!

up to the proper heat and the proper strength, where sheep have to be treated in anything like large numbers it becomes a pretty expensive remedy. Let any one take a pound o£ blueatone and make a saturated solution of it, with water heated up to a hundred and twenty degrees, and he will be astonished at the small amounfc of n/eiiciae he will have. , .Running sheep through a cool and weak solution of blueatone is of vtrylirtle use. ECDtfOMIOAL FOOT-ROT MIXTURE. There is a first rate remedy for foot-rot, which I use myself, and can strongly re commend it to any farmer who may not have—nor la likely to have—at any one time sufficient sheep to warrant his going to the expense of building in a boiler and fixing a trough, with draining yard, aud aU the necessary fixings such a place re 'qaires. The following are the ingredients »nd proportions of each required for this invaluable and cheap medicine :—3tba bluestone, pounded as fine as flour, lib white lead, |Ib sulphur; sufficient boiled linseed oil to make the whole into the consistency of thin paste. The foot, after being carefully pared—without bleeding, if possible- to be painted over with the mixture ; not with a brush, but with a small piece of wood formed with the knife into a rninature paddle, the blade of which may be three quarters of an inch broad, and covered over tightly with a small piece of calico stitched around it. The nature of the ingredients from which thia recipe is compounded renders it less liable to be rubbed off, or washed away from the foot, than any remedy I have ever known. Ib is imperative, however, that the blue stone be pounded until it become as fine as dust, because, if it is not so commi nuted, ie does not combine properly with the other ingredients, and the gritty par ticles get rubbed off the foot before ifc has performed the function for which it was intended. When thia composition is made up, should pare of it have to stand over for some time—aa in most cases ib will have fco do—ib would not be wise (for reasons which I have no space here to ex plain) to leave it in a tin vessel. The proper placa to keep it woujd be a large earttienarare jam jar, and a covering of the same oil it ia mixed with kept over it. I cured 130 sheep with this composition last year ac a cost «f half-a-crown. The economy of a remedy of thiß kind, where email numbers are concerned, lies in the fact that the diseased foot alone is dressed with ic. In all trough waik—Randell's tub included—the -whole four f eet i mve to be treated alike, although in the majority of cases one foot only may be bad at the time. Every farmer who has not a battened shed should have acouple of panela of battens on his place. They could be so small that they might serve as gates near his homestead. Then when he may kave a few sheep to foot-rot the battens might be laid down side by side in a corner of a yard, or inside a stable, and a couple of hurdles would, in such positions, enclose them so as to form a pen. The sheep as soon as dressed might than be placed on the battens and left there for half a day or over night to give the remedy time to take proper effect. The battens Bhould be nailed down exactly three-quarters of an inch apart. 1 have tried many reme dies for foot-rot, and have long ago come to the conclusion that, other things being equal, the metallic poisons are the best. Two years ago I had ample proof of the value of the last mentioned remedy. I had at that time, in company with \ another, some merino wethers on turnips. A few lame ones remained on our hands. We divided those few, and a sheep fell to my share thafc had completely lost the hoofs off both hia fore feet, He was carted to a paddock a mile from my house. The poor brute could only pick up a Uttle food by crawling on his knees, and did not mov« a foot away the first time I went to dress his foet. A. few days after the first dressing I dostored his feet again, and he then scrambled away aboat twenty yards before I caught) him. A week later *on, 1 had occasion to bring home a few sheep that were in the same paddock with him ; and to my utter surprise he walked the whole mile home along wifch the others. I then painted his feet carefully over again, and kept him some hours on battens, to give the composition time totake effect. There was no paring frcTm first to last—there was nothing left to pare. After this last dressing be hid himself among long tussocks for ten days, and I concluded that he had died. But he appeared again quite sound on both feet. The horny substance thai; had grown over his feet made them appear rather clumsy at first; bub by and by Dame Nature provided him with a very neat set of new hoofs. Sheep differ in this respect from some of the other animals. They have not to wait for proteeoidn to their feet till the hooves grow downwards from the coronet* As soon as disease is driven away by natural, or artificial means, a substance exudes from all parts of the denuded foot at the same time ; and if the animal Is left undisturbed, it hardens so "as to de fend the foot, and form part of the hoof proper, which takes some time to grow into its normal and proper shape. I wish to say in conclusion that I have had a life ex perience of foot-rot, with wholesale oppor tunities of studying its pathology, and up to the present time, all my experi ments have led to the one conclusion—■ namely, that, in the form in which ifc attacks sheep in New Zealand and Victoria, it ia lioh contagious, but origi nates spontaneously .when sheep are sub jected too long to degrees of moisture I beyond what the sbructure and organl- I HaHnn of fcVioir foaft <rl)l linar

PARLIAMENTARY.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Wellington, October 2 The Council met at 2.30. LAND FOR SETTLEMENTS BILL. The Land for Settlements Bill passed its final stages, • BATING BILL, The Rating Bill was further con sidered in Committee, and was re ported with unimportant amendments. CONSOLS BILL. Sir Patrick Buckley moved the second reading of the Consols Bill. Mr Bowea opposed the Bill, which he considered would not encourage thrift in oolonists. He thought it better that people should invest their own money $n the land of the colony rather than leave it for the Govern ment to invest for them. Regarding the measure as novel and dangerous legislation, he moved as aa amendment that the Bill be read a second time that day six months. Mr Rigg supported the Bill. Mr Pharazyn viewed the Bill as merely a borrowing measure under anqther name, and therefore !|hou.lcl support th.c amendment. Sir George Whitmoß©, although noli i satisfied with the Bill, would give it a. trial. Mr Stewart opposed the measure, as being an attempt on the part of the Government to borrow money in an objectionable manner. Mr Stevens opposed the Bill. This Bill and the Cheap Money Bill were utterly inexcusable. Mr Mapgregop opposed the Bill, on the ground that it was simply a jjqr, rowing measure in disguise. He also objected to the Bill because the Go vernment had neglected to say to what purpose the loan would be devoted.

THE ASHBUKTUJN GUAKDIAN: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1894



CPECIALLY REDUCED PAS- O SAGE RATES by the following Steamers from Lyttelton :— TO SALOON STEERAGE Wellington ... £0 10 0 £0 5 0 Napier ... 10 0 010 0 Auckland ... 1 10 0 0 15 0 Sydney— Via Auckland 210 0 15 0 Via Cook Strait 2 0 0 10 0 FLORA 1 Tuesday, WAIHORA J October 9 ROTOMARANA ... Wednesday, Ocfi 10 WAIRARA.PA „, Thursday, Oct 11 "'•TURN TICKETS— hju.. Coastal at proportionately Reduced Rate?, •'ney,, either vift Auck- Do. To Syu. t* Cook Strait, land or vi,. ROUND TICKETS, RETURNING FROM WEILINGTON VIA HOBART (Including Fare by Steamer between Sydney and Melbourne) — TO MBJL.OOTJIIIVE. MARAROA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6 (transhipping to Wakatipu at Dunedin) Saloon .., £4. Steerage ... £2 103. For further particulars apply to the COMPANY'S OF* ICE, 10*21 Manchester Street.



WaDTed. F you want gcod prime Cheese and Bacon, try Taylor, East Street Bakery. 6109 •aITANTED Known-Before baying W your Hats come and see our Stock. Greatest variety to choose from in Ar.hburton. All marked veey Cheap. — H. C. isBOBRS, Melford House. BLANKETS bought at Edwards Bennet's Sale, a special line of Double Blankets at 7s 9d. Ex'ra large and heavy 15s! 6d and 16d 6d.~-Robert Alcorn, Baker's Buildings. OWN Make in Ladies' and Children's Underclothing, Aprons, and Pina fores ; also a good assortment of Calicoes, atuslins, Flannelettes, Tumming*!, etc., at Mrs Alcorn's new shop, Baker's Buildings : A RGB Purchase Embroideries at Edwards, Bennett's Sale; over ninety pieces to chcoae from. Ladies' Trousseaux made on short notice. Orna ments, Fancy Goods, and Dolls' Prams at Mrs Alcorn's new shop, Havelock Street WANTED Everyone to try Peerless Tea, 3lbfor ss, 61b for 9s lid. Dessicated Cocoaiut 8d per lb; Wire Netting, lyd wide, 2|d per yd by the coil. Note address—Flbtchkr Bros, Cash Supply Stores, Enst street, Ash burton, Next Bank of New Zealand. BANG ! Bang I Bang '. 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 .T. W. Hardlby's, Gun Empor'um. ROBERT ALCORN has opened in Baker's Buildings, next the Court house, with a stock of Clothing, etc., bought at Edwards, Bannett's and the Kaiapoi Sales, the cheapest lot of goods ever brought to Ashburton, Also an assortment of Boots. WANTED Known —That if you are in want of a first class article in sum mer Boots and Shoes, you cannot do better than call at J. Moison's ; you will get the very best at reduced prices. As for his 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, Ashburton. •Ri- . 1 ■ t I I UNION STEAMSHIP COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND, LIMITED.



Wanted jf OST between Factory and Tinwald 1-^ one Trap Rug. Finder rewarded at Mail Office. 10 2 SEED Envelopes for Sale; a cheap line. Apply this offico. 9 73 "T HAVE for Sale a few tons of Oamaru -*- Darwent potatoes for seed. Also a few bigs of Oamaru Kidneys.— Pet&r Williams. 9 182 "TDARTRIDGE Cochins for sale. A J_ purchaser just received three from advertiser says:—"They certainly are splendid birds." Address, Mail Office. T|RESSMAKING. — Miss Murphy, -*-' Dressmaker, has recommenced busi-' ness in the old Kindergaitsn, East street, where sha will bo pleased to see old friends and new. Terms very moderate. FOR Sale.—Cheap, Valuable Building Sites at Hampstead, in blocks to suit purchasers, highly improved. For parti culars apply to the Ashburton Permanent Building and Investment Society, Tancred Street. 8 116 TUST Opened, a splendid line of fashion *J able Dress Stuffs, in Cardinals, Maroons, Navies, Browns and Blacks. To be sold under wholesale price.—H, C. Segers, Melford House. piRCULATING Library.—Any one bringing or buying a Yellow Back or Cloth Book can exchange the same by paying 4d for each exchange. New books are constantly added to the library. Photo and Scrap Albums, Text, Birthday, Christmas, and New Years Cards Cheap, and in Great variety; Picture Books, Scraps, Band of Hope Reciters, and Dialogues, Fancy, Plain and Mourning Stationery. Book Stall and Shop,—J. Marsebn. OYSTERS, Fried Flounders, »nd Whitebait every night at Jewitt's, Deep Sea Fishing Company, opposite I Mail office. 9 166 WANTED— All Aocounts due to the undersigned must be paid at once or they will be sued for without further notice.—James Gudsjbll. 9 168 IF you wish your eoclals and parties to be successful, buy your cake, pastry, etc, at Taylor's, East Street Bakery. Parties supplied on the shortest notice. 6 111 SALE of Warehouseman s Stock at Mitchell & Turner's. Cheap lines In all departments. WANTED, Everybody to use Titan Soap, greatest marvel of the age. fl. Zander, Sole Agent. WANTED Known —Spectacles, Eye Protectors, Gogeles, Folders, and everything in the optical me at S. Salek's, Optician. WANTED Known —The Cheapest House in town for First-class Millinery and Drapery is H. C. Seoers, Melford House. WANTED Known—Special line of Gents' Regatta Shirts, all siues, with or without collars, 2s 6d. —W. H. Collier. WANTED Known—The Corner is showing a magnificent New Stock of Drapery and Clothing.—W, H. Collier. OQ PR AY is selling Firewood 25a __ • O per cord, delivered. Coal from 6a per quarter. Good heart fencing material very cheap. Opposite Mercantile Store, West Street. WANTED Known.—No more wet clothes and bronchitis, Yarmouth Oilskin to haud.—Mitchell <fc Turkeb. "DOLLAR CIGAPETTES — 3(3. ~No holders or photos,— TJenrv Zandbb, Whole sale agent PRIME Ohristchurch smoked and Lewis' pale cured Bacon Hams, best Akaroa and local-made Cheeses from 6d, at Taylor's, East Street Bakery. 6110 I" ADIBV and Gentleman's left-off J Cloth as bought, sold, or exchanged. —Mes Knight, Wakanui Road, opposite Templar Hall. 7 102 /"NOOD afternoon, Mrs Smith. Not W feeliijg well ? Have a cup of Health Tea! Nothing so invigorating *q4 strengthening i My word, Mrs n *U t this is simply lovely, v Wholesale aBrS reta/ 1 * QUNS! Gun;.' ninfdS It V 7 ofGunsjustto -.. dgi le the manufacturers. Double In- Barrel Breech Loaders, Rifles, etc. -«, spection invited. No old stock to seleu from at J. W, Hardley's Sporting Repository "VTWICE! Notice Sport for all LN Guns let oufc on hire or sold on time payments. H&ving a professional Gunsmith on the premises, I undertake to repair Guns of any description. Gun fittings in stock. Prices low.—J. W. Hardley, Ironmonger, etc. ANTED Known.—All genuine Oil skins, Leggings, Sou-Wester, marked Yarmouth—Mitchell <fe Turner. t^DWARDS, Bennett's Sale. Grand lot •-* new and fashionable Furs and Mantles ; half price. Come and take your pick at Mrs Adams EARLY POTATOES.—Beauty rf Bath, Early Rose, Snowflake, and other Kidneys—by the sack and in small lots. Customers may rely on the seed being true to name.—A. W. Randell, Ashburton and Allentop. 8J57 SWEEPING Reductions?— Is Books for 9d, Is 6d Books for Is, 2a Books for Is 6J, 2a 6d Books for 2s, and all others at equa.l ra^e of reduction at L. F. Andrewbs and Go's., Cash Sale. 618 WANTED Known-That owing to the success of the Sale now being held up at Saunders' Buildings, opposite Rail way Station, it 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 Lawrie. 7 166 HAKATERE.— The Somerset Meat Mart has long held " the cake " as the best and cheapest shop in town for cash purchasers. The old reputation will be maintained, Mutbon 2d per lb, Saus ages 4d per lb. All other lines reduced. For Cash only.—W. J. Siloock. 852 WAR ! WAR! —breap Sacrifices as Goods muse be sold cheaper than ever, to inako room for other goods to arrive shortly. Books and Magaaines, Writing Papers and Envelopes, Pocket Books, Purses, Writing Oases, Ink stanc's, Pictures, Music, Aocordeons from 7s 9d, Concertinas, Violins, Banjos, Zither Harps, Photo Frames and Albums, Scrap and Postage Stamp Albums, Indoor Games, School Bags, and a greab variety of goods too numerous to mention ; all at greatly aauced prices for cash this month at L, F. Anprewbs and Co.'s, Cheap Sale. The priza schedule of the Hoit'culcural Society's flower show (on February 20, 1895) is issued with this evening's Guar -OWS>



Business Notice?. ! IF YOU WANT GOOD V^LUE FOE YOUB MONEY GO TO— ] G. J. NEIL US WHERE THEY ARE SELLING AT LESS THAN COST PR COB. HABD UP.~HARD UP MUST IIA.VJB MONEY. KO REASONABLE OFFER REFUSED FOR ANY ARTICLE IN THE SHOP. DRESS GOODS 2^d DRESS GOODS 3Jd Double width Dress Tweeds la lid Heavy Shining Is 6d—Reduced to 9|d Reduced to 1b Union Shirting Is 2d—Reduced to 7fd TOWELS 2£d Kid Gloves, four clasps Is 9d Double Bed-twi.ll Sheeting, unbleached Flannelettes, yard wide 7|d—Reduced and White 9|d to 4|d White and Grey Oalico Is lid doz Dr Warner's Coraline Corsets, 8s 6d All Wool tfJatmel 7|d Reduced to 5s lid MILLINERY A]K> PUNDER-QLOTHING AT YOUR OWN PRICE CLOTHING- CLOTHING- Boys' Suits 3s lid Men's Tweed Trousers 6s lid Boys' Suits 4a lid Men's Woollen Socks 7£d Boys' Caps 6d Men's Tweed Overcoats, with capes Men's Tweed Suits 13s 6d 17s 6d Men's Heavy All Wool Suits 35s 6d Men's Tweed Macintoshes, with capes Reduced to 22s 6d 39s 6d—Reduced to 23s 6d MEN'S SHIRTS, TIES, HATS, GAPS, etc., AT ANY PRICE. BLANKETS. ' BLANKETS. IN EVERT CONCEIVABLE MAK^S, COLONIAL AND ENGLISH, AT ANY PRICE-FROM 68 »<* PSR PAIR. NO REASONABLE OFFER REFUSED. BOOTS. BOOTS CHEAPER THAN EVER, WE CANNOT HELP IT AS WE WANT THE MONEY Women's Shoes 4s lid Women's Leather Lace Boots, all sizes 5s lid THESE ARE SIMPLY GIVEN AWAY. Men's Bluchera 4a lid Soya' Nailad Shooters, Strong, 5s 6d Men's Nailed Shooters 7s lid and 5a 9d Hen's Heavy Watertights, pegged. Ladies' French Shoes 11s 9d—Reduced 15s 6d—Reduced to 1 Is 6d to 8s 6d CHILDREN'S TAN SHOES AND SLIPPERS AT YOUR OWN PRICE AT G J, OIL L'S, FRIEDLANDER'S CORNER, EAST^STREET, ASHBURTON Cash/ We Want CASH. Important Announcement —: Retiring from Business, :— EGBERT MURRAY PRACTICAL WATCH AISD CLOCK MAKER, |"|ESIRES to announce to his Customers and the Public generally, that he has decided to RETIRE from BUSINESS, and in order to more easily dispose of his Business has resolved to REDUCE his large and Costly Stock by SELLING at a great sacrifice. The WHOLE of the STOCK, comprising OVKK £3OO<> WOKTH OF WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELLERY, PLATE, ETC. Will be offered AT PRICKS NEVER BjFFORE OFFERED to the Ashburton public, many of the lines being reduced as much W4O and 50 per cent. £10 10a Watches, reduced to £8 8s | £5 10-1 Watches, reduced to £3 15s \ Eight Day Clocks to Strike, fr^Btt 18a 6d Silver' Watches from £1 5s | Very Strcwr SERVICEAP-LE WATOHKS in SOLID NICKEL Cases, REDUCED From 21s to 15s. A very large and well-selected Stock of HIGH-CLASS DIAMOND, ENGAGE MENT, WEDDING and KEEPER RINGS. GOLD AND SILVER JEWELLERY OF ALL PRICES AT A FREUfKX itOUS «X i> KriOV OFF MARKED PRICES. srKRLIKG SILVER AND ELFCrRO-PLATED WARE AT MANT7FAOTURER3 1 PRICES, Having a VERY HEAVY STOCK of Watch and Clock Repairing Materials at present the PRICE of WATCH and CLOCK REPAIRS will be GREAT LI REDUCED. Watches Cleaned ... ... 5s 6d Mainsprings ... ... ... 4s 6d Clocks Repaired and Cleaned from 2s ALL GOODS MARKED IN PLAIN FIQUBES. JOHN WILSON, PAINTEE GLAZIER & PAPERHANGEE, orner oi][Aroade and Burnett Street, Ashburtoo NEW SEASON'S WALL PAPERS Just Arrived BEST ASSORTMENT IN TOWN. ESTIMATE OF HOUSE DECORATIONS GIVEN FREE. 67 I Uheap Section and Cottage at Ilainp | OAKAIA .Sections,— Offers are invited rtead, beint? lot 240, J acre Oxford Street, 1.1; f or any of the following numbers. t>e property of Mr Alfred James, who viz -26, 124, 291, 292, 285,297. Terms lias 'removed to Temuka, consequently if required. bus decided to dispose of it at a sacrifice. T_ BULLOCK. ! Eavy terms, Apply to ! T. BULLOCK. DQ&Ld.U CIGARETTES 3d per packet \