Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1894. THE WAIRARAPA WRECK.

The Court of Inquiry into tbe Waira rapa disaster is still sitting, but we fancy there is little more to be learned in regard to the terrible calamity than has already been given in evidence before the Court. There have hean somewhat severe criticisms on the conduct of the chief and second officers after the wreck occurred, One witness said neither seernsd to rise to the position, and an invidious comparison has been drawn between their be haviour and that of their immediate junior, Mr W. Herbert Johnston, who certainly behaved heroically, and took full advantage of all the circumstances of his positioo to do what he could for the safety of the passengers. Too much praise cannot be given him for what he did, and we certainly do not mean to withhold one single note in the chorus of laudation with which the colony is now ringing in his honor. Still, we do not see that the two superior officers left undone one single thing they ought to have done in their peculiar and trying circumstances. Let anyone imagine himself in a raw, foggy night, clinging waist-deep in water to the rigging of the vessel, and with neither boots, coat, nor trousers on, and fancy after a whole night of an experience like that, how much he would be abe to do either for himself or anyone else. Yet so soon as light appeared, those officers did what they could to release the passengers on the wreck from their perilous position. Auckland files to hand, with pictorial illustrations of the wreck and its surroundings, show that the wonder is —not that so many were drowned but that so many were saved. The captain evidently elected to finish his earthly career with that of the ship he had commanded so long, and until that fatal nighi guided safely into and out of every port in the colony. Few captains of our coastal marine bear the record of success that Captain Mcln tosh did, and for years he has been looked upon as one of the best men in the company's service. Each officer of the Wairarapa, as he appeared before the Court, bore testimony to the superiority of the captain they had been serving under, and gave words to the implicit faith they had in his ability as a navigator. It was this confidence in him that allayed to a great extent the anxiety they all more or less felt as the vessel tore on through the dense fog at a high rate of s^eed^ the log still recording many miles oi oee^n. covered, and the beacon they would gladly have seen giving no welcome flash through tb.e. gloom. Almost instinctively those officers £elt ? as their experienced seamen's senses noted the speed at which they had travelled, ,ihat they were astray from their usual course, and that there was sufficient danger for anxiety. $ut jbfe,e unswerving faith in their captain kept tfyeq? silent, if it did not getitaer stiji tj^ij? fears. It was Quly when, tfoe ftual crasft came^ and they realised tfjeir terrible portion, thajb they realised also the blun4er tfeeip captain had made—a blunder that wa§ worse than a crime. Captain Mclntosh knew his officers were anxious. He knew they were doubtful of the ship's position, for one had made a hint as to their whereabouts, which hint as it turns out was fairly within the mark, and another had hinted as jto the advisableness of slowing down ais. sounding the foghorn. But the eap iajn's confidence in himself was shoVn by the steady manner in which he kept on hi| fatally erroneous pourse, and disrega,raß<ii fc^-th reminders as to Steps 'he .certainly shcujoi harp taken in the interests of 'the living * freight he was carrying. Twenty! miles oft' his course on a coast roek bounu ''•n.d island-studded is an error ifcpj difficult for even an experienced mar/perj £$r less a landsman, to realise the possibility of- siiph an officer as Captain Mclntosh making; b.ut that he did laate ib ,tjie wreck on Miners' Head is but only to;,? painful evidence, y Yet equally fatal errors h.ay,e Jjeen -, made by officers holding high positW& jj

Admiral Sir George Tryon's last com- I man d to the Mediterranean fleet is an instance. Sir George was a com mander in whom the whole fleet placed implicit and unbounded trust. Yet the fatal mistake he committed 1 c-iused the terrible collision, with the tale of which the whole world was busy for months, and which brought tnourn ing and misery <o raany a British I homo. The captain is a king on board his own ship, and, sober and sane, no oilicer, however high his rank under the captain, dare question his doings in the navigation of the vessel. Captain Mclntosh was a superb dis ciplinarian, and his subordinates evi dently obeyed him with unquestioning loyalty. Had he been leas strict, perhaps, it is possible that those who had kept to him so respectful a silence as to their fears, might have been more outspoken; but the perfect discipline that the man had always maintained was maintained to the last, and this one terrible blunder that so fearfully clouded the close of a grand maritime career was allowed to be carried out unquestioned to its dis astrous end. The ship's records have gone and the captain has gone with them. Neither they nor he can now be appealed to, to explain in detail how the mistake was made, and from the mind of the dead and the bosom of the deep the most mighty tribunal of earth is powerless to wrest a secret. The Court of inquiry will tell us all they know of the error, and that error of Captain Mclntosh will make its repetition well nigh impossible, and this is one lessons of the disaster that will be well laid to heart by the other captains on the coast. It is about the only reassuring feature of the whole sad business, the dead we cannot help, and have to do with the living. Passengers on the coast by the Great Barrier will be safer than they ever were before, but the error by which the Wairarapa ran upon her fate will be a sad blow to the confidence men have in the mariners to whose skill and carefulness they trust their lives upon the sea.

Whiting on September 21, a London correspondent says that a good deal of interest ia being taken live cattle in the experimental ship- F©R the menb of live cattle from home market New South Wales by the Maori King. It will be j remembered that twenty head were shipped, and nineteen of them arrived alive and well, the twentieth havißg died from the effects of injuries received dur ing a severe storm off the coast of New Zealand. The Times devoted a long article to the subject. The writer sad that "so f?.r as the mere question of carriage is concerned the present ship ment must be pronounced an unqualified success." Tha one paramount question is, can shipments of live stock from the colony to .England be made remunerative? On this point there seems to he some difference of opinion among experts, but the preponderance is that such shipments could be made to pay if carried 01 under suitable conditions. As to tha store cattle the expert opinion is decidedly against sending Home this class*of stock. Apparently there was an i^ea that the cattle on arrival could be pastured anH fattened for tho market, but che Board of Agriculture refused to permit thia, and lequired all the cattle to be slaughter-id within ten days at the first port of land ing. This action was bis^d upon an Order-in-Council, which inaintained the restrictions upon importation of Canadian and other foreign cattle. In is specially noteworthy that this ()rder-in-Oouncil is dated August 13. a few days after the news was received in London that the shipment of live cattle lml been des patched from Sydney. There is very little doubt, if any, that the Order in- Oouncil was expressly designed to apply tj the coming Australian bhipment, and chat it was designed as a Protective measure in the interest of the British agriculturist. It was not so much to suard agiinst the introduction of disease as to defeat competition. That store cattle could be profitably shipped from the colonies to Kngland and fattened at Home for the market appears indubitable, if only the Board ot Agriculture did not stand in the way. But so lorg as the exiatingOrder-in-Oouncil or any analogous order remains in forca such a course is rendered commercially impracticable.

The London Times, in an article on the Maori King's shipment of live cattle from New South Wales to Eng fattening' land, discusses the question at sea. of the possibility of putting cattle on board in store condition and fattening them en voyage. The article saysc —"It has been clearly shown by the present shipment that not only can animals speedily accustom them? selves to their newconditioa of existence, but that they may be go* to improve in condition during the voyage. Aninuls, beyond doubt, deteriorate a great deal more in a short railway journey than on a long sea voyage, and the condition of the cattle on board th« Maoii Kino; justifies the conclusion that they were in better condition than if they had been farupked from Ohic-^o to New York and then shipped across the Atlantic. It may be convenient to stall-feed the animals dur ing the voyage, and, instead of supplying them with dry fodder, to provide them with oil-cake and roots Those best com petent to judge are of opinion that by this method a few stones in weight may \f& put on, and so improve the market value of the carcase as to very materially benefit the shippers, or, in other words, to produce such an unearned increment in their realisation as will reduce consider aoly tliecQ^fcof transit." The Maori King, it appears, could carry 900 head of live cattie, 5Q.000 frozen sheep, and SQQQ bales of yool, and there are several vessels in the ISew Zealand trade roomy enqugh to carry a large live freight, as addition to their frozen cargo, and a heavy dead weight of wool. Trie question of provid ing fastening food of the kind required for the stog^, at Hjfceg thfjt would le%ve a mar gin of profit, is one that doj|btjesa this colony would soon solve if the trade H} live cattle were ventured on, but there has first to be got out of the way this obstructing Order-in-Council, and chere is not at present even the most distant hope that the stringency of its proviaions can be relaxed.

The Neiatyii tiia^ißS p'-ocesa is likely to prove a great help to the t'rofcsn meat trade. One of the great diffi meat thawing, culties that importers oi frozen beef at IJome have to contend with is that after thawing 'tste pest does not keep well, but must 5 be u'sed'at' 9 ne'e* Under these circumstances frozen beef can"'o^aly bo "extensively used in large establishments )n which large quantities can be disposed of ip t.lw shape j of soup and otherwise. Thus hospital^ . infirmaries, and Institutions with a large table are tho*e who find it most suitable, j while private families can use bdfc little of it. .But from the JNelson thawing process grea,fc things are hoped in the direction of 1 .jvercoduuo; ,^..ig difficulty as to keeping, (and Ibriiig:i%'tfroi,^ tee! into more ex«

The butchers of Vienna tried to do, in connection with a consignment of Aus tralian beef, what; the colonial meat London butchers have iw been very successfully. Austria. doing for yea's with New Z^land fruz-n mutton j A consignment of Australian beef was despatched to the Austrian capital and was promptly bough; up by local butchers, who, finding its quali y was very satis-, factory, not only kept it out of the market in its truo character, bub placed it hi, the market with marked success as "prime Austrian beef," and under this disguise it found speedy purchasers and was digested with much gratification by the Viennese. But either the butchers failed to keep their own counsel or else they were betrayed The sanitary authorities pounced upon them and insisted on the remainder of the meat being submitted to strict examination and analysis, as well as comparison with local products. The result was so unmistakable a triumph for Australian meat and so complete a vindication of its good character as to ensure it henoaforth a very cordial acceptance in Vienna. In fact, it has been determined to encourage by every possible means the importation into Vienna of Australian meat—and New Zealand meat too, for this is included under that designation. Australian beef was proved and reported to be equal in every respect of nourishing quality to the best Hungarian and Gallician meat. Now, the new Commercial Treaty prevents Roumanian cattle being admitted, and so the price of meat has steadily risen to an almost prohibitive figure, while the supply is notoriously inadequate. Hence there promises to be a splendid demand for the best colonial meat, which the butchers will sell ab local meat prices, combining together to pocket the differ ence. Natnrally, therefore, fche batchers are strongly in favor of the importation j of colonial meat, as they will make a far larger profit out of it than they do out of Hungarian and Gallician meat, the wholesale price of which is so much higher. The result is likely to be a new and valuable outlet for colonial meat whenever the London market is congested. This ought to improve macters for the colonial producer.

The Melbourne correspondent of the Otago Daily Times has the following titbit regarding the Rev. the rev. John McNeill. He -iohn moneill. says :— The Rev John I McNeill, the Preaby terian evangelist, has been giving the Sydney people a taste of his invective. Last Sunday he said:—"This is my second last opportunity of speaking to you. May God strike home in poor de mented Sydney. I can't sib down on a seat in the park, on a bench in my hotel, or rub shoulders with anyone in the street, without hearing betting, betting, betting—the Melbourne Cup," the Mel bourne Cup—this horse and that. Man, bo the thief you are—go and steal the money out of a fellow's pocket ; be an honest thief, if possible, but, for the sake of all manliness, bo above betting.- (Loud cheers.) As the American put it, betting is about tha measliest sort of thing that has escaped out of hell." In the evening he preached from the story of Cain and Abel, and explained in his discourse that the first work day scene they had was one ot honest toil. ' A certain kind of working men," said the preacher, *'go to those that they call irenrleraen and stand with their hats in their hands, and in a falsely deferential way S'iy, ' You know I am only a working man.' Only a working man ! Confound your impnd^nce ; what more could you be 'I The fulness of bread and abundance of idleness ia the cur^e of tha colonies. There is no word that has been more spoilt than gentleman. It is given to any scalawag with a big parse or a sheep station as a title : any titled scoundrel is a 'gentleman.'"

We have an occasional gale in New Zea | land, and sometimes a flood. Unce in a wiy wa have a bush fire, too, a very HOT that does a little damage, passage, and causes 3ome excitement. A n earthquake looks* in upon us in passing, when taking its walks abroad, and it is upon record that a vol canic eruption viped out the Pink and White Terraces. These are but trifling sensations compared with what Yankees now and again experience, as witness this contained in a New York despatch of September 15 :—A small passenger steam boat has reached Thief River Falls in the North- Vest, Minnesota, after a perilous passage down the Thief River of 120 miles, skirting the Great Red Lake and the Indian Reserve. Ful'y half the journey was accr>mpl;6hed between walls of fire. The flames jumped the >iver and cut a swathe of dense forest sixty miles wide. The steamer was only able to go a few miles at a time, after which every one on board had to diseimbark and stand on the sand bars until the fira and the heat had abated somewhat. Several times the boat caught firo, and the flames were only quenched with difficulty. The river was so heated that the surfaca was covered with dead fish. Bears, deer, and other species of large game fled in confusion, and many small canoe parties of Indiana were seen going dpwn the river as best 1 they could. %t is thought that some of them must have perished. The fjre is believed to have been caused by a man who failed to secure the control of some Government hayland, and ignited the brushwood out of spite.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Diplomatic relations between France and Madagascar are. broken off'. A trust of a million and a half is being established to take over the balance of the Barings' estate. The Rev. F. Wallis, Bishop designate of Wellington, has been created a Doctor of Divinity of Cambridge University. A post-card his just reached Strasburg from the backwoods of Canada. It con sisted of a piece of bark, on the front of which was pasted a pieca of paper with the address. Tbe bark contained the letter, which was scratched on the bark. The Cunard Company has just broken the record by making the passage fro a New tfork in 5 days 9 hours 25 minutes A dominion liner has made the fastesb passage from Canada to Liverpool, the distance, 2§52 miles, occupying 7 days 12 hours. The British training crnisei? Calpso is overdue. During a gale on the 24th ult. she separated from her consorts near the ! Canary Islands and has not been seen since. The Admiralty believes that the vessel's machinery has broken down and that she is coming on under sail. A sensational suicide occurred at the Oxford Hotel, Sydney, on Monday. Two brothers, Julius and MaxMouck, believed to be strangers to the town, left letters saving they intended to die together, Jtiling shpt himself dead and then Max, using t'ho same revolver, fe|l dead across his brother's 'bo'dyi' The cause is afc pra sent unknown. A novel plea was put in at the Hokitika magistrate's Court the other day. A young man named Smith, a hairdresser and tobacconist, was sued for the amount of c dishonored bill, some £13 or £lf He cjlid" libb disput? the accuracy of the account, nor make any'excise for aon payment, bub relied on the defence that he %a:s 'uniie'r the awe of 21 years and could not therefore be sued, calling his mother as a witness to depose that he was only 19 years old. The Magistrate had. no alternative bufc to diarofea the case.

The master of the Home desires to { acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of j a quantity of sandwiches from Mr W. C. | Davis, for the use of the inmates. j Yesterday Mr Thos. Gapes, jun.. was i nominated for the Chrislchurch Mayor-J alty, and Councillor Jamea Penteaey foi' the St. Albans Mayoralty. A body has been washed ashore near Moturoa, supposed to be (hat of Ktaunder, who was supposed to have gone out fishing in » canoe, and who has been missing for j a. week. At the Police Court this morning, before Mr R. Alcorn, J.P., two first offenders were fined 5a eich, one for drunkenness and the other for being drunk while in charge of a horse. News has reached Hokitika thai the schooner Heroine, bound from Napier to Greymouth, in ballast, is ashore a mile north of Arahura. She came ashore at one o'clock this morning. The crew landed safely. The departures in Ostober were 1779, and the arrivals (including, however, the whole Wairarapa list) 1906. There would have been a net gain of 127, but this is reduced by the number of passengers drowned in the steamer. The amount of the Wairarapa reHef fund, at present in the hands of the Mayor of Christchurch amounts to £133. At a meeting of the committee on Monday night, arrangements were made forafeteat Sydenham on November 29th. The Gov ernor has forwarded a donation of £25 to the Mayor of Auckland. The wreck of the Wairarapa stands third highest in point of loss of life by shipwreck, on the New Zealand coast. By the Orpheus 190 lives were lost, the Tararua 131, and the Wairarapa 113. The Taiaroa, another of the Union Com pany's boats lost in 1886, was accountable for 34 lives. A public meeting was held in the Orange Hall last evening to ascertain what steps were advisable in the master of as sisting sufferers by the Wairarapa wreck. It was decided to hold a concert at an early date. A full report appears in i another column. i The lasfc number of the Review of Meviews gives an interesting account of the * Progress of the Colonies. ' It says that ' New Zealaoders represent the shrewdest and sanest section of the English speaking race, and yet the colony is curiously prolific in cranks and impostors of all sorts.' The holders of land fmm the State in New South Wales, on what is known as the conditional purchase system, owe the Government at the present time the large sum of £14,000,000. The conditional purchase system is somewhat similar to the deferred payment system in New Zealand. The Hon. James Carroll, the Maori Member of the Ministry, visited Ashbur ton yesterday, and was entertained by the Hon. Major Steward and Dr. Tweed. He visifced the Domain, and was driven round the suburbs, expressing himself in ap preciative terms of the town. Mr Carroll left for Christchurch by the express last evening: There is said to be a great revulsion in political sentiment in the Hawke's Bay district. Every industry is paralysed, as elsewhere, and several of the gentlemen who were among the warmest supporters of Ministerial candidates at the last elections are now openly expressing the opinion, in the words of one of them, th»fc 4 this crowd are killing the country.' Says the New York Tribune:— With Avheafc so low that it is better to feed i'o to the hogs than to sell at present prices, tha Western farmers are at last persuaded that, the good old Democratic times have struck the country too hard for its own good There isn't a grain field in the land tint doesn't present an argument in. favor of a return to Republican administration. A sort of Siamese twins in lamba came from a ewe the other day on Mr J. Suther land's farm Milburn. It was a lusus natunxi of no common kind, the lambs being perfectly formea but were connected aJung the breast. There were two heads, eight legs, and two distinct hindquarters. The creature was born dead, and but for tha opportune presence of Mr Sutherland the mother must have died. The lambs were sent to the curator of the Dunedin Museum, who doubtless will preserve them.— Bruce Herald. An extraordinary incident has occurred in a viliage near Chatham. After the customary period of courting, marriage banns between a young couple were put up at the parish church, and a cottage was taken as the future home of the pair. The bridegroom-elect entrusted his fiancee with about £40, which comprised his savings, and whnh he had withdrawn from the Post Office Savings Bank, to buy furniture and household linen. Appa rently, however, when he parted with his money he lost it and his sweetheart together, for the young woman has not since been seen in the neighborhood. In connection with the rescue of the brothers Walker at the Lyfcte'ton Heads on Friday last it appears that most valu able assistance was given by Constable Moore, of Lyttleton, who had been sent down to the scene of the accident. He accompanied Sinclair in the perilous climb around the cliffs, where a slip would have precipitated them some ninety feet to the rock j below, and also went down the rope : and assisted the elder brother to climb the face, and afterwards helping to lower the two lads down to the boat's crew, Both Sinclair and Moore were much cut ftnd bruised by coming in contact with the sharp rocks. Enquiries having been made in the East-end of London as to the prevalence of drinking methylated spirits, ifc was found that for a long time past a prying evil in this thickly-populated district has been the drinking of methylated spirits mixed with lemon juice. The practise was known to exist to an extraordinary extent among the poor, and various temperance associations took the question in hand with a determination, if possible, to eradicate the evil. Towards this end the chemists and oilmen in the district were askedj as a favor, not to supply the par ticular spirit qq Saturday nights. A large proportion of the number considerately complied with the request, and the results as reported have beea remarkable from a beneficial point of view. In.one case it is stated that a family of seven had, through the baneful habits of their parents, been reduced to a state of almost starvation, whereas under the new rej»iine the f-imily is found to, be in a compara tively prosperous condition. A French paper, says the Sun, calls attention to the number of secondary victims consequent upon the assassination ot President Carnofc. The foreman of the workmen was killed while patting up the funeral hangings ia the courtyard of the Elysee. Nathan, the chief puiucw of M Carnofc died suddenly of apoplexy, caused by excitement; and grief. A boy at Bussiere de Clermont was accidentally stabbed to death by a schoolmaster, who was imprudently describing Cesario's crime. A woman, who went su denly mad on hearing the news, threw herself out of a window at Perpiguan and was killed. At the 'funeral there were four fatal accidents. One man fell and was impaled on the railings 1 of the Tuileries^ whilst a huge vase fell upon a woman's legs, which were afterwards amputated. Baron de Lyons, the late Belgian minster, syqQ.rißd $^ray on tbie morning ot the obsequies, <j,nd never rose from his bed again. All over France the mental eon r dition of. those prone 1 tb'excitement led to suicides, whilst several railroad workmen

THE WAIRARAPA DISASTER.

i Auckland, November 12. Among the bodies identified by the ! police at the wreck of the Wairarapa were I Messrs Loris and Ryan, Patrick Burke (seaman), Aitken, and Holmes (cabin Btewaxdti), John McLeod (seaman). The Wairarapa inquiry was continued to-day. James Pipe, a saloon passenger, said ha was on the quarter deck the greater parr of Sunday, and spoke frequently to Oap tain Mclncosh. The captain did not take his meals as usual. He smoksd a lot of cigars and seemed anxious to sight land, being continually on the look our. The witness asked him whether ths fog would j make any difference to him. The captain laughingly said '• I don't think so, but ifc is a great nuisance." The captain was I quire sober. Mr Pipe was questioned as to the conduct of the officers on the rocks and he said the chief officer deemed t,o show utter indifference to anything going j on. The passengers seemed to do ail the ! work. The pvrser took hold of the rope once. He (witness) did not notice what j the second officer did. The witness was | asked whether anything could have been done by the officers which wa3 not done. He replied : There were Dunlop, Fraser, Kendall, and one or two like them, who came out prominently, but they appeared uo have no leader, lie could not say that the officers should have saved more lives, but had someone been in command the people would have been brought ashore in better condition. Replying to another query the witnesasaid thecaptain appeared to be very carefully attending to his duties. Frank William Varley, after describing his experience till the time the bridge was washed away, said : I saw neither captain, officers, nor crew, the whole of the time, nor did I hear any order given except by one of the stewards about putting on life belts. When daylight broke I saw the chief officer in the foretop. A little below him were the second officer and the purser. Duulop had swum ashore. The officers appeared to have done very little. It was remarked on the rocks that all seemed to have been done by the passengers and one of the stewards. I saw nothing of the third officer, Sinclair, till he came round with the Maoris. It is impossible to speak too highly of Dunlop, who risked his life to save Miss Flavell. He showed far greater heroism than any other when he reached the rocks, as he at once assumed command until disabled by being daehed on the rocks in attempting to save Miss Flavell. Ido not think more could have been done than was done atter the officers got on the rocks. Mr Chapman, a passenger, said that he was above the chief mate in the rigging until after daybreak. The mate superin tended the ropes and gave orders to young Leighton to get the signal hazards, which the mate made fast to a buoy. The chief and second officers both assisted in trying to float the booy ashore. Miss Buckleton stated at the Wairarapa enquiry that when the steamer struck she went to the top step nearly on the bridge. She saw Captain Mclntosh pub up his hands facing the ocean and deliberately dive into the waves. Dotedin, November 12 The Union Company has replaced the Wairarapa by the Monowai, which has been withdrawn from the San Francisco service, being replaced therein by the Arawa. She takes up the running on the 26th. The Monowai, which leaves Sydney on the 17th, alternates with the Mararoa in the Sydney-Auckland service.

Public Meeting.

Owing to the inclement weather there was buc a small attendance at the Orange Hall last night. Following are the gantlerasn who braved the weather in the interests of the Wairarapa sufferers :— The Rev. T. G. Brooke, the Hon. Major Steward and Messrs W. H. Collins, R IVJ. Cuthbertson, Richard Bird. Heniy Turner, Charles Braddell, William James, Robert Elston, Herbert H. Fooke, Walter E. Dolman, E. J. Paul and Peter Williams, Mr R. Bird, ex-mayor, was voted to the chair. Fie said he was quite sure the distress caused by the recentciUmity—the wreck of the Wairarapa—would command widespread sympathy, and more especially would their sympathy be accorded to the Mayor, who through the disaster had lost relatives near and dear to him. At the same time the Chairman did not see that they could do very much in the way of raiding a relief fund until they had more definite information than was at present forthcoming as to the actual want of the sufierere. They were all aware that there had been cases of the kind in which more money had been collected than was wanted. He did nob suppose that would be the case in this instance, but whatever was wanted it. would hardly be wise to ask everybody to contribute until they knew what actual distress was to be relieved. Times were hard, and they had at all times in their own locality a certain number of people needing assistance, and it behoved them to render that assistance when necessary. There was rip doubt that assistance for these sufferers would be readily forth coming, as it was a case which could not fail to appeal to the feelings of the most callous. There had been a suggestion in the Guardian which met his ideas on the subject—a suggestion that guarantees be j received, the money to be collected it required. ' Major Steward said it appeared to him that if they were to start subscription lists without knowing whether the sum was required or nob beyond what was already contributed elsewhere, they would be met by the persons whom they were canvassing for subscrip tions with the reply "If you don't know what is wanted what's the use of our giving " Secondly, it was not to be dis guised that times were hard and persons who would have been willing to give a guinea some time ago could not give a guinea now; they had engagements of their own to meet, and honesty came be fore liberality. There was a scheme, however, by which they might get thirty or forty pounds together without any serious inconvenience to. anyone. * They would remember that about that amount had been collected, »y means of a concert in the Arcade, whick had gone to a similar cause. The band gave their services as atuo did the vocalists of the town, with the result that the amount mentioned was collected and persons were only asked to p*y their shilling each as admission fee. If such a course were repeated at least £20 could be collected, and when such a scheme had been completed he thought they would have done their fair share. To subscription lists being taken there was another objection—that people in the town who could be gofc at con veniently would give, while others more difficult of acctss would never be asked. He might say that any advertis ing or printing necessary would be done free of charge. (Applause). The Chairman said thafe a member of the Ash burton Brass Band had told him that the band would be willing to give their services. (Applause). Mr Paul said he d,^ not quite know how far he might be justified in giving the information he was about to give. It. had been customary for some years past to get up a concert in a.id of th& priae fund for the Borough School, and it was also customary to give away a large number of yaluable prices. There was°a lictla eYent in connection with the VVairar^pa disaster which he thought should be made public evevt, if they did not take advantage of it and it was this— Swne ivhere aboiit sixty pupilg amending ■

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NEW i SPRING AJSD SUMMER GOODS OPENING UP THIS WEEK. NEW ZEALAND CLOTHIH3 FACTORY, NEW GOODS MEN'S New Shapes Hard Hate GOODS Men's New Shape Soft -__,_, NEW Hats GOODS Men's New Lounge Hats | NEW _isoz weight GOODS Men's New Tennis Hats / _ )/^_a NEW Men's, Boys' and Youths 1 GOODS Straw HatS r.nn-na | NEW — GOODS —SPECIAL— «nna ■JJEW GOODS , The New Swimming Com- a NEW binationSuit GOODS m Men's and Youths' Black NEW Lace Shirts GOODS 1 New Tennis Sashes I NEW New Cycling Shirts GOODS New Tennis Shirts r .~~ TU , NEW New Cricket Shirts GOODS NEW -SPECIAL- | GOODS NEW 1801 New and GOODS Bows NEW GOODS NEW ZEALAND CLOTHING FACTORY. ALEX. HENDRY, Manager'



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QWEF.PLNG Reductions. ■—Is Books O for 9d, Is 6d Books fop la, ga Books for Is (sd, 2a 6d Books for 2s, and all others at equs.l ra fe of reduction at L, F. 4i.jspHKWKS and Go's., Cash Sale. 618



TO LABJES. —Spring Cleaning.—We have just received Three Cases of Curtains and Liberty Muslins, together with new Patterns in Carpets, Oilcloths, and Linoleums. China Matting from Sid per yard.—MrrcHELL AND Tubnbk.



EOBERT ALCORN has opened in Baker'B Buildings, next the Court house, with a stock of Clothing, etc., bought at Edwards, Bennett's and the Kaiapoi S*les, the cheapest lot of goods ever brought to Ashborton. Also an *saartment of Boots.



NOTICE! Notice Sport for all Guns let out on hire or sold on tima payments. Having; a professional Gunsmith on the premises, I undertake to repair Guns ot any description. Gun fittings in stock. Prices low.—J. W. Hardley, Ironmonger, etc



GUNS ! Guns ! Guns ! My new stock of Gunsj ust to hand direct from the manufacturers. Double and Single Barrel Breech Leaders, Rifles, etc. In spection invited. No old stock to select from at J. W. Hardley's Sporting Repository



BANG ! Bang i r>ang I My new se* son's stock of Ammunition to hand Eley's, Kynock's and, Cluo Cartridges, Powder, Shot, Caps, Wads, Cases and all sporting materials of the 6rst quality at J. VV. Hardley's, Gun Emporium.



WE Hold a Large Stock of the Latest .Novelties in Materials for Blouses and Walking Tresses. Just opened, (X Pakeha and lonic, Dress Goods of choice selection, Sunshades and Umbrellas.—Mitch sll and Turner.



BLANKETS bought at Edwards Bennet's Sale, a special line of Double Blankets at 7s 9d. Extra large and heavy 153 6d and 16s 6d.—Robert Alcorn, Baker's Buildings. JUST Opened, a splendid line of fashion able Dress Stuffs, in Cardinals, Maroons, Navies, Browns and Blacks. To be sold under wholesale price.—H, 0. Segers, Melford House. ANTED KNOWN—Dressmaking prices to suit the times. Material dresses from 8s 6d, Prints from 7s 6d. Fit and style guaranteed.—Miss Murphy, Old Kindergarten, East Street. fITANTED Known-Before buying YV your Hats come and see our Stock. Greatest variety to choose from tn Aahburton. All marked very Cheap. — H. C. Segers, Melford House. RECENT Arrivals —Ladies'and Gentle men's Summer Boots and Shoes, Cricketing and Tennis Shirts. Unlimited selection of Summer Ties and Hats.— Mitchell and Turner. LARGE Purchase Embroideries afc Edwards, Bennett's Sale; over ninety pieces to chcose from. Ladies' Trousseaux made on short notice. Orna ments, Fancy Goods, and Dolls' Prams at Mus Ai/'ORn's new shop, H»veloct Street



Wanted | I CST—Bunch Keys on riiiL'. Finder \ -*-^ will be rewarded on application to Mail Office, 11 76 i^RBiH~BDTTER~6r~p"e7 rlbV Blue -*- Derwem, Potatoes 2s 9d ptr ha», Bran 2s 8d per bag. Sharps 5j 3d per baa:, Rollitt and Thomas' Flour at best price Note address—Fletcher Bros, East street, Ashburton. TTi ANTED Known—The Corner is VV showing a magnificent New ytocV of Drapery and Clothing.—W t 11. Collier. WANTED Known—Spacfcaclos, Eye Protectors, Goggles, Folders, and everything in the optical ice at S. S^lek's, Optician WANTED Known-The Cheapest House in tewn for First-class Millinery and Drapery is H. C. Segeks. Melford House. ANTED Known—Special line of Gents' Kegatta Shirts, all sizes, with or without collars, 2s 6d.—W, H. Collier. WANTED —Every Lady to try Madam Balcombe's Patent Ex panding Belt Corset (registered), guaran teed whalebone throughout. Orders left at Mr E. Hall's, Herbalist, Ashburfcon, will receive prompt attention. 10 86 YSTERS, l?ried Flounders, «nd Whitebait every right at Jewitt's, Deep Sea Fishing Company, opposite Mail office. 9 166 IJIDWARDS, Bennett's Sale. Grand lot -^ new and fashionable Furs and Mantles ; half price. Come and take your pick at Mks Adams> JCE CREAM, Ice Cream, Ice Cream, now ready at H. A, Flower's, East street, Ashburfeon. Ice supplied at shortest notice. 10 114 OWN Make in Ladies' and Children's Underclothing, Aprons, and Pina fores ; also a good assortment of Calicoes, flfuslins, Flannelettes, Trimmings, etc. 5 at Mrs Alcorn's new shop, Baker's Buildings.



LATEST Tetagram.—The Gcerno^? of Victoria has ordered that doqa bjjtj Health Tea shall be used in Government House F I^(O Stimulant has given so much favor l~* ,vvit,^ the Natives as Health Tba I'b w-ust be ,goq4 ,; ask :vour Grocer for it HBSiiysr 'Aaxdw-i WMeflale Agent



I b FAC!l\—-^"yone drinking HuhSim' j A 'pa i and .""iacarding all other brands Jaet yft»r iuy )|, To be bad from ail Gi'oceus.



1 /"■IHJtfSTMAS and New Year Cards for \J ,t>'ae Honve Mail. A beautiful assort ment just ope»e^ ,^y, Packets of Cards of choice designs Jxcw "i upwards. Writing Papers and itlnvelopesj Pocket t Books, Purses, Writing Cases,' "jEnk-r I Muids, Pictures, Music, Accordeons' from 7s 9d, Concertinas, Violins, Banjos, Xithar Harps, Photo Frames and Alhums, S^r*p and Postage Stamp Albums, Ijadocy .Gajp/e^ and a great variety of -good? t.po n l i i ia ! ier,QUS to mention ; ali »fc greatly reduced p^icepj for cash this month at Jj. F- An^ue^v^.s; and Co.'s Cheap Sale. |



WANTED Known—That o»ing to the success of tha Sale now being held up at Saunders' Buildings, opposite Rail way Station, ifc will be .continued for another twenty-eight days. I ap not advertising » ten cheap lines, bat the whole of the stock. Don't lose the oppor tunity of securing genuine bargains — & Law hie 7 366



WANTED Known —That if you are in want of a first class article in sum mar Bor-ts and Shoes, you cannob do better thm call at J. Moison's ; you will get the very &asf at reduced prices. As for his own ma.hu, Sfoey are well known to the delight; of the wearers, jbhrpjighout the Australasian colonies. jFJepaire vplj done and a( once Premier Boot Maker, Town Hall Boot Store, East street, A&hburton.



MITCHELL & TIMER. W. H. COLLINS & CO Pape; hangings. Paperhangings. SIX BALES Containing 1800 PrECES of THIS SEASON'S WALL PAPERS, WHICH MUST HE SOLD. fV-TLK Consigsoo not being able to complete his purchase, these Goods have been handed over; to via and WILL BE SOLD AT REDUCED RATftS TO CLEAR TBE LINE W- H COLLINS & CO f Royal Insurance Company 1 Grey VaUey Coal Company innwix! wnn J Springfield Pottery Company nun jUorbenand Cos Knamelled Mantelpieces McKenzie's Furniture Renovator \_Black Ball Coal Company THOMAS E. KILWORTH, ENGXNEEB, XT AS REMOVED TO HIS NEW PEEMISES,' BRIDGE WORKS, WEST AND KERMODB STREETS, | ] I ASHBURTON.



JOHN WILSON, PAINTER, GLAZIER * PAPERHANGER, Corner ot'Arcade and Burnett Street, Ashburton NEW SEASON'S WILL PAPERS Just Arrived BEST ASSORTMENT IN TOWN. ESTIMATE OP HOUSE DECOBaTIONS GIVEN FREE. Dresses* Dresses, Dresses, r?YDS DOUBLE-WIDTH, LINING AND BUTTONS COMPLETE ' FOB 7* 9d. A VERY CHOICE SELECTION OF SINGLE ROBES NEW WOOL DELAINES FROM 6k>. OARPKES CHINA MaTHNGS, LINOLETJMS A showroom Fall of Woveliies, THREE OASES ENGLISH SHOES AND SLIPPERS



Business Notice?. j NEW GOODS. NEW GOODS. TO ME E fTsil TIMES. OWING to the scarcity of money and tlulness of trade generally, we are over stocked. To ensure a speedy clearance, we have marked the whole of our Stock at the Very lowest Poeglble Prices. KOW IS YOUR TIME. MAKE NO MISTAKE. G J. iTjFI L lAS IS THE SHOP FOE A GENUINE BARGAIN. ; New Prints, guaranteed to wash, 3£d j New and Fashionable Dress Goods, double New Galateas, very strong, Gid . width, worth 2s for Is 3d j Hew Delaines, very pretty, 7£d, gaaranteed | Calicos, 2s lid dozen i to wash I Double-bed Sheeting, white twill, 9§d ] Kew Dress Goods 5s lid, dress worth double | Towels, 2Jd; Cotton Shirting, 4£d millineryT"millinert IN ALL ITS BRANCHES EXCEPTIONALLY CHEAP. Strong Corsets, 4s 6d now 2s lid j Children's Sunshades Is Ladies' Sunshades of every description | CLOTHING. CLOTHING. Men's Suits, 13s 6d Boys'Tweed Suits, 4s lid Men's Colonial Tweed Suits, 37s 6d now 27s Straw Hats for men and boys at any price g,j Hats, Socks, Shirts and Ties at your own Men's Colonial Tweed Suits, 453 now 32s 6d | price BOOTS?^ BOOTS. We were never beaten, and we defy competition. All our Colonial Boots are made specially to our order, and we guarantee them. If not as good as recommended, we will replace them. —JUSI TO HAND— 120 pair of Ladies' Lace Shoes, 4s lid Children's Tan Shoes and Slippers a specialty Ladies' Tan Strapped Shoes, 6"s lid with sox to match Ladies' Canvas Shoes, tan and black Men's Colonial-made Shooters, nafled 7s lid Ladies' French Glace Kid Shoes, the best to Men's Colonial-made ShooterSj F.a iled 8s lid be had in New Zealand Men's Balmorals and Cookhams of every Men's Bluchers, 4s lid description, COME AND SEE. G. J. NE ILL'S FRIEDLANDER'S CORNER, EAST STREET, ASHBUETON