MAIL NOTICES.

Mails close for the following places as under subject to the necessary alterations : — SATURDAY, January 27. For Northern Ports aDd Fiji Islands, to connect with Taviuni at Auckland, per Rotorua, at O.SJO p.m.

Ashburton Guardian Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1894 MARTINI-HENRY RIFLES.

In OUR Wellington telegrams recently it was stated that there was some diffi culty between Government and the agents of the linn who are supplying the Martini-Henry rifles as to the ques tion of test No particulars were given, and Volunteers both old and young were souiew hat anxious to learn what the trouble really was, as there is no question more important to men who have to use a rifle than that of its reliability as a weapon. A rifle which, from its own inherent weakness, whether from faults of material, con struction, or workmanship is more dangerous to the man using it and to his comrades in the ranks than it is likely to Vie to the enemy in front of him, is no weapon at all, and a good deal worse than no weapon at all. From Wellington tiles we no<v learn that the difficulty is one as between a " detail view " and an " upright view." It appears from what we can gather that the contract between Government and the manufacturers provided for a " detail view " in testing the rifles, and the contractors are supplying the rifles on an " upright view." The " detail view" implies an examination by a Government inspector of each rifle during its whole course of manufacture from the raw material to the finished piece. The " upright view " is an examination by the same officer of the rifle after it has become a completely finished article and stands " upright" and ready for use by the soldier. One cannot blame Government for desiring to have the most perfect arm procurable for supply to the volunteers of the colony, but when they entered into a contract with i a firm like the Birmingham Small Arms Manufacturing Company, it would have been wisdom on the part (of Government to have provided a qualified inspector to carry out the " detail view." If they could not trust the contractors to supply a reliable arm, and the stipulation for a " detail view " hints at this, or at least a desire to protect themselves against possible ■ " scamping" on the part of the con tractors, they should have taken care (o provide means for carrying out the test they wished. The mere intro duction of the l' detail view " in the cqntract while the contractors were #xpected to provide the viewer was »o protection at &\\. It was like locking the drawer against a suspected servant, aij.d making him keeper of the kpy. The company to whom the contract \ has been entreated is represented in Wellington by Messrs Cameron ,i|,nd Christie, and lije^s a contract for the supply of IVjartini-Henry rifles to the British army of the same pattern and mark (3) as it is supplyJDg to th,e New Zealand Government and W fch© eowpany fras supplied, to the]

} Victorian forces. The same company supplier the New South Wales troops with the arm used in that colony. This is the number 4 mark, a heavy rifle with a small bore, and now com pletely out of favor, although at one time it was contemplated to supply mark 4- rifles to our own troops. Mark 3 is the popular weapon in Eng land among the best military authori ties, and the Small Arms Company are making them in large numbers, as well as magazine rifles for some regi ments of the line who will in future be devoted to such special duty as may be all the more efficiently discharged with magazine rifles in the hands of the men engaged in it. It may be taken for granted, of course, that such a firm as the Small Arms Company, provided as it must be with the beat machinery extant, would make only rifles of the first class, but it would not be the first time, all the same, that the men serving in the ranks of the British army have found in their hands rifles that failed them at the critical moment, and bayo nets that " buckled " when they were called upon to discharge the special mission of a bayonet's existence. And this because of the cupidity of the con tractors and the laxity of the inspec tion that allowed such inferior weapons to go out. A Wellington contemporary says:—Seeing that so large a firm must necessarily have the most perfoct machinery, and that all the parts o£ one rifle will be interchangeable with another, it is hardly likely that it would pay them to turn out an in ferior article. The test which our Government desires to have made could of course be applied, but it would add considerably to the cost as compared with passing the finished guns. The following quotation from Messrs Cameron and Christie's agent at Home will fully explain the position:—-" The rifles are from the Birmingham Small Arms Manufacturing Company, the makers of the new magazine rifle for the British Government, who have 2500 Martinis which they quoted sub ject to 'upright view.' Prom this same lot they supplied the Victorian Government with a large quantity just lately. They are rifles made for the British Government, out of the same materials and by the same machines, and inspected by the foremen and viewers of the works, and are good enough for any troops in the world." This may be perfectly correct; we are not in a position to controvert its truth, but it is certainly the duty of the Government to satisfy L itself that the rifibs are lit for the troops of jtfew Zealand.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Viotomn Government has cabled that Dr Pearson, Secretary to the Agent-General will be superannuated in June. The first consignment of C tpe fruit to Lod. doaby the new ventilating process has arrived in excellent condition. According to one of the speakers at the Methodist Conference at Mew Plymouth, one-third of New Zealand's population at tend church. Fnquiry is made in "Lloyd's Weekly " for Martha Kellar,nee Watts, who was keeping the Kail way Hotel, Winslow, New Zealand, in 1889 ; sister Alice has had no tidings p ince. George Steele, who was discharged from gaol at Christchurch, on Wednesday, was charged at the R.M. Court there on Thurs day with having illegal implements in his possession in the shape of skeleton keys. The case was proved, and he was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. A remarkable discovery has been made by Professor Eomxerioh. He finds that the blood of an animal which has recovered from an infectious disease can cure another anima^ suffering from the same disease and the dis covery is likely to prove of the greatest im» portance. James Metcalf, a plumber and tinsmith, aged sixty, hanged himself on Thursday morning in his bedroom at Christchurch. The deceased had been drinking, and posted a letter to his daughter, which she received ten minutes after he was cut down. No reason is assigned for the committal of the act. Suicide among Russian military officers seems to be more frequent tlian ever. Re cently two officers of the Rostoff garrison shot themselves within the same week, and ! there have been two similar cases in Odessa. The first was Lieutenant-Colonel Zpalsky, of the Dnieper Regiment, who shot himself a few hours after arriving from Gitomir. The deceased, who leaves a wife and four children, had a large sum of money upon him, bub the cause of his suicide remains a mystery, as is the case with the majority of these military suicides. On the following day Captain Savtchenko-Bielsky, attached to the Commander-in-Chief'B staff, al o shot himself with a revolvsr, leaving no explana of the cause. The duties of school committees are, as is well known, pretty varied. But it has been leit for the Building Committee of the Board of Education to impose another and more dangerous duty upon members of school committees. The Elgin Committee called the attention of the Board to the fact that a swarm of bees had got in between the weatherboard and lining of the schoolroom, and they also asked for some repairs to be done. The Committee agreed that the Clerk of Works should report on the repairs, but distinctly repudiated any responsibility as regarded the removal of the bees. The Buildings Committee resolved in solemn conclave —" That it be left to the Committee to see to the removal of the bees." A party of unemployed who were assisted by the Mayor of Rockhampton to start mining on Sneaker's Creek, near Targinnie Station, Queensland, have dropped across a wonderfully rich claim. The prospectors exhibited to a visitor recently a dish of dirt containing coarse and fine gold weiahing about 31 bs. He was also shqwn a nurabei 1 at specimens almo3t of solid metal, and carry ing ab.out Ejlbs of goM in all. Ifye whoje of the geld had been qbtained jn a fortnight by two men, who had computed that there was as much again in the tailings and sludge. By following the track of the alluvial gold, the party came on an immense formation of felsite and felspar, fissured by leaders of ruby quartzite. The formation has been explored to a width of thirty feet. Nq gold is visible 0131 the vqok. I(ta presence js. only discovered after crushing and washing,

j At the Police Court to-day before Mr I Kobert Alcorn, J.P., two first offenders tor drunkenness were convioiedand discharged with a caution. It appears from the report of the pupil teachers' examination that all the pupil teachers of the Ashburton School have passed, four of them having gained first class passes in their respective years. The " Poverty Bay Herald " soys :— " With the exception of the Government townships at Tologa Bay and Awanui, the whole of the lands fronting the sea for over a hundred miles south of the northern bouadavy of Poverty Bay are in the hands of the natives." The Oamaru hospital trustees, in their annual report, state that "in whatever way it may be accounted for, the fact ia apparent that the native born New Zealanders are recipients of the hospital relief in an undue proportion to population, considering that all such as are admitted are comparatively young," A coroner's jury at Walton, Liverpool, re turned a verdict of "Death by misadventure 1 ' in the case of George Howard, of the Everton Football Club, who, it was alleged, put his head in a noose of a clothes line to frighten his wife and strangled himself, after some words respecting a young woman he was seen in conversation with, and of whom there was some jealousy. At an inquest held by Mr Langham, at Southwark, on the body of Amelia Holland, aged 32, who had died suddenly, Dr Cecil Swales said death was due to syncope from a fatty heart. The deceased's heart was enor mously large, being twice its normal size. It weighed 18Joz. A verdict in accordance with the medical evidence was returned by the jury. The Melbourne correspondent of the "Obago Daily Times," writing about the decision in the great libel caaa, says :— "Mr Speight ia grimly determined to see it out. He will start; a new trial at once on the ten counts on which the jury disagreed. He is " broken in fortune," as his counsel explained, but he has friends who will find him powder and shot." The experiment tried in Victoria of issu ing " all line" excursion tickets during the holidays has proved a great success. The price was fixed at £5 first-class and £3 second, and the holders of tickets could travel with these over every Government line in Victoria. The number of tickets sold was' 340 first-class and 590 second class, so that the amount received was £4545. At the meeting of the Board of Education on Thurday some very strong comments were made by members on the number of failures to pass in the first year pupil teachers. There were 43 presented, and out of these only 31 passed showing 12 as having failed. The Board referred the report to the Apointment* Committee, with instructions to inquire into the subject and report at a subsequent meet ing. Captain Kennedy has been appointed to take charge of the cable steamer Terranora, which leaves for Cook Strait shortly to repair the broken cable. Captain Grey of H.M. Customs, who has taken part in all the cable repairing operations of late years, will also be on board. Mr Logan, Chief Inspector of the Telegraph Depirttnent, will superintend operations, and will be assisted by Mr W. C. Smith, electrician. The Terranora, will be ready for sea on Tuesday next The Duke of Argyll having been invite^ to express an opinion on the Agricultural Commission, replied that, in his view, the [ craving for legislation to regulate any parti cular industry wa3 founded on a very erron [eous idea. "Lst agricultural industry," writes his Grace, " be free from interference, wh:ch is sure to be injurous. Let men trust to their own brains in better management, and in new methods. Commissions are very apt to end in fads." The following extract from an English jour, nal shows how profitable fowls nuy become to a villager who nuderstands the ina-and-outs of breeding and keeping poultry :— "A bal. ance-sheetjustpublished shows that a X entish villager realised nearly £1 a week throughout the year by poultry keeping. He started twelve months ago with a stock of forty birds, and the cost of feeding waa nearly £19. He sold 337 chickens, 40 ducks, and 2295 eggs realising £65 133 2d, thus leaving himsel with 69 fowls and ducks. The uniforms of some of the Voluntee, Companies are getting shockingly out of re pair, as the companies themelves are growing smaller by degrees and beautifully less. Some of them have manfully determined to make an effort on their own account to supply the cash. "If you wait for the Government to supply you with uniforms," was remarked the other day, " you will be naked before you get them." Moved, it may be, by this terrible prospect, the Volunteers are going to see what can be done. We wish them every success in their endeavours;—" Press." The Wellington team for the Athletic Championship at Dunedin will be greatly strengthened by the inclusion of Kingsley, Wanganui; Bailey, Feilding; Gurr, Napier ; and Darcy, Wairarapa. They are all mem bers of the Wellington Club, and qualified to compete. These m^n, with Hempton, Batger, Stuart, Gore, McCormick, Harley, and (who goes at his own expense), will arrive in Wellington. The representa tion is in everything except walking events excellent, and the team should have no difficulty in carrying off the championship. McCormick may possibly be unable to get away. Thus the " Times " of Kumara :—We are glad to be able to say that the old chairs in the Courthouse are now about to be pensioned off, laid by in the lumber room, or chopped up for the stove. There are some historic chairs (or, their remains) among the lot There is a broken backed and groggy look ing piece of architecture that once bowed and quivered under the terrible treatment of Richard Seddon, and there is a bottom less, dejected looking fabric with only half a back wherein poor old Denis Hannan, of respected memory, sat square and solid, \ took snuff, and winked at the Press. Innu merable men have swung and balanced and bullied these dumb servitors and mutilated them. Next court day an array of bright yellow American chairs will make their debut before Mr Stratford. We draw the Premier's attention to the fact that these chairs have been purchased of Messrs Forsyth and Masters of Greymouth. Can't Kumara tradesmen supply a tuppeny-half-penny order of the kind. Hollo way's Ointment.— Sore*, Wounds, Ulcerations, and other diseases affecting the skin, are oapable of speedy amendment by this cooling and healing ointment, which has called forth the loudest praise from perßoir- who had suffered for years from bad legs, bad breasts, piles, abscesses, and chronic! ulcers. None but those who hive experienced the soothing effect of it can form any idea of the comfort it bestows by restraining inflammation and allaying pain. Whenever Holloway's Ointment has been once used it has established it own worth, and again been eagerly sought for as the easiest and safest ernedy for all complaints, In neuralgia rheumatism, and gout, the same application, properly used, gives wonderful relief,

Board of Education.

The ordinary m;cans; of the Board was - held on Thnraday at 11 am. Present — } Messrs i&. G. Wright (chairman), ! Saunders. Anson, Westeara, Peryman, Joyce, Meredith, Adams, Hon W. Mont gomery. The Building Committee reported the following local business:—'llu? School Committee at Ashlurton applied for re pairs to the gymnastic apparatus and f<v painting the dado. It was resolved that no grant could be made fur repairing the apparatus ; painting the dado had been provided for. The School Committee at Elsrin applied for repairs and painting, and reported that a swarm t-f bees had got in between the weatherboards and lining of the schoolroom. The Clerk of Works was directed to report about the repairs, but it was left to the Committee to see to the removal of tho bees. The School Committee at Hinds again applied for an addition to the house, which it was resolved to allow whenever funds were available. The report was adopted. The Appointments Committee reported as under .—• Miss Maiy Rudedge was recommended for appointment as mis tress in sole charge at Kyle. The resig nation of Mr Bowler afc Greenstreet was received and accepted. Applications for ' appointments as teacher in sole charge of Greenstreet were received and considered. The results of the annual examination of pupil teachers were received. It was resolved to allow Miss Bell, who had been prevented by illness from complet ing her examination, to rasa for the second year. A report was received from Mr Wood on the school at Fleming ton, the examination of which had been deferred on account of sickness in the district. CORPORAL PUNISHMENT. Hon. W. Montgomery, pursuant to notice, moved: —"That for the future neither cane nor sHck shall be used to in flict punishment in any of the North Canterbury schools ; that a leather strap not less than one and a half inches broad may be used ; that no pupil be struck on the hand or neck, and that corporal punishment shall not be inflicted upon girls above twelve years of age." He had taken the advice of several of the oldest teachers on the subject, and the resolutions which he now submitted to the Board were the outcome of the conferences he had had with those best qualified to give advice. Mr Peryman seconded the resolution, and asked Mr Montgomery to accept an amendment that punishment should only be inflicted on the left hand, instead of on both hands. Hon. W, Montgomery would be quite willing to accept the modification pro posed. Mr Saunders most strongly protested against any punishment being given on the hand at all. He knew of a case in which a lad of twelve years of age had been disabled by a cane being used on the hand. He was of opinion that the Board should provide the strap to be used, which should be the regulation strap, and not leave the teacher to select any strap he thought fit. The Chairman did not feel in sympathy with the resolution at all. They had a large staff of leaohere, and they now pro- Dosed became one or two members of the teaching staff loat their tempers and in flicted unnecessary punishment, to take away from the teach--ra the power of enforcing discipline ever the thousands of children committed to their cue. Mr Westenra thought tint under the resolution the masters would be in a diffi culty to known how f \x they were to 20. The motion wa* than put and agreed tn, Hon. W. Montgimery said ho woul I give not'ee of the following resolution : — "That if a girl above th*t f-ga disobey the orders of the teachers, and persist in such disobedience, the teacher should send the girl home, giving her a note stating the circumstances to her parents ; make an entry in the register, and report the occurrence to the Chairman of the Srhool Committee.. The girl to be received back into the school on making in apology and promising good conduce in the future," THE BOARD'S SCHOLARSHIPS. No locil names appear among the winners of the ssnior scholarships and only one amon«r the juniors—Miss Edith Standish of Eifi'ekon.

Irish Fights.

The favorite sport in Siam is fish-fight ing. Betting on fish-fights is such a passion with the Siamese that ihey will stake, not only all fheir money ancl their goods, but even their wives and children. The right to keep fighting fibh is be stowed only by the king, and is so highly paid for thab the royal coffers derive a large revenue from granting the requisite licenses. The fighting fish are little things of four or five centimetres long, and not thicker than a child's finger ; but; they are full ''fight," and fly at each other with the utmost ferocity as soon as they are let into the same water. In Annam, too, the same amusement pre vails, There the fish are kept in large clear gla s bottles ot water ; and if one of the bottles is placed before a mirror the vicious little fish, seeing his own re flection, and taking it to be an enemy, goes nearly mad with excitement at his inability to get ate hia adversary.

BOWLED OUT.

The Wellington correspondent of the " Age " says : -" In connection with the Wellington contest, wher« the liquor party "was so signally defeated hy two direct vetoists being placed first and second on the poll, I must not f lrget to mention a somewhat amusing incident that happened with reference to the candidature of Sir Robert Stout.. After he had addressed a public meeting, a woman in the hall rose and took h m very sevetely to task upon the Free* nought question, and as much as told him that no Freeohinker was a fit person to sit in any body of God fearing men. Sir Robert inwardly felt sorry for the ignorance which the woman displayed O'i the subject which she questioned him about, and let her down as lightly as he could under the circumsiances. But his Committee resolved to find out who the woman was and all about her. Their in quiries elicited the information that she had ran away from her husband in Dunedin, and was living with a man under another name in Wellington. | At Sit Robert's next meeting the woman asa'n confronted him, and was proceeding to pitch into him as vehemently as before for being a Freethinker, when Sir Robert politely reauested her to favor him with her namo. *' Mrs ,' was the prompt response, giving a name which was not ' conferred upon her by her marriage lines. 'Oh, I he<x y>H pardon,' rejoined Sir Robert, cf made the mistake nt supposing; that you were Mrs (calling her by her husband's name), of Dunedin.' The words were no sooner out of his mouth than the only female opponent he encountered during the flection collapsed, and was taken to the open air as rapidly as the crowded state of the hall would permit of chat being done. She had been unex pectedly found out, and the place w*s then too hot for her. The incident only shows how much some mortals are given to straining at gnats and swallowis^g camels. According to that woman's notions, to be a Freethinker wra k s some thing terrible in the <pyes of Gad and man, but a lite ol concubinage nothing, so long as the world did not find her out. _ It Is the proverb about peoulo who live in aim bpusea ow? agftiaV j

CABLE NEWS

Dr Talmage resigns from the Tabernacle. The Queensland Government have deferred borrowing on the London ! market until February. The Sydney swimmers who attended the carnival at Auckland speak enthu siastically of the treatment accorded them. > Fifty convicts esscaped from Nash ville, Tennessee, owing to the neglect of the warders. They crawled along the bars to a waterfall.

BRAZIL.

Washington, January 24. A report has reached here from Brazil that the rebel Admiral is seek ing the mediation of the United States Admiral.

The Silver Question.

I Calcutta, January 24. The Bank made no allotment of India Council Bills. Tenderers offered fourteen and five-sixteenths. The India Council made a special allot ment of quarter rupees at thirteen thirty seconds.

The Princess of Wales.

London, January 24. " Truth " reports that the illness of the Princess of Wales is exaggerated, but. nevertheless, it is certain that the Princess has decided to withdraw from society.

SINGULAR SUIT.

London, January 24. Martin, a banker, the husband o£ Victoria Woodhull, a noted American woman's rights advocate, ha 3 instituted proceedings for libel against the British Museum authorities, for alleged libel contained in a boos which stated his wife published an obscene narrative description in connection with the celebrated Ward Beecher-Tiltondivorce scandal a quarter of a century ago.

The Prohibited Prize Fight.

New York, January 24. Jour companies of militia hare reached Jackonsville to assist in pre venting the Corbett—Mitchell prize fight taking place. Th4y were mefc with derision and hisses. * The courts in Florida have declared the contest in the Mitchell fight to be legal.

Loan and Mercantile Company.

London, January 24. Colonel Gladow is convening a general meeting of debenture-holders in the New Zealand Loan and Mercan tile Agency, with the view of prevent ing priority being granted to Baron Schroeder.

The Chelmsford Tragedy.

London, January 24. Tindus, a resident of Chelmsford, in Essex, who quarrelled with and shofc his wife, and afterwards shot Jacobs, a London solicitor, left; a letter in which he said he intended suicide. He alleges tiiat his wife had been unfaith ful, and had given way to intoxication ; also, that Jacobs had connived to defraud his children.

National Bank Swindle.

Pydnby, January 25. Clarke, arrested on a charge of being connected with the swindle on the National Bank of Australasia, admits that he is the person wanted. He had a loaded revolver in his possession.. He implicates two cabmen who drove him about, accusing them of relieving him of £450; both cabmen have been arrested.

Jabez Spencer Balfour.

London, January 24. la is expected that the trial of Jabez Spencer Balfour will result in startling exposures Involving .the prosecution of others. It is alleged that letters exist showing that Balfour was preparing for the inevitable crash four years ago. Buenos Ayrbs, January 24. At Saita Mr Jabez; Balfour obtained a writ of habeas corpus from the Federal Oourfe demanding the Argen tine Government to justify hia arrest by a detective from London.

The Kaiser and Bismarck.

Berlin, January 24. In the Reichstag to-day even the opponents of the ex-Ohancellor cheered loudly on it being announced that Prince Bismarck and the Kaiser had been reconciled. The latter has sent the Prince a present of a quantity of rare wine and congratulated him on his recovery from his severe illness. The Emperor has thanked Prince I Bismarck for signifying hia intention to visit Berlin, and he has been invited to the royal birthday fete on Saturday next. (Received January 26, 11.15 a.m.) Bbemn, January 29, The Emperor is assigning rooms in the palace to Prince Bismarck, who is expected to arrive on Friday.

I'Mi ABfcßttoUH GUAftbiAfc : FRfDAY, JANtJAEY 26 1894.



HARVEST €H£aU£l, OF 1594, WILL FIND THEIR WAY TO G. J. NEILL and Go's AS THEY GIVE THE BEST VALUE IN ASHBURTON FOR READY MONEY, xmAPjsErc aimjd clothing, Women's Hate 6d Turkey Re<? s£d Women's Ribbed Hose 6d Men's Tweed Suits 16s 6d Chiffons in ah colors Is 33, reduced to Men's Celonial Tweed Suits 193 6d 3|d Boys' Tweed Suits from 3* lid Waahing prints 2* lid doz* A few Boys' Washing Suits left, to be White Muslin 3d lid doz cleared at 3a 9& Summer Dresses 3n lid Boy*' Caps 6d each Cretonne 3jd Men's Braces 8d Double-bed Sheeting 9Jd 20doz Men's Merino Socks 61 Berlin Wool Is lid BOOTS. BOOTS. The Best and Cheapest Boots in New Zealand are to be bad at a J. NEILL AND GO'S. Men's English Balmorals 7s lid Babies Slippers Is pair Men's Strong Leather Shoes 7s lid Canvas and tan Leather Shorn, in all Men's Nailed Shooters 7s lid sizes at ridiculous prices Women's strong Leather Shoes 5s lid A very large assortment of Children's Women's strong Elastic-side Boots 8s and Maid's Gem shoes in Tans and od, reduced to 5a lid Black. Good and cheap WE GUARANTEE SATISFACTION. SMALL PROFITS AND QUICK RETURNS AT 0. </. NEILL d GO'S, FRIEDLANDER'S CORNER, EAST STREET." Re The Assigned Estate of Messes Hardley Bros 1 : o': m&K the V»laa in'P*t PRINTS REDUCED fco HALF PRIOE 1 WASHING DRILLETd KEDUOED FROM 9Jd to 6sd. All Dress Materials REDUCED TO NEAKLt HALtf THE FORMER PRtUES, FOR INSTANCE PLAIN CASHMERES, REDUCED FROM 18Jd TO 0d« 9TKIPIU i AND CHECK ALL WOOL DRBS3 TWEED REDiTCED FROM Uv TO Bd, AND ALL OTHER :DRESS MATERIALS EQUALLY REDUCED, ; i I 1 ■■■■"■■|Tn" CHECK 6ING4AM4 REDUCED FROM iOjO TO^d. ALL MANCHESTER GOOD 3 SUCH AS CALICOES, 3TOOFINGS, FLANNELS, BLANKETS, HOLLANDS, TICKING, SHIRTINGS, SELSEIAS, FLOOR-CLOTHS, ETC., REDUCED TO COST PRICE. MEN'S SHIRTS, HATS, SOCKS, TIES, Etc, REDUCED TO COST PRICE, 4ND IN MANY CASES VERY MUCH UNDER COST. Men's and Boys' Clothing. EE, OUR MEN'S jALL WOOL! COLONIAL SUITS AT 32b 6d AND 33s 6d, NOT TO BE BWATBN IN THE COLONY. THIS HOUSE HAS ALWAWS BEEN NOTED FOR THE VERY BEST VALUE IN BOOTS BUT NOW COME AND SEJf, v. v.. si'EXcr. KCA DR. ABHBUH T O N



"Wanted. YXXANTKD, Contract Stackers ator.ce. JOHN GRIGG, 1 12.9 Longbeach. WANTED, good Goat in full profit. A Pl ly W.W., Mail Office. I§l3B MR W. CORRIE JOHNSTON, will give an address on Lord's Day atternuon at 3 o'clock, and in the even ing at 6.30, in the Orange Hall. 1 140 \\i ANTED Known—The be&t assorted W Fruits at MarsdensFruit Shop below Mitchell and Turner's. Plcms for Jam, etc. 1 137 AUSODONOPTIC SPECTACLES, Pausodonoptic Spectacles, Pauso donoptic Spectacles, Pausodonoptic Spectacles, Pausodonoptic Spectacles.— Lumsden, Experienced Oculists' Optician, Tancred street. 1 136 GOOD Kidney Potatoes, by sack or cwt., for sale cheap.™ Apply, A. VV. an dell, Ashburton. 1 4 MRS ALCORN has on sale for the Holidays varied assortment of Toys, Dolls, Prams, Fancy Goods and Christmas Presents. Saunders' Buildings. IF yoti want fhst-claBS fruit go to Adams' for Fiji, Tahiti, Auckland and Sydney Oranges, Citrons, Lemons, etc. WAITED, Everybody to use Titan Soap, greatest marvel of the age. fl. Zandke, Sole Agent. 11 181 DON'T wash yourself. Titan Soap does the work. No rubbing. Wo machines, 11 182 fI^HAT which brings most light an •*• hope to poorest homes id Titan Soap.J_ 11 183 DON'T Forget to send your Bicycles along to the Old Kindergarten to oe repaired, at moderate rates. OOMERSET Meat Mart. The oldest O the largest, ths best, and the cheap est Small Goods a specialty. Full weights guaranteed, A trial solicited. -W, J. SIL0OQ&. _______^ 8 1 " UITS to measure, during the sale, 49s 655, 60s, 70s, and 7&s. Jfit and workmanship guaranteed.—R. Ajlcorn, Saunders 1 Buildings. , WANTED Known -W. H. Collier's noted four-clasp Kid Gloves, 2a 6d, have just arrived in all sizes. tiT ANTED Known—Spectacles, eye VV protectors, Goggles, Folders, and everything in the optical Jine at S, Salkk's, Optician. WANTED Known—' 4 The Corner " is showing a magnificent New Stock of Drapery and Clothing.—W. H. CoLMEE. WANTED Known. — Our Cheap Slippers ate selling in dozens. Children's from Is, women's Is 91. Buy one pair and you will buy raore. — Mitchell and Tuenee, WANTED Known. —No reasonable ofter will be refused *or thj balance of our Summer Dresses, Milli nery, and Mamies. —Mitchell and Turner. \\ , ANTED Known-—To Harvester 4'V —Dungaree Jackets and Overalls. Harvest Hats and Shirts und iSuics of all kind I*,1*, at prices to meat the times.— MITCHELL & TUBNBK. WANTED, all Farmers to reduce Hakdley's Large Stock of this Season's Oil, which he is Helling at his usual ridiculous low price by the Gallon or Case. WANTED Known.—Melford House cheapest frhop in town, extra value in presents now being given to e»oh purchaser till further notice.—H. 0. Seobrs. /"CHOICE Ornaments, Folding Screens, \J Own make in ladies' and children's underclothing, Aprons and Pinafores. Me 9 AicoEtf, Saunders' Building. %T7 ANTED Known.—Extra value in W presents now being given away for Christmas and New Year. Cheapest House in Town.—H C. Segehs, Melford House. WANTED, th<* Public to know that H-AiiDLEY's Tanks ar« giving univer sal satisfaction. Testimonials if required. Now is the time for Baths and Tanks, from 30s upwards. WANTKD all and sundry to know that Habdley is still to the front with all classes of Tinware. Repairs promptly executed. Spouting and Ridging made and fixed at unheard of rates. WANTED Known.—Half as much again in presents given to each purchaser during Christmas and New Year. H. C. Seoers, Melford Houee. WANTED Known.—To make room for Spring Boots I will give ten per cent for cash. Repairs done at once cheaper than ever to stny bud times over at J. Moison, Premier Bo>t maker. 8 18 S'~"aLe7"sALW, of Books, Stationery Fancy Goods, Music, etc.. Fire Screens, Pictures, Glass Ornaments, Christmas Cards, Cricket and Lawn , Tennis Material, Photo Albums and I Frame*, »nd hundreds of other articles are to be «old a 1" a great sacrifice for Cash during this month only, at L. F, Andeewes &. Co. Stationer s Hal!, tlirifttinas, 1893. WE have just opened out a Splendid Assortment of^ I FASHIONABLE SUITINGS, FANCY WORSTEDS, AKD WEST OF ENGLAND TROUSERINGS Specially Imported for the Present Season. IKjr Our Motto is *' Satisfaction." i By giving a Good Fit, Best Workman ship, and Honest Value we find our old Customers return and bring their friends for their next New Suits, This is the Best Recommendation for CRAIGHEAD & BERKYMAN, THE LG VDING TAILORS AND OUT- ' FITTERS, ASHBU R T 0 N. "Iml&T 'guardian. CHRISTCHURCH AGENCY. -li jTB J. B. SIMPSON has been appointed our AGENT at Cbiistohuroh, ] And is aiutfoorked to raa'ke Contracts for Advertising and Printing, and to give: receipfca oa our behalf. TElfii ASHBURTON PUBLISHING COMPANY, LIMfTED, per Wm. J. Steward. January 6, 1894.



1 8 SAIBK, WATCHMAKER, & MANU FACTURING JEWELLER. FOR H lOH-CLASS GOLD & SILVER JEWELLERS, PLA.TIB & GARBLE CLOCKS, pay a visit to the.lawellery Establishment of S. SaLEK, Prac tical Watchmaker, Manufacturing Jeweller, and Ooulist-Optician. SOLE AGENT for Lazarus' Patented System of Sig it Testing And " iSpecialite' Spectacles, ensuring comfort and correct Sight. first-class"workmanship IST WATCH, CLOCK, AND JEWELLERY REPAIRS. 8. !Salek, east street. ~ new zealand CiiOTiiina Factory. SEASONABLE GOODS. FOR HARVESTING, Men's Gambroon Trousers Men's Duck Overalls and Jackets M«n's Harvesting Straw Hats Is —Also- New Ties New Silk Handkerchiefs New Studs Bathing Pants—Towels and Running Pants New shapes in Hard Hats —brown, black and drab. The new Soft Hat—Land and Water Tennis Hats—an shades A good holiday Hat for Is lid THE LARGEST STOCK OF HATS IN ASHBORTOS TO CHOOSE FROM. Tennis Shirts in silk, cr&pe and cash mere Bojs' Washing Suits from 4s 9d. Boys' and I'ouths' Summer coats 2a 6d, Men's Summer Coats in silk, alpaca and i sateen i BOOTS BOOTS!! BOOTS!!! Canvas Shoes for Men Canvas Shoes for Women Canvas Shoes for Children Just opened this week, 18 pairs Women's Calf Shoes for 6s 6d. Wonderfu value. NEW ZEALAND CLOTHING FACTORY HALLENSTEIN BROS.. ALEX. HENDRY, Manager



MAliritJßlldc Son* Eucalypti extract There are imitations of Bncalypti Extract hi tto market new, products of simple distillation forming' rude resinoua oils. In order that those crude oils may not be taken, Our l*ur« Volatile JSuca typtf KKtract, which -is recognised by the znedical division, of the Prussian Gorernment tobeoS perfectly pure origin, as per infonafttion forwarded to us through the Consul at Melbourne, March 2, 1878 we state :— It is proved by tests made by the MediciaJ Clinics of the Universities a& Bonn acd (Jreifswal I, Prussia, and reported by Dr Scliute, Profesisor of Pharmacology at Bonn, and Professor Dr Mosle*, Director of the Medical Olinio at Greifswald, that oaly products that are saturated with oxygen and" freed of anids, resinoua and other substances, adherent, to primary distillation, will develop the sanative qualities proper to the plant, according to these authorities, and according to Pro ' fossor Dr Lister, of England, and to Drs Bauer, ■ Mclntire, Wood, Hnanrd, eta., of America., is she only oxtraot coiT6spi>Q(lin(?to Bcientffic testa, and the oala one whtoh possesses the proper therapeutic value. SANDER & SON'S EUCALYPTI EXTRACKt Allother crude oils are to be classed amoatg ttm turpentines, which have, when uaed as mo&ciue, no therapeutic effect and are abandoned as w. intarnal medicament. Those so called Eucatoj*i E^tracta* which may have received dist action a^ ETchibifcjons »a comtnerciil articles and ore used, lea mechso'cal pop. poses only are discernible :- 1. By their deficiency isi, pw^ent odour which our product, the ©Bjly geupino Eucalypti Extrao de velofa raos* &oely through its surplus of oxy 'c % 2 By thai* alsohplio thta andmo'jUe appearance. heica redmsed ia spaoiflo dea^ty through the presenas of acids 3. By their taste, the result o£ %\g contracting ton deney of resins and tsennatw,. If thesa crude oils, n called eucalypti extracts »ra applied by mistake in caat&tjf croup, b onoaitis, diph theria, internal inftwa^wtloiis, dysentery, wounds, the thecmsequenoeßM saust appallittg. For safety al war ask always for &!MMl«r and Son*' JKncatrtitfi [ Xx cruet and get tha old, well ■tested and Irelinkig: prauej~»«oß.—3»aclhurit» Victoria, AaatrallT ■ (■