Ashburton Guardian. Megna est Veritas et Prævalebit. MONDAY, MAY 21, 1894. FROZEN MEAT,

After all these years of idle gaping at New Zealand's energy and enterprise, j Australia has at last shaken herself up, and now means business in earnest in. the export of frozen meat. She has a wide leeway to make up, a long handi cap to wipe off", if she ever can wipe ifc off; but for the start New Zealand has obtained of all the other Australian colonies, those colonies have themselves to blame. New Zealand's agricultural and pastoral leaders believing firmly in the great future before the trade in frozen meat, held loyally to it under many disadvantages, through many disheartening apparent failures, against the clever manipulation of tb.3 market at Home by butcher's rings, which the prejudice of the Home people greatly helped to make successful.ll Those leaders and originators of the trade had only success in view, and they must be congratulated on the goal they have reached. They deserve more than congratulation. The farmers of the colony, and indeed the colony as a; whole, owe the pioneers of tho trade a I deep debt of gratitude for making this trade what it is, and the im mense thing it is bound yet to be. Gradually but surely the prejudice of the Englishman against frozen meat ii being broken down. So soon as the British press began to realise that a

I great wrong was being done to the j colonial producer and to the Home consumer by the palming off by the butchers upon their English custo. I mera of New Zealand frozen meat as Home fed and Home killed, —that not a joint bought in the London meat shops as prime Scotch or Welsh could be depended upon to be what it was represented to be, but was as likely as not to be from a sheep grown on the plains of far New Zealand's Canter bury } —then the British press spoke out, and the people after living ten years under the system of gross swindl ing, are having their eyes opened. And this eye-opening process is going on all over the provinces as well as in the great metropolis, with the result that the large provincial centres are now asking to be supplied with frozen meat. And there are other markets to be opened besides those in the British provinces. A good beginning has been made in Germany and France, and it i« only a question of time when the whole Continent of Europe, and many parts even of the United States of America, will be in direct trade with us and the other meat growing colonies. New Zealand could not alone supply all these markets, al though the full extent of her meat producing power has not yet by any means been reached. As the trade graw, and rose from a few thousand carcases per annum to millions, and is still increasing, the supply" keeping well up to the demoud, there were practical men who would not see the possibility of even half the body of meat export that now leaves or shores, and the same unwilling eyes will be still more astonished as the markets are opened and exports keep on in creasing. It is at this hopeful time that Australia shakes herself together and girds up her loins for a great effort, A Melbourne correspondent writing recently on the subject of the new born activity in this trade says:— " Never a day passes that the Mel bourne papers do not contain one or more reports from country districts concerning the frozen meat industry. There can be no doubt that Victoria, at least, of the Australian colonies is thoroughly awake to the importance of endeavouring to "cut in" for a share of the trade. Geelong was first in the field, and has the honor of des patching the first shipment. The ship Timaru left that port for Lon don loaded with 15,715 sheep. As I the initiation of the trade only da te s back to September 18 last year, it will be admitted that no time has been lost. The sheep sent were in the main crossbreds, weighing over 601b—at any rate over 13,000 were of that size, and the remainder averaged about 501b, The shipment was controlled by a committee of the leading wool brokers of Qeelonff, and the necessary sheep were supplied by the graziers of the district. The sheep were frozen on board. The result of this shipment will be awaited with intense in terest." Freezing works are to be erected at Deniliquin, right in the heart of New South Wales, by the Riverina Company, the directors of which are leading pastoralists, and the pluck of this company can be appre ciated when the fact is recalled that at Deniliquin the temperature in summer rises now and again to three figures in the shade. The correspondent just quoted says the firm of John Hotson and Co., who have works at Newport, close to Williamstown, also are pushing forward. They have been sending shipments pretty regularly for the past two years or so, and have now con cluded arrangements for weekly ship, ments by the big mail steamers of the P. and O. and Orient lines for the three months of May ; June, and July. And then we are informed that Ballarat has decided to throw in its lot with Geelong, which will also be sup ported by a good many of the inland towns, and now that the Geelong bar i has been dredged through, and larger vessels can enter the port, there seems every prospect that this hitherto sleepy town will at least take the lead in the frozen meat trade in Victoria. In addition to the Geeloag and Riverina venture?, L*om which the largest measure of success is hoped, [ Albury, Eehuca, and the far western district (shipping from Portland) are all in the field with proposals for companies, so that ere long New Zealand will have no mean rival in the trade. But the trade must not be allowed to centre and be confined to London. The meat musb be sent in bulk to the large manufacturing towns, and systematic and persistent efforts made to force it on the Conti nental markets, steps being taken at the. same time to prevent the rings of butchers and moat salesmen from " hobbling and nobbling " the trade for their own benefit. There is abundance of room in the markets of the world for us all, but the first and chief thing to be done is to open those markets* and this the energy and enterprise of the go-ahead Victorians may well be trusted to do, but New Zealand has every right to keep abreast of them, and her pastoral leaders would do well to keep their eyes upon those pushing | Victorians. We made the trade they now wish to share; if they make the new markets we ought to have no qualms about crying our wares in them; Puke Blood is the Pisoreo? Oi? Health, Gordon's Blood Pills cleanse the system of ail impure blood, cure iudigeation, con stipation, liver complaint, pains in back and sides, biliousness, sick headache; remove pimples, scrofula, scurvy, etc. Large box, 6s ; two boxes, 103, post free* S, W. Clayton, Box 234, Duuedin

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Premier and his private Secretary, Mr Hamer, arrived in Ohristchuroh by this morning's train from Springfield. Several deputations, including two on behalf of the unemployed, will wait on the Premier in the afternoon. At the Christchurch Magistrate's Court this morning, W. M. Do Weston was com mitted for trial on a charge of criminally libelling Chief Detective O'Connor. The alleged libel was contained in a letter written by De Weston to the Premier. As Mr J. Mills, clerk at the railway station, having been transferred to Lyttelton his co-employees have presented him with a handsome meerschaum, pipe as a token of the esteem in which he has been held and of their good wishes for his future prospects. The Licensed Victuallers' Gazette, who ought to know, saya:—We are in a position' to state authoritatively that no further steps are likely to be taken to teat the validity of the Clutha prohibition poll. Advice has been taken on the matter with the above result. A circular has been sent to local bodies by the Colonial Treasurer intimating that he ia preparing a Bill for introduction next session which would enable local bodies to rate land on ita unimproved or actual valae as assessed by the local body of a district, less improve ments thereon, Mr and Mrs Scrint, of Ashburton, were thrown out of their trap on Wednesday, and each sustained a rather severe shaking. The accident happened while they were driving over their farm, near Tinwald. The horse got entangled in some loose wire, and becom ing frightened, started off and overturned the trap. The woman who possesses the longest head of hair in the world is said to be Mercedes Lopez, a Mexican. Her height in sft, and when she stands erect her hair trails on the ground 4ft Sin. The hair is so thick that Bhe can completely hide herself in it. She has cut it very frequently, aa it grows so quickly, enabling her to sell large tresses every month to hair dealers. She ia the wife of a poor sheep herder. The "Manawatu Times" of Saturday week says: — Mrs Neiil, Inspector of Factories, concluded her inspection of the local factories (where women are employed) yesterday, and found the requirements of the Act fully attended to. Mrs Neil!, who has been for years in charge of large hospitals at Home, also visited the local hospital, and is high in her praise of the state of affairs under Miss Dougherty's regime, The orchestra of the Bohemian opera, Prague, struck in a body lately for an in crease of salary, The performance of Smetana's " Sold Bride " announced for the evening had to be postponed sine die, which, must have been specially annoying to a number ef artists from the Munich Court Theatre, who had come especially from the Bavarian capital to study Smetana's work, The demands of the orchestra cannot be called exorbitant, considering that they ask for a minimum salary of only 40 florins per month. From later accounts we learn that the strike is at an end. A gentleman who has just arrived at Wellington from the West Coast informs the " Post" that Mr S Hill, contractor, engaged on the Borough Creek contract, had a narrow escape from death reaently. Sleeping in his tent he wa3 suddenly awakened by his dog striking him on the chest with its i paw. Mr Hill was surprised to find that the tent was on fire, and know ing that dynamite detonators and other explosives were stowed there, he lost no time in seeking safety. He bad only gone a few yards when the whole concern was bio % n up. Miss Hilda Eitching?, thud daughther of the late Dr Hitchings, of Napier, is the champion tennis player of H^wke's Bay, It is remarkable (says the ' New Zealand Graphic') to see ons so severely handicapped by physical infirmity—for Miss Hutchings has but one arm, and that her kft—-display such ability. Standing five feet eleven in her shoes, she has a commanding reach. Her great forte in the game is placing. She played a match against Miss Speers, the present champion of New Zealand, and defeated her. Besides her tennis ability, she can paint, play the piano, make all her ovn dresses, and write aa elegant hand, and better than all is well versed in those domestic duties which make the salt of life, and without a knowledge of which no girl can be called educated. One hundred LI shares (15s paid) in the Empire Palace (Limited) were offered at auction in London the other day. The last dividend was 66 2-3rds per cent. The shares were disposed of at from L4lo3]to L 4 15a each. One hundred and fifty LI shares (10s paid) in the same company were sold at L 3 apiece. Among other shares purchased were one hundred and fifty L 5 shares (fully paid) in the Canterbury and Paragon (Limited), which went for from L 4 15s to L 4 17s 6d each. Th 3 last dividend was at the rate of 10 per cent. Thirty-five LlO shares (fully paid) in the Alhambra Company (Limited, last year's dividend being at the rate of 12 per cent) sold at from Lls 15s to Ll6 10a per share, and fifty L 5 shares (tully paid) in the Oxford (Limited) went at L 453 apiece. Sixty L 5 shares in the London Pavilion were not sold. Two freehold amphitheatre stalls in the I^oyal Albert Hall were sold for L4O each. A lecture in aid [of the day school prise fund was given in the Seafleld School on Wednesday evening last by the Rev James Cocker. The title of the lecture was (Life in an English Country Village and some characters I have met there, 1 To those of the audience who have experienced life in an English country village, it proved an excellent memory refresher, and to those brought up in the colony it was both highly amusing and very instructive, showing the dry wit and humor and quiant comicality to be fouud in the far away valleys and glens of Old England. Also, how ancient manners and customs are still being perpetuated, which to young colonists are almost barbaric and unbelieyeable. Mr M, B/ruce, in movintj a vote of thr nks to the rev lecturer, expressed his great pleasure in listening to words which brought the days of his youth co vividly before his mind. He thought the Old Country village life was too little copied in • New Zealand, and that country people would I be much the better for seeiDg more of each j other on long winter evenings. The lecture was well attended, and at the close the committee found themselves in possession of a nice little sum to spend in prices for the children. Holloway's Ointment and Pi£ls. — Colds, Coughs, Shortness of Breath.—These maladies require early and unremitting attention, for if neglected they often end in asthma, bronchitis, or consumption. The ointment well rubbed upon the chest and back, penetrating the skin, is absorbed and carried directly to the lungs, whence it expels all impurities. All the blood in tha body ia perpetually passing through the lungs, and there are noxious particles tend ing to disease can be quicly, thoroughly, and permanently neutralized, rendered harmless, or ejsgted from the system. Holloway'a Ointment and Pills perfectly accomplish this purification; and through the blood thus cleansed, the influence of these wonderful medicaments reaches the remotest parts of the human body, and thus cures all diseased action, whether internal or external

CABLE ITEMS

The Peninsular Company's Caledonia I has been launched at Greenock. A plot has been discovered in Bel-' grade in favour of the pretender Kara georgevitch. The Radical leaders are suspected of being concerned. The Upper Chamber is arranging to depose King Otto of Bavaria and con- j | fer the regal dignity on the Prince Regent. A Sydney resident, in a letter to the London newspapers, state 3 that daughters of old colonial families are domestic helps, and 1000 of the unem ployed are sleeping in the park, The two men, Watson and Douglas, have been sentenced to death at Mel bourne for the murder of the French man Possett. Fever is assuming alarming propor tions on the Murchison goldfields. Four doctors are on the field, one of whom is down with the disease. A large num ber of patients are without proper at tendance, and it is feared that there will be a heavy mortality.

A Clergyman in an Awk ward Fix.

The risk which people may run by act ing upon conclusions too hastily formed received a curious illustration on the sbh inst(aays the " Sydney Morning Herald"). A Presbyterian minister residing in one of the western suburbs came to town, and when in York street met an old acquaint ance, who appeared to hare jusb emerged from a wholesale drapery warehouse, out side which stood a horse and buggy. The acquaintance was a draper in a country town, who h%d formerly been a country traveller. In the course of conversation he made known his desire to get a cheque cashed, and inquired whether the clergy i man, being better known in the city, could introduce him to someone who would oblige him, the banks being closed. The minister acquiesced, and said "We will go at once if you'll drive," concluding that the turn-out belonged to the ex-bag man. The latter, fancying that the trap was the clergyman's, said " All right," seized the reins, and drove with his friend to a shop in King street, where thedraper's paper was negotiated. It was only natu ral that the success achieved should be duly celebrated, so the companions drove on to the Oxford, where bothalighted, They wen about to enter the hotel when the clergy man, showing a cautiousness which might well have been displayed at an earlier stage, asked his frend whether the horse would stand. "Stand!" exclaimed the draper, "isn't it your trap?" "No," responded the minister with emphasis ; " isn't it yours V Another answer in the negative knocked the proposed rejoicings on the head and brought consternation to the speakers. They determined to drive bask to York streat as speedily as possible, and make restitution of the property which they had appropriated. Unfortunately for them the owner, a carrier, had missed his trap, and had already reported the matter to the police. At the corner of Pitt street the carrier espied his vehicle, with the minister and draper in it. He at once demanded of a constable, who was on the scene, that they should be locked up. Explanations were attempted, but it was considered that a police station, if not a police court, would be the best place in which to settle the difficulty. The parties ac cordingly went to the lock-up in Clarence street, followed by a crowd. The affair waa thon discussed and satisfactorily dis posed of, the minister and his friend making their apologies. The clergyman afterwards explained the facis to the crowd, who cheered him when he took his departure.

THE MARKETS.

(Received May 21,11 a.m.) - .London, May 19. The total quantity of wool catalogued to date is 162,600 bales, of which 148,200 bales were sold. The tone of the market is better, and prices are firmer. Tallow is unchanged. Coloniil butter is quoted at 925. Cold stores, capable of storing two thousand tons of butter and cheese, are being erected in Tooley street. The English wheat market i j declining i and showing an increased weakness, while the Continental and American show a general decline. Fot forward shipments of Australian wheat, sellers are asking 24s 3d, but buyers refuse to give more than 23s 3d. For Australian wheat on passage sellers want 235, bub buyers will no; give more than 22s 6d. Cargoes of Victorian and South Australian wheat have been sold at 22s 31. Superfine Ne'V Zealand flour is now bringing 17s per 2801bs. Colonial oats, fine quality, 283; common quality, 233 j beans, 30i 6d ; peas, 25a 3d. Three months' bills are discounted at ono pc? cent.

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.

Daring 1 Burglary Auckland, May 21. 1 A daring bugl *ryj was perpetrated early yestorday morning on the premises of Dunnsmith and company, engineers and brass founders. The thieves entered by a back window and endeavored to force the safe open but did not succeed. They made off with a diamond worth £2, and two shillings worth of stamps, Fatal Ji'aU Mrs Crombie, wife of Jame? Orombie, draper, died yesterday from a fall from a stepladder. l>ro wiling 1 Case Wanoanui, May 21. Jast before midday, one of the crew of the fishing cutter Ashurst, name unknown, but supposed to be a foreigner, was cap sized from the cutter and drowned In twenty-five feet of water. The body has not yet been recovered. The place where the accident occurred ia on the Patiki side of the river, nearly opposite the town wharf. landless Native*. Weixingtoh, May 21. Mr Pavata, M.Hfi. for the southern Maori district, ia ab present in Wslling ton. He is engaged with the Lands De partment in arranging the allocation of land repently made by the Cabinet to landless natives in the South Island. Abour 200 families, many of them large families, have to be provided for, and quarter-castes and half-castes will partici pate in the allotment, along with full blooded Maoris. Four blocks have been set apirt for the purpose—viz,, one in Stewart Island, one at Waiau (Southland), and one each at Wanaka and Catlin's river (Otago). A fifth block is likely to be set apart for the same purpose in the district of Westland. Uueertfficated Societies. DpNEDiN, May 2|* The Postmastes-General informs Mp Sutchison, M.H.R., that the Department sannob allow deposits of funds by uncer iificated societies like the Amalgamated Carpenters. TJja existing regulation is ■eally in tho interest of these bodies, agistration being a protection no less to he post office than to members. Snicirt* The body of Joseph Ecclea, at one time icensee of the D,uke of Edinburgh Xfotel, iraa found ii the bay yesterday. De leased, who had been drinking, evidently i omraifcted suicide,' j

THE WEATHER

ALFORD STATION.

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Stick Jaw.

"Civis" in the "Witness." Thsre is to be, or recently was to bB, in the Durham street Wesleyan schoolroom, Ohristchurch, a " Stickjaw Competition " in aid of the Home Mission Fund, and also a "Sponge cake and Water Compe tition " for the same worthy object. A Christchurch correspondent who sends me the advertisement explains that "stickjaw" is a viscous hardbake con cocted of treacle j boya who chew this tenacious delicacy are liable to get tbeir jaws immovably stack together; hence the namei He chinks a stickjaw compe tition in aid of the Home Mission Fund degrading. Not necessarily. There may have been the ulterior aim of strengthen ing the jaws of young local preachers. Let us in charity put upon it the best con struction we can. The sponge cake and water competition, he goes on to explain, j was for girls j the theory underlying it is that sponge cake swells when water is added, producing an abdominal tightness, or as he neatly puts It, "a tendency to bust." Excellent practice, this, for the future provider of tea meetings I When Mr Weller senior visited the monthly meeting of the Brick Lane Branch of tha United Grand Junction Ebeneser Tem perance Association he found the women drinking tea «* to a most alarming extent." "Sammy," whispered Mr Weller, ••if some o' these people don'b want tapptn' to-morrow mornin', I ain't your father. Why, this here old lady next me is drowndin' herself in tea." "Sam, 1 whispered Mr Weller, a moment after wards, in a tone of deep agitation, <l mark my words, my boy. If that 'ere secretary fellow keeps on only five minutes more, he'll blow hisself up with toast and water." " If this here lasts much longer, Sammy," said Mr Weller In the same low voice, " I shall feel it my duty, as a human bein', to rise and address the cheer. There's a young 'ooman on the next form but two as has drunk nine breakfast caps and a half j and she's a-swellin' wisibiy before my wery eyes." Mr Weller's alarm, as we know, was entirely groundless. We have only to suppose much early practice in sponge cake and water competitions, and the mystery that puzzled him is ex plained.

Edison's Latest.

Sydney « Morning Herald" Edison's latest is the kinetoscope, and is really almost as wonderful as the phono* graph. It is in principal the same thing as the old toy known as the gyroscope, and it brings to mind very vividly King ! don Clifford's frequently enforced doctrine : that sight ia not continuous, but consists oE a succession of distinct impressions. Edison's machine presents to the eye photographs of different stages of an act, such as a sneeze, or a man getting shaved, or the galloping of & horse, at tho rate of about forty-five to the eecord, and the re sult is that the spectator sees, as he is de ceived into thinking, the very flight of motion. Phonographs thus made of such a scene as Gladstone's farewell speech would transmit to the visual sense of posterity not merely the fixed form bub also the gestures and action of tha modern Demosthenes. The machine will soon be allied to the phonograph, and then future «ges will be able to hear and see at the same moment what their remote ancestors said and bow they said ib—in short, to be present in the very fact ai all the most interesting of historical scenes. At present, however, the marriage of the two machines has not been perfected, and the attempts made at it have merely lad to the linking Incongruously together of words several seconds out of time with the act represented—an indescribably ludicrous and bewildering effect Bat a perfect union will certainly soon be arrived at, and than the machine will be formally Introduced to the public. There is, of course, no prospect of great pecuniary gain in it; but Edison has lavished upon its production some scores of thousands of dollars. Eveo the phonograph, vast as are its apparent possibilities, has never been financially successful, and the com pany formed to exploit it Is now insolvent. Edison, however, is only incidentally a raoney-maker, and the vigorous, though neb ill-natured, criticism upon the practi cal inventor in ©ne of Tyndali's essays— which everyone knew fco b<s aimed particu larly at this one man—was by no means entirely deserved. Still, Edison has in fact amassed a round million of dollars, and as he lives with almost Spartan simplicity, he is not likely to die poor.

LABOR.

I London, May 19. The " Times," commenting on Can adian affairs, says Australia is disposed to solve the labor question on principles involving the negation of the sacred ness of contract, and the stability of private property, but Canada is very different. Berlin, Mayl9 t The Miners' Conference was stormy throughout^ owing to the jealousy of Continental Unions at the British delegates representing more miners than all the rest. There is much im patience at the practical character of the British proposals and their master* ful and siornful treatment of some of the French, Belgian, and German pro-? posals. There was a divergence on the subject of a living wage, and when it was evident that Great Britain's would outvote all the other delegates, there was a great uproar, and there were cries that " Great Britain dominates the Conference." Great confusion re sulted, and the British delegates retired. The latter have now returned home after having been in conflict with, tisq foreigners throughout the day. 3Sew York, May 19. Coxey's industrial army is causing trouble in various regions, and one of his bands seized a train belonging td the Montana Company, which subse quently became derailed, icjuring eight persons,

THE ASHBURTOJS GUARDIAN; MONDAY, MAY 21, 1894.



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Warned. "©:<rl r«snt«rtmr.y," St. SU« nlien'a < Schoolroom. Way '24= I^OUND,^tiear Willowby, on 15th irst^ -*- one Bundle of Sheepskins. Owner can have same. Apply "Traveller, 1] Ranget'a Hotel. 5 177 ' LOST, May 12. Chestnut Hack mare, height 15 2, star on forehead, soar on inside hind leg in line just above honks. When lost was shod with bar shoes on front fact and had on cover. Information rewarded. H. 0. Segers, Melford Home. WANTED, by a Steady Man employ ment as a Chaffcut ter—feeding or engine-driving. Has had twelve years experience in the Old Country at a woollen factory. Address J. 8., office of this paper, 5 126 ORANGE i—New Season —very cheap. Pleasß leave orders for Marmalade Fruit to arrive shortly.™ Mrs Adams, Saunders' Building. EVENING Games and Quartets, amusing and instructive: Chess men and Board from 3a 6d; Postage Stamps and Scrap Albums.—H. M. Jonfs. BOYS' and Girls' Own Paper, quarterly parts ; Family Reader for April; To Riarht the Wrong ; Old Age Pensions, 6d.—H. M. Jones. PIG Feed—A few tons damaged flour for sale, cheap.—John Orr. 590 H' Wa~l/sWY¥a. " DelighttaT "Wholesome," Refreshing." All Grocers. Wholesale Zander's. WANTED Known.— Mrs Hooper, Monthly Nurse, Alford Forest Road, will be pleased to receive patients. Terms moderate. 5 112 WATCHES, Clocks, etc., (all guaran teed) at wholesale cost for one month only. .Now's your time.—Lums den's. 3 219 WANTfD Known—Just received a Large Winter Stock of Boots. Liberal discount for cash. As usual, we do the best work. Repairs done at once. A staff of men always ready at J. Moison's, the Premier Bootmaker, Town Hall Boot Store, East Street, Ashimrton. 5 163 WANTED Known—Special line of Gents' Regatta Shirts, all sines, with or without collars, 2s 6d.—W, H, COLLIER. "Old Canterbury," Illustrated Xim«« lig-lit Views I»y IH«-ir» Hart and Seagr«r. "IXISITthe Sale. Trimmed Millinery * going at any price Ladles' Under dothing reduced to 20 per cent, below cost.—Arcade House. 4 64 /^RUSHED Oats, os per sack. Al \J kinds ol Farm and Mill Produce cheap for cash,—J. Thomas, Havelock fereet. ____________«- ANTED, at once, good Watch Dog, small breed. Apply "T," Mail office. 5 100 BOYS' three garment long trouser Suits for 103. Men's Colonial made nailed Shooter Boots at 7s 6d per pair ab R. Alcorn's sale, Ashburton Clothing Mart, Saunders' Buildings, 1115 WANTED, Everybody to use Titan Soap, greatest marvel of the age. fl. Zander, Sole Agenfc. 11 WANTED Known.-31bs of our noted 2s Tea for 5s Id. For other quotations see Prica List on Page 3.—John Okr & Co. 6J97 WANTED Known —The Cheapest House in town for First-class Millinery and Drapery is H. C. Segers. Melford House. ANTED Known. — For Millinery, Mantles, Jackets. UUter&, and Macintoshes, Ladies' and Children's underclothing, try Mitchell & Turner. OYSTERS and Freeh Fish of all sorts arrive evening per express at Deep Sea Fishing Oo.'s Shop, Burnett street Aehburton. 2 62 SALE now on--White Ca'.ieo 2s lid per dozen, Towels 2i6i perdozin, Lace, Curtains, from Is lid per pair, at Arcade House. _4 27 ANTED Known.—Cheviots, Hop sacks, Diagonals, Fast Dye Serges, Tweeds and Fancy Dresses, &c , with Trimmings to match at Mitchell and Turner's. fITANTED Known-Before buying VV your Hats corae and see our Stock. Greatest variety to choose from in Anhburton. All marked very Cheap. —H. C. Segers, Melford House. TEN Crates—New gooda from the manufacturers in R. Alcorn's sale. Tea sets for six persons, 9s 6d; 40 piece Tea Sets frcm 15s ; Bedroom from Bs. Large coloured band and gilt, very handsome, 19s 6d. WANTED Known—All goods in Show Room to be slaughtered at any price.—Arcade Bouse. 4 28 Ti/ANTED Known—Tomatoes, good V»" ripe Grapes, Plums, Apples, etc., at Marsdbn's Fruit Shop, beloar Mitchell and Turner's. ?_^ WANTED Known — Men's strong Tweed Suits from 16s 63 ; shirts from 2s 6A.—Arcade House. 4 24 WANTED Known~L W Pants 3s lid, Flannel Shirts 3s 9d, Worsted Socks 6d per pair.—Arcade House 425 MRS A.LCORN has on sale for he Holidays a varied assortment of Toys, Dolls, Prams, Fancy Goods, and Christmas Presents—Saunders Building 3. f CHOICE Ornaments, Folding Screens, \ J Own make in Ladies' and Children's Underclothirg, Aprons, and Pinafores.— Mrs Alcokn, Saunders' Buildings. WANTED Known. —Mena Tweed Suits 103 6d, Men'a Tweed Trousers 7s lid, Mens' Strong Flannellette Shirts 2s 6d, Mens' and Hoys' Boots and Shoes greatly reduced.—Arcade House. 465 ii/ HAT is most essential to a tea VV drinkot's happiness % Why, Health Tea, and don't you forget it. Henry Zander, Wholesale Agen" \i, ANTED Known—The Corner is \ V showing a magnificent New Stock of Drapery and Clothing.—W, H. Collier. WANTED Known —Spectacles, Eye Protectors, Goggles, Folders, and everything in the optical me at S. SiLEK's, Optician., WANTED Known — Ladies are invited to inspect the Novelties in our Dress Department and Show Room without being pressed to buy,—Mitchell and Turner. NOTICE, A NYONE Shooting or Trespassing with dog or gun upon Winchmore Estate will be PROSECUTED. 4212 JLOBT, W. HART.



Wanted | WANTED Known—The whole of the stock to be sacrificed by order of the Porcbaser, Arcade House. 4 26 ANTED ~Enown.~^^mbroideties; from Id a yard, Corsets 3s lid, ladies' Ulsters frnm4a lid, Ladies' Glc-ves four pair for 1% Kid Gloves four buttons Is 61.— Arcade House. 63 I JO'ISW Indoor Games Accordeona from 131 8s 6d, Autoharps and Zithers, Photo Albums md Frames, Opals for painting on, Oil and Water colors, and Artists Requisites, new Books and new Editions, cheap reading; all at reduced prices for Cash.—L, F, Andrewes & Co., Stationers' Hall. 7T\KKD. S. JE*FRIES, Manufactur. JD ing Confectioner, has opened a Shop in East street, next " The Corner, 8 for sale of all kinds of superior Con fectionery, Nothing inferior sold. No cheap cigarettes. §114 OTICE 1 Notice! Sport loTm. Guns let out on hire or sold on tima payments. Hftving a professional Gunsmith on the premises, I undertake to repair Guns of any description. Gun fittings In stock. Prices low,—J, W. Hardl/Ey, Ironmonger, etc. IVTO more indigestion ; no more nervous ■*-^ ness from indulging in too much ea drinning, for those who drink " Health Tea." One trial will convince you.— Henry Zander, Authorised Agen



business notices. IMPORTANT WATCHMAKING ANNOUNCEMENT 8. Salek, PRATICAL WATCHMAKER and MANUFACTURING JEWELLER, "OEGS to announce the arrival of a LARGE STOCK OF ROTHERHAM'S MATERIALS for Watch Repairs. Every Single Parb (ready finished) of a Rotherham's Watch kept; also a Large Stock of Finished Parts for all other Watches. Where repairs through Breakages are needed, time and expense is thus saved in finishing which means' Money. S- SALEK therefore announces what must prove a Great Consideration these Hard Times. A BIG REDUCTION IN THE COST OF WATCH REPAIRS. Repairs entrusted to S. SALEK means RELIABLE WORKMANSHIP, SATIS FACTION & LOWEST CHARGES. Jewellery Repairs receive Special attention. -—- SIGHT TESTING by Lazarus' System, SPECTACLES to suit all sights. Ttf* E W 2 EALAND 4'io?h!asr Factory SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. I"¥TE WISH to draw your attention to W the Specially LOW PRICES of High-clasa Goods. Mens All Wool Tweed Suits, our own make, 28 s 93 Men's All Wool Tweed Trousers, our own make, 9s 6d Men's All Wool Tweed Overcoitp, our own make, 29.j 61 Boots, Boots, Boots, TRY US FOR A PAIR. THE LEADING HOUSE FOR GENTLEMEN'S MERCERY. We keep all the leading lin^. New Shapes in Hard Hats. The l&tesS in Soft and Frame Hats. Boys' Caps from 6d ach. DON'T PASS THIS BY. Men s Trousers to measure from 14s 6d. Colonial Tweed. WATERPROOF GOODS. Men's, Youths', and Ladies' The number we have sold this season is a guarantee that we keep the genuine article. The " BISMARK " Sewing Maohitu is now to be had at the New Zealand Cloth ing Factory. The Cheapest and Best Machine ia the World. On time pay ments—2a 61 per week.



HALLENSTEIN BROS. ALEX. HENDRY, Manager.



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As a Safe' Permanent, ai?d Warrantbu Cure for Pimples, Scrofula, Scurvy, Bad Lega, Skin and Blood Diseases, Pimples and Sorea of all kinds, we can with confidence recommend Giark's World famed Blood Mix ture, It is certainly the finest Blood Purifier that science and n^ediqal skill have brought to light. Thousands of testimonials. Sold everywhere, at 2s 9d per bottle. B«ware of worthless imitations and substitutes. (3) ! MKEATIWS POWDER destroys Bugs Pleas, Moths, Beetles and all other insects whilst quite harmless to domestic animals. In terminating Beetles the success of this Powder is extraordinary. It is per fectly glean in application. See th_e article you purchase ja KEATINQ'S, as imitations are noxious and ineffectual Tins, 6d, )| ! and 2s 6d each* S»ld by&l}ghejnia^j