MAIL NOTICES.

Mails close for the following places a 8 under, subject to the necessary altera tions :— THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28. For Northern Ports and Australian colo nies, per Talune, at 6 30 a.m. The next mail for the United Kingdom via San Francisco, will close on Wednesday, November 27th. Due London January 1.

DEATH.

Page—On November 27, at Chertsey, after a lone and painful Illness, Frederick Walter (Wallie), the eldest and dearly beloved son of Frederick Walter and Ellen Page, in his twelfth year. Deeply regretted.

Ashburton Guardian, Megna est Veritas et Prævalebit. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1895.

A somewhat peculiar case was heard by Mr Beetham in Christchurch last Friday. A man who was club a member of the Rich privileges. mond Working Men's Olub was prosecuted for having sold liquor without a license. A young woman had come to his house, and had given him 2s with which to pro cure for her some brandy. The brandy was not intended for her own use, but for a woman who was represented to be very ill. The man went to his club and on the plea that the liquor was ■wanted for a sick person, he obtained the brandy from the steward. It turned out, however, that the sick ; person was only drunk, and the police [ Drought the case against the interme diary because they could see none against the steward. The case was a peculiar one, and the Magistrate took time to consider it. But in the course of the hearing, a very interesting point to Club members was raised by Mr Deacon. The latter was not con nected with the case, but as amicus curieu, said that any member of a club j could take liquor outside the club for consumption. There was an erroneous impressiou to the contrary, but there was an English case which had settled the matter. A member of the club could do with its liquor just thn same as he would with liquor in his own house, the theory being that he was part owner of whatever was used there. Clubs prohibited the practice for their own better government, but it was not illegal. Inspector Broham said if that were so the sooner the fact was known the better. A club would not be different from a publichouse.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At the Palmerston North Folice Court on Tuesday, Hettie Croppneas was fined £50, In default three months' imprison ment, for sly grog sailing. A similar charge against Cecilia Jacobsen was dis missed

Owing to the alterations in progress at the Orange Hall, the annual entertain ment in connection with the Kindergarten is necessarily postponed until the com mencement of the first term of 1896, of which due notice will be given.

In the list, given by the Otago Daily Times, of constables in Otago who, during the last three months have received long service medals for fourteen years service and three years good conduct, the name of William Watt is the first mentioned.

A dog known as ' Spot,* that had saved the lives of several children, was run over and killed in Cincinnati a few days ago. When the news became known, the school children clubbed together and bought a handsome oak coffin for the deceased animal, and when the day of burial arrived betwben 600 and 1000 of the little ones followed co bhe grave.

The Dahomey Amazons are not the only existing women warriors, for the King of Siam possesses a bodyguard of four hun dred of the strongest and best looking glrla in the land. They enter the service ab the age of thirteen, and remain in it bill they are twenty-five, when they are drafted into the reset ye. They are armed with lances.

The Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association have made arrange ments with the Shaw Saville and Albion Company for the shipment by the Pakeha, leaving Lyttelton about the middle of December, of ten fat cattle and fifty sh9ep, most of which took prizes at the Metropolitan Show. The animals will be slaughtered at Deptford.

A short meeting of the Hampstead School Committee was held lasb evening, when it was decided to have a concert and magic lantern entertainment in the Drill Hall on Friday, December 13, when it Is expected some talented vocalists will make their first appearance before an Ashburton audience. Ib was also decided to close qhe school on December 20, for live weeks holiday, till Monday, January 27, on which date ib will re-open.

A match will be played in the Domain to-morrow between teams representing the Ashburton Cricket Olub second eleven and 15 players from the Ashburton Junior Club. The following will play for the Juniors :-Pritchard (2). Pilbrow, Wilkie, Andrews, Jackson, Ba'genb, J. Smith, Sando, Marsden, Gourdie, Powell, W. Smith, Collins, and Purchase. Emer gencies—Stephens, Moller, and Cates. Play will begin at about 2.30 p.m.

Mrs Flanagan, who about four years ago was with her daughter sentenced to death for the murder of the infant child of the latter, which sentence was subse quently commuted to one of imprison ment for life, has been released. During her Imprisonment she broke down utterly in health, and also became mentally affected. She was therefore removed to Sunnyside Asylum. Some ladies took an interest In her case, and a petition, pray ing for her release, was numerously signed and sent to the Government. In conse quence of this and of her broken-down condition, she has been pardoned.

Pipe-Ma jar Balloch, leader of the Adelaide Ualedonian Pipe Band, while returning thanks at a recenb Australian gathering for ' the pipers,' assured his audience that the pipes had done more for Australia than any man or invention. There was loud laughter at this, and he went on to say : * They might question what he said, but the Hon Tom Playford, their present Agent-General, could tell them that he, on one occasion, visited the Murray scrub, and played the pipes to the rabbits, that scourge of Australia, The effect was that in that once infested rabbit district, they now required no rabbit proof fencing.'

In the Supreme Court at Blenheim last week, the accused in an assault case was allowed liberty on his own recognisances, till the next sittings. On hearing this the prosecutor, in a high pitched key, excitedly said, 'I protest against this attempted murderer having his liberty. Ib is a crying shame that a man who premeditates a murder should be allowed to go free about the country J' The Chief Justice appeared somewhat startled, and asked that the prosecutor should be brought forward. This waa done, but the man became so excited and noisy that tbe Chief Justice ordered him to ba put out of Court. While being ejected the man shouted, ' It's a crying shame—a scandal —a crying—crying- crying—give me my hat.'

Mr Martin, S.M. at Wellington, imposed a sentence of three months 1 imprisonment on a man named James Sallivan for falling under rather peculiar circumstances, to provide for the maintenance of his wife and child. Some time ago Sullivan was arrested on a charge of being about to leave the colony without providing for the maintenance of his unborn illegitimate child. To escape being sent to gaol he offered to marry the girl—the mother of the child. This he did, and since then, it is stated by his wife, he had never gone near her, spoken to her, or made the least effort to assist her in any way through her trouble. He had passed her on the wharf while she was carrying the child as If she were a piece of dirt. The S.M. character ised the case as a very bad one and besides sentencing Sullivan to three months, ordered him to pay 15_ a week towards J the support of his wife and child.

Ladies Canvas Shoes 3s 6d per pair. Special line dress Tweed ab Is lid per yard. Dressmaking a specialty at the Ashburton Drapery Company. II 155

A lad at Tooleys, La., was very sick with bilious colic when M, C. Tisler, a prominent merchant of the town gave her a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera aud Diarrhoea Remedy. He says she was well in forty minutes after taking the first dose. For sal* by Asubobton Drug Company,

DON T SIT IN A DRAUGHT.

If you do there will probably rest on you a cold that will require some such stimulant and health-restorer as Wolfe's Schnapps.

Temperance Sunday.

Sermon by the Rev G.B, Inglis at the Presbyterian Church.

" But judge ye this rather, that no man pat a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother's way. . . L is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything where hy thy brother otumbleth.,' —Romans xiv, 13, 21.

In this chapter St Paul treats pirti calarly of the duties of church members I towards each other, in relation to matters not binding on the conscience. There are two points specially prosented ; the first ia the manner in which scrupulous christians who make conscience of makers of indifference are to be treated (v 1—12); and the second, the manner in which those who are strong in faith should use their Christian liberty (v. 13—23). The Apostle teaches that Christian liberty is nob to be given np or denied ; that is, we are not to make things sinful which are in themselves indifferent. But however innocent or lawful a thins? may be, the liberty which every Chrietian enjoys under the gospel is to be regulated by the law of love. We must not use our liberty so as to put a siumbling block in our brother's way» Hence it may be morally wrong to drink a glass of beer or wine— wrong to do wha», in itself considered, may be quite an innocent thing. It is not always right to do what we think to be right, A thing that Is lawful may not be expedient, and Christian charity aDd the honor of religion require that we are not. for ©ur own gratification, to Injure a brother for whom Christ died. For the sake of our sorely tempted brother we are to leave strong drink alone. This is the best and strongest ground that can be taken for advocating total abstinence from Intoxicating liquors. The Apostle says here, in language that cannot be mis understood, 'It is good neither to eat flesh nor to drink wine, nor to do anything whereby thy brother stumbleth, cr is offended, or is made weak. Note, first of all, that strong drink causes innumerable multitud«s to stumble. I suppose there is not a family represented here to-night but knows from sad experi ence the truth of what I have stated. Brothers weep over a sister's sin, sisters pray over a brother's depravity, wives break their hearts over a husband's de gradation, mothers keep sad watch at night to let in their sons and hide their shame. Some of us mourn for schoolboy companions who have been destroyed by intemperance, or ior brother ministers who have bs^n (bagged from the pulpit to stand ashamad at the bar of public judgment aid be condemned. All sorts and conditions of men have been swept away by the devouring Hood of drunken ness. For alcohol is no respecter of persons. It counts its slain among all ranks and classes. Kings and nobles and the meanest in the land have alike been destroyed by It. The drinking customs of our times are the saddest mixture of folly and sin that could well be imagined. In times of joy or grief, heat or cold, business and pleasure, at marriages or funerals, there are thousands of our fellow countrymen who think that the correct thing to do is to consume a greater or less quantity of intoxicating liquor. In this way and in other ways there comes drunkenness, carrying death and devasta tion in its track. When alcohol is swallowed it is at once taken up by the blood, and carried into the general venous circulation. It immediately produces an appreciable effect upon the lungs and brain, and indeed upon all the important organs of the body. The nervous centres, however, are those which are chiefly affected, and we know that when a certain amount of alcohol has been imbibed the man becomes intoxicated. He loses the power of voluntary control; his percep tion, memory, imagination, wilt, are sensibly impaired. The heart is roused and beats quicker, intellectual excitement becomes more and more decidedly intel lectual perversion, and the man becomes temporarily insane, and often fitted for any act of violence to himself or others. We say the man is drunk. If we called things by their right names we would say the man is half poisoned. Alcohol Is a powerful narcotic poison, and for its effects, if rapidly brought on by a large dose, there is no antidote known to science.' (' Alcohol,' by Professor Miller, p: 12). To know whether a practice is good or evil, it is sufficient to judge it by its fruits. Apply thia test to the traffic in intoxicating drink. What are its fruits? 1. It injures the body. Pro fessor Miller, formerly professor of surgery in the University of Edinburgh, and surgeon in ordinary to the Queen for Scotland, sums up his case against alcohol in these short sentences, and for alcohol we may say intoxicating drink :— ** lb kills in large doses, and half kills in smaller ones. It produces insanity, dili rium, fits, and a long list of serious affections of the brain and nervous system, and important organs of the body. Ib poisons the blood, and wastes the man, Th© brain suffers most injury, both in structure and function j but there is no vital organ in the body In which there is not induced, sooner or later, more or less disorder and disease.' (Alcohol, p. 26.) 2. Ib not only injures the body, it blights and ruins the drunkard's home. There are homes in every con siderable community wrecked by strong drink. When once a man takes to drink the happiness and saocedness of his home are doomed. He becomes cross, peevish, and irritable. He gradually loses interest In his work, he becomes careless about his dress and personal appearanoe, he for sakes the house of God, he frequents dis reputable company and lounges about the barroom of the public house. The wages that should be set apart for the support and comfort of his wife and children go to satisfy a debasing appetite, and to add to the gains of the publican. The home then begins to show signs of distress, the poor wife loses heart, the children are meglected and take to the streets, slovenli ness and want make their aDpearance, then rags and wretchedness. The home dies, and the devil takes possession. The home now becomes a hovel, a shamber of horrors, where blows and curses take the place of sobriety and love Ib stands to reason that a traffic which destroys the home ought to be ruthlessly opposed by every honest man, and as speedily as pos sible swept for ever from our shores. When a man wins the affection of a woman and marries her, he vows before God and man that he will ' love, honour, and keep her, m sickness and in health, so long as they both shall live.' He never ceases to be accountable to God for his vows, the righteous judge has nob forgotten them, they are registered in the great Doomsday book in Heaven, and all the strong drink in the world can never erase them. But when drink comes honour dies, vows and promises are broken. The husband is transformed, by his own deliberate deed, and the temptationofthedrinkeeller.intoa perjured sot. Everything that is noblest and best is oast away that an imperious appetite may be satisfied, and an insati able craving stilled. 3. Strong drink not only destroys the body, and wrecks the home, produces disease, poverty and crime, but it is the special opponent of moral reformation, and ruins the soul with an eternal destruction. The word of God solemnly declares that ' no drunkard .hall enheritthe kingdom of God,' (i Cor 6 10.) Drunkenness is a sin that is specially branded by the curse of God, and it is a sin that effectually destroys every shred of reverence for sacred things. We have implicit faith in the power of the Gospel and no faith at all in anything which man would substitute in Its room. Bub the Gospel must have fair play and a fair field. These ib is denied so long as those to Wtomlt'llaOdrwati are fceseti with (ihe,

most formidable temptations, and have their hearts hardened, their consciences seared, and their powers of resistance weakened by thid most deadly of all drugs, 'the devil'-j chlorofor.n.' Our churches are cpeu About three hours in a week, but the dramshop plies its deadly trade from t.arly morning till late at night. Like the pestilence that watketh in darkness, the greab plague of drunkenness stalks through our land, and every day in the week — taking the average—three immortal soul* from this colony are ushered to bhe dread ful judgment sent of God, slain by strong drink, and thrust into the outer darkness

where there is weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. How long is this to continue ? Can nobhing be done bo end such a state of matters, so dlsgr*ceful to our civilization, our common humanity, and the Christian name we bear 1 Our judges tell us from the bench that nine tenths ot pauperism and crime are caused by drink- Our physicians tell us that if

only irregular tippling were abolished half the current sickness of the land would cease, and our statesmen tell us that the ravages of strong drink are equal to those of the historical scourges of war, famine, and pestilence combined. We are assured' on the mosb reliable authority that 1200 of our fellow colonists are slain every year by drink. In the British Islands intoxicating liquors are the cause directly or indirectly of the death of 60,000 people every year. So far as the waste of human life is concerned, lb were better for our country to have an annual Waterloo ; to fight such another Battle every 18th day of June. If such a proposal were felt to be shocking, haw are we called on to use every energy, and submib to any sacrifices to eradicate a vice more fatal bo human life than two such hard fought fields. We abhor war, but who would nob rather have a brother laid in a soldier's than a drunkard's grave? I have more than once stood by the corpse of one who took away his own life under the influence of strong drink, but ib were a far less painful, for ib were a more hopeful sight, bo look down on bhe soldier in his gory bed, with his feet to the foe, and his face to heaven. 4. But besides the moral destruction and the appalling waste of human life, there is jalso an enormous waste of money and property. And this is the least of all bhe evils caused by strong drink. In bhis

colony over bwo millions of pounds are

spent every year on intoxicating liquors. One hundred and forty millions are

spent on drink every year in Greab Britain. The whole rental of the houses and land in England, added to the amount spent in household coal, hardly reaches the to hal spent annually in intoxicating drinks! More money spent in drink than the whole revenue of the British Government and the Australian colonies and New Zealand added together ! More money spent in drink than is raised by all the taxes of which the British and

Australasian people so grievously com plain ! More money spent on drink than is required to maintain our armies and fleets, forts and prisons, ambassadors and judges and ministers, both of State and Church, and every public officer, from our gracious sovereign the Queen down to the constable! i__is*hb times more money spent on drink in England than the

revenue of all the Bible and Missionary Societies, the stipends of all the mini sters of the gospel of every denomination,

and the salaries of the teachers cf our youth ! As much money spent on drink as would pay the national debt of England In five years! As much money spent each year in drink as, if employed in printing and publishing bibles, would place a copy of God's saving Word in the han<is of every man, woman, and child throughout the whole world ! And to keep up th»s expenditure, and to supply the place of the drunkards who go down to destruction, one family oub of every five in the land mu.t contribute a boy. Which of the parents here will give a boy ? Well may you shudder at the proposal. Temperance advocates are perpetually accused of using most intemperate language, and thus defeating their own ends. Bub we may shelter ourselves behind the prophets, and apostles, and holy men of Goo\ It Is impossible to use stronger language than they have done. When one looks ab the ghastly ruin caused by strong drink, how is it possible to repress one's sorrow and indignation I If a band of ruffians were to make a raid upon Westminster Abbey and out of sheer wantonness of mischief were to

throw stones through the windows, to smash up the coronation chair, the statuary and carvings, to hew the seats to pieces, to rip up the organ, and make a bonfire in Henry Vll's chapel, and do their utmost to defile and destroy it, to trample Into ruins the venerable temple of God which represents all that is grandest and best in the past history of the English people, what kind of language would you use to describe such an atrocity? You would say that hanging was too good for the perpetrators, that no punishment could be inflicted adequate bo tbe offence 1 If you loved that glorious old Cathedral, and realised what its destruction meant to England and the world, you would reduce yourself to a state of helpless* exhaustion in heaping up epithets of loathing and malediction upon the madmen who had wrought such heartrending destruction } But softly, my friend ! Your body is the temple of God—a far more glorious; and costly edifice than Westminster Abbey—made in the very image of God and redeemed with the pr9oious blood of Chrisb—con baining an immortal spirit which shall live in the presence of God to all eternity, or be cast into the outer darkness. And when we see men and woman by their own deliberate choice

and act defiling and destroying the Temple of God, breaking down bhe carved work and marring all its beauty, making it im possible for the Spirit of God to dwell

there, are we to be blamed for using strong language, for allowing our indignation to blaze and fhme against this impious traffic, which is ths masterpiece of Hell and the remorseless enemy of God and Man ? Will younotabstainfrom drink your- Bfclf, and do what you oan to rescue your nation from a blighting degradation ? Not long ago there was an explosion in a colliery, by which 400 miners were sud denly hurled, amid shattered ruins, into horrible death. It was caused by a single miner who had opened his safety lamp to light his pipe. To thab pipe were sacri (iced four hundred precious lives of fabhers husbands, and sans, The social atmos phere around us ia full of the explosive firedamp of intemperance. Total absti j nence is our safety lamp. Shall we nob ail i resolve with the nob'ehearted apostle of the Genties, ' not to drink wine,'not to do anything whereby our brother stumb ieth or is offended, or is made weak 1: Shall we nob art_use ourselves from our j apathy, and arise ia the name of God, and j determine that this monstrous iniquity shall cease % There is not a vice, or disease, or calamity of any kind thab has not itf. frequent rise in the public house ; ib degrades, ruins, brutalizes a large pro portion of our people. The drink traffic deteriora*es the race, binds the will, clouds the intellect, enslaves humanity. It menaces our civilization, nay our very national existence 3 it corrupts our politics ; it fills our hospitals, gaols, and asylums \ It is the deadly foe of our

liberties; ib is the foul and callous destroyer of oar children and our dearest ones on earth ; ib wastes our resources ,

i; causes lamentation, mourning, and woe in every corner of the globe ; it shuts up the door of Heaven, and it opens wide the mouth of hell I As christians and as patriots you are bound to come to the help of the Lord against the mighty! Resolve by God'a grace that you will have nothing to do with strong drink, and

I nothing to do with the public house, nor J any club until the destroyer of boul and body has been completely purged out of them. We are members one of another, and as we shall answer to God at the greab Day of Judgment we are bound to 1' remove the stumbling blocks out of our tempted brother's way, and to tell him of the compassionate Saviour who can destroy the works of the Devil and deliver him compktely from his power. Jehovah- Jesus can break the Devil's chain, and take away the drunkard's clamorous appetite, and make him a new mtn (Isa. 61 ) Let us c*st ourselves and all our tempted ones on the Infinite mercy of God and humbly ask Him to lead us nob into temptation but to deliver us from the evil one.

SPORTING.

D.J.C. SPRING MEETING.

Forbtjry Bacecoubse, November 2? The weather is fine, but with a cold north easterly wind. The course is rather heavy. The attendance is good. Euroclydon waa scratched for the Cap. Results,— Hurdles.—Rebel (Cotton), 1; Jack Hark away (Ward), 2; Clarence (Stewart), 3. Won easily. Time, 4.30* Dividends, £2 12s and £2 sa. Maiden—Salvo (Derrett); 1; Vandyke (Buddicombe), 2; Kowai (McCombe), & Won hard held by a couple of lengths* Time, 2.21J* Dividend, £2 5a and £2 12s. Otago Cup, of 350 soys; 1£ mile. Barmby, 8.4 , „ 1 Marino, 7.8 .„ ... «. 2 Gipsy Grand, 8.2 , 3 Won easily. Time, 2.47. Diirdends, £4 19s and £6 lis. Dunedin Stakes, five furlongs,—St* Oudia 1, Marlin 2, Bombshell 3. Woa easily.

The Midland Railway.

Wellington, November 26 In the Midland i Railway arbitration case, Mr George Hdtchison occupied the whole of to-day In continuation of his opening address for the claimants. Sip Robert Stout is to follow in reply, after which bhe Arbitrators will give their decision as to respondent's application for the amendment of the claimants state ment of claim. Evidence for the claim ants will then be given. The question ©f jurisdiction is to be decided at a later stage, after the evidence has been taken.

COMMERCIAL.

London, November 26 There is expected to be a drop in the woo! market. Balme and Co; have 2030 bales and Schwartes 2688 bales to offer. These are the only catalogues for the opening day. London, November 26 2412 more bales are catalogued for the opening day of the wool sales. Unusual interest is felt in the coming series, bub a decline of 5 to 7£ per cent is expected.

Wellington, November 26

The Premier has received the following cablegram from the Premier of Melbourne s —" Re your telegram of the 24th August, as to the carriage of produce, this Govern ment has now made an agreement wibh Dalgsty and Co., Limited, and John Sander son and Company, providing for the carriage of butter and cheese at three farthings per lb neb, meat three farthings to seven-,eightha of a penny per lb, measurement cargo 70s per ton measurement, and fruit 3a 9d per case. The contract will nob come into operation until May next,"

Ashburton High School.

The ordinary meeting of the Board of Governors took place yesterday afternoon. Present—Messrs A. Orr (chairman), Den shire, Williamson, His Worship the Mayor, and Hon. Major Steward.

The minutes of the previous meeting were read and conGrmed.

The headmaster reported that there are now on the school roll 28 boys and 14 girls total 42. Also that the Rev Mr Habens, Inspector-General of Schools, visited the school lasb Thursday and remained the whole day. He expressed himself as well pleased with the work and organisation of th© schcol. Mr Simmers alao pointed oub that it would be necessary at the present meeting to decide as to prizes, the date of the breaking up, and the length of the Christmas holidays.

The Secretary stated that two parents had paid school fees after the date at which reductions were allowed. He had givea receipts an account, and asked for instruc tions from the Board. It waa resolved that the parties be informed that the Board regrets that pay ment of the full fees must be made, bub has no alternative but to adhere to its own regulations, as if any exception were mad© the regulations would be valueless.

The Visiting Committee pointed out that. certain repairs to windows i were required, and recommended that in future no part of the grounds be let for cropping. It was resolved that a prize be given in each class, and that Mr Simmers be author ised to prooure the necessary books at a cost not exceeding £10. Also that the school break-up for the holidays on the 20th December and reopen on February 4. (The headmaster was appointed to conducts the examinations.

In regard to bhe two scholarships offered to High School pupils it was deoided that present holders of scholarships, except such as expire during the present school term, be not eligible to compebe. Ib was resolved that His Worship the Mayor be requested to present the prizes. Messrs Denshire and Steward were appointed a Visiting Committee for the month, and tbe accounts presented having been passed for payment, the Board ad journed until Wednesday, December 18, when the report of the scholarship examina tions will be presented.

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LATEST CABLE HEWS.

A. New Pest.

Melbourne, November 27

In some of the country districts deer are becoming so numerous as to be almost as great a pest as rabbits. ! They do a great deal of damage to crops and orchards, the highest fences being no obstacle to them. When it was first sought to acclimatise deer, it was thought the task would prove very difficult, and the animals were protected hy a perpetual close season, a penalty of £15 being imposed upon any one killing them. These restric tions were never removed. The Minis try promised a deputation of farmers that they would amend the game law to permit their destruction within limits. It is intended to establish a large native park where the deer will be herded and protected.

THE ASHBURTON GUARDIAN: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1896.



Business Notices. Cheaper Than Eyer. .G. J. NEILL IN Premises lately occupied by F, Nokes, Bootmaker, next Shearman Bros Ladies' Trimmed Hats 4s lid Boys' and Girls' Sailor Mats lOd each MILLINERY OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. Ladies' Norfold Bodice 2s 9d New Dress Goods Goods 6|d Good Washing Prints 3a lid dozen New Dress Goods Is Good White Muslin 3s lid dozen Oorsets 2s 3d pair GLOVES AND RIBBONS AT YOUR OWN PRIOE. Men's All Wool Colonial Tweed Suits 19s 6d Boys' Trousers at Any Price Men'a Kaiapoi Tweed Suits 22s 6d Men's Trousers 5s lid Boys' Suits 3s lid HATS, CAPS, SHIRTS, AND TIES AT HALF PRIOE BOOTS. BOOTS. BOOTS. All Our Boots are made Specially to our order. Every Pair Guaranteed. Men's Nail Shooters 7s lid Women's Shoes 4s 6d Men's Bluchers 4s 9d Women's Shoes 5s lid Men's Balmorals 7s 6d TAN BOOTS AND SHOES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION Q. J. NEILL, BDRNETT STREET NEXT SHEARMAN BROS. TEA TEA. TEA. GREAT REDUCTION. GREAT REDUCTION, FLETCHER BROS., HAYING cleared out of bond, Large Parcels [of Tea at 3d per lb Reduction on the old tariff wq are enabled to sell; better Tea at a Lower Price than anyone in Ashburton Get Our Quotation "Before Buying Elsewhere. Seeds! Seeds!! That are Sure to Grow. TURNIP SEED. Our Turnip Seeds are grown from Specially Selected Roots by growers ot repute in the South of England, The following varieties are in stock :— Carter's Elephant Swede Aberdeen Green Top Yellow Improved Skirvings Purple Top Aberdeen Purple Top Yellow g W ede Mammoth Purple Top White Devonshire Grey stone Etc., Etc. Rape Seed. Rape Seed. BROADLEaF ESSEX RAPE. „ km ™ a FIELD CARROTS. FIELD CARROTS. As in the case of our Mangel Seeds, these have special atten- ; tion by the careful selection of well shaped Roots from which the Seeds are grown. # James' Scarlet Intermediate Giant Green Top White Scarlet's Short Horn Belgian, &c, &c. Mangel Seed. Mangel Seed. The Greatest possible care is taken in growing all our Mangel Seeds. Grown from selected roots, they cannot fail giving the j greatest satisfaction. | Mammoth Long Red, Champion Orange Globe, Etc. BE SURE AND GET OUR QUOTATION BEFORE BUYING ELSEWHERE Seasonable Goods. Wo have just received and to arrive several large con signments of Seasonable Goods specially selected for us. 10°CW,8 Sheep Tongues, lib tins 5 Oases Fresh Herrings 5 Cases Sheep Tongues, 21b tins 3 Cases New Zealand Mullet 10 Cases Salmon, Cocktail Brand 2 Cases 21b tins Corned Beef 2 Cases 2lb tins Corned Mutton 3 Oases Preserved Pears 3 Cases Preserved Apricots 3 Oases Preserved Peaches 15 Oases St Georges' Jam-, lib tins 10 Oases Jam, 21b tins 5 Oases Strawbery Conserve (most Delicious 50,000 Corks. 50,000 Corks, To Herbal Beer Makers and Others. We have just landed 5 bales of some of the Best Shape and Size Corks which have ever arrived in Canterbury, which we are enabled to quote at Very Low Prices for Large Quantities, FLETCHER BROS, CASH SUPPLY STORES, EAST STREET, ASHBURTON, AND 116 and 118 High Street, Christchurch. advertised Agents for Nimmo and Blair s Reliable Farm and Garden Seeds Special and Grand Display OF i Summer Dress Goods. pM BRACING the Latest Novelties in both Cotton and Wool Materials Washing Silks for Blouses, Artistic Millinery Plain and Fancy Silka for Trimming Stylish Jackets and Capes Ribbons and Lace*, the latest The Newest in Blouses. JUST OPENED A FEW CHOICE AND HIGHCLASS CARPET SQUARES AND RUGS. Japanewi and Chinese Mattings and Mats, Oilcloths and Linoleums 18 inches to 12 feet wide. HJO patterns to select from. VERY SPECIAL TWO TRUNKS LADIES GLACE KIDD SHOES. STARTLING VALUE, 5m tJci. JJITCHEUANDTUMEB. XAK€BED STREET. j



Wanted. SONS of Temperance Benefit Society. Monthly Meeting in Templar Hall, Thuksday, November 28. 8 pm. 11158 T^OR SALh;-Weli-b^n7~ii^oii^d IJ- House and Pantry, with Washhouss and Copper, Stable and other Outbuild mgs ; One Acre, Princess street, Lately occupied by Mr John Alison. Easy terms if required, apply, Thomas H. box, The Home. n 152 MY Tuner, Mr Harrow, is nnw~m Ashburton. Pianos and Organs tuned and repaired. First-class workman ship.—H. M, Jones. h 151 YfyTANIED Known—l am a Buyer o Vo •BofctKsr P^ts, quarts. Whiskey, and brandy ; also Old Iron, wrought and cast; Bones in large or small lots ; Zinc, Brass, and Horse Hair.—CHAßLas Brown. Eton Street, bottom of Havelock, Ash bßrton> 11144 WANTED Known.-That I have just received large consignments of Groceries, Crockery, Glass and Enamelled ware, whioh I am prepared to sell at lowest possible prices for cash. Inspec tion invited. Goods delivered daily in Town and Suburbs. Families waited 011 for orders. E, Mahood, East Beit Cash Sfcore- 10 152 WANTED Known-If you are hard on Boots try Mellok's Zealandia Boot Store. Garden, Allenton, begs to notify thab he will call on old customers and new ones three times a week with Vegetables and Fruit of all kinds in season. Young plants for sale. n 194 TITANTED Know^-Men 7 a Suits lS '» 6d, Kaiapoi Tweed Trousers 9s lid, Knicker Suits 4s lid, (Japs 6d,— Ihe Corner. W. H. Collier WANTED— Ladies to see the latest styles In Boots and Shoes.— Mellor's Zealandia Boot Store. WANTED Known-For goo3~vd^ in Drapery, Millinery, <fee., go to Melford House. Tickets tor presents given to all cash purchasers,—H. 0. Segers, WANTED Known—Mellor's Zeal landia B k_ t .Store has Ladies' Kid Shoes at 6 _ 6d. WrANTEDK__own~9otoTHBOoR»KK far Newest Styleb In Drapery and Millinery—W. H Collier. WANTED Known—No old fashioned Goods at Mellor's Zealandia Boot Store. T\RESSES ! Dresses ! Dresses ! Trim *-"f minsfs of all kinds. Millinery and Mantles, Jackets and Blouse", New and Stylish Goods at moderate prices.— Mitchell and Turner WANTED Known-Girls' neat Kid Shoes 5s 6d at Mellor's Zea landia Boot Store. t » OLIDAY Suite^A~Nioe Kai^ol S 1 Suit for 27a 6d, Boys' Knicker and Cambridge Suits from 7s 6d, Men's Suits to Meaiure from 455, Fit and Workmanship Guaranteed at R. Alcorn's WANTED— Everybody to examine the Goods and Prices at Mellor's Zealandia Boot Store. WANTED^^n^n-W^^arT^^w giving Tickets for Presents to all cash purchases of Lrapery, Millinery, &c —EL 0. Segers, Melford House. U7 ANTED—Every man to try Mellor's •*V Bluchers, only 4s lid. ji A/ANTED Known—so pairs Ladies w¥ and Girls' Leather Top and Canvas Tennis Shoes, at half usual price, for two weeks only. —Andrew Orr. 10 136 ■ 4 a/"ANTED Known—Mellor's Zea- W landia Boot Store is the cheapest Boot shop in Ashburton, WAJN rLD Knowr^MELLORS Boots and Shoes stand like brass ; try <J a pair. \l7 ANTED Kno<vn—Stacks of cheap '-'V Boots and Shoes at Mellor's Zealandia BootStorp., TO LADlES—Spring Cleaning. Before re-arranging your room, pay us a visit. Our Stock of Furnishing Drapery if. very Urge, and includes everything necessary for the beauty and comfort of a home.-—Mitch cix and Turner. .t/TF.NS Bluchers 63, a good Strong DILI. Nailed Shooter at 8s 6d ; a nice assortment of Ladies' and Children's Boots and Shoea from Is 9d a pair at R. Alcorn's 1 VSTANTED Known—Newest Goods in ** Drapery and Millinery for the Summer Season, direct from London— W H. Collier, The Corner, ANTED Kn^wn—24~oTairs~of Sample Boots at cost price.— Mellor's Zealandia Boot Store. ETT'S DIARIEsTor 1896. R^h Pocket and Medical Diaries, New Zealand Diaries, Date Blocks. New Goods just opened ud. Stationery, Plated ware, and Fancy Goods ; Scripture Texts, new and pretty designs. Orders for Christmas numbers now booked,— H. M. Jones. / 1 ENTLEMEN who wish to dress \"T comfortably, and with good taste and economy, should visit our Clothing and Outfitting Department.—Mitchell and Turner. HERB\L Beer Extract 7d per bottle • Sufficient fro make six gallons of splendid Herbal Beer. This extract saves boiling herbs ; is pure ; makes a splendid tonic beer; non-intoxicating, with a creamy head, like bottled Ale.—Fletcher Bros., Wholesale and Retail Agents, Ashburton and Christchurch CORKS, CORKS. 50,000 Corks. Notice to Herbal Beer makers and others. Wa have just received five bales of splendidly shaped Corks, which we can quote at a very low price for large quantities.—Fletcher Bros., East Street, Ashburton \k < ANTED Known—We are now V¥ showing all kinds of Summer Drapery, Millinery, &c. Everything marked as low as possible.—H. C. Seobrs, Melford House. Mii 6 ALCUKIN having secured the services of a London Milliner, will now be nble to Supply Ladies' and Chil dren's First-class Millinery in the most Artistic and Fashionable style in New Zealand. A nice assortment of Dress goods in stock DIARIES for 1896. A new and choicp selection of Christmas and New Year Cards now opened up, and others arriving by every mail ,* also Cards with New Z-aland scenery for distant friends. Orders now being booked for Christmas Numbers of English and Colonial Illustrated Papers now arriving. All Goods reduced this month for cash at L F. Andrewes and Co., Stationer's Hall. I T'* TAN TED Known —Repairing made ] j to look like new. Mellor's I Zealandia Boot Store. I New Vtnm T^acco^eetest Suecm, 1 *



PUBLIC NOTICES WAHOO ! 11 108 DIXIT. DIXIT. DIXIT. rpfllS SPACE RESERVED FOB S. SaleWs, PARTICULARS OF NEW SHIPMENT OF GUARANTEED ABSOLUTELY PURE WHITE METAL DIXIT WATCHES. j i j The most satisfactory going cheap watch ever seen in Ashburton. JUVENILE DEPARTMENT NEW ZEALAND FACTORY. BOYS' MELLVILE SUITS, Ashburton Tweed, 345 67 8 9 10 8/9, 9/6, 10/-, 10/6, 11/-, 11/6, 12/ , 12/-, > 11 12 13/- 13/6. BOYS' TWEED SAILOR SUITS. 3456 7 8 9 8/9, 9/-, 9/3, 9/6, 10/-, 10/3, 10/6. BOYS' SERGE MARITIME SUITS.I Our own make. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10/9, 11/6, 12/6, 13/-, 13/6, 13/9, 14/6. i specTal, I j If your Boys are hard to fit, we will : make a Suit to fit them at the above | prices. j BOOTS. BOOTS. BOOTS. i Boys' School Boots from ... 4s 6d Bo>s' Canvas Shoes from ... 2s 9d NEW ZEALAND CLOTHING FACTORY. Sole Agents for the famous " Victory" Sewing Machine. ALEX. HENDRY, Manager



Holloway's Pills and Ointment exert a rapidly favorably effecb in all those diseases which are induced by exposure to damp or by great changes in temperature. They will therefore be found eminently serviceable to those who work in iron foundries, copper mines, and collieries. These well-known remedies present manifest advantages in respect of use and effectiveness, are entirely compounded of vegetable drugs selected with j the greatest care and regardless of price. When used in accordance with the ample; printed directions which accompany them, ! they act surely but mildly, and do nob inter fere with the daily work. There are but few diseases which are not capable of cure— or, »t all events, of great relief—if Hollo* ways»e ra _ d .05 Are pewtveriogly used. i



hm ,%.]■*BJ»Ell & 8»n» Eucalypti Extract There art" imitations of Euealyptic Extract In the market now, products of simple distillation forming rude resinous oils. In order that these cru<se>oils may not be taken. Our Purk Volatile Eucalypti EXTRACT, whic'i ia recognised by the medical division of ihe Prussian Government to be of per fectly pure origin, as their information forwarded to aa through the Consul at Molbourne, March 2,1878 we state ;— Ib proved by tests by the Medical Clinics of the Universities at Bonn and G-riefswald, Prussia, and reported by Di Schulz, Professor of Parmacology, at Bon, ktfd Professor Dr Mosler, Director of the Medical Olinic at Greifswald, that only products that are saturated with oxygen and freed of acnds, resinous and other substances, adherent to primary distillation, will develope the sanative qu„lities proper to the plant according to these authorities, and according to Pro fessor Dr Lister of England, and to Drs Bauer Mclntire, Wood, Hazard, etc., of America, is the only extract corresponding to scientific tests, and the wily on which possesses tho proper therapeutic val'ie. Sander & Son's Eucalypti Extract All other crude oils are to be classed among the turpentines, which hßve, when used as medicine, no therapeutic effect and are abnndoned as an interna medicament. These so called Eucalypti Extracts which may have received (_..'_.tinction at Exhibitions as ommerciol articles are used for mechanical pur oses are only discernible:-— By their deficiency In pungent odour (which our product, the only genuine Eucalypti Extracts de velopes most freely through its surplus of oxygen) By their alcoholic thin and nj.obile appearance, being recuced in specific density through the oresenco of acids By their taste, the result of th contracting ten dencv of tesiaa and tcnnates. rf these crude oils, so called eucalypti extracts are _nnt...dbvmist'*elnoaßes<> croup, bronchitis, diph r hPi-ia internal infaramations, dysentery, wounds, th consequences are appalling For safety always ask fo 'S A ND 80N*B EUCALYPTI EXTRACT and ac the old. weil-to*"**! and reliable preparation,—Sand hu«t,Viotorla,A_i, «*U». U^pm AND 80N3'



On Saturday next the firsb cop* match for the South Canterbury premierahip, Ashburton v. Geraldine, will bo played on the Domain ; to start at II a.m. punctually. As both clubs will he strongly represented, a keen and en|oyable game may be expected. The following will play fop Ashburton—Messrs G. Andrews, Beckett,, [Black, Oromie, Davis, Denshire, Fooks* ! Russell, Thomson, Upton, Wallis. Emer gencies —Hammoud aad Grant. The great clearing sale of S. Anderson's stock of Boots and Shoies, announced by McDonald.and McDiarmidis coming boa. | close within ten days. Secure & pair of Boots ! at ones at the reduced jprJQe, xi J§§