The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1896 OFFICE-HOURS AND THE SHOPS ACTS.

As m the course of correspondence recently published m our columns m regard to the observance or, should we not rather write " the alleged non observance" of the law m regard to the weekly half-holiday by the owners of certain offices, fault has been found with the local Inspector under the " Shops and Shop Assistants Acts " for laxity m the enforcement of their provisions, it is only fair to that officer, (who is debarred from saying an thing m his own defence) that we should point out what those provisions really are, m so far as offices are cpneerned. To beg; n with, then, the interpretation clause defines the word ? ( office" to mean (i any building or place usecj as a banking office, insurance office, or for any other commercial purpose." Sections 18 and 19 then proceed to enact as follows : — 18. The closing hour of all offices shall be not later than five o'clock m the afternoon of each week-day except Saturday, when the closing hour shall be not later than one o'clock m the pfternoon, provided that cashiers, ledger keepers, and cash book keepers m any office may, before leaving their offices, balance the books m their charge of the day's transac tions j and provided further, that exception shall be made m respect of not exceeding six days m each galendar month, when employeesmay be required to continue at work or to return to wor£: for not exceeding three hours m any one day. J.t is further provided that this section shall not apply to shipping, tramway, or newspaper offices, 19. Offices shall bo excepted from the operation of the last preceding section during two periods of four weeks each m eyery year for ' Jbhe j purposes of their half yearly balances. Now the exceptions made m the above —though some elasticity i$ nq doufyt necessary — are so worded as to render the provisions as affecting offices almost a dead letter ; for, m the first place, the restrictions of the law as to early closing hours do not apply during two periods of four weeks m each year, besides six days m every calendar, month, and there is no definition as to when those periods are to be reckoned : , and m t£ie second place it of course will always happen when clerks are working to late hour's that" they will either be balancing cash books or ledgers, or jf not, how is the unfortu nate Inspector to fjnd out that the law is being broken ? Under these pireum stances he Is gertainly not deserving of the blame which has bee» .attributed to him and, indesd, if the Act is to be made workable at all it must be m some way amended It does seem, though, that the owners of offices could be compelled to observe Saturday as » halt-holiday or, if the prefer it, then tha usual weekly half -holiday.

OUR EXPORTS.

Among the mass of returns, on all i sorts of subjects, iaid »v the table of the House of Representatives at the request of members, there are usually but few that the journalist can make use of from which to cull information i that will be interesting to his readers. Oue, however, asked for by Mr Duthie, one of the members for Wellington City, is a notable excep tion, and the information it contains is of much interest — to the farmer, as showing the volume and value of farm produce exported from New Zealand during the last twenty years j and to the general reader, as exhibiting how wholly dependent upon the English market is the prosperity of our colony. The return gives the quantity and value of the seven principal articles of export for the past twenty years, as well as the prices at which the principal exports have been valued for the past eleven years. How largely the question of prices at which the exports have been valued affects statistical results is seen by a study of the articles exported as shown m this return. Everybody takes wool as our chief export as a matter of course, but it is only when we get hold of statistics such as those given m this return that we see how enormously the export of wool overtops everything else. During the twenty years dealt with, New Zealand has exported no leas than £70,237,556 worth of wool, while the other six principal articles of export — gold, grain, flax, gum, butter and cheese, and meat — taken altogether do not reach £20,000,000. In spite of the low prices of 1894 the wool returns for that year reached the substantial total of £4,827,016, or something more than a million of money m excess of the returns for 1893. Be it noted, too, that both m weight and value the export oi 1894 far exceeded the returns for any of the years m the twenty under review. It is an axiom of commerce that demand regulates supply, and that a falling market will limit the output of the article produced.. To this rule, however, wool was an exception m New Zealand, and why it was so is a matter of interesting research. We fancy that the solution of this question would be easily arrived at by taking into account the large numbers of small sheepowners that are now to be found m both islands as compared with some years ago. The almost failure of the wheat market sent many South Island farmers into pasture, with the wool and frozen meat markets m view instead of the Corn Exchange; end this was notably the case m Canterbury, especially so m our own county ; while the recent large increase of settlement m the North Island has very greatly added to the number of what we m Canterbury know as " cockatoos," only they attend more extensively to pasture than to crop. Tn the South Island it used to be the case that the price of wool affected to any extent only the " squatter," whose flocks ran m numbers into live or more figures. Things are different now, and it would be very interesting to know how much of our wool export is now supplied by men who own less than a thousand ' sheep, for every farmer m Canterbury now tries to do something m sheep, while the small holders have onor mously increased m number m the i North Island, and are devoting their attention almost wholly to long woolled sheep, to the total neglect of ! the merino.

We come now to grain. The rise and fall, m price of what used to be the staple product: of this county is most remarkable, it used to be our proud boast that of the tremendous quantity of grain grown m New Zealand, Ashurton grew one third of the whole. So much of our land has of late years gone under other crop that we fancy we can no longer lay claim to so large a proportion of the colony's white crop. But while we were growing this large quantity there was a fair return for it. In 1878, which was a good year with us, the polony exported 2,00Q,Q00 bushels of grain, for whiph she received m cash £508,767. In 1894, she exported 2,250,000 bushels— a quarter of a million bushels more than m 1878 — and got m return £213,405, or more than a quarter of a million less money than she got m 1878 for a quarter million bushels less grain. This was an extraordinary decline, and the con trast between the prices of the two years is such as almost to take one's breath away * but it supplies abundant reason why our farmers should have become shepherds instead of grain growers. The price per bushel m 1878 was something less than the fancy sum of 5s per bushel, as the figure 3 quoted show, while m 1894 it had gone down to an average of Is 9|d ! Our recollections of the wheat market m ' 1878 hardly a tally with the ptice pointed to by the return— we fancy few Ashburton farmers got within sixpence of that figure that year, though over that sum could m some instances be quoted for previous years. But assuming the figure to be correct assuming even sixpence or a shilling less to be correct : is it not easy to see yyhy the Jj&rd-headed bankers of the then day, gjambured by th^ prospect; such prices opened up; were led into making advances that those prices apparently warranted, and which their maintenance would certainly have warranted? But prices not maintained, and the land simply awallowrd 'up the money. Had they been maintained, were they to rule to day, and with the better price of wool — what a happy time would our farmers have, and how jubilant would be the owners of much land that has for years been but as a millstone round tjieir necks ! Flax has been a disappointing item. It pw \ps best year m 1890, When 21,158 tons were exported, of the value of £381,789, but m £894 £66,256 was all that this item produced, and thp returi| mournfully adds that 'Mtisno longer one of the principal articles of export.?' Tallow, hoveveif, had fjUepJ tjje place that flax vacated, the export haying touched 10,000 tons, and brought bapk to us m cash £204,499. Frozen meat is at present fch© sheet anchor of the grazier. It reached its highest point; m 1894 for output, but was not quite equal to 1891 for value- Butter and cheese have made steady progress for the last twenty year's, an^'iri 1894 'the . value exported wai #369,483. As neither

gold nor gum are products of tfc« Canterbury farmer, we need not deal with them is this article. The figures we have quoted show how largely our prospprity depends upon the English market, and if the present prices of wool continue over the year's sales, New Zealand growers will be a million of money better off on their wool than they were for the clip of 1894.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Rending matter on fourth page.

Messra M. B. Shaw and W. Cook have been added to the working membership of the Fire Brigade.

A notice ot the alterations, additions, and improvements m progress at the Orange Hall will appear m an early issue.

The members of the Ashburton Club will hold the ir quarterly general meeting to-morrow at eight p m.

lho Kindergarten school will reopen on Tuesday nexc, terms for which are advertised. The annual breaking. up entertainment, which was poatpon d owing to the work going on at the Hall, will be arranged for as soon as possible.

A French electrician, M. Troopu, catches fish by sinking m the water a net with an incandescen lamp attached. The c .rioua fish colleoc around the lamp, when a pheumatic tyre around the edge of the net is silently inflated and rises to the Burface entrapping them without frighten ing them, and hence without destroying the spawn. - . On Thursday night last Mr Joseph i Liyod, senr., had thirty-four fat sheep oat of a flock of two hundred and forty-fire, running below Tinwald, destroyed by dogs. The whole thirty-foar sheep were dead m a heap, most < f them having apparently been smothered. Mr Llyod notifies that poison will be laid on the farm m consequence. This story of abstnb mindedness is told of Archbishop Trench : —"Dining at home one evening, he found fault with the flavour of the soup. Next evening he dined out at a large dinner party. For getting for the moment that he was not ' m his own house but a guest, he observed across the table to Mrs Trench, 'This soup is, my dear; again a failure.' "

American Indians use rising smoke to give signals to distant friends. A Bmall fire is started, and as soon as ib burns up, grass and leaves are heaped on the top of Ib. Thus a large column of steam and smoke rises. By covering the fire with a blanket, the Indians Interrupt the rising of the smoke at regular intervals, and the successive clouds are used for conveying messages.

There lives at Marion, Indiana, a dwarf. Jeanie Loder by name, who is 54 years old, 47in h'gh and weighs about 641 b. She is the daughter of wealthy parents, who, at death, left her a fortune. Her favorite pastime is playing with children and dolls, having a family of about fifteen of the latter. She speaks of herself as a little girl, and her favorite topic of con versation is what she will do when she * grows up.'

In some districts around A.shburton the harvest has been even earlier than might be inferred from a paragraph ia our yesterday's issue, Mr George Lamb, of Elgin, having Hold and delivered to Mr E W. Hanmer, of Ashburton, a fortnight aeo, 1000 bushels of oats — an excellent sample. We congratulate Mr Lamb upon having escaped the recent unfavorable weather.

A peculiar incident occurred at Manaia the other day (writes a Thames correspon dent). A little Maori boy playing m the creek ab Manaia got out of hi* depth, and after being two hours m the water he was rescued . People around thought he was browned, buo an old Mawi man standing by guaranteed to brine: him round. He lit a big tire &ni hung the body m front of ib by hi* heels. After a fear minutes the boy was as well as c^ul 1 be

A quaint story cornea from Sheffield The lady teacher of an evm'ng school under th^ Board had given her pupils a few lessons m physiology and anatomy, and afterwards on the untoward results of tight lacing. How tfteefcual was her teaching m ij ba gathered from the protest which she has received from the mother of lna of her scholars. * ' Dear Miss — — , — Please don't tell our Lizzie anything mura about her i aside. It is not nice, and f lightens her. Besides, it's rude, — Yourß respectfully, Mrs — — ."

At the annual celebration of the Done din Burns Club on Saturday night, — the anniversary of the poet's birth — one of the speakers made reference to the war clouds threatening the peace of Great Britain, and asked the choir to sing ' Rule Britannia,' the audience joining m the chorur. The response was most cord j*l. The audience rose m a body, and if the rendeiingof the chorus was not such a performance as Handel would have been delighted with, there could be no qaes tion as to its heartiness.

Lecturing upon Prohibition at Nelson last webk, the Rev. F. W. Jsitt Bald that from North Canterbury to Inveroargill there was very great reason to believe that they would carry *' no license " within a large part of that area He had hopes that the Prohibitionists would carry the poll at Kaiapoi, Abhburton. and Timaru. bnnedin would probably carry "no license,' and right away to- Invercargill. He ventured to prophesy that Clutha, where a sparious Prohibition had been tried, would reaffirm its vote for Prohibition by a strong majority.

■V. Wellington telegram says that at a meeting of representatives of all tern perance organisations of the city, arrange ments were completed for signatures to a patiblon to the Governor to remove those members of the Licensing Committee who voted for the transfer of the hotel license to Newtown. A ' strongly worded resolution was also passed con demning the action of the Government m delaying the issue of the Ohristcharch writ with a view^ so the resolution stated, to prejudice the prohibitionist candidate — MrT. E. Tay|or^ !

The following letter has juejb been recelyed by the local Inspector of Fac tories, Mf Kade:— "The Hon. the Minister of Labour has decided not to charge the maximum fee for factories where only ttfo persons are at work. Therefore the charge of one shilling per annum will be at once gazetted for auch factories and such fee only ir to be accepted from January 1, 1898. If the five shilling fee has been accepted m any case for suoh factory please refund four shillings to the payer and make corres ponding entry m books Fdwabd Tbegbab, Chief Inspector of Factories.

CRICKET.

NEW SOOTH WALES v VICTORIA.

rvu •, . Sydney, January 25 The cricket maroh, Victoria v New South Wales, began to-day under unfavorable circumstances. The home team batted first, aud had lost one wicket for 33 when play was stopped for the day by rain. The pitch was m a sodden state. AlcKeuzie was dismissed without scoring. Iredaie and Donnan were each not out with 16.

Svdnby, January 27 The cricket match was resamed this morning, ami m the afternoon there was an enormous at endance of ihe public, fully twenty-five thousand people being present. In the first innings, New South Wales made 187. Donnan 19. Iredale 56, Gregory 3, Waters 28, Richardson 1, Garrett 53, f T cl 'y u ° ot oufc 5, Turner 9. HoweU 5, McKibbm 5, extras 5. Trumble took five wickets for 61, A. Trott one for 23, Harry one for 24, H. Trott one for 29, R. McLeod one *° r 4 6. At the close of the day's play k! o? 1 ?? 11 , 8 , had loßfc one wicket for 94. S 2 >?'£ McLeD<i ( Qot o°t> 29, H. Trotb £™* VVj"/* 82 - Iredaleaud Garretfc ih«n P f nd . ld di8 P I& y of *»«*»* Walters, 2tS"? " ifch the veteran Garrett, waa d? 8 25 *J y rua oafc - After Barrett's rf »™, 3 f of the team were easily ??Ll* *n lm Pj?^d as the «ame pro greased. The fielding of the visitors was excellent, and did much to keep the runs of S^c^nTe^; *« *™™ «*

VICTORIA v. TASMANIA.

Mbibottbnb, January 25 A Viotorian team began a matoh against a Tasmaman eleven to-day. The Victorians m their first inning* scored 101. The Taa* roanians loot nine wickets for 178. * The chief scorers were Burn 66 and Savigny 37. t « , . January 27. In Saturday's game Eady, of the Tag. maman team, took eight of the Victorian wickets at a cost of 34 runs In the first innings the Taamanian team made 224. Windsor 45. The Victorians m their second innings were all disposed of for 65, and thus suffered. a defeat by an innings 25 x,f ? r lllß ' Ead y took £oofu f wickets for 32, Windsor six for 33.

BOROUGH COUNCIL.

The fortnightly meeting of the Ashburton Borough Council was held on Monday even* ing. Present — Hia Worship the Mayor (Mr J. Scaly), Councillors Thomas, Reid, Bird, Baker, Collins and Cathbertson. Apologies were received from Cra Orr, Brooke and Paul. FINANCE." The Mayor Btated the overdraft to be £1303 lls lid, and receipts since laßt meet ing £59 15a 2d. FIRE INSURANCE. The Secretary of the Canterbury Insurers' Association wrote, stating that the date of meeting of delegat9B of the Fire Insurers' Protection Association would be postponed until after the meeting of the Fire Insur ance Companies. FIRE BRIGADE. Messrs M. B, Shaw and W. Cook were approved as members of the Fire Brigade. > RESERVES - The Council's solicitor forwarded a copy of a transfer of lease from the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company to Friedlander Bros., Ltd., for the Councils/ approval. The deed of transfer was ap proved, and the official seal ordered to be affixed thereto. HALF-HOLIDAY. i Petitions were received from a number of business people whose business came under the Factories Act, requesting to be allowed to keep Thursday instead of Saturday as the half-holiday. The prayer of the petitioners was granted, subject to confirma tion at a special meeting to be held m a fortnight The conference of delegates of local bodies reported that Thursday had been fixed as the h*lf-holiday for the borough and suburbs. engineers' report. This report dealt chiefly with the ordinary work of the labor gang, and was adopted, and on the motion of Cr Reid its was re solved to recommend the Works Committee to have some asphalting done by the Odd fellows' Hall.

NUISANCES, ETC. The Inspector reported having served a number of notices to have fences cut, and other small matters rectified.

TRAFFIC BRIDGE

In reply to Or. Thomas, Mr Fooks said he had arranged with the County Engineer, and would put on four men instead of two. The men would be set to work earlier and would cease work at 10 a.m. Cr Thomas said he would like to Bee the County Council take control of the work. Cr Reid agreed with this view. Cr Thomas said he did not want to find fault with anyone, and the discussion dropped. FOBD! Cr Thomas asked who had charge of the ford at the lower side of the bridge, as it was dangerous,— The matter was referred to the Works Committee. . SPECIAL BESOJ/OTION. A special resolution was passed, confirm? ing the cancellation of a lease* WATEB SUJPBLT. Some correspondence was reoeived from the Ashburton County Council and Messrs Bollit and Co, m reference to water supply, and the matter was referred to a special Committee, with power to call a special meeting of the Council if necessary .- ACCOUNTS. Accounts amounting to £70 17s 6d wer« passed for payment. AMALGAMATION, The Mayor stated that the Tinwald Town Board were willing to cast m their lot with the Borough m the event of any bill such as the proposed Local Government Bill becom« ing law. The Council then sat as a DOMAIN BOARD. The Curator reported that the owner of a dog had been fined 5a for allowing it to tres pass m the Domain. He also recommended selling some of the tame ducks. Thiß question was left m the hands of the Domain Committee. He further recommended that a movable bar be put across the entrance to the baths during the ladies' hours for bath ing; This was agreed to. He also reported that the scavenger did noc attend to his work regularly. It was resolved that the scavenger^ attention be called to the! matter. This concluded the business.

$Hft JSfißCtetOK GtJARDIAN : TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, i 896.



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Public notices. < WAROO ! THE CURE FOR INDIGESTION. Aehburton Drug Company, Agents I 11 108 THE HOLIDAYS. JUST OPENED A FEW OASES OF SPECIAL GOODS FOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON Straw Hats, flofb Felt. Hats, Tennis Hats from Is 9d. New Shapes m Hard Felc Hats. Special leather-weight Soft Felt Hats l£ z. Frame Hats m all the latest shapes A glance at our Christmas windows will Bhow you that we keep the Largest and Best Assorted Stock of HATS m the district NEW TIES, NEW SILK HANDKERCHIEFS Foi travelling— A Large Assortment oi GLADSTONE BAGS, LEATHER PORTMANTEAUX, AND HAND BAGS TO ATHLETES: Running Pants and Shirts m all Colors Tennis Shirts, Cycling Touring Shirts Cricketing Shirts and Trousers NEW ZEALAND CLOTHING FACTORY. ALEX. HENDRY, Manager. Special Bargains. SEE WINDOWS. Dressmaking Ashburton Drapery Company, CORNER ARCADE & BURNETT STREET.



Wanted. \A ■^' i< *' l) « a respectable Girl about V * 16 who c*n co< k and wash well. Dudes light. Apply by letter, Box 12, PO 1 167 IN consfquonce of &hepp worrying, . Poison laid on Kosei d tie's Facni, Boundary Rca J, near Tinwald.- J. Lloyd senr. 1 155 WANTED, Horse B-iiUble for a Baker's C*rt. Apply W. Bryant Baker, V^ ills street. 1156 YXT ANTED -Known —P. O'Connok * * has removed to the bhop next to Mr Salek, Kaefc Street, where be will open m a few days with a well selected Stock of Boots and Shoes. He Is now on the premises to carry out Orders and Repairs as usual. 1 152 'CH'ATST&D Known— Just opening a * fresh lot of useful Presents, to be given to all Purchasers of Drapery,— H. C. Segers, Melford House SCHOOL* BOOKS at published prices. Slates, Welsh and American, very cheap. Bags for Boys and Girls and all school requisites at lowest prioes for cash. Review of Reviews, 9d ; oheap editions at published prices. — H. M. Jonks. rpRY FLETCHER BROS, for your •*• Christmas Fruits. They are ot the finest quality that are procurable, and at the lowest possible prices. See the quality and judge for yourselves. — Fletcher Bros., Ashburton OTHER People are getting Bargains at Cabson's Monster bale of Bicycles, Earthernware, Glass, and China. Why not You ? 1 84. ANTED Known— l am a Buyer of Bottlf s —pints, quarts. Whiskey, and Brandy ; also Old Iron, wrought and cast) ; Bones m large or email lots-; Zino, Brass, and Horse Hair. — Charles Brown, bottom of Havelook, Street, Ashburton. 11 144 WANTED Known— Cycles thoroughly overhauled and enamelled. Tyres a specialty — E. Knight, Eclipsa Cycle Works, Tancred Street, opposite Arcade 12 85 HOLIDAY Suits— A IS ice Kaiapol Suit for 27a 6d, Boys' Knicker and Cambridge Suits from 7s 6d, Men's Suits to Measure from 45a, Fit and Workmanship Guaranteed at R. Alcorn'a . T>RESENTS, Presents— We are new -■- giving useful Presents to all Pur- chasers of Drapery, etc, — H. C. Segers, Melford House WANTED— Every man to try Mellor's Bluchers, only 4s lid. ANTKD Known— 24o Pairs of Sample Boots at cost price, — Mellor's Zealandia Boot Store. WANTED Known— Mbs Ssijtb, Dress- maker (late of London West), has Removed from Cameron street to Have- lock street, opposite Army Barracks. ■ 12 148 ify- ANTED Known-Men's Suits 17s * 6d, Kaiapoi Tweed Trousers 9s lid, Knicker Suits 4s lid, (Japs 6d.- The Comer. W. H. Collier WANTED Known— Mellor s Boots and Shoes stand like brass ; try a pair. \i. r ANT^D Known— lf you are hard V V on Boots try Mellor's Zealandia Boot Store. \X7"A VIED Known— Newest Qocda m * * Drapery and Millinery for the Summer Season, direct from London— | W H. Collier, The Corner. j WANThD Known— We are still giving Presents to all Purchasers of Drapery, etc. — H. C. Segers, Melford HOU6B i^' ANTED Known — Mellors Zea- v ? landia B.)ot Store has Ladies' Kid . Shoes at 6a 6d. «..^ ANTEDKnown— *so to The Corner " t f r Newest Styles m Drapery and Millinery— W. H Coljior. WANTED Known— No old fashioned Goods at Mellor's Zealandia Boot Store. Very Litest. — Strawberries and L Tee Cream 6d per pla-e at H- A, Flower's, the People's Confectioner Iced Boston Cream and other drinks. ' , i / ANTED Known— Stacks of cheap V V Boots and Shoes at Mellor's Zealandia Boot Store. WANTED Known — Clearing out of Odd Lines at Mitchell and Turner's. Cotton and Wool Dresses, Lengths of Oilc'oths, Linoleums, China Matting, Ladies Fabric Gloves, Ladies Boots and Shees, etc. L,' ANTED — Ladies to see ihe latest * etyles In Boots and Shoes. — Mellor's Zealandia Boot Store. WANTED Kuown— so pairs Ladie B and Girls' Leather Top and Canvas Tennis Shoes, at half usual price, for two weeks only. — Andrew Orr 10 136 Vs7 AN^ED Known— Repairing m «de Vf to loojk l&e new. Mell r's Z-dandia Boot Staris. 1 % , ANTED — Everybody to examine VV the Goods and Prices at Mellor's Zealandia Boot Store. OWN Make m Ladies' and OhildrenV Underclothing, Aprons, a#d Pina- fores ; aleo a good assortment of Calicoes, Muslins, Flannelettes, Trimmings, etc., at Mrs Alcorns new shop, Baker's Buildings. WANTED Known Mitchell and Turner's Show Room is now free to inspect, free to fie on, and some Goods free of cost. WANTED Known— To Harvesters— Men's Strong Cord Trousers, 6s 3J. Goo;. Tweed Trousers 6s 6d ; other lines m proportion. — Mitchell and Turner. MEN'S Bluchers ss, a good Strong Nailed Shooter at 83 6d ; a nice assortment of Ladies' and Children'? Boots q>nd Shoes from Is 9d a pair at R AjLCORN^ W- ANTED" Known— MelliQr'p Zea landja Boot Store is the cheapest Boot shop m Ashhurton, \ ANTED" Known — Spectacles, %c Profcectors, Goggles, Folders, and everything In the optical line at S. Silek s. Optician. TUST Arrived. — A large variety of ase- tl ful and Ornamental Goods, Dolls, Toys, and Novelties ; also, a job lot over one hundred assorted Baskets and Morocco and Russian Leather Handbags, to be sold ao and under ordinary cost price »fc Mrs Alcorn's. JAM .JARSrMM ,JARS.— Fletcher Bros, are gast landing a .large ship* ment of Jam Jars of all •jfindfi. " Mason ( Screw Top Jara m Quart and Half-gallon Jars at very low prices j also Fruit Preserving Sugar of the very best quality, m 561 b and 701 b Bags, at equally low rafcea.— Fletcher Bros., East Street, Ajhtmrton, Telephone 24



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Business Notices. Cheaper Than Erer. G. J. NEILL IN Premises lately occupied by F. Nokes, Bootmaker, next Shearman Bros Udiea' Trimmed Hats 4s lid Boys' and Girls' Sailor Hats lOd each MILLINERY OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. ladies' Norfold Bodice 2s 9d New Dress Goods Goods 6£d Good Washing Prints 3s lid dozen New Dress Goods Is Good White Muslin 3s lid dozen Corsets 2s 3d pair GLOVES AND RIBBONS AT YOUR OWN PRICE. Men's All Wool Colonial Tweed Suits 19s 6d Boys' Trousers at Any Price Men's Kaiapoi Tweed Suits 22s 6d Men's Trousers 5s lid. Boys' Suits 3s lid HATS, CAPS, SHIRTS, AND TIBS AT HALF PRICE BOOTS. BOOTS. BOOTS. ' All Our Boots are made Speoially to our order. Every Pair Guaranteed. Men's Nail Shooters 7s lid Women's Shoes 4s 6d Men's Bluohers 4s 9d . Women's Shoes 5s lid Men's Balmorals 7s 6d TAN BOOTS AND SHOES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION G- J. NEILL, BURNETT STREET NEXT SHEARMAN BROS. B OX 67 Telephone 24 PreeerTlng Season 1895-96, FLETCHER BROS.. 25 Tons. 25 Tons. TTAVE IN STOCK AND TO ARRIVE FffUHBgT CAUTE KVOAK FOR THE PRESENT JAM SEASON. This Sugar is Thoroughly Reliable for all kinds of Jams, Jellies, etc., and is used by the Principal Jam Manufacturers m the Colony. We are still selling sugar at the old price although the price has advanced wholesale and is likely to be much higher NOW 18 THE TIME TO BUY YOUR SUGAR. To F»rmc rs, Contractor?, JEtc. We keep m stock all kinds of Tinware, which we are selling at Wholesale Cos': Prices. It will pay you to get our price list before buying elsewhere. Seasonable Qoods, Seasonable CjJoods. We have the following Seasonable Goods m stock and to arrive ; — 5 Cases Gear Corned Beef 3 Cases Preserved Peaches 3 Cases Canterbury Corned 2 Cases Raspberry Vinegar Beef 15 Cases lib Sheep Tongues 5 Cases Canterbury Corned 5 Cases 2lb Sheep Tongues Mutton 5 Cases New Zealand Mutton 5 Cases Cocktail Salmon 2 Cases Albert fcardines 2 Cases Mackerel 2 Cases Kippered Herrings 3 Cases Herrings m Tomato 3 Cases Preserved Rabbit, 21b Sauce tins, Uelicious 5 Cases Fresh Herrings 3 Cases Preserved Api icots 6 Cases Preserved Pears 10 Cases chip's Lime Juice * Tea. Tea. Tea. We offer special inducements m all kinds of Tea. Pure Ceylon (Mountain Grown) m 5 and 101 b boxes and 1 and lb packets Pure Indian m 5 and 101 b tins, and 1 and packets Blended Tea m 5 and 101 b tins, and 1 and lb packets Nelson and Moate, Saxon, Arab, Jameson and Anderson, Etc FLETCHER BROS., CASH SUPPLY STORES, BAST STREET, ASHBURTON, AND 116 and 118 High Street, Ohnstchurch. Dixit. Dixit. Bixit. mHE3E CELEBRATED WATCHES ARE THIS BEST VALUE EVER OFFERED IN THE WATCH LINE IN ASHBURTON., HEW CONSIGNMENT WEAR LIKE SILVER LOOK .LIKE SILVER THE DIXET, Open Face «Os and 95s THE DIXIT, Hunting Cases ... 3O? BUY YOUR WATCHES FROM 8. Salek. GET 10QR WATOHE3, CLOCKS, AND JEWELLERY REPAIRED T S. Salek's, EAST .STREET, SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. The Largest and Finest stock of Jewellery, Silver and Electro-plated Ware is to be found at 8. SALEK, DIRECT IMPORTER, ( EAS.T STREET,