PHASES OF THE MOON.

Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. THURSDAY, SEPTBMBER 3, 1896 TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

-»--■ The Ashburton School Committees are not alone m New Zealand m theit endeavour to establish a system of technical education for their county. It is sought after m other centres as well, and sooner or later this question of technical instruction will have to be grappled with by a power higher than the Education Boards. We fell satis fied the School Committees have with them m their laudable object, the hearty sympathy of the whole popu lation. If the geueration of New Zealanders, whose education is more particularly entrusted to our hands to day, and those who shall follow after, are to hold their own m the great 'industrial struggle m which all the world is now engaged— a struggle born within the last half century, but which centuries m the future may not see the end of, if end it ever haye — technical /education must be given, and no one needs to be told of its advantages. Britain was once^ called a nation of sheep-keepers. At that time she bore also the proud title of " the workshopof the world." Her manufactures were to be found m every part of the known world, and " made m England " was a good enough recommendation any where. The long-headed Germans, the quick-witted French, and our keen cousins 'of the States looked on at the tremendous Bt rides our manufactures were taking, and at their own languish ing everywhere. They sought the cause and found it, and finding it found the remedy. Their handicraftsmen must rival those skilled workmen of Great Britain j but to do so they must" begin early." Then began that industrial training of the people which has forged the manufactures of the German speak ing races so well to the front, and caused an expansion of their trade and commerce, so great as to make John Bull stand m his well-known attitude of astonishment — with his plug hat uplifted m one hand, while the other clasps his ample forehead. And this expansion has reached John Bull's own colonies. His rivals have poached, as it were, on his own preserves, and their wares marked " made m Germany," or elsewhere, are to be found, flaunted and tempting, on the stalls of every colonial emporium. Those people began at the beginning ; and John Bull saw that beginning, saw it go on, saw the growth it made surge against his own trade with dangerous and alarming force. But as usual he was slow to move. When he did join the. race he had to go back to scratch. For some time he has been trying to follow on the German lines of industrial training, but he has a long handicap to run off, a big leeway to make up, before he can get abreast of his Oontinental neighbours. He will catch up to them m the end no doubt, and we m the colonies must fol'ow m his tracks. These are days when the buyer m the market looks at his coin, and says it will buy for him the very best, and he will take only the beat. The seller who has the best on sale at the lowest price gets the business. These are days when the man who can do everything is not required. Division of labor ties him down to one thing, asks him to see to one department only, and obtain of that a special knowledge that will include all about it that is known, and as much more as he can add by his own inquiry and research, for it will be wanted m the keen compe tition that has to be met. But there are principles and fundamental items of scientific knowledge, and specialties of skill that are common to all handi crafts, and these ought to be mastered by every boy during his school years. There is no room now m the front ranks for the people who would live on laurels won m the past. Industrial success must be made m the living present, and those m the struggle must keep well abreast with the march of modern improvement, be able to hold their own m skill, and be fearless m enterprise. If otherwise, the onward tide will rush past, and the laggard, will be left behind. Technical educa tion, as supplementary to our intellec tual and literary training, is indispen sable to a people like those of New Zealand. The ahnple opportunities and facilities for general education that this colony provides for her sons and daughters show unquestionably a desire that her people should have all the advantages that enlightenment and a cultivated intelligence can give. But Here is just this difficulty with our educational system that it gives no technical training — does not fit m any special way for the industrial life that so many of our children must follow. It is a system well calculated to produce clerks and shopkeepers, and followers of "genteel" occupations. But the colony has few billets open of that kind that yield a living, and with the applicants for them a fairly strong army could be recruited. Far be it from us to urge or advocate any slackening of the intellectual training, but it is of the first import ance to the children now being taught that their education should be supple mented by a training m manaal and technical skill that would fit them for entering upon industriaUpursuits which are m an especial degree the charac teristics of, and imperative m, colonial life. The School Committees are to be commended for their efforts m the direction they have taken, and for their courage m facing an undertaking beset with many difficulties. Behind them m their effort ought to range every parent m the county, so that their hands may be strengthened and their hearts encouraged. It will be long, perhaps, before technical training will be taught m every school m the county, but much may be done from a centre, and that much may be attained at no distant date. We notice that m Auck land the committees are approaching the JJoard of Education for support to, or the taking over of, the technical school existing there, 'and we think, with the deputation that waited on that Board, that this is a work that ought to be carried on by the central body, and " that no private body dependent mainly on private funds could give tg it jbhat extension which eobnioal education ought sopner or

later to have over the whole provincial j district." In several of the Australian colonies they are ahead of us m this matter of technical education, where technical classes are established m all the larger schools ; and m all large centres such as Ashburton the Board, with what aid it may be likely to obtain, if any, from local sources, should establish at least one class, and that done, the extension over the county, and m fact the whole educa tional district, would be only a matter of time and detail.

WHEAT.

From advices to July 11 to hand by the last Home mail, we learn that harvest was just about to begin, and thtkt m the earlier districts reaping would be largely 1 engaged in— if the weather remained fine. The cable master does not devote much attention to the weather ; he is far more interested m Australian eleven cricket to think of the possibility of farmers m New Zealand caring to know of the wheat prospects at Home. But the cablemaster has to report the weather m spite of himself. The " wet wicket" was a frequent reference m his cricket news, and though he did not know it, he was giving us some sort of a notion of how the crops were faring; for if it was too wet weather for successful and continuous cricket, it would not be very dry for continuous harvesting. Our advices state that a great improvement m crop prospects took place m June m nearly all parts of the United Kingdom, though a few unfortunate districts m the Midlands and the South-west of England had hardly any of the rain which fell generally elsewhere, and bountifully m the North of England, Scotland, and the North of Ireland. Generally there was rain enough to save the late spring crops from threatened destruc tion, and to improve the wheats and early barley and oats. Taking England as a whole, however, wheat is the only cereal promising to be up to average, and that crop w^U be considerably above the ordinary standard. There are too many light crops of barley m the southern half of England for ah average to be realised m the country an a whole ; while oats are short m the straw m all but exceptional dis tricts, and light also m a great many. The English hay crop will be even shorter than it was last year, the second cut being very much less promising, while the first was ex-: tremely light, except m parts of the lucky North. Scotland is the most fortunate of thp three divisions of the kingdom this year, and there it is probable that all cereals will be up to the average, and possibly hay and roots as well. In Ireland this may also prove the case, though it is doubtful, as the south of that country h&s suffered seriously from drought. Potatoes there, as m England and Scotland, promise splendidly. For the kingdom as a whole, then, the harvest just beginning is likely to be a tolerable one, and not such a failure as it threatened to be six weeks ago. From the same source and under the same date of July 11, we gather some hints .as to. the outlook of the wheat trade- "As harvest; m Europe has approached the hope of a sub stantial rise m the price of wheat, reasonably entertained m the early part of the year, has grown small by degrees, and has now nearly reached the vanishing point. A crop con siderably above'average for Europe as a whole is expected at the present time, and such prospect is enough to keep trade m the dumps. Still, we are not ' out of the wood ' yet, and until the harvests of' Europe and America are mainly safe it wi|l be pre mature to speak confidently of the future course of the wheat trade. What is there to set against the fine general prospect the European wheat harvest ? In the first place, it is admitted, on the other side of the Atlantic that the American wheat crop must be smaller than that of last year. The win tor crop seems to be about as poor as that of 1895, while the spring division is extensively injured by rust, and will not approach last season's great yield. Then, m spite of the con siderable stocks of old wheat still held m the United States—the spring wheat crop of 1895 having proved even greater than was anticipated — the world's stocks are very low. They were estimated by Beerbohm to be on July 1 only 14,230,000 quarters, against 17,525,000 quarters held a year ..before, 19,247,000 quarters m 1894, and 20,129,000 quaarters m 1893. This is of all the more im portance because the small supplies from India and Argentina during the rest of the cereal year will tell con siderably upon stocks at the end of the period, though new wheat from this country and America will be coming into use. It is clear that if the world's supply proves equal to the demand during the next twelve months it will be entirely owing to the abundance of crops m Europe, and at present there is a good deal of uncertainty as to Russia and Boumania, while there is time for a general disaster, such as a very wet harvest, or scorchiag weather m the Russian spring wheat territories, to change abundance into scarcity for Europe as a whole, The balance of probabilities seems to be m favor of the maintenance of prices at about the present level, and it is not easy to see how any prolonged reduction can happen, unless the American crop turns out much better than it is now expected to be.

AN ADVENTIST PROPHECY.

The adventists of San Francisco fixed the Last Pay for July 7 of this year. People who still

live and move have their being do no

require to be told that this is only another instance of the wisdom of the saying now become proverbial—" Never prophecy unless you know." We who have outlived July 7 can afford to wonder why present day prophets of the Adventist order will waste their time and beat the air m fogging out the coming of an event which is as completely veiled to the mental vision of mortal man as is perpetual^ motion to the genius of invention. In fact there" is a better chance for the inventor scoring than for the prophet. The San Francisco Chronicle editor, evidently writing on the Sunday evening after the prophecy didn't qod)9 off, and after Uo bad

listened to a sermon m -which the preacher "improved the ocsasion" made reference to the failure, but before making the reference be seems to have somewhat of a scare, judging by the picture he draws of what might have been had the prophets " struck it." He says — An event of dire conse queLces was booked for July 7. If ifc hajfl occurred there would have been no issue of the Chronicle the next day, as its presses would not have been m working order, and its staft of news gathers would have been conscripted into the army of the sanctified. After a revision of the figures of the many world-deatroyers of the past aad a careful observation of the omens of the apocalypse, the Adventiata finally fixed their faith uppn July 7 as the last day of human reckoning. There could be no mistake they thought m the calculation. All the indications were complete. There had* lately been " wars and rumors of wars." The final act m the prelude to the cataclysm and the. one. that had heretofore been lacking m the required concatenation of events wouhTbome on the 7th, when the modern Babylon would open its hundred gates to the "beast with seven heads and. ten horns ' and its mighty following from the tents of Magog. " But it didn't come off." Then the editor, feeling safe to go on with his daily work, assumes his customary attitude, and proceeds to "slate!' the Democrats.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Press says that the Premier offered the portfolio of Colonial Treasurer to Mr - A. Saundern, who declined to accept it>. The funeral of the Bey. Father Newport who was drowned near Pott Chalmers, book plaoe on Wednesday, and was largely attended. > ' A. scientist says the sun is getting smaller by degrees anti beautifully less at the rate of niue inches m diameter every twenty-four hoars. It will be interesting to breeders of light horses to learn that Mr J. McDonnell has purchased ihe thoroughbred horse Marlborough, and will trawl him m the same districts as last, year as will be seen m our advertising columns. There were lively scenes on Wednesday at the Auckland Women's Liberal League. Nineteen members resigned, they stated, as a protest against the tactics used ab * the last election of officers. Recriminative charges were bandied about A -curious lake has been found m the' island of Kildine, m the North Sea, which contains freßh water . on the' surface, supporting fresh water oreatures aßdi vegetation, but is salt some distance below, where sponges, codfish, and other' marine animals flourish, Arthur Clarke, a single man. a farm labourer, aged 40 years, died suddenly ab Woodlands on Wednesday. He had been drinking. He called ab a blacksmith's shop with a bottle of whisky, gave him a nip, drank the rest himself, and was shortly afterwards found dead on the roadside. According to the result of the £10 competition, promoted by the Triad, the six most popular songs amongst the readers of that journal are * Home sweet home,' ♦ The last rose of summer,' 'Ye banks and braes,' • Robin Adair,' * The death kelson,' •The better land,* m thatorapr. " . •..;•

The Triad for September is to hand, <md is quite up to the standard of this usually interesting journal. It reflects great credit on. the printer. The musical supplement consists of a Bong — * The Organist, 1 by Mr R, C. Zimmerman, of Auckland. It is for a soprano or. tenor, and although the harmonies are rather faulty, the song is worth learning.

The colony is being flooded just now with the ' consultation ' prospectuses of one Benson — Harold Benson, Tasmania — m which ib is announced that there will be prizes for all and blanks for none ! Surely ' m vain is the net spread m the sight of any bird,' but we dare say there are fools m New Zealand who will throw- their money at this man's head, and hope for better luck next time, when they have suffered the inevitable loss.

The Waimate Times of Wednesday publishes the following re the New Licensing Bill :— * House of Representa tives, August 26, 1896. Mr George Dash, Waimate,— Dear Sir,— Yoor letter and oopy of reaolafciou just received. , I oonour wish the latter except as to the bare majority. You will be glad to hear that the Premier promised to-day to pass the Bill this session if possible.— lam, etc., W. J. Steward.' .

Business In the township of Petone is at a complete standstill and has been so since the murder committeed on Thursday last. All day on Monday little groups of people were to be seen standing m the roadway, at street corners opposite the house where the murder was committed, and outside the hotel where the inquest was being held. Work does not«eem to be thought of — the murder, and what its outcome will be, being the all-absorbing topic— New Zealand Times.

The skirt seems to be dying fast m France. What is called * cycling costume' — by which is not meant skirts— is now regularly worn by many young women of the middle classes, even when they are not riding on bicycles! You see young Frenchwomen m unconcealed knicker bockers, sauntering about seaside places,' ' or walking about country lanes, or even going about their work m Paris. The dress has been adopted because It is mqre convenient, comfortable, and, most of all, perhaps (for the French bourgeoisie like to save money) because ib is cheaper.

One of the most curious facts with/ regard to snakes is that their eyes are never dosed. Sleeping or waking, alive or dead they are always wide eyed. If we take a dead suake and examine it closely we shall soon find the reason there are no eyelids. The eye is protected only by a strong scale, which forms apart of the epidermal envelope, and is oast off m a place with chat every time the reptile moults. The eye plate is as clear and transparent as glass and allows the most perfect vision, while at- the sam 6 time (as any close observer of the habits of the snake can easily discover) It is so hard and tough as perfectly to protect the delicate organ within from the thorns and twigs among which, m fliqbti from enemies or m pursuit of prey, the reptile so of cen hurriedly glides.

One or the greatest disasters ever " recorded, measured by the loss of life ib Involved, was thab which recently occurred m Japan. But;, asks the &t James s Gazette, do people realise it? Ib is singular how little is mnde In our news papers and ' common talk of some really 1 big ' event m comparison with certain quite little ernes. The recent tidal wave m Japan, ib is now clear, Involved a sacrifice of life and destruction of property nearly equal to that caused by the historic aar;hquake ab Lisbon— perhaps not much less than that which respired from the eruption of Vesuvius whloh destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneam. According to the official statement some 27,000 lives were lost, and nearly as many "persons injured. The tidal wave opsb Japan more of her subjects m a few minutes than she lost on all the Chinese battlefields pm togetbert

flHfc ASfißOlifoa GtlAftbiAti t M3SRSDA*, SEPTEMBER 8, 1896.



September— . d h m New Moon ... 8 1 13 am First Quarter ... 14 339 pm Fall Moon ... 22 10 19 am ' Last Quarter ... .30 1 28 pm October — 4 b m New Moon ... 7 948 am First Quarber ... 14 217 am Fall Moon, *,* 22 3 47/ am Last Quarter „, 90 850 am



Wanted. 1 WANTED to Borrow a small Sum of ( Money fur six months on peißonal security at ten per vent. Address X office of this paper. 9 18 L^OUND * Dog. Owner can have ■^ same by giviDg description and pay- ing expenses. Apply — this office. 015 XTy AN'I ED— A Young Man for a ( VV farm— for knockabout woik. chiefly amongst fences and feeding stock. None but practical men need apply. Apply Office of this paper. .97 OUR POCLTRY have won 37 First and numbers of special prizes this season. Young birds of various breeds for Sale very cheap. Kggs— Dark Brahma, Spanish, and Polish, 7s 6d a sitting —Pelham Sards, Ashburton. B •■ 8153 IVi AVY and Army, Pearson's Magazine, -*-^ Windsor Magazine, back numbers 6i ; back numbers, bound volumes cloth Kinsfolk, A. Swan ; The Riddle King, Justin McCarthy ; The Master Craftsman Besant ; Climax of the Ages, Varley.— H. M. Jones. .». .4.4/ ANTED Known— The 'Economic* "•» Kid Glove, four buttons, Is 9a per pair, is the Glove for everyday wear, — W. H. Collier. 1 AMPS. Lamps. Beautiful Bismarck "Xj-> Lamps, 3s llA.eaoh j Alarm Clocks, 3d lid each.— Fletcher Bros, East Street. . W' ANTED Known— You save 6s m every pound if you patronise Mellor's Cheap Boot Store. WANTED Known— We are clearing out all our Macintoshes, Jackets, Lined Cloaks And Dressing Gowns. No reasor.able offer refused for anything soiled or » 4 not up to date."— Mitohfll & Turner. CHEAPEST House m Canterbury for Garden and Farm Seeds Is Carson and Oo.'s. Six packets of Vegetable Seeds for Is ; Flower Seeds from Is dozen; Garden Tools of all sorts. WANTED Known— That J Moison will giva a good Discount for Cash for six weeks, being over-stocked and to make room for Summer Boots and Shoes, which will be m next week. Nothing but the choicest and best quality kept. Repairs as usual done at once ab the Premier Boot Store, Town Hall, East Street, Ashburton. SEEDS. SEEDS. Flower Seeds, Id .per packet. Vegetable Seeds, 3d per picket. All guaranteed New Seeds —Fletcher Bros., East Street. OUGH, Cough, Cough— l am still making my celebrated Cough Drops, None genuine unless stamped Flower's Cough.— H. A. Flower, Confectioner, Kast street. 5 24 NOTICE.— Are you going to build. Because the oheapeat shop for Hoofing, Iron Rtdging, Gutters, Nails, Lead, Spouting. Water Tanks, Pumps, Ranges, Register Grates, Locks and Hinges, Waßhing Boilers, and all sorts of Ironmongery, is J. W. Bardlet's, Ironmonger. Plumber, and Tinsmith. Telephone 32. \A A V TED Known— Bargains from YV floor to ceiling. — Mellor's Stock king Root Sale. A A N Tlfl DX no wn— Monste Clear V V ing Boot Sale at Mbllob' Zealan dia Booh Store. \\T AJN I h.X) Known— That Jfi. Mahood * » is still Helling all kinds of Grocery, Crockery, and Glassware at as reasonable a price as any other house m the trade Orders by letter or Telephone promptly attended to Families waited on daily. Telephone No 76 riTANTEO Known— Just opened, ex * * Pctkeha and Gothic, Flannelettes, white, stripes, and culoura ; Velveteens, black, all prices ; Colours, large variety, - Including new shades m Reseda, Ham- boldfc and Hungarian— Mitchell and Turner. .4/1 EN'S Bluchers ss, a good Strong iU- Nailed Shooter at 8s 6d ; a nice assortment of Ladies' and Children's Boots nd Shoes from Is 9d a pair at R Alcorns WANTED KNOWN.— Mrs Huffajm having taken the premises lately occupied by Mr G. Neill, Intends to open same as Ladles' Dining and Refresh- ment Rooms, where visitors will find a long felb want supplied. Meals at all hours. A few boardars will find all the comforts of a home. ( 4 196 JUSTV ARRIVED— A large variety of useful and Ornamental Goods, Dolls, Toys, aDd Novelties ; also, a job lot over one hundred assorted Baskets and Morocco and Russian Leather Handbags, to be sold at under ordinary coat price at Mas Aloorn's.. OW not to be ill, by Dr Emily B. Rhyder,eab fruit, choica fruit, good fruit, H. A. Flower's fruit. East Street, Ashburton. BANANAS, Bananas, ripe and souna ; also sweet D.E3. Oranges at H. A. Flower's, Confectioner and Fruiterer, East Street. ■"•.'. ENT'S Famous Bicycles for Ladies and Gentlemen can now be obtained from Carson and Co , Agents, Tyres and Extras m great variety. t \\ /"ANTED Known — Large delivery o VV the •Economic' Kid Gloves, four buttons, Is 9d per pair, worth much more.— W H. Collier. ;' ANTED Known— Ladies Shoes tan or blackt 6s 6d. — Mkllor's Cheap Boot Sale. 1. » ; ANTEDKnown— Go to The Corner V V for Newest Styles In Drapery and ; Millinery— W. H. Collier. * ANTED Known— We intend to shake up every Boob Shop In ' Ashburton. — Mellor's Clearing Boot Sale WANTED Known— lf you miss the Cheap Boot Sale you will be r sorry. — Mellor's, Tancred Street. ANTED Known — Maddens Re- freshment Rooms are the rooms Par Excellence. When in* town jlo not fall to give them a look up. Do you like a Loa that has a sweet nutty flavor, of good pile and bloom, m addition to its full weight, which a surprise visit) from the Inspeotor the other day proved Yon do? Well, go to Maddens! If yon are getting up a Spread m a private or general way. and would like your Pastry, Cakes, Jelließ, Creams, etc, to be a success, why, come along to Maddens m East Street, and you won't be disappointed. Bride, Christening and Birthday Cakes a specialty.



THE ESTABLISHMENT FOR WATOHES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION'S S. SALEK'S, , EAST {STREET. Botherham's Engllah Levers, specially made to S. Saiek's order, are THE BEST. T UST RECEIVED, a shipment of O S. Salbk's famed DIXIT DIXIT DIXIT WATOHES. The only GENUINE Dixib has "S. Salek, Ashburton" engraved on dial. $&• See that you get it. , For ONE MONTH ONLY these Watches are' offered at the specially low price of 15/- " i 5- 15/- --eaoh at • , S. SALER'S WATCHMAKER AND JEWELLER, EAST STREET. ~VTEW Tarf Register, 10s 6d; Young UN Ladies' Journal for August; Weldon's . Dressmaker and Children's Bazaar, July ; Quarterly Something to Read ; Scraps and Snapshots ; Half-yearly Boys of England ; * Virginia ' Waltz, 2 d ; Gold and Silver Paper for Fancy Dress. Large selection of Fans, — Andreweb, Anderson, and Co. WANTED Known— lien's Mercery, Clothing and Boots. For Goods that wear well, fit well, and look well, try that old eetabllshed firm— Mitchell it TVBNJCR,



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those Commodious Premises N ext Door to J. ORB & CO., will be enabled to Keep the Stock necessary fof carrying on a Large Business, by giving • The Beat Value IN THE TRADE ON STRICTLY CASH PRINCIPLES ONLY. Spring, Spring. Spring Goods, OPENING DAILY. THE BEST VALUE IN THE TRADE. liOOk Out! liOOk Out ! , Look Out! For Startling Values m Future Issues. Come Now and Inspect the New Goods, AT THE * Blue Rouse/ Between JOHN ORR & CO. and the CLOTHING FACTORY. EVEBYTHING NEW, EVERYTHING CHEAP, FOR CASH ONLY



Public Notices. j 111 OUT! iiwuii: imik iii i : SPRING AND SUMMER. The WIUE HOUWI \ ■ • ■ '■ Tub BIiUJE HOI1IE! 4 FTER CarefuUy Studying the adaptability of Ashburton for a Strictly Cash Drapery, Millinery, and Clothing busi- ness, HAVE TEOIDBD TO GO RIGHT INTO IT, and [having made Satisfactory arrangements to lease, m con- nection with the present < Blue House/



Important Announcement. G. L. BEATxH & CO., TTAVING MADE FRESH ARRANGEMENTS TO RETAIN THEIR ASHBURTON PREMISES, beg to intimate that they are constantly receiving New Shipments for the SPRING AND SUMMER TRADE. -v -PLEASE NOTE-- JUST OPENED UP, A Splendid Lot of Flannelettes, l»rints, etc., CHOICE PATTERNS. ar%. BEATH & Co. .' TAN6RED STREET, ASHBURTON, AND A GHRISTOHURCH.



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GET YOUR Seed Potatoes, Seed Potatoes. FROM FLETCHER BROS. A CHANGE of Seed Always Pays, as a Better and Heavier Crop is pro- duced. Our Potatoes are all specially raised for seed purposes from selected stocks m the very best potato producing districts. We would advise Ardors to be sent to us as early as possible, m order that they may be filled from ■^ jar own stocks, which occasionally become exhausted before the end of the 'BEAUTY OF HEBRON,' / This variety is Very Early, coming to the table before either Early Rose or Ashleaf Kidney^ and is far superior both m quality and productiveness. ' QUEEN OF THE VALLEY.' A very heavy cropper, and early potato. The tubers . are handsome and solid (capital variety for exhibition), boiling as white as milk' as dry as flour, and is also a fine keeper. THE * BRUCE.' This Potato, the potato of the future, is remarkable for its productiveness and its resistance of droughts and frosts, they have yielded at the rate of 17 tons per acre, having very few small, and is a first-class eating potato. ASHLEAF, 'MYATT'S EABLY PBOLIFIC An excellent and well-known variety ; valuable for sheltered borders and very early use. NEW POTATO— 'RICHABD SEDDON/ This fine new Potato, .selected from a number of seedings four years ago, sas been sent out to us from England by the raiser with a very high report of its qualities. Its habit of growth is dwarf, and rather compact, the haulm not exceeding 12 inches m height, with rich green smooth leaves. f The tubers are fairly large, of an oval-shape, and somewhat distinct, with few eyes near the surface ; flesh close m grain, and when cooked, of a dry and mealy nature, with a flavour equal to the finest of Potatoes grown. Being earjy and a heavy cropper it is fitted for an early market potato, and from general reports from the raiser we may class it with the best of all varieties now grown, < AMERICAN ALPHAS.' An excellent early variety, most prolific, and of excellent flavor. • LAPSTONE KIDNEY.' A well-known Kidney variety, excellent for winter use, good quality. « BATH KIDNEY.' A* well-known and approved variety of good quality. ' 'DERWENTS.' We have some epiendid samples from Orari and North Canterbury. < CLOVER SEEDS.' White or Dutch (Trefolium repens), Red (Trefolium pratense), Crimson (Trifolium incarnation). . V 'MANGEL AVUBZEL.' The greatest possible care is taken m growing all onr Mangel Seeds. Grown from selested roots they cannot fail to give the greatest satisfaction, and may be relied on for producing the greatest weight possible per acre under rich and liberal cultivation. Mammoth Long Red, Golden Ttukard, Champion Orange Globe} Etc. FLETCHER BEOS.. E A T STREET. Sole Agents m Ashburton and Ohristchurc for Nimmo & Blaib' Standard Seals, r»L»FHO!lfB 24 Box 67