The Ashburton Guardian.

vol. xvin. no. 4^35

Ashbuktojs : Wednesday, July 7, 1897.

PRICE: OVE PE^T^Y



NUSW ZEALAND '^f^^BfSHIPPING 00.8 LINE KOYAL MAIL STEAMERS, FOR LONDON, Via Monte Video, Teneriffe & Plymouth. Best Accommodation for all classes of passengers at Lowest Rates. Port of Steamers. Toss. Departure. Date. Kaikoara 4607 Wellington July 8 Tongariro 4163 — Sept.. 2 Rtmhine 6127 — Sept. 30 Rircmtaka 4515 — Nov. ,25 ,, We are now prepared to book through passages to the West Coast of South America and Bahia, Pernambuco, and the Falkland Islands. Rates and other par ticulare on application. Fo further particulars apply to FRIBDLANDER BROS., Ltd. Agents, Ashhurton. inwi [||||t |N .. ,  , i r SHAW, SAYILL AND. ALBION COMPANY, LIMITED. FOR LONDON. j^jl "OOYAL MAIL STKA 4rajKS»s. -*-*J MERS, with superior \Kh^kS^ accommodation for all classes ■^^^™"" of passengers, calling at Monte Video or Rio, Teneriffe and Ply mouth. ___ Tons Commander From Date. lonic ...4753 Kempson... Lyte'n June 24 , Tokomaru 6238 Maxwell... — Aug. 14 Aotea ... 6346 Scotland ... — Aug. 19 Gothic ... 7730 Kidley ... — Sept. """ CARGO STEAMERS. Pakeha ... 4331]Proaser ...jWell'tiiJuly 8 Maori ... 5200 Moffatt .... — Raugitira 4045 Burton .. — Mamari ... 3583 Levack ... — Matatua... 3320 Holmes ... — Aotea and Tokomaru carry saloon passengers only. HANMER AND GRAVES, Agents. UNION STEAMSHIP COMPAN U OF NEW ZEALAND, Limited STEAMERS S AIL FROM LYTTELTON ASUNDER: For Westport and Greymonth—Weekly. Wellington— Monday, Tuesday, Thurs day and Saturdays NOTE—For extra sailings see advertise ment io Christchurch papers Dunedin — Mondays, Fridays and alternate Tuesdays and Saturdays Nelson and Picton, via Wellington— Tuesday and Saturday Sydney, via Auckland — Alternate Thursdays The above are buljecb to alteration; reference should therefore be made to Chrlscchurch daily papers for dates and hour of sailing For further particulars apply to F. FERRIMAN, Agent, Ashburton. ■■—iMWiMiirwuw— » mil" a—"—rrimnnim



ASHBURTON PERMANENT BUILDING AND INVESTMENT SOCIETY. ON and after Thursday, the 7fch day of January, 1897, this Office will be CLOSED FOR THE WEEKLY HALF HOLIDAY, ON THURSDAY, instead of SATURDAY, And will be open until 4 p.m on Saturday, after that date. EDWARD STEPHENS, Manager. fi W. J. PARSONS, MONUMENTAL MASON, Manchester Street, Christohuroh. R. HANDOOCK, Agent. Samples can be aeen at my office, Standard Office Buildings, Ashburton. 2 125 SMOKE THE NEW VENUS Dark Aromatic Plug 1 Tobacco. THE CELEBRATED & BEST BPANE MANOTAOTUKED IKOM CHOICEST VIRGI IA LEAF



I^PRIZS MEDAL _* PUEECEYMIIIIHiMIi Ron Within He Reach of AD' EACI PRICE a 7— AMD UP TO 0% I A 4/PERLB.;^/^| SOLD BY AIL 6ROCEHS. HAVE NOTHING ELSE. E. DUCKWOKTH & SON, TTNDEBTAKERS, Cabinetmakers, and \_) Upholsterers, Burnett Street, Ashburton, Private Residence—Opposite^ Fire Brigade Station. 105 THE TRADE SUPPLIED. STKATHMOBE PRIVATE TT OSPI T. A L RiviTE Hospital EXTENSIVE ADDITIONS JUST COMPLETED. UNEQUALLED IN THE COLONIES FOR MEDICAL AND SURGICAL OASES. /"lAN Accommodate upwards of FORTY (40) MALE and FEMALE PATIENTS. TERMS : From 2 Guineas per week. Apply to— THE MATRON, Steathmob,e Private Hospital, Ferry Road (just iiver East Belt), Christ -6 135 chvch. QTARTLINGAI WnCBMENT.— |^5 You can purchase Groceries, Enamelled ware, Crookery and Glass, Boots and Shoes, Oatsheaf Chaff, Bran and Sharps at Hamp s'ead, and have Goods delivered at your door at Town Prices. A quantity of the famous Mauritius Sugar for Jam making just to hand.—E. Mahood, East Belt Cash fcitore. Telephone No 76. - One Box of Clarke's B 41 Pills watran ted to cure all discharges from the Urinary Organs, in either Bex (acqmred or cona i tutional), Gravel and Pains in the Back Guaranteed free from Mercury. Sold in Boxes 4s 6d each, by all Chemists and Patent medicine Vendors throughout the World Proprietors : The Lincoln and Midland OouNOTEsDairGCoiMPAUY. [ inoola, frngla 0



MUSICAL. ___ MUSIC. lyr is s "~jr< arson MUSIC TEACHER, Corner Wills and William Street. Llewellyn Owen, PIANOFOKTE, SINGING AND HARMONY, AND MANDOLINE. The NEW'TERM will COMMENCE on MONDAY, February 1, THE VIOLIN. MISS BESSIE BIMMONDS, Teacher of the Violin, Will resume Teaching at her Booms, SAWDERS' BUILDINGS, on SATURDAY, January 23, from 1 o'clock p.m. ; also, following Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. Termß oh application. A CARD MRS A r\ pLARIDQB, A. \J. Vyi-ARIDGE. TEACHER (?F PIANOFORTE, ORGAN, and SINGING COX STREET, ASHBURTON. Jperms on Application. lANOFORTE, SINGING, ORGAN, AND THEORY OF MUSIC. iyr rs "oowMAN t^ox Member of the Canterbury Society of Professional Musicians, Havblock Street, AbHBURTON. RAKAIA^RIDAYS. Pupils prepared for Trinity. College Examinations!. LOOK CHEAP WINTER FIRING. NEW MOUNT ISOMEBS COAL. OUTPUT ha 3 Trebled during the lasi twelve months. IT IS USED EVERYWHERE. *■ This Coal ia the Best and Cheapest Stean and Household Coal in the market. Used in the Woollen Factory and Canter bury Fiour Mills. GIVES SPLENDID RESULTS, WRITE FOR PRICES TO 0. T. PAEK, ■%ouni so mis as,



NEW GOODS JUST OPfiNID, CRAIGHEAD & BERRYMAN, rhe leading Tailors ?nd outfitters, Ashburton. 4 29 BAZAAR STABLES, BURNETT STREET, ASHBURTON, (Close to Arcade) WE CAN SUPPLY, at a moment 8 notice, BUGGIES, DOGCARTS, AND SADDLE HORSES. Also a FIRST-CLASS DRAG, suitable for Picnic Parties, Electioneering and other processions. Matched teams and pairs also provided. Stables open at all hours. TREVURZA Bros 4 46 PROPRIETORS. TVUY YOUR WATCHER CLOCKS, & JEWELLERY, SILVER AND EJV WARE FROM G. JESSON, PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER AND JEWELLEK, East Street, Ashburton.. WANTED, j^non secondhand bags * NEWCASTLE, WESTPORT, BRUNNER NUTS, MOUNT SOMERS, AND ALLANi)ALE COALS, always in Stock. ALSO— COKE, FIREWOOD, POSTS, RAILS* STAKES, and all fencing material. I wish to draw the attention of the public the celebrated .« AIL AND ALE COAL, Which has held its own against all the Ligniteß in the market. It is screened, and burns with a flame to a clean ash, leaving no dangerous embers, and is really the best and cheapest Native coal to be had. One trial will convince you. James Elliott, SOLE AGENT, WEST STREET, Opposite D. Thomas' Grain and Wool Stores. Telephone No. 83, DENTISTRY. PAINLESS EXTRACTION OF TEETH BY NITROUS OXIDE GAS A Specialty. Fee for administration ... 6s. AH kinds of Dental work executed on the premises. Satisfaction Guaranteed. G. F. DODDS, SURGEON DENTIST, Burnett Street, Ashburton, WANTED Knowa—A. Orb, Agent for the celebrated Fearnought Serges defy aea air, and water- 3 135 EX "Gothic." Barrett Bros have re ceived through their agents, direct from English Manufacturers, some special lines in Drapery, etc. Cash discount One Shilling in the Pound.- 4'The Hall," East Street BOOTS, Boots, Boots, wonderfully chea]; at Mellor's Zealandia Boot Store. rpHOSE who are married may also have c I pleasant recollection of the Recorc Keign by purchasing for their home a lovelj toned, well finished American Organ, ab t very moderate cost, at H. Bairetow's,



DAVID THOMAS, | Auctioneer, Land, Insurance & hstaic | Agent, Valuator, Woo) and Grain Broker, i ASHBURTON, Loans Negotiated Weekly Sales of Live Stock—Tinwald and Ashburton Alternately Fortnightly Sales of Sheep Skins, Fata, Hides, etc., on Fbidats Sales of Wool Throughout the Seasoa Grain Bought and Sold on Commission Oleari ax Sales as per arrangements AGENT FOR— Matson and Go, Ohristchurch Booth, McDonald and 00, Ohristchurch White's Sheep Dip Walter A. Wood Oo Lightband's Belting i London and Lancashire Insurance Company Graham's Foot Rot Composition Wright, Stevenson and Co, Dunedin Planet Junior Garden and Field lools Belfast Manures I beg to inform my Rakaia Clients and others that I have appointed Me W. Bargqck as my Agent in the Rakaia district DAVID THOMAS, Ashburton GREAT REDUCTION IN PRIOB OF PLANET JR. TOOLS DAVID THOMAS. , i ASHBURTON* i = WHITE'S = = SHEEP DIP, = THE BEST AND CHEAPEST IN THE MARKET. DAVID THOMAS, AGENT, ASHBURTON -z= 15,000 = "ORION" COOKING RANGES IN USE IN THIS COLONY. I ""~~"~™"~~™"~ *■ i 7 y ——~_^__ PATgMT tfhltw." 1 IjiHAeicL'teKJ Ifi ' 'V/^^^ THEY BURN LIGNITE, TRUE GOAL OR WOOD UP TO 24in NO SETTING°"REQUIRED. i With Stove Pipe can be worked out in the open. SPLENDID BREAD ! BAKERS. With Cast Iron or Copper Boilers. TSie Copper Boilers are large and Tinned inside. REPAIRS ARE A MIFIMUM. Made in all sizes, single or double ovens. High or low pressure boilers. j Sold by all Ironmongers, from whom Catalogues can be obtained, or from the maker, H. E. SHACKLOCK, SOUTH END FOUNDRY, DUNE DIN. 6 135 SHEARMAN BROS., FAMILY GROCERS, IRONMONGERS, AND GENERAL IMPORTERS. KEROSENE. KEROSENE. WE have just landed a large consignment of DOUBLE REFINED KEROSENE, for which we are Sole Agents for Ashburton. This oil ie Guaranteed absolutely safe, it burns for longer and produces a much steadier and brighter light than any other Oil in the Market. No house should be without it. , r 250 BOXES CANDLES. 250 Including Finest Stearine, Sperm, Paraffin Wax, Fluted Wax, Piano, Self-Fitting Bedroom, etc., etc., which we are disposing of at Chrietchurch Prices.) OATMEAL. ~-"~" OATMEAL. 6 TONS CELEBRATED GORE OATMEAL S Acknowledged to be the Finest Oatmeal; in the Colony. Guaranteed free from any adulteration. Being in direct communication with the best British and Continental Manufacturers of all classes of goods, and buying for Prompt Cash, enables us to offer them Cheaper^than most Wholesale Houses in the Colony. BICYCLES. "~ BICYCLES, AGENTS FOR THE AUSTRAL CYCLE AGENCY, Ltd. WORLD'S GREATEST CYCLE DEALERS. Sample of machines may be seen on view in window. Catalogues and all information on application, SHEARMAN" BROS., MARKET HOUSE. Telephone 53



H>r*ry Zander. JUST LANDED 1000 bags 1000 KAGS MAURITIUS QUGAR. USB NO 01 HER FOB YOUR JAM. Bern? Zander, TCheapest Grocer in Ashburton. ~~ Fust landed, Ex Kaikoura and Fazilka, 100 Oasea CASTOR OIL 100 Cases VALVGLTNE 10 Bales SEAMING TWINE 1000 Feet LEATHER BELTING tIOO Galvanised STEEL COLLARS HORNSBY & RANSOME PLOUGH SHARES Barbed and Plain FENCING WIRE 200 Drums LINSEED OIL CROCKERY and GLASSWARE Etc Eto HENRY ZANDER, WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANT. TO FARMERS AND DEALERS. /"CLEARING AND SKIN SALES con* V^ ducted, and Saleyarda regularly attended to, under the Supervision of MR DAVID ZANDER, Auctioneer. Brooke's and Odham's Sheep Dips always on hand. Advances made against Shipments of Lamb and Mutton, My London" Agent is known'for hia utmost reliability. HENRY ZANDER,. | STOCK AND STATION AGENT. TO CONTRACTORS AND CARRIERS. X HAVE ALWAYS FOR SALE OATSHEAF CHAFF CRUSHED OATS CRUSHED BARLEY FEED OATS BRAN and SHARPS HENRY ZANDER, GENERAL MERCHANT. XBEG to intimate that I have just landed a Large aud Varied Stock GUNS. GUNS. GUNS, HOuLIS' BEST MAKE. Single and Double Barrel, Breach and Muzzle Loading, well worthy of inspection] REVOLVERS. REVOLVERS AMMUNITION. AMMUNITION. Cartridges and Cartridge Cases, Caps, Shot, Gunpowder, Powder and Shot Flasks, Cartridge Belts, Recap pers, Loaders, Wads, Punches, etc. Henry Zander TjIVERYONE accustomed to using the JlLi A.C. Ointment Will find equal satisfaction' in using the | Bee Ointment, For which everyone is kindly requested to ask instead of the AC OINTMENT. Carefully note that a diagram of a Bee is in the centre, and Edward Gallichau'a Factory, Ashurst, Few Zealand, on the end of every pot. Bee Ointment is every mother's true .friend ; on the weakest baby, or the strongest man's flesh it is always successful. Price, Is 6d, Bee Ointment is espacially manufactured as a horse and cattle dressing Price —2s 6d AC Corn Cure, for hard or soft corns warts, and bunions—Price Is AC Vegetable Pills, for male and emale use, 30 pills in every box. and quite equa to anything imported—price Is 6d EDWIN CALLiCHAH, PROPRIETOR AND MANUFACTURE!? Ashurst, N.Z, Canterbury Representative, MR G. P. HOATTEN, Ashburton, The following testimonies to the value of the Ointment are good enough for any thing :— Dear Sirs, —We have great pleasure in recommending your Bee Ointments. We have given them a thorough trial, both on man and beast, and they have proved to be quite as good as you represent. In future we intend to keep a stock always on hand— We remain, yours faithfully, (T'HARPLIN & Co. Medical Dispensary, New Plymouth, October 19, 1896 Dear Sir,-~I have sold your Bee Ointment and AC Corn Cure and Pills for the past three years, and I have never known of one purchaser to express a regret for pro curing your lines. They have in every case which has come under my notice, given every satisfaction. Your Bee Ointment has proved itself one of the best healing oint ments procurable. Kindly forward me one gross of Bee Ointment, small size, at your earliest convenience. Yours truy, A. E. Sykes, Chemist. Hundreds of other testimonials too numerous to publish. WANTED Known—The New Flannel ette, half wool and cotton, 36 inche wide, everlasting wow,—A, Orb, 3138



RECOBD SALE mO FUR. HER REDUCE THE LARGE STOCK OF Ri'ATIONBBY, BOOKS, ALBUMS, ACCOBDIONB, AND GENERAL FANCY GOODS The Sale will be continued for another THIRTY DAYS, FROM TUESDAY, 15th ihbx., FURTHER REDUCTIONS Will be me.de in all lines. DO NOT MISS THE Record Month's Sale. LAY IN A STOCK when goods can bo bought cheap at H. N. ANDERSON'S, (Late L. F. Andrewes and C 0,,) • EAST STREET, ASHBURTON. OE3 W. DQ O cc p^ £d <j •^j -*j o o o "X« "*«j "+^» co co «o ■*■*». *>«*. r~-* Uj Uj Uj ___ MRS MORTON (Late of Tauranga, Bay of Plenty), BEGS TO NOTIFY thaf; she has com menced business ir the premises next to Messrs Fletcher Bros., East Street, as FRUITERER & CONFECTIONER. Visitors to Ashburton, and the Public generally, are invited to give her a call; particularly on market days, when special arrangements will be made to meet the public convenience. All Fruits in season and imported obtain able. Afternoon Tea a specialty. EAST STREET (late Diggle's.) 680 AUSTRALIAN MUTUAL PROVIDENT dOOIETY New Zealand Branch: Head Office, Customhouse-quay, Wellington! Local Board of Directors : The Hon Morgan S. Grace, M.D., CM.®., tti.Xi.o, (Chairman') The Hon Charles J. Johnston, XX.CX (»spity Chairman) Alfred de Bathe Brandon, Esq The Hon Edward Richardson, C.M.(J,, M.L.C. John Dubcsii, Esq THE OLDEST, WEALTHIES'I, AND MOST PROSPEROUS Australian Like Office, 4Nd thi LARGEST IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE. The only Mutual Life Office which declares a BONUS EVERY YEAK Ihe Method of Valuation adopted by this Society ie o 1 the K'ost Stringeiit Character, and ensures a Consi dsrably Larger Reserve to maet Liabilitica thantht-t | hild by any other office in the Australasian (Doloniep. ACCUMULATED FUND EXCEED!? £13,750,000 (Thirteen and Three-quarter MiHk.m Storliiig ) ANNUAL INCOME EXCEEDS £2,000,000 (Two Millions S-erJicg) \ POLICIES IN FORCE „ 128,1)96 (3um Assured , £43.7^1 231 Oißh Bonuses Divided .. .. £6.813 869 BONUSES CASH BONUS for ONB year, 1896, £-128 70S yielding Reversionary Bocu^tss anumnting to j£830,000 after making SPECIAL EBSBRVBS. CASH BONUSES declared for last FIVE yeara, ove* TWO MILLIONS, yielding Heversioaary Bonuaef exceeding FOUE MILLIONS ASSURE YOUR LIF in the A.M. P. SOCIETY and Bfioure a BONOS EVERY YEAR. Expenses of MaQagement 8| per cent cm the total income EDWARD W. IOWE, Resident Secretary. Brarch Office— I CuHtom House Quay, Wellington JAMES HAIR, District Secretary District Office: Cathedral Square, Christohurch. WANTED KNOWN—Mrs Huffa having taken the premises Jately I occupied by Mr Q. Neill, intends to open same as Ladies' Dining and Refreshment Rooirs, where visitors will find & long felt, want supplied. Meals at all hours. A few boarders will find all the comforts of a home. WANTED Known—A Cheap Boofc Sale »b Msxlo'bs, for fourteen days only.



Friedlande. Bros., umi.ea. WE HAVii FOR PrtlV^TE SALE a Complete Thrashing Plant, consist* ing of 8 Horse Power Traction Engine by Burrell & Sodb ; Combine by Clayton Sbuttleworth ; Elevator, Clover Shelter, Portable Whari, Water Cart, etc. For further particulars apply to FKIEDLA.NDER BROS., Ltd. B. FRIEDLANDER, Auctioneer. _~_ TO LET. ""• /"\NE TWO-ROOMED HOUSE WITH . ' . STABLE AND TWO ACRES OF LAND AT ALLEN iO'N.: Apply FRIEDLANDER BROS., Lw>. FOTATOis7~POTATOfsr TFE ARE BUYERS OF PRIME TABLE POTATOES.' FRIEDLANDER BROS., Limited, X)Tr E HAVE FOR SALE— PBIME TABLE POTATOES. FRIEDLANDER BRO«., Ltd. V)OE ARE CASH BUYERS OF \ WHEAT RYEGRASSi OATS COCKSFOOT BARLEY CLOVERS CHAFF And al other Farm Produce. FRIEDLANDER BROS., Ltd. 3 THE TKA OF THE AGE, SAXON TEA. SAXON TEA, mRY IT, AND YOU? WILL HAVI KO OTHER.f SAXON TEA. SAXON TEA, Professor Bickerton reporta that SAXON TEAS Is absolutely Pare and of good quality GRAHAM & CO's DATENT P E R M AN E IST FOOT-ROT CURE, Is a certain remedy for the disease, and can bo applied at a cost of lees than ONE HALF-PENNY PER SHEEP. Read opinions of Government Inspectors of Stock. Blenheim, Maelbokough. In re your remedy for Foot-Rot I have no hesitation in spying it is the most effeotive have met, and has been used in the district uatior my charge with the best results. I have recommended end shall continue to recommend it to any owners of f beep affected with Foot-Rbtj a disease which I regret to say is so often negleoted until it' takes euch a { Btrepg hold on tho fleck that it can no longer be ignored, when it might have been easily put flown st its first appearance by a little atten ion bsicJ the use ofyour remedy. * JOHN MOOBE, Inspector of Stook Ffl?ruary 23, 1895 Department of Achucultukjs, Hawera .. Id reply to your requees as to my reporting to you my opinion of the result of your dretsiri^ fheep iv Mr Lysapfet's an Mr Nicholas' with .your Foot-liot Speoific, 1 have every cosncicßoo in saying that the cure waa a perfect one, alihougti the weather was very we' and stormy snd the examination was only six dsys sifter the feet had been dressed. Some of the sheep w-re very badiy sfleotedi Dourly the whole of '.he foot having rotted off. I should rfcommend a 1 Fheep,owners to uea your Specific if their sheep are troubled with Foot-iet, a-- it is pasilv put on, and I am mt* it will give satisfaction.—l remain, youn truiy &LBIXANDBE MONEO, r , Inepeotcr of Stock, Jive 22,1895. Genuine only from D. THOMAS, ASHBDBTON, Or from the Sole Proprietors, GBAHAM AND CO-, Csrltoo Gore Road, Roaene&th, WpW;ngton. LOW VIIALITI DH CHURCHILL'S Syrup of Hypophoßphite of lime is prescribed by tho faculty for tho core of Consump tion, Chronic Cough and general debility IT contains two Of the principal ingredients necoNMf for building up the Human Frame, and which ut considered deficient in the above complaiota. vil, Phosphorus and- Lime. It oanno be too o%U recommended for delicate ohildren. Dr Churchill's Compound Syrup ol HYrOPHOSPHITES b real brain food, and in cases where mußcuia Mi 4 nervous exhaustion has acquired a world-wide rtpflt ition. Bach bottle bears Dr Churchill* lignaturei ( Prepared only by SWAN, CHEMIST. | pakxs