THE COMING CYCLE.

CONSIDERABLE amusement, (writes •« The General" in the New Zealand \ Herald,) has been caused by the con troversy as to the coming price of the bicycle, and by the arguments against the fall in price which comeback like a boomerang. We are told that " dis appointed importers are praying to be j relieved of their stocks, even at a loss " Exactly so; and that is just the first way the decline will operate. The twenty • five guinea crowd have been all supplied pretty well over Christendom, and the twenty five guinea cycles will have to be offered to the fifteen or ten guinea crowd, or left to rust. That is stagu number one. Next the huge cycio factories that have been turning out twenty five guinea cycles will cease to turn out more for the price, for which there will be no more demand, and they will either tttrfi out tyOles at fifteen br ten guineas or also go to rust. As going to,mat is profitless,work ibey will go on turning out cycles as before, know, ing as well as ever they did that if 'they turn out inferior ones nobody •will buy, as the cycle is not a necessary of life, but only popularised by its excellence. And as they will strike a totally new constituency twentyfold more numerous than the former one, if the character is kept up, they will turn out twenty times as many as ever j they did, and the stupid ones that stick out for the high price will go to the wall. That is stage number two. Then the fifteen guinea crowd and the ten guinea crowd will be satisfied, and the only extension of manufacture will be from the creation of a new constituency which will be the five-guinea crowd, and the very same machineries will turn out the very same manufacture in the form of the five-guinea bicycle by ten times as many, but equally good or nobody will buy, for a cycle is not a necessary of life. That will be stage number three. Next will come j the cycle at two pounds ten for the i multitude. It will bs equally good | for all practical purposes though not so , ornate—as the fifteen or twenty shilling watch of to-day in its nickel cohering is as good a timekeeper as the five or ten pound watch of a couple of decades ago. That is stage number four, and within a period as brief as from the beginning of the boom in the safety till now, it is as surely coming as to-morrow's sun. Strength of raw material—a cheap item—but not one tenth of the skill and the delicacy of mechanism in the watch, is required in the 'cycle, and the history of the watch will be exactly the history of the cycle, and the manufacturers who do not move with the times will be left.

Miscellaneous Items.

Two severe shocks of earthquake were feU at Gisborne on Saturday morning about 6.28. A number of chimneys were damaged. In Bulgctra the prospective husband i* j expected to hand over to the bride's father ! a sum varying from £20 to several hundred . pounds according to hia means. j A practical thief broke into th© shop of a >ew F.ymoutb tailor a few nights ago, and cut offenough of the best tweed Buiting in tho bhop to make a suit of clothes. Melbourne police have one tradition they do nob boa&t about They had " wanted " a man for over three months, and discovered when he got clean away that he bad been cook at the police barracks all the time. A man named Patrick McOree was found hanging in the Bolton Street cemetery at Wellington. He was a gardener, aged sixty. The body was warm when found, but attempts to restore animation failed. The Westport Harbor Board has resolve^ to seek the authority of Parliament for an other loan of £50,000. If granted, this wiH bring the Board's indebteflnes up to £600,000. Of the proposed new loan it n intended to expend £10,000 in rolling Btook. A Melbourne man boasts that ho was awakened one night during Jubilee week by a burglar who Wfca turning out the drawers in his room. He seized the intruder, pounded him a bit, robbed him of a watch and chain, and then fired him out. The hero proudly exhibits the watoh and chain aa a trophy. Ladies cyoling in that fashionable river -1 side resort, namely on the Thames Embank ment, dress from hab to shoes in white, in some cases even riding a machine to match, as was the case tha other Sunday, when a lady was seen cycling, holding the handlebar with one hand, while with the other she held a white sunshade. It ia these little things that ahow how popular cycling is becoming. The estate of the late James Mackintosh, M.H.R , haa been placed in the hands of the Deputy Official Assignee. The assets amount to £1,300 and secured liabilities £2,579, showing a deficiency of £1,279. After preferential claims have been settled it appears unlikely, Bays a local journal, that there will be anything for the unsecured creditors. Terrible tales of starvation are reported among the unemployed of Melbourne. At a deputation to the Acting-Premier recently, I one man said he had only had two meals for a week, and unless he soon got work he would have either to ask the police to lock him up or to take to thieving. Hundreds slept out on dirty bags, and w«re glad to get cabbage water from restaurants to keep !them alive. Another said his wife and I three children bad lived on bits of cabbage | for the last month. The London paper which promised to give Jubilee spoons to Jubilee babies born in London on 22nd June announces that over 700 applications have been received; but many come from the provinces, and pro vincial babies do not qualify. Further some paren 8 of Jubilee babies have been so en großsed with the little ones that they neglected to notify their arrival until after the 24th June, which was too late. Alto gether 310 spoons will be distributed as Boon as they are manufactured.

THE ASHBtJRTON GtJABDIAN : WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBEB 1, 1897.

Prfcl e r £ nd P*blißh«* the A«fabu*oa WB»NJ3SDAX g SaPTBMBBR 1, 1667,



Henry Zander JUST LANDED 1000 BAGSIOO0 BAGS "MAURITIUS QUGAR. 100 CHESTS CEYLON TEA 100. Henry Zander, Cheapest Grocer in Ashburton.



SAJNTDEIK £c Sons .Euca lypti Extract. There are imitations of Eucalypti Extract in the market now, products of simple distillation forming crude resinons Oils. la order that these crude oils may not be taken, OUR PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI 'EXTRACT, which is recognised by the medical division of the Prussian Government to be of perfectly pure origin, as their information forwarded to us through the Consul at Melbourne, March 2, 1878, we tate :— It proved by teßts by the Medical Clinics of the Universities at Bonn and Greifswald, Prnasia,andreportedby Df. Schuk.Professor of Parmacology, at Bon, and Professor Dr. Hosier, Director of the Medical CJinic at Greifswald, that only products that are J saturated with oxygen and freed of acids, resinous and other substaucos, adherent to primary distillation, will deveiope the sanative qualities proper to the pant according to these authorities, and according to Professor Dr. Lister, of England, and to I>rs. Beuer, Mclntire, Wood, Hazard, etc,, of America, is the only extract correspond ing to scientific teata, and the only one which possesses the proper therapeutic value. SANDER & SON'S EUCALYPTI EXTRACT. All other crude oils are to be classed among the turpentines, which have, when used as medicine, no therapeutic effect, and are abandoned as an internal medicament. These so-called Eucalypti Extract which may have received di&tinction at Exhibitions as commercial articles are used for mechanical purposes are only discernible. By their deficiency in pundgent odour— which our product, the only genvine Eucalypti Extracts develops most freely through its surplus of oxygen. By their alcoholic thin and mobile appear ance being reduced in specific density through the presence of acids. By their taste, the result of the contracting tendency of resine and tennates. If these crude oils, co called eucalypt extracts, are applied by mistake in cases of croup, bronchitis, diphtheria, internal lalamationei, dysentery, wounds, the consequences are appalling. For safety always ask. for SANDER & SON'S EI7CA LYPTI EXTRACT, and get the old, well tested, and reliable preparation.—Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia. SANDER & SONS.



JUST LANDED, 100 Galvanised STEEL COLLARS 100 HORNSBY & RANSOME PLOUGH SHARES 50 Tons Barbed and Plain FENCING WIRE 60 200 Drama LL.NSEKD OIL 200 CROCKERY and GLASSWARE Etc Eto HENEY ZANDER, WINE AND'SPIRIT MERCHANT.



TO FARMERS AND DEALERS. CLEARING AND SKIN SALES con \^J ducted, and Saleyards regularly attended to, under the Supervision of MR DAVID ZANDER, Auctioneer. HENRY ZANDER, STOCK AND STATION AGENT.



TO CONTRACTORS AND CARRIERS. T HAVE ALWAYS FOR SALE OATSHEAF CHAFF CRUSHED OATS t FEED OATS BRAN and SHARPS HENRY ZANDEK, GENER&L MERCHANT.



PALM AND JOKO TEAS. INDIAN AND OEYLON. OUR 2s 4d INDIAN (Palm Brand) 5e noted for producing 200 large Tea Caps of first-rate Tea to the pound. This is the Tea Mr George Jameson sold so largely. OUR 2s TEAS (Palm and Joko) are equally good value for the money, OUR TEAS are bo popular thafc we frequently hear of instances of other Teas being packed and sold in our empties, j 'Imitation is sincerest flattery,' bat the public should see they get the genuine article. Retaii from all the principal Store* keepers, WHOLESALE FROM JAMESON, ANDERSON & CO, 155 Colombo Street, Ohristohuboh



I TUST TO HAND, O Ex Gothic, ENGLISH RGD CLOVER, ENGLISH COW6RASS, ENGLISH WHITE CLOVER, lEN6MSH ALSYKE, Beat in the Market. Henry Zander, DIRECT IMPORTER.



T" HAVE on Hand a Large Stock of FINEST COLONIAL CLOVERS AND GRASS SEEDS. MY Prices for These are LOWER than any other Merchant's. Send for Samples and.Quotations. HENRY ZANDER, SEED MERCHANT.



loz Preyeßtion IS WORTH P9UND.3 OP CURE Why ruin your Reapers and n/Lowe** by using inferior Lubricating Oils, whiea tire-yoar horses and clog the Machines, when you oan obtain a true lubricant ike which has been thoroughly tesfed all ove he world and pronounced Unequalled, Obtainable from all Storekeepers or th Agents fiDWAim EEEOE & SONS OHUtSTOHUROe



' SMOKE THE NEW VENUS Dark Aromatic Plug Tobacco. THE CELEBRATED & BEST BBANE MANUJJAOTOBBD fBOM



WANTED Known.—Ladies' Water, proofs 53 lid, Aprons 6d, Prints 3£d Jackets Xld, Art Muslia IJd per yardl Umbrellas Is, Pompons one dozen for ls> Qowets 1» 6ol,—AjfDßaw Ows's Great Sale,, aia



Friedlander Bros., Limited. | ""seeds ! EuR SPRING SOWING. TXT® H VK GIVEY SPECIAL A'iTß N TIO N 'ICTII »i 8 X LKG TIO& AND DRESSING OF OUR Grass and Cloyer SEEDS, AND ARE IN A POSITION TOIOFFER HIGH GRADE QUALITIES AT LOWEST POSSIBLE PEICES. IT WILL BE TO THE ADVANTAGE OF CONSUMERS TO OBTAIN OUR SAMPLES AND QUOTATIONS BEFORE PLACING THEIR ORDERS. Friedlander Bros., Limited. X¥T E HAVE FOR SALE— PEIME TABLE POTATOES. FRIEDLANDER BROS, Ltd.



HanmarandjGra^es^_^ j SUTTON'S SEEDS. WE HAVB JUST RECEIVED our Rape and Turnip Seeds from the above well-known growers, all of which have arrived in tip-top condition, Messrs Sutton and Sons have sent out with the above a Collection of Garden Vegetable and Flower Seeds of all their best varieties, and Packets can be had of any of the sorts at o<i PER PACKET. Farmers and others are invited to inspect. HANMER»& GRAVES-



POT .AT OB S. WE HAVE FOR SALE—Prime Blue Derwent Potatoes. ALSO, A Splendid Sample of Golden Tarea, for sowing with Cape Barley or Pun Oats for early Spring feed, HANMER & GRAVES. WE have imported acme of this well known Barley for winter feed, and will be glad to let Farmers know ©f its apeolal qualifications If they will call ip, . SPAiiKOWBILL OATS~~ FROM SOUTHLAND. WE have a Grand Line of these tot Seed purposes. "feed oats. 4T7"E Have for Sale Long Jand Short YV Feed Oats. ~ CHAFF. CHAFF. I TTrE Have for Sale" PRIME OATEN Tf SHEAF CHAFF, also a good cheap line for Oow Feed. """plough shares. REGULAR Supplies imported by ns, direct from the makers; both Ransomea and Hornaby s—standard sizes. Prices, lowest current. BO2AL OIL—ISO Fire Tefct Water White, Odourless, and Perfectly Safe. WE hold a regalaTsupply of this well known Brand of Kerosene, acknowledged to be the raest Superior Oil in the market. ' PIG FEED. CHICK Sm WE have for Sale—Crashed Barley (good) for pig feed. Whole and Broken Chick Wheat. AGBICULTUBAL SALT. FOR Dressing Galifornian Thistles, or for Salting Straw or Chaff. We have a quantity on hand for which we are prepared to quote low. WE always have in Stock Farm and Station Requisites of all kinds, in cluding Tea (specially packed for us and imported direct by ourselves from Ceylon), Sugar, Soap, Candlea, Oatmeal, Flour, Bran, Sharps, Salt (best table), Rock Salt, Fencing Wire (plain and barbed), Staples, Galvanized Sheep Netting (most suitable for fencing on turnips), Clover and Turnip Seed, all varie ties ; Ryegrass and Cocksfoot (machine dressed), Oils—Ca&tor, Machinery, Boiled, Tattoo Oil (for branding sheep) &c, &o. -I f\f\ ACRES, subdivided into con- Xv/v/ venient paddocks with water in each paddock ; there is a Cottage erected on the Property. This Farm is situated above the Alford Homestead, on Taylor's Stream. Price, £6 10a ; easy terms. HANMER & GRAVES.



TT7E ARE CASH BUYERS OF WHEAT RYEGRASB OATS COCKSFOOT BARLEY CLOVERS CHAFF And al other Farm Produce. FRIEDLANDER BROS., Ltd. 3 "TT7E HAVE FOR PRIVATE SALE, The Well-known Trotting Stallion BALTIMORE. Full particulars on application to FRIEDLANDER BROS., Limited.



Henry Stephenson. HENRY STEPHENSON, (Successor to Alfred Harrison.) Established 20 years. AUCTIONEER, LAND ESTATE AND COMMISSION AGENT AND VALUER. WEEKLY SALES of Live Stock Produce, Furniture, etc., EVERY SATURDAY, at 12 o'clock. Clearing Sales of Stock, Household Furni ture, etc., as per arrangement, in any part o the county. Advances made on Goods placed in my hands for Sale. CHAFF, OATS, WHEAT, FLOUR, SHARPS, BRAN, ONIONS, POTATOES, SEEDS, etc., Sold Daily in Large or Small Quantities. Agent: Norwich Union Fire Insurance Company. HENRY STEPHENSON, 4 AUCTIONEER.



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NOTICE. T AM A GASH BUYER OF SKINS, WOOL, LOOKS, AND PIECES, AT THE ROYAL HOTEL YARD, ON SATURDAYS AND TUESDAYS IN ANY QUANTITY. Cash on delivery. THOMAS McGRANDEL. 830



«—t>RlZ3E] KZDAL wj v rUKECEYIOUJnUHfI \ TEAS tJcciV/ifhintfwßeathofOT PURE I I/O CEYLON I/O PURE - L^ AUD ITP TO AIM EOLB STALL 6ROCERS. 1-yQTE NOTHING ELSE. j TnTTANTED Known, Girls' Pretty Strap ; V t Shoes, tan or black, only 3s 6d, at ' 2Mellob's Zealandia Boob Store, WANTED Known—Spectacles, Eye Protectors, Goggles, Folders, and I Everything la tbff optJQft line s I*3. gUfctra'q



IMPORTANT NOTICE. MEAT.—CHEAP AND GOOD. TTAVING STARTED BUTCHERING, I have taken the Second Shop in Mr Lane's block, and having purchased a line ot very PRIME BEEF from J, Btoddart, Esq., of Willowby, I am in a position to supply FIRST-CLASS BEEF & MUTTON at very moderate prices. Cart running Daily. Orders executed promptly. F, N. BLACK. I



COAL.COAL. I HAVE JUST LANDED, ex Liddersdale, 300 Tons 300 of the very best quality of NEWCASTLE GOAL, AND 50 Tons 50 OF WESTPORT GOAL, ex Janet Nicol, which I am prepared to Sell at Lowest Rates to effect a clearance. ALSO IN STOCK AND TO ARRIVE,- The celebrated ALLANDALE AND MOUNT SOMERS COALS. COKE & FIREWOOD-long & short lengths Any person who intends fencing should call and get prices— A large stock of STAKES, POSTS, and RAILS always on hand. James Elliott, COAL AND JIREWOOD Weat Street. TSLIfBONH No. 83.



SPRING BLOSSOM TEA Packed in |ft> 1S», st>. and 10B> Net Weight Air-Tight Tins. No. 1 (Blue Labal) No. 2 (Red Label) No. 3 (Golden Label! 1/9 per K». 2'- per &. 2/4 per So, 11 154 Obtainable from all Storekeepers and Tea Dealers.



PXTEACTS PROM CORRESPONDENCE. What au M.H'.R. Says : Corwar, Barrhill. To Messrs Kilworth and Son. Dear Sir,—The Rack Saw-mill you built for me last year continues to give me every satisfaction. Three men can put through a large quantity of timber in a day, and handle large logs with ease.—l am, etc, J. Cathcart Wason. Concerning- the TSerw Governor. To Mr Kilworth. Dear Sir,—The New Governor you fitted to my Traction Engine is working splendidly, and all who have Been it speak highly of its performance,—l am, etc., Mbbedith Wilson, Wakanul. A. Man Who Appreciates Elconomy. To Mr Kilworth. | Dear Sir,—Sinoa you bored the Cylinder 'of my Fowler Engine and fitted a New ) Piston, ib works highly satisfactory, and is a i great saving in coal. In fact all work you | have done for me has always been of firat i class order.—l am, etc., John Bukgess, Mayfield. From the Bo»s Sowyer. To Mr Kilworth. Dear Sir,—We were very much troubled with a loose pulley seizing. Since you bushed ib and fitted Solidified Oil Lubricators and supplied Oil for same and other bearings, all has worked satisfactorily. Your Oeluloid Emery Wheels for Saw gulleting are the best we ever used.-—We are, etc, Sharpiih & Co., Staveley. TUhe] Miller Expresnes Satisfaction. Canterbury Flour Mills, Ashburton. To Mr Kilworth. Dear Sir,—The various Flour Milling Machines you have made for us have answered the purpose for which they were designed, and have given every satisfaction, —We are, etc., Rollitt & Co. A Great Success. Mr Kilworth, Dear Sir, —ihoSorrell Riddle you recom mended for my Combine has proved a great success ; nothing else I have tried has done so well. In faot I have had it in the mill the whole season. It never blocks with oats as does the ordinary perforated zinc.—l am, etc., Petes Chaiaiebs, Chertaey. Has Not Cost Anything? for Repairs. Mr Kilworth, Sir,—The Water Whee.l and Pump you made and fixed for me some years ago has given every satisfaction, and has not as yet cost anything for repairs.—l am, etc., John Cochbane, Ashburton. We are prepared to advise and prepare Flans of any special work, and execute the same by contract or otherwise. All kinds of Engineering, Mechanical and General Work at lowest rates, consistent with high class work. Kilworth & Son, BBIDGE WO«ES, ASHBURTON. 8



Baker Bros. D^URNISHING UNDERTAKERS, Corner of Wakanai Road and Cass Streets and at Baker and Brown's Coach Factory, Havelock Street. EVERY REQUISITE SUPPLIED, Telephone No. 69.



TIMBEK! TIMBER! TIMBER! 50,000 FEET OF WHITE PINE MATCH LINING AND FLOORING, cow landiag ex " Gisborne " from North Island. BRICKS! BRICKS! BRICKS! SUPPLIED IN ANY QUANTITIES AS Rf QUIRED. 0 W. H. COLLINS & CO., COAL .AND TIMBER MERCHANTS, IRONMONGEES & PAINTERS.



A. LAWRIE, SAUNDERS' BUILDINGS. KETIBING FROM BUSINESS. PREMISES 10 LET. I | ••™—^__i THE SALE for the lasb few weeks has been % pronounced success, and in I order to facilitate a complete clearance further sweeping reductions will be made ! The stock must be Sold Regardless of Cost NO REASONABLE OFFER REFUSED. THE SALE COMMENCES TO-DAY, YOU CAN EXPECT BARGAINS AND GET THEM BY CALLING EAELY. A. LAWRIE, SAUNDERS' BUILDINGS, OPPOSITE RAILWAY STATION. ______ . ' .. : _ TTTANTED Known—2so New Jackets W Mantles, and Gapes now open i beautiful yandi, German made,—A, Obk. ;



mHE ABHBC7RTON TAILORING .JL COMPAN V has ou hand a very choice selection of the very latest Patterns, by which the public caa secure the moat* I Fashionable Suit, and not hare any old I stock palmed ou to them. Our cutter, Mr Pauling, has had a large experience in the best Tailoring Establishments in the colony. Therefore give us a trial, and wo will guaran tee you one of the moat fashionable Suits procurable. Gente'Jowa material made up. W. PAULING, Manager



SPECTACLES.^SPECTACLES. R. MURRAY & SON, OPTICIANS, GOLDSMITHS, Etc. IN Gonfcoqaence of the large increase in this branch of ourlbusiness, we have found it necessary to augment our already large Stock of Optics, by frequent consignments from England of the latest patterns and most approved designs in all classes of SPECTACLES, FOLDERS, EYE SHADES, LENSES, etc. ' .» OUR Mb R. Mtorav having had upwards of THIRTY-FIVE YEARS' Experience of Optics, and during that time has made careful study of the relation between Spectacles *nd the organ of sight, the result being that he is able to quickly discern the errors of vision, and correct them by the use of suitable Lenses, an advantage that cannot be adopted by those having little or ao Experience of Opticß. CUSTOMERS may have their EYES TESTED it necessary, and also h&.e Spectacles fitted to correct the eight in Eyes of UNEQUAL VISION. SPECI AT „ CURLED SIDES, for riding, or mechanics at their work WON'T fall off when stooping. NEW FRAMES NEW SIDES, NEW LENSES. Repairs Neat and Strong



= PURE__SEEDS. = T HAVE lately erected, regardless of cost, the most COMPLETE SEED-CLEANING PLANT south of the Line, and I now ask intelligent Farmers to inspect the same at work. I am now prepared TO' CLEAN for Farmers any description of SEEDS AND GRAIN, and will guarantee to give them satisfaction. I can supply best RYEGRASS, weighing fiom 261bs to 44Ibs to the bushel; and COCKSFOOT, locally grown, H|lbs to 16|lbs to the bushel; also, best CLOVERS, dressed by my own machines, the purity of which must be seen to be appreciated. ALSO—HURST AND SONS BEST ENGLISH CLOVER?, TURNIPS RAPE, LUCERNE, TREFOIL, Etc, D, THOMAS, ASHJBDETON.



WOOL. WOOL. WOOL. T AM now making liberal OASH ADVANCES FREE OF 00M- MrSSION upon all WOOL in my bands for SALE either in Ashburton or elsewhere. VOOLPAOKS, TV/INE, OIL, AND BRANDING MATERIAL, [The|best quality on Sale. UAYID "THOMAS, ASHBURTON.



THE AUSTRAL CYCLE AGENCY (LIMITE D), SOLE AGENTS FOR: " HUMBERT v SWIFT," « SINGER," « TRIUMPJB," AND "ATALANTA" CYCLES, ''THE HUMBER" Has Had. More Oeuuine tinccesies Itian any other Cycle In the 'World and Still Reigrus Supreme, ! WE ARE THE "WORLD'S GBEATEST CYCLE DEALERS," only THE HIGHEST GEADE ma*™ ARE PURCHASABLE AD ANY OF OUR DEPOTS. Head Office—2Bs, Collins Steeet, Mblbocbne, NEW ZEALAND DEPOTS MANCHESTER Stbeet, CHRIBTCHURCH. 123, George Street, DUNEDIN. SHEARMAN BROS., AGENTS, ASHBURTON.



WHEAT. WHEAT. TKT E ARE PROMPT CASH BUYERS OF PRIME MILLING WHEAT, AT HIGHEST MARKET RATES, We are also prepared to Store Grain on Farmers account In our New Grain Stores West Street, ABhburton, on very favourable terms Full steed Qornsaoka and Twine Supplied at LOWEST CURRENT RATES ROLLITT & CO., CANTERBURY FLOUR MILLS. OftlOiS asd Sroass WEST. SXREST, ASHBUHTON j



JUST Received, a Consignment of the Celebrated "NEW YORK" LEVIE WATCHER. ONLY lOs 6d. To be obtained only from Q. JESSON, PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER AND JEWELLEK, East) Street, Ashbnrtoa..



THE TEA OF THE AGE. SAXON TEA. SAXON TEA. | npRY IT, AND YOU WILL HATO HO OTHER. SAXON TEA. SAXON TEA, Pbofbssob Bjokkwon reports that SAXON TEAS is absolutely Pure and r.f good quality



LOOK CHEAP WINTER FIRING. NEW MOUNT HOMERS COAL. OUTPUT has Trebled during the last twelve months. IT IS USED EVERYWHERE. This Coal is the Beat *nd Cheapest Steam and Household Coal in the market. Used in the Woollen Faotory and Canter* bury Flour Mills. GIVES SPLENDID RESULTS WRITE FOR PRICES TO G. T. PARK, MOUNT SOMERS.



LAZARUSS SIGHT TESTING AND - SPECIALITE SPECTACLES. Sole agent for Aehbnrton District, S. S A L E * JEWELLEE, EAST STREET, ASHBUFTON. T AZARUS Patented System ensue JLd comfort and correct eighc. Don spoil your eysjb by using h»dly fittln Spectacles.



T3OYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE FIRE, LIFE, SEA, and ANNUITIE KSTABLISEED—I72O. Claims Paid—Thirty-seven Million* J. 0. BELL, AGENT, Burnett Street, Ashburton. 2 3



FEED. MAKEIG, "OROKiSR & COMMBSION AGENT, Barry town Flat Gold Mining Shares and Auckland Gold Mining Shares for Sale. GRAIN BOUGHT AND SOLD ON COMMISSION. FRED MAKEIG, Arcade



NOTICE. fIALLED BACK AGAIN JOHN DONOVAN, SWEEP. All Orders promptly attended to. Note the address: MOORE STREET,



P. JONAS BEGS to Notify the Farmers an Butchers of Ashburton and Surram ing District that he has Opened up Buaine in the Premises adjoining Hanmer and Graves' Stables as a. Gash Buyer of WOOL, SKINS, HIDES, FAT, am> HORSE HAIR io large or small quantities. Office Days—Tuesdays and Saicbdays AH Communications carefully attended to 5 1