Ashburton Guardian, Megna est Veritas et Prævalebit. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1897.

A MAORI "PRINCESS"

" A wealthy citizen of Melbourne, Australia." has been providing a New

York Herald re porter with some " tall copy," in the

form of a story of a Maori princess,, rejoicing )n the name of "Tono-Maroanu," who <f issearchjng j for an Anglo-Saxon husband in New Zealand." Tono-Maroanu, says the New York authority is represented to be worth 600,000 dollars in her own right, and the legal successor to " the regal rights" of her father, .«' King Paul, or Lumu-Monosao." This Maori princess, we are also informed, is said tg be highly educated and speaks fioglish fluently. " Her father desired her to wed a l^aori chief, but she positively refused to con seat to the marriage, and the chief who was to be so favoured had the goo i sense to declare that he would not. accept the lady?s hand sjtnje.ss she also gave him her heart.'' "The wealthy citizen of Melbourne" seems to hay given the American reporter an iafcemew wish the" pr»nees»/' fn

she is reported to have presented the case thu wise:" The King treats me as if I were the future ruler of a great people. The books I have read have taught me otherwise. Is the king, really a king, and ami really a prin cess ? In name only, not in power. Well, then, I am a princeßs for the time being, and lam wealthy. Take away my fortune and my title and I am an ugly Maori girl black as night, j too well educated to appreciate her own people. It seemed to me that I could make use of my title and my wealth to secure a white husband who will show me some of the pleasures of the outer world. My money might as well be spent that way—it does me no good in my present state. When my father referred to the fact that his people objected to my marrying a white man I answered that he was fooling himself and that he bad no peiple. He imprisoned me, but when I declared that I would appeal to the colonial authorities I was released,

ar>d there have been no further objec tions. The next thing is to find the white husband. I realise that the man I may select will not marry me for love, but for money. I only want to be sure that he is not a criminal,

who does not dare to appear in Europe nor America, and that he is brave enough to fight any Maori chief who tries to make talk about the match, I will let him spend £7000 a year, but he must never let me know that he is ashamed of his wife." The American news-

papers have a truly marvellous faculty for picking up cock-and-bull stories.

A report of the Mackenzie-Glover enter tainment, an Irish poem, and an article entitled " A new telephone " appears on our first page; and on the fourth page vail be found commercial newa, and a report of the proceedings at the Federal Convention,

LocaL and General.

The widow of a former parish clerk has died near Plymouth, aged 101.

' One English railway company alone issues over a ton of railway tickets weekly.

The largest edible oysters' are found in Australia. Some ot them measure lft, across the shell.

The Japanese say : " A man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, and next the drink takes a man."

A domestic poisoned herself at Birming ham because she could not attend a church picnic. An aged man who drowned himself at Spalding was the sixth member of his family to commit suicide.

It would take an express train two years to cover the distance a ray of light) will travel in s|seas,

The Thames embankment and Waterloo and Westminister bridges are to be lighted by electricity.

At Quito, the only city in the world on the line of the equator, the sun rises and sets at six o'clock all the year round.

London is twelve miles broad one way and seventeen the other, and every year sees about twenty miles of new streets added to it.

Tamworth Castle, conferred by the Con queror upon one of his friends, was put up for auction, and purchased by the Corpor ation of the town for £3000.

The Pride of Wakanui Lodge, 10. G.T., will celebrate their eighth anniversary by a tea add concert, which will be held in the Wakanui Mala school on Friday next,

The Marine Department;, and Captain Pairchild himself, state that there is no truth, as far as they know, that the latter is going home to bring out another steamer.

The anthropometric system for the identi fication of habitual criminals has been ex tended to Ireland, so that it is now in operation throughout the United Kingdom.

At the evening service In the Wesleyan Church on Sunday, Miss Alice (Jorrick was the soloist-, singing with great ex pression the sacred song " Have Courage."

The Colonial Sugar Company has applied to the Government; to impose an extra duty of £2 per ton on beet sugar, on the ground that it iuterteres with the refining industry.

Reports show that the slave trade is still openly carried on in Morocco. Slaves taken from negro families are disposed of "it the " public auction market," a handsome woman selling for £22

During the past week the Agricultural Department has sent to various parts of the colony several thousand vines obtained from the best vineyards in Victoria, South Australia, and Hawko'a Bay.

The largest telegraph office in the world i« in the General Post Office building, London. There are over 3000 operators, 1000 of whom are women. The batteries are supplied by 30,000 cells.

Mr. Rule has on view in his butcher's shop next Mail office, 361bs weight of fat taken from the kidneys of one bullock. This weight of fat does cot indicate that the drought had been very serious in its effects where that bullock ruminated.

Some mounds having been excavated in East Yorkshire were found to contain re mains of ancient Britons, the graves being at least 2000 years old. Near the remains were discovered the tires of war chariots and the iron bits and trappings of horses.

Several lady cyclists have been stopped of late near Birmingham by roughs who place a rope across the' road and then demand a toll. To such a pitch has the blackmailing and insults been carried that some lady riders threatened, it is said, to carry revolvers.

Rear-Admiral Hugo Lewis Pearson, who has been appointed to the command of the Australian squadron, is (says the Posi) about 56 years of age, and is described by a Wellington resident who knows him well as an able and popu'ar officer. He became Rear-Admiral on the Ist January, 1895. So far aa we learn, he baa never been im Aus tralaaian waters.

The Press Association at Wellington telegraphs that Mr Greenway, the repre sentative ot the Cassel Company, has been in Wellington for some time negotiating with the Government for the purchase of the Company's patent rights. The matter was only awaiting the Premier's arrival, and probably will be concluded in a day ot two. The sum mentioned is £15,000. A later telegram reports that it is now stated that the negotiations between the Government and the Cassel Company for the Cyanide patent rights are actually concluded on the basis mentioned of the payment of £15,000.

The Wairarapa correspondent of the Post writes:— The Rev. J. C. Andrew, of lea station, is appealing against a notice of the Labour Department requiring him to make better provision for the accommodation of shearers. In his statement of appeal he says that there is a five roomed house on the property and a twelve-roomed residence has Just been completed with hot and cold water laid on, and he says he knows of nothing in the New Zealand Acts to pre vent an owner and his wife living in ibenta during the shearing and handing over the residence to the shearers, which he is pre pared to do.

Rev, T. A. Hamilton read the funeral service *fe the grave yesterday of the late Mr Joseph Smith, who came to the Ashburton district in 1874, and was for several years agricultural overseer on the estate of Gould and Cameron, Springfield. He took a trip Home 12 years ago, and visited his native 'place in Oxfordshire, returning again to Springfield. He afterwards acquired the farm in Seafield road, whfch he possessed when he died, and where lie resided for ten years. Mr Smith died in the Ashburton Hosoital on Saturday last, from inflamma bion'of the lungs, after an illness of a week's duration. He waa sixty-four years of age, and leave! » wid.owand two daugjjten,

Lately a rum oar was spread at Fayoum, in Egypt, to the effect) that the Government intended, in view of the approaching re sumption of the advance towards Khartoum, to requisition for military service the young unmarried men of the country. This report led to something like a "boom' in the matrimonial marker, and the marriage rate went up by leaps and bounds, many of th« bachelors hastening to enter into the holy estate with the idea of avoiding the irksome necessity of shouldering the rifla But ao according to the Cairo correspondent of jthe New York Herald, this story had not the slightest foundation in fact. It was simply due to the ingenuity of certain astute indi dividuals who were blessed with marriage ] able daughters, bub who either possessed no means of provi ling them with the dowry, which is indispensable in all such transac tions in the East, or who desired to avoid parting with their cash for the purpose. In any ease, the trick does credit to the inventive faculty of these Oriental parents, altough whether the husbands, who have sold their freedom to so little purpose, will look at them in the same light remains to be Been, I

CABLE NEWS.

Home and Foreign.

Press Association—-By Electric Telegraph— Copyright.

Obituary, London, September 12. The death is announced of Mr Richard Holt Hutton, editor of the Spettator.

Glasgow Art Gallery. The Duke of York laid the founda tion stone of the Art Gallery at Glas gow. The building will cost a quarter of a million.

The King of Siara

Paris, September 12

President Faure extended a cordial welcome to the King of Siam, who is now on a visit to France. Baroness Hirsch's Scheme. Berlin, September 12

Baroness Hirsch has dropped the scheme for a Jewish colony in the Argentine, and is devoting the fund to establish technical education among the Russian Jews. The German Press. September 13, Prince Bismarck's condemnation of the anti-English policy has considerably j moderated the attacks of the German ! Press on Great Britain.

Evacuation of Thessaly.

Constantinople, September 13

Germany ia now disposed to agree with Lord Salisbury on the basis of the evacuation of 1 hessaly.

President of Cuba

New Yobk, September 18 Senor Capote, a Havana lawyer, has been elected President of Cuba.

Fatal Dynamite Explosion.

Capetown, September 12

An explosion of dynamite occurred in a magazine at Johannesburg, when eight natives were killed.

Duty on Live Stock Removed.

September 13

Owing to the scarcity of meat, the Transvaal Government has removed the duties on imported Hvn stock.

Australian.

Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—

Copyright. A Fatal Climb

Melbourne, September 13

A boy named Russell made a bet with some companions that he could climb an electric pole. He did so and clutched the wires. He fell buck dead, with his hands burned to the bone. The Death Peiialty.

Hall was executed at Bendigo. His death was instantaneous.

Bishop Julius.

Adelaide, September 13 Bishop Julius, of Ohristchurch, has arrived from London.

Federal Convention.

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Sydney, September 18

The evening sitting was mainly occupied in discussing the amendments of New South Wales and Victoria, providing that there should be one re presentative in the popular Chamber to every 30,000. The proposal was re jected by nine votes

The hour was too late to go on with the financial clauses, which come on to morrow, after the Treasurers' and Committee reports.

The evening was occupied to the adjournment with the machinery clauses, which passed with no improve ment or alteration,

THE MINING DISASTER.

Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph- Copyright.

Sydney, September 13.

Immense quantities of water and steam were poured into the burning mine all day. The smelting and all the other works are stopped to leave free every available source of water.

The fire has thrown a large number of men idle.

The outbreak has been located, and the smoke has been greatly diminished. Steady progress is being made in con fining the fire to the small area where it originated, and the prospects of subduing it are hopeful.

All the men affected by the fumes are recovering.

THE SITUATION IN INDIA.

An Attack Repulsed.

Gathering Of Tribesmen-

Press Association—By Electric Telegraph- Copyright. 3|rigadier-General Bigge's * force in tercepted 10,000 Qrakzais and Afridis on the Sanaana Range, and heavily repulsed a night attack upon his rear guard. Agreatforce of tribesmen is gathered in #he vicinity of Shabkadar. Brigadier-General Elle&'s expedition against the Mohmands will march on Wednesday.

THE LATEST.

Australian

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Copyright.

Received Wakapuaka Sfpfc. 14, 1.10 p.m. Guardian Office 2.10 p.m. Death of Judge Windeyer. Sydney, September 14. Government have received a cable announcing the deach of Sir William 0- Windeyer at Bologna, yesterday, from heart disease. <

THE COLERAINE MASSACRE

The Sheriff's Explanation*

Hatio&al Indignation.

Press Association—By Electric Telegraph- Copyright.

New Yobk, September 13.

In connection with the shooting at the Ooleraine mine, the Sheriff de clares the strikers were a desperate lot of Poles and Hungarians. They knocked him into a ditch, trampled upon him, and disregarded a volley fired into the air. As they continued to advance he ordered his officers in self defence to fire upon them. The strikers thereupon fled. It is found that sixteen have been shot in the back. Intense national indignation is ex pressed at the action of the Sheriff, who is accused of losing his head.

The Klondyke Goldfield.

Stoppage of Supplies.

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Ottawa, September 13.

The freezing of the Yukon river has stopped the carriage of supplies to the Klondyke goldfields. It is reported that five thousand dollars were paid at Daweon city for a sack of flour and a little bacon.

The Canadian Pacific Railway Com pany intend to construct a line from Glenora, via Stickeen river, to Yukon.

Later Questions.

Press Association—By Electric Telegraph- Copyright.

London, September 10

The Trades Congress resolved in favour of socialising the whole means of production and distribution in ex change, of securing to municipalities the power to purchase land for artisans' dwellings, and the growth of food for the people. Mr Pickford warned the Congress that the scheme was im practicable. ■ ♦ '

Received Wakapuaka Sept. 14, 10 a.m., Guardian office 10 15 a.m. New York, Sept. 13,. : The colliers on strike in Pittsburg Ohio, Indiana, and Virginia, have decided to resume work, a compromise regarding the hewing rate having been arrive&JLt on a basis of sixty-five cants per toe,

A TRAGIC DISASTER.

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Received Wakapuaka Sept. 14, 10 a.m., Guardian Office, 11.15 a. m.

Brisbane, September 14

A tragic disaster has occurred at Moreton Bay. A party consisting of Fred, William, and Marry Slayaon, R. McOabej K. McDonnell, *nd Arthur Kimber, went for a cruise in the twenty-two footer Zenobia. The vessel was struck by a squall at midday on Wednesday last when off Oape More ton. The sheet got jammed and the whole of the occupants were thrown into the water. Kimber swam for the boy Harry Slayson, nearly sacrificing his own life. All the party regained the boat. The boy said he wanted to sea his mother and the other occupants lost heart. The Slayson brothers died in Kimber's arms within ten minutes of each other. McCabe lost his reason, and jumped overboard. He was re scued by Kimber, but died shortly afterwards, McDonnell also lost his reason and struck ab Kimber with a pocket knife. The four occupants were dead by Thursday night. Kimber stuck to the submerged boat, which drifted towards Double Island, three miles from the entrance to Noosa River. Kimber's limbs were swollen and sunburnt, and he was slightly delirious, but is now doing well. He clung to the boat all Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sun day, without food or drink.

Death, of an Old Soldier.

For some years an old sergeants of the Royal Artillery has been an inmate of the OW Men's Home. William Lackey Gallagher at the age of nineteen years joined the Royal Artillery in September, 1855^ at Omagh, Tyrone, Ireland. He was a native of Raphoe, Connty Donegal. After the usual time spent in training, in which he made rapid progress, we fiod him promoted after a ! year's service to the rank of bombardier. Eighteen months' service in this capacity and he was promoted another step, and in 1860 he was made sergeant. The latter grade he received after having been through the whole of the Indian mutiny, taking part in fourteen important engagements, and receiving the Lucknow medal and clasp. Gallagher obtained his discharge in 1870, and shortly after came to New Zealand. After working as a kborsug man about Canterbury, he joined the police force, and served in it for a number of years, till incapacitated by an accident, by which he sustained a severe fracture of the right thigh. Helpless and destitute he sought refuge in the Old Men's Home where he remained until his death, which occurred on Monday, from bronchitis and heart failure.

Barden, the English professional cyclist), has sailed for Australia,

Mr Grow, tha Premier's Secretary, was entertained on Saturday evening by the other ministerial Secretaries, and Mr Seddon dropped in for an hour or so to do honour to the guest and help the entertain ment along. In replying to the toast of the evening, Mr Grow was enthusiastic in his acknowledgment of the aid given to all the Premiers and their staffs white in London by Mr Fred Gough, the Qaeen's Page con nected with the Colonial Office, who had been told off to be guide, philosopher, and friend at the Hotel Cecil to all official guests of the Kingdom, and rendered them service which was invaluable.

COMMERCIAL.

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Copyright. London, September 12

Mutton—Few Zealand crossbred wethers and maiden ewee—Canterbury 3§d, Dunediu and Southland 3 3 19th d, North Island 3£d. The above quotations are for average quality for lines of not less than 100 car cases. - . ■' •■

Lamb—Prime Canterbury, 311b to 421b, 3|d; fair average, including Dunedin, Southland Wellington and secondary Can terbury, per 321b to 421b, 215 16i. These quotations for lamb do not include sales of small or heavies or inferior qualities. River Plate Sheep—Crosebreds or merino wethers, heavy 2 9-16 d, light 2|d. The price of wheat at Mark Lane is 6d per quarter dearer. Beerbohm's " Corn Trade Circular" esti mates that the world's visible supply of wheat amounts to 4,650,000 quarters. It anticipates a profitable trade with a buoy ant active market.

Messrs Dalgety and Company Limited, have received the following cable from their London office, dated 10th inst.:

" Mutton—Market firm for prime New Zealand oroasbreds.

" Leather—Brisk demand for leather in general. Since our last telegram prices are higher by a £d per Ib. "Basils—Good demand for basile in general. Prices are higher by £d to £d per 1b since our last telegram."

SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

Ashbnrton.

The monthly meeting of the Aahbnrton School Committee was held iaab evening. Present) — Messrs Macphenon (chairman), Meddins, Craighead, Chapman, Phaup, Bilcook, Keir, and Rule. I finance. . The Chairman reported the credit balance at the bank to be £3 4a 7d.

APOLOGY, An apology waa received for the absence of Mr Hanmer.

JUNIOR ASSISTANT MISTRHSS.

It was proposed that Miss Trezise be recommended to the Board fur a permanent position as junior assistant mistress.

VISITING COMMITTEE.

The Visiting Committee made their usual report.

headmaster's report.

The headmaster's repot t waa as follows :— The school assembled to-day after the usual holiday. Sickness among the children, and one or two wet days, have brought the average down to 373 tor the month of August, out of a roll number of 422. Highest attendance on any one half day, 403. On August 23, 24, and 25, the annual examina tion was held, and it, was very gratifying to note the fact that the inspectors recognise the very manifest improvement made in writing and composition throughout the school, subjects commented adversely on ia the last Inspectors' report. inspectors' report.

The following is the inspectors' reporb en the school; which was examined on August 23, 24, and 25:-

ADDITIONAL SUBJECTS.

Repetition and Recitation—Fair; Standard 6 good.

Drill and Exercises—Commendable. Singing—Now under efficient instruction. Needlework—Standards 1, 2, 5, 6, very good ; standard 6 specially commendable. Comprehension of reading lessons—To be improved.

Organisations—S6 Mr 0. D. Hardie, head master j £5 Mr David Grant, assistant master; 84 Mise Hannah Curd, A.F.I, Roland Douglas, M.P.4; t-3 Miss Mabel Tresize, A.F.2, Fred Silcock, M.P.2; S2 Ada Bell, F.P 4, under supervision of head master ; SI and P. Mrs Effie Willia, D.F., with Ada Tucker, F.P.2, and Kate Breeze, F.P.I.

General Remarks—The children through out the school are in receipt of efficient instruction; the classes are under good control, and the certificated members of the staff are one and all earnest and capable. Since the last visit of inspection special attention, has been given to the features then criticised with very manifest improvement; and, without the drawbacks to which the school has been subject during the year now closing (among which is chiefly to be reckoned that S3, S4, and S6 have all passed through different hands at different periods), the coming year's work has every prospect of proving most fruitful of good results. In the lower part of the school the Infant Department, with which Si is associated, is admirable. The progress made by tht children of 81 indeed leaves little of the ordinary programme of S2 to be taught, thus giving opportunities of such further progress at that stage as should prove of most estimable advantage to the higher classes in the school.—L. B. Wood, W, «F. Anderson, Inspectors. VOTK OF THANKS, A hearty vote of thanks was passed to the headmaster and teachers for the excellent) examination report of the school, and also to the mistress of the Alleaton school. AIiLENTON SCHOOL. Miss Forrester reported as follows:— Before the examination the roll number was 52. Average attendance for three weeks ending August 27, 38 8, this low average being due to web weather and to sickness. To-day there were 47 present in the morning and 49 in the afternoon.

Application was made again by the Rev. A. Ager for the use of the school to hold religious services on Sunday afternoons. He also forwarded a petition signed by over eighty inhabitants praying that hia appli cation be granted, Mr Craighead, moved that the application be refused. He thought they should not grant the application, as it was not neces sary. He wished to know it these gentle men would hand over their collections to some charitable object. Mr Macpherson seconded the motion, as he saw no reason for granting it, Mr Keir thought that as they wero refused once they should be satisfied. Mr Phaup did not think it would harm the Committee, the people, or the school to grant the petition. Mr Rule did not see that they should grant the petition. They had already re fused the uae of the school, and if it were granted now they would have to grant all previous applications. Mr Siloock thought they should grant the school for three months. Evidently it mi the wish of the Allenton people. As to the 1 signatures he did not think anyone of them was forged. " •• ' Mr Meddins would second the grantjug of the petition. He had had the petition brought to him, but as he was a committee man he could not sign it. fie thought it was the wißh of the majority of the inhabi? tants, and was in favor of granting the use of the school for three months. On the question being pat the voting was as follows:—To refuse the petition—Messrs Macpherson, Craighead, Rule and Keir. Co grant the petition—Messrs Meddins, Phaup, Silcock and Chapman. The chair man gave his casting vote with hi« de liberative vote and the ' application was, refused.

ACCOUNTS. Several acootmts W e» pawd. for paymwt. the meeting *d jourasa, ?

TfiE ABBBCKiON SOabl)lAN I TtTEStoA*, SEPtEMßififl 14, 189*.



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391

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256



OIiASS SUBJECTS.

Marks 0 to 100 40 75

Jrammar .: History j Geography (Standard 11. only) ...! Elementary Science, Object Les-j sons, etc Mental Arithir.etic .. ...

60 40



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TO LET FOR A TERM, FTIHAT Capital Villa Residence, situated X oa the Notth East Town Belt, and j fronting the Domain, the propeifcy of Mr Keir. The buildings consist of a house of cighl rooms with every convenience, in cluding hot and cold wat r service, good out buildings and stables. Eight acres of first class grazing land, newly laid down with oats and grass, an let with the house.



COX STREET, I have received instructions from the owner, who has left Aahburton, to effeot ft speedy sale of that very desirable villa real* denco, situated on T.S, 649, within a few minutes walk of Post Office and Domain. Easy terms. F. FERRIMAN. A BARGAIN TO A PROMPT BUYER. Seotion of land, fronting the road just below the Flour Mill. Price £11. i F. FERRIMAN. TO LET, Shop adjoining Messrs Hanrahan Bros. Capital site. F. FERRIMAN. FOR SALE. Half-acre, fenced, capital building site, in close proximity to the Hospital and Domain F. FERRIMAN.



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FOB SALE, mHE LEASE OF A SMALL GRAZING RUN AT ALFORD FOREST, i Containing 321 acres, situated between the properties of Messrs Peache and Lambie, securely fenced. 94 acres are sown down in cocksfoot, 5^ acres have been broken up and cropped, and 100 acres are ready for the plough. Upon the property is built a substantial cottage. The rental being very low, the above should com mand the attention of those requiring a handy sized farm. Annual rent, £10 per year. . F. FERRIMAN.



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FOR SALE. THE TINWALD TEMPLAR HALL. This property is a first-class investment-, yielding good rentals. F. FERRIMAN. FOR SALE. Good Building Sites in various parts of the Town and Suburbs. F. FERRIMAN. """ FOR SALE AT ALLENTON. lO| Acres of Good Ground, with small House. F. FERRIMAN. TO LET-—Tancred Street—A shop with dwelling house attached. F. FERRIMAN.



I WAKAJNUI JBSPIXE MILL. T AM A BUYER OF BONES in large or email quantities, delivered at the mill. F. FERRIMAN.



TjiOß THE GARDEN OR FARM BONE DUST is admitted by all practical persons TO BE THE MOST LASTING AND PROFITABLE MANURE that oan.be ap plied to the soil. For Sale by the Sack, delivered to »oy part of the town. F. FERRIMAN;



NORTH BRITISH & MERCAN -1 TILE INSURANCE 00. Established 1809. Subscribed Capital ... £2 750.000 Paid-up Capital «. £687,500 iflßel DEPARTMENT. Funds—December. 31, 1895 ... £2,601,016 Premium, Income & Revenue 1895 £1,587,964 Ashburton Agent—F. FERRIMAN.



TO FARMERS. GRASS SEED SOWERS. I HAVE Two Machines either go let or for sale. Farmers will find me at the Saleyards on Tuesdays and in the Arcade on , Saturdays. Orders may also be lefb with J. W. Hardley. S. HARDLEY.



CLARKE'S 8 41 PILLS «c warranted to euro Gravel, Fains in the back, 1 and all kindred complaints. Free from Mercury. Established upwards of 30 years. I In boxes 4s 6d each, of all Chemists and Patent Medicine Vendors throughout the world. Proprietors, The Lincoln and Mid land Counties Drug Company, Lincoln, j England I



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Church Services. ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH Aahburton. TUESDAY — Teaohera' Meeting, 7.30 p.m. WEDNESDAY-G.F.S. (in the School room), 7.30 p.m.; Women's Confirmation Class (in the Church), 7.30 p.m. THURSDAY—Men's Confirmation Class (in the Church), 7.30 p.m. FRIDAY — Short Service, 7.30 p.m.; Choir Practice, 8 p.m. sundaylservioes. 10.15 a.m.—Preparation Class in the Schoolroom, 11 a.m.—Mornjtng prayer and Holy Com munion. 6 30 p.m.—Evening Prayer, REV T. A. HAMILTON.



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Much consternation was caused last winter amtjngst the medical men in Wellington, by the'introduction of Woods' Great Pepper mint Cure for ooughs and colds ; that a very bad cough could be cured by a Is 6d bottle and a whole family, with a 2s 6d bottle, wa& ft serious logs to them, Jt is sold by ail >$rpc§ri *»d, ofcwHstp,



You have ruined your constitution sufficiently by drinking inferior teas, recruit by drinking only Kozie Tea, it is pure and reliable.—John Orr & Go. Sols Ag n Many Ladies complain that the Tea they have been using has neither strength nor Savor. If they try Kozi» Tjja they will be theJfi»flat3/4,'WiiHPWb ,