Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1897. THE DOMAIN.

A_ attempt is being jaa&df })j a small section of the public to show that the . Domain Board has acted unfairly and ' hfrshly towards some of the athletic clups la tjhe town, in requiring that ■ the .contracts ,mispps into in the past : sbpuld be fairly and strictly parried j ■ put. p may be as well to show how- Ij^ftitf^rs jhavje been brought to the! present pass, so that it may be seen■ |hja,t^the attitude Ojf t^e Bqmain Board; 4 * j^feetiy' logical ais pjr ( ud/enjt one. ■■ I . ** 6J_. yp. l°v. 8 ,c\. P,s ;i. -t. c habit [ In lb**, **mam 'm 4 the Sports. of using the - '"**■■«* il. b_?ti.c ground—combining as »'_ *4i_3._ Association—made an offer to Board to pay a rent of £25 a year for the right to do so ; this to include the right of having seven close days during that period; the Association to keep the ground in order. After a lengthy discussion, Mr D. Thomas moved that| the offer be accepted, and pointed out ( that although a considerable concession , would thus be made to the clubs, the ; general results should be satisfactory j to the public, The 08. r was accept, d, ,

and as tverybody who knows anything' about this matter is aware, the arrange ment did not work well, owing to the difficulty the Association experienced in getting in the subscriptions, having no power to enforce payment. As a consequence, after two years' trial of the Association, the leaders of it baa to come b«ck to the Ho&rd and I sur.ender their lease (if it might be so i 1 called) of the Dotnaiu. Now, it must never be overlooked that, though the Borough Council has control of the Domain, the Domain does not belong to the Borough. The* ratepayers elect the Councillors to be sure, but those Councillors, after their election, hold their Domain Board appointments from the Governor of the C. iony. The Domain is the property of the whole I county, and, for that matter, of the

whole colony. The ratepayers of Ash burton have no right to be saddled with its maintenance, and it has ever been the aim of the members of the Board to make the Domain as far as possible self-supporting A good deal of tbe ratepayers' money has been spent upon the Domain, and well spent too; but there have been occasional grumbles that the amount annually expended in this direction has been too much, and that the Domain was being maintained at the sacrifice of other work of more pressing urgency in the I town. The Domain cannot be made | self-sustaining unless those who obtain the special use of it pay for the privi leges they enjoy, and we know that these privileges, and the rents of the paddocks behind the sports ground, yield the only income from the Domain itself. It is all very well to say that the Domain Board is not liberal to Oricket Clubs and other bodies who use the Lomain. We contend that the Board is very liberal indeed with the ratepayers' money in this matter. The cricket pitch is kept as well as any cricket pitch in the colony is kept, and to ask a cricket

club to pay £20 per annum for tbe sole use of such a pitch and accessories as the Domain provides is by no means asking to_ much. The ground is carefully kept for the cricketers by a sptcial caretaker; watered, mowed, and generally maintained in elastic con dition and prime form for first-class 1 play. If the district is not one noted for its enthusiasm in the grand old game, and the Club fails to Fcore gate money on the occasions when it gives special displays—that surely cannot be laid on the shoulders of the Domain Board, as the blameworthy parties, who are not in any way called upon to provide a first-class pitch for the special benefit of a club that cannot number more than twenty paying members. Ali sport has to be paid for. If a man fancies angling, he

lias to pay £1 license, and provide his own tackle. If he is devoted to the gun, there are certain classes of game he has to pay a license to be allowed to shoot, and guns and ammunition art ■jostiy. If he affects the turf, m mber ship of any of the racing clubs entail? the payment of a stiff annual subscrip tion. If music or art he his hobby i.t will find at the end of any year tb.*t that hobby has touched his pocket very considerably ; and the cricketers havf no right to complain of the amount of rent charged by the Domain Board for (heir pitch. There has been a waut of cohesion among the players of the game in Ashburton. There never shoufo have been a Junior Club here, trying to stand on its own feet. Had the Senior Club been made up of the true cricket enthusiasts that its members claim to be, all the boys who formed the Junior Ciub should have been absorbed by that Club, admitted at a low rate of annual subscription, and divided into junior elevens of the Club. We fancy that this would havesaved the second rent charged by the Board As ro the comparisons made between the Caledonian Society and the Athletic and Cycling Club, who have annual close days and big gate money, and the other clubs to whom those clofie days are not remunerative, it has to be borne in mind that the Caledonian Society pays its heavy rent for only one day's use of the ground. If its gate money is sometimes large its subscription list is larger, and the cost of maintaining the ground for its purposes is, in comparison with the others, nil. The Cycling Club does require a good deal of work done for it on the track, and pays its rent without a murmur." As to the Swimming Club —well, the bath is open to all who care to use it, and the rent charged from that club does not seem to us to be too heavy for the special privileges secured. As we have already stated, sport has to be paid for, and admirers of crpket, and adult players of the game, have pp rsasou at all that we can see to grumble at having to py the very moderate renjb the Board charges for the special use of a superb pitch, maintained for them at great expense. As to the spiteful things that have been said about Mr David Thomas's attitude in regard to the Board and its dealings v/ith the Clubs, it need only be pointed oufc that no uia,n in the county has done more for athletics than he has done since he first settled in Ashburton. His purse has always been opened when a call was made, and we do not believe there is a single man in tne district who has given wore #?oney for the support of cricket, and athletics generally, then he. And this is usually a fair gauge of a man's enthusiasm in anything. He works like a Trojan, too, in every ( club, and was an enthusiastic cricketer j himself until he reached the age when most of us find violent exercise like oriekeV playing p be less a pleasure | than a toil. To absae hijj? for requir 'ing'that those who wish to dance should help to pay the piper is to play the part of the cur that bites the hand that Ms him. ;'■ ■.- :-• ,'''__ : i

If we may credit the correspondents of nearly all the great Continental journals, Portugal



stings on tbe brink j of State tyankr^ptcy. J Most of these lett rs i

• * **»4 4798? fJhfi oapifcaf, Lasbon, bat J are da _ *** ' *«W» P|?9 rt?— the I! those who wn., " - •*d _._|j second city in the kingdom, .. centre of a wine trade famous through- t out the globe—are unanimous in their fl judgment as to the desperate condition * of affairs. Tbe colonies, which still i, remain nominally the property of h Portugal, embrace an enormous terri r 1< tory; but risings and revolutions seem to b* the normal »tate of ti»«r

existence, and the mother «ountry is C too worried by her own iutemal j financi'il and political difficulties tv do anything for the maintenance of order amongst her colonial children. The official reports published at Lisbon tor ! lie information of the Portuguese citizens are sanguine and hopeful, but they are less worthy of trust than the private telegrams and lettprs which t_l a contrary tale. The suspicion that the monarchy is the source of Portu guese decline gains strength frcm day to day. In great natiorsal disaster a victim is nearly always demanded, and the victim in Portugal will not improbably be the King. The Re publican agitation throughout the land has assumed greater dimensions than hitherto, and it will take all the wit

and energy of Luciano de Castro's Go vernment to hold it in check. The attempts at repressive measures have not proved successful. The hope of ihe Government lies partly in the fierce quarrels amongst the leaders of the various Republican groups, #ho cannot agree what kind of Republic

should be erected on the ruins of the Monarchy, and partly in the compara tive failure of the Republican pro-" paganda amongst the soldiery. If 't were possible to detach the sympathy of the army from the King, he would soon be obliged to abdicate or flee to a foreign land. The Lisbon corres pondent of a Vienna paper asserts that the expectation of getting a great quantity of English money upholds the Government in its optimist views. Tbe money is to be paid for the trans fer of Delagoa Bay from Portugal to England, and "it is just time," says the Politische Korrespondenz,«( for the 'English to get a very favourable bar- Gain "

Local and General.

"Pro Plwrndo Basse "-9t_. inst Race Night-

Reading matter on fourth page, Up till 1775 only two stumps were used in cricket. There is a brisk demand for store pigs in Dunedin just now. The skin of the wolf is said to make the best covering for banjo heads. . Web to the length of 2j miles has been drawn from the body of a tangle spider. It is said that there are this year 60,000 pilgrims at Lourdes —so far the record figure. The Great Western Railway Company has the greatest mileage of any railway in Britain. In the Bank of England there are many silver ingots which have lain untouched for nearly 200 years. A newly-discovered spot on the sun, which is visible just now, is said to be 30,000 miles in diameter. A complete electric ploughing plant has been installed on an estate in France in the department of the Tarn. Lieutenant Peary says that the needful fiiiids for his uew expedition to the North Pole hi ye all been raised. A cubic foot of the btsl oak, when green, weights 711b lOoz ; when seasoned, tho wood is reduced to 431b Boz. The Elgin school concert; and dance takes place to-night, and Nf-wmau's drag leaves the Somerset corner at 7.20 p.m. Mr R. Alexander has purchased the publican's booths for the coming A.R C. Summer Meeting, to be held on December 9. A, B. Worthington proposes shortly to give a lecture on his experiences at Hobart, why he left, and why he returned to Christ church. A Chinese hawker's basket has been held to be a shop within the meaning of the half-holiday Act, but a slaughteryard is not. Telephones are in common use on Sweoith farms, and even in Finland. If a traveller calls at a farmhouse, and his language is not understood, he rings up an interpreter, In spite of the closest espionage, the diamond mining companies of South Africa have had stolen from them during the year £1,000,000, of which they recover about oue half. Since the beginning of this century no fewer than 52 volcanic islands have risen out nf the sea. Nineteen of that number have

Since the beginning of this century no fewer than 52 volcanic islands have risen out of the sea. Nineteen of that number have since disappeared and tenare now inhabited.

A doctor says that persons who atiain I their thirtieth year without suffering from { any seriour, disease are likely—all things * being equal—to live till they are at least seventy-three yearß of age. A report from the office of the Registrar- General of England contains the intelligence that 225 women reach the age of 100 years,;: while only eighty-five men out of a million count the milestone of a century. Attention was drawn by Mr E. G. Staveley, at jthe meeting of the Committee of the Canterbury A. and P. Association, to the exportation of humble bees to (Queens land, for which £10 per hundred was being paid, and it was decided to ask'the Minister for Agriculture to prohibit their exportation, on account of their value for fertilising red clover.

An interesting and valuable oil painting more than 200 years old has (says the New Zealand limes) been presented by the Countess Jouffray d' Abbans to the Rev. Father O'Sullivan, one of the professors of St. Patrick's College, Wellington. The picture, which represents "The Marriage of St. Catherine," is of the Florentine school of art* The advantage attendant upon £the daily gathering and careful packing of eggs has often been written upon, but toe seed thus sown has fallen on barren soil. A writer in an Australian paper says it is frequently the cisc that the "fresh" egg contains a chicken in the course of development.. In some cases the chicken is so far developed that the delicate Question 'might easily arise in the vendor's mind as to whether he should sell his produce as eggs or spring chickens. TJsi . I may state, is no ex aggeration, for a summer or two ago I was present at a produce salesroom when a chicken was hatched out in the course of the sale of some eggs. Were it not for the sultry nature of this statement, it might be imagined that the story originated in the United States.

The of what rem«ins of Mr j Henry Zan _»•-* __.>_ive stock will take! place on Saturday at twelve o'clock, at Mr | Ziuder's shop, East street. The lawn tennis court at the High School for so long idle owing to the vasfi amount of weeds growing upon it, which even hockey playing failed to eradicate, is now being replaced by an usphalt court, which the contractors hope to have in readiness for playiiig by the end of next week. j Sir George Clifford brought up at the | meeting of the Committee of the A. and P. | Association the i-pread of. barley grass, and comment wai made on the fact that the Government had omitted it from the Noxious Weeds Bill. It was decided on Sir George's motion to send a circular to local bodies asking them to take steps to eradicate it on the roads, etc., in theit respective districts. Maliuki, the Maori prcphet, appears to have a very firm belief in the powers of the mystic number seven. According to the Auckland Star his principal outbreaks occurred every seven years ;he had seven •• angels" in his latter days; he broke twice seven panes of glass when he went on the war-path at Te Kuiti recently, and it took seven men to run liim in. In the face of I this it will no doubt seem to him in full ac cord that his sentence of imprisonment should be for seven years.

A representative body having certain control in a local suburban borough was asked to exercise that control in the way of ordering the removal of some structures which from their appearance would bring them under the ban of any Beautifying Association. A member of another local body suggested as an effective method the introduction of a few larrikins to car.-y oat the work of demolition, and he jokingly added that if there were none available elsewhere he fancied,he could obtain a supply. y The Hawke*s Bay Herald reports an odd case of mislaying a Government loan to a settler in the Urmondviile district. The settler applied for a loan, offered good security, and the application was granted. There was some red tape to be put straight, and the man waited and waited for the money, but it did not come. Tbe application and grant became a year old, and the settler received notice that the interest on the loan would be due in a few days, when he had to remind the Department that he had never received the loan.

A very enjoyable meeting of the Star of the East. Lodge, 1.0 G.T., was held in the Templar Hall on Wednesday last. Three candidates were initiated into the order. The Lodge resolved to postpone the open lodge until a more convenient season. It was also deoided to invue the officers of the Pride of Wakanui Lodge to preside at the local Lodge on December 15. The fraternal < greetings of the Wakanui Lodge were received. The committee's report referring to the united Lodges' picnic, to be held on New Year's Day, was favourably received. At the inquest at Christchurch on.Thurs day touching the death of Edward Henry Stevens Hill, übo was killed on Wednesday through the collision of his bicycle with a baiter's cart, the evidence showed that tbe driver.of the cart was absolutely blameless. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death, and added the following rider :— " The jury are of opinion that steps should be taken by the authorities to regulate the speed of bicycles, to insure by. bicyclists the observance of the rules of the road, and to provide penalties for breaches of the regu lation."

Professor Black, whose method of gold \ extraction by the use of permanganates has ! been attracting considerable attention, is i about to conduce a number of experiments j with ores from the Auckland district, which , have proved refractory, but which he believe* can be easily treated by his process. Pro fessor Black states that he had several experimental trials with Mount Morgan ore, and the result was a saving of 95 per cent of the gold and all the copper. He estimates the cost of treatment after roasting at 5s per ton.

Synopsis or Niw Aqvkbtisbmhnts. , Lost—An umbrella. A. P. Williamson—Ladies'Gloves. Lost—Fur boa. H. M... Jones—New books and Christmas goods. G. T. Smith —A record. A. Warren—Basketmaker. J. H. Jewitt—Fresh fish. Wanted—Strong Girl.

Mr A. Warren notifies in our advertising I columns that he intends commencing busi- I ness in Ashburton as a baßketmaker, and i thinks with reason that he will be able to : supply a long felt want in this connection.

BISHOP JULIUS.

" Sob Wag "-9th iMt.-,__U mission Is.

His Lordship Bishop Julius arrived in Ash-: burton by the express ftom the north yester-: day, and was received on the platform by Rev. T. A. Hamilton, and a number of the ; -.members of St. Stephen's. A choir festival in the church began at four o'clock, but, before that service commenced His Lord-: ship " inspected " the drill squad of St. i Stephen's boys in the schoolroom,. About: twenty lads fell in, and Color-Sergeant McDonald, of the Ashburton Rifles, giving $he word of command, went through several exercises in physical drill, as taught to all i military forces of Her Majesty. The lads have been hut a month under Sergeant McDonald's tuition, and their progress is no less creditable to their own intelligence and enthusiasm than to the well-known ability of the Sergeant as a drill instructor. After the lads had formed ranks again and been wheeled up in front of his Lordship, Bishop J.ulius addressed them. He said he was pleased with what he had seen them do. H> had once been a volunteer him elf, and

though he had never faced in open field any foe of Hfer Majesty, he had gone through the preparatory drill which is necessary to fit a man for such an event, so that he knew what drill was. He complimented the lads on their performance, and though he saw a good deal in their work that could stand improvement, he was much pleased with it. (A few minutes later His Lordship ascer tained thsjt the boys had been bub a month in training. The' change that came over his features at this information was remarkable, and his speech assumed another tone. Only a month ! Their progress was marvellous. VV hy, he himself wasn't out of the awkward squad ab the end of a month !) He highly I approved of drill. It taaght admirably the | very essential lesson of obedience, and prompt action in response to a quickened intelligence was another of the goos i^ssbns it taught. Going along a cfluottfy round one $e.metimee met a"sono|tk. soil, and had to a'i'k the way. It took that man, if, lie were not a drilled person, some time to discover what the drift of the question was, and when he did discover it, ie took some farther time to make up his mind, to answer, and, some more to frame that answer and utter j it. If he had been a drilled man, his answer would, come at once, if he could answer at all—"First turning to the left,'? or whatever the answer should be. Drill set qp tb.o body, and tau^hi <♦ b$ to hold his head up, arid'toot movo'ajbng like a slouching dog, and altogether it was a grand thing for youths, whether they . ever carried a mußket in the ranks or not.

After the boys had been dismissed the service jrj the chur&h, began."' The psalms and hymns were allspeoial, and the "Magnificat" and " Nunc Dimitt is " (Ebdon in CJ and the anthem, "Praise the Lord, 0, Jerusalem," were devotionally sung. His LOrdship delivered a most effective sermon from the text " Sing anew soug $he' Lojfd^* and though it Was specially directed; to. the choir and 'such church 1 workers M help, in th. songs of the sanctuary, 'there was plenty W it of good for »li, The shun.* was, «. H f|Hed, mostly, however, with women a* .

PARLIAMENT.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. ■ ; Press Association-By Klectric Telegraph. Wellington, December 2. The Council met at 2.30 p.m. CORONERS BILL. The Coroners Biil was further considered in Committee. Mr Jeokinson moved to strike ont olense 11, the provision that the Coroner may hold an inquest without the production of the body. The motion was negatived by 26 to 7. Mr Bbrimski moved an addition to the clause, providing that the prose shall bo permitted to view the body. The mation was negatived on the voice*. The Bill was reported. LOCAL BILL. ? : ' „T .c Njpier Municipal Corporation an . Napier Harbour Board Exchange of Land* Empowering Bill was considered in com mittee, and technical amendments wore mad*' in the tcheauiee. The Bill wa* reported. The Uounoil adjourned at 3.45 p.m.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

The House met at 2.30 p.m. . THB PUBLIC WOKU HTaTSHSNT. Tho Premier replying to Captain Ruseett intimated that the PubEo Works Statement would be brought down early next w««k « possible. TKFPETITIOK OF J. J. MIIICLB. The Public Petitions Committee repotted that they saw no reason to altar too de cision enviously arrived at in the case of J. J, Meikle. ,;., Mr Richardson moved as an amendment _,__**_^_! D £ rt fche ***** Ha on the table, that the Committee's report of 1896. recommending that Meikle's law costs J» paid and that he be given compensation for bis wrongful imprisonment, be givon effect -to. - After a lengthy debate, the Premier said that the only oonrse open, to the Government was to act on tbe recommendation of this yj« r" Committee., If the report were allowed to lie on the table, it would give the Government an opportunity to consider thi matter from an unbiassed standpoint, v The debate was interrupted by the 5.10 p.m. adjournmentt : ■ .' \ The tionse resumed at 7.30 pan. wstbict June* _««_«. . •j_.^e_?ia _in "P'y to Captamßimofll said that the Government bad received oar tain -correspondence from District Judge Kettle in connection with the statement made in the House by the Minister of Leads. but it waa not yet complete. Judge Kettle would be asked to complete it, when tho C*bmet would consider the matter. " '

OMHUS 0J 1 _tfK SKSUOI. Replying to another question put by <_uv tain Russell, the Premier said that he weald be happy to receive tho assistance off 'Ah* leader of the Opposition in briogwg ti» session to a closer • '*■ . Captain Russell Mid that ho would bs> happy to give the Premier any assistance in the matter, and saw no reason why tho Public Works Statement should not bo brought down on Tuesday, and the Appron nation Bill on Thursday, and in theTceeV members could go to their homes on Friday. «_ _rWA6BB p»otkctiok MIX. The Wage* Protection Bill was read a third time and passed. SECOND BKAMNCS. The second reading of the Mining Om_ panies Act Amendment Bill was agreed to> after a short debate. Tho Premier moved the seoond reading of the Technical Education Bill. Ho was ear*, he said, that the Bill wasono which net with the general approval ef the Hoaso, and that there was a general opinion throughout tho colony that there was a necessity for the measure. Though much had been done in respect to technical education, the colony was still behind, and he pointed oat that the success svhioh had attended Germany from a commercial point of view was due to technical education. The Bill proposed to appropriate £25,000 to technical edaeatkw* sohool buildings, aod from no othcrexpendt ture by the State would a better rotara b* obtained. Provision was also nude for sV capitation grant for manna! iHtraetioa.; Ho intimated that the Government were desirous of giving every assiaUece to the existing College of Agrhultore at Lincoln. Mr Rollestonaaid that if nothing else wont done this session it was well worth letting such a practical measure. He objected to technical education being separated irons tho uational system of education, and eo_sid_i*_ that the finance of the measure should be under the control of JJparda of Eduoatioa. However, to get the measure pasted _» would not press his objections, and he would trust to time to rectify the defects ef the __l. Mr -James Allen also, gave a qualified support to the measure, and hoped that if ia became law provision would be made far m_er eneo «*8«»"t to Schooli of Mines. The debate was continued by Mr Buchanan, Mr Hogg, Sir Robert Stout* Mr Gilfedder, Mr Carson, Mr Heke, and Mr Monk, who all supported the measure. The seoond reading was agreed to e_ t_» voices.

The seoond reading of the Water Bspply Act Amendment Bill was agreed M after _ short debate. The Premier moved the seoond reading of the Alien Immigration Restriction Bill. He said that it contained modifications of t_» Act of last year which had been reesrved for Her Majesty's assent. The motion was agreed to. BILLS ?__«», . The Westport Harbor Board .Low Bill and the Lyttelton Harbor Bard Loan Bill were committed and passed their final stages. The House adjourned at 12.30ia.nv

CORRESPONDENCE.

Bon, _ olo—_._ B. Xritofc*

<VVe do not hold omnwiTwraipMssl. •»_•_•■ '•', opinions expressed by our o_XMfen___)

THE A. & P. ASSOCIATION.

p \< fO THMI _MTO_. '! Sm,—Several wrongs do nos Make a rigbt, ; a,nd the fact is disclosed in your report of 'the proceedings of the oomnittee of the_l. and P. Association, that some of the : members were in the habit of having their arrears of subscriptions "written of" instead of paying up, certainly leads one £o> infer that the case, of Mr Collins 'je net <M»' : only one that requires looking into. It will be interesting to know who the clever ode* are who have thus «aw*ed "foes to Ihe ' Association" ajad aho, to. know if tfeejr happen to be oustomers, or dhente of any tae^bers of the committee of the Associatios. If such be the ease we may well donbfe tbeir. names being made as public as that of Mr- Collins over this matter.—l am, etc., >x-M ___«_.<

SPORTING.

: «t : —_.- ASHBURTON BiACISfi CLUK. ,"—■■"*■*»» ■. : Owners of horses are reminded: thai acceptances for all . andioapt _nd nomine* tions for the Hovel Race olose with tea Secretary at 9) p.m. to-morrow (Saturday). . evening, at Devane'a Hotel.

THE ABHBORTOP GtJABDIAS : FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1897.



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THE FINAL Auction Sale WILL BE HELD SATURDAY DECEMBER 4. i . BY Messrs



Friedlander Bros., ijmiteb, AT twelve o Clock sharp. WHEN ALL LINKS WILL BE CLEARII BBGABDL.ESB Of COST, HENRY ZANDER.



THE NEW ZEALAND CLOTHIN6 FACTORY jFQR "VTIOE COOL SUMMER CLOTHING. Light fancy Alpaca Coats ._ ... lis 6d Black Alpaca Coats ... ... .„ 12s 6d China^Sflk Coats; ... ... ... 12s 6d Sateen Coats ... ... ... ... 6s 6d Holland Coats  _. 6s Od 2 Light fancy washing Vests from 7s 6d Light fancy washing Trousers ... 12aj6d Light fancy Tennis Suits „, ... 12s 6d Light fancy Tennis Shirts from 4s 6d A. G. BARTON, MANAGER ~Do /rotAeoefisimfedfo buy any of//?e//77//3//'o/?s, |o fns/sf on ftavmg.m>\ neyarepmandimofmrnA « BeAestm<Mey*M & exper/mecappHf. largesmMMf/was/a. \y smii ry Aii'cifflfEWS Ji Church Services. ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH, Ashburton. SUNDAY "SERVICES. 11 a.m.—Morning Prayer and Holy Com munion. 3 p.m.—Greenstreet, Rev. T.A.Hamilton. 3 p.m.-—Dromore, Mr Gates. £ 50 p.m.—Evening Prayer. REV T. A. HAMILTON. _sww__ss«sj|f_py^^ j Auction Sales T. Bullock, at the Arcade-40 acreß, near the Agricultural and Pastoral Association's grounds. Sale at 11.30. D. Thomas, at the Arcade—First-class gig to be offered at 12 o'clock.



An interesting Consular report concerning the trade and finance of Danzig states that a remarkable change is to be noticed during the last few years in the increasing demand in the provinces forming 'this Consular district, which is about the size ot Ireland, for articles made in Great Britain. This applies more especially to luxuries, which hitherto the German did without, or was satisfied with the inferior qualities produced in hiil own CQUjjtrv. The > shops of Dant_g i give great prominence to goods manu factured in Great Britain, and the shopmen always carefully explain that th^y are of British make, and superior to similar goods made elsewhere. The report contrasts the way in which the British merchant seeks new trade '.lis. un'eis in fci'u . ia with that of his foreign rival. The British subject obtains from his Coubul, or from a directory, most probably out of date, a list of the local traders who deal in what he wants to sell. These Jp bombards with price lists in the Bugljsfa language, wbfsh thpy cannot read, ? and then W{* f*»|». M|w4 that they pay no attention to his communications. _ne forefgo ijya.l. on the contrary, sends a '-«-SUW to gantaig, „pg»kißK OeF"Wn i„.. " ~ ***..__ thes? same traders Luently, who «-- the ' vith samples, aud explains to .... ooSsca_ be forwarded to them mth the east possible delay and expense sad^ols lis wares to such an extent that he seldom ( eaves without getting an order. (



children, . **_;e evening there was a confirmation *-. , _**«h. His Lordship confirmed «=fo.^=»:_ «• Loyalty "for his theme, wa»Wß*** w wm rapt Attaut Urn* [



Just ji. Time tos Chmstius.— fa J order to keep '"up-to-datel*^ with onr [steadily increasing business, we have deoidwl -to effect considerable alterations to- ow : premises, and to make room for the builder* we have resolved to greatly reduce ear : stock; befoj,. Cbristwas. We have therefore culled a large quantity of oar. Tweed* and! : Worsteds, etc, to clear at the following !reductions:—M«oa snks t» measure, u*_m ' pries QQa, now TOs j Man's treoeore, «_nl ycics 86*, now 16s6d; eta We h_*_n_e> pleasure iv notifying tb&t we have jost beeo appointed agents for the famous "British Lion 1' and "Waverley" Bicycles (belli gents" and ladies'), whioh we are now selling with all the " up-to-date " improvement* at the lowest cash prioee, or on the most liberal  terms to suit tbe : oonvenienbe of ewt customers. (Every machine guaranteed).-^ Ck.whud and Buxthav, tilt iMdjut Triton and QttWtteT*, .-