Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1897, THE CRICKET MATCH.

The chief object of the promoters of the Queensland-Ashburton cricket match was an educational one, if the woid may be used in that sense. All, of course, wished to see players of the Queenslanders' standing at work, and to enjoy an exhibition of first-class cricket; but the main idea was the patriotic one of giving our young players an opportunity of seeing the game played as it ought to be played, and learning much that can only be learned from seeing good players in action. The Queenslandera, we be lieve, served admirably as the object lesson it was intended to make of them, and many of our young players carried away from the match a good few " wrinkles " that they might not have picked up for many years to come, unless by some chance they had had an opportunity of seeing first-class cricket played —a chance not likely to occur again in Ash burton for some time, The chief lesson taught by the match is one which old players never cease to impress upon young ones—the necessity for practice on the part of all players who would maintain their form. Men who learned their cricket at good schools are lucky, and our lads here are fortunate in having a fair number of such players in the senior Olub to learn from and copy their play. But the school may be of the highest reputation, and the cricket record made in the past of the very best ; neither will avail as a substitute for practice. Just as it is the used key that is always bright and the un used one dull and rusty, so the player who never misses a practice is the one who can be depended upon in a matcb The player who goes in for steady and regular practice can give an account of himself in the field. He does not over-run the ball; he never J fumbles the pick up ; his return is prompt, and he keeps his head notwithstanding his promptness, and before throwing in takes aim and judges distance. The wicketkeeper loves such a man, as well he might. The practiced player obeys team discipline, gooa where he is sent and, while minding his own field, and beiog there at the proper time, is still on hand for backing up, and saving overthrows. The want of j practice was painfully evident among the home eighteen during the Queens land match, and the smart work of the Queensland men looked even smarter, by comparison. There were eighteen men fielding against them, but the Queenslanders were always managing to get the ball away just where there was nobody to stop it, and had the local men been at all up to even fair village standard in fielding, the visitors would never have been able to score 205 in their first innings. Df McDonald's brilliantly played-for seventy runs was a fine exhibition of cricket, but that brilliant career should have been cut &hort early had the field ing been what it ought to have been. We have already referred in these columng to the loose fielding of the first innings $nd need no* g-> over the ground again, bufc muse here take the opportunity of pointing out; that the practice of that innings was of sufficient waloe to work a marked improvement in Hi* "«*ofid, There were | e wo^ mis -1 i • i-u -"fitul e-say, and every takes m the se<_ uu <- *> . . , £, ,i j . i ••>* üßcdk- af; least body s?eemed to have go. v- _^ a little of the form that was sup^ oBS ~ to be the basis of their selection, and the pick up and return were smarter and more business like, while some of the catches were a credit to those who made them. The district had no reason to be ashamed of its bowling, Peter, Mac Lean, Dart, Andrews, and F. A. McDonald all putting in re markably good work, but this, too, would be improved by practice. The batting of the eighteen was certainly not up to the mark. Moore, Jefferson, E. Andrews, and Alington played well, but there was an awkwardness about the work of some of these as well as most of the others, that plainly indi cated absence from the practice field. Taken all round, however, it was abundantly shown that we have the stuff here out of which cricketers can be made, if the attempt were made in earnest, and with such a ground available as the Domain, and so very near the centre of the town, it is not creditable that the attempt is not made in greater earnestness. Perhaps, now that Queensland has come and gone and cropped the honor locks of our eighteen with very big shear?, the lessons of the match wili be laid to heart, and the noble game will go for ward, with leaps and bounds.

The following, which will be of interest to farmers, ia from a recent issue of

WHEAT SOWING AND THRESHING.

the Marlborough Express : A some what astounding discovery in rela tion to sowing

wheat was recently reported from the Wagga Wagga experimental farm in Australia, It appears to have been proved by trial that 4lb of seed wheat, sown properly, can be made to yield bigger returns than 901b, the quantity per acre invariably used by farmers. A piece of ground consisting of ten acres was sown at the rate of 41b to the aero. And last season, at that rate, yielded from 23 to 40 bushels to the acre, while the average yield from the farmers in the neighborhood did not exceed 12 bushels to the acre. It seems that the process of sowing at Wagga Wagga is to put the seed in by hand, eight inches apart, the drills being 16 inches apart—a very tedious system, and one that no machine could accomplish. A Sydney paper remarks: —We know that broadcast sowing is in all instances very wasteful, and that by using a drill to put in the seed half a bushel will be of as great service as a full bushel, but it remains for Mr Valder, through the Department of Agriculture, to prove that 41b will do as well as QOlb in sowing wheat." It is said by the Wagga Wagga authorities that by sowing the usual of seed, every wheat grower throws away, on the average, £100 worth of seed in every 300 or 400 acres put ia wheat. While qn th© subject

of seed wheat, reference may be made to some facts lately public d in a brief paper by Mr Jacobß, and read at a congress of Agricultural Bureaus in South Australia. For some years the thinness of wheat crops had been noticed, even where up to 901b seed to the acre had been sown, and it was thought that the cause or causes should be ascertained. It had been found out by trial that the germinating value of hand-threshed wheat was 83 per cent more than machine threshed, And if this was found to be a fair average i throughout the colony, it really meant that some 250,000 bushels of wheat are annually wasted, the value of the wheat being some £50,000. For seed purpose, it is alleged that if machine threshed wheat is worth 4s per bushel, hand threshed would be worth 6s. But it is asked, would the extra value pay for the extra labor. j

The latest thing in the way of maniage laws is, if we are to believe what we

read, to be credited to the Argentine Republic, where,

COMPULSORY MATRIMONY.

according to an exchange, a new Act came into opera tion on the Ist January, 1897, clause' I. of which runs as follows :—" On and after the lat of January, 1897, every male from the age of 20 to 80 shall pay a tax till he marries, and shall pay it once in every month." Imagine this. For golden youth and silver age no escape and no statute of limitation. The bachelor boy, the celibate weighty ia years, the widower rejoicing in his release, will all be hurried to a common doom. And in Argentina no woman no, nor man either—may be fickle, coy, or hard to please. Let us hear clause IT.: " Young celibates of either sex who shall without legitimate motive reject the addresses of him or her (ladies propose in Argentina) who may aspire to her or his hand, and who continue contumaciously unmarried, shall pay the sum of 500 piastres for the benefit of the young person, man. or woman, who has been so refused " Argentina, as M. Francisque Sarcey points out, will be the Utopia of the ugly. However hard the road may be to others, the plain man shall not err if he walks therein. S( Madam, or Sir, I desire the honour of your hand. What! You refuse me because of my facial defects % Then 500 piastres, if you please."

Since the statement of Mr James Ereyberg, the Government timber

expert, as to the possibility of utilis ing the fibre of the

CABBAGE-TREE FIBRE,

New Zealand cab bage tree (Cordyline Australis) for cordage and other purposes, has been published, Mr Freyberg has been inundated with applications for infor mation as to the method of treatment. For public information, therefore, he sends the Post the following notes:— " Thousands of acres of land in New Zealand are only fit to grow this useful fibre-producing plant, and the material can be furnished in various degrees of fitness according to the youth of the leaves. The earliest kind produces a brilliant silk-like staple, and a full crop' can be cut every year. The mode of production is as follows :—The trunk of a cabbage tree is felled and laid in a trench about 4£in deep, and covered with earth. The rows must be 18in apart. Then shoots come up from every part ail along the trunk, furnish ing a grop every year. The leaves, when gathered, have to be boiled two hours or longer, according to age, but gntil they are eqffc and tfye vegetable matter is loosened from the fibre; theu ea(sh leaf must be beaten with a feafflffjer pr mallet from root to point, . —«.eed with & yepy blunt knife, :"a Z "fibre .:•' ■?•* "r^t It should be boiled again to v. ..' and hung out in the sun to bleacn. A small plot of land would furnish employment for old men, women, and children, all the year round, and it is work that may be done in the house in bad weather."

Local and General.

Sporting matter, and a letter to the Editor will be found on the fourth page.

The Wellington Exhibition will be closed on February 3 with an appropriate ceremony.

Mr Porter, of Ashburton s was one of the judges of flowers, etc., at the Geraldine flower show on Thursday.

A sharp frost at Norsewood and Ormond ville on Christmas Eve out down crops oi potatoes and pumpkins.

There has been a great mortality among foals in the Hawera district this season, and the reason cannot be accounted for.

The Queen was a grandmother at forty, and her descendants either now occupy or are destined to occupy seven thrones.

Estate duty has just been paid on £97,119 as the net value of the personal estate of the late Sir John Millais.

The Kaiser is building a gigantic cathedral in Berlin, the dome of which is to eclipse that of Sb Peter's at Rome.

Twenty-four years ago electricity as a mechanical power was unknown. Now £190/00,000 is invested in various kinds of electrical machinery.

A Nelaon telegram says:-—The weather is fine again. Three inches of rain fell in two days after a long spell of dry weather, with only occasional breaks of rain.

The departure of the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Buapehu has been postponed till the end of this month. The definite date of sailing will be duly ad vertised.

An exchange says that the cost of the Euapehu accident to the New Zealand Shipping Company will be about £6000. The Union Company receives £2500 for towage, etc. A general average of 10 per cent, has been struck and ia now in course of •ollection.

Amongst the millionairesses of to-day Signora Isidora Consino is said to be first, with forty millions. She is now an old lady, still extremely beautiful, and is a South American by birth ; she lives at Santiago, Chili. Miss Hetty Green, an American, comes next, with ten millions; then Baroness Burdett-Coutts, with four millions.

Mr Fred Tompkins, of Rongotea, Rangi tikei, was savagely attacked a few days ago by a boar which he was driving out of a paddock. The animal's tusks inflicted seri ous rips on Mr Tompkin'a thigh and stomach, and one of his lungs was reached. His life was in jeopardy for some time, but according to the latest reports immediate danger is considered to have been averted. The New Zealand Shipping Co.'s steamers will call in future at Rio de Janeiro as well as Monte Video. The Ruahine, March 18, and the Rimutaka, May 13, will go Home through Magellan straits (weather per mitting), calling »b tne port of Puntas Arenas. This will give travellers an opportunity of witnessing some of the grandest scenery in the world, which ia not bo w«U'known m tin 014 World. <Q»n«ry t

The Temuka riMes have gone under canvas for a week.

The marriage of the late Mrs Polian to her first husband in 1863 was the first celebrated ia the Ashburton district.

The County Council publishes a notifica tion with reference to the penalties that are intended to be enforced against persons committing breaches of the by-laws re water races.

The recent excessive heat in N.S.W. has done an immense amount of damage to the crop of table grapes. The damage has been particularly severe in the Hunter River dis trict.

At the funeral of an unmarried woman in Brazil scarlet is the morning hut?. '1 he coffin, the hearee, the trappings of the homes, and the livery of the driver must be scarlet.

In the junior scholarship examination, the only local candidate who was successful was Percy Prebble, of the Flemington school, who stood fourth on the list of successful candidates.

Edinburgh has just received from an anonymoua person, through its Lord Provost, an offer of £100,000 towards building a town hall. In the last few years the city has re ceived nearly £400,000 in gifts.

The Rev. T. 6. Brooke will be the preacher at Wesley Church to-morrow and at the evening service the subject will be 11 What is mam?" or " Man the subject of divine benevolence." Visitors are invited.

Lord Glasgow when at Wanganui stated that "he would shortly be leaving this beautiful country, but he would always regard New Zealand with pride, and oouot his stay in it as one of his most pleasant reminiscences."

Six hundred consumptives out of eight hundred, who have been pronounced incur able, are said to have been cured by Dr Oroote, of Paris, with the aid of electricity and antiseptics. A commission of niedioal experts will investigate the doctor's method.

According to the latest census the popu lation of Johannesburg in July last was 102,078. Of these, 50,907 were V. uropeans, or whites, and 42,533 belonged to native Kaffir tribes, the remainder being classed as Asiatics, or as mixed or other races.

A lady of the Eketahuna distriot, who went to school with Mr G. W. Russell, the rejected of Biccarton, said tint the girls at school used to call him the Great Western Bailway. His initials fitted in, said the lady and, besides, he was all " blow."

The Cabinet has decided to recommend a remission of the remainder of the sentence on Thomas Barrett, now in Dunedin Gaol, as he is partially blind. The prisoner was sentenced in June, 1890, to ten years' imprisonment for wounding at Pine Hill.

Mrs Hessell, Bangiora, lost a horse in a rather peculiar way. The lady had driven to a relative's outside of the town, and while the horse was standing in the buggy it was stung by a bee. This excited it, and after rearing two or three times it dropped dead.

Writing of the Barrytown claim in which a number of Ashburton people are interested, the Grey mouth correspondent of the Canterbury Times says:—The mode of work ing will be new to the West Coast, and the results will be closely watched. The gold is there in payable quantities, and with proper machinery splendid returns should be obtained, "for the sand will yield three shillings' worth of gold per load.

Last night about half-past ten a sound of falling glass was heard ia Burnett street, and those who heard the smash fancied all sorts of things but the right one. On investigation it turned out that one of the large panes in the shop window of Mr John Wilson had been broken, and the fall of the debris on the asphalt had made the noise. How the breakage occurred no one knows, but the break presented all the appearance of having been dene by eomebody falling against it. But the person whose weight was more than the bearing strain of the glass has not yet been manly enough to come forward and own up.

Beferring to a statement in the Waipawa that it had good authority for saying that Mr George Fisher ia to become a member of the Ministry, atd ia to receive the portfolio of Colonial Treasurer, the Wellington corres pondent of the Otago Daily Times writes :— "So far as I can judge, there iB little likeli hood of this coming about. No doubt there will sooner or later be a reconstruction of the Ministry—indeed, I do not see how Mr Seddon can hope to rule for another Parlia ment unless he changes his team, some of the members of which are notoriously weak, and do not command the confidence of some of the Government party."

Somewhat of a sensation was caused at Lithgow (N.S.W.) on the 4th inst. by the experience of a lad named MoPherson, 14 years old, son of a selector at Lowiher, 16 miles off. He was three times bitten on the band by a tiger snake about 4ft long. His "—■Met ligatured the wrist and arm, and the i"""' j * ' itl"«»w in one hour, knocVing boy rode to i*. . ii-««n£els borrowing up one horse and at J30... ■ -A° another. Dr Leeper, of Lithgow, ma two injections of strychnine before half-past 9 a.tn., and gave him whisky and ammonia during the <3&y. No bad symptoms having set in by 9 p.m., the recovery of the lad is expected.

iir C. A. Cooper, editor of the Edinburgh Scotsman, who is in New Zealand in pursuit of health, arrived in Ashburton yesterday and put up at Britton's Hotel. Mr Cooper was visited by the Mayor and other gentlemen last night and welcomed to Aahburton. This morning early he was driven by Mr Ferriman to Longbeaoh, to have a look round on " the finest farm in the world." Though controlling one of the leading papers of the world, Mr Cooper is very modest, and de clines to be interviewed by pressmen, unless in the friendly way of felloweraffc, and we respect his fee'ings, but we may say that the distinguished journalist is very favour ably impressed with what he has seen of this colony.

SPORTING.

WELLINGTON RACING CLUB'S SUMMER MEETING.

Wellington, January 15 The following are the final payments for fehe Wellington Cup, of 500 »ovs. One mile and a half. st lb sfc lb St. Laura ... 8 6 Strathbraan ... 7 6 Skirmisher .... 8 6 Leda f ... 7 5 Sfc Clements 8 5 Mars ... 612 EaDgipuhi ... 711 Douglas ... 611

SEAMEN'S WAGES.

Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Wellington, January 15.

The Seamen's Union has asked the owners for an increase of £1 per month and Is 6d per hour for overtime, so as to reinstate the standard wages that were current prior to 1893. The present rates are—firemen and greasers, £8 for four hour watches, and £9 for six-hour watches; trimmers and sailors, £6, The Union believe their demand will be granted, but they hold a meeting to-night to consider the matter, and if an unfavorable answer be returned steps will be taken to set the Conciliation Act to work.

EALING PUBLIC SCHOOL.

!The following is the examination report: PASS SUBJECTS*

Marks 0 to CLASS SUBJECTS. iqa Grammar  25 Hißtory » 50 Geography (Standard 2 only) 40 Elementary Science, Object r<es : sons, etc ... 30 Mental Arithmetic «... ... 20 ADDITIONAL SUBJUOTS. Repetition and recitation—To be improved. Drill and exercises—Not taught. Singing—Simple songs fairly done. Needlework—Very good indeed. Comprehension of reading lessons— Mode rate.

Miss Annie Sawle, sole teacher. General remarks.—The average of attain ment throughout the school ia fair; and, allowing for some degree of mental dullness ia several children, the results generally indicate due diligence on the part of the mistress. In all classes freehand drawing is excellent, writing is satisfactory, and composition for the most part fair. SB. 4 and 2 are backward in reading, while arith metic in SS. 6 and 4 is less accurate than might be desired. Among " class " subjects history appears to most advantage, and in the " additional" group needlework deserves special commendation. — Thos. Ritchie, Inspector.

THE WEATHER.

ALFORD STATION. The following is the meteorological report) for the week ending January 15, 1897 :—

THE GOVERNOR'S TOUR.

PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.

Dunedin, January 16.

Lord Glasgow and party arrived by the Tutanekai this morning. They leave at mid night for Akaroa proceeding to Lyttelton on Monday morning, staying at Christchurch ten days, thence proceeding to Wellington. They leave for Etighnd by China from Sydney on February 15. Lady Glasgow is very much improved in health by the Sounds trip, His Kxoellency epeaka in the highest terms of the Tutanekai.

THE LAST CANNIBAL MAORI.

The death took place lately at Ngunguru North of an old Maori named Paratene Te Mauu, one of the last of the old ex-cannibal warriors of the Native race, Old Paratene was over ninety years of age at the time of his death, and was a member of the Ngatiwai section of the Ngapuhi, being an uncle of Tenetahi, of Little Barrier Island fame. He used to narrate his exploits in the raids of the Ngapuhi under the famous Hongi Hika, about seventy years ago, and amongst which he was present at the capture of Maninaina, on the Tamaki river, in 1823. He was also in the East Coast and Middle Island campaign of Hongi-Hike in 1824-27, and took part in the cannibal feasts of those days. Subsequently he was bap ised by the late Rev. Mr Williams in 1830, and was one of the party of chiefs who visited England in the sixties with Hori Pomare, Paratene was one of the natives evicted from the Little Barrier Island last; year, and he subsequently resided at Ngunguru. The inevitable tangi followed his decease. He was about the last of the old school of Natives of the cannibal era left J" *.ha sor.th of Auckland.

COMMERCIAL.

Press Association—By Electric Telegraph- Copyright.

London", January 14

Frozen meat unchanged. The Eng'ish wheat market is firm, bub little is doing j the Continental is firm, the American has a downward tendency. Oali fornian No. 1 milling, for early shipment, 36s c.f.i.; London quotation for parcels of No. 1 hard Duluth, 365. The Bradford wool market has ft down ward tendency. Babbits are unsaleable ; they are offering in the provinces at 7Jd. Adelaide!, January 15 The South Australian Register's forecast of the wheat harvest is two and half million bushels, an average of two and a half bushels per acre, while food and require ments will amount to three million bushels.

ASHBURTON MARKETS.

Mr David Thomas reports upon the live stock market for the week ending January 12:—On Tuesday the weekly stock sale was held at the Tinwald yards, when 1183 sheep, 28 head cattle, and 6 pigs came forward for sale, of which my entry com prised 780 sheep, 16 head cattle, and 2 pigs. The yarding in sheep consisted chiefly of crossbred ewes and lambsj the latter being in demand, and sold at the following prices —7s 6d, 7a 7d, Bs, 8s 3d, 9s 4d to 10s 9d each; fat crossbred ewes ranged from 5s 9d to 6s 7d; fat cattle £3 2s 6d, £4 17s 6d, £5 7a 6d ; stores £2 5s j and fat pigs £1 8s each. Sheep Skins.—On Friday, January 15,1 disposed of privately 574 sheep skins, prices ranging for cressbreds JLs 6.d, 2s 3d, 2s 4d, 3s 3d to 4s ; merinos Is, 2s <jd to 2s 9d; pelts 3d to 6d ; bag wool, merino sd, crossbred s|d and 6d, pieces 2£d, locks Wool.—Since my last wool sale 1 have sold privately 85 bales of wool, at prices as follows ;—HU, 4 bales, 6£d ; 5 bags bellies, 4±d; ER, 6 bales hoggetts, 6|d; ERaver —, 2 bales merino, 6|d ; TD, 1 bale merino, 6id; AY, 3 bales halfbred ewes, 6£d { M over 5, 1 bale pieces, 2£d j 5 bales merino, 6Jd ; —()—, 1 bale pieces, 2d ; 4K, 1 bale merino 6d; — over SH, 4 bags crossbreds, 53d; AH, 1 bale locks, 2d;. 0, 7 balei merino, 6d ; 1 bale locks, fJ ; D in square, 5 bales, 6£d; Oak Flat, 36 bales, 7*d ; 3 bales Leicester ewe, 7^d ; 7 bales pieces, 4d; 1 bale locks, 2d; AA, 3 bales merino, 6d; JA, 1 bale lock pieceß, 2£d j 1 bale rams, 6d j 1 crossbred ewe, 6|d; 85, 2 bales meiino, 6i; BM, 3 bales, 6*d; -? v? r i5\ i^ 6 mixed, 6d; - over 61, 1 bale looks,§d ; N over —, 1 bale pieces, 4|d j E/c, 1 bale bellies and pieces, 4|d ; 1 bale merino, 6d; 1 bale crossbred, 6|d; 7 bales halfbred ewes, 6-i-d; 1 bale merino; 6d, and others.

CABLE NEWS.

Home and Foreign.

Press. Association— By Eleotrio Telegraph— Copyright.

London, January 14, Chief Justice Way.

The city newspapers almost nnaui« tnously approve the nomination of Chief Justice Way, of South Australia, to a seat on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

111,8, Torch.

H.M, sloop Torch relieves the Ring dove on the Australian station. The Torch was built in 1894 and carries six twenty-five pounders, four three pounders, asd two machine gum. She has a displacement of 960 tons, and steams thirteen knots.

Pigmies.

Calcutta, January 14.

A party of Danish officers, exploring the Pamir plateau, have discovered a tribe of pigmies, devotees of the gun. The cattle and other animals of these strange people are also of a diminutive character.

The Plague.

The bubonic plague has now reached Poonah in the Bombay district. Arrested for Murder, Tokio, January 14 Miss Jacobs has been arrested on the charge of murdering Mr Carew at Yokohama, The prisoner deniei having oonfessed the crime.

Senator Sherman*

Washington, January 14

It is understoood that Senator Sher man becomes Secretary of State in the McKinley administration.

The Rand Mines.

Pretoria, January 15

The Transvaal Executive have pro* raised Mr Barney Barn*to to assist in the matter of the labour supply for the mines; also to take steps to augment the supply of water and reduce the cost of dynamite on the Band gold* fields.

Australian.

The Melbourne Murder. Melbourne, January 15. The revolver which Phillips posted to his brother on the day succeeding the murder has been recovered, and blood stains have been found on it.

TURKEY AND THE POWERS.

Press Association—By Electric Telegraph- Copyright.

Constantinople, January 14,

The Sultan has consented to the creation of a joint European and Turkish Commission to control the Turkish budget and expenditure. January 15

The Porte has accepted the Euro pean scheme for appointing , Cretan gendarmes so as to secure fairer treat ment for the Christiana.

(Received January 16, 9.45 a,m ) Constantinople, January 15.

Marshal Fouad Pasha, a prominent officer in the Turkish army, has de clined an offer of the position of com mandant of Bagdad, in Asiatic Turkey. The London Times' correspondent lays the ofier was an attempt on the part of the Sultan to exile the Pasha, and will have the eftect of inflaming dis content in Turkey.

THE PLAGUE.

Calcutta, January 15. Beports from Bombay show that the plague continues to rage with great virulence and the population is half depleted by flight, and commerce is paralysed. The Moslem cemeteries are overcrowded.

Labour Questions.

The Engineers' Strike.

Freaa Association—By Electric Telegraph— Copyright.

Sydney, January 15. \ The owners could not see their way to grant any of the additional request* which the Conference was called for. The engineers abandoned their claims and the Conference has closed. The men intend to work in future accord ing to the rules but propose no hostile action.

The engineers passed a resolution this evening deciding to suspend for three months the rule prohibiting men working with non-Urionista. (Received January 5.2, 9.45. a.m.) Adelaide, January )Q. The secretary of the local brand* of the Engineers Association has received information from headquarters that it has been decided that members could return to the Adelaide Company's steamers. A meeting of the local engineers confirmed the decision. Received January 16, 10.15 a.m. Sydney, January 15

The engineers, as a body, are little short Qf disgusted at the efforts tp secure better terms, and express tfyeir feelings in no measured language. " Knowing what we know row," Mid one of them, "an. honourable under* standing with the owners is impossible. We relied on their word, and made ifee inconvenience to the public as light as possible, and this is our reward. We ought to have paralysed the entire traffic, and then perhaps we would have been listened to with some effect. We have been out generalled, and that is the whole fact," These senti ments are echoed by most of the engi neers, who regard their defeat as a most crushing one. As in most cases of this kind, the leaders come in for bard words. It is said that the power of the owners was under-rated and the strength of the engineers over rated ; and that throughout the leaders showed a lamentable failure to grasp the true situation. This, together with the misunder standing with the Wellington branch, and the unscrupulous conduct of some Melbourne owners in bringing pressure to bear on their old servants, is given as a reason 'for the defeat; That pressure, the engineers hold, was more than their old servants could stand, and one man who was seen last night, stated thap the Melbourne Committee said that it was absolutely necessary to close the strike be^opfe further defection took pUc«,

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Busine s Notices _____«__— GOOD WASHING PRINT,. 3|d, WHITE MUSLIH, 3s lid per dossj AT G. J. NEILL'S. A BEAUTIFUL SUMMER DRESS FOR 6s lid AT G. J. NEILL'S, Flannelette. S*d yard. The Best Turkish TOWELS in Aahburton are at- G. J. NEILL'S. BOSS' Navy Blue Sailor Suits 4b lid. Men. Tweed gjj-g^* Jj^ Tweed Suits 25a 6d , ab G. J. NEILL'S. LtfM Lm» Shoe., 48 lid. Ladien' two-sbrap Shoe., 4. lid. AT G. J. NEILL'S. Lidtw\ Maid^MdChUdreo'i TAN SHOES of Every Deacription, at Very Low Price*, AT G. J. NEILL'S, FRIEDLANDKR'S CORNER, EAST STREET.



BOOM IN DRAPERY. CROWDS ON SATURDAY. TTOST COMING BACK TO SALE AT MITCHELL & TURNER'S.



NEW FIRM -:- -:- -: -:- -:- -:- NEW FIRM SAVE MONEY BY DEALING WITH MITCHELL & BRODRIBB NO BAD DEBTS. | NO OLD STOCK THAT ACCUMULATES BY YEARS of BUSINESS ( I THE Public should only consider what they can save by dealing with a Cash Firm, where they do not have to pay for the great losses that are occasioned by Bad Debts. MITCHELL & BRODRIBB BUY AND BELL FOR CASH, THEY AEE ABLE TO GIVE BETTER VALUE THAN ANY OTHER PLACE IN ASHBURTON. — A Few Quotations will be Convincing •— Brown Ribbed Pants (heavy) Is 6d -worth Ladies' Hose, fast colors, plain and ribbed 1b iia pair Hairline Tweed Trousers 8s 6d-cheap at B J B A^rtmenfc o{ g unshadeß ia towß ltM os from 1b width FULL RANGES OF KAIAPOI AND MOSGIEL CLOTHING. MBASUEED GABMENTS A SPECIALTY. 49s Qd 49s 6d MITCHELL & BRODRIBB, EAST STREET !



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TEIV POUNDS 4 TRIAD H h <£10 (Ten Pbwi>) <£10 h 2 COMPETITION. | a mHIS MONTH the TRIAD * 0 X offers a prize of £10 to the V done who selects from the under- -q mentioned lisb of novels the six w most popular books. Thiscompeti- N tion will be decided by the compe- H titors themselves. The person M * who votes for the six books which flg fche majority vote for will receive HI the £10 ; or, should there be two or more voters ior the same six that the majority vote for, the money will be divided equally among them. The conditions are as under:— 1. Write down on paper the titles of what you consider the six most popular books in the follow list: Westward Ko ! Pickwick Papers, Trilby, We Two, Lady Audley's Secret, My Novo!, Handy Andy, Bleak House, Kenilworth, She, Valentine Vox, East Lynne, Charles O'Malley, The Heavenly g Twins, Adam Bede, John Halifax, Q ™ Gentleman, Vanity Fair, Ivanhoe, M Monte Ohristo, Woman in White, tt v Tom Browr's Schooldays, The 2 Yellow Aster, Cleg Kelly, The % Wooing O't. 2. Purchase 53 worth, or more, of anything you may require, H from one of the firms below, and get a receipt, and post receipt and 3 your list of six to the Manager, Q TRIAD, Dunedin. If you enclose Q receipt for 10s or over you may q .. send in two lists ;if for 15a, three % lists ; and so on for every 5a worth * purchased. H W Ashburton Drapery Co, v rtl Gates, Horace 4., Music Ware- m *J house (agent for Tkiad). N.Z. Clothing Factory. XJESJN I»OUIVJL>W 1 65



Church. Services. ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH, Ashburton. SUNDAY SERVICES. 11 a.m.—Morning Prayer and Holy Com munion. 3 p.m.—DROMORE. 6 30 p.m.—Evening Prayer. REV. T. A. HAMILTON. BARRYTOWN fhXT GOLD MINING CO, Lm 17 Miles »©rfcb of Greymouth. THE Sample washed in the Arcade on Saturday gave from 120 to 150 Colors the ihoval. 20 Colors will pay 2s per load. I am appointed Broker, and have Stiaras or Sale. FRED MAKEIG, Arcade.



Holloway's Ointment. —Sores, wounds, nlcei'ations, and other diseases affecting the skin, are capable of speedy amendment by this cooling and healing ointment, which has called forth the loudest praise from persons who have suffered from years from bad legs, bad breasts, piles, abscesses, and chronic ulcers. None but those who have experi enced the soothing effect of it can form' any idea of the comfort it bestows by restraining inflammation and allaying pain. Whenever Holloway's Ointment has been once used it has established its own worth, and is again eagerly sought for as the easiest and safest remedy for all complaints. In neuralgia, rheumatism, and gout, the same application, properly used, gives wonderful relief,



Chamberlain s Cough Remedy curea colds, croup and whooping cough. It ia pleasant, safe S*nd reliable, For sale by AsHBURXON



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Sacred Heart High School—-Re-open Mon day 2"sth insb. ,'",,.' Friedlander Broa.j Limited—Just landing, a limited supply of oornsaoka. Church Nottoes—Sj!. Stephen?*, Baptist, Primitive Methodist, and "Wea'eyan. Salvation Army—Captaiii's Notice. Tinwald Domain Board—Tender* accepted H. M. Jones—New Book* and Magazines Philip Magui*«-T«aerif