THB ASHBOiiTOH GtABDIAN : TUESDAY, FEB&tJARY 1, 1898.

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A. WARREN, BASKETMAKKR, E. W. Hull's, Herbalist, (nearly opposite Aroade), TANCRED STREET, ASHBURTON. ALL KINDS of WICKER WORK Mada to Order and Repaired. 12 2 ASHBURTON PERMANENT BUILDING AND INVESTMENT SOCIETY. ON and after Thursday, the 7th day of January, 1897, this Office will be CLOSED FOR THE WEEKLY HALF- HOLIDAY, ON THURSDAY instead of SATURDAY, And will be open until 4 p.m. on Saturday after that date. EDWARD STEPHENS, Manager^ DRINK DELICIOUS Xl X 35r A m 3V PERFECT IN QUALITY, FLAVOR AND BLEND. Paoked >n Tins, the delicate Aroma Absolutely Preserved. OBTAINABLE FROM ALL GROCERS r^ VERYONE accustomed to uebg the A.G. Ointment Will find equal satisfaction m using Bee Ointment, For which everyone is kindly requested to aßk instead of the AC OINTMENT. . Carefully note that a diagram of a Bee Is m the centre, and Edward Gallichan'* Faotory, Ashurst, New Zealand, on the end of every pot. Bee Ointment is every mother's true tnend ; on the weakest baby, or tha strongest man's flesh it is always successful. Price, Is 6d. Bee Ointment is especially manufactured as a horse and cattle dressing Price— 2s 6d AC Corn Cure, for hard or soft corns warts, and bunions — Price Is AC Vegetable Pills, for male and emale use, 30 pills m every box, and quite equa> to anything imported — price Is 6d EDWIN GALLICHAN, PROPRIETOR AND MANUFACTURE*? Ashurat, N.Z. Canterbury Representative, MR G. P. HOATTEN, Ashburton, The following testimonies to the value of the Ointment are good enough for any- hing :— Dear Sirs, — We have great pleasure in- recommending your Bee Ointments. We' have given them a thorough trial, both on> man and beast, and they have proved to be- quite as good as you represent. In future- we intend to keep a stock always on hand— - We remain, yours faithfully, Sharplin & Co. Medical Dispensary, New Plymouth, October 19, 1896- --, Dear Sir, — I have sold your Bee Ointment) and AC Corn Cure and Pills for the past three years, and I have never known o one purchaser to express a regret for pro- curing your lines. They have m every case which has come under my notice, given every satisfaction Your Bee Ointment haa proved itself one of the best healing oint- ments procurable. Kindly forward me one gross of Bee Ointment, small size, at your earliest convenience. Yours truy, A. E. Sykes Chemist. Hundreds of other testimonials too numerous to publish. PALM AND JOKO TEA INDIAN AND OEYLON. OUR 2s 4d INDIAN (Palm Brand) Is, noted for producing 200 largo Tea. Caps of first-rate Tea to the pound. This- is the Tea Mr George Jameson sold so- largely. OUR 2s TEAS (Palm and Joko) are equally good value for the money. OUR TEAS are so popular that we frequently hear of Instances of other Teas being packed and sold m our empties. 4 Imitation is eincerest flattery, 1 but the public should see they get the genuine article. Retail from all the prlnoipal Store- keepers. WHOLESALE FROM JAMESON. ANDERSON & CO., 155 Colombo Street, Ohbistohuboit



THOS- E. KILWORTH & SON ENGINEERS, BRIDGE WOJRKb, AfeHBURTONr XTNDERTAKB all k r nda of Engine Work, all kinds of Millwright's Work, General Engineering 1 , Woodworking, & Blacksmithing. KiL WORTH & SOJN, ASHBURTON. HOUSE PAINTING & PAPERHANGING. [HAVE just to hand a shipment of GENUINE WHITE LEAD &2PURE LINSEED OIL for the present season's Painting and Decorating. Persona desirous of having their homes well painted with GENUINE|MATERIALS k GOOD TRADESMENjire requested to oall upon us. OIL CLOTH FOR DADO S IN STOCK. TO ARTISTS. HAVE a Splendid lob of.Opal Glass m stock, specially prepared for Artiitsjuie, whioh can;be cub to any sine required at a moderate charge. J. WILSON, CORNER OP ARCADE & BURNETT STREET. Te lephone p.o. Box 16 GREAT CLEARING SALE OJP Summer Drapery & Clothing, FOR ONE MONTH, COMMENCING FRIDAY, January 14. /^v Wonderful Reductions. Great Bargain*. , Genuine Clearing Sale OF Surplus Stock. A. P. WILLIAMSON, CASH DRAPER & CLOTHIER, TANORED STREET EAST STREET, ASHBURTON. H. M. JONES. ( X ) BEST CASH VALUES OBTAINABLE IN THE COLONY IN iPianos. Pianos. Pianos. A BEAUTIFUL UPRIGHT PIANO, 4ft 4in high, overstrung, Full Trichord. Brasf Wreßte Plank, Patent Check Repetition Action, Seven Octaves, usual price £55, foi lOh net cash. A Good Piano, Bimilar to the above, but smaller, usual price £45 for £38.10s net cash. These are SPECIAL PRICES and cannot be beaten. Organs. Organs. Organs. ORGANS from £8 10s CASH to £45, A SPECIAL LINE OF ORGANS, 7 Stops with Octave Couplers, 2 Sets Reeds, very sweet Tone, for £16 NET CASH. (x) Bicycles. Bicycles. Bicycles. A Shipment of Waverley Cycles, Ladies' and GeDtlemen's, just to hand up to date, high grade, well finished, guaranteed. To be sold at Lowest Oast Price. Terms arranged. The Monarch and other machines supplied. Cycle extras. Purchasers taught to ride. VIM TYRES, the best, m the wmld and the cheapest Thompson's Patent Tamper. ALL NON-PLAY ERS should have one. Simplicity itself. Call and aspect. LOWEST CASH PRICES H. M. JONES. New Zealand Insurance Company. HSTABLIS h"bD°* 1 _ 18 5 9 CAPITAL^ONE MILLION. THEPREMIEB AND WEALTHIEST COLONIAL COMPANY, NOTED FOB PROMPTNESS AND LIBERALITY FIRE AND ~MAR2NR RISKS ALSO,— RISKS ON GROWING CROPS, THRESHING MACHINES, &0., ACCEPTED AT LOWEST TORRENT RATES HANMEK & GKAVES, AGENTS |



Business Notices. i LAZARUS'S SIGHT TESTING SPEOIALUE SPECTACLES. Solo agent for A.shbnrfcon District, C Q A L E X, *»?« ■ — ■' JEWELLER, EAST STREET, ASHBUBTON. J' AZARUS Patented System ensure >_* oomfort and oorreot sight. Dont spoil yoar eyes by using badly fitting Spoolaolea. GL JESSON, PRAOTIOAL WATCHMAKER AND JEWELLER East* Street, Ashburton. THE CHEAPEST SHOP m Ashburton FOR KOTHEBHAM'S WATCHES. The Besb Watch ever imported into New Zealand. SOLE AGENT for the Celebrated "RELIABLE" WATCHES. Speotaoleß, Eye Glasses, & Eye Preservers a specialty. LOOK CHEAP WINTER FIRING. NEW MOUNT SOMERS COAL. OUTPUT has Trebled during the laßfc twelve months. IT IS USED EVERYWHERE. This Coal is the Best and Cheapest Steam and Household Coal m the market. Uaed m the Woollen Factory and Canter bury Flour Mills, GIVES SPLENDID RESULTS WRITE FOR PRICES TO G. T. PARK, MOUNT SOMERS. NEW SADDLERY BUSINESS. TANORED STREET, Next to J. Tasker, Butcher A. HENRY WISHES to inform the farming com- munity and general public, oi having commenced business m the above premises, and hopes by strict attention tc business, combined with the best of work manship and moderate charges, to merit a fair share of public patronage. All harness manufactured on the premises of the best material and guaranteed hand eewn. Experienced workmen sent to any'part o the district at the shortest notice. HORSE HAIR AND BEESWAX bought m any quantity. R. J. HENRY, 10 3 Manager. Baker Bros. rpURNISHING UNDERTAKERS, Corner of Wakanni Road and Cass Streets and at Baker and Brown's Coach Factory, Havelock Street. EVER! REQUISITE SUPPLIED Telephone No. 69. STBATHMOBE PBIVATE HOSPITAL. EXTENSIVE ADDITIONS JUST COMPLETED UNEQUALLED IN THE COLONIES FO MEDICAL AND SURGICAL CASES. y^AN Accommodate upwards of FORTY 40) MALE »nd FEMALE PATIENTS TERMS ■. From 2 Guineas pei week] PATIENTS OAN BE ATTENDEE BY THJPiU OWN MEDICAL ADVISER. Apply to— THE MATRON, Strathmore Private Hospital, Ferry Road (just over East Belt), Christ 135 church. SMOKE THE NEW VENUS Dark Aromatic Plug Tobacco. THE CELEBRATED & BEST BRANL MANUFACTURED FROM CHOICEST VIRQINA LEAP ROZIE lEA i Beat* 4UI



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A VICTIM OF Functional Disease, Alavum NKV.ER fails anyone m riJdAUIII suc h a predicament. To i-ufferera from Sick Headache, Dyspepsia, Biliousness and Constipation it is "A friend m need and a friend indeed." Assist Nature by Alaxum, and you will avoid a multitude of distressing functional derangements and diseases. Of all known medicines for renew- ing the energy Alaxum is the best. Its secondary effects are marvellous. Many persons afflicted with constipation have testi- fied not only to its immediate relieving properties but to the faot that the cure lasts. No care is required while using it. It does not interfere with the diet, habits or occu- pation, and produoes no inoonvenienoe m its action. It is at once a laxative, an appetiser, and a stimulating tonio, prepared scientifically, and endorsed by the Press as the most valuable medicine that has ever been offered to to the publio m a popular form. ALAXUM ODMSS Biliousness, Bilious Headache, Dj'zainess, Costiveness, Sour Stomach, Loss- of Appetite, Coated Tongue, Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Flatulence, Heartburn, Pains and Distress after Eating, and all functional derangements of the i :■ of nutrition, j NOTE THIS WELL,- The whole system of a human being may be perfectly sound, and yet through derange- ment or weakness the organs of the boay may perform cheir functions or their work sluggishly, thus giving rise to want of appetite, and a consequent general impover- ishment) of the whole being. Such a con- dition causes thousands of people to fancy that they are consumptive, while they are really only m need of a remedy to sco the organs of the body working harmoniously. Reason points to two essential qualities m a remedy for this purpose. It must create an appetite for food, and at the same time assimilate its nutriment. With either of these qualities alone the remedy would be worse than useless, but with both it becomes a power with incalculable good. Alaxum is the only medicine which combines these two qualities. It iB a natural appetiser, and its firat action iB to create hunger. After ! the appetite is satisfied it acts directly on the stomach, liver and kidneys, clearing away all effete matter and exciting them to activity. The system then receives nutri- tion and new life from the proper assimila- tion of the food; and where there is no organic disease health must follow. This is common sense and cannot be gainsaid. Accept no substitute that may be recom- mended to be "just as good.' It may be better — for the dealer — because of its better profit, but m such an instsnee thejle&ler iB not the onejvho needs help. FROM ALL CHEMISTS & STORE- KEEPERS, PKIOE 2s 6d THE FIRST SIGN OF A COLD Should remind you that the best time to commence taking something is at the begin- ning. It should also remind you that the best remedy to head off a spell of sneezing, coughing and general unpleasantness is Benjamin Gum, If i: „ f MEN START AT MY STATEMENTS ABOUT BENJAMIN GUM! Thousands of bottles have been soM, an universal praise of its curative qualities the result. Note the Name: Spencer Vincent's Great Benjamin Glum Extract PRICE Is 6 - Take no other Remedy, buo insist on having BENJAMIN GUM Don't take " Just as Good." TESTIMONIALS. Woolston, August 10, 1897. To Spenoeb Vincent, Christchuroh. Dear Sir, — For some time past I have been suffering from a most painful cough. I had quite given up hope of its ever leaving me, at least or the remainder of the winter, and feared that it had become chronic, seeing thd.t other remedies failed to give me relief, muoh less cure. The pain became co intense that I was afraid of injuring my throat and head, especially the latter. I prooured one bottle of your Benjamin Gum, and I may say that I hadn't an atom of faith m its curative properties, but felb that I must take something to ease the pain. I drank contents of first bottle very freely, and am thankful to say m less than twelve hours I was wholly free from oough. E. W. Scabs. P. S.— Nearly three months einoo cough



In ccnn«ciion with the cUtUh Hie other day of Mr Lauiie, tho Glasgow violin t xpert, reference was A VALUABLE made to i.ls having FIDDLE had through his hands ' the famous i?tradi- v.irius violin which has come to be known, somewhat irreverently, if not absurdly, as "The Messiah." Thp Scots Pictorial says the instrument is now m the possession of Mr R. Oraw ! ford, of Newpark, Trim y, Edinburgh, who a few years ago paid no less than £2000 for it. As recently as 1872 Oharl-s Keade (who knew as much about fiddlea as about the trade of letters) had valued the instrument at £600, putting the worth of the varnish alone at £565 ! Villaume, the high priest of fiddiemaking m Paris, had it at this time. H< j kept it till his death m 1875. From Villaume the treasure 'descended to M. Alard, the great i French violinist, who gave JfilOOO for it. He died m 1888, and two y^ara later Mr Crawford risked his £2000 on it. There is some reason, our con- temporary thinks, for the high figure. The instrument is the only one that has come down from Stradivarius own hands m a state of perfect preset va' ion. It has been very little played upon, and its glowing, ruddy varnish is as fresh as if it had been put on only a week ago. Mr Crawford has a second " iStrad.," and also a very fine Guarnerius. Moreover, he has a picture gallery, containing paintings worth about £100,000, including two by Meissonier. Others may equal him m all this, but they can never equal his £2000 fiddle. It is but a question of a few years, and [the instrument — if it is ever sold — will fetch a consider- ably higher price. Henry ZahderT" NOTICE. rriHE ENTRANCE to my Offices is now m Moore Street, (lately ocoupied by Moesrs Friedlander Bros.)] CORNSACKS— (FuII Bize. SEAMING TWINE— (S ply L ) BINDING TWlNE— (Donagby b. JUST TO HAND. HENRY ZANDER. -TL II 1.1 111 ■ nil II Public Notices. T. 1 H. UHDBILL AND CO. REMOVAL NOTICE. XT7"E beg to intimate that we have IRE- MOVED to shop a few doors lower down Tancred Street (next Mr E. W. Halle), as temporary premises during the building of our new shop, where we purpose holding a CHEAP SALE. i SEE FURTHER PARTICULARS. T; H. Undrill & Co. CABINET MAKERS, UPHOLSTERERS & PICTURE FRAMERS, TANCRED STREET] n



"A, Thamp, Fsq ," a humorous writer, m the Auckland Weekly fiews, has b*<; n taking a nimble THE TEX TRIBES m Northern Wairoa. FOUND. Ho h ftS the follow- ing to s&y about the hote keepers, and be it noted that many of the brewers and wholesale spirit merchants m Auckland are of Jewish birth : — The partiality shown for Irishmen by the great houses con- troling the liquor trude m Auckland provincial district is so marked that the opinion is gaining ground that the theory of the Irish people being the loßt tribes i f Tsrai 1 is based on some- thing stronger than mere conjecture- and it is significantly nodded " blood is thicker than water.' "We have it on the authority of Holy Writ lh»t missing Israel was a stiff neck* d and rebellious race, with a weakness for graven images. The Irish, as we know, without the aid of Scripture, are a gaily pugnacious lot, built pretty much on the same lines. Then there is the evidence of the hod, a pircn of indus- trial furniture they must have carried with them from Egypt, where the poor "childer" were compelled *o make bricks without straw "an other injustice." Again, there is the Jew's harp, and thpre is also the harp of Erin. They are not the same meke exactly, but both are narps, and to- gether they form a very effective orchestra — wind and string. Their national emblematic organe, too, are differently shaped ; that of the one is thin, short, and heavenward bent ; the other long, full, with a^ downward curve. It was probably a trifling dis- agreement on the relative merits of their respective mubic-boxes that originally caused their estrangement and separation. Now, attune your harps, oh, ye peoples, and rejoice! After all these years Benjamin Judah recognises bis long-lost brother m the Irish prodigal, Patrick Israel. 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While New York and Hamburg have been making immense gains m tonnage, London has been gaining slowly and Liverpool^ apparently losing In geias Hamburg' and New York have just about kept pace with each other. The total tonnage entered and cleared m the port of New York for the year 1874 was 13,836,429, as against 20,782,530 tons last year, an increase j of 6,956,101 tons. ! SAlVl>^i<r&~»ojxs Euca- iypti Extract. Under the distinguished patronage of His Majesty the King of Italy, as per communica- j tioa made by the Minister for Foreign Affairs j through the Consul-General • for Italy, at ' Melbourne, March 14, 1878. Awarded i diploma at the Amsterdam Exhibition, 1883. Acknowledged by Medical Clinics and Universities all over the Globe. There are imitations of Eucalypti Extract m the market, products of simple distillation forming crude resinous oils. 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