The Ashburton Guardian.

Vm. xxi, .vo. 4809

Ashburton : Monday, May 39, 1899



SISTER MARTHA.

en. He never went to church, nor did he often enter any other house than his own, but he was keen and sharp enough about his own interests and had bought up much valuable real estate in the town for purposes of speculation. Sister Martha, in her own dark room, spied on these two lights as she heard Vinie's stealthy steps. The two lights had looked across intervening space at each other for fif teen years. Sister Martha had never read the affecting ballad of the knight who turned hermit on the mountain to watch the candle in his lady's window across the valley, and had she known it it would probably have seemed to her sentimental stuff. Sister Martha had her own thoughts as she gazed at the lonely bachelor's win dow, and at times blended with them was something like a twinge of remorse. She hoped when the ketchin took her in the side it did not betoken incipient heart disease. Ann Baskett had sealed her thin lips about Captain Bligh and was not very communicative on the subject of the neighbor's affairs. Her opinion that Mis' Whitcmnb was "a kerryin and a fetchin woman" was no whit lessened by the gift of the linsey woolsey piece for a winter petticoat. Arm received it somewhat grimly with an intimation of counte nance that she could afford to buy such clothes as she needed. She let it lay neg lected two days on a kitchen chair before she carried it to her own room. Ann's scorn of presents was due to her con sciousness of a good bank account. She had saved money during her long service in the Mahew family, and she thanked God she was not hard on her things. Her principal employment in the long winter evenings was to sit at her clean kitchen table, with a brightly burning kerosene lamp, and make over her old clothes. A new fashion hardly ever came up that she did not get some odd wrinkle of it on her garments. When the high sleeves first were in vogue she was one of the earliest to appear at meeting with a queer little puckered bunch on each shoulder. Meeting was Ann's great resource and pleasure. It was her theater and opera, her concert and lecture. She never missed a service at her church however stormy the night, and with her kitchen key in her pocket she felt her dominions were safe, no matter what might happen to the front of the bouse. One morning Ann came down stairs with the breakfast tray and a message from her mistress to Sister Martha, beg ging that she would excuse her that day, as her head was unusually painful. "Well, it's about as lively here as a graveyard, ain't it?" said Mrs. Whitcumb, pushing out her foot as she sat stoutly on a kitchen chair. "1 can't go thrusting myself in on folks when they haven't I called on me, and I know pretty well ' why they don't call. They've got tired of a one sided business. Vinie's been shut up so long they know there's noth ing to look for from this house. You : can't expect to be asked to places if you don't do something in return." Mrs. Whitcumb felt the black silk dress and bead trimming up in the press burning to be worn. "What do you say Ann?" after musing a moment; "I have an idea. Suppose 1 was to give a tea party?" Ann turned Slowly around from the table where she was doing up the break fast things, and Mrs. Wbitcumb noticed that her gray pebble eyes had turned green. "Why, Marthy Marier WMt cumb," said she deliberately; "be you crazy?" "No, Ann," snapped Mrs. Martha; "Fm clothed and in my right mind. But what's to hinder my having a few people to tea in my own mother-in-law's house that was? There's the parlor and dining room all swep' and garnished, needing only a few bunches of flowers set around to brighten things and some sparrow-, grass bushes in the chimney." "I guess I should hey something to say, leastways about the part of the house that belongs tome. Them are her rooms. I don't claim no control over them." "Of course you will have all to say, Ann. I am aware of that. If you put down your foot that is the end of the worsted. I should think it might liven you, Ann, to have a few folks in to tea almost as much as a prayer meetin?" "I don't want no liveliness," said Ann grimly. got along these fifteen or twenty year without any and I'm puf fickly well; not an ache anywhere, least wise it might be a kind of stiffenin of the joints on damp mornins." I "I don't see as she need know anything about it, at least at first. We might get well started so as not to fluster her." Ann again withdrew her parboiled hands from the hot suds and rested the right—doubled into a rather formidable looking fist—on the table, while her look went through Sister Martha like a sew ing machine needle. "I'll hey no underhand contrivin, Miss Whitcumb. Them rooms are her part, and if she says you may hey 'em you may, thafs aIL Til do what I can to oblige, but she's got to be consulted first. If you locked her up in the attic you couldn't keep it from her, for her ears are like one of them telephones that ketches every whisper. You may take back your piece of linsey woolsey ef you're mad at my plain speakin." "I ain't mad, Ann, I only thought to save her fret and worry. But I want you to let her know there won't be any expense on her. I'll pay for all the sugar and butter and eggs that's used." Ann flashed out on her: "You wont do no such thing. I guess we ain't come to that pinch. There's plenty of every thing in the house, for I lay in supplies once ajnonth regular." "But you must let me add some little extrys, Ann. If I do the thing at all I want to do it up in style. A real first class high tea leaves awake of light be hind it, so to speak. And it does beat all how folks will eat when they get set down to a loaded table. I'll buy the chickens for salad, Ann, for I know how to make it extry well, with mayonazy dressing, and I guess 1 shall order ice cream from Holden & White, best Phila delphy. We will have real loaf at one end of the table and the salad at the other, and a celery glass of flowers in fche middle and smoked tongue and

To be Continued.

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HENEY STEPfiEtfSoN, (onccessor to Alfred Harrison.) Establiahed 20 years. AUCTJONKER, LAND EtfTATB AND COMMISSION AGENT AND VALUER TXTEKKLY SALES of Live Stock T*. Produce, Fornitiure, etc.. EVBKV SATURDAY, at 12 o'clock. UWing SaJea of Sroek, Household Farni. 'nre, etc., »s pet arr&Hgenjeiafc, in »ny part of the ootinty. Advanoef made en Goods placed in my >»Bdfi for Sale. Et"u!ei Co'»Big»njopis -f Co:or.i-.? Grown fitjd Is'ar..? : .nir fi -jif! -■.■ •••■i ■■ ■ -fr.j; -. the '' '- " ' ■ .i: -il»d *'*■'- - U»y FBMK CUKTisT THE Leading Practical Watchmaker Jewe'lt" 1, and Optician, East Street. FOLL SIOCK OF— ROTHRRHAMS ROTHERHAMS KIOKEL WITCBES NICKEL WATCHES WATERBUEYS WATERBURYS NOVELTIES & JEWELLERY. THE PLACE FOR Spectacles. Spectacles* (Correct fit guaranteed.) EEPAIES. BEPAIES. No waiting, all work done to tiree. WEDDING PJPESENTS. Very choice assortment In Platewaie, etc NOTICE OF EEMOVAL. ASBBURTON Efo 2 INDU**TRIAL BUILDING SOCIETY. mHE Society has REMOVED its Office JL from \ The Post Office Buildirgs, Cameron Street To ARCADE CHAMBERS, Burcett Street, in the O.d Bank Building. Office Hoars: From 930 to 12, and 2 to 4 p.m., and 7 to 8,30 every pay night. FRED. MAKEIG. 5 100 Secretary. GOOD .WfiWS FOX ALL." ¥71 rri formerly of 1/ « X 1 • \J Kast Street, complying with the wishes of former patrons, boga to ie form thetn and the public generally, that he has recommenced baßinees in tho Araade, opposite) Bairstow's Furniture Warehouse, IF YOU WANT STYLE, FIT, & SOUND WORKMANSHIP, GO TO JB\ W. CLA YTOW, His selection of Tweeds, Fancy Coatings, etc , are the best in the Colony. A grand <me of Heavy Sa'idiu snd Chipping Norton VVe?t of England Tweeds, at prios3 to suit everybody. F. F. OLA YTON, PB AC: ICAL ' »11 O BT" i T O-' "K'S AKC-^DK. 5 f-20 ws-rran •■ ■ -, .;■ '-;?<:)z and al ki.-.- -/ - it era Mercury. Etsta.bht-A-. i ■■• l -. - ..; .• vtare" In boxes 4s 6d euc-j, oi .ill Chc-in.tis and Patent Medicine Vendors throughout the world. Frup: iatoii, The Lincoln and Mid la.ud Gouutie* Drug Company, Linotln |Jafl



T a m?de^ fc^ eMiniaterfor^orelSTAftSi through the ConauLGeneral for italyTaJ Vielbourne, March 14, 1878. Awird«l liplonu at the Amsterdam Exhibition, 1883. Acknowledged by Medical QUaiS and IMverdties all over the Globe, There are imifcatioßß of Eaoaiyptl Extract £ ,?. mark«*. prodnota of ■impte ctisfcillatson forming orude resinous oila. la ?sr£- zgASS^JF*9 oih "wy no* be token, KXtR^T 15 T?W ILE EUOALYPS (iXIBAOT, which ia recognised by the taedioal division of the PruaaianGoverimenfc to be of perfectly pare origin, aa per information forwarded to aa throw* the Oonaul at Melbourne, March 2? 1878, wl of the^niveraitiea at Bonn and Greifswald, Prnaaia, andreported by Dr. Sohule,Profeams .. M«^ ma?? log^atBoil« *nd "ftbhajor Drf oS3T ri5 IITSS 0I * th«MedioalOlialairt SSfntwl^oxyge B M d freed of acidt, reaiaoua and other subatanoee, adhereat to pnmary diatillatioa, will denSopTtht AUorade oila, or ao called Eucalypti Extraote ?** M"cd Bccordin 8 <» the named authoritiea, among the turpeniiaes, which are abandoned long ainoe aa an internal 1 By their deficiency in pungent odour— v °« r J rodoot» tn« only genuine Eucalypti Extract developa moat freely through ita aurplua oxygen' 2 By their alcoholic thin and mobile appear ance being reduced in apeoifio deiuritj through tne presence of acids. 3 By their taste, the result of the contracting tendency of reaim and tennatea. If these crude oils, so-called eucalypti extracts, are applied by mistake in oaaea of oroup, bronchitia, diphtheria, internal nflamatlong, dysentery, etc., the oon« eeqaences are mosb appalling. For safety o T £? B Tk,r£ lwftye for ZANDER & SON'S EUCALYPTI EXTRAOT, - Sandbnrrt, Victoria, Anstralia. SANDEH * SONS.



TO Farmers and Others.—Wanted—Old Oast Plough Shares in any 'quantity, delivered at our Foundry.—Kilwobth & Son, Engineers, etc, Ashbarton, 2 193



GREAT SALE - OJF - LINOLEUM •« OVER 10° PATSf TO OHOOSE LIRGBBT STOCK IN m '< LINOLEUM TOWN. J -LINOLEUM (Jusb Arrived Direct from Manufacturers, New Designs and Colour?, BUGS, MATS, CARPETS, & MATTINGS OP ALL [KINDS Also a Large Consignment of Beautiful Brass and Iron Bedsteads, Just Arrived per^S.S.^Gothic. OALL EARLY AND SECURE A BARGAIN AT f. H. UNDRILL & CO.'S FURNISHING WAREHOUSE. ASHBURTON. Note Address— TANORED STREET, opposite Arcade, and next Building Society\O9Bc WHEAT. WHEAT. ARE PKOMPi' CASH BUYERS OF PRIME MILLING WHEAT. AT HIGHEST MARKET RATES I WE are also Prepared to STORE GRAIN on Farh.e.* Account in our New GRAIN SHEDS, West Street, Ashbarton, on very favorable Terms. ! FULL-SIZED CORNSACKS AND TWINS SUPPLIED'ATj LOWESI I CURRENT RATEB. ROLLITf~& Co., CANTERBURY FLOUR MILLS. OFFICES AND STORES — WEsT STREET, ASHBURTON 1 230 JR SHN WILSON, HOUSE DECORATOR, KEEPS the largest and most varied Stcck in the district of WALL PAPERS, Window Glass, Mixed Paints, Picture Mouldings, Enamels, Varnishes, Lacquers, Whit© Lead, Linseed Oils, Scrim, etc , wallTpapers A SPEOIALTY. By importing direct, and at frequent intervals, J.W» is enabled to Sell Cheaply and te offer his customers Wall Hangings of the very latest design and colourings. EVERY DESCRIPTION OF S«IG«N WRITING EXECUTED IN FIRST-CLASS ORDER. HOUSE DECORATING. To this branch of the business special attention is given, and customers entrusting their Booms to v«, will find that besides being artistically decorated, the work is done promptly. We employ a staff of upwards of fifteen hands, and are thus enabled to put the work through with the least possible delay. John ""Wilson, BDBNETT STREET. Telephone—6s. SHEARMAN BROS. WTE CAN SUPPLY AT VERY LOW PRICES HORfISRY & RANSOME PLOUGH SHARES, PLOUGH CHAINS, NEAT'S FOOT & CAfeTOR OILS GUNS & AMMUNITION. Single and Double Barrel Breech Loading Guoe, Eley's and Club Cartridgos'and Ammunition of all kinds. Sportsmen requiring Good and Reliable Ammunition at; the lowest price, would benefit by giving us a call. LAMPS, LAMPS, AND LAMP WARE. Hanging Parlour Lamps, Hall Lamps, Table I.amps, Hand Lamps, Bracke Lamps and Stoneley's Patent Safety Lamps in endless variety. Lamp Chimneys, Globes, Shades, Wicks, and Burners of every description. Stable Lanterns, Stable Lanterns in all shapes and sizes. ENAMELWARE, ENAMELWARE. WE have just received from the Manufacturers a Large and Assorted Stock oi: the above, including— Kettles, Saucepans, Jugs, Stewpans, Oupa and Saucers, Mugs, Plates, Dishes, Pie Dishes, Cullenders, Basins, Dippers, eta., etc., which we are disposing of at wholesale prices. KEROSENE. KEROSENE. 500 OASES LIaHT Z S. AOE OIL- 500 The Finest Oil in the Market. TEAS. TEAS. TEAS. Panyong Buds Tea, Pekoe Ceylon Tea, Ohina and Blended Teaa. Substantis redaction in taking a quantity. We make a specialty of Teas. WINES & SPIRITS. Ferguson's Old Scotch Oream (specially matured), Walker's Kilmarnock Whisky, Bass's English and Manning's Bottled Ales and Stouts, and all other Wines and Spirits always on band, BEST HOUSE in Ashburton for Crockery, Glassware, and Brush ware, Groceries at Wholesale Prices. Orders by Post despatched with Punctuality. Goods delivered Daily? SHEARMAN BROS., WHOLESALE & RETAIL GROOERS, IRONMONGERS, WINE AND SPIRIT MEEOHANTS, MARKET HOUSE, BUENETT STREET, ASHBURTON Telephone No 53



TO MY CLIENTS. T a;m pr|bp|a;bed;;to dispose o«f any SHEEP AND LAMB SKINS SENT TO FAIBFIELD FKEEZTNG WORKS, to best;,possible:adva.ntage. Ib would be woil to give me particulars prior to sheep being forwarded. DAVID THOMAS, ASHBTJBTON DAVID THOMAS. Auctioneer, Land, Insurance & Estate Agent, Valuator, Wool and Grain Broker, AS HBUBT ON Loans Negotiated Weekly Salea of Live Stock—Tinwald and Auhbartot Aleernatwlf Fortnightly Sales of Sheep Skins, Fats, Hides, etc, on Mondays Sales of Wool Throughout the Season Grain Bought and Sold on Commission Ol«ari tar Bales as per arrangements Arcade Horse and Furniture Sales held on Saturday's. Horse Fairs held Monthly, AGENT FOR i Matron and 00, Ohrfetcharch Booth, McDonald and 00, Ohriaichnrcb White's Sheep Dip Walter A. Wood Oo Ligbtband't Belting London and Lancashire Insurance Qotnpwuy Graham's Foot Rot Compoaition Wright, Stereason and 00, Danedin ! Planet Junior Garden and Field Tools Belfast Manure? R;A KA I A DI S T RIOT SALES. IHAVE made arrangements with MESSRS HARDY & GO., Merchants, Rakala, t« act Mmy AGENT for all Auctioneering Work in that District, and in conjunction with them It will be my endeavour to make the RAKAIA SALE A SUCCESS. DAVID THOMAS, Aahbnrfeon GREAT REDUCTION IM PRIOB OF PLANET JR. TOOLS DAVID THOMAS. ASBBURTON , . Hew Zealand Insurance Company. BBTABLIS hTTd ' L. .. 18 5 9 CAPITAL^ONEMILLION. THEJFBEMIKB AND WEALTHIEST COLONIAL COMPANY NOTED FOB PROMPTNESS AND LIBBRALITY, PAID-UP CAPITAL AND RESEBVES—je^OO.OOO. FIRE AND MARINE RISKS. ALSO,—i RISKS ON GROWING CROPS, THRESHING MACHINES, *0., AOOBFTED AT LOWEST 7UBRENT RATBB E..W- HANMBR AGEOT THE WERTHBIM SEWING MACHINE, A MARVEL OP SIMPLICITY AND DURABILITY, IS SOLD AT GRRATLY «-IL.I>UOE;JD I»JRXOJB8, and the advantages Robert Loohhead gives in relation to Easy Terms, oannob be aur paaaed by any other Perion or Company in the Ashburton Diatricb. OUR GOLD MEDAL NEW BTYLE OF PERAMBULATORS and GO-OARTS are undoubtedly the very beat and moat beautiful articles in New Zealand, FOB MANGLES, POST ABLE BOILEBS, and our various other Article?, the universal testimony is the firm oannot be beat* —— : x:—— i AH kinds of Sewing Machines Repaired. ROBERT LOCHHEAD, WERTHEIM MACHINE DEPOT, EABT STREET, ASHBURTON. H. H. HEATLEY, BRANCH MANAGER. 5 10 MELLOR'S ZEALANDIA BOOT STORE ALWAYS TOTHE FRONT. T7OB GOOD OHEAP BOOTS AND SHOES W£ STAND ALONE We do the Leading Trade, and we mean to keep it. NOTE OUR PRICES—Men's Good Bhooten, 9a 6d; Children's Ankle Straps, Is I Ladies' Pretty Shoes, 4s lid and 5s 6d ; Men's Good Bluchers, 4s lid. Thousands of other pairs ab the same Cutting Prices. IF You want a GOOD EASY BOOT, one that will stand the we*r, be tan yw"to MELLOR'S ZEALANDIA BOOT STORE, KANORED STFEK'Ji, ARHBUBT3N



SHAG POINT GOAL. THE PREMIEE OTAG3 COAG. UNEQUALLED POU HOUSEHOLD ANE STEAM PURPOSEB. mHE SHAG POINT COAL COMPANY X hereby notify that MESSRS W. H. COLONS & 00. are their OJNJL.Y" Agent* in Ashburton for THE GENUINE SHAG POINT COAL. * AH orders entrusted to them will receive prompt attention. Colliery: Shag Point. Head Office: Yoge! Street, Dunedin. GEO. R. OHEEBEMAN, 18 General Manager, ~~IIYERY STABLbIT""" McConell & Gompton WISH to inform the Pablio that they have token over the Stables lately carried on by Mr McCormick, and the New Firm trust that by civility and attention they will secure a lair share of patrongage. Horses, Gabs, and Other Vehicles always on hire, day and night. King up ALFRED MoOONELL or SPENCER COMPION, Telephone 91 ! ; ■■■■■ ; " ■ ■ ' ■ 3 293 V. BALLANTYNE&Co., OF OASHfiL STREET, OHRISTCHUROB, TTAVE FITTED A MOST COMPLETE FACTORY, and Manufacture FROM START TO FINISH Hlgh-OUss Furniture ab very MODERATE RATES, A Visit) to Ballantyne's Showroom and Faolory, by any of our Country Client when In Christeharch, will be MUCH APPRECIATED BY THE FIRM. T. H. Un&hli.j (c uaoatu. T.H.UNDRXLL A&0 CO, FURNISHING UNDERTAKERS, URNISHING UNDERTAKERS. TANCRED STREET, ASHBURTON ! EVERY REQUISITE ON HAND. Polished Goffini a Specialty. Private Address, Peter Street, dirootly behind Oddfellows' Hall; also oare of Mr T. Andrews, East Belt. 2 E. W. HANMER. NOTICE OF REMOVAL TO NEW PREMISES. HAVING ezobanged premises with the Farmers' Co-operative Association, have much pleasure in stating that in future I shall oarry on my business at! the offices and etore lately occupied by the above As Boclation at the corner of West Street} and I Havelock street (the, Loan and Mercantile ! old premiseßt) * STORAGE AT LOWEST RATES. CORNSACKB AT CURRENT PRICES, 1 132 E. W. HANMER. THE DAINTIEST LITTLE WHEEL ( THAT EVER WAS" J " The Rambler? HAVING sold oat of my old stock of these saperlpr Bicycles, I have jttsc opened op a fresh consignment of the LATEST PiLTTKRN " RAMBLEK" SPECIAL LIGHT RACERS, ROAD RACERS, A ROADSTERS in all 'izes and all fitted with the ever lasting G & J detachable Tyre. " Xf IE BABiBLER," CALL A&D INSPEOI THE STOCK. Prioe Easy. Riding Easy. Machines the Strongest on Earth. ACCESSORIES IN STOCK. OTHER MARES FITTED WITH G & 3 TYRES* D. THOMAS. ART CLASSES. ETHEL JONES, /CERTIFICATED art teacher, Canterbury \J College School of Art; Free Student Technical School of Design, Wellington; Pupil of JamesM. Nairn, Wellington. Instructions given in all branches of Art, Painting from Life, and Sketching from Nature, in Oil or Water Colour. For particulars apply to Mb John Wilson Burnett street,



Shipping ~-~" rp ri c J&mMEfc N w ZEALAND '""■."•:';. '■' line royal mail steamers, for london* VU M«n(w Video, Teneriffe ft Plymenfeit. Best Accommodation for all classes of Paneogers at Lowest Rates. | \ ForTof ] Steamers. Teas. Departure- Date. Kaikoura 4507 Wellington April 22 Rnahine 6127 — May II Wakanui — May 25 Rimutaka 4515 I — Jane 8 CAR&O STEAMERS. Fifeshiro .. 8500 — I April WOOL SHIPS. Norman II I MeLeod | 834 f Lyttelton j April LochTorridou j 2081 | Lyfc'n I April Oonway ... ■ ■ j 1899 | Lyt'a | May j RATE oFfreIGHT FORWHEAT. By Sailer .. », 27a 6d per ton By Steamer .. 30a Od per ton With the asual primage. Vn farther particular* apply to FRIBDLANDER BROS.. Lro. -, Agents, Ashbnrtoß. SHAW, SAVILL AND ALBION COMPANY, LIMITED. FOR LONDON. jfc* T>OYAL MAIL STT5A fjKSfe^ -*■»> MKRS, with superior jSHHftir Moommodatlon for all obwtos *™^^^!^ of passengers, calling at Monte YWeo or Rio, Tenerlffe and Ply. month. Vessel (Tons Oomtnandetj From Date, lonio —14748 Kempaon Wel't'n May 25 fjothio «,!7730Kidley >..! Wel't'n July 20 OARGO STEAMERS. Maori ...15317 Moffafct Wol'iFn Apl 20 ♦Waiwera 6500 Stuart Wel't'n April Tokomaru 6238 Maxwell — May Mamari -„ 5583 Evans (We'.'t'n May WOOL SHIP. Wellington [1309 j Thomas | Lyt'a j Mar *Oarries Third-class Passengers. B. W. HANMER. AgeRD. U~~NIO!S STEAMSHIP COMPANY Of NEW ZEALAND, Limitbd STEAMERS? FAII FBGMLITTELTON AS UNDER: For Westport and Greymonth—Weekly. Wellington— Monday, Tuesday, Thurs day and Saturdays NOTE—For extra sailings see advertise ment in Christchuroh papers Dunedin — Mondays, Fridays and alternate Tuesdays and Saturdays Nelson and Pioton, via Wellington— Tuesday and Saturday Sydney, via Auckland — Alternate Thursdays The above are subject to alteration; eference shonld therefore be made to Ohristchurch daily papers foi dates and hoar of sailing For farther particulars apply to Ft FERRIMAN, Agent, Ashbarton MUSICAiI Llewellyn Owen, PIANOFORTE, BINPINO, HABMONY,AND MANDOIM-. THE ART OF SINGING. MBS HERBERT STEEL IS prepared to take Pupil* for BINGING and VOICE PRODUCTION at her residenoe, Havelock Street Weßt. Terms, Jco,, on application. 5 175 PIANOFORTE, SINGING, ORGAN, AND THEORY OF MUSIO. TIT R 8 T> O~W MAN "THI O X Member of the Canterbury Society of Professional Musicians, I Havblook Strum, Ashbukton. Pupils prepared for Trinity College exam* nations. . -. _, OSBOBN COOMBEJ, PIANO TUNER 4 EXPERT, (Late of London), VISITS Ashburton and sntronndiog Districta every four month*—vis., March, July, and November, . . ORDERS mar be {eft with MR LLEWELLYN OWEN at his Music Studio, Arcade Chambers, Ashburton, or at Commercial Hotel. * MBS 6ABSON7 rfIEACHER of Pianoforte and Organ. JL For terms, etc., apply at Residence, Corner of Wills and William Streets, near Wakanni Bead East. 1 136 Guardian Fire & We Assurance Company, Limits (Established In 1821). Bbbsobibed Capital .. £2,000,000 Paid.Up Gaotal .. .. £1,000,00 Total Fokds ovbr £4,500,000, Head Office : 11, Lombard Street, London nnHE Undersigned is authorised to aocej Insurances on all kinds of Property at Lowest Current Bates, ALBERT ROBERTS, 2 201 Agent for Aihburton.