The Ashburton Guardian.

Ashburton : Saturday, October 28, 1899.

Vol xxi, no. 4953

price : One Penny

COMMERCIAL.

London, Ootober 24 Wheat is dull; English is Is 6d and foreign 6d lower on the week; Sidney, Ootober 55 At the wool sales competition is extremely keen, and Continental buyers are operating largely. Prices for all good wools are fully 5 per cent, above the previous week's. The favorable crop reports are steadying the wheat market; quotations, chick, 2a 9d to 2i 10J ; milling, 3s 2d to 3a 3d. | Melbourne, October 25 A reoord shipment of eggs has been made to London, there being nearly half a million m one lot. Wheat, firm ; tales 3s 3|3 to 3s 4d Oats, Algerian, Is 9i to Is lid ; stoat, Is lOd to 2». Adblaidk. October 25 Wheat, quiet, bub firm, at 3a 2d to 3* 33. Q%tr, dun and Algerian, Is 10J to 2j : stout, 2a 6d. Ddnedin, October 25 I Wheat,—The market has advanced, and holders m all districts remain firm m their demands for higher prices, m some cases 2s 9d having been refused for prime tuacan. There ia a fair quantity about, and the prices likely to rule depend largely on the position taken up by holders. Prime tuscan and velvet fetch 2a 9d, medium 2a 6d to 2« Bd, fowl feed up to 2a 5d for good whole samples. Oats have continued to advance steadily. The market is firm, and stocks are light. There does not seem any probability of a decline while there is a chance of its going still higher. Prime milling fetches Is 10£ d, good feed Is 9d to is 9£d.



WALTHAMWATCHEB which are well worth inspection. Beat value m Nickel and other Watches m Ashburton. Largest) and best stock of Engagement and Gkm Rings. I give especial value m this Hne.i making it a speciality. GOLD & SILVER BROOCHES. (NoteUU: Neat, charms and Greenstone Pendants iujj every variety. SPECTACLES & EYE GLASSES fitted with latest sight testing apparatus. NOTE.—AH my Spectacles are of English Manufacture. Beware of cheap French and foreign goods. Old Jewellery re-made into latest design at moderate charges. Watches and Clocks repaired with accuracy and promptitude* FRAM CURTIS, THE LEAPING WATCHMAKER & JEWELLER. /~1 ENTLBMEN, try "The Corner" for ' V3T an up-to-date Suit and all your Mercery requirement*—Nobthoote and HEjrfQRP,



Dear Bot,— "TTOUgrtat baby! Are jou kill mat abou the tiff we had Ihe other night Don't keep a grudge over a little thing like that. I haven't seen him since, %ad next time Ido I'll be very cool to him. Will that do Gome over and'see me soon ; my new wheel has arrived It'e a beauty* I told*'you t was going to get a STERLING, and {I have, The more I hear and see>f ic^the gladder am Not a word against it, and all theglrll who have ridden one say it is too perfectly lovely. No trouble with repairs. Strong as an ironclad and so dainty m [appearance. It is a darling. Just call on the agents and they will tef you all about the chain and beatings and things better than I can* Bat Ido hope you'll get one. I'm sore I'll like your look best on a STERLING, Tonra lovingly,-* NtLLIB. ~t"jrank Curtis. THE LEADING Watchmaker, k Jewel'et» JEA.ST STREET,, HAS just opened up FRESH LINES nearly every department. New stock OF RotHernin't* Watfefies* to hand. Jewelled m Bit holes, , com; en Jon ballances, heavy oases, hunting open faced, latest movements, key leap, key winding. Also a new line of



""'yiTIADATIO THE OREAT HERBAL REMEDY. ANOTHER GREAT TRIUMPH OVER " HYDATIDS," A grateful Patient gives unsolicited and valuable testimony to the efficacy of this great Herbal Remedy. Read carefully and investigate for yourself. 29 Packingnton St., Sb. Kilda,. Mr S A Palmer, Vitadatio Institute, Bourke at. Sir,—As I consider Webbers' Great Herbal Remedy, "Vitadatio/ 9 has been the sofa means of saving my life I think the least I osn do i« to hand yon this testimonial, so that others suffering the same as myself may know that there is a certain reliable cure for them m " Webber's Vitadatio," if it is only gives a fair trial. The smple facts of my case are as follows:—For the past 10 years I have been under thetreatmeutof doctors m Fitiroy ! and S«-. Kilda, as well as some of the best m Collins street Some were of opinion that I was suffering from consumption, whilst others mated it was pleurisy. At any rate they could give me no relief, let alone cure me. You can easily imagine that I had little hope of ever being cured. But one day I noticed an advertised cure by "Webber's Vitadatio," and the symptoms of the patient being somewhat similar to my owe, I thought I would give it a trial, with the result lhaf, much taking only two large bottlen, I felb after better, and continued the medioine. By the time I had taken eight bottles I was wonderfully recovered, but one day took very ill, and vomited np a lob of slimy matter, which was afterwards examined by the doctor, and pronounced to be Hydatids. I continnedlo vomit these "Hydatids" for some time, bub at last it died away. This naturally left me weak, but I continued with the " Vitadatio," and gradually my strength returned, until to-day I can honestly stat« I have never felt better m the whole of my life. I consider " Webber's Vitadatio" a miracle-worker. I am well-known m Fitzroy, and there are many others just as much astonished at my cure as I am. I shall be pleased to speak to anyoce and give them my own experience of the worth o " Webber's Vitadaiio." You are at perfec liberty to make what use you like of th;l testimonial. 1 may add I am now able to do all my own household work; a thing I have been ur?ab!e to do for years.—Yours very gratefully. Mrs) CARRIE HOOKING Witneiis-G B Richardson, 19/9/99 VITADATJOIS A TRULY WONDER FUL MKMOINE. Vitadatio sold everywhere, 5i 6d apd 1e64 Head Office for N*Z -39 Mannees Street, Wellington. Ask your Chemist or flrocer for it.



FTIHE Newest Designs m Stamped Mount JL Mellick, Moldavian, Countess, Ceylon, fttbbon, Brooklyn, and Lice Work now m stock. Linen Goods, Colored Linen; Canvas, Giant, Reliable, Butterfly, and Berlin Wools. Crewel, Leviathan, Embroidery and Knit ting Silks. Fiose, Arasene, Perline, Zanzi bar, and Congress Cottons, and all the etos. neoessary for Art Needlework to be had at Mrs Alcorn'f. ________ FARMERS and Visitors to Ashburton, will find Mrs McGregor's Refresh ment Rooms, ail the corner of East and Burnett Streets, the most central and beat m town. Hot Luncheons daily from 12 to j 2 Tea, coffee and light refreshments at al. hours. Confeotionery and fruic of the best always m stock, | For Children's Haokiog Cough take Woods' Great Peppermint Cure—le 6d and 2.64



A Brilliant Eesoue, : A BROKEKDOWN SYSTEM RENO VATED. THE ADELAIDE HOSPITAL AND THBEB LEADING DOCTORS PRONOUNCED THE CASE HOPE , LESS. ! "I WAS SO WEAK THAT I HAD TO BE LIFTED OUT OF THE Caß." AN EXCEPTIONALLY STRONG \ CASE FOR BILE BEANS. | (Fully Investigated by the " Adelaide , Advertiser." From time to time many wonderful '• curts have been placed to tho credit of j Bile Beana for Biliousness We have! now to chronicle an exceptionally strong] case of a lady in Adi: aUle, who rasj stiff :red terribly for many years. Tne person is Mrs M. E. Austin, of Exeter Carve, Semaphore Roac, Femaphore, South Australia, and when interviewed by a reporter from the •' Adelaide Adver tiser " in reference to her permanent cure by Bile Beans, told her story in the following way : — 'iFUMpffiP "* contracted ?zzb3^Z^ o%> rheumatic fever wfim JSP A abonfc v years mM%^^M it »go. At that time WsK^&Ww& ei«hteen weeks» *LM I :^sbflt I nas recurred to j/LI \^JJ^i% tl me every |yeM regularly since two years ago, when I had a very bad attack. At the same time I had diabetes (a form of Bright's disease) and hemor rhage of the longs. I went into the Adelaide Hospital to be treated for the diabetes, and whilst in the institution the hemorrhage of the lungs and the rheu matisra came on. I remained In the hospital from the 29th Augnsb until a fortnight before Christmas, when I left— uncured, ard, in fact, not a bit better than when I went In. I could not have been worse and be alive. I was so weak that I had to be lifted oub of the cab which brought me from the hospital. Two or three days after leaving the hospital I had a very severe attack of rheumatism. All the doctors who attended me, includ ing one at the Adelaide Hospital, in formed me that my case was hopeless. My symptoms were : Pains in the small of the back, a dry, parched tongue (I did not know what it was after August, 1897, to have a gcod night's sleep), and a weak and languid feeling. I continued in this condition until the first week in Septem ber, 1898, when I was advised by many friends to try Bile Beans. I decided to do so, and accordingly purchased a box at Mr Rowe'a, the chemist, at Port Adelaide. After I had taken three orj four doses I felb an improvement in my i health. My appetite became more natural, and I could sleep better, and the pains In the smali of the back began to disappear. After I had taken the con tents of half a dozen boxes, the pains dis appeared entirely, and I felt an improve ment In every respest. I attribute the whole of my cure to Bile Beans, and they deserve every credit. The neighbours can bear out the truth of my statements. I am doing all I can to induce others to take the Beans." For biliousness, head ache, indigestion, constipation, inflaenzi, colds, pale-faced girls, irregularities, bad breath, pimples, dizziness, all liver and kidney troubles, dyspepsia, heard palpi tation, pain in back and side, fulness after eating, lack of physical tone, Bile Beans will prove an undoubted specific. Obtain able from storekeepers and chemists generally, price Is l_i per box. Austra lian Depot of the Bile Bean Manufacturing j Co., 39 Pitt Street, Sydney.



<>' VS r fi \Ss' IT 15 ABSOLUTELY THE BEST.



GK F. MARTIN J MANAGER. I— ' m conneotlon|wlth;the abovefwe^egjto Intimate that Mfc E»wakt> Saunbebs has been appointed to act as onr Snb-Agent m the ABhbnrton County, and will afford all information as to charges, etc., on produce placed m the Company's handa for Sal« or Shipment, also for the sale of Woolpacks, Corn Sacks, Seeds, etc., all of which we import, or supply. 9 59 Established 1880 Telephone 69 BAKER BROS., FURNISHING TTNDERTAKBRB URNISHING U NDERTAKERS DIRECT Importers of Beet and Lates Designs m FUNERAL FURNISHINGB FUNERALS condnoted with the greatest care and satisfaction, at most reasonable charges. Corner of Wakanoi Road and Cass Streetß, and Baker and Brown's Coach Factory. WANTED Knows—That the arrival of the lonic completes oar seaion'e importations, which are fully double those of previous seasons. Kaon department ready for big bminese. -MlTCaflii $ TuBKER.



NOTICE F0 FARMERS j VfTE are making ADVANCES on GRAIN, etc., for Shipment on growers account, and, having a thoroughly efficien Staff ir London, can ensore client interet-ts at thab end having the best possible attention, whilo selling and ship ping charges are kept at the lowest possible scale. We are also m a position to|*»eccre freight to London at the very lowest current rate by Direct Steamer. I Grain received at out Warehouses, Addington, and advanced upon if required ; also Grasa Seed and Clovers, our machinery for cleaning the latter being of the latest £and bestsJAmerican patterns. FROZEN MEAT, we handle m large quantities In both the North and South Islands of New Zealand, employing a special Salesman la London, who has been In our service for some 15 years, and gives special attention to the disposal of consign ments without the intervention of outside Brokers. WOOL CONSIGNMENTS, either for local sale or shipment, will always have our usual care, which has earned Its own reputation from our position In the list of Wool Exporters for New. Zealand, while bur local salesmen are Messrs Pyneand Oo.» whose care and attention to, the Wool Business is fully recognised by Canterbury Producers. ADVANCES. — We ate prepared to make these on Produce placed m our hands for Sale, or pending ultimate ship ment a* Five per cent,l»tbbest Free of Avyancb Commission.



MONEY TO LEND PRIVATELY, TANCRED STREET, Nbxt ;Gas Company's Off joes. jy[ONEY "TO LEND According to Arrangement from Jg£) AND UPWARD 3, Upon any Security. TRADE'BILLS Privately fDisoounted, Weekly or Monthly Payments lean be arranged. All Business Strictly Confidential. DAVID ZANDER, COMMISSION & FINANCE AGENT. AGENT FOR~Bun Fire Insarance Office and Canton-Marine rnsuranoe Office. NATIONAL MOKIGAGE AND AGENCY COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND. (Limited.) Capital ... ... <£1,000,0QC £200,000 PAID UP. London^Office^S, Great Winchester Street



New Zealand Insurance Company. KSTABLISHT])' 1 _ 185 9 CJP/TAL^ONJTMILLION. TKEPEEMIKB AND WEALTHIEST COLONIAL COMPANY, NOTED FOB PROMPTNESS AND LIBERALITY, PAID-UP CAPITAL AND RESERVES— £400,000. FIRS AND MARINE RISKS. ALSO,— RISKS ON GROWING CROPS, rHRBSHING MAOHItfBS, *0., ACCEPTED AT LOWEST TORRENT RaTBS E W.HANMBK AGENT Ashburton Furniture Warehouse. — WICKEK AND FANCY CHAIRS — J^f^W% With>nd wifchtfofc In New[ and Choice j JcSlSfc f^^S^ Cfwmow, Designs at) lfllf%ir!i '^^fMw &t Prl°M *° *Uib Ebduokd Pricks f^^^^P^ from 5/6 each. Linoleums, Carpets, r^^^; i|ffSp^^P? A choice assortment Rugs, Tapestries, ft^'^^^^^^^^W -jf ■ t^ 73,' ®* Cretonnes, for j Cretonnes, Mats, m '* Toilet) Ware, etc. T ' 'UrS^pi^^^^gl^^M Cushions *to choose FITJHtINITXJBtIfI o all kinds made' on k the Large Stocks of BEDSTEADS always on hand and arriving direct from] Makers. T. H. UNDRILL & CO., CABINETMAKERS, UPHOLSTERERS, & UNDERTAKERS, tCANCRED STREET, opposite lAsoajw, \



DRKSS GOODS m neatest shades, plain and fancy, and Trimmings to match, m, endless variety. BUCK FANCY LUSTRES, SICILIANS, AND GRENADINES. PIQUES (White and Striped), MUSLINS fvery njsw), 300 pieces of PRINTS for Blousings. DRILLS, GRASS OLOTHS, GALATEA^, and PINDORAS. rNT^T"i/^»- . -»- 250 Pairs of New Lace Curtains, Lovely goods. SkHI ] I A I  — — 200 Ladiet.' Collars, aa now worn. kj m. j^i\y x^lu* 200 Ladies . sllk and Laoe Scai ,f a an <| BoWBt A GREAT CHOICE IN LADIES' WHITE CYCLING GLOVE.3. NICE LOT OF BELTS IN WHITE, SELF COLOURS, AND OHEOKS VEILINGS TO SUIT kVERY TASTE, INCLUDING ALL GOODS SOLD AT THE LOWEST POSSIBLE CASH PRICES. None but the best Brands of Goods m Stock. Give us a Trial and we guarantee to give you Satisfaction. CHEAPEST AKD BEST HOUSE IN ASHBURTON. EXCEPTIONAL VALUE GIVEN IN TEAS. SHEARMAN BROS., GROCERS, IRONMONGERS, WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. MAIIKET HOUSE, BURNETT STREET, ASk BURTON (Telephone No 53



J ECONOMY IN SHEEP SHEARS THE UNRIVALLED T.U.S. SHEEP SHEARS. WONDERFUL RESULTS, UNSURPASSED IN QUALITY* 3,540 SHEEP SHORN WITH ONE] PAIR T.U.S. SHEARS. Good Tools give good work. Well-thorn fleeces bring higher priced, and no man can do good work with bad Shews. BICYCLES. BICYCLES. TT7E have been appointed Agents for Aohburton by the Goold Bicycle Co., Ltd., for the Sale of their famous RED BIRD BICYCLES. Throughout the World to-day the Eed Bird is recognised as the highest development m Cycle Construction. Thb One Mile Championship of Australia on October 10 was won by Wm, MARTIN, on his KJBD OlttO HFI4OIAJU. Daring hit racing career he has won dSIO,OOO, whioh he considers is mainly due to riding a RED BIRD. FURTHER PARTICULARS ON APPLICATION". GROCERIES. GROCERIES. OBSERVE OUR STOCK, OUR QUALITY, OUR VALOEB TOTE are Mto the Front" with the PJOK and OHOIOSSSr GOODS m the Home Markets.



OWING TO THE UNEXPECTED ABBIVAL OP 30 CASES 30 of; New Goods per s.s, lon io f "TTTHIOH were intended for our New Building, we"'have taken TEMPORARY PREMISES. (below;mr burnard'S) where we intend making [a grand displa¥|;of Oilcloths, Linoleums, & Curtains, MITCHELL & TURNER.



W. H. COLLINS & CO.. A RE now landing ex [at Lyttelton, a very Choice Selection of rfcistic Wall Papers just m time for the SPRING CLEANING. THESE Papera havej all hem selected^by Me Collins, whoji afcjpresent m England, and therefore intending Customers can rely on getting something really GOOD at W. H. COLLINS & COS., PAINTING & PAPERHANGING WAREHOUSE, EASTJSTBEET, ASHBURTON. Telbphon —14 & J5. P.O. 80x—35.



I EA.BT uncrticiGTr H. M. JONES,! —(x) — Cricketing'& Lawn Tennis Material. IMPORTED diresb from the bsst London makers. Bats, youths and men's, "specially selected." The excellent Union Driver Champion, and others. Balls, Stumps, Gloves, Pads, Shields, eto. RACQUETS.—The Lonion, The Popular, The Champion, Victoria, Sampson, and others. TENNIS BALLS.—Slaymjers, Wisdens, and The Silverton. —SEWING MACHINES. AGENI FOR MILNER AND IHOMP3ON. THE HAAKE PIANOS Are [the BEST VALUE obtainable for the Money, and are EXCELLED BY NONE. May be had with or without our Patent Toning Attachment. We have one of the Largest and Best Selected Stocks of PIANOS and ORGANS m the Colony, from the leading English, German, French, and American Manufacturers. OKOAINS Fbom - .„ .« .- .. LOs per month MAIM OS „ .- ... ... «O(8 „ „ H. M. JONES. G. MEDDINS, (LATE W.CaitfG R EVE'S. THE PEOPLE'S IE ON MONGER. CONSEQUENTLY THE CHEAPEST——] HAS the following New Seasonable Goods usb opened at prices that defy legitimate competition :— SHEEP SHEAES SHEEP SHEARS. The Celebrated I.TT.S and O.jES.A.. TURKEY OIL STONES .—Keal Beauties. LAWN MOWERS! LAWN MOWERS! "New Easy," "Orescent," "Philadelphia," and "Carbine." " JAPANNED TRUNKS." For the Million. Colonial Made. Good and strong. BURNETT STREET, Opposite Arcade. '



AUCTIONEER ASHBURTONPEKMANENT BUILDINQ AND INVESTMENT SOOIETY. mHE SOCIETY is now taking MONEY X on DEPOSIT Fixed Twelve Months 4£sjier cent, Fulljparticularß on application. EDWARD STEPHENS, Manager. Office: Tancred Street THE DAINTIEST LITTLE WHEEL THAT EVER WAS " ! " The Eambler:': HAVING sold oat of my old Btock of these superior Bicycles, I have juao opened up a freah consignment of the LATEST PATTERN " RAMBLED" SPECIAL LIGHT RACERS, ROAD RACERS, & ROADSTERS n all sJzes'and all fitted with the ever asfcing G Sr J detachablo Tyre. «• THE iftA.fiftßjL.lSJbfi.', ALIj AJND INSPEOI THE STOCK. Price Easy. Riding Eaay. ' Machines the Strongest on Earth. ACCESSORIES IN STOCK. OTHER MARES FITTED WITH G & J TYRESi D. THOMAS.



I ra.watteegaw>eh|) » I DiAHGH&JUSSLEEJ ? i § RS?« ; re h! M /I W H |"5 vuM fcKENZIE'S" HONDAI LA.NKA. TEA. A gents : MESSRS SHEARMAN BROS., AEshburton, and GUDBELL, Tinwald. Mr Charles Fardy, Rakaia Messrs Hibbs Bros., Alothven Mrs Mary Johnson, Chertsey Packed and sealed m Ceylon. Prices : X, Is lOd ; XX. 2a; XXX, 2s 2d ; XXXX, 2a 6d. fIBJNRYIITBPHBNSON, (successor to Alfred Harrison.) Established 20 years. AUCTIONEER, LAND ESTATE AND COMMISSION AGENT AND VALUER WEEKLY SALES of Live Stock Produce, Furniture, etc., EVERY SATURDAY, at 12 o'clock. Clearing Sales of Stock, Household Furnl nre, etc., as per arrangement, m any part the county. Advances made on Goods placed m my Bands for Sale* Eegalar Corißignmenta of Colonial Grown and laiand Fruit aold privately through the week, and at Auction oa SATURDAYS. Agekt: Norwich Union Fire Insurance Company ft Dresden Pianoforte Manufacturing and Agency Company. PIANOS and ORGANS on time pay ments from SOs per month. HENRY STBPHENSQNj



Shipping. BHA~v, SA.YILL ASO ALBION oompan?. Litres x FOR fcOSTiKK*. «*VJL "OOYAL MAIL STEA- -**' MERS, wihh rapwlor accommodation for all elasseß Bws-tS3:-i6i-^e» o j paanengere, calling ab Monfce Video or Rio, Taneriffe and Ply. month. Vessel Ton Qommander From Date. lonic „, 4748 Kempaon Wel't'n Oct. 10 Uethio «. |7730 Sidley ... WelVn Deo 7 CARGO STEAMERS. Waiwera..,. 6500Stuarb Well'ton Oob 26 Kumara ... 6^oo Scotland — Nov 26 Tokomaru 6232 Maxwell — Dec Hamad .-.135831 — Dec E. W. HANMEE. Agenb. Nasw gE A LAND "^^g|^| SHIPPING OO.'S LINK ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS, FOR LONDON, Vl* Monte Video, Teneriffo & Plymouth, Best Aooommodatlon foe all olaaeei of Pftßaengers at Lowest Babes. ' Port o! Steamers, forts Departure. Date. Rnahine 6127 BluflF Oot. 4 Waimate 5610 — Ocb 26 Wakanui 5706 — Sfov 30 Rakaia 5628 — Deo 28 Paparoa 6372 — lo follow ifor forchar partioaiara apply vo ' FRIEOLASDER BROS., Lid. Agents, AshbnrfcoQ. ""which will' ychTtake ? A RTIFICIALLY Coloured and adul x\. terated Teaß from China and Japan— OR BRITISH GROWN .... DIAMOND JUBILEE.