The Ashburton Guardian.

Vol xxi. no. 5267

Ashburton : Thursday, Norembef 22, 1900

Pbice : One Penny

FARM NOTES.

[By.Cockatoo] , A question which peqijAteti the earnest attention of Agricultural Scoietleß, Mid judges 'n show rings, which should »c settled definitely withoot delay is, whether a lame horse ia entitled to get a prize. Judges differ on thl» polati vhj» IfMltosee. It is a rec'ogbised rule in Great Britain among judges not to allow a prize to horses who show aDy eign of lameness, whether of a temporary or - hereditary nature. In the colonies there is no established rale in dealing with laroenes* In exhibited abock.. However, common sense should be the gaida, and prises withheld from all such animals. If the lameness is of an hereditary nature, and prizes given to. stud horses so affixed, it would be only offering a premiums to owners of horses of both sexes to breed unsound animals. I think this is a sulject which could profitably b« discussed Vy the different AgricuVtwal Societies, with a view of coming to some uniform arrangement in regard to lame ness in horses that are competing in a show ring. The unusual heavy rains this summer, accompanied by strong southerly galei and even snow and (frost, is becomingl ra very serious matter. 0 It has practically stopped all work on the land, ploughing, sowing, and harrowing, have had to cease, and the turn'p sowing will.also be late this year. Large areas of land which had been made ready for potatoes his had to be abandoned, it being too wet for planting. Grain crops are growing tapid'y, fcoo mush so indeed, as the tendency will bB a mass of coarse straw, which will begin to He shortly If there Is a repetition of the late heavy rains. Warm wither is needed badly for both crops and grass. Shearing drains on very slowly owing to tha fame cause. It is seldom that a full day cutting can be obtained without a break in the weather, and the newly I shorn sheep suffer terribly through tbo ; cold. ! Derwent potatoes are hardening In ! price owing to several large holders not | going to the trouble and expense or the I bagging or sorting, and the chances are that we will have a shor^ge of this tuber I for next year's consumption. The frost lately seems iq have been general as the 1 potato crops have been cut down I completely all over the district, | The Taraworth breed < f pigs Is slowly but surely supplanting the Yorkshire and Berkshire breeders are favo Ing the former, as they are a larger framed pig, easily fed, end good baconers. Crossing with tha other breed has been tried, but it v rather soon yet to ascertain whether the result will turn out successful or not. A successful way of eradicating blight in swede turnips is to bow alternative rowa of mangolds wi h them, or if sown broadcast mix the two seeds together. Tne mangolds completely protect the swedes. . Farmers would do well to remember that there is a large demand for hay for the army In South Africa. According to present indications there will be a plentiful [ supply of grass owing to the great I moisture in the ground, therefore those who are not overstocked and have an abundence might profit by putting the mowing machine to it and save it. I As regards the machinery and Imple* ments exhibited at the various shows chit year there are not much Improvement! noticeable from former years. Evidently perfection Is nearly reached. Of course In matters of detail there will always be found some slight alteration. Taking machinery and implements as a whole New Zealand Is well provided with the latest modern appliances for labour sating. '■ ' ■' v;

Bask of New South Walls.

«. (Jolted Preai Association—-By Electric . Telegraph—Copyright Received Wakapuak* Not 21,10 36 p m This Office 12.34 p m) Sydney, November 21 Tho half yearly meeting of the Bank of New South Wales shows a net profit of £100,463, which with the balance from lasthaf year left £126.743 for dlstribu' tion. A dividend at the rate of 10 per cenfc was declared and £26,743 carried forward. The Chairman in his speech | referred to the heary fall in prices of wool, though there was a growing impression that an upward tendency is to be expected. The gold output of the colonies was well up to the standard.

Abattoirs.—At a meeting of the special committee of the Chr:stchurch City Council on Tuesday, to discuss the question of abattoirs, the principle was affirmed that the city itself should build abattoirs, and that no time should be lost In proceeding with the work. With that end id view, offers ot sites are now being advertised for, and arrangements have been made for the preparation of the necessary plans. A Sky Scrancr —In New York land must be very expensive, and those possess ing a few feeb of terra firma seem to make the most of it by building skywards. A cut in a paper just to hand shows the plan of a building about to be erected at one of the corners of Broadway. It will occupy a plot about one hundred feet square, and win hit thirty stories bieh«



SHAW,. SAVILL AND ALBION { COMPANY, LIMITED, I FOR LONDO*. A a T>OT4L MAIL STEA fIML ** MERS. with superior * "vV of passengers, calling at Monte Video ov Rio, Teaerlffe and Ply. mouth. Vsaiel Ton [Commander From Date. Karemea 5#64 Burton .., Lytb'n Sept 22 Gothic _ 77»OtKidley Wel't'nJan 31 CARGO STEAMERS. | Kamin !6000Hootland Wal'g'n Oct 25 Tokomua 62S8|Maxffell No? Maori ■ B3l7jMoflhtfe Not B. W. HANMER, _ • . Agent. , '.-^ fT!;HB JStKt NKW ZEALAND jHjj^^BIHIP'PIHO OO.'S ' -■- \. """LINE - ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS FOR LONDON, t* Vlipfi & Flymvoth. "~ - JProbablefinal Sttamen. T»ns.! Port. Date. Waimata 5610^ Wellington N^ov 8 Wakanoi : 57Q6 Auoklani N«jvls Papitroa; 7000 — December 6 Rakaia 5628 — December Walkato 4767 ! — To follow Tflko» 4050 | — M Papatmi 6372 j •— „ ! Otarama 3808 — «> Ritnutaka 7700 | — „ Wakatane 5715 <  RanglMkei 7700 j — „ Roapflhu BCOO 1 — „ _^ Vn furfcher partlonlan apply te ifRIRDLANDER BROS., Ltn, UNION STEAMSHIP COBIPANY Olf NEW ZEALAND. Limitsd STKAMER^ Ef AH FRCMLITTELTON ASDUDER: F*r Wwiporti and Greymouth—Weekly Wollingtcn— Monday, Tuesday, Thura day and Saturdays NOTE—Fpr extr» sailings see advertise meat in Ohrfetahurch papers DiinedJn — 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 shtonld therefore be made to Ohrlstchcrch dally papers fox dates and hoar of sailing ?!Fcr forther patiiioulars apply to F FERRIMAN, Agent, Ash barton "henry "stephensonT (oncoessor to Alfred Harrison.) Established SO years. AUCTIONEER, LAND ESTATE AND COMMISSION AGENT AND VALUER TTTEEKLY SALES of Live Stock VV Produce, FuniJtitre, etc., EVERY SATURDAY, at 12 o'clock. Clearing Sales of Stock, Hoaiehold FurnJ tore, eta, as per arrangement is any part of the county. Advonces made on aii goods placed In my bands for Sale. Regular Consignments of Colonial Grown •nd Island Fruit sold pivately through the week, and at Auction on SATUEDYB. Agfitt : Norwloh Onion Fire Insurance Company k Dresden Pianoforte Manufacturing and Agency Company. PIANOS and ORGANS on time pay manta from SJOsi per month. HENRY STEPHENSON, AUOndNEER. a oxurt. A Branch Office has been opened;by the undersigned ate MsssßEt Niooll BKOS.,Eae 8tro«6» F^ere they will oarry m u <m practice as Barristers and Solioitora. AUDE&HARMAN, Solicitors, Christrch oh Money to Lend at Lowest Current Bates? •n Freehold Security, Wo Procuration J*ee> MAUDE & HARMANj 12 48 ■ Ashbnrton. G. JESSON, PRAOXIOAL WATCHMAKER & JEWELLER, TTAS REMOVED to temporary premises NEXT MESSRS J. SEALY & 00. East Street. Mann in i> & Go's NEW SEASON'S BOTTLES ALES AND STOUT IB QUARTS AND PINTS, THE BEST IN THE MARKET Equal to the Leading Brands of ENGLISH ALES. Agents foe Ashbarton—Messks Bhsab]



J. SEALY & CO., THE OLDEST ESTABLISHED SEED FIRM IN ASHBURTON. JO JD /~% ARK still to the front, and are prepared to rapply their man •k% G6 VjO. Patrons with reliable SEEDS, of every deioriptlon, THA' WILL GROW, at lowest market rates. SEEDS FOB THE FARM, VEGETABLE SEEDS, FLOWER BREDS, «fc GARDEN REQUISITES of every "description, Direct from the Gbowbhs and Mancfactubbbs* Oar Stocks] of NEW SEASON'S SEEDS are from the Celebrated Firm*, James Carter A Co, London, and Peter Law«on As Bon 9 Edinburgh, and they|ar«;of the beit quality obtainable, ,; * . FEUIT. FRUIT. FRUIT. LARGE STOCKS of all Seasonable FRUITS always on hand, BELFAST AND FAIRFIELE FREEZING WORKS MANURES, ARE THE BEST T£»QR TURNIP, RAPE WHEAT, AND ANY OTHER CROP. SPECIAL MANURE can be mach for any kind of Soil, or description of crop, (SATISFACTION GIVEN EVERYWHERE LAST SEASON. MANURE OAN BE SUPPLIED IN 1 Owt. or 2(Cwt. SACKS Orderß received b/ FHIIiIOLAINDER BRO*, Limited,,. OAVI3D THOMAS, OR 1?X-£Xb JN.SE.. FABME«B CO-vtPEHATIYE i}B»O€IATION OFCANTERBURY, limited., OANTEBBURY FBOZEN MEAT AND DAIRY PBOPTIOE EXFOBT COMPANY. LIMITED. 8 BO P. WAYMOU Seur-tary. " m ETTToTiTs ZEA LANDIA BOOT STORE Mi rr*, : Boot Shop in Aehburton. For real good Value, Style, and Fitting try the ''ZEALAKDI BOOTS Every pair gaaranteed* Remember our Price la the CHEAPEST, and oar Stock the LARGEST in Canterbury. If yoc want good Valce for very little [Money, than be Bare yon GOTO "jt/TC 1!" T AT)»Q ZEALANDIA BOOT STORE, (BANORBD BTFEFT, ASBBUBTS3N LINOLEUM. LINOLEUM. j JUST ARRIVED PER • S.B RANQATIRA,' AT T. H. UNDBILL & CO.'S. LINOLEUM. LINOLEUM. NEW & OHOIOE DESIGNS AND COLOURS. LINOLEUMS AND OILCLOTHS. The Largest Stocks to Choose from, at Prices to suit all, at T. H. UNDBILL & CO.'S. Also, Some Remnants at greatly reduced prices; also, a Large Assortmtut of Oilcloth for Dados. BEDSTEADST^BEDSTEADS. We have jail opened another Large Shipment of Brass and Iron Bediteadf in ihe latest designs, direct) from the Best Manufacturers in Birmingham, which enable* as to give you the best; possible value. BEDDING & FURNITURE of all kinds made on the premise! from the best material, We invite all to inspect our Stocks. No one pressed to buy, T. H. UNDIIIL & CO., | CABINETMAKER,.. UPHOLSTERERS, PICTURE FRAMBBSJ & UNDERTAKERS, jj TANCRki) STRRETJNexb BuildinglSodeby ■ Offioe i



BY SENDING TO ' J. BALL ANT YNE & COMPANY Oaitomert at ft distance may re<y on obtaining the CHOICEST fGOODS WITH THE LEAST POSSIBLE DELAY. • . -1 '<£ Their System of dealing with orders by post|i« A MOST PEBFEOT !Qgß» And Country OJiants favoring BALL^NTYNB'S'with; their custom can rest assured ALL ORDERS WILL BE FAITHFULLY EXSCUfPID, 1 and that they are being supplied with HIGH-OLAS3 G X)DB AT REASONABLE} PRICES. BALLANTYNE'S STOCKS were never more replete with EVERYTHING SUITABLE FOR SUMMER WEAB^n they are at the pretent time, and THE WHOLE IS CHARACTERISTIC OF fcALLiNTYNE'S, whose name fa synonymotir for - GOOD QUALITY, GOOD TASTE, A GOOD VALUEj One Shilling in the Pound Discount for|Oa«b. J. BALLA^TYNE & COMPANY DUNSTABLE HOUSE, OHRISTCHUROH. NEW PEEMISES! NEW PREMISES! ———MIUUUi TF —J. iWllllll 111 _L SEASON 19004901- Sheep Sheafs, Bheep Shears. Sheep Bhews. ALL the Favorite Brands, and the Finest *Btoek ia Canterbury to select rom. TUBKfcY 4 jWASHITA STONES specialty pitched and guaranteed to give satißfaotion Call and'see for yoaraelvea at our spacious and up to date Premised in East Street W. H. COLLINS &CO,. IROMOKGEBS, PAINTERS, TIMBER AND COAL MERCHANTS. 1 ASK YOUR SHOE DEAIIR J FOR ' ': ' ! ! ■•■ •_ BVH.RY /^? . • ESGOUBAOB PAIB / OOIiO«IAL GUABAKTEED. TTl^/^mQ Jfr QTTOT?^ » DtJ 8T BY. MANUFACTURED BY S. ANDERSON, TIMARU. H. M. JONKS. H. M. JONBB. STATIONERY BOOKS. ACCOUNT BOOKS. | OKA HAA ENVELOPES, imported direct. Commercial Envelope! f roln 3 8 6d per 1000; 5000 afe 3s per 1000. j Boxed m ßtaiionery, latest styles, from 6d,|9d, Is, Is 6d, 2s box. PIANOS. ORGANS. 44 payments of £1 each will purchase a splendid overstrung, fall trichord, massive iron-frame Piano, ap-to-date in every particular. Ocfly £1 required to be paid at time of purchase. Oail and see this | before you boy elsewhere. Organs from 10s per month j Pianos"from*2o9 per month. > CRWKETING AND LAWN TENNIS MATERIAL * i. ■- Jnit arrived, ex Gothic, from Wisden and Son'e, London. RACQUETS, London inlaid, Victoria, Iq^ieU, Ohampion, Match Popular BALLS, Plain and Covered, Slazeager'*, Siivertown, Wuden'a. GBIOKIT BATS, Waraopp's, Wiide^'a all cais, Duktf« f Union, Hearqes and others. | BALLS^Hearne's, Doke^ Wisden's, Craven, Match,; aod Practice Ballß^ H. M, J ONE S .



Dalgety and Company 9 LIMITED. Head Office— 52 Lombard Street, London, £.0. MERCHANTS. WOOL AND GRAIN BROKERS. AUCTIONEERS AND VALUATORS STOCK. STATION, FINANCIAL, & SHIPPING AGENTS. BRANCHES: Chrlatchurch, Dnnedin, and Napier. AGENCIES; Timara, Oamaru, and Gore. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. DALGETY AND COMPANY, LIMITED, desire to intimate to the Farming Community of South Canter bury that they have no ned a BRANCH OFFICE in TIMARD. DALGETY AND COMPANY, LTD , are prepared to receive consignments WOOL, TALT.OW. A ALL KINDS OF PRODUCE For Local Sale of Shipment to the EUROPEAN AND AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. LIBERAL CASH ADVANCES MADE on Favourable Terms on Growing Clfps of Wool; also Tallow, Grain, Sklnn, and other Produce, consigned for sale in the London. Australian, and local markets; NO COMMISSION*CHARGED ON ADVANCES. Farmers' Accounts kept free of charge, and financed at lowest current rates o interest. Stock Sales held at the different sale yards throughout Canterbury. Woolpacks and other Station Requisites always on hand. TIM A R u"~0 F FlO B, STAFFORD STREET, Opposite Back of New Zealand. ' 173 J. V. DR BEEB WATCHMAKER * JEWELLER TTAS just received a Large Shlpmen OF WATCHES. 'WATCHES 6 Dozen Nickel Levers at 27s 6d i Specially made to order, Strongly built to suit hard wear. 2 Years Guarantee. 8 Dozen NICKEL WATCHES at 208* The best value in the Colony. 1 years Guarantee. A New and Full Stock of Gent's and Ladies Gold and Silver Watches to hand. SPECTACLES New Frames and Lenses on the Interchangeable System. To meet the requirements of. those using the famous "LAZARW Spectacles a special importation of bis Frames and Lenses to hand. gIGHT oFk'S'I'ING- A PERFECT FIT GUARANTEED. J. V.DE~BEER WATCHMAKER k JEWELLER, Asbburtos » ■ Uhdkiu.-, » ondbill T H UNDBILI & CO FURNISHING UNDERTAKERS (TANORED STREET, ASHBURTON EVERY REQUISITE ON HAND. Pohahed Coffins » Specialty. A Choice* Aasortmeot of Artificial Wreaths in Stock. —— Private Address, Beter Street, directly behind Oddfellows' Fill; al»o care • Mr T. Andrews, East Belt. 2 BAKER BROS., ETOBNISHING TTNDERTAKERS C URNISHING <-» NDERTAKERS, DIRECT Importers of Best and Latest Deeigna In FUNERAL FURNISHING?. FUNERALS conduced with the greatest care and satisfaction, ib most , reasonable charges. Corner of Waktnnl Road and Oass Streets, and Baker and brown's Coach Factory. Tjn"ANTED KNOWN—That we are TT , clearing out all odd lengths of Oilcloths and Linoleums, to make room for new Goods, now landing ex S.S Gothic—Mitchell & Turner



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Sore cure For General; Weakness. The debilitating effects of a warm climate and exposure to all kinds of weather are sure to bring on disorders of the blood and weaken the system. Mr. Charles Geddes, of Mt. Malcolm, W. A., sends us his photograph, and tells of a sure cure for these conditions. "For some time I have been landlord of the Koyal Hotel ia the Mt. Margaret gold fields district, eighty nfiles from the nearest railway. I have solda great deal of Ayer's Sarsaparilla, and it gives the most universal satisfaction. When miners, prospectors, ami others become rundown by lack of fresh vegetables and fruits, and from exposure to all Kinds of weather, their blood becomes very impure and the whole system greatly weakened. But AVER'S is always a sure cure. iliave known miners to Bend a hundred miles for it, such is their faith in it." To cure constipation, biliousness, in digestion, and sick headache, there is no remedy equal to Ayer's Pills. Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass., U.S.A. ANOTHERJ.CABE OB" INDIGESTION : OF Ten Years' Standing Yields to PLANTSKOA Elevation, Pictoo, September 12,1900 TQROPRIETOR Plantekoa Remedy, Sir,—l have Buffered from Indigestion for the last tea years, and have tried many other Remedies without aDy ben*fib. I was induced by your Traveller to try Plantekoa, and am pleased to say that though I only took two (2) bottles, I am q-ute cured, and have had do return of my old trouble tiace using this wonderful Medicine; | lam, etc, Mbs'Johm La«it i ■ • '•■-, ---r .. Kindly Note-That PLANTEKOA is a GUARANTEED [Cure for Indigestion, Whether Acute or Chronic Agents--CARSON * CO. AUSTRAL BOTANIC COMPANY, Wholesale Plantekoa Proprietary, Wellington ~* ESTABLISHED 18m F. FERRtMAN, LAND & ESTATE AGENT,^ LICENSED LAND BROKER.' I rR SALE—Brick House, on | acre, Nelson Street, Hampstead, within easy distance of the School, and in a direct Hue with the Railway Station; a sound Investment for the pries required, £220. Cash er terms ' F FERRIMAN PERPETUAL LEASE FOB SALE ab Hinds—An exceptionally favourable opportunity of securing a comfortable home, with 44 acres of good grazing land; small yearly rental. Inspect this property before buying your home • F FERRIMAN FOB SALE, HAVELOCK STREET WEST; mOWN BEOTION 1171. A splendid it' opportunity ot securing a building site In the favourite portion of the Town. F. FERBIMAN, TilOR SALE—Saver*! Sections at Fairton F FERRIMAN TO LET EAST STREET SOUTH A SHOP available for immediate ocoupa tK>n F FERRIMAN _ FOR BALE—S| acres at Allenton, a very desirable block of good land, capital rootage, and well watered F FERRIMAN T>UILiDERS will find it to their adva ntag Jl) to get estimate" for Ironmongeryfroin Hardlkv Bbob. Monumental Sculptor, 60 Stafford Sr, Timar tA LWAYS in Stock—A first J\^ ;class selection of Marble and Granite Monuments, Design! and Estimates for warded on application, feter Cutting in any ityley



BANDBR& SOSB' EtJOAIYJIIEXTRACT— , Under'tine distinguished patronage of Hii Majesty the King of Italy, awarded Diploma at the International Exhibition, Amsterdam, Acknowledged by Medical Clinics and Uni* versities all over the globe. Thab the crude, resinous oils, which are now foisted upon the public und*c the name of Eucalypi Extracts, may not be mistaken for Sander & Sons' Pure Volatile Eucalypti Extract, we state :—lb is proved by test* made by the Medical Cliuics of the Universities ab Bonn and Griefswald (Prussia), that only product! that are saturated with oxygen and freed of acidi, resinous and other substances adherent to primary distillation, will develop the curative properties possessed by the plant. To avoid the appalling consequences result ing from the application of substitutes, etc., in croup, bronchitis, diphtheria.dyseoUry, internal inflammation, etc., insist in getting Sandbb and Sons' Poe» Vowi Euca lypti Extract, and be safe. Wade's Worm Fig«, the wondarful Worm worrisrs, never fail for adultfj aud children Price It