T3E ASHBURIOK OOAEBIAN i TUESDAY, MAf 14, 1901^

Printed and published by Alfiu:d J«hk Tybrellßaxtjbb, of Burnett sbree& e»sb tor the Proprietors, Robbbt Skul and Henky Adam Maokay, at their PriatiDg Office Burnett Street, Athbarten TUESDAY, MAY 14, ISM



TTERE :i8 A LIST of a few oi th THINGS WE SELL :— Mohawk Spring-Tooth Marrows, Line Harrows, Patent Lever Harrows, Turnip Grubbers,. Hornsby's & Runsoaoe's Plough Shaves {ail sizes), Oastor & Cyiiadrine Gils, m any quantity, Oorn Crushers, Bone Mill for Fowl Fanciers, Excelsior Horse Hoes, Garden Cultivators, Sterling Bicycles— {Ohai or Cbainless, aad aH Accessories), AND ALSO THE McGORMIOK Reapers and Binders, Mowers, Daisy Reapers, Hay Rakee, and Knife Grinders. CALL & INSPECT BEFORE ORDERING : ELSEWHERE. Morrow, Bassett 4 Co, Wills Street, -Ashbuiiton. JL PiRIEST, Manager Wabb's Woem Fisa are monfr effective and not unpleasant; children hrive after taking them price, Is



MBS JOHNSTON Teacher o PIANOFORTE AND SINGING Havelook Street ARCHITECT. ARCADE CHAMBERS ASHBUIITON. TF you want t NEW HOUSE, o- Altet : ; tlone, or Newest; Style of Decorations, CONSULT MR £GER. Gall aud sea the NEW FIBBOSE BLIND Imitation of Tenetian, at half the price TiE~DAINTIEST~LiTTIE WHEEL THAT EVER WAS" <% The Rambler." HAVING sold oat of my old stock of these superior BJcyciles, I have use. opened op a fresh consignment of the LATEST PA'JTERN "RAMBLER" SPECIAL IIGBT RECTOS, ROAD BACERS, & ROADSTERS n all (izes Aiid all fitted with the eve? lasting G & J detachable Tyro. "THE t&AXLBLtIBa&S OALIi AJSU INBPEOI THE STOCK. Price Easy. Riding Easy. Machines the Strongest en Earth. ACCESSORIES IN STOCK/ OTHER MARES FITTED WITH Q & J TYRES* D. THOMAfc Old Harness Machine Belting, Etc. SET with a Hammer. Front all Iron - mongerb and Storekeepers. ' BIFURCATED RIVET CO. Lid,, London, England. ■ - i. Full particulars from Harrison & Webb, Auckland. (Cat this out and show your ronmonger. To the Farmers OX XHK ASH BURTON COUNT ..



Manning & Oos'l: NEW SEASON'S BOTTLED ALES AMD STOUT, m QUARTS AND PINTS, THE BEST IN THE MARKET Equal tr- the Leading Brands of ENGLISH ALES. Agents for Ashbarton-— Mbsisxs Shxab man Bros THE NEW ZEALAND FARMERS CO OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION OF CANTERBURY, Lro Offices, Warehouses, and Grain Bfcoies West Street), Asbburton. EVER¥ Description of Fasmere Requisites at lowest) rates. Groceries, ardWare Saddlery, Lornsacta, Wbolpaoks, Twioe, Oils raw're Horse Covert, < htc GRAIN SOLD ON COMMISSION. Having reliable information from «v Agents m other parts of the Colonies, we are m a position to obtain highest piositble price, for ail grain placed m our handu for dilpoial, Shareholders should be particularly care ful to enquire from us and impact our geodi before ordering elsewhere. WE have several really first-clans Farm for Sale on cur books, and farmer wishing to purchaee would do well to call o us for particulars :— 1000 Acres Lauristou District 750 „ Wakaoui ,„ 1031 „ Chertsey „ 1958 „ Dromore „ 1180 „ Springbura „ r 276 t» •• •> 674 „ Waterton  1287 „ Seafield , T. F. CHBBON, __^_____________ Manager



SB* JUftT IN TIME guns. gTnr. guns. Single snd Double Barrel, from 30s to £7 10s CABTBIDG&& Iky'a Blue, Fmokeleeß, and Cniversal ; NEW" CLUB, NEW RIVAL HOI iSJhTCLIPPERS OOEAP AND GOOD* R^_^ ("Orion,"'"Zealaedia," and "Scott b") Register /".¥ 1^ VTT-LjC? Grates, Mantel Pieces, Garden and Carpenters' Tools, Lamps, Builders' and Furnishing; Ironmongery, etc. Kindly Pay Me a Visit, and Save Money. G. MEDDIMS, The Peoples Ironmonger, Barnett Street, Oppoaite Arcade CH.OIGJi SHADES la BvenlnglDwM Goods ARI A ONES In Evening Silks A.JL-L COJLOJLtfe la Evening Satina LOVELY DESIGNS In^Evening Mwlina NOVE LTIES In EreniDg Shawls "VARIOUS STYLES In llveniDglShoesj FANS GLOVES, HOSE, LAOES, CHIFFONS? RIBBONS SEE OUK WINDOWS MITCHELL AND TURNER, THE DRAPERS UP lIS Illl^wfl® Hi 1 MUBtLV} FITS OF DEPRESSION, HEADACHE, NAUSEA. OIDDSSMESS* &c. They possess three grand qualities, being safe and Certain. Tue SvJuooLJiiaTßESs, St. Anne's School, Wandsworcn, writes as follows. fCMy mofclier and eldest sister have taken your Pills for years for bilious attacks and sick headaches, and have always found them most beneficial.'* • &fen.ufautm-3d only at 78, New Oxford Street, London: Bold by all Chemists and Medicine Venaora ~Mß F. N. WHITCOMBE, SURGEON DENTIST, PLUNDERS' BUILDINGS, (Opposite Railway Station, Aehburton) ! BEGS to intimate that he has commenced practice at the above address. Having imported the lateab appliances direct from London and New York, he is prepared to do first class work at moderate fees. AH work done with oars sad despatch, and orly the best material used, Stoppings and oare of Children's Teeth a specialty MR WHITGOMBE will Visit as follows:— RAKAIA—First and Third THURSDAYS of every month at the Railway Hotel, Hours—9 till 1, and 2 till 5.



OSBORNE SPKING TOOTH CULTIVATOK. INVALUABLE for GRUBBING TURNIPS and CULTIVATION OF ALL KINDS. We are prepared to give a trial to anyone requiring one of these Implements. ON VIEW AT JOHN ORR & GO'S. ASHBUBTO N,



J. V. DEBEEE WATCHMAKER & JEWELLER T>EGS to announce that he is making extenaive Alterations to his Business Premiies, having imported >■ ENTIRELY MEW WINDOW FITTINGS the LateD English Design, which Wha complete will enable him to Show [his Larg and Select Stock to the best advantage ON SATUBDAY, AP£tfr46. I The Finest Stock' of NEW JEWEILKBY WATCHES, SILVER WARE, Ever offered to the Ashburton Public w be display ad. Daring Alteration!} Busiaesa will be carr on as usual. J. V. DE BEEK WATCHMAKER k JEWELLER, East >Streel), Aahbarton WHAX prize takera for paßfcry use, Patty Fan baking powder the great novelty. ' ' _' /CARBIDE, Oarblde^For BlkT^Lamp^ %-j Carriage Lampe, and for House Lighting, etc, ab Ohriatoharoh prices— Hardley Bros, Bail) Street



ANDREW ORR. TMMENSE ARRIVAL OF New Autumn Goods* NEW JACKETS, NEW MANTLES NEW CORSETS, NEW DRESS GOODS NEW SIL 8, NEW MILLINERY, NEW FEATHERS, NEW RIBBONS, NEWjMACINTOSHES, NEW FLANNELS HEALTH FLANNELS, NEW BLANKETB |NEW OARPEIS NEW LINOLEUMS, NEW GOODS I IN EVERY DEPARTMENT. NEW TAILORING I'EPARTMENT. 8E833 SCOTCH, IRISH, & ENGLISH SUITS made£from Fit and Style Perpeot. DRESSMAKING DEPARTMENT, Giving the utmost satisfaction. Oedbes Turned Out With Despatch ANDREW ORR.



A OARD. \ MESSRS STRINoTr & GRESEWELL BARRISTERS & SOLICITORS, I CHRIBTOHURCH, HAVE OPENED A BRANCH OFFICE at Mr Dayison's, Weet Street, Aahburtcn, where they wfli attend every THURSDAY and on other days when necessary. They will be represented m Ashburton by Mr J- Davisqn, who ie authorised to receive Instructions on their behalf, and bo whom communications may be addressed. We have various sums of money awaiting investment at lowest current rates. STRINGER & ORESSWELL, SOLICITORS, CHRIBTCHUROH & ASHBURTON. T H Unpbiu, E Undbiil T H UNDRILL k CO FURNISHING .UNDERTAKERS TANORED STREET, ASHBURTON HVBRY- REQUISITE ON HAND. Pokshed Coffins a Specialty 1 A CboSoe Assortment of Artificial Wreath m Stook. —— Private Address, Peter Street, direo t! behind Oddfellows' Hall j also care • Mr T. Andrews, East Belt. 2 ——— — ■ BAKER BROS., CIURNISHIJSG TTNDIRTAKERB C URNISHTKG U NDERTAKERS DIRECT Importers of Best and Lateeb Designs m FUNERAL FURKISHINGP4 FUNERALS condnoted with the greatest care and satisfaction, it most reasonable charges. Corner of Wakannl Road and Cass treets, and Baker and brown's Coach actory.



BEECHAM'S PILLS For Billious and Nervous Disorders, each as Wiod and Pain m the Stomach, Sick Headache, Giddiness, Fulness and Swelling after Meals, Dizziness and DroWinißßS, Cold, Chills, Flushings of Heat, Loss'of Appetite, Shortneßs of Breath, Ccstiiretiess, Blotches on the Skin, Disturbed Sleep, Frightful Dreame, and all Nervous and Trembling Sensations, etc. The First Dose will Give Relief iri Twenty Minutes. This is no Fiction. Kvery sufferer is earnestly invited to cry one Box of these Pills, and they will be acknowledged to It Worth a WUIifEA m. ,««X BEECH AM'S PILLS, taken as directed, will quickly restore Females to complete health They prompUy remove any obstruc tion or irregularity m the system For a WEAK STOMACH, IMPAIRED DIGESTION, DISORDERED 'LIVM, They act like magic—a few closes wil work wonders upon the Vital Organs strengthening the Muscular System, restor ing the longlost complexion, bringing back the best of appetite, and arousing with t.h robust health the whole physical energy of the human frame For throwing off fever; m hot climates they are specially renowned These are * facts' admitted by thousands, m %11 classes of Society, and one of the beet guarantees to the Nervous and Debilitated is that BEEOHAM'S PILLS have the Largest Sale of any Patent Medicine m tne World ■ BEECHAM'B JPII^J^S , Have for many years been the popula ' nimiSy medicine throughout the Britls Colonies, and they now stand WITHOUT A RIVAL. PBbPaBED ONLY BY IHOMII JBjKK«JHAM,St. HELEN'S, £ Sold everywhere m ttlee—yjd, la 1 Is 9d each , PiIOfSESOAY tOBACCO The Latest abd'B&t)' " * '• [;' 0 ■Wli&iM§ 3& Co R iSbmocd Ya,



HPHE Oldesfa. Wealthiest), and most JL Prosperona AUSTUALAN LIFE OFFICE ANH THE LARGEST MUTUAL OFFICE IN TH BRITISH EMPIRE. • The only Mutual Life Office which de* elates A BONUS EVERY YEAR The Method of Valuation adopted by this Society is of the mosfc etringen Character, and Ensures a larger Reserv to meet Liabilities than that held by at* other Office In the Anstralaslan Colonie ACCUMULATED FUND EXCEED j £16,500,000 (SIXTEEN AND A HALF MILLIONS) STERLING, ANNUAL INCOME EXCEEDS £2,000,000 (TWO MILLIONS) STERLING. Policies In force ... ... 1ft1,74 Sum Assured ... ... £45,528,09 Caeh Bonuses DbirJed ... £8,815,73 BONUSES. Cash BoEtts for one year, 1899, £506,138 yielding Reversionary Bonuses amount ing to £942,500, after making specia ruh-ervea. Cash Bonuses declared or last five years over Two Millions, yielding Reversion ■ ary Bonuses exceeding Four Millions. ASSURE Y OUR LIFE IN THE A M.P, SOCIETY, And Sscnre a BONUS EVERY YEAR. j]fiscr of Management—9 Fer Gent on the Total Income. Edward W. Lows, Resident Secretary Branch Office— Custom House Qnay, Wellington. Jambs Hair, District Secretary. District Office Cathedral Square, Ohrlstchuroh ' u!ptor, 60 Stafford St, Timaru tA LWAYS m Stock—A /I. olaßß selection of Marble and Granite Monameute, Oesigus and Estimates fer warded on application. ______ Letter Cutting m any sty



TO LET DWKLLING of 4 : • rv? *.:sh Garden, &c, iruuiirig Cam bridge Utreet, Hampßteac 1 Apply to T BULLOCK, j f __ gent ] WHEATSTONE FOR "SALE, 7J/ ACRES rVI J3 ACRES / S 1 Together with Dwelling House of eight Rooms, Stable, Trap Shed, etc, thereon, the property of Mr W E Box. It is well eitua'ed m a good agricultural district; very pwi'able for a working man Very liberal tevms of payment Apply to T BULLOCK TO LKT, DESIRABLE Residenoe fronting Main South Koad, Tinwald, comprising comfortable Dwelling house of eight) room?, i verandah, wash houße, eto, also stab'e, 1 cb'ff house, trap ehed, eto, together with 4 acres land, part) o| which forms garden and orchard, at present m occupation of Mr Henry Ford. Full particulars, terms, eto on application T BULLOCK, Agent ASHBURTON FOITSAJiE. The following Buildinff Sites! — Town Section 427, containing | acre fronting Tanored Street v Town Section 823, containing £ acre, fronting Cox Street East} high and dry, good land Town Seotion 1129, containing £ acre, fronting Cameron Street West Town Section 1128, containing J acre, aHj Dining the above Very easy terms of payment For prices and full particulars apply do T BULLOCK AUiSTBAJ-lA^ JOTfUaIT PROVIDENT SOCIETY. NEW ZEALAND BRANOH : Head Office, Custom-house Quay Wellington. Local Board or Diekctoes : The Hon, Morgan S, Grace, M.D., C M.G., M.L.O. ( Chairman) The Hon. Chatles J. Johnston, M.L.O (Depnty Chairman) Alfred de Bathe Brandon, Esq. The Hon. Edward Richardson, O.M.G. M-L.G. John Duncan, Esq. rDICAL OrjflCEß" 1 Anson, M.D., M.R.O.S England



KAYE d GAMER ARE CASH BUYERS, highest carrent rates, all FARM PRODUCE. Agents tor Button's and Lawsoh' Unrivalled Seeds. New Season's Supplies of RAPE, (TURNIP, MANGEL CLOVERS, & &o, JUST LANDED, LARGE STORES at LYTTELTO iSXTENSIVE CLEANING MACHINERY, CORNS AUKS always oo hand, KAYE & CARTER, CHRISTCHURCH NEW ZEALAND INSURANCE 0-,'MPANY KSTABMSHKD 1859 T CAPITAL—ONE MILLION ■ rpHE Premier and Wealthiest Colonl JL Company, ' Noted for Promptness and Liberality Paid-up Capital and Reserves,* £4oo,©0o; Fire and Marine Riske,J Aleo.—J Risks on Growing Crops, Threshing Machinesj etc, acceptedfat lowest current rates nicol£Tbrof., Agent. WANTED Kaown—Tha we Btook an Kndiese variety of Men'a Overcoats, , Covert Coats, and Macintoßhes m Stiylee, Colors, and Shape to suit the most faßtidioua nspection invited— MITOHBLL & T»BNi6B. ©^ iSQOTIS 1 Mi £& f W*2' rr Trn2wH—l—WilWlUhlliWlU'W'llli ll 111 "i I mmi FEVEfiil (k!, PREVENT FITS, CONVULSIONS, Etc. Preserve a healthy state of the consti tution during the period, of Teething. The words "JOHN STEJEDMAN, CHEMIST, WALWORTH, SURREY," Are engraved on the Government Slump affixed if each Packet. ■■ • '■ m pthorne, Prosser and 00. Agent j Smofcs tim Venus I



Who wouldn't) be ft brainless fool I With heaps of gHst'ning gold, Than some poor scholar fresh from school Thrueb homeless on tho world Wuo wouldnt rather lose lie! wealth, Than coughs and cotds endure Then be content, enjoy good health, Take Wooda' f4reat Peppermint Cur LADIES ! /I FNUINE Tailor-madeCostumeß, Habits \JC Jackets, Bainproof Mantles Sec, made to measure m the latest Styles and newest Materiah. Fib and workmanship guaran u <*ed. GENTLEMEN ! We have just opened oat ex c.c 'Ranga~ tira' a large Shipment of Now Winter Goods We respectfully invite inspeodor of our new Worsted and Vicuna Suitings, Seraes, footoh, Irish, and West of England and New Zralacd Tweeds, MeltonPj Beaverp, Vene tians, New KaJnpWof CiiVerl Ccktirigß, real ' Donnjbrdck 1 Irish Fritz's,' &o. Suit! to meaeure from £3. Trousers from 15s. Oui motto is always ' Satisfaction !' ORAIGHEAD & BERR^MAN The leading Tailors Sr Outfibtera AT R. Aloorn's Sale—A Splendid lot , of Men's and Boys' Clothing »t greatly reduced prices; Boys' Norfolk Suits at) lls 6d, worth 15s 6d ; Men's Strong Kaiapoi Tweed Trousers 8a 6d, usual price lls 6d ; Ladies' Hose from 6d a pair, a Bpeoial line at Is ; a great variety of Men's and Boye' Straw Hats, must be sold Ladies heron Oxford Shoes from 5s 9<i NOW is your ohance—Special put chase of Travellers' Samples m Ladies' Fur Neckletss As we are offering these less than wholesale) prices, so prepare for the cold weather ; from la 6d upwards* GEO. DOTGAN & CO. Oheap dash Drapers, Tancred Street. T>ATTY Pan baking powder contains ft XT patty pan at each end of tin. f*ll BE moßt up to date novelty of the day X. Patty Pan baking powder MONEY^ MONEY TO LEND od Freehold Security, m sums to salt borrowers. Apply to MR 0, W. PURNiXL, Solicitor, Montgomery's Buildings



p-—^ . 30000 . jj. ORM J|F"-"" = m Cooking* Raiiyea ■wMp^m ■■«iijl__l In Use m the Colony ~ 5™ "£ "? ~7i~""'" * --ST* !L'he^ burn Lignite, True Coal, or' Wood up JL JBS! ! X NO SETTING REQUIRED.; ~"~~ Tro / *INy»^jvv. H With Stove Pipe can be worked out Jin t I r^F^Vi Iwi «^,<-S^' H rpen. Splendid Bread BakersJ I '^^^y aj t^l-fci**^ IL. With cist iron or copper boilers. The I :^*3^|j ji *^r^^ E oopper boilers are large and tin lined inside. P^ |L«anE=«=B= jF Kfpairßftte a Minimum. *saa x @ If tjgSS&gfc^gSsi Made m all eiaes, single cr double ovena. Heh cr lowpreeeure boiler Jmm^l geld ball Ir^nrrgettj f '< > s! n i ogues n be obtaed, tr f>• *- '1 c ' H. E. SHACKLOCK, LTD. SOUTHKND P'«UNI>KV. Prinobs Street DUFF.DIN FOR TOUTING AND ORDINARY EVERY DAY RIDING MA SSEY-HARRIS BICYCLES ARE ESSENTIAL. f jrctljfte, fc, jn a Rf/S^l V akb cf sucb high gkabe A hyiai Eif ih»w<ilt }tt)r»ri<h r, t\ iin\i re to cmeivliy carried tbt MA^EI H/ HI IS llfjclc VIII V]SEiTAJIJ TBE gJKVEBIST ounteyeidbbs who trade wiih the MASSET HAERIS COMPANY CAN^EEIY TPON AESOMTB SATISFACTION BEING GIVEN. OVR GUABAKTEE is A LIBERAL OKE and the TEEMS EASY. t ecohd hakb W achines are taken m pabt paymbkt. Canada Cycle & Motor Co, n Limits (MASSEY-HARBIS BRANOH) DUK3-BIN DEPOT- 121 a GBGBGE KTBEiT. Branches and Ageiicles evejjwhere tbropgh'.nt "New Z



A Bad Skin Boils. Pimples, impure Blood. Boils are simply very large pimples. The trouble is not m the skin, but down deep m the blood. You cannot Lave a good, smooth skin unless it is nourished by pure blood; and the only ■way to make your blood pure is to take a strong blood-purifying medicine. Mr. F. Ellian, of 370 Kae Street, North Fitzroy, Victoria, sends us this letter and his photograph; "I had a most frightful attack of boils ana pimples breaking out all over my body. I bad beard so much about AVER'S Sarsaparilla I thought 1 would give it a trial. It took only four bottles to drive all the impurities out of my system and make my blood rich. J have en joyed the best of health ever since I took it." If your tongue is coated, if your food dis tresses you, if you are constipated or bilious, take Ayer's Pills. Piepued by Or. J. C. Aytr Co., Lowell, Mass., V. S. A. I^TiiALDrXcOY. TAILOR* 3, Bnraett Street. T"N Oonsequjnee of having comparatively ISO BAD DEBTS 1 (?Q 4ft NO OLD STOCK 4-i 111 NO MiSB FITB I J/jf jlf WE can offer yora a Splendid Suit) at , tfaa above figure, g 1



SALE- Fancy Work, Silks, Arasen Perlines, Canvas, Berlin Woolu, Linen and Stamped work generally, all reduced Etiag Mbs Alookn's Sa! s WANTED — Everyone to Try the BapM Shirt Gloss ; the best and the cheapest linen glase m the market 4 Cough Cure, Wahoo t Koombah aad Benjamin Qnw go to Ashbubton Dbit Oi T/'OR Sale, cheap, for Oash—Several hun V dred pairs of Bosta and Shoes. Apply Mexxob's Zeaiandia Boot Rore rfiENDERS Wanted— For the weftring"or JL two thousand pairs o Boota. Apply at J Mellob, Taacred Street MEN'S aod Boys' Clothing — Special bargain prices; Men'a Working Shirts 2s 3d, Leather do 2s 4|d, Colonial Flannel Under Shirts from 2s 9d, Colonial Knitted Panta It lid, do Shirts 3s 9d, Merino and Cotton Punts Is lid and 2s 6d, Boys' Serge Knickers la lid, Boys' Colonial Tweed Suits 8.1 6d upwards, Me&'a do, special value, 23s 6d upwards, Knitted Socks, two pairs for Is 9d, Turkey Red Handkerchiefs I|l aad 2H Men's Tweed Trousers 5s 9d, Denim Overfills 3s Hi, Saddle Tweed Trousers 12a 6d, Men's Eiastio Braces IOJd, Boys' do SJd, Merino Books 6d. Note address—Giorgb Duncan anb Co, Cheap Oash Clothiers aad Mercers, 'factored Street WEBLEY & SONS PIANOFORTE A ORGAN TUNERS, HAVING feaken over the late MkOsbor Coombes 'connection, will visit Abli burton aod autreunding districts three times per annum, viz., March, July and November Orders may be left at the Commercial Hotel or with Mr Llewellyn Owen at his Mnwtrs Studio, Arcade Chambers, Ashburton. " WANTED, 20,000 Hares. IT7 E Have appointed Messs Annet Bros to acb as our AGENTS For Ashburtoa and District, aisd they will pay Top Prices. i Oonsiga to— TOJNKIN ANJD CO., FAIRPIELD Wade's Teething Powders for Babies are soothing, reduce fever and prevent blotches ; price, Is EVl<iMKGTshoßsln~greab varietjTatTD Stocks Blueßoob Buora price's right



AN AUCKLAND^ADY SPEAKS BILE BEANS FOR BILIOUSNESS TO ■ HEB AIDj To allow the good things on the table to pass without being abl« to partake of them Is sad indeed. Tet such is the fate of those poor indivi duals who inffer from indigestion. Now Bile Beans for B, acfe aimosfc like a charm upon those who have dyspepsia, and the proprietors are m receipt of many testimonials from New Zealan* dera m support of this statement, and the following letter from Mrs W Dodd, of Cross Street, Auckland, is one of fchess i—" Having had occasion to BSB Bile Beans for Biliousness I have masti pleascre m adding ray testimony to there value as a rera°dy for indiges tion, biliousness, and nervous head ache. Ie is my opinion that they sur pass all other remedies. I have no hesitation m recommending them to persons suffering from r disordered liver. They are mild and pleasant to take, acting naturally and giving speedy relief.' New Zealand people ghold not forget that Bile Beans for Biliousness give tha stom ach atsd liver power to do their duty, naturally and regularly, and at the same time they make heal by blond and steady nerv * tissue. They make weak spots |sound, and are absolutely the ooly medicine that cau be relied upon for strengthening every organ cf the body. They are compounded spec ially to act upon the liver and through it on the blood, and through the blood on the whole system. Bile beans are »old at all chenaiS'S st a price that pluces them within the resch of all, and no one eh- nl I be without * box for emergent I ;p», Kempthonte, Prosser & Co, is, Z. Agents, P4TTY Pan haking powder is tHe great; eit njoveifcy yo« ever saw, Sold nl gyooeri.



Soolftl &a& Moral Progress THB OPINIONS OP PROFESSOR Q A SMITH The Rev Professor Qworge Adam Smith, GlasgoWj delivered a lecture on Sunday March l^th, m fche United Fr«e Hi*jh Uhurob, Edinburgh, on • The social and moral progress of the nineteenth century ' To -yards th<* oat set Professor Smith showed that be fore tha eighteenth century had cosed praotically all the influences were al ready m motion which had shaped thu moral and social progress of th-^ nine teenth century. For a time, however, there fell upon them certain other forces which retarded fche movement, and' which had seemed to create thp appearance of a gap between th* two oentarle®, tending «reatly to exa^er ate the originality of the later one. The blank which the first twf-n'y five years of the century presented was splendidly broken by the passage through Parliament m 1807 of the bil for the a'joUtioiaof the slave trade, the fir aft m well pg one of the greatest moral triumphs of the nineteenth cen tury. Having quoted the list of social Rvils given by Sidney Smith as exis tent at the time when he started the 1 Edinburgh Review,' the lecturer went on to say that every one of these wrongs^ against huramni^y was either removed or considerably modified be fore the century had reached the middle of its course j and here again, both Id the cose of tyrannous lawe against crime and m that of the cruel fashions of labour, the prime movers of reform were individual personalities acting at first alone, but by their per sistenod., gradually educating public opinion, and finally bringing over the lenders of politics to their sida All the reforms of that period testified to a spirit so changed from that of the oli times as virtually to be the adoption of new standards of weight and measure la politics, Whence, 16 might be nuked, did this new spirit arise? The answer was religions beliefs, rein forced by the great evangelical re vivals, and inspiring individual char acters to a heroic devotion to the ser vice of others.' During the next quar ter of a century discussion, agitation, and the. energy of Parliament were mainly employed for the better treat ment of lunatics, the protection and education of the children of the poor, the release of women from degrading and debilitating conditions of work, the securing of leisure to workmen and the right to combine for the improvement of their wages, the sani tation of their homes, and the relief of their bread from taxation. In this supreme tendency of the age there was bo greater contributor th»n Lord Shsf tesbury—Lord Ashley as he then was, The secret of Lord Shaf tesbary's life, 80 powerful and so fruitful, be west oq to say, lay m a deep, sincere, If somewhat narrow, personal religion, and m a very strong conscience of national sin. Bat alotuj with the working of these directly religions factors others must not b© overlooked which contributed to the growth of soci%! sympathy and service m Great Britain Political discussion and edu cation became more powerful with every decade. Then there was a very ■triking increase of philanthropic feel in?,., not only apart from doctrinal religion, but m revolt from the dogmas and tenets of the stricter Christian schools. Finally, there wfre the years when cholera, the scourge of God, was lashing the nation out of an immoral siothfulneas that fatally accepted dirt as the natural condition of the most of mankind, and disease as the noyster icaa and ineviable purpose of God There wns the main elements of social progress up to the middle of the cen tury. There were many other signs of improvsojerjt, bat m some respects we had fallen back. He had spoken of the power which the early reformers de rived from their tender and rigorona consciousness of sin, their shame that the people should be gnilfcy of the ex wtaneeof such e«!s. Did they think that sense of em was as strong nowa days. He hardly thought so. One •eenaed to see it nowhere, neither m Socialism, m industrial movements, nor among the middle classes, nor was it s*en m our statesmen of the front rank except perhaps m the case of one man !jnd be did not know that he would call himself a Christian, Some of the young men. ha thought, had ; and it was ibis consciousness of sin which was essential for dealing with temperance, the hous ing of.the poor, and many other social problems.