BEFORE AND AFTER.

They were very pretty, and there was apparently five or six years’ difference in their ages. As the train pulled up, the youngest girl blushed, flattened her nose nervously against the window, then drew back in joyous smiles as a young man came dashing into the carriage, shook hands tenderly and cordially, insisted on carrying her valise, magazine, little paper bundle, and would probably have carried he? had she permitted him. The passen gers smiled as she left, and the murmur went rippling through the carriage : “They’re engaged.” The other girl sat looking nervously .out of the window, and once or twice gathered her parcels together as though.she would leave, yet seemed to be expecting some one. At last he came. He bungled into the door like a house on fire, looked along the seats until his manly gaze fell upon her upturned, expectant face, he roared, “ Come on ! I’ve been waiting for you on the platform fifteen minutes !” seized her basket and strode out of the car riage, while she followed with a little valise, a band-box, a paper bag full of lunch, a bird-cage, a glass jar of jelly preserves, and an extra shawl. And a crusty-looking old bachelor in the fur ther end of the carriage croaked out, in unison with the indignant looks of the passengers,.“ They’re married.”

TELEGRAPHIC.

LATEST FROM EUROPE.

[By Submarine .Cable.]

The Eastern Situation. [Per Press Agency.] London, April 26. The absence of news discourages hope for the success of the efforts for the maintenance of peace. The health of Princes Bismarck and Gortschakoff is better. Diplomatic negotiations are still pro ceeding. The anti-English feeling of the Rus sian Press is more moderate. Russia has raised a difficulty that Prince Bismarck’s proposals for the withdrawal of Russian troops from Stefano, and the British fleet from the Sea ot Marmora, favors England. Russia foregoes the intended entrance of officers ‘and men to Stamboul on Sun day to attend the Greek churches. • Twenty British ironclads for the Baltic' squadron are now ready for service.

Bomray, April 26. The Indian expedition is now em barking for Malta.

Constantinople, April 26. The Roumanian insurgents are well officered and occupy impregnable posi tions. They are approaching Philoppo polis, causing an alarm at Adrianople, whence troops have been despatched against them.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Auckland, Saturday. • One reason tor the Native meeting taking place at Hikurangi is that grog will not be available there. The Kawhia and Aotea Natives are going to Hiku rangi.. . Meurant,’ the' jockey, has made a serious statement relative to M‘Gee, which will call for explanation. The horse Falcon was disqualified from run ning for ever. . The passengers and crew of the brigantine Ada Owen, with the exception of the captain and passengers Nolan and Darrall, were stricken with island fever shortly after leaving the Islands. Two died.

Fearful hurricanes occurred at the New Hebrides. Houses were demol ished, and in some streets corrugated iron was carried half a mile. Trees were uprooted and crops destroped. The Natives are. starving. The Charyb dis, an Auckland vessel, is a total wreck. The Ebenezer, schooner, also went ashore.

THE EVENING ECHO, MONDAY, APRIL 29, 1878,



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MR. BRANSON, BARRISTER and SOLICITOR. HAS COMMENCED PRACTICE in ASHBURTON, and can be consulted at the SOMERSET HOTEL until he can obtain suitable Offices. LOST, five weeks ago, a LIGHT CHEST NUT HACK,, branded t on near shoulder. Finder will be rewarded on leaving the same at the Wesleyan Parsonage, or with A. O. Aitken & Co. 'p' MPLOYMENT for a few days for a -Lb PERSON quick at Writing and Figures. Apply, Echo Office. about the beginning of June ' ' a3or 4 r oomed Cottage, to rent. Ad dress, W. “ Echo ” Office. WANTED, TV O INTELLIGENT LADS willing to learn the Printing Business. Apply “ Echo ” Office. TO SUBSCRIBERS. COMPLAINTS having been made to us by Subscribers and others of difficulty in procuring copies of the EVENING ECHO, we beg to inform our readers that we have appointed Mr Harry Staples to the charge of despatch and delivery in town of the EVE AUNG ECHO, and beg to intimate that orders for the paper left at our office, or at Mr. Weston’s Press Agency, or given to Mr. Starles, will be attended to with punctuality. The EVEA r ING ECHO will henceforth be published as early after 4 o’clock as possible, and all Advertisements for the day’s issue are requested to be sent in as early in the day as convenient. Furness and Dixon, Publishers Evening Echo. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Weekly ..... g c p Quarterly, in advance, ss. 6d., booked, 6s. Cd. Half-yearly „ 10s. „ 13s. Single copy, One Penny. A LPIIABET CARDS and Boxes, Mavor’s -ei. Spellmg, Royal Readers.. Slates, Pencils, Copy Books Drawing Books, and other school Requisites 10 be ‘ obtained ai our premises, East-street, Ashburton. FURNESS AND DIXON, Stationers’ Hall. MRS. E. PETERSON, DRESSMAKER, Tancred Street, TXFORMS the Ladies of Ashburton that she 1 ha 4 REMOVED to TANCRED STREET (four doors from Firth, Pass, & Co’s), and trusts that the patronage she has received in the past'will be continued in the future. T OTTO, Draughts and Draught Boards, •*—' Dominoes, Cards and Cribbage Boards, &c., at FURNESS AND DIXON’S, East-street, Ashburton. FOR SALE. 700 ACRES of the .finest Agricu LAND in Canterbury. . Apply, A. O. AITKEN & C [A Card.] LESSONS TO YOUN . LADIES, Four times a Week in Must French, German, and Drawing, at MISS STEANE’S, Oxford Villa, Burnett Street, STATUARY! STATUARY! A GRAND Display of some of the Finest Models extant. Casts from the works of the Best Masters. A Rare Chance for the Adornmen of the Drawing-room, Portico, or the Garden. FURNESS and DIXON, STATIONERS’ HALL, EAST STREET,



COUNTY OF ASHBURTON. XH E undersigned being convinced that room ■*- exists in this County for the development of a Business specially suited for the wants of Stockowners, Farmers, &c., have determined upon EXTENDING heir present connection as Grain Buyers, Millers, See, by OPENING AN ESTABLISHMENT for the purpose of BUYING & SELLING STOCK, STATIONS, ETC., and with a view of giving every facility for Stockowneis obtaining full value for their pro ducts, have engaged the services of MR. NEIL MACLEAN, (late Manager of the Acton Station), as AUCTIONEER. whose long experience and admitted ability in that line cannot be questioned. The Firm have constantly on hand Improved and Unimproved FARMS FOR SALE on the most favorable'terms. Advances made on Wool, Grain, etc., con signed for shipment to England, Australia, or America. Advances made on Crops. AGENTS FOR Osborne’s Reapers and Binders Ransome and Sims’ and Head’s Agricul tural Implements. Properties of all Descriptions Valued. SAUNDERS BROS., Asiirurton. Messrs SAUNDERS BROS, have for Sale, Situated on the NOR ill BANK of the RAKAIA, 4000. acres, partly improved. 690 ~ unimproved 675 ~ fenced jCi ~ 400 of which are now in Turnips 72 ~ unimproved 400 „ WAKANUI DISTRICT. 490 acres, 130 of which are ploughed improved House, Stable, &c. ZUI 255 201 111 936 200 mgi: Sixty Acres four miles from the Township. Several Valuable Town Sections.



Saunders Bros. £4. £2,000 HAVE , 000 t 0 LEND upon TOWN ’ W SECTIONS and other FREEHOLD PROPERTY. to be INVESTED in FREEHOLD Security. £2 Ron to be advanced in ’ Sums of A IOO and upwards. Preference given to town sections and house securities. £Pnnno to be advanced on GROWING CROPS, LIVE STOCK, and other AGRICULTURAL Security.



DRAUGHT HORSES. THE Undersigned have FOR SALE a Number of Broken and Unbroken COLTS now to be seen in their Paddocks, adjoining the Ashburton Domain. SAUNDERS BROS. NOTICE TO FARMERS, HORSE BREEDERS, AND OTHERS. THE Advertisers are prepared to Receive HORSES for Sale by Public Auction or Privately, and to make Liberal Cash Advances on same. Good PADDOCKS and Plenty of FEED for Stock. SAUNDERS BROS. / ”J''HE attention of Merchants, Surveyors, Architects, Lawyers, and the Residents of Ashburton generally, is invited to our Increased Stock of Stationery and Office Materials, including Stationer}' Cases Office Paper Paper Weights Letter Balances Copying Ink Office Ink Liquid Gum Call Bells Travellers’ Inkstands Pen Racks Mathematical Instruments, &c. FURNESS & DIXON, Stationers’ Hall. U T II E EVENING ECHO.” Town Agent, MR. A. WESTON, Tancred-street.



WILLIAM GAVIN, DRAPER, EAST STREET, ASHBURTON, announces that he HAS CLOSED his Shop „(next the “ Echo ” Office) where he has had a Clearing Sale for some time. From encouragement received he has re solved to Commence Business permanently, WITH A FRESH STOCK in one of the Shops in Montgomery’s New Buildings, ABOUT THE MIDDLE OF MAY. It is his intention to confine himself exclu sively to the GENERAL DRAPERY DEPARTMENT. By strict attention to business, selling at the lowest possible price, and all due civility, he hopes to merit a share of the patronage of the inhabitants of Ashburton and surrounding district. W. R. BOYLE, TESTATE AND GENERAL AGENT, MOORE STREET, ASHIiURTON. Al. restaurant! R E ivfo V A L To the premises lately occupied by Mr. Quinton. TANCRED STREET, On the Bth April. Increased Accommodation. C. TRUCKLE, PROPRIETOR.



J. G. ANSTEE, BUILDER AND (CONTRACTOR, EAST STREET, ASHBURTON. Every description of Carpentering, and all kinds of Jobbing Work, Shop Fittings, &c., done on the most reasonable terms. Pictures Mounted and Framed L



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