Ashburton Trade Directory.

Accountants and Commission Agents— Charles Braddell, Montgomery’s Buildings H, J. Bristo, Prospect Buildings, East-st, W, R. Boyle, Moore-street. F. Pavitt, East-st.

Architect and Civil Engineer— S. W. Brown, East-street S. Farr, Montgomery’s Buildings B. Mountfort, East Street Auctioneers— Bullock and Co., East-street 1? vrristers and Solicitors— ‘ Mr. Branson, East-street Mr. E. G. Crisp, Montgomery’s Buildings Messrs. Harris and Ireland, Montgomery’s , Buildings. Mr. C. W. Purnell, Montgomery’s Buxld ' ■ ings Bvkers, Confectioners, Etc. — Thomas Hicks, Tancred-street Thomas Taylor, East-street, Sando and Olsen, Eass-street Banks— Bank of New Zealand, East-street Union Bank of Australia, East-street f'SoARDiNCJ House Keepers— 1 T. G. Anstee, East-street Eagle’s Dining Rooms, Havelock Street Guilders, Contractors, Etc. — G. Parkin, Steam Saw Mills, Moor-street 1 Thos. Williams, Tinwald G. Compton, Builder, Moore-street. Booksellers and Stationers — A. Weston, Prospect Buildings, East-street street South Weeks and Dixon, Stationers’ Hall, East- Bootmakers— J. Chambers, Prospect Buildings, East-streel M. Nealas, East-street Brewers and Bottlers— Wood and Co., Cameron-street

Cabinetmaker — Joseph Rule, Moore-street. Cabinetmakers and Undertakers— T. A. Gates, Peter-street, near Quill’s G. Parkin, Moor-street Thomas Williams, T inwald

Carrier— G. F. Scott, Cameron-street ’ B. C. Smith, Moore-street

Chemist and Druggist— J. M. Cambridge, Montgomery’s Buildings Charles Neate, Moore Street.

Coal and Firewood Merchants — F. Doherty, Peter-street A. Hayes, Firewood and Timber, near Rail way Station F. P. Leßreton, Burnett-sffeet.

Drapers and Clothiers— Aitken and Co., Havelock-street Orr and Co., East-street Firth, Pass, and Co., Old Bank Store, East street T. Quinn & Co., Moor-street Engineers and Founders — Edwards and Lee, Engineers, Smiths, etc., Burnett-street W. J. Hessey, Central Foundry, Peters-st Furniture Warerooms — A. Spillard, Tancred Street

Grocers, General Dealers, Etc.— Aitken and Co., Havelock-street Orr and Co,, East-street Firth, Pass, and Co., East-street Friedlander Bros., East-street Sando and Olsen, East-street F. Doherty, Peter-street

Greengrocers— W. T. Davison, Moore-street J. Mooar & Co., East-street Hotels— Quill’s Commercial Hotel, near Railway Station Shearman’s Somerset Hotel, East-street Central Temperance Hotel, Havelock Street

Ironmongers— Orr and Co., East-street Aitken and Co., Havelock-street S. Hardley, East-street Ladies’ Clothing Establishment— Mrs. Morey, Tancred Street. Painter, &c.— J. R. Chapman, Tancred-street Teague and Sons, Burnett-street Photographer— E. Teague, Tancred-street Printers and Publishers— Weeks and Dixon, East-street Plumbers, Gasfitters, Tinsmiths, Etc.- J. C. Dolman, Tancred-street Joseph Hyde, Tancred-street S. Hardley, East-stieet Saddlers— Thomas Hudson, Burnett-street Surveyors— C. E. Fooks and Son, Fr.t-street Sailors— Aitken and Co., Havelock-street Tentmakers— Sando and Olsen, East-street tobacconists— A. Weston, East-street Watchmaker— J. P. Parker, East-street, near Bullock’s USTNotices in this Directory, £i per annum

POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Mails at the Ashburton. Post Office close i; follows : For Christchurch and North at 10 a.m. \ p.m., and 7.30 p.m., daily. For Chertsey at 10 a.m. daily. For Rakaia at 10 a.m., and 4 p.m. daily. For Tinwald, Winslow, Hinds, Coldstream, Rangitata, Orari, Winchester, and Geraldine, at 10.15 a.m. daily. For Ashton, Waterton, and Longbeach, at 3.15 p.m. daily. For Temuka, Timaru, and South at 10.15 p.m. and 3 p.m daily. • ■ , . . For Greenstreet, Ashburton Forks, Mount Somers, and Ashburton Gorge on Tuesdays and Fridays at 10.30 a.m. W. St. G. Douglas, ' Postmaster.

ASHBURTON RETAIL LIST.

The Evening Echo. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1878.

“ Good luck to the hoof and the horn, Good luck to the flock and the fleece, Good luck to the growers of corn, With the blessings of plenty and peace.” “0! rain, rain go away and come again another day” was our exclamation in the early part of last June. Why will it not come? Is it that we are deserving of special direct punishment for our back slidings here on the Canterbury plains more than our fellows at the West Coast, Southwards, or at JS T elson ? We hear that the Nelsonians have been blessed with refreshing rains, and that our Southern and Western brothers have had an abund ance of wet also. We venture to answer No; for in our wealthy City of the Plains —baby in years tho’ she be—the visitor cannot help but be struck with and admire the places of worship with which she abounds, and with the wholesome way they are attended. It is true that it was said eighteen hun dred and odd years ago—“ Ye cannot serve God and mammon ; but that was a long, long time ago, —when a youthful observer of the decalogue was told to “sell all that he had and give to the. poorwhen the command “ lay not up for yourselves treasure on earth,” &c,, was issued; when the preachers of the Gospel were admonished to live on faith, in the receipt of daily hospitality; and when, strangely enough, there were to be found ministers sufficiently unworldly to serve the Son of Man for so little remune ration that they had not even a change of clothes or two pairs of shoes. We say again this was a long time ago, that things are different now. In a word, we must be living in a more enlightened age, for our pastors demand a more sub stantial stipend and get it, too, seeing the mistake of the ancient, tho’ courageously independent, disciple of Gamaliel who thought it not derogatory to his office as a leader of the church to earn his living at his trade of tent making by the sweat of his brow ; and when..their congregations following in their clergy’s footsteps, the richer seeing the mistake of sharing their wealth with their poorer brethren, cease to believe in Peter’s communistic associa tion, which might again l«ad to Sapphiran catastrophes. Things having changed so in our more civilised age, may we not also question whether our.present drought is a divine visitation for our misdeeds ] Let US then return to the direct cause of our pastures being parched, our cereal crops J being seared—the hot nor-westerp. And •

if we cannot yet assign a reason for this cause cannot we find any means to ameliorate the ruinous effect 1 We fancy so, and were much pleased a short while back to notice that our County Council had, we thought, determined to take steps to, bring over our thirsty lands a bountiful supply of running water that would materi ally aid in this amelioration. • However on Thursday last our County Coun cillors again met, when we were dis appointed, finding they had omitted this vital matter. Should this important scheme cost say ten, twenty aye, fifty thousand, still we say let us have it. Shall we not more than lose this sum in the diference between a bad add good harvest, this season ? With water we can irrigate, our crops-will grow, our stock will thrive, and our young trees shall flourish. This brings us to another great ameliorating influence on climate—trees. Our practical cousins across the Pacific have shown us how to take this matter in hand, in the splendid young forests they have planted in the central-western states.

The Mormons'too have converted a howl ing wilderness into a beautiful bountifnl territory by simply irrigating and plant ing trees. Let us not despair or repine, but be up and doing and instead of suffer ’ ing our County Council to squabble about whj shall be chairman over them or inquisiting as to which paper has- most circulation —a sorry spectacle of sage men frittering away their time—let us see that they earnestly take this matter in hand and do it wisely and well or make room for other energetic men who will. In the meantime we would earnestly urge our traders in money to be as lenient as may be this year, forbearing from the attempt to draw the last farthing from the this year unfortunate tillers of the soil, re membering that by so doing they will ultimately benefit themselves and be at the same time acting out the glorious old, old story of “ doing unto others that they would others should do unto them,” so stamping it as a fact that we do live in an enlightened age, and that we do benefit by the teaching, example, and self-sacrifice of the Kind Shepherd of Nazareth.

Thistle Lodge, S.C.—The installation of officers for the above Lodge will take place on Monday, at 4 p.m., at the Tem plar Hall. A banquet will be held in the evening at Quill’s Commercial Hotel. Temperance Meeting. —On Tuesday next a public temperance meeting will he held in the Tows Hall, when an address will be delivered by Mr. J.‘ W. Jago, the head of the Templar order, in New Zea land. It is also expected that Dr. Roseby, of Dunedin, and Mr. J. A. D. Adams will take part in the doings of the evening. We would commend those who would like to hear the temperance question argued out on its best merits to go to this meet ing, as the names .mentioned above are; those of leaders of the temperance cause, in New Zealand. The Butchers have come hack to their old ground, and regular customers will be waited upon and served as formerly. Sporting.— The running match adver tised some time since, between two local runners, Oughton and Woods for ten pounds a side comes off this; evening- in Mr. Hay Smith’s paddock, at 6 o’clock, the distances being 100, 150, and 200 yards,- the winner of two events to claim the stakes. A good deal of interest seems to be taken in the affair, as their respective merits are considered to he, about equal, though Woods is at present the favorite, but in racing we find the favorite does hot always gain the day, and it may be so. in this instance. Both parties are sanguine of success.

R. M. Court. —The case against George Brind for larceny of. a watch was heard yesterday at length. Evidence was led to show that prisoner had been delivering bread to Mr. ,Hicks’ customers, and that the watch had been missed from the house of Richard Wiggins, after a bread call by prisoner, The missing article was pawned in Christchurch by prisoner. Brind re served his defence, and stands committed for trial at the next sitting of the Supreme Court. William .Longdon, charged with indecently assaulting a girl of five years was acquitted. Duncan Campbell, for uttering a valueless cheque in favour of Acland, Campbell and Co., was committed for trial. Witness admitted the signature of the cheque, but said he thought it would be all right the morning after. The Court sat till after five o’clock. To-day his Worship again sat, when, after charges against two drunks, two or three lengthy but unimportant civil cases were disposed of, • .

CHISPA'S LETTER.

“ I am not yet so bald that yoq can. §ee my brains. ’’—Longfellow.

This has been, altogether, a lively week, so lively that I am beginning to think some huge mistake or blunder has been made in the ordering of it. Seems to me we have got altogether more than our full share of things this wepfe calculated to keep, our interest in life from stagnating. We have got too much drought, and too much heat, and too much nor’-wester. All these tend, to keep people lively. The drought makes ’em gasp out jeremiads over the. loss sustained by the formers, whose infant com is not likely to reach the full stature of adult pats and wheat, and a dwarf harvest means a lean bank balance. The nor'-wester increases those jeremiads t't howls, so that they may be heard over the din and through the dust: and the heat puts everyone in a frame of mind which is not conducive to the culti vation of the habit of pgjng refined lan guage,

But the liveliness has not 'all been caused by the weather, The new County

Council put in ~ its first Appearance this week, and it was a lively affair. It has lost two old faces from ' its list of counte nances—tlie benign smile of Mr. Bullock is no longer its guardian angel, and Mr. Polhillhas ceased to add to its solidity. Mr. John Grigg is Mr. Bullock’s ‘.‘vice,” and long-headed, canny Duncan Cameron has jumped the . claim of Mr. Polhill. Whatever the county may have lost in the dismission of Mr. Bullock’s., varied abilities from its aggregate talent, it has certainly recruited from. Longbehch an element of “ loolc-up ” that will make its meetings of. the. liveliest character pos sible, and on Wednesday we got the first instalments In Mr. .Cameron the Council has received what is always acceptable, a large accession of common sense. John Grigg is a man after my. own heart. He hits, straight out from the shoulder, and keeps on. hitting as long as the slightest sign of kick is exhibited by .his adversery. John is not. satisfied with the division of the land fund spoil, and he gave it hot to the Chairman for what he evidently con sidered a very cross-eyed and step-and-go fetch-it apportionment of. the “hoot.” It took poor Mr. Walker all he could do to bear, up, against the terrible onset, and ' jt was perfectly refreshing to see with what righteous resignation to his fate he informed his assailant that he had no hope of ever being able to convert Mr. Grigg to the Mount* Somers school of thought regarding land fund. Really, if Wednesday’s meeting is any criterion of what County Council days are going to be in the future, I must look upon Mr. Grigg as a public benefactor.

Then we had a tidy old Court day. Hadn’t we. The “old man” was down, and he and his Worship spent a whole day in sorting out a tangled web of Ash burton blackguardism. A fair instalment of “ drunks” made their Worships Father Confessors for the time being, and received their due share of penances in the shape of fines imposed, while one poor unfortu nate, who seemed either to have been asleep with his head in a hematite paint box or had-, gallantly tied his hands as a handicap in a bitter fight with a gatepost, was let off with a caution against dining off P.B. Then we had the housebreaking case.' If that lad is guilty—and there is no man guilty till he is so proved—then we have had amongst us for the last so long a piece of humanity that has devel oped, to the dwarfing of all other points of character, the very common trait of impudence, and developed it to such a degree that, my tom cat has caved in before it, and now claims to be considered a modest individual and a very unassuming thief. Tom never asks for any assistance in his thefts, and would never think of seducing any other tom cat into sharing the spoil, especially if he did all the thieving himself.

Then the “.lively” element came to the front again in a passage of arms or so between the' Bar and the Sergeant of Police. It falls to the lot of the Sergeant to conduct the police cases before his Worship, and he gets along usually with all sail spread, so. long at least as the pro secutions he conducts are not met by Mr. G. D. Branson as counsel for the defence. When it so happens that a prisoner secures Mr. Branson’s aid, it also so happens that the Sergeant is supplied-with gratis instruc tion as to how he ought to conduct a pro secution, and eke reminders that he is not a lawyer; and if he wasn’t a very stubborn sergeant, and was more appreciative of disinterested endeavors to make him a model prosecutor, after the Bransonian idea at least, he would profit very largely by the lessons given to him. But he doesn’t, and he relates his experience instead, and so draws out the Bench, and then counsel has in like manner to instruct the Bench, who, with all the dignity in the world, sits calmly down under the dictation, and the majesty of the law is upheld. Long may amateur judges sit on the New Zealand Bench may well be the prayer of the New Zealand bar.

OH! THE BUTCHERS!

Old Chispa to his dinner bound Has plenty time to tarry, . For butcher Dick the ne’er a pound Of chops will to. him carry, Old C. may ranee, arid stamp, and fume, Like Turk, or Russ, or Dutcher, The old woman quietly hqars the boom And points him to the butcher.

The cross old coon, with hungry maw, T? Ct fiercely craves for dinner, Already feels a lengthening jaw, His body corporate thinner j And soundly rates the silly man - Who’s struck this stomach-toucher : “ So I must start a bloody plan, And learn the art of butcher.

ff 0h ! who is he that kills a pig, And will not trot the pork out ? And who'is he'that infrp. dig,, Now thinks.the carting \york put? And must I carry home my flesh Like any swagging ditcher ? And hump my tucker, salt or-fresh, My dainty-handed lutcher? -'

“ Don’t'think because-a big bad debt Doth mark thy beef exchequer. T})at thou must' take a sulky pet ’Gainst every townsman’s pecker, And close thy tick ’gainst o}d and young To rectify thy ledger, And only carve for solid coin Tlpat’g dabbed up to the butcher?

<f Nay, if a shiser folds his bQpk Upon yoyr monthly money, Then fold your-arms .with stolid look When he asks chops, my honey, But do not treat ns all alike—- Trump card and cheating sinner— Send down the man who pays his way His usual cut for dinner.

“ If you won’t, then someone else must, My 4 a {pty Knight o’ the Cleaver, , And 'jwlien-for.comes, you safely tryst To haye djrawnyouf flnal stiver

Of Ashburton coin, This little game Won’t make you any richer, For meat will work our jaws the same From some more civil butcher. A

“ You’re right to stop unmeasured-* tick ’ And never more to wag it, But start your round again, my brick,A- With butcher boy to nag it. ;-s>• \ . The public'temper when aroused Is far from being a stretcher, So warning take before you’re doused, My plucky little butcher.”

There was a jubilee amongst the dogs at the Friday’s sitting of the Court. - It was thusly : Rover, the dog which brought about the discovery by the R.M. that fines under the Dog Nuisance Act could not be recovered in our Court, came past the Court house. The assembly of canine loafers that usually haunt the Fri day’s sitting set up a jubilee chorus ip honor of' -their- emancipator from the thraldom of 10s. collars, and the noise So disturbed the Court that the Sergeant had to order the offending curs to be silenced. His Worship knew..they,..were, rejoicing over his recent decision so he let; them alone.-. Just mam : V Chispa.

CORRESPONDENCE

We do not hold ourselves responsible fer the opinions expressed by our correspondents.

To the Editor of the Evening Echo,

Sir, —Would you be kind enough to put this iii print, for the benefit of the public of Ashburton. It looks like atffff the master butchers cannot carry oh their business without curtailing their expenses, so the butcher boys will help them to get out of trouble by selling on Monday next all slops, aprons, spurs, &c. „If we don’t balance accounts, we don’t know who can.—We are, &c./ -

All of the Cloth.

TELEGRAPHIC.

LATEST FROM EUROPE.

[By Submarine Cable.]

London, Nov. 28.

A letter from the Duke of Argyll states that the Gladstone Government refused the proposals of the Ameer of Afghanistan because he asked for an offensive and de fensive alliance agairist internal and exter nal foes.-::... *•-.

[Special to Globe.] . London, Nov. 28.

Russia threatens to intervene between England and. Afghanistan because Quettah is occupied. . ' ; ; A The British advanced is unchecked.

Kaufmann urges on the part of Russia a demand that England shall not perma nently hold the Khyber Pass. ; *

AUSTRALIAN.

Sydney, Nov. 28.

Proposals by the Government for rail way extension, comprising 1112 miles, will be submitted.to the Assembly on De cember 12th. /

Melboubne, Nov. 29. Reuter’s Agency has requested the pub lication of the following throughout the colonies : —From the president of the St. Andrew’s Society to all Scottish presidents in the colonies. As a Scotchman, in the name of the Scottish nation, we ask youri aid for the shareholders ruined by the City of Glasgow Bank failure. £500,000 is required to meet the claims on the fund now being raised. Half has already been subscribed; the balance is urgently needed. Address your replies to the Lord Provosts of Edinburgh or Glasgow, or the executive Committee, Glasgow Bank Relief Fund. [Special to “ Globe.”] Sydney Nov. 29. •

The Victorian bushrangers’ horses’ sup plies have been cut off, and their immedi ate death or capture is certain. The A.S.N. Campany are effectually crushing the strike. The steamers are re suming their work, - - 5 • • * '• - , The Assam-arrived at the Sound last night. Passenger for Sydney—Monsig nor Lamb- . Passengers for New Zealand —Bishop of Christchurch, Captain Davy, Messrs Clease, Langa, Mr. Beel, wife and daughter, Mr. War and daughter. New Zealand wheat, 4s. 6d to arrive- ; oats, ss. Other quotations are unchanged. A unanimous vote of confidence was passed in the directors of the Australian Steam Navigation Company. ... ~ • In the match Australian Eleven v Fifteen of New South Wales, the latter in their first innings have ten wickets down for 260, ‘ •

Bailey broke bis firm in picking up the ball, Dumnjet replaced him. • Melbourne, Nov. 29. Holt and McCarthy have been appointed Reuter's agents for .the whole of New Zea land ■ •

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Per Press Agency and Exchanges.]

Auckland, Friday.. The Te Kbpuru Saw Mill was purchased by Brown, Campbell and Co., for £35,000. The wing of the Lunatic Asylum is esti mated to cost £17,000. It was decided last night to have a Wai kato Derby of 150 sovs in 1831. Taueanga, Friday. The Taranaki has been totally / wrecked on the Karewa. . The passengers are all safe on the island. The S tafia has. gone to fetch them. No cargo will be saved. Thp cargo per Taranaki fop Lyttelton was '9 cages, 4.packfig§s,

£• Latest. * psijrt of the crew, headed by the mate and purser,\-.wKo rowed up in a.ship’s boat. The following is verbatim account of the. disaster ‘ C I am a fireman on the Taranaki. Wfeleft Auckland at 4 p.m. on Thursday afternoon with, about 80 passengers. The weather whs very thick, and at midnight the ship came to anchor somewhere near Hole in the Wall. Xbout 4" Anii the weather cleaned and we proceeded; but, later', it thickened again. I was On duty from 4 to 8 a.m., at which time. X turned . , in. I had - a half when I heard some, one snout out “ Stop her ’’ and then “ Full speed'astern. ” Almost immediately afterwards tlie steadier struck.- There was ho great shock. The engines were' -th&ii ’ou **ahead 'or a minute or two. Whtenl Twent on " deck there seemed to l>e ho. confusion,; . everyone kept quiet, and the passengers/ behaved remarkably, well.. Captain Mal-fX colm told us to lower the boats : directly. Tri a few minutes this was - doue,-'and we - then proceeded tblaiid the passengers on the island. . At ele /eh o’clock all the pas sengers, we landed and a, portion of the port watch under the math y dispatched to Tauranga fur assistahcc- .j- r Tli lies on her beam portion of her nose being out of; water. The hatches are of course battened down, and, being under the watery it will ..be impos- ’ sible to save any portion of the cargo.” : No further particulars are as,yet obtain able respecting the wreck- of theTarahaki. A dense fog has. prevailed for the last - three days. Karewa Island, is' sve miles outside Tauranga Heads,/.in /a N.N.E. . direction. The rock is .very rugged, about 350 feet high,-and is in very deep water, about three miles front the mainland. " ?r -X ? Napi»r, -Friday. |^ Mr. Rees has issued a. a libel action against the “ Napier ” for alledged . continued defamation .of him.. Damages are; laid at‘£36oo. _ Wellington, Friday. The case of Wood, charged with breach of the Lunatics Act, occupied the R.M. Court all day. Defendant was merely charged with detaining his sister three months, contrary to .the 30th section of the Act. , . Several respectable settlers gave evidence' to having ah intimate acr quaintance with the family, and all testi fied to the uniform good, treatment the lunatic girl received. Sir W. Fitznerbert testified to laiowirig tbe girl for the last twenty years. lie did * not consider her a lunatic, but thought: that if?- she had been taken from homeland, placed, in a lunatic asylum it would ha.ve made her a con firmed lunatic. ‘‘The'' evidence of Dr. Diver showed, that, r when the patient was examined, no market ef Violence T were traceable:. Mr. Stafford, Assistant Law Officer of the Crown, said the.main object of the Government in prosecuting was to give as much publicity to the 30th section of the Act, under which proceenings were .taken, as possible, tb let people know that lunatics must not/ be detained beyond a certain time ini'.private houses. The

defendant w^3. discharged, the Govern ment thinking that the-publicity already given to the matter would satisfy, the ends of justice. . j ■ ‘ £IOO.OOO worth of Thomdon reclama tion will shortly be sold by the Govern ment. ~.; v: , # The following educational statistics are 'published in the' “ Gaits' ' '

Average attendance of scholars in the schools of the following eduicatiohal dis tricts for the quarter - ended September 30 last:-

The total attendance for,.the ’ same quarter was 47,006. The number of teachers in all Canterbury was 392, with 127 schools ; • Auckland,!362 tqachers, 172 schools'; Otago 312 teachersf 183 Schools; Nelson, 79 teachers, 60schqolS;; Welling ton, 103 teachers, 36 schools; Hawke’s Bay, 53 teachers, 31 schools; Taranaki, 25 teachers, 25. schools ; Wanganui, 67 teachers, 42 schools; Marlborough,"’"'.2s •teachers 15 schools; Westland, 77 teach ers, 35 schools ; Southland, 66 teachers, 45 schools. --

TO-DAY’S CABLEGRAMS.

London, Nov. 29.

. The failure • ofjTaylpp; and Sjonsy .< corn dealers, Glasgow, with liabilities to the amount of £130,000 has -been announced, , The Garonne has delivered the Brindisi mails, ; • ; • - Calcutta; Nov. 29. The Ameer of Afghanistan is concen trating his troops at' : Cabul,’ -which is strongly entrenched; . ' ! - Athens, Nov. 215, The Turkish troops of the Reserve have committed terrible massages at : Net Wick, Macedonia,' " V’/ ' 1 • X, ...

TO-DAY’S TELEGRAMS.

. - -' Wellington, Saturday. The body of a reqently-bom infant wa» found yesterday :in a utensil-in the bed room of a servant girl, ,at the Railway Hotel, at Hastings. -The alleged mother is one of the City of Auckland immigrants, lately arrived hero. Circumstances axe of so suspicious a nature that an inquest is to be held to-day. : m-K • ,'r Nelson, Saturday. Messrs. Albert-Pitt and Acton Adams, both lawyers, declare their : intention of contesting ; the seat vacated by John Sharp, M.H.Rt J • pi

SATURDAY, November 30, 1878,]

THE EVENING ECHO.



s. d. s. d. Gutter, inferior to best, o O to 0 0 Eggs, 1? dozen l 2 to I 0 Bacon, prime smoked, $ lb 0 IO to 0 0 Hams in cloth, 1? lb i O to 0 0 Cheese, prime quality, If? lb o. 9 to 0 IO Flour in bags, v ioolb 12 6 to 14 0 Oatmeal, $ xoolb 26 0 to 0 0 Lard, k? lb - 0 9 to 0 0



Auckand 8689 , t Hawke’s Bay , ‘ 1 1589 Taranaki ... ... 670 Wanganui... . ... .1874 Wellington V.. 3415 Marlborough ... 751 Nelson • 1 ... 2709 Westland... ... ... 2064 Canterbury North (?) : , ... 8933 Canterbury South/ , ... 1745 Otago J j - - i.. 12,566 . Southland... . ... ... 2894 . Total ... 47,864'



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