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Saunders Bros. HAVE 4? / nnn to LEND upon TOWN SECTIONS and othei FREEHOLD PROPERTY. to be INVESTED in FREEHOLD Security. to be ADVANCED in Sums of and upwards. Preference given to town sections and house securities. £>Or\ to be .ADVANCED on GROWING CROPS, LIVE STOCK, andotherAGRICULTURAL Security. £2,000 £2,800 Messrs SAUNDERS BROS, have for Sale, Situated on the NORTH BANK of the RAKAIA, 4000 acres, partly improved. 690 ~ unimproved 675 ~ fenced 760 ~ 400 of which are now in Turnips 72 ~ unimproved 400 ~ ~ [JWAKANUI DISTRICT. 490 acres, 130 of which are ploughed 201 „ highly improved 255 y> 201 ~ ~ House, Stable, &c. in „ „ 936 » » 200 ~ ~ Sixty Acres four miles from the Township. .Several Valuable Town Sections. DRAUGHT HORSES. THE Undersigned have FOR SALE a Number of Broken and Unbroken COLTS iiow to be seen.in their Paddocks, adjoining the Ashburton Domain. SAUNDERS BROS. NOTICE TO FARMERS, HORSE BREEDERS, AND OTPIERS. 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 tjor Stock. SAUNDERS BROS. C. PERCY COX, LAND AND ESTATE AGENT,' AND ASHBURTON pARMS to LET and SELL, of all Sizes and Descriptions, Improved and Unimproved, situated near Chertsey Dromore Wakanui Winckmore Gould & Cameron’s Westerfield Hinds,’ Kangitata Money Lent in Large or Small ‘Sums, on Approved Security. AGENT FOR UNION INSURANCE COMPANY. DECLARATION OF WAR. WHEN the first note of prepaiation was sounded in the East, and the war cloud was no laiger than a man’s hand, and while the principal potentates of Europe, though breathing peace, were silently girding up their loins for a struggle as fierce in the encounter and more baneful in its results thanany which has hitherto •devastated the face of our mother earth—it was / then that he sought every means in his power lo avoid such another calamity that befel Plevna, by obtaining for the coming winter a very Large Assortment of Horse Cloths, Oil skin Leggings, and Sou’-westers, to enable the nhabitants of Ashburton to stand a long Winter Siege. WHO HAS DONE THIS? Why, THOMAS DUDSON, SADDLER, Burnett Street, And, for further emergencies, has on hand the Largest and Best Stock of Saddlery and Saddlers’ Ironmongery ever exhibited in Ash burton. "public NOTICE. JOSEPH HYDE, PRACTICAL COPPERSMITH AN BRAZIER, TIN, IRON, AND ZIN PLATE WORKER, • Begs to inform the inhabitants of Ashburtc and surrounding districts that he has cor cmenced business in TANCRED STREE" where he hopes by strict attention to busines •combined with moderate charges, to merit lair share pf public patronage. N.B.—Repairs neatly executed.



3 lEj G X -A- Hj SALE Af ORR AND CO’S. We beg to announce the arrival of a Large Shipment of Goods, ex Himalaya, from London, and have resolved to clear a great portion of our very EXTENSIVE STOCK AT A SWEEPING REDUCTION to make room for an Immense Lot of Goods to arrive by the Columbus, now due. 4 cases of Ladies’ Costumes will be sold at 17s 6d to 30s 2 cases of Knicker Winceys, reduced to 6d per yard 2 cases of Twilled Tweed Wincey, very wide, 8d per yard 1 case of Tartan Plaid, reduced to is 6d per yard 4 cases of Flannels, reduced to is 2d per yard 2 cases of Fingering Wool will be sold during this sale at 3s iod per lb 4 bales of Blankets, at 14s 6d, 16s 6d, up to 45s 1 casejof French Merinos in new shades, brown, green, etc 3 cases Brown Hollands, at Bd, iod, is, up to is 6d per yard 2 cases All Wool Shirtings at reduced prices 2 cases Ladies’ Jackets, good shapes and nicely trimmed I cases of Ladies’ Stays, nice-fitting goods I case of Ladies’ Silk Scarfs, frilled edges, etc I case of Josephine Kid Gloves 4 cases Fancy Hosiery 1 case Diess Buttons, Fringes, etc 2 cases of Gents’ Overcoats 1 case'of Boys’ Overcoats 4 cases of Clothing, best goods 8 cases of Colonial-made Goods just to hand l Special’attention is called to our URGE STOCK O'F LADIES’ AND GENTS.’ BOOTS, in Colonial and|English make. CHILDREN’S BOOTS IN GREAT VARIETY. The jabove goods are now]opened up, and as will be seen from prices quoted, will be sold at the smallest remunerative profit, our chief object being to keep the LARGEST AND BEST STOCK IN ASHBURTON, So that the public may get all classes t of Drapery, Clothing, House-furnb. mg Ironmongery, and General Stores within easy reach, and at prices which cannot be beaten by any house in the Colony, as we believe the public would prefer pur chasing in Ashburton to sending their orders elsewhere. OIR 23 -A. IsT ID C O i



Advance Ashburton ■m m . TH3 EVEUIN-& ECHO NEWSPAPER AND GENERAL PRINTING OFFICE, East Street, Ashburton. / proprietors of the Evening Echo have much pleasure in presenting their numerous customers with an enlarged edition of this paper, and in thank ing the public for their very liberal support hitherto, beg to solicit a continuance. The Echo is circulated daily throughout the County and district, and offers special advantages to advertisers. Advertisements can be taken for three, six, or twelve months, on very Reasonable Terms. Auctioneers and Commission Agents liberally dealt with. Casual advertisements as per scale. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION : In advance - - per quarter 060 „ - „ (posted) 086 „ - per annum 10 o Or, delivered to all parts of the Town, 6d. per week. Commercial and General Printing\ This department is supplied with every requisite for FUST CLASS PHIHTIH6 Of every description, and for Style, Design, and Cheapness, Cannot be equalled in Ashburton or surpassed in the Colony. Billheads of any size or pattern Memomdum Forms Receipt and Order Books Circulars and Envelopes - Plain and Fancy Cards Fancy Labels, any size Ball Programmes and Tickets Vellum Address Labels, Catalogues Societies’ Rules, Forms, etc., Pamphlets, Handbills, Posters of any size, Colored Inks or Paper Mourning Cards. THE ADDRESS— THE “EVENING ECHO” OFFICE . ■ • ; > Y: :y :i. >.-r • , FtTELTBSS Sc IDIIXIOISr, PROPRIETORS, EAST STREET, ASHBURTON



CHARLES BRADDELL, Agent for Press Company, Limited. Secretary Town Hall Company. Agent for National Insurance Company.' Removed to Montgomery’s Building?, entran from East and Burnett Streets. CANTERBURY DYE WORKS. !i| (Near the Post Office) CHRISTCHURCH. J SELLARS is still Dyeing to Live, and • Living to Dye. Ashburton Agents: FURNESS & DIXON, Where particulars may be obtained, and Orders left. M . NEAL AS, Boot Sc Shoe Importer, EAST STREET, ASHBURTON, Wishes the public to know that he has just, completed improvements in his shop, and is in; receipt of a Large Winter Stock of Boots and Shoes, of every description, which can be guaranteed as the best in the market, and will be SOLD at CHRISTCHURCH PRICES. His or dered work, sewn or pegged, is well-known to be the best in the district. "i. j Repairs attended to: U'jpHE EVENING ECHO.’ • Town Agent, MR. A. WESTON, East Street. NOTICE. THOMAS WILLIAMS, Tinwald, BUILDER, UNDERTAKER, CABINET MAKER, WHEELWRIGHT, &c., WISHES to notify to the public that he prepared to execute all orders entruste to his care in any of the above branches. Every description of Furniture made an repaired at Christchurch prices. One trial this respect will satisfy. Funerals furnished and conducted at reduo prices. As each department is under the charge practical men, and as T.W. employs only firs] class hands, customers may rely on havin, their orders executed in a thoroughly workmar like manner. vrii {Plans Prepared and Estimates Given Note the Address— THOMAS WILLIAMS, (Near Railway Station) Tinwald. STATUARY! STATUARY! A GRAND Display of some of t£> XX Finest Models extant. !i 1 -; ; Casts from the works of the Be Masters. A Rare Chance for the Adommeri of the Drawing-room, Portico, or-th Garden. FURNESS and DIXON, STATIONERS’ HALL, EAST STREET 1 GRATEFUL—COMFORTING. j BREAKFAST , COCOi “By a thorough knowledge of laws which govern the operations of digestic and nutrition, and by a careful application * thefine properties of well selected cocoa,! Epps has provided our breakfast tables with: delicately-flavoured beverage which may sav< us many heavy doctors’ bills. It is by the judi cious use of such articles of diet, that a constitu tion may be gradually built up until strong enough to "resist every tendency to disea? Hundreds of subtle maladies are floating aro«t us, ready to attack wherever there is a' weal point. We may escape many a fatal shaft b keeping ourselves well fortified with pure bio and a properly nourished frame.”— T!u Cv Service Gazette. ■ V : SOLD ONLY IN PACKETS LABELLED JAMES EPPS AND CO Homoepathic Chemists, London, HEALTH FOR ALL HOLLOWAY’S PILLS AND OINTMENT! THE PILLS Purify the Blood, eorrect alfj disorders of the Liver, Stomach, Kiinij 'l and Bowels, and are invaluable kx all plaints incidental to Female*. THE OINTMENT i« the only reliable remady for Bad Legs, Old Wounds, Sereaf 1 and Ulcers. For Bronchitie, Diphther Coughs, Colds, Gout, Rheumatism, u-'j all Skin Diseases it has no equal Sold by the Proprietor, Thom/ Holloway, 588, Oxford Street, Loader and by all Medidne Vendors throegh& j tha World- ' Printed and Published by Smith j//] Furness and Charles Dixon, at Printing Office, East Street, Ashbm J! Wednesday, July 10,1878. 1 ; >vd