The Evening Echo.

VOL. I. —No. 13,

ASHBURTON, MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1878,

(daily.)

PRICE ONE PENNY.



DRESSMAKING T HIS Branch of our Business is under the Superintendence of a most Experienced DRESSMAKER. All Orders are executed on the Shortest Possible Notice. DRESSES AND COSTUMES Accurately Fitted, and Made Up in the Latest Style of Fashion. Charges very Moderate. ORR AND Co. C U T LERY. Ex “ Lurline,” from London. 2 Cases LOCKWOOD and FENTON'S TABLE CUTLERY. Table Knives Dessert Knives Game and other Carvers Knife Sharpeners Butchers’ and other Steels Bread Knives and Platters The above assorted in Ivory, Buckhorn, and Bone Handles. ORR & CO.



Looking Glasses. Ex “ Wanganui,” from London. 2 Cases MAHOGANY FANCY TOILET GLASSES Assorted sizes and patterns Twist Pillars and Marble Tops. From 6s. to £4. ORR AND Co.



Brushware & Brooms Ex “ Hereford,” from London. g CASES BRUSHWARE. A fine assortment of House Brushes Stone Brushes Flue Brushes Shoe Brushes Scrubbing Brushes Clothes Brushes Horse Brushes Stable Brushes, &c. ORR AND Co. Ex "Lurline.” | CASE OF KNICKER WINCEYS. 32 pieces, 355. per piece of 6a yards each, or 8d per yard. The above is much under usual prices. Also, 4 CASE OF WOOL PLAIDS, All the different clans, at is. Bd. per yard, a great bargain. ORR & Go.



CHARLES REID, ASHBURTON SHOEING FORGE, CORNER OK EAST AND DODSON STREETS. A LARGE and varied experience in the Manufacture and Repair of AGRICUL TURAL IMPLEMENTS and MACHINERY warrants C. R. in guaranteeing Sound and Satisfactory Material and Workmanship. HORSES safely and scientifically SHOD on the Spot.



TO FARMERS. WE are to prepared to make Liberal CASH Advances oo Stacked GRAIN. A few splendid Samples of SEED WHEAT and OATS for Sale. SAUNDERS BROTHERS, Ashburton and Christchurch. GEO. ST. HILL, BUILDER AND CONTRACTOR, Burnett Street, Ashburton. Plans prepared and Estimates furnished.



ALTERATIONS I I I SELLING OFF FOR A FE '/V BAYS LONGER O- & Co., Are now making EXTENSIVE INTERNAL ALTERATIONS in their PREMISES, until the completion of which they intend holding a AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. REMEMBER— A Few Days Only. GREAT CHEAP SALE AT -A_. O. & CO.’S, HAVELOCK STREET, ASHBURTON. QHILL 3 S COMMERCIAL HOTEL, Ashburton. {One Minute’s walk from Railway Station and Telegraph Office.) The Proprietor begs to inform his old friends and the Public that, having seen the necessity that existed for a Really First-class Hotel at Ashburton, he erected the above at a very considerable outlay, and is now in a position to offer the Best Accom7nodation to Families and Visiiors > on the most Reasonable Terms. SPECIAL ATTENTION HAS BEEN PAID TO THE PRIVATE, SITTING, AND LUNCHEON ROOMS, BATH ROOMS, &c. WINES, BEERS, & SPIRITS OF THE BEST BRANDS. SPLBNXIID SALOON, Fitted with one of Alcock’s Prize Billiard Tables. NIGHT PORTER KEPT FOR CONVENIENCE OF TRAVELLERS. G. W. DUCKWORTH, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL GENERAL GROCER, HIGH STREET, CHRISTCHURCH, (Next Messrs. Strange’s Buildings.). WISHES to call attention to the PARTICULARLY LOW PRICES at which he is NOW SELLING ALL GOODS, which cannot be beaten by any House in the Province. WHOLESALE ORDERS DELIVERED, FREIGHT PAID, TO ANY STATION ON THE CANTERBURY RAILWAY.



ENTRAL NEWS AGENCY, W Tancrei> street, and Railway Station, Ashburton. A . WESTON, BOOKSELLER, STATIONER, AND TOBACCONIST. Autnorised Agent for tlie principal News papers published between Christchurch and Dunedin ; also the Australasian and Sketcher. American and English News and Illustrated Papers, Periodicals, Journals, &c., by every mail. A choice assortment of Novels in Cloth and Boards. Stationery as Cheap as any house in Town. In connection with the above, Weston’s Registry Office lor Male and Female Servants and General Inquiry Office. If you want Genuine American Tobacco, cut and uncut, go to A. WESTON’S. G. F. SCOTT, GENERAL CARRIER, Cameron Street, Ashburton. Parcels delivered promptly and charges moderate. PLAN of ASHBURTON, on Sale at the office of the “Evening Echo.”



ASHBURTON PHARMACEUTICAL ESTABLISHMENT. M. CAMBRIDGE, PURE DRUGS, CHEMICALS, Veterinary and Patent Medicines, Sponges, Gasogenes, Leeches, Brushware, Toilet Articles of every description, Medical Glass, and Earthenwaie, Requisites for the Sick Room, Air and Water Bed, Pillows and Cushions, Trusses, Enemas, Elastic Belts and Bandages, Savory’s and Moore’s Celebrated Preparations, Bright’s Phosphodyne, Moulton’s Pain Paint, Brodie’s Miraculous Corn Cure, Foxe’s Palatable Cod Liver Oil, Lamplough’s Pyretic Saline, Roche’s Whooping Cough Powders, Piesse and Lubin’s, Gosnell’s, and Rinunel’s Perfumes, Soaps, and Pomades, the Crown Perfumery Com pany’s Delicate Perfumes ; Ayer’s, Ros sitnr’s, Allen’s, and Harris Herbert’s Hair Restorers, Mexican Hair Renewer, &c. SUNDRIES. Singer’s Sewing Machine Oil, Condensed Milk, Lime Juice, Lemon Syrup, Raspberry Vinegar, Persian Sherbet, Captain White’s Oriental Pickles, Liebig’s Extract of Meat for making Beef Tea, Crosse and Black well’s Essence, Rennett, for making Cutds and V hey, &c., Liquid and Ball Annalto. Special Agent for Ghollah’s Indian Cures. Morgan’s Oils. Slesinger’s Veterinary Medicines. Bonniiigton’s Irish A loss. Dr. Low’s Cherry Pectoral. DISPENSING. To this department of business particular atten tion is given, and the absolute purity of every drug used is carefully tested. Medicines may he obtained at any unusual hou' of the clay or night in cases of pressing urgency. Open on Sundays from 10 to 11, morning 2 to 3, afternoon ; and 7 to 8, in the evening. K. SANDO’S HORSE CLOTHS, HORSE COVERS, Horse Rugs, Will be supplied to the people of Ash burton, and surrounding districts, at the LOWEST PAYABLE. PRICES. As K. Sando personally attends tO' and does the work himself, he can with confidence guarantee his Rugs to be superior to any made in Canterbury,, being sewn with nothing but the Finest JAsh Long Flax (or Hemp). Good Fit Guaranteed.



CANVAS AND FELT CARPET Of the very best quality. All Orders Punctually Attended. TOi TENTS —A good supply of Calico* and Duck Tents- always on hand. OILSKINS of his own manufacture also in stock,, and made to order. PURE MANILLA WELL. ROPES* Guaranteed Best Quality . Manilla and Flax Rope of all sizes Hemp and Flax Halters Sewing Twine Palms, Needles, Cutlery, Stationery, etc., etc. Always in Stock. FLAGS OF ALL NATIONS Made to order on the Shortest Notice. ic. s and o EAST STREET, ASHBURTON. TO FARMERS. WE are Buyers of all descriptions of GRAIN, at highest cash prices. SAUNDERS BROTHERS, Ashburton and Christchurch.