ASHBURTON TRADE DIRECTORY.

Architect and Civil Engineer— S. W. Brown, East-street _ S. Farr, Montgomery’s Buildings

Auctioneers — Bullock and Co., East-street Saunders Bros., Ashburton

Accountants and Commission Agents Charles Braddell, Montgomery’s Buildings

Barristers and Solicitors — Mr. Branson, East-street Mr. E. G.. Crisp, Montgomery’s Buildings -•* Bakers, Confectioners, Etc.— Thomas Hicks, Tancred-street Taylor and Lill, East Street,

Banks— Bank of New Zealand, East-street Union Bank of Australia, East-street

Boarding House Keeper— J. G. Anstee, East-street Builders, Contractors, Etc. — James Baker, Havelock-street Geo. St. Hill, Burnett-street West G. Parkin, Steam Saw Mills, Moor-street Matthew Smith, Moor-street Thos. Williams, Tinwald

Bookse&lers and Stationers — A. Weston, Prospect Buildings, East-street Furness and Dixon, Stationers’ Hall, East street South

Bootmakers— A Chambers, Prospect Buildings, East-street M. Nealas, East-street

Brewers — Wood and Co., Cameron-street Cabinetmakers and Undertakers —- James Baker, Havelock-street G. Parkin, Moor-street Carrier— G. F. Scott, Cameron-street Chemist and Druggist— J. M. Cambridge, Montgomery’s Buildings Coal and Firewood Merchants— G. Parker and Co., near Railway Station A. Hayes, Firewood and Timber, near Rail way Station

Drapers and Clothiers — Aitken and Co., Havelock-street Orr and Co., East-street John Fowler, Tancred-street Firth, Pass, and Co., Old Bank Store, East street

Engineers and Founders — Edwards and Lee, Engineers, Smiths, etc., Burnett-street W. J. ITessey, 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 John Fowler, Tancred-street K. Sando, East-street Greengrocers— W. Birtwell, East-street J. Mooar & Co., East-street Hairdressers — E. A. Tancred-street A. Pearse, Moore-street 'liirtULo v ' Quill’s Commercial Hotel, near Railway Station Shearman’s Somerset Hotel, East-street Ironmongers— Orr and Co., East-street Aitken and Co., Havelock-street S. Hardley, East-street

Painter, See.— J. R. Chapman, Tancred-street Printers and Publishers — Furness and Dixon, East-street

Plumbers, Gasfitters, Tinsmiths, Etc.— J. C. Dolman, Tancred-street Joseph Hyde, Tancred-street S. Hardley, East-stieet

Saddlers— Thomas Dudson, Burnett-street

Surveyors— C. E’. Fooks and Son, East-street

Tailors— Aitken and (3d»> Haveldgk-strcet TentmakeßS K. Sando, East-street Tobacconists— A. Pearse, Moor-street E> A. Garnett, Tancreebstrdet A, Weston, East-street

POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Mails at the Ashburton Pos Office close a', follows For Christchurch and North at' id a.m., - 4 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 Ashton, Waterton, and Longbeach, at 3.15 p.m. daily. For Greenstreet, Ashburton Forks, Mount Somers, and Ashburton Gorge on Tuesdays -"and Fridays at 10.30 a.m. For Temuka, Timaru, and South at 5 0.15 •a.m. and 3 p.m daily. For Tinwald, Winslow, Hinds, Coldstream, . Rangitata, Orari, Winchester, and Geraldine, r' at 10.15 a.m. daily.

UNCLAIMED LETTERS.

'The following letters are advertised at the Jpost Office, as having been received from places beyond the Colony, during the month of April, and remaining unclaimed on the ist July, 1878 • Banks, Williiam Bimler, L. C. Cadle, W. C. ! Cairns, John, care of David Johnston Christie, Samuel Dunne, William Fitzgerald, John (2) j Hall, John j Harris, Mark Harris, Joseph _ Flay ward,.William Leahy Patrick (2) Leggatt, W. L. Orr, Robert 1 Tourgis, A. (2) p , . L betters originating m New Zealand are not maw advertised, hut are .sent to the Head.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

PORT OF LYTTELTON. . arrived. July 19 —Rotorua, s.s., from Port Chalmers, y ' SAILED. July 18—Iris, barque, for Newcastle. Auckland, Thursday. The Taupo sailed this afternoon. Wellington, Thursday. Arrived —Enterprise, from Lytteltdfi. Sailed —Craigmullen, for Valparaiso. Port Chalmers, Thursday. Sailed —Hinemoa, for Wellington; Rotorua, for Lyttelton. Arrived —Tararua, from the Bluff; brigan tine Trelevan Family, from Newcastle.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE .

W ELLINGTON, Friday. The Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, under date London, i6ih July, report as fol lows :—Wool market unchanged. Tallow —a fair trade demand ; mutton worth 39 s ' 37s per cwt. Wheat market quiet. Weathei favorable for crops here. Adelaide worth 50 s ) New Zealand 455, per 4961b5. Leather market quiet, best side 9jL-

DAILY MEMORANDA.

TO-NIGHT. Presbyterian Gift Auction, New Town Hall, at 7 o’clock. Wesleyan Choir —Practice at 7-3°- Somerset Lodge E.C., at Shearman’s Com mercial Rooms.

BIRTH.

IvESTEVEN.—On July iSth, the wife of Dr, Kesteven, of a son.

The Evening Echo. FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1878.

The Winter is on every side al lowed to be the coldest yet experienced in Canterbury since its settlement. This morning the ice on a pool in a shaded yard in East Street measured, on being broken, two inches thick. New Buildings.—We give to-day a preliminary notice in our advertising columns of Mr. Thomas Clarke’s inten tion to build a large boarding-house of a -superior 1500. The one of the building is not given, but we understand the timber is in Ashburton and Messrs Page and Hodder are the contractors. We are glad to hear of buildings of this char acter being taken in hand, and this one of Mr. Clarke’s and the similar one pro jected by Mr. Anstee, which we recently noticed, will indeed supply a want much felt in the town. A long two-storey range of shops, &c., is in an advanced state of progress on the triangle. Wakanui road, and the completion of these and the splendid two story range of tenements, near the Postoffice, about to be com menced tor Messrs. Saunders Bros., will add enormously to the house and business accommodation of the town. Several of the towns, are also to be added to, and it has baen rumored that a new one is to be erected forthwith, for which a license has been promised. This rumor, it is needless to say, so far as the license is concerned, is without foundation, as the Commissioners are better known than to give a promise !(off the Bench) of a license to any one. 'The rumor, most probably, has arisen o.ut of the fact that Mr. John Grigg said at the last Licensing Meeting that, in the event of the non-improvement of certiiin hotels complained against, an othei * hoense would be granted if applied for.

Obstructing the Footpath. — The shopkeepers in East Street are for bidden henceforth to make any adver tising medium of the footpaths in front of their places of business or to relieve the pressure upon their accommodation by displaying goods for sale outside. A number of the tradesmen of the town were this morning arraigned before His Worship to answer a charge of obstruct ing the thoroughfare in the manner above referred to. All the cases were dismissed, His Worship considering that their being brought up was suffi cient warning. To stow goods on the footpath is doubtless a convenient way to make room, inside the shop during business hours •, but since the police tee decided to enforce the law against it our merchants must take another plan of utilising the space occupied by .bulky articles and of displaying speci alties. They are not, however, so badly i©ff as the shopkeepers of Nelson, who about .a month ago were brought under the provisions of a by-law compelling all goods to be displayed for sale inside and not outside the shops, and forbid ding even the hanging of an article op p—«wiabs or outside walls of their i. The toghty Councillors of

“Sleepy Hollow” will not allow even an advertising board to be suspended outside a shop. Such measures as the Nelson by-law are more,-stringent than die case requires, but there can be no doubt whatever that neither shopkeepers nor any one else ought to be allowed to obstruct the public footways. It seems to us, however, that those charges should have be.eniwught long ago, for the “ offences” of daily oc uring the-last two years. -, " ’jk. . The Mercy of the Co|irt§-Tffe Brisbane correspondent of~t writes :—“The ease of the young fellow Townsend, who plunderedTfi'e Bank of New South Wales, has been’quickly (dis posed of, and with. that has surprised most people; ; and must have been a great shock tohimself. He put in a plea of guilty, and in a pithy, brief speech made for .him by the Hon [Mr Pring, exculpated Rail his fellow clerks from complicityun the crime, expressed his contrition, and bis resolve to reform, and threw himself on the mercy of the Court. It was very neatly done, but die ‘ mercy of the Court’ was not visibly excited thereby. Townsend was brought up for sentence next day. His Honor Chief Justice Cockle never does his work hurriedly, and in a speech equally pithy with that made for the prisoner it was pointed out to him that claim for mercy he had none. He was neither poor nor ignorant; he had conceived his crime with great circumspection, carried it out with great boldness, and baffled detection for a time. When caught he had made a cowardly attempt to shift the actual theft to the shoulders of a fellow employee, and it was only when brought face to face with justice that he expressed contrition. He was reminded that for an offence such as his he was liable to 14 years penal servitude, —and seven years he accordingly got. It was generally believed that he would not get more than two or three, but the chief thought it a favorable opportunity for making a wholesome example, and giving some of our fast youngsters a warning, and I think he was right.’’

MAGISTRATES COURT.

TO-DAY. Before A. Le Grand Campbell, Esq., R.M. Drunk. —>hn .Hogan, who admit ted this ASace, was fined ios. iTmes Sando was mulcted in a simi lar penalty. John Touden was also fined ios. Pat. Moriarty was charged, in addi tion to being drunk, with using abusive language, and was fined 20s. for each offence.

Thomas Richards and C. B. Parker, for being drunk, were fined ios. each, and Parker, for disorderly conduct, was fined’ an extra half-sovereign. Obtaining Goods under False Pretences. —John O’Callaghan, who was brought up on remand, charged with from Henry Tur ner, under false pretences. Mr. Branson appeared for the de fendant, and objected to the police prosecuting. In support of this, he quoted Judge Ward in the New Zea land Jurist , that no officer under an Inspector could conduct the case. He asked that Mr. Turner conduct his own case, or employ professional assist ance.

Henry Turner then went into the box; after which, owing to the informa tion being mislaid, the case was post poned until it was found. At a later stage the case was re sumed.

Henry Turner sworn : Prisoner came into his store, and selected some goods, namely, one pair of boots, two shirts, and some socks. After doing so, he said he had not money to pay for them. I said he could not have, them unless he gave an order on Mr. Dob son. He gave me the order, saying it would be all right. I gave him the goods, and enclosed the order in an envelope and posted it. I have not received any part of the £i 15s, 6d. from any one. By Mr. Branson: I said he could not have the goods without the order; I w r rote the order. When I received the order I gave him the goods. I never offeredjlpris mer any goods. Ido not know if any parties had done so. By the Bench : I knew he was work ing for Mr. Dobson. Mr. Turner, who had just stated that he did not know where his partner was, now called him has a witness, which Mr. Branson called shuffling. Mr. Mitchell, examined by Turner : I remember accused coming into the shop and selecting, some goods. Tur* ner asked me if I knew him ; I said I had seen him at Mr. Dobson’s.

By Mr. Branson : We would not give the, goods if we did not get the order. -I remember supplying boots to a number of men, I believe prisoner tried a pair on some time ago. I believe I d$ 0 $ from

him. I took ss. out of it for a cap, and gave him the change. -.

Mr. Dobson examined by Turner: Prisoner was working me;, he left me about the sth May. I received an order from Mitchell and Turner, signed by prisoner. I did not cash it. He had not sufficient funds in my hands. When he left me on the 4th, I expected him back ; there were some wages due ro him. His swag is still at my house. .... His Worship considered that there was no. r cas-.-, as accused expected he Avas going’ back to work at Dobson’s, an.Tbad siiil a balance to his credit there.' 1 Further, the order „was asked for, not tendered he would, therefore, dismiss .the case, plaintiff to pay costs— T2 3s. 6d. ■ < - L ' - : ,

Obstructing the Footpaths. Jacob Mooar, Friedlander Bros., J. S. Savage, Orr and Co., and Firth, Pass, and Co., were proceeded against for obstructing the footpaths, under the Canterbury Police Ordinance. Mr. Branson appeared for the defendants in all the cases.

Sergeant Fulton said that he had observed goods opposite the premises of the above parties. He had seen merchandise piled up on the footway, which was .obstructing the thorough fare.

By Mr. Branson : For all I know, the goods might have been on private property ; I did not measure the width of the footway. I have heard., that Mr. Orr’s property extends eighteen inches into the pathway. Constable Maroney proved having seen the goods in the place mentioned, and owners. The police did not press for any penalty in these cases, but simply brought them forward as a precedent. Mr. Branson contended that all the summonses were informal as in all the cases there were two offences men tioned exposing and placing and according to law the offence proceeded against must be distinctly specified. The Bench dismissed all the cases, as the end was answered by bringing the attention of the public to the mat ter.

[The remainder of the business is held over till to-morrow’s issue.]

TELEGRAPHIC.

LATEST FROM EUROPE. The Eastern Sihiation. [By Submarine Cable.] London, July 16. Thousands welcomed Earl Beacons field and the Marquis of Salisbury. Earl Beaconsfield said that England had succeeded in bringing about an honorable peace, which he hoped would continue, and result in pros perity to the Empire. The Eurydice has been floated, and many bodies have been recovered.

Midnight Message detained at Blenheim. , • * •• July 17. ; The Marquis of Salisbury’s despatch, enclosing the text of the treaty, entirely refutes an idea which had been gaining ground that the Cabinet has abandoned the policy enunciated by the Salisbury circular of Ist April. President Perry at the Paris exhibi tion recommends the gold medal and Pitt’s silver crozier to Sydney for wool, and the grand prize to South Australia for wheat.

At the Wimbledon Meeting the Lords made 443 points against the Commons’ 43 The Eurydice has been raised, after many previous failures. Mr. Goschen, owing to the adoption of the County franchise, announces his intention to retire from the representa tion of the City of London. There has been a shocking murder at Llongelly, Monmouth, by a workman named Wilkins. His wife and three children were the victims.

The second innings of the Leicester closed for 145. In the Australians’ second innings Murdoch made 24 ; C. Bannerman, 135; Horan, not out, 60 ; Gregory, not out, 3 ; sundiies, 19. The Australians won with eight wickets. Bannerman’s batting was superb.

AUSTRALIAN.

Melbourne, July 18. The Albion sailed yesterday, for Hokitika and the Ringarooma for the Bluff with the Suez mail, at daylight this morning. The Arawata arrived yesterday.

INTERPROVINCIAL

[Per Press Agency.]

Wellington, Thursday.. An Order in Council notifies the in corporation of the North Otago Agri* cultural and Pasltgra } .Association,

To-night's Gazette gives the Customs revenue at the several ports of New Zealand for the financial year ended June 30 as follows : Auckland, .£210,042 Havelock... £BO2 Thames ... 8,620 Kaikoura... 982 Russell ... 1,076 Nelson ... 35.04 1 Monganui 367 Westport ... 13,4*6 Hokianga 1,596 Greymouth 39, 2 77 Kaipara ... 31 X Hokitika ... 29,619 Tauranga... 1,458 Lyttelton... 223,458 Poverty Bay 10,792 Akaroa ... 82 New Plymouth 8,726 Tim'aru ... 18,396 Wanganui 23,601 Oamaru ... 15.*4° Wellington 185,883 Dundedin... 356,223 Napier ... 40,706 Invercargill 38,727 Wairau ... 5,279 Riverton ... 3,7 2 4 Picton. ... 1,011

The Customs revenue for the last quar ter was In the correspond ing quarter of the previous year it was £3° 3',554- ' A despatch from Downing Street to the Marquis of Normanbyi respecting the provisional appointment of Mr Alexander Cracroft Wilson as Consular Agent for Italy at Christchurch, gives instructions to recognise Mr Wilson de finitely in that capacity. . ' _ . A circular despatch from Sir Michael Hicks-Beach to the officer administering the Government of the colony, points out more precisely than had been pre viously done the extent to which Her Majesty’s ships are subject to local quarantine regulations. The Imperial Government are of opinion that Her Majesty’s ships in colonial waters should be subject to local quarantine regulations in the same manner as but that local authorities should not in any way interfere with the internal man agement of her ships, or with their free dom to proceed to sea whenever the officer in command may deem such course requisite. Port Chalmers, Thursday. The Minister of Public Works met a large and influential deputation here, re lative to wharf extension, dredging, and approaches to present wharf. He pro mised that the dredging should be seen to. Pie stated that a sum for the ex tension of the wharf would be placed on the estimates, and that plans were in course of preparation. .A Hokitika, Thursday. Arrived—Alhambra, last night. She experienced strong head winds to the Sisters, then variable winds and fine weather. She has no passengers for Lyttelton, but eighty-four tons cargo. She, lias twenty-three passengers and 336 tons cargo for all ports. Dunedin, Thursday. A man named John Anderson was killed last night at Kensington by the overturning of a dray. At a meeting at which the Mayor presided last night, a committee was formed to devise means for raising funds for the benevolent institution. Friday. Mr. Thomson, M.H.R., addressed a meeting ol electors at Kaikika last night. He dwelt at length upon the. various political questions of the day, notably the land, question, education, extension of the franchise, incidence of taxation. He strongly advocated the separation of the South Island, remark ing that the latter island would benefit to an incalculable degree by the change, and also expressed himself in favor. of the seat of Government being at Christ church instead of Wellington. He de clared himself to be a staunch supporter of the present Government, but at the same time he reserved to himself the right to hold his own opinion on poli tical measures, no matter whether the measures were favored by the Govern ment or not. He received a unanimous vote of confidence.

[Per Alhambra , via Hokitika. ]

Melbourne. The address in the Assembly was carried after an exciting debate with reference to the purchase pf the Hob son’s Bay railway. The Opposition took no part in the discussion, which was limited t.O the Ministerial ranks, many members finding great fault'with Minis ters, especially the Minister for Land, who was accused of blundering in }iis department, and ruining selectors. The' Government do not intend to lend money to selectors' as proposed. In the Council Sir C. Sladen obtained leave to introduce a Reform Bill, to be infroduepej next week. It will contain a new principle as regards money bills. These are to be withdrawn from thq control of the Upper House, They are to be passed in the .ordinary manner by the Assembly, and will then be trans mitted to the Council, neither to amend nor reject the measures, but to pass them, If' the Council should refuse or should neglect to take ftcfioij, when one month has elapsed after the date of jfche money bill being sent to the Upper House, it will be presented to the Governor for the Royal assent, and will become law.

Dr. Bradford who arrived per the Arawata from New Zealand, was arrested and lodged in gacjl as being guilty pf contempt in taking a ward of Court from the jurisdiction of the Court, -

NEWS BY THE SUEZ

[Bv Telegraph !■ (Pet Alhambra via He/M London* The great constitutional (■ resumed in the House of Cc* May 23rd, and after the debJ sion took place, which showed for the Government of 12T. I gate was the only Conser* voted for the resolution, thq* abstained from voting altogeß teen Liberals voted for the (9 if the eight Irish Home Rulß voted may be ranked with 0 Several Liberals absented thlj A Blue Book has been il taining the official corresponl pecting the insurrection in Til Epirus. The despatches, 23]' beiy • - show, ;tji4t- ..'the insui/p induced to -withdraw on The ■ of the--British Government cause of f Greece should 'nd suffer.- •

A compromise has been 1 with regard to the- obstinately! Irish Sunday Closing Bill. C) tion that its operation is limite years, it will be allowed to pasj The general impression prcl if the.. Congress prove sufljH Government will appeal to ifl taking credit for their and obtain another lease ofH| Heat in Calcutta has cedented, and many deaflra curred among the EuropdHH apoplexy. A serious outbreak occi|Mj| resa.l gaol. Eighteen long-M§| escaped, three were shot H guard, and three mortally |wH

The latest famine report states that there is no cat anxiety, heavy rains having monsoon has set in down! has not yet fairly burst. 1 districts there is an utterl business, owing to the unl politics and the near appl

NEW WONDERS OF PHONE.

We appear to be onlWSBB&EBBaa ning of discoveries in telephone and the phoflraHßHSSffll entirely new field of opened; the limit guessed. An instrume[H£HHHß| devised that bears a reHHHHEH| capacity for hearing, which the microscope does for vision. TheKwdevicemafß nifies sound. It is aplfpriately desig-1 nated the microphonjj By its meai* sounds so faint that« e y have before been heard byB man ears, iH| be made of any loudness, -fl| feather’s edge brusheß) V er the soufl| ing board of this in»nent, - has b'S| made to crash upoi* ie ears of fl| listeners. The touclWtf the ■ tip oHI camel’s-liair brush wa#}he occasional “ a crackling noise, the int« sity was almost painful to the The faintest whM, eF 0 f the huipanl voice can be repfQuced in the loudest ' tones. “ The m|id en ’ s sigh may roar like the cataract Jf Niagara. ” Professor D. H Hughes has given a full account of ta e microphone to the Royal Societyjff London, and (de scribed the steL [jy which he was-led to make the invention. He is’ ffipst widely known | n England as the im ventor of a -[tpyb-printing telegraph instrument whijffi is in general use in in that country Although he is an accomplished Electrician, the apparatus which he has i employed for his new experiments is i 0 f the simplest charac ter, and the mefit trifling cost. With it he has made the footsteps of a housefly distinctly audib| e ; and all these sounds, after being intensified, are transmitted to any needful rl[stance by the ordinary telephone. AtC recent exhibition of these experimoaift to a few-Scientific friends in LondorfJTthe astonishing effects that haye referred to were easily produced, ■pjept the fly per formance. With K||; difficulty [he philosophers in the house, With yet greater they caught the insect. But! trouble was insurmountable ;|^H- l iptured fly would stay on the pier that impri soned hipi; induce him to walk on tfie bparfl which the tumbler a witness tq the scene, in Nature found Huxley talking with to a glass tube two inches grave tones .being loudly Jto a listener with a telephone^Hf,[distant apart- The hwenta is more difficult to explain%an is the the telephone Eself. The been made by-Professor Hiigraß <iat the vibrations of sound are reproßjced with the greatest delicacy and increased force, by certain materials interpofced in an electric current; After a largeWpfc

The Evening Echo, Friday 5 July 19,187.



ASHBURTON RETAIL d. LIST. s. d. Butter, inferior to best, fp’fb I 0 to I 2 Eggs, I? dozen - - - 6 to 0 O Bacon, prime smoked, li f lb o 10 to 0 O Hams in cloth,-1? lb i 0 to 0 O Cheese, prime quality, l< lb o S to 0 IO Flour in bags, fff iocib 15 0 to 0 O Oatmeal, 1? ioolb - 26 0 to 0 O '•jard, U lb - - - 0 9 to 0 O