TELEGRAPHIC.

[Per Press Agency.]

LATEST FROM EUROPE.

The Eastern Situation.

[By Submarine Cable.]

London, April 15

The Paris Exhibition is in a forward state. Exhibits are freely coming in, and great preparations are made to get everything in readiness for the opening day. The whole of the Australian ex hibits have arrived, and are being un packed. They arrived in good order. The Prince of Wales will go to Paris on April 25th.

April 15. The Eastern situation is considered less hopeful.

Constantinople, April 14.

The Russians require the Turks to evacuate Shumla and Varna without delay. The Servian army is being disbanded.

April 15

The Porte has ordered resistance to the attempts to occupy Constantinople, and refuses to sanction Austria's occu pation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. * St. Petersburg, April 15.

An unfriendly tone prevails against England, and popular feeiing is in creasing.

AUSTRALIAN.

Sydney, Tuesday. The City of New York arrived on Sunday night. At the inquiry into the stranding of the Chimborazo the Board found the cause was the fault of the captain in steering too close to the shore, and of the third mate in neglecting precautions during a fog.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Auckland, Tuesday.

The Ngatiraukawa tribe beg the Na tive Minister to appoint a resident Eu ropean officer in their district to examine all disputes between Natives, also to establish a post on the road from Cam bridge to Tapuo.

At the sitting of the Waste Lands Board, a letter from Mr. Vesey Stuart was read, which stated that he had made arrangements for sending a second party of special settlers, but charged Sir j. Vogel with factious opposition, with intent to obstruct the scheme. The Board referred the correspondence to the Government. g Tajranga, Tuesday.

The Wolverine, wit 1 the Governor, Commodore Hoskins, Mr. Fisher anti party, saded at 2 p.m. to-day, for Auckland.

Alexandra, Tuesday.

The great Native Meeting will posi tively take place on April 30th. Twa hiao is here to-day, and Paora Tuhare returned yesterday. Lawrence, Tuesday.

There were sixty applications yester day at the Survey Office for land under agricultural lease, in Tuapeka West, Table Hill, and Waitahuna East dis tricts ; also a number of applications for land under deferred payments in the same neighborhood. The whole of the day the office was besieged with appli cants.

An enquiry has been held into the origin of the fire at Monaghan’s shop. The verdict was to the effect that there was no evidence to show how the fire

originated. Steps are being taken to re-form the Fire Brigade which was disbanded a few months ago.

Timaru, Tuesday,

A public meeting was held at Temuka last night, at which a resolution was passed demanding that the Road Board should admit reporters to their meetings or else resign. A resolution in favor of bringing the Counties Act into force was lost.

Mr. Jones, the traffic stationmaster at Timaru,- met with a very painful acci dent to-day, while entering the goods shed at St. Andrew’s station in a truck. His head was jammed between the side

of the truck and the sliding door. His lower jaw was broken, both ears nearly severed from his head, and other severe injuries done to his neck. He was brought into town and received medical attendance, and is now progressing as favorably as can be expected.

THROUGH THE SIEVE.

Old maids and office-holders are all alike —none die and few resign. Clothes-pins are now shipped to New Zea land. The natives use them for earrings, but an old chief who got hold of one with a half horse power spring in its back, and hooked it on his nose, was looking around ten minutes afterward for a missionary to kill. A Brooklyn man claims to have telescopic eyesight because the moon looks to him like a silver globe and not a disk. Criggins says the moon has often looked to him like two silver globes, but he never claimed any extra vision on account of it. He thinks the extent of the phenomenon depends a great deal upon the brand of whisky a man carries with him. An innocent daughter of the Ould Sod bought a box of lucifer matches at Benedict’s one day last week. The following afternoon she brought the box back, complaining that its contents were worthless. One of the clerks, a stout handsome fellow, by the way, opened the box, abstracted a match, and ignited it on his trousers. Abstracted another, and ignited it in the same manner, and with the same facility. “ What is the matter with the matches ?” asked the polite clerk. “ That’s der matter yesself ! D’ye s’pose iviry time I pliant to sthrike a match, it’s mesilf that is to come here and sthrike thim on yer breeches ? ” They gave her a fresh box.

A certain hotel-keeper engaged a handsome, well-dressed barman, who parted his hair in the middle, and wore a diamond ring. In two years thereafter the hotel-keeper became insolvent,his establishment was sold out by the sheriff, and the purchaser was none other than the barman. Out of compassion he engaged his old employer lo compound the insidious cocktail and the soothing smash. In two years more the whirligig of time had brought about his revenge, and the hotel was again sold out. This time the first proprietor bought it back. But he did not re-engage the barman.

A Biddeiord (Me.) girl has just secured a husband by means of her graduation essay. It was published in one of the papers of that city, and an extract from it, in which the young lady declared her intention of earning her own living, was widely copied, and met the eye of a Cincinnati iron merchant, who was so much taken with it that he sought the author’s name and address. A correspondence ensued, and the young lady was persuaded to abandon the determination, announced in her essay. Difficulties of Married life.—Marriage, in some measure, alters the character both ol husband and wdfe. It developes qualities, moral as well as mental, of which neither had previously any clear perception, ifany at all. Therefore, to those who would wish to live in harmony, it becomes an early and important duty for each to acquire a distinct knowledge, not only of the other’s personal peculiarities, but of the particular bias of his or her disposi tion. We are convinced that a neglect of this natural study is fruitful and productive of mat rimonial differences. And how can it be other wise, when husband and wife know as little of the style and complexion of the inner being as they do of the most casual acquaintanceship? Mutual forebearance is impossible without a knowledge of each other’s faults, and that can only be obtained by a quiet and unobttusive investigation. Husbands and wives who break this law of their nuptial state can and do l ; ve together without broils, but their union derives more support from habitual appreciation than affection, and is liable at any moment to be disturbed either by breath of calumny, or any one of the incidents that try the temper of the most innocent and forbearing. To be prepared for eventualities is therefore incumbent on husband and wife, if they would avoid the quicksands of strife and acrimony, and present! to their offspring an example which they might pray would produce such fruits as would be a solace to them in their old age.

THE EVENING ECHO, WEDNDSDAY, APRIL 17, 1878.



TENDERS. TENDERS are invited for the ERECTION of a DWELLING HOUSE for the undersigned. Plans and specifications to he seen at our Stores until FRIDAY, the 19th instant. Tenders to he sent to us on or before the 20th instant. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. FRIEDLANDER BROS. Vy ANTED to PURCHASE A Light Draught MARE, and a Second-hand AMERICAN WAGON. A. O. AITKEN & CO. C UTLERY. Ex “ Lurline, ” from London. 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



WANTED. npENDERS for SHOP FITTINGS, for Mr. Gavin, Draper, to be sent in to the “ Echo office, under cover, before noon on TUESDAY, the 23rd instant, where Draw ings and Specifications-may he seen. Ihe lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.



WANTED. ' I'WO Young Men, of Modern Habits, aged 23 and 25, the one a Tradesman, the other holding a Responsible Situation, wish to Correspond with Two Young Ladies of similar taste, with a view to Matrimony. Blondes preferred ; and if. of a religious turn of mind, no objection; age from iS to 21 years. Ad dress—A. B. C., “Echo” Office. \AT ANTED a Respectable NURSE GIRL, V V Apply to Mis. Birtwell, East Street, or at the office of this paper. ANTED, Immediately, Tenders for vv Ploughing 2CD Acres of Land, about 8 miles from Ashburton. Apply to A. 0. Aid KEN & CO., Ashburton. ANTED, a GENERAL SERVANT. Apply to A 1 Restaurant. WANTED, Immediately, a few Respect able YOUNG LADIES as \PPREN dTCES to the Dressmaking. Apply to ORR & CO. 'yy r ANTED SUBSCRIBERS AND ADVERTISERS FOR THE ECHO. Support a Genuine Publication ! [A CARD.] E. A. GARNETT, HAIRDRESSER, PERFUMER, AND TOBACCONIST, TANCRED STREET, ASHBURTON. Fancy Goods of all Descriptions at Lowest Prices.



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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.



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