THE EVENING ECHO, WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1878

Printed and Published by Smith James Furness and Charles Dixon, at their Printing Office, East Street, Ashburton, Wedneday, May 29, IS7B,



C, PERCY COX, LAND AND ESTATE AGENT, AND VALUATOR, ASHBURTON. ARMS to LET and SELL, of all Sizes and Descriptions, Improved and Unimproved, s'tuated near Chertsey Dromore Wakanui Winchmore Gould & Cameron’s Westerfleld Hinds Rangitata Money Lent in Large or Small Sums, on Approved Security. AGENT FOR UNION INSURANCE COMPANY. DECLARATION OF WAR. WHEN tire first note of preparation was sounded in the East, and the war cloud was no laigcr 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 than any which has hitherto devastated the face of our mother earth—it was then that he sought every means in his power to avoid such another calamity that bcfel Plevna, by obtaining for the coming winter a very Large Assortment of Horse Cloths, Oil skin Leggings, and Sou’-westers, to enable the inhabitants of Ashburton to stand a long Winter Siege. WHO HAS DONE THIS? Why, THOMAS DUD SON, 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. Saunders Bros. HAVE £4,000 t 0 LEND upon TOW ' SEC i lONS and othc FREEHOLD PROPERTY. £2,000 £2 800 to be ADVANCED ir ’ Sums of fioo and upwards Preference given to town sections and housi securities. £2o 000 t 0 be ADVANCE! on GROWING CROPS LIVE STOCK, and oilier AGRICULTURAI Security. 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 arc now in Turnips 72 ~ unimproved 400 .» WAKANUI DISTRICT. 490 acres, 130 of which arc ploughed 201 „ highly improved 2 55 » 201 „ 111 „ 936 „ 200 House, Stable, &c. 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 now to be seen in their Paddocks, adjoining the Ashburton Domain. SAUNDERS BROS. NOTICE TO FARMERS, HORSE BREEDERS, AND OTHERS. THE Advertisers are prepared to. Receive .HORSES for Sale by Public Auction or Privately, and to make Liberal Cash Advances on same. Cm/ PADDOCK'S and Plenty of FEED for Stock. SAUNDERS BROS.



ORR AND CO. Another Large Shipment of NEW GOODS just being opened up, ex Himalaya. Particulars in future advertisement! O EE O O .



W. R. BOYLE, gSTATE AND GENERAL AGENT, MOORE STREET, ASHBURTON. MRS. E. PETERSON, DRESSMAKER, Tancred Street, TNFORMS the Ladies of Ashburton that she 1 has REMOVED to TANCRED STREET (four doors from Firth, Pass, & Co’s), and trusts that the patronage she has received in the past will be continued in the future. 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. HEALTH FOR ALL. HOLLOWAY’S PILLS AND OINTMENT THE PILLS Purify the Blood, correct all disorders of the Liver, Stomach, Kidneys and Bowels, and are invaluable in all com plaints incidental to Females. THE OINTMENT is the only reliablo remedy for Bad Legs, Old Wounds, Sores, and Ulcers. For Bronchitis, Diphtheria, Coughs, Colds, Gout, Rheumatism, and all Skin Diseases it has no equal. Sold by the Proprietor, Thom ah Holloway, 533, Oxford Street, London, and by all Medicine Vendors throughout the World. GRATEFUL—COMFORTING. gPPS’S BREAKFAST COCOA. “ By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful application of the fine properties of well selected cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately-flavoured beverage which may save 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 disease. Hundreds of subtle maladies are floating around us, ready to attack wherever there is a weak point. We may escape many a fatal shaft by keeping ourselves well fortified with pure blood and a properly nourished frame.” —The Civil Soviet Gazette. SOLD ONLY IN PACKETS LABELLED JAMES EPPS AND CO., Homcepathic Chemists, London. BREWERY. WOOD AND CO., ALE AND PORTER BREWERS, AND BOTTLERS, CAMERON-ST., ASHBURTON.