ASHBURTON TRADE DIRECTORY.

r K'.uctioneers — Bullock and Co., East-street Saunders Bros., Ashburton Accountants and Commission Agents— Charles Braddell, Montgomery’s Buildings Bakers, Confectioners, Etc. — Thomas Hicks, Tancred-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, Ilavelock-street Geo. St. Hill, Burnett-street West G. Parkin, Steam Saw Mills, Moor-street Matthew Smith, Moor-street Thos. Williams, Tinwakl Booksellers and Stationers— A. Weston, Prospect Buildings, East-street Furr.ess and Dixon, Stationers’ Hall, East street South Bootmakers— 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. Playes, Firewood and Timber, near Rail way Station Drapers and Clothiers— Ailken and Co., Havelock-street Orr and Co., East-street l John Fowler, Tancred-street Firth, Pass, and Co., Old Bank Store, East ! street Engineers and Founders — j Edwards and Lee, Engineers, Smiths, etc., Burnett-street W. J. Hessey, Central Foundry, Peters-st Grocers, General Dealers, Etc.— | Aitken and Go., Havelock-street - Orr and Co,, East-street : Firth, Pass, and Co., East-street John Fowler, Tancred-street I K. Sando, East-street ! Greengrocer— | W. Birtvvell, East-street Hairdressers— E. A. Garnett, Tancred-street t A. Pearse, Moore-street Hotels— Quill’s Commercial Plotel, near Railway , Station Shearman’s Somerset Hotel, East-street Ironmongers- Orr and Co., East-street Aitken and Co., Havelock-street S. Plardley, East-street Painter, See. — J. R. Chapman, Tancred-street and Publishers — [u Furness and Dixon, East-street Plumbers, Gasfitters, Tinsmiths, Etc.— J. C. Dolman, Tancred-street I Joseph Hyde, Tancred-street S. Plardley, East-sheet Saddlers— Thomas Dudley, Burnett-street Surveyors— | C. IFooks and Son, East-street Tailors— Aitken and Co., Havelock-street Tentmakers— K. Sando, East-street Tobacconists— A. Pearse, Moor-street E. A. Garnett, Tancred-street A. Weston, East-street

POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Mails at the Ashburton Post Office close a i follows : ;| For Christchurch and North at io a.m., p.m., and 7.30 p.m., daily. | For Chertsey at 10 a.m. daily. if; For Rakaia at 10 a.m., and 4 p.m. daily. For Ashton, Waterton, and Longbeach, at 3,35 p.m. daily. | For Greenstreet, Ashburton Forks, Mount Somers, and Askburton Gorge on Tuesdays and Fridays at 10.30 a.m. ! For Temuka, Timaru, and South at 10.15 a.m. and 3 p.m daily. I For Tinwakl, Winslow, Hinds, Coldstream, Rangitata, Orari, Winchester, and Geraldine, at 10.15 a.m. daily.

UNCLAIMED LETTERS.

The following. letters are advertised at the Post Office, as having been received from places beyond the Colony, during the month *of April, and remaining unclaimed on the |*lst July, 1878 Banks, Williiam Bimler, L. C. Cadle, W. C. Cairns, John, care of David Johnston Christie, Samuel Dunne, William Fitzgerald, John (2) Flail, John Harris, Mark Harris, Joseph Hayward, William f Leahy Patrick (2) .Leggatt, W. L. Orr, Robert Tourgis, A. (2)

Letters originating in New Zealand are not Wow advertised, but are sent to the Dead Letter Office, after having lain for two clear months.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE .

PORT OF LYTTELTON. arrived. . July B—Gleaner, brigantine, from Grey mouth. J u ly 9 —Wanaka, s.s., from North. July 9—‘Taupo, s.s., from Port Chalmers. SAILED. j u ly 9 —Wanaka, s.s., for. Port Chalmers. July 9 —Taupo, s.s., for North.

Auckland, Monday. Arrived —Sissy, from Lyttelton. Russell, Monday. The Rotorua arrived' here from Sydney at 6 this morning. PICTON, Monday._ Arrived —Wellington, from Wellington, with San Francisco mail, at 7.40 p.m.

The Evening Echo. TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1878.

Assessment Court.—At the As sessment Court, held to-day, before A. Le G. Campbell, Esq., judge, an objec tion from VV. C. Walker, Esq., to eighteen sections in the Mount Somers District being in his name, the same not being his property, was allowed. This being the only objection, the Court adjourned. Montgomery’s Buildings. —The long-expected glass for these shops is reported to be on its way to Ashburton and was expected to arrive to-day. The fittings and counters are now. being actively proceeded with, and it is pos sible that a few days more will see the shops open for business. Pound-Keeper. —The Chairman of the County Council has called for tenders for the office of pound-keeper, which will doubtless cause a large number of applications to be sent in as, judging from the present state of Ashburton, the billet must be a paying one. The salary of the person ap pointed is to be made up from fees, and an active man who has the welfare of the community at heart, could conside rably increase his income by strolling around after dark, and “running in” the abundance of stray animals, without waiting for them to be brought t d him. Wife-Murder. —Tho Christchurch papers publish to-day the details, as far as ascertained, of the murder at Oxford by a German, named Hoff, of his wife. The woman was found, by several neighbours, lying within a few feet of her burning dwelling, the flames of which had attracted them. Mrs Hoff was found to be insensible and dying, a fearful gash on her head being disco vered, from which blood and brains were exuding. She soon afterwards ex pired in a hotel, whither she had been removed. Her husband, who is said to be demented, made no effort to avoid arrest, and has been apprehended. He acknowledged striking his wife on the head with a tomahawk, and it is sup posed that he afterwards set fire to the house.

New Zealand’s Isolation.— By its remote position New Zealand is ne cessarily made but a distant relation of the Australian colonies. If to remote ness she adds the additional barriers of narrow-minded, selfish isolation from all cares and responsibilities not com prised within her coasts, the conse quence will be that she will virtually recede from the sympathies and associa tions of the other colonies. Already New Zealand seems many times further from us than it did in the days when Sir Julius Yogel was Premier, and when theties of relationship were strengthened by the bonds of mutual association in many different ways.— Australasian.

An Ironing Machine has been invented by a Frenchman, and is now in use to some, extent in England. The ironing surface is a concave dish of bright polished iron, heated by steam, gas, or the direct heat of a char coal fire. Steam heating is the most convenient method. The goods to be ironed are pressed and rolled on the polished ironing surface by means of a roller suitably covered with flannel or felt. The process is simple and econo mical, for a little practice will enable any intelligent woman to iron under clothing and the like, and the larger sized machine will save the wages of a dozen ironers.

Discovery of Antiquities— The remains of an old Roman temple have been discovered at Temple Borough, near Rotheram, excavations having been in progress several weeks at the public expense. Adjoining the bases of two columns of stones forming the thresh old of a portico have been found a row of columns, twelve feet apart, and in close proximity to the foundations of a building, seventy teet square— an ancient well and a number of broken pitchers and tiles have also been brought to light, the latter bearing an inscription proving them to have belonged to the fourth Gallic cohort. Still more im portant discoveries are anticipated.

A Sell. —A young man, who got drunk and behaved himself in an inde cent manner at Port Chalmers a week or two ago, £ had ’ the sub-editor of one of the morning journals very nicely. After he had been fined 40s. by the Bench, he thought it would be as well to keep his name out of the papers if it could be managed. He therefore sought out the sub-editor referred to, and unfolded the following tide : He said that a young new-chum —a fellow in whom he took a considerable in terest —had made a fool of himself at the Port, and had fallen into the hands of the police. When arrested, he was speechlessly drunk, and not being able to give his name, the police entered on the charge-sheet a name they found on an envelope in the prisoners pocket. The.name, unfortunately, was not the prisoner’s, but that of the gentleman who so kindly placed the facts before the newspaper man, the prisoner having a letter of introduction to him. The case seemed rather a hard one, and as the owner of the name that had been improperly entered on the charge-sheet did not want to disclose the real name of the prisoner for fear of injuring his prospects in a new country, no mention of the case was made in the newspaper referred to. When the sub-editor heard that the plausible gentleman, who inter viewed him was the actual offender, he was, of course, delighted.

Men Who Make Journalists. —lt has been remarked that very few men who get into journalism start out with such intentions. They drift in accidentally, and are promoted as they develope capacity. Money, wealthy parents, and influence are of no sort of service in getting a young man a place on a newspaper. There is no business that is so entirely independent of all these considerations as this. A wealthy farmer, Brief says, can easily get. his son a location to read law or medicine, or push him forward in almost any rank in life he may select ; but he is utterly powerless to do anything for him in a journalistic way. To be sure, he may. buy a newspaper, and set up his hope ful in that wayf; but unless there is something in the lad called “ journalist knack,” a natural knowledge of what to write and how to write it, he will be a failure in that line, and all the money and influence of wealthy and perhaps powerful-relatives will count for nothing. Some fond parents educate their sons with the special view of making jour nalists of them, but it is rare that we hear of these young men after a few years. Meantime, some* scrub, born among the hills, having nothing but a common school education, and the knowledge scraped up in a country printing-office, will advance to the front rank of the profession. He has the journalistic knack, and forces recogni tion because he has it. He gets into a good position, not because he has wealthy parents to influence the pro prietors of leading newspapers, but be cause he knows what to write and how to write it. His articles go in because they supply a demand, while perhaps the elaborate essays of a man educated on two continents are cast into the waste-basket.

The Manufacture of Pipes.— An industry has sprung up of late years in England which bids fair to become an important one. The manufacture of pipes has assumed such dimensions that London is one of the first, if not the foremost, pipe-producing centres in the world. Ruhla bowls, Vienna meer schaums, are turned out as readily as clay pipes ; briars are also made in large quantities here, and even the glass hookahs and narghilis peculiar to the Oriental are to a very great extent made in England. The common white clay pipes, which at one time were only made at Gouda, in Holland, are now exclusively manufactured in England; the production of pipe cases, which was formerly a monopoly of Black Forest manual laborers, is now divided about equally between a higher class of work men in Germany and England. The well-known Turkish chibouk, of dark red clay, decorated with indented orna ments and lavishly gilded, is now also made in England in very large quanti ties, and with as much success as at Top-Hane itself; and so is also the similar Egyptian bowl, which was once exclusively made at Syut, on the Upper Nile, and at Kenaband and Assoum, and which is distinguished by the delicacy of its tint, the smoothness of its surface, and its curious triangular shape. And then, besides this, all kinds of foreign pipe stems are made in Eng land, both the Badner and Turkish cherires, the amber mouth pieces, the primitive goose bones, the briar tubes, and those serpentine pipes which, some times plain and sometimes highly em bellished, are used in the East, from Suez to Shanbaer, and from Constan tinople to Calcutta, as the indispensable adjunct of that peculiar water pipe which is smoked all over this vast re gion.

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

TO-DAY. Before A. Le Grand Campbell, Esq., R.M. Drunk, &c. —Charles Birdwood and Robert Parker were charged by Mr. Shearman with behaving in a riotous manner in the Somerset Hotel, and making use of disgusting language. Constable Maroney proved the state the prisoners were in. He received a hurt on the hand in making the arrest. Parker was R ed £s, or six days; Birdwood, £l, or forty-eight hours. Stealing.—Henry Jones was brought up on remand, charged with stealing a £i note from George Maloney, a cook.

G. Maloney, examined by Sergeant Fulton, said : I was in the Somerset Hotel last Friday. I saw prisoner there. I received £i 17s. from the barman; prisoner was present at the time. I put the note in my pocket, and spent the rest of the money. Prisoner me and shoved a newspaper in my pocket. Shortly after I missed the note. I did not authorise him to take any money; I did not know him. By Mr. Branson: I was not sober, but knew what I was doing. I said it was on Friday that it took place, on the verandah. I went outside with him. I cannot say where I was when the paper was put into my pocket. I do not say I was drunk; I was not sober. I was fined on Friday for being drunk. I do not know which pocket I put the note into; it was either into my vest or trousers. The witness here became very argu mentative with Mr. Branson, and de clined to answer questions until com pelled to. Constable Darcy proved arresting the prisoner, also receiving one pound from Mr. W. Power. , Antonio Agerer, barman at the Somerset Hotel said: I gave Maloney £1 17s. on Friday, a one pound note, and the balance in silver ; prisoner was in the bar at the time. The note pro duced is the one I gave Maloney. I identify it by two pink marks on the right hand corner. I saw prisoner try to put a paper under Maloney’s arm. It dropped, and he then put it into his pocket, and then walked out. This aroused my suspicions. By Mr. Branson: Maloney was “ boosed.” He was talking about hav ing been fined that day for being drunk. My attention was not drawn to the marks on the note by the police. This note has been in my possession for several days. Maloney was going to Christchurch, and he left four pounds with me to keep for him; the note produced was one of them. William Power, landlord Royal Hotel: I received a. £1 note from John Top pin. The note produced is the one. I know it by the marks. I gave it to the police. By Mr. Branson : My attention was drawn to the marks. ' To the Bench : I was not asked for any particular note. John Toppin, barman Royal Plotel : I saw prisoner in the Royal on Friday. I gave him change for £l. William Thurton : Knew a man called Maloney. Saw him on Friday at the Somerset Hotel. I saw the prisoner at the same place. He shoved a paper into Maloney’s pocket as he was going by. Richard Morgan, laborer, Waterton, was at the Somerset Hotel on Friday. Saw Maloney and prisoner there. I saw the barman pay Maloney some money. I did not observe where he put it. I saw a paper put into Maloney’s pocket by prisoner. Pris©ner was drunk. Antonio Agerer, recalled by Sergeant Felton : It was a little before twelve o’clock when Maloney came in. It was about an hour from the time Maloney came in till prisoner went out. This concluded the evidence for the prosecution. Mr. Branson addressed the Bench for the defence. Prisoner was committed to take his trial at the next sitting of the Supreme Court.

It was recently announced that, in the interest of science, the test for color-blindness would be applied to such Harvard students as might be willing. Color-blindness is far more common than is generally supposed: statistics establish the proportion of one man in every twenty-five who are in average health. Among women it is much less frequent. As the whole system of safety signals in use upon railroads and upon the sea depends upon the ability to distinguish colors, this is a matter of vital importance. A Government in spection of railway employes in Hol land proved that one in every fifteen was unable to distinguish either red or green, though the railroads employed these colors, the one for “ danger,” the other for “all right.”

TELEGRAPHIC.

LATEST FROM EUROPE.

The Eastern Situation. [By Submarine Cable.] London, July 6. Congress has settled the Greek ques tion, granting her a small increase of territory. July 7*. Batoum has been given to Russia, England obtaining Pirot for Servia, Batqum becoming a free port, and having the fortifications demolished. An-English and Russian Commission assembles in Armenia to prevent a con flict. Congress has invited Greece and Turkey to agree to an extension of the Hellenic frontier, which is proposed to be from Larissa to the Adriatic. Batoum is threatened with an attack by the Russians. The first innings of the Stockport Eighteen closed for 105. Blackham stumped four and caught three. In the second innings the Australians made 225. Horan played a splendid innings of 75. The second innings of Stock port closed for 134. The game was won by the Australians with 149 runs to spare. It is rumored from Paris that two gold medals have been awarded to Victorian The highest award in wool is to Sir S. Wilson. One gold medal for general excellence in wool is awarded to Sydney. Preserved meats are highly commended. The Bank reserve is considerably weakened by foreign withdrawals.

Australian securities are characterised by great strength. Consols are dull at 95 %•

The wool sale§ closed with a firm tone. The general average shows an increase of ten to twelve per cent, on the opening rates. The principal ad vance is on medium. For Australian scoured, fleece, washed, and greasy, the prices are unsteady. The corn market is heavy and in active, one million quarters afloat.

Bank rate, 3j4; market, 3; Colonial Government securities and wheat un changed ; flour, 355. At the wool sales 310,000 bales were catalogued, whereof 43,000 were held over for next sales; 155,000 were ex ported. The next series commence on August 20th. The total quantity offered was 330,000. Berlin, July 7.

The European Congress has agreed to maintain the treaty stipulations pro hibiting the passage of the Dardanelles by foreign war vessels, and cedes Ba toum to Russia, making it a free port. The decision of Congress dissatisfies everybody. London Conservative journals and Paris papers vigorously attacked the Austrian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina being postponed until August. Russia restores to Turkey Bayazid Valley and Alashgerd.

AUSTRALIAN.

Melbourne, July 8. Parliament reassembles to-morrow, when the Hon. Mr. Sladen will intro duce a Bill into the Legislative Council to amend its constitution. In the As sembly Mr. Berry gives similiar notice of a Bill to reform the constitution. Professor Pearson will move the reply to the address. No division will take place on the reply.

It is stated that the Associate d Bank representatives • decline to advise a heavier loan than three millions, includ ing the purchase of the Hobson’s Bay Railway. Sailed—Tararua, on Friday; Arawata, on Monday moring. Sydney, July 8. The schooner G. W. Tucker, bound for Wellington with a cargo of wharf timber and general merchandise, is a complete wreck on the north beach of the Clarence River. The vessel and cargo'are fully insured.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Per Press Agency.] Napier, Monday. At a meeting of the Hawke’s Bay County Council to-day a motion by Mr. Sutton, M.H.R., to abolish toll-gates was negatived, also an amendment to continue them for only one year. The decision arrived at was ,to put the tolls to auction in the usual way. The is some talk again here about starting a newspaper, but nothing de finite is known. There is a movement on foot to call a public meeting to bring pressure to bear upon the Municipal Council for the speedy abatement of the swamp nuisance. It appears that the Swamp Nuisance Act, though it empowers the

Council to reclaim sections belonging to private persons, and recoup the cost by selling the sections, gives no recourse against section owners in .case the sec tions do not realise the cost of reclaim ing. Hence the dilatoriness of the Borough Council in proceeding with the work of reclaiming. Wellington, Monday. A supplement to the Gazette just pub lished contains Mr. Burns’ resignation of the seat for Roslyn. ( Special to the Pi ess ) Oamaru, Monday. It is rumored that the line will be opened to Palmerston on Wednesday or Thursday next. The through line will not be opened, it is expected, for a couple of months. The delay is owing to the defective arrangements about timber.

THE ROMANCE OF LITERARY DISCOVERY.

FROM “THE FIRESIDE.” To the merest accidents have we been indebted for the preservation of volumes which are justly considered to rank among the most precious relics of litera ture; and not less remarkable than the O discoveries themselves is the fact that they have often been made at a time when further delay would have made them impossible. This has been particu larly noticeable in regard to the remains of classical literature. In a dungeon of the monastery of St. Gall, Poggio found corroded with damp, and covered with filth, the great work of Quintilian. In Westphalia a monk stumbled acci dentally on the only manuscript of. Taci tus, and to that accident we. owe the writings of an historian • who has had more influence, perhaps, on modern . prose literature than any ancient writer, with the exception of Cicero. The poems of Propertius, one of the most vigorous and original of the Roman - poets, were found under the casks in a wine cellar. In a few months the manu script would have crumbled to pieces and become completely illegible. Parts of Homer have come to light in the most extraordinary way. A consider able portion of the “ Iliad,” for instance, was found in the hand of a mummy. The best part of the Greek romances, the “ Ethiopics,” of Heliodorus, which was such a favorite with Mrs. Browning, was rescued by a common soldier, who >, v found it kicking about the streets of a town in Hungary. To tilm, however, , to more modern times. Everybody knows how Sir Robert Cotton rescued the original manuscript of Magna Charla from the hands of a common tailor, who - was cutting it up for measures. The valuable Thurlow State papers were brought to light by the tumbling in of the ceiling of some chambers in Lin coln’s Inn. The charming letters of Lady Mary Montague, which have long taken their place among English classics, were found in the false bottom of an old trunk; and in the secret drawer of a chest, the curious manuscripts of Dr. Dee lurked unsuspected for years. One of the most singular 'discoveries of this f kind was the recovery of that most de-Jba lightful volume, Luther’s “ Table Talk.” A gentleman in 1626 had occasion to build upon the old foundation of a , house. When the workmen were en-~ gaged in digging they found, “lying in a deep, obscure hole, wrapped in a strong linen cloth which was waxed all over with beeswax within and without,” - this interesting work which had laid con-i < cealed ever since its suppression by Pope Gregory XIII. We are told that one of the cantos of Dante’s “Paradiso,” ! which had long been mislaid, was drawn, from its lurking-place (it had slipped be neath a. window-sill) in consequence of an intimation received in a dream. One of the mort interesting of Milton’s prose works—the Essay on the Doctrines of Christianity—was unearthed from the midst of a bundle of despatches, by Mr. Lemon, deputy-keeper of the State ;., papers, in 1823. How the manuscript , : could have found its way into such un congenial company remains a mystery ; " to the present day. As the years roll on, and curiosity is more and more awakened, such discoveries must become • rarer; but probably many precious documents are still lurking in unsus pected corners, and not a few literary discoveries’remain even now to be made* which will, when made, immortalise the discoverer.

A Lump of Coal.—The Gadlys Company have raised a large piece of . coal for exhibition at Paris. It was taken to the Great Western station on a trolley drawn by six horses. Experienced judges estimate its weight at nearly five tons. As it lay on the trolley it measured nearly nine feet in length, five feet in , depth, and more than three feet in thickness. Unfortunately it became. l cracked to some extent near; the centre in transit from the upper Gadlys pit to the station.

Th 6 Evening Echo, Tuesday July 9, 1878,



ASHBURTON RETAIL LIST. s. d. s. d. Butter, inferior to best, lb I 0 to I 2 Eggs, If? dozen - - 2 6 to 0 0 Bacon, prime smoked, I? lb 0 10 to 0 0 Hams in cloth, It? lb 1 0 to 0 0 Cheese, prime quality, $ lb 0 8 to 0 10 flour in bags, $ iooib IS 0 to 0 0 Oatmeal, loolb « 26 0 to 0 0 n » » • 0 9 to 0 0