POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Mails at the Ashburton Post Office close t; follows :

For Christchurch and North at 10 a. m. \ p.m., and 7.30 p.m., daily. For Lhertsey «it 10 a.lll. daily. For Kakaia at 10 a.m., and 4 p.m. daily. For Tinwald® Winslow, Hinds, Coldstream. Rangit.ua, Orari, Winchester, and Geraldine, at 10.15 a.m. daily.

UNCLAIMED LETTERS.

fhe following letters are advertised at the Post Office, as having been received from nloccs bey‘»»d the Colony, during the month ol Sept tmlrer, and remaining unclaimed on the Ist November 1878 Anderson, James (2) Collins, Fred. Fin nerty, John Fanoen, Emil Ford William Inkster, Christopher Kclleher, John ' Reilly, James Welffi, William. Fetters originating in New Zealand are not now advertised, but are sent to the Dead Fetter Office, a( ter having lam for two cleat ~>oull,s‘ J. W. E. Douglas, Postmaster.

The Evening Echo. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1878.

It will be in the recollection of our readers how Father Henneberry, during a ‘‘mission” on the est Coast, was accused by a then Wesleyan divine of having dis posed in a very summary way of all Catholics who had so far allowed them selves to follow the instinct of human nature as to become united in wedlock with partners chosen from the ranks of Protestant heresy. At the time, the accusation made- against Ins reverence ■aused a great stir, and the hearts oi ma ny good Catholics, beating in unison and in wedlock with Protestant hcaits, fluttered in treiidation at the thought oi being the bad people they had made themselves by marrying out of tneChurch, drought up thus all standing, the rev. Father fiercely denied the accusation made .ist li;m, though the Wesleyan parson ,Vf rts fiercely held on to his statement. Vhe rev X ather’s denial, of course, had the P tte ; “ raised, and no more was heard for the dme being of “ mixed marriages. But the same question feas since cropped up again; not, however, tins time m Zealand but in England, w\W th ®. Agar-Ellis, having married a daughter oi Lord Camoys, was only allowed to nis bride by a promise given by him that the children of the marriage would be trained in the Catholic faith. For some years things went smoothly enough, and

then t-ib fathep took it into. His head'-tlia ■ ho eU:l.lro:i hid had a ljtif : eUbughdeniO .£ the leaching of Rune, and db .ermine o try that of Geneva for a change. h-hd .nether did nob see this, of course, and. .leld to her point, pie iding ;'-El%> iromiso. The matter came to such a pas Shat the father, to secure his legal right 1 iis children, brought the matter befoii the Vice-Chancellor, who decided that tin father had a perfect r got, even with s .c 1 promise given, to demand that his ch•" lien should be brought up in whatsuove .. religion lib may choose twapp int.- :v • VIC Agar-E.l s had the pleasure of iakin i,vay his children to lu/e them “ trained up in the way they should go. ” There is nothing peculiar in the Vice- Chancellor’s decision —it is perfectly in accordance with law, and beyond a few women’s rights enthusiasts, -there is no one likely to find fault with either the law itself cr the Vice-Chancellor’s reading of it. But the case of Mr. Agar-Ellis and his Catholic spouse shows, if domestic unhappiness is to be avoided, that great care ought to be exercised in arranging, the preliminaries of “mixed marriages.” In the more liberal social atmosphere of the colonies such marriages are more fre quent than in the old country. If the Roman Catholic Church does not make headway, it is for no want of wit in the steering of it; therefore, however much her priesthood may abominate “mixed marriages,” they are far too' crafty not to 3ee the rock ahead they would run against if they handicapped human nature in their Church’s membership against a rebellion from her power, by laying down such a hard and fast law as “ Thou shalt not marry a Protestant. ” That is a new com mandment we will wait a long time before we see added to the Decalogue of Rome ; bat her priesthood never lose an opportu nity of following, what, after all, is a wise course, viz., deprecating the contraction of such unions, and advising their flocks to take wives of the daughters of the faith, and marry husbands from the sons of Holy Church. ;: J * ~* But the great point to be had in remem brance is, that in legardto the disposal of the children of any marriage—Protestant, Catholic, mixed, or otherwise —the law of Great Britain vests the supreme right in the father, and there is no promise he can make, or engagement he can enter into, that can deprive him in the eye of the law, of either his light or responsibility as the father of his children. If a man is weak enough to make such a promise as Agar Ellis denies he made, and mean enough to break it, as Mis. Ellis says her husband did, so much the le;s can be said for his common honesty, and so much greater the wife’s misfortune in being tied to such a driveller, but the law can not he’p her. Of course, the law is a two-edged one, and with a Catholic father in the position o; Agar Ellis, it would cut exactly the same, so that there is no par tia ity in the matter. Many good people try to appeal to Providence to relieve their censoience in the matter of a mixed marriage, and apportion to the father’s religion the male issue, and to the mother's the lemale ; but this half-and-half lottery of Peter and Paul is about as wicked as it is absurd, and the “ London Examiner,” in speaking of it, says “ The girls,” says one parent, 1 ‘ shall attain to inimor tai bliss with me, their mamma ; the boys may run their chance of going elsewhere with poor, dear papa. ” Clearly, the best advice to a couple, belonging to different religions, and about to marry, is the good old sensible one—“ Don't’-’ that is if they care a straw for the religion they profess and the spiritual training of their chil dren. ” • ‘ •'

.The Central Temperance Hotel. This establishment is now open and doing a fair business. Outside, to the passenger coming from the railway station, its bright blue “ facings,” makes it a prominent ob ject, and, standing as it does, almost side by side with Mr. George Eagle’s ample and comfortable boarding-house, looking across Baling Square to the station, it occupies one or the best positrons in the towm ' The' “ Central ’*’ ’has' Been insti tuted, less however, :as a boarding house, than to supply the want of a house to serve ail the purposes of a public house “ with out tne drink.” It has a bar, where non intoxicants can be had “ ad libitum,”; and where an idle man may lounge with his companions. Behind this is a reading room, supplied with the leading news papers of the clay. Across the passage from the bar, and occupying the west side of the house on the ground floor, is a dining room, largo and well ventilated, giving table room lor GO people. To the iext oi tne bar a passage extends for some distance leading i-o a cutting room for first class boarcteis, where a party of between mteen and twenty can be accommodated. Beyond this again is a parlor for the us-, i f the same class of boarders, and stii iuitiier 10 the left are manager’s privat apartments. Upstairs are twelve bed iocins ill all, roomy and comfortable, fur nisheci lor mst anu second class boarders, Liie tormer occupying one end of the lint and tne latter the o her. fitting ant smok.ng rouiuacconim-; elation is also found. ,;i course, for sccuiict class boat tiers, bu liic dmeiouce betwesn the accommodatio:. oi tne two ohsse.-.s '& scarcely perceptible and is moie m name than in fact. Ti e proprietor of the establishment is Mr. A j. who has been fortunate in securing tne services of Mr. John Broom manager, whose practical experience m one or the best houses of this descrij - don ill Melbourne, is a guarantee oj the success of his management. Al ready the house is being well patronised, and, of course, we wish it to meet wit! that success its enterprising promote, deserves, and the urbanity of its manage, merits. Patron!-of the Central will un doubtly find in it comfortable quarters, and ail pear an approach to a home as anj public establishment can possibly come.

• • Calcutta ee.Asuburtori ibices, will be held to %ti£jght, io!Q .{ill’s Hotel. . iioua;iLßY-LAW.s. The,’ Borough Council held, a special .meeting last night, it which .tliely draft -by-laws for the )orough was considered. There was not i large attendance of members, b ;t the fork was assiduo sly cuvied through, till it half-past ten, every item of the draft had yen considered, and, where necessary, mended. A resolution was then adopted - t Forward this by-litivs'for -the Go.emor’s ‘••.vjnt. - - - ■ . . . ‘ .

Mr. Anstee’s .New' Private Hotel and Boarding" House. —Acting on the suggestion made a few months ago by the R.M., as Chairman of the Licensing Bench,. Mr. J. G. Anstee set about the erection of a boarding house of ‘a Superior class, to afford accommodation to trades men a id others preferring the quiet of such an establishment to living in a licensed hotel. • That he has succeeded in producing a first-class boarding house a visit to his almost palatial edifice in Tan cred street will at once prove. Everything has been done, both in the building plan and in the internal arrangements, that forethought could conceive for the com fort of patrons, and it is proof of what Ashburton is as a town that such a build ing as Mr. Anstee’s was found to be neces sary. Entering from the street, on the right hand the first room found is one set apart; for a, sitting and smoking room, beyond this is another reserved for a ladies’ dining and refreshment room, while behind the whole stands the large public, dining room of 30ft. by 14ft., and correspondingly lofty. To the left of the entrance passage is a large commercial room 14ft. x 16ft., behind which are the proprietor’s private rooms and a suite of six bedrooms. In rear of the whole, and separate from, yet adjoining, the main building are the kitchen, &c., the arrangements of which are most admirably complete. In the upper story there are 13 bedrooms, with, in addition, two suites of rooms for the use of families. The whole house is well furnished, and Mr. Anstee lia3 spared no pains to secure comfort and attractiveness m this matter. Not to be overlooked is the Water system of the establishment. Two largo tauks, raised to an altitude of 24 leet, are supplied with water by a patent force pump of Baker and Hamil ton's; manufacture, and from these pipes are led to the kitchen and lavatory, the latter, on the u.per floor, being a well fitted and comfortable bata room for both shower and lounge." New Bottling Premises. The Means QaihcOn Bros, j wnj at one time occupied premises m iancred Street, have commenced business in Mount Somers Road as bottlers of ale and stout. Tueir premises adjoin, those of Mr. J. M‘Rae, cab proprietor, and for the purposes ux their business they ha .es unit a-large con crete cellar to tne depth ox 6 or 7 feet, in winch gantries nave oeen erected to rack 20 hogsheads of beer and stout. Tne botilmg room is over head, and is about 30 feet long.* In it Messrs. Quinton have at work several patent bottling siphons, and a patent corking machine, so that they are ame to keep going a good trade. Their arrangements are scarcely yet complete, but a leW days will put tiiem in a position to supply, ail demands. . The Result of the Floods.—Unfor tunately the worst tears respecting the effects of the recent floods on the ne.v Benuigo bndge at Rocky Point seem iixeiy to ue realised. A gentleman wno was up at the structure last week in forms the “Dunstan Limes” that already two arenes of the bridge are high and dry, and the only stream running under tne span of the structure is apparently gra il ually shallowing. The main body of water is a long way this side of the ne .v bridge, to reacu winch two or three more bridges of magnitude will be necessary, xiisread of the vffutha being, as hitherto, confined- to J one main channel, our in lonnant thinks that in future the river will run in three or four branches at the particular spot where the bridge now scauds. He describes the features of the whom country in this vicinity as com pletely changed, and where before fields and gardens were in existence, now there is a ueep and uniform bed of shingle. Lhe farm of Mr. M‘Leod, which has for years been noted for the richness of its soil and prolific yields, is said to be entirely ruined, being covered to a con siderable deptn by sningle and debris orought down by tne Hood.

A Tongue.— A recent court case in Weumgton is tiius reported by the *• Chronicle —Mrs. Barber, an eiderl) Woman whose tongue seemed to be Jiuug ai the centre, and to be thoroughly lubri cated, appeared before Mr. Mansrord, .t.id* j yesterday, to complain about hei spouse. Mis vv orship remarked in gene rous tones that he ki.e .v Mrs. Barbe. ,eii; he had known her ibr years. Thai .ady then proceeded to unio.d her tale at uiie rate u* at least 150 words per minute. Mr. Allan tried to put on the creak, but. lint swilt-paced tongue had boded, ana jut quite ooyqnd. control. The coioiua. unblic grinned, the Bench smiled, the lawyers and reporters tittered, but Mrs. Jar Der s tongue galloped on regard.es3 oi Mem all,

Strangers coming to reside in Ashburton ire often at a loss to know which is the best listabiihhmeiit to visit for the purchase oi drapery, clothing, and House-lurmshing Iron nongery, and Ceneral Stores. OUR & Co. viler special advantages to the public that can >e met with nowhere else in Ashburton, ihey veep at all times the largest and best-assorted nock of every class ot Coods, imported direct rbm the leading tnanuiacturers at home, which ■eiitp bought entirely upon cash terms, they are uiabled tp offer gopds oi sirh. sterling value as annot be equalled by any odier house in the lade. Ever) article hi .stock is marked at the fowesT priee, from which no abatement is made that the most inexperienced buy their goi.ds at th® same pi ices as the best judges.—Advt

ASHBURTON RACES

“ SWAGGER’fe” TIPS.

EIRST DAY’S WORK.

In the Handicap Hurdle Race I fee! inclined to place Agent in the front, with Raven just behind him. From what I k .o v of Agent’s former doings on h!s owv ground, 1. Fcl juf.iifivd in giving him tin Lading position, aud tie Raven ought t be go id enough for second plaoo. The Maiden Plate will bo won by the Gh. ii’.cjll.tr if he runs —the-Baron in tli ■ Oh uv’cllor’s absence. In t.e £SO match—Spotted Boy v. Maori —you may expect to see the abo; i ginal pas; the po3fc first. Ashburton Cup Handicap. Chan cellor, lj .Danebury, .2 ; Agent j 3. I don’t think I can better that order. In the Ladies.’ Purse I give the follow ing order as the most likely to be fulfilled prophecy :—Kitty Clyde, 1 ; with Agent close up. They will all meet the starter, . and it will be a close run. ; Selling Hack Race.; —There is nothing likely to enter that will have any chance against Steamer and Maid of the Mill, arid Steamer will win.

TELEGRAPHIC.

LATEST FROM EUROPE.

[By Submarine Cable.]

London, Nov. 7. The Board of Trade returns for October show that the 1 value of exports amounted to twenty millions, and of imports to twenty-six millions and a quarter. The exports show a decrease of one million, and the imports of three millions and a quarter. Nov. 8.

The treaty between England and Austria, referred to in yesterday’s tele gram, was made secretly at the time of the Congress, and contained a proviso that in the event of Russia claiming, on the ground of humanity and to preserve order, that she should remain in Turkey beyond the date which Congress specified, Eng land and Austria would undertake police duties and compel Russia to evacuate. This was intimated at the time to Russia. Four thousand Bulgarian militia mas sacred the population, and burnt several villages near Demotica. A “ Times” 1 telegram states that several thousand former Russian officers and sol diers have been permitted to volunteer for Afghanistan. Nov. 9.

The money market is easy. The Bank minimum is unchanged. Discount rates are considerably below the Bank minimum. The Bank reserve is slightly better than last week. .The .stock;.markets have re covered a firm tone, and Australian securi ties are resuming their usual activity. Consols, 95|. Wheat is firmer.

The failure is announced of Robt. Forrester, coalmaster, Glasgow. The liabilities are heavy. . Schouvaloff has left Livadia for Lon don.

The CzarV precarious health has not permitted of the solution of the political difficulty. It is probable there will be a revision of the Berlin treaty. Nov. 10. The Emperor of Russia is in an unsatis factory state of health.

[Special to Globe.] London, Nov. 8. Aheane, the Fenian, has been liberated. Count Schou valoff is coming to London. Nov. 9.

Russia is making preparations for war, and has called for 68,000 additional con scripts.

AUSTRALIAN.

Melbourne, Nov. 6.

The Ministry has decided upon a dele gation to England, consisting probably of Messis Berry and Pearson, and Sir G. Duffy. £SOOO it is said will be asked for expenses.

A dissolution is talked of and meetings are to be held with a view of urging that step upon the Government. The delegates, accord ng to present arrangements, will leave by the December mail, and be absent for five months.

The bushranger business still occupies much attention. The ruffians are still at large, and parties of police are out in in. various directions in the ranges. If the Kellys fail to surrender by ihe 12th inst., they will be liable to be shot down. Tire races gathered to Melbourne an immense concourse from all parts, the crowd at i iemington being larger than on any previous occasion, and the receipts xceeded last year’s by £2OOO. The spec tacle was most brilliant; the stand and a.vn were filled with elegantly attired ladies, reflecting every shade of color ; the hill was covered with a dense mass of human beings, and all other parts of the course crowded. The race for the Cup was very pretty. The horses, thirty in number, were previously paraded on the lawn in front of the stand. The time, dmin. 354 secs., was not so good as last year. The bookmakers had a good time of it, especially in the boiling over of His Lordship in the Derby. All the doubles were destroyed. The public have drop ped their money on the Cup favorite.. Melita.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Per Press Agency.] Auckland, Monday. The dead body of a newly-born male phild was found tms morning at the north shore, under the following suspicious cir cumstances : —A man named Hugh Jones,

■ V laiborci-j was g ing. to work in Oliver >lay's\tiriiber yard, a hen he xav a bag, ippa entiy wl l s mething in re, floating at' high V'jYa,ter-m.uk. He cut open the oag, when a kit, covered with net, and containing the body of an infant, fell out. it could not have been in the water more clian a day, as decomposition had not set ,u. The dispute wi-h the contractors about .he leak in tie dock Is settled, and the Harbor Board will take o.er the work. * Mr. J. S. M‘iFivLwi.q has gi eu his Par iainentary honorarium for a school library. Wellington, M niay. The captain and cre.v have lean landed tom the Oailott.i, which is full of water uni breaking up. The weather has turned . fine,• and efforts , will be made to save the spai-s, rigging, etc. The Court of Appeal was formally opened at eleven, and adjourned till to morrow. • ■ Dunedin, Monday. The half-yearly meeting of the National Insurance Company was held to-day. A dividend of ten per cent, with a bonus of sixpence per share was declared ; £15,000 was carried to insurance fund ; and £5469 to the next half-year. ; To-day is observed generally as a holi day. There are sports at Forbury Park, and a promenade concert at the Cale donian grounds.

LEO XIII. ON PROTESTANTISM IN ROME.

* On the Fast ofi St; Joachim, the Mme day of his Holiness, several addresses of congratulation and fealty were presented to Pope Leo Xlil. In replying to an ad dress from the inhabitants of the Trahs- Tiberine district, which r expressed devo tion to the cause of .Catholic education, the Pope thus referred to the existence of Protestant schools in Rome, He said he received with joy the intimation that the people of the Trans-Tiberine district had resolved to do all within their power to make certain that their children should receive such a religious education as the times they. li red in < required,, and that they viewed with loathing those unholy schools in which faith and innocence ran the risk of being lost. He deplored that in Rome, the centre of Christianity, per mission had been, given to heretical : sects to erect places of worship,-to open schools, and to disseminate among the people in jurious publications, arid that the Sover eign Pontiff wasuiot: .permitted, as he de sired to do, to oppose a remedy to the impiety which had invaded the city. It was the duty of the citizens, however, to render -futile the efforts of the impious people by making it an inviolable law to keep themselves and ftheiir children from any contact. with heresy. Why should they have any desire to attend the temples of innovators and abandon the Catholic churches, which abounded in sanctity, and had received them from infancy;? fWere they wanting in Roman Catholic schools in which tlieir^cA'ildven;could- receive in struction without outrage to their faith or detriment to their morals 1 1

Thanks to the ca e of the Pope's, the charity of the faithful, and the zeal of clergy and laity, there was not a corner of the city in which schools had not been opened in sufficient numbers to meet every educational want. Tney were aware that the enemies of the Catholic faith, taking advantage of the poverty which at pre sent afflicted the people, were employing every artifice and scattering gold in pro fusion in order to fill their schools and their conventicles, but he would i not wrong their consciences or their religious cause by supposing them capable of sacri ficing their salvation, and that, of their children, for any consideration, of material interest. Bread bought at such a price killed the soul, and brought, down the malediction of the Almighty. He im plored them to: follow .the, example of their fathers and suffer rather than yield to temptation.; Among the deputations pre sented was one from the Irish College, headed by Monsignor Kirby, to whom His Holiness expressed " the Admiration he felt for the devotion of Ireland to the faith, on which he had just then been speaking to the Cardinals in attendance.

A Cheap Water Filter.— The follow ingparagraph/from the; “.-Leisure Hour’’ may be. useful in Ashburton, where the drinking water is nbt all of the best: — Those who cannot afford to buy a filter may easily make one. Stuff a piece of sponge in the hole of a flower-pot, place above this a layer, of pebbles, then a layer of coarse sand, and above this a layer of pounded charcoal three or r four inches in depth. Another layer of pebbles should be placed above ’ the charcoal to prevent it from being stirred up when, the water is poured in. ; The contents of the flower pot should'be 'occasionally renewed. But by a small addition to this a cottage filter may be mkde ‘ wliiclq for pr&dtiddl-cse, is quite equal to the most expensive filter of corresponding size. It consists of two dower-pots, one above the other, the lower one fitted with a sponge and filtering layers above described, and the.upper one with’a sponge only. The upper pot should be the largest, and if the lower one is strong 5 the upper one may stand on it, ora niece of wood with a hole to receive the \ppor pot may rest on the brim of the lower one. The two pots thus arranged are placed upon a three-legged stool with a hole in it, through which the projecting oart of the lower sponge passes, and the water drops into a jug below’. ino roper poc serves as a resfeivoii, •„nd the sponge .stops the coarser im mrities, and thus the filtering layers of he lower one may ,bc used for two >r three years without being renewed if he upper sponge be occasionally. cleaned. Jare must be taken to wedge in the upper ponge tightly enough to prevent the water isainff through theupperpot more rapidly lhan it can filter through the lower one.

TUESDAY, November id, 1878.]

THE EVENING ECHO.



Wednesday, November i 3. at THE BAZAAR, BURNETT STREET. At 11 o’clock sharp.' IMPORTANT SALE. Messrs acland, Campbell, a CO have received instructions fron. J. Stanley Brace, Esq., owing to his con templating a visit to England, to sell by public auction, on November 13, his ver\ valuable FREEHOLD FARM “ ELGIN.” , •Thii splendid farm contains 343 acres oi excellent land, 137 acres of which is in English grass About 180 acres are now laid down In crop, viz., wheat and oats. This is first-class rich land, and not an acre has had more than two grain crops taken out of it. cl Situated towards Wakanui, and only 3$ •miles from the Towh of Ashburton.. Also, EXCELLENT 7-ROGMED HOUSE (NEW.) ' And most substantially built. Five acres of Garden and Plantation, Orchard, <fcc., most tastefully laid out. This is a grand opportunity to secure a most valuable property, and the Auc tioneers would desire to draw the special attention of Capitalists, Speculators, and others to this important sale, as its close ness to the Town and good general posi tion will render it of great and increasing value. ALSO,— Oji the same date, A SN ? FARM, Two miles from the Ashburton Township, on h.' 16 WAKANUI j3° AI) > , Adi t^ri:s T iß^; lo^. containing . 50 acres laid down in English grass, well fenced, with a good ata.®*" waterrunning through it. At* ee ‘ roomed house on the property.



Terms unusually liberal. For further particulars apply to ACLAND, CAMPBELL, & CO., Christchurch & Ashburton. boarding house for sale IN THE BEST PART OF ASHBURTON. -JESSES. BULLOCK & CO. have XIJL received instructions from the pro prietor, to ofl'er for Sale by PUBLIC AUCTION, At their Rooms, East street, ON SATURDAY, 16th NOVEMBER, That newly-erected substantial and well built House containing- ROOMS, 35 Situate in Wills street, a few yards from the Railway Station This two-storyed House is built upon lolid concrete foundations, having an un ioning frontage on the Wakanui load, the ambers used being of the best, heavy and veil seasoned. The frontage is covered vith rusticated boards finisiied m a su perior manner. The internal fittings have ilso been carefully attended to, and space ms been so economised as to give rooms >f a ll dimensions, suited either to single rentleman or members of families, un ;he ground floor are several comfortable Biting and reading rooms and large dining -bom most conveniently placed. Attached W ihe building, but under a separate roor, s a large and commodious kitchen of two rooms and scullery, fitted with a large Leamington range and seii-suppiymg ooiier. No pama have been spared to make it equal to any similar bunding in the colony both lor convenience ana somfort, , , The house is erected upon a £ acre sec aon and that in itself liom us position )Sex# an additional inducement to mtend ms purchasers. Upon it is erected a com modious cooperage with bench, and chim ney, at present let to a good tenant, J? urtber particulars can be had from the Auctioneers. Terms liberal, at Sale. Sale at 1.30. BULLOCK & CO., Auctioneers.



TTtfRBWOKKS 5 For THREWORES i f ESTOK'S EAST STREET NOVELTY DEPOT. ASHBURTON RACING CLUB. SETTLING PAY SATURDAY b MOiUNlMGiromlOW^^ 2 9 Hon. Sec. fl TENDERS will be received until Satui• 1 day next lor Brectuig a Post am Avare FENCE on the Norm Town Beit. Pot particulars apply to HAN'Uxj .& OLSEN, East Street, oa Ashburton. WANTED KNOWN—That .the chea pest and neatest CARDS may be “evening ECHO OEEICE. East Street.



SATURDAY, IGth NOVEMBER. | TOWNSHIP up OATLANDS SITUATED ON THE AVAKANUI RUl\ 00 allotments, 00 MESSRS BULLOOIv & CO have re ceived instructions from Messrs Winter and Roberts to offer for SALE BY PUBLIC AUCTION, At their Rooms, East-street, Ashburton,, on Saturday, the Pith November, • • 99 Allotments in the Township o Oatlands, situated on the AVakanui Run,, being at the junction of G main roads, dis tance about 8 miles from Ashburton, 7 miles from Dromore, and miles from Chertsey. We would call the special attention of speculators and others to this property, as from its position in the centre of a very extensive agricultural district, and being at the junction of so many roads it must of necessity command an extensive share of the trade'of the district, thus affording capital business opportunities for black smiths, saddlers, shoemakers,' bakers, butchers, &c., and as it has hitherto been the case that the earliest selectors in all new townships have done exceedingly well by their purchases, there is every rea son to believe that this will do likewise. Full particulars given, and' plans can be seen at the office of Bullock and Co. Terms liberal, at sale. Sale at *1 30. BULLOCK & CO., Auctioneers.



ENCOURAGE LOCAL INDUSTRIES. a o AITKEN" & CO. have much plea- A. oure in informing the Gentlemen of Ashburton that they aae prepared to orders for New Spring and Summer Suits. A Perfect Fit Guaranteed, and at Christchurch P ' iCeS ' A. 0. AITK.EN &CO , TAILORS,



Bank N otice. mHE BANKS in Ashburton will be Closed, at NOON on 13th and 14th inst, and ALL DAY on Friday, 15th instant. T _ R. MACFARLANE, . Manager Bank of New Zealand. A. H. SHURY, Agent Union Bank of Australia;