ASHBURTON TRADE DIRECTORY.

A .’COUNTANTS AND COMMISSION AGENTS— Charles Brack!ell, Montgomery’s Buildings H. J. Bristo, Prospect Buildings, East-st. W. R. Boyle, Moore-street. A tCHITECT AND CIVIL ENGINEER — S. W. Brown, East-street S. Farr, Montgomery’s Buildings B. Moimtfort, East Street

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

B VRRISTERS AND SOLICITORS— Mr. Branson, East-street Mr. E. G. Crisp, Montgomery’s Buildings B vKErs, Confectioners, Etc.— Thomas Hicks, Tancred-street Thomas Taylor, East-street,

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

Boarding House Keepers— T. G. Anstee, East-street Eagle’s Dining Rooms, Havelock Street

Bjilders, 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 G.. Compton, Builder, Moore-street.

B ICR.SELLERS AND STATIONERS— A, Weston, Prospect Buildings, East-street . street South • Weeks ancl Dixon, Stationers’ Hall, East- IBootmakers— J. 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 Thomas Williams, Tinwald

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 E. P. Leßreton, Burnett-street.

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 W. Gavin, East-street T. Quinn & Co., Moor-street Engineers and Founders— Edwards and Lee, Engineers, Smiths, etc., Burnett-street W. J. Hessey, 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 JK. Sando, East-street

Greengrocers— W. Birtwell, East-street J. Mooar & Co., East-street Hairdressers— E. A. Garnett, East-street A. Pearse, Moore-street

Hotels— Quill’s Commercial Hotel, near Railway Station .Shearman’s Somerset Hotel, JEast-street

Ironmongers- Orr and Co., East-street Aitken and Co., Havelock-street :S. Hardley, East-street Ladies’ Clothing Establishment— Mrs. Morey, Tancred Street.

Painter, .S.c. — J. R.' Chapman, Tancred-street Printers and Publishers— Weeks and Dixon, East-street

Plumbers, Gas fitters, Tinsmiths, Etc. j. C Dolman, Tancred-street Joseph Hyde, Tancred-street S. Hardley, East-street

Saddlers— Thomas Dudson, Burnett-street

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

Tailors — Aitken and Co., Havelock-street

Tentmakers — K. Sando, East-street

Tobacconists — . A. Pearse, Moor-street E. A. Garnett, East-street A. Weston, East-street

POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Mails at the Ashburton Tost Office close H 5 follows

For Christdmrch. and North at io a.m. 4 p.ttn, and 7.30 p.m., daily. . For Chertsey at 10 a.m. daily, ft;for Rakaia at 10 a.m., and 4 p.m. daily. Ashton, Waterton, and Longbeach, at Lie pirn, daily. For Greenstreet, Ashburton Forks, Mount Somers, and Ashburton Gorge on Tuesdays •and Fafi'jays at 10.30 a.111.' For Iflemuka, Tim aru, and South at 10.15 a.m. and § p.m daily. , For Tinvwld, Winslow, Hinds, Coldstream, {Ramgitata, Gftari, Winchester, anc. Geraldine, ; at io. 15 a.m, (feily.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENT CE.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

PORT OF LYTTELTON. ARRIVED. Sept. 26—Wakatipu, s.s., from South. SAILED. Sept. 26—Ladybird, s.s., for North.

expected arrivals. From London —Crusader, Waimea, Hydas pes, Waitangi. . From New York Star, Southminster, Olmstee, Alexander M’Neill, Helen Angler. From Foo Chow—Rio Lodge. From Calcutta—Chusan.' From Melbourne —s.s. Albion.

The Evening Echo. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1878.

The Hyde’s Burlesque Troupe are advertised to appear to-night in the Town Hall in one of llieir entertainments. Their stay in Ashburton will be for one night only. R. M. Court. —His Worship the R.M. did not arrive this morning, owing, we pre sume, to the accident at Rangitata bridge, and there was consequently no Court. The civil business was adjourned for a week, and to morrow the criminal portion of the work will be disposed of by a Justice of the Peace. Messrs. Saunders’ New Buildings.— Building operations have been commenced for some time on the section adjoining the Com mercial Hotel, purchased some months ago by Messrs. Saunders Brothers at a cost of £BOO. When these building operations are finished, Ashburton will possess, in what must ulti mately become the leading business part of the town, the finest block of wooden buildings in Canterbury, if not in New Zealand. The block will stretch along a frontage of 164 feet to East St., also fronting Wills St. for 54 feet, ?nd will have an elevation of 36 feet. Built on a solid concrete foundation, and of the best building timber, the structure will be one of the most superior description. On the ground floor there will be eleven shops, arranged and fitted with a view to accommodating the fol lowing tradesmen ; —A jeweller, a greengrocer, a butcher, a baker, an ironmonger, a grocer, a draper, a draper and-clothier, R bookseller and stationer, a china and stoneware merchant, while the whole of the southern wing has been secured by one firm fora general drapery business. Besides the front shops, • the ground fioor will also find space for such rooms as these shops may require in the shape of millinery room, store and sale rooms, parlors, offices, kitchens, and the halls and staircases giving access to the upper floor, on which will be found offices of various dimensions, committee rooms, sale rooms, and some seven bedrooms. The shops will be lighted with large plate-glass windows, the plates being 5-i6ths of an inch thick, joft.. high, and 4ft. wide—giving a two pane window ,of Bft. by 10ft. The plans have been prepared by My. Jacobsen, of Christchurch, and show a building witft a most elaborate front, justifying the .conclusion that when finished the block will not only be as we have shown, large, roomy, arid the centre of exten sive business, but also an architectural orna ment to the town, of which Ashburton may well be proud. In the,hands of Mr. Fleming, builder, the contract i? yxpectecl to be finished abopt the month of December, when the enter prising proprietors'— Messrs. SatftMsrf—will be able to place it at the disposal of the trades men t<? suit whose lines of iciness jf pen |f?|ne§ -ft j;. •’ .

The Rangitata Bridge.—This bridge lias been left by the flood in such a dangerous condition that all traffic across it has been stopped. This morning passengers from the South who were bold enought to attempt a walk over the gap upon the scanty foothold left were able to come on by the train North, but the more timid had to remain on'the other side of the river. The General Manager has advertised that until further notice the express hitherto running between Chirstchurch and Dunedin will have its Southern terminus at AshburtionJ but trains on this side the gap will run as formerly, only Southern passengers will not be booked for any station beyond North Rangitata. It is not expected that rail-, way communication will be opened again for some time, as the work of repairing the bridge, owing to the amount of damage done, will be a work of at least a week’s duration. Parliamentary. —After Mr. Macandrew had communicated to Mr. Wait . e.d and the House last night the fact that the Rangitata Bridge had been gapped to the extent of 120 feet, ancl that communication was thereby stopped, Mr. Fox asked that the House Com mittee inquire into the employment of two boys in Beltamy’s during excessively long hours. On a division the inquiry was ordered by 41 to 21. Provision was promised to be made for the granting of free railway passes to Volunteeis and Fire Brigade members. On the Report of the Electoral Bill being brought up, Major At kinson moved • the re-committal of the Bill to re-consicler several clauses, including the ques tions of miners’-right voting and the Maori franchise. A long discussion followed, but ultimately the report was adopted. Mr. Rees took exception to a paragraph in the “ Parlia mentary Jottings” of the Rangitikei Advocate, the authorship of which had been attributed to Mr. Fox. Mr. Rees raised the question as one of privilege, and moved that the House demand from the publisher the name of the writer. Messrs. Macandrew, Stout, ancl Sheehan de precated any botheration about newspaper para graphs, and the motion was eventually with drawn. Mr. Fox took no part in the discussion, neither assented or denied authorship of the paragraph, from which the following is an extract :—“ There is going to be another pub lic demonstration at the opening ot the Great Northern Railway as far as Featherston. We can eat ancl drink. I assure you that to a hun gry man, accustomed to only two meals a day, like some political loafers who find their way into large bodies, these great feeds are matters of no small congratulation that at one sitting they have an opportunity of swallowing as many cold turkeys, meat-pies, and jellies, and custards as would fill a pastrycook’s shop, while the sparkling wines, on which Mr. Ballance cruelly seeks to impose an additional duty, must be a most agreeable substitute for the tots of rum and the pints of Colonial beer with which they are accustomed to assuage their con tinual thirst at the cost of any friend who will do the * shouting.’ ” There was a good deal more in a similar style. A Maori Saviour.—The Pirehaka half yearly meeting has just come to a close, and the great prophet Te Whiti has delivered his usual prophetic address to his visitors, the whole string of which was peace, peace, peace with the Europeans. He referred to the meeting called by Rewi at Waitara on the 18th March next, and said that after that meeting the Maori and pakeha would live together as one people, and be one nation. At the great meeting a new man was to appear, one who had never before been seen by them, and after that all would be peace. During his address he referred to to religious matters in what Christians would call a blasphemous way. He said Jesus Christ was very good to the white man, but did not care for the Maori. They would have one themselves, who would hear their prayers and be as good to them as the pakeha Christ was to the Europeans. Their Christ must be of Maori flesh and blood and must be crucified. How could they expect the white Christ to look after the Maoris’ spiritual interests?” The Tarcmald Herald remarks that Te Whiti should try the experiment, of crucifixion him self, and thus become the saviour of the people. —New Plymouth correspondent of the New Zealander.

An Efficient Police Force. —A little old man was recently brought before the Nel son Bench, charge'd with dnmkenness and using obscene language.. Upon this case the Colonist says: —“The defendant stated any thing he must have uttered was spoken under torture, and he exhibited his wrists, which were frightfully cut and bruised, apparently by the diabolical whipcord instrument used by the police, and which, after being placed round the wrists, is twisted till it cuts into the flesh. Defendant said he felt sure he had not used the language as alleged, for he was not in the habit of using bad language. He was fined 40s. and costs. It may be added that ap parently the little old man was so veiy strong that the weakest of the Nelson police might have comfortably taken two such as he to the lock-up without any instruments of torture.”

Funeral Reform. —The Napier Tele graph of the nth instant says: —In the Dioce san Synod last night the following resolution was carried —“ That, in the opinion of this Synod, there is much of undesirable ostenta tion and unnecessary expense in the ordinary customs connected with funerals, and the wear ing of mourning, and the Synod would gladly see efforts to bring about a reform of those cus toms referred to.”

Electoral Curiosities. —During the de bate on the Electoral Bill, Mr Sutton said that he had looked up the returns of five important and hotly-contested elections, which took place during the recess, and found that less than half the total number of votes on the roll had been polled, He also said that in his own district there was a mat) whose name appeared on the same roll for the House pf Representatives no less than three times. Mr. Woolcopk mem tioned the fact that two Cornishmen had been struck off the roll on the ground that they were unnaturalised foreigners, The revising officer had judged by theft name “Molitto,” that they could not be ' Batons, and, without further in quiry, had drawn his pen through theft names. Strangers coming to reside in Ashburton ire • often at a loss to know which is the best Establishment to visit for the purchase of Drapery, Clothing, and House-furnishing Iron mongery, and General Stores. Orr 6c Co. iffer special advantages to the public that can be met with nowhere else in Ashburton. They keep at all tiipps tl)e largest and best-assorted Stock of eyery clas.s of Gp.odS; imported direct from the ieading'manufacturers at home, wjftph being bought entirely upon cash terms, they are enabled to offer goods pf sjyfi sterling value as cannot be equallid by OHV other house ip the trade. Every article in 'StQ& ft JflflM # l b e lowest'price, from which no abatement (s so that the most inexperienced buy thair gpo4§ at the same prjees as the J?iet judges.*®A4y£? • ~r.l -ft; ;/•*' ' . 1 • jt. - J

TELEGRAPHIC.

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AUSTRALIAN.

~ Adelaide. Sept. 26. The Government offer re ward to the inventor of a machine for reaping and cleaning cereals.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Per Press Agency.] Grahamstown, Thursday. Gold has been got in the cross-cut from the 650 feet level. The water-race is ab)ut to be completed, Ministers have promised to re-introduce the vote of last session, which was allowed to lapse. Wellington, Thursday.

Government have received the most reliable information from Canterbury that the prisoner O’Connor, who is now undergoing ten years’ penal servitude for attempting to poison, had been for some time past in the habit of carrying strychnine in his waistcoat pocket. Charleston, Thursday.

The schooner Wild Wave, now in the harbour, suffered a severe knocking about last night. The heavy sea during Tuesday night threw the vessel on the rocks, where she remained till last night, when she again floated off in a fearful sea. All her lines parted, and for half and hour she was tossed about at the mercy of the waves, but was eventually beached in a safe position near the old cemetery, where she now is. There were on board at the time of the acci dent Captain Grubb, one seaman, Harbour-Master Cross, and another gentleman. The affair caused no little excitement while the vessel was knock ing about in the Bay.

BANK COMPETITION.

Newspaper readers must have ob served that the Banks have of late dis played unusual eagerness to obtain deposits, and to increase their business generally. An anecdote in connection with this has reached my ears, and I have received permission to relate it. Jones had by thrift and economy con trived to put by a matter of some seven pound ten, which he had lodged in a Savings Bank. Mrs. J., seeing the Bank biddings in the papers, had been extremely desirous that he should with draw their little store froni the Savings Bank and put it into one of the adver tising ones,, but Jones would not hear of it, and moreover, he strictly forbade her to mention the fact of their having a small sum at deposit, because, he said, “ If those gentlemen, whose names we see at the foot of the notices were to hear that I had got seven pound ten at interest they’d never let me have any peace until one of them had got hold of it.” So the matter was, as Jones thought, settled, but unfortunately Mrs. J. had a woman’s tongue, and for the life of her she couldn’t keep a secret.

One evening when Jones went home to tea, he saw there was something dis turbing her, but what it was she wouldn’t say. Next morning at breakfast time he observed the same symptoms, but she uttered not a word, until suddenly there was heard at the door the cry, “ Baker—any orders to-day ?” At the sound she fell back in her chair in such a nervous state of trepidation that Jones was compelled to go out and bring in the bread himself. When she saw him returning with a loaf she gave vent to a great sigh of relief and said, “ Oh dear, was it only the baker ?” “ Only the baker,” replied Jones, “ of course it was; who did you thinkk it was ? What is the matter with you ?” “ Oh,” she said, “ I may as well make a clean breast of it. Day before yesterday I was talking to Mrs. Brown, when unluckily I let slip something about that seven pound ten, and when she got a qlue she wouldn’t let me alone until I had told her all. I have been miserable ever since, thinking about what you told me how you’d be tormented if once the bankers got to hear of it, and I felt certain they would, for I know she can’t keep a secret. Then when that man came just now —he’s a new one, I can tell by his voice—l thought he called out ■ Banker ! any orders to day ?’ and I made sure it was one of. them come to see about the money.” Jones laughed, and hoped the fright she b a 4 received would be a lesson to her for the future tq keep her own counsel.—“ F.” in Nelson Mall.

Emma Thursby declares that it is a mistake for a woman artist to marry, since either the profession or the hus band m u§{: §u ffpf. Two of ijisrnappk*!? niepe?, wtyo quitted Germany *lp disgust op accpuqf qf some Httle dpme§tic difficulty, arp govewesiss in p my a?lsfogsie family

DOMESTIC ÆSTHETICS AND THE HIGHER EDUCATION OF WOMAN.

The Rev. A. R. Fitchett on Tuesday evening, delivered a lecture on the above subject before the Otago Insti tute m the lecture hall of the Museum, Dunedin. The rev. gentleman com menced by referring to Tennyson’s “ Princess,” which, he said, contained in the form of a charming romance a valuable contribution to the literature of social science. It was really a dis cussion of the claim of women to a higher place in the social organism than the tyranny of the other sex allowed them, and especially with reference to their claim to an education equal to that given to me i. The moral of the story was that marriage was the vocation of women, and that any scheme of educa tion for women which did not take account ot that fundamental fact would prove a mistake. In this doctrine he (Mr Fitchett) fully concurred. It was true also that there were women who, like Tennyson’s “ Princess,” preferred a celibate life—an independent career in some profession. It was true also that in some countries there was a dispro portion of the sexes which rendered it desirable that woman who wished to qualify themselves for a profession or business should be encouraged to do so. Yet the fact remained that the immense majority of women would marry, and of women as a class it would be true that their vocation was marriage.™ (Ap plause.) Now, what recognition should this fact obtain in the education of woman ? Education should be special ised according to the nature of the pro fession prepared for. What specialisa tion was. required to meet the needs of woman’s natural vocation? Having indicated the features in which the education of girls was differentiated from that of boys in secondary educa tion, the lecturer said he had no serious fault, to find with secondary education so far as it went. Its intention was correct, and it recognised fairly the special facts of woman’s natural voca tion and destiny. The question was — what was to follow it. For boys, there was the University, and also girls who had completed the High School course might attend (if they, chose) University classes, still there was no relation in the subjects taught to their special vo cation. A lady Bachelor of Arts might no doubt make an admirable wife and mother, but she was not likely to derive any of her fitness for such a career from lectures upon classics and mathematics, logic and. political eco nomy. What should be the University course for the vocation of marriage ? (Laughter.) He would suggest that the higher education of women should be mainly in aesthetics. The word was a formidable one; he used it in the popular sense as equivalent to “the science of the beautiful.” In general terms, education in aesthetics would mean the cultivation of the imagination, the training of the artist nature, which was, to a greater or less extent, a spe cific endowment in every woman. (Ap plause.) Such education would be a prime element of success in the career to which women were called. The wife was to be the aesthetic element in her husband’s life. He selected her upon aesthetic principles. He probably thought her beautiful; he certainly thought her refined; there was music for him in her voice; there was grace in her form, a nameless charm in her pretty feminine tastes and occupations, a sanctity, “an awfulhess” even in the mysteries of her dress and her hair. (Laughter and applause.) Why should this kind of influence ever be lost ? The wife came into the hus band’s life as a gleam of poetry. Her function was to preside at his table, and pervade his dwelling as a spirit of grace, refinement, and beauty. Would it not be well to give her some training in domestic aesthetics ? She would probably make all the poetry and bright ness of his house without the specific training. Thousands of wives were doing it every day out of their native resources of imagination and artistic feeling, unaided by education. Why should they not be helped to do it bet ter ? The four main, lines in domestic aesthetics that might be cultivated, were literature, music, dress, and what might be called the arts of society. A course of training in these subjects, beginning where the secondary education now left off, \yqi}id be for women what a Uni versity course was for rqen. When Utopia arrived, these would be the four chairs in the Women’s University. The lecturer illustrated at length the teach ing which he considered to be desirable qnder the four heads mentioned, and concluded amid enthusiastic applause. The Chairmap, op behalf of the meet* ing, gave its best tbapkg to Mr. Fitphett for the enjoyment'j&ey had egpe]risncfj} r " : ‘'

MECHANICAL TOYS AT THE PARIS EXHIBITION.

Here are dolls that, on being wound up, swim round in a tank of water, making every requisite movement of legs, arms, hands, and feet, diving and treading water exactly as if they were trained human swimmers; and a pea cock that walks slowly across the table, turning its neck and head from side to side, and slowly expanding and then gradually closing its gorgeous tail; and elephants that walk about with howdahs on their backs, and put out their flexible trunks for food in the most natural manner; and scenes in. the Jardin d’ Acclimatisation, where other elephants march round bearing a load of pas sengers, the men stroking their mous taches, the women dandling babies and waving parasols, the children gesticula ing with delight as they go. And he stops to snatch a bonnet from a girl’s head, who looks up and complains to . her mamma, who scolds the keeper; while ducks swim about in the brook of real water, and cranes flap their wings and poke their bills, and reindeer graze and calves suckle, and a lion grins, growls, and roars, just as they do in the the garden. “ Madame’s reception ” shows a sumptuous drawing-room, with a dozen ladies dressed in the extreme of fashion, every detail of dress elabo rated to perfection, while they admire and criticise each other’s toilets, pour out and drink chocolate, pay respects and make adieus in the most graceful manner. There is a little beauty, half life-size, exquisitely dressed, who bows, nods, shrugs, curtseys, fans, and con templates her glass’ until you are almost sure she is alive. There are animals that play on drums and harps, and do actually draw thin little tunes from them. And a whole array of feathered warblers, in, cages and on sprigs, that make the section resound with what everyone fancies to be real bird music until they approach near and see that it is marvellous mechan ism. There are dolls that speak whole sentences, and boys’ toys, beaut’ful parks of real tiny artillery that can shoot, and perfect sabres and muskets, and hunting apparatus. The toy de partment is constantly thronged with delighted wondering adults, and scream- > ing enthusiastic children.

Th. e Soul of a Reporter.—Out in search of an item to-day, says the reporter of a Nevada newspaper, we asked a fellow-citizen, “ What’s the news ?” “ Nothing startling,” he re plied. That man would never do For a newspaper reporter in a small interior town. Nothing startling, indeed ! Why, as he made the remark two dogs were preparing to sign articles for a prize fight- right in front of his store; a wag gon loaded with wood could be seen in the distance, which was sure to pass his way during the day if something did not break; two women, whom He knew to be mortal enemies were approaching each other on the corner above; a doc tor was hurrying across the street, and a man who always kicks up a fuss and gets arrested when he gets excited by teetotaling, has just entered a saloon a few doors below. Had that fellow citizen had the soul of a reporter within his breast he might have convulsed half Europe by the free use of (adjectives, superlative quotations from the classics and the Chelsea philosopher, and capi tal letters.

An Assembly Picture. —Ifhon. representatives are hot rowdy, however, they are interminably prosy. Why men should stand up and iterate and reite rate the dreariest platitudes to the same hearers, night after night, is one of those things that no fellah, you know, can under stand, and really Idonotthink the House would submit to the torture if it were not for the sustaining influence begotten of the thought that the time must come when each individual sufferer will in his turn become the torturer of his col leagues. The Assembly is an edifying sight when one of the “ two hours of sound to ten minutes of sense” speakers is on his legs. The first half hour drives a few to Bellamy’s or the Library. Th§ second thirty minutes induces a second contingent to go and look fifter tfie first, while the sufferings of those left behind are pitiable to witness. They look round, espy empty seats, and shift to them—then -their heads droop on to the cushioned sides, their legs assume the horizontal, and before the merciless member for Mudborough has reached his “ And thirdly, Mr. Speaker, I would urgg qpon {he most of the representative intelligence of the country is securely bound by slumber’s chain. —New Zealander.

Rogues and Trimmers. The exact proportion, of rogugs and trim* mers amongst pQliticianq throughout the world, according to Dr, Wales's , reckoning, was i in 4. It would bp interesting to learn how the doctor has arrjycd at this fijult, and in

The Evening Echo, Friday, September 27, 1878.



ASHBURTON RETAIL LIST. s. d. j, Butter, inferior to best, $ lb I 6 .to d? •o Eggs, # dozen IO to 1 Bacon, prime smoked, lb o Hams in cloth, $ lb * IO to o o 0 to o 6 Cheese, prime quality, lb o 9 to Ct to Flour in.bags, $ toolb J i 6 to 14 d Oatmeal, $ iooib « Sf * to s jLard, $ lb' • » . j f ! jfn f ?



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