ASHBURTON TRADE DIRECTORY.

J XOUNTANTS AND COMMISSION AGENTS — Charles Braddell, Montgomery’s Buildings H. J. Bristo, Prospect Buildings, East-st. W. R. Boyle, Moore-street. f ICIIITECT AND CIVIL ENGINEER — S. W. Brown, East-street S. Farr, Montgomery’s Buildings B. Mountfort, East Street i 7CTIONEERS — Bullock and Co., East-street Saunders Bros., Ashburton f iRRISTERS AND SOLICITORS— Mr. Branson, East-street Mr. E. G. Crisp, Montgomery’s Buildings : vkers, Confectioners, Etc.— Thomas Hicks, Tancred-street Taylor and Lill, East-street, t \NKS — Bank of New Zealand, East-street Union Bank of Australia, East-street f oarding House Keepers— J. G. Anstee, East-street Eagle’s Dining Rooms, Havelock Street vilders, Contractors, Etc.— James Baker, Havelock-street Geo. St. Hill, Bumett-street West G. Parkin, Steam Saw Mills, Moor-street Matthew Smith, Moor-street Thos. Williams, Tinwald f JOKSF.LLERS AND STATIONERS— A. Weston, Prospect Buildings, East-street Furness and Dixon, Stationers’ Hall, East street South

Bootmakers — [. Chambers, Prospect Buildings, East-street M. Nealas, East-street Brewers — Wood and Co., Cameron-street r ’ABINETMAKERS AND UNDERTAKERS — James Baker, Havelock-street G. Parkin, Moor-street Thomas Williams, "1 inwald

Barrier— G. F. Scott, Cameron-street Chemist and Druggist— J. M. Cambridge, Montgomery’s Buildings ‘oal and Firewood Merchants — G. Parker and Co., near Railway Station A. Hayes, Firewood and Timber, near Rail way Station F. P. Leßreton, Bumett-street iRAPERS AND CLOTHIERS— Aitken and Co., Havelock-street Orr ard 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, ete., Bumett-street W. J. Hessey, Central Foundry, Peters-st 'URNITURE WAREROOMS— A. Spillard, Tancred Street rRQCERS, GENERAL DEALERS, ETC.— Aitken and Co., Havelock-street Orr and Co,, East-street Firth, Pass, and Co., East-street John Fowler, Tancred-street K. Sando, East-street

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

IOTELS Quill’s Commercial Hotel, near Railway , Station Shearman’s Somerset Hotel, East-street

’RON MONGERS— Orr and Co., East-street Aitken and Co., Havelock-street S. Hardley, East-street

Ladies’ Clothing Establishment— Mrs. Morey, Tancred Street. Painter, &c.— J. R. Chapman, Tancred-street Printers and Publishers— Furness and Dixon, East-street

Plumbers, Gasfitters, Tinsmiths, Etc.—- J. C. Dolman, Tancred-street Joseph Hyde, Tancred-street S. Hardley, East-street

Saddlers— Thomas Hudson, Bumett-street

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

Bailors— Aitken and Co., Havelock-street

rENTMAKERS— 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 Post Office close a; follows :

For Christchurch and North at io a.m., 4 p.m., and 7.30 p.m., daily. For Chertsey at 10 a.m. daily. For Rakaia at 10 a.m., and 4 p.m. daily. For Ashton, Waterton, and Longbeach, at 3.15 p.m. daily. For Greenstreet, Ashburton Forks, Mount Somers, and Ashburton Gorge on Tuesdays and Fridays at 10,30 a.m. For Temuka, Tiinaru, and South at 10.15 a.m. and 3 p.m daily. For Tinwald, Winslow, Hinds, Coldstream, Rangitata, Orari, Winchester, mi Geraldine,

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

PORT OF LYTTELTON. ARRIVED. August 27 —Hawea, s.s., from South. August 27 —Taranaki, s.s., from North. SAILED. August 27 —Hawea, s.s., for North. August 27 —Taranaki, s.s., for South. August 27—Star of the South, s.s., for Nel son and West Coast. Bluff, Tuesday. Arrived —Ringarooma. She left Melbourne on the 21st, and Hobarton on the 23rd. Ar rived off the Solanders at ten last night, and steamed slowly through the Straits, arriving here early this morning. She brings 31 saloon and 12 steerage passengers, 400 tons of cargo for all ports.

The Evening Echo. TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1878.

One of the best features of the May oral contest up to the present moment is the excellent feeling prevailing, both between the supporters of the rival can didates and the candidates themselves. Election meetings are looked upon as a sort of safety valve for the escape of any feeling tending towards a mild form of rowdyism that may have been gene rated in a man by being confined to the worn rut of daily civilised life ; and he is forgiven, if, in the enthusiasm of the moment, he gives vent to his feelings in vociferous applause of his favorite, or a hearty yell of disapprobation when any thing is said or done against the candi date he has elected to support. The meetings of Saturday and Saturday week were certainly noisy enough, and acted in a great measure as the safety valve we have referred to ; but though much spare steam was allowed to escape it passed off harmlessly, and did not break in upon the general good humor. We are glad that this good feature is pro minent in the contest, as it betokens all personal feeling laid aside, and a desire actuating electors’ minds to have the best man for the office. In a place like Ashburton, where affairs of a year ago are matters of history, and where every one, himself comparatively a “ new chum,” knows little of his neigh bor’s history, being only able to speak of his merits or demerits from what a short acquaintance shows, it is fortunate that, among the older residents in the borough, two men like Messrs. Bullock and Williamson—each with a public history, even if a short one—should be found willing to stand for the office of first Mayor. Of the two, Mr. Bullock is undoubtedly the best known, and has come to the front in most of the town’s affairs, working well and success fully for its benefit. His worst enemy, if he have any, must say of him that he has, in every public position he has occupied, looked well to the interests of the town he represented, and advo cated its claims at every opportunity. His extensive business connections have made him a prominent figure in Ash burton’s short annals, and through this prominence as a man of business he has had a public prominence thrust upon him—much on the principle that the willing horse gets most of the load. Of a genial temper, his good hearted ness has prompted him to do many kind things for the town, for which, no doubt, the ratepayers are sincerely grateful, and the number of his sup porters in this candidature prove the the existence of this gratitude. But to say the town’s prosperity was wholly due to him or to any one man is to set down as uninspired clods all who may have been about the place since its nucleus was formed. Possibly, were a fair and impartial analysis made of Ashburton’s past, it may turn out that Ashburton made Mr. Bullock and not Mr. Bullock made Ashburton, Be that as it may, the town has been nope the worse for what he has done for it. Still, it is but right, when he seeks an office like that of Mayor, and when a settler like Mr. Williamson is put up by a strong party of the residents to con test the office with him, that the claims of both should be considered. At Mr. Bullock’s meeting, we were led to be lieve that most of the good institutions we enjoyed were traceable to the pa ternal anxiety for our welfare of Mr. Bullock. But a few items of informa tion cropped up at Mr. Williamson’s meeting on Saturday, which, when we take a short retrospect, dim the splen dour of Mr. Bullocks creative power; and, if all is to be belieyed that is hinted, point to an appro priation for Mr. Bullock’s glory by his supporters pf honors that were not his,

at least so far as originating is con cerned. For example, but for the wise foresight of Mr. Williamson, when a gas company was not thought of, the right to open the streets for gas mains might have been given by the Road Board to a private individual, and in that event all Mr. Bullock’s energy and push would have failed to set gasworks going in nine months, as we are in formed is to be the case. Then, too, Mr. Williamson tells us it was he, and not Mr- Bullock, who first set on foot the idea of a municipality, and the advantage of it did|not commend itself to Mr. Bullock’s mind till the 2000 acres endowment was shaken before his eyes. We repeat Mr. Bullock deserves well at the hands of the Ashburton people, but in sounding his praises, his ad mirers ought to be honest, and give a fair share of credit to the man who hit the ideas which Mr. Bullock certainly worked hard to carry out. However well a scent may be followed up, it is the dog which found it has the main credit—as the patient prospector whose skill selected the rich gold field deserves the credit, and not the lucky miner who pegged out the claim when it had been found for him. Still waters run deep, and it is only fair that the cool judg ment and clear foresight of Mr. Wil liamson should have their fair share of credit, and his claims not be over looked because he is quiet and unos tentatious. He is willing to serve the interests of the town, and give the benefit of his keen business perception to that service. This is evidenced by the fact that he has allowed himself to be nominated for the Council as well as for the Mayoralty, showing that even if defeated for the higher office, he is large-souled enough to work in the inferior one. He is not so high in his own estimation as to make himself so sure of the Mayor’s chair as that a return for the Council will not be wanted, and does not act as though to say, “ Give me the best office in your gift or I’ll have none.” This conduct must tell in his favor for the higher seat, and is in marked contrast with that of Mr. Bullock, who evidently considers, by the absence of his name from the Council list of nominations that he must be Mayor or nothing. If Mr. Bullock wins his seat, we have still a chance of securing the services of two good men by Mr. Williamson’s nomination for the Council; but if Mr. Bullock is not re turned, and such an event is quite within the bounds of possibility, we are inclined to favor the idea that the days of his popularity are numbered, and that he will be set down as having done a snobbish thing. At his own meeting he said there were many ratepayers now in the town who were not here when steps were first taken towards a borough. It may perhaps turn out that they are of a race who “ know not Joseph.”

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Timber Sale. —We would remind builders and others of the sale of tim at Mr. Hayes’s yards to-morrow. A large quantity of various kinds of use ful timber is to be put up without re serve, and in the present scarcity of building materials this is a chance not to be overlooked.

The Borough. Council Elec tion. —Sixteen candidates are up for the nine seats, and as will be seen from our advertising columns, a public meet ing has been called by the Town Clerk to give each of those candidates an op portunity of laying the thoughts and intents of his heart, ie borough matters, before the ratepayers of Ashburtoni The meeting will take place on Thurs day evening at 8 o’clock

H. M. S. Cormorant. H.M.S. Cormorant, 6 guns, which has been appointed to the Australian station, is a composite sloop of 1124 tons, and 900 h.p. She has been commissioned at Chatham, and is officered by Com mander J. A. Bruce, Lieutenants C. M. Luckraft, G. Hodgkinson, and V. F. Hughes; surgeon, F. H. Lewis; J. Horrocks, staff; paymaster, H. B. Rob inson ; assistant, H. E. Bourcdier. Great Fire. —A late telegram, pub lished in the Indian papers, under date 16th July, says,’—“An extensive fire at Mandalay (Rangoon) destroyed 4750 houses, including those of several queens and princes, No lives were lost. The steamer Europa, homeward bound from Bombay, sank after colli sion with the Staffa. The crew and passengers were all saved, and landed at Ferrol.” The Past and Present. The wife of one of the most respected set tlers of Awahuri last week went on a visit to Wellington (says the Rangitikei AI vocate), which she has not seen for up wards of 30 years. The Empire City of 1878 and the Poueke of 1848 should be two very different places. After a lapse of decades a startling change should be apparent,

TELEGRAPHIC.

LATEST FROM EUROPE.

London, August 24.

The Post urges the Government to annex Herat and Kandahar should the Ameer of Afghanistan refuse to receive the mission sent by the Indian Govern ment to Cabul.

A Turkish army corps has been sent to the Turkish-Montenegrin frontier. Consols, 94^4; Bank rate, 5 ; market rate, loan covered at the minimum of 55-k- Wheat, Adelaide, 525. ; flour, 355. Vienna, August 24.

The Austrian troops have again attacked and routed the Bosnians, after severe fighting. St. Petersburg, August 24. The Golos this morning says “Russia is about to issue a new internal loan.”

Owing to the Turks refusing to evac uate Pougoriza, in conformity with the Berlin Treaty, the Montenegrins are besieging it. The Consuls at Constanti nople are trying to arrange matters. It is rumoured on the Stock Exchange that Lord Dufferin will be British Commissioner in Asia Minor.

It is persistently reported that Presi dent MacMahon has resigned.

The Austrian loss in Bosnia amounts to 1300 men.

The money market is unchanged; consols 94Business is dull on the the Stock Exchange* except in Egyptian securities, which have greatly advanced, owing to the settlement of the finances. The wool sales are progressing satis factorily, and prices are well sustained at opening rates. In the home trade there is a fair competition, foreign buyers operating cautiously. The corn market is easier. • Heavy failures are announced. James Virtue and Co., Baldy, Dester and Co., Tinsly Bros., all in the publishing trade. The Australian Eleven v. Eighteen of Scarborough : In their first innings the Australians made 295; Scarborough, first innings, 124; second, 125. The Australians won in one innings and 46 runs. " August 25. For the Dunedin Municipal loan, over was subscribed at an average price of is 7d. Dowager Queen Christina of Spain has died at Vienna. .. Rumour says that cession of the island of Tenedos to England is probable. There is to be a general mobilisation of the Austrian army. August 25. A telegram from Berlin says that Russia is sending fresh troops to San Stefano to replace the Guards just withdrawn. Also, that arrangements have been completed between England and Turkey regarding reforms in Asia Minor. London, August 23.

Greece has sent an official intimation to Turkey that if the Porte refuses to concede to her the terms granted by the Berlin Congress, she will wrest them from Turkey by war.

August 24,

At the wool sales to-day, Queensland wools showed’ a slight decline in price. Warlike operations in Boston con tinue. Seragero has been partly forti fied by the Austrians, who are making that place their head-quarters, and are concentrating reinforcements there. The Montenegrins are determined to resist forcibly the Austrian occupation of Bosnia. *

The Turkish garrison, refusing to surrender Podgoriza, the Montenegrins are bombarding the castle.

AUSTRALIAN.

Melbourne, August 26,

Sir George Bowen has accepted the Governorship of the Mauritius, and, it is stated, will leave Victoria in a couple of months.

Cooktown, August 26.

A pitched battle has been fought at the new rush between the white popu lation and 1300 Chinese. Several per sons were killed, and many wonnded.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Napier, Monday.

Yesterday a man named Thomas Hall attempted suicide ip the Waipara lock up by cutting his throat. He severed the windpipe but did not cut an artery. Pie was brought down to the Napier hospital to-day. Hall had been taken to Waipara from Hampden on suspicion of being insane, but neither the doctor nor the police thought him to be so. Wellington, Monday.

The Wellington Racing Club to-night removed the disqualification from Fish hook and his rider, Deritt. The pro gramme for the next meeting will be published in a few days. Hokitika, Monday. The steamer Waipara went ashore

on the south side of the new Channel this morning. The cargo is being dis charged, and she will be got off this evening’s tide. The Kennedy, off the bar at the time of the accident, would not venture in, and returned north wards. Dunedin, Monday. A man named John Gleeson was drowned at the Dunedin jetty yester day, when, in a state of intoxication, attempting to cross to the vessel to which he belonged. Arrangements are to be made for holding a grand annual musical com petition in Dunedin. A smart shock of earthquake was felt in Dunedin and country districts at 2.45 on Saturday. The ceremony of laying the last rail of the Dunedin and Christchurch line took place to-day, between Waikouaiti and Palmerston, in the presence of 200 people. The ceremony was performed by Mr Blair, the Chief Engineer, assisted by Miss Macandrew and the Mayor' of Dunedin. A lunch took place after wards. Tuesday. The Mayor and Corporation intend accepting the invitation of the Christ church Mayor to be present at the ban quet in Christchurch to the Northern visitors. A shock of earthquake, on Saturday, was very distinctly felt at Portobello. Houses seemed to stagger as from a heavy blow, rather than from a wave like motion. The Carnival in aid of the Benevo lent Institution will be opened by the Mayor on September 7, and will con tinue for a week. j§§ Invercargill, Monday.

About 14] bs weight of quartz, fine and coarse, the refuse of prospecting trials of Hare Bros.’ reef; were brought to town to-day. Portions of it were pulverised in a iron mortar and washed out at the Club Hotel, and the gold obtained indicated a general return of 120 Z to the ton.

MULES FOR NEW ZEALAND.

A writer in the New Zealand Herald in the course of an interesting article on breeding horses, says :

There is one class of animals that might be bred in this country with great success, and that would be most useful in the colonies—l mean mules. Not the small kind that are sometimes seen in this colony, but the sort of mules that are found in the Pictou district of France and the northern provinces of Spain—great powerful animals standing 15 hands 3 inches to 16 hands in height, with lots of timber and substance, any one of which would knock up three such animals as are often seen in har ness in Auckland, while they are equally fit for omnibus work or the light cart of the tradesman. I know a gentleman at home who had a pair standing 16 hands that used to run his private omnibus to the station, which could trot their 9 or 10 miles an hour, and were used in prefer ence to horses, as they never caught cold standing about and waiting at the station. They are proverbially the most sure-footed animal (hybrid though they are) of the equine race , in fact, there is no getting them down. Before the ’introduction of railways in old Spain, all the mail service up the country was done by mules that could gallop twelve miles an hour, and keep on at it. I have seen a pair of mules that, in a tilted pair-wheeled mail cart, have galloped down a rocky, rough road in one of the Pyrenees passes, where a false step would have sent mules, cart, passengers, and driver down an abyss a couple of hundred feet, but they made no blunder, while their rate of speed is quite equal to the coaches in England. Is prejudice so strong in this country that men wilfully shut their eyes to the usefulness of these animals ? Does not every man who has seen a rough campaign know how valuable mules are on service. In the Crimea there were some splendid mules, and during the hard winter, when the horses were knocking up and dying by scores, they still continued packing stores to the front from Balaclava, and many of the officers used them' for riding on fatigue work, to save their chargers that could hardly carry them. During the expedition to Taupo there were two small mules used with the packJhorses, the jvay they knocked up the horses and the loads they carried were astonishing. They will live and thrive on coarse food, where a horse will go to pieces and die. Lately they have been more used in London, and some may be seen in four-wheeled cabs, but the prejudice of the drivers is so great against them that the cab-owners can hardly get them to drive them. If such was not the case, little else would be used, but at home, the same as in the colonies, the masters are in a great degree dependent on their servants.

The Evening Echo, Tuesday, August 27, 1878.



NOTICE.



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Strangers coming to reside in Ashburton are 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 & Co. offer special advantages to the public that can be met with nowhere else in Ashburton. They keep at all times the largest and best-assorted Stock of every class of Goods, imported direct from tbe* leading manufacturers at home, which bought entirely upon cash terms, they are enabled to offer goods of such sterling value as cannot be equalled by any other house in the trade. Every article in stock is marked at the lowest price, from which no abatement is made so that the most inexperienced buy their goods at the same prices as the best judges.—Advt.



TIMBER! TIMBER!! TIMBER!!! UNRESERVED SALE OF 200,000 FEET OF THE MOST SUPERIOR AND DURABLE BUILDING TIMBER, AT HAYES’ TIMBER YARDS ASHBURTON, on WEDNESDAY, AUG. 28th, 1878. at 12 o’clock. Messrs, g. r. freeman & co., instructed by Mr. Alpheus Hayes, will Sell by Public Auction, at bis Yards, Ashbur ton, on the above date— -200,000 Feet of Superior Building Timber consisting of Boards and Scantling Totara Piles 6 x 1 T. & G. Flooring and Match Lining in lots to suit purchasers Also— Shingles, Gate and Fencing Posts, Black Pine Firewood, Palings, and several other useful lots, without the slightest reserve. Terms Liberal. Sale at 12 o’clock. The Auctioneers would call the attention of the inhabitants of Ashburton, Town and Dis trict, to this sale as being an unparelled oppor tunity for procuring Timber and other Mate rials for building and fencing purposes. G. R. FREEMAN & CO., Auctioneers.



BOROUGH OF ASHBURTON. A REQUISITION, numerously signed by - the Burgesses Ashburton, having been presented to me, requesting that a Public Meeting be called, to give the Candidates for the office of Councillors an opportunity for explaining their views on Municipal matters, I hereby give notice that the said Meeting will be held at the TOWN HALL on THURS DAY Evening, 29th inst., at 8 o’clock. CHARLES BRADDELL, Town Clerk. Town Clerk’s Office, Ashburton, 26th August, 1878.



WANTED KNOWN—That a trustworthy woman will take in Families’ Washing. For particulars apply at the ECHO Office. WANTED. A Clean, Tidy GIRL. Apply at the ECHO Office. WANTED KNOWN. 'T'HAT SANDO’S BREAD. CART will A be round Every Morning. Please leave orders at the Shop, East-stret, near the Echo Office. A BARGAIN.—For Sale, Cheap —A new Double Wooden Bedstead.. Apply im mediately at WORNER’S Boarding-House, Moore-street. BOARD AND RESIDENCE. Accommodation for a few respectable Young Men. Apply at Echo Office. SAUNDERS BROS* have completed arrangements with Mr. K. Sando for Sale of their Bread, and invite all requiring a - Good and Cheap Article to purchase from K. SANDO, East Street, Ashburton. ; JOB LOT. 9DOZ. Ladies’ Colored Josephine KID GLOVES, slightly spotted, will be sold ■ 1/- PER PAIR. ORR & CO. WORNER’S EMPIRE BOARDING HOUSE (Opposite Parkins's Steam Saw Mills). MR. G. WORNER begs to intimate to the public of Ashburton that he has pur chased the Boarding-house kep by Mr. T. Bradford, and having made extensive alterations, he is now prepared to supply first class accommodation to boarders, and others visiting Ashburton. Meals i/-, Beer given with dinner; Beds l/« Board per week, £i. G. WORNER, Proprietor. HOW TO PROCURE A SEWING MACHINE EASILY. 'pl-IE GREAT ADVANTAGE OFFERED by ORR AND CO. By the TIME PAYMENT SYSTEM places the SINGER HOUSEHOLD and HOWE MACHINES within easy reach of all. Payments—Weekly or Monthly. ORR & CO., Sole Agents for the above Machines in Ashburton*