ASHBURTON RETAIL LIST.

The Evening Echo. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1878.

Amalgamated Society of Carpen ters and Joiners. —A meeting of this society is advertised for the 30th inst. (Saturday).

Ashburton High School. The Mayor of the town, in terms of the Ash burton High School Act; has been appoin ted a member of the Board of Governors. The Butchers in Arms. —The “men of flesh” have resolved upon a course which has caused a great amount of talk in town and not a little indignation. Owing to heavy losses sustained by the butchers through the failure of certain creditors to meet their meat bills, the vendors of flesh have resolved to stop “ticking,” and supply meat for cash only. They will start on this ready-money course on Saturday first, after which the sentence “ families waited on for orders” will have no meaning, and paterfamilias will be brought face to face with the fact that he has for the future to become his own butcher boy. It is a pity that the butchers should have taken this high-handed course against all and sundry because they have allowed one or two individuals to get deeply into their books, and already evidence of a swift reaction is being given in a mooted co-operative butchery, and a suggestion has also been made to induce some neighboring farmer to open a shop in town for the sale of meat. Mr. Cookson’s Stables. —Mr. E. Cook son’s new stables are completed, and the establishment is no mean figure in the north end of the town, which is fast becoming a centre of business. Standing behind the splendid buildings of Messrs. Saunders, now in course of completion, Mr, Cookson’s bait and livery establish ment, notwithstanding the ground it covers, would look a dwarfed affair but for the striking front which Mr. S. W. Brown, the architect, has given to it, redeeming it from the obscurity to which its giant neighbor would have otherwise inevitably consigned it. Both Mr. Cook son and Mr. Brown, however, are to be congratulated on the addition they have made to the appearance of that quarter of the town by the new building, and it is satisfactory to know that the circum stances of Mr. Cookson's business required him to spread out like a green bay tree as he has done. In his new premises he has now seventeen stalls and two or three loose boxes, any amount of hay loft accom modation and storage room for oats, plenty of space at his disposal for traps of every description, and the stalls are so placed that each animal is directly under his eye. That the building is not a trifle may be believed when we say it has a frontage of 65 feet, extending back 57 feet, and in proof of Mr. Cookson’s popularity it may be added that he finds his number of stalls already too few. The Rescued Portuguese Sailors.— Those martyrs to circumstances are to visit Ashburton shortly, and an enter tainment is being organised for their benefit. The "Press” of this morning has a paragraph on the subject of those young men, of which the following is a copy ; —ln the Magistrate’s Oourtyester day morning, Mr. Inspector Hickson informed the Bench that the seamen were in no need of any further assistance, as their wants had been well supplied, and Captain Milman had shipped them for his return voyage. In the meantime the cast away mariners are reaping a little harvest by the exhibition of their boat and por tions of their enemies the sharks, which have been placed in a tent., next the Theatre Royal, by an enterprising specu la

“SOME FEATURES OF MODERN CIVILISATION.”

Last night to an audience not at all in proportion to the deserts of the speaker, Mr. J. H. Twentyman delivered his lee ture on the above subject. The Presi dent of the Ashburton Young Men’s Christian Association was chairman, and introduced the lecturer, who, in intro ducing his subject, said that the civiliza tion of any age was the product of the spirit of that age, and all had their part in shaping it. It was a mistake, he went on to say, to suppose that every product of civilization was good; and material progress, scientific discoveries, and intel lectual activity was often confounded with civilization. These latter were elements in, or products of, civilization, but were not themselyes civilization. True civiliza tion he held to be the culture in measure of all the powers of man — spiritual, moral, intellectual, and bodily. The civilization of each epoch in the world’s history, had had features special but not peculiar to itself: in illustration of this fact the speaker referred to the Jewish epoch, with its religion and thecracy —the Greek, with its art,, philosophy, and civic life ; the Roman, with its military power and imperial life ; the modem, with its material progress, scientific re search, and intellectual activity. The pursuit in an undue degree of one or two ends tended to dwarf others and destroy harmony. In these days material pro gress had been mainly shown in the growth of roads, railways, machinery, manufactures, commerce, —or in all those matters that minister to the comfort or material wants of the people. These all developed to an enormous extent, had resulted in an increase of wants, as the means of gratifying them increased. Luxury spread amongst the rich—comfort extended amongst the poor. From the development of these, too, wealth rapidly increased in the hands of a few, and extraordinarily wealthy individuals were found, some of whom the lecturer in stanced. Other results were the extremes of poverty —in the East end of London hundreds of thousands rose in the morning not knowing where to find a dinner ; the division of labor ; the massing of popula tion in great cities, with all its attendant evils—sanitary and moral. Our material progress had also brought in its train those contests between capital and labor which were to be deplored. After referring to man’s interference with natural laws and the consequences, Mr. Twentyman touched upon modem modes of warfare, the en gines of destruction now in use, and the vast armaments of Europe. Passing from these, he took up the worship that mate rial success commanded, everything and every man being nowadays judged from a money standard ; Smiles’ biographies— excellent in themselves no doubt—were all colored with this worship of material success. It was a feature of modem civilisation to pursue pleasure and excite ment, and this had increased theatres, places of public resort, race meetings with their surroundings, billiard rooms, &c., and the abuse of drink. Pleasure of a kind that took men away from home and the women of one’s family tended to destroy home •life, which was the centre of social, religious, civil, and national life. A ceaseless activity in scientific research was a feature of modern civilisation from which had been evolved the principle of evolution, treated at some length by the lecturer, who then traversed the various theories of scientific men who sought to eject God from His creation. Intellectual speculation was also an outcome of our modern civilisation, and many of the best thinking men of the age had speculated into infidelity. The lecturer told the story of the Quaker who, hearing a speaker announce his scepticism of the existence of anything not seen, turned the tables by making him confess to never having seen his brains. A personal God was excluded from the theories of the Nihi lists, Socialists, Communists, and similar new systems of society, and to a certain extent those theories were recognised when secular education was adopted, which expelled religion from the tuition of the young in the public schools. There was a visible diminution in the modern faculty of reverence. Children reverenced their parents and the aged less—the slang appellation “governor” was proof of this —and it was noticeable that a greater familiarity with the Supreme Being was manifested in the prayers addressed to Him and the hymns sung than used to be common in the past. Secular education placed the temporal interests of the chil dren before the spiritual. After a refer ence to the press of the present day, which, as regarded Australia at least, exercised a baneful influence on the spiri tual condition of the people, because its power was wielded by journalists who were almost ail infidels —the increase of what gratified the senses as distinct from the moral and spiritual nature of man was noticed. £3O bad been paid for the use of the Christchurch Theatre for one night while Dr. Somerville preached. That sum was supposed to represent a night's ex penses of the building as a theatre. If that figure was correct it would cost £9OOO a year -to conduct it. All the religious agencies in Christchurch did not cost that amount. Intellectual and physical facul ties cultivated at the cost of the moral resulted in the great frauds and organised robberies which had now and again been heard of, but on the other hand the culti vation of ' the religious faculties produced a wonderful activity in Christian work— fitness societies; Young

Men’s Christian Associations, evangelistic work, and all the benevolent and philan thropic institutions which existed. In an excellent summation Mr. Twentyman taught that all'the moral, spiritual, in tellectual, and physical faculties should be cultivated for God, and dedicated to Him.

At the close, thanks were given to Mr. Twentyman, the Chairman, and a choir which led the hymns sung daring the evening.

COUNTY COUNCIL

YESTERDAY. After the Chairman’s statement, the correspondence was taken up. ADVERTISING. After a long discussion on the request of the proprietors of the Echo for a share of the County Council’s advertising, it was resolved to grant the request. DOG FEES. The Secretary to the Treasury wrote, informing the Council that after the 31st proximo, fines under the Dog Nuisance Act would become the property of the Council. RANGITATA ROAD BRIDGE. With reference to a letter from Mr. Higginson, ir. Wright explained that Mr. Higgin son had been supplied with the informa tion he asked for. There had been some delay in regard to delivery of piles at the bridge, but several had now been driven. The state of the bridge was interfering with settlement in the Mount Somers district, and it might be necessary for the Council to deal with the matter at a special meeting. BOROUGH FUNDS. Concerning a letter from the Mayor of Ashburton requesting information as to the terms on which the £SOOO voted by the County Council for a borough water sup ply had been placed in the bank, The Chairman said it was lying at the interest of Council’s current account. The borough’s request for £IOOO for municipal purposes was not attended to. BRIDGES. Mr. C. Reed, as Chairman of the Upper Ashburton Road Board, wrote signifying that Board’s readiness to give £3OOO for the construction of a bridge over the north branch of the river. THE ROAD BOARD DIVISION QUESTION. A number of settlers in the Mount Hutt division asked to be regarded as having signed the petition in favor of the division. After some discussion, a motion by Mr. Wright, as follows, was passed : That this Council recommend His Excel lency the Governor to give effect to the prayer of the ratepayers in the Mount Hutt portion of the present South Rakaia Road District by constituting theirs a new Road Board District under the name of Mount Hutt.

TINWALD RECREATION GROUND. It was resolved to ask that the Tinwald recreation reserve be brought under the Public Domains Act, 1860, and that a Board of Managers be appointed, to con sist of Messrs. W. C. Walker, E. G. Wright, Joseph Beswick, J. Coster, and John Grigg. ASHBURTON HIGH SCHOOL. A copy of the Ashburton High School Act having been forwarded by Govern ment to the Council, with a notification that the Council was entitled to appoint two members of the Board of Governors, the Chairman and Mr. Saunders were nominated for the position. RAILWAY PLANT. The Secretary for Public Works advised the Council that the 40 lb rails ordered by the Government on behalf of the Council were now on their way to Lyttelton. TREASURER APPOINTED. Mr. E. G. Wright was re-elected Trea surer, any two members to sign cheques in conjunction with him. Some financial business was also transacted, DOG COLLARS. The Chairman was instructed to invite tenders for dog collars. MEETINGS. It was resolved that the ordinary monthly meetings should be held as here tofore, on the first Wednesday of each month, but that the Chairman should call a special meeting in December, as soon as he had received Mr. Higgenson’s report on the Rangitata traffic bridge. NOTICES OF MOTION. Mr. Grigg, at next meeting —“ That the sum of £7768, paid by the Govern ment to the County Council account, be divided Iby the Council in an equitable proportion amongst the several Road Boards in the County.” Mr, &aunders —“ That travelling or other necessary expenses incurred by the Chairman of this Council, in the perform ance of his duties, should be a charge at each ordinary meeting, but that it is not desirable that any salary or remuneration should be paid to the Chairman ; also, That the Chairman and Mr. Grigg be appointed a deputation to wait on the Christchurch manager of the Union Bank of Australia to endeavour to obtain an increased rate of interest on the daily balance of this Council, and, failing that, to give that Bank the six months’ notice required by terms of contract prior to the withdrawal of the Council’s account. ” Mr. Wright—“ That the Council adver tise for a Coupty Engineer at a salary of £— per annum, ” The Council then adjourned.

A New Railway. —The Waikato “ Times ” ,says that it is satisfactory to leara that the Thames-Waikato railway will be at once proceeded with, and .that the land in the immediate yieinity will, it is expected, reooup the colony the cost of its construction.

TELEGRAPHIC.

LATEST FROM EUROPE.

[By Submarine Cable.]

[Special to Globe.]

London Nov. 26. The Khyberees have risen against the Ameer. Jellalabad is abandoned, and the Afghans are flying to Cabul.

Calcutta, Nov. 26.

Dakkah was occupied unopposed. The headmen of the Kurd and Khyber villages are offering their services. Supplies arrived from all sides. The native contin gent will shortly rendezvous at Lahore, when there future destination will be settled.

The Maharajah of Cashmere is anxious to send a contingent with the invading army, but it is considered of great service if he Avill watch the Afghan border con tiguous to his frontier. The Ali Musjid prisoners were taken to Peshawur. The rank and file will probably be dismissed, and the officers treated according to the custom of European warfare.

AUSTRALIAN.

Sydney, Nov. 27

The strike continues in Sydney, Bris bane, and Newcastle unabated. The efforts at mediation failed. Three Chinese crews are now discharging and loading the company’s vessels. Latest New Caledonian advices bring ac counts of a massacre of eleven whites at the mouth of the River Poya, being the members of a party engaged in the car raige of provision to the troops. The bodies were found cut up and cooked. Sailors searching the River Parry were fired upon by the rebels. A further mas sacre is reported, of which particulars are wanting. A large number of troops arriv ed at Noumea during the month. Fenlon and sons, of Rochdale, bankers, have failed for £500,000. An action took place on the 19th, when the natives in great force attacked Khio and Kave simultaneously. The engage ments lasted from noon till sunset. The natives were defeated with a loss of thirty killed and seventy wounded. Thirteen settlers were barbarously mas sacred on the 20th, near the River Poya. Six thousand Chassepot cartridges were taken. As the mail was leaving Mancre nine settlers were brutally massacred in the outlying district; only settlers were killed, no soldiers were on the ground. The shocking inactivity of the military is freely commented on.

Melbourne, undated. The Embassy proposals have been de feated. After a great meeting the strike remains uncompromised.

Adelaide, Nov. 27. The Council rejected the Land Property Tax Bill The Assembly read the Loan Bill a third time.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Per Press Agency and Exchanges.]

Auckland, Wednesday.

Arrived —Missionary schooner Southern Cross, from the Islands. The captain reports that improvement is visible in the attitude of the Natives towards the mis sionaries, who are well received almost everywhere. The vessel has been eight months out, and reports that affairs are proceeding satisfactorily at the mission stations.

Father Henneberry to-day held a ser vice for married women, and in the course of his sermon strongly denounced Mrs. Besant’s book “ Fruits of Philosophy.” The mayoralty election resulted as fol lows :—Peacock, 462 ; Cosgrave, 430. Patea, Wednesday.

Kimber Bent, a deserter from the 56th Regiment 23 years ago, and who has ever since lived with the Maoris, about 40 miles up the Patea River, and up till Mon day had not been seen by any European since he deserted, was interviewed by a Patea resident, and said he intended to lay his case before the Government, as he was anxious now to go back to his native country (America). Bent deserted after being flogged, and in 1866 was believed to have shot Lieut. Colonel Hassard in an en gagement near Hawea, and a large reward was offered for his capture. The Maoris treat him as a slave and say he was never allowed to carry arms. He has kept a diary the whole time of his absence from civilisation. Wellington, Wednesday. The mayoralty contest to-day resulted as follows Dransfield, 740 ; ' Hutchison, 737. Good order and general sobriety marked the day’s proceedings. Dunedin, Wednesday. The Maroyal election for Dunedin re sulted in the return of Mr. H. J. Walter by a majority of 273 over Mr. H. S. Fish. The numbers were, Walter, 854; Fish, 581.

Patbiotism Yeby High Stbung. —At Gainsborough, two Italians playing bag pipes in the streets were brought up for it before the Bench by the police, upon the ground that it was not music. In this all the magistrates fully concurred except Sir Charles Anderson, a Scotchman, who proposed that the men should play a tune in Court to decide the matter. This was of course fatal to his clients, but Sir Charles stjick to them nevertheless, and even py@te&ded he liked it, In future (remarks a contemporary) no o}'at° r needs to go to Gfreece or Rome for gn example of tyue patriotism,

TO-DAY’S CABLEGRAMS.

Another Collision. Fearful

Loss of Life.

London, 26th.

The steamer Pomerania, from New York to Hamburg, collided with a barque, off Folkestone, at midnight. The steamer sank in ten minutes. Two hundred per sons were drowned, and one hundred and seventeen were saved.

Sydney, Thursday. Government have intimated their will ingness, provided Parliament approved, to assume control of the Exhibition should the Agricultural Society find, the same assuming proportions beyond its powers.

TO-DAY’S TELEGRAMS.

, Auckland, Thursday. A fire broke out. in the house of Mr. Keesing, jum, Lower Hobson Street, this morning. The house was totally de stroyed, but a portion of the fumitqre was saved. The house of Mrs. Pildington, 20 yards distant, had a narrow escape. The shingles took fire, but the flames were extinguished. Keesing’s house is insured for £3OO and mortgaged for £4OO. Loss estimated at nearly £IOOO. Wellington, Thursday.

Mr. Hutchison’s supporters are endea voring to get the legality of the election of Mr. Dransfield as Mayor tested in the Supreme Court, the validity of election being disputed on several grounds, one being that some five or six people" who, although on the roll, had no legal right to vote. ' v-w

THREE KISSES OF FAREWELL.

By A. K. W.

Three, only three, my darling, > Separate, solemn, slow ; Not like the swift and joyous ones We used to know, < - p. ; • Y ; When we kissed because we loved each other, Simply to taste love’s sweet, - And lavished our kisses as the summer Lavishes heat. But as they kiss whose hearts are wrung When hope and fear are spent, And nothing is left to give except A sacrament!

First of the three, my darling, Is sacred unto pain ; We have hurt each other often, We shall again, When we pine because we miss each other, And do not understand V f J How the written words are so much colder Than eye or hand.- I kiss thee, dear, for all such pain Which we may give or take ; Buried, forgiven before it comes, For our love’s sake.

The second kiss, my darling, Is full of joy’s sweet thrill; We have blessed each other always, We always will. We shall reach until we feel each other Beyond all time and space : : ' We shall listen till we hear each other In every place ; The earth is full of messengers, Which love sends to and fro ; I kiss thee, darling, for all joy Which we shall know. . ,

The last kiss—ah, my darling, My love, I cannot see Through my tears, as I remember What it may be. ' We may die and never see each other, Die with no time to give Any sign that our hearts are faithful, To die, as live. Token of what they will not see Who see our parting breath, This one last kiss, my darling, seals The seal of death !

The Heathen Chinee.— The inhab itants of Vancouver Island have it seems (says the Pall Mall Gazette), determined to follow in the wake of Victoria some years ago, and Queensland recently, by imposing a tax of £8 a head on every Chin ese immigrant who lands in the colony. Probably this will have the intended effect of shutting out Chinamen altogether. This question of the future of Chinese emigration and the English Colonies is, as r we have frequently said, one of consider able gravity. On three occasions it has now been decided by our free-governed colonies that they have the right to impose ’ what is in effect a prohibitive poll-tax on these Asiatic immigrants. It is certainly difficult to justify this act upon any abstract principles. According to the view which we have enforced and are enforcing still upon China, men of any nationality have the right to trade and settle within the limits of all civilised countries. We urge that the Chinese practise of - shutting themselves up from the “foreign devils” is barbarous and foolish, and so on. Yet we permit our Colonies to adopt Chinese meth- -ds in order to protect themselves against that very free competition in one direction that England, and the Colonies too, have been so anxious to obtain for themselves in another. In spite, .never theless, of this apparent -contradiction, he - would be a bold man who in support of the free trade theory should contend that lands which have been acquired ; and are made valuable by the energy and enterprise of Englishmen should .be turned over to the unrestricted occupation of an alien race, which does not even perman ently settle in the country. Sooner or later, we may rely upon. it, the . Chinese will argue there points with us as well as with Americans,

Katie’s apology for failura is: 0 nwnroa, it i» @9 trouble tg be gooij.

THURSDAY, November 28, 1878.]

THE EVENING ECHO.



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General Stores. COAL AND FIREWOOD, OATS AND CHAFF, IN LARGE OR SMALL QUANTITIES. F. DOHERTY, ' BEGS to! remind his Customers and Friends that he is Selling Every Article in Stock at the LOWEST Possible PRICE for CASH. SPRING & SUMMERD RAPERY AND READY-MAEE CLOTHING, Just Arrived, OF THE LATEST STALES ONLY. WASHING MACHINES Just Imported, of the Latest Improvements for Saving Labor. AMERICAN TUBS, all Sizes, Iron & Wood. CAMBRIDGE ROLLERS in Stock. FARMERS’ REQUISITES GARDEN TOOLS, And Seeds of every description. In Stock and to Arrive. F. DOHERTY, GENERAL STOREKEEPER, IMPORTER WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANT. Peter Street, Ashburton.



FAMILY GROCERS, TENT, TARPAULIN, AND HORSE CLOTH MAKERS, AND GENERAL STOREKEEPERS, EAST STREET, ASHBURTON. Orders Delivered to all|Parts of the Town. FLAGS of ALL NATIONS Sup plied to Otder and Let out on Hite. Note the address — SANDO & OLSEN, EAST S2REET, ASHBURTON.



NOTICE ! NOTICE !! NOTICE !1! jpiIRTH, removal; pASS AND Q 0., JJeg to inform the Inhabitant* of Ashburton and surreunding'districts that they have REMOVED ,TO THEIR NEW PREMISES, Next the Union Bank of Australia EAST STREET. piRTH, PASS, & CO. take this oppor tunity of thanking their numerous customers who have so liberally supported them hitherto, and to solicit a continuance of their patronage at the NEW PREMISES, TO BE CALLED THE OLD BANK STORES (late union bank). Orders entrusted to our care will re ceive prompt attention. Families wiled on for ordets weekly. FIRTH, PASS, AND CO., Grocers, Drapers, Ironmongers, WINE AND spirit |H£RC«ANTS, te, IMT tnm?



NOTICE. Advertisements for the evening Echo must be sent in not later than 3 p.m. with the number of insertions written plainly on the copy, otherwise they will be inserted till countermanded, and charged accordingly. Subscriptions —Quarterly in advance, 6s. ; posted, Bs. 6d. ; per annum, in advance, 225. 6d. ; posted, 355. d. ; weekly, paid to ruuners, 6d. Delivered to any part of the town, and at any of the Railway Stations.



; FENCING WIRE. TONS Just Received, and on Sale at LOWEST PRICES. A. O. AITKEN & CO., Havelock Street. Fish. Fish. Fish. MICHAEL DARCY begs to announce the opening of his new FISH STORE, Adjoining the Echo Office, East Street. Fresh Fish Daily. Crayfish, Cockles, Moki, Groper, &c. Dried Fish always on Hand. "tea-Orders by post or otherwise punc tually attended to, and familes waited on.