POST OFFICE NOTICES.

..Mails at the Ashburton Post Office close i; follows : For Christchurch and North at io a.ra. I p.m., and 7.30 p.tn., daily. For Chertsey at 10 a. m. daily. . For Rakaia at 10 a.m.,.am! 4 p.m. daily. For Tifawal'd, Winslow/ Hinds, Coldstream, •Rangitata, Orari, Winchester, and Geraldine,, at ro. 15 a.m. daily. For Ashton, Waterton, and Longbeach, at 3.15 p.m. daily. For Temuka, Timaru, and South at 10-.15 p.m. and 3 p.m daily. For Greenstreet, Ashburton Forks, Mount Somers, and Ashburton Gorge on Tuesdays and Fridays at 10.30 a.m. W. St. G. Douglas, Postmaster.

The Evening Echo. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1878.

A great labor question i 3 just now troubling New South Wales, the element of disturbance in the matter being one that has set every man’s hand against his fellow in California and other States in America, and ere long must extend its feverish influence to our own shores, as it has already affected our Australian neigh bors. Wherever Chinamen are massed together so as to form a large proportion of the population, heart-burnings on the question, of labor at once arise, because of the yellow-skin’s readiness to work for wages that to a European means the verge of starvation ; and as capital naturally gravitates to the cheapest market for its supply of any commodity—labor included —the European workman finds himself supplanted by a vastly cheaper, if inferior, article. The sailors employed on the A.S.N. Co. ’3 vessels found the tide of Celestial labor setting directly towards them, threa tening to swamp them in its flood, arid— scared by the prospect—struck against it. So long as they conducted their strike within the limits of recognised law, they were perfectly entitled to leave their employment, and refuse to sell their labour, at a price that was not satifactory to them. But having signed articles for a certain time at a certain figure, they had no right whatever to break their agree ment, -and leave their employers in a .difficulty they were not prepared to meet. Such conduct is bound to have its- effect in destroying that confidence which ought always to subsist between employers and employed, which once broken is difficult to again cement, and the consequences of the breach are distrust and reprisals—dis astrous alike to both sides.

That capital from a business point of view has a right to employ Chinese labor, if it serves the purpose as well as European, whether cheaper or dearer, there is no one will deny. But there are sides to the question not, to be lightly o rerlooked by the main Body of the population." Granted the cheapness of. the Chinamen’s labor, and granted, -too, its efficiency, is the Chinaman himself a desirable fellow citizen? He is not in any sense. As a tax-payer he is a failure, for he uses scarcely an article from which the State levies revenue. He is an adept at saving money, but in any laud he favors with his presence he lives but as a tenant, and as soon as his efforts at saving have culmi nated in enough to give huh a competency in his native laud, he disappears to it like the early cloud and the morning dew. Notwithstanding the glance of withering scorn a feeble supporter of Chinese morality tries to-day to cast upon those who condemn the Chi taman for his un nameable vices, we fearlessly repeat, even in the face of that supporter’s charge ol cowardice, that the community infected with a Chinese fever must become a second Sodom and Gomorrah, and, whatever the morality of nineteenth century English men, it has not yet sunk so very low as to be named, in the same breath with" the, horrors of the Chinese —leprous in ibo'dy. literally "and equally leprous figuratively in mind. Proud, indeed, must every Eng lishman feel when he is told that the immaculate men of Britain” have no right’ to point .an. accusation of immorality •pinst the Vof humanity” jfch&fc

have silted up in China as from the mouth of a great moral sewer. Public opinion in New Zealand does not favor ’an influx of Chinese for the cheapness of their labor, and already -a movement is on foot to legislate for the exclusion of such an influx. jThe peace and social harmony of the colony de mands'such legislation, and we have no doubt that sooner or'-later—the sooner the better —fit will be a ; fact. - -B'ut whether it is nobler to pass such a-law, with a view to. save European workmen from an unfair Competition with a non-revenue contri buting and migratory people,'; or with a view to exclude from the midst of the population a flood of moral abomination, we leave right thinking men to judge.

New Business. —Mr. A. W. Weston has recommenced the business of hair dresser. He has fitted up, iri a neat and tasteful style, a saloon behind his tobac conist shop with all the modern appliances of his profession with a view to the comfort of patrons, and placed the whole ; in charge of a competent manager.

The Waimate Fire Entertainment will he repeated to-night. To secure a good house considerable alterations have been made in the programme, and the price of admission has been .reduced to one shilling. The County Council. —Mi*. Wright’s motion, yesterday, to ask the Minister for Public Works to call for tenders for the Ashburton and Mount Somers railway construction, so that the work might be commenced immediately after harvest, was passed by the Council. Mr. Wright gave notice at the last meeting of hi 3 intention to move that the Council adver tise for a County Engineer, at a salary of £SOO ; travelling expenses allowed. The Council recognised the wisdom of having an engineer resident in the county, and the motion was carried.

Entertainment. —Last night the enter tainment got up by the Oddfellows’ Christy Minstrels came off. The purpose of it was to raise funds for the relief of the Por tuguese sailors, whose almost miraculous and certainly.fortunate.-escape front a ter rible death at sea, has excited so much interest in this province, and also in aid of the sufferers by the recent fires in the Waimate bush. -A. considerable audience attended, and Considering that almost every item of the usual cost of such enter tainments had been met by t'le liberality of friends, a good sum should result. A part of" the pro/ram me was intended to nave been the introduction in person of the Portuguese sailors, but these for some unexplained reason did not appear as arranged for, and consequently some de gree of disappointment was felt. The entertainment, howevey, got together at a very short notice and with little oppor tunity for practice, went on and was cre ditably gone through. The performers were Miss Gates and Mrs. Penlington, whose vocal contributions received that share of applau-e they both so well merited; Master Stevenson, a pleasing young singer, Mr. Minnis, whose elocutionary efforts are ever-fresh ; and our local troupe of Chris ty’s. The last named have made them selves popular withthe public by their clever performances, and the amount of work they had to do last night, and well done it was, showed that, though ama teurs, there was gx-it in them not to be sneered at. There ik no need for us to particularise the items of the entertain ment, which, notwithstanding the disap pointment caused by the absence of .the Portuguese castaways, was enjoyable, and gone through with spirit, even though one. of the foremost Christy’s was suffering from indisposition. The large-heartedness of those helping in the movement cannot be too 'much commended, and the Chris ty's and other performers have earned, public respect by-their-readmess to appear in aid of a good cause.V- ■-

Shoot High. —“ Ish ter scheneral around,” asked an excited Israelite a 3 the United States troops passed through Siatuka recently in pursuit of the fleeing Bannocks. “ Well, my man,” said How ard, reining in his horse, “ what is it ? Speak quick.” - “ I am. a room' man, scheneral. Dem cursed redskins, dey murder my boy Shacob about fife miles from here and stheal a dozen pair of pants he vos peddlin’. New pants,' so hellup me kracious—right out of my store !” “ Sorry for your loss, my man, but haven’t time to talk about it now. If we catch up with these demons we’ll stop their devilries for good and all.” “ Yes, I know scheneral I know,” eagerly whispered the bereaved ready-made merchant, hanging desperately to the officer’s stifrup: “ Hot’s all right; but venyou come" up mit doze Indians wot got doze new pants on, for kracious- sake, scheneral, tole the .soldiers to shoot high.”

Hard Lines. —The “ Reefton Times ” says : —‘ ‘ There has not been, a bite in .Reefton for days past, and, as. we heard it expressed the other day, there is not a hoof in the country from Okarito to Westport. Fat kine and lean kine, and in fact every kind of kine, have been bought ip and slaughtered, and the cry is still mey don’t come. Such a dearth of beef has never before been known on the West Coast, and the united lamentation of our butchers is that their occupation is gone.”

Strangers coming to reside in Ashburton •re often at a loss to know which is the best Establishment to. . visit foi- the purchase ol ■Jrapery, Clothing, and fionse-furnishing Iron noiigery, and General .Stores. Orr & Co. jffer special advantages to the public that can oe met with nowhere else in Ashburton. They keep at all times the largest and best-assorted Storloof every class, of Goods, imported direct. ; from the'leadin'gyhiafiufa'cf urers -at-home, which ■,beina cashdeVms.’they, are enabled -to-ofler goods -of sivh sterling...vaEic as cannot be equalled by afly 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 pi ices as the best judges,—Advt

TELEGRAPHIC.

LATEST FROM EUROPE.

[By Submarine Cable.]

Calcutta, Dec. 5.

A conciliatory reply to the ultimatum has been received. The Ameer professes that he had written his submission pre viously. It is believed to have been re written after the defeat at Ali Musjid. , „ London, Dec. 6.

Unofficial reports are current that the Liberals will propose a vote of censure in the House of Lords and Commons. Dec. 7. The importation of live stock into Eng land is prohibited. Russia occupies Merv. England annexes si portion of Afghanis tan. Dec. 9. The West of England and South Wales Discount Bank has failed. The liabilities are unknown. ■; It .is reported that Shere Ali has fled.

AUSTRALIAN

4 Melbourne, Dec. 9. The J “ Post” says that Sir Hercules Robinson has been appointed to succeed the Marquis of Normanby.

Sydney, Dec. 9. Governor Robinson accepts the Gover norship of New Zealand. The strikers hare mobbed and assaulted other workmen. Special police have been sworn in, and the military called into the barracks. They are under arms day and night.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Per Press Agency and Exchanges.] Auckland, Monday. Only one firm now holds out against the grocers’ half holiday. A temperance procession of eleven hun dred Catholics, headed by the Union Jack, with bands and green banners, marched through the principal streets yesterday. : The Sydney “ Herald” states that at a recent-meeting of the High Commissioners of the Court of Levuka, a summons was applied for against the Rev. G. Brown for alleged manslaughter, but his friends at Fiji thought it would be fair he should be tried in New Britain. It will probably be some time before the High Commis sioners can proceed to Fiji to inquire. Wellington, Monday.

Complaints are being made as to the short weights in the tradesmen’s shops, and the bad quality of the milk brought into the city from the country districts. In consequence of the prevailing fine weather a good deal of the cargo of the Sou+hminster is being saved. 200 cases of kerosene was amongst the other stuff being brought up to-day. It is stated here in official circles that Sir Hercules Robinson is not to be Gover nor of New Zealand.

A violent thunderstorm, with heavy rain, occurred yesterday. There were serious floods in the country, and much damage has been done, estimated at several thou and pounds. It was the heaviest flood for more than ten years. Reefton, Monday.

The Pactolus Company cleaned up after a trial crushing of thirty-six tons of stone which yielded 278 ounces of retorted gold. A dividend of Is per twenty thousandth share has been declared, and a similar amount will be divided from the next crushing. The mine looks remarkably .well. Blenheim, Monday. A severe hailstorm passed over Picton and Coast this morning. Hailstones big as marbles fell, and several windows were broken, and the crops damaged. Timaru, Monday. The Supreme Court. Sittings has been adjourned by Judge Johnson from the 16th to the 17th, in consequence of the holiday and the anniversary of the pro vince. Dunedin, Monday. Several young men while bathing at Ocean Beach on Saturday had a very nar row escape. A shark 15ft. long was seen prowling about a few minutes after they left the water. Balclutha, Monday. The weather is extremely stormy.* The river bank behind the township has been washing away at an alarming rate for the past few days, worse than at any time during the floods. Since last night the. bank has gone twenty-seven feet. The river i 3 now only a hundred yards from the houses in Chailelle street. Hislop’s house is to be removed to-morrow, the river being within twelve feet of the house. Protective works are to be commenced to morrow. 'Engineers have been examin ing the bridge, with a view to reporting on the cost of.re-erection to Government. Invercargill, December 9. A meeting of the citizens of Invercargill was held in the Athenaeum this afternoon, to take steps for the institution of a memorial of the late Sir John Richardson. The attendance was influential, although not numerically large. It was unanimously agreed that'the memorial should be of an educational character, n imely, the creation of a scholarship in the New Zealand Uni versity. .

Draconian. —Scene : Police court, North Highlands. Accused ; Put, Paillie, •et’S na -provit ! • • Bailie : Hoot toots, 'ToMl', ■ and hear me speak! Aw’U only find ye ha’f-a-croon the day because et’s no verra well provit. But if ever ye come before me again, ye’ll no get aff under five shillin’s whether et’s provit or no!

A BURNING MOUNTAIN IN QUEENSLAND.

(From the Brisbane Courier.)

We are favoured by Mr. Thomas Freney, surveyor, with a very interesting and gra phic account of a burning mountain, whose existence has, strange to say, hitherto been unknown. Mr. Freney's communi cation is dated “Cooper’s Plains, Sept. 16,” and runs as follows :—“ Having recently been near the Main Range, my attention was drawn by some young men in the locality to the existence of a burn ing mountain they had lately visited in company of a black fellow, who acted as guide, and by whom they were informed it-had been on fire to his knowledge since he was a little boy. I arranged with them to visit the locality on a certain day, and accordingly ten. or more of us started, all anxious to see so rare an occurrence. After travelling some miles the mountains began to close in, and our path was con fined to the valley of. the Teviot Brook, with its splendid stream, clear as crystal. A narrow passage of solid rock was soon ‘reached, through which the stream flows, the face of this wall being perpendicular, about 200 ft. high, and seven chains long on left hand side going up. About mid way in this wall, and at 20ft. over the stream, i 3 a splendid cave divided into several compartments. Continuing our course up the brook, in a mile and a half a cedar scrub was reached, and half a mile further we dismounted and secured our horsos in a yard used by the cedar cutters, of whom there are two parties. This far there is a fair road ; we had now one mile to tramp, half of which was through scrub intersected by tracks from one fallen cedar to the next. On leaving the scrub we mounted a steep spur, only a few yards wide on top, the inclination of its sides being about 50deg., running parallel with the brook, and standing probably 200 ft. above it; it consists chiefly of shale and coal. Proceeding some distance a small descent to a cross spur was made, and this was the termination of our journey. Looking to the south the view was shut out by the spurs of the main range and the density of the timber. Wilson’s Peak, though not visible, was only two miles distant. Turning to the north the cedar scrub and bed of the brook were 200 ft. under where we were standing. There was nothing strange or unusual to observe, and had it not been pointed out by the guides, we should never have sus pected that the heart of the spur under oar feet was on fire. Moving lower down and more around on the inclined face of the slope, a patch of burnt earth and ashes was entered upon, which continue'd about a chain horizontally, and half a chain wide. At each step we sank up to the knees in burnt material, and the heat of the ground was distinctly felt. Trees over two feet through were burnt across in small open ings 18in. wide, others, probably of more recent fall, being untouched by the fire. At the top of this slope a seam of coal a foot thick was seen’resting on a compact, massive-looking shale untouched by fire. We now tried to ascertain what was under the ashes, and clearing away as best we could—not having implements to assist the operation, and the ashes coming down as fast as they were cleared out—at length, and at (say) 18in. deep, calcined clay and shale were exposed, too hot to handle, and a stick thrust in was in a few seconds ignited. E very where we tried in the above mentioned space the result was the same. That it is a coal-bed on fire there cannot exist a doubt, and in my opinion the seat of the fire, or combustible matter, is at present situated far in the heart of the ridge. My informants say that it cannot be less than 30years since this phenomenon was first seen. Whether such is the case I cannot say, but evidently, judging by the surroundings, it has at least been some years on fire. Tile question arises—When or where will it end ? The locality is avast coal-field : coal is visible in every gully, and many of the spurs are largely com posed of it; and though upheaved, pene trated, and overflowed by the main range, which is of a more modern era, it is reason able to conjecture it to be a continuation of and identical with the Allora coal-field. ”

NINETEENTH CENTURY NOVELS.

(From 'he C/iaring Cross Magazine.)

How very few books of the present day can be placed in youthful hands ! They mostly treat' of indelicate subjects, how ever much veiled in. highly-colored lan guage ; they are spiced with “ double entendres,” and seasoned with inuendo; full of descriptions of fast life, of the habits, customs, manners, dresses, jewellery, car riages, horses, and houses of questionable members of society ; of the entertainments they give, the society they affect, the money they spend, the fashions they set, their friends, and their friends’ friends— chis is all part of the present day novelist’s stock-in-trade. It is almost impos sible to take up a novel without finding some mention of the class termed “ demi-monde,” and the lives they lead. The heroes of fiction, too, now, how in tensely absurd they are. What wonderful creatures these swalwart guardsmen, with vast frames, cleanly cut features, hand some as those of Adonis or Antinous, and isually compared to the one or the other : answer ng to such sobriquets as “ Baby,’ :£ Curly,” ‘‘lnfant,” ‘‘Pet,” men “erible ” with debt, fascinating yet cruel, with the strength and coarseness of a bargee united to the polish and the refinement of a finished gentleman. . These worthies, too, are depicted with an astonishing taste for man-millinery, evinced by their wearing seed-pearl trimmed dressing-gowns, and having their rooms furnished as luxuri ously as the boudoir of a duchess. These are the men people are expected in these days to read about with interest! The

most astonishing part of all being that the public do read such trash, and, in many instances, " believe that the descriptions given in novels of such men and women are real. It would be amusing, were it not shocking and revolting, to think that people write, and read, such pernicious nonsense ; „our pity for those who read, and are ..entertained, by such books is only equalled by our disgust and contempt for those who write them. Worse than all is the fact that our lady novelists persistently—of course, the e are many honorable exceptions—choose risque subjects, and discant on such topics with a minuteness of detail which is surprising. Many books now written by women are not fit for indiscriminate reading—a sure test they cannot be read out loud in the home circle. Why ? Because of this fashionable following of the taste of the day, which causes such a rush of refined immoral writing to emanate from pens which should be used in raising, instead of lowering the public mind. ■ - 1

TO-DAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Wellington, Tuesday,

Judgment was given this morning in the Southminster inquiry. The Court held the loss of the vessel attributable to the set of the tide. The captain’s and officers’ certificates were returned. A note appears on the Admiralty chart, stating that there is no tide on the coast. Captain Fraser states that this is incorrect.

A respectable, looking man named Noakes was arrested by. Detective Farrell some days ago on, a charge of indecent exposure. He was yesterday tried and acquitted. He now intends to proceed with a civil action against Detective Farrell.

The ship Zealandia is r«ady for sea with a cargo of colonial produce, including 50 tons of Oamaru flour. The whole is valued at over £IOO,OOO. The captain finds great difficulty in obtaining seamen, who appear to have come to an agreement to stand out for very high wages. It is probable the vessel will be delayed in consequence. The men refuse to accept seven pounds per month. Justice Richmond has gone to the Hot Springs for the benefit of his health. The “ New Zealander” says that Mr. W. Wood, the member, for Mataura, is to be called to the Upper House, and that Sir William Fitzherbert will be offered the Speakership of the Upper Chambers. Tima'ru, Tuesday. Yesterday afternoon, Jonas, Hart, and Wilde held an important sale of wool, tal low, and skins. The prices obtained were fully up to the average. Cross-bred wool, 7fd. to Bd.; merino, 7§d.; cross-bred skins, ss. to ss. 6d.; medium ditto, 3s. sd. to 4s. 9d.; merino, 4s. 9d. to ss.

The Crops. —The weather is not yet all that could be desired, not by a long way; but reports from the country are more cheering. On the Longbeach road things promise better than they did a week ago, attributable no doubt to the recent show ers and cloudy weather. The lost color has been to some extent regained, and ic is quite possible that yet, with fair play, 30 bushels an acre may be reaped. To wards the sea, however, ' there is not much alteration. At the foot of Graeme’s road the crops are still inferior, but as you come into the swamp, evidences of a fresh start made are visible. Messrs. Crow and Lysaght’s barley ought to run 25 bushels or thereby, if not more with a wetting, and will be early in the market. There is but a small stock of barley in the country just now, and . the growers will realise splendidly on early crops of it.

The Cleansing of Towns. —ln a paper read before the Wellington Philosophical Institution on Saturday , week, Mr. J. T. Thornton, C.E. , F.R.GIS., &c., Surveyor- General of New Zealand, said that in a colony such as ours, where new munici palities are being annually incorporated, it is desirable that in their varied respon sibilities they should not neglect sanitary reform. Though, in the early stages of a town cess-pools are not. to be avoided, yet, in relation to the health of the people, these should, as early as possible, be abolished by law, and in the first place the dry system (the removal of the sewage by manual or machine carriage) instituted, until they had obtained a water supply, and fully considered their facilities of re moval, and the permanent sites to which they could conduct the sewage with the least offence to interests in the neighbor hood. In course of some further remarks, Mr. Thompson said that- Wellington, from his seven years experience of it, was about one of the worst drained cities in the world, and what it might be like in a few years hence, unless some different mode of drainage were adopted speedily, it would be sad to contemplate.

An Advertising Shark.— There is a sharp man in San Francisco who thought shat he had discovered a new method of idvertising hiS* business as tailor. He jwore that he would make the very shark in the sea declare his fame to the world. He went about his business systematically. He placed poisoned meat in a bottle, and threw the bottle, with his own name and iddress enclosed, in the sea, where a aungry shark finding it, swallowed it, and soon turned his mouth to the sky. Being r picked up in the bay, the shark declared in the memorandum found entire in the bottle, the means whereby he had come to his end. The notice was, as the tailor expected, sent to the papers. But the journalists out West are ’cute people. Instead of his name and address being printed-in the paper, the tailor received, an intimation that lie might, by applying to the manager’s office, secure the publica tion of his name at the usual rates. “Evening sermons only twenty-five minutes long,” is conspicuous in a church notice in the “ Ogdensburg Journal.”

TUESDAY, DtcxMßXft is, iB?B,j

Tits EVENING ECHO,



Hotels. THE QUEEN'S HOTEL, Corner of Cashel and Manchester Streets, CHRISTCHURCH. R\ si IT H BEGS to -inform the- public that the; above Hotel has lately been renewed, and fitted up in the Best Home Style, with every attention to comfort and convenience. Water laid on in every room, with excellent bath. Private Suites of Rooms. Commercial and Sitting Rooms. Liquors of the very best brands. Terms Moderate. R. SMITH, Proprietor. Comer of Cashel and Manchester Streets, CHRISTCHURCH. 11l Under Distinguished Patronage. QUILL'S HOTEL. (Opposite Railway Station, and adjoining Post a.id Telegraph Departments, Ashburton.) THE Proprietor of the above Magnifi cent Hotel begs to announce to Commercial Travellers, Families, and Visitors to this prosperous district, that this establishment is acknowledged to be the finest in New Zealand, both a 3 regards its extent of accommodation, and the general perfection of its appointments. The private suites of apartments are specially designed to suit the convenience and privacy of families. The sitting room 3 are cheerful and pleasant. Splen did Commercial Room, and a Reading Room with one of the Best Libraries in the colony. Large Sample Rooms to meet the requirements of Commercial Travellers. Bath Rooms, and a First class Billiard Saloon furnished with one of Alcock’s Prize Tables. T. Q. having completed arrangements with the best wholesale houses in Aus tralia for the supply of Wines and Spirits, is in a position to offer nothing but a genuine article to the public, and strongly recommends invalids, and those who enjoy good Port and Sherry, to purchase from the above Hotel. T.Q. guarantees everything in stock of the purest descrip tion. The Trade Supplied. QUILL'S COMMERCIAL HOTEL AND WINE VAULTS. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL SPIRIT MERCHANT & IMPORTER. IsggAlpposite Railway Station, Ashburton. ORAM'S SOMERSET COMMERCIAL AND FAMILY HOTEL, ASHBURTON.



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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. Special notices can be received up to 3*3° p.m. for insertion over the Leader, but will be charged double scale. Subscriptions—Quarterlv in advance, 6s. ; posted, Bs. 6d. ; per annum, in advance, 225. 6d. ; posted, 355. d. ; weekly, paid to collector, 6d. Delivered to any part of the town, and at any of the Railway Station?. Miscellanuous. FENCING WIRE. *OA TONS Just Received and on Sale /Ox) at LOWEST PRICES. A. O. AITKEN & CO., Havelock Street. ANTED, Brethren of the THISTLE LODGE to call on the Hon. Sec., Bro;‘ E. A. GARNETT, East Street. 120 AUCTION SALES. To-morrow, iith Dec. —Bullock and Co., at Eagle’s Boarding House.