ASHBURTON TRADE DIRECTORY.

Accountants and Commission Agents Charles Braddell, Montgomery’s Buildings H. J. Bristo, Prospect Buildings, East-st. Architect and Civil Engineer— S. W. Brown, East-street , S. Farr, Montgomery’s Buildings

Auctioneers— % Bullock and Co., East-street

Saunders Bros., Ashburton

Barristers and Solicitors — Mr. Branson, East-street Mr. E. G. Crisp, Montgomery’s Buildings

Bakers, Confectioners, Etc.— Thomas Hicks, Tancred-street Taylor and Lill, East-street,

Banks— Bank of New Zealand, East-street » Union Bank of Australia, East-street

.Boarding House Keepers— J. G. Anstee, East-street Eagie’s Dining Rooms, Havelock Street

Builders, Contractors, Etc.— Tames Baker, Havelock-street Geo. St. Hill Burnett-street West G. Parkin, Steam Saw Mills, Moor-street Matthew Smith, Moor-street Thos. Williams, Tinwald

Booksellers and Stationers — A.. Weston, Prospect Buildings, East-street Furness and Dixon, Stationers’ Hall, East street South , 4

Bootmakers— _ T. 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

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

Drapers and Clothiers — Aitken and Co., Havelock-street On- and Co., East-street John Fowler, Tancred-street' Firth, Pass, and Co., Old Bank Store, East street

Engineers and Founders — Edwards and Lee, Engineers, Smiths, etc., Burnett-street W. J. Hessey, Central Foundry, Peters-st Furniture Warerooms — A. Spillard, Tancrecl 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 K. Sando, East-street

Greengrocers— W. Birtvvell, 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, East-street

Ironmongers- Orr and Co,, East-street Aitken and C 0.,. 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-stieet

Saddlers— Thomas Dudson, Burnett-street

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

Tailors— Aitken and Co,, Havelock-street

Tentmakers— K. Sando, East-streel

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

POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Mails at the Ashburton Post Office - close a; follows s— ' , For Christchurch and North at io a.m., 4 p.m., and 7.30 p.m., daily. For Chertsey at xo a.m. daily. For Rakaia at IO 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, Timaru, and South at 10.15 a.m. and 3 p.m daily. For Tinwald, "Winslow, Hinds, Coldstream, Rangitata, Orari, Winchester, and Geraldine, at 10.15 a.m. daily.

DAILY MEMORANDA

TO-NIGHT. Star of Ashburton A.0.F., at Shearman’s Commercial Rooms, at S o’clock. Ashburton School Committee, in the School room, at 7.30.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Evening Echo. TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1878.

Ashburton County Council.— The usual monthly meeting of the Council will be held to-morrow, instead of Wednesday, 7th prex. At this meet ing, tenders for the office of pound keeper will be opened, and the appoint ment made. Those who intend send ing in tenders must do so before 11 a.m. to-morrow.

Floods. —The rivers in the northern parts of the province have been in heavy fresh, owing to rain on the back ranges and the warm nor’-wester of Saturday night. The Waimakariri has been at its old pranks, washing away large tracts of land, and ruining the crops sown on it. It will be seen by this day’s papers that the railway line has been again damaged to such an extent as to put a stop to the passage of trains over the well-known mile at Chaney’s corner. Two years ago, the question of carrying the metals over this mile on girders was thought of, but since then it has not .been done, and the line has been da maged, and traffic suspended ten. or twelve times. The sum required to make good the damage by floods must be very considerable each time they occur, and there can be no doubt that the cheapest way to proceed in future, would be to effectually bridge this por tion. at once. _ The town of Kaiapoi escaped, the new embankment doing its duty well. Fears were, entertained that if the nor’-wester lasted much -longer, the Rakaia would overflow and cause a stoppage of communication with the South, and the engineer arid manager went up on Monday to. inspect the bridge, with the view of taking such precautionary measures as might seem fit. On the West Coast road, Mr. Power, driver of the coach, reports that on arriving at the Waimakariri on Saturday, he found it running from bank to bank, and nearly 1y 2 mile wide. He returned to the Cass and started again on Sunday morning. On arriving at Broken River he found it was impassable, and again returned to the ‘Cass. He crossed on Monday morning, but the river was so high as to come through the coach, saturating the mails. Mr. Power left the Cass at 5 a.m,, and only reached Sheffield in time for the last train, owing to the flooded state of the creeks.

M.H.R.’s,—The following Members of Parliament left Lyttelton for Welling ton yesterday per Taupo : —Messrs Wason, Saunders, Murray-Aynsley, C. C. Bowen, and Shrimski. The House resumes to-night at 7.30. ■ A Thought—People despise each other too much. There is really some good in almost everyone ; something admirable in most, The stiff and solemn serious man may be a model of integrity and purity, though the gay Bohemian grins at him. The Bohemian, at whose approach the sober, solid man shudders, may really be warm-hearted, generous, and self-sacrificing, though many libations flush his face, and he seldom saves enough to buy himself the coffin for which he makes himself pre maturely ready. The business man, whom others think a creature of dollars and cents, doubtless fought in his youth an Apollyon of discouragement, and is secretly more tender-hearted and charit able than he dares let the world know. From this self-contained and unrefined person you often hear homely truths and honest sentiments. This elegant crea ture, who seems to live to be pampered proves herself strong and steadfast in time of need. Even those deep in the gulf of vice may not merit as much scorn as we give them. Who has held out the helping hand ? Not we who gather back our robes lest they should touch theirs. Did we not so deeply despise those of whom we disapprove, doubtless the shining examples that we are vain enough to fancy that we set them would do them more good. But one thing is certain : whatever good impulses we are conscious of, exist in other bosoms. God did not make us in peculiar fashion. We suffer and rejoice, aspire and fall, as others do, The man who despises his felloiy-man only scorns himself under different circumstances,

Miss Dickenson and the Queen. —Miss Dickenson, the young lady whose charge against Colonel Valentine Baker was the cause of that officer’s expulsion from the English army and impiisonment in gaol, has taken a step that will be applauded by every right-thinking person. The colo nel, whose military talents and personal bravery in the Sultan’s service have made him a social lion in London, has been honored by Queen Victoria "with an invitation to Windsor, while the Prince of Wales has introduced him to the Marlborough Club and otherwise patronised. Miss Dickenson has there fore returned the royal portrait sent to her by the Queen as a mark of sym pathy at the time of the assault, and requested that her own, which she pre sented in return, should be sent back. Speed the Plough.—No less than 700 double-furrow ploughs have been manufactured by Messrs. P>.eid and Grey, at their Dunedin factory since last harvest. About 300 of these have been made for Canterbury. They have orders at present on hand for about 100 more, and expect to turn out quite 1 boo before the end of the season.

A Good Cock Fight. A good story is told in the Congregationalist of Mr. Parsons, the eminent preacher of York. In his travels near Doncaster he was always meeting with men who thought of nothing else but of sport. One of this type happened to be Mr. Parsons’ companion in the coach, and as they drew near Doncaster, pulled out his watch, and exclaimed with evident satisfaction, ‘Ah, we shall be in time yet.’ ‘ln time,’ said Mr. Parsons, ‘ in time for what? ‘ The Sellinger (St. Leger) of course.’ ‘ But perhaps you are not a racing man ?’ * I never was at a race in my life.’ ‘I thought not. You are like myself, I dare say : I like a good cock-fight belter, any day.’ Telegraphic Blunder, —The mis takes that sometimes occur in the trans mission of telegrams are often very amusing. The other day a telegraphic message was sent from the police de partment at Napier to a constable at Wairoa who had just been admitted into the force. The message was to the effect —“ Get form of oath from Major Goring, and swear in to-day.” The telegram the new constable received was —“ Get form of oats from Major Goring, and shew it to-day.” On re ceiving this order, the constable bought ten bushels of oats, which he duly sub mitted for the inspection of the Major. Socialism. — Apropos of the late dastardly attempt upon the life of the aged German Emperor, I learn that there are no less' than seventy-five Socialistic publications in Germany, with an aggregate subscription list of one hundred and thirty-five thousand. Within the past year, the number of these publications has risen from fifty seven to what it, is now. 11l weeds grow apace.— Truth. Snow in Victoria.—The follow ing communication from Wood’s Point, in Viotoria, shows that the recent cold “ snap ” has not been confined to New Zealand alone : A most extraordinary fall of snow commenced last Wednes day. Over a foot fell in the main streets last night. It is still continuing with no appearance of clearing up. There has been no such fall within the recollection of the oldest residents. It is one mass of snow for miles round, varying from 1 foot to 10 feet in depth. The mails from Melbourne, via Yarra track, are not to hand, and the mails from here by the same route cannot be despatched owing to the road being blocked by snow, there being over 6ft. on the track. The telegraph lines are completely wrecked, and communica tion is obtained only at intervals. The snow storm is likely to cause immense floods in the lower country, especially should a thaw suddenly set in. • Kissing goes by Favor.—Mr, James V. Whitbeck, of Bethlehem, N.Y., is -now sadly reflecting on the high value placed by an intelligent jury upon osculatory luxuries. He tried to kiss Mrs. Dr. Jasper Mead, a young and pretty neighbor of his, but did not succeed. He did succeed, however, in making the lady thoroughly angry, and she sued for 400 dollars damages for “assault with intent to kiss.” Fie de nied the soft impeachment, but he failed to convince the 'jury, and they mulcted him in the sum of 400 dols.— r A kiss has cost a Pittsburg school master, Professor Butler, his position. He was teacher of music in the Pitts burg Female College, and the victim of his not i ery terrible assault was a Wheeling girl, who evidently did not believe in the maxim: “ Kiss and never tell.” She told her fellow students, and they declared that they would leave in a body unless the ’offending professor was removed. The faculty chose to lose their music* teacher rather than their studentsthe offender was dismissed, and we hope she girls led better/

TELEGRAPHIC.

LATEST FROM EUROPE.

[By Submarine Cable.]

London, July 29.

The Marquis of Lome has been offered and has accepted the .Governor- Generalship of Canada.' There has been more hard fighting at the Transvaal. British loss is reported to be severe.

At the Mansion House Banquet, Earl Beiconsfield defended the Anglo- Turkish Convention on the ground that the Berlin Treaty was insufficient of itself to maintain European peace.

AUSTRALIAN.

Sydney, July 29

A crowded meeting adopted the ad dress of congratulation to Lord Bea consfield. V

Adelaide, July 29

Mr G. Gibbons, surveyor for the Adelaide Underwriters, has left for New Zealand to ascertain whether it is pos sible to recover the railway plant from the wreck of the Hydrabad.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Per Press Agency.]

Port Chalmers, Tuesday.

A very serious accident has oc curred to Harry Maitland, eldest son of J. P. Maitland, Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands Board. The young gen tleman had visited port on horseback. While remounting, the horse became restive, causing Maitland to fall heavily on his head. He was at once put to bed and attended by Dr Drysdale, who found him suffering from concussion of the brain.

Auckland, Monday.

A fire broke out at Newtown this morning, which destroyed a two-storey house, the property of C. King. It was insured in the Standard office for £,200. The house was purchased twelve months ago for and was empty at the time of the fire, as to the origin of which nothing has been discovered. The steamer Geelong, on her way to Hokianga from Wbangape, was caught in the storm, and lost a raft containing 50,000 feet of kauri timber which she was towing. The loss amounts to Grahamstown, Monday.

A travelling professor of medicine largely advertised in New Zealand was detected eloping with a barmaid.. The damsel is in her teens, while the pro fessor, who hails.from America, is quite fifty, and has a wife in Auckland. New Plymouth, Monday.

A meeting of the Taranaki Jockey- Club was held on Saturday, when it was resolved to hold the races on December 5 and 6.

Wellington, Monday.

A supplementary Gazette to-day noti fies the following reservation : —BOO acres, being part of rural section No. 30,492, for the purpose of granting same to the Corporation of the borough of Rangiora ; and 855 acres, being also part of the same section, for the Cor poration of the borough of Sydenham. The Conference of .Mayors and dele gates from the various Municipalities in the- Colony commenced this after noon in the Provincial Council Cham ber. The Mayor Gf Wellington took the chair temporarily. The question ot the appointment of a permanent chair man was postponed until to-morrow. The method of procedure was arranged and other preliminary business trans acted, after which the Council adjourned until to-morrow.

Hokitika, Monday.

Captain Vernazoni, of the steamer Mulloilgh, was drowned yesterday when trying to reach the steamer on the North Spit. Invercargill, Monday.

Through assistance received from the News and local printers, the Southland Tunes published as usual this morning. Dunedin, Monday.

The attendance at the Dunedin High School has increased lately, and an ad ditional master was appointed on Satur day. , Telegrams have been received from the Government that iri the matter of the site of the goods station they cannot act contrary to the opinion of Sir John Coode. Should the Government per sist in adopting Mr Macandrew’s plan, the local representative bodies would probably appeal to Parliament. Several members of the police force have resigned within the last two months in consequence of the low rate of pay. Mr Ross intends petitioning against the return of Mr Driver for Roslyn, on the grounds of bribery and corrup tion. At the official declaration of the poll to-day, he said that if the electors had been left to vote as they pleased Mr Driver would not have been re turned/ Mr Driver replied that this taternent was m -insult to the

electors who had voted for him. Mr Ross said he would have insulted them had he kept a public-house open for their convenience. Mr Driver replied “ It’s a lie.” Other personalities were also indulged in. ‘

THE FEMALE REFORMER.

From the Nero York Times.

It is a scientific fact that the peculiar species of women popularly known as the female reformer is unusually thin and bony. Whether the advocacy-of reform has a direct tendency to develop bones, or whether women v r ho are con genially bony become reformers because they are shut out from the ordinary pleasures and pursuits of plump and pretty women, has not been satisfac torily ascertained. Galen expresses the opinion that “ reform is bred in the bone,” meaning thereby that an excess of bones develops a desire for reform; while, on the other hand, Paracelsus insists that when a woman toubleth her mind concerning affairs beyond her comprehension, her flesh wasteth arid her bones w r ax large. It is conceded by anatomists and chemists that the bones of eminent female reformers contain an excess of phosphorous, and it has been asserted that if the elbow of Mrs. Swisshelm is briskly rubbed against a piece of sand paper it gives out a bluish flame accompanied by phosphorous acid. It is not, however, necessary at this time to decide upon the cause of the intimate association between bones and female reformers. It is enough simply to remind the public that the more earnestly a' woman may advocate’ female suffrage and trousers the more closely may we expect to find her approaching the general weight and appearance of a human skeleton. To this rule there has, nevertheless, been one apparent exception, which has greatly puzzled our scientific men. The Rev. Eliza' Wilkinson, . v r ho lately ministered to our Free-will Universalist congregation of Clinton, Illinois, and who. has been present at dozens of dress conventions, has always been hurled metaphori cally, of course—-in the faces of those who insist that all female reformers are necessarily bony. There is no doubt that she has been a stumbling-block in the path of science, for although her face has been confessedly thin and sharp, her figure has been plump and beautifully-proportioned. . In former years it was frequently alleged that Miss Wilkinson was partly the produce of art, and that no confidence ought to be placed in her apparent plumpness; but after a committee of her enemies had watched her for an entire year, and made sure that during that time not an ounce of cotton had entered her house, they w r ere forced to give up their un-„ worthy suspicions. That she was en tirely genuine was gradually conceded by all; and our ablest scientific men were finally compelled to admit that she was a heavy Ins us natures. Their want of absolute confidence in the uni formity of nature has since been sig nally rebuked, and they are all ready to affirm that they always knew that she was no exception to the universal law. On the third Sunday in March last, the congregation over which Miss Wil kinson presided celebrated the 10th anniversary of its organisation. As the meeting-house is a small one, .the cele bration was held in the Town Hall, where a large stage was erected, from which, with the aid of a table and a glass of water, Miss Wilkinson proposed to deliver an eloquent lecture. The Clinton Cornet Band volunteered its services, and a company of coloured minstrels from Alabama kindly con sented to add to the attractions of the celebration. Thus it came to pass that at least half an hour before the ap pointed time the building was so com pletely full that even the aisles were crowded with people. ' Rev. Miss Wilkinson approached the Town Hall at precisely five minutes before 8 o’clock, and at once perceived that she could never force her way through the people to the stage. In this emergency one of the town trustees —Mr. Henry Barnes, a man of unim peachable veracity—-proposed that she should gain a rear window by means of a ladder and so reach the stage without difficulty. To this proposal she assented, and the ladder being procured, Mr. Barnes held it while she cautiously ascended to the window. He has since testified that, in spite of the ut most discretion on his part, Miss Wil kinson’s ostensible plumpness could not escape his notice, and he repudiates with scorn the suggestion that the fact that the stripes were horizontal pro duced upon him an impression of plumpness which did not really exist There happened to be a sharp nail pro jecting from the side of the ladder near the upper end, and Mr. Barnes asserts that Miss Wilkinson, having gouged one of her-— in short, having come in contact with this mail, gave a little shriek which drew his attention to,*-* |

At any rate, he claims that it was not his fa.ult, and that he was not the vic tim of a mere ocular delusion.

The eloquent and plump reformer was received by the audience with great applause, and began a superb oration upon “ Sincerity.” She de manded that men and women should be, above all things, sincere, and should avoid shams and pretences of all kinds. Warming with the argument, she walked to and fro on the stage, and occasionally stamped her foot with manly emphasis. Soon the audience began to notice a. curious deposit, of the color and general appearance of bran, which formed little ridges along the stage wherever the speaker walked. It was also noticed that whenever she stamped her foot or remained in one. position for a few moments, a small mount of the mys terious substance made its appearance. After a time another phenomenon created fresh astonishment Miss Wil kinson was obviously growing thinner. Her dress hung lo osel) upon her, and before long she presented the appear ance of a very thin school-girl wearing the clothes of a fat aunt. It was not until Miss Wilkins on had wasted to an extent that created unusual horror and dismay that she noticed anything was wrong. As she cast her eyes down wards she perceived the deposits' of bran. Instinctively putting both hands to her waist, she felt that her plumpness had vanished, and as the full extent of her calamity flas h ed upon her, she sank in a fainting fit on the floor, and was carried out by two deacons—a mere bundle of cloth r ng enclosing a scarcely perceptible amo'unt of female reformer. The bran was swept up—there was nearly a bushel of it—and a desperate attempt was made to hush the matter up. Mr. Barnes, however, could not be bribed to silence, and the scientific men who accept his explanation bless the friendly nail which accidentally de monstrated that Miss Wilkinson is no exception to the great law that all female reformers consist chiefly of bones.

The Maori.—The Poverty. Bay .. Herald is of opinion that the aboriginal of New Zealand at the present day is about as well looked after and carefully tended by a paternal Government as any one we know. If he openly rebels against the laws of his Queen and the land he lives in, he is provided with an annual income, a large house is built for him, and he is offered the best sections in the town. If he sells land honorably to a European and is fairly paid for it, he is indirectly assisted by. the Government to get back his land, and an opportunity is afforded him to sell it over again, he at the same time sticking to the original purchase money. If he gets into debt he is equally as well protected from any of those petty annoyances that European debtors are subject to. Lucky.—The Marlborough Express saysA person was pointed out to us a day or two since to whom fortune has been unusually kind. He was working out on one of the up-country sheep runs when it was discovered that some one had left him with an annual income of We hope he will live long to enjoy his prosperity Neatly Put—The Express is to be •. credited with the following neat way of announcing that there has been a heavy flood iih Blenheim “ The dinner to W. F. Hull, Esq., was postponed , for the present owing to the effusion of water on Mr. Penny’s premises conse- J quent upon the heavy rains of Sunday and Monday, which rendered it a - mat ter of extreme difficulty to do justice to the occasion.” - Charles 11. and his Barber.— One day, ( while the King was being shaved, his impudent barber said to h im,. that “he thought none of his' Majesty’s officers, had a greater trust than he.” “ Ay, 5 ' said the Kin g; how so, friend ?” “ Why/’ said the barber, “I could cut your Majesty’s throat when I would.” The King started up and said, “ Odds fish ! that very thought is treason; thou shalt shave me no more.” The barber of Dionysius, who made the same r.emark, was crucified for his garrulity ; but Charles was not cruel. His loquacious barber was only dismissed. . Cold Tea.—A native of “.the sunny South” who had resided in the North some time, professed to be quiee fa miliar : with the language. The ques tion of his proficiency arose one night as he sat in a puplic-house at Wreken ton, when one of the company made a wager with him. that he could not cor rectly translate the words of the first man who came into the house. The Southron was exceedingly confident of the result, when in walked a man, who walked to the fire, and as he displayed his hands to the heat he exclaimed, “ Begum, it’s blawin’ and it’s snawin’, and it’s caad tee,” The Southron at once responded, “ He says it s blowing, t f s etwwing, and H want? CPI 4 $R, ,f

The Evening Echo, Tuesday, July 30, 1878.



ASHBURTON RETAIL LIST. s. d. s. d. 3utter, inferior to best, $lb I 4 to I 6 Eggs, # dozen 2 0 to 2 3 Bacon, prime smoked, $ lb o 10 to 0 0 Hams in cloth, lb - I 0 to 0 0 Cheese, prime quality, $ & o 9 to 0 10 Flour in bags, ioolb 15 0 to O 0 Oatmeal, iootb - ’ 26 0 to O 0 Lard, I? lb - - - 0 9 to 0 0



Strangers coming to re;i le 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. OaR & 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 the leading manufacturers at home, which being' bought entirely upon rash 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 pt the same prises as the best Judges, —Advt,