ASHBURTON TRADE DIRECTORY.

Accountants and Commission Agents— Charles Braddell, Montgomery’s Buildings li. J. B risto, Prospect Buildings, East-st, W. R. Boyle, Moore-street. Architect and Civil Engineer— S. W. Brown, East-street S. Farr, Montgomery’s Buildings B. Mountfort, East Street

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 Thomas Taylor, East-street,

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

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

Builders, Contractors, Etc.— James Baker, Havelock-street Geo. St. Hill, Burnett-street West G, Parkin, Steam Saw Mills, Moor-street Matthew Smith, Moor-stieet Thos. Williams, Tinwald G. Compton, Builder, Moore-street. ‘

Booksellers and Stationers— A. VVescon, Prospect Buildings, East-street street South Weeks and Dixon, Stationers’ Hall, East- Bootmakers— J. Chambers, Prospect Buildings, East-street M. Nealas, East-street

Brewers— Wood and Co., Cameron-street Cabinetmakers and Undertakers— James Baker, Havelock-street G. Parkin, Moor-street Thomas Williams, 1 inwaid

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 F. P. Leßreton, Burnett-street.

Drapers and Clothiers— Aitken and Co., Havelock-street Orr arc Co., East-street John Fowler, Tancred-street Firth, Pass, and Co., Old Bank Store, East street W. Gavin, East-street T. Quinn & Co., Moor-street

Engineers and Founders— Edwards and Lee, Engineers, Smiths, etc., Burnett-street W. f. H'essty, Central Foundry, Peters-st

Furniture Warerooms— A. Spillard, Tancred Street

Grocers, General Dealers, Etc.— Aitken and Co., Havelock-street Orr and Co,, East-street Firth, Pass, and Co., East-street John Fowler, Tancred-street K. Sando, East-street

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

Hotels— iggiftill'lpConlmercial Hotel, near Railway Station Shearman’s Somerset Hotel, East-street

Ironmongers- 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— Weeks and Dixon, East-street

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

laddlers Thomas Dudson, Burnett-street

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

Tailors— Aitken and Co., Havelock-street

Fkntmakers— K. Sando, East-street

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

POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Mails at the Ashburton Post Office close a follows :

For Christchurch and North at 10 a.m. \ p.m., and 7.30 p.m., dally. For chertsey-at 10 a.m. dally. For Rakaia at 10 a.m., and 4 p.m. daily.

For Ashton, Waterton, and Longbeach, at 3,15 p.m. daily. For Greenstreel, Ashburton Forks, Mount Somers, and Ashburton Gorge on Tuesdays mid Fridays at 10.30 a.m. For Temuka, Timaru, and South at 10.1 5 a.rni. and 3 p.m daily. For Tinwald, Winslow, Hinds, Coldstream. RatiffiUta, JJrari, Winchester, and Geraldine, at 10.15 a.m. riaily.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

PORT OF LYTTELTON. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. From London Crusader, Hydaspes, and Waitangi. From New York Star, ' Southminster, Olmstee, Alexander M’Neill, Helen Angler. From Foo Chow —Rio Lodge. From Calcutta —Chusan. From Melbourne —s.s. Albion.

The Evening Echo. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1878.

Perhaps the greatest strength any New Zealand Ministry can possess is an efficient Native Department. In the hands of the late Sir Donald M'Lean Native affairs were safe, and questions affecting the interests ot the Maori people and their relations with Euro peans met a generally satisfactory solu tion. To his clear fore-sight, cool headedness, and decision of character, added to a thorough knowledge of Maori nature is owing the fact that the Native race is to-day on the path to a future of promise, and only wants the management of an administration as well qualified as Sir Donald to lead it up to a realisation of that future. A Cabinet possessing Sir Donald M‘Lean at the head of its Native Affairs, could afford to be only passably brilliant in its other Departments, as the country had learned to trust the Native ques tions to his hands, with a feeling of security from Maori troubles; and experience has proved that the coun try did not place its trust upon a broken reed. Between the cessation of his rule and the accession to power of the present Government was but a short interval; still, it was long enough for affairs to become so involved as to risk the undoing of Sir Donald’s life work, and open the door to gross ab uses, putting it into the power of un principled graspers to enrich themselves at the expense of the natives and the country, and to jeopardise the possibi lity of the two races ever existing on the same soil with a shadow of confidence in each other. This was the threaten ing state of affairs Sir George Grey had to face when he took. office. He was perfectly alive to its existence, and.it was his knowledge of it that led him to seek in Mr. Sheehan a Native Minister who would be able to assist in healing the sores opened while the the Native affairs of the country were in unskilled hands, and pilot us through the troubled waters into which the colony had been allowed to drift, Sir George and Mr. Sheehan found a peaceful future with the aboriginals by no means certain and by a wise and prompt course r Gr stored relations of amity. But this was not all. They found that large tracts of land, confiscated on the rebellion, had to all intents and purposes reverted to their original owners, through the supineness of their predecessors in office, and the Maori mind had to be disab used of a belief that had gained posses sion of it, that Government had no in tention of asserting its proprietorship. Surveys were at dime instituted, and carried on, in face of Maori opposition, which was gradually assuming a

some and dangerous hue. Less skilful men would have blundered, and brought about, possibly, a second 1866 ; but the amicable relations opened up between Tawhiao and the chief Rewi have quelled these disturbances and given a brighter prospect to things, while a wide area of land has been opened up for settlement by Europeans which might otherwise have lain locked up from profitable use by the country. To Sir ‘Donald M‘Lean’s lifework amongst the Maoris we owe the foundation of the present satisfactory arrangement of matters, but to the discretion of Mr. John Sheehan and Sir George Grey we owe the rescue of the Maori question from, to say the least, dangerous confu sion. With a firm hand they are clearing away the disturbing influences at work amongst the natives, and putting an end -to the career of men who, accepting the country’s money, played into the hands of those who cared not for her welfare if they gratified their own avarice, even at the risk of her internal peace. That the Native policy of Government is a successful one, is being akown ; but the. work is not yet ’all nhtivei has a long leeway to make up before he overtakes his white brother in the march of civilization; but when we see him rising above his traditions and preju dices, opening his land to the European, courting the introduction of the arts of civilization knowing the benefits to be derived therefrom, and doing his utmost to establish in his midst a pro per respect for law and order, we cannot but believe that that work is making great and rapid progress. New Zealand has few M'Leans, and it will be difficult for a succeeding Government to put a man at the head of its Native affairs who will fill Sir Donald’s place as well as it has been filled by John Sheehan.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Christian Herald. —The fifth num ber of this excellent and well got up periodical is published and may be had of the agents.

We would call the attention of our readers and the public to the'Brass Band anniversary concert to-night. County Council. —After lunch yesterday, to which time our report in last issue brought down the day’s business, a letter was read from Mr. F. de C. Malet, giving the Approximate Population of the district as under : —Upper Ashburton, 656; Ashburton, 2,428; Mount Somers, 745 ; South Rakaia, 1,173. Plains Water Supply . —Messrs. Thornton & Bull’s report and plans of a water supply scheme for the plains bet ween Ashburton a»d Rakaia were laid before the Council. £250 was ordered to be paid to account of Messrs. Thornton & Bull, the £ico to be paid after further consideration. Meetings of Coimcil were fixed for the 16th and 30th —the first a special meeting to consider the water supply plans, the second being the ordinary meeting. Leave of Absence was granted to Messrs. Wason and Saunders, for the remainder/of the session, and also/to Mr. Polhill. Polling Places for the county were ap pointed as follows: —MountHutt Riding—Ban- Hill, Drayton Woolshed; Mount Somers Riding —Road Board’office ; Upper Ashburton Riding Road Board office ; Rakaia Riding—Road Board office; Ashburton Riding—Road Board office, Ashton Schoolhouse. Council Offices. — Mr. Bullock moved —‘That immediate steps be taken for erecting offices for the Council on the site lately granted by the Government for that purpose.” - The'matter was deferred, on the suggestion of the Chairman, who thought it was work better suited for the new Council. The Chairman was authorised to obtain de signs for a County Seal. The Council then held a special meeting to consider Mr. Coster’s motion re riding division and an. additional member to South Rakaia. A petition was pre sented from Rakaia ratepayers supporting the project of Mr. Coster’s motion, but after some discussion the matter was held over till a future meeting. The pound by-laws were confirmed. Parliamentary. -In the Legislative Council yesterday the Hon. \Y. Robinson was fined ZSO lor contempt. In the house of Re presentatives, Mr. Fox moved for a Committee to inquire into the removal from office of Major Mair, Mr. G. Mair, and Mr. Serancke. Mr. Sheehan resisted the motion, and held that any one in charge of the Native affairs at pre sent ought to have power to remove a public servant in that department if found wanting in efficiency. Government regarded the motion as one of censure, and Mr. Sheehan appealed 10 the Blouse, an enquiry by which he did not fear. Mr Sutton objected to the mystery which had always surrounded Native affairs, and said officers should be treated in. all departments alike. The motion was negatived by 47 against .22. Mr. Saunders’ distribution of public works motion was then brought on. In moving it the hon. gentleman spoke at considerable length, and criticised the way public works had been carried out, especially in making railways, where there was neither traffic nor land to be opened up. There were parts of the colony which wanted merely roads, and other parts, again, merely wanted bridges. Mr. Hurst house seconded the motion, which was opposed by the Attorney-General. The debate was in terrupted by the afternoon adjournment. A Wife Wanted. —A settler in an ad joining district inserts an advertisement in our' issue to-day for a partner to share the joys and sorrows of his life. We can guarantee single fair ones, sighing for an opportunity to fulfil the mission of their sex, which is to gladden the desolate heart of some pining celebate, that the advertisement is a bona fide want, and well worthy the attention of eligible spinsters pos sessing the qualifications necessary for the adornment of a farmer’s house, and we can safely assure such they may go farther and fare worse.

Microphone, —Sir Henry Thompson, on June Ist, demonstrated the value of the micro phone (the recent invention of Professor Hughes) for discovering the existence of stone in the bladder, however small the particle might be, m operating upon a patient. By an appli cation of the same method, in the recognition of 'a bullet or other foreign body, or of diseased bone at the bottom of a deep wound, the micro pbpng ipay be equally valuable, jj

TELEGRAPHIC.

AUSTRALIAN.

[By Submarine Cable.] Melbourne, Oct. 2.

The Ringarooma arrived yesterday. The Tararua sail§ to-day, and the Al hambra to-morrow.

Sydney, Oct. 2,

The subscriptions toward the Inter national Exhibition have reached nearly Sailed —Hero for Auckland. Adelaide, Oct. 2.

Mr. Rees has resigned the portfolio of Education, and the proposed motion of want of confidence was, conse quently, not proceeded with.

Brisbane, Oct. 2.

The. names .of the French convicts who escaped from Noumea, are Thie bault and Lessier. The search for the third one, lost on Whitsuntide Island, was unsuccessful.

The ; Assembly is dissolved, and the Council has prorogued to Nov. 12. 1 TIW Agnes, schooner) Sydney to Townsville, was wrecked on the Capri corn Group; all saved.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Per Press Agency.]

Auckland, Wednesday.

The Auckland Timber Company has resolved to increase its capital by the issue of 12,000 shires *" ' Napier, Wednesday.

There is a strong suspicion that the fire at the Spit yesterday morning was the work of and incendiary. An inquest is to be held to-morrow afternoon, when it is expected that evidence will be given showing that some person out of enmity to Mr. Benker, on whose premises the fire originated, set them on fire.

Wellington, Wednesday.

In order to make the overland postal service between Christchurch and the West Coast of more general use, the postal authorities have determined to arrange a branch service between Good fellow’s and Kumara. The Greymouth mails and passengers by this means will be conveyed through in the same time as those to and from Hokitika.

Dunedin, Wednesday.

The Dunedin Aitillery Company in tend going into camp for a week about Nov. 9, and will invite the Christchurch and Invercargill Artillery Companies to accompany them. At a recent meeting of the Profes sorial Board of the Otago University, the proposal of the Synod of the Otago Presbyterian Church foun4 a chair of moral philosophy political economy in the University was dis cussed. It was resolved —“ That these subjects were already sufficiently taught in the University; also, that as the patronage of the proposed chair was in the hands of an ecclesiastical body, its institution could riot fail to give rise to an impression- throughout the colony that it was intended to subserve sec tarian or ecclesiastical purposes, and that such an impression, even though unfounded, would be highly injurious to the welfare and future prospects of the University.” The Board further resolved —“That in order to enable students to success fully pass the University examinations, the chair required was that of physical science, and English language and literature. On these grounds they recommended the Council to refuse its assent to founding the proposed chair of moral philosophy and political economy, which,, in the opinion of the Board, would not merely be superfluous but would be prejudicial to the best interests of the University.” . New Plymouth, Thursday.

A boy and a man have been stopped by the natives on Mountain Road, be tween the new township of Stratford and Ratemate. The boy, named Tay lor, says the natives threatened to shoot him if he proceeded. The man, named Stuart, says he was also obstructed by natives, and was afraid to go on; he therefore turned back. An explanation given of the affair here is that these natives may possibly be some of the parties out in search for Horoki, and may have warned the man and boy that the murderer was about and would pro bably shoot them if they went on. Hokitika, Thursday.

The steamer Lioness was despatched southwards early this morning in search of the missing steamer Waipara.

Habitual Drunkards. —The Habitual Drunkards’ Bill introduced by Dr. Cameron in the Imperial Parliament has a good chance of becoming law ; indeed, it has already passed the second reading. It would empqwer the authorities to establish .curative retreats, and any drunkard who voluntarily enters one of these houses may be detained for a year, even: against his will, should he change his mind after once submitting himself to the treatment, The dangerous clauses, which would have enabled relatiyesto place an habitual drunkardin charge, have been wisely dropped, gj liable to nbijsp,

TO EUROPE THROUGH ASIA.

The strides, says the Sydney Echo , that are being made in every direction are simply wonderful, and not the least is the way in which the time of the journey between England and Australia is being lessened. Clipper-built ships at one time were thought to be very fast when they accomplished the trip in a little over two months ; now the ocean steamers run the journey from Adelaide to Plymouth in thirty-nine days. This was the feat which the Chimborazo achieved; but there is, if the indica tions of the times are to be relied on, a higher pinnacle far in the march of ' successful accomplishment than any yet? generally believed practicable. Less than eighteen days between the Old World and her Australian possessions is now on the tapis, and many of advanced thought here think it possible even within the next ten years. Those ladies, who are humorously described by Tom Flood in effect as beholding a coffin in every tackle and block and spar connected with a ship, will rejoice that the dangers of sea during a trip home are to be lessened. The idea is this —Four days, to the Gulf of Carpen taria, seven days to the Indian continent, and then from seven to nine days from the Indian continent right into Charing Cross, and that too without leaving the railway carriage. It is no Utopian scheme. The valley of the Euphrates is the great land road to the East, and England must secure its openness at all hazards. It is doubtless for the pro tection of her land and water routes to her great Eastern possessions that the islands of Cyprus and Socotra have been annexed. When some time in the future the idea shall have changed into an accomplished fact, the natural exclamation will be, what a shrewd old fellow that Beaconsfield is! Not only did he buy the Suez Canal, and fortify it, and place Egypt in English hands, but he also opened a land highway to the East. It will come yet to be an iron-girdled earth.

THE HORRORS OF SEA BATH ING.

On this point the New York Times says : —“ In accordance with our false system of ethics it is held to be the duty of every one who visits the sea-shore to bathe. Of course, no one ever really wanted to put on preposterous clothes and to wade out into disgustingly ter bulent water and be knocked over and I half drowned in the presence of an un feeling public. Were the dining-room "of Long Island hotel to be strewn with sand, pebbles,; and shan> |hells, and ayere the guests then to Def invited to /put on the most ridiculous of conceiv able garments and walk barefooted over the floor to meet a number of athletic waiters, by whom they should be knocked down and made to stand on their heads, and forced to swallow quantifies of salt water, no sensible guest would accept the invitation. Yet such an entertainment would be rather more safe and pleasant than surf-bath ing. There is nothing more delightful than swimming in a great pool or river, but to stand up for a round with the Atlantic ocean, with the moral certainty that every knock-down will be scored by the latter, betrays a painful degree of folly and bad taste.

Women suffer even more than men from the tyranny of this .atrocious cus tom of surf-bathing. For a woman to enter the surf involves a long and ab struse process of undressing and re dressing, which is a terrible strain upon her strength and temper. Moreover the act of bathing makes pitiless revela tions concerning the female form. It is estimated that at least eleven thou sand young men annually return from Long Branch with the conviction that woman is wholly false, with the excep tion of a rude framework, intolerable to the aesthetic eye. True, there are ex emptions. Every summer there are seen at our Atlantic watering places two or three ladies whose beauty even the surf cannot wash away, and it is credibly asserted that a few years ago there was a Boston lady who entered the surf at Nabant, and who, on emerg ing, could be distinctly-seen, even when her edges were presented to the specta tor. Nevertheless,. as a rule, woman becomes not merely impossible, but ab solutely unthinkable,, when the sea has remorselessly analysed her, Paradoxi cal as it may seem, it is this very fact which drives thousands of miserable women into the surf. The woman who does not bathe is instantly credited with a fear of exciting comparisons be tween herself and the women who do bathe, and is thereby suspected of un paralleled excesses in point of bones. When to thg corpplex agonies which surf-bathing inflicts upon the sensitive female mind is added the struggle of deciding whether to leave off the back hair, and thus confess its falseness, or to wear it in tjha *9 ggeil jj&,

it can be readily understood that the sea is bitterly, though secretly, hated by the fair sex. Were mankind only to agree that surf-bathing should be re garded as a criminal fashion, the sea shore would lose its horrors.

Sabbath. —Somebody inveighs against the use of the word “ Sabbath” in a newspaper, and pertly declares that “it is not journalistic —Sunday is the correct word.” And for what reason ? The first designation comes to us from a dead mythology which was once the world’s curse ; the second from a live religion which is now the world’s chief blessing. “Sun day” has associations so cruel they might make angels weep ; Sabbath has memories so gentle and so sweet that they make men rejoice. One, in its very sound, is bard and ’cold ; the other . is soft and musical. One has in it the noon day glare; the other the soft light falling through cathedral windows. One recalls the noise and bustle of a Parisian holiday; the other brims over with suggestions of quiet and of rest. “ The Sabbath Day !” Long may those words remain the favorite designation of the day most dear to hearts Americans.”—Miss Willard in the Chicago Post. An extensive Business. —In a speach at the recent railway banquet at Dunedin, Mr. Robin mentioned that the New Zealand Tim ber and Woodware Factory Company at pre cept, employ over one thousand workpeople, and pay about weekly in wages, while they have about twenty vessels carrying their goods to and fro. Steady Horses. —The Rangitikei Advo cate tells the story of a night ride without a driver : —“On Wednesday night, at Greatford station, just as the driver was coming off the platform to mount the box of his coach, in which a passenger for Bulls had taken his seat, the horses trotted off at their accustomed pace, but just fast enough to leave the driver behind. Fortunately the reins were secured loosely to the break, by which they were prevented from dragging upon the horses’ feet and possibly guiding them off the road. Quite unconscious of the fact that the Jehu was. not handling the ribbons, the traveller sat comfortably in the conveyance while the four miles of not particu larly safe road was travelled by the steady beasts, which, apparently, never noticed the absence of their driver. Not till Bull’s was safely reached, and the conveyance had turned into the hotel yard and come to a stand-still, when tire traveller alighted, did he make the most startling discovery that the trusty animals had been travelling at their own pace and pleasure. * All’s well that ends well,’but had that passenger known that not even the ghost of a driver was on the box, he would probably have been rather uncomfortable.” His Idea of a Fight.—Two farmers residing iu the Isle of Thanet met the other morning, when to the surprise of one he noticed his.friends knuckles bleeding. “Why, what ever have you been up to ?” quoth he. “ Fight ing the waggoner’s male,” replied the other. “ But surely, old friend,” said his neighbor, “ you’ve never hit the poor lad as hard as that?” “No,” was the reply, The fool ducked his head and I hit the wall.” Strangers coming to reside in Ashburton ire often at a loss to know which is the best Establishment to visit for the purchase of Drapery, Clothing, and House-furnishing Iron mongery, and General Stores. Our & 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 beinp bought entirely upon cam-terms, they are . enabled-to ofler goods of siwh sterling value as cannot be equalled by. any other house in the trade. Every article in stock is marked at the owest price, from which no abatement is made so that the most inexperienced buy their goods at the same prices as the best judges.—A.dvt.

The Evening Echo, Thursday, October 3, 1878.



ASHBURTON RETAIL i LIST. d. ■ /, '■ s - d . .s, tiutter, inferior to best, $ lb i 6 to o ,0 EggS, t? clozgn- - io to I 0 Br.con, pi*me smoked, $ lb o IO to o 0 Hams in cloth; $ lb - I o to 0 0 Cheese, .prime quality, lb o 9 to o 10 JFlour In bags, & ioolb 12 Oatmeal, 1 If? ioolb • 20 6 to 14 0 & to 0 0 JLfird, f R» - f r ? ij !■' ,r : ■ ■ - -• ' ■' 9 to 0 9



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• Town Hall. E. JERNINGHAnTWAKEFIELD’S THIRD ENTERTAINMENT, SATURDAY, sth5 th OCTOBER. Programme. Overture Piano. Part I. 1. “ Scots whahae ” . Piano. Patriotic Lines (Walter Scott) Reading. 2. “ Cheer Boys Cheer ” Piano. Psalm of Life (Longfellow) Reading. 3. “ Dead March in Saul ” J Piano. The Condemned Sermon (E. Gibbon Wakefield) Reading. “ Morning Hymn ” Piano. 4. “ Suoni la Tromba” (from I Pnritani) Piano. The Battle of Iviy (Macaulay) Reading. 5. “ Down among the Dead Men” Piano. The Destruction of Sennacherib (Byron) Reading. 6. “ The Twopenny Postman ” Piano. The Flitch of Bacon Reading. 7. “ The Vital Spark ” Piano. Blood for Blood(E. G. Wakefield) Reading 8. “Old Dog Tray” Piano. Elegy on a Mad Dog (Goldsmith) Reading. “ Rule Britannia ” Piano. Interval of Ten Minutes. Part 11. 1. German Melody (Gluck) - Plano. The Religions Element in Colonization (E. Gibbon V’akefield) Reading. 2. “ Here’s a health to all to Good Lasses” ' : .Piano. Address on ' THE TAXES IN NEW ZEALAND as they affect THE LADIES, WEALTHY MEN, and WORKING MEN. 3. “Good Night, All’s Well” , Piano. “The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of night. ” (Longfellow) Reading. 4. “ The Battle of the Nile. ” Piano. “ A Land of our own,” National South Sea Hymn, written by E. Jerningham Wakefield, for the Canterbury Colo nists leaving England in 1849 Reading. . Gpr> Save the Queen J. , f , Piano. Entrance to Hall, is ; Bitydrs at the door of E. Jerningham Wakefield’s “ Hand book of Taxation Reform,” price is., entitled to Front Seats (chairs). Tickets at Echo Office j at A. Weston’s and H, M. Jonesfy IlfS f■' > '