ASHBURTON TRADE DIRECTORY

Architect and Civil Engineer— S. W. Brown, East-street A UCTIONEERS — Bullock and Co., East-street Saunders Bros., Ashburton

Accountants and Commission Agents Charles Braddell, Montgomery’s Buildings Barristers and Solicitor'!’ — Mr. Branson, East-street Mr. E. G. Crisp, Montgomery’s Buildings Bakers, Confectioners, Etc. — Thomas Hicks, Tancred-strect

Banks — Bank of New Zealand, East-street Union Bank of Australia, East-street Boarding House Keeper— J. G. Anstee, East-street Builders, Contractors, Etc. — fames Baker, Ilavelock-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

Bootmakers — B. 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., Idavelock-street Orr ar«i 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. Ilessey, Central Foundry, Peters-st 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, Tancred-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 Co., Havelock-street S. Hardley, East-street .-Painter, <S.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, Flast-street Saddlers— Thomas Dudley, Burnett-street Surveyors— C. E. Fooks and Son, East-street Tailors— Aitken and Co., Havelock-street 'Tentmakers— K. Sando, East-street 'Tobacconists— A. Pearse, Moor-street E. A. Garnett, Tancred-street A. Weston, East-street

POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Mails at the Ashburton Post Office close ras follows :

For Christchurch and North at io a.m., 4 p.ia,, and 7.30 p.m., daily. Far Cbertsey at 10 a.m. daily. For Rakaia at 10 a.m., and 4 p.m. daily. For Ashton, Waterton, and Longbeach, at 3.25 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 •arm. and 3 p.m daily. For Tinwald, Winslow, Hinds, Coldstream, Rang'rtata, Orari, Winchester, and Geraldine, at 10.15a.m. daily.

UNCLAIMED LETTERS.

The following letters are advertised at the Post ..Office, as having been received from places beyond the Colony, during the month of Ajjtril, and remaining unclaimed on the Ist July, 1878 : Banks, Williiam Binder, L. C. Caclle, W. C. Cairns, John, care of David Johnston Christie, Samuel Dunne, William Fitzgerald, John (2) Hall, John Harris, Mark Harris, Joseph Hayward, William Leahy Patrick (2) Leggatt, W. L.

Orr, Robert Tourgis, A. {2) Letters originating in New Zealand are not now advertised, but are sent to the Dead Letter Office, after having lain for two clear months.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

•PORT OF LYTTELTON; ARRIVED. July 12—Swallow, three-masted schooner, from Newcastle. July 13—Rotorua, s.s., from North. SAILED. July 12 —N on panel, barque, for Newcastle. july 13—Rotorua, s.s., for Port Chalmers. Wellington, Friday. Arrived—Caitloch, ship, 1264 tons, Captain Phillips, from London, 104 days from the Docks. She experienced fine weather through out, with adverse winds. She brings 21 Jj passengers and one immigrant. Elizabeth Bell, a passenger, died on the voyage from consumption. The Caitloch brings a full general cargo. Aspa.-da. from Lyttelton. The Ilinemoa leaves this afternoon for Dune din direct, with Hon. Messrs. Maeandrew, Fisher and Burns, Colonel Clover, and Mr. Gregory Taylor, superintendent of the Cable Company. Puiur Chalmers, Friday. Sailed —Ringaroom i, for the Bluff.

DAILY MEMORANDA.

TO-DAY. Star of the East Lodge, 1.0.G.T., at the Library Flail. 7-3° P-in-

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

“ Indicator” will appear on Monday.

The Evening Echo. SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1878.

Ashburton County Council. A special meeting of the Ashburton County Coun cil will be held at their temporary offices, Montgomery’s Buildings, on Monday next, at II a.m., to consider the-petition drawn up by the Finance Committee for presentation to Parliament.

Ashburton Town Hall.—A special meeting was held last evening to consider ap plications for the situation of caretaker. Several tenders were received, none of which were con sidered satisfactory. It was therefore resolved to invite fresh applications, to be lodged with the secretary before 6 o’clock this evening. The Origin of Orangeism.— A corres pondent, writing on this subject, says :—“ The origin of the order of Loyal Orange Lodges is only known to the Supreme Grand Lodge of the Freemasons, although there is now no com munication between the two orders with refer ence to any secret understanding. But it is a fact recorded in the minute books of the old Lodge of Templars that the formation of all secret Protestant Lodges originated in an effort to throw off the galling yoke of the priesthood, at a time when England was completely under the Government of the Hierarchy of Rome.” The Pulpit.—To-morrow, the Rev. H. B. Burnett is advertised to preach at the fore noon service of the Presbyterian Church, and Mr H. M. Carson in the eveniug, The Rev. B. J. Westbrooke will officiate at both diets of worship in the Primitive Methodist Church, while the subjects of the Rev. W. B. Marten, in the Wesleyan Church, are announced as under:—Morning, “Practical Religion”; Evening, “The Great Propitiation.”

Letter-Carrier. —We understand that some time ago Mr Douglas, the Postmaster, was empowered to engage the services of a young man as letter-carrier. Up to this time he has not been able to find a sitable person. Surely amongst the rising generation of Ash burton, there is at least one youth of about seventeen summers who is willing to accept the billet, and remove a great inconvenience from his fellow-townsmen who can neither procure boxes nor have their letters delivered.

The Horse Marines. —A writer in Vanity Fain says : —I think I may assert, without fear of contradiction, that the inhabitants of no country in the world are so fond of decrying themselves as the English, but no true born Briton can hope to rival his naturalised fellow countryman of German extraction in the hearty abuse and depreciation of everything appertain ing to England. One of these latter worthies, a man who landed in this country several years ago without a shilling in his pocket, but who has contrived during his residence in the coun try of his adoption to amass a considerable fortune, was, with the characteristic gratitude and good taste of his kind, decrying British institutions in a room full of Englishmen, and drawing unfavorable comparisons between them and the Germans. “Az for your army,” said he, “ leaving ze insignificance of their numbers out of ze question, zey cannot hold a candle, man for man, viz ze Germans. Our Guards are finer men zan yours, and your Line is no veres compared viz ours.” “I think,” said a youg Englishman, quietly, “ that I could name a regiment in our army, one which you have probably never seen, that is a far finer one in every respect than its corresponding one in the German army.” “ Vat iz it?” shrieked mein Herr. ‘ “The Horse Marines,” calmly answer ed the young man. “ Dat is a lie,” excitedly yelled the German, “ I have seen hose yours and ours, and ours iz mosh ze finer ofze two.”

Yankee Suiciding.—People are com mitting suicides on all sorts of pretexts. A Troy (N.Y.) woman took strychnine because her husband would not run in debt to get her a velvet cloak; .a Chicago youth swallowed an overdose of morphine because a bad woman locked him out of her miserable heart and house ; a sixteen-year old Kentucky girl took ratsbane because an old married man told her he had no business to love her ; an Areola man hung himself in the smokehouse because he possessed only ten thousand dollars, and feared he might come to want. And so it goes. Yet all the fools are not dead, and the newspaper man daily watches for more to follow,

THE TWELFTH OF JULY.

The brothei-hood of Orangemen is one of such popularity among. Protest ants of every denomination that it lias made its way into almost every country where the English language is spoken, and in these.colonies there are few com munities in which the Orange sash is not to be found. ; Here, top, the ranks of--the Orangemen are recruited- from nationalities with, whom the history of the craft, ©ne. would think, should weigh but little, yet Germans, Swedes,: Danes, and Dutchmen are to be fonnd on the members’ roll of many New Zealand Lodges. Ashburton adds a fair quota to the membership of the order, and last night, the lodge, meeting in this town, and bearing the name of “ The Star of Ashburton,” celebrated the great field day of Orangeism, the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne, by a public dinner in the Somerset Plotel. The doth was laid in the sample room, and the chef\ besides winning the hearts of the guests by an appeal to their stomachs that is always successful —viz., an excellent spread —touched their Orange instincts by garnishing the more prominent dishes with such mottoes as “ 1690,” “Derry,” “No Surrender,” “Boyne,” “ Ennis killen,” &c., while the “boar’s head” grinned through I he motto of “ England and her constitution.” Flags and ban ners, with suitable Orange inscriptions, decorated the walls of the room, and these with the many bright sashes of the brethren, combined to make the scene one of the gayest description. About seventy persons did honor to the efforts of host Shearman’s King of the Kitchen, and after the doth had been removed,

The chairman, Mr. Sealy, proposed'the toast of “ the Queen.” Her Majesty required no eulogy at the hands of a humble orator like himself, who bad been placed there quite a novice in the art of public speaking. The loyality o the order of Orangemen was as well known as their love of liberty. They desired not to force their opinions upon any man, and only claimed the great right of every freeman to hold their own without interference. They wished, as Orangemen, to live in peace and amity with all around them, and there was nothing more hostile to their principles tHan to give offence to their fellow crea tures. Peace was whrt they aimed at, and they would agree with him that it had been the constant aim of the righte ous reign of her Majesty Queen Vic toria.

. The toast was drunk with all the honors.

Mr. S. B. Nelson, the vice-chairman, gave the charter toast of the order — “ The Battle of the Boyne.” In doing so, he gave a short history of their order from its rise in the reign of Prince William up to the present time, marking its progress till it had extended all over the world, and called upon those present to do honor to the toast in-a bumper. Mr. St Hill gave the toaat of the Grand Master of the order—“ The Earl of Enniskillen.”

The toast having been duly honored, Mr. G. S. Robinson proposed that of “ His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand.” After referring to His Ex cellency in high terms, Mr. Robin son spoke of the principles which Orangemen held. They were not bigotted in any classification in the world. They were simply honest men and brothers, trying to do their duty by their God, their country, and their fellowmen. As regarded sectarianism, they simply “ feared God, and knew no other fear.” They were not trammelled by an unchristian bigotry, but held for liberty of thought and action. The fear of God was inculcated in the les sons of their lodges, and they met in His 'protection and care, and trusted to His guidance. It was one of the Scriptural commands to fear God and honor the king; and he asked them, therefore, tc honor his Excellency’s health as the- Royal representative in this far distant colony.

The Chairman then gave “ Orange men all over the globe.” This was a toast given at all Orange gatherings both at Home and every country where the order held a Lodge meeting, and they would not be loyal to the princi ples of their brotherhood if they were to omit it. They had in their lodge men of every nationality—Germans, Swedes, and Dutch, and even men from the land of the Stars and Stripes ; and he held their presence in the Qmige ranks as a proof of the sterling good of the principles held by the order and on which its members met together. They recognised the pur pose of liberty Orangemen had in view, and the love of freedom they desired to foster, and so threw in their lot with the brotherhood/ He coupled, the toast with the name of Brother Cooper, a visiting brother from Christchurch. Mr. Cooper replied in a vsry do

quent speech, retrospective of the great Orange past, and full of hope of a greater ..future. He vividly described the battle the anniversary of which 'they, that- night met to celebrate, and pictured the grand Prince coming up the slopes of the Boyne, breathing out the prayer “ Lord help us.” Might ;uch a prayer be always theirs. The 'Vic'-Chairman proposed the toast of i h.a Grand Master of the Middle Island, Mr. Revell, who he said was the right man in the right place. - -- ---

Tae other toasts were the “ Visitors,” cou fed with the name of Mr. Brown, “ th: Press,” “ the Host,” &c., and the me Aing which was of the most hearty chiracter, enlivened at frequent inter-' vals by songs aad recitations given by both town and country friends (of whom there were not a few), broke up at an early hour.

TELEGRAPHIC.

LATEST FROM EUROPE.

London, July io. In the match Australians v. Eighteen of Swansea, South Wales, in their first innings the Australians made. 219. Bailey made 35. Swansea in their first innings got 94. July 11. The Australians won in one innings and 38 runs to spare. The bowling of Spofforth and Boyle was very effective. July 12. The Indian contingent, now at Malta, with some battalions of British infantry, will occupy Cyprus. There is great excitement at Mont real. The Government has introduced a Bill prohibiting Orange processions. Russia now claims Bayazid. England objects. Congress has appointed aspecial com mission to enquire into the late outrages in Bulgaria. The Colonial Marriage Bill has been dropped for the present session. Berlin, July 12.

The reading of the several articles of the projected treaty has been con cluded.

Congress has decided that Finance Commissionars be appointed to super vise the Turkish finances. A Russo-Turkish commission will be appointed to arrange for the evacuation of the fortresses.

AUSTRALIAN.

The New Caledonian Massacre. Sydney, July 11. The cause of the natives rising was that certain chiefs had been seized as hostages for the delivery of the mur derers of Clune, a settler, and his family. The natives rose during the night, murdered the guard, rescued the chiefs, and devastated the settlements. The affairs of the island are in a critical state. There is an insufficient military force unless France comes to the rescue. Possibly a petition will be presented for English annexation. The Sappho brings four destitute miners from New Guinea. Payable gold has not been discovered, but the weather impedes operations. Game is plentiful, and the natives are friendly. A Russian traveller has refused to give information regarding New Guinea. It is believed that it is at his settlement where the heavy gold was recently ob tained.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Per Press Agency.] Auckland, Friday. The Orangemen paraded the streets with banners and bands to-day, about 500 in number. They went to Beres ford Street Church, where services were held. The representatives from the principal country districts represented hold a soiree and public meeting to night. The committee of enquiry into the cases of desertion from the Industrial School met to-day. Four boys were examined. Three said they were not hard worked at all, and had nothing to complain of. The other made trifling complaints. Mr. Swanson, M.H.R., stated that he saw one boy, apparently ailing, and asked what was the matter. The master of the school replied, “He won’t trouble us long. Lie’s off to king dom come.” The Education Board to-day entered on the estimates for country libraries. Wellington, Friday. A supplementary Gazette to-day noti fies the appointment of Sir George Grey as Commissioeer of Customs, and of Mr. Ballance as Colonial Treasurer. In the action Doherty v. Wellington Education Board, for wrongful dismissal

and libel, damages were laid at The jury this evening returned a verdict for plaintiff for being three months salary. The cable agreement, referring to the reduction of charges on New Zealand cable, was executed this morning by Messrs. Burns and Fisher and Colonel Glover. Mr. Burns intends returning direct to Sydney per Rotorua, after a short visit to Otago and Canterbury. In a drunken brawl at Waverley, on Wednesday night a Scandinavian was stabbed by a countryman four .times. He is expected to die. Dunedin, Friday. Mr. A. C. Strode has resigned the Commissionership of Waste Lands. The vacant seat was offered to Mr. D. Reid, but was declined. Mr. J. C. Brown addressed his con stituents last night, and received a vote of thanks at conclusion of his speech. At one of the principal polling booths at Taieri yesterday, the returning officer locked the door and went for his din ner ; consequently some electors were unable to gain admittance to the polling booth. (Special to the Ptcss ) Timaru, Friday. Captain Moir, of the Annie Bow, was to-day served with a summons for as saulting Sergeant Haldane on May 28. The case arose out of the escape of the absconder Blythe, whom Captain Moir refused to deliver up when his vessel was leaving Timaru on the last trip. The Orange anniversary banquet to night was a great success, and veiy numerously attended. A respectable young fellow named Macey was arrested last night on the Himalaya, charged with the robbery of a number of blankets and money from a private dwelling house. At the inquest on the death of Mrs. Meade a verdict of “ died from natural causes ” was returned.

Eversley is a strong favorite for the Tally Ho Handicap on Monday next.

ALLEGED BANK ROBBERY.

An extraordinary bank robbery is re ported from the Isle of Man. Andrew Wm. Gray, cashier of the Mona branch of the City of Glasgow Bank, Scotland, states that he was walking in the out skirts of Douglas on Saturday night, shortly aLer eleven o’clock, when he was attacked by three men, who de manded from him the keys of the bank. He refused them, and was knocked down and shot at, and rendered in sensible. lpfe was dragged into a ditch, and there remained insensible until four o’clock on Sunday morning, when he found that the keys of the strong room and safe had been taken from him. An alarm was given to the police and bank manager, by whom it was discovered that the outside door of the strong room was locked, but the inside door was open, and must have been open on the previous night at twelve o’clock, when the manager shot the bolt from his own room. There are two safes in the strong room ; one was unlocked, the key of the second safe was taken out, and from that safe in gold had been abstracted. A large quantity of notes in the safe had been left untouched. The outside door of the bank was locked and bolted, and all the windows were barred. Gray was arrested, as was also a person named Thomas Roberts, who is in partnership with Gray in a spirit busi ness, and a man named Adam Nixey, who was lodging at the York hotel, which Gray left at eleven o’clock on Saturday night. On Monday the three prisoners were brought before the chief magistrate of Douglas. The only witness examined was James Gordon Greig, accountant at the bank, whose examination lasted four hours. Mr, Langton, in cross examination, elicited the fact that one window, opening from the public room of the bank on to the yard at its back, had not been properly barred or hasped: but the re-examination showed that the window could net have been possibly used for egress or ingress, the dust at the junction of two portions of the win dow and at the top being undisturbed, and a large bar, which runs transversely across the shutters, being in its proper position, although not, fastened. This could not have been effected by any person from the outside. The prose cution at the end of the proceedings asked for a remand in Gray’s case, but this was objected to by Mr. Langton, who contended that there was nothing to justify such a proceeding. The magistrate decided to remand the case,, and on Wednesday the accused were again brought up, when Mrs. Ashton, manageress of the York hotel, in the proprietorship of which Gray and Ro berts were concerned, proved that on the night of the alleged robbery the three prisoners sat down to supper

about eleven o’clock, but Gray left before the meal was over, the other two remaining in the house. About four o’clock next morning there was a loud knocking, and Gray was admitted. He staled that he had been assaulted and robbed of the bank keys.—Two ser vants at the hotel corroborated this evidence.—Dr. Gray, surgeon to the hospital, stated that he had beeit called in about five o’clock on Sunday morn ing to see Gray, 'and found him in a bedroom at the York hotel. . He seemed , in a state of great excitement, and there were bullet holes through his hat and coat. One of the bullets was stopped by a letter in the breast pocket of the inner coat. He examined Gray, but found no marks of injury on his person. He presented the appearance of a per son who had recently been under the influence of drink or of a narcotic. Speaking as a medical man, he could not understand how a sufficient quan tity of chloroform could be administered in the way described to have the desired effect, and it so administered it would" probably prove fatal. Witness said that Nixey, who went with him to the bank that morning, called attention to one of the windows not being properly fastened, but upon witness examining the window, its appearance and the dust showed that it was undisturbed.

The police have made a careful ex amination of Millmount, one of Gray’s residences, but nothing has been dis covered of the missing gold. The keys belonging to Gray and to the bank were found on Wednesday in the garden of Dr. Ring, who lives in a house adjoin ing the bank..

SHOCKING ACCIDENT AT A CIRCUS.

The performance at Wieland’s Circus, at the Exhibition Palace, Dublin, on May 7, was marred by an accident of a v°ry distressing character. The numer ous items in the programme had been gone through very successfully, the only feat remaining to be accomplished being the tight rope performance of Gilfort, a rival of Blondin. A rope is stretched right across from one side of the lofty building to the other, above the galleries, at a height of nearly 40 feet from the floor. Gilfort traverses this twice, and at the second passage a shot is fired below, at which he suddenly lowers him self to a horizontal position, and lies balanced across the. rope with out stretched limbs. Beneath there is a clear fall to an uncovered floor, no net ting or other safeguard being used. Gil fort had.got through half his task, and the audience applauded and watched his movements with breathless interest. He reached the middle of the rope on the second journey, and he stopped. The shot was fired, and almost at the same moment, and while he was lower ing himself into the horizontal position, one of the guy ropes which held the rope tight slipped, or the fastening gave way. The rope slackened, and Gilfort was pitched from his giddy perch. He was raised gently, and carried into one of the dressing-rooms. Messengers were despatched for medical aid.r His con dition would not admit of* his removal to the hospital; but he is reported to be now progressing towards recovery. He has been able to converse with his wife and friends. Dr. O’Leary, M.P., has been attending him, and expressed san guine hopes of his recovery. .

The Opposition Leader.—The Dunedin Morning Herald has it orri good authority that either the Hon. L rSi§j Fox or Mr Rolleston will lead the Opj position next session. : “ I’m ashamed of the age in which! we live,” said a maid of thirty-eight l « “ You may be ashamed of yours, but I’m not of mine,” replied a nineteen year-old companion. And it wasn’t much of a nose that went up, either. A Queer Well. —At a recent meeting of the San Francisco Academy of Science, speci mens of fish, supposed to be trout, were pre sented. They were thrown up from an artesian well 141 feet deep. The well, which is nearly 300 feet deep from high water mark, was bored in 1871, and ever since has thrown out immense quantities of freshly-spawned fish in April and May. The well is capped, having three f 2-inch apertures, from one of which people were in the habit of filling barrels of water for household uses. In that way the presence of fish was discovered in- 1872. The cap was removed and fish were "ejected in incredible quantities until the cap was re placed. The fish are said to be of variotv sizes, the largest about an inch in length. Ti?: nearest stream where fish are found is Sanl»: Paula Creek, twenty-five miles from the weh, but it empties into the Santa Olara River, fit 'a point twenty miles distant. v ■ 1 Strangers coming to reside .in Ashburi :*? are often at a loss to know which is the be.i Establishment to visit for the purchase oi Drapery, Clothing, and House-furnishing Iron mongery, and General Stores. Orr & Co. offer special advantages to the public that can be met with nowhere else in Ashburton. They keep at all times the largest and best-assorted Stock of every class of Goods, imported direr" from the leading manufacturers at home, whfe beinp - bought entirely upon cash terms, they as enabled to offer goods of such sterling value at cannot be equalled by any other house in the trade. Every article in stock is marked at tht lowest price, from which no abatement is made, so that the most inexperiehced buy their good! at the same prices as thetbest j lodges,-rAdyt,

ThG..Evening Saturdays July 13.1678;



ASHBURTON RETAIL LIST. s. d. 5. d. 3uttcr, inferior to Best, $lb i 0 to X 2 Eggs, U dozen - - 2 6 to 0 0 Bacon, prime smoked, $ lb o JO to 0 0 Hams in cloth, It? Ib - I 0 to 0 0 :Cheese, prime quality, lb o 8 to 0 10 jFlour in bags, $ ioolb 15 0 to 0 0 ; Oatmeal. $ lOOlb * 26 0 to 0 0 fjard, $ ft * • 1 0 9 tQ 0 9