ASHBURTON TRADE DIRECTORY.

Architect and Civil Engineers S. W. Brown, East-street S. Farr, Montgomery’s Buildings

Auctioneers — Bullock and Co., East-street Saunders Bros., Ashburton

Accountants and Commission Agents Charles Braddell, Montgomery’s Buildings 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 Keeper— J. G. Anstee, East-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 Furr.ess and Dixon, Stationers’ Hall, East street South

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 Cial and Firewood Merchants — G. Parker and Co., near Railway Station A. Playes, Firewood and Timber, near Rail way Station

Drapers and Clothiers— Aitken and Co., Havelock-street Orr 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, 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, 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, &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-street

Saddlers— Thomas Dudson, 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 a 5 follows: —

For Christchurch and North at 10 a.m., 4 p.m., and y. 30 p.rfi., daily. For Chertsey at 10 a.mt daily. For Rakaia at 10 a.m., and 4 p.m. daily. For Ashton, Watertott, and Longbeach, at 3A.S pirn, daily. For Greenstree't, Ashburton Forks, Mount Somers, and Ashburton Gorge on Tuesdays and Fridays at to. 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.

UNCLAIMED LETTERS.

'Tfee following letters are advertised at the Office, as having been received from places beyond the Colony, during the month ■of April, and remaining unclaimed on the nst July, 1878 Banks, Williiam . Bimler, L. C. ' 'Cadle, 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 tjie Pefid Letter Qffiw, haying lain jfcW mpff ' *'

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

PORT OF LYTTELTON. ARRIVED. ' July 20 —Taranaki, s.s., from North. July 29 —Tararua, s.s., from South and Mel bourne.

SAILED. July 19—Rotorua, s.s., for North and Syd ney. July 20—Taranaki, s.s., for Port Chalmers. July 20—Tararua, s.s., for Melbourne via Wellington and Nelson.

Auckland, Friday. Sailed— Linda Weber, for Lyttelton. Hokitika, Friday. Arrived —Mary Bannatyne and Lizzie Guy, from Lyttelton. . Wellington, Friday.

Arrived —Taiaroa, from Lyttelton. A telegram from the Agent-General announ ces the sailing of the ship Rakaia from Plymouth with 260 immigrants lor Wellington. She left on the Ist instant. Timaru, Friday. Arrived —Atlantic, schooner, from Thames ; Beautiful Star, from Dunedin. Advices have been received from London of the loading of the barque Angie for this port, and that she will be followed by another ship.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

DAILY MEMORANDA.

TO-NIGHT. Star of the East Lodge, 1.0.G.T., at the . Library Hall, at 7.30

The Evening Echo. SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1878.

Nothing succeeds like success. To be unsuccessful in the world is one of the greatest misfortunes that can befal a man. On every side he meets the unsympathetic looks of selfishness, which gives the cold shoulder to all his appeals, and is ever ready to “ hit a man when he’s down.” In fact, so far as the chance to rise again is concerned, the case of the unsuccessful man is nearly as bad as that of the criminal. On the other hand, to be successful is to win all sorts of favor and good opinions, and .to bring to the favored one’s side “ troops of friends.” Had the Ashburton acres been still in the idleness and neglect of five years ago, the money value of the town sec tions would have remained undisco vered, the proverbial “blacksmith’s shop and public-house” would have summed up the business places. But as soon as the place began to make headway, arid it was bruited abroad that Ashburton was going to be a place of some im portance, her idle acres and town sec tions bristled on the auction-room plan and formed the subject of many auc tioneers’ orations, finding purchasers at fancy figures, while tradesmen flocked to her rapidly built shops as to an El Dorado. Soon the town took shape and substance, large hotels rose, and stores were planted here and there, until to-day Ashbuton is a marvel for the pace at which, out of a tussock waste of four or five years ago, she has risen an important and fairly populous town.

Just as the successful man gains ** troops of friends,” so Ashburton was paid court to by those who had an eye to her cake and pudding for themselves while they breathed fond wishes for her welfare. She is liberal of her favors, as all who have solicited know, but if there is one class of suitors to whom she has been exceptionally kind, we should say, judging from the number of hotels, that that class was the licensed victuallers. The largest edifices in the town are the Commercial and Somerset Hotels, and three other licensed houses do outpost duty not far away. With such a number of licensed houses in the midst of a comparatively small population, the wag cafi scarcely be blamed for con eluding that the normal state of Ash burtonians must be one of “drunk.” But the circumstances of Ashburton are exceptional, and when these are considered it must be fairly allowed that, though the existing hotels have been of service to the town in the past, and perhaps their limit of similar service m yet beep reached their pprober

has reached a maximum sufficient for the wants of the town for a long time. In the absence of house accommoda tion, private lodgings, and boarding houses that could supply the want of a home, the hotels were called upon to do duty as lodging-houses, and their bars received numerous visitors who, under other circumstances, would have spent their evenings at their own firesides. The rapid rise of buildings, the pro mised erection of better class boarding, houses, the increase of halls, friendly societies, and other agencies likely to offer counter attractions, are all sure in the near future to reduce the amount of business done by the hotels, and bring them to a state of dependence upon the legitimate business of hotel-keeping withous the added revenue derived from permanent boarders. In these circum stances one feels justified in concluding that the publicans have just cause to complain of a possible increase of licenses.

There can be no two opinions of the social result of a plethora of hotels in any town, and the cases which every week disgrace our R.M. Court do not show a healthy state of affairs. Is it reasonable to suppose that, as the town increases and the hotelkeepers are forced to cultivate their “ nobbier” trade to make up for their lessened boarding business, those R.M. cases will be re duced in number and drunkenness be less frequent ? We think not. Yet in the face of the circumstances we have described, there are still claimants for new licenses, and a rumor has gained currency that such a license has been promised. This, of course, bears false hood,on the face of it, so far at least as the promise is concerned, but at last quarterly sitting of the Commissioners a threat was held out that, in the event of certain improvements not being made on houses complained against by the police, a new license would be granted to a first-class hotel. We hope, in the interests both of the publicans them selves and the good morals of the com munity, the Commissioners will recon. sider their decision, and instead of granting a new license withdraw those held for houses still continuing unsuit able. We know the Commissioners will not resile from the position they have taken, and no newspaper article or lawyer’s eloquence will make them le fuse a license to a first-class house if the conditiqns on which they withhold it are unfulfilled. It therefore rests with the holders of warned licenses to stave off the increase by at once erect ing their promised additions and mak ing the required improvements. We have not heard of any agitation by the temperance men against an increase of licenses, but doubtless their eyes, are open to the state of affairs.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Brass Band in connection with the Ashburton Oddfellows is spoken of. I. O. G. T.— Preparations are being actively made for the celebration of the anniversary of the Dawn of Peace Lodge on the Ist of August, which will take the form of a tea and concert in the Library Hall. The last of the articles on hand by the promoters of the Gift Auction in connection with the Presbyterian Church were sold by auction last night, and a thorough clearance was effected. The actual amount realised has not yet transpired, but a handsome sum will revert to the funds of the church.

The San Francisco Mail.— The Rotorua, which left Lyttelton yesterday took our portion of the outgoing mail north. A telegram received to-day an nounces the departure from San Fran cisco, on the Bth inst., ®f the steamer City of New York, with the London mails of the 28th June. The Bth cf July is contract time, and she is due on the 31st at Auckland.

Resident Magistrate’s Court. — Mr Le Grand Campbell has had his hands full to-day and yesterday in dis posing of the arrears of cases that have accumulated during the fortnight. ‘The Magistrate’s time has been mainly taken up since he last sat in Ashburton with the holding of Assessment Courts, of which he is Judge for this- district, and hence the accumulation of ordinary Court business, to dispose of which ne cessitated a Saturday sitting.

Whitewash. —Farmers will find a good useful whitewash in a mixture of sour buttermilk and lime. Oil in this whitewash and a little glue will add to its durability. If it is desirable to have colors, it may be tinted with ochre for buff or yellow, or lake for pink. Fashion has covered our walls with paper and paint, both unwholesome, and more or less poisonous : while the whitewash brush is being discouraged; the cellars are not sweetened, and cobwebs, mould, and taint accumulate the summer long, and insects make their homes on the fruit trees unmolested. Some wiseacre has Slid that whitewashing the trees will st ip up the pores and injure them. Nonsense. Whitewash will kill insects and do the trees good, while in the cellar and on w r alls of our houses in the bush it is health.

Another opportunity is now afforded to our readers of proving the sincerity of our remarks regarding the advancement of Ashburton. We spoke upon a late occasion about the necessity of encourkglng those who did their best to foster trade in ’ the neighbourhood. We observe amongst 'our latest advertisements one calling attention to an extensive sale of Drapery, Cloth ing, Boots, Shoes, etc., by Messrs. Aitken & Co., and wouid advise all who read this notice to take advantage of an opportunity such as seldom occur to buy one ponnd’s worth of goods for eighteen shillings, Messrs. A. O. Aitken and Co. having decided to take ten per cent oft the price of all goods paid for in cash, will be glad to give all a chance. Vide bills grea< clearing sale, from 24th Julv, /or one month only.—Advt. Strangers coming to reside 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. 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 direct from the leading manufacturers at home, which beinp bought entirely upon cash 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 at the same prices as the best judges.—Advt.

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

YESTERDAY. Before A. Le Grand Campbell, Esq., R.M. Driving an Engine across the Railway Bridge.— George Brewster was charged under the Bridge by-laws and regulations with driving an engine over the Ashburton Bridge, the same not being on a railway truck. Fined ten shillings. Refusing to Supply a Traveller in an Hotel. —Alfred Stenning, of the Chertsey Hotel, was charged by the police with refusing to supply James Wilkie with a meal.

James Wilkie, examined by Sergeant Feltcn said: I called at the Chertsey Hotel on Saturday. I asked Stenning when dinner would be ready; he said 12 o’clock; it was then twenty minutes to 12. I did not care to wait, but did, stop. I waited about half an hour, and asked again if dinner was ready. I went to the dining room; there was no one there. I looked in at the kitchen door, and asked two women I saw there when dinner would be ready. I called Mrs. Stennings attention to the time, half-past twelve. I asked for a plate of soup, but could not get it. I then said that bread and cheese would do. She said (in a very ungracious way) that if I wanted a dinner I had better go on to the Rakaia. By Mr. Branson: Mr. Stenning did not refuse to give me a dinner. P. O. Malley, who objected to be sworn till he knewswho was to pay his expenses, said he was with Mr. Wilkie on the day named. His evidence was generally corroborative of Mr. Wilkie’s. Mr. Branson (for the defence) ex amined Mr. Stenning, and said he would take this case under the amended Act.

Mr. Stenning I recollect Mr. Wilkie coming to my hotel. He asked me when we had dinner. I told him 12 o’clock. He then left the bar. When the dinner bell rang I went to look for Mr. Wilkie, and saw him seated in a buggy opposite the door. I thought he would come in when he was ready. Mrs. Stenning, examined by Mr. Branson, recollected Mr. Wilkie coming to the house. He asked me if we had any soup. I said, “ No,” being Satur day. He said, “Do you call this an hotel and not have soup?” I said dinner would be ready in a few minutes. He would not wait, but used bad language. Miss Mary Maguire examined by Mr. Branson, remembered Mr. Wilkie com ing into the dining-room and asking me when dinner would be ready. I said in a few minutes. He then went into the kitchen, and used improper language to Mrs. Stenning, and said he would report them. The case was withdrawn. Civil Cases.

Quill v. Strouts. Mr. Branson for plaintiff, Mr. Slater for defendant. This action was brought on account of some disagreement in the payments made to plaintiff by defendant for entertaining the Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry in his hotel The defendant is

captain of the C.Y.C. The dispute was with reference to the number of men, fifty being the number agreed on, instead of which seventy-five were pre sent.

Thomas Quill, examined by Mr. Branson, recollected Mr. Zouch calling on him to arrange for receiving the cavalry. He guaranteed fifty men. I agreed to take them at 255. per week per man, without beer. I asked if there was to be a private table for the officers; I was told not When Cap tain Strouts came up I showed him the quarters. He asked if no private room for officers was provided. I said no; he then ordered one to be provided. At the special dinner there were about ten sat down. I consider 15 s. per head a fair charge for such a dinner. I have been offered a cheque for £9 12s. 6d. in payment of the claim, which I refused. By Mr. Slater: When Mr. Zouch spoke to me he produced a specification. Mr. Zouch struck ,out the beer. The cavalry stayed six days. The first bill I gave I got back and receipted it for on account; it is torn up. I received a letter from Cap tain Strouts. I have the hotel book; the entries were made at the time the goods were had. When Mr. Zouch applied to me for the receipted bill I told him it was destroyed. I swear that the items of which both bills were made up were taken from this one book. I intend to sue for the cost of the private table when this action is ended. I provided a special dinner for 12 or 15, by Captain Strouts’ in structions; Mr. Hill received the in structions. The wines were extra. I consider 15 s. per head a fair charge. I remember your asking for the old account; I told you it was torn up. I remember your asking, me for the items of that bill. I told you the items were all in this book. I cannot say if the account you showed me is the copy of the first one I sent in. I examined my books. I do not know what that account means.

By Mr. Branson: Mr. Hill is autho rised to act for me. I do not book everything myself. To the best of my belief there were ten sat down to the special dinner. Robert Hill, examined by Mr. Bran son : My duties when the cavalry were in the hotel were to see after the dining room, and go round with Sergeant M'Guinness to take the tally. Mr. O’Callaghan asked me if there was no beer. Isaid,lJo. He told me to fetch some in and it would be paid for. 1 should think about £9 9s. would be the price for the special dinner. By Mr. Slater : I entered the num ber every day in this book. C. A. Calvert, examined by Mr. Branson : I was acting veterinary sur geon to the corps. I was present at a dinner. There were eight persons pre sent. It was a very good dinner. Edward Cookson ; I was present when the arrangement was made as to accommodating the C.Y.C. Mr. Quill required a guarantee for fifty and got it. There was some talk about private rooms. Mr. Quill objected to giving beer on account of his other lodgers being at the same table. It was struck out.

F. Strouts, examined by Mr. Slater : I instructed Mr. Zouch to make a con tract with plaintiff on the terms men tioned in this paper. I found that beer was not supplied according to agree ment. I said he must supply it, and he did so. I received a bill from plaintiff, and paid him £SO on account. I have not the bill now. I objected to the charge for sixty men. The average was fifty-three. I told Hill that in all probability there would be five visitors at the special dinner. There were not seventy-three of the corps sat down 10 dinner on the 13th. The number at the special dinner must have been counted in. On the day we left we paid for fiity-two lunches which we did not have.

By Mr. Branson : I swear seventy three men did not sit down to dinner. I invited five persons to the special dinner.

W. H. Zouch, by Mr. Slater : I spoke to Quill taking in the cavalry. He arranged for 255. per week. As regards the beer, Quill said he would not make it an objection.

By Mr. Branson : It was not agreed that the beer should be struck out.

Dr. Kesteven, by Mr. Slater : 1 dined with the cavalry. There were four guests present. I should say the dinner was an ordinary one. Judgment for plaintiff for £3O and costs, with witnesses’expenses.

TO-DAY.

Grigg v . Bell Adjourned till next Friday. Aitken v. Hawkins. Claim £l4* Judgment by default. Allan v. Gear. Claim £7 14s. 4d. Judgment for amount and costs. Mooar v. Jones. Mr. Crisp, on be half of plaintiff applied for payment of

his costs, as the money had been paid into Court at one o’clock. Granted.

Robertson v, Dolman. Mr. Crisp applied for his costs in this case, as no notice had been given that the case was not coming on till the previous evening. Application refused.

Bosenberg v. Simpson. Claim for trespass. Case dismissed with costs. Ment 7;. McMillan. Adjourned till the 26th instant.

Jones v. Cookson. Case nonsuited, with 2is. costs.

Roundtree v. Davis. Claim jQ S, with costs £2 15s. 6d. Boyd v. Fergus. Claim ' Mr. Branson for plaintiff, Mr. Crisp for defendant. This was an action for the recovery of the value of three horse cloths, a hammer, and tomahawk. A large amount of conflicting evidence was taken on the case. Judgment given for restitution of hammer and tomahawk. With reference to the horse cloths, his Worship considered there was not sufficient evidence. ,v

Boyd v. Todd. Mr. Branson for the plaintiff, Mr. Crisp for defendant. This was a dispute about the ownership of a mare. His Worship dismissed the case but animadverted strongly on the unre liable evidence that had been given. M‘Limont v. Greenaway was a similar action about a dray, which was ordered to be restored to plaintiff, for whom Mr Branson appeared.

TELEGRAPHIC.

LATEST FROM EUROPE., The Eastern Situation. [By Submarine Cable.] London, July 18. The Australians played against Hull. The first innings of their opponents closed for 250. It has been decided to erect a col lege at Cambridge University to the memory of the late Bishop Selwyn. *' k July 19. In the House of Lords, Earl Derby declared that he tendered his resigna tion of a seat in the Cabinet in conse quence of the resolution of Ministers that a secret expedition, consisting of Indian troops, should sail for Cyprus, and occupy a position on the Syrian coast under any circumstances. The Marquis of Salisbury flatly de nied Earl Derby’s statement," but his Lordship re-affirmed it. Earl Beaconsfield, in vindicating, the provisions of the Berlin treaty, said that England insisting on wresting Batoum and Kars from Russia would certainly have entailed war, and the object to be attained would not have justified such a result. England took Cyprus instead of Syria or Egypt to avoid offending France. There is great excitement in Italy at the results of the Congress.

AUSTRALIAN.

Sydney, July. 19.,, An influential public meeting will shortly be hold to congratulate Earl Beaconsfield ■ on the success of the Congress. , v The Adelaide Government has char tered the Bulwark to bring the remainder of the railway plant from New Zealand. Arrived—Easby from Newcastle yes terday. Sailed—City of Sydney ' yesterday

evening. . * -v ~•••• ’ Adelaide flour, -£lO 15s ton’ll iosj wheat, ss; New Zealand wheat, 4s iod to 4s 1 id; oats, 4s 6d to 4s 9d. The other usual quotations are unchanged.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Per Press Agency.] Auckland, Friday. At a meeting respecting the Kaipara railway extension, Mr. Stewart, the Dis trict Engineer, said Messrs. ; Lawson and Conyers had adopted the coasi-line as being more economical than the in land line, which .would have too many steep gradients in view of fhe extension to Kokianga and the Bay of Islands. Mr. Buchan moved : —“ i. That this meeting learns with deep regret that the Minister for Public .Works,, has,. , in de- of public opinion and the repeated promises of the present and former Go vernments, abandoned the inland line extension of the Kaipara railway, and ordered a survey of what is known, as the coast line.. 2. That the coast line, passing through barren and unpeopled country, cannot possibly ever contribute to the revenue from railways, whilst, the inland line passes through fair agricul tural land, inhabited by energetic and industrious settlers for twenty-five years, and skirting the extensive forests, at Waitakere of thousands of acres which have never been touched, and would yield an enormous revenue for , many years if its development were assisted by railway commujiiqatipn, 3, Tfc*

the Evening Echo, Saturday, July 2 0,1878.; ~s :



ASHBURTON RETAIL LIST. .. d. s. d. Sutter, inferior to best, If? lb I 0 to I 2 Eggs, If? dozen - - 2 6 to 0 0 Bacon, prime smoked, If? lb 0 10 to 0 0 Hams in cloth, If? lb 1 0 to 0 0 Cheese, prime quality, $ lb 0 8 to 0 10 Flour in bags, $ ioolb 15 0 to 0 0 Oatmeal, ioolb - 26 0 to 0 0 qard, If? lb - - - 0 9 to 0 0