ASHBURTON TRADE DIRECTORY

Architect and Civil Engineer 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, Tancrecl-street Taylor and Dili, 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.— James 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 — i A. Weston, Prospect Buildings, East-street Furness and Dixon, Stationers’ Hall, East street South

Bootmakers — T. Chambers, Prospect Buildings, East-street M. Nealas, East-street

Brewers— Wood and Co., Cameron-str< :et > Cabinetmakers and Under takers — James Baker, Havelock-stvee -X G. Parkin, Moor-street Carrier — G. F. Scott, Cameron-street Chemist and Druggist— J. M. Cambridge, Montgomery’s Buildings Coal and Firewood Merch ants— < G. Parker and Co., near Rail'way Station _ A. Hayes, Firewood and Tire iber, 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 Founder;; — Edwards and Lee, Engine ;ers, Smiths, etc., Burnett-street W. J. Hessey, Central Foi uxlry, Peters-st Furniture Warerooms— A. Spillard, Tancred Street’.

Grocers, General Deale rs, Etc.— Aitken and Co., Plavelock -street Orr and Co,, East-street Firth, Pass, and Co., East- street John Fowler,, Tancred-streeC 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*, ll«ir Railway Station Shearman’s Somerset Hot' ii, Easts street

Ironmongers— Orr and Co., East-street Aitken and Co., Havelc>ck-street S. Ilardley, East-street

Painter, &c.— J. R. Chapman, Tancred-street Printers and Publishers . Furness and Dixon, East-street

Plumbers, Gaseitters, Tinsmiths, Etc. J. C. Dolman, Tancred-street Joseph Plyde, Tancred-street S. Plardley, East-street

Saddlers— Thomas Hudson, Bumett-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 cl&se a; follows

For Christchurch and North at 10 a 4 p.m., and 7.30 p.m., daily. For Chertsey at 10 a.m, daily. For Rakala at 10 a.m., and 4 p.m. daily. •• For Ashton, Waterton, and Longbeach, ■ 8.1 3.15 p.m. daily. For Greenstreet, Ashburton Forks, Me >imt Somers, and Ashburton Gorge on Tuesc lays and Fridays at 10.30 a.m. For Temuka, Timaru, and South at ic r.l§ a.m. and 3 p.m daily,. For Tinwald, Winslow, Hinds, Coldstre; mi, Rangitata, Orari, Winchester, and Geraldi n<e, at 10.15 a,m - daily.

UNCLAIMED LETTERS.

The following letters are advertised at Post Office, as having been received f places beyond the Colony, during the m< of April, and remaining unclaimed on Ist 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) .LeggiiU, W. L.

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Orr,, Robert Tourgis, A. (2) Letters originating fteiV Z ealand now advertised, are sen's' to th , e iDead Letter Office,,afier haying Mb fort #<*, Sjtcdr qnths, y

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

PORT OF LYTTELTON. arrived. July 20—Camille, brigantine, from Bluff. July 21—Maori, s.s., from Dunedin. July 21—Mary Miller, barque, from New castle. SAILED. July 22 —Maori, s.s., for North. Auckland, Saturday. Arrived—Josephine, schooner; from Lyttel ton. Sailed—Albatross, for Lyttelton. Timaru, Saturday. Arrived —Seabird, brigantine, from N ew castle. , .. Sailed—Beautiful Star, for Dunedin. Port Chalmers, Saturday.

Arrived —Stella. * . Sailed—Barque Ceylon, for Newcastle ; brig Moa, for Timaru; the New Zealand Company s chartered ship Margaret Galbraith, for London, with IQ passenuers and a full cargo of giam, wool, hides, and the largest quantity of gold yet shipped from this port.

DAILY MEMORANDA.

TO-NIGHT. The Dawn of Peace Lodge, 1.0.G.T., at the Library Hall, at 7.30. Opening Ball at the New iown Hall.

The Evening Echo. MONDAY, JULY 22, 1878.

Earl Beaconsfield is a master oi finesse and the Conservatives of Great Britain played their best card when they sent him to Berlin to watch the great politi cal game in Congress. Success has at tended the joint labors of the Marquis of Salisbury and the great I ory leader, and by their lordships’ clever diplomacy the storm-cloud of war has been lowered to the political horizon, and England has been saved from a struggle which doubtless would have culminated in an embroglio, involving probably the whole of warlike Europe. Croakers have sneered at Albion —ranked her as a second-rate Power —insinuated that her fighting power has dwindled to the low est possible minimum as compared with the military Powers of Europe—broadly asserted that her high prestige among nations was a thing of the past and that, to show her true position only wanted a vital question of the peace of Europe to agitate the Great Powers, when a snub would be given to Britain’s pretensions indicative of the contempt in which her neighbors hold her and in resenting which snub she would show her weakness as a belligerent when she marshalled her forces against an op posing power. 1 he result of Congress is a sufficient rebutment of all that has been said against her, and every true Briton’s heart must thrill with joy and honest pride to learn that the very firm ness and determination of our country, which were prophesied as certain to in duce a war with Russia, have been the •forces to bring about the “ bloodless victory which outshines the fame of Waterloo.” J udiciously but firmly with stood, Russia was prevented up to a certain point from striking the blow that must have been followed by a war in which our Mother Country would have been the principal actor; while the pressure was lifted at that point where our ends could not have been served without trenching too much upon the Northern dignity, and a war was thus averted from 'following what j Russia might have deemed humiliation. So far as we can see, the result of the Cc ingress will be peace, with a higher pm stige to England and a larger power h atervention in Eastern affairs. But how long that peace may continue will depen d wholly upon the manner in which Russia may conduct herself. If she had been able to override all Euro pean opp osition and plant a flag of con quest on the walls of Constantinople, she could have virtually commanded Europe. Bi tt while, on the one hand, Turkey is & g reat temptation to North ern aggression, on the other hand, the nations of Europe will not sit calmly by and see that T of conquest planted. So long as the gre at Northern Power is kept' in check, .Europe is comparatively safe, and to prevent her making any further attempt to swell hei alieady huge dominions by the annexation of ■Moslem territory, England will have the assistance of nearly all, the Powers ot rEurope, and certainly the approval of every one. But Russia is avaricious of and lophf greedily upon the

land of the Sultan, and it is just possible her lust of conquest may overcome her loyalty to the spirit of her treaties and a war be the outcome. Let us hope, however, that the peaceful result of Congress is a solution of the Eastern question that will be as lasting as if is satisfactory. The Russo-Turkish war and the Berlin Conference have been pregnant with lessons to Great' Britain. Stand ing by and viewing the hostilities of the_ combatants she has witnessed almost a revolution in the system of warfare. She has seen the lesson taught that the spade in the soldier’s hands is of more real value to the opposing forces than the bayonet, and the practical skill of the sappers and miners more to be cul tivated than the charging cheer of a brigade. Henceforth a scientific pick and shovel drill will take the place of the effete infantry bayonet exercise, and practical civil engineering instruction must become a part of parade routine. The Franco-Prussian war undermined the status of cavalry as an offensive branch of the service, and pointed out that the uhlans of the Kaiser had found the only true mission of cavalry in a campaign. The Russo-1 urkish struggle has further clinched this conviction, and the day is not far distant when the glory of our hussars and dragoons will pass away like a tale that has been told. The brilliant Charge of the Light Bri gade will live, to be sure, in the hearts of the people, as Tennyson’s immortal lines will live; but the heroic deeds of dashing troopers have now no place in modern warfare, and though a much more useful sphere of action will be assigned to them in scouting and scouring the country, the brilliant cavalry exploits which gild the history of our mounted regiments are things of the past. The circumstances which called to gether the British Congress called upon British gunners to look to their priming. The enthusiasm displayed by our military showed us we were not yet defenceless, and the rapidity with which vast bodies of troops were mobi lised proved that, whatever may have been sneered about the toothlessness of the old Lion, it would be unwise on the part of an enemy to provoke his bite. The defiant passage of the Dar danelles by our fleet, while it showed the ready and at once available mettle of our tars, proved to Europe looking on that the old supremacy of the seas had not waned, and to dare it would be dangerous in the highest degree. While, finally, the respect which Eng land commanded by her firm attitude in Congress is ample evidence that her place among the nations is as high as ever, and that she is a power in no way diminished in strength; that however she may, like a peace-loving nation, sojnetim.es stoop to conquer, and abso lutely purchase peace, she can, when her interests are at stake, and when her honor is in danger, assume an attitude that commands attention to her de mands from Powers who know she is not a foe to be Trifled with or. her anger to be lightly aroused. '

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Ball in celebration of the opening of the Town Hall will be held to-night, dancing to commence at nine o’clock.

Football. A match was played on Satur day between a town team captained by Mr. R. M. Buchanan, and a country team captained by Mr. S. Saunders. The town team was re presented by a much larger number of players than the country, and an overwhelming defeat was anticipated for the rustics. Mr. Bnchanan winning the toss selected the goal, slightly favored by the wind, and shortly after three o’clock Westenra kicked off for the country. It soon became evident that although numerically stronger the town players lacked the experi ence of their opponents, and the excellent for ward play of the latter soon forced the ball into the town’s quarters. Here Buchanan made several attempts to get away for a run, but was repeatedly collared, and in the sciimmages which followed the country men more than compensated for their want of weights by keep ing well on the ball, and at about half time Graeme Secured a ‘touch down’ for them. Through some misunderstanding tlie try at goal was sacrificed, and the town having received further additions to their majority, steadily forced the country back. However, a few minutes before time the country rallied, and by a few spirited runs made the game again look all in their favor, Denshire securing a goal by a long and well-timed drop. The general play was rough, we think, to an extreme, andsevera players who should have known better wer 1 conspiciously erratic in placing their kicks* Certainly all the rough usage was taken in good part, and none appeared more satisfied than the three recipients of black eyes, the gentleman who lost the major part of his ap parel, and the citizen who had his head unten derly pounded in deep mud by a burly country man, but when strangers come to oppose our dub they may be unaccustomed to this' style, and utterly misunderstand these offensive evi dences of welcome. For the losers Parker playkl in capital form and with,practice; would he useful in any team. Buchanan was all there as- half back, and. Fooks and Hay did good service in their own peculiar style. The win ners, one and all, played well; Denshire pace and judgment rendering him remarkable, even pmidst a team of “ good uns,”

COUNTY COUNCIL

A special meeting of the Ashburton County Council. was held in the new offices, Montgomery’s Buildings to-day. The following members were present — Messrs. E. C. Walker (Chairman), A. Saunders, E. G. Wright, Chas. Reed, and F. S. Coster.

The Chairman stated that the meet ing had been called to receive the report of the Finance Committee prior to the two members proceeding to Wel lington. Mr. Wright said the Committee had met, and recommended that a letter should be written to the Premier. When Sir George Grey was here it would be remembered he stated that if a short statement were made to him he would have a special Act, passed. He (Mr. Wright) thought it would be better to write to Sir George Grey than to petition the Government. Mr. Wright then read a draft of the letter, and explained that what he had just read set forth the propriety of the Council having command of the funds. There were many and large public works to be carried out, such as the water supply for the Plains, and that for the town to which they were pledged. There were also the branch railways to be completed. These might be done by private speculation : if they were, it was not too much to say that Govern ment would purchase them in a few years, and the proceeds would go to the Companies. If the Council did the work and Government bought the com pleted lines, then the Council would receive the proceeds at a time when the revenue from land sales was getting low. In his opinion it would be much better to construct branch railways as a county work.

Mr. Reed wished to see the drainage of the town embodied in the letter. Mr; Coster wished to know what the Mount Somers railway was likely to cost. It appeared to him that if the County Council undertook that work it would require nearly all their capital. He did not think it was a work that the Council should undertake. It - was hardly fair that a railway in one part of the County should be made by private enterprise, while another is made from County funds. He thought the money should still be paid to the Road Board. Mr. Saunders thought the works would be better carried out by the Council. He thought that before the funds of the Council were expended a public meeting should be called, and the view of the people taken as to how those funds should be spent. It was better that the large sum- of money now coming to us should in the mean time be in the hands of the Council, but he strongly objected to large sums being expended without the ratepayers having a voice in the matter, The Chairman said he thought Mr. Coster was a little hasty in thinking the Council were taking any definite steps as to expenditure to-day. The amount coming to the Council was still an in definite quantity. If the sum coming to us was only-‘sufficient to make the twenty miles of railway, he should be strongly against the money being spent in that way. The Council was in no way bound by this meeting as to how it was to be expended. Suppose the rail way be made by a private company, how could we then use the rails granted by Government? The Act intended that all the distributed revenue goes to the Council on and after December last. All they ask the Government to do was to have the Act interpreted, as it was a most difficult Act to read. Mr. Saunders was perfectly justified in stating that the Council will not act without consulting the benefit of the ratepayers. As regards the lailway, it was a work by which every part of the district would be benefited, and in promoting these works the highest interests of the County were considered. Mr. Wright, in reply to Mr. Coster, said no injustice would be done to the Road Boards by the apportionment of the funds. Their chairman could go to-morrow and claim the amount due by Government. It was competent for him as Commissioner to apportion the funds as he pleased. The Road Boards cannot claim any money till the appor tionment is made. The Council then went into Com mittee to consider the memorial.

The meeting was adjourned to the 31st instant.

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,—Adyt,

TELEGRAPHIC.

LATEST FROM EUROPE. [By Submarine Cable.] * London, July 18. The House of Lords was crowded ,to hear the Premier’s statement of the re sults of the Congress. He said Turkey remained compact and powerful. Earls Granville and Derby challenged the policy of England regarding Cyprus and the defence of Turkey. The Mar quis of Salisbury vindicated it. The Elcho Challenge Shield was won at Wimbledon by Ireland making 1610, England 1560, Scotland 1551. A tramp has been arrested for com plicity in the murder of Mrs. Wilkins and children at Dolgelly. July 20. The Marquis of Hartingdon will table a motion censuring the engagement for the defence of Turkey. It is unknown when Parliament pro rogues. There is agitation in Italy ..respecting Cyprian and Austrian schemes.

AUSTRALIAN.

Sydney, July 20. The Commercial Bank declared a dividend of 25 per cent per annum. The Sydney International Exhibition next year promises to be successful. Considerable European support is anti cipated. Sailed—Wakatipu.

INTERPROVINCIAL

[Per Press Agency.] Nelson, Saturday. In the football match Wellington v. Neison, during the two first half-hours there was very hard play, without any result, though the position off the ball was generally in favor of Wellington. In the third bout, Wellington scored one goal and one try. The fourth bout was very hard play, but no further re sult was obtained. The Wellington team will be entertained at dinner to night. Nelson, Monday.

At one o’clock on Saturday, as the Wellington and Nelson football teams were leaving the playground, a carriage containing a number of the players ran over a little boy, son of Mr Elvey, painter, the wheels passing over the little fellow’s stomach. Wellington, Saturday. Mr. Boardman, the agent here for the South British Insurance Company, has received private information that the following are the insurances on the Hydrabad—Cargo : South Australian, £3OOO ; Mercantile Marine, of South Australia, £2500 ; Adelaide, £2OOO ; New Zealand, ,£2500; National of South Australia, -£2OOO ; National of New Zealand, £2000; New South .Wales, £l7s°; Victoria, £l7s°; Globe, £ISOO ; .Merchants, £1500; Netherlands and India, £1500; Im perial, -£ISOO ; South British, £IOOO ; Southern, £SOO. Dunedin, Sunday.

The Dunedin Jockey Club last night resolved to remove the disqualification from Fishook and Derritt, which was imposed for unfair running on Oamaru course over a year ago. . (Special to the Press.) Dunedin, Saturday. A public meeting was held at Ander son’s Bay last evening, when it was resolved that the County Council should be requested immediately to adopt the whole of the Counties Act; that a peti tion should be presented to the Govern ment, praying that the'whole county be declared a railway district under the District Railways Act, for the purpose of constructing a railway through the centre of the Peninsula, from Anderson’s Bay to Portobello and the Heads. The Committee of the Chamber' of Commerce have resolved to recommend the Chamber to give its support to pro posals that notice of all bankruptcies be advertised in the Mercantile Gazette of New Zealand.

The Hon. H. S. Chapman has writ ten to the Chamber of Commerce, recommending that the Government should reduce the railway fares to two pence per mile for first class, and a penny per mile for second class. He points out that New Zealand charges maximum rates for a minimum speed.

That is a good story of the gentle man who went to see Mr. Hankey in his rooms on the top storey of Queen Anne’s Mansions by St. James’ Park. It is the highest building in London, and when the visitor called the lift was out of order. The flights of stairs he had to mount were something dreadful, and when, panting for breath, he at length stood before Mr. Hankey’s door, it was not entirely forgetfulness that jnade him ask «Is St,.Peter at home?'

MALINGERING.

Of the art of simulating disease, with a view to escape some irksome duty, which is familiarly known as malinger ing, many curious examples are related. A very simple incident will often suffice to throw a good simulator off his guard. Here is a case in point. A letter carrier, on entering a French barrack-room, called out the names of the men for whom he had letters, and among them that of a.man who was believed by everybody to be labouring under almost total deafness. F6r a moment the man forgot his part, and answered to his name.

Casper, the celebrated German medi cal jurist, neatly exposed a case of counterfeit deafness in opem court. The panel, an old woman, pretended to be. as deaf as a post. .“ You are accused,” roared Casper in her ear, “ of severely injuring the woman Lemke. It is not true; but,” roared. Casper again, “the woman Lemke asserts that it is true.” He then rapidly added in a low tone, “ And she is certainly not a liar.” The old. woman’s wrath for a moment got the better of her consis tency, and she rejoined, to the amuse-, ment of the whole court, “ Yes, indeed, she is a liar.”

“ How long have you been dumb, my friend ?” said a passenger on ship board once. to a pretended mute. “ Three weeks, sir,” replied, the incau tious simpleton. ...." An Irish army recruit, who had sud denly lost his 1 hearing, was sent into hospital, and put, by the doctor’s order, on spoon meat. For nine days' the latter in his visits passed the deaf man’s bed without seeming to notice him. On the tenth day, after examining the state of his tongue and pulse, he asked the attendant what kind of food the patient was getting. On being told he was on spoon meat, he affected to be angry. “Are you not ashamed of yourself?” said he to the nurse. “ The poor fellow is almost starved to death. Let Him at once have a beefsteak and a pint of porter.” “God bless your honor! ” blurted out the deaf recruit, “you are the best gentleman I have seen for many a day.” * : *<' An amusing example of the way in which, in the heat of passion, every vestige of pretence is sometimes thrown away, is related by a surgeon of the navy. A seaman on board a frigate, who pretended to be totally blind, and was believed to be so, was on one occasion allowed to go on shore with an attendant to lead him. The. pair happened to quarrel, and chine to blows, when the blind man, finding himself unduly handicapped, instantly regained his sight, and got the better of his astonished guide. The latter rook, to flight, was pursued through a great part of the town by his late protege, and finally got a severe drub bing from him. The application of the cat-o’-nine-tails next day cured the malingerer of any tendency to defect of vision.

A French physician, after watching a spurious epileptic fit,for some.time, put his hand on the 1 chest of the sufferer, and turning to. tke : attendants, said : “ It’s all. over 1 with him; carry him to the dead-house.” Immediate resuscita tion was the result.

A convict sentenced to seven years’ penal servitude kept his right,. knee bent so as not to touch the I ground with : His i foot during all that ' period, and on account of his infirmity, was exempted 1 from the usual kinds of con vict labour and employed at work which he could do in a sitting posture. When being discharged at the expiry of his period of involuntary service, 5 he cboly observed to ah official, “ I will try to put down my leg; it may be of use to me now.” , Pie was .as good as his word, threw away his crutch, and walked off with a firm step.

A Shetland clergyman , was greatly annoyed at the weekly occurrence of- a kind of contagious convulsion which attacked many of ( his .congregation in church. At length'' the good man hit on a plan which put a speedy termina tion to the, infliction., He announced from the pulpit that he had learned that, no treatment was..sQ effieaciops as an f immediate ducking ;:m and as his kirk was, fortunately, con tiguous to a fresh-water lake, the proper hydropathic treatment could always be secured. 1

The means adopted to simulate one disease have in some cases produced another of a more serious kind. ' Sol diers have so persistently kept up a state of irritation in a ’fictitious; sore as to bring on a disease which required amputation 1 of the limb.

A little girl of our acquaintance wanted a piece of blue ribbon, and was told that if she wore it she was not' to cry or “ act up.” . Her sister refused to take her visiting one day and she began to cry, but, on noticing the ribbon, said : “Jf I didn’t have on this ribbon I’4 howl.

The Evening Echo* Man clay, July j.878*