ASHBURTON TRADE DIRECTORY.

% XOUNTANTS AND COMMISSION AGENTS — Charles Braddell, Montgomery’s Buildings H. J. Bristo, Prospect Buildings, East-st. W. R. Boyle, Moore-street. & tCHITECT AND CIVIL ENGINEER— S. W. Brown, East-street S. Farr, Montgomery’s Buildings B. Mountfort, East Street

4 'JCTIONEERS — Bullock and Co., East-street Saunders Bros., Ashburton H IRRISTERS AND SOLICITORS — Mr. Branson, East-street Mr. E. G. Crisp, Montgomery’s Buildings |»kers, Confectioners, Etc.— Thomas Hicks, Tancred-street Taylor and Lill, East-street, | sinks— Bank of New Zealand, East-street Union Bank of Australia, East-street Hoarding House Keepers— J. G. Anstee, East-street Eagle’s Dining Rooms, Havelock Street ItiiLDERS, 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 |)OKSELLERS AND STATIONERS— A. Weston, Prospect Buildings, East-street Furness and Dixon, Stationers’ Hall, East street South

Bootmakers— t l . Chambers, Prospect Buildings, East-street M. Nealas, East-street Irewers— Wood and Co., Cameron-street J ABINETMAKERS AND UNDERTAKERS— James Baker, Havelock-street G. Parkin, Moor-street Thomas Williams, 1 inwald (Carrier — G. F. Scott, Cameron-street Chemist and Druggist— J. M. Cambridge, Montgomery’s Buildings Roal and Firewood Parker and Co., near Railway Station A. Hayes, Firewood and Timber, near Rail way Station F. P. Leßreton, Burnett-street. 'lrapers 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 W. Gavin, East-street T. Quinn & Co., Moor-street Engineers and Founders — Edwards and Lee, Engineers, Smiths, etc., Burnett-street W. J. Hessey, Central Foundry, Peters-st "URNITURE 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 i John Fowler, Tancred-street \ K. Sando, East-street

Greengrocers— W. Birtwell, East-street J. Mooar & Co., East-street lairdressers E. A. Garnett, East-street A. Pearse, Moore-street IOTELS Quill’s Commercial Hotel, near Railway Station Shearman’s Somerset Hotel, East-street Tronmongers— Orr and Co., East-street Aitken and Co., Havelock-street S. Hardley, East-street Ladies’ Clothing Establishment— Mrs. Morey, Tancred Street. Painter, See.— 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. Ei Fooks and Son, East-street Tailors— Aitken and Co., Havelock-street Pentmakers— K. Sando, East-street Tobacconists— A. Pearse, Moor-street E. A. Garnett, East-street A. Weston, East-street

POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Mails at the Ashburton Post Office close m follows: For Christchurch and North at IO a.m., 4 p.m., and 7.30 p.m., daily. For Chertsey at 10 a.m. daily. For Rakaia at 10 a.m., and 4 p.m. daily. For Ashton, Waterton, and Longbeach, at 3.15 p.m. daily. For Greenstrect, Ashburton Forks, Mount Somers, and Ashburton Gorge on Tuesdays and Fridays at 10.30 a.m. For Temuka, Timaru, and South at io. 15 l,m. and 3 p.m daily. For Tinwdd, Winslow, Hinds, Coldstream, Rangiuta, Orsri, Winchester, Gw^Jdine,

The Evening Echo. THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1878.

A certain personage usually repre sented as having a forked tail and cloven feet, is also said to have a limp, which is not visible until he “trots 0111.” Our tri-weekly contemporary “ trotted out ” this morning for the first time on the Mayoral question, and the bias of his limp was shown towards Mr. Bullock, in a special pleading for his favorite that must have the effect of destroying most effectually any claim to impartiality the paper may have had. Following up the line of every special pleader, Mr. Bullock’s virtues are mag nified to their highest degree, while Mr. Williamson’s are slurred over, or utterly cast in the shade. Were we to believe our contemporary, Mr. Bullock is the very incarnation of all that is good—the condensed elements of Ash burton’s glorious future, —and the col lective wisdom of the town centres m him. He is credited with being the head and front of every public move ment, and the motive power of Ash burton’s progress. The writer’s bosom glows with tenderness for Mr. Bullock in that he has been at every public meeting within the last four years, and has advocated at the County Council the furtherance of the water scheme. But he forgets to mention Mr. Bul lock’s almost total barrenness of origi nality, that not a single public move ment in the town has taken its rise with him. The Municipality idea was Mr. Williamson’s not Mr. Bullock’s : the gas company idea the writer has already claimed as his own —not Mr. Bullock’s. If there is one member of the County Council more lax in his attendance than another that member is Mr Bullock; the School Committee meetings at which he should be present are more frequently heic; without the sunshine of his countenance than with it, and the most ot his public work, unless he is at the head, and bulking largely in the public eye, is done in this slip shod way. Mr William son has his faults of course, but we fail to see that, originating the leading movements for which Mr Bullock is being smeared over with fulsome praise he does not want, and does notask for, Mr Williamson can with any show of truth be called either retrogressive or stereotyped : or, doing carefully and well whatever public work he under takes it can be said of him that he lives in the town but is not of it. He attends regularly every meeting of the Road Board, at the School Committee his place is never empty—thus proving that if he wants the honor of a position he will also do the work. Can the other candidate say the same ? Put Mr. Bullock in the chair of a public meet ing, and he will stick to the end. Give the honor to some one else, and Mr. Bullock "Will fold his tent like the Arabs, And silently steal away.” ,

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Telegraphic. —The Postmaster in forms us that the Batavia and Singa pore cable is working intermittently, and messages will be subject to delay. To-Night will be the first great field parade of the forces Ashburton has available from which to select her “city fathers,”, and doubtless a large concourse of spectators will attend at at the Town Hall to review the evolu tions of “ the men of the future.”

Housebreaking and Suspected Robbery.. —lt will be remembered that some time ago, Mr. Cullen, carrier, received such severe injuries from a kick by his horse, that he had to be taken to the Christchurch hospital. Mrs. Cullen accompanied her injured husband to the city, and in their ab sence their house has been untenanted. Last night, Mr. Andrew Wood, a neigh bor of Mr. Cullen, noticed that a pane of glass had been removed from the window of Mr. Cullen’s house and placed carefully against the wall. On examination, it was found that the putty securing the pane had been carefully cut out and the glass thus removed. Mr. Wood having communicated with the police, it was found that the window had been unfastened and the curtains inside folded out of the way of ingress, but of course no one can say at present whether a theft has been committed or nob Meanwhile Mrs. Cullen has been telegraphed tor, and will doubtless arrive £ocn.

The Timber Demand. —At Mr. Hayes’, sale yesterday, every foot of timber put up was sold, and such a demand was there for boarding that Mr. Hayes has sent a message to his mill to forward 50,000 feet of the best procurable totara, which we hear will be sold by auction, along with other stuff, about the 10th proximo. The sale, however, will be duly advertised. Mr. A. Le Grand Campbell.— Our Wellington correspondent tele graphed last night that the Minister of Justice, after two adjournments, replied to Mr. Saunders’ question regarding our Resident Magistrate that he could not answer the question without intro ducing debateable matter, and re quested Mr. Saunders to raise the question when the item came on in Committee on the Estimates, when the subject could be debated. Suspicious Case. was given at the Auckland Police Court recently that the body of a woman, named Elizabeth Spencer, had been found in the Wairoa district, under circumstances which seem to point to death by violence. The report of Constable Moar, pf Panmure, is as follows : —“ William Spencer, of Marae tai, reported at this station (Panmure), at 11 a.m. on the 13th instant, that the dead body of his mother, Elizabeth Spencer, was found at 12 noon on Tuesday, at Wairoa Point, near Marae tai. The constable at once hired a horse, and proceeded to the Wairoa, and found the dead body of Mrs. Spencer at Whaipokaia, the Maori settlement. The face is very much disfigured; the chin, left side of the face, and left side of forehead, have been eaten by rats or birds. The throat is also torn open under the chin about three inches across. The con stable also noticed a quantity of blood in the hair, but could find no wound in the head, and, therefore was at a loss to know where the blood came from. Mrs. Spencer was last seen alive by the Maoris on the 7th instant. She was living with a man namec Charles Saarper, at Maraetai.”

Wouldn’t Have It.—The follow ing is from the Auckland Ho aid: —A few days ago the secretary to the Thames Harbour Board, who is also Town Clerk, told a story at the meet ing of the Harbour board, in which it was related that a Parliamentary whip hand been sent by the leader of his party to the hon. member on the floor of the House with instructions to tel “ that drunken fool to sit down,” as he was talking exactly contrary to what he had been told to do. The anecdote was reported, and on the paper reaching Wellington, Mr Rowe telegraphed that “ If the remarks made by the secretary to the Harbour Board are intended to apply to me (and I be lieve so), they are wickedly and abso lutely untrue.” Mr Rowe is to write on the subject. Pay your Score. —The corres pondent of the Dunedin Star, writing from Wellington says : —A nice little scandal is going about the lobbies ie Bellamy’s. It is said that the Civil servants managed, during the recess, to become indebted to Bellamy’s to the tune of This fact was brought to light by the House Committee, who, it is said, intend to issue a dunning circular to the debtors accompanied with a threat lo lay a return of names of the delinquents on the table of the House. The consequence is that there is immense consternation in most of the recesses of “ the largest wooden build ings in the world.” “ Speech is silvern, &c.”— The Wakatip Mail having in errorannounced that the Suez mail would close at Queenstown on the 26th, instead of the 23rd instant, received a memo, from the local postmaster, who had “ the honor to request ” that it would discon tinue advertising mail notices in future. The Mail retorts by telling Mr Macal ister that his communication is as untruthful as it is impertinent, reminds him that the “ advertisement ” is gratui tous, and tells him to continue to do his duty by posting up the notices at the office. Doubtless this officious postmaster now wishes that he had held his peace. Mistaken. —One more story from the North of Ireland. He was a “Northern Farmer”—had married three wives in the course of four years, and buried them all three —they happened to have been “ comfortable,” and had brought him a trifle of money, and a bit of land, and a pig or two, as their res pective dots. To him the parson said consolingly on the demise of No. 3 ; “ Well, Andy, I’m sorry for your trouble; but any way you can’t be badly off con sidering what they brought to you.” “ Yer no just recht about yon, sir,” said Andy sensitively. “A ’ tell ye what it is, sir; ye ma’ b’lieve me that what wi’ the fetchin’ o’ them in, an’ the fetchin’ 0’ them oot, thetds no sae much profit on them as maybe ye think Atlas, if? World,

CORRESPONDENCE.

We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondents.

To the Editor of the Evening Echo.

Sir, —Through the medium of your paper, might I ask where are our County Councillors ? Are they asleep, or do they fail to see the necessity of a bridge on the Alford Forest road, across the north branch of the Ashburton River ? I think a road having so much traffic as the one in question should be bridged. 1 once had a very narrow escape of my life fording it in a fresh on horseback, and I think it is time our County Councillors waked from fieir Rip-Van-Winkle-like-slumber, and enable lus to cross the river in safety.—l am, etc., Tempus Fugit. Ashburton, 28th August.

BIDE-A-WEE.

Air—“ Invisible.”

To the new-made burgesses, ’twas bold Donald spoke, “ If you put in Tom Bullock, you’ll find it no joke; For he promises much, tho’ I think you’ll agree He could not do as much as the auld Bide-a-wee. “ What with water and gas-works, and laying down mains, And ‘ knocking down ’ sections to bother his brains — He can’t spare the time, I think you’ll agree, To attend to the Borough like auld Bide-a-wee. “ If elected or not, sure he’ll go to Tinwald, And leave poor Ashburton out in the cauld; He’ll forget his old love, for the new you will see, And you’ll wish you had stuck to the auld Bide-a-wee. “You may ask what I’ll do if elected as Mayor, That you’ll very soon see if I get in the chair; For I’ll plant every yard of reserve with a tree, And keep off nor’-westers from auld Bide-a-wee. “If a fire should break out as likely does seem, I’ll soon put it out with an engine by steam ; Then light up your stieets, so that each one may see What improvements are made by the auld Bide-a-wee. “As for rural endowments and draining the Borough, If you get me elected, I’ll start it to-morrow ; For I’ll get you the land, run a drain to thp sea, As sure as my name is the auld Bide-a-wee. One word more before parting—just look ere you leap, And vote for the man who his promise, will keep; Take care on the day the there’s no green in your ’ee, And plump like a man for the auld Bide-a-wee.”

TELEGRAPHIC.

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LATEST FROM EUROPE.

St. Petersburg, August 26. Lord Salisbury has sent a despatch to the British Ambassador here, pro testing against Russian connivance at Bulgarian atrocities on the Mahom medans. A semi-official communica tion has been made, which resented England’s interference. Vienna, August 27. The Bosnians renewed their attack on the Austrians on August 24. After nine hours’ continuous fighting, the Bosnians were defeated, and compelled to fall back. Constantinople, August 27. The evacuation of Batoum is post poned.

AUSTRALIAN.

Sydney, August 28. Arrived —Rotorua, s.s., yesterday. It is stated that the Agricultural Society have intimated to the Govern ment their intention of proceeding to hold an international exhibition. It is estimated that 700,000 acres of land have been alienated at auction during the present year, as compared with 2,500,000 acres last year.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Per Press Agency.] Waitara, Thursday. News was brought in this morning by a native from Kawhia that the schooner Kaiuma, which left here on 14th, with a cargo of cattle, is a total wreck off that place, and all hands perished. Auckland, Wednesday. The Auckland and Thames Gas Com pany have declared a dividend of 8 per cent. Major Gordon, formerly a staff com mander of the Auckland Volunteers, received a telegraphic appointment to a similar position in Otago. He was just leaving for Levuka. Dunedin, Wednesday.

The chemists of Otago last night decided to take steps to form a branch Pharmaceutical Association, and to communicate with the Wellington br&ueb on the subject.

AMBITION.

(By a Local Thinker.)

“As I hope, gentlemen, to see you all Mayors and Councillors some day, you will not be too hard on me.”— Donald Williamson.

The advantages and disadvantages of ambition among citizens is an oft mooted question. It is allowed by all that it instils energy and love of progress into the mind, and, elevating it above its sphere, makes it look for some condi tion higher and better than its present one. By the principle of honor, man’s first desire is to excel some,one else; his first impulse is distinction above his fellow-men. Heaven places in his soul a compass that always points to one end, viz., honor, in that which those around him consider honorable. On the other hand it may render a man impatient of control and reckless. This would be the necessary effect of ambi tion were it uncontrolled by reason, which warns us that there are many steps in the ladder of fame, each of which must be surmounted by patient and long continued effort. It has been urged by some that disappointed ambi tion depresses the mind with the con sciousness of defeat and makes it feebler than before. Which, we would ask is the greater craven—he who shuns a contest, or he who for the chance of vic tory faces the danger of defeat? For unsuccessful ambition, like the spider, values as nothing its past labor, and is only spurred on by failure to greater efforts. It has again and again been asserted that ambition renders a man envious of the success of others. Granted, still envy is a passion that rather posseses the mind of those who, having done nothing to deserve, vainly covet what they have not had the energy to win. Ambition has no envy, for it is ever advancing, ever making some progress, its eyes fixed steadfastly on the one object. Thus we may with' far more reason accuse ambition of rendering the disposition selfish —of making a man callous to social and domestic sympathies; narrow-minded and exclusive. But this is yiewing am bition under its most repulsive fofms ; for what matters it if he be so, pro vided, we say, he puts his shoulder honestly to the wheel in his own pe culiar line of life, for there are plenty of others to apply themselves to what he neglects. But we must not neglect to look at the other side of the picture. Ambition sends a healthy glow through every muscle of the State’s frame;. it makes him who has attained his object conscious that he cannot keep his place without continued and sustained efforts, and also makes the humblest feel that he has no need to despair of greatness. For, we maintain, it is incumbent on all to try and elevate and improve their special calling and art. Contentment makes its possessor more disposed to form a fair judgment on matters, be cause his mind is unbiassed by consi derations of self, but it also renders him less capable of doing so; for, from his ignorance of passions and desires by which all men are swayed, he takes little account of them, and is induced to judge from facts, putting motives aside. There must be a movement one way or the other, and the condition of a State which possesses such citizens cannot, be but retrogressive, for the reason that they are content to acquiesce in the opinions and doings of others, and there is a lack of that energy and vigor which above all things contribute to the greatness of a nation. An am bitious man, though he be selfish, ad vances the interests of the State even more than his own. By a strange para dox the contented one benefits himself rather than his country. He is not kept awake by care, he feels not disappointment, his mind has leisure for social and domestic pleasures, and since he stands in nobody’s way, he is probably better liked by those with whom he is brought in contact. It was ordained by Providence that every one should strive to improve and ever have some object in life, and though the ambitious man may never be contented, yet with each step in advance he feels a flush of joy, which never falls to the lot of him who does not seek to rise.

Floruit , Floret , Floreat.

Ashburton has flourished under greater difficulties than beset it at present. We believe that by God’s blessing it is at the present time flourishing aud doing its work. We earnestly pray and hope fully trust that it will yet work still better, still more fully, still more nobly, and that a yet greater career lies before it still.

“ DARWINISM” TESTED BY LANGUAGE.

The London Spectator , in reviewing Dr. Bateman’s book on this subject, says

It was said long ago by Aristotle that “ animals merely emit sounds, but have no articulate speech, which is the pecu liar characteristic of man.” There is no such thing as a speechless tribe; the most , degraded savage can acquire articulate language—a monkey cannot It is evident how this bears on the Darwinian controversy. If well estab lished it supplies a missing link, and would seem to be fatal to Darwinism. Language does seem very sharply to differentiate man from all other ani mals. The parrot is a, case merely of of phonetic mimicry; nothing approach ing to articulation is ever acquired by that remarkable bird. As Max Muller has said, “ Speech appears to be a barrier between the brute and man, and no process of natural selection will ever 1 distil significant words out of the notes of birds or the cries of beasts.” Dr. Bateman discusses the subject with what will seem to the Evolutionists un due warmth, and he shows that he feels strongly how mischievous Darwinism is. We can hardly blame him, for many of those who talk loudest about the odium theologicum , exhibit them selves an equally offensive odium anti theologicum, on the strength of which they denounce as fools or hypocrites all who venture to question their theories.

The Evening Echo, Thursday, August 29, 1878-



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. Orr & Co. offer special advantages to the public that can he met with nowhere else in Ashburton. They keep at all times the largest and best-assorted Stock of every class of Goods, imported direct Irom 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 *o that the most inexperienced buy their goods it the same prices as the best judges.—Advt



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Poor Things.—Mr. Hursthouse, the brilliant member for Motueka, recently informed the House of Repre sentatives that he considered dwellers in towns (t parasites living on the hard working country settlers,"



LOST —Ashburton, on Tuesday 27th inst., a CHEQUE for £ll3 Bs. 6d., drawn by Messrs. Maclean and Winter on the Bank of New Zealand, Rakaia. Payment has been stopped by W. R, BOYLE, Ashburton. BOROUGH OF ASHBURTON. A REQUISITION, numerously signed by the Burgesses of 4 Ashburton, having been presented to me, requesting that a Public Meeting be called, to give the Candidates for the office of Councillors an opportunity for explaining their views on Municipal matters, I hereby give notice that the said Meeting will be held at the TOWN HALL on THURS DAY Evening, 29th inst., at 8 o’clock. CHARLES BRADDELL, Town Clerk. Town Clerk’s Office, Ashburton, 26th August, 1878.



npHE Rev. G. LINDSAY, Waimate, will JL Preach on Sunday next, in the Pres byterian Church, Ashburton, Morning and Evening. WANTED, Immediately, a Respectable LAD. Apply ERNEST A. GARNETT, • Tobacconist, East-street. SPECIAL NOTICE. H MR. BULLOCK’S COMMITTEE. THE .Committee are requested to attend a Special Meeting on SATURDAY EVENING Next, At MR. SHEARMAN’S Sample Rooms, at Eight o’clock, Sharp. H. J. BRISTO, Secretary. T X 7ANTED to. Purchase, a section in West VV Street. Apply ECHO Office. WANTED— Four Young Ladies, as Ap prentices to the Dressmaking. ORR & CO. WANTED KNOWN—That a trustworthy woman will take in Families’ Washing. For particulars apply at the ECHO Office. ANTED. A Clean, Tidy GIRL. Apply at the ECHO Office. WANTED KNOWN. '"THAT SANDO’S BREAD CART will I- be round Every Morning. Please, leave orders at the Shop, East-stret, near the) Echo Office.



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