of tli2 country generally. Then Hoi ter told them how perplexed he was about the matter, and said he would only be too glad to have the cause of the trouble detected. So the committee made a tour of inspection, holding their noses. When they got into the garden they perceived the oysters all gaping wide open, and evolving an awful smell, ab solutely in fumes. One of the committee men, grasping the fact that Horter had plamed these oysters, imagined he was crazy, and suddenly climbed over the fence and went home. The others re mained and asked Horter what on earth he meant by laying those oysters around in the sun in that manner. “Oysters!” said Horter, “ Oysters ! you don’t mean to say those are oysters? Well! well! that beats all ! I was wondering what made all those stones split even down the middle. I couldn’t account for it. And so these are oysters ? Why, I thought oysters always came in cans.” This afternoon he'buried the shell-fish deep in the sand, and the smell ceased. Then he sold out his cottage and moved to Long Branch. .He told Brown, his next-door neighbor, that he knew they were oysters all the time, and he did it for a joke ; but he moved because the people seemed to see too awful much fun in if.

AN INN IN JAPAN.

The certainty of having a pleasant resting place after the toil and trouble of the day is one of the charms of pedestrianism in Japan. The “ Pied Bull ” and “ Red Lions ” of our Eng lish highways make no pretence what ever to anything beyond the mere satisfying of the animal wants. How very different it is in Japan ! From the moment the threshold, is crossed to the moment of departure, the visitor is the object of unceasing solicitude on the part of everyone connected with the establishment from highest to lowest. If it is midday, and he has arrived hot, dusty, and a little tired, after a long morning’s tramp, the whole force of the establishment ushers the visitor into a pretty, light apartment, looking on to one of those marvellous miniature gar dens, in which, covering a space of a few feet, the mountains, woods, rivers, and floods of an entire province are represented. By one neatly dressed, pleasant-looking damsel his boots are taken off and his feet bathed in hot water, a second fans him and keeps up a voluble patter of conversation, a third on her knees offers him tea and sweet meats, whilst the host himself, with another detachment of waitresses, is helping the coolies to unpack the box containing the European food. Every thing that meets the eye is contrived to please it. There are pleasant rustic paintings on the screens. There are vases with flowers dotted about; from the' woodwork outside are suspended gaily-coloured lanterns, or festoons of glass, through wdiich the w r ind often makes a soothing music, so that by the time the traveller has finished his re past, has smoked a pipe, and perhaps drank a cup of “ Saki ” with the host, he feels himself thoroughly refreshed and in capital humor to resume his journey. All this enjoyment is procured at a merely nominal cost, and the pre sent of some bread or European liquor to the house at leaving brings out the whole establishment, who say “Sayo nara ” —that is, “ Goodbye ” —with their foreheads on the mats. — Belgravia.

Alluding to the deadi of Mrs Crawshay in the hunting field, the Pall Mall Gazette gives a list of hunting casualties in the country where she died, which conspicuously points to the perils of -the sport, but iis devotees will not regard the danger any the more. Real Glass Slippers woven of gossamer threads of crystal, so flexible and brilliant that they emit rays of coloured light when seen under the gas jets, are now made and worn in Vienna.

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 encouraging 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 ng Boots, Sho.*s, 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, for one month only.* • Advt. Strangers coming to reside in Ashburton are often at a loss to kn w 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 front the leading manufacturers at home, which being 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, HP that the most inexperienced buy their goods ftt ths same prices as the jadg^r-Advt,

The Evening Echo, Thursday, iuly 25, 1878.



W ANTED, a HUNDRED Good Lay ing FOWLS. Highest Price for real ! y good ones. Apply to K. Sando, East Street. WANTED, a Small ROOM in a Private House near East Street. Apply Office of this Paper. BOY WANTED, to learn Printing. Good wages given to one accustomed to the Business. Apply at once Echo Office. WANTED a PLOUGHMAN. Apply to K. Sando, East Street. WANTED, a Tidy GIRL, as Nursemaid, and to make herself generally useful. Apply Echo Ofeice. WANTED, an Active BOY for the Print ing Business. Apply Echo Office. TOWN SECTION. WANTED, to purchase, in or near East-' street, a Quarter-acre SECTION. Apply, by letter, stating price, &c., A. 8., office of this paper. RUBBER STAMP INK. SMALL or Large Bottles sold at the Even ing Echo Office, East Street. FOR SALE, A Second-Eland American CABINET ORGAN, by Mason and Hamlin. It has five stops and a knee swell. Elegant case. Suitable for Parlor or Church. Price cash. Apply, Echo office. COME AT LAST. NEW DRAPERY ESTABLISHMENT, GLASGOW HOUSE, EAST STREET, ASEIBURTON. W. GAVIN HAS great pleasure in announcing that he will Commence Business, after much unavoidable delay, in his new paemises, at MONTGOMERY’S BUILDINGS, ON SATURDAY NEXT, 27TH JULY, With a New Stock of GENERAL DRAPERY AND CLOTHING, Which owing to the advancement of the winter Season he will offer at extremely Low Prices with a view to speedy clearance. Goods marked in Plain Figures. One Shilling Off Every Pound Purchased for Cash. BARGAINS IN ALL the DEPARTMENTS. ENCOURAGE LOCAL ENTERPRISE ! AND MAKE YOUR PURCHASES where you get Value for Your Money and a LARGE ASSORTMENT To choose from. To make room for more New Novelties from America and other novelty markets, the Undersigned is OFFERING to the public AT GREAT REDUCTIONS his present STOCK, comprising— ABOUT 900 NOVELS FROM 6d. UPWARDS Books on Gardening, Cookery, Farming, Bird-keeping, Etc., Etc., Dictionaries and Ready Reckoners, Journals, Magazines, Song Books, Stationary, and FANCY GOODS of every DESCRIPTION. Novelties in Enless Variety, including CARDS, DRAUGHTS, CHESS, DOMINOES, LOTTO, and other Games. IiST Note the Address— A. WESTON, BOOKSELLER AND AMERICAN TOBACCONIST, DEALER IN FANCY GOODS, General Advertising Agent and Bill Poster. Agent for the Sale of the renowned Weston’s Wizard Oil. Q.G, E, Cl CAR Di VAN, EasLjSiftet, Albion Mftty



1.0.0. F., M.U. LOYAL ASHBURTON LODGE. THE usual Fortnightly MEETING will be held on FRIDAY EVENING, July 26, at the Library Hall. By order, WILLIAM PRICE, P.S. PAPERS by the San Francisco Mail now on Sale at the Echo Office, Stationers’ Hall, East Street: — Lloyd’s Weekly Pictorial World The Farmer Home News The Field Reynold’s Newspaper Illustrated London News Penny Illustrated News Police News Punch NOTICE. Q C. FARR, ARCHITECT, &c., can be consulted at Messrs. W. Montgomery and Co.’s Buildings, Ashburton, EVERY SATURDAY or any communications left at Mr. Charles Brapdell’s Office, will be promptly attended to. Ashburton, July 12, 1878. [A Card.] PRIVATE LESSONS TO YOUNG LADIES, Four times a Week in Music, French, German, and Drawing, at MISS STEANE’S, Oxford Villa, Burnett treet. CHEAP FUEL. SPRINGFIELD COAL, NEWCASTLE COAL, AND FIREWOOD. SPRINGFIELD Coal can'be highly recom mended for every purpose, and the fact of its being used on the Railway must be a suffi cient guarantee of its quality. G. PARKER & Co.,' Near Railway Station, Ashburton. W. R. BOYLE, gSTATE AND GENERAL AGENT, MOORE STREET, ASHBURTON. PRELIMINARY NOTICE. NEW FIRST-CLASS BOARDING-HOUSE. MR TPIOMAS CLARKE has to announce that he will commence immediately the erection of a FIRST-CLASS BOARDING HOUSE, to supply a felt want in Ashburton. The House will occupy a site within One Minute’s walk of the Railway Station, and will afford the following accommodation : FIRST AND SECOND CLASS DINING ROOMS. SMOKING AND READING ROOMS. WELL VENTILATED, LARGE, AND LOFTY BEDROOMS. PRIVATE ROOMS FOR FAMILIES. The work has been contracted for at the price of and the Flouse will be under the supervision of an experienced manager from Christchurch. FRUIT IMPORTED DIRECT FROM SYDNEY. J. MOOAR & CO., W holesale & Retail ' GREENGROCERS AND FRUITERERS, REMOVED to EAST STREET, (Shop lately occupied by Mr. Cambridge.) JUST ARRIVED A LARGE STOCK OF. Oranges, Pine Apples Lemons, Bananas Apples, Vegetables Confectionery &c., &c. Delivered to all paita of Ashburton. MR. BRANSON, BARRISTER AND SOLICITOR, East Street, ASHBURTON. E. G. CRISP, JgARRISTER AND SOLICITOR, Has removed his Offices to MONTGOMERY’S BUILDINGS (Ist Floor), BURNETT STREET, ASHBURTON. JAMES BAKER, IUILDER, CONTRACTOR, AND ' UNDERTAKER, ' HAVELOCK STREET, Ashburton. FUNERALS FURNISHED ON THE SHORTEST NOTICE,\



Saunders Bros. Save PA nnn to LEND upon TOWN MjOOO SECTIONS and otliei FREEHOLD PROPERTY. P 9 rkrtrk to be INVESTED in FREEHOLD Security. P 9 Raa t 0 be ADVANCED in cwfljUUv Sums of and upwards. Preference given to town sections and house securities. P9r\ to be ADVANCED cC^U 3 UUU on GROWING CROPS, LIVE STOCK; and other AGRICULTURAL Security. Messrs SAUNDERS BROS, have for Sale, Situated on the NORTH BANK of the RAKAIA, 4c; ") acres, partly.improved. 690 ~ unimproved 675 ~ fenced 760 ~ 400 of which are now in Turnips 72 ~ unimproved 5 » » WAKANUI DISTRICT. 490 acres, 201 *55 201 hi 936 2CD 130 of which are ploughed highly improved Plouse, Stable, &c. Sixty Acres four miles from the Township. Several Valuable Town Sections. DRAUGHT HORSES. THE Undersigned have FOR SALE a Number of Broken and Unbroken COLTS now to be seen in their Paddocks, adjoining the Ashburton Domain. SAUNDERS BROS. NOTICE TO FARMERS, HORSE BREEDERS, AND OTHERS. THE Advertisers are prepared to Receive HORSES for Sale by Public Auction or Privately, and to make Liberal Cash Advances on same. Good PADDOCKS and Plenty 0/ FEED lor Stock. SAUNDERS BROS. C. PERCY COX, LAND AND ESTATE AGENT, AND VALUATOR, ASHBURTON F ARMS to LET and SELL, of all Sizes and Descriptions, Improved and Unimproved, situated near in all parts of the District. 2000 Acres FREEHOLD )To be Let for 5000 » LEASEHOLD > a term of 5 5000 SHEEP ) or 7 Years. 3197 Acres FREEHOLD 3085 » LEASEHOLD with Purchasing Clause. Near OPAWA Railway To be Sold on easy Perminus. terms. 1445 Acres FREEPIOLD, very rich land, with Seven-roomed HOUSE, Improve ments, Orchard, etc., etc., Within one mile of MAKIKI Railway Station. 900 Acres near the KAKAHU, within six miles of Winchester. LAND of all descriptions, or of any size, between the Rakaia, Rangatata, Ashburton Forks, etc., etc. Money Lent in Large or Small Sums, on Approved Security. AGENT FOR UNION INSURANCE COMPANY. DECLARATION OF WAR. WHEN the first note of prepatation was sounded in the East, and the war cloud was no latger than a man’s hand, and while the principal potentates of Europe, though breathing peace, were silently girding up their loins for a struggle as fierce in the encounter and more baneful in its results thanany which has hitherto devastated the face of our mother earth —it was then that he sought every means in his power to avoid such another calamity that befel Plevna, by obtaining for the coming winter a very Large Assortment of Horse Cloths, Oil skin Leggings, and Sou’-westers, to enable the nhabitants of Ashburton to stand a long Winter Siege. WHO HAS DONE THIS? Why, THOMAS DUDSON, SADDLER, Burnett Street, And, for further emergencies, has on hand the Largest and Best Stock of Saddlery and Saddlers’ Ironmongery ever exhibited in Ash burton. CARDS and Boxes, Mavor’s Spelling, Royal Readers, Slates, Pencils, Copy Books, Drawing Books, and other school Requisites to be obtained at our premises, East*street, Ashburton. FURNESS AND DIXON, '■' f ’V. F Stationers’ Hall. ,



STATIONERY, BOOKS STATUARY, FANCY GOI.'DS School Requsitls. &C., &C., MPORTED direct from the" best Me rkets, and Sold cheaper than any house in Town. A large stock of ACCOUNT BOOKS. CASKETS OF STATIONERY, FANCY GOODS, PENS, PENCILS, &c., Just opened from London, marked off at prices never before heard of in Ashburton. Inkstands, Stationery Cases, Date Cases, Pen Racks, Writing Desks, Paper Weights, Office Bells, String Cases, Invoice Files, Letter Balances, and every Office requisite at very low prices for cash. Writing Papers, Envelopes, Pens, Inks, Blot ting Papers, &c., &c. Photograph Albums, Scrap Books, Purses, Ladies’ Bags, and a large number of Prize Books and Cards. Church Services and Hymnals, Wesleyan and Presbyterian New Hymnals, Bibles, in various bindings, Color Boxes, Mathematical Instruments, Rulers, Drawing Pencils and Pins. Drawing Papers, Tracing Paper and Cloth, Indian Ink and Colors. Hair Brushes, Combs, Oil, Perfumery, Scent Bottles, Hair Pins, Brooches, Earrings, Bracelets, and numerous other useful articles. All to be sold very cheap, at THE STATIONERS’ HALL, Evening Echo Office, EAST S|T REET, SOUTH, ashbumw,



NOTICE] NOTICE!! NOTICE!! REMOVAL. Firth, Pass, & Co. Beg to inform the Inhabitants of Ashburton and surrounding districts that they have REMOVED TO THEIR HEW PREMISES Next the Union Bank of Australia, EAST STREET. JP'IRTII, PASS, & CO. take this oppor. lunity of thanking their numerous customers who have so liberally supported them hitherto, and to solicit a continuance of their pationage at the NEW PREMISES, TO BE CALLED The Old Bank Stores (late union bank). Orders entrusted to our care will re ceive prompt attention. Families waited on for orders weekly, FIRTH, PASS, AND CO., Grocers, Drapers, Ironmongers, WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS, &c. East Street. NOTICE OF REMOVAL. VICTORIA FRUIT DEPOT, East Street, near Orr & Co/s, WILLIAM BIRT WELL, PROPRIETOR, BEGS to inform the inhabitants of Ashbur ton and surrounding districts that, having removed to more central premises, is now pre* pared to supply, at the lowest price for cash,— Fruit of all descriptions Confectionery of best quality Vegetables & Herbs, all kinds Potatoes, not to be excelled Poultry, regularly supplied Cheese, &c., &c. Pastry of the best quality kept in stock. The Central Foundry, PETER STREET, ASHBURTON. W. J. HESSEY, BEGS respectfully to inform the public of Ashburton and surrounding districts that he has now completed his foundry in Petei Street, where Castings of every description in Iron, Brass, and other metals, will be carried on under his own superintend ence, and from the many years of practical experience he has had in America, England, and the Colonies, can guarantee to turn out work satisfactorily. Plighest prices given for old cast metals and brass. " Orders can be left at the Foundry. W. J. HESSEY, Proprietor. FURNESS and DIXON have on Sale a Choice Assortment of Interesting and Popular Works, including the following:— Saved from the Sea, by Kingston. Robinson Crusoe, ioo Illustrations. Swiss Family Robinson, 300 Illustrations. Boys Book of Sports. Every Boys Annual. Ethel Clinton. Little Hazel. Polly and Jack. Nannette Dampier. Prince Übbely Bubble. Told in the Twilight. Aunt Martha’s Corner Cupboard. By Hesba Stretton, — Fern’s Hollow. Cassy. Max Krovner. Little Meg’s Children. Fairy Frisket. The Silver Casket. Aunt Jane’s Hero. Richard Hmme. With the Tide. The Fairy Spinner. General Beckwith. Barriers Burned Away. The Teacher s Handbook of Questionin on the Gospels. Men Who Have Made Themselves. The Sword and Garment. Grace for Grace. Lite of D. L. Moody. Church Life in Australia. Recreations of a Country Parson. The Land of the Sun. Military Heroes of England. Enquire Within. The Revolt of the Field ; a Sketc of the Rise and Progress of the Mo\ ment among the Agricultural Laboure -'of England. Martyr Graves of Scotland,] A. Cloud of Witnesses, of Old Qceati,