ASHBURTON TRADE DIRECTORY.

Accountants and Commission Agents Charles Braddell, Montgomery’s Buildings H. J. Bristo, Prospect Buildings, East-st. W. R. Boyle, Moore-street. Architect and Civil Engineer S. W. Brown, East-street _ S. Farr, Montgomery’s Buildings B. Mountfort, East Street Auctioneers— Bullock and Co., East-street Saunders Bros., Ashburton Barristers and Solicitors Mr. Branson, East-street Mr. E. G. Crisp, Montgomery s Buildings Bakers, Confectioners, Etc.— Thomas Hicks, Tancred-street Thomas Taylor, East-street, Banks— Bank of New Zealand, East-street Union Bank of Australia, East-street Boarding House Keepers— T. G. Anstee, East-street Eagle’s Dining Rooms, Havelpck 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 G. Compton, Builder, Moore-street. Booksf.llers and Stationers — A.- Weston, Prospect Buildings, East-street street South Weeks and Dixon, Stationers’ Hall, East- Bootmakers — J. Chambers, Prospect Buildings, East-street M. Nealas, East-street Brewers —

Wood and Co., Cameroil-street Cabinetmakers 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 Coal and Firewood Merchants— G. Parker and Co., near Railway Station A. Hayes, Firewood and Timber, near Rail way Station F. P. Leßreton, Burnett-street. Drapers and Clothiers— Aitken and Co., Havelock-street Orr ard 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 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, East-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 Ladies’ Clothing Establishment— Mrs. Morey, Tancred Street, Painter, &c.— J. R. Chapman, Tancred-street Printers and Publishers— Weeks and Dixon, East-street Plumbers, Gasfitters, Tinsmiths, Etc.— J. C. Dolman, Tancred-street Joseph Hyde, Tancred-street S. Hardley, East-stieet Saddlers— Thomas Hudson, Burnett-street Purveyors— 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, East-street A. Weston, East-street

POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Mails at the Ashburton Post Office close 15 follows t—• For Christchurch and North at 10 a.m. I % 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 Greenstreet, Ashburton Forks, Mount Somers, and Ashburton Gorge on Tuesdays and Fridays at 10.30 a.m. For Temuka, Timaru, and South at 10.15 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.

The following letters are advertised at the Post Office, as having been received from places beyo&d the Colony, during the month ■of August, att.d remaining unclaimed on the Ist Octoder 187,8 ; Ball, George. Fergusson, J, 11. Griffin, Patrick. Kelly, Cornelius. Moyna, Joseph. Parsons, James. Spencer, W. Sharp, James. Timms, Master A. Tetter# originating in New Zealand are not now advertised, but are sent to the Dead Letter Office, ffter having lain for two dear

The Evening Echo. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1878.

Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners.—A meeting of»the trade is ad vertised to be held at Shearman’s Hotel on Monday evening, to form a branch in Ashbur ton of this society. The meeting will be ad dressed by a delegate from Christchurch, who will set forth the objects of the society. These may be summarised briefly thus : —To support members in sickness, as is done by other benefit societies; to give help when out of employ ment, either by the cessation of demand or through a strike ; to replace tools lost by fire, water, or theft; to provide a substantial sum to members disabled by 4 accident ; to give a weekly superannuation allowance to members of from 28 to 25 years’ standing ; and to find funeral expenses at members’ death. Free members do not pay contiibutions when in re ceipt of sick, idle, or strike benefit ; and there are other minor advantages. One of the im perative qualifications of. membership is com petency as a workman. The society is re gistered in England under the “ Trade Union Act of 1871,” and has been eighteen years in existence.

Sunday School Anniversary.—The Anniversary Services in connection with the Wesleyan Sunday School will be held to-mor row, when sermons will be preached by the Revs. Westbrook and Marten. A tea meeting will be held in the Church, Cameron Street, on Tuesday, when the children will sing some of their best hymns, and a public meeting will afterwards be held.

R. M. Court.—The civil business at the Court was taken yesterday after 2 o’clock. In Young v. Campbell, a claim for £ll 14s. wages, his Worship dismissed the ■ suit, each side paying costs. A test action, amicably instituted by the Templar Hall Company against Mr. A. O. Aitkin, one of its Directors, to ascertain the company’s power to sue for share calls, was dismissed on a technicality, the company to pay costs. Judgment was given for plaintiff in the following cases Ed wards & Lee v» Howard, claim, £5 ss. j Brad ford v. Howard, claim, £6 7s. 6d. j Reece v. Carr, claim, £$ is. 6d..; Davis v. Jones, claim, £46 45., for flour delivered } Birtwell v. M'Pherson, £l7 7s. 3d.; and Goodall v. Crosbie, Improvements In Ashburton.— Messrs. Bullock & Co. are adding to their pre mises by the erection of a wool and grain store at the back of the present auction rooms. The new building will be 65ft. by 52ft, 18ft. studs, with an upper floor for seed and furnishing warehouse, entered by a flight of steps from the auction room. The whole of the buildings, with the additions mentioned, will be 132 feet long by 52 feet broad. In the new building they purpose holding their usual wool sales in the season, and during the ensuing grain season wi 1 hold periodical sales of grain. For conve nience of access to the new building there will be a cart right-of-way at the back from Tancred Street to Burnett Street, next to the horse bazaar.

Parliamentary. —The debate on the Land Tax Bill occupied the House the whole of Thursday afternoon and evening. The Bill was vigorously opposed by some members, and at night the proceedings in the House were very animated. Mr. Rolleston spoke after the Premier in strong condemnation of Sir George’s action, accusing him of misrepresentation. The Bill was read a third time by a majority of 42 against 19. The Customs Tariff Bill was also passed. After Mr. Ballance moved the second reading of the Beer Duty Bill, Mr. Johnston moved its reading that day six months, and on the vote being taken, on the first alteration of the motion for reading, Government were de feated by 30 to 28. Mr. Stout said three members had broken their pairs, and a long series of personal explanations followed, show ing that there had been a misapprehension. Ultimately the matter was settled by the ad journment of the debate till Friday, and the House rose at one o’clock. Yesterday, the House resolved to adjourn at its afternoon rising till Monday. The Beer Duty Bill then came on, and the Premier made a statement that the Ministry hacl decided to withdraw the Companies Income Duty Bill and the Beer Duty Bill. A long discussion followed, and when it was drawing near to half-past five, a motion to adjourn the debate was hurriedly passed to save the Bill from being talked out. A Loophole. —A man in Victoria, who had been sentenced to pay a fine for the absence of his child from school, has had the sentence quashed by the Supreme Court on the plea that it had not been proved he was the father of the-chile!,

The FdkLpK Society, London, has come into possession of 4 pplleption, nmgsry Uka,

CHISPA’S LETTER.

I am not yet so bald that you can see my

brains. —Longfellow.

For the last half hour I have been frying to unravel the mystery of how it comes about that such a community of stiff beerists and whiskyists as that of Ashburton is said to be, is shaking off its claini to this reputation, and is be ginning to show signs of “ living cleanly.” I have used two pipes of nail road in the effort to unfog, but the cloud is as dense over my mental vision as that over my head from the nailroad aforesaid. Perhaps the mundungus tobacco has a deadening effect on my usually quick penetration, or I am get ting old ; perhaps both. Is the cheap article the Government now uses to manufacture policemen from less keen than it should be, and does not drop so promptly as of yore upon the cronies who

Sit boosin’ at the nappy An’ getting fou an unco’ happy” ike Burns’ “ Tam o’ Shanter” did with his brother drunk “ Souter Johnny?” That may be, for I can occasionally spot a horseman making his way home upon an apparently very disagreeable saddle. Mrs. C. called my attention to a case of this sort some days ago, and wondered why a man should use a saddle that made him roll about so. I said nothing. I never care to interfere with the current of private opinion. She blamed the saddle. It surprised me she didn’t blame the horse. Per haps if she had known that the man was better “ corned” than the horse, the saddler would not have been libelled, and the equine would have been credited with more available (just then) brains than his rider. Information afterwards reached me that a neighbor went to that rider’s house, found the door locked, and trotted round to the stable to see if the horse was home. He was, and was helping himself from the can dle-box of feed, placed handy for speedy stabling work by the master in view of a late return. Where was that master? Sound asleep in his saddle, with Jhis head on his horses neck, his face buried in the mane, his hands hanging down on either side, and his low-crowned bell-topper crushed like a concertina. It may be, I say, the cheap thing is not up to its work ; but it may also be that the beerists are getting better up to their work; and, on the principle that prac tice makes perfection, are able to go home quietly and scot free now with a skinful that formerly would have led them up to the Magisterial confessional to purchase absolution at the hands of the high priest of Ashburton Justice —A. Le Grand Campbell. Be that as it may, the drunks have paid less this quarter than last—not for their whistle, but for the “ wetting of it.” Another thought was that, possibly,, after all that has been said by newspapers and the Par liamenters about the Asburton Court, the freemasonry of drunkdorn has re solved to be tried by an institution which both editors and senators respect,-and is therefore “holding hard”till that is within their reach, Chispa.

[We are reluctantly compelled to hold over a somewhat lengthy poetical effu sion which formed part of our friend Chispah’s enclosure. We will, how ever, find space for it in our Monday’s issue.—Ed. E. E.]

TELEGRAPHIC.

A USTRALIAN.

[By Submarine Cable.] Sydney, Oct. 4. Arrived—Wakatipti. Brandy, 325. to 31s. 6d.; quarters, 9s. to 9s. 3d. Adelaide flour, ;£io 15s. to £ll 155.; wheat, 4s. 1 id. ; New Zealand wheat offering at 45., no buyers ; oats selling at 45.; candles, qd. The Cooktown colonist party, from Sydney, has wholly abandoned pro specting in New Guinea. A portion have arrived here, and the remainder are at Port Moresby awaiting a vessel.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Per, Press Agency.]

Auckland, Friday.

A petition favorable to the division of the city into wards represents half the exercisable votes on the Burgess roll. The criminal calendar includes one case of malicious injury to property, one of attempted murder, three of forgery and uttering, one of perjury, two of stealing from the person, one of fraudulent bankruptcy, one of man slaughter, one of larceny as a bailee, one of maliciously killing a calf, one of rape, and one of horse-stealing. New Plymouh, Oct. 4.

The Taranaki Ha aid says, with re ference to the Maori §eare reported it* yesterday’s iggueW 1 We are ipfonptj

that two men who came into New Ply mouth from Hawera last night, say that when at the Patea River they saw the Naives, who were armed with guns and tomahawks. They were reported to have stopped Stewart and the boy. Upon entering into conversation with the Natives, the white men learned that they were in search of Hiroki. The Natives then tied up their horses and proceeded up the river. The two white men subsequently saw Stewart, and from what they learned it appeared the whole affiir was a misunderstanding arising from Stewart’s ignorance of the Maori languge. He had taken a friendly warning to beware of Hiroki to be word > of hostility.”

M-. Roy, solicitor, of Hawera, who went from here on Thursday by the Mountain road, has telegraphed to a friend saying that he has arrived in safety, and the report respecting hostile Natives stopping Europeans is without foundation. Napier, Friday. At the adjourned inquest this after noon on the fire at the Spit, the jury returned a verdict-that the cause of the fire was unknown. Evidence was given that the man Grigsby, on whom suspi cion, had been cast, was in Napier when the fire broke out at the Spit, and was seen to go to the the fire-bell rang. Dunedin, Friday. A large- number of sheep -and cattle drowned in the Clutha floods have been washed ashore on Ocean Beach. In the course of the argument in the Supreme Court to-day, Judge Johnston said that Magistrates’ clerks deserved to he woke up for their neglect of duty. He considered that it would be necess ary to give them an exemplary caution on account of the slovenly manner in which they forwarded papers to the Supreme Court. Unquestionably the Courts here had power to inflict a fine for such carelessness. The City Council to-day endorsed the action of the Mayor at the recent meeting of the suburban water supply conference. A movement is on foot to form a Work ing Committee to help the sufferers by the floods. The latest accounts say that the Clutha, at Balclutha, is slowly subsiding, but rain has fallen since yesterday, and another rise is feared.

A large number of families are living in churches and school, houses at Kaitangata. The name of the man whose body was found has not transpired.

WOMAN AND HER INFLUENCE.

(From the Saturday Review*.)

One wonders how many more pub lic exposures 'of; tire extravagances, follies, and worse elements now so largely prevalent in those ranks of society which to a considerable extent regulate the tone of national life, will be needed before people awake to a consciousness of the necessity of a thorough Reformation in taste and morals, if the English character is to retain that simplicity and right-thinking which wC are Wont to claim as among its peculiar virtues. The worst feature is the decadence appears more rapid and widespread in the case of women than of men; So long as women con tinue to uphold a high standard of morality, courtesy, and respect for what is worthy of respect, so long will men at least endeavour to disguise their lower tastes and modes of thought. It is the women who set the feeling of so ciety, and men have perforce to avoid outraging that feeling; when women thought none the worse of a man for drinking hard, men got drunk in society; when women tolerated swearing, men swore in society.

S'gns are unhappily not wanting that the influence of women in English society is either being less strenuously exerted for good, or is actually tending to produce the opposite result. To judge merely from the public records, we have ladies spending large fortunes in dress, submitting themselves to the degrading operations of enamellers, making free use of latch-keys, and in dulging in dangerous dissipations, while the Divorce Court deals with still more heinous derilections of female duty. Nor can an observant person fail to be struck with the manifest in tolerance of restraint exhibited but too commonly by women who, from their position, might be expected to take the higher view of their calling in life. We have now got to the stage at which the symptom is most strongly de veloped in the younger members of the sex—a discouraging omen for the future. It is painful to dwell on this feature of modern life; but the evil is a crying one, and unfortunately seems Jikely to become more permanent and pypgressive, to the downfall of all that is gags) End fileyf ting in

HOT WEATHER DANGERS.

(From the Lancet.)

It is always a speculative enterprise to comment on topics of the weather even a day or two in advance, and when these lines reach our readers it is quite possible they may be more keenly interested in the perils of cold than of heat. Neverthe less, the experience of the last few weeks not on'y justifies but suggests an urgent remonstrance against the over sight of inattention to the matter of suit able clothing. Although the changes ot temperature are very considerable, and would render it expedient to incur any great risks of exposure, there can be no question that more mischief is to be feared from excess than deficiency of wrapping. The point to which at tention requires to be prominently directed is the need of protecting the body, and especially the head, from the direct rays of the sun. By a strange freak of fashion cricket is played at the season least well suited for the pastime, and by recent untoward occurrences it has been again demonstrated that those who expose themselves without suffi cient head-covering dare the greatest of dangers. It is not alone the exter nal heat that does great harm ; the violent exertion produces a considerable evolution of heat within the organism, which cannot be readily, dissipated,, owing to the temperature of the sur rounding atmosphere, and sets up dis turbance, easily converted into decease. Much may be done to minimise the peril by the adoption of clothing calcu lated, both as regards material, color, and make, to favor rapid evaporation. Every article of dress worn at this season, whether in the cricket-field or elsewhere, should be loose, constricting bands of all kinds being avoided. Pressure of any description by tightly fitting articles of clothing should be prevented. The circulation must be unimpeded, the body spared every ounce weight of trappings that can be dispensed with, and while adequate protection is afforded against the heat without, that generated within must be allowed to pass off unrestrictedly in order that the natural temperature of the body in health may be preserved. There are many maxims of prudence in relations to the defence of the body from perils of heat which need be borne in mind, and they have been repeatedly expounded, but the most imperious re quirement at the moment seems to be greater attention to the matter of clothing, which this year, more than in former seasons, is apparently disregarded.

ENGLISH IN DIFFERENCE.

(From the Spectator) Great as has been the interest taken of late years in theology and ecclesiasti cal affairs, an immense proportion of Englishmen care next to nothing about either, or, what is more remarkable still, care only about them within certain narrowly defined limits* No daily jour nal in England pays more than a pass ing attention to religious affairs, the greatest of daily journals does not even do that, and the majority of secular weeklies are equally unobservant* Even in religious circles there is the Utmost apathy. There a.re said to be 3,000 of Wesleyans in the United Kingdom and we doubt if there are a hundred Evangelical clergymen of the Church of England who could say, if questioned, what was done at the last meeting of the Legal Hundred, or what is, the name of the ruling minister of the Connection. Our readers are sup posed to be interested in such questions, and have probably all heard that there are Baptists, but how many of them can say right away how many Baptists there are, or would hear without sur prise that the sect would not fill Leeds, and is even then tenfold more numer ous than the Unitarians? To pass from an Anglican to a Nonconformist household is to pass into a new world, united by many ties, yet separated by such distances that the very “ news” of the one, the events its thinks important, are unintelligible to the other, while it is meaningless to the outside world; and a strong Nonconformist, or Angli can, or Catholic may live years, and never once see the intelligence which has most interested him mentioned in the newspapers, which yet he considers a microcosm of the world. There are, we believe, extra strata of our society into which any newspaper proprietor who let down a shaft would find, to his own astonishment, that he had struck “ ile,” but the instinct of separateness is too strong even for enterprise.

Tapu.—An Auckland Chief has put the tapu on fish in the Hauraki, in consequence of three men having been recently drowned there. Proving a Fact.—A gentleman in Auck land has had a vine-yard planted with the in tention of piftiing it to the proof if wine can be prefed In New Zealand*

The Evening Echo, • Saturday, October 5, 187.8,



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Beaconsfield’s Popularity. D lily Telegraph believes that Lord Beacons - field may have whatever majority he wants in Parliament, or at the hustings, because he is seen to have restored with long meditated saga city, the compromised reputation of Great Britain for self-reliance, for justice, and for un exhausted vitality for years to come. This must be the keynote of our foreign policy, and it will too surely keep Liberals out of office as well as the Russians outofAsiaunless the mean ing of the popular welcome be taken to heart by the intelligence of Opposition leaders.”



From Another Point of View.— The Australian cricketers, we have no doubt, consider their party the cynosure of all eyes, and no doubt they have succeeded in interest -ing a good many people who never handled a bat. They have raised the feeling new levies excite when they beat trained troops. There is something amusing in seeing a knot of players from the Antipodes beat the best Eng lish eleven on their own ground at there own game, and something of almost malicious pleasure in the surprise created by the feats of Mr. Spofforth, the Australian bowler. The way he knocks down wickets defended by pro fessional batsman charms men who think cricket should never have been made a pro fession, and attracts even those who hold that the utility of all games is destroyed when they are played not for enjoyment, but success ; when they are described in newspapers and when a young man . who succeeds at them thinks something of himself. But an infinite majority of Englishmen have never heard of Mr. Spofforth, do not know the laws of cricket, and would not care or be surprised if it were surperseded by lawn tehnis. They have seen the game at school, but that is all, and they no more comprehend why 17, coo persons should go on a rainy day to Kennington Oval to see balls knocked about than they comprehend why an Italian should stake his dinner on his chance of guessing how many fingers his ad versary will push out. They simply cannot get through the newspaper reports. The Mystery Solved.—A Methodist minister in the United States, who was quaint in his manner, had a son who was attending a public school, though by no means deficient in natural ability, this son returned from school a few months since with a report of scholarship below the average. “Well,” said his father, you’ve fallen behind this month, have you ?” Yes, Sir.” “How did it happen?” Don’t know, Sir.” ' The father knew if the son did not. He had observed a number of dime novels scattered about the house ; but had not thought it worth while to say anything until a fitting opportunity should offer itself. A basket of apples stood upon the floor, and he said, “ Empty out those apples, and take the basket and bring it to me half full of chips.” Sus pecting nothing, the son obeyed. “ And now,” he continued, “Put these apples back in the basket.” When half the. apples were re placed, the son said, “ Father, they roll off. I can’t put in any more.” “Put ’em in! put ’em, I tell you.” “ But, father, I can’t put them in.”“ Put them in ! Do you expect to fill a basket half full of chips and then fill it with apples ? You said you didn’t know why you fell behind at school; I will tell you. Your .mind is like that basket. It will not hold more than so much. And here you’ve been, the past month, filling it with chip-dirt—dime novels J” It is said that not a dime novel has been seen in the house from that day to this. Strangers coming to reside in Ashburton are often at a loss to know which is the besj 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 limes 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 ofler goods of sterling value as cannot be equalled by any other house in the trade. Ever}’ article in stock is marked at the ©west price, from which no abatement is made so that the most inexperienced buy their goods at the same pt ices as the best judges.—Advt,



Town Hall. E. JERNINOHAM WAKEFIELD'S third entertainment, TO-NIGHT SATURDAY, Programme, Overture: j. } , , Piano. ; Part I. 1. “ Scots wha baej”} i , * Piano. Patriotic Lines (Walter Scott) Reading, 2. “ Cheer Boys Cheer ” .. _ Piano. Psalm pf Life / .(Longfellow) Reading, f 3. “ Dead March iil Saul ” ■ Piano. The Condemned Sermon ,(E, Gibbon Wakefield) •’ Reading. “ Morning Hymn ” Piano. 4» “ Suoni la Tromba” (from I Puritan!}; Piano. ' The Battle of Ivry (Macaulay) Reading. 5. “ Down among the Dead Men” Piano. The Destruction of Sennacherib (Byron) Reading. 6. “ The Twopenny Postman ” Piano/. The Flitch of Bacon Reading. 7. “The Vital Spark” Piano. Blood for Blood(E. G. Wakefield) Reading 8. “Old Dog Tray” Piano. Elegy on a Mac! Dog (Goldsmith) Reading. “Rule Britannia” ! Piano. Interval of Ten Minutes. Part 11. r. German Melody (Gluck) Piano. The Religious Element in Colonization (E. Gibbon V'akcfield) Reading. 2. “ Here's a health to all to Good Lasses” Piano. Address on THE TAXES IN NEW ZEALAND as they affect THE LADIES, WEALTHY MEN, and WORKING MEN. 3/ « Good Night, All’s Well ” Piano. “The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of night.” (Longfellow) Reading. 4. “ The Battle of the Nile. ” Piano. “A Land of our own,” National South Sea Hymn, written by E. Jerningham Wakefield for the Canterbury Colo* nists leaving England in 1849 Reading. God Save the Queen ! Piano. Entrance to Hall, is ; Buyers at the door of E. Jerningham Wakefield’s “Hand« v book of Taxation Reform,” price is,, entitled to Front (ch*M, Tickets at Echo # A. Weston N-