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

JUicers, Confectioners, Etc.— Thomas Hicks, Tancred-street Taylor.and Lill, East Street,

Banks— Bank of New Zealand, East-street Union Bank of Australia, East-street

Boarding House Keeper— J. G. Anstee, East-street. Builders, Contractors, Etc.— Tames Baker, Havelock-street ' Geo. St. Hill, Burnett-street West ' G. Parkin, Steam Saw Mills, Moor-street Matthew Smith, Moor-sticet Thos. Williams, Tinwald

Booksellers and Stationers— A. Weston, Prospect Buildings, East-street Furness and Dixon, Stationers’ Hall, East ‘ street South

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

Brewers — Wood and Co., Cameron-street

Cabinetmakers and Undertakers— James Baker, Havelock-street G. Parkin, Moor-street

Carrier— G. F. Scott, Cameron-street Chemist and Druggist— J. M. Cambridge, Montgomery’s Buildings

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

Drapers and Clothiers— Aitken and Co., Havelock-street i Orr and Co.; East-street C: ; John Fowler, Tancred-street Firth, Pass, and C 0,,; Old Bank Store, East street ;

Engineers and Founders— Edwards and Lee, Engineers, Smiths, etc., Burnett-street W. J. Hessey, Central Foundry, Peters-st

Furniture Warerooms — A. Spillard, Tancred Street

Grocers, General Dealers, Etc.— Aitken and Co., Havelock-street Orr and Co,, East-street Firth, Pass, and Co., East-street John Fowler, Tancred-street K. Sando, East-street

Greengrocers— W. Birtwell, East-street J. Mooar & Co., East-street

Hairdressers— E. A. Garnett, Tancrecl-street A. Pearse, Moore-street

Hotels— Quill’s Commercial Hotel, near Railway Station Shearman’s Somerset Hotel, East-street

Ironmongers— Orr and Co., East-street Aitken and Co., Havelock-street S. Hardley, East-street

Painter, &c.— j J. R. Chapman, Tailored-street

Printers and Publishers— Furness and Dixon, East-street

Plumbers, Gasfitters, Tinsmiths, Etc,— J. C. Dolman, Tancrecl-street Joseph Hyde, Tancred-street S. Hardley, East-stieet

Saddlers— Thomas Hudson, Burnett-street

Surveyors— C. E. Fboks and Son, East-street

TaII.ORS—• Aitken and Co., Havelock-street (

Tentmaicers— K. Sando, East-street

•Tobacconists— A. Pearse, Moor-street E. A. Garnett, Tancrcd-street A. Weston, East-street

POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Mails at the Ashburton Post Office close ai follows :

For Christchurch and North at lo 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 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 TinvVald, Winslow, Hinds, Coldstream, Rangitata, Orari, Winchester, and Geraldine, j at 10.15 a * m - daily.

UNCLAIMED LETTERS.

The following letters are advertised.at the Post Office, as having been received from places beyond the Colony, during the month of April, ; and remaining unclaimed on the Ist July, 1878 ' : Cadle, W. C. Dunne, William Fitzgerald, John (2) Hall, John.

Letters originating in New Zealand are ftot now advertised, but arc sent to the Dead Office after having lain (be two clear U*o*lUja»

DAILY MEMORANDA.

TO-NIGHT. Dawn of Peace Lodge, , 1.0.G.T., at the Library Hall, at 7.30

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE .

ASHBURTON RETAIL LIST.

The Evening Echo. MONDAY, JULY 29, 1878.

The Governor’s Speech, at the open ing of Session 1878, is remarkable for one thing, at least—its length.. .This peculiarity strikes the eye at the • first glance, before the reader has even attempted to wade, through the yard long document. The average news paper reader has just.as great antipathy to a long dry bbcl: of solid print, as the average church-goer has to a long, drearily spun-out sermon ; but the Go vernor’s speech this year was looked for with some interest, and there are few colonists who take an interest in New Zealand’s welfare who will not have read through the production by this time.> This interest was caused by the fact that it was expected, to lay out the programme of a new Government —a Government that left the House last year with the next thing to a minority, and now returns to it not only with a majority, but with the party it turned out broken up and dispersed, and its leader’s career as such, we greatly fear, concluded. A further interest attached to it, because.of the apparent differ ences between Ministers as to the exact policy Government intended to follow. Opponents of Sir George Grey pointed out that Mr. Eallance’s ideas on what the Premier had led the country to look upon as cardinal points in the policy of the new Government were different from those held by the First Minister,' while the ideas of Mr. Stout, the Attorney-General, differed from both. With such differences existing, it was natural to look with some interest for the Governor’s speech, and to have patience to read it through. There is never much to be learned from such docu ments, and. this one does not teach a great deal; but if any reliance is to be placed on it at all, and if it can be accepted as. an index to the work of the session, it is evident that Ministers, have come to some agreement in regard to the points on which ,they varied, for the Speech promises measures on all the. questions on which Ministerial •difference of opinion is said to exist. Of course, no means of getting at the details, of any of the promised measures are supplied by the speech, and we must wait till in the .fulness of time these are Hid before the country. Pains are taken in the speech to show what has been done in the recess by ‘‘the Executive. The Maori hions .are dwelt upon at some length <and flropeful views are taken of the 'future mf the Native : question. Mea sures are promised that will place all on an equal footing in the acquirement of Native lands; that will deal with elec toral reform ; reform of taxation “ ap portioning the public burdens according , to'the capacity to bear them ”(a very vague promise, however well it may sound); reforms in the administration of justice; amendments on the Dis trict Railways Bill, in what direction is not indicated; and the whole winds up . with a prayer. ■ ; i =. |

I Mention is made of the acceptance i by our colony of the duty of colonial 1 defence, and that the armaments re commended by the Horne officers are 0:11 their way out. There are other st ibjects mentioned but throughout tl: ie speeeh we fail to find any hint of ai 1 intended reform in the present sys te mof representation. So that we con clu'.de Government does not this year, at .least, meditate a re-distribution of seatjs, . 4:

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

L.O.L. —We would remind Orange men of the usual monthly meeting of the Star of'Ashburton Lodge in the Library Hall to-morrow evening at 7.30. _ An A.T. meeting will be held afterwards. Temperance Sermon. A ser mon was preached on Sunday evening in the Wesleyan Church, Cameron street, by the Rev. W. B. Marten, on Temperance. The subject was treated in a most able manner by the preacher, and was listened to with, attention by the congregation, amongst whom were many representatives of the Temperance societies in the town.

Colonial-made Blacking.—A sample has been sent us by Mr A. 0. Aitken of a very superior blacking manu factured for the New Zealand market by Mr Hammond, of Richmond, near Nel son. We have tried the blacking and find it in no way inferior to the best imported Day & Martin. Mr Ham mond, we understand, was for many years foreman blacking-maker in the Day & Martin factory, hence his ability to manufacture the commodity, which, being now a colonial industry, and as good as can be produced at Home, ought to have a claim upon the atten tion of settlers.

Turning the Penny.— Last week one of our local speculators purchased a block of land about one mile from Chertsey for £6 per acre. He got first rate terms. This block contained 128 acres, and was about two. miles long, and seven chains wide at the widest part. The block was in the shape of a triangle. This fortunate speculator, after owning the land for twenty-four hours, met a friend from a distance who personally visited Ashbur ton to'satisfy himself as to the correct ness of the reports of its progress. .To this friend were transferred all right, title, and interest in the said block of land for a sum representing per acre, Speculator No. 1 thus realising in twenty-four hours, a profit of Speculator No. 2 chanced on a . cus tomer, to whom be disposed of the land at per acre, No. 2 also clearing '£256 in about twenty-four hours, from a piece of land, Which, owing to its shape, is certainly not much use for agricultural purposes. Whether Specu lator No. 3 has disposed of his bargain at a still further profit we have not heard, but who can say after this that the Ashburton district is not going ahead ?

> The Weather. —-On Saturday even ing signs of a change in _ the weather werd apparent. About eight p.m. a fresh nor’-wester commenced to blow, and continued during the night with in creasing strength, accompanied with showers of rain and vivid lightning. Some damage was done by the wind. Four large new shops, in course of erection on the Tiiangle, were shifted off their piles, and the timber stacked beside them blown to a “ considerable distance. They were put to rights again to-day without much difficulty. A number of outhouses in various parts of the town were unroofed, or blown over. Yesterday the river was one sheet of water from bank to bank, and rushed in a mighty torrent, the roar of which could be heard for a great dis tance. The North Terrace road, which is the nearest one to the river, was overflowed in placed for about a mile. The damage done, however, is but trifling. The embankment put up last summer shows a breach of about one chain in width.

Runaways.—This morning about ten a.m. a two-horse team, the property of Mr Trevurza, bolted from the gravel pit on the north-east Town Belt, and notwithstanding desperate attempts on the part of the driver to pull them up, continued their mad career towards East Street. On the line of march a telegraph pole was encountered which was broken off short by the ground. This not proving any check to their speed, and the horses evincing a par tiality for telegraph poles, tried another, which by the violence of the concussion was reduced to matchwood. A tem porary stoppage was occasioned by this, when the chains of the leading horse broke, thus setting him free, but, the shafter continued its headlong course, over the railway line at Aitken Street, until eventually it was stopped a short distance up West Street. The driver received no injury, nor did horses nor dray sustain any damage. Football. The Nelson Colonist joins the halloo against football, and describes thus the match played last week by the Wellington and Nelson teams The game was truly a noble one, although ignorant people might think it more calculated for noble ,savages than civilised men. The'conspicuous features of the game were—motley dresses, mud-stained; bleeding faces, patches of the vital fluid showing through the coverings of the lower ex tremities } and kicks ; sometimes at the

ball, and frequently at opponents’ shins ; the fun was occasionally heightened by one of the smaller “ players” falling (it .was generally the slighter ones who fell) and several twelve on fourteen stone rne'n falling on top of him. r iiiere was also howling such as one would imagine proceeded from lied Indians had he not known it came from those contest log a mari’y game” played by civilised individuals, .For the information of thos i interested, it may be added that Wellington won. by a goal and a try. In future, contests with quarter-staves should be substituted for football as more e tciting ; the breaking of a few crowns wtuid be immaterial. The Premier’s Health. —Sir G. Grey has unfortunately been very ill, and is so still. He was seriously suffer ing for nearly a week, and was consi dered in great danger. He is still con fined to his rooms, and he looks very much worn. It is feared, although he does not say so—for he never complains at all—that the exposure to the bad, weather which he underwent at Waitara has induced an internal disorder by which he has been placed in consider able danger. He is improving now, but. slowly. — Times' Correspondent. A Strange Story.— The Lyttelton Tunes says that Ellen Wright’s story is a tissue of falsehoods. She is an adopted child,, indeed, but a runaway from home. . ,

The Book' Post. —It is surprising how many people use the book post, and more surprising still the extensive variety of the commodities which the general public seem to think, it was specially designed to forward. I am informed that every imaginable thing, from a parcel of dress trimmings to a case of stuffed specimens of ornithology is sent througli book post, the result of which is that the Post Office occasion ally resembles more a parcel delivery office than anything else under the sun. I am told that the charge alone on one of these unconscionable packages lately sent to the Post Office amounted to the small sum of twenty shillings, and that it will certainly never reach its destina tion- through book post. The Post master-hopes that in future the Postal Guide will be included among school books, so that the rising generation at all events may not torture him with bird skins, geological specimens, nutmeg graters, tins of biscuits, parcels of dra pery, and the like.— Wang. Chronicle.

Not to be Done. —•“ Come and dine with me, and we’ll talk over the business,” wrote a client to his lawyer, The lawyer accepted the invitation, and spent a very pleasant evening. Some months after a bill of costs came in ■containing the following items “To reading your letter asking me to dinner, 6s 8d ; to dining with you, 215.” After reading it, the client sent in his bill “To one dinner, 1 os; to wine at ditto, 305.” Not to be outdone, the lawyer -prosecuted him for selling wine without a license.

Yal. Baker.—A paper has been signed by. General Valentine Baker’s friends at the Army and Navy Club, asking the Committee to reinstate him in. the Club; but, on hearing of it, he himself with great judgment, begged it might not be forwarded.

TELEGRAPHIC.

LATEST FROM EUROPE.

. ■ [By Submarine Cable.]' Vienna, July 27. The : Porte consents to the Austrian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Russians have occupied Shumla. London, July 27. It is officially denied that Parliament will be dissolved in autumn. The Brindisi mails have been de livered The Bank reserves are improving. Coiisols, 95 J-L Adelaide loan, at a mini mum of 95. Corn market unchanged. In the match Australia v. Crewe, tho latter made 54 in their first innings. The Australian bowling was very effec tive. Spoffcrth took' ten wickets for 13 runs, and Boyle nine wickets for 25 runs. The Australians’ second innings closed for 102, and Crewe’s second for 78, Spofforth and Boyle again bowling splendidly. Australia won by 100 runs.

AUSTRALIAN.

Brisbane, July 27,

The steamer Success was wrecked at midnight on the Bth July, on an un known sunken reef off Russell Island. The carpenter, steward, cook, and cabin boy, with some provisions, took a boat and landed on Hinchinbrook Island, and were rescued by the steamer Victoria. The Success slipped off the reef and disappeared

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Per Press Agency.]

New Plymouth, Saturday.

A man named William Dale was crushed by a tree falling on him whilst felling it, and died from the effects of the accident.

A' deputation of influential gentle men waited upon the Immigration Officer to-day, with the view of ascer taining what immigrants are expected here to counterbalance the dearth of labor., Mr. King said.that men were getting seven and eight shillings a day, and there was a great want of servant girls. He said the railway to Stratford would be completed before next sum mer, and that would absorb a large amount of labor. Mr. Courtenay said he had called for tenders for moving a building and for ploughing, and had received only/two tenders for one job, and none for the other. Mr. Bayley said 300 immigrants might be absorbed next summer, not to speak of harvest ing. Mr. Webster said the grass seed harvest next year would be a large one, and if. there was not more labour it would, be lost. H e had to pay men Bs. a day and feed them, and had almost to beseech them to work at that. The Immigration Officer said thatthelmmi grants' by the Hurunui were absorbed in eleven days. He would represent what had been stated to Government.

Wellington, Sunday,

About one this morning a violent north-west gale set in,. and has blown with great fierceness ever since. Seve ral houses in course of erection were blown down, and others much twisted and strained. Many fences and out houses were also blown down. The yacht Xarifa was blown ashore. One of H.M.S. Nymphe’s boats swamped, but all the crew got ashore. The life boat was sent after them to bring them back, but ’could not, and. both were hauled up on the beach. All the ves sels at the wharf had out extra warps, and the Nymphe’ had-all her topmasts and yards down. Hokitika, Saturday.

A man named James Cox was brought before the Resident Magistrate to-day, charged with attempting to poison a barmaid at the Royal George Hotel, named Sarah Jacobs. He bought twelve grains of strychnine yesterday, from Williams, a chemist, alleging that he wanted it for a fanner in the coun try. He went into the side-room, and asked the girl to have a drink. She had a.glass of port wine, and when her back was turned, Cox put in the strych nine. She immediately became ill and screamed, and a doctor was sent for. The girl vomited for some time before and after the doctor arrived. Cox left the hotel and went to the wharf, where he jumped into the river.' A boat was immediately sent to the rescue, and the man was brought out and lodged in custod3 r . Cox is about fifty years of age, and Jacobs is eighteen. He has been paying his addresses to her, and had got her own and her father’s consent to the marriage, but her brother had recently objected to the alliance. The girl was unable to attend the Court to-day, and the case was remanded for a week.

Dunedin, Sunday.

At a meeting of the legal profession yesterday, to consider the formation of a Law Society, it was resolved —“ That it is desirable to take advantage of the Act of last session, but as it is unwork able in its present shape, a committee should be appointed to draw up neces sary amendments in the same, for sub mission to the Attorney-General, with a view of being made law during the pre sent session.”

'< A Mrs. • Douglas, residing at Dailey, was found dead in her bed yesterday morning. The Roslyn election took place yesterday, and resulted in the return of Mr. Driver by a majority of 116. The numbers were :■ — Driver.. 335 Ross : ... ... 219 ; Bluff, Saturday, i-

The Stella arrived last night from Centre Island, where they found natives from Riverton residing. They had taken possession of the light-house. They state that the island belongs to the Maoris as a cemetery, and Govern ment had no authority to erect a light house there.

An attempt will be made to float the Ann Gambles on Tuesday next. Masterton, Saturday.

An inquest as to the origin of the late fire was held yesterday, and lasted all day. Nothing was brought forward to point to the origin, and the jury re turned an open verdict,. adding a rider to. the effect that buildings in the centre of the township should not be roofed with shingles, Invercargill, Saturday.

A fire was discovered in the South land Times office at 8.30 this morning. No one was on the premises, It ap pears to have broken out in the editor's

room. The flames spread quickly, and the building and plant were, .totally destroyed. Mitchell and Co.’s store adjoining was gutted and the stock injured. M‘Donald’s brick building on the west side was slightly damaged. The following are the insurances on the Times: Building: Northern, South British (plant) Liverpool and London (do) Victoria (do) £2OO, Limited Sydney- (dp) £s oo ‘

HISTORY IN BUNS.

(From the European Mail.)

At tire meeting of the British Arch aeological Society recently, a paper, appiopriate to the Easter season, was read by Mr. H. Syer Cuming, F.S.A. Scot., V.P., on “Good Friday Buns,” The subject was introduced by refer ences to the sacred bread and cakes of the Hebrews, as well .as those of. the Egyptians, Babylonians, Samians, Greeks, and Romans. From a mention' of the Hindoo elephant-headed igod Ganesha, who is frequently represented holding in one of his four hands a bowl filled with small cakes on which he is supposed to feed, Mr. Cuming passed to the chupattis , connected with the wor ship of Krishna, which' were said to have had so much to do with the out break of the Sepoy mutiny in 1857. At home we had St. Michael’s bannock for Michaelmas, the carvis, or seed-cake for Allhallow Eve, and for Christmas the yule-dough or baby-cake, the plum pig, plum-pudding, goose-pie, and the shred or mince-ple; with spiced bread and sugared cake for Twelfth Night, the taffy for St. David’s day, pancakes for Shrove Tuesday, the tansycake and pudding-pie for Lent in general,- and the calling, simblir.g-cake, and simuel for Mothering Sunday. After Good , Friday’s cross buns, came rice and" fancy puddings for Easter and the Bel-tein oatmeal-cake for May Ist. Most of these bad doubtless a pagan origin— c.g., the Bel-tein, and the little pastry pig, with its currant eyes- and wooden trotters, which latter was a survival of the worship of the Keltic lunar goddess Ked, or KericUven,’ the mystic sow. As to the archaeology of Good Friday buns, the accounts' given in the popular manuals* such as Brand’s and Hone’s, were all based oh authori ties no sounder than Jacob Bryant and the Rev. George Stanley Faber. This was shown in reference to the deriva tion of our word bun from the Greek accusative boun, for heifer, and a sup posed connection thus made* out be tween the heifer, symbolical (of the moon-goddess and the cakes offered to her as Queen of Heaven, and so with our Good Friday buns. It was remarkable that Grecian sculptures and paintings represented sacred cakes of the same form as our modern bun, even to the Greek cross with which they were marked. Having shown that the Good Friday buns could thus be traced back to very early times, Mr. Cuming nosed the question how it was to be explained that , they were now to be found in England onty. Continental Europe knew nothing of them, and only the southern part of Britain. Though admitting the absence of any direct proof, he thought the idea might be reasonably maintained that the pre sence of the Good Friday bun in Eng land was coeval with the introduction of Christianity into our island in Apo stolic ages, and that with’ the /early Eastern missionaries who brought us the new faith it was symbolic of the bread broken by our Lord Himself at the Last Supper and of his death on Calvary. For two persons to break a Good Friday bun - between them was not only a pledge of friendship, but a surety against disagreement, the act being accompanied by the words— ' v .

Half for you, and . half for mer' Between us two goodwill shall be.

Again the Good Friday bun was..re garded not as ordinary food, butjas something endowed with peculiar sanc tity, as was clear from its having for ages been the ’custom with the super stitious to keep it through the year Tor good luck, and also as a charm against fire, nay, as a sure remedy in certain diseases. He had known a woman drink down a little grated bun as a pure for sore throat, and at the present time there were some twenty stale Good Friday buns strung on a corn, and hung up as a festoon above the door of a room in a house at Brixton Hill, in the belief that they would scare away evil spirits. To the notion that these buns resisted corruption longer than other flour food, allusion was made in Poor Robin’s Almanac” for 1733.

The Evening Echo, Monday, July 29, 1878,



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