POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Mails at the Ashburton Post Office dost (U follows : For Christchurch and North at 10 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 Grecastrcct, Ashburton Mount Somers, and Ashburton Gorge on luesdays and Fridays at 10.30 a.m. For Temuka, Timaru, and South at 10.15 a.in. 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 beyond the Colony, during the month of July, and remaining unclaimed on the Ist September 1878 : Anderson, James Clough, Robinson Doherty, Henry James Fergusson, J. H. (2) Gooch, W. ' Kelly, Cornelius Moyna, Joseph O’Donnell, Patrick Palmer, William Rilly, James Sweetman, Michael (2) Spencer, W. Wallace, John Letters originating in New Zealand are not row advertised, but are sent to the Dead Letter Office, after having lain for two clear months.

ASHBURTON TRADE DIRECTORY.

A :COUNTANTS AND COMMISSION AGENTS— Charles Braddell, Montgomery’s Buildings 11. J. Bristo, Prospect Buildings, East-st. W. R. Boyle, Moore-street. A tCHITECT AND CIVIL ENGINEER — S. W. Brown, East-street S. Farr, Montgomery’s Buildings B. Mountfort, East Street A JCTIONEERS — Bullock and Co., East-street Saunders Bros., Ashburton B VRRISTERS AND SOLICITORS— Mr. Branson, East-street Mr. E. G. Crisp, Montgomery’s Buildings B iKers, Confectioners, Etc.— Thomas Hicks, Tancred-street Thomas Taylor, East-street, Bvnks— Bank of New Zealand, East-street Union Bank of Australia, East-street Bearding House Keepers— J. G. Anstee, East-street EagleVDining Rooms, Havelock Street Builders, Contractors, Etc.— James Baker, Plavelock-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. B 10KSELLERS AND STATIONERS— A. Weston, Prospect Buildings, East-street Furr.ess and Dixon, Stationers’ Hall, East street South

Bootmakers — J. 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 Thomas Williams, J inwaid

Carrier — G. F. Scott, Cameron-street Chemist and Druggist—3 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 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 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. Bircwell, East-street J, Mooar & Co., East-street Hairdressers— E. A. Garnett, East-street A. Pearse, Moore-street Hotels— Quill’s Commercial Plotel, near Railway Station Shearman’s Somerset Hotel, East-street Ironmongers- Orr and Co., East-street Aitken and C 0.,. Havelock-street S. Hardley, East-street Ladies’ Clothing Establishment 's. 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— fcCLE. Fooksand Son, East-street Havelock-street

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

PORT OF LYTTELTON.

ARRIVED. Sept 16—Hawea, s.s., from South. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. From London Crusader, Lutterworth, Wairnate, Waimca, Wai Luigi, Langslone, Palala.

From New York Star, Southminster, Olmstee. From Foo Chow —Rio Lodge. From Calcutta —Aries.

Adelaide, Sept. 14. Aarived—Orient steamer Garonne.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE .

The Evening Echo. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1878.

Perhaps Dr. Wallis, and those who think with him on the question of woman’s rights, are men of advanced opinions, and see further into the future than more ordinary mortals, or, it may be, they are only gentlemen whose excessive admiration of the gentler sex is gallantry run mad. In either case they will be sure to meet with small sympathy from men who believe that woman now occupies in society the place Nature designed for her, and that the Quixotic desire of the Dr. to lift her from that sphere to one she has no need and no desire to fill, how ever great her ability, is one tending to interfere with the comfort of our family life and the development of our national character. Whether it is with intent or through inadvertanc we know not, but most advocates of woman’s rights who jeer at the domestic duties which devolve upon her in the present eco nomy of civilisation as duties unworthy of her, ignore the consideration that those duties must be done by some one, and overlook woman’s special qualifica tions for their performance. Nature has endowed her with an aptitude for home duties r and a glance at the neces sity for the discharge of these, and man’s almost inability to discharge them, will make it apparent at once that woman’s natural place is home. Of what consequence is it for us to be told that woman can do this or that as well as man can; that she can take part in legislation, and has done so; that she is equal to taking her place be side man in this or that science, art, or profession ; that there are many public occupations she could follow as well as he; and that with a different educa tion from what society now gives her, she would with no difficulty prove her fitness for many positions from which she is now excluded ? This may be all true, we do not wish to gainsay it, but we do mean to affirm that there are many things she can do, for doinv which she has been endowed by nature with a special aptitude, and we argue from this aptitude a special design of Nature that she should do them.

If it were proved to our satisfaction that at the end of next decade all ma ternity would cease, our whole terres trial system dissolve, and the human drama reach the final fall of its curtain, then we could understand an effort to drag woman from the holiness of her fireside sphere and place her in the battle-brunt of life. With no such ter minal prospect before as, but a belief that generation will follow generation as heretofore, men and women marrying and giving in marriage, children being born into the world, and requiring the care and nurture of a mother, we must perforce remain disciples to the creed that the duties of a wife must be per formed by a woman, that a child’s mother must be a woman, and a woman his nurse. The past is a natural reflex of the future. In the past we have had sick-beds and death-beds lovingly tended and ministered by woman, and the world has been satisfied with those ministrations. Is the world of the belief that in this era of progress it would benefit by sending the angel of the sick couch to the senate-house, and filling her vacant place with the rougher souls who now illumine the halls of legislation? We think the world, even turned upside down, as some say, is yet left with more sense. Woman igaybe able to do man’s work as well

as' he can himself, he certainly cannot do hers, and for him to try would be both unsuitable and unseemly. Man’s services can be dispensed with almost better than woman’s can—his have more to do with the accidents of exist ence, hers with, the essentials. Take her intellect away from the sphere it lightens, and her heart from the circle it gladdens, and give her in exchange the noisy plaudits of a popularity secured in the glare of a public life in which she has an opportunity to perform achievements that fame will blare abroad, and she wili have dearly purchased her elevation in the world’s eyes ; t the ex pense of the blessings scattered and the gratitude earned in the home circle whose cares she soothed and whose pains she lightened. Home is essentially woman’s sphere, and it is an honorable one —more honorable than the meretricous position to which a few strong-minded ones of her own sVx and illadvised or insincere-, flatterers of the other would seek to draw her up ; and it is to home and not public dut : es that her education ought to be directed. This education may be made more complete in its characjj ter, —but its purpose must remain un altered —to train wives and mothers, not senators, lawyers, and politicians.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

1.0.G.T. —An advertisement in another column states that, owing to the want of seat accommodation the Templar Hall will not be used to-night by the Dawn of Peace Lodge, but the meeting will be held in the Library Hall.

The Spensely Concert.—This concert, to which musical qziid?iuncs in Ashburton attach much importance, is to come off to-morrow evening. It will be under the able conduct of Mr. James Spensely, of Christchurch, a con siderable amount of talent from the city will take part in the programme, and a glee party of local amateurs will also take a share in the work. A full house is almost certain to be drawn by the attractive programme, which com prises some really excellent pieces, both vocal and instrumental. The Ashbur ton Brass Band has also a place in the list of performers. The Templar Hall. —The Secre tary to the Templar Hall Company writes to say that, in reference to ’ our paragraph of Saturday under the above heading, there is no foundation for the statement that the Loyal Orange Lodge and the Thistle Masonic Lodge will meet there, as they have as yet only enquired about the rent of the hall. The information was supplied to us by a director of the company.

“ Taxes in New Zealand : Who pays ? Who doesn’t pay ? Who ought to pay?” is the title of a “ handbook of taxation reform” that ought to be in the hands of every colonist. It is from the trenchant pen of Mr. E. Jerningham Wakefield, and though perhaps a dry subject to the general reader, the author of the pamphlet has succeeded in mak ing a racy, interesting, and readable little book. Its price is almost no minal, and we commend it to our readers as something likely to put them well up in colonial finance, and that, too, by a royal road. Runaway.—About twelve o’clock to-day the driver of a stallion, which was being used as a cart horse, found that his charge had taken offence at something, and wanted to be off. He did get off spite of the driver’s efforts, and, making his way down Tancred street, tried to cross to Moore-street via the vacant ground by Mr. Hyde’s tin smith shop. The pillars of Mr. Hyde’s sign-board caught the cart wheels, an d the vehicle was upset, the horse knocked over, and the sign-board brought to earth. Horse and cart were no worse when shaken together again, but Mr. Hyde will want a new sign.

Fatal Accident.—A man named Thomas Quinn was killed at Cameron’s station, on the Alford Forest road, this morning. It appears deceased had been carting grass seed, and it is pre sumed the horses he was driving had shied and bolted, taking fright at some bags the man had put off the cart. In bolting, the horses had knocked down Quinn, and the wheel passing over his head had inflicted injuries causing his death. This assumption is strengthened by the fact that the station hand who found Quinn dead saw the horses run ning and was thus attracted to the spot. On being taken up it was found that Quinn was quite deud. The accident happened about io o’clock. Deceased had only come up from Christchurch last week, and was about 25 years of age. Isaac Friedlander, the Californ* ian grain king, is dead, and the Cali fornian millionaire, Michael Reece, has died in Germany.

TELEGRAPHIC.

LATEST FROM EUROPE.

[By Submarine Cable.]

London, Sept. 13

England will probably decline the proposal of Germany for the action of the Powers to compel the Porte to exe cute the stipulations of the Treaty of Berh’n.

C iptain Wilson has been appointed Commodore of the Australian Station, vice Haskins.

AUSTRALIAN.

Sydney, Sept. 14.

The boat race for between Laycock, of Sydney, and Messenger, of Melbourne, was won by Laycock easily.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Per Press Agency.]

Auckland, Saturday.

A petition condemning Mr. Curtis’ proposal for the amendment of the Education Bill is being numerously and influentially signed.

Dr. Aitken has been relieved from the medical charge of the Auckland Asylum.

Grahamstown, Sept, it

A banquet was given to Mr James Mackay, Government land purchase agent, who is succeeded here by Mr. W. H. Grace, the successor also of Major Mair as Resident Magistrate in the Waikato. The banquet was at tended by all the leading citizens. Deputy Mair occupied the chair. A number of Maoris, amongst whom were the influential chiefs of the district, were present, and made speeches regretting Mr. Mackay’s severance from the Go vernment service and his departure for Wellington.

The Native Land Court sitting is concluded.

Gisborne, Saturday. At the inquest on the Waipu murder, at half-past twelve last night, the jury brought in the following verdict:— “ That the said Hiria Whakiaru, on August 28, 1878, on a terrace above the Waiatauto creek, near to Awanui, was found dead; there appearing marks of violence on and inside her body, the said marks being in the opinion of the jurors inflicted by Henare Pete and IPencamene, which caused her to die.” They also made /this presentment — “ That the action taken by the com mittee (native) at Waiomataina relative to investigating the cause of the death of the deceased, is worthy of the highest commendation and praise. The evi dence taken before the said committee, and retaken at this inquiry, has very much assisted the jurors in arriving at their verdict. The said jurors are also impressed with the advisability of mak ing representations to the Government, so that action may at once be taken to prevent the wholesale traffic in spiritu ous liquors by unlicensed persons so close together in outlying districts, such as where the offence was committed.”

Wellington, Saturday. A deputation from the Chamber of Commerce waited on the Premier to-day representing the desirability of es tablishing a Sailors’ Plome here. The Chamber of Commerce and private citi zens will subscribe, and he was asked if the Government would assist. Sir George Grey said that Government were most desirous of seeing Sailors’ Homes established at all the principal seaports, and intended placing a sum on the Estimates in aid. is to be appropriated to Wellington. The management of these homes will be under the officers of the Government, probably the harbormasters. The City of Sydney left San Francis co September 12, contract time, with the mails for New Zealand; and the s.s. Australia having left Auckland on August 20, arrived at San Francisco on September n, one day before the con tract time. Nelson, Saturday. A house belonging to Mr, John Kerr, Waimea west, with all its contents, was burned by fire. The house and furni ture was insured in the Liverpool and London for Dunedin, Saturday.

The total receipts of the Benevolent Institution Carnival up to last night were The quarterly meeting of the Railway Employes Benefit Society, held last night, showed a credit balance of Mr Wilkinson, of Hobart Town, jam manufacturer, is now in Dunedin, and contemplates opening a branch establish ment at Akaroa or Nelson.

Patea, Monday. The ketch Huon Belle is being tem porarily repaired previous to sailing for Lyttelton,, There is a great want of labouring men tbrqughout this district.

MASSACRE OF WESLEYAN MIS- SIONARIES AT NEW BRITAIN.

SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE Wellington Post. Sydney, Sept. 14. The Johanna Czar, which has arrived from New Britain, reports that five of the Wesleyan native missionaries have been massacred by bush natives, ten miles from the Malicola coast. The bodies were afterwards cooked and eaten. The Rev. Mr. Brown, in con junction with the traders and coast natives, attacked the. tribe to which the the murderers belonged, and a severe fight lastinv all day ensued Between 70 and 100 were killed, and a large number were wounded. Another attack on the Mission Station was made by the Duke of York Islanders. The German traders retaliated, killing three natives. Francis Kirwin, a Sydney trader, and two other Europeans, were murdered in this attack. {Per Press Agency. ) • Sept. 11. Fuller particulars concerning the New Britain massacre.—About Easter time five of Rev. Mr. Brown’s native teachers stationed at Malicola incau tiously left the coast, and went inland ten miles. The bush natives, who are hostile to the Coast tribes, surrounded, murdered, cooked, and ate them with barbarous ceremonies. A few days afterwards an expedition organised by the Rev. Mr. Brown attacked and destroyed a native village, killing from 50 to 80 natives.

DEATH OF THE FIRST SETTLER IN VICTORIA.

From Melbourne, the death is an nounced of Mr. Edward Henty, J.P., the first settler in Victoria. The de ceased gentleman was one of seven brothers, the sons of a West England banker, who emigrated to Tasmania about 1832. Mr Edward Henty was a territorial magistrate, and represented the County of Normanby in the Parlia ment of Victoria, with the Right Hon. Mr. Childers as colleague. The Munt ham Station, one of the finest freehold properties of Victoria, contains 30,000 acres, on which about 30,000 sheep graze, and a number of horses and cattle. He also has large estates in the vicinity of Portland Bay ; in fact, his freehold must at least be worth He came to Portland in company with several of his brothers, on 19th November, 1834. * They^arrived in Tasmania a few years previously, and were comparatively wealthy. At Port land they established a whaling station, which at the time, was highly lucrative. To the deceased belongs the distinction of having ploughed the first sod and shorn the first sheep in Victoria. When Sir Thomas Mitchell, Surveyor-General, went overland, he found Mr. Edward Henty’s settlement quite established, and was agreeably surprised at the warm welcome he found. Sir Thomas Mit chell discovered the Wannon country, and it was through his description that the brothers Francis, Edward, and John were induced to visit it. Afterwards they brought up stock from Portland, and there squatted, and the stations Muntham and Merino downs are their original holdings. The Hon. Stephen George Henty went into business at Portland as a merchant, and died in harness. The brothers Charles and John have been dead some years. Two sons of the latter brother, John, are in Sydney, one, Mr. Edward Henty, full namesake and nephew of the deceased, resides near Campbelltown ; the other, Mr. John Henty, is an officer in the Bank of New Zealand at Sydney. The deceased gentleman was a good colonist, and did many kind actions without os tentation.

Total Abstinence. —The Russian “ Association for promoting total absti nenc from thing of English manulacture” have received a large accession of members of late. The principal regula tion of the society is that any member who knowingly purchases an article ex ported from England, or of English manufacture, shall be fined to the ex tent of half the purchase money. The A/. Petersburg Contemporary Review warmly supports the scheme in its cur rent number, and asserts that the only way of reaching the feeling of the “ miserly shopkeeper,” John Bull, is throush his trouses’ pocket. Caution. —It is well to look at both sides of a fan. On a “ heated ” Sun day in Philadelphia the other day, the minister was fanning himself vigorously. He did not see, but the congregation did, that the reverse of his fan bore the inscription, “ Buy Boggles’s Bitters.” Duty on Boots.—Says the New Zealand Herald:— “Mr M ( Millan, speaking at the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, said that he ha 4 gone into the working of the change of tariff im passd by tht Government; ftn4 fguntf

the following result upon fourtl trunks of boots, principally ladies’ b<j by the Cerastes. The old duty wol be £ls 13.; the new duty would £2O ns. 3d. By the Lebu, now ] on her voyage, upon fifteen trui women’s Cashmere boots and slipri he old duty would be £il 16s; | new duty would be 12s. f| fifteen trunks of children’s strap bl and ladies’ kid boots the old duty wq be £25 ; the new duty, £ss—l 4j4 per cent more.” j

The Mentz Bible.— The Am ceum states that a copy of the gi Mentz Bible, printed by Gutenberg 1455, being the first book ever print was sold by auction at Paris for the $ of two thousand [ pounds. It j printed on vellum, but is not quitaJ feet, having one leaf and several tions restored facsimile by Mr. Ffl At the celebrated Perkins sale itflj a copy of the same work realise® sum of ;’4lB

A Tip to Drivers. —A good-ia man is reported as expressing the bd that his team at hard service wo) come out better at the end of the a son with four quarts of oats a day a thorough currying and brushing, tl with six quarts of oats and par neglect. •, > . ... £

Gold. —Some rich auriferous grou has just been opened at Surface H Gulgong, New South Wales. ;i August 13th, seventy-five ounces gold, besides rich specimens, wj obtained from two dishes of stuff talj out of one claim. 1 I

Discipline in French Schoc* rooms—French school-mistresses h® fantastic notions of discipline, J® sooner has one been convicted o|djH ling her pupils’ ardor by seatu® * little dears on hot stoves, fronflHH effects of which a few of them some other did not recover for mqfl| than another with greater refirif®| of ingenuity, is proved guilty of beatii the little girls on the bare feet, after til Oriental style, with raw onions, t - T| latest refinement of cruelty, however,! reported from Calais, where Sister jl of the Nouvelle France, held the hel of one of the girls committed to hi charge between her hands, while thrd boys were made to walk j past and pui] her nose. This was repeated till thj poor child’s'nose was somewhat til worse for wear. \ ; 4

Strangers coming to reside in ire often at a loss to know which is the Establishment to visit for the purchase Drapery, Clothing, and House-furnishing mongery, and General Stores. Orr offer special advantsges-4©-the toubUciSHikiDjMß be met with nowhere else in Ashburton. keep at all times the largest and Stock of every class of Goods, imported from the leading manufacturers at home, which beinp- bought entirely upon cash [terms. they are enabled to offer goods of su<-h sterling value as cannot be equalled by any other l house in the trade. Every article in stock islmarked at the lowest price, from which no abatement is made so that the most inexperienced biny their goods at the same prices as the best judlges.-—Advt.

id Gardener? good hand.;

The Evening fecho, MoMay, September 16 187$;



ASHBURTON RETAIL LIST. s. d. s. d. Sutter, inferior to best, $ lb I 6 to I 8 Eggs, U? dozen - - I 0 to x 3 Bacon, prime smoked, L? lb o 10 to 0 0 Hams in cloth, $ lb - I 0 to 0 0 Cheese, prime quality, $ lb o 9 to 0 10 Flour in bags, %? xoolb 12 6 to 14 0 Datmeal, If? ioolb - 26 0 to 0 0 Lard, if? Ib - - - 0 9 to 0 0



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Gardener. —Wanted, aGol Liberal Wages given to a| Apply to * W. J. MlL'i Mo| id Gardener» good hand.J J£R, are Street. THE TAXES IN NEW ZEALAND WHO PAYS? WHO PAY? WHO OUGHT TO PIAY? A HANDBOOK of Taxation] E. Jerningham Wakef; One Shilling. Sold at the “ E and by Messrs. H. Jones and Booksellers; can also be obtained Wakefield, at the Somerset Hotel, \ day, 23rd September. Orders from try, with Thirteeripence .in stamps copy, duly attended to by post. Reform, by ELD. ' Price ” Office, Weston, om Mr. tUMon* 1 cown-j or;. cach| HAYES & BENHAMO'S C Will Perform 'THUS NIGHT (Monday) 1 Next the Town Hall, With their Great Company, including Granville, the Lady with the Iron; Admission : 2s. 6d. and 4s. READINGS CLASSICAL AND POLITICAL. ' H E JERNINGHAM WAKEFIELD will * read Selections from English and American Authors, and deliver a brief address on THE TAXES IN NEW ZEALAND, with appropiiate Musical Interludes, by Pianist, at THE TOWN HALL, j| |j| Under Distinguished Patronage, ON FRIDAY 20TH, and SATURDAY 2iST| inst., beginning at 8 p.m. Prices : 2s. fid. and is. Details of Programme, varied on second day, will be published to-morrow. I. O. GAT. To the Members of the ’* Dawn of Peace ”| Lodge. OWING to the Templar Hall being unpro vided with Seating accommodation, the Meeting will not be; held this Evening as prd viously advertised, but in the Library Hall *f usual,' ■■ ■' 77