ASHBURTON TRADE DIRECTORY.

i XOUNTANTS AND COMMISSION AGENTS — Charles Braddell, Montgomery’s Buildings H. J. Bristo, Prospect Buildings, East-st. Architect and Civil Engineer— S. W. Brown, East-street S. Farr, Montgomery’s Buildings B. Mountfort, East Street i

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 Taylor and Lill, East-street,

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

Boarding House Keefers— J. G. Anstee, East-street Eagle’s Dining Rooms, Havelock 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

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

Bootmakers— T. 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, 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

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. Plessey, 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— \V. 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 1 Clothing Establishment— Mrs. Morey, Tancred Street.

Painter, J. R. Chapman, Tancred-street Printers and Publishers— Furness and Dixon, East-street Plumbers, Gasfitters, Tinsmiths, Etc. J. C. Dolman, Tancred-street Joseph Hyde, Tancred-street S. Hardley, East-street Saddlers— Thomas Dudson, Burnett-street Surveyors— C. 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 a* follows :

For Christchurch and North at 10 a.m., 4 pniL, 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 beyond the Colony, during'the month of June, and remaining unclaimed on the Ist August, 1878 : Ahrenfeld, Henry Curry, Peter (c/o Michael Sw'eetman) Kennedy, Hugh King, A. J. McDowell, John M. Mcßrien, Thos. Sevres, T. Wallace, John

Letters originating in New Zealand are not now advertised,, but are sent to the Dead Letter Office, after having lain for two clear months,

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

PORT OF LYTTELTON.

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COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Evening Echo. TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1878.

The question of filling the vacancy caused by Mr. Ward’s retirement has been exercising the minds of our School Committee for some time, and has resulted in'an unpleasantness.

The facts are these : The Committee resolved to advertise for candidates to fill the vacancy. This was done, and thirty-five teachers responded. The Chairman signed the advertisement and received the applications. On the 9th of July the ordinary monthly meeting was held, and the Committee proceeded to the work of selecting for nomination to the Board of Education as a suitable successor to Mr. Ward, one of those thirty-five candidates. Up to the holding of this meeting, no one had seen the testimonials of the appli cants except the Chairman, to whom they were addressed. He, so far as he was able to judge from the opportuni ties he possessed of reading applicants’ papers as they arrived,. was the only member of Committee conversant with what the candidates had to advance iij their favor, and thus in a great’ measure he was the adviser of the Com mittee. It was impossible in one evening for each individual member of Committee to closely examine the documents sent up by every individual candidate; so, we presume with the object of expediting the matter, and mainly guided by the Chairman’s knowledge of the testimonials gained by an opportunity of reading them,, the Committee decided to choose a short leet of eight from the heap of thirty ‘five, and by vote select the Com mittee’s nominee. This plan was fol lowed, and resulted in four votes being given to Mr. Stott, of Kensington School, Dunedin, one vote to Mr. Reddin, and one to Mr. Baldwin—Mr. Stott thus securing the nomination. Of any of the candidates personally nothing whatever was known, so far as we can learn, beyond what could be gathered from the testimonials they sent. Considering the number of can didates ; the vast amount of reading the Committee would have required to do, and the careful judgment they would have had to exercise to give each applicant fair,, full, and impartial consideration, and the short time the. meeting lasted—two hours or thereby —the whole thing looks like hastily done work, and it is not to be wondered at that, when information not previously possessed by the Committee regarding the successful candidate cropped up after the election, and that information raised a question of his suitability, ap plication should have - been, made-fo • the Board for its opinion. Nor—all things considered—can fault be found with the Board, equally unacquainted possibly with the special qualifications of the candidates, for suggesting an easy solution of the difficulty—-viz., to reconsider the decision arrived at, and either satisfy themselves thoroughly of the soundness of their choice or re commend another, for this is the only construction we can put upon the Board’s reply. , Meanwhile, Mr. Stott had given up the school he held, and his successor is now being advertised for. In the event of his final rejection for the Ashburton school, he is left without a situation, and also the part he has been made to play in this nomination is likely to militate against his getting another of equal importance. After an informal meeting, at which no business could be transacted—in formal through insufficient notice being given of it, —another was held on Mon day, sth instant, at which, after a lively discussion, and a considerable display

of feeling on the part of some members, the Committee resolved to adhere to the recommendation they had made to' the Board regarding Mr. Stott. It may also be added that one of the two members who had not voted for him to begin with, now cast in his lot with Mr. Stott’s supporters, and .the Com mittee was thus, with one exception, unanimous. These are the facts of the case, as far as we are entitled to know them.

Now, as we have already said, there is an appearance of hurry on the face of the appointment which' was alto gether unnecessary, and perhaps inju dicious. But, at the same time, when four men, whom the ratepayers trust sufficiently to place in their hands the charge of the school affairs of the town,’ are satisfied with the suitability of .Mr. Stott, and vote accordingly, and when, that vote being given, and at a following meeting the successful candidate’s sup porters are recruited by a gentleman Whose judgment and justice have never been called in question, we think enough has been done to make Mr. Stott’s title clear to the appointment. However, the matter now rests with the-Board,, who may see fit from a question of ex pediency, or from other causes, to differ from the opinion above expressed, and ask another nomination, or it may ratify the appointment. It is a pity, however, that in a com munity like our own,-one Church should be pitted against another, or- one na tionality against another, over the small; matter of appointing a teacher for the borough school. • That some such ele ment was introduced there can be no denying —for, whether the Scotch mem 1 bers had any feeling of clannishness or not when they chose a countryman, they did choose ’, one, and the Secretary of the Committee was not careful to abstain from taunting them with it, thus laying himself open to a suspicion of being nettled at the nomination of a gentleman who was neither of his own nationality nor his own religious per suasion.

In this matter we know neither Dr. Stewart nor Mr. Shury, neither Episco palian nor Presbyterian, Scotch nor English, and only hope that to whoever comes amongst us as * the teacher, petty feeling will not be a source of annoyance' or hindrance. The whole proceedings of the Committee in this' question, however, ought to be a lesson to dll ratepayers who have any feeling in the matter, to be about at election day, .and not by their rieglect of duty as citizens allow elections to be carried in such a way as to give room for a suspi cion of undue preponderance at the Committee of either one sect’ or one na tionality. The education of the race of the future should be a question above the petty squabbles of faction, and surely with a system which.claims to be free and undenominational, we ought to rise above the possibility of tracing committee differences of opinion to the jealousy of either creed or country.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Mayoralty.—A meeting of Mr. Williamson’s supporters is to be held in the Commercial Hotel this evening. - ’ - . • 1 ■ We would remind our readers of the Murray Troupe performance to night. , . Land. Sale.—We might call the attention- of capitalists and others to the extensive sale of town, sections and building allotments advertised' for sale at the rooms of Messrs. Bullock and Co. on- Thursday. The sections and building, allotments are the pro perty of Messrs. Orr and Company, and comprise sections 758, 759, 760, front ing the Wakanui road and Peter-street, and section 816 Peter-street. These occupy a position which must, in time be the centre of a thickly populated district judging by the present rate of .the.town’s increase, whiie the building allotments, of which there are 68, are out on the Alford Forest road, and are: suitable sites for private residences. Accident, - Last evening, while Charles Powell was working at a pile of timber in Mr. Hayes’ yard, he met with an accident bj which he was severely hurt. By some inadvertence, he had weakened the of, the pile on the side nearest to him, brings, ing it down upon himself. He was rather severely injured, and was im mediately taken home* but we learn is progressing favourably.

Grains of Paradise.-— Those of. our readers who know what grains of Paradise are, and the deleterious effects of necessity .arising from the consump tion of even an infinitesimal quantity-of the acrid poison, will appreciate the importance of the discovery made at the City Brewery, where a bag of the fiery seed was found, for what purpose designed, may easily be surmised, by any one at all acquainted with the. dark ways of those engaged in secret distilla tion.— Wanganui Chronicle, '

Careless^‘Ministers.—The Hon. John Hail does not approve of the way communications sent to the Govern ment* departments are treated. T He complained in the Council that such papers were usually '-dealt with very cavalierly. Colonial Secretaries.gener ally disowned having received them. Tie had often gone to the office to ask about papers sent, when the Colonial Secretary, with a look of innocent sur prise, would sa v, “ Papers, my dear sir ! Haven’t seen any papers at all. No such papers here,’ I assure you.” He (Mr. Hall) would then bow his head, refleciing over the proneness of papers to go astray, when.his, eye would catch the v-ry document in question on a chair or desk. Then he would exclaim, “Hilloa! why here it is!” “Bless me, yes,” the Minister would reply, “ well, it is the. first I have seen of it, anyhow.” At this, Dr. Pollen hoped Mr. Hall did not allude to him. Mr. Hall replied that he did not. He merely remarked that all Ministers were father lax in. that matter. ....

TELEGRAPHIC.

LATEST FROM EUROPE.

[By Submarine Cable.]

London, August 10.

Sir Julius -Vogel vindicated the|Muni-- cipal loan for Dunedin against ddpreca-, tdry remarks in the Times. 1 The Queen reviews ' the fleet at Spithead on August 13. The Daily News reports that there is serious sickness amongst the troops at Cyprus, but.no deaths had occurred.; The ; armed population at Batoum are preparing to resist .the Russian occupa tion.

■ Twenty thousand Turkish volunteers have gone to the frontier. A tornado has visited Wallingford, Connecticut; 30 persons were killed, and many houses demolished. Martial law has been proclaimed in Bosnia.

Sir Stafford Northcote stated that the estimates for the Kaffir war were within Lepard’spaper-making establishment, Covent Garden, has been burned down, the loss being ■£ 30,000. Parliament is now expected to be prorogued on August 16. The corvette Cormorant, bound, for the Australian station'sprang a leak in the and returned to Chatham; The money market' is stringent. Bank minimum unchanged'; Bank charging 6 per cent. Anstralian securities continue, depressed with other stocks, the in creasing value of money producing a temporary inactivity. The com market is flat, and the weather is splendid for harvest opera tions. Consols, 95}4 Bank and market rates of discount, 4 per cent. • Adelaide wheat, 50s. to 515.; flour, 35S- New Zealand 5 per cent, loan, tor. - • . . London, August 12. S&fket Pacha has- been created a Knight Grand-Commander of the Star of India. Much sickness continues at Cyprus. • <- Vienna, August 10. ;The resistance to the Austrian ad vance in Bosnia and Herzegovina is increasing. There is continuous fight ing* * VIENNAj. August.-11 ,j - On the 6th, the Austrians obtained a victory over the Bosnian .insurgents, and''captured a batallion of Turkish troops of the reserve. A sanguinary engagement ensued'next day at Lyn bingi. •••' C ONS J- ANTIN0 PLE, August 11.

The Russians have occupied Varna: is making efforts. to obtain CreteXs a concession in of; peace. The Porte refuses to grant such a demapd^,-^; . “‘'Rome, August 9. The Pope has appointed Cardinal Nina Pontifical Secretary of'State.

(Special to the Wellington Post. J

London, August n.

It is intimated that England has re solved to annex New Guinea. The' form pf Government is as yet unde cided.

The Emperors of Russia and Austria have met at Leipsic, and the friendly relations between the two countries have been strengthened.

A U STRA L IAN.

Melbourne, August 12.

The Underwriters’ Association re port, under date London, August 10 — Arrived, Pleiades, 90 days out from Lyttelton. The Jessie Macdonaldrsailed on July 8 from Foochow for Welling ton^

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Per Press Agency.]

Auckland, Monday.

At a meeting of the Licensed Vic tuallers to-day, the action of the brewers in raising beer above the tariff, was strongly condemned. A resolution, was. carried ; —“ That this meeting is of opinion that the price of beer cannot be raised to consumers, and as Licensed Victuallers are. already heavily bur dened, they request the brewers to con sider their recent resolution, and supply beer at the old price.”

Dr. Somerville and his sOn are ex pected, by the mail steamer from Sydney en joute to England. * . , "Dickenson, the undertaker, was com mitted for trial on a charge of fraudu lent insolvency- by concealing goods in an adjoining house.

Tuesday.

Arthur 'Gerald Manning, a young man well connected in Queensland; has been arrested, charged with stealing £,IOO from the Bank of New Zealand at Christchurch, to which place he has been remanded. . .. : ■ \-

New Plymouth, Monday.

The- Taranaki Jockey Club races take place on December 5 and 6. The programme for the first day. is—-Handi cap Hurdle, £\o\ Maiden Plate, Taranaki Cup, £(so ; Hack Race; £s; Taranaki Jockey Club Handicap, Second day—Handicap Steeplechase, ; Hack Hurdle, ; Autumn .Handicap, £Zo ; Harbor Stakes, Railway Plate, ; Consolation Stakes, Wf.llington, Monday.

At the County'Conference, to-day, it was resolved that valuers under the Counties and Public Works Acts should be appointed by committees, and also that the county should'have power to frame bye-laws for the eradication of noxious briars, burrs, rabbits, &c.; that Government be requested ,to alter the basis of distributing subsidies to County Councils and local bodies, and to classify districts so that outlying dis tricts may receive more consideration ; that County Auditors be appointed by ratepayers in addition to the final audit by the Government auditor. The Con ference adjourned till tliis evening, when reports on loans, Counties Act, and reserves will be considered. Kumaru, Monday. • A crowded meeting with reference to railway to the West Coast, Was held here, the Mayor in the chair. Resolu tions, urging on Government the desi rability ot connecting the East and West Coasts, were carried unanimously. The line from Greymouth to Christ church, via' Amberley, was strongly advocated by several speakers, and very favorably received here.' . . Dunedin, Monday. One hundred and sixty-eight acres of land, near Forbury, about two miles from Dunedin, changed owners to-day for ,£25,000. Between July 11 and August 8, there have been received at the Dunedin office, applications under the nomi nated system of immigration for 109 souls, equal to 98 statute adults. At a meeting held on the Peninsula on Saturday it was decided to form an Agricultural and' Pastoral Society in that district.

The City Council- intend to ask the Government to alter the Harbor Act, so that Councillors; may be eligible as members of the Board.

NEW CALEDONIA.

The troops, after destroying, a village, were upon their return to camp at tacked by about 250 to 300 Natives at Boulapari. Waiting for a place suffici ently open to afford a chance of seeing the savages, the troops kept on, then sud denly turned,- and over, fifteen blacks ■bit the dust. How. many more were wounded is unknown, for the rebels dis appeared in the thick .scrub, as thpugh by magic. in all parts of the island, except the revolt/ and its operations are, circumscribed to a very small area. Many people ex press surprise that jnore is not yet achieved against.the insurgents ; not so those who come from the scene of action and are well acquainted with the country and its black population. Those better informed know 'that the tedious process of starvation and black-against : black must be the means depended on for the reduction of this handful of agile devils who leap from rock to rock, dive into the friendly covering of thick tan gled bush,|by paths known only to.them selves, or disappear in numerous ravines worn in mountain sides by the rains. r. - Up to the latest moment the number of known victims in the late revolt is 118.

NEW GUINEA.

A great number of men in the .digging party are sick, and < matters are very critical. The Sappho has arrived with welcome supplies of medicine,

. No. gold is, reported yet, although strong colours are said to have been obtained. '

FIJI.

A party of {Native officers sent by • Ratu Eskeli Pako to capture an offen der, committed a great outrage; they confined all the male inhabitants of the village in one “ hatul,” and the females in another, and subjected the latter — despite their cries and struggles—to indiscriminate violation. .On intelli gence reaching the European officer at Noumea’(?), he ordered'the arrest of the offenders, and 40 were punished. •- ' A German at Line Islands was mur- . dered by the Natives. News from the Solomon Islands shows that it was not Wright who was r killed, but a man named Townsend. A boy employed by him was seriously speared.

SOMEBODY’S MOTHER

The woman was old and ragged and grey, And bent with the chill of the winter’s day The street was wet,witl,x .a recent snoxv, ,-y And the woman’s feet were aged and slow. She-stood at the crossing, arid waited long,' ''Alone, uncared for, amid the throng " ' ■ Of. human beings who passed her by, . . .. . Nor heeded the glance of her anxious eye. . .. Down the street with laughter and shout, : Glad in the freedom of ‘.‘.school let out,” . . Came the boys, like a flock of sheep, Hailing the snow piled white and deep. Past the woman so old and grey ' ■' Hastened the children on their way Nor offered a helping hand to her. ' • ' • So meek, so timid, afraid to stir Best the carriage wheels or the horses’ feet Should crowd her down in,.the slippery? street. At last cariie one of the merry troop— The gayest laddie of all the group ; . .. He paused beside her, and whispered low, “ I’ll help you across, if you wish to go.”. . Her aged hand on his strong young arm She placed, and so, without hurt or harm, ”■. He guided the trembling feet along, Proud that his own were firm arid strong. Then back again to his friends he went, - His young heart happy and well content. “ She’s somebody’s mother, boys, you know, For all she’s aged, and pool, and slow ; And I hope some fellow will lend a hand ® To help my mother, you understand, If ever she’s poor, and old, and grey, When her dear boy is far away.” ! And “ somebody’s mother ” bowed low her . head In her home that night, and the prayer she said Was, “ God, be kind to the noble boy. Who is somebody’s .son and pride and joy 1 ”

The Evening Echo, Tuesday, August 13, 1878.



ASHBURTON RETAIL LIST. s. d. s. d. Butter, inferior to best, I •4 to X 6 Eggs, $ dozen - - I 6 to 0 0' Bacon, prime smoked, If? ib o 10 to b 0 Hams in cloth, I? lb - I 0 to 0 0 Cheese, prime quality, $ lb o 9 to 0 10 Flour in bags, 1? loolb 13 6 to 15 0 Oatmeal, if? ioolb - 26 0 to 0 .0 Lard, lb - - • - 0 9 to 0 0



NOTICE.



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Imagination, Man, though in dividually confined to'a narrow spot of this globe, and limited in his existence to a few courses of the sun, has never theless an imagination which no ; des potism can control, and which un ceasingly seeks for- the author of his destiny through the immensity of space, and the ever-rolling current of ages. Strangers coining to reside .in Ashburton are often at a loss to know which-is the best Establishment to visit for the purchase of Drapery, Clothing, and House-furmshing 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 smd best-assorted Stock of every class , of Goods, imported direct from the leading manufacturers at nome, which beinp' bought entirely upon cash terms, they are enabled to offer goods of such sterling value as cannot be equalled by any other.house in the trade. Every article in stock is marked at the lowest price, from which no abatement is made so that the most inexperienced, buy their goods at the same prices as the best judges.—Advt



'J' HE MURRAY TROUPE- From St Geoige’s Hal!, Melbourne, will give Two Dramatic-representations at the ‘ v LIBRARY HALL ; i THIS* EVENING, and TO-MORROW, it ■; • August 13th and 14th. : v Tuesday. Night—" The Drunkard’s Wife/’’ K 6 . conclude with the “Irish Matchmaking; r! Wednesday Night—“ Dr. Sloper.”-- : A For particulars see bills. After' 'which the Troupe will play dance music till'l2 o’clock without extra charge. Admission 3s and'gs,; Doori open half-past 7, commence 8 o’clock.; CHARLES MURRAY, ? \ _ ... " ' v Agfcnt, ; - • . SONS OF TEMPERANCE. THE usual fortnightly Meeting will be held on WEDNESDAY Evening next, at 7.30 p.m., at Mr. Thos. Andrews’. A full attendance is requested. Business—Election of Trustees. A. J. ANDREWS, R.S. " . TEN SHILLINGS REWARD. LOST in Ashburton, on Monday night, a Black and Silvery Tan SHEEP DOG, with registered collar on. Answers to the name of “ Bob.” Reward will be paid by W. R. BOYLE, Modre-st. HVMltfG* CLASSES. MR. G. D. BOILEAU, Ashburton, is pre pared to give instruction in the various branches of learning on Tuesdays and Fridays from 7 to 9 p.m. For terms and further p»r* ticulars, apply at the EcRO Qffwc,