The Evening Echo.

Vol. 1.—151.

Ashburton, Thursday, September 5, 1878.

Price One Perni^



A/TESSRS BULLOCK AND CO., IVI ASHBURTON, General Merchants, Auctioneers, Stock, Station, Estate, and Commission Agents. Sales of Stock, Farm Implements, &c., ’will be held at their Yards, Ashbur ton, every alternate Thursday. CASH ADVANCES made on Stock, Produce, &c., con signed for Positive BULLOCK AND CO. ON SALE by the UNDERSIGNED. Tea, Port, Sugar, Sherry, Soap, Claret, Candles, " Champagne, : Coffee, Moselle, Cocoa, Brandy, Rice, Rum, Salt, : Whisky, Ale,. \ Old Tom, Porter, ' ; Schnapps, ■' Also, BUILDING MATERIALS of every description. . Fencing Material, Cement and Lime, Coal and Firewood. MONTGOMERY & Co., EAST STREET, ASHBURTON. THE undersigned is a CASH BUYER of OATS, BARLEY, GRASS SEED, WHEAT, CHEESE, and OTHER FARM PRODUCE, At highest market Rates. Comsacks supplied at ruling prices.' H. B. SORENSON. Christchurch. T ORD, HUGHES, & Co., GRAIN AND PRODUCE MERCHANTS, SHIPPING AND COMMISSION AGENTS, Make Liberal Advances on Grain or other pro duce for shipment to their agents in the Aus tralian Colonies or London. Comsacks and Woolpacks supplied at lowest current rates. Indents executed from all parts of the world. Offices —High Street, Christchurch.



GEO. ST. HILL, Builder and Contractor Burnett Street, Ashburton. PLANS PREPARED AND ESTIMATES GIVEN On the Shortest Notice For every description of Building in Town and Country. SPRINGFIELD COAL. Cash price, 345. per ton, for 5 cwt and. over, at depot. Monthly Payments as before. Newcastle Coal and Firewood at current rates. G. PARKER & Co., Near Railway Station, Ashburton.



BUSINESS NOTICE. J L. WILSON, AUCTIONEER,. VALUATOR, BROKER, Lichfield Street, Christchurch. RAILWAY FOUNDRY, CHRISTCHURCH. SCOTT BROS., ENGINEERS, &c„ BEG to inform their customers and the public generally that they have REMOVED To new and commodious premises in MANCHESTER STREET SOUTH, Near the new Passenger Station. . J. C. DOLMAN, n LUMBER, LOCKSMITH, BELL r ' ! HANGER, ZINC, and TINPLATE WORKER, Tancred Street, A S' PI B U R TON. Artesian Wells sunk / and Pumps fitted and repaired. Q.G. Guttering fixed at current rates. Electric Bells supplied and fitteb . N.B.ri-Orders punctually attended to.



EAGLE’S DINING ROOMS, I-lAVELOCK STREET, , Near to the Town Hall, Ashburton. LUNCHEON AND DINING ROOMS. Meals at all hours. PUBLIC NOTICE. JOSEPH HYDE, DRACTICAL coppersmith and r BRAZIER, TIN, IRON, AND ZINC PLATE WORKER, Begs to inform the inhabitants of Ashburton and surrounding districts that he has com menced business in TANCRED STREET, where he hopes by strict attention to business, combined with moderate charges, to merit a fair share of public patronage. N.B.—Repairs neatly executed. C. E. FOOKS AND SON, SURVEYORS AND LAND BROKERS Under the Land Transfer Act, Government Contract Surveyors, EAST-STREET, ASHBURTON. A. PEARCE, TOBACCONIST, HAIRDRESSER, & -*■ DEALER IN FANCY GOODS. Having taken over the Business of Mr. W. PI. Friedlander in the above line, hopes to receive a continuance of public support. Tobacco, Cigars, Perfumery, and Fancy Goods in Large Variety. BILLIARD ROOM, With one of Alcock’s Best Billiard Tables, kept on the premises. MOOR STREET, (opposite Roval Plotel.)



QUILL’S COMMERCIAL HO T E L, ASHBURTON, (One Minute’s walk from Railway Station and Telegraph Office.) The Proprietor begs to inform his old friends and the public that, having seen the necessity that existed for a Really First-Class Hotel at Ashburton, he erected the above at a very considerable outlay, and is now in a position to offer the Best accommodation to Families and Visitors, on the most • ;.. Reasonable Tems^.SF-' - SPECIAL ATTENTION HAS BEEN PAID TO THE PRIVATE, SITTING, AND LUNCHEON ROOMS, ' - BATH ROOMS, &e. . VF - ' • WINES, BEERS, & SPIRITS OF THE BEST BRANDS. SIPIL IE IST IO LID BILLIARD SALOON, Fitted with one of Alcock’s Prize Billiard Tables. i J - ■ —- NIGHT PORTER KEPT FOR CONVENIENCE OF TRAVELLERS. ~ G. W.; DUCKWORTH, Wholesale and Retail General Grocer, HIGH STREET, CHRISTCHURCH,' {Next Messrs. Strange’s Buildings.) \/WISHES to call attention to the PARTICULARLY LOW PRICES at which he NOW VV SELLING ALL GOODS, which cannot be beaten by any House in the Province. WHOLESALE ORDERS DELIVERED, FREIGHT PAID, TO ANY STATION ON THE CANTERBURY RAILWAY.



Cambridge’s Quinine Wine, a "Pure Solution of Quinine, in the finest Orange Wine, has no equal as a Strengthening Tonic. Large bottles, 4s. 6d. Cambridge’s Cough Syrup, for Coughs, Colds, &c., is. 6d. and 2s. 6d. Cambridge’s Extract of Oak Bark, for the Prevention and Cure of Sore or Cracked Nipples, in bottles, is. 6d. each. Cambridge’s Compound Essence of Senna is the Best and Safest Aperient Medicine for Children. They take it readily, and will ask for more. is. 6d. ... - and 25..6d. per bottle. '' T Cambridge’s Ringworm Paint —Three or four applications will Effect a Cure; in is. bottles. Cambridge’s Glycerine Jelly, for Chap ped Hands and Face ; in bottles 2s. each. J. M. CAMBRIDGE, DISPENSING AND FAMILY CHEMIST, Ashburton. G. F. SCOTT, P ENERAL CARRIER, iON St., Ashburton. Parcels delivered promptly and charges moderate.



K. SANDO, FAMILY GROCER TENT, TARPAULIN, & HORSE CLOTH MAKER, AND GENERAL STOREKEEPER, EAST STREET, ASHBURTON. FLAGS of ALL NATIONS Sup plied to Order and Let out on Hire. Note the address— EAST STREET, ASHBURTON.



A. 0. AITKFJ AND CO. HAVE ON SALE— American Thermometer Churns | . ■■ **- J - )) ' ■ „ Handsaws Shovels, long and short handled Spades of all kinds Forks, Garden and Stable American Axes HOLLOWARE OF ALL KINDS. Saucepans Boilers Kettles, etc., etc. FENDERS and FIREIRONS. A; O. Aiticen & Co., « Havelock-street, -A-SIHIIBTTZRTO IST.



NOTICE! NOTICE!! NOTICE!! REMOVAL. Firth, Pass, & Co. Beg to inform the Inhabitants of Ashburton and surrounding districts that they have REMOVED TO THEIR NEW PREMISES Next the Union Bank of Australia, EAST STREET. piRTH, PASS, & CO. take this oppo> tunity of thanking their numeious cust@mers who have so liberally supported them hitherto, and to solicit a continuance of their patronage at the * NEW PREMISES, TO BE CALLED The Old Bank Stores (late union bank). Orders entrusted to our care will re ceivefprompt attention. Families waited on for orders weekly, FIRTH, PASS, AND CO., Grocers, Drapers, Ironmongers, WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS, &c. East Street. SCHOOL BOOKS Just Arrived—Royal. Primers, Victoria Exercise Books,: &c. —Echo Office, Stationers’ Hall, East-street.



JOHN FOWLER, ! GENERAL DRAPER, GROCER, WINE & SPIRIT t MERCHANT, j Tancred Street , Ashburton. JUST OPENING, AND TO ARRIVE 'WIIjTTEIK STOCK; l J Consisting of • ■ 'i i ' . ' j GENTS’ j IN .. j Paget and Sack Suits -J , v j j Overcoats ’. v j Shirtings, - " 'Calicos, j IRONMONGERY, t ~ ! ; TINWARE, j • • ■•: ' j • ‘ . j ■ , IN ENDLESS VARIETY. ; ' :: : i ,’V-/Tj' Uats, Bran, Sharps, and ChaJjF, .* Always in Stock. WINES AND SPIRITS, ALE AND PORTER In Draught or Bottles. : THE BEST BRANDS ONLY KEPT.



T. CHAMBERS, JgOOT AND SHOE MAKER, East Street, Ashburton. Terms Cash. [a card.] jQR. J. H. TOWNEND, CONSULTING PHYSICIAN, (Late of Guy’s Hospital, London,) . CHRISTCHURCH. ANSTEE'S LUNCHEON AND DINING ROOMS, EAST STREET, ASHBURTON-. Excellent accommodation for Boarders,



UNION STEAM: IRON WORKS, (Next the Horse Bazrr), BURNETT STREET, ASHBURTON. Edwards & Lee, ENGINEERS, MILLWRIGHTS. AND GENERAL SMITHS. Orders for every description of Machinery executed in a workmanlike, mariner, and guar anteed to give satisfaction,. at prices that will compare favorably with any in Canterbury. Important. —Ex erienced Manufacturers arid Repairers of Reapers, Combines, Stra Elevators, Portable Engines, Wool Presse &c. - : : Wind Pumps, Circular Saw Spindles, . and Tables, made to order. General Smithy Wheelwright, and Shot ing wot k warranted to give ‘,j : • •' L ; ’.a >:. >lvf ‘j 1, . •' -' ' • t*■■ J ■: ; . satisfaction . EDWARDS AND LEE, Proprietors. i



'■ RUBBER STAMPS. ' ; ;r 'pHESE Useful STAMPS, with Ink and Pads, are now being Manufactured at‘the 1 ECHO ” OFFICE, and can be supplied any shape or size for 7s. 6d. ■> ■}. STAMPS FOR . ■ ...■■■•■£ '! Receipts, Labels, Societies, Books,. Marking Linen, &c. • - ' ’ d ? Ashburton, steam- saw mills, Jrx .SASH AND'JDOOR; r , li ■ /‘-M A: N :! U FACT QRY. .. \i. . ....G-. PAR KJ & Proprietor, BUILDER AND CONTRACTOR- J Moore Street, Every description of Timber and Building Materials in Stock and.supplied on must reasonable terms. FUNERALS FURNISHED. -• Plans prepared and Estimates Given -on the shortest notice.



■ :ORAM’S i v•„ ■ -• , SOMEESET . COMMERCIAL AND FAMILY HOTEL, ASHBURTON. UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF Sir George Grev, K.C.8., Premier of New ’ • ■ Zealand. , Sir James Ferguson, Bart., late Governor of New Zealand, AND Sir Charles Ducane, late Governor of Ta - mania. ''pH IS centrally-situated Hotel is pronounced to be one of the finest in the Southern Hemi sphere. The cuisne is under the supervision o an eminent chef, and the proprietor hopes that his long experience in the trade is a sufficient guarantee as to the quality of the contents of the cellar. t •. ■ ’ R. W. SHEARMAN/ PROPRIETOR. pLAN of ASHBURTON, on Sale at the office of the “Evening Echo ” : BREWERY \VOOD AND CO., ALE AND PORTER BREWERS JS M-- fAND -;/L' BOTTLERS, i CUIERON ST., ASHBURTON.