POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Mails at the Ashburton Post Office close is 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 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 July, and remaining unclaimed on the Ist September 1878 : Anderson, James Clough, Robinson Doherty, Henry James Fergusson, J. H. (2) Gooch, W. Kelly, Cornelius O’Donnell, Patrick PaTmer, William Rilly, James Sweetman, Michael (2) Spencer, W. 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.

ASHBURTON TRADE DIRECTORY.

A ICOUNTANTS AND COMMISSION AGENTS— Charles Braddell, Montgomery’s Buildings H. 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 Stree- 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 I.KERS; Confectioners, Etc. — Thomas Hicks, Tancred-street Thomas Try lor, East-street, Bvnks— Bank of New Zealand, East-street Union Bank of Australia, East-street Boarding House Keepers— 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. Park''n, Steam Saw Mills, Moor-street Matthew Smith, Moor-street Thos. Williams, Tinwald G. Compton, Builder, Moore-street. Booksellers and Stationers— Weston, Prospect Buildings, East-street Furness and Dixon, Stationers’ Hall, East street South B'JOTM AKERS — 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, 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 Orrard 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. Hessty, 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 Fo.vler, 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 Plotel, 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, Sec.— J. R. Chapman, Tancred-street Printers and Publishers — Fun?ess and Dixon, East-street Plumbers, Gasfittlrs, Tinsmiths, Etc.— J. C. Dolman, Tancred-street Joseph Hyde, Tancred-street S. liardley, East-stieet *ADO J£RS—, : J fhbtras Dudson, Burnett-street PURVEYORS— • C. E. Fooks and Son, East-street Tailors— Aitken and Co., Havelock-street Tentmakers— K. Sando, East-street Tobacconists — ,• 4 A. Pearse, Moor-streetJ E. A. Garnett, East-street - 4* Weston, East-streetj

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE .

PORT OF LYTTELTON. . expected arrivals. From London Crusader, Lutterworth, Waimate, _ Waimea, Waitangi, Langstone, Pal ala. From New York Star, Southminster, Olmstee. From Foo Chow —Rio Lodge. From Calcutta—Aries, Akbar. From Sydney via Auckland —Rotorua.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

ASHBURTON RETAIL LIST.

The Evening Echo. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1878.

Ashburton Resident Magis - trate.— lt is now pretty certain that a Resident Magistrate will be located here, and rumor has it that Mr. Beetham will take the place of Mr. A. Le Grand Campbell. The Mayor’s Mishap. —We learned last night that Mr. Bullock, while doing Timaru during the stop page of the special train at that town, had the misfortune to be left behind, but was forwarded by an emergency train, along with other dignitaries whose ideas of time did not run.so fast as those of Mr. Conyers, who cut short the stay of the special by five minutes of the waiting time set down for Timaru. The Pulpit.—To-morrow the sub jects of discourse in the Wesleyan and Presbyterian churches will be as follows : —Wesleyan —Rev. W. B. Marten — Morning: “The Christian Athlete.” Evening: “ Counting the Cost.” Presbyterian—Rev H. B. Burnett — Morning: “ The Connection between Natural and Moral Evil.” Evening: “The Moral Government of God in some of its judicial aspects, or God in this life punishing and rewarding.” Diphtheria.—This fatal disease has been abroad to some extent in this dis trict of late, and a good many cases have occured. In one instance, four children in one family, residing at Wins low, succumbed to its power within ten days of each other, two of the young ones being hurried together. As yet there is no cause for serious alarm, but every attention ought to be given to sanitary arragements. Twelve Bodies, recovered from the wreck of the Grosser Kurfust were buried on June 19 in Folkestone Ceme tery, each coffin being drawn on an artillery gun-carriage by six horses. The procession was headed by the bands of the 21st Hussars and 45th Regiment, which played the “Dead March.”-The funeral was attended by many thousands of persons, and Lady Bryan, Lady G. Lennox, and many others cast wreaths of immortelles into the grave. The body of Count Schwerrin, the com mander of the Grosser Kurfurst, who sank with his ship, was brought into Folkestone from the wreck. It was dressed in full uniform and was very much decomposed. The German Consul gave directions for the body to be enclosed in a leaden coffin and con veyed to London, whence it will be taken to Germany. A reward had been offered by the relatives for the recovery of the body of the Count. Female Politician. —On polling day the electors at Invercargill, who supported Mr Feldwick’s candidature, received nourishing food at the hands of a young lady of pronounced l’beral sympathies, and her efforts have been suitably rewarded by Mr Feldwick’s committee, who, according to the News , paid an unannounced visit to her father’s residence on Tuesday night and handed her a very handsome gold watch, which bore the inscription :—“ Presented to Miss Jessie Bonthron by the Liberal Election Committee as a token ot es teem.” The News adds that the recip ient said she. had felt amply repaid by the side she had worked for winning, while the courtesy with which she had been treated on the polling-day by everyone made her labors more a plea sure than a toil.

Fatal Accident. —A very shocking and fatal accident occurred recently at the Wanganui railway station. A rail way employee named Frank Marten yvas empjoyed as to attend to the Smiting of thc|trucks, At the time

of the fatal accident he was about to couple two waggons, and to do so he unthinkingly stepped between them. While so engaged the signal was given to push up the line of trucks. The unfortunate man was tightly jammed between the timberladen waggons with such frightful* violence that he was almost instantaneously deprived of life. He left a young, delicate widow and orphan child, who are totally unprovided for.

CHISPA’S LETTER.

I am not yet so bald that you can see my brains. ” —Longfellow.

This week marks an era in Ashbur ton’s history. Mr Bullock, on Monday, walked into three first figures to Mr Williamson’s 49, and into the Mayor’s chair before him. Both gentlemen had energetic committees, the individual committeemen of which toiled with an enthusiasm worthy of the cause they served,fno # doubt. I’ll speak of them anon. On Wednesday, Mr Williamson, if he failed to walk over one man in the Mayoral contest. had no difficulty in walking over fifteen for a seat at the Council. Now, you Ashburtonians who rushed like—well, make yonr own com parison—into the Town Hall on Mon day evening to hear Mr Braddell say who was who in the matter of Mayor, just cast your minds back over the doingsof that Monday; call up to your mind’s eye the faces of the men who were standard-bearers in that election warfare ; note them down in the memo book of your memory, and carry them to the list of Councillors you got next day. Just see how many of those names you can fix to the faces you have called up, and then, according to the “ savvy” that’s in you, say which side has won after all. Bravo, Mr Bullock, for getting it all your own way on Mon day ; the people were good to you then and showered their votes upon your head —they gave you honor and glory in full and gushing measure, but on Wednesday—ah, did they take second thoughts and place a countercheck upon you with the Council. Longheaded Ashburtonians !

Then the Governor came and went yesterday. He doesn’t know anything about the fitness of things’doesn’t Nor manby. He gave us our borough only a short time ago. He knew we were going to do the grand affair this week, and appoint the Ashburton Parliament, but he didn’t choose to.come to look at us till it was all over. He’s a lazy old man. If he had come on Monday he might have had a drive in the wag gonette when the “ milkwhite steed” was in the shafts, when our throats were in fine fettle for a yell of joy, and when we were just in the mood to cheer; he would have had a chance to lay his hand upon the new Mayor’s head and give him a paternal blessing; it would have been his everlasting honor to pat the backs of the good boys who won the day on Wednesday, and to give them fatherly advice. But he waited till the bud had fully blossomed, and till full-blown Mayor and Council lors could receive him in their Sunday go-to-meetings at the railway sta tion and make the Town Clerk an altar to offer incense on of good-will and loyalty to the land we live in, the best Queen that ever reigned (God bless her), and the person of her noble representative. What right had he to come and take all our expressions of loyalty and so forth, and whip our Mayor away with him, and then rush off with his old train at Timaru, and leave his Worship of Ashburton behind. “ Time and tide wait for no man, neither will the Canterbury railways but though they may not wait for an ■individual like the Governor of New Zealand and Vice-Admiral of the same, if they cannot hold on ten minutes for the Mayor of Ashburton, the sooner they bottle up the better. Never mind, we’ll get over that yet. Ashburton will “scoot ahead” even if its Mayor was left behind at Timaru, and had to be sent after the special like an item of left luggage.

Ashburton is young yet. Even its first Borough Council meeting hasn’t been held. As it gets older it will learn to do better; but of all election meetings I ever attended, for straight forward, downright devilment commend me to a Town Hall-full of the mind, muscle, and lung-power of Ashburton in meeting assembled to hear the chosen of the people say “ Thank you.”

The man’s committed for trial. It’s too soon to say whether he’s guilty or innocent. If he is guilty, the skunk who could eat an employer’s bread and then, when that employer was writhing in agony in the hospital, go and despoil the sufferer’s house, ought to have to him the jjj'whip he . himself used to goad the horse he drove, What a strange mixture is our poor humsr'"

TELEGRAPHIC.

LATEST FROM EUROPE.

London, Sept. 5. The number drowned by the sinking of the excursion steamer off Woolwich was 528. Only four per cent of the passengers were saved, but the whole crew were rescued. The Queen joins in the general sympathy. The Lord Mayor of London receives subscriptions for the widows and orphans. Constantinople, September 5. It is generally reported that Midhat Pasha has been recalled. Th i Porte refuses to appoint a dele gate for the rectification of the north ern frontiers of Greece. Vienna, September 5. The 20th division of the Austrian army attacked and defeated the Bos nians at Duboz.

AUSTRALIAN.

Sydney, Sept. 6.

The Premier intimated that it would soon be necessary to introduce a Bill to purchase a site for the erection of buildings for the Centennial Exhibition of Australia. New Zealand wheat and oats are un quotable. Candles, 9d to 9^jd. Adelaide, Sept, 6. Adelaide flour, £,\o 12s to £,ll 7s 6d.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Balclutha, Friday.

Much surprise is felt here at the re port in the Dunedin papers that the section of railway, Balclutha to Clinton, will be completed in a few weeks. The contract time expired ten weeks ago. Bad weather set in at the beginning of July, but from the slow progress made the line cannot possibly berfinished be fore next jean The district roads are destroyed, and the settlers and travell ing publicare put to great inconvenience. Much regret is felt that this line is not ready to be opened to-day along with the Northern line. The trip of the Northern members would have then been from Christchurch to Invercargill. Auckland, Friday. Earl Beaconsfield replied to the con gratulations of the citizens. The Mayor sent the following tele gram, which will be read at the Dunedin railway banquet :—“ Congratulate the Mayors of Dunedin and Christchurch on the completion of iron link, and trusts the time is not far distant when the Mayors of Wellington and Auck land may welcome the Mayors of the Southern cities by railway from Welling ton to Auckland ”

Wellington, Friday.

The Government received a telegram this afternoon re recent murder of a Native woman near Waiapu, Gisborne, to the following effect: —A messenger has just come in from Waiapu, and reports that the supposed murderers have been arrested, and are in readi ness to be handed over to the police on arrival of the steamer. It is prob able that two other prisoners will be charged with rape.

Dunedin, Friday.

To-night the vice-regal party attend the Princess Theatre, when the Civil Service Club will perform. To-morrow morning a special train leaves for Lawrence with members of the Assembly, who intend paying Blue spur a visit.

Rather Ambiguous.—The Min ister of Public Works, in replying to the rather pertinent question asked him in reference to certain post-prandial utter ances of bis anent provincial institutions said that a man could not be expected to distinctly remember all he said on such occasions. We agree with the Minister in the implied assertion that the faculties are rather likely to be clouded on such occasions. It is mon strous to call a speaker to account for champagne eloquence. It is only be cause Mr. Fox is a cold-water man that he failed to recognise the fact which must be patent to all but Good Tem plars.—Wellington Post. The West Coast Times of the 17th instant srys : —“ A project, which has been spoken of as a remunerative one to any who will venture upon it, is the establishment of two sawmills in the southern part of the county, one at Okura, and another at the Waitoto. These, it is said, could be worked by the aid of a small steamer which could convey the timber to Jackson’s Bay 1 , at a very limited cost. There are large blocks of excellent timber. at each of the places, readily obtainable, and close to the rivers. From the Jackson’s Bay jetty, when completed, the facilities for shipment would be unsurpassed. At present it is computed that timber can be exported there at 5s to 5s 6d per hundred feet from the Arawata mill, which is cutting about 30,000 feet per week.’*

“TAIPO NO GOOD.”

The Manawatu Times tells the fol lowing amusing story An unfortunate man named Henry Moore had met with injuries from falling on a stake fence, which had split his upper lip and divided his nasal organ with geo metrical precision. Dr. Johnson, of Feilding, attended the sufferer, and after having shaved off his moustache, sewed up the wound, placing a strip of black court-plaster parallel with the mouth across the upper lip, with an upright strip running up the nose. The patient was then put to bed in Roe’s Hotel, but after he had fallen into a sleep the wound burst, and a quantity of blood was smeared over the face. Close to midnight a Maori named Rangitoto, who is attached to the survey party of Mr. Frank Owen, re tired to the same apartment for the night. All went well until the native had divested himself of every article of clothing save his shirt, but as he was about to blow out the light, the injured man sal bolt upright in the bed and gazed at the visitor. With a yell and bound which brought him to the door, Rangitoto ne’er stopped to don his unwhisperables, but rushing downstairs, bounded into the bar, his eyeballs starting from their sockets, and seeking shelter in the lee of ihe first one he met. Almost pale with terror, he could only answer to the astonished spectators, “ Taipo no good ! Taipo no good !” So great w r as his horror that he preferred remaining in a costume almost equal to that of Adam before the fall, rather than return to his nether gar ments, and when those were brought to him he made tracks from the scene of his fright without waiting for his hat. It may be added that the unconscious cause of the disturbance was himself not a little exercised at the appearance and antics of the native.

li Can the Leopard, &c.”—An unfortunate Englishman, with a strongly Teutonic beard and nose, found his way into the German celebration meet ing last night, and greatly to his bewild erment, was immediately assailed on all sides by greetings and enquiries in the language of the “ Vaterland.” In vain did he protest that he was totally ignorant of the tongue —appearances were against him, and so at last he found himself constained to adopt the tactics of Mrs Plornish, of Bleedingheart Yard celebrity, and began to reply to his inter locutionors in a very loud tone and very broken English. When, in reference to a ca ving knife, he remarked “ E no cut.” he evidently thought that if not absolutely pure German, it was at any rate a very near approach to it. So thoroughly imbued with the Teutonic spirit (or lager-beer) did the gentleman in question become, that it is said he continued to speak with a strong Ger man accent, even after he had returned to the bosom of his familv.— Post. “ Smashers” in Melbourne.— A gang of coiners has been discovered m Melbourne, and three men and a boy have been arrested. In a house at Hotham, occupied by the prisoners, Detective Ward and a constable found the whole of the apparatus necessary for striking off base coins,, together with an immense number of unfinished shil lings. Upon a close inspection of one of the coins its counterfeit character was easily perceptible, but with many people such a shilling would pass mus ter unquestioned. The mould in which the spurious money was cast is made of plaster of Paris, and the delineation of the impressions necessary to be printed on each side of the coin is simply per fect. The coins, too, possess a true ring, and being kept in powdered chalk by the swindlers until needed, they.are sufficiently bright to deceive the un wary. It is intended to send some of the spurious metal to the Government ana lytical chemist for analysis. Some very hard metal is evidently employed, and the die is very firmly cast, as it requires a very good set of teeth to produce any impression by biting one of the coins. Bismarck Reproved. Prince Bismarck received a rebuff from an unexpected quarter during the Con gress. It fwas his custom to govern the Assembly much as a schoolmaster governs an unruly clsss. One day the Turkish Pashas were conferring in an undergone, when the Prince com mand'd silence with, a peremptory “Hush.” A Pasha at once replied: “Your Highness, the representatives of the Sublime Porte are not here to bear with your ill-humour.”

The Evening Echo, Saturday, September 7,187 S.



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r PHE REV. W. B. 1 MARTEN will 1 Preach in the WESLEYAN CHURCH To-morrow. .Subjects : Morning Christian Athlete.” Evening —“ Counting the Cost.”



HpHE Rev. H. B. BURNETT will Preach J- TO-MORROW, in the Presbyterian Church, Ashburton, Morning and Evening. Subjects—Morning: “ The connection between Natural and Moral Evil. Evening : (t The Moral Government of God in some of its judicial aspects; or, God in thi? life punching *nd pffiffriling, ”



WANTED —A Smart Respectable LAD. Apply to W. BIRTWELL, Fruiterer. POTATOES. jp'IVE Tons of Potatoes just arrived at W. BIRTWELL’S, Fruiterer. LOST. A GOLDEN PEN, No. 7, and Gutta Percha Penholder. Finder will be re* warded by returning same to FRIEDLANDER BROS. BOROUGH t)F ASHBURTON. I hereby notify that the First Meeting of the Council for this Borough will be held in the Town Hall, Ashburton, on MONDAY NEXT, gth September instant, at th 6 hour of 12 o’clock noon. CHARLES BRADDELL, Returning Officer. Town Clerk’s Office, Ashburton, 6th September, 1878. W. J. MILLER, PRACTICAL GARDENER AND SEEDSMAN. GARDENS laid out, and kept in order at the lowest current rates. Apply ECHO Office. SOMERSET LODGE. : : XL ; A Lodge of Instruction in connection with this Lodge will be held in the Lodge Rooms on MONDAY, 9th inst, at 7.30 p.m. CHARLES BRADDELL, Hon. Sec. GREAT SALVAGE SALE G. L. Beath & Co. J J AVE much pleasure in informing their Ashburton customers that they intend re* maining ONE WEEK LONGER in Ashburton, when the remainder of their well assorted stock of ~ y.; CLOTHING AND DRAPERY Will be sold at LESS THAN ORIGINAL COST. . ' \ Best Geelong Tweed Trousers and Vests. v m GOODS o c* 3/S Od SELLING NO WAT /jS All other Goods equally cheap. m- REMEMBER SATURDAY NEXT, SEPT. 14, Will be the LAST DAY Of the cheapest Sale of Drapery and Clothing ever held in Canterbury. G. L. BEATH & CO. (Late Mail Office) BURNETT STREET. ,■ , / '; V , ' L Public VACCINATOR hereby gives, J- Notice that the Vaccination Station will be for the future at Drs. Trevor & Keste ven’s Surgery, in Moore Street, and that his Hours of Attendance will be from 12 to 2 o’clock every Wednesday. Grand Secular Concert, Conducted by MR. JAMES SPENSLEY, of Christchurch, in the ./ TOWN HALL, ASHBURTON, On TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, Commencing at 8 p.m. Songs, Duets, Glees, Instrumentations,> &c., &c.' Admission—Hall, 2s 6d ; Gallery, is 6d. The Ashburton Brass Band will, giye. selec:..., tions during the evening. TO THE RATEPAYERS OF ASH BURTON V ENTLEMEN,—I beg to offer you my J most sincere thanks for the honor you ive done me, by returning me as one of your ipresentatives in the Borough Council. I el this honor the more, as I have been unable wing to business engagements) to attend any : the meetings at which the candidates had 1 opportunity of stating their views on matters nportant to the Ratepayers. As I could not 3 present even on the day of the Election, I quested the gentlemen who were good lough to propose and second me, to ithdraw my name from the list of candidates, aring that under the circumstances my. Can dature might be looked on as offering a, ight to the Ratepayers. However, gentlemen, you have been kind enough to. overlook my ortcoming I trust by doing my utmost to rward your interests and the interests of the wnship of Ashburton to merit the COflfidOTM >u have placed in me. I am, Gentlemen, Your Obedient Semnt, JAMES CAMFJWfy