ASHBURTON TRADE DIRECTORY.

A .'COUNTANTS AND COMMISSION AGENTS — Charles Bvaddell, Montgomery’s Buildings H. J. Bristo, Prospect Buildings, East-st. W. R. Boyle, Moore-street. A ’.CIIITECT 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 Bakers, Confectioners, Etc.— Thomas Hicks, Tancred-street Thomas Taylor, East-street,

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

Bdarding House Keepers— J, G. Anstee, East-street Eagle’s Dining Rooms, Havelock Street B jilders, Contractors, Etc.— James Bakeiy Havelock-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 street South Weeks and Dixon, Stationers’ Hall, East-

Bdotmakers— 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 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. 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’ Clothing Establishment- Mi’s. Morey, Tancred Street.

Fainter, &c, — J. R. Chapman, Tancred-street Printers and Publishers— Weeks and Dixon, East-street Plumbers, Gasfitters, Tinsmiths, Etc.— J. C. Dolman, Tancred-street Joseph Hyde, Tancred-street S. Hardley, East-street

Saddlers— Thomas Hudson, 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 as 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 Fxidajys at 10.30 a.m. For T.errwka, 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.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

ASHBURTON RETAIL LIST.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

PORT OF LYTTELTON. expected arrivals. From London Crusader, Waimea, Hydas pes, Waimate, Waitangi. From New York Star, Southminster, Olmstec, Alexander M’Neill, Helen Angler.

The Evening Echo. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1878.

On a very important matter like the appointment of a Borough Surveyor, it is not surprising that diversity of opinion should exist in the Council. On Mon day evening, Mr. Ivess, who had been absent from the first meeting, raised opposition to the course pursued by the Council in calling for tenders for a borough map, with street levels, &c. It was not too late, after the tenders were opened, to reject all of them and devote the money involved in the adoption of either to payment of salary to a competent person in the position of Borough Surveyor. Mr. Ivess was well supported in this idea, and even though the resolution to call in tenders for mapping the town, &c., had been passed at the first meeting, with com paratively little opposition, when the matter was fully discussed, and the new light thrown upon it by the part taken in its discussion by Messrs. Saunders, Roberts, and Ivess, it was not to be wondered at that the successful tender should only be accepted by a majority of one vote. Having decided to do the work in the manner chosen, the the acceptance of Messrs. Fooks’ tender of was the right thing to do; but we are inclined to favor the opinion held by the minority that is a long figure to pay for an item of work that could easily have been done by a properly qualified person in the posi tion of Borough Surveyor, at a salary of from to £IOO. The majority, from a praiseworthy desire to practise economy, have in view the appoint ment of an intelligent man as overseer at £ i s° or £ 2o ° a y ear > fancying the preparation of this map will limit the requirements of the town in the matter of surveying. But it will not be long, in a town like our own, where every thing is, so to speak, still in a pri mitive state, before the necessity of a practical surveyor’s services will be daily made manifest, and then the mistaken policy of the majority, how ever well meant and praiseworthy the economical intention, will become ap parent. Mr. Parkin and others thought a surveyor could not be obtained for less than £ 3OO, and that it was better to have this map done by tender, and put the town’s other work in the hands of an intelligent working foreman. Well, £iss would meet a surveyor’s £3OO half-way, and the working foreman’s would find the other half. We scarcely think that, in view of a water supply necessary, the imperative de mands of the town for a drainage sys tem, and the continual occurrence of little matters in adition to those in which the services of a qualified en gineer or surveyor are necessary, that the map just ordered will embody all the work an " intelligent working fore man at could not do, unless, indeed, such intelligent working man may be a hitherto neglected genius, the honor of bringing whom to light will be one of the honors ot Ashburton. We hope our well meaning Councillors will not permit their ideas of economy to overshadow the question of efficiency, for however well a working foreman at £3 or £4 a week may do the work required of him as such, it stands to reason, that money & addition will have to be spent for survey work done, and in the end a permanent wi&haye

LOCAL ANN GENERAL.

Terrific Gale in Ashburton.— Last night and to-day, a perfect hurricane has raged in town, doing incalculable damage, Ashbur ton has an unenviable notoriety for strong winds, and every summer we are visited by an occasional gust of great force, and its course over the plains is usually marked by damage more or less severe. For some time past we have had a respite from these gusts, and the weather up to last night had been mild, and the breezes good-natured. As if to redeem its windy character, however, and to remind us that we are in a country noted for its gales, the sky last night gave its usual premonitory warn ing of a blow by frequent flashes of sheet light ning of more than usual vividness. The night was exceedingly dark, and these flashes illumi nated the whole town. One benighted tra veller tells us that but for the kindly lightning, he should have been unable to make his way in a short journey over the plai 1 . The gale began about nine o’clock and continued through the whole night without intermission. A heavy fall of rain accompanied the blast over night, but this ceased towards morning. By 10 o’clock the wind seemed to have reached its maxi mum, and tore along with fearful force. Chimneys levelled, verandahs un roofed, roofs tom from houses, houses blown down, and windows stripped wholesale of glazing, bore testimony to its power. To walk along East Street between 9 and 1 o’clock was a task of great danger to the venturesome pe destrian, for sheets of corrugated iron from ruined verandah roofs, planks of wood from timber heaps, aud almost everything movable kept flying about with dangerous and uncon trolled force. Every shop was shut, every window boarded up with temporary barri cades of slabs, hastily procured and hur riedly fixed, in the hope of saving the glass, and all business was for the time being suspended. The usual trips of the grocery and bread carts had to be fore gone because of the impossibility of making headway in the gale, and all who possibly could, wisely kept in doors, for the gravel lifted by the wind and dashed in the faces of unfortunates who took the road, made walking disagreeable, leaving out of count altogether the danger from storm-borne debt is. It is impossible to calculate the amount of damage done to property. The splendid verandah at Montgomery’s buildings, only a few days ago out of the hands of the contractor, and erected at a cost of about £2OO, was completely stripped of the glass composing its roof, and a large number of the rods in which the glass was fixed were torn down, one of which in falling smashed the large plate-glass window in Messrs. Montgomery & Co.’s shop. In the same block a chimney went by the board. The newly-built Mail office had one of its chimneys snapped off by the wall and scattered on the r6of. Two chimneys at the Commer cial Hotel suffered in like manner; chimney casualties of a similar nature occurred in many other places in town, and the children in attendance at the Ashburton public school had their studies abruptly terminated by the fall of one of the chimneys, which was levelled to the fire place. One of the scholars got a clout on the head by a falling brickbat, but was not much the worse, and the master judiciously dismissed the school to save any further awkwardness, detailing off the bigger boys to pilot the younger children through the gale. The large workshop of Mr. Matthew Smith, buitder, went up like a balloon, and came to earth a ruin of short broken planks. The verandah in front of the Echo office and Mr. Anstee’s boarding-house shed its iron covering along with others, and the windows of both establishments want the glazier. The roof of a stable in Cameron Street (somewhat ricketty, to be sure, but still a serious loss to Mr. ’ Hudson, its proprietor), was lifted off, arid we hear the Wesleyan Church has been slightly shifted from its piles. The Town Hall has several windows blown in, and a large arriount of tim ber from the piles around new buildiugs, and at the builders’ and timber merchants’ yards was blown about like paper. Scarcely a build in the town has escaped without injury of some kind more or less severe, and the force of the gale may be estimated by the fact that a square wooden pillar, 5 inches by 5 inches, supporting a corner of the varandah at Mr. Taylor’s (baker) property, in East Street, was broken in two. It will be some time before the full amount of injury done to property is ascertained, but many pounds will not cover it. While we write, the wind has somewhat abated; but “old hands ” think we must be in the circle of a cyclone from the force of this blast, and prognosticate a change of the wind’s direction, with another storm of wind and rain to-night; others, again, set it down to the usual kiss given to Ashburton by the vernal equinox.

Mail Service. —Tenders for the con veyance of inland mails within the postal dis trict of Christchurch, are invited in our adver tising columns of to-day, to which we refer intending offerers. Oddfellows. —A meeting to form a Lodge of Oddfellows under the American Constitution, will be held to-morrow evening in Mr. Wes ton’s place of business. The Telegraph. —We appear to-day without our usual budget of afternoon tele grams owing to the disorganised state of the telegraph office and machinery, consequent on the gale of to-day and last night. Railway Accident. —Just past Dro nlore, this morning, a carriage of the first train from Christchurch ran off the rails, and was dragged along the line for about a mile, it is said. The engine was brought up all standing and the evil remedied ere any damage was done. Presentation. —At the meeting last night, in the Templar Hall, of Court Star of Ashbur ton, A.0.F., Brother R. W. Shearman was presented with a valuable and elegant musical cigar cabinet, inscribed suitably in silver, in recognition of his unvarying kindness to the Court since its establishment. Fie- had, amongst other graceful things done to the Order injAshburton, allowed them the use of his sample rooms until a more suitable meeting-place could be obtained. Chief Ranger Hall made the presentation in a neat speech, and Brother R. W. Shearman suitably re sponded. The cabinet was supplied by Brc. Western, the engraved plate coming from the establishment of Mo Parker, jeweller. A Positive Fact. —A Western wag, travelling on t}ie Pennsylyanian Central hap pened to be seated just behind a couple of pretty boarding-house misses, with whom he was essaying a small flirtation. As the train passed iuto a tunnel, he leaned forward and kissed his hand. As the car emerged from the obscurity, he chuckled to see the glances of mutual - suspicion which passed between the young ladies, each being morally certain that the to f w ??

YESTERDAY’S HORSE PARADE.

With the limited space and time at our disposal yesterday, we were unable to undertake a detailed notice of the various stud horses entered for the parade, and were content with simply republishing the catalogue. Walleye heads the official catalogue, but is a nondescript we cannot recom mend to breeders. As a yearling he promised to mature into a nice horse, b it he has gone back, and at the best we can now only pronounce him a fair cob, more adapted to carry the weight of his popular owner than sustain with credit a career at the stud. Dexter, by Talis nan, is a magnificently topped horse and generally well made up. He is a little light below the knee, but he should suit many of our hack breeders. Spot, by Caledon out of Dexter’s dam, is much like his half brother; as pow erful as a dray horse and active. In England would command a long figure as a charger or weight carrying hunter in a fallow country. Bluelight was un doubtedly the best horse of any descrip tioi on the ground. If we except a slightly upright shoulder, he is near perfection all round, and for getting hacks, carriage horses, hunters, and possibly race horses, he would be our selection. Hadji Baba, an imported Arab, is a neat horse, and, without any strong predilection for the desert blood, we should fancy him for getting good general servants from heavy mares. Barney O’Heagh is another we like the appearance of for crossing with light draught mares; and his old fashioned racing pedigree (by Master Rowe out Lady Don) should get something good enough for the turf if properly mated. Tribune has much improved since last season, but we still think his legs scarcely- up to his weight. This has been the failing of his family, but if mated with mares of good understand ings his fine upper piece should nicely balance matters in the produce. We like Mar’s breeding, and as Sorcerer is one of the few Traducers capable of getting good hacks, we see no reason to prevent this good looking son following in his footsteps. Glen garry is a good useful horse, and the Longbeach farmers are fortunate in having him to command, as he looks likely to suit all classes of draught. Rob Roy is a very compact and active animal; the stamp we like to see in town drays, and from big mares should produce farm horses, but not quite the sort for all comers. Smith’s Pretender is a plain-looking one, but we expect to see him popular with farmers ; has good wearing legs and an honest head— features in which he surpasses many of the better-looking ones. Dan O’Connell is rather leggy, and we do no not ad mire the Lincolnshire features he in herits from his dam. Moorhead’s Pre tender is a nice even horse with which one can find little fault, and by many he was considered the best of his class. Prince Royal was more to our fancy; but possibly his inferior forelegs brought him behind Glengarry and Moorhead’s Pretender in point of merit. Sir Julius Vogel is small, but of a sort we like. The loose leggy mares, unfortunately so plentiful in this district, could not be better mated than with this compact little chestnut.

In conclusion we must express our satisfaction at seeing such a display of admirable entires. Canterbury has long been noted for the excellence of its live stock, and it only behoves the lead ing agricultural district to take a for ward position in this department, a posi tion Ashburton will not lose this season for lack of good stud horses.

Horses’ memories are for longer and more tenacious than people generally believe, and that the insouciance and oblivion of the past which Lord Lytton attributes to these our horse friends are only true in the cases of phlegmatic quadrupeds of the most lymphatic tem perament, “ their yesterdays,” says the poet, “ are all forgot; their morrows are not feared from far.” To anyone con versant with the likings and aversions ot thoroughbred horses for certain courses, the different manner in which hunters perform over countries they like and enjoy, and their prejudice against cer tain fences; the nervous spasm which the wonted stable preparations for hunt ing or racing cause certain animals, are evidence incontrovertible, I think, of memories most retentive of pleasure and pain,— Field. Strangers coming to reside in Ashburton ire often at a loss to know which is the best Establishment to visit fpy the purchase of Drapery, Clothing, and House-furnishing Iron mongery, and General Stores. Orr & Cq. offer special advantages to the public that can be met with nowhere else in Ashburton. They keep at all times the largest and best-assorted Stock of .eyery class of Goods, imported direct from the leading manufacturers at homg, which beinp bought entirely upon cash terms, they are enabled tq offer goods of su r h sterling yalue 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 ft Ijf-app. prices fs th? J»est

PARLIAMENTARY JOTTINGS.

[FRf'jM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] The Hon. Robert Stout is not mealy mouthed, and under sufficient provoca tion will hit out rather viciously at friend or foe. On Thursday evening, when he tried to pass the clause in the Electoral Bill, requiring that the public houses should be closed on election days, his own colleagues all forsook him. The Government whips worked hard against the Government clause, and all the Government voting ma chines were set at liberty to fulfil their promises to the Licensed Victuallers. It was a time of night when some members’ tongues get rather unruly, and a large proportion of the more refined members were gone to a ball at Govern ment House, and many others were dressed ready to go. In the midst of much general derision of the clause, Mr. Pyke stood up and said—“ Sir, I should like to ask the Hon. Attorney- General two questions. First, were the Dunedin electors drunk when they elected him ? and, secondly, did he ever see a British elector get drunk be fore he had voted ?” Mr. Stout in stantly replied,—“ I have seen a Bri tish elector get drunk both before he had voted and after he had been elected. ’ The cheering and clapping which’fol lowed this smart repartee gave an air of blank.astonishment to the face of the hon. member for Dunedin, who looked on as if he could not possibly see any joke in it. The witty man of the House signally failed at a joke on Friday evening, for want of a better acquaintance with the book he so often quotes for unworthy purposes. In opposing additional voting power to natives, Captain Morris re lated a circumstance in which he and some of his friends had taken a lot of Natives to vote for a certain candidate, but when he got there he changed his mind and found no difficulty in getting all the Maoris to change too. In re ply Mr. Sheehan wanted to insinuate with a scriptural text that the Maoris had fallen among thieves, but instead of saying—“ A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho,” he said “A certain man w r ent down to Jerusalem,” and so his intended insinuation was entirely lost upon the House. Sir George Grey, Messrs. Stout, and F ; sher voted with M rSaunders on Satur day morning, to limit plural voting to three, and the division showed plainly that if it had been made a Government measure it would have been carried, as would have been the Triennial Parlia ment Bill on Wednesday

Thus tAVO very important items in Sir George Grey’s own creed have been lost for Avant of honest courage to pro pose and support them on the part of his OAvn Government.

TELEGRAPHIC.

LATEST FROM EUROPE.

[By Submarine Cable.] Constantinople, Sept 23. Negotiations are proceeding betAveen Russia and Turkey for a definite treaty of peace, confirming the indemnity, and regulating the commercial relations. An Afghan Envoy is seeking to in duce the Ottoman Government to con clude the Russian Alliance.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Per Press Agency.] Wellington, Tuesday. Government have acceded to the application made on behalf of the prin cipal morning journals of the south Island for a special-wire from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m., but in the case of Timaru and Oamaru to 1 a.m. only. Hokitika, Tuesday. The new Gold Field discovery of alluvial gold, about 23 miles south of Ross, is making some talk. The pros pectors obtained encouraging returns, but it will take a few days to determine the extent of ground payable. Several parties have set to work in the locality, which is only a mile and a half from the Bowen road.

A Professor’s Rebuke.— The jokers, who. included a piece of stained brick among the « geological specimens ” which they placed upon the desk of the professor as objects worthy of his ex planatory remarks, received the follow ing reward: Taking up one of the specimens, he said : “ This is one of the baryta from Cheshire mines. This,” holding up another, is a piece of feld spar from the Portland quarries. And this,” coming to the brick, <( is a piece of impudence from some member- 0 f the class,”

SHAKESPEARE.

THE ART OF READING. * •At a recent entertainment of the Dunedin Shakespeare Club, Judge Bathgate spoke as follows (says the Otago Daily Times) : The objects of a Club like the pre sent, were two-fold, viz., —A proper studj of the poets, and especially of Shakespeare; the practice of the art of reading aloud. He added, —In regard to the first of these—the study of Shakespeare,—reasons are as plentiful • in support of it as blackberries on the hedges in England. Perhaps the greatest source of the power and strength of the true poets is this : that they are fountains of truth. Genera tions of mankind pass away; nations themselves disappear; dynasties fade ;? into nothing; the theories of philoso phers that are wrangled so stoutly now y both for or against, are forgotten or " turned into ridicule by succeeding gene rations. The cloud-capped towers and ' gorgeous palaces and temples shall dissolve and leave not a wrack behind ; but the thoughts of the true poet remain immortal. Three thousand years ago the great sage of Israel, the shepherd king, tuned his harp in the fastnesses of Judah, and still his sublime strains are the solace, and the instruction, and .the guide of mankind, although the house of David has not one inch of ground to call its own on the face of God’s green earth.—(Applause.) Then, again, the visions of the wrapt Isaiah have still their hold upon us even in this modem time, although his fellow countrymen are fugitives and wanderers over the. face of the earth, without a country or resting place. And again, the sounding lines of old Homer, or the polished verses of Virgil, still, command our admiration, although their respec tive countries have been repeatedly down-trodden under the foot of the conqueror. And to come down nearer to our time, the wise sayings of Shakes peare, although penned more than two and a-half centuries ago, are still as strong a hold upon mankind as the day when he wrote his immortal dramas.

The poets, and the prophets, and seers of their generation—their Avords are treasure houses of Avisdom, and every true-hearted man, every seeker of truth, gives his patient study to these words, and strives all he can to analyse their beauty and their power, and to bring out their depth of meaning, as far as he possibly can. And yet with all our labor, and all the accumulated Avis dom of past generations, there is still more in the verses of the truthful? poet than is dreamt of in our philosophy. If then, you aspire after the beautiful and true, you will endeavor to improve your self by the study of the Avords of the true poet, and especially by the study of Shakespeare. (Applause.) If you seek to have your sympathies enlarged and brought into union with all that is tender and ennobling in the highest characteristics of mankind, I beseech you to study Shakespeare—(Applause.) What is the greatest failing that we all have ? It is egotism and self-conceit. That is the universal failing in a greater or less degree—(hear, hear.) Do you Avish to see what immeasurable distance there is betwixt our OAvn intel lect and the intellect of a Shakespeare ? Study his works. It is the egotism to which I have alluded, that prevents us from forming a right estimate of that which happens around us. We are apt to measure everyone’s com by our own bushel. We are apt to take our OAvn hearts, or our OAvn souls, as the stand ard to measure the minds of other men. If you A\ r ant to have a true knowledge of the workings—the infinite variety of workings—in human nature from some other standard than your own, you Avill find this displayed from the king on the throne to the thoughtless grg.ve-digg@v in the graveyard, in the Avprks of Shake speare—(Applause.)—Then again, if you wish to be able to express yourself whenever you are called upon to ad dress others in public—if you Avish to be familiar Avith choice and beautiful lang uage, and be able to quote if—study the Avorks of Shakespeare—(Applause.) I will now sum up the other point— the expediency, propriety, and advan tage of the art of reading aloud —in three Avords. First, in itself it does good, physically and intellectually to , the reader. There is no man, and I will say no lady, because that is a quality in Avhich ladies may excel (and I must say that the finest reading ever I heat’d Avas from a lady), there is no man, I repeat, who, if he practises this art, will not derive much benefit from it, both

physically in developing the powers of the chest, and mentally in the storing of his mind with the wisdom which I have described. And then, with all

this' developing property, it confers pleasure on the' listener. —(Cheers.) Combine these—and I say they are especially necessary—and there is not a young man but \yhat, in the course of years, in a free spun*?? Uke Qsgn^

The Evening Echo, Wednesday, September 2S, 1878,



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