ASHBURTON TRADE DIRECTORY.

Jr .'COUNTANTS AND COMMISSION AGENTS — Charles Braddell, Montgomery’s Buildings 11. J. Bristo, Prospect Buildings, East-st. W. R. Boyle, Moore-street. 11CHITECT AND CIVIL ENGINEER — S. W. Brown, East-street S. Farr, Montgomery’s Buildings B. Mountfort, East Street

Jfr JCTIONEERS — Bullock and Co., East-street Saunders Bros., Ashburton J? VRRISTERS AND SOLICITORS — Mr. Branson, East-street Mr; E. G. Crisp, Montgomery’s Buildings Inkers, Confectioners, Etc.— Thomas Hicks, Tancred-street Taylor and Lill, East-street, t \NKS — Bank of New Zealand, East-street Union Bank of Australia, East-street p. darding House Keepers— J. G. Anstee, East-street Eagle’s Dining Rooms, Havelock Street jf jiLDERS, 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 Ikucsellers and Stationers— A, Weston, Prospect Buildings, East-street Furness and Dixon, Stationers’ Hall, East street South IOOTMAICERS — t. Chambers, Prospect Buildings, East-street M. Nealas, East-street Krewers — Wood and Co., Cameron-street Pabinetmakers 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 IfJoAL and Firewood Merchants— 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. Hessty, Central Foundry, Peters-st *URNITURE WAREROOMS— A. Spillard, Tancred Street Jrocers, General Dealers, Etc.— Aitken and Co., Havelock-street Orr and Co„ East-street Firth, Pass, and Co., East-street i, John Fowler, Tancred-street \ K. Sando, East-street

Jreengrocers— W. Birtwell, East-street J. Mooar & Co., East-street lairdressers E. A. Garnett, East-street A. Pearse, Moore-street

lotels 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— Mrs. Morey, Tancred Street. Painter, &c.— 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-stieet

Saddlers— Thomas Dudson, Burnett-street

Surveyors— -3 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 Hi follows:

For Christchurch and North at io a,m., £ p.m., and 7.30 p.m., daily. For Chertsey at 10 a.m. daily. For Eakaia at 10 a.m., and 4 p.m. daily. For Ashton, Waterloo, and Longbeach, at 3.15, p.roa. 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, RangiUca, Qruri, Winchester, and Geraldine, ft fetf m Wf* f

The Evening Echo. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1878. PARLIAMENTARY JOTTINGS.

[from our own correspondent.] The weary debate on the Electoral Bill came to a close soon after ten on Friday night, just a fortnight from the time it began. The speeches on that Bill have and will cost the country some thousands of pounds, and fill the pages of Hansard with an immense mass of unreadable matter. The mere talking power of some of the members in the House is wonderful— they never throw a shade of light on any subject, and no one ever thinks of listening to them; but still they talk on, repeating what has often been so much better said before them, with the evident object of being immortalised in Hansard. Mr. Stout’s introductory speech was a fairly good one; too much of the lawyer, too little of the statesman; and his hard voice and nasal twang is so much heard as the ordinary spokesman for the whole Government that, the House is not easily charmed with it. He was followed by Mr. Whitaker, a veteran debater and a penetrating reader, but a hesitating, almost stutter ing speaker, with a voice the worse for age. He struck the key-note that was to be followed by the members and and supporters of the late Govern ment, declaring that they were the real Liberals, who would have gorged us with all kinds of liberal neasures, if we had only had the patience to wait for them.

Mr. Wason was the fifth speaker. He did not exceed himself at all, but entirely wasted his fire in an attack on the increased household qualification, evidently not seeing that with a residen tial qualification for every one, a low household or freehold qualification would only have offered facilities for getting a plurality of votes. His attack on the Premier was not very destructive, though not wanting in will. He went further than Dr. Wallis himself in advo cating women’s rights, and sent a laugh through the House by saying, “ whilst the men are working the women are scheming,”—he was going to add, “ to make both ends meet,” but it was some time before he got an opportunity to make that conclusion heard. He has wisely abandoned the rapid delivery with which he commenced public life. Next came Mr. Wakefield, with fluent and well chosen language, and perfect pronunciation. He attacked Sir George Grey. for his inconsistency in a manner that would have told more if the speaker’s own inconsistencies on the very same question were of less recent date, and of a less glaring, character. Mr. Moss followed with a speech that was correct and faultless, but of that flat, tasteless, character that does not charm its hearers.

Here the debate was adjourned at midnight, on the motion of Sir George Grey, who consequently rose first to address the House on the evening of of the 13th, and plunged at once into the sublime with the words“ Sir, I wish that I had health, strength, and wisdom enough to speak this night as I should desire to speak upon the great question that now occupies so much of the heart and attention of this House and of this country.” His white head, his bent figure, his feeble appearance, his asthmatic cough, seemed to harmonise with that grand language, and gave a rare effect to the scene. Every word of his pure Eng lish was distinctly heard in the crowded and hushed galleries, and heard with pleasure even by those who did not believe a word of it. Even when he denied that he had led the country to believe that he would aim to lessen the number of votes now given to property, not a single “Oh !” came from any part of the House; the Opposition felt that they must listen and admire first, and deny and abuse afterwards. Dr. Wallis followed and gave the House a very short step .from the sublime to the ridiculous ; his one ob ject appearing to be to purchase a laugh at any price. ’ His very short and simple code that all men and all women should have equal political rights, was again and again spun out to the House, or rather the galleries, with a fine sonorous voice but in words that are certainly not English, and with atti tudes that are not senatorial.

A great contrast, though springing from the same northern race, was Wil liam Montgomery, when some days afteypida he stood up with his fine

majestic, form and well chiseled face, to talk business about the Bill, ■■ He had not bored the House with a speech this session before, and the Holise was pre pared to listen to every word he said. “ Montgomery is up,” went through the House and to the library, and many a wearied truant returned to his seat. Oh that all the members would think as much and speak as little as Mont gomery ! He stood with his back to the wall behind the Government benches, and slowly - poured out his well considered sentences, pausing be tween each as if waiting for a recorder. It was generally believed that he would back up his party and his chief; but no, one vote and one vote on y ior every man was his - creed and, like the other Liberals in the House, he was not enamoured of the Bill. In demand ing that towns should be represented in proportion to their population as much as the country, he said they were quite as conservative, and that a large town in the South Island was well known to have sent three Conserva tives to that House.

The cap was at once put on by two members who are sheltered under the opposite wall, and who next day repu diated the charge. Mr. Stevens talked no nonsense but did not talk long, and looked very un comfortable. The notes on which he leans too hard to be an impressive speaker, seemed longer than the speech, and Montgomery was not much the worse for the reply he got in that quarter. But Stevens, too, thinks twice before he speaks once. A fine white head rose on Stevens’ left hand, and swinging backwards and forwards at least a foot and a-half, like the pendulum of a clock turned upside down, declared in short and angry terms that the charge made against him by the member for Akaroa was unjusti fied, as he was not only a.Liberal but quite a Radical. Of course, the third member accused was abent as usual.

Two more speakers, not quite un known in Canterbury, stood up under the same wall —Mr. Fitzroy and Mr. Murray-Aynsley. They did not follow their leaders or profess any new-found Liberalism. Their creed is as simple on the one hand as that of Dr. Wallis’ on the other property and its rights, without. any of the complications that confuse weaker minds about the rights of men or women.

The late Superintendent of Canter bury spoke not; though if he had known it he received a special provo cation. He was very sound asleep in his seat when Mr. Murray was pouring forth his eloquence just opposite to him, and to be revenged on him for his want of appreciation, the speaker said that they had both extremes represented in that House, from the hon. member from Auckland City West (Dr. Wallis) to the hon. member for the Avon, the late Superintendent of Canterbury. Major Atkinson spoke vigorously but very injudiciously, betraying far too much personal animosity to Sir George Grey. Up to that speech he had risen in the estimation of the House by his temperate forbearance and judicious vigilance. The reverse may be said of Fox. He has not won golden opinions from any one of late by, his forbearance ; but pecks and scratches at the Government in a way quite unworthy of himself. On this occasion, however, he made a fine speech, as temperate as it was lively, and with all his own quaint taking manner. He is really a Liberal though he has drifted into bad company, and is uneasy in his unnatural situation. It is a mistake to suppose (as I see some papers have done) that he is the coming leader of the Opposition. He is too coltish to be trusted either as a leader or a shafter, and as he grows older he seems to acquire more juvenile faults. He allows himself to be made too much the cat’s paw of his party.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Billiards. —A match has been arranged to. come off on Friday, on the Commercial Hotel table, between Willie Thompson, marker, and a local amateur. The stakes are a-side. Timber Sale.—At Mr Alpheus Hayes’ timber sale to-day a large business was done, and brisk bidding brought good prices. There was no reserve and all offered was sold. Press Messages.:—Press messages, con sisting in the aggregate of over 76,000 words were sent from the Wellington office during one day last week. Municipal.—The names of several ladies appear on the burgess roll, and an impression prevails among many residents that the fair ones have no right to vote. This is a mistake. Every female whose name is on the roll can exercise her privilege to vote for the “man of her choice,” and we hope they will do so. Doubtless the gallant and-enthusiastic agents of the rival candidates will use their softest and most persuasive blandishments and most deli cate diplomacy to bring the fair ones to the polling-booth*

Our Resident Magistrate.— On Friday Mr Saunders asked the Minister of Justice, “ Whether he knew anything of ihe antecedents of Alexander Le Grand Camp!.ell before appointing him to the position cf Resident Magistrate at Ashburton and Temuka. Whether he has seen the manner in which he misused his power as Registration and Returning Officer, as recorded in the Appendix to the Journals of the House, 1871, Vol. 2. Whether he has seen the evidence given by the said A. Le G. Campbell before the Motueka Election Co nmittee. Whether he has seen the opinion of the Chairman of that Committee expressed as to his ignorance of the duties he had so long been p lid to perform. Whether he is aquainted with thi circumstances which compelled the Gover nnent to remove him irom the position of Returning Officer for Motueka, in 1871. Whether, he had any such personal knowledge, or such reliable information about him, as justified his appointment to a position of such enormous responsibility as that of adminstering Civil and Criminal justice in one of the most important and most rapidly-growing districts in this colony?” In explaining his object in ask ing the-question he was called to order by Mr Wakefield who insisted upon the strictest en forcement of the standing order as to not mak ing a speech in asking a queston. Mr Stout lequested Mr Saunders to pospone his question until Tuesday, as the Minister of Justice was too unwell to attend. We shall look with interest for Mr. Sheehan’s reply. Christchurch - Dunedin Railway. —The members of Parliament will leave Wel lington by the Hiiiemoa on Friday, the 6th September, at 6 p.m., arriving at Lyttelton next morning. They remain in Christchurch on Sunday, and leave that city. by train as eaily as possible on Monday morning, stopping half an hour for breakfast at Ashburton, an hour at Timaru, and an hour and a half at Oamaru, arriving at Dunedin the same evening at 7 o’clock. No definite arrangements have been made as yet for the return journey. Par liament will adjonrii Jbr a sufficient time to

enable member*, to get back. The wives of many of the members also will go on this excur sion, which probably will occupy about ten days, the proposal being to' return on the morning of Tuesday, 17th September, in time for beginning the legislative duties of the day. There will be four sitting days during which members will be absent.

Mr. Larnach. —The Home correspon dent of the Otago Daily Times writes: —I met Mr. W. J. M. Larnach in the Criterion the other day, looking very well, and already talking of returning to New Zealand.” The Lyell.-—By accounts from the Lyell districts, there would appear to be a great scarcity of all kinds of provisions, and famine prices for many articles are obtained. Flour is said to be selling there at £*}o per ton cash. Higher Education. —In the House of Representatives to-morrow, Mr. Rees will move —“That, in the opinion of this Blouse, there should be four seminaries for higher education or learning in the colony of New Zealand, with an efficient professional staff in each such seminary, to be placed in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin.” A Glowing Paragraph. —ln a leading article on the omission by the Home Goverment to officially apprize New Zealand by telegraph of the peaceful result of the Conference the New Zealander speaks of England’s Colonies : The colonies of England are found in every part of the habitable globe. Between fifty and sixty distinct communities, from the vast Em pire of India, with its two hundred and forty million of people, to the rocky fortress by the pillar of Hercules, and the solitary Island where Napoleon died, own the sway of the Queen of England. The commerce of thi mighty concourse of nations is unrivalled, it ships float in every sea, their sails whiten the ocean. Upon this vast Colonial Empire, as we so often read and hear, the sun never sets. The wealth, the intelligence, the courage, the patriotism and the love of freedom of the count less multitudes who inhabit these countries are equal to their numbers. Tile world has never seen an Empire so deeply rooted, so widely spread. The Bishop of Lichfield’s Will has been proved under .£16,000. The late prelate leaves to his brother, the Rev. Dr. Selwyn, his privilege of right of residence in the Lol lards Tower. Everything else is left to Mrs. Selwyn for life, and afterwards to the Bishop oLMelahesia and his other son, . -'A- Ya'iKoo w of it.—The" Detroit Free Press is facetious a l , our expense. It says:

—New Zealand is making rapid strides in the path that leads to civilisation. The country has a population of 400,003, and is now 105,000,000 dollars in debt, as the spendthrift remarked, “all by its own exertions.” It is also progressing in education as much as in indebtedness. The young University of Otago has just had a professorship of English lan guage and literature founded, with an endow* ment of nearly 5000 dollars. Notwithstanding this progress on the part of New Zealand, how ever, there are as yet no ruins in London that offer a subject for the native’s pencil. Bishop Bowman, says a contemporary, saw an earnest, queer-looking brother following him around for some time, and he avoided him; but finally, weary of the shadow, the bishop turned around and said: “What do you want, my friend ?” The man said: “I must ask a question, I have sought light on it from many preachers and commen taries ; but have found no satisfaction. I must ask you. What was the color of those serpents that bit the Israelites ?”

CORRESPONDENCE.

We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opLi.ms expressed by our correspondents.

THE MAYORALTY.

To the Editor of the Evening Echo,

Sir, —Does it not strike you that the action of Mr Bullock in declining to come forward as a candidate for the Town Council is childish in the extreme ? It is like the little boy who ■refused a small apple because a larger one was above his reach. I consider he is treating his fellow-townsmen and electors most disrespect fully, and that all his vaunted offers to serve the community have vanished like a vapor. His motto seems to be “ King Tom or nothing.” I for one will vote against such narrow-minded usurpation. —lam, &c., Regret.

TELEGRAPHIC.

[By Submarine Cable.]

AUSTRALIAN.

Sydney, August 27

A crowded meeting was held to-night to testify admiration of the labours of the Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the leader of the Liberal party in England. It was decided to forward a congratula tory address.

(Per Rinqarooma , via Bluff.) Melbourne, August 21.

The Treasurer in delivering the Finan cial Statement on Friday last in the House, said that increased taxation was looming in the distance as the present sources of revenue are found deficient. The revenue did not come up to the Estimates by the falling off being mainly in the live stock tax, and the land tax. The expenditure proposed for next year is 127,642, and a sur plus of is reckoned upon. A large sum out of the new loan will be required for public works, over being required for the Mew Law Courts, for the new Parliament building, for new schools, for the Yan Yean waterworks, and then there is the pay ment for the Hobson railway. The captain tried for scuttling the Barque Leota, at Rotumah, has been acquitted. On Sunday last, an elderly man named Saxby attempted to murder his wife in his own house at West Mel bourne by cutting her throat, and then attempted suicide by cutting ' his own. Both are now in the hospital. The husband’s state is precarious. Jealousy is said to be the cause. She was a young woman. They had lately been living apart.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Per Press Agency.]

Auckland, Tuesday The Jockey Club adopted the follow ing programme for the summer meet ing

First Doy. R. C. Handicap £2OO Railway Plate ... £SO Hack Hurdle Race 10 Auckland Cup... 300 Gr. Stand H’cap 100 Plurdle Race ... 50 Maiden Plate ... 80 Third Day. Hurry Scurry ... 10 Mares’ Prod. Stk£ioo Second Day. Auckland Plate 100 Derby £IOO Steeplechase ... 150 Publicans’ Purse 60 Stewards’ Cup ... 100 Selling Race ... 50 Consolation ... 40

New Plymouth, Tuesday. A passenger by the Tui steamer writes to the Taranaki Herald, stating that on August 13 they put into Guard’s Bay during a gale, aud found the Schooner Atlanta there, four weeks out from Patea for Manukau. She had run out of food, the captain saying that the crew and himself had to subsist on fish and mussels for nearly a fortnight. The Atlanta was not damaged in any way. He believed she was still sheltering in one of the inlets of Cook Strait.

A piece of a ship’s rail has been picked up on Henui beach, about 5 feet long and 3 J / 2 inches thick. It is sup posed to have belonged to a vessel of 150 to 200 tons. It had only been in the, water a short time, as the green paint on it was quite fresh. Wellington, Tuesday.

It is understood that the Government do not intend to make the office of sheriff any longer a special appointment. It is expected that the next Gazette will contain a notification that all registrars of .'supreme Courts will, by virtue of their offices, act as sheriffs for their re pective districts.

Dunedin, Tuesday.

A shepherd named Somerville left Shenman’s station, Naseby, on July 31, for Ida Valley, and has not since been heard of, though his dogs have re turned. A constable has gone in search of him.

The City Council to-day resolved to ask the Government to sanction without delay the Silverstream water supply scheme. The Council also resolved to obtain the services of an eminent Gas Engineer to report upon the gas ques tion.

At a meeting of the Licensed Victu allers’ Association held to-night, it was resolved to draw up a petition for pre

seriiation to Parliament against the beer tax. The action of the Government was strongly censured, and the chief blame attributed to the Hon. R. Stout. Port Chalmers, Tuesday. The cutter Mermaid has just arrived from Purakanui. The master, Captain Fargie, reports that at 10.30 p.m. to-day the vessel jibbed, and the boom striking a man named Christian, a Norwegian, aged between 35 and 40, carried him overboard. Fie sank rapidly and nothing was afterwards seen of him. Captain Fargie lowered the boat, and went in search for the unfortunate man, but without avail.

Meteorological. —The provisional meteorological report for July, 1878, shows the mean temperature of the air to have been below the average at all stations excepting Christchurch, where it was slightly above. The highest and lowest temperatures in the colony, how ever, 70 deg. and 23 deg. respectively, both were registered at Christchurch. The rainfall was in excess at Auckland, Nelson, and Hokitika, but below at Wellington, Christchurch, and Dune din.

The Evening Echo, Wednesday, August 28, IS7B.



Strangers coming 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-furnishing 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 and best-assorted Stock of every class of Goods, imported direct from the leading manufacturers at home, which beinjr 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 10 that the most inexperienced buy their goods *t the same prices as the best judges.—Advt.



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LOST —Ashburton, on Tuesday 27th inst., a CHEQUE for Bs. 6d., drawn by Messrs. Maclean and Winter on the Bank of New Zealand, Rakaia. Payment has been stopped by W. R, BOYLE, Ashburton. BOROUGH OF ASHBURTON. A REQUISITION, numerously signed by the Burgesses of 4 Ashburton, having been presented to me, requesting that a Public Meeting be called, to give the Candidates for the office of Councillors an opportunity for explaining their views on Municipal matters, I hereby give notice that the said Meeting will be held at the TOWN HALL on THURS DAY Evening, 29th inst., at 8 o’clock. CHARLES BRADDELL, ; Town Clerk. Town Clerk’s Office, Ashburton, 26th August, 1878.



WANTED lo Purchase, a section in West Street. . • Apply ECHO Office. WANTED —Four Young Ladies, as Ap prentices to the Dressmaking. ORR & CO. WANTED KNOWN—/That a trustworthy woman will take in Families’ Washing. For particulars apply at the ECHO Office. yy ANTED. A Clean, Tidy GIRL. Apply at the ECHO Office. WANTED KNOWN. 'pIIAT SANDO’S BREAD CART will 1 be round. Every Morning. Please leave orders at the Shop, East-stret, near the Echo Office. BOARD AND RESIDENCE. COMMODA'j Young Men. for a few respectable Apply at Echo Office. JOB LOT. r\ DOZ. Ladies’ Colored Josephine KID y GLOVES, slightly spotted, will be sold 1/- PER PAIR. ORR & CO. WORNER’S EMPIRE BOARDING HOUSE (Opposite Parkins’s Steam Saw Mills). M R. G. WORNER begs to intimate to the public of. Ashburton that he has pur chased the Boarding-house recently kep by Mr. T. Bradford, and having made extensive alterations, he is now prepared to supply first class accommodation to boarders, and others visiting Ashburton. Meals i/-, Beer given with dinner; Beds I/• Board per week, £x. G. WORNER, Proprietor. PIOW TO PROCURE A SEWING MACHINE EASILY. r ‘HE GREAT ADVANTAGE OFFERED by ORR AND CO. By the TIME PAYMENT SYSTEM places the SINGER HOUSEHOLD and HOWE MACHINES within easy reach of all. Payments—Weekly or Monthly. ORR & CO., Sole Agents for the above Machines in Ashburton. Vt ESSRSi saunders BRoS have completed arrangements with Mr. K. Sando for Sale of their Bread, and - invite all requiring a Good and Cheap Article to purchase from K. SANDO, ■' ! ‘ East Street, Ashburton,