ASHBURTON RETAIL LIST.

The Evening Echo. THURSDAY DECEMBER 5, 1878.

Mr. Weymouth Roberts does not believe in any responsibility resting upon the Ashburton Borough Council for the vaga ries of the Ashburton river, and vei-y properly opposes reckless expenditure of the town’s money upon works outside the town’s boundaries. Mr. Roberts is fully of opinion that the protective works, reported on last Monday evening by the Borough Engineer, and discussed by the members of the Council, are works that Government ought to see to ;. and he pointed out that the first sufferer by any flood likely to do damage to Ashburton property would be the Government, through the railway. To undertake any protective work whatever on the railway was simply, in Mr. Roberts’ opinion, to do the Government’s work. To a certain extent we agree with Mr. Roberts, but we are not prepared to go all the length he does: If protective works were a part of the duties of the Ashburton Road Board before the town seceded from the Board’s jurisdiction and became a municipality, then protective works to a proportionate extent should be a part of the borough’s duties,. inasmuch as the Borough Cdtfncil 'is supposed to stand now. ,to the residents within the belts as the Road Board stood -to. .them before the severance. The Council obtained a share of the Road Board funds, will in future levy rates that used to be levied by the Road Board, and of course takes over all responsibility as regards the township that used to rest upon the Board. So that if any responsibility for the construction of protective works lay with the Board before the division it lies with it still, only a proportion of that responsibility has been shifted, it is natural to suppose, to the Council’s shoulders. The Borough; Coun cil is properly entitled to take its share, but no more than its share, in the work, of looking after the dangerous wanderings of the Ashburton river ; but to build pro tective works in any one part of the river is useless, unless other parts of it are looked after as well, and as we cannot be expected to look after all the stretch of river above us, the next best thing to do is to see that someone else does—at any rate that the work is done. The Board of Conservators, we take it, is a suggestion worth thinking over. Its es tablishment and efficient working will relieve all now concerned of any trouble as regards the river, for such a Board would be able to levy a rate for protection purposes; and having the whole stretch of the stream under its charge, it would be in a position to do work in such a way at to prevent one part of the country along the banks of the river suffering from the negligence of another. It is no use. tin Council trying to keep the stream in it* own proper bed, if up-stream it is allowec to wander at its own swept will, trave into any course it chooses, and, by a sud den. and unchedksd. diversion, undo at. that had been done below. Let us have a Board of Conservators, tc be sure, whose whole attention • being directed to the river, will have some chance of success with it, where the Council wd

Orangemen are referred to an adver tisement announcing their lodge’s monthly meeting to-night in the Templar Hall.

The School Committee.;—'Ye. would remind householders of the election o l ' members of the School Committees for Ashburton, Tinwald, and Willowby, which take place to-night. The AsMvu’ton moot ing will be held in the schoolroom, at 7 o’clock.

A Dangerous Footpath. —A correspon dent writes, complaining of a pile of gravel, which has stood for, Oh! ever so long a time, on a footpath in Moore-stveet. He wants to know who is responsible for 'the following damages caused by it: —One old man tripped up : nose peeled from tip to top; two lovers “ spilt,” followed by “ partings such as press the life from out young hearts,” and a breach of promise case in prospective ; a young lady brought “to grass,’’giving the nor’-wester a chance, which it. tooky along with a Gamsbro - hat, Bob Smith ! s elbow terribly jarred, and bis temper very strong lauguage~.supe.rm-, duced thereby; .perambulator'Qvef-turnbd: one feeding-bottle, smashed ; Jones’s .Sun day dinner unintentionally seasoned* with 1 gravel and road-dust! 'We are'-sorry we cannot help' -our friend, but. since the Council are likely" to have a ’fullblown foreman soon, it is possible they, .will also have a wheelbarrow and shovel, and per haps the .gravel may have a chance of being wheeled away! . Y ..

The Ashburton Sports.— Several in quiries have been made at us as to whether or. not athletic sports will be held this year in Ashburton. We have been unable to ascertain that any will be held before Christmas, but several gentlemen Avho take an interest in these sports have expressed an opinion that they should not be held till February, assigning as a reason that after the New Year no holiday event occurs till the Queen’s Birthday, and just now the calls upon the subscription-giving public are too frequent for the sports to be the success that they otherwise might. The suggestion is a wise one, and doubt less will be acted upon. Alfred Saunders, Esq., M.H.R. for Cheviot, has announced his intention of addressing his constituents to-morrow evening at the Kaikoura Schoolhouse.

The Waimate Fires. —An entertain ment in aid of the Waimate fires sufferers and the Portuguese castaways will be given in the Town Hall on Monday.

- Begging “ Little Sisters.” —There lias been much excitement in Manchester owing to the case of two ladies, members of the religious community known as Little 'Sisters of the Poor, who, havi'ig called at the house of a county magistrate and solicited a “little charity,”, was arrested by him “in the Queen’s name,” and subsequently given into the custody of the police, charged with a breach of the Vagrancy Act. After being ‘detained for a night at the police station, they were brought up the following morning before the magistrates at the Stangeways Police Court, who dismissed the charge and stigmatised the pi’oceedings as “ deplor able. ” The whole affair is certainly hot one that reflects credit on the magistrate who gave the ladies into custody (says’the Pall Mall Gazette); for they seem to have been well-known in the neighborhood, and there was no excuse for treating them as professional beggars. At the same time, it is much to be wished that some means were devised for guaranteeing the bona tides of ladies dressed in the costume of sisters of charity who make house to house visitations soliciting alms. There is some reason to fear that thieves and vagrants, especially in the suburbs of London, occasionally don ‘ the attire of “ Little sisters,” and pursue their nefarious occupations in the. garb of extreme inno cence. Some little time ago large sums were extracted from the pockets of un3u picious householders by some rascals dressed in the uniform of the fire brigade, who professed to collect suberiptions for that body. This fraud being exposed, there female friends have taken to the “ Little Sister ” dodge. A Map of Affghanistan.— One step of the Indian Government (writes “ Atlas ” in the “ World ”) was to obtain a trust worthy map of Affghanistan. This was difficult, as the Ameer would on no pretext whatever allow Englishmen—still less English officers—into his country. But, partly by native surveyors, partly, no doubt, by English officers in disguise, a map has been prepared, and was.published at Calcutta last year. It-is on a large, scale -—four miles to the inch —and, all things considered/fairly accurate. A great' deal of information has been obtained oh the all-important subject of bye-paths, by which mountain passes can' be turned, as Shere All is likely to find tp his cost when the war begins. Immense stores of ammu nition and provisions have been accumu lated at Peshawur and Rawnl Pindee, in readiness for the coming campaign. The occupation of Quettah last year was another step towards Cabul, as this move gave us the command of the Botan Pass, which is practicable for artillery, and has doubtless been improved since it has been in our hands. A work was published by Mr. Hughes, a Bombay Civil servant, last year, on Beluchistan, in which all possible infor mation as to that country—in which the Botan Pass and Quettah are situated— military itineraries of all the chief routes in Beluchistan, are given, and in which the distance!, the difficulties of the road, the facilities for obtaining food, fodder, fire wood, and water, are carefully noted from surveys by English ' officers. Altogether, if we fail—which there is. little fear of oiir doing—in Afghanistan, it will certainly not be in want of due preparation. Grasses. —On the authority of the Scientific FarrpeV, over 6000 species of grasses are known to botanists, • whilst earners knowscarcely more than thirty, md hardly a farmer sows or grows wore thf»ihW W to? kind*

TELEGRAPHIC.

LATEST FROM EUROPE.

[By Submarine Carle.] London, Dec. 3.

A message from the President of the United States promises that an investiga tion will be held into the electoral return frauds in the Southern'States. He depre cates any change in existing financial legislation. "it is generally reporte .1 that the Rus sian ambassador' at Constantinople has informed the Grand Vizier that the Rus sians would hold Adrianople, Thrace, and other important points'until the departure of the British ironclad squadron. The Canadian new four per cent/loan of three millions is issued. Half the loan is guaranteed by the British Government. . There are rumours that Parliament will be ; dissolved iti January.- - - .The Viceroy’s telegram of the evacua tion -of Jellalabad : is; confirmed. There ■ are. no Afghan troops nearer the Khyber Cabul.

Sr. Petersburg, Dec-3. . - The Emperor of*. Russia,'visiting-Mos cow', *" in a speech .hoped.that, a’ definite treaty of peace “ would be- concluded shortly.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Per Press Agency and Exchanges.] Auckland, December 4.

Mr. M‘Farlane, M.H.R., addressed his Waitemata constituents last night. He attacked the financial and native land policy of the Government, and called their proposals miserable. He said they were a wretched Ministry, and that if the last Government were land jobbers, the pre sent were' doubly land jobbers. He defended the Piako Swamp purchase, and said that the Hon. J. Macandrew was get ting all the money, while Sir George Grey was talking about the rights of the human race. Mr. M‘Farlane received a vote of thanks. At the meeting of Presbytery to-day, the Rev. Mr. M‘Calli*m said that steps should be taken to welcome Pastor Chini quy, whom he could testify - was held in high esteem in America. The Presbytery appointed a committee to meet Mr. Chiniquy, and agreed to call a public meeting immediately after his arrival. New Plymouth, Dec. 4.

The Agricultural Show was held to-day. There was a large number of visitors, "but the exhibits were not up to last year s show, either in quality or quantity.

The races commence to-morrow. Wellington, Wednesday.

Government have finally settled that Inspector James, of Hokitika, will take charge of the Wellingtou police in the middle of January*. Government have determined chat New Zealand shall be thoroughly represented at the forthcoming exhibition in Sydney, and an Exhibition Commissioner will be sent to Sydney to represent this colony. The New-Zealand public will be asked to send exhibits.

With respect,to the statement that the Hon. Mr. Sheehan was going to resign his portfolio as Minister of Justice, the matter has not yet come before the Cabinet, but it is understood that he is anxious to be relieved of the office, in order to be free to give greater attention to the a hairs of the Native Department. A deputation waited upon the Hon. J. Ballance to-day, to know whether Govern ment would set aside a sum out of the amount grauted for prospecting purposes in the colony, with the object of enabling Mr. Moore, of Otago, to prospect the pro vincial district of Wellington for gold, he having satisfied himself that gold is in the province. A number of influential people, including the Mayor, formed the deputa tion. Mr. Ballance said Government could not do as requested, but he thought the Ministry could see it 3 way to grant pound for pound to any subscription raised for gold prospecting purposes. The first sale of the Waimate Plains will not take place till the middle of March next. About 15,000 acres', the survey of which is almost finally completed, and the greater part of which has been finished some time ago, will be put into the market, but the Government have not yet settled the exact locality in which the . sale will take place. The Patea people have asked the Government to order that the sale shall take place on the land itself, and by a Government auctioneer or commissioner.

The licensed auctioneers of Wellington are taking steps to have sales on behalf of Government distributed equally amongst all the auctioneers, instead of all being given to one person.

The Chief Justice decided a case to-day regarding a female being in a bar after eleven at night. It was pleaded that the barmaid remained in the bar voluntarily, but the Chief Justice held that the pub lican was responsible for what took place in his house, and confirmed the judgment of the Court below. Dnnedin, December 4. The Elders of Knox Church have re solved not to observe the semi-annual Presbyterian fast day on December 19. A sad accident occurred this morning by which the infant daughter of Mr.. Ahnao, of Princes-street, lost her life. The child fell out of the chair in which it had been placed, and on being taken up was found to be insensible. Medical aid was sent for, but the infant was quite dead before any assistance could be rendered.

Invercargill, Wednesday. Several gentlemen here have arranged to collect subscriptions from Scotchmen in Southland in aid of the shareholders who have been ruined by the failure of the City of. Glasgow Bank. It is expected that the'movement will result in the for mation of ft branch of the St. Andrew’s

TO-DAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Auckland, Thursday.

The Provincial Grand Lodge, English Constitution, last evening re-elected all its officers. A salary was voted to the Secre tary. A vessel was discovered to be on fire in the Firth of Thames. She is supposed to be the brigantine Oamaru. She was built for the timber trade, and left Auckland on November 19th, to load timber at Hau raki Mills, for Lyttelton, and took in 125,000 feet timber. She is owned at Thames, and is worth about £3,000. She is insured in the New Zealand Com pany for £l,lOO, and also in the South British.

Wellington, Thursday. A circular letter has been issued from the Emigration Office with regard to the resumption of foreign immigration under certain conditions. Foreigners must be nominated by their friends in the colony, and present themselves at the Agent- General’s Office, London, and he will provide them with passages from Ply mouth,'provided they pass the necessary medical examination and find their own way oil hoard. They must also : sign an undertaking.that they will conform to all regulations in force ori board ship during the voyage. Foreigners who are nomi nated and find their way to the colony as ordinary passengers without coming through the Agent-General’s Department may have their passage money refunded. Due notice, how ever, must be given to the local Immigra tion Office at the port at which foreign immigrants are to arrive, and they will be required to pass a medical officer for inspection of immigrants arriving in the colony. Great care is to be exercised as to the eligibility of immigrants before they are certified to.

The opinion of the Attorney-General having been taken as to the validity or otherwise of the recent Mayoral election, he says that, as regards the first and prin cipal point, members of the constabulary have a right to vote at municipal elections. Gilligan’s Taura Estate, Wairarapa, was sold for £13,000. There are 2,818 acres of land, 3,000 sheep, and a few horses. Mr. Hadfield, of Canterbury, is the pur chaser.

Kaikoura, Thursday. Mr. Saunders will address the electors at the school-house to-morrow evening.

AN APPEAL TO A BACHELOR.

Dear Charles, be persuaded o wed j • For a sensible fellow like you, It’s high time your thoughts should be led r Po muffins and coffee for two ; So have done with your doubt and delaying ; With a soul so adapted to mingle, No wonder the neighbours are saying ’ Tis singular you should be single i Don’t say that you haven’t pot time, That business demands your attention, There’s not the least reason nor rhyme In tbe : wisest excuse you can mention. Don’t tell me about “ other fish,” Your duty is doge when you buy ’em, And you will never relish the dish, Unless you’ve a woman to fry ’em ! Don’t listen to querulous stories By desperate damsels related, Who sneer at connubial glories, Because they’ve known couples mismated. Such people, if they had their pleasure, Because silly bargains are made, Would deem it a rational measure To lay an embargo on trade ; You may dream of poetical fame, But your wishes may chance to miscarry ; The best way of sending one’s name To posterity, Charles, is to many ! And here 1 am willing to own, Alter soberly thinking upon it, I’d very much rather be known For a beautiful son than a sonnet !

To Procrastination be deaf— (A homily sent from above) The scoundrel’s not only “the thief Of time,” but of beauty and love ! O delay not one moment to win A prize tha* is truly woith winning; Celibacy, Charles, is a sin, Sadly prolific of sinning ! Then pray bid your doubting good-bye, . And dismiss all fantastic alarms ; I’ll be sworn you’ve a girl in your eye ’Tis your duty to have in your arms ! “ Some trim little maiden of twenty.” A beautiful, azure-eyed elf, With virtues and graces in plenty, “ And no failing but. loving yourself !” Don’t search for “ an angel” a minute For granting you win in the sequel, The deuce, after all would be in it, With a union so very unequal ! The angels, it must be confessed, In this world are rather uncommon ; And allow me, dear Charles to suggest You’ll be better content with a woman 1

I could furnish a bushel of reasons • For choosing a conjugal mate ; It agrees with all climates and seasons, And gives you a “ double estate !” To one’s parents ’tis (gratefully) due, Just think what a terrible thing It would have been, Sir, for me and for you If ours had forgotten the ring ! Then there’s the economy—clear, By poetical algebra shown— If your wife has a grief or a fear, One half, by the law is your own ? And as to the joys—by division They’re nearly quadrupled, ’tis said (Though I never could see the addition Quite plain in the item of bread.) Remember, I do not pretend There’s anything perfect about it, But this I’ll aver to the end, Life’s very imperfect without it ! ’Tis not that there’s “ poetry ’’ in it, As doubtless there may be to those Endowed wi f h a genius to win it— But I’ll warrant you excellent prose ! Jhen, Charles, be persuaded to wed ; For a sensible fellow like you, It’s high time your thoughts should be led To muffins and coftee for two ; So have done with your doubt and delaying ; With a soul so adapted to mingle No wonder the neighbours are saying 'Tis singular yon should be single ! (

THE “REASON WHY” IN PLAIN COOKERY.

{From Cas;dl's Dictionary of Cookery.)

Why ought you to put a leg of mutton into boiling water ? Why ought you put meat for soup into cold water? Why does the souffle rise ? Cooks, and good ones too, often know facts but not reasons ? They consequently are limited to a certain number of recipes which they have learnt by heart, but are quite incapable of either invention or imitation. A good cook, with a good palate, after seeing and tasting a dish, ought to be able to make one, if not exactly like it, yet near enough to pass for it; but I fear the faculty is, to say the least, rare. If we understood more than we do the;principles on which cooking depends, the fact of being able to make one dish, combined with knowing the reasons for the result, would often lead to our being able to make a large variety of similar dishes, which a very inventive talent would enable us to vary so much in flavor, that instead of knowing one reb'p-3 we shovld know twenty. It is evident that in all cooking one of two great principles must constantly he brought into play. , One, to keep the flavor in ; another, to get the flavor Out. Let us for one moment contrast boiling a leg of mutton, and making good mutton broth. It is evident that, in the one case, as we eat the mutton, our endeavour should be to keep as much flavor in the meat as possible. Now there are many people who positively proceed to prepare both almost the same way. There is a certain principle, or rather fact, which may be called a chemical fact, and that is, that albumen coagulates and becomes hard at boiling-point. This very important fact should never be lost sight of in cooking meat, for it should be remembered that meat largely consists of albumen. First, then, the leg of mutton. Place the leg of mutton in boiling water, this will take the water off the boil; let the saucepan re main on the fire till the water boils up again, then remove the saucepan off the fire till the water gets nearly lukewarm, then put the saucepan on the fire again, and let it simmer, not boil, very gently till the leg of mutton is done. The time of course varies with size, but one about 9 lbs. should take about two hours and a half. Next let us inquire, why did we do this ? The leg of mutton thus placed in boiling water has a rim round the edge hardened by contact with this boiling water, which causes the albumen to coagulate. Were we to leave the leg to actually boil for long, the whole would be come hardened, ■ and consequently the mutton would be tough ; but by removing;, the saucepan off the fire, we get the mutton to cook, surrounded as it is by a thin rim of hard meat, not thicker than a thin sixpence, which hard rim keeps in the gravy and flavor. Now in making mutton broth we must proceed on exactly contrary principles. Our object is to extract, all the flavor we can from the meat and get it into the broth, we therefore cut up the meat into small pieces, and put them into cold water, and let them simmer as long as possible without boiling ; by this means all the juices of the meat gradually get ex tracted, and the solid part of the meat that is left, after the broth is well di’ained off, contains'scarcely any nourishment at all.

The Nihilists. —The “Nord” publishes the following passage from a recently pub lished Russian pamphlet, ‘“' Life for Life,” which is considered the manifesto of the Nihilist party :— : “We are Socialists. Our purpose is the destruction of the present economical organisation and in equality, which constitute, according to our convictions, the root of all the evils of mankind. The question of the political form is entirely indifferent to us. We Russians are more than any other nation inclined to abstain from political struggles, and still more from the bloody measures which are in contradiction with our his tory and our education. It is the Russian Government which has pushed us into the bloody paths where we are. Governors, we are ready to leave you in peace. -- We believe that it is not political servitude which brings forth economical servitude, but that it is the contrary. Our true enemy is the bourgeoisie whioh hides itself behind your back. Step aside. Do not prevent us from combating it, and we shall leave you at peace. As long as you will persist in protecting the present state of things, our secret justice will suspend the sword of Damocles over your heads, and your lives will answer for each of your.acts with regard to us.” ’

Elephants for African Exploration. —Mr. Sclater, the Secretary to the London Zoological Society, in a letter written to “ The Times,” makes a suggestion which, if fully acted upon, will greatly reduce the labour and expense of African exploration. Hitherto it has been assumed that the African elephant could not be employed as a beast of burden, on account of its ferocity of nature, and was “ only good to supply ivory, and to afford a mark for the sports man’s bullet.” No one is better qualified by experience to refute this assumption than Mr. Sclater, and he points to the African elephants at the “Zoo,” which walk about the gardens loaded like , the outside of an omnibus in summer, as show ing that this species has as tamable and gentle a nature as its Indian cousin. The practical suggestion which Mr. Sclater makes is that some elephant catchers, with a few selected elephants, should be brought over from India to Zanzibar, “ the best basis for the exjiloration of the lake "region of Africa,” and having a mainland oppo site where elephants are abundant. Stanley started on his last exploring journey with not less than 400 bearers, and all African explorers find the greatest difficulty.in their path to be that connected with tran sport, The elephant also would be invaluable in crossing swamps and m orasses, inch as abound in the interior of Africa,

THURSDAY, December 5, 1878.]

THE EVENING ECHO.



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CENTRAL TEMPERANCE HOTEL, HAVELOCK STREET, Ashburton. *jpHIS well*situatcd and Commodious Hotel gar is now OPEN.^ Boarders and the Travelling Public will find the Best of Accommodation, combined with Liberal Charges, Strict Civility, and the Best Attention. V .~. - Refreshments at all hours, and Bfeakfast for earlytrains. Meals, is. each ; Private Rooms, extra. Breakfast, 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. ; Dinner, 12 noon to 2 p.m.; Tea, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. The manager is now prepared to receive Orders for ‘ Wedding Breakfasts, Wedding Cakes, Private Parties, Suppers, Etc. Remember the Address — HAVELOCK STREET, NEAR THE RAILWAY STATION. JOHN BROOM, Manager.



Auctions. BULLOCK & CO. ALTERATION OF DATE OF SALE. 31HE Sale ot Household Furniture, &c., vertiaed for Sale on the Premises of Mr. Jordan* East §trept ? will be held * m mpw December 6th, in lieu of H PfHlWfr Mw»W> JW



Winslow. GEORGE JAD BROOK, GENERAL STOREKEEPER AND PRODUCE DEALER, BEGS to announce that he has JUST OPENED a General Store at Wins low, near the Railway Station, and hopes to merit a share of public support. . : A cart will wait upon families' for orders regularly. . . . . w Goods supplied at Lowest Current rates. . ’ Note the address — GEORGE LAD BROOK, GENERAL STOREKEEPER, , WINSLOW. December 3, 1678. 98



Miscellanuous. FENCING. WIRE. 20 TONS Just Received, and on Sale at LOWEST PRICES. A. O. AITKEN & CO., Havelock Street. £lO REWARD. WANTED, the Public to Know that a Rascally Attempt was made last night to mar the success of my Masonic Dinner, by Breaking Open the Meat Safes and Stealing therefrom the contents. Notice is hereby given, that a Reward of TEN POUNDS (£10) will be paid to any one who will give such information as will lead to the Conviction of the offender or offenders. THOMAS QUILL. 92 Commercial Hotel.