ASHBURTON TRADE DIRECTORY.

Accountants .and Commission Agents Charles Braddell, Montgomery’s Buildings H. J. Bristo, Prospect Buildings, East-st. W. R. Boyle, Moore-street. Architect and Civil Engineer S. W. Brown, East-street S. Farr, Montgomery’s Buildings B. Mountfort, East Street Auctioneers — Bullock and Co., East-street Saunders Bros., Ashburton Barristers and Solicitors — Mr. Branson, East-street Mr. E. G. Crisp, Montgomery’s Buildings Bakers, Confectioners, Etc.— Thomas Hicks, Tancred-street Thomas Taylor, East-street, Banks— 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, Ilavelock-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. Booksellers and Station ers-t- A. Weston, Prospect Buildings, East-street street South ' Weeks and Dixon, Stationers’ Hall, East- BootMaicers — J. Chambers, Prospect Buildings, East-street M. Nealas, East-street Brewers — Wood and Co., Cameron-street Cabinetmakers and Undertakers — James Baker, Ilavelock-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. PI ayes, Firewood and Timber, near Rail way Station F. P. Leßreton, Burnett-street.

Drapers and Clothiers — Aitken and Co., Ilavelock-street Orr ard 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. f. Hessey, Central Foundry, Peters-st Furniture Warerooms — A. Spiilard, Tancred Street Grocers, General . Dealers, Etc.— Aitken and Co., Plavelock-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— Mrs. Morey, Tancred Street. Painter, See. — 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 Dudson, Burnett-street Surveyors— C. E. Fooks and Son, 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 1; 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.

ASHBURTON RETAIL LIST.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

PORT OF LYTTELTON.

EXPECTED ARRIVALS. From London Crusader, Hydaspes, and WaiUngi. From * New York Star, Southminster, Alexander M’Neill, Helen .Angler, Olm^ee.

The Evening Echo. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1878.

One of the first acts of the Ashbur ton Borough Council was to obey the command of the 106th clause of the Municipal Corporations Act, and “ ap point ” a bank to be the repository of their funds. Over this “ appointment ” there has since been (to use the lan guage of one who was chiefly instru mental in raising the stir) “ a storm in a teapot.” The Council have decided to take legal advice on the question of whether or not they are justified in appointing a bank without first calling for tenders, and until this advice is obtained it is injudicious to say any thing about the matter. One paper, however, has seen fit to magnify the importance of the “storm in a teapot” to such an extent as to make ii. the subject of a leading article, and to do its very best to kindle, a bad feeling over a very trifling affair. Passing over all that has been said by the print we refer to as unworthy of any weight whatever, because of its source of inspiration, we have simply to say that the whole question resolves itself into whether or not the opening of a bank account is a “ contract ” within the meaning of the Act. This ques tion answered in the affirmative, the work of “ appointment ” will have to be done over again, with, of course, the same result arrived at, namely, that the Bank of New Zealand will get the account. . A negative answer will leave things as they are, and the breath expended in contending for a piece of red tapeism will be wasted. Whatever the answer, the Bank of New Zealand, with a majority in its favor at the Council table, must get the bank ing business of the borough, and it is useless to vent spleen over the matter. We do not see that there is any thing to grumble at. The terms made with the Bank of New-Zealand are con sidered by the Finance'.Committee to be satisfactory ; these terms are those on which the bank business of the city of Christchurch is conducted (with the same bank), and other boroughs have also accepted them, so that the chances are, the Bank of New Zealand terms, even in a public competition, would be most favorable to the borough. But even in the event of a public competi tion showing another bank’s terms to be better than that of the colonial in stitution, the Council is not bound to accept the lowest tender, and of course the Bank of New Zealand would still be the bankers. It is useless, and even silly, not to say spiteful, to raise a “ storm in a teapot ” over what cannot be mended or prevented, and so must be endured—right or wrong —and we would advise the sounding champion of right (i.e., his own ideas of right) to accept the inevitable and wait until his influence is sufficiently great to com pel the members of the Council to look upon him as a Daniel come to judg ment,

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The San Francisco Mail. —The out going mail via Sail Francisco will close at the Ashburton Post Office to-morrow morning at ten o’clock.

Entertainment at Willowby.—Last night a company of amateur vocalists, &c., j organised by the Committee of the Ashburton WTsleyan Circuit, gave an entertainment in the schoolroom at Willowby in aid of the Circuit’s building fund. There was a very good attend ance. and a handsome sum was realised to the The programme was a creditable one to all concerned, both as regards its intrinsic chancier and the treatment it received at the hands of the performers, and was well received by the audience. A similar entertainment will be give 1 to-night at Wakanui. Parliamentary. —In the House yester day, Mr. Bowen’s motion to set aside hospital and caari table aid reserves throughout the colony was carried by 34 to 21, in spite of Mr. Stout’s strong opposition. In the evening Mr. Tole denied a statement made by the Nao Zealand Times that he had used his influence, as a member of the House to procure the dis missal of Mr Williams as registration officer for the Bay ot Islands. Mr Ormond charged Mr Tole with having taken advantage of this dis missal to raise technical objections, in the absence of a registration officer, to the striking of names from the roll. On the second read ing of the Wanganui High School Bill, Mr. Rolleston protested against splitting up educa tion endowments for the maintenance of supe rior schools, and characterised the rush for high schools as a mania, similar to the harbor craze. The resolution affirming the necessity of a general colonial system in constructing harbor works was withdrawn. The Private Lands Townships. Regulations Bill was read a second time. The Bill proposes to fix the minimum width of streets in future townships laid out on private lands at a chain and a half, and pro vides for reserves for public purposes. Mr. Sheehan promised to place a -sum on the estimates for a translation into Maori of Mr. Mackay’s work on Native affairs in the Middle Island. The second read ing of the Publicans’ License Bill was post poned. The second reading of the Education Act Amendment Bill was postponed. It pro posed to give state aid to Roman Catholics, and Government promised to take the discus sion on Wednesday next. The Joint Stock Companies Act Amendment Bill was read a second time. Its object is to allow Bible, benevolent, and religious societies to be formed without a speculative basis. A large number of other Bills were postponed. Work in the Right Direction.—Men of brains have always been in demand, but they have not always been honest, and honest men have not always had brains. The mind is so apt to be warped by prejudice and train ing, it is seldom we can find a man with inde pendence enough to rise above surrounding circumstances and see things correctly. A college man is not apt to be in sympathy with common schools, and a normal school man is rather likely to criticise our standard colleges. An intense sectarian is always opposed to secular education, and the public school teacher is not apt to be friendly to church schools. So it is almost as hard to find a clear head and an honest heart as a needle in a haystack. Just now is wanted in this country a leader of educational thought. He must not be a bigot, nor too liberal. His mind must grasp ideas clearly and correctly, and express them in forcible language. He must understand the history of education in tfip past, and be thoroughly acquainted with the political economy of the present. His enthusiasm must be unbounded, but he must know how to temper it with prudence. He must inspire confidence in the most learned as well as the most ignorant. Some minds have not only known human nature, but they have also known how to govern and elevaLe it. Just So. —We have a story from Middle town, Conn., that eclipses the marvels of oleomargarine. The people of that place have accidentally discovered how to utilise bullfrogs by converting them into churners of butter. The discovery was thus reached. A farmer in tire neighborhood, having placed a pail of milk in a spring of water to cool over night, went there the next morning, and found, it is solemnly asserted, instead of a pail of milk, a large bullfrog sitting in contemplative mood upon a roll of fresh butter. The sole explanation is that the frog had jumped from the water into the pail, and in trying to extri cate himself, had by diligent and continuous strokes of his long legs, churned the milk into butter. —New York limes.

Heavy. —The Tauranga Times, in com menting upon the debate on the Land Tax Bill, ridicules the speeches delivered by Messrs McLean and Wallis, describing them as more for the purpose of posturing effectively than any thing else. Mr. McLean’s objection was that the poor squatter had been already much in jured by the construction ot railways, and that it was unfair.to drop on him fuither, even for the public weal. With reference to this para graph the Times says “ we should be sorry to believe that any member, except our own be loved representatn e, had descended to so fear ful a depth of imbecility, as the deliberate as sertion of such views would imply. ” Capital Tacks Those. —A good story comes to us from America. A spiritualistic seance was being held at which it was an nounced that the spirit of William Shakespeare would pass through the room." A sceptic took a handful of tin tacks to the meeting place, and quietly sprinkled them over the floor. The solemn moment .arrived, a ghostly form entered, and took a noseless stride forward. There was a slight shiver in the white object, and a muttered noise was heard ; a second step followed, not quite so stately, and another muffled ejaculation; but, at the third stride, Shakespeare’s disembodied form sat plump down on the floor and swore like the British army in Flanders. Tableau!

Strangers coming to reside in Ashburton ire 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 beir.r bought entirely upon cash terms, they are enabled to ofier goods of sudi sterling value as cannot be equalled by any other i.ouse in the trade. Ever)' article in stoclc is marked at the owest price, from which no abatement is made so that the most inexperienced buy their goods at the snipe pjices as the best judges.—Advt.

TELEGRAPHIC.

AUSTRALIAN.

[By Submarine Cable.]

Melbourne, Oct. 9

In the Assembly-Mr. Berry read a telegram from Mr. Burns, the New South Wales Post-master, enclosing one from the Eastern Extension Company, stating that the text of the agreement was satisfactory, and would be accepted The Premier intimated that he would sign on behalf of Victoria to-morrow, if the Assembly were agreeable. The state ment was cheered in the House. The Arawata sailed with the Suez mails.

The Claud Hamilton arrived to-day. Sydney, Oct. 9.

A Bill to protect South Sea Islanders and others from imposition while en gaged as seaman, was read a first time in the Council. Sailed —Wakatipu.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Per Press Agency.]

Ahaura, Wednesday.

The contractors for the Little Grey Junction bridge are making slow pro gress owing to their having to drive through a reef. Wellington, Wednesday. The land revenue for the last quarter tvas £388,714. This is considerably above that of the corresponding quarter of last year. The Customs revenue for last quarter, was .£365,251. For the corres ponding quarter of last year it was £309,098. Thursday. The second meeting of the Rifle Association was held last night. Six teen members were present. Rules were adopted, and subscriptions of or dinary members fixed at one guinea; honorary members half-a-guinea. Local associations paying five guineas are en titled to ten memberships of 10s. 6d. each, and bronze medal champion belts to be fired for as heretofore. Col. Whitmore attended and pro mised on behalf of Government every assistance. Napier, Wednesday. At the Agricultural show at Hastings to-day the attendance consisted chiefly of those interested in sheep breeding. If the weather is fine to-morrow, the grand day, there will be a great con course of people. To-day was devoted to judging sheep, but the work was not got through by dusk, in consequence of the difficulty the judges experienced in selecting for prizes, there being so many sheep of nearly equal excellence. Marked improvement was shown over last year. Archdeacon McLean took first prize in merino rams of twelve months and upwirds. A. R. Lyons took the champion prize in merino ewes of twelve months and upwards. This latter was bred in the province. Mr. Lyons also took a special prize for merino rams, and hoggets bred in the province, the same animal taking first prize in its class. Hokitika, Wednesday.

A settler named Fergusson was drowned to-day crossing the Waitaha river, ten miles from Ross. The Bank of New Zealand shipped 9500 ozs. of gold by the Alhambra. Very great indignation is expressed here by the Reefton witnesses in the Supreme Court libel actions, Regina v. Potts and Regina v. Clifford. It was stated by the Crown Solicitor, during the progress of the cases, that the Go vernment agreed to take up the prose cution and pay all costs. Both actions failed, and the Crown Prosecutor now says he knows nothing whatever regard ing the payment of expenses. The Chief Justice said he could make no ordei. Dunedin, Wednesday. Mr. Jack, of Hokitika, is here with samples of marble discovered at Cas well Sound. He visits Christchurch, his object being to form a company to work the deposits. Trains ran as far as Balclutha bridge to-day, and through communication with Invercargil is restored. By the Tararua to-day arrived the thoroughared Sir James colt. He is by Ringleader, out of Queen of Clubs, by Ace .of Clubs, and therefore comes from a running family on the dam’s side. The Rev. Mr. Meara, having written . into town that assistance was required in several parish districts, subscription lists were started to-day, Brown, Ewing & Co., and the Star leading off with £2O each. Timaru, Wednesday.

The up through train from Dunedin to Christchurch was two hours late in arriving at Timaru, owing to something going wrong with one of the valves of the engine. It broke down near Wai taki and at Pareora. After an overhaul in the engine-shed the train proceeded on to Christchurch.

I Ilenheim, Thursday. At midnight last night a fire com\- menced which <* destroyed Penney's 1 ' Hotel, a dwellii )g-house, and extensive stables adjoinin' j the Temperance Halb Other buildings were only saved by the exertions of the Eire Brigade. Girling & Co. must loj e considerably by their hasty removal. The insurances are Penney’s Hotel, building, £400; stock, £IBOO ; furnitu "e, £2OO ; stable, £l5O —the first two items in the New Zea land office, tl e others in the South British. Cottage, £200; furniture, £lO0 —Standard. Girling & Co.’s stock is muchldamaged—insurance in the Victoria £ tooo. The Temperance Hall is insured yin the National, Stan dard, and No them—£so in each— but the damagp; is trifling. The cause of the fire is unlknown.

THAT WICKED ALICE AND THE SCHOOLMASTER.

—♦ (From tip* New York Times.') There is in 1 rural Kentucky village a middle-aged, grey-haired school teacher. He is near-sighted, exces sively bashful, 1 and densely ignorant of the nature apet habits of girls. Every body conceded that he is a good man, but Tie has always been believed to be as impervious to romance as is a rhi nocerpus in a travelling menagerie. And yet into this dry and mathematical person’s pros iic life has lately come a unique and c larming romance, and he has been le<ji to study girls and their uses with an! interest even greater than tlj;# which hfe formerly found in com pound fractions and cube roots. Last winter this remarkable man was engaged to ;teach the Harlansville dis trict school. I He did not know a soul in the village, but the school trustees, knowing thfit he had conducted the male department of a Frankfort school with eminent success, engaged him at a large salary. The Harlansville scho lars included .the youths of both sexes, and were, fjor the most part, orderly and industrious. There was, however, one girl in the school who was probably the most mischievous and reckless of her sex. There is no doubt that Miss Alice, as sha was generally called, was a very pretty girl, and no one claimed that she was guilty of any serious crimes. Still, she wap never out of mischief, and would plan' and execute enterprises from which the average boy would shink in terror. When it is added that she was I*s years old, and unusually large for her age, it will be perceived-' that she 'was weft'aclaptedToTender the life of a school teacher unspeakably wretched. 1 When Mis£ ] Alice first saw the new teacher, ■ once perceived that he was admirably adapted to be teased. His manifest bashfulness, and the inno 'cent, unsophisticated expression of his kindly but far from handsome face stimulated I her mischievous propensi ties to th)e utmost. She began her persecution! without delay, and carried it on with i mmense success. Time and space would fail were it attempted to catalogue t he various devices by which she plague d the patient teacher. It was not lc ng, however, before he dis covered mat the demure Miss Alice was at the! bottom of all the mischief in the school, though she was too astute to permit herself to be detected in any overt act. /j One of her favorite methods of harrassing the good teacher was to pretend tip an ardent admiration for him. Slid would constantly go to his desk on the pretext of asking his help in her lessons, and while he was laboriousl y explaining how this sum should be done, or how that verb should be parsed , she would stand by his side gazing at him with an air of hopeless and passii mate attachment which filled the scholars with the wildest delight. Then, toe t, she would constantly man age to t Ducb, with apparent uncon sciousnes:the teacher’s hand or shoul der, or w< )uld lean over him so that her breath wo uldfan his sparse and delicate hair. Th e uneasiness betrayed by the innocent man in these circumstances was excee jingly ludicrous, and delighted the naugl ity girl and her fellow-pupils unspeaka' fly. The da y came, however, when Miss Alice, gr wvn careless with long impu nity, was detected in the act of firing at another g id with a bean-shooter. This was a cr flue for which the inexorable penalty v r a s “rulering.” The teacher would lit ve given much to avoid the necessity 0 f “rulering” a girl, but if he suffered iVmiss Alice’s offence to pass with out punislhmeijit. he knew that he should be. accused of unfairness, and that the discipline* of the school would be de stroyed. Witi 1 a heavy heart he called her up for pur lishment, and ordered her to hold out he r hand. She held it out smilingly land unflinchingly, and when the punifihme nt was ended she delibe rately threw he r arms round the teacher’s neck and kissed him. “I always re turn a kiss for a blow,” she explained, ag soon as the teacher recovered breath

The Evening Echo, Thursday, October 10, 1878.



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To Farmers Sc Others. HpHE UNDERSIGNED HAVE CONSTANTLY ON HAND Farm Implements AND AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY Of Every Description. WOOL PACKS, SHEEP SHEARS, FENCING MATERIAL. GRASS & CLOVER SEEDS, JUST LANDED Ryland’s Best Fencing WIRE, 6,7, 8, 9 & 10. PORTLAND CEMENT, CHAFF CUTTERS, PLOUGHS, CAMBRIDGE ROLLERS, CORN CRUSHERS, HORSEPOWERS, ETC. Also, GOSPEL G&K Galvanised* Iron, IN ALL SIZES, Which we are now Prepared to Sell at .MOST REASONABLE PRICES. CASH ADVANCES Made on Growing Crops, Shipments of Wool and Grain. FRIEDLANDER BROS EAST STREET, ' Ashburton.



DRAPERY. NEW GOODS! NEW GOODS !! A. O. AiTKEN & GO. Are now opening up, a large and choice assortment of NEW SPRING AID SUMMER DRAPERY, Which will be offered at PRICES LOWER THAN EVER. New Dresses New Fischues New Prints New Ribbons New Feathers New Flowers New Plats New Bonnets



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