POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Mails at the Ashburton Post Office close v, follows :

For Christchurch and North at 10 a.m. 4 p.m., and 7.30 p.ra., daily. For Chertsey at 10 a.m. daily. For Rakaia at 10 a.m., and 4 p.m. daily. For Tinwald, Winslow, Hinds, Coldstream, Rangitata, Orari, Winchester, and Geraldine, at 10.15 a.m. daily. For Temuka, Timaru, and South at 10.15 p.m. and 3 p.m daily. For Greenstreet, Ashburton Forks, Mount Somers, and Ashburton - Gorge, on Tuesdays and Fridays at 10.30 a.m. . For Ashton, Waterton, and Longbeach, a 3.15 p.m. daily. W. St. G. Douglas, Postmaster.

ASHBURTON RETAIL LIST.

The Evening Echo. MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1878.

Whether Mr. Hardy-Johnstone is to come to Ashburton as an angel of light to clear away the fogs and mists surrounding, in Borough Councillors’ minds, the ques tion of a water supply, or simply to carry away, as a sacrifice to conventional usages his £25 fee, is a problem to be solved by the future. It is customary, when a small community undertakes what is to it a great work, to call in the services of some engineer, whose name bulks somewhat largely in the public eye, to pronounce an elaborate opinion and pocket a fee pro portionate to the engineer’s professional fame. It doesn’t matter a very great deal whether the utterances of the oracle, if accepted and. followed, lead to the foolish and wasteful expenditure of a few thousands of public money, or the money is spent to the very best possible advan tage to those most interested—the public —the fanfaronade of engaging the services of a great man has been made, and the dignity of the community has been kept up. To satisfy those who crave for the support of the town’s dignity £25 is the sum to be expended in bringing Mr. Hardy-Johnstone to a conference with the Borough Council and their engineer (Mr. Fooks), and the money will be well spent, even if the great man only acts as the proverbialbunch of carrots to decoy the members of the Council over the ground to which the various plans refer, so that the Councillors may see with their own practical eyes the real work each plan suggests. It has been said that there is no better teacher of geography than a war, for the campaigners have to travel over ground no maps could ever describe ; and there is no better teacher of the geography of a probable water scheme than a journey over the ground it pro poses to traverse. If Mr. Hardy-John stone’s visit will take the Councillors in a body over the courses of the various schemes from their source to their junc tion with the proposed distributing system of the town, the money will not be wasted, but it might possibly have been saved had the municipal outing been made first, without the great engineer.

Whatever the wisdom or otherwise of employing a popular engineer to confer with the Council, there can be no doubt about the common sense displayed in em powering the Works Committee to bring in a temporary supply of Avater for fire prevention, and the only wonder is that a body of practical men —such as comprise the Ashburton Borough Council—should have hesitated so long over such a simple question. Our wells have not poisoned us yet, and they are not so fearfully impure but that we may for some time puddle away with them, with no Avorse conse quences than have followed their use hitherto. But the want of water for fire prevention is too clamant to be put off much longer. We have water of some sort to drink, but none of any kind for our Fire Brigades’ hose ; and though the town has enjoyed an almost unparalleled run of luck in its immunity from fires during its short history, it has no guarantee that this immunity will continue, andthatasthe town increases in population and in build ings the risks of fire will decrease, and the necessity for a plentiful supply of “souse” water be less felt, Every day brings us nearer to the time when the “ longest lane

will have its turning,” and everyday saved by the Works Committee, who are entrusted with the duty of bringing in this “ prevention ” supply, is a day’s safety given by them to their fellow-towns men. “ Expedition ” will be the . Com mittee’s motto ; (we may safely assume) now that the work of the temporary supply has come into their hands through so many windings of the municipal .pur pose, and over such a jungle of time killing talk, as have obstructed its progress to the point it has now reahed.

Our Almanac. —To-moiTow the Echo Almanac will be circulated gratis with the paper, and every - subscriber will obtain a copy. Non-subscribers may be supplied with copies by calling at our office or at any of the Echo agencies in town or country. Watch-night Services. —ln accord ance with Methodist custom a watch-night service will be held in the Cameron street chapel to-morrow night, commencing at half-past ten and continuing till the entrance of the new year. The Sunday Schools. Yesterday afternoon (being the last Sunday in the year 1878) the Wesleyan, Presbyterian, and Primitive Methodist Sunday schools held a united thanksgiving service in the Wesleyan Church. The attendance of scholars was large, and a good number of parents and friends were also present. Addresses were delivered by • the Revs. Burnett and Westbrooke, Ashburton ; Rev. T. Fee, from Waimate ; and Mr. Richards, from America. The addresses were most interesting, and the children very attentive, although the service was rather protracted. Mr. Richards gave a very interesting account of the working of Methodist schools in America, which of late years had been most successful, and the churches in New Zealand would do well to copy some of the ideas laid down. Hymns were specially prepared for the occasion, and the singing of the united schools was very hearty. At the close of the service the Rev. T. Fee pre sented, with suitable remarks, several nice volumes, given by Mr. J. G. Ash wood, for Bible questions. The following were the successful scholars :—Miss Amy Hurst, Miss Mary Watkins, Miss Isabella Hughes, and Master John Hurst, all belonging to the Primitive Methodist school, and Miss Constance Andrews of the'Wesleyan Sabbath school.

Pipes for Water Supply.— At Satur day’s meeting of the Borough Council, Mr. S. Hardley, ironmonger, tinsmith, etc., East-street, had for exhibition a specimen section of pipe, 12 feet lengths of which he was prepared to supply to the Council at £6 per chain. The sample section was 2 feet long, llin. diameter, of 16 gauge iron, and fitted with hooks for joining, as these hooks would appear on the 12 feet lengths. Mr. Hardley calculated such pipes would,last for ten years, but had put himself in communication with parties at various places on the West Coast, where similar pipes had been in use for years, with a Anew to obtaining reliable evidence as to durability. Mr. Hardley had made many thousand feet of similar pipes for water purposes on the West Coast, where they had been adopted in preference to cast-iron ones, on Captain Baldwin’s recommendation of malleable iron pipes as the most suitable for water-supply pur poses. Mr. Fooks, Borough engineer, said he favoured a 9-in. pipe, if malleable iron were adopted, and also 10 guage iron.

Road Board Election. —Mr. J. Hunt, in to-day’s issue, signifies his intention of accepting nomination for a seat at the Road Board. The Rangitata Bridge.— lnformation from the Rangitata states that the bridge has Avholly gone at the north end, and communication between the north and south of the river is suspended via the bridge. • The Effect of Christmas. —Over fifty cases were set doivn for hearing at the Christchurch R.M. Court this morning— business accumulated during the Christ mas holidays. A “Six Hundred” Man.—To-day’s Christchurch “Press” says :—Sergeant- Major Bevan, Avho has for a long time been stationed at Dunedin, passed through Christchurch on Saturday morn ing en route to Wellington, whither he has been transferred. The sergeant-major, who Avas very popular in Dunedin, is one of the survivors of the gallant /’Six Hundred” or Balaklava. The .Canterbury Cricketing Tour.— The Canterbury team commenced busi ness in Ballarat on Friday, playing against a Ballarat eleven. The Cantarbury first innings closed for 131, and their second was opened to obtain 47 runs, which they got for the loss of two wickets—total runs, 178. The Ballarat eleven got 42 in their first innings and 135 in their second —total, 177. Canterbury Avere thus Avin ners, their boivling and fielding standing them in excellent stead, while their bat ting was nothing to be ashamed of. The match was a narrow escape for Ballarat of being beaten by an innings.

To-day’s Court.— H. Davies was dis missed Avith a caution. He had been drunk the night previous. Henry Draper, alias Tupper, ivith 18 convictions recorded against him, was sent to gaol for a month. He only got out of the lock-up on Satur day evening, at five o’clock, after 48 hours’ confinement. His private pro perty then amounted in the total to what he stood up in, but when, at 8 o’clock, Constable Maroney.ran him in for drunk enness, indecent exposure, obscene langu age, and disorderly conduct, Mr Draper had “ made” a meerschaum pipe, a lot of tobacco, a three-foot rule, and half a croAvn. Society will be deprived of Mr Draper’s genius for a month.

TELEGRAPHIC.

AUSTRALIAN

[By Submarine Cable.] Sydney, December 28. Arrived—Wakatipu. The mail steamer Anjore is at the Sound. ' The shooting at the Wotonga is con tradicted. The report arose through the discharge of firearms. - •; December 29. A monster open-ait anti-Chinese meet ing was held yesterday* and" decided to memorialise the Governor, praying for relief re Chinese immigration.- Melbourne, December 27. The Eleven have eight wickets down for three hundred and four. There is grand batting—Lucas 90, Boyle 78. Dec. 28. The Chief Secretary and Professor Pearson departed to-day on the Embassy to London. Lord Harris’ eleven in their first innings made 331. The fifteen in their second innings made 241. It was a draivn game. The mail steamer Assam reached here on Friday. Adelaide, December 29. The Australian Eleven, in their second innings, made 66. South Australia thus wins by 21 runs. [special to globe.] Sydney, Dec. 27. The Wodonga steamer was fired upon from Pyrmont, and received four shots from a revolver. Captain Stuart, the chief engineer, and the steward narrowly escaped. The Adelaide Eighteen are. all out for 59. Spofforth bowled six running for nil. The Sydney University, defeated the Mel bourne by three wickets and one run. Dec. 28. . The. Suez mail is at Albany. There is only one New Zealand passenger, Mr. Bealy. The Premier, Sir R. Parkes, made a great anti-Chinese speech, in which he said he was in favor of prohibiting the employment of more than one Chinaman to every ten Europeans in any single business or occupation, or by one firm.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Per Press Agency and Exchanges.]

Auckland, Saturday.

The schooner Edith from the South Sea Islands, reports the wreck of the schooner Talisman at Autu Katu, bound to Auck land, with a cargo of pearl shells and copra. All hands were saved. The vessel was insured for £SOO each in the Batavia, Victoria, and Union offices. The cargo was insured in the South British for £2OOO, half of which was re - insured in other offices.

Wellington, Saturday.

A proclamation in the “ Gazette ” notifies that Mount Hutt has been severed from the South Rakaia road district.

The railway working account, giving total receipts and expenditure during the financial year 1878-79, shows that the total receipts of the following sections of railways for that period were : Kaipara, (16 miles open for traffic), £1723 ; Auck land (97 miles), £17,695; Napier (65 miles) £9834; Wellington (45 miles), £2534 ; Wanganui (86 miles), £10*977 ; New Plymouth (21 miies), £2016; Greymouth (8 miles), £3171; Westport (19 miles), £968 ; Nelson (20 miles), £2455 ; Christchurch-,Dunedin (532 miles), £158,140; Invercargill (167 miles), £18,695 miles. The immigrants from the Hermione having been, released from quarantine, were brought to town this afternoon.

It is stated that the Government have instituted an enquiry into certain sus picious circumstances which have recently been discovered with regard to the Go vernment Buildings at Blenheim, which were burnt down about a year and a half ago.

The Governor presented the prizes at the Wellington College this afternoon. There was a large attendance. Mackie, charged with embezzlement at the Bank of New Zealand, has been unable to obtain bail.

The largest amount ever taken in a New Zealand theatre on one occasion is said to have been taken last night by George Dar rell, on the production of “Henry V. with a large company from Australia. The proceeds were £230. The valuators under the Land Tax Act for the several counties have nearly all been appointed, and their names will shortly be gazetted. So great was the force of the wind near Featherstone last night that a roof was blown off and carried a distanco of several hundred yards by tho gale. Letters by last mail from tho Emigra tion Department state that arrangements have been made to send the following numbers to the colony G 93 for Welling ton, Nelson, and Marlborough, 500 being for Wellington ; 328 for Auckland ; 277 Hawke’s Bay ; 1660 for Otago ; and 1668 for Canterbury. Mr. Lloyd, the ex-Treasurer, and Mr. H. E. Butler, ex-Attorney-General of New South Wales, are passengers to New Zealand by the Rotorua, paying a visit to the principal cities, and doing the Rotorua excursion trip. Sunday.

The steamer Glenelg has been standing off and on for several days with the object of towing off the Hyderabad when oppor tunity showed, but owing to last night’s heavy gale the Hyderabad is blown up on the beach again, and is now in a worse position than ever. It is doubtful now whether she will ever be got off.

THE FLOODS.

[by telegraph.]

Hokitika, Saturday.

It has been raining heavily and blowing like mid-winter weather every day since the holidays commenced, and there is no sign of improvement. The rivers are flooded again, and a great deal of damage has been done. The races are postponed till next week. The Christchurch coach, due last Wednesday, has not arrived, and outward mails cannot be dispatched on account of the floods. The damage done tp roads and bridges will take three months’ revenue of the County to repair. Greymouth, Saturday. It has rained almost incessantly since yesterday at 2 o’clock, and the rivers are now in full flood, the Grey river being near its highest. The races had to be postponed, as the course is now under water.

Balclutha, Saturday.

There is a very strong gale blowing since yesterday afternoon. The river is in high flood and rising, but very slowly. The protective works in progress are proving thoroughly effective; but for these the township would again have been flooded, but there is not the slightest, danger at present, though a considerably larger body of water is flowing over into the Clutha to-day than during the last flood. Clyde, Sunday. The river is very high, running above the old suspension bridge. The water went down yesterday morning, but has risen again three feet since last night. Ithasbeen raining heavily up the country, and a bad flood is expected. Direct coach communication has been stopped at Owen’s Point, near Arrowtown. At Alexandra the passengers and mails crossed at some risk in a boat. Invercargill, Saturday. The report of the drowning of Mr. Geo. Crisp, arbitrator, has received con firmation. He was en route from Wrey’s Bush to Waitoa and was being carried across the part of Jacob’s River at John ston, by a man on horseback. It is supposed the ford was missed, for the stream swept the horse away and Crisp was washed off. He, however, with the horse and the other man landed on a gravel bank in midstream where the water was about knee deep. A man named Mortimer, who was waiting to be carried across, saw him suddenly fall and the current swept him into deep water. Mortimer hurried along .the bank, got hold of and pulled him ashore, but he was quite dead. He was subject to fits, and he is supposed to have been Beized with one.

THE REV. A. R. FITCHETT.

The Rev. • A. R. Fitchett, says the Dunedin “ Times,” at the conclusion of a sermon delivered by him in the Wesleyan Trinity Church on Sunday week, in reference to his resignation, said—“ You have no doubt during the week observed paragraphs in the papers stating that I have communicated to the Rev. Mr. Crump, the Superintendent of the Con ference, the fact that I shall not be prepared to accept another appointment. That statement is correct. I wish to ex plain to you simply, that had I been permitted to remain in this Church, no action of mine would have displaced me. I have not the smallest ground of difference with this congregation, as you know well, and consequently I should have remained in quietude, I presume, if the law of the Church had permitted it. This law has now removed me twice from this congregation; and for >no other reason than that there is such a law, and after having been sixteen years under the operation of this, and resisting it all the time, as I find without success, I think it is my duty to say I cannot accept another appointment under this system. I wish you to understand, too, that in any thing I may do whatever way I may dispose of myself I want you to understand this very defi nitely, that I am not prepared to vary in the least from any one of the principles which have characterised my teachings, and with which my name has been asso ciated within these walls, in this city, and in some sense throughout the length and breadth of New -Zealand. Not one of those principles that have been em bodied in, my teaching am I the least likely to surrender for any purpose. I simply find that I am unable to abide under this itinerant law, which is objected to by nearly all the ministers of New Zealand, and which is imposed upon us by the conference in Australia ; but to depart in any sense from any of the principles which I have been teaching is what I trust you know I am absolutely incapable of. In whatever shape I may preach the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, I shall preach precisely what I have been accustomed to. I need not say to you that it is a very painful tiling to sever associations which are of such long standing, and that I could only have arrived at such an action as the result of a very stringent and broad sense of duty, and I have good faith that those amongst you who cannot understand quite well why I should take action of this kind, will believe that I am doing it from a sense of duty. I do not know that any personal friendship I have been able to form in this place will be imperilled by my refusal to submit any longer to what I feel to he an absolutely intolerable law. ”

Medicinal. —“ Yegetable Pills !” ex claimed an old lady, “ don’t talk to me of such stuff’. The best vegetable pill ever made is an apple dumpling. For destroy ing a gnawing of the stomach there’s nothing iike it.”

TO-DAY’S TELEGRAMS.

’Wellington, Monday.

A circular, issued by the Secretary to the Executive Committee of the. New Zealand Rifle Association, states that the rough draft of programme for the Nelson meetiiig comprises eight matches for;;-;* volunteers only—-four for rifles’and four for carbines. In these matches the firing’ •(. for the champion belt will be taken. For - any members there- are ten matches, two of which are for carbine and small bore, .! the latter being up to a thousand yards. There is also a consolation match. Between nine hundred and a thousand pounds will be given in money prizes at the meeting. " r•; . 4 ■ ./ Hankins, a well-known journalist, has purchased the “ Wairarapa Guardian.’’ '' ' The “ Chronicle” is informed, on very good authority, that the Hon Major Richmond has been appointed Speaker of » the Legislative Council, and Sir William J j Fitzlierbert will retain the Speakership of the Lower House. ,

. Nelson, Monday, .j The navvies at work on the railway , extension struck this morning for nine shillings a day.

THE SOCIAL UPHEAVAL IN EUROPE.

From the European Mail. ' The question is, what is to be done with the profund dissatisfaction enter tained-for things as they are by the sixty ’ thousand Socialists of Berlin of whose existence Prince Bismarck complains 1 Sixty thousand in the capital,, they are six hundred thousand throughout Germany. But what are their numbers in Russia 1 Trustworthy statistics do . not reach us from its semi-barbarous territories ; but the evidence is abundaat that its popula tion is becoming sufficiently conscious of its barbarism, and sufficiently ashamed of it, to be heartily weary of a despotic monarchy and a servile and corrupt Bureaucracy. The same spirit of radical discontent which causes men to call themselves social democrats in Germany makes them dub themselves Nihilists in Russia. Russia is ruled by its police, yet they appear unable net only to prevent the circulation of revolutionary opinions, but even to discover;-their authors. Newspapers that would riot be allowed to live a day if their source could be discovered continue 'to~ be circulated through Russia, and even to find their way into the Palace of the Czar himself. A circumstance so astounding Can be accounted for only on the supposition' that this revolutionary propaganda counts . innumerable • adherents. The ancient reverence for the occupant of therthrone, which was the one conspicuous feature of Russian society, is on the wane. “It is to the Czardom,” the people of Russia are told by one of these secretly circulated prints, “ that we owe all our misfortunes. It has made us slaves, depriving us of all moral dignity, and degrading us to the condition of an enervated people without individuality or liberal aspirations. If. we wish to recover our rights; we must expel the Ramanoffs, and exterminate, root and branch, the system they have in troduced.” No doubt these are . the phrases of exceedingly raw Revolutionists ; but they indicate that precise condition of mind which leads to desperate action. In educated Germany the methods pursued are more moderate. Prince Bismarck tries to flatter > himself that, though his countrymen read’more than Englishmen or Frenchmen, they under stand less of what.they read.. -The theory is a curious one ; but we lose our sur prise at the paradox when we reflect that it is the only possible way of accounting for the fact that though Germans read so much they still are not of the opinion of Prince Bismarck. His remedy is to pre vent them -from reading anything that does represent their opinions. Need we wonder if it has been seriously proposed that the Social Democrats of . Germany shall emigrate en masse to the United States or to Asia Minor—anywhere, in fact, where opinion is not. persecuted ! The scheme seems a wild one, but even if carried out it would not be'the first, time that unwise measures of repression have led to a' vast exodus of the population. Prince Bismarck does not propose to make their own land particularly attrac tive to them. To have to'obey the law of universal military conscription,, and to be forbidden to express in public their own political opinions, can scarcely fail to render life in the Fatherland somewhat irksome to those who have to bow to those necessities. To serve a country which is really one’s own ought to be the chief pride of every man. But to be obliged to fight for a State that, when you have fought for it, treats you as an alien cannot be satisfactory. In addition to Germany and Russia, however, tliereAre other communities, more happily circum stanced, which, nevertheless, are riot free from the disease of political arid social discontent of which we have spoken. In spite of the boast of its Minister of the Interior, France is" not without its Social Democrats. Italy, too] is no more free from the danger than France itself. Underneath the mock agitatidn that has for its ostensible cry Italia Irredenta lurk the purposes of Social Democracy. What, our contemporary the “ Standard” asks, is to be the remedy ? The only possible resource is to be found in justice and liberty. If.these fail, nothing will suc ceed, Prince Bismarck is doing Europe, as well as Germany, an ill turn by foster ing and fomenting a just discontent. _ It spreads and ramifies into other countries ; for it is in the nature of men to sympa thise warmly with the members of their own class. When, - therefore English writers invent excuses or urge argumen tative palliatives for Prince Bismarck’s wrongheadedness, they forget tjiat they are apologising for a mischief whose re sults cannot be localised. V

MONDAY December 36, 1878.]

THE- EVENING ECHO.



s. d. d. Butter, inferior to best $ lb I o to I 2 Eggs, dozen - - I 6 to 0 0 Bacon, prime smoked, $ lb o IO to 0 0 Hams in cloth, $ lb i o to 0 0 Flour in bags, ioolb 12 6 to 14 0 Oatmeal, ioolb 2 6 o to 0 0 Lard, lb - o 9 to 0 0



Fruiterers. Oranges. Oranges. Ex “ Rotorua,” Just Arrived. 70 CASES ORANGES 70 FIRST-CLASS CONDITION, * and ■ • SPLENDID FLAVOR. W. BIRTWELL, WHOLESALE & RETAIL FRUITERER, AND DIRECT IMPORTER FROM THE AUSTRALIAN AND TASMANIAN • ORCHARDS. 104 FRUIT IMPORTED DIRECT •FROM SYDNEY, JC *I4!CO OA R AND CO., IVI- WHOLESALE AND RETAIL GREENGROCERS & FRUITERERS, REMOVED to EAST STREET, (Shop lately occupied by Mr. Cambridge. TUST ARRIVED A LARGE STOCK J 0F Oranges, Pine Apples t ‘ Lemons, Bananas ' “ Apples, Vegetables Confectionery &c., See. ' Delivered to all paits of Ashburton. - W. T. DAVISON, GREENGROCER AND FRUITERER, Wholesale and Retail. Fresh from Christ churoh daily, from one of the Largest Growers. MOORE STEET, Ashburton. 47



Business Notices. NOTICE. HAYES' TIMBER YARDS, ASHBURTON. IN consequence of the W AIM ATE MILLS having been BURNED, the above Yards will be Closed for about Six Weeks, until Re-Erection of same. Mr. F. Pavitt is authorised to collect all outstanding accounts until further notice. ALPHEUS HAYES, pei-W. H. COLLINS, Manager. Ashburton, Nov. 23, 1878. 67 COALS. COALS. COALS. ALL kinds of COALS & FIREWOOD delivered at the shortest notice in any quantities and at reasonable rates. GEORGE PARKER & CO., 138 Springfield Coal Depot, Ashburton. “ HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY,” (As the man said- when s he returned the Stolen Shefep), A ND, as we wish to PAY our BILLS, must .respectfully urge that all Accounts due to the undersigned, be paid by’the 6th Dec., 1878. Shout Reckonings and Long Friends. TAYLOR & LILL, Bakers and Confectioners. East Street, Ashburton, Nov 30, 1878. 88 r , NOTICE. THE undersigned begs to give notice that in future all accounts must be settled monthly, and requests that no money be paid to any of the men in charge of the carts, but settled direct with him or at the shop. All accounts overdue must be paid within one month from date, or they may be liable to proceedings without further notice. THOMAS HICKS, Baker, 89 Ashburton. BREAD. BREAD. BREAD 6d. per 41b. Loaf. maOMAS HICKS, Baker and Con -1 fectioner, Tancred Street, is now supplying First-class Bread, at 6d. per 41b Loaf, .delivered to all parts of the District, or at the Shop. note— THOMAS HICKS, THE PIONEER BAKERY, ; ’ Tancred Street, Ashburton Winslow. GEORGE LADBROOK, 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. Goods supplied at Lowest Current rates. ■.^**r'* r *~ Net® the address— LADBROOK, GENERAL STOREKEEPER, WINSLOW. P###rab®?3,lS7*, 99



Advertisements for the evening, Echo must be sent in not later than 3 p.m. with the number of insertions written plainly on the copy, otherwise they will be inserted till countermanded, and charged accordingly. Special notices can be received up to 3>3° p.m. for insertion over the Leader, but will be charged double scale. Subscriptions —Quarterly in advance, 6s. ; posted, Bs. 6d. ; per annum, in advance, 225. 6d. ; posted, 355. d. ; weekly, paid to collector, 6d. Delivered to any part of the town, and at any of the Railway Stations.



Special Notices. FENCING WIRE. 20 TONS Just Received and on Sale at LOWEST PRICES. A. O. AITKEN & CO., Havelock Street.