ASHBURTON TRADE DIRECTORY.

Auctioneers — • Bullock and Co., East-street Saunders Bros., Ashburton Accountants and Commission Agents— Charles Braddell, Montgomery’s Buildings Barristers and Solicitort — Mr. Branson, East-street Mr. E. G. Crisp, Montgomery’s Buildings Bakers, Confectioners, Etc.— Thomas Hicks, Tancred-street Banks — Bank of New Zealand, East-street s Union Bank of Australia, East-street Boarding House Keeper— J. G. Anstee, East-street Builders, 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, Timvald Booksellers and Stationers— A. Weston, Prospect Buildings, East-street Furr.ess and Dixon, Stationers’ Hall, East street South Bootmakers — C. Chambers, Prospect Buildings, East-street M. Nealas, East-street Brewers — Wood and Co., Cameron-street Cabinetmakers and Undertakers — James Baker, Havelock-street G. Parkin, Moor-street Carrier— G. F. Scott, Cameron-street Chemist and Druggist— J. M. Cambridge, Montgomery’s Buildings Coal and Firewood Merchants— G. Parker and Co., near Railway Station A. Hayes, Firewood and Timber, near Rail way Station 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 Engineers and Founders— Edwards and Lee, Engineers, Smiths, etc., Burnett-street W. J. Hessey, Central Foundry, Peters-st Grcjcers, General Dealers, Etc.— Aitken and Co., Havelock-street Orr and Co,, East-street Firth, Pass, and Co., East-street John Fowler, Tancred-street K. Sando, East-street Greengrocer— W. Birtwell, East-street Hairdressers — E. A. Garnett, Tancred-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 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 Dudley, Burnett-street Surveyors— C. El Fooks and Son, East-street Tailors— Aitken and Co., Havelock-street Tentmakers— EL Sando, East-street Tobacconists— A. Pearse, Moor-street E. A. Garnett, Tancred-street A. Weston, East-street

POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Mails at the Ashburton Post Office close a; follows :—• For Christchurch and North at io a.m., 4 p.m., and 7.30 p.m., daily. For Chertsey at 10 a.m. daily. For Rakaia at IO 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 Askburton 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.

UNCLAIMED LETTERS.

The following letters are advertised at the Post Office, as having been received from places beyond the Colony, during the month of April, and remaining unclaimed on the Ist July, 1878 : Banks, Williiam Binder, L. C. Cadle, W. C. Cairns, John, care of David Johnston Christie, Samuel > Dunne, William Fitzgerald, John (2) Hall, John Harris, Mark Harris, Joseph Hayward, William Leahy Patrick (2) Leggatt, W. L. Orr, Robert Tourgis, A. (2) Letters originating in New Zealand are not now advertised, but are sent to the Dead Letter Office, after having lain for two clear months. <

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

ASHBURTON SALE YARDS.

Messrs. Bullock and Co. held their usual fortnightly sale yesterday. The following were the entries:— Sheep, 2,0c0, sold on account of Mr. J. E. Taylor, Buccleugh, 669 merino ewes, at 4s 6d, 175 wethers at 7s. One account of Mr. C. Sargisson> 107 lambs, at 7 S> anc * 79 cross bred ewes at 9s. 3d. On account of Mr. I. H. Taylor, 88 cross-brcds, at 7s. 3d. On account of Mr., John Smart, 235 hoggets, at ss. On account of Mr. W. Reynolds, 187 merinos, at 6s. id. ’ Cattle—Entries, 16 head, sold on account ot Mr. W. J. Lockhart. Two %eers, at £2 14s. each,"2 ditto, at 30s. each, 2 ditto, at A 3 lOs each. Pigs _ Entries, 80, sold on account of Mr. D. Leddy, 20 stores, at ss.’' 96. each, 2 sows, at 2is. each. On account of Mr. R. Lancaster, 10 stores, at 275. each. On account of Messrs. Frisby Brothers, 6 stores, at 19s. each, 1 boar, 10s. Horses —6 entries, sold on account of Mr. Trevurza, I draught horse, A 34 lOs - Dn account of Mr. P. Good, 1 hack pony, £4 ss.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE .

PORT OF LYTTELTON. I arrived. July 12—Taranaki, s.s., from Port Chal mers. SAILED. July 11 —Young Dick, brigantine, for Rock hampton. July 12 —Taranaki, s.s., for North. Auckland, Thursday. Sailed—Hawea, for South; H.M.S. Sap phire, on a cruise. Wellington, Thursday. Arrived —Easby and Wakatipu, from Lyt telton. Timaru, Thursday. Cleared—Himalaya, for London, with 12,849 sacks wheat. Sailed —Jessie Nicol, for Dunedin. Port Chalmers, Thursday. Arrived—Brig Wave, from Waipara; barque Celestial Queen, with the loss of her bulwarks; East Lothian, from Newcastle.

DAILY MEMORANDA.

TO-DAY. Star of Ashburton, L.0.L., No. 23. —Dinner at Somerset Hotel at 7.30 p.m. 1.0.0. F., M.U., Loyal Ashburton Lodge. —Fortnightly meeting this evening at the Library Hall. Wesleyan Choir—Practice this evening at 7.30.

The Evening Echo. FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1878.

Mr. Robert Stout, the Attorney- General, has addressed his constituents, and though, in some things, his speech is only an echo, with some modifica tions, of the speeches by the Premier in his tour through the Colony,. it is not without interest, coming as it does from a Minister 01 his standing, and just be fore the -opening of Parliament. He announced the platform of the Grey Government to be composed of three planks —viz., administrative reform, elec toral reform, and taxation reform. On the latter two items he did not differ greatly from the Premier; but under the first heading he made some state ments 'well calculated to make the ears of many public servants tingle. He claimed for the short time the Govern ment has been in office a saving in administration at the rate of £2opoo at least per annum; and as showing how administrative reforms could be effected and further savings made, he pointed out that Government meant business dn reforming the administra, tion of law in the Colony. In his opinion the District Courts did only half the amount of work they ought to> and he knew instances of men in the past who,’being unfit for anything else, had been made Resident Magistrates. u If he had his way,” he says, “ and could carry out his system of judicial reform without reference to officers who wouid have to be dismissed, he would be able in one week to effect reforms that would save £IO,OOO a year, and justice would be far better administered than it was now. But if each small village must have a Resident Magistrate for itself, economy in this direction was hopeless.” Mr. Stout propounds a Governmental scheme whereby District Courts will be established throughout the Colony; in the larger towns a Resident Magistrate would do the civil and criminal business up to a certain amexmat, and the District Courts would .take dip the rest, to a certain higher amount. He would also simplify the rules of (the Supreme Court, and have a fixed scale -of fees for appeals. He would send the District Judges once a month or once a fortnight to the various chief towns and smaller towns of a province, and feels surethe

people would be better satisfied with the work done, better and more cheaply, by a man trained to his official duties, and not “ chucked into the service be cause he had not ability for anything else.” We do earnestly hope, pn the interests. of any community,-' saddled with an old woman in trousers to settle their litigations, that Mr. Stout will be able to carry through his reforms. He has said there is no intention on the part of Government to be unnecessarily harsh or severe, so that the nonentities he speaks of need not disturb their heads about how they are to be pro vided for. Enough, we dare say, will be allowed them to float comfortably through the remainder of their existence, and the sooner the pensions are dis pensed the better for some communities we could name. It• is evident Mr. Stout’s range of vision is not limited to Otago, but includes the legal economy of other provinces as well as his own ; and we are glad he is not afraid to' speak out boldly on the weak points he sees, and is also ready with a remedy for them.

There can be no doubt whatever tha t the work of the Courts would be done far better by a man trained to law and Court practice than by an. individual who has been pitch-forked,to the Bench by influential friends in power who were kind to him, but lost sight of the public interest in that kindness ; and there are few communities who suffer the inflic tion of an incapable Magistrate who would not gladly surrender a weekly for a fortnightly Court, if they knew that for the useless and rule-of-thumb Magis trate they were to receive in exchange the attentions of one who was in every sense a Judge—a man who would, in coming to the Bench, bring dignity to replace the reverse of it, knowledge to fill the place where knowledge should be, sense to know he was a Judge not to be lightly made a football of by the Bar, and being at least equal in legal acumen with the Bar, would know when a member of it was trespassing on his place, and how to repel the intruder.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Orangemen.—The Orange Lodge, Star of Ashburton, hold their 12th of July celebration to-night by a public dinner in the Somerset Hotel. Ashburton Ploughing Match. —The Committee met yesterday to receive tenders for providing the an nual dinner. It was resolved that .the dinner be held in the new Town Hall and provided by Mr Shearman. Resident Magistrate’s Court. — John O’Callaghan was brought up, on remand from Christchurch, charged with obtaining goods from Henry Tur ner, Ashburton, under false pretences, and remanded for eight, days.—R. W. Shearman, Somerset Hotel, applied for an extension of license on the occasion of the Orangemen’s dinner this evening. Granted. Mr. Campbell left by T 0.35 train for Rakaia, where he is to hold an Assessment Court to-day. The Mount Somers Railway. —A correspondent writes on this sub ject as follows : The coming session of Parliament will decide the route by which the line of railway is to be car ried from Ashburton to Mount Somers. The people of Timaru are making strenuous efforts to have the junction at that station, and are assisted by many gentlemen of weight and influence in the country. Why are the men of Ashburton so apathetic and dead to their own interests, as allow this without a struggle. Why not call a public meet ing and have the matter calmly and rationally discussed? When the line was first laid off it was to start from Ashburton and go direct up, alongside the Mount Somers road. It was for this line the late Provincial Government granted the rails, and it is to be pre sumed that the General Government have agreed to replace those rails, which were used by them fir another purpose, on the understanding that the original intention is carried out. The matter rests with the people of Ashburton, if they wish to see the line taken from them, and carried up the south side of the river, let them remain as they are— passive : but if they would rather see the junction where it was originally in-, tended, and where it ought to be, then let them rouse up, call a public meet ing, and take the voice of the people on the subject But do not let us submit to such injustice without entering our protest against it. No doubt it was in anticipation of-Tinwald being the start ing point that caused such a run on* its town sections some short time ngp. -

Friendly Societies.— From Par liamntary returns, the status of the four principal Orders of Friendly Societies in the colony are shown to be : —Odd Fellows, Manchester Unity, 5,655 mem bers ; Foresters, 3,523 ; Hibernian Society, 271; Recbabites, 257. The ratio per cent, of total expenditure to total revenue is : —Odd Fellows, 677 ; Foresters, 7.6.‘5; Hibernians, 93'2; Rechabites, 827. A Wang mi paper expresses its opinion of the value of Municipal Con ferences as follows :—“ About 30 bor oughs have decided to waste public money in sending a delegate to the pro posed Borough Council Conference in Wellington., Wanganui has not yet joined the League. Let us hope wise counsels will prevail, and that any im portant matter that wants attention will be entrusted to the Parliamentary repre sentatives. These Conferences are ex pensive shams arranged for the object of affording favored Mayors or Coun cillors a cheap excursion. ” An instance of the influence of Templary in increasing the appetite, ■Was recently witnessed at a tea-meeting in • Frariklin-road. An elderly man sat down with the first portion of the com pany to tea, and only finished with the second portion. That old gentleman's appetite was alarming; apart from six cups of tea, he polished off a pile of ham sandwiches, a pile of plum cake, and then went heavily into the scones. Having cleared these plates, he made a princely onslaught on the remaining plate of bread and butter, putting the beggar on to the gentleman. That elderly man was rather deaf, and when told that he had good reason to thank - Providence for a good appetite, he replied, “ This is one of the effects of Good Templary, it sharpens a fellah’s appetite. —Auckland Star.

TELEGRAPHIC.

LATEST FROM EUROPE. The Eastern Situation. [By Submarine Cable.] London, July 8. In the match Australians v. Eleven of the Orleans Club, the first innings of the Australians closed at 171. The following are the scores : —Charles Ban nerman, Horan, and Gregory, 3 each; Blackham, 1 ; Boyle, 4; Garrett, 11; Bailey, 24; Murdoch, 22; Allan,, 1 y Spofforth, 13 ; A. Bannerman, not out, 71; sundries, 15. The first innings of the Orleans closed for 132. The Aus tralians are guests of the. club. They are entertained at a dinner and dance to-night. July 9. The second innings of the Austra lians in the match with the Orleans Club closed for 172. The following scores were made: —A. Bannerman, 6; Horan, 64; Garret, 4; Murdoch, 15; Spof forth, 15 ; Bailey, 12 ; Allen 2 —all off Barrett; C. Bannerman, 23; Tennant, 2 —off Ulyett; Gregory, 9; Boyle, not out, 6; sundries, 20. The Orleans in their second innings have two out for 137. The match has resulted in a draw. The Australians play Swansea to morrow. June 10. A contingent of Sappers, en route from India, arrived at Malta, have started for Cyprus. The Board of Trade is holding an enquiry in re the stranding of the Gar rone. A great Orange procession takes place at Montreal on the 12th of July. The military forces there have been strengthened. • The Asian boundaries have been settled by Congress. It is expected the treaty will be signed on Saturday. Haedel, at Berlin, has been sentenced to death. Consul Faucett reports eighty-eight yillages plundered and burnt by Rus sians and Bulgarians within the last two months. * Berlin, July 19. Congress is engaged* in readiug over each article of the projected treaty. German and Austrian semi-official journals approve of the Anglo-Turkish convention. Dr. Nobeling has been sentenced to death.

AUSTRALIAN.

Sydney, July u.

A wholesale massacre has occurred in. New Caledonia. The Aki and Bou lan-pasi tribes have risen, and there has been a horrible massacre of the white settlers, men, women and children,' and gendarmes, one hundred being mur dered. The natives committed horri ble mutilations.

Two military stations were taken and burned. The chassepot rifles and am munition #re in the han<& of the rebels-

Colonel Galley Passebore was killed, leading the troops against the enemy. The inhabitants - have been enrolled and a war of extermination declared against the rebels. The convicts and Communists are quiet. Men-of-war are stationed around the coast for fear of a rising. English residents have been killed. Arrived—Australia.

The City of Melbourne, from Nou mea, brings news of a terrible revolt of the natives in the interior of New Cale donia, about ninety miles from Noumea Up to the time of the vessel leaving, the bodies of eighty-five victims were found terribly cut and hacked. The majority of the victims are French colonists. Friendly natives are help : ng the gendarmes to suppress the revolt. Colonel Passebore, commanding the forces, who went against the insurgents with a detachment of troops, was wounded, and died within two hours. News of* the New Caledonian rising is confirmed. Two tribes, numbering a thousand, never acnowledged French authority. The troops and armed colonists surrounded them, and their complete extermination is expected. The cause of the rising is attributed to the harsh treatment and conduct of the whites.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Per Press Agency.] Auckland, Thursday. The schooner Lcetitia, from the South Sea Islands, brings the captain, mate, and part of the crew of-the' barque Kedar, owned in Melbourne. The captain reports that the barque sprang a leak in a hurricane off Cook’s Island. Notwithstanding the efforts of the crew at the pump, the vessel became water logged, and a heavy sea broke over her. The crew clung to the wreck till morn ing, then made a raft and floated ashore at Kaw Island, to which King George of Tonga was paying a visit. He rescued them. All the crew were saved except Charles Gullen, the carpenter. The cargo consisted of 400,000 feet of tim ber for Melbourne.

Further particulars from the crew of the barque Kedar show that they were forty-eight days on the water-logged wreck before they sighted the island. During that, time, their sufferings were very great from want of water. The crew could scarcely crawl about. They subsisted on food fished up from the 1 hold, and water from a condensor made out of an oil-can. Jamieson, the second mate, and M‘Gowan, a seaman, landed on the island very ill, were afterwards missing and not found. The barque was 530 tons. The. captain believes she was insured” in a Melbourne office for >£3ooo. A warrant was issued to-day for the arrest of A. G. Howard, charged with a violent assault on Woolfield, inspector of slaughter-houses. The latter alleges that Howard drove last night in a cab to the Thistle Hotel, walked in where Woolfield was standing in the bar, and struck him two violent blows with a riding whip, one of which laid his head open, and the other made a cut over his eye. He alleges that Howard then walked away. The schooner Merlin arrived at Kai para from Waitara. She reports that while crossing the Waitara bar a beaVy sea washed two seamen, John Murphy and W. F. Dean, overboard. The bar was so heavy at the time that no at tempt could be made to rescue them. Napier, Thursday. The name of the passenger who died aboard the Rotorua was Robert Allan, not Robert Evans, who is alive and well. Wellington, Thursday. Several of the crew of the barque Elizabeth complained to the Rtsident Magistrate to-day as to the unseaworthi ness of the vessel, saying thej had been ten weeks at the pumps. They wanted the captain to put in at the. Cape of Good Hope, into Rio, and into Hobart Town. On arriving off Wellington they declined to pump any longer unless he put in there. It is expected that an enquiry, will be held. The following candidates have passed the Junior Civil Service Examination- Gillies, Macfarlane, Fleming, Harley, Grigg, Ashcroft, Wilson, Wither, Pratt, Marchbanks, Von Tempsky, Halliwell, March, Godwin, Watkins, C. W. Mac farlane, Richmond, Andrew, Moor house, Inglis, F. Watkins, Shackleton, Sim, Corbett,""and Bridge. The follow ing passed the Senior Examination- Gillies, E. J. Macfarlane, Fleming, Ash croft, Wither, Ladbrook, Duthie, Fair burn, Buchanan, Halliwell, Moorhouse, Shirtcliffe, and Purchass. An Order in Council, published to night, validates the action of the Christ church City Council on 31ft May, in the matter of hearing and determining claims and objections to the burgess list.

The Revs, Hill andi Beck are aj>*

pointed managers *of the Lyttelton Cemetery .vice the Revs. McGowan and Morley, resigned. The “ Gazette ” to-night notifies that black swans throughout the colony, and hares within Auckland provincial dis trict, are not to be deemed game. Timaru, Thursday. A married woman, named Mrs Mead, was found dead by her husband, who missed her from bed. She was on the floor by the side of the bed on her knees.

The Orangemen of Timaru celebrate the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne to-morrow evening by a banque and ball on a grand scale. Dunedin, Thursday.

The Taieri election resulted as fol lows : —W. H. Cutten, 149; Snow, 126; Barron, 113 ; majority for Cutten, 23. It is contemplated to hold a carnival in Mr. Inglis’ new premises in aid of the Benevolent Institution funds, which are now very low. The contributions to the sustentation fund of the Presbyterian Church for the last fourteen months amount to Mr. J. C. Brown addresses his con stituents to-nighf, an.d will be enter tained at a banquet to-morrow evening, at which the Attorney-General and other members of the Cabinet are ex pected to be present. At a meeting of the Education Board to-day a circular was read from the Government, stating, that it is desirous of instituting a system of insurance, by which provision may be made for .re tired teachers. , A street fight took place to-day be tween Lewis, a Dunedin merchant, and Menderslausen, a tobacconist. " The combatants are members of the Choral Society, and the fight had its origin in an adverse criticism made upon a re cent performance. O amaru, Thursday. Although a considerable trade in the breadstuff's market prevails, prices are the same as last given, except an ad vance of twopence a bushel in oats'. Wheat, 3s iod to 4s j'oats, 3s 8d; feed and milling, 3s rod; best malting bar ley, ss; flour, 11 to ;£ri 10s, f.0.b.; oatmeal, ; pearl barley, £24; pollard, 10s. ' ( Special to the Ptess ) Timaru, Wednesday. A nightschool recently started by the Caledonian Society proved a great suc cess. It has over ninety-pupils on the roll. A great row has occurred at Temuka between the Road Board and railway authorities, owing to the former attempt ing to cut a drain through the railway line without first' giving notice. The men employed by the Board were forcibly stopped working by a gang of men got together' by -the Inspector, of Permanent Way, under the instruction of the Resident Engineer. The police were called in to interfere, but refused. It is stated the Inspector of Ways has been sacked for not stopping the Road Board at first.

“ The Serfs of this great country,” as Sir George Grey delights to term the ' well-to-do working men of New Zealand (says the Poverty Bay Herald) must be having pretty rosy times of it just now. Only yesterday one of these “ serfs ” was offered by Mr. Smith, the contractor, a job of work which was worth ios. a week. To commence the job it was necessary that a few pieces of light timber should be carried up to the second floor of the building in which the work was to be done. The “ serf” objected to this. He wouldn’t start unless everything was ready for him. As this was a style of doing business Mr. Smith -was not accustomed to, that “ slave of this favored Britain of the South ” was not engaged. Now he / is walking about town with his hands in his pockets, and declaring to his mates that New Zealand is no country for a workingman. Sad Affair. —One oif the saddest v shooting affairs which has occurred for a long time, was reported a few days ago from Boston. Mr Charles H. Lan T man had been for some time paying attentions to Miss Annie Lyons, the youngest daughter of Mr John Lyons, a wealthy and highly-respected wholesale liquor dealer. According to one ac count, Mr Lyons opposed the match on account, of religious differences. An other story is that Lanman had accom plished the ruin of Miss Lyons, that the father had insisted on his making re paration by marrying her, and that Lanman had refuged. One night , las? week Mr Lyons met the young people together near the door of his house, and some high words passed between him and Lanman. - Suddenly the latter drew a revolver, fired, and inflicted a terrible wound in the abdomen of his opponent. Mr Lyons is. now dying; Mr Lanman is in jail, and Miss Lyons is reported to have fled from the city t 9 avoid giving i)«

The Evening Echo, Friday, July 12, 1878.



ASHBURTON RETAIL LIST. s. d. j. d. Batter, Inferior to best, $Ib i 0 to I 2 Eggs, I? dozen - . - 2 6 to 0 O Bacon, prime smoked, $ lb o 10 to 0 O Hams in doth, lb *■ i 0 to 0 O Cheese, prime quality, $ lb o 8 to 0 IO El our in bags, ¥ ioolb 15 0 to 0 0 Oatmeal," $ ioolb « ?6 0 to 0 O $ W « * * P 9 |9 9 9