POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Mails at the Ashburton Post Office close as follows : —-

For Christchurch and North at 10.20 a.ill. 4 p.ni., and. 7.30 p.m., daily. ‘For Chei-tsey at 10.20 a.m daily. For Rakaia at 10.20 a.m and 4 p.m daily. For Dunedin, Tinwald, Winslow, Hinds, Coldstream, Rangitata, Orari, Winchester, and Geraldine, at 10.20 a.m, daily. For Temuka, Timaru, and South at 10.20 a.m and 3 p.m daily. For Greenstrect, Ashburton Forks, Mount Somers, and Ashburton Gorge on Tuesdays and Fridays at 10.30 a.m For Ashton, Waterton, and Longbeach, at 3.15 p.m. daily. For Wakanui and Seafield, on Mondays and Thursdays, 7.30 p.m. JW. St. G. Douglas, wb:.;. Postmaster.

NOTICE

Mails clos? at the Chief Post ’Office for the lollowing places (subject to the necessary alte rations) as under: — The mext mails for the United Kingdom via Brindisi and Southampton (for specially ad dressed letters only) will be closed at Christ church on Aug. 25. The mail via Brindisi will be due in London on Oct. 20, and the mail via Southampton on Oct. 27. The next mail foi the United Kingdom via San Francisco will be closed at Christchurch on Friday, August 15, and will be due in London on Sept. 30.

A travelling Post Office having been estab ished on the Southern line of railway, letters bearing a late fee of 2d. may be posted at any station in the mail carriage attached to the express train, and they will be included in the mails made up in transit for offices on the main line and branches. ■ < _

Sydney J. Dick, Chief Postmaster.

NEW POSTAL REGULATION.

Letters posted within the colony having the names and addresses of the senders printed on the address side of the envelopes, accompanied by a request that the letters be returned if not claimed within a stated period, will be return ed unopened. Provided, however, such letters shall have remained in the post office to which they may be addressed, at least ten days.

UNCI-AIMED LETTERS.

_Qn_the2fcst-d««--->i -each month a list is ex hibited at each Pc ~t Office in the Colony of the addresses of all letters received from places be yond the Colony that have remaind unclaimed for one month at such Post Office j and such of these letters as remain unclaimed at tne end of a further period of two months are then for warded to the Dead Letter Office, to be letuin ed unopened to the countries where they origi nated. -Unclaimed letters originating in the Colony are not advertised, but. at the end of two months are forwarded to the Dead Lettei Office, Wellington, there to be opened and re turned to the writers.

ASHBURTON RETAIL LIST.

MEMORANDA.

MEETINGS.

This Evening. Racing Club, at the Road Board. Office, at 7.30 p.m.

The Ashburton Herald AND Borough and County Advertiser (With which is incorporated the “ Evening Echo”). THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1879.

The Coleridge Election. —Mr. George Hart will of course again stand for this district, and Mr. E. G. Wright will this time be at the constituency’s disposal. We understand the latter gentleman will be sufficiently master of his time to be able to give his services to the country, in Parliament, should a majority of the electors so will it. There is some talk of asking the Mayor to call a public meeting to “ select” a candidate for the district, as if, forsooth, any amount of public meeting selection would influence the operation of the ballot. We hope the Mayor will think twice before he saddles the borough with the expense of a public meeting of the kind hinted at. Candidates will not he wanting when the time comes, and they ought to be allowed to pay ex penses of this kind themselves. In the matter of political meetings the last one held in the Town Hall showed by the miserable attendance how meetings of this kind are esteemed by the public. Accident. Yesterday, Mr. P. A. Edmiston, of the firm of Edmiston Bros, and Gundry, met with a rather severe accident near the Buccleuch station, in the Mount Somers district. Mr. Edmiston was thrown from his horse, and was so severely injured that he had to remain at the Buccleuch station where he was attended by Dr. Ross, of Ashburton, who was sent for to town. Mr. Edmiston is progressing favorably.

Another Cleric for the House.— The Temuka Leader understands that a requisition is being proposed to the Rev. George Barclay asking him to allow him self to be nominated for Geraldine. The Leader adds that if the rev. gentleman stands, of which there is every probability, he is certain to secure the seat, and a bril liant future is in store for him.

“Probationary Nurses.” —The expe riment of probationary nurses has not been a successful one at the Christchurch Hospital. Two of the novices have been got rid of because of their fondness for liquor.

The Financial Statement. —The Colo nial Treasurer’s Financial Statement will be submitted to-night and will be tele graphed to the Press as usual. It will be a very short statement.

“Charity Coals” —Mrs. Deans has made a present to the Charitable Aid Board of six tons of coal from the Glen tunnel Colliery.

West Coast Journalism.— A corres pondent of tlie Post points out that the reason why the “New Zealander has such a “ down” on Mr Barff, the member for Hokitika is that the “New Zealander’s” proprietor Mr. It. C. Reid was beaten for the Hokitika seat by a hundred votes by the same Mr. Barff. Mr. Reid is not the only spiteful journalist transplanted from the West Coast. The Land Revenue. —From a return of the land revenue receipts for the year ended June 30, we learn that the district yielding the highest net sum to the Gov ernment from this source was Geraldine— £l2o,B2s. The next highest was Ashbur ton—£l2l,77l ; and the next Ashley— £ll9,774. No other district in the Colony ran into six figures.

Mr. Rees. —Mr. Rees is not on the Napier Roll, though a ratepayer. It is stated that his name was struck off by the revising officer, but that is not at all likely.

Native Affairs. The Government will shortly send another body of constab ulary to further strengthen the military posts on the West Coast. In fact there are more Constabulary now at Mount Cook than there is sleeping accomodation for. Another building for stores and war material will also be erected at some point on the disturbed land not yet determined on.

Labor in Dunedin. —The streets in Dunedin are crowded with workmen un employed and there is a great deal of dis tress throughout the city though the suf ferers are not demonstrative.

Retrenchment. — We (Wairarapa Stan dard) hear on very good authority that the butchers in Wellington have been killing from ten to twenty bullocks less a week now than they were some months ago. This is most likely caused by a cash system of payments being enforced and the public being a little more eco nomical these hard times.

Cheek. —ln Palmerston recently a gentleman named Waihurton tied up his horse at the door of a bank while he went inside to transact business. In his ab sence a young man named Thompson mounted the horse and decamped with it. A constable pursued and overtook the fugitive in five miles, but Thompson did not capitulate until the constable knocked him down and tapped him two or three times with the handcuffs. The horse thief has been committed for trial, which he now awaits in Wanganui goal.

CORRESPONDENCE.

We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondent s.

THE GILT CROSS.

To the Editor of The Ashburton Herald,

Sir, —“Toleration’s” letter yesterday was a most extraordinary one —both be cause of the Billingsgate it managed to drag into your columns, and the intole ranee it manifested, despite the motto over which the writer wrote. The “ Fellow who Drives a Cart ” was only abused, not answered, and the fact that the writer of yesterday strikes once for the “ gilt cross ” and a dozen times for the “ Ro mish Church ” is sufficient evidence of the cloven foot. Protestants do not now require to fight again the battle of the Reformation. If they did, “ Toleration ” would write in a far more temperate spirit ; it is only because the Romish Church is no more the nightmare of the world that its misguided votaries rave and fume with the coarseness of ‘•’Toleration” in your yesterday’s paper. I am glad we have follows driving carts who can write when they set their minds to it as the one did who addressed you, and brought down from your yesterday’s c hampion of Rome the delicate reference to the night cart. —I am, &0., Boyne.

TELEGRAPHIC.

TO-DAY’S TELEGRAMS.

INTERPROViNCiAL.

Sir George Grey.

Auckland, Thursday.

At a public meeting at Awhata it was resolved to ask Sir George Grey to stand for Waipu.

Bullet Firing.

Messrs. Lewis, Frost, LeClair, Kelly, and Saroney, of the Victoria Loftus troupe, were charged at the police court with discharging bullets into the waiting room of Stokes’ Point Ferry. Lewis and Frost fired the bullets, and the charge was withdrawn against the rest. The New Britain Affair. The Rev. George Brown, in his lec ture at Pitt Street Wesleyan Church, on the New Guinea Mission, gave a lengthy defence of his war expedition. A resolution was carried unanimously — “ That this meeting, while conveying its thanks to the Rev. Air. Browne for his address, desires to express in a most emphatic manner its appreciation and approval of his action in connection with the recent events in New Britain.’’

Earthquake,

Wellington, Thursday. Two more shocks of earthquake were felLjhere yesterday afternoon. District Judge. Mr. McDonald, of the Thames, has been appointed District Judge for Auckland. Too Many Lawyers. The New Zealand Times asserts that the solicitors of the city have entered into a compact not to take any clerks without a bond that they will not for five years after the expiry of their present articles practice in the city or within 16 miles of it.

Te Whiti’s Hold on the Natives. —Malcahi, one of the natives convicted at New Plymouth for damaging Mr. Jury’s land, delivered the following speech at the conclusion of the trial: —“ Te Whiti owns the land, and no one has a right to interfere with him. Te Whiti was right to order us to do what we were doing. I believe that Te Whiti is the ruling spirit over us all; he always was, and always will be, and that is the reason why we obey him. Te Whiti has talked with Mr. Mackay before over this affair, and he wished to have the fight out with the Governor. What evil there is in it let it fall on Te Whiti. At each different place the natives have been taken up they have not used any violence. Te Whiti told Mr. Mackay that the evil should fall on him (Te Whiti), and no one else.”

A ’Cute Maori. —At the trial of the Maori prisoners at New Plymouth for damaging William Jury’s land, the Resident Magistrate instructed the in terpreter to ask the natives if they wished to ask the witness any questions. Tahana : Did you buy the land from another European ? Witness : Yes. Tahana : Who did that European buy it from ? Witness: Mr. Elliot. Tahana: And who did Mr. Elliot buy it from? Witness : from Mr. Johnson. Tahana: Who did Johnson buy it from? Wit ness : He got it from the Government for his services as a military settler. Tahana : Who did the Government get the land from ? Witness: I don’t know. Tahana was then asked if he had any more questions to ask. Pie said : My last question has not been answered yet. It is strange he can answer all the other questions and not this one —the most important of all.

Agricultural Chemists. Mr. Hamlin has given notice of motion to ask the Government, Whether they will appoint agricultural chemists in the various provincial districts throughout the colony, with the view of instructing agriculturalists, generally as to the best methods of using manures usually sup plied ?

ASHBURTON COUNTY COUNCIL.

The usual monthly meeting of the County Council was held yesterday, when there was a full attendance of members.

CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT

In his opening statement the Chair man (Mr. W. C." Walker) said that at a special meeting of the Council on the 16th July, lie had brought before mem bers then present a letter he had received from the Minister for Public Works stating that he (the Minister) was unable to comply with the Council’s request owing to the objections there were to the stoppage from subsidies to Road Boards in the Geraldine County for that county’s due share of the expense of the Rangitata traffic bridge extension. Hopeful of bringing affairs to a satisfac tory conclusion the following courses had been suggested to the Minister as affording means of dealing with the point at issue : (1) To have the pay ments by the Road Boards legalised ; (2) The Government to take over the materials ordered by the Council for the bridge, and complete the extension, deducting the amount from both counties, and crediting this county with its present liability—the materials ordered; (3) That this county should give up its control and let Government do as it thinks fit under section 85 Public Works Act, 1876. To this the Minister replied that he could not say what course would be followed until the surveys for the Canterbury interior main line are more advanced. The Council had taken delivery of the piles ordered from England, for the Rangitata Bridge, at Winslow, as the most con venient place, and those ex Adelaide had been received, and the Orari’s cargo was expected shortly. A letter from the Minister for Public Works stated that the contract for the Mount Somers line had absorbed the vote of last session, so that no funds were available for taking advantage of the labor of the unemployed on the exten sion of the line as proposed by the Council, who would now have to con sider the advisableness of urging Go vernment to place on the estimates a sufficient sum to carry the line to Mount Somers, as such extension was of great importance to the county. The member for the district had received the petition to the Legislative Council, and would consult with the Hon. John Flail for its presentation. The Council should take into consideration the amount of money the Upper Ashburton Road Board would have to pay towards the cost of the bridge near Digby’s as the amount voted by that Board was in excess of the contract accepted. An application would come before the Council from the South Rakaia Road Board that the matter of storm-water drainage should be dealt with for the county generall}'. The question was a serious one, and a scheme would have to be devised for preventing large col lections of storm water, which were detrimental to both public and private property. It was incumbent on the Council by the provisions of the Public Works Act of 1876, to have prepared a drainage map of the county, and if the Engineer were instructed to prepare such a map, a system of surface drainage would be thereby facilitated. RANGITATA TRAFFIC BRIDGE. On the letter from the Minister for Public Works, referred to by the Chair man in his opening statement Mr. Wright was of opinion that there was no chance of getting anything done in the matter of the Rangitata Bridge until a new Government came into office. It was evident the Minister meant to appropriate the bridge for railway purposes, and it was worth con sidering whether they should not utilise the materials they had ordered in build ing the bridge over the South Ashbur ton.

On the question of utilising for the proposed south branch bridge the material intended for the Rangitata traffic bridge Mr. Grigg said he should like fuller information as to the relative cost of a wooden and iron bridge, with the view of ascertaining whether it was desirable or otherwise to use the Rangitata material. He moved, That with reference to the question of using the material procured for the Rangi tatata Rridge, the Engin .-er be directed to prepare a plan and estimate of the bridge, first, by using the materials referred to ; second, for a bridge of some other con struction entirely of wood or other material. The plans to be laid before the Council at its next sitting, together with tlie estimate of the cost.

Mr. Wright seconded the motion, which was carried.

• DRAINAGE SCHEME,

The South Rakaia Road Board wrote asking the Council to allow their Engineer, in conjunction with the Government Engineer, and one em-

ployed by the Boards interested, to report upon the best means of convey ing storm water either to the Rakaia River or elsewhere.

The Chairman suggested the prepar ation of a drainage map of the county. Mr. Wright thought this would be a work of some magnitude. Mr. Cameron advocated some system of getting rid of the storm water, as at present the lines of road were utilised as water channels by settlers to the roads’ detriment. Sooner or later the question of county drainage would have to be considered. It was resolved to instruct the engineer in terms of the Rakaia Board’s request.

THE ASHBUETON BRIDGE. The matter of a seco .d bridge over the Ashburton at the township was shelved for three months, as the Council considered, in the present state of political parties in Wellington, it was futile to move in the matter. PLANTING. In the matter of planting, the follow ing motion by Mr. Grigg was passed : “ That, with reference to the grant of £125 to the Roacl Boards of Upper Ash burton, South Rakaia, Mount Hutt, and Mount Somers, for planting purposes, made by the Council, the several Road Boards shall be authorisod to use the money in planting either school or ceme tery sites, or any other public reserves in their districts, at their discretion.” THE engineer’s REPORT Was then read. BRIDGE OVER THE SOUTH ASHBURTON. After considerable discussion, in the course of which Mr. Cameron con tended that the traffic over the north branch of the Ashburton was greater than that over the south, and urged that no steps should be taken towards the erection of a south branch bridge until both the north branch and south branch bridges had been considered together—moving an amendment to that effect, which was negatived, Mr. Wright’s motion was carried as follows :

That the Engineer be instructed to pre pare plans for a road bridge over the South Ashburton, for the considera tion of the Council at its next meeting.

taylor’s bridge.

It was resolved that the plan and specifications for this work be approved of, and forwarded to the Mount Somers Road Board. PETITION. A petition was read from a number of residents of Mount Somers district, praying that a sum of £x,ooo be voted towards bringing a stream of water from Woolshed Creek. It was resolved on the motion of Mr. Jackson, seconded by Mr. Grigg— “ That a return be prepared, showing all moneys expended in, and appro priated to, each riding within the county; also, the extent of the freehold land, and land under lease from the Crown, including reserves in each riding. WATERTON POUND. It was resolved to secure a site of one acre for the erection of a pound on R.S. 8416. BUILDING COMMITTEE. The Building Committee reported that as the cost of erecting Council offices, &c. ; according to the original plan was largely in excess of the esti mate, the architect had been instructed to prepare modified plans. COUNTY VALUATOR. Applications for the office of valuator for the County were received, and that of Mr. F. G. P. Leech was accepted. HIGH SCHOOL BOARD. Mr. E. G. Wright was appointed a member of the High School Board, vice Mr, Wason resigned.

LAST NIGHT’S CABLEGRAMS.

AUSTRALIAN-

(Reuter's Telegrams.)

Adelaide, August 6,

The Treasurer has introduced his Financial Statement. The revenue for the last financial year was £1,661,000, and the expenditure The chief deficiency was in the Customs’ revenue. For the current year the estimated revenue is and the expenditure being an estimated deficit of exclu sive of supplementary estimates, which it is proposed to cover by new taxes of 6d. in the £ on incomes derivable from interest, and 3d. in the on capital invested in business, and 3d. in the £ on incomes exceeding per annum.

Melbourne, August 6.

The Budget discussion still con tinues. A statement in the Age news paper this morning denies Sir John O’Shannassy’s intention to move a vote of want of confidence. Sailed —Tararua, for the Bluff.

( Special.)

Adelaide August 6.

A girl tells an extraordinary story that a former sweetheart stopped her in the street, threw a chloroformed hand kerchief over her face, and carried her off in a cab while in a state of insensi bility. She awoke in a boat at sea, when her captor struck at and .missed her, and fell overboard. She herself was found insensible on the beach, but there were no signs of any boat.

Brisbane, August 6. Major Copperfield has heed arrested for the theft of a watch.

It is a delicate subject, and we hope we may be pardoned for talking about it— this new fashion of wearing a blue stocking on one leg and a red one 011 the other, jr. is not natural. Nature is one great har-

mony, and its laws arc universal. If it had been intended that women should adopt this style they would have been supplied with exactly as many legs as there a: e colors in the rainbow.

DRAMATIC MANAGERS IN TROU BLE.

From the Wellington Post. Opera managers and theatrical lessees have been notorious from time im memorial for their vicissitudes of fortune. One season sees them rolling in wealth, and the next shows them seeking refuge in the cold but convenient shelter of the Bankruptcy Court. Xlio histories of the great theatres of London would give us the names of scores of “ impressarios ” who have passed their existence in a con tinual sfcato of metamorphosis. Butter lly-like, for a space they live on the sweets of the land ; princes and nobles, and even princesses and peeresses may be counted among their daily companions ; they dwell in gorgeous palaces, sleep in the downiest of beds, eat dinners that would have ex cited the envy of Epicurus, and drink champagne of the most celebrated vin tages. As to any thought of the morrow, that does not trouble them. They arc prosperous for the time, and happy, and their motto is, ‘ ‘ Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.” Suddenly they dis appear from the bright places on the earth, and their halls so lately Idled with the sounds of revelry arc now resonant with the knockings of the auctioneer’s hammer and the biddings of the sons of Israel. Their names are seen connected with advertisements of meetings of credi tors and other official notifications of in solvency, and a passing comment after the puff of a cigar forgotten as soon as uttered, is the brief panegyric of their departed glory vouschafed by their patrician as sociates. You look in vain for them in the ordinary haunts of even decent mediocrity, but if you happen to be passing through some local Leicester Square after sunset you may catch a glimpse of the well-known figure once resplendent with glorious apparel, but now seedy-looking and buttoned to the chin to hide the absence of clean linen, and with, only just sufficient of the old swagger left to enable you to identify the celebrated Another year passes, and one fine morn ing the news is spread that has

again taken the management of the Theatre. Perhaps you had thought him dead, or at any rate gone to foreign parts. No, he has simply been hibernating ; his period of grubsliip is passed, and he is again the brilliant butterfly. Do not the names of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, E. T. Smith, Charles Matthews, Buckstone, Chatterton—to mention a few winch occur at once—all bring vividly to mind in stances of such chequered careers 1 The colonies can point to a class of managers just as Protean, although on a smaller scale, and no doubt if Mr. W. Hoskins were applied to he could tell as good a yarn about the ups and downs of theatrical life as many an “ old stager ” at home. Passing from managers to actors and actresses, the same' vicissitudes surround them and we hear in . the one day of France’s Countess Waldegrave, daughter of Braham, of glorious memory, sinking to her last rest, one of the recognised leaders of the haughtiest aristocracy in the world ; and of poor Mrs. Rousby, only a few years ago the most brilliant debutante of the London stage, dying in poverty and brokenhearted through her own folly, which robbed her of husband, friends, and reputation. What a theme this for Talmage, Spurgeon, Beecher, or even our friend the Rev. Charles Clark ! How any one of these could paint the glowing colors and the gathering shades, and with what a splendid “ moral” they could “ a clorn the tale.” Stage life exactly, cor responds to the characteristics of the play house. It is all glitter and spangles that the public see from the front, while be hind the scenes there is such woeful gloom, squalor, and misery that one is led to won der how paint and gaslight can effect such a wonderful transformation.

The scene presented yesterday at the meeting of creditors of the unfortunate opera company managers was one which forcibly brought the foregoing reflections to the mind. An opera company—perhaps the gayest embodiment which a casual, observer could imagine—was there seen under circumstances about as abnormal and dismal as possible. It was “going behind the scenes ” with a vengeance. No glitter and spangles here, but stern matter-of-fact reality and poverty. One of the managers in the custody of a gaoler ; both impatiently chafing at their obligation to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, not only to the examining solicitor, but also to those whom they have been accustomed to consider their servants, and every now and then breaking out into vulgar bursts of melo-dramatie anger at the irritating tauuts conveyed in the questions. Bound the room the creditors presented a motley spectacle. There was the husband of the prima fdonna —sharper tnantne rest, he had succeeded in drawing what was due to his wife before the smash—with a cigar in hi.s mouth, his head thrown carelessly back, and his legs crossed, lending a seemingly lazy ear and eye to the proceedings ; there the tall military looking man with the big moustache said as plainly as possible, “ I am the bass and I want my money.” Next to him, slender and pale-faced, is the walking gentleman, restless in attitude, and voluble in re proaches when his turn comes. Lhe stern and concentrated gaze which marks that individual with the black, bushy curls, the shabby billy-cock, and the long ulster should indicate the stage, villain, very probably as quiet and moflensive a fellow as over walked tlic earth, but now the circumstances bring out his stage manner strongly. There are younger men, almost lads, indignant at losing the modest pittance which should reward their efforts as second tenors, altos, or chorus singers, and than we come to scene shifters, property men, supers, and other small-fry, but all equally interested—and we are "sadly afraid vainly interested —in the effort to force from their unfortunate “ bosses” tlic dues which have been with held. But wo have omitted the ladies, who are represented somewhat scantily. There arc only four present, and poor things, they look as if they could ill afford to lose their hard won earnings. The scene altogether was a sad one, hut the insight it afforded into the other life of a section of the community, of whose trials and troubles too little account is taken by the rest of the world to whose gratifica tion they devote their energies, could not fail to be instructive." It certainly cul minated in a farce when a pert ** super, of about 14, whose “ cheek ” would have done credit to a London arab, demanded, with overbearing insolence, of tlie mana gers why bis wages wove stuck down at lialf-a-crown a night when lie never got but two shillings?

Larch Frost Fish.—A frost fish over Oft in length is now on view in Wel lington.

Holloway's Ointment and Pills. — Health’s Defences. —None save the strongest can with impunity pass through the sudden transitiocs from wet to dry, from cold to muggy weather so prevalent during the iale autumn and early winter months. Influenza, bronchitis, cough, sore throat, dipthcria, or quinsey will attack those most watchful of their health ; but they can readily arrest any of these complaints by rubbing Holloway’s Ointment twice a day upon the skin adjacent to the affected part, and by assisting its corrective action with appro priate doses of his Pills. This well-known, safe, and easy mode of treatment efficiently protects the invalid both from present and future danger without weakening or even de pressing to the sytem in the. slightest degree.

Thursday, Acgusi' y *879,]

THE ASHBURTON HERALD



j. d. s. d. Butter, inferior to best ip lb 1 0 to I 4 Eggs, b'' dozen 2 2 to 0 0 Cheese, prime quality, lP lb O 3 to 0 IO Bacon, prime smoked, IP lb O 9 to 0 10 Hams in cloth, l? lb I 0 to 0 0 Flour in bags, l? ioolb 12 6 t to 0 0 Oatmeal, IP' 251b 6 6 to 0 0 Lard, bf? lb - 0 9 to 0 0



Clothing Establishment. ASSIGNMENT OF THE ESTATE OF MESSES. AITKEN, PASCOE & CO.. CLOTHING MANUFACTURERS, TO Mr. J. EL Morrison, 1 Manager Mosgiel Woolen | Factory, L Trustees. AND Mr. John Eoss, _ i Of Sargood, Sons & Ewing J rfIHE above large Clothing Manufac | tilling Firm having had to succumb to these hard times, and assign their estate, we have been induced by the Trustees to purchase the whole of their large Manufactured Stock at a Very Heavy Reduction, and have resolved to sell the same again in our Branches direct to the public at prices at which we could not legitimately, sell our own Goods. In fact (without exaggeration) during the next few weeks we are in a position to offer NEW GOODS IN MEN’S AND BOYS’ ATTIRE, Of Colonial Manufacture, at from “" ' " O N E T FI I R D TO ONE HALF TIIE IR USUAL COS T . II ALLEN STEIN BROS., New Zealand Clothing Factory. The assigned Stock will he for Sale in our Ashburton Branch from and on ■SATURDAY NEXT, 28th JUNE. New Zealand Clothing Factory. 12a CHRISTCHURCH AND SUBURBAN DIRECTORY FOR 187'J. ON SALE at the “ HERALD ” Office, Saunders Buildings, East-street. ppi CIS FIV E SILILLIN GS, Neatly Bound in Cloth. The above Volume contains a lot of valuable information, and should be in the imuds of every Tradesman.



Advertisements for the Ashburton Herald must be sent in not later than 2 p.m. for the Country Edition, and 3 pan. for the Town Edition, with the number of insertions written plainly on he copy, other wise they will be inserted till countermanded, and charged accordingly. Notice to discontinue Advertisements must be left at the Office in writing, before 12 noon and alterations the day previous. Subscriptions : In Advance. If Booked



WANTED, at once, a Compositor or Pressman, for a short time. Apply 214 a HERALD OFFICE.



New Advertisements. WANTED, First-class COOK for a Station ; must be able to bake. References required. Apply K. SANDO, Registry Office. • ,J 229 a ■pOR SALE, a few Laying FOWLS* Apply 230 a HERALD OFFICE. a Fox Terrier Bitch, white, JP with black and tan back and head. Owner can have the same by paying for this advertisement. Apply 231 a HERALD OFFICE. N O T I C E. A SCANDAL having been circulated /-% by certain parties in Ashburton to the effect that I am about to leave with out paying my debts, I hereby caution such parties that proceedings will be taken against them unless such statements are withdrawn. J. C. HUGHES. August 7, 1879. 232 a PIANOFORTE TUNING., for Tuning can be received by the undersigned up to WEDNESDAY, 13th inst., prior to his leaving the district. Orders left at the Herald Office. Timing Pianoforte—los. J. C. HUGHES, Teacher and Tuner. August 7, 1879. 233 In the District Court of Canterbury, Holden at Ashburton. IN THE MATTER OF The Debtois and Creditors Act, 1876, and of The Debtors and Creditors Act, 1876, Amendment Act, 1878, and of the bankruptcy of SAMUEL LUCAS. qnHIS IS TO NOTIFY that the above -I named Samuel Lucas has this day filed a statement that ho is unable to meet his engage ments with his creditors. The hrst meeting of creditors to be held at ihe District Courthouse, Ashburton, on Monday, the eleventh day of August, at eleven a.m. Dated this sixth day of August, 1879. C. OAYENDISH HURRELL, Clerk of the Court. O’Reilly & Ireland, Solicitors for the Debtor. 234 a “THE LAND TAN ACT, 1878:



CANTERBURY DISTRICT. COUNTY OP ASHBURTON. NOTIFICATION OF SITTING OF AS SESSMENT COURT. npAKE NOTICE, that the sittings of the 1 Assessment Court, under the above named Act, for the Borough of Ashburton and the County of Ashburton, for hearing and determining all objections to the Valuation Lists of the same under the above Act, will be held as follows, when all Valuers and other persons duly appoin ted for the said Districts shall attend the sittings of the said Courts, and shall produce all books and papers relating to their respective offices, which the Court may require to be produced : Borough of Ashburton—Monday, 25th August, at 11 a.m., at the Resident Magistrate’s Court. County of Ashburton —Thursday, 28th August, at 11 a.m., at the Resident Magistrate’s Court. F. GUINNESS, R.M., 235 a Judge. ASHBURTON BOROUGH COUNCIL. TVTOTICE is hereby given that the fol lowing Tenders have been accepted : For Fencing Baring Square—Mr. S. B. Nelson. For Formation and Levelling—Mr. R. S. Wake. CHARLES BRADDELL, Town Clerk. Ashburton, 7th August, 1879. 236a—3 JUST ARRIVED Young Ladies’ Journal, London Journal, Family Herald, and Bow Bells, at H. M. Jones’ Baring Square. £i REWARD. LOST, from Ashburton, a Dark Bay PONY, shod all round, collar marked, no brand visible. The above will be given to anyone returning same to Quill’s Hotel. 237 a Meetings. ASHBURTON RACING CLUB. A MEETING of the Members of the above Club will be held on THURS DAY Evening, 7th August, at 7.30 p.m., at the Road Board Office. Business : Consideration of Balance-Sheet, Appoint ment of Officers for Spring Meeting, and other Important Business. A Full Meeting requested. JAMES WILKIE, Hon. Sec. 185 a