POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Mails at the Ashburton Post Office close as follows: For Christchurch and North at 10.20 a.m. 4 p.m., and 7.30 p.m., daily. For Chertsey 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 Greenstreet, 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. |W. St. G. Douglas, Postmaster.

NOTICE.

Mails close at the Chief Post Office for the following places (subject to the necessary alte rations) as under: — The raext 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.

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.

UNCLAIMED LETTERS.

On the first daj jf each month a list is ex hibited at each Pc it 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; and such of these letters as remain unclaimed at the end of a further period of two months are then for warded to the Dead Letter Office, to be return ed unopened to the countries where they origi nated. Unclaimed letters originating in the Colony are not advertised; but at the end of two *»nths are forwarded to the Dead Letter Office, Wellington, there to be opened and re turned to the writers.

ASHBURTON RETAIL LIST.

The Ashburton Herald AND Borough and County Advertiser With which is incorporated the “ Evening Echo”). WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1879.

Via Brindisi. —The next mails for the United Kingdom, via Brindisi and South ampton (for specially addressed corre spondence only) will close at Ashburton on Monday, 25th August. The Brindisi mail will be due in London on 20th October, and the Southampton one on the 27th October. Mr. Wright’s Meeting. —We would remind the Ashburton electors of Mr. Wright’s meeting to-night in the Town

Hall. To-night’s meeting will be the first of the series to be held in the district by Mr. Wright, and as Ashburton contains the largest number of electors, and may be looked upon as the centre of the dis trict, Mr. Wright’s speech to the electors in the Town Hall will in all probability be the most important of any he will deliver. We hope he will have a large meeting and a fair hearing. Odd-Fellows. —An important meeting of the Odd-Fellows’ Lodge in Ashburton, is advertised for Friday evening. Mem bers are informed that absence at roll call entails a fine.

. Mr. George Hart.— Mr. George Hart arrived in Ashburton by this morning’s express. He will probably be present at Mr. Wright’s meeting in the Town Hall to-night. The Street Lamps. —The lamp-posts, cast to the order of the Borough Council by Messrs. Scott Bros., iron-founders, Christchurch, are in course of erection by the Corporation’s workmen, on the sites fixed by the Council. There is a likeli hood that the streets will be lamp-lit this week.

Railway Extension. —We are pleased to report that the Tinwald and Mount Somers Railway contract, which is being carried out by Messrs. Fraser and Guild; has made very satisfactory progress, especially remembering that the weather of late has been a drawback to the work. The formation and bottom-ballasting is nearly completed as far as Lagmhor Station, about seven miles from the junc tion at Tinwald, and as soon as the points and crossing from the main line are fixed, platelaying will be proceeded with probably in a few days. There is plenty of material on hand to complete about four miles, and the contractors anticipate the balance will ai’rive as required, so that their progress will not be impeded in this respect. There is about 3f miles of this line to cut yet, but the contractors’ expect to complete their portion of the work in five or six weeks. After this is completed the line will be ready for fencing and the erection of stations, but these are a separate contract. The railway should be finished and in working order by the opening of the grain season, and there is reason to hope that it will be so. It will pi’ove a great boon to the farmers adjoin ing, who have a large extent of land under crop this year.

Lagmhor Estate. —A visit to the station of John M‘Lean, Esq., which the Mount Somers Railway intersects for about eight miles, shows a large amount .«f work being done in the way of cropping, fencing, sowing, and tree planting. There have been ploughed this season 4,800 acres, and out of this area 900 acres have been sown in wheat, 3,000 in oats, 500 in turnips, and 400 in pure rye grass seed, the latter imported expressly for growing seed for future sowing. About 2,700 acres of this land have been let for this season’s crop, 2,000 for oats and 700 for wheat. The fencing done this season is over ten miles in length and about three miles of the creek banks have been planted with with willows, poplars, and ash trees, which will .have a very pleasing effect in a few years. We also learn from Mr. Donald M‘Lean, who has been manager of the estate for many years, that there are now about thirty men employed on the station, and that the stock numbers 23,000 sheep, 100 head of cattle, and 40 horses. Mr. John M £ Lean has made extensive im provements on this estate since he has taken it over entirely to himself, and we learn that greater improvements still are projected on the property, which is one of the finest in Canterbury.

New Zealand Tourist’s Guide. —Under the auspices of the Union Steamship Company a Guide to the parts of the colony attractive to tourists is to be pub lished at a shilling. It will be illustrated by an Otagan lady who has already become known as an artist, and the work will otherwise be made attractive as well as exceedingly useful to the large number of people who make use of the steamers every summer for pleasure trips. Nor will the “New Zealand Tourist” be without its value to the many whom the great expense of steamboat travelling, and the sacrifice of time thereby entailed, keep stationary in the places where their living is earned.

The County Hospital.— This after noon, without ceremony, the foundation stone of the Comity Hospital was laid. It was originally intended by the County Council that the laying of the foundation stone should be marked by some kind of public demonstration, and the stone was ordered to be prepared with a viev,j to that. Blt was decided afterwards, how ever, that no demonstration should take place until the opening, and consequently it was left for Mr. Stanley Bruce, the architect, to prepare the customary de scription and history of the building, procure copies of the local papers, and insert the whole in the cavity of the stone prepared for their reception. This was done this afternoon by Mr. Bruce.

S„vf4 Accident at Timaru.— A and a% cidont occurred this morning at Timaru railway station to Mr. William Wraight, a guard w T ell known at every station along the line, and who has many friends in Ashburton who will regret to hear of his misfortune. Mr. Wraight had brought the goods train, which leaves Oamaru at 11.30 p.m. to Timaru, where it arrives at 4.15 in the morning. While marshalling his train preparatory to a start for Ash burton, and: while engaged on the last shunt, Mr. Wraight had occasion to cross between two waggons while they were in motion. He was stepping from the buffer of one on to the brake. The brake was out of the catch, hut held till both his feet were on it when it came down, drop ping Mr. Wraight between the wheels. One wheel passed in an oblique direction over his loft thigh, which has been shockingly mangled. Mr. Wraight was attended by Dr. Wil liams of Timaru, who at date of our infor mation was unable to say to what extent the bones had been injured, but lie has no hope that the knee-joint will ever again be movable. Mr. Wraight had the presence of mind to get clear of the rails after the first wheel had passed over him.

The Governments Want of Enter prise.—Dr. Newman, standing for Wel lington city, addressing the electors last Wednesday, said : —Now the cry was to shut up immigration because trade was so bad. If the Government devoted more care to developing the country there would he no need for this cry. Why was it that at present all their trade was with Great Britain ? New York and Paris were rapidly approaching London in the extent of their trade, and what better place than Paris could there be for adver tising their wares 1 The Government should look to this, and not have all its eggs in one basket. The discovery of plumbago at Waimate, .and coal in Wa nganui, had been taken very little notice of, and yet they were importing about 350,000 tons of coal annually from other colonies. (Hear, hear.) They wanted a State conservation of forests, State en couragement of the manufacture of iron, and of the development of their fisheries. In face of the fact that wool was declining in price in England, and was not likely to rise again for years, the Government should have tried to find a fresh market, say in China and Ilindostan. The trial would cost very little ; not so much as the members’ honorarium.

TELEGRAPHIC.

LATEST FROM EUROPE.

TO-DAT’S CABLEGRAMS

{Reuter's Telegrams.)

St. Petersburg, August 18.

Great excitement has been caused here, owing to the police having made a seizure of a quantity of gunpowder and explosives. The Nihilists are sus pected to be implicated.

AUSTRALIAN.

The Bank Robbers. Melbourne, August 20. The Commercial Bank robbers have made full confession. The proposed news tariff lias been severely criticised in the Legislative Assembly.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

TO-DAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Wellington, Wednesday.

The Liberal Association last night took a ballot for the candidates to be nominated for the city, with the follow ing result : —Levein, 2 ; Anderson, 26 ; Greenfield, 22 ; plump for Hutcheson, 17-

Jackson, a candidate for the Hutt, addressed the electors of Lower Hutt last night. He announced himself a liberal, and received a vote of confi dence. Mason, a candidate for the same district addressed the electors at Taita, and announced himself as an anti-Greyite. A vote of confidence was also passed. A proclamation in the Gazette issued to-day calls Parliament together for the despatch of business on the 17th Sep. tember. Electoral. Wanganui, Wednesday. The largest meeting ever held in Wanganui assembled last night to hear Mr. Ballance’s speech. For two hours he carried the audience with him entirely. A vote of confidence was carried by 500 to 3. Political. Dunedin, Wednesday. At a meeting last night it was resolved to form a Liberal Association. Another meeting will be held on Friday. A working men’s meeting is to be held to-night to choose a representative. The charges of embezzlement against Thomas Chalmers Reid are now pro ceeding.

The Catholic Peerage. —The number of Roman Catholic peers is thirty-six, of whom twenty-six have seats in the House of Lords. The Catholic baronets are forty-seven.

The reason a young man parts his hair in the middle is through fear that the weight of more than half of it on one side will crush in his skull.

A Young lady who edits an American paper says, “ Wo do not look so well to day as usual, on account of the non-arri val of the mails.”

LAST NIGHT'S CABLEGRAMS.

(Renter's Telegrams.)

Cairo, August 19

The Ministry has resigned, and a new one has been formed under the presi dency of Prince Tewfik.

AUSTRALIAN.

(Reuter's Telegrams.)

Sydney, August iS

A detachment of artillery and police, fully armed, have proceeded to New castle to quell, if necessary, expected riots among the miners. Bishop Selwyn will deliver an address to-night on the Melanesian mission. Liberal contributions are being made to the funds.

Affairs at Lambton are quiet. Several miners meetings have been held, and a lock-out of the Lamblon men is pro bable.

Newcastle, August 19. The disturbance was exaggerated. There was no real necessity for the despatch of the military. Grey, the Lancefield robber, states that he had no revolver, but only a meerschaum pipe case. Lowe was wanted for a ferocious assault on an Italian on the'day previous to tire Bank affair. He had decoyed the man into the bush under pretence of having discovered a reef, inflicted a murderous blow on the head with a stick and then went and ransacked the house.

A Chloroform for the “ Vets.” —At a recent meeting of the Boston Microscopical Society, Dr. A. M. Blodget read a very interesting paper on curage, the South American arrow poison, which is now used to render lower animals unconscious during sur gical operations. It has been found, Dr. Blodget asserted, that curage pro duces insensibilty without interfering with the functions essential to life, and supplies a need that the medical pro fession have long felt, in that it does not require watching when administered as do ether and chloroform. Birds are more profoundly affected than quad rupeds, and reptiles are poisoned for a much longer time than birds. It is generally administered hypodermically in exceedingly minute doses. The duration of the paralysis produced seems to depend upon two factors—the activity of the circulation and the ra pidity of the elimination. In some cases a frog will recover in five hours, but in others the action will last for days. In one case a frog was eleven days before he woke up, and then he recovered the full use of his faculties in a few hours. A “Matrimonial Chronicle”.— Have you in New Zealand (asks the Sydney correspondent of the Otago Daily Times) a Matt imonial Chronicle ? We have, and it is to Tumut, a re mote southern town, we are indebted for this phenomenal specimen of jour nalism. Its prospectus is addressed to those “ with no one to caress or to be caressed by,” and it is proposed to ameliorate that state of things by “ rendering every assistance to persons contemplating matrimony, and to treat of such subjects as will tend to make home happy.” On referring to the official directory, I find that at the last census the population of the dis trict was 3321, while there were but 16 marriages in the year, which, from a caressible point of view, is not much. A couple of advertisements —there are eight in the first issue : five for wives and three for husbunds—will suffice to show the value of the matrimonial me dium :—“ Wanted, a Catholic husband, by servant girl, sixteen years old, and has saved She is not very good-looking, but I defy anybody to be a better cook or housekeeper.” “ Wanted, a wife, by a young man in the country with a home and £soo a year.”

“The Trial of the Pyx.” —What is termed the “ trial of the pyx” is a ceremony which fs gone through once a year at the Goldsmiths’ Hall. Its object is to afford a guarantee to the commercial world and the community generally that the gold and silver coin age periodically turned out at the Royal Mint in weight and fineness comes up to the legal standard.

The Bible in Schools. —ln the course of a recent sermon delivered py him in Melbourne, the Rev. Thomas Jones, remarked that, for his part, he attached but little importance to the introduction of the Bible into our State schools. During a forty years’ ministry he had never yet met with a sing’e per son who spoke of any good impressions derived from so-called religious or Bible teaching in day schools; but hundreds had admitted to him that they owed their conversion to the teachings of the Sunday-school, and the example and influence of home. Mr. Jones eloquently and earnestly ap pealed to his hearers to depend upon these natural and proper channels for the religious instruction of their chil dren, and to leave the State schools to do their proper work, which was to give a secular education to youth, and to train them for the secular duties of life. For teaching the higher and holier duties, he claimed that they should de pend upon the parents, the minister, and the Sunday-school teacher.

ANECDOTES OF OLD ROTHSCHILD.

The most eminent of the five bro thers was, undoubtedly, Nathan Meyer Rothschild, who possessed in perfection the qualities indispensable to a pros perous man of business, but lacked some of those which are not less indispen sable to the worthy employment of God's precious gift of life. Money with him was an end rather than a means, and his delight in acquisition completely absorbed him. He had no time nor thought to spare to the cultivation of. “the humanities” or the exercise of a wise charity. All his energies were directed to the successful conduct of operations for adding to his ever-in creasing store. “ I hope,” said Fowell Buxton to him on one occasion, “ I hope your children are not too fond of money and business to the exclusion of more important things. lam sure you would not . wish that.”—“ I am sure I should wish that,” said Rothschild. “ I wish them to give mind and soul, heart and .body everything to business. That is the way to be happy. It re quires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune ; and when you have got it it requires ten times as much wit to keep it.”" Accordingly, to make and keep a fortune were, in Rothschild’s eye, the only objects for which a man should live. Yet the sword of Damocles hung suspended over his head by a hair. A constant shadow overspread his path. “ You must be a very happy man,” said a thoughtless guest to the great financier, at one of his magnificent banquets. “Happy! me happy!” he exclaimed. “ What 1 happy ! when, just as you are going to dine, you have a letter placed in your hands saying, “If you do not send me I will blow your brains out !’ Me happy !” On one occasion, when he was sitting in his private room, a couple of strangers were announced; foreigners with thick moustaches and dark, long beards, less common forty years ago than now. From the mo ment of their entrance the timorous banker was in a state of.panic. He misinterpreted the excited movements with which they searched their pockets ; and, before the expected pistols could be produced, had flung a great ledger in the direction of their heads, and sum moned a posse of clerks by his cries of “ Murder !” The strangers were imme diately pinioned ; but, explanations following, they proved to be wealthy bankers from the Continent, who, in their nervousness at finding themselves in the presence of the great Napoleon of finance, had experienced some diffi culty in finding their letters of introduc tion. A good story of a different kind is told of this eccentric personage. A German prince on a visit to London had letters of credit which he called to deliver. He was shown into the inner room of the celebrated counting-house in St. Swithin’s Lane, where Rothschild sat with a pile of papers before him. The name being announced, Roths child nodded, offered him a chair, and then proceeded with his work. For such indifference the prince, who ex pected that the banker would be over awed by his rank and dignity, was not prepared. He remained standing, and, after a minute or two’s pause, exclaimed, “ Did you not hear, sir, who lam ? I am the Prince of ,” and he re peated all his titles. “ Very well,” said Rothschild, “take two chairs.” He gave a striking proof of his energy, keenness, and unscrupulousness, in the way he availed himself of his knowledge of Na poleon’s defeat at Waterloo. During the great battle of the 18th June, he was posted near the chateau of Plougou mont, watching the progress of the fight as closely as did Wellington him self. All day long he followed it with straining eyes as it ebbed to and fro, involving in its issues the fate of king doms. At sunset he saw that the vic tory was with Wellington and the allies. Without a moment’s delay he mounted a horse that had been kept in readiness for him, and hurried homeward. At regular stages on his road relays of horses and carriages were in waiting to help him onward. Riding or driving through all thesummer night, he reached Ostend at daybreak, to find the sea so stormy that the boatmen refused to venture forth. At last he prevailed upon a fisherman by a bribe of to put to sea, and reached Dover in safety. At Dover, and at the intermediate stages on the road to London, relays were posted and he was in London by midnight. Next morning, 20th June, he was one of the first to enter the .Stock Exchange. In gloomy whispers he to'd those who, as usual, pressed round him to hear the news, that Blucher and his Prussians had been routed by Napoleon before Wellington had had time to come up, that by him self he could not possibly succeed, and that therefore, the cause of England and her allies was lost. As he had in tended, the funds fell rapidly. Every body was anxious to sell; and Roths and his accredited agents laughed at all who offered them scrip for purchase. But scores of unknown agents were secretly at work all that day and next. Before the Stock Exchange closed on the afternoon of the 21st, when Nathan Rothschild’s strong boxes were full of paper, he announced, an hour or two earlier than the arrival of the news through other channels, the real issue of the battle. Rapidly the funds rose to a level they had not reachad for months ; and it is estimated that Roths child cleared a million pounds by his combined energy and unscrupulous ness.

TOBACCO PRINCES.

Perhaps among the changeful peculiarites connected with the com mercial chronology of Glasgow, there is none more extraordinary than the rise, progress, and decay of the tobacco trade, or of the lofty position in the social scale which the limited class of citizens engaged in that lucrative traffic so speedily attained and so soon lost. The trade seems to have originated about the year 17673 and was conducted on principles which could not fail to prove lucrative. The first vessel belong ing to Glasgow which crossed the Atlantic was in 171 S; and soon after the imports of tobacco became so con siderable in the Clyde, as seriously to diminish the imports of the same article at the ports of Bristol, Liverpool, and Whitehaven. In the year 1735 the Virginia merchants of Glasgow could boast of having fifteen large vessels belonging to the ports of the Clyde engaged in the tobacco trade,, __ besides many others which they had chartered from other ports; arid by the year 1750 they had a still greater num-. her. The twenty following years may indeed be considered as the very hey day or culminating point of the tobacco trade in Glasgow. During that period an unexampled extent of business in the intoxicating weed passed through the merchants’ books; and having then paid toll in the shape of profit it was sent to all parts of the continent of Europe, and to not a few of the leading ports of England and Ireland. The fact is that between the years 1760 and 1776, Glasgow became the great em porium of tobacco in the empire ; for, while the whole import into Great Britain in 1772 was 92,000 hogsheads, Glasgow alone imported 40,000 ! Dur ing the period when the trade was in the ascendant, it was perhaps scarcely necessary to repeat what all the old historians of the city has told us, that the persons engaged in it ruled with a very high hand. With a* / hauteur and bearing, indeed, since, altogether unparalleled, they kept them selves separate from the other classes of the town; assuming the air and deportment of persons immeasurably superior to all around them, and treat ing those upon whom they looked down, but on whom they depended, with no little superciliousness. For one of the shopocracy or corkocracy to speak of a tobacco-aristocrat in the street without some sign of recognition from the great man, would have been regarded as an insult. They were princes on the Plainstanes, and strutted about there every day as the rulers of the destinies of Glasgow. Like the princely mer chants, too, who formerly paced the Piazetta in Venice, or occupied the gorgeous palaces in the Strada Balbi of Genoa, the tobacco lords distinguished themselves by a particular garb, being attired like their Venetian and Genoese predecessors, in scarlet coats, curled wigs, cocked hats, and bearing gold headed canes. How long this state of matters would have continued had not the American war interposed to arrest this tobacco traffic and to compel the trader to seek for employment and wealth in other channels, it is impossible to say. All we know is, that very soon after that event the tobacco aristocracy ceased to lead, and the scarlet coats gradually disappeared from the pave ment. Although the period during which this trade flourished in Glasgow was by no means long, yet how many monuments of its success and greatness have been left, either in the princely estates purchased from its gains, or in the magnificient city mansions reared for the accommodation and comfort of the merchant princes who then con ducted it. Supercilious though the possessors of such wealth as a class certainly were to their less opulent fellow citizens, they were nevertheless individually a gay and joyous set, on the most familiar and friendly footing with each other, and with those also, who, in other walks of life, were justly looked upon as the nobles of the city. — Dr. Strang.

A Big Oyster. —The workmen em ployed on the excavations now in progress at the West Melbourne swamp have (says the Argus) made some very curious discoveries. We were shown lately by Mr. Burton, of the Yarra Family Hotel, a gigantic oyster,- measuring in. x 7 }4 in., and weighing 4IS 5J20Z., which had been found at a depth of 14ft. embedded in the mud. At the same spot was also unearthed a large egg, at least three times the size of an emu’s egg, and a quantity of fish bones of very unusual calibre. Unfortunately, the egg and the fish bones were destroyed, but the oyster was preserved, and will be for warded to Professor McCoy, whose report upon the matter will be looked forward to with interest. A Swindle.— 1 “ Atticus ” in the Mel bourne Leader writes :—“A neat little fraud has been just discovered in Eng land. A substantial London firm was in the habit of buying Hamburg spirit in bond, racking it off into Martell’s casks, and sending it to Australia as Martell’s brandy. . It was observed by the authorities that the firm had issued bonded entries for so many casks of Hamburg spirit, and had issued export entries for the same number of casks of Martell’s brandy. An examination was made, the fraud was discovered, and the firm was fined If this is the sort of spirituous liquor our tap loafers have been imbibing, no wonder that intemperance is one of the chief factors of insanity in Australia.”

Aiws? set

THE ASHBURTON HSRAUP



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Clothing Establishment. ASSIGNMENT OF THE ESTATE OF MESSRS. AITKEN, PASCOE & CO., CLOTHING MANUFACTURERS, TO Mb. J. H. Morrison, Manager Mosgiel Woolen Factory, and . Mb. John Ross, Of Sargood, Sons & Ewing „ Trustees. THE above large Clothing Manufac turing Firm having had to succumb to these hard times, and assign their estatg, 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) diiring the next few weeks we are in a position to offer NEW GOODS IN MEN’S AND BOYS’ ATTIRE, Of Colonial Manufacture, at from ONE. THIRD TO ONE HALF THEIR USUAL COST. ' HALLENSTEIN BROS., > New Zealand Clothing Factory. The assigned Stock will be for Sale in our Ashburton Branch from and on SATURDAY NEXT, 28th JUNE. New Zealand Clothing Factory. 12a CHRISTCHURCH AND SUBURBAN DIRECTORY FOR 1879. ON SALE at the “HERALD ” Office, Saunders Buildings, East-street. PRICE FIVE SHILLINGS, Neatly Bound in Cloth. .. The above Volume contains a lot of valuable information, and should be in the jijiails of every T&despmji,



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