DEATHS.

On the 9th April, at Lyttelton, after a longand painful illness, George Francis Scott, aged 54, 679 On April 11th (Good Friday) by a fall from a buggy on the road between Tin wald and Ashburton, Samuel William Brown, Architect, East-street, Ash burton, late of Leeds, England. Aged 32. . : 686

The Ashburton Herald AND Borough and County Advertiser (With which is incorporated the “Evening Echo”). SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1879.

Throughout the colony w« find that here and there those head centres of the colony’s wisdom, the School Com mittees, are giving effect to a provision of f;he Education Act, 1877, empower ing them to establish, under the Board’s approval, penny savings banks for the use of children attending schools under the Committees’ control. There can be no doubt whatever that it it a good thing to inculcate lessons of economy and thrift, and the Com mitees, in endeavoring to teach such lessons to the children whose education is under their care, are laying hold of a good principle. There are those in the colony, however, who received the idea of penny savings banks in schools with a howl of execration, asserting that such institutions would tend more to induce . parsimony and miserliness amongst children than a healthy aim to be simply prudent and economical. So long as the saving and frugal spirit is not permitted to degenerate into avaricious and miserly hoarding, and the children are taught by those little' banks only the legitimate economy that saves it's means in time of prosperity against the proverbial “rainy day,” which all must, at some time or other in their lives, experience in a greater or less degree, a great good is accom plished, not only for the children them selves, but for the colony at large. There is no gainsaying the fact that the spendthrift is a burden to himself, and becomes an incubus upon the com munity in which he dwells ; but the grasping miseris a being just as much to be abhorred, and _ his presence amongst civilised men is just as objec tionable as that of his foolishly open handed opposite. With the thrifty principle, then, of which the school banks are the offspring, no fault can be found if it is properly and judiciously worked out; but to the working of the penny banks under the Education Act there are grave objections. We are not an ultra-patriotic people in fact, how ever much we may gush over the senti ment in theory. The “honorarium ” of the M.H.R., with its upward tendency, does not bespeak the patriot, and Parliament has “ made ” more men in a mercenary sense, than those men so “made” have help to “make” New Zealand. The colony’s “ Roll of the Peace ” is of the bulkiest, but a place on it brings no pelf directly to the Justice’s pocket, and the result is

that the j.P/s work falls to be re charged .'by. a few men who may be^' "called - the willing y. horses, :.Ypf the great unpaid team. j. The penny banks - are to be managed' by . at least three persons; who . ar.e to be appointed by the School Committee. The Act gives the title, of trustee to one of those three, and to another that of treasurer; but it provides that in every case the head master of the school is to be one of.the bank’s managers. From this arrangement it will be seen that, though in some instances an enthu siastic well-wisher may come to the front, and do the most of a bank’s work, the bulk ot the labor in connec tion with those institutions throughout the colony will devolve upon the teacher. He will have to bear the responsibility of the undertaking, be cause from his intimate connection with the school and its scholars hedies to the hand of the'Committee and the Board of Management as a ready person to saddle with the work. Is it just to the teacher, already burdened with the multitudinous little duties and responsibilities of a large school, to be saddled with the new position of a banker in addition to the others he is called on to fill, and the other qualifica tions he is expected, to possess? We. think not; and it is a question worthy the consideration of school committees who have not yet adopted clause 78, which empowers them to establish those banks, whether it is better to leave then teachers as they are than run the risk of interfering with their efficiency by lay ing upon them a duty in the manage ment of an institution the results of which after all are not of so vital im portance to the scholar as a course of successful tuition in the rudiments of a sound education. ' a; .•

Ourselves.— Next Monday being a pub lic holiday, there will be no publication of The Herald on that day. Good Friday.— Yesterday being Good Friday was observed as a general holiday, and every available vehicle.was employed by excursionists. The day was exception ally fine, and tempted everybody who could take advantage of it to enjoy an outing. Presentation to Mrs. H. B. Burnett. Mrs. Burnett was presented; on Thursday, by several ladies, in the name of'those who had subscribed to the testimonial with a piece of plate and a purse of 25 sovereigns.

Melancholy Accident. Yesterday afternoon, an accident Occurred by which Mr. S. W. Brown, architect, of this town, lost his life. In company with ; Miss Fanny Watson, barmaid at the Somerset Hotel, he was enjoying a drive, across the river,' in a four-wheeler. Mr. Brown’s left hand was disabled, and in his crippled state was next to useless at the reins, so that Miss Watson drove. The bridge had been traversed without mishap, but on taking the declivity at the south end, the mare bolted, and control of her having been lost by the occupants of the trap, the animal galloped away along the main road. TTn.lf way to Scott’s Hotel the mare left the road and made for the railway track, where the vehicle jolted suddenly, andboth • Mr. Brown and Miss Watson were thrown out. Mr. Brown fell upon his head, and was killed instantly, but Miss Watson was comparatively unhurt. 'Alien the unfor tunate gentleman was picked up it was found his neck was broken, and he-was bleeding profusely from mouth and ears. His body was taken to the Tinwald Hotel to await the Coroner’s inquest. Mr.. Brown had been for the last year or more in business in Ashburton; he was well known and much esteemed, and as the news of his death spread abroad over the township, a feeling of deep regret spread with it. From the trap’s starting till the time of the accident only a quarter of an hour elapsed, for Mr. Brown’s watcli was found to ’ have stopped at seven or eight minutes past 2 o’clock, and he left the. stables five minutes before the hour. Mr. Brown was only 32 years of age ; he was a native of Leeds, where his family occupy a good position. Tea Meeting. —The anniversary tea meeting of the Primitive Methodist Sun day School, was held last night in the Town Hall, The scholars- with -their friends and teachers, to the number of 200, sat down to well supplied tables about G o’clock, and after tea a public meeting was held, at which Mr. John E: Buchanan was chairman. Mr. Buchanan addressed the meeting principally on the subject of tlie Bible, urging its re-introduction as a lesson book in the public schools ; and the others, speakers were Revs. Keall and Westbrooke, and Mr. Hodder. ' From the Secretary’s report we gather that a slight increase had taken place during the year on the number .of scholars in' attend- • ance at the school—ll 4 being on the roll at the present time. The finance of the school was satisfactory. Miss Gates con ducted the children’s singing, and recita tions were given by several of the scholars. The usual votes of thanks were tendered at the close of the meeting. .

Inquest.— All inquest was held to-day(in the Tinwald Hotel touching the death of Mr. Samuel Williams Brown, who yester day met liis death by the buggy accident on the Tinwald road. Mr.. James Escott was chosen foreman of the jury. Nine witnesses were summoned,'and the hear ing was commenced at two o’clock. The case had not finished when our reporter left. The evidence, however, went to show that the horse was harnessed too close to the buggy which chafed the animal’s legs, hence the bolt. ; The jury returned a verdict'of accidental death, but ■ owing-$0 late hour in the afternoon at which the inquest closed we cannot give the evidence in detail.

Accident. —A lad named Fred. Spindle, 13 years of age, was received into the hos pital'!on' Thursday, from South Rakaia. The lad, whose father is cook at Mr. Lane’s, was endeavoring to catch a horse, and, when near Mr. Coster’s, the animal kicked him on the left side, breaking some of his ribs. From enquiries made at the hospital last night, it was ascertained that the lad was making satisfactory progress,— “Times.”

CHISPA'S LETTER.

• •I am not yet so bald that you can sgq roy &•§ ; ; trains.”— Longfellow. '..

•So f< Lonehand has given;' out ! I|d| much rather you piled 'reams of rejected ..“.Chispa’s Letter ” in ydiir waste-paper basket than * 4 Lonehand’s'” --racy - writings should be absent from your columns. His loss is yours, and mine, and the public’s. Few “ free lances hit so straight out from the shoulder, delivered their punish ment so gracefully, or so studiously avoided hitting foul. Heal the breach if you can, and get him to go on again. I’d rather go under a hundred times to make room for him, than he should stop plying his telling pen.

“ Poor Brown! ” These were the words that fell from many quivering lips this Good Friday afternoon. A rush of a frighted horse, a sudden turn, a jolt, and one of the best souls of the great mass that makes up our poor humanity had seen the last of the sun. He was no man’s foe, and he knew no enemy. His kindly smile was common property, and indexed the big warm heart that beat in the crippled - body. Like many more ofcusj little .kindred blood of his fltjwed in any in/the colony ; but few men have made so many friends in a short, quiet life-time as he, and he goes to the great majority a man of whom the phrase “ deeply regretted ” is no mere conventionality, but the genuine expression of a truth. In his death, per haps, no one will say, “Another star has .gone out;” for he hid his light under a thick veil of modesty ; but many who knew him will say, “ Another stream is dry,” for his was a bosom whence the milk of human kindness ever flowed. Failings are the inheritance of everything human, but his were few ; virtues are the real wealth of our poor humanity, and he was rich. We may: sentimentalise if we may over his hurried passage to the unknown land,, but the real reason for regret lies in the'loss of the man himself. There are many •; men in Ashburton who will miss the genial face of Samuel Wil liams Brown.

So Mr. Was on' has gone, too. As the blanks to beifilled up rise before my eyes I feel tempted-to ejaculate, with \ La Balafre to Quentin Durward, when the youth recounted the almost total “dry up ” of his kindred —“ Gross of St Andrew ! What an onslaught! ” I remember J. C. Wason’s last speech in the Library Hall. On that occasion he did a barefaced theft, and tried to rob the Old Pirate of a good saying,' and give the' credit of it to the great Job. But I wouldn’t have it, and pulled him up short over the injustice of not giving the Devil his due. It is amaz ing how, in these high strung educational times, when everybody objects to a “god T less ” education, so few men seem to be perfectly up in the grandest work of all our literature—-the Holy Bible. We find one resplendent light in the political sky crediting Moses’ wife Zipporah with being the good-hearfed lady who found the infant law-giver in the bulrushes ; another confounds the “ tanner ” first mentioned in Scripture with the Apostle Peter him self, forgetting apparently that the “tanner” was only Peter’s landlord. I have heard a wit say that the first banking transaction recorded in Holy Writ was when “ Peter lodged, with one Simon, a tanner," which every “horsey” man knows is a slang term for sixpence ; but to credit the fisherman with being a tanner of hides was too much, though lie on one occasion certainly did take'very incontinently to ear-lopping. Mr. Wason gave to Job the credit of saying, “Skin for skin, yea all that a man hath will he give for his .life.” Mr. Saunders on that occasion nearly put the lion. Member for Coleridge right— nearly, but not quite. Now, I find Mr. Saunders at Mr. Fox’s meeting making “ Moses and Aaron lead the children Of Israel through the wilderness up to the time when they were required to make bricks without straw ! ”

The C.Y.C. are in difficulties I hear, and all the officers have, or are about to, tender their resignations. What a pity ! I am quite ready to offer my services to lead the troop should no more valiant or efficient cavalier come to the front ! Just at this particular time, you know, when there are wars and rumours of wars, we cannot afford to be without officers. ; Is a possible fight in the far distance—eh 1 Chispa.

SEAFIELD.

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. The school in this' district under the charge of Mr. J. 0. Atkinson, has now been .opened for educational purposes several weeks, and is getting along very satisfactorily. Some inconvenience has been felt through - the non arrival of the balance of the school requisites, which it is to be hoped will soon be remedied. It is talked of making application to the committee for the use of the schoolroom, to hold a Sunday school in the afternoon. Mr.M. Bruce, who. has acted as Post master in this distinct for some time past,, having tendered his resignation, Mr. J. C. Atkinson has been appointed, and the post-office removed to his hoiise next the school. •

South Rakaia Public Library.—A special meeting of the committee of the above was held in the Library Hall on Thursday, i April 10,( 1879. Present— Messrs., Hardy,(Chairman), A. Bowler, E. Bowler, Briniicombe, Bruce, Makeig and Whitta. The minutes of the committee were read and confirmed. A letter was received from Mr. David Bruce, applying for the use of the Library Hall one night a week, for the .purpose of. forming a dancing class.: Mr. JWhitta proposed, and Mr. Bowler seconded, 'that Mr. Briice’s request be granted, the rent paid for same to be ss. per night. —Carried. Mr. .Whitta proposed, and Mr. Bruce seconded, that the secretary arrange with Mr. Bowler for a new set of book-shelves.—Carried. Mr. Whitta. proposed, and Mr. Bowler seconded, that the remuneration; for clean ing the hall be £1 per quarter.—Carried. Messrs. Bowler and Hardy were requested to obtain printed numbers, and; copies of bye-laws, to be affixed to each book. Messrs. A. Bowler and D. Bruce were appointed librarians for the ensuing year, after which the meeting adjourned.

TELEGRAPHIC.

TODAY’S CABLEGRAMS.:h; LATEST FROM EUBOP&J |

London, April. ibM J Garibaldi’s real motive - for opposing' the supposed Italian expedition to New Guinea is causing much speculation. In replying to a deputation at Trieste, he said he never more could be occupied in The interests of his brethren beyond the Alps. The Prince of Wales, in a letter, notifies the appointment of a Royal Commission, the first meeting of which was held to-day. The Prince expressed a wish to co-operate with the London Commission, in order to promote the success of the Sydney Exhibition. ' ; The bank rate of discount is reduced to 2 per cent.

April ii. Italy approves of the conduct of the Khedive and sends a special envoy. Spencer -defeated ; Yarrer for the Thames sculling. • ™ ,t‘ j

TO-DAY’S TELEGRAMS.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Auckland, Saturday.

A Maori, named Peter, was seriously injured at Northern Wairoa by a tree falling on him while bush felling. He was brought to the hospital in an in sensible condition. : c r-'

The inquest on the; body of George Cox, railway guard, who was killed by. the collapse of a water tank, com menced yesterday; Mr. Brookfield, solicitor, attended on behalf of the rail way authorities. The inquest' ■was ad journed for medical evidence. The preparations for the Waikato; and Thames Volunteer review, are "now complete. • The irienwill be under military law from their falling in at Grahamstown until their return. Major Murray will command the column till its arrival at Hamilton, when Colonel Lyon assumes the command of the combined forces. Three troops of 150 sabres of the Waikato Cavalry will muster. Honorary Colonel Fraser, Thames Scottish Battalion, accompanies that force. - i Owing to the magnificent weather, the,, carnival at the theatre was a great success. Crowds of country people are coming in. ' ? - ■ 1 New Plymouth, Saturday. A Dane. named Peter. Wilson was found dead on the beach this morning, about two miles the other side of Bell Block. It is supposed that he was thrown from-his horse with his: head in the sand and smothered. Wellington, Saturday. The Hinemoa, with Mr. Sheehan and Colonel Whitmore on board, left for New Plymouth about 2 a.m.

Presentation to the Rev. Mr. Bur nett. —-Several friends of the Rev. H. B. Burnett waited upon him last night at the manse, and Mr. Wm. Gavin, in the name of the subscribers, and well-wishers of Mr. Burnett, presented .him with a purse of sovereigns and an address of sympathy. To the Death.— Oil Tuesday, a- young mail was convicted at the .Supreme Court, Dunedin, of. the. crime of rape upon a child of tender.years. -He was. sentenced to ten years’ penal servitude with two floggings: During the cross examination of the child’s father that witness admitted having said to the prisoner that he 1 gave him up to the law, but if he did not get justice he would-have it if he followed him to the end of the world. This answer was applauded by the persons occupying the public galleries in the Court, and his Honor threatened to have the Court cleared if another such demonstration took place. In summing up, his Honor referred, to the sentiment which had evoked the applause, and said that if the father had reason to believe the accused was| guilty his threat -, was not to be wondered at.

Miss Mary Anderson, talking to a reporter of the Louisville Courier-Journal the other day -said of- Sarah Bernhardt, that “ She slept in a coffin continuously for three years. She does not do so now and I asked her why she gave up. She ;said she had grown tired of it, as the coffin was uncomfortable. She said she wished to familiarise herself with the thought of death. I saw her boudoir. The carpet was of black velvet, with flowers .in silver, the furniture covered with black velvet,- and the walls curiously decorated; in the same fashion. A skeleton of a man who she said had died of love in Mantua hung before the mirror, with finger point ing at his own reflection. In large bowls about the room rose leaves were heaped, the fragrance that arose being overpower ing. I could not remain in the room, it was so suggestive of horrible thoughts.” A Ruined Earl. —The writer of London Town Talk in the Melbourne Argus says : —“ Of all the cases of those who have suffered by the Glasgow failure, that of a well-known Scotch earl, Lord Eglintounj is, if not the saddest, the most tremendous. He is a good landlord, and was asked but a short time back by,one of his tenants to become trustee for his daughter upon her marriage.. Her fortune, was but £3OOO, but: it was all invested -in these bank shares, the consequence of which is, that though, his Lordship’s entailed estate cannot be touched, his entire income of something like £40,000 a year has become forfeited to the bank’s creditors. ' Fortunately the income derived from his wife s settlement' prevents this nobleman from experiencing the hardships of actual poverty ; but con sidering what he has lost, and from no fault of his own—unless good-nature is a fault—l know of no case that is more deplorable.” Mdlle; uEnea’s “ flying dance” con stitutes the hit of the pantomime of Jack the Giant Killer at the Gaiety Theatre, London. In this extraordinary scene the lady steps, r apparently, from a bridge to the stage 20,-feet beneath,’ and again on the shoulder of a man, and up again on to the bridge, which, suddenly parting in two, again lets the fairy-like danseuse to the stage.

LAST NIGHT'S CABLEGRAMS.

J V [By S(jrm‘a*?ine Cable.] . \ !i| March 9. f|! a leading article, Announces that'if the Khedive of Egypt, (after *a friepdly warning from England an'd France, fails to retrieve his conduct, the Sultan will be invited to depose him. The missing schooner Rosetta has been found on the Goodwin Sands. . Tallow 6d lower. London, April ToA Colonel Pearson’s, sortie from Ekowe on March 26 was repulsed. He regained. his The Toth Regiment is making rapid marches for his relief. The Western' Australian' lo'ari great.success,' ' r : A reduction in discount is probable. ; The bank minimum has been reduced to 2 per cent. ;'

Money is in large supply. Business in stocks is unchanged and dull. -Egyp tian and Turkish stock is in- disfavor.

Colonial debentures are quiet. Wool. —Fair enquiry for; the home trade at slight advances..' The next sales commence early in May. #0 gLeM '

n ; Melbourne, April 9. The Cabinet have telegraphed to Mr. Berry their opinion that it would be well to accept. the offer sof (the .Orient line, coupled with a provision for the cheap passages of immigrants; not however necessarily setting aside the". Contract (with the P.O, Company, . .He,sh<}uld accept both, if possible. “ " ' v ’ April 10. The second ana third money in the Mel bourne Cup have been increased to £2OO and £IOO. The-' added . moheyd in 'lthe Champion has been reduced by £500.T Sydney, April 10.

- Patna rice,:£2l to £23 ; Adelaide flour, £l2 ss. to £l2 10s.; Adelaide- wheat,; 4s. 3d. to to 55.; meal, 4s. 3d. ; tobacco, Raven’s twist, Is. 6d.; candles, B|d.; oats, kerosene, and sugar unchanged. .

THE CHANGES IN THE FROG.

,y ! t (Frem fife fPenn Monthly.)

Nowhere in the animal kingdom is there so favourable an opportunity for peeping into nature’s workshop as in the metamorphoses of the frog. This animal is a worm when it comes" frohi the egg, and remains such the first four days of its life,’ having -neither- eyes nor ears, nor nostrils, nor respiratory organs. It crawls. It breaths throuh its skin. After a while a. neck is grooved into the flesh. Its soft lips ; afe hardened into a horny beak. The different organs one after another, bud out; then a pair of branching gills; and last a long and limber tail. The worm has become fish. Three or four days more elapse, and the gills sink back into the body,.while in their place others come, much more complex, arranged in vascular tufts, 112 in each. But they, too, have their day and are absorbed, together with their frame-work of bone and cartilage, to be succeeded, by an entirely different breathing apparatus—-the .initial of a second correlated group of radical changes. Lungs are devoloped, the mouth widened, the horny beak con verted into rows of teeth; the stomach, the abdomen, the intestines, prepared for the reception of animal food in plateof" vegetable-??fburdimbs, fully equipped .with hip and shoulder bones, with nerves and blood vessels, push out through' the skin, while the tail, being now supplanted by them as .a . means of locomotion, is carried away _ piecemeal by the'/Absorbents; ; ; ansd ■ f tfie| animal passes the balance of its day?*as an air breathing and flesh-feeding/bafrachian.

HIGH HEELS AND ELASTIC SIDES.

“ Hsgles” in the Australasian writes: —ln the prospectus of Miss Elphins torie Dick’s »Ladies’ h Gymnasium I observe that pupils are requested to provide themselves with a gymnasium dress arid’ shoes high* heels), which can be left ’in the dressifigroom. If Miss Dick could have' her way she would, I think, approve of the high heels being abolished utterly, in the street as ivell as in the 1 gymnastic arena. She would likewise*, forbid the use of boots with elastic sides." She would probably . tell ( you, if , you would only believe her, that to these twin abomina tions due’ pf the muscles of the leg, distortion of the . feet,, thickening of the ankles,; checked circulation, • arid’ \. other ’ evil con sequences. Miss, Dicky as dvery one should know, is not. only a clever swimmer, but an accomplished teacher of rational gymnastics. For s the practice of her vocation there is ah illimitable field, if only the young worn A who waddle instead of walking— instead of bearing themselves se i hy— whose carriage is stiff . and clumsy, instead of being graceful—will avail themselves of the instruction which Miss; Dick announces that ; she can impart. This does not mean that young ladies are to be acrobats, but that nature may have fair play by judi cious development; The public have had the advantage of the excellent teaching of my old friend Professor Jonson, but for Miss Dick, -for him, and for others accomplished instruc tors there is plenty of ropm, if the public will appraise at its true, value the importance of that which these experts can impart. ‘ j- ..

“By Conquest)’’— -A settler in Couuty East (says the Wairarapa Daily) refused to fill in his land tax return, on the ground that he had obtained his land from the natives “ by conquest.”

SaTURBAV, Afßlfc ISi 185*9,3

THE ASHBURTON HERALD.



Clothing Establishment. ENCOURAGE NEW ZEALAND INDUSTRIES. TO THE PEOPLE OF THE ASHBURTON DISTRICT. MESSRS. ALLENSTEIN RO S. JJ ALLEN STEIN Jg Desire to inform you that a RETAIL BRANCH of the NEW ZEALAND CLOTHING FACTORY, IS NOW OPEN IN THE NEW BRICK BUILDING ASHBURTON, (Next Bullock & Co.’s Rooms) To effectually introduce their Goods and drive out the imported article they have decided to sell a SINGLE GARMENT AT THE [WHOLESALE PRICE. All goods are marked in plain figures, for net cash only. Any article purchased and not approved of will be exchanged with the same courtesy with which it was sold, or, if desired, the money will he returned. The Success which has attended the New Zealand Clothing Fac tory’s Retail Branches in Auck land, Wellington, Christchurch, JDunedin, and other towns, leads the Proprietors to believe that .there exists a praiseworthy desire on the part of the public to encourage New Zealand Indus tries, especially where superior advantages are offered, and your support is solicited on this understanding only. 467 WILLIAM SPARROW, Manager Ashburton Branch.



Chemists. HERBAL MEDICINES. PERSONS suffering from liver com plaints, coughs, colds, worms, skin diseases, &c., are invited to try Nature’s cheap and universal remedy, “HERBS.” James Neil, importer of Herbs, and Bo tanic medicines, George street, Dunedin, has appointed MR. J. M. CAMBRIDGE, Chemist, Ashburton, Agent for his highly-extolled medicines, Composition Powder for colds, Dandelion Coffee and Dandelion Pills for liver com plaints, Headache Pills, Botanic Cough Syrup ~ Worm Powders ~ Stomach Bitters ~ Blood Purifier, &c. Roots, Herbs, Barks, &c. of every kind. 370 CAMBRIDGE’S ORANGE-QUININE TONIC WINE IS acknowledged to be the mostagreeable and efficacious Tonic Stomachic yet pro duced. It contains the valuable Tonic proper ties of Peruvian Bark (“Quinine”) with the Stomachic properties, of the Bitter Seville Orange, so combined as not to be objec tionable to the most delicate invalid ; and, as a “BITTERS,” is far superior to all other preparations. Invaluable to all suffering from loss of appetite, indigestion, general debility, ner vous affections, tic, ague, and derange ment of the system. When the stomach has become enfeebled or disarranged by disease, excess, or irregularities, or the appetite is impaired by mental or bodily exertion, or from any cause whatever, it gives a regularity and tone which is not obtained by any other medicine. One, two, or three wine-glass fuls may be taken during the day by persons suffering from the above com plaints, with the greatest benefit. It is highly recommended by the medical pro fession to be taken whenever Cod Liver Oil is ordered. By pouring the required dose of the oil into half a wine-glass of the “Orange Quinine Wine” scarcely a flavour of the oil is tasted, and the wine fnaterially assists the oil in its beneficial operations. Price, 4s. 6d. per wine bottle, and sent (carriage free) in cases containing ( one dozen, at 48s. Sold retail by all Chemists, and manufactured by J. M CAMBRIDGE, MEDICAL IiALL ASHBURTON. 360 Business Notices. EORGE L L E N, ACCOUNTANT, COLLECTOR, HOUSE, LAND, AND COMMISSION AGENT, Saunders’ New Buildings, Ashburton. 466



Wants, &c. W ANTED K N 0 W N ESPECIALLY, THAT T. R. HODDER & COMPANY HATE OPENED THIS DAY A Large Assortment of MELBOURNE CLOTHING, Made expressly to order for Ashburton. 57 SUITS, Superior Quality and Style. 24 OVERCOATS AND ULSI’ERS. 12 LATEST STYLE COATS. 50 PAIRS TROUSERS AND VESTS, Latest Style. ALSO, 26 CASES AND BALES (Ex Coriolanus) of WINTER DRAPERY and CLOTHING, Dress Stuffs, Blankets, Flannels, Scotch Goods, Calicoes, Sheetings, Doeskins, Hosiery, Carpets, Shirts, &c. &c., Expected to be opened in a few days. T. R. HODDER & COMPANY, East Street, Ashburton. 685



NOTICE OF REMOVAL. HM. JONES begs to inform his , friends and the public generally, that after the 24th inst. he will be found at his NEW PREMISES, BARING SQUARE, j (Next Post Office). Stationery, Books, Toys, Fancy Goods, Music, &c. 397 New Advertisements. GENERAL ELECTION. DIOCESAN SYNOD. DISTRICT OF LONGBEACH WITH MOUNT SOMERS. I JOHN GRIGG, Returning Officer ' for the electoral district of Long be*ch with Mount Somers, do hereby give notice that I have fixed MONDAY, April 28, 1879, for the nomination of candidates for the aforesaid district. All nominations of candidates must be in writing, and be delivered or left at my house before four o’clock p.m. on that day. JOHN GRIGG, 677 Longbeach. NOTICE ANY persons found trespassing on the Longbeach property will be prose cuted. It is hereby notified that the whole of the land in the Ashburton River bed is freehold, 678 JOHN GRIGG.



New Advertisements, PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. The Rev. B. J. Westbrook will prgacji • in the above Church qn "Sunday morning at 11 o’clock. 682 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH, Wills Street. —Mr. T. R. Hodder will preach in the Morning. The Rev. B. J. Westbrooke will conduct the Evening Service. 683 BOARD and RESIDENCE for two Single Gentlemen, in private family. Apply— Herald Office. 681 BOROUGH OF ASHBURTON. Public Holiday. Burgesses are requested to observe Monday next, April 14th, being Easter Monday, as a PUBLIC HOLIDAY. Signed, THOS. BULLOCK. Mayor. Ashburton, 10th April, 1879. 680 T 0 LE T, A FIVE-ROOMED HOUSE on the North-East Town Belt. • THOMAS CLARK, 684 Burnett-street. j FUNERAL NOTICE. mHE Funeral of the late S. W. Brown I -will leave the Tinwald Hotel, To morrow afternoon, at 4.30. Friends are invited to attend. ! G. PARKIN, ggg Undertaker. Special Notice. Hooper, aitken and co. are prepared to make CASH ADVANCES ON | GRAIN, OR OTHER PRODUCE ; Placed in their hands for sale in the Home Markets. *390 NOTICE. SANDO & OLSEN respectfully request their Customers to pay their Accounts j before Saturday next, 12th inst., or they will be compelled to sue for settlement. 643 , SANDO & OLSEN.