POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Mails at the Ashburton Post Office close 13 follows

For Christchurch and North, at 10.20a.m. 4 p.tn., and 7.30 p.m., daily. : U. 'ii For Chertsey at 10.20 a. m./ daily. ; • ,-;k ; For Rakaia at 10.20 a.m., and 4 p.m., daily. For Dunedin, Tinwald;, Winslow, Hinds, Coldstream, Raugifata, Oripn, ’ Winchester, and For Tem»fe4» Tifflarp, apd Sopth afjo.aq p.m.ippd 3 R(PI daijy. ‘ „ , . . For 'preepslrget,. 'Ashbw-tfln Parks, Mount Somers, and Ashburton Gorge on Tuesdays and Fridays at 10.30 a.mi !-■! f ■■■■: For Ashton, Waterton, and Longbeach,. at 3.15 p.m. daily. , For Wakanui and Seafield, every Monday, and Thursday, at 7.30 p.m.

The next mail for the United Kingdom, via San Francisco, will close at Ashburton on Fri day, 28th'inst., and will be due in London on the 15th of April. , , The next mails for the United Kingdom via Brindisi and Southampton ’vyill close at Ash burton on the 11 th of March. The mail via Brindisi will be due in London on the sth of May, and that via Southampton on the 12th ol May. „ _ W. St. G. Douglas, Postmaster.

CHRISTCHURCH NOTICES.

February 25, For Otago and Australian Colonies; per s.s. Hawea, " "

N O T I C E.

' A travelling Post-Office having-been estab lished on the Southern line of railway, letter-s ---hearing a late fee of 2d. may be posted at any station in the mail carnage 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. ,

COMMERCIAL.

ASHBURTON GRAIN REPORT.

Herald Office, Saturday Evening. During the' past week large quantities of grain have been offered in the local markets. The quality generally is good, although some samples of wheat have suffered considerably from blight. Fanners on the light'lands re-' port yields to be below their anticipations, although in some neighborhoods, where more rain has fallen, 20 to 30 bushels per acre have been threshed. Prices offering for wheat range from 2s 8d to 3s, with a tendency to lower. After last year’s , experience shipping specu lators will not exceed present rates, and will.- probably wait until millers have satisfied their immediate requirements. The prospects of shipping advantageously to the European markets are fairly good, with the low rates of freights now ruling, and numbers of producers are venturing the London market on their own account. Oats are worth from 2s yd to 2s 9d accord ing to quality. In outside markets they have during the week slightly fallen, but our own rates have been little affected. Barley is in active demand, [with very little offering. * From 5s to 5s 9d would be paid for malting. Grass seed is quoted at from 4s 6d to 5s 9d, but holders look for an advance on these figures. The following are the prices quoted to us by Messrs. Saunders Bros, thisaftemoon : wheat from 2s 8d to 3s, oats 2s id to 2s 9d, barley 5s to 5s 6d, flour £9 P er 1 011 * bran £4 10s, sharps £s.

'' Ashburton,'#eb.'24*' ; ... Messrs-Bullock and Co. repprt.for. the week as follows^—•' ’ 1 ‘ , Stock Market.—At the Ashburton yards on Tuesday there was very little improvement on the previous week. The farmers are still busy, and therefore the attendance at the yards was small, and as feed isin abundrfice. everywhere,, no one is anxious to sell.'- 1 . Land.—At our sale ©f properties on Thurs day we sold several residential sites on behalf of Mr B. Ede. The attendance was exceed-" ingly good, and notwithstanding the general depression in the market and consequent difficulty in obtaining anything like a spirited bid, our total sale amounted to about *1200.‘ The following are the properties sold on account of Mr B. Ede: Lot I, 4 a - or * 8p. r , at - per acre; lots 2 and 3, at £3l per acre lot 3, 3 acres, at v£3°; lot 4, 3 acres, at *3l; lot 5, 3 acres, at £3l ;-lot 6, 3 acres, at *32 lot 185, 10 acres, at per acre. Lotd’l97, 168, 183, and 184 were passed in. We sold T.S. 668, Cameron-street, with 6-roomed house thereon, for £275. Privately we have sold ia. 3r 150. on the Wakanui Creek for the sum of *l2O L /lot: s>' East Towrijßelt,.with -6-roomed house, A 385 ; • arid T.S. 106, Tin wald, ,£3B. , . . Messrs H. Matson and Co., reporting for the week ended Feb. 20, quote prices for fat cattle at from £8 2s 6d to /12 ; stores, £2 7s 6d to £3 2s 6d; calves, £l 5s to £2 5 s - Sheep, mixed and cross-breds, 8s 3d to 12s; half-breds, 7s to 7s 6d ; half-bred Downs, lis ; store ewes in low-condition, 4s to 4s 6d ; fat lambs, 5 s 6d to 7s- . , In the horse market the quotations are for be-'t heavy draught mares, £SO, £55, to£6o; do. geldings, £ssi£s° to . me dmm weight do., £35 to £42 ; spnng cart and light Shores, *24 to j well-bred_ hacks and harness hoi'ses, £2s tv £3O ; ordinary do., to £2O ; weeds, £8 to £l4.

Mr Alfred Harrison reports business gene rally:"improving, of good sections ; changed hands at his last sale, 26 quarter acre sections on Allan s road, North. East Belt, realising from £it to £l7 r ° s ; At a sale of furniture, stock of underclothing, &c., the whole passed off at satisfactory prices. . The surplus of contractor’s building materials, at Saunders Bros.’ new buildings, realised very Today’s sale of furniture and effects, under a judgment summons, realised well, and a con signment of apples brought from ss.to 6s per box. Several horses were put up, but the de mand was not brisk, and part only of the lot were sold, at moderate figures.

ASHBURTON RETAIL LIST.

-jv:: .--: tTv. '■'<■ Strangers -cotmug- s,u. n are often at a loss te'kanv ?:«-> me best Establishment to visit lot the purchase oi Drapery, Clothing,-and K«ste.f»nnshffig Ir*«- <i?id General Stores. 05lil &* 6. offer'special advantages to the public that cut be met with nowhere else in Ashburton, r hey teep at dl times the largest and best'assorted Stock of every class of Goods, imported direct from the leading manufacturers at home, which beirif bought entirely upon cash terms, they are enabled to offer goods of suefa sterling value as cannot be equalled by any other house in the trade. Every article in stock is marked at the lowest price, from which no abatement is made so that die must mejrperienced buy their goods st the same prices as the best judges,—-Advt ;

The Ashburton Herald AND Borough and County Advertiser (With which is incorporated the “Evening Echo”). SATURDAY FEBRUARY 22, 1879.

Agreeably ty the announcement made yesterday, b'ur|ournal appears this even ing under a n^ t title and iTan enlarged form. This ri the second time it has bieefi found necessary to make the space of thisj-joumal more ample, on account, of tha derpands made ; upon it for business/2&nouncementsj and as there is no better test of a district’s gress than yie state of its newspaper, we adduce the rise of .the Evening Echo,” nowjAsHBURTON Herald and Borough and County Advertiser as -aVsolid prepf/bf- Ashburton’s advance mient; Onjthe titli Kfarch, 1878, we published our first issue,-—a sheet just half the size of the one now. before the reader,—aid for three months it con-/ tinned in tjiat form. But as the town increased in size : arid importance,-—arid there is n<r resident of ayear’s standing Who is ignorant of the pace at Which Ashburfop has gone forward—it be came necessary To meet the wants of the place;'and a material additiori was made, .of the “ Echo’s ” pages. Now, before theitwelve months are over, We find it' imperative upon us to again make an addition, and that of An, .equally substantial . mature. The recent removal of the printing office, from the makeshift premises in which the paper was first issued under many dis advantages anclidiscomfort?, to the hanid someand commodious building in which the work of publication is [now carried on, gives material aid in bringing oiffi a sheet of.the present dimensions, and, as the saying is f ‘ handsome, js as hand somedoes;”in keeping withthe. splendid -building in 7which the business of the paper is conducted, we hope to sustain the character as an honest. 1 , and inde pendent journal we have always, striven to deserve, and tp keep up the high tone it. has ever been our effort to f give our columns.. .... p. j “ ’Tis not in mortals to command success ;

But We’ll do more * * * .we’ll deserve it.”

Taking this as our motto we have no fear for The future, When vre come before .thh Ashburton-public with our, in one sense,. venture.. iWe-may repeat that neither the change'of riairie nor , the increase of size will in any way affect the present arrangements of pub lication, and thus we. leave, in our sub scribers’ and the public’s hands /‘ :v ' i . . j T’ ' '•/-/'‘•'AND 1 ' I

Borough and County Advertiser.” ■ -T :

Ashburton possesses a charaeterthioiigh out the colony for being a town of‘grit— a go-ahead place that meaxis'businei, and goes about it in earnest. We may 'safely shake hands with ourselves over tie fact that we deserve this character, because the proofs of it are before our eyes, But Ashr burtonbe?irs over though the proofs of its truth are before our eyes; we. have no reason to shake hands with ourselves. We are credited with, supplying . our Resident Magistrate and Justices of the Peace with more; police cases arising out of drunken ness, than a town of our size, if peopled with a decent and circumspect ought to do. Ashburton is yet young, but it had, if we majr se speak, a short in fancy, so remarkably short that the fame, of the town spread all over the land, and a mixed multitude of good, bad, and \ in different people flocked towards it. They coine —genuine settlers, honest men who meant to leave the world better than they found it, but while in it to make a respectable home for themselves : men who iiad done well elsewhere, but who fancied, and have proved, they could do better here, and of whose presence infour midst we have every reason to be proud : men, too, who had failed to do well else where, but hoped to do better in a district, new in every sense, that gave them new chances : men,'tod, who' had failed to do well anywhere, and who. gravitated to the new place, because it was one where all classes for the, time being had the same chances. ■ i ....

, Thus the town, .like every new place of rapid growth, received its fair share of honestly enterprising men, and an unfair share of loafers and ne’er-do-wells. For tunately, however, the former are in over powering majority*-, though the latter are sufficiently numerous to fix, hy their had conduct afid dissolute habits, a character upon the town which, as.a community,: it does not deserve. Still, the drunkenness of the class we refer, to, swells the charge list of the Police Odurt,’- and in the statis tics of crime Ashburton is credited with contributing, in a higher degree than other and older towns, to : the. colony’s total of blackguardism and* .drunkenness. This, is -nrrTOiirrffiaturer-and.QncUhat_wilLdoiibt

. ... ’;•> .•... - ; "m» f Lie cha • : v. •;> dsiaffiee in its; '• :’Vf fi ACCIi SUfficieHf. lot our i uiblring %■ the v tr.wjs Afid district are not iu ageoeiea fpr-tfi 9 reclamation jtjf thfi who haunt ta# hotel bars,' ifi the anr-.r.-s.uce' V-sh of land* lord and- zvspecta trie ouatc -.—rend that •.here are too many social ptirsgitfis of the loafer genua about, let the kwjlorda fcesst testimony —but when the guhd ififect of those agencies are e6ur.icr&£?<®d hy tfie 'mistaken notion .that inert ma -sf hotel, properties means . ipcrpp.se oi. sp-nq ral prosperity, and real ; nhangefimni of the value of general property, and this notion is acted upon.: it is not fed expected that the infiuence ot

such agencies will lie widely or even sensibly felt; This more the towh iii popu lation the greater; we admit-, will be the number Of liquor ; c»nsuriasrs,:Vbu| it dops. not follow', that facilities fqr siffiple con-; sumptioji of, liqiiQr ehoujd .be Increased by the establishment of hew hotels; .in the face of tjie facilities, already painfully evi . dent by. th§ f drunks ”of the Police Court, "that exists-.for . men getting. intoxicated. As regards the conduct of existing houses, Ashburton’s character as reported by the police is good, and it is -only fair to men who already hold without abusing licenses .that they should not be re quired to cater inan over-crowded market, and thus be tempted to stoop to the adop- Uion of .questionable means to sustain a bar and back parlor business. ~ . With the increase of jirivate. tem perance hotels and handsome boarding houses that has recently taken place, applicants for new licenses-must he .in a difficulty for a piea to'put f(if,ward, arid surely they will never risk -the Bench tp take, as. a reason why a iicense should ’bV granted the great demand foie liquor that exists amongst the population, and adducq the Police C.ourt “drunks”, as evideneq. We contend that Ashburto;u.has,.plenty hotels., that these are quite able to supply the demand, and wet the throats of all within the towh who thirst, with plenty lio spare for visitors ; arid that for a long time to come they will be perfectly able • to' meet all demands upon their bars and cel lars; so that the Licensing - Bench will only be unduly adding to the duties of the polifce—helping on driinkeriness. which every right-thinking man must deplore— doing their share in keeping up the unen viable character the town already possesses, and striking a blow against the good name arid right (conduct of the hotels we already possess, if they add another license to the list of established houses. already in the place. We are not writing in the interest of either , teetotal , faction or publicans’ clique,- but simply because the increase of drunkenness in the town' has recently been so marked-that we feel we should fail in our duty did we not call attention to it.

Yesterday’s Court was occupied, on resuming after lunch, with eivil cases bf no public interest. :

Plantation Reserves. — By appoint ment notified in the “Gazette” Jno. Marshman, Esq;,* W. Campbell Walked, Esq., Edward George Wright, Esq., James Bruce, Esq., Thos. Henry Potts, Esq,, :Edward .James Lee,. Esq,, David; M'JVEiUan. Esq., and ; Arthur. Payne o‘Callaghan are to have the control and management of certain planting reserves .within the Provincial; District ojf Canter bury until such reserves shall be - 'vested or granted in any particular manner. Messrs. Saunders Bros. 11 Mills.—Yes terday ‘we were 1 - enabled, through the. courtesy of the proprietors, to inspect the; additions recently, made to Messrs Saun ders’ Mills. Operations have been carried on at this, manufactory; for some six years, during which period alterations and ad ditions of a considerable nature: have been effected, until the Mills as they now stand avo perhaps the, most complete in .the Colony. During the present season the breast-shot water-wheel, which was ohe’cif the best of its kind, has been . taken. out, and two Liffel turbines 1 from' the foundry of Messrs E. P. Ellis and Cq., of Mil-, waukee, U.S. substituted.. These machines in the-aggregate give a ; total nominal power of 70 horse from a lp£ feet fall, and Messrs Saunder Bros, speak- most highly of the effective manner in which they perform their work—one is, driving 4 pair of stones and the other Sj and a large quantity of other machinery is propelled by the same power. An. Emery wheel stone dresser—Another Americanism— struck us as a remarkably unique inven tion, and wej arc informed ; that With jits assistance only one man is required, to keep the stones in" order," dressing two pair a day.. ,We saw the machine at work, and m_the_very dexterous hands of Mr.- "WrConnolly, the miller, in ' charge this department, we can well understand it doing all we.have. heard regarding it. The storage room in connection with the mill is most as any passer "by on the Great South'line will have -remarked, the different buildings being capable of hold ing in, all some* sacks of grain. During the , present’ season a large, machinery roomjiaAd a- covered shed if or; Railway trucks, have j been < added to the Establishment, These 'additions and the ifliple of the'machinery, ; have;been erected uader the supervision of Mr. Edward Sounders, and reflect very great credit; on bioengineering and architectural skill.; The s.s./Taupo.—Efforts under an ox pertare being made to float the Taupo. The\plan of operations is to pump the uwatei from, the.compartment'fore and aft.’ It is\beiieved that when this is done jthe the vessel': will* float, theengine . room enmpskment -being, then the -only one filled Vith water.'-- Once floated the. steamei will, be beached: a quartet’ of a mile awry from’ her present position. The work win in any. case take some days. ; jv The W'shxjcfrd-TON Compositors’ Strike. —The met give a peek’s notice to-day, so. that next Vweek the' printing firms in Wellington^will find themselves in diffi culties for nen. > ',, .•< “ .Coßiops Ihenomenon m an. Orchard. —The “ Tiflaru ‘ Hrald ” says “ Last Christmas a agaric frbm; ari engine set! fire to the grass beside the rail way near Judge f’PTard.’s house, md agreat part of thejplan tations were iurnt and the orchard severely score-bid. The fruit trees were laden with greerifruit, And. a good deal of this was’ hot. destfcyed, but came in due time.to muturity.; The heat of the fire, has had ah extmrdihary effect on; the trees, however, <ausing the fruit spurs which should, in ordinary course of things,

haVri •'.■'•fr.c oO' * - ..v v' --Level op:' thWnSyeiveS ' *U-; V\: k v‘- "r>-:xi l» buret iatv days, The p, tbit fhs orchard now preserve*.’;;*' .aitigula* £q>yo taole *A” peso: q?;dappi* ». 4 «* bearing nearly •ripe fnuj; and* ilo\vo.?v<i>- fyl? blown, rA one’ and the same -MO, the fruit and flowers being only a iuchwa apart. We certainly never fjavV.nytbinjT like it except iir orange orchard- where flowers and fruit in >wl its stage* Vre found on tha .'same tree ■ said w are- inclined-to. regard it as quite ;ph*j"omGnal. 'i On? ira- '. presaionifi, that, ihe ordeal which these trees'; har§ undergone, though it ha- brought' them into flower six months before their time, •will end by kiUiiig them. ” -

CORRESPONDENCE.

\yn do. not hold responsible fqi; the . opinions expressed by our correspoqdpnts..

EARLY CLOSING.

To the Editor of The Ashburton Herald^

. ..Slit,—We hear so much;'no'w-a-(days about Ashburton being such a go-ahead town that some of us feel rather gratified if we can find anything in it that has the appearance of being behind the times. There is one small matter, sir, which I should like to mention; that is, I am somewhat astonished the shopkeepers here have not yet seen fit to make it a rule to close their establishments at six o’clock. Now, sir, I ani inclined to think the /fault does not iu this instance lie altogether with the employers, for'l have found (from conversations held with the leading ones of* the place) that, if a move were made, they -would readily accede to Any such request. - Would it not then be a very easy matter for a few of the employees to draw up a short'agreement, arid get’it signed by the various masters, in the town, who, Ifeel ’.sure, would not offer the least objection-? The matter- would then - ; be settled r : employees-would have morri/tiirie to them selyes, and 'employers /better work -.|6r their money.. Apologising for., taking up so much of your valuable space, —I am, etc.,. . - T -Counxek -Hand, j'

TELEGRAPHIC.

LATEST FROM EUROPE.

* London, Feb.ls. ■ The Victorian Embassy has' arrived at Home, all well. | The/ Bank minimun is 'unchanged. Money is becoming scarce in open ; market, / and. the accumulation- of gold in the. Bank continues. The reserve is fifteen and a half millions, s' ;. / / -/

The stock ; arkets are unsettled. Consols have been affected by the African disaster, while the market for Australian securities haa suffered somewhat in sym pathy with other descriptions, of stock. |. - The. New Zealand Agricultural'Company' was promoted by Sir J. Vogel ,arid /Mr. Larnach without,'difficulty/ despite the bpporiition of the “ Times;For the first half a million, £300,000 was subscribed.; Corn is inactive. Recent shipments of New Zealand have been inferior. lin quality. /. , . /'//.'" /'. '•i ' Wheat,-475. Tidlbw; mutton, 37s to 38s ; beef, 335. Brandy, firm-, ; . ....1 '.

THE ZULU WAR.

Londcn, Feb. Ti. A telegram from the Capo, dated Feb. 4, says that the Zulus were defeated in en gagements. with, the English troops, and Natal is fiow quite secure.

AUSTRALIAN.

, , / Submarine Cable.] irr-v- .--/ SYDNEY, Feb,* Sli' Outlawry Bill was introduced last night in the Legislative Assembly to meet the case of the Kelly gang. The Standing Orders were •.suspended. The measure passed through all its stages; arid has been sent up toThe Upper House. In Consequence of the - banks refusing •further advances, the Sydney Corporation has no funds to pay its laborers, and has applied to Government for an (immediate loan.. - . . _ ' . : The Assembly passed all the stages of the Felon’s, Bril, which is a copy of the Victorian measure. ; ■> ] Brandy, .Hennessy’s case, 335. 6d., quarters, 9s'. ,3d. ; kerosene, Devoe’s and diamond, Is. ,Bd. ; rice, Patna, 2pa. ; New Zealand wh«sat and oats, none '; tobacco, Barrett’s Twist, Is. 6d. to is. 7d- ! AriELirop, Eeb.^-'2li. * Towri florir,. £l2 to £l2 10s. ; wheat,|fis.

The, - Division op the Road. Board I)ii3TßiQT.:—Notice of. intention 1 to. con stitute the new Road Board 'District, recently , agitated frit here and for which a numerously signed petition was for warded to his Excellency has been gazetted:/ * 1 / . The Acting-Governor. Thel Chief Justice is announced in a “,Gazette ” ex traordinary of last night as the Acting- Governor of the Colony, during the| iriter rugnum between the departure df the Marquis of Norinanby- and- the arrival of • his..successor. : Action Against a Bank. —The * ?Hoki-

tika Star ” says :—“ We learn fromlgood authority that the Union Bank of |Aus tralia has been served with a writ of sum mons in the Supreme Court by Messrs F. A. Learmouth and Co., claiming £20,000 as. damages for breach of the arrangement existing between the Bank and tlpse gentlemen.” '■ •-i|g |- ' English Loyalty. —At the anmad tribution of prizes to members of tharlst Cheshire Rifle Volunteers, on November 11th/ Lieutenant-Colonel King, the com mander, and one of the, oldest ofSeerfin the English Volunteer service, said jtlat some time back, in obedience to instrac tions from the War Office, he colleciM statistics showing the actual expenditure and receipts of the battalion for the ycSr, and the result of hia • inquiries very much astonished him. He found that the aver age excess of annual expenditure of staff of his battalion and of seven coraba-

nies belonging to it over the receipts amounted to no less than £724, and h| had no doubt that had the. return for the remaining company been added the) sum; would have reached £BOO. AsA suming that the excess of expenditure over receipts was the same in the case ofi the 230 or 240 battalions which existed ini the country, it would appear that £I9O,QQ^

b,. XVy.AtfT"” or therr -io up. the fortas.-.-. TVl'-ICiSa'C ii.il .Ocstl^t*, K'O.uih- n Ps&Steg?- o£tin%?izi'y: : Have wxfvuuod ,'tisn. •• ?wriud ■ dcrii,-g. xliib* otxiijyary availaUw ■% one’ . caihndki-. i: • ■-*«• their h'lihhj byciC'.'>. --e -■•-;"*?.,ky the Ay? the 'Jmfibiv that 'return-*.*-... •;• dvc-uld ha»v ■vfßifc hi any time-. »*« .-• •- T doing i- i maa would notAvpcfivwrs'y be uny'.i;*niiivt’h«i. h<*' ViV-R■:? ■ '•’-‘■'..i'ii tJ.f.SI ’Vke.il h»‘> WliJitWiiJ', , ami : xh&l . u .lit* never came =&s the company woiild not need to carrjJnm 'i but the present extension, of time iV step inthe right direction, and will be wyomed by the-travelling publia - y

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAM

- \V ■ AhcKL^j The Parliament of the Auckland district* Xaipara, JrlahadH and neighboring settlement will be ■ at Ohakiy - near Auckland, on' Major Kdmp represents the’Goveriß and/a message will be read • ffoß Native Minister, which will stan<n* of the viceregal speech in our Paifliß Mr. Bryce, M.H. It. leaves North by the' flrsV, steamer, tp II into matters connected with the Ifl Islands electoral roll. VNotices i 1 have been circulated to enquiry is expected to last smferalH Westport, SaGjS Sibree, for the murder of CostdH been remanded for ,8 days. Mrsi-JB .will go with the police-to point out! the remains are concealed. Her stall of how the murder occurred has hoi made public. • ’.I A landslip at Giles’ buried the hel Oloff Peter Wilson, hi 3 wife, and onn and killed' another little girl aged 'I the inquest the verdict was aofil death. '--'f .| > Tvbhoid and scarlet fever are Ttfil Boatman’s Creek. ; Two; or ; three! cases are reported, and great alarm:! infamiHes. 1 • “ ;says • Government ordered 24,QQP railway sleeperip. ; , PATEA RACES—BECOND DAI j Wanganui, Saturda Handicap Hurdles—TJria 1, Ga 2 ; won easily. . . Maiden Plate—Confident 1, Glai 2. ■; Jockey Club Handicap,; 160 sm Ottawa 1, Expectation ,2, Resolutioi Won easily. Y j‘ • I Forced Handicap—Hailstorm 1. \

THE KAITANGATA COLLIER EXPLOSION.

;^. Telegrams up to nine .o’clock lakt h reported 28 dead bodies ' recovered J i the mins, and four more were seen at .hour and would be got out as soon; as 'debris was cleared; off to allow of ! being got at. The only, one nbw fad for certain to be. in. the mine' is A ;Hodge, the son, of the manager, who j ho doubt; be dead, also., There may bJ or two more, but it is not accurately kJ .hpw.many .were in thepit ytheonlypel who could give positive information'l of course those who are dead, Abol widows are left by the calamity, and! 100 orphans. /-The scene at Kaitajl and at the pit mouth, as may be is a truly heartrending one.' . H Dunedin, SatuxH At midnight last night four bodifl still to be recovered, from the - Kaitfl Mine. The Benevolent Institutl .telegraphed to the local atorekeew supply the families with what they rel

THE CRICKET MATCH AT TIM! (PROM OUR OWN.CORRESPONDENT. ■ ~ Timaru, 2,25, p! Ashburton .won.the, toss .and weil first, scoring as follows Denshire! Field, ,o;‘Grant, 21;,G. Andrew,] Priestly, 2; A. Andrews, .oPearcJ Harris,.!} j'Zouch, 1; Ashwood, 7;Hr| belt, 0; extras 1; total? 44Y i Timaru in after lunch. Splendid Weather small •^

RAILWAY YARNS.

At our usual lounge -sye were tallj ‘about the ' capital'- cartoon:' in': ** FuiJ illustrating an incident of railway tm ling in Ireland. ..-. “ That wheel , sofl cracl ed tome, porter,’’saysa fcimorousß senger, poking-this head7out ofj window as he heard a wheel-knockarS ping. “It is, sorr,’’replies the porter ■ think she’ll , get as far as Dublin! ” fl friend who knows Ireland said, hn quite sure the incident was true,:anfl led to some stories of railway One: said that he was going months ago,, from Manchester.to with, and found, after passing’ CM Arms, that the train stopped for 'extrjH long intervals at every station, ll he asked the guard how kmgthevß likely to wait at the next station; exactly say, sir,” says the guard ; beer is no better there than it is shan’t wait many minutes.”! minds me,” says another, ‘Hhatl* coming down the Highland raihrsß train came to a ;; full stop/ far frooS station. I looked out,, to asccrtaijfl cause, and saw the driver and the' J strike away from the'line, cross &uJE moor to, an oatfield beypnd, and up something from the. ground, they came back they had‘a hare or fl| N in their hands, and it turned out it wH| custom to set a trap over night the next. morning to see if-imK anything in it. ’’ : M That ■ >enimdpK said another—though how it could king him I cannot quite make out—“ of * remarkable!story.stilL .A man wasftra? ing on an American line slowness. He was standing' on , w form behind the last car. ; train came to a dead stop- j/rShe ;<wj ..and the conductor got - andrsea puzzled to account ! *°|H| ®he V stoppi They could not. make ijl hut, aha t examined the wheekTof ellch carriages i they came to the vme. of. the lin :*• Why, look here,, Bffl,’ said ductor,’ here’s the daiifed miachie4 I s ithisswab’s coat as doejp it.’ And’soit;' :in truth. The tail <£fc the man’s overt had caught in a bramble:by the side,! j that brought the Strain .to a, stand.”: ; ,one- could . beat ttfat, .and the talk tur to other subjecty "

“ Watee in/the Desert.”—TheiSl Australian corespondent of the <s |p3 writes— “ Ope of the most imvwr events of the day has been 'the di|S> of water, bored for after the arteaiaM i ciple, la a hitherto ■waterless^ The Curnamona run, oh which have been sunk, from each of which® 30,000 gallons of watJH - miles nod® ;and i- ■ 5.. '^egtiniatecffllfeijjfflhthefjfllH ; TateP; party,- ir-atehess. country to the west and iferifl fe-pwhjrs Bay cannot be opened Jnß peanjoi artesian w 0115,.. "VYheh PP&M iuctutered that wo. have about 1-10 Oo oH teres of ; »ariil, sad nearly three-fifttH u?e ,t?hoj,e province, destitute'of oa,inot •» •’■

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.. THE ASH-BURTON HERALD.



j , ■■ .• . • / / ■ s. Butter/ inferior to Best ft I ■ d. o' -to V'Y- ” '£■ #i 2 Eggs, ¥ dozen - - . i 6 to o 6 Cheese, prime quality, W W o 10 to o o Bacon, prime smoked, v lb o lO to O 0 dams in cloth, 1? lb * * o to o o Flmir in bafTS. IOOlb 12 6 to JUJS.



Ashburton Trade [directory. Accountants 'Agent*- 5 Charles Braddell, Montgomery s Buildings Architect and Civil Engineer— s. W. Brown, East-street . v 5. Earr, Montgomery’s Biiildings V B. Mountfort/East Street Auctioneers— - s’ Bullock and Co., East-street N- yf ' Alfred Harrison, Baring Square Barristers and Solicitors — Messrs. Branson, and Purnell, East- street Messrs. Harris and Ireland, Montgomery s Buildings. Bikers, Confectioners, Etc. Thomas Hicks,. Tancred-street Taylor and Lill, East-street, Sando and Olsen, East-street /" .T anks— . Bank of New Zealand, East-street , Union Bank of Australia,. -East-sheet Boarding. House Keepers— John Candish, Moqre-st. : S. Lucas, Cox-su€et ; J. G. Anstee, East-street Prince, Albert Boarding-house, Wills-st. Guilders, Contractors, Etc. G. Parkin, Steam Saw-Mills, Moor-street Tbos. Williams, Tinwald G. Compton, Builder, Mocre-street. BOOKSELLERS AND STATIONERS — A. Weston, Prospect Buildings, East-street Weeks and Dixon, East-street North (next • ,to Quill’s Hotel.) . . ■ , Bootmakers — T. Chambers, Prospect Buildings, East-st., M. Nealas, East-street J. Campbell, Moore-street Brewers and Bottlers — Wood and Co., Cameron-street Quinton Bros., Mount Somers Road Cabinetmakers— Joseph Rule, Mdcre-street. C. BradeiV-Tinwald Cabinetmakers and Undertakers — T. A. Gates, Peter-street, near Quill’s " G.*Parkin, Moor-street Thomas Williams, 1 inwald Carriers — j ■ i Thoinas Bradford; Forest Road G. F. Scott, Cameron-street B. C. Smith, Moore-street ‘ ‘ Chemists and Druggists—, . ? J. M. Cambridge, Montgomery’s Buildings : Charles Neate, Moore Street. . . ' Coal and Firewood Merchants!— . F. Doherty, Peter-street A. Hayes, Firewood and Timber, near Rail way Station F. P. Leßreton, Bumett-street. Drapers and Clothiers— ,'.f Aitken and Co., Havelock-street -Orr and Co., East-street f:;’* Firth, Pass, and Co., Old Bank Store, East street ■ - • - t T. Quinn & Co., Moor-street Engineers and Founders— 1 ' Edwards and Lee, Engineers, Smiths, etc., ; i.v - Bumett-street ’ ••• ;<■ ’ j ' AY. J. Ilessey, Central Foundry, Peters-st Furniture Warerooms— A. Spillard, Tahcred Street Grocers, General Dealers, Etc.— \ Aitken and G0.,-Havelock-street , : Orr and Co„ East-street Firth, Pass, arid Co., East-street Friedlander Bros., East-street Sando and Olsen, East-street F. Doherty, Peter-street Greengrocers— :..,kikriri. • ...■■•■■ ■ W. T. Davison, Moore-street J.’Mooar & Co., East-street ..... W. Birtwell, East Street , Hairdresser— j . - 'v -' : A. Weston, East Street ( ■ - Hotels— ; . ■ Quill’s Commercial Hotel, near Railway Station Shearman’s Somerset Hotel, East-street Central Temperance Hotel, Havelock Street Willcocks’ Wheatsheaf Hotel, Wheatstone



Ironmongers— > : : Orr. and Co., East-street f i - Aitken and Co., Havelock-street •' : . ..S.-Hardley, East-street- ...'.ll ] Ladies’Clothing Establishment— Mrs. Morey, Tancred Street. Milliner and Dressmaker— Mrs.’ Adams, Cox-street Painter, &c J. 1C Chapman, Tancred-street Teague and Sons, .Bumett-street T. S. Tucker, Moore-street. Photographer— E- Teague, Tancred-street Printers and ; Publishers^— W eeks and Dixon, East-street Plumbers, Gasfitters, Tinsmiths, Etc.— . J. C. Dolman, Tancred-street Joseph Hyde, Tancred-street S. Hardley, East-street - ' ; - Saddlers—^ Thomas Dudson, Bumett-street Surveyors — ■■ C; E. Books and Son, Triangle, Wakanui Road . . Tailors— ■ ' j Aitken'and Co., Havelock-street' •' Tentmakers— ■' -■ v j:v ' 1; -X -!• Sandq and Olsen, East-street /f Ab. ] 'Tobacconists— ; . - 'A. Weston, East-street; . , • . A^ATCHMAKER— > p - /Parker, East-street, near Bullock’s-: , in this Directory, per an mum.



Public Notice. THE ASHBURTON HERAL] D And Borough and County Adveb .user (With which is incorporated th©> Evening Echo.) ASHBURTON, WAKANUI, AND SEA, V • FIELD MAIL EXPRESS, to The AshoßUßSdon t Herald,-residing at and between the P lac es will, in. future, be supplied by tsando and Olsen’s. Mail Express.,, whidh ' Frp 63 ©very < Tuesday- and r -^ Ew Subscribers will please fortran d sg aam< =s to any ©f the Agents, or ov x ‘.-.{r- as early as possible. lla3 ?ription;:i By ;post or express, 8 s. it'd.; per quarter ; in; adyance, 7s. 6d. pier per annum. the-l&toat other news, gra .in ami fjroduoc market reports, and ' par»i.< ru ri lar attention wSLL be Raid ip the waste of J.- settlers. All notices, referring to the ;■> Boroyigh Cutsn|ij,,County Ccimcil, a&l the | v; .>. Rd;h:l BcarashwiUbe found in. the .Haiti ld. Agencies where Teje Herald can s g obtained : . 4. Wahanui. feehooj - % \ Viakan ul Greek.. ..1 •,/ , :v£*JSriif3 ’,, o*mt -—Media re . O. LeadSr y T. Jones' Mi Brucj' G. S.. Brj ,>wn Ed. Waif t(dns j t j 'ome |



General Storekeepers. t;r. HODW b GO., EG to inform the Inhabitants of Ashburton and Surrounding Districts that they intend B OPENING THEIR NEW AND EXTENSIVE PREMISES . IN SAUNDERS . BROS.’ BUILDINGS, ON !. SATURDAY, MARCH ist, With a Large and Carefully-selected Stock, in the following Distinct De partments ’ : "r .. GENERAL DRAPERY, : ' MILLINERY AND SHOW ROOM, BOYS’, YOUTHSV&; MEN’S CLOTHING, TAILORING DEPARTMENT under the CHARGE OF A FIRST-CLASS CUTTER FROM MELBOURNE), BOOTS, SHOES, AND MENS’ HATS, GROCERY & PROVISION WAREHOUSE CROCKERY, GLASSWARE,; & FANCY GOODS. . IRONMONGERY of Every Description.



T. R. H. & Co., in respectfully soliciting a share of the business in the •• • . - ' ’ ■ \■ 1 rapidly-increasing district of Ashburton, intimate that they can offer many advantages, having had extensive busi ness experience in every branchy being ; DIRECT IMPORTERS, and' welt established in the Home, American, f and Colonial Markets, and having purchased-largely from an over stocked mark'et, especially in Cotton Goods, which will be Sold much under ordinary List Prices. They have se cured COMPET ENT HANDS for each Departn lent, and with these Superior Facilities for carrying on busi ness, they trust to give their customers the ' - /•' ’- . ; ; ■.UTMOST; ftTISTACTION. j-



WOOL, GRAIN, & DAI TRY PRODUCE BOUGHT FOR Ci VSH, AND j TAKEN IN ACC iOUNT. Inde aita received for evei y description of Agri '.cultural Machinery, or any other commis; non promptly attend® i to by their LONDON AGENT! L T. R. HO&QER & Co.» W A>"D RETAIL ' x gen: sB ai: -mE Wt:hant : S.‘.



Specif! Notice... TT DOPER, iITREN . AND; C& H ' are prepar/4 to make ; i ; C y-a : . . '’ ji On" :J: Ip , DRAIN,. OR jOTHEB PRODUCE ! P!ace44n’tHeii , 'l»il43' forsale iij the H jme Markets. ' ;: 090. ANTRP—A Good Male r Pemale OOOK. Tinwaid Hotei Apply immediately ' . 1426