The Ashburton Herald

AND BOROUGH AND COUNTY ADVERTISER

WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE “EVENING ECHO.”

VOL. 11. 430,

ASHBURTON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1879.

Price One Penny.



Auctioneers and Commisssion Agents BROS. & GUNDRY, li. (late bullock AND CO.), ASHBURTON, General Merchants, Auctioneers, Stock, Station, Estate, and Commission .Agents. of Stock, -Farm Implements, &c., will be held at their Yards, Ashbur ton, and the Timvald Yards, on alternate TUESDAYS. CASH ADVANCES Made on Stock, Produce, Ac., consigned for Positive Sale. EDMISTON BROS. & GUNDRY. ALFRED HARRISON, Baking Square, Ashburton, AUCTIONEER, STOCK, ESTATE, & COMMISSION AGENT. WEEKLY SALE DAY, SATURDAY at twelve o’clock, of Horses, Pigs, Fowls, Fish, and General Produce ; also, Furniture and General Goods. Please read full advertisements oil the third page. 213 MR. JOHN LLOYD CRAWLEY, AUCTIONEER, STOCK,; LAND, ESTATE, AND COM MISSION AGENT, Holds Weekly Sales Every Saturday, at One., o’clock, of Horses, Farm Produce, and. General Merchandise of. every descrip tion. ‘ Full advertisements third page. J. LLOYD CRAWLEY, AUCTIONEER, Stock, Land, Estate, and Commission Agent, Saunders’ Buildings, East-st., Ashburton. 277 a gAUKDEKS’ jgROTHERS, MILLERS, GRAIN MERCHANTS, AND GENERAL COMMISSION AGENTS, A S H BURTON.



Carriers. Ml -H. BREWER’S Royal Mail COACH • I . loaves Longbeach for Ashburton (via Water ton, Ashton, Wheatstone, and Tihwald) daily, at 7 a.m., returning by the same route on arrival of 3 p. m. train from Christchurch. Parcels and orders punctually attended to.- 195 T. H. BREWER, Proprietor. ECOOKSOjST, Willis Street, runs tho , MAIL COACH from -Ashburton Railway Station to Green Street, Alford Forest, and Mount Somers, every Tuesday, and Friday, returning Wednesday and Saturday at 3 p.m. Milliner and Dressmaker. M MRS. ADAMS, ILLINER AND DRESSMAKER. Ladies’ and Children’s Dresses made up in the newest styles, at Lowest Charges. 'Wedding and Mourning Orders promptly attended to. Mrs Adams devotes special attention to Millinery. vif.V MRS. ADAMS, •luiil ■ . Moore Street, . , Opposite Mr. Boyle’s Office. T in.



Business Notices. TO MERCHANTS, TRADESMEN, AND OTHERS. STUDY ECONOMY! GREAT SAYING EFFECTED BY PURCHASING YOUR STATIONERY AT TIIE WHOLESALE STATIONERY DEPOT. CASH PRICES: ENVELOPES, Cream Laid, I-v 1000 - 6s. 6d. Ditto Per 500 - 3s. 6d. Ditto Printed, 1,000, its. 6d. Notepaper, ruled, per packet of 5 Quires, from is. 6d. Large quantities at lower rates.



ACCOUNT BOOKS OF ALL KINDS. TEN PER CENT. OFF FOR CASH!!! STORES LIBERALLY DEALT WITH.



Wholesale Stationers HERALD OFFICE.



Painters. PAPERHANCING WAREHOUSE, TANORED STREET, Ashburton. J. R. CHAPMAN, PAINTER, PAPERHANGER, SIGN-WRITER, Etc., Has much pleasure in stating that, owing to the largo increase of Business, he is now Importing from the Manueai tTH-v.!-*-, PAPER HANGINGS, WHITE LEAD, LINSEED OIL, WINDOW GLASS, B RUSH WARE And all the necessaries of the Trade, and is therefore in a position to compete with any house in Canterbury for price and quality. Every description of work in the trade executed under personal superin tendence. Competent workmen sent to all parts of the country. ESTIMATES GIVEN. 41 T. S. TUCKER, AINTER, LAZIER, JpAPER HANGER, AND GENERAL HOUSE DECORATOR, SIGN AND TICKET WRITER, Moore Street, near Templar Hall. Estimates given. 244 Builders. A SHBURTON STEAM SAW MILLS SASH AND DOOR MANUFACTORY. G . PARKIN, Proprietor, BUILDER AND CONTRACTOR. Moore Street, Every description of Timber and Building Materials in Stock and supplied on must reasonable terms. Plans prepared and Estimates Given on the shortest notice. TINWALD BUILDING AND UNDERTAKING ESTABLISH MENT, T. WILLIAMS, Proprietor, VVTISHES to call special attention to W the fact that he is still prepared to furnish and conduct



in his well-known Superior Stylo, a VERY LOWEST RATES. Every description of Joinery Work done on the premises. BUILDINGS ERECTED ANYWHERE. All kinds of Building Materials on Sale. T. WILLIAMS, 1 IN WALD. Poulterer, &c. RABBITS! RABBITS!! P . HARPER, FISHMONGER AND POULTERER Near the Ashburton I Intel, East Street, BEGS to inform the inhabitants oi Ashburton that he HAS OPENED in the above line, and trusts, by strict attention to business, and supplying but articles of first class quality, hopes to merit a share of public patronage OYSTER SALOON. Hot Fried Fish and Stowed Eels from to 1.1 every night. Business Notices. IN BANKRUPTCY. WEEKS & DIXON have on Sale at their Office, East Street North,- - TROOPS OF DEBT FORMS, FORMS OF AFFIDAVIT, Also, — FORMS of TO LET and FOR SALE.



General Storekeeper. THIS IS THE COLUMN THAT HAS BEEN WATCHED. eS' NO SHAM SACRIFICE. K . S ANDO BEGS to announce that lie has NOW OPENED in A. Weston’s late pre mises, Prospect Buildings, with a WELL-ASSORTED STOCK in the following Branches ; Grocery, Crockery, Stationery, Perfumery, News Agency, and Tobacconist. • K. SANDO trusts that by strict atten tion to his business, combined with civility and moderate charges, to ensure the same liberal support that has been accorded to him during the past two years. LABOR REGISTRY OFFICE. Please note the address— Iv . SANDO, PROSPECT BUILDINGS, ' (Late A. Weston’s).



Cards. G. D. BOILEAU, ACCOUNTANT AND GENERAL COMMISSION AGENT, SAUNDERS’ BUILDINGS. Rents and Debts collected. • 103 a WE, the undersigned, have this day entered into PARTNERSHIP as BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, AND CONVEYANCERS, And will practice, at our Offices, MONT GOMERY’S BUILDINGS, Ashburton under the firm of O’REILLY & IRELAND. Dated the Ist day of July, 1879. • FRANCIS PIKLIP O’REILLY. CHARLES WARBURTON IRELAND. I I2a BRANSON & PURNELL, BARRISTERS AND SOLICITORS, EAST STREET, ASIIBU R T O N . MR. HARRIS, gOLICITOR AND CONVEYANCER, SAUNDERS’ BUILDINGS, East Street, .ASH B U R T O N. 409 i C. E. FOOKS AND SON, LICENSED- PURVEYORS AND LAND BROKERS Under the Land Transfer Act, Government Contract Surveyors, Triangle, Wakanui Road, near Post-office ASHBURTON. Coal and Firewood. • CHEAP TIMBER AT HAYES’ TIMBER YARDS. BALANCE of Timber unsold at th • Auction Sale. Also, 200,000 fee to arrive, now lying at the Waimate S* cion, will be disposed of ' v AT REDUCED PRICES ; : AT HAYES’ TIMBER YARDS, East Street, Ashburton. 1027



General Merchants. The Althouse Windmill. THE ONLY SELF-REGULATING WINDMILL 1 me m, ISP m SfSi f tBRB mao 3J , BEOS.. A S H B U R TON.



Bootmakers. PUBLIC NOTICE. BOOTS! BOOTS! T. CHAMBERS WHILE THANKING tho public of Ashburton and surrour ding dis tricts for past favors, begs to inf< rn them that he has received, and to arrive, at his place of business, East-street, a WELL-ASSORTED STOCK OF LADIES’, GENTLEMEN’S, AND CHIL DREN’S BOOTS AND SHOES Of all descriptions. T. C. also calls special attentu 1 to the Measure Department, and in' ites the gentlemen of Ashburton to inspect the superior class of Sewn Boots and Shoes he is now making. Riding Boots, Shooting Boots, Walking Boots and Shoes, Cricketing Boots and Shoos, and Running Shoes. WORKMANSHIP UNSURPA SSED, A TERFECT FIT GUARANTEED. T. CHAMBERS, PROSPECT BUILDINGS, Next to Montgomery’s, East-street. iStPV M. NEALAS, BOOT AND SHOEMAKER, AND IMPORTER, IS CLEARING OUT the whole of his Present Stock at REDUCED PRICES, previous to Removal to Now Premises, next to Taylor’s Bakery, where he will open with a Large Stock of Boots of every description. Note the address— M . NEAL AS , EAST STREET, ASHBURTON. Tinsmiths, &c. PUBLIC NOTICE. JOSEPH HYDE, PRACTICAL COPPERSMITH AND BRAZIER, TIN, IRON, AND ZINC PLATE WORKER, Begs to inform the inhabitants of Ashburton and surrounding districts that he has com menced business in TANCREI) STREET, where he hopes by strict attention to business, combined with moderate charges, to merit a fair share of public patronage. N.B. —Repairs neatly executed. Business Notices. EIBLES, Prayers, and Church Services, Hymnals for various churches. —H. M JONES, Stationer, Baring Square.



Chemists. IST T E D :r - .-H) n v Hi® 1 CAMBRIDGE'S |p Orange gg Quinine ;3 TONIC WINE. N 0 W-N rnHAT Chilblains JL can be cured by a few applications of Cambridge’s Chilblain Liniment, Is. Gd. a bottle. That Coughs and Colls speedily disap pear after a few doses of Cambridge’s Cough Syrup, Is.' 6d. and 2s. Gd. a bottle. That Cambridce’s ORANGE-QUININE TONIC WINE is the best Strengthening Medicine known ; nu merous Testimonials its favour ; wine bottles, P|ggg|g^g|| can be seen in 4s. Gd. That Farmer’s and Horse-keepers should always have in the house a bottle of CAMBRIDGE’S COLIC DRINK for Gripe in Horses ; and a bottle of his Driffield White Oil for Sore Shoulders, Etc. That J. M. Cambridge Extracts Teeth carefully and skilfully for 2s. Gd. That the Public can obtain Medicines after business hours or during the night, when urgently needed, at the Dispensary, Burnett Street. 1042 J. M. CAMBRIDGE, Medical Hall, Ashburton. Saddlers. SADDLERY SADDLERY! J. TAIT & Co. (Late of Wood Bros.), Ashburton Opposite Railway Station and next Cook son’s Livery Stables), ~|3 EG to inform, the public that thej r jj_J? have purchased the above business, lately carried on by Wood Bros., and hope, by strict attention to business, com bined with moderate charges, to still fur ther merit a share of public patronage. Always on hand a Large Assortment of ENGLISII & . COLON IA L 8/ DD LES. COACH, GIG, and BUGGY II A R N E S S. SHAFT, LEADING, AND PLOUGH HARNESS. II O R S E-C L O T II S In every variety, at lowest possible prices, DIRECT IMPORTERS. 1049



Hotels. ORAM’S SOMERSET : - • ■ COMMERCIAL AND FAMILY HOTEL ASHBURTON. UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF Sir George Grey, K.C.8., Premier of New- Zealand. Sir James Ferguson, Bart., late Governor *»t New Zealand, AND _ Sir Charles Ducane, late Governor of - Tas- Vi ij T ms centraUy ' situated Hotei is pronounce 5 to be one of the finest in the Southern Hemi sphere. Ihe cuisne is under ‘.he super vision <■;: an eminent c/ief and the proprietor hopes that his long experience in the trade is a sufficient guarantee as to the quality of the contents o the cellar. i / R • W. SHEAR MA N, PROPRIETOR. THE ASHBURTON HOTEL (the oldest established in the • DISTRICT) ’ ; '' : ' > AS been Re-ei’ected and considerably Enlarged, and .now offers .to Tra vellers and the General Public Accommo dation of a Superior Glass, no expense having been spared in making it second to none in the Ashburton for comfort and convenience. . , ...... SUITES OF PRIVATE ROOMS FOR FAMILIES. LIQUORS OF THE BEST QUALITY ONLY IN STOCK. The Proprietors trust, by strict atten tion to business, combined with MODERATE CHARGES, lr ■ ' - ■ ' : AM. O to meet witli a fair shai’o of public patronage. mutch & mckenzie, Proprietors. 427 JOSEPH BALDWIN Begs to inform his friends and the public that he Has Opened THE CENTRAL HOTEL, AX THE .IN JUNCTION, WILLS STREET .AND WAKANUI ROAD, ASHBURTON, mHIS commodious hotel is situated 1 within three minutes’ walk of the Railway Station. Table d’Hote daily at G p'.m. Luncheon on the table from 12 to 1 2 p.m. The Jug and Dottle Department will be made a special feature, single bottles and small quantities being supplied at the lowest remunerative rates. Only the best quality of Wines, Beers, and Spirits procurable will be kept. J . BALDWIN, 540 Proprietor. Public Notices. Q E 0 RG E rjJRICKETT MEANS TO DO BUSINESS And the under given figures show that he is in earnest. A call at his establishment, East Street, next Messrs. Orr and Co. ’s, will give further proof. Gentlemen’s E. S. Boots, 15s. to 20s. Watertights, a Superior Fashionable ,r! Article, lGs. Balmorals, very best, 20s. Bluchers, the lt ne plus ultra,” 10s. 6d. Gent’s. Calf Shoes, 14s. Gd., used to : be 17s. Gd. • [ . \ Ladies’ Boots of every description, equally low - wurf Slippers for all feet—l adies’ 4s. od. to * 6s. Gd. ; Gentlemen’s, ss. Gd. to 7s.—in leather, felt, patent, and carpet. Leggings, knee-high, 7s. ; Carters’, 15s. A large choice of Boots and Shoes (all prices) for the LITTLE ONES. Every description of Sewn, Pegged, and Rivettcd Boots and Shoes made to order. promptly attended to. 207*