COMMERCIAL.

CHRISTCHURCH GRAIN REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING APRIL 7tH. Herald Office, Monday Evening. As anticipated in our last, an unusual number of insolvency notices has appeared during the past week, some being the effect of larger failures, others in conse quence of the continued pressure of the banks, but by far the larger proportion we fear are the result of poor crops and over speculation in land. Merchants and others, whose commercial position a few months ago was undoubted, are now obliged to strain every nerve to preserve their position and, if possible, meet the demands made upon them by small traders —who for the time can get no assistance from any other source. One result of this state of affairs in the colonies often appears in the shape of incendiary fires, and other means equally bad, resorted to generally by persons of weak minds, who, in their endeavour to get rid of one trouble, by their own folly create others far. more appalling. It is often argued that insur ance agents, in their over-anxiety to do a large business for their employers, are to blame for a large number of fires of the description named. There appears to be hardly any check upon an unscrupulous trader who wishes to sell his stock for cash to those really good customers, the Insurance Companies. A transaction which came under our notice very recently well illustrates the feeling in the minds of some persons as to the proper course to pursue where only a very small fire had occurred, and how to make the most of it for the benefit of “ We, Us and Co. ” I i the case we quote from, a few article;;, had acci dentally caught fire, and, being early in the evening, there were soon plenty of willing hands and an abundant supply of water ; in a few moments all danger was over, as far as the fire was concerned. The real damage done to the goods was small —hardly worth claiming. This little difficulty was met in a most ingenious way as follows Mr. A. gets upon the steps and proceeds to pitch valuable goods to a large amount on to the ground amongst the water and dirt. Mr. B. then proceeds to pick up the said parcels and pitch them out of the place amongst a lot of damaged goods. While this is going on, however, Mr. B. finds several parcels not soiled. He then deliberately rolls them over and over, dips the end in water, and, with a benevolent smile upon his pious counten ance, has it stacked on one side to be surveyed. What a mine of wealth those Insurance Companies must be, bless them ! Is there any wonder dividends are small and premiums high ? Our readers will no doubt exclaim —“ Is this a ‘ Commercial Report Our reply is— ‘‘ Unfortunately yes,” and we can only hope, for the sake of those who are above such methods of adding to their incomes, that we may not often be called upon to offer any remark upon a similar occurrence. The grain trade generally has been quite up to expectations. Wheat still holds its own. The same remarks also apply to Barley, except for inferior, which is slightly easier. Last week’s quotations for Oats could not be obtained, only for very limited parcels for local use. In the continued absence of rain, the demand for Rye Grass and other seeds is almost nil. Corn Sacks are being offered at auction without meeting with buyers. Holders are very anxious to quit at almost any price. Wool, Skins, Hides and Tallow Mar ket considerably depressed. QUOTATIONS. Wheat, per bushel—milling, 3s 6d, se cond quality 3s 3d, feed 2s 9d to 3s ; oats, feed 2s 6d to 2s Bd, milling 2s 9d to 2s lOd; barley, feed 3s 3d to 3s 9d, malt ing 5s to 5s 9d ; peas, 4s to 4s 6d ; beans, 4s 3d to 4s 9d; flour, per ton, £9 to £9 15s, grist and country brands, £8 10s ; potatoes, from £2lss to £217 s 6d; onions, from £9 to £ll. Rye corn, 4s 3d; rye grass nominal ; cocksfoot, fijd ; linseed, 3d ; rape seed, English, sjd, colonial, sd. Bacon, in cloth, 8|; cheese, prime, B£d ; butter, lid ; carrots, 50s per ton; Lucerne hay, £6. Ox hides —salted heavy weights, 3§d, light 3jd, green, 2id ; calf skins, 3d ; tallow, If d to 2d.

POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Mails at the Ashburton Post Office close is follows : For Chi-istchurch and North at 10.20 a.m. \ 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, Tinvvald, Winslow, Hinds, Coldstream, Rangitata, Orari, Winchester, and Geraldine,at 10.20 a.m. daily. For Temuka, Tirnaru, 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, Waierton, and Longbeacli, at 3.15 p.m. daily. For Wakanui and Seafield, every Monday and Thursday, at 7.30 p.m. The following letters from places beyond the colony were received at the Ashburton Post Office during the month of February, and remained unclaimed on Ist April: Flanigan, Daniel. Howard, Frederick. Norman, C. Pirie, Thos. Reen, Timothy. Smith, John Groves (2). W. St. G. Douglas, Postmaster.

NOTICE.

A travelling Post Office having been estab lished 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.

ASHBURTON RETAIL LIST.

The Ashburton Herald AND Borough and County Advertiser (With which is incorporated the "Evening Echo"). MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1879.

Sir Bryan O’Loughlin, for holding the Attorney-Generalship of Victoria, has been decided to have vacated his seat for Clare, a Committee of the House of Commons having found that the Victorian Attorney-Generalship is an office of profit under the Crown. Sir Bryan’s entry into the Victorian Parliament last year, it we may believe the Melbourne Argus and Mr. Jones, Secretary of the Melbourne “ National Registration Association ” was as shady a transaction as ever was perpe trated in the. annals of electioneering, and affords an'insight into what can be done with the Australian i-olls by clever electioneering agents —an insight that may teach us a useful lesson, that may be remembered with profit when another Electoral Bill comes before the House, ;

Sir Bryan gained the seat for West Melbourne against Mr. Francis, last April, and considering that that par ticular constituency was looked upon as being a pronounced stronghold .of the Opposition, it was with no small as tonishment that the result was received —a Reading man of the Berry side walking in. The Atgi/s, speaking of the election, a subject brought up by the making up of the rpll in Decem ber, says that Sir Bryan has p r o more right to his seat for West Melbourne than he had to the Crown of England. “ Fie does not represent the constituency, and his position in the Assembly is one which any man of honorable instincts would shrink from holding under such circumstances as those which have just been brought to light, He was re turned by a majority composed of frauds, and of what the Americans call ‘ repeaters ’ —that is to say, men who take several electoral rights, in different divisions, under assumed names and addresses, and who ‘ poll early and poll often.’ ”

It appears that when Sir Bryan O’Loughlin contested the seat, the electoral roll contained 1571 names, but when it was made up again in De cember the number dwindled down to 369, and the Secretary of the Registra tion Society points to this fact as an in dication that there were numerous false votes on the roll at the time of Sir Bryan’s return. 860 votes were polled on that occasion, but who were the men who exercised them, how they got upon the roll last year, and why they are not upon it again this year are un answered question that giye colqr to the

■ Atgus’ severe remarks. How they didget upon the roll is a matter not difficult to understand when the Victorian' system of registration is considered. 1 o obtain a place on 'the roll in Victoria, it is ne cessary to pass the very moderate edu cation test of .name signing, pay a shil ling registration fee’, and reside m the district. No effort seems to be made to ascertain the bona files of the appli cant’s residence, and hence it is not .difficult for a man to appear several times upon the roll under different names, or for men who are not resi dents in the district at all to be regis tered as bona fide electors. The Secre tary of the National Registration Society adds “ The practice, seems to be to induce casually and permanently employed persons at work in West Melbourne, in connection with the wharves, railways, and factories, whether resident in the district or not, to register as electors.

This process need not cost the non resident applicants for a residental right anything. One of the present members for West Melbourne furnished to the registrar at least 200, and possibly a larger number,, of shilling fee stamps, to be used when the present roll was made up. Political agents, the proprietors of some hotels, refreshment rooms, and lodging-houses, also pro vide fee stamps, and retain the electoral rights, some holding from 20 to 50 rights thus obtained.”

Road Board. —Our report of the Road Board meeting is held over till our next issue.

1.0.G.T. —The receutly-formed “Will and the Way Lodge ” at Tinwald will hold an open meeting on Wednesday evening, to which all are invited, the admission being free. The Hon. W. Fox, as has been adver tised and previously noticed by us, will give a lecture to-night on “ Temperance ” in the Town Hall. His visit to Ashbur ton is with a view to the establishment of a branch of the United Kingdom Alliance.

The M.11.R. for the District. —As yet no gentleman has publicly signified his intention of asking the suffrages of the Coleridge electors, or even expressed a willingness to stand. But. we learn that Mr. E. G. Wright has been asked to allow himself to be put forward, and, though he has not yet finally decided to become a candidate for the seat, there is every reason to believe his services will be placed at the disposal of the district. Off the Rails. —To-day, between one and two o’clock, a goods engine while engaged in shunting ran off the line exactly at the place where the express came into collision with a goods train three weeks ago. A couple of waggons were somewhat knocked about, but, beyond the delay of putting the- engine on the rails again, no serious mischief resulted, and the general traffic was not impeded. Nelson Hops. —From Nelson, the best hop-growing district in the colony, a speci men of New Zealand grown hops is to be sent to the Sydney Exhibition. Barley. — A Queensland trader recently purchased in Nelson 3,000 bags of barley grown in that province, for exportation to Queensland. H paid from ss. 3d. to ss. 6d. per bushel for the line.

A Prodigy. — A boy named Clutsam, 12 years old, who has displayed extraordinary ability in Dunedin as a pianist and com poser, is to be sent home for training under the best masters. Accident at Rakaia.— An accident oc curred on Saturday morning last to a young man named W. H: Douglas, in the employ of Edwin Bright, farmer, Barrhill, by which he had his leg broken. He was watering some horses from a tank on a dray, when the stick which was proping the dray up fell from underneath, causing the accident. He was sent to Christ church by the midday train for treatment —“ Press ”

Fruit. —“ The Nelson Colonist” says, regarding fruit-tree planting in that dis trict : —“ Attention is being paid by resi dents to planting fruit trees. Last season thousands of fruit trees were planted in Nelson and its suburbs, and this year, in .some instances, acres of land are being prepared to be thus utilised. With due care in the selection of all fruit exported, Nelson would 1 have # much larger trade, and better prices w.onld ibe realised. Owners of orchards and .exporters of fymp should first devote their combined atten tion to obtain a reputation for excellence in the fruit sold by them, and then a much larger and more remunerative trade would Speedily follow. There is plenty of room for extending our orchards, and we trust this industry (which is onlj yet in its infancy) will continue to be further developed with each successive season.” Singular Case. —“ The Ross Guardian” mentions the case of a man, a miner, who died in the hospital there, from hydatids of the liver. The ordinary weight, of the human liver is from three to four pounds, but this man’s was found, on a post mortem examination, to weigh more than lGlbs., and that although many of the hydatids had escaped. A Curiosity.— Mi*. R. Hall, of Tairoa, has a curiosity in the shape of a piece of clear kauri gum with a leaf of gold in the heart of it. He found it in a bag of gum he had purchased. Good Land. —A gentleman (says “ The Tapanui Courier”), on whose testimony we can rely, assures us he clears upwards of £2OO per annum from 30 acres of not remarkably rich land, and to work it does not occupy anything like his full time. The Confiscated Land, over which Government and the Maoris are disagree ing, last year yielded from crops £4,000 to the natives,

INQUEST.

-• An inquest was held to-day at the Immigration Barricks before Dr. Trevor and a jury, of Whom Mr. T. Quill was chosen foreman, on the body of. Ruth Dent, a child four; months old who had died without medical attendance, and the case had not been reported till "three days after death. . .

John Dent, father of the deceased, said the child took ill about fortnight before its death. It was not ailing seriously till Sunday 30th ult., when dysentery set in. Witness mother treated the infant as best she could, but no medical man was called in. On the Monday night late the child ap peared much worse, and suffered great pain. Left the house early in the morning; the child, was then being nursed by its mother. On returning between 8 and 9 o’clock on Tuesday might, the* child was dead/ -'«Gave no information to the registrar nor to the police till Thursday morning. Witness was not aware that no charge was made for registration and having no money at hand, did not give any information until the return of his father, who was absent at Rakaia. Was a farmer, and resided on the Plains, near Barrhill. Had not called in medical aid because the child ; was not considered danger ously ill—even when the infant Avas suffering much on the Monday night they thought she would soon be better, and she did show signs of getting well, on Tuesday morning; the medical man was not called because of the immediate want of money, but simply because the child did not appear to be so severely or dangerously ill as to require one. Margaret Dent, mother of the child and wife of the previous witness, said the child was four months old, and had been weaned two months, from which time it had been delicate. Fed the child on-milk and water after weaning. Gave her during the purging, Stead man’s powders and a little rice water, also about half a teaspoonful of whisky. Did not think the child dangerously ill till the afternoon of its death. It died at 4 p.m.

Ruth Dent, mother of John Dent, father of the child, corroborated the evidence in the main given by the previous witnesses. Had no means of sending for a docror on Tuesday after noon, and the necessity for medical aid only became apparent then. Both witness’s son and husband were away at that time, otherwise a doctor would have been called. *

Dr. Ross made a post mot tem exami nation of the child,- the result of which went to show that no marks of any kind were visible externally, the body was tolerably well nourished. The child might have suffered for some time from diarrhoea, but the immediate cause of death was congestion of the lungs causing congestion of the brain. Had no doubt the child died from natural causes.

The jury returned a verdict in ac cordance with the medical evidence.

TELEGRAPHIC.

LATEST FROM EUROPE.

TO-DAY’S CABLEGRAMS. [argus special.] London, April 5. It is reported the New Guinea expedi tion meant to assist the revolution in Albania.

Money is in moderate demandstock markets firmer Since the budget was disclosed; Government debentures steady. Wheat inactive : New Zealand, 48s to 495,

TO-DAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Auckland, Monday The Rev. Mr. Endice, incumbent of All Saints, is dangerously, ill The Auckland Working Men’s anti- Chinese petition has now 3000 names. It is rumored that Fraser and Tinne h&ve refused to abide by certain con ditions specified in the Taupo contract, and that D, Gouk, shipwright, has taken the job. By. the Taiaroa seven race horses arrived for the Autumn meeting—Wal ter’s Venus Transit and Slander, Ray's Walton, George’s Resolution, and Mayor’s 9’ Day, Loch Lomond, and Nora. A three roomed cottage in New market, containing fodder stored by Lumpton, Carter, insured, has been burnt. Owing to a caustic article •in the Free Lance pn Signor Pempei’s Opera Company, the prima donna, Miss Vangenfieim, went for the editor. It is alleged that threats pt an action for libel and horsewhipping ,w,ere freely used. In Mr. G-.W, Binhey’s.estate, matters have been arranged. The general creditors get 10s, in the £; the bank, 12 s. The Melanesian mission schooner leaves for an eight months cruise among the islands on Wednesday, taking the Rev. Mr. Penny and other missionaries. It is understood a libel action is threatened against the Star in Mrs. Croker’s case. Damages of -£IOO are claimed. -v ■ ; y Bluff, Monday. The Rihgarooma left Melbourne at 2.40 p.m. on the Ist, arrived at Hobart Town on the 3rd, left at 6.15 same day, and arrived at the Bluff this morning at 9a. in. She sails at 8 p.m. for Dunedin. Passed barque Isaac Hall, of New York, bound eastward.

Invercargill, Monday. Patrick M ; Mene has been committed for trial at the Supreme Court for arson' in setting fire to a hut used as a' stable, in which was burnt the horse Young Lofty, lately sold for ; £ioo. , The hut was insured in the New Zealand ‘office for £, 27 5. The j ury added a% ride# tp the effect that insurance offices were encouraging fires by over insurance. The Kaitangata Fund is still growing. Over has been received to date.

A coach accident occurred at Wai nuituku last Saturday. The coach sank in the quick sands, and two out of four horses were drowned; the others have been shot. The loss is calculated at The passengers escaped.

THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN WHEAT CROP.

The Adelaide Observer remarks as follows concerning the South Australian wheat crop:—With low price and an average crop of only seven bushels to the acre,' the farmers cannot be in a very flourishing condition. Almost up to the hour of reaping a more than average harvest was confidently ex pected. In some districts it was evident that red rust had got hold of the crops, and would greatly reduce; the returns ; but no one imagined it would play such general havoc as it appears to have done. Fields that were ripening for the reaper, and which promised 20 to 25 bushels to the acre, fell a prey to the dreaded pest, yielding instead some Bor 10 bushels. Except in the south-eastern district, and three or four of the newly-opened areas, the com plaint is universal that the crops have been reduced at least 3 10 4 bushels per acre for the whole area of cultivation throughout the province. Coming to the details of the harvest as furnished by our correspondents, we find that the total area reaped for wheat this season has been some 1,286,355' acres, or 122,709 acres in excess of 1877-8, which in its turn showed an excess of 80,697 acres over 1876-7, the total then being 9,034,692 bushels. The. total yield we estimate at 9,007,624 bushels, mak ing seven bushels and a fraction per acre. The fraction does not amount to two ounces per acre, so it is scarcely worth consideration. Last year the general average was 7 bushels -461 b. per acre, and the year preceding that 5 bushels 24lbs. Not withstanding the fact that we have 122,709 acres more under cultivation, the gross yield of the current season does not reach, according to our calcula tions, that of last season by 27,068 bushels. Out of the 9,007,624 bushels, which we reckon to be the gross produce of the harvest now in-gathered, there will be required for seed some 1,410,000 bushels. This is at the rate of one bushel per acre. Formerly 1y 2 and latterly bushels per acre have been allowed by statisticians; " but as thin sowing is now more generally* adopted, it is believed that an allowance of one bushel per acre will be ample. We do not apprehend that the increase in the area cultivated in 1879-80 will much exceed that of last season, so that the gross requirement for . the purposes of seed will, as we have said, be about 1,410,000 bushels. We set down 5 bushels per head as sufficient for food, and estimating the population at 260,000, this will absorb another 1,300,000 bushels. When these neces sities have been provided for, there will be left available for export 6,297,624 bushels, representing in round numbers from 150,000 to 170,000 tons of wheat.

An American farmer writes :—“ Tarred building paper, tied about the trunks as high as the full width, is a safe and effec tive protection against rabbits. With 1000 trees I should attach this to the outside rows, and smear the remainder with fresh blood. Should the winter be severe, with deep snows, the orchard should be ex amined at intervals. Deeply Regretted. —“ The Manawatu Herald ” laughs in its sleeve at the obituary notice of a Wellington child, six months old, which had, during its frshort pilgrimage on earth, made “ a large circle of friends. ” - ; . A Ship Burnt.—A Sydney telegram of April 3rd says:—“The barque Cicero, which has just arrived from London, report that off the Victorian coast she sighted a large sfiip f apparently an iron vessel, which had been completely burned, all but the bare shell. Two .schppngrs were alongside the wreck. The name of the ship is unknown, and the circumstances of her destruction are involved in complete mystery, An Excited Spectator.— At a perform ance of the “ Two Orphans ” in London, a woman in the audience became so ex cited that she threw her opera glass at the villain of the piece. A Big Nugget. —A s|oz. nugget was recently picked up in the Waimangaroa Creek, near Westport. Work in Victoria. —Employment is not plentiful in Victoria. At Ballarat re cently, a resident wanted a piece of ground trenched, and advertised for ■ tenders. . Thirty-seven applicants wanted the job. . Strangers coming to reside -in Ashburton ire often at a loss to know which is the best Establishment to visit for the purchase of Drapery, Clothing, and House-furnishing Iron mongery, aud General Stores. Orr & Co. offer special advantages to the public that can be met with nowhere else in Ashburton. They keep at all limes the largest and best-assorted Stock of every class of Goods, imported direct from the leading manufacturers at home, which beine bought entirely upon cash terms, they are enabled to ofier goods of such 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 the most inexperienced buy their goods at the same puces as fit? b?st judges,—Advt j

HORRIBLE AFFAIR.

At one of the railway branch stations at Boiddaux, a lady of high family was •travelling, with her son, a lad aged 15 ; while he was* walking along the platform," shegentered, the waiting room, and was obsery‘ed;:.by ,a porter to be ill y she re joined"‘her son and they took their places in a first-class carriage , the scene occupied less than five minutes, and occurred near midnight; the porter hearing a sigh discovered a new born healthy , baby 5 between** the?railsqi he informed the policeman,, who had only time to jump on the ‘ moving train-;-chance, had it that he entered the. compartment where were, the. lady; and* her son, and he told her of his mission' as atopic of conversation, and the lady agreed with him the matter was; horrible. , .-i* : - . •a -

At the next station a search was made for the mother, and the carriage) steps afforded proof that .the police man’s travelling companion was the, culprit. After indignation arid a : medical examination she confessed her crime. She was-sentenced to a month’s imprisonment Separated from her husband she wished ' to conceal, her shame from l him i and her son. The baby lived three days.—Paris Letter.

A NAVAL WAR GAME.

A naval war game , has been, it is stated by a German.naval paper, begun at the German Admiralty in Berlin, and is to be continued every Monday night under the presidency of General Von Stosch, the chief of the German navy. The introduction of such a maritime Kriegsspiel was much talked of by English naval officers some five or six years ago,: and a few games were actually played. The idea, was first suggested by a naval chaplain, the Rev. Frederick Davies, who proposed mov ing little blocks, representing ships, over a chart. Subsequently the matter was taken up by one or two executive officers, a regular playing-board was prepared;* scales .were- constructed for altering the course of the shipsengaged and a number of rules were elaborated to guide the conduct of the game. A paper explaining the progress which had been made was readhtfthelUhited Service Institution, and there seemed to be.every prospect’ of the new naval war game becoming as popular among naval officers as the land Kriegsspiel is among military men. Unfortunately, however, no further attempt was made to bring the game into a more complete state, and nothing more was heard in England of the naval Krigesspiel. The new Kriegsspiel may be far from perfect—many years and the experience acquired by . continuous practice were required to bring the military war game touts present state—but anything that leads officers to think about tactics;and * the manner in which ships should be moved in and before an action cannot fail to be useful.

THE DRAMA.

Prof. Blackie, in proposing “ The Drama,” at a dinner given to Mr. B. H. Wyndham, in Edinburgh, said :—“ Is it not a strange thing that in modern times with our high-strung' religionwebave had a divorce .between the stage and morality and . religion, , whereas, in ancient times, growing out of mere joviality, out of the harvest, home, as it were—there came up a Greek . tragedy, which became ayiulpit from which ij you have sermons upon conscience, which go to move the inner strings of the heart as much as any sermon that was ever preached by Dr, Guthrie- ©r Dr. Butler, or the most sanctimonious of Free Church clergymen in the north west of Ross-shire, Read you the open ing chorus of Agamemnon, or read the choruses of Eumenides pr the Furies, and tell me if it is not a most mon strous thing for men preaching the Gospel to say that There ; /is;.rany thing in these tending to an eternal divorce between the Church and- the Theatre. There are in these works great elevating ideas, and yet the modem preacher says of the drama, ' .Depart from me, for. I am holier than “thou." What is the consequence ? " You leave the theatre to drift ; and'depend upon it, that if they who ” are God’s'‘servants do not knowl how to use it, the devil is far too clever a fellow not to use it for his own business. .If there is anything wj-QRg in the theatre, it is the'fault of the public, and especially of the clergy who have made a . most unnatural and monstrous.;, divorce.,, between the holy and the • beautiful Jfc They are fighting, however, 4 against M good and against God ; and I will only say, therefore, with old Homer,, * He fights merely to be beaten who fights against the gods.’v- I beg to propose ‘ Success to the Modern Drama,’ and especially in its union with the Christian Gospel:” .• ,K • G.^v./r -( , „ ■ J.M SI

Mdlle. Beatrice, the actress, who died recently in England, left • nearly £15,000 to her stage manager, to whom she was about to be married. The Family Bible not a Necessary of Life.— A somewhat, singular case was heard at Buninyong on March .Bth, when an American firm of booksellers Bued a resident of the town named for f 3 10s., being the price of a Family Bible supplied to defendant’s wife. The defence set up was—That, the artiolo not being necessary either, for household use. or consumption, jj the husband was n.6t liable for the he being in-no way connected with purchase of the article sued for. JMKmm Bench took this view of. the was, therefore, dismissed, H

Monday, April 7, 1879.]

THE ASHBURTON HERALD.



s. d. Batter, inferior to best 1? lb I 0 to I 3 Eges, $ dozen X 6 to 0 0 Cheese, prime quality, li? lb 0 10 •to 0 0 Bacon, prime smoked, If? lb Hams in cloth, $ lb 0 10 to 0 0 I 0 to 0 0 Flour in bags, ioolb 12 6 to 14 0 Oatmeal, $ 251b 7 0 to o’ 0 Lard, $ lb - O 9 to 0 0



Clothing Establishment. ENCOURAGE NEW ZEALAND INDUSTRIES. TO THE PEOPLE OF THE ASHBURTON DISTRICT. MESSRS. JJ ALLEN STEIN Jg R OS. 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 he exchanged with the same courtesy with which it was sold, or, if desired, the money will be returned. The Success which has attended the New Zealand Clothing Fac tory’s Retail Branches in Auck land, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, 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. WILLIAM SPARROW, Manager 407 Ashburton Branch.



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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 SPECIAL NOTICE. WE ARE NOW LANDING— Ex p.s. “ Tongariro,” Totara for Wells Ex “Clifton,” from Invercargill, 240,000 feet first-class Boards and Scantling Ex “ Drover,” from Bluff, 120,000 ditto ditto Ex “ Wave of Life,” from Thames, 50,000 feet Flooring, Lining, &c. Ex “Flora,” from Kaipara, A splendid assortment of 95,000 feet Kauri Timber MONTGOMERY & CO. (Limited) CHRISTCHURCH, And EAST STREET, ASHBURTON. LOST, ON Saturday night, from the Mill Pad dock, a Black DRAUGHT HORSE, about 15| hands ; has scar on neck cut by a rope ; had a cover on when lost. Any person giving information or returning same will be rewarded. 654 SAUNDERS BROS. MOUNT HUTT ROAD BOARD. PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that a meeting of electors of the Mount Hutt Road District will be held at Edging ton’s house, Bari’hill, on MONDAY, the 21st day of April inst., at 11 o’clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of electing five ratepayers to serve as members of the above Board. A poll if necessary will be taken between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. on THURSDAY, the 24th day of April inst., at the undermentioned places : Woolshed, Draycote; Eclgington’s House, Barrhill. CHARLES BRADDELL, 654 Returning Officer. AUCTION SALES. To-Morrow, Tuesday, Mr. Alfred Harrison, at 12 o’clock, at his Rooms, at 12.20 sharp—Oilmen’s Stores, Etc. Messrs Bullock & Co, at the Tinwald Y ards—Cattle.