CORRESPONDENCE.

We dp not hold ourselves responsible Tor tin opinions expressed by our correspondents.

THE EARTH’S HEAT.

To the Editor.

Sib, —In your issue of the 30th Oct., a correspondent disposes of the thermo metrical observations taken by the mana ger of the Magdala Mine, Victoria, in a very summary manner. He seems also to assume that your judgment was at fault in allowing the article he refers to, to appear in the columns of your paper ; and concludes with thinking you ought to be pleased with having it corrected. Now, however, unorthodox it may ap pear to Mr Westbrooke, I for one believe that the manager of the mine in question is pretty nearly correct, and as there can be found on the goldfields of Victoria as clever experts, and as correct instruments, as elsewhere in the world, the matter can very easily be put at rest. lam about to write to the manager of the Magdala, Mine on the subject, and I know that if he is likely to encounter any difficulties in J his thermal investigations, the Minister of a Mines for the Colony will—in the interest of science—be delighted to afford the necessary means to have the question settled beyond cavil, perhaps Mr Westbrooke will have to admit that our scientific knowledge always, has, and will yet continue to, require modification from time to time. If the heat of the earth increased —as a good many learned men have affirmed, at the rate of 100° per mile as we descend towards its centre, what condition would the bottom of the ocean be in at the depth of 6 .or 7 miles ? I would imagine that it would resemble the bottom of water in a frying pan over a great fire ; and the consequent oceanic disturbance arising therefrom would bring about whirlpools and currents, compared with which the Gulf Stream would be but an infant. ;• In place, however,- of such dis turbance existing at great depths, the obseivations of .Commander. LYlaur’y, of the United " 'States Navy, find of the officers of her Majesty’s ship Challenger, fully establish the very opposite condition •f tilings. „ , •Mr Westbrooke will, I think, see that he himself, is rather misleading where ne says that at ‘ 100 ft from the surface we find the mean temperature of the earth. The depth of mecn temperature varies with the latitude, though not in a very uniform manner ; following in a measure, but inversely, the isothermal lines. At Stawell, Victoria, it will, I believe, be found somewhere about 40ft from the surface. I do not for a moment doubt the accuracy of the recorded heat of European mines ; but I have the strongest doubts as to the uniformity of that heat at the same level all the world ever.

I will conclude with assuring you that all articles appearing in your valuable paper, bearing on recent scientific dis coveries, will be read with much pleasure by many of your subscribers, whether such discoveries have had time to receive the unerring sfamp of mathematics on the face of them or not. . I am, sir, Tour obedient servant, ‘ D. Oliver. Westerfield, Nov. 10th, 1879.

An Exhibition for New Zealand.

A correspondent of a Wellington paper is sanguine than an Exhibition in New Zealand, held in 1880 or 1881, similar to that in either Sydney or Melbourne, would be a great success, and a substan tial.benefit to the colony. We are afraid our Exhibition would tread to closely on the heels of those of our neighbours, though we have no doubt, if such a dis play of our resources and products were held, our colony would be advertised as it never has been hitherto. It is astonish ing notwithstanding all our outcry, how little practically is known about New Zealand in the Old Country, and in too many cases the whole Australasian colonies are summed up as one, or at least as lying within a stone’s throw of each other. For all practical purposes Australia is as far away from New Zea land as England is from the United States, and communication has to be kept up in exactly the. same way ; but to a very great extent at Home the error is made that we lie so closely to each other as to be almost identical in interests. Just as a war is the best teacher of geography to the masses, hut to none more effectually than to the soldiers who take part i:i it, so would any attraction that would turn the special attention to ourselves of those whose attention we wish to court, be the best exponent of our colony’s value ; and more especialy would anything bringing in an influx of foreign visitors be a means of disabusing the English and American mind of errors regarding our position and worth. We are afraid there are too many difficulties in the way of an exhibition . being held in New Zealand at so early a date as that pointed to by the writer to whom we refer, but we feel that sometime in the next decade a show of what the colony can do as one of the world’s pro ducers, and what she might be made do, were the proper hands put to the work backed with the needful capital and enter prise, will be absolutely necessary, if we are not to lag behind the sister colonies. Meanwhile, however, we are afraid we must be content for a time with the re flected advantages we may derive from the industrial fairs held on the other side.

Stoats and Polecats for New Zealand.

The following letter, signed “ Curtis H. Anderson, New Mexico,” appeared in a late issue of the “ Field ” ,' Sir } _Seeing two letters in your issue of July 5 with regard to the importation of stoats and polecats into New Zealand for the'destruction of rabbits, I should like to say a few words on the subject of an ; experiment which, if successful, would be of +he greatest importance to the land owners and holders, and to the general prosperity < f the southern portion of that colony, and one which, X think, neither Professor Newton nor Mr Halting to judge from their letters —are sufficiently well acquainted with. In a matter of this kind it is to be hoped that little attention will be paid to the opinion of private individuals at home with no inteiests at .stake, who do not un derstand the state of affairs there, but that the wel'are of a large community will

be fully taken into consideration : and, as the now general depression in those parts shows, the rabbit nuisance question is one which can by no means be lightly passed over. Not that tlie present depression is en tirely owing to the rabbits; bad seasons have put the finishing stroke upon the unlucky squatters whose runs were al ready much impoverished by their depre dations.

It would take up too much of your valu able space to go into statistics, showing the almost incredible number of rabbits killed in Otago, and the cost incurred with in the last few years ; how the stock carrying capability of the province has been diminished, and how the whole southern portion of the Middle Island is suffering in consequence. Suffice it to say that many men formerly in good circum stances have been utterly ruined, and many more ate on the verge of ruin, while all their efforts have been as yet futile in anything like extirpating the vermin or preventing them from increas ing. One who has not lived in a rabbit infested district can form little idea of the destruction they work, and the way in which formerly well grassed, fattening country is made desert. Every meins that could be thought of ha 3 beeu tried in vain, to get rid of them. In some parts where the ground is more favorable for working, they have been kept in check for a time, but only to appear again in larger numbers from the more inaccessible breeding grounds.

Is it to be wondered at that the suf ferers are anxious to import any animals that are likely to aid in the destruction of such enemies ? Are the pheasants and other game to be considered in a crisis such as this ?

And who, pray, “are so simple as to think that any of the Musteliadie will con fine their destructive operations to rab bits ?” It is certainly deplorable to think that the game will go too, but what, again I ask, is that compared with a calamity of this kind ? and much exaggerated it can not be. I do not consider that the benefit to accrue by importing polecats and stoats, even in as great numbers as possible, would be felt for a considerable time, but anything that can be looked to even in the far future as a means of eradicating the rabbits ought to be hailed with joy.

However enthusiastic a sportsman may be, he loses somewhat of his ardor when he finds lie cannot make bivad and butter for himself and family on account of the preservation of the game. . Would Mr Newton or Mr Harting kindly place bimself for a few moments in the position of a Southland squatter. Say he has a good run, and his sheep or cattle, as the case may be, are doing well and multiplying. Soon he looks forward to a little shoot ing, and say his pheasants and Californian quail have increased and multiplied in like manner.

Then rumors of rabbits come, and shortly a few outrunners themselves, which lie does his best to find out and kill; then they begin to come more thickly and in places in the bends of the creeks and rivers the grass begins to show signs of being decidedly eaten down. In two or -three years from that time he finds that, notwithstanding all his efforts, however strenuous, the rabbits have increased, the grass is destroyed and eaten out ; in place of 20,000 or 30,000 sheep he has only about half that number, and these are wretchedly poor and dying ; scarcely any lambing, and little wool in the worst condition. He does not know what to do to help himself. Sell his property he cannot ; there are no buyers. He still struggles on, trying everything in his power for the eradication of the pests— the same as he has clone from the beginning. The hawks—and they are numerous—are strictly preserved, and likewise the wood hens, which occasionally kill the young rabbits. The children are encouraged to look well after the cats and kittens in the winter time, and these are turned out in the spring, conveyed in sacks with much mewing to distant parts of the run, from which they seldom return, having a good time of it and plenty to eat. Needless much longer to spin out the story. What are the pheasants and quail to liim now ? A thorough sportsman at heart, \vhat are they compared with his prospects in life? Would he not be only too glad if tlie place was overrun with polecats and stoats, so long as the rabbits were gone, and he saw the grass growing and his stock thriving once again ? The bank carries him on as long as it can, and when this can assist him no longer, he has to go out, as many a good honest fellow has lately done in Southland, ruined, and with a wife and family on his hands. Would Mr Newton or Mr Harting then write two such letters as those published in your issue of July 5 ? I think not. No doubt pole cats will in future years become a nuisance in New Zealand, if they increase in the same way as almost every hardy imported animal does there ; but, at the same time, in however large numbers, they can hardly affect the wel fare of the country in the same way the rabbits are now doing, and most assuredly the two cannot exist together in numbers. Bunny must at last go to the wall and high time too.

Mr N ewton seems afraid of the poultry. But why should the poultry become a prey to the polecats ? lam living at present in a country infested with skunks in great numbers, much move impudent and ruth less enemies of the fowlhouse than pole cats, and yet my hens live and lay eggs, and why ? For the simple reason that my fowlhouse is builtso that skunks can’t get in.

As for the rare native birds Mr Harting mentions, the kakapo, kiwi, and. native quail, I fear they have little chance of surviving in any case, and they will soon disappear with the advance of civilis ation without the aid of polecats. If they would climb the mountains, and catch some of the keas, and other rare birds, perhaps the squatters about the Wanaka Lake would only be too glad, as this peculiar bird, although not much bigger than the common green parrot, is very destructive to sheep in the high mountain ranges, and particularly in that picturesque part of the country. My letter is longer than I intended, and I now close with the hope that nothing may be done to try and prevent the un fortunate laedowners in Otago from intro ducing any animal into the country that may be of help in exterminating the rabbits ; and I cannot call it by any other name than short s : ghted policy, seeing that a large part of the island will have to he abandoned, and the colony will suffer in consequence, if something of the kind is not attempted soon.

Farmers and Protection.

f From- the Australasian. J

Mr Thomson, in the interview with Sir Bryan O’Logblen, brielly formulated the farmers’ claims as follows :—“ What the deputation asked for was that all duties should be removed from their implements, machinery, Ac., and they said they were willing to have the protection taken away from agricultural produce,” to which Sir Bryan O’Loghlen, on behalf of the Go vernment, replied—“ That is entirely op posed to the fiscal policy of the country, arid the Government has riot the slightest intention of doing it. The Go-

vernment were determined to carry out the policy of protection, and if any change was to be made, the country would have get other men to carry it out." This is explicit and tangible, "and the Attorney-General is to be thanked for the perfect frankness with which he re pudiated the demands of the farming class. The Government was brought to the point that it had to choose between the support of the farmers and of the protective classes in town, and it deliber ately and decisively,elects to stick by the latter. The farmers now know exactly how they stand, and unless they choose to forego their claims and content them selves with the crumbs of concession doled out to them by the Government, their next appeal must be to the ballot box.

It was the "very extravagance of impu dent assurance that dictated Sir Bryan O’Loglilen’s prayer to the farmers to re frain from taking a “ selfish class view.” Selfish class view ! This, indeed, comes well from men whose whole scheme of policy has been the systematic sacrifice of the interests of the community at large to those of a limited class, who are sup ported by being enabled to carry on their industries at the expense of the colony in general and the farmer in particular. Sir Bryan O’Loghlen proceeded to tell the..farmers that “ the protectionist policy had provided them with an enormous home , market. ” But this is what the evidence of statistics shows, as we have recently pointed out, protection lias utterly failed to accom plish. The official statistics of tfie various Australian colonies sliow that not only is the import and export trade of this colony falling off rapidly as compared with the other colonies, but that our rate of growth of population during the last six years has been less than half that of New South Wales and South Australia. In those colonies where the farmer is not mulcted in protective duties, the expansion of the home market for his produce is at more than double the rate than it is in Victoria. These facts are beyond all possibility of dispute, and in the face of them what be comes of Sir Bryan O’Loghlen’s unblush ing assertion of the “ enormous home market,” protection provides them with ?

The Forth Bridge—Some American Comparisons.

(From the Brooklyn F.agle .)

The immense height of the towers for the support of the Forth bridge has created some surprise, and no wonder when it is taken into account that when tliay are completed they will be the highest buildings of any kind in this world. Science, will, therefore, wait with some anxiety their completion. The height of the towers on the Inch Gar vie, midway between South and North Queensferry, will be SGO feet to support a bridge 150 feet above high watermark, but the reason of this great altitude is that in the generality of suspension bridges the towers are built on the land on either side of the span, and were this the case in the Forth bridge towers of 150 feet less in height, or 430 feet, would be sufficient ; but this is impossible from the great length of the bridge. It seems that by natural laws there is a limit to’everything on this earth— that is, that man can go a certain length and no further, as, for instance, in telescopes no thing larger than Lord Ross’s having been perfected in many years, In reference to buildings a correspondent the other day quoted St. Roll ox stalk 430 feet high. St. Paul’s Cathedral is about 4GO feet to top of the dome, St. Peter’s at Rome 480 feet, the Pyramids of Egypt, at least the great pyramid is 180 feet at present in its im perfect state, but by calculation would reach 500 feet in height when finished. When it is remembered that this struc ture only reaches this height with a base of about twenty-six acres, it will be a very difficult matter to raise the Forth bridge towers to 500 feet with a small base. These towers are to be formed of solid masonry to a certain height, and then by groups of iron pillars girded together in layers upward. The Niagara suspension bridge has one large span of 821 feet ; the railway track above the water is 245 feet, or 95 feet higher than the Forth bridge ; the towers are only GO feet high, being built on either side of the shore. The Alleghany bridge has two large spans of 344 feet each, and tlie towers are 45 feet high. The Coving ton and Cincinnati bridge has a span of 1,057 feet ; its height above low water is 103 feet, and the towers 230 feet high. The bridge seems to give the best propor tion to the Forth bridge which is I,GBO feet for two spans, 150 feet high, and towers of 500 feet. Those we have men tioned are finished and in working order ; and we may. mention .also the East river bridge, connecting New York to Brooklyn. The towers of this bridge are also built upon the land and a.re 378 feet high. The single span is 1,595 feet long, or only 85 feet less than the Forth bridge, while the total length is 5,989 feet. There is, there fore, no doubt that the Fortli bridge, when completed, will he an engineering triumph.

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The Use of Profane Language.

(From the Derbyshire Times.)

One of our metropolitan contemporaries is devoting some space to a correspon dence upon the subject of the prevailing use of foul an l profane language in this country. It is not bo'ore it- was time that public attention was directed to the pre valence of this most useless and disgust ing vice. It is almost impossible to pass along the street of our large towns with out having our ears polluted by language of the most horrible description—some of it is so bad that we most charitably pre sume those who use it do so in ignorance of its meaning. Nor is the evil confined altogether to grown up persons among the lower classes. The children speedily learn, and the language we can hear any day from pit boys in this district, is often of the worst description. Neither is the use of this had language confined to the working man. The classes above him, it is true, are far better trained in this re spect as a rule, but “.Arry ” can make use of oaths far too readily, and there are black sheep in the ranks above him also. Another feature of this reprenhensible habit is that the character of the bad lan guage used, is changing, or has changed. In past ages the oaths of the people were distinctly of ecclesiastical derivation. They were, too, mostly used to emphati cise what li as said, by the process of call ing upon the Almighty to witness to their statements, ov by clenching their argu ments by an appeal to holy men or holy subjects. Bad as this sort of language was. the “ blood and ounds ” style of swearing was infinitely less repulsive than the filthy and disgusting language which has replaced it. Scarcely a vestige of the old style of swearing remains, except “ the frequent d ,” or the impious use of the Creator’s name. The rest is unadul terated filth, if filth can be so described, and the faetproves a certain amount of degrada tion in the classes in which to swear and curse is still considered a desirable accom plishment. The style of language, which has been alliteratively described as “the three b’s,” has swept out the old monkish oaths of the past, and even the more decent condemnatory epithets of our fore fathers are giving way to it, a fact which speaks badly for the swearers, as it shows that even in their low depths there is a deeper level still. Now all this sort of thing is a great disgrace to a Christian nation, and we have no doubt whatever it could be speedily greatly checked. Any town can enact bye-laws by which the use of profane language is made an offence punishable by fine, and imprisonment by default. Many towns already enforce these bye-laws, and the effect is excellent, not so much perhaps in the mere punish ment of the particular delinquent fined as in the fact that by tliese prosecutions the attention of persons who are likely to adopt the habit is called to tlia subject. If all those persons who thoughtlessly swear and curse were thus reminded of the im propriety of it, there would be a con siderable improvement in the language used in places of public resort at once, and we might trust to the repressive measures to deal effectively with the wilful offenders. A good deal may also be done by employers of labor instituting a system of fines for swearers, such fines to be drvoted to the benefit of the work people in general, and there are many other ways in which this useless, dis gusting, and degrading vice might be effectually checked. Certainly it is in cumbent on those in authority to take some steps to limit a national vice which of late years seems rather to grow than diminish, and which is decidedly worse in its incidence than formerly. We trust these few “ cursory remarks on swearing ” —to quote the punning inscription at Chatsworth —may be of service in di recting public attention in this county to a subject which must be admitted to be of social importance.

The Gold-Fish Trick.

(Max Aueleii).

Several of the magicians who perform in public do what they call “ the gold-fish trick.” The juggler stands npon the stage, throws a handkerchief over his ex tended arm, and produces in succession three or four shallow glass dishes filled to the brim with water, in which live gold fish are swimming. Of course the dishes are concealed on the person of the per former. Peter Lamb had discovered how the trick was done, and he resolved to do it now. So the folk all gathered in one end of the parlour, and in a few moments Lamb entered the door at the other end. He said, “ Ladies and gentlemen, you will perceive that I have nothing about me except my ordinary clothing, and yet I shall produce presently two dishes filled with water and living fish. Please watch me narrowly.” Then Pater flung the hand kerchief over his hand and arm, and then we could see that he was working away vigorously at something beneath it, He continued for some moments, and still the gold-fish did not appear. Then lie began to grow very red in the face, and we saw that something was the matter. Then the perspiration began to stand on Peter’s forehead, and Mrs Brown asked him if anything serious was the matter. Then the company smiled, and the magician grew redder ; but he kept ou fumbling beneath the handkerchief, and apparently trying to reach around his coat-tails. Then we heard something snap, and the next moment a quart of water ran down the wizard’s loft leg and spread out over the carpet. By this time he looked as if joy had forsaken him for ever. But still he continued to feel around under the hand kerchief. At last another snap was heard, and another quart of water plunged down his right leg, and formed a pool about his slice. Then the necromancer hurriedly said that the experiment had failed somehow, and he darted into the dining-room. We followed him and found him sitting on the sofa trying to remove his pantaloons. ‘ : Oh, gracious! Come here quick and pull these oft. They’re soaking wet, and I’ve got fifteen live gold fish inside my trousers flipping around, and rasping the skin with their fins enough to set a man crazy. Ouch ! Hurry that shoe off, and catch that fish there at my left knee, or I’ll have to howl right out.” Then we undressed him and picked the fishes out of his clothes, and we dis covered that he had two dishes full of water and covered indiarubber tops strap ped inside his trousers behind. In his struggle to get at them he had torn the covers to rags. We fixed him up in a pair of Dr. Brown’s trousers, which were Gin too short for him, and then he climbed over the back fence and went home.

I'HE ASHBURTON HERALD

I Fridav, Novembers 14 iSyg.



Auction Sales. ORANGES ! ! ! SATURDAY, 15th NOV. 12 o’clock. HARRISON will sell by Public Auction at his Rooms— CASES ORANGES. Finest picked fruit. A. HARRISON, Auctioneer.



MR JOHN LLOYD CRAWLEY, lias FOR SALE some valuable TOWN and SUBURBAN SECTIONS in Ashburton. Also, Quarter-acre Section, Timvald, with a good Four-roomed House, lined throughout, and a Garden securely fenced ; also, several other well-situated Sections in the above Township. Some of the above being low in price and terms easy, oiler a first-class opportu nity to investors. J. LLOYD CRAWLEY, Auctioneer, & c. , Saunders’ Buiildings, Ashburton.



Business Notices. TIN WALD. (N HEARER AND GALLOWAY, MILLWRIGHTS, AGRICULTURAL AND GENERAL IMPLEMENT MAKERS^ Great South Road, Tinwald, Beg to thank the public generally for their very liberal support during the past twelve months, and to announce that they have now every facility for carrying on their business in all its branches to the entire satisfaction of customers, as .a trial will prove. COACHBUILDING. Orders received fcr making or repairing all kinds of conveyances by thoroughly practical workmen, and none but the best materials used. AGRICULTURAL. Implements of all kinds made or re paired. Also, Combines, Engines, Reap ers and Binders, Chaftcutters, Bruisers, &c BUILDING. Estimates given for all kinds of Build ing and general carpentering. Cocksfoot Grass Seed Threshing Ma chines, for hand or foot, made to order, great saving of labor. SHEARER AND GALLOWAY, Tinwald. 165 —641 a PAPERHANGING WAREHOUSE, TANCRED STREET, Ashburton.



J. R. CHAPMAN, PAINTER, PAPERHANGER, SIGN-WRITER, Etc., Has much pleasure in stating that, owing to the large increase of Business, he is now Importing from the Manufacturers- • PAPER HANGINGS, WHITE LEAD, LINSEED OIL, WINDOW GLASS, BRUSH WAP E, 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 i'i all parts of the country. ESTIMATES GIVEN. 4.1 jpi N VELOPES, NOTEPAPER, EN VELOPES, NOTEPAPER.- I The cheapest ever offered in Ashburton, at the Herald Office, Wholesale Stationery Depot, Saunders’ Buildings. The Stud. THOROUGHBRED ENTIRE COLT Of the Traducer Blood. To Travel this Season the ASHBURTON AND WAKANUI Districts, See future Advertisements for Particulars 504a—20 H. FOWLER & CO„ Proprietors, W instow



Auction Sales. TO-MORROW. APPLES. APPLES. APPLES. PO i’ATOES. POTATOES.: i CHICK WHEAT. M essrs edmiston Bros, and GUNDRY will sell at their rooms, East-street, To-morrow— -30 cases Apples 20 bags Wheat 20 bags Potatoes Grass Seed Ac., Ac., Ac., Sale at 1.30 p.m. EDMISTON BROS. A GUNDRY, 1110-074 a Auctioneers. WOOL. WOOL. WOOL. To Farmers, Wool-growers, and others. .A TE beg to inform Sheep Farmers and V.V others that our FIRST WOOL AND SKIN SALE this season will take place at our Auction Rooms, East street, on THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27. Farmers and others wishing to make entries are requested to send in particu lars at an eai’ly date, so that we can class and catalogue the same before the day of sale. EDMISTON BROS. AND GRUNDY", Auctioneers.



EDMISTON BROS. & GUN DRY. AGENTS FOR THE SOUTH BRITISH FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND. CAPITAL... ... ... ... £1,000,000. Insurances effected at the lowest current rates on all kinds of Buildings, Threshing Machines, Crops . Growing and in. Stack.



TO RUN HOLDERS, FARMERS, AND OTHERS. rjpHE Undersigned have on Sale : Fencing Wire No. 6 to 10. Standards and Stakes. Seeds— White Clover Red Clover Cow Grass Alsike Trefoil Lucerne, &c., &e. Rye Grass Seed Coal and Firevvood , . ; Station' Stokes of Every Description. We are prepared to allow a very liberal discount for cash. * EDMISTON BROS. & GUN DRY. East Street. ASHBURTON Boarding Houses. PRINCE ALBERT PRIVATE HOTEL rjpHE undersigned having taken the Prince Albert Boarding House, in Wills Street, near the Railway Station, begs to say he is determined to keep GOOD TABLE, and afford Comfortable Accommodation to customers at MODERATE CHARGES. S. LUCAS, PRINCE ALBERT BOARDING HOUSE Wills Street, Ashburton. 333a—27 CENTRAL TEMPERANCE HOTEL, Baring Square (Near Town Hall). RE-OPENING of the above commo . dious and centrally situated Pri vate and Commercial Hotel. T. BROADBELT, PROPRIETOR, Is prepared to give Superior Accommoda tion to Boarders and the Travelling Public on REASONABLE TERMS. Weekly Board and Lodging ... £1 Weekly Board ... ... ... 14s. MEALS AT ALL HOURS. Dinner on Saturday from 11.30. «-».*! i.i.-.u uuvf. Beds (single), Is. 6d. L ' Private Room for Ladies. 153—82 a



Auction Sales. SAT UR DAY, NOVEMBER 22, At J2 o’clock. GREAT SALE OF HORSES. MESSRS' ACLAND, CAMPBELL & CO. will hold a sale of Horses at their Bazaar, ' Burnett-street; Ashburton, on Saturday, 22ad November, at 12 o’clock. Entries can be made with Mr Geo. Jameson. Sale to commence at 12 o’clock. AT' ACLAND, CAMPBELL & CO., 188-(173a Auctioneers. 'CLAND, CAMPBELL, AND CO., Auci joneeks, Land, Stock, AND ( ! ENERA h AOKNTS. WOOL AND GRAIN BROKERS. Christchurch, Ashburton, and South bridge. We beg to inform our constituents and tlie public that we have made arrangements with Mr George Jameson to take charge of our Ashburton Branch, and to act as our Agent there. Mr Jameson will make arrangements for Sales of Stock, Farms, Ac., and is authorised to receive and pay all moneya on our behalf. .' , The Sale of Horses at the Bazaar will be held Fortnightly, from the Ist Nov., commencing at 12 o’clock sharp. The Fortnightly Sales of Stock, &c., at Ashburton and Tinwald, will be held as heretofore. y / : / , Account Sales rendered with care, and promptitude. ACLAND, CAMPBELL, & CO. GEO. JAMESON. 600 a Wants, &c. TAT ANTED Known, that TWENTY V t Words are inserted in this Column, for ONE SHILLING preuaid, andl FORTY Words for TWO SHILLINGS, prepaid. O you Want the News of the Daj Read the Ashburton Herald. fTIHE Cheap’Advertiser-—the Ashburton j Herald with its 20-words tariff. HAVE you Lost Anything ?—Tell the finder through the Herald for. a. Shilling. If he is honest he will bring itv to you without a reward, but you can bait, a finder of shaky morals by a tempting offer of remuneration for his trouble. AIT! for a Shilling. rjIHE “ Herald ” is on every Tea Table in Ashburton AVE you Found Anything that don't belong to you, and wish to act on the square ?—Bring a Shilling to the Herald’s Advertising Clerk. He’ll put your qualms of conscience at rest, and find the owner through the Twenty-Words-for a-Shilling-Column. FULL of Reading Matter is the Herald. Every Evening. THE PENNY made the postal system of England a success. So has it made the Herald. Everybody buys the Herald. rg TALE. —The Herald publishes a por- I tion of a readable story ever Satur day. Read it. To Let and for Sale. TO LET, at a Very Low Rental, TWO SHOPS in East Street ; also, one in Burnett Street. T. BULLOCK. mO LET, at a very low rental—Bakery, 8 . together with Dwelling-house and Shop, near the Post Office. 393* T/tOS. BULLOCK. TO LET WITI-I A PURCHASING CLAUSE, OR FOR SALE, CHEAP, 453 ACRES ’ 453 Which would make a very compact farm, situated at the back of Mr. Digby's. Apply to THOMAS BULLOCK. A FOR SALE, GRAIN STORE at South Ashbur ton. Apply to 2— 866 a THOMAS BULLOCK. FOR SALE, A COMPACT FARM, well-watered and really first-class land of abou 200 acres, situated on Long-beach Estate For full particulars, apply to 6 THOMAS BULLOCK. FOR SALE, Chfep, or TO LET, trith a Purchasing- Clause, a FARM;' 6f 137 Acres, partly improved, and situated about three and a half miles from the Township. Apply to '" ■ ■ 5 THOMAS, BULLOCK. Business Notices. , - NOTICE. ''-"" MISS HODDER, lately arrived from .. .Lqncjqn, begs to announce that.ahe has .commenced.''business 'asAIIRESS MAKER in streetr near' Dr Stewart’s U residence.-,- Prices strictly moderate/and no effort will be spared to give satisfaction; - ■ • -» w:.. h* 1 I" MISS HODDER, ‘ "A 'i r r*!'-" "' Mo-ore -•> .s-Mil..--; T s:r. -n-.-v > ........, ■ii REAPERS; AMD' BINDERS; ~ rroCg.’Aftdersigned hfiyring ~,been «,a; - • JL- v-v pointed.•:agent for . .the 7 'MbCORMIpR’S &W. HfeAP&RS AND BINDERS, is now prepared to treat with those who -will waift them- for the coming season-. ,- ; o v; v , \:'i 555a—88 East Street, Ashburtoh.