POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Mails at the Ashburton Post Office close as follows :

For Christchurch and North at 10.20 a.m. 4 p.m., and 7.30 p.m., daily. For Chertsey at x 0.20, a.m daily. For Rakaia at 10.20 a.m and 4 p.m daily. For Dunedin, Tinwald, Winslow, Hinds, Coldstream, Rangitata, Oran, Winchester, and Geraldine, at 10.20 a.m, daily. For Temulca. Timaru, 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, Waterton, and Longbeach, at 3.15 p,m. daily. For Wakanui and Sealield, on Mondays and Thursdays, 7.30 p.m. W. St. G. Douglas, Postmaster.

NOTICE.

Mails close at the Chief Post ’Office for the following places (subject to the necessary alte rations) as under :

The mext mails for the United Kingdom via Brindisi and Southampton (for specially ad dressed letters only) will be closed at Christ church on Aug. 26. The mail via Brindisi will be due in London on Oct. 20, and the mail via Southampton on Oct. 27.

The next mail foi the United Kingdom via San Francisco will be closed at Christchurch on Friday, Sept. 12, and will be due in London on Oct. 28.

A travelling Post Office having been estab ished 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.

NEW POSTAL REGULATION.

Letters posted within the colony haying the names and addresses of the senders printed on the address side of the envelopes, accompanied by a request that the letters be returned if not claimed within a stated period, will be return ed unopened. Provided, however,,such letters shall have remained in the post office to which they may be addressed, at least ten days.

UNCLAIMED LETTERS.

On the first da; of each month a list is ex hibited at each Pc ~t Office in the Colony of the addresses of all letters received from places be yond the-Colony that have rftmaind unclaimed for one month at such Post Office; and such of these letters as remain unclaimed at the end of a further period of two months ars then for warded to the Dead Letter Office, to be return ed unopened to the countries where they origi nated. Unclaimed letters originating in the Colony are not advertised, but at the end of two months are forwarded to the Dead Letter Office, Wellington, there to be opened and re turned to the writers.

ASHBURTON RETAIL LIST.

COMMERCIAL REPORT

FOR WEEK ENDING AUGUST 23, 1879.

(From our Christchurch Correspondent. )

There is no alteration to report front last week’s quotations in the value of grain and produce. Wheat, prime milling, 4s Bcl to 4s lOd ; seed, 5s ; inferior and feed wheat, 3s 3d to 3s Gd ; buck wheat, 11s ; oats, feed, 2s 2d to 2s 4cl ; seed, 2s 5d to 2s 7d ; milling, 2s Gd to 2s Bd.

MEMORANDA.

MEETINGS

This Evening

Mr. Wright’s Committee, at the Secrc retary’s Office, Moore Street—B p.m.

The Ashburton Herald AND Borough and County Advertiser With which is incorporated the “Evening Echo”). MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1579.

In March last we, as well as all the other newspapers in the colony, urged upon our fellow-settlers, who were en titled to a vote for a member of the House of Reprentatives, to take the very simple steps necessary to have their names registered as electors. To facilitate these steps we had printed, forms of application to the Registration Officer, which were to be had at our office for the asking. A good number of those who value the right of the franchise took advantage of the legal time for registration and are now on the roll. But now that the time is at hand when votes are useful, and when candidates might profit by the favor shown to them by many both in the town and the country, it is found that in too many cases the golden oppor tunity was allowed to slip past, and the electoral roll appears without the names of those whose apathy prevented them from taking the little trouble requisite to secure a vote, and they can now only give an empty moral support to which ever cause they may espouse. For a long time the Coleridge seat has been gained without a contest; this time, however, there is to be no walk over, but every sign that the con test will be a close one, and that each candidate will want every vote he can muster. It is quite within the bounds of possibility that the balance may be turned by one vote, and at a time like the present, when great interest seems to attach to the election, it will be a jesson to those who have neglected registration not to be guilty of similar remissness another time. To be without a vote at this moment, when such vote could aid what the owner of it may consider a good cause or retard the cause he opposes; and to be vote less, too, when a little trouble at the proper time would have secured the right; is a disgrace to any man claim ing to be a good citizen. Such a one scarcely deserves to have the privilege of the franchise bestowed upon him. It has been well said that people are only governed as they deserve to be governed, and truly men who are so careless of their rights as to allow them to lie unused, as many registered elec tors do, or take no steps to secure them, as is evident has been the case in the district, have no cause of complaint if they find themselves under the rule of a government whom they detest, and suffering from legislation which is not for their benefit, when they stand idly by silent, and careless, when the law makers are being sent to Parliament.

Telegraphic. —Telegraph stations have been opened at Pipitca, County Hutt, and at Kaitoki, County Wairarapa West.

Land Tax Assessment Court. His Worship the R. M. sat to-day as Judge of the Land Tax Assessment Appeal Court. Mr. C. F. Barker, Valuator under the Act, was present to support the valuation. Several appeals were dismissed and the valuation sustained owing to the non appearance of the appellants. Union Bank of Australia—Valuation reduced from £640 to £SOO. W. P. Cowlishaw—-owner ship of section 189 transferred to Thomas Bullock, and value sustained. F. J. Gar rick—ownership of several sections trans ferred to purchasers of them, sales by Mr. Garrick having taken place on May 23rd, 1878 ; section 809, at a valuation of £B4, being retained in Mr. Garrick’s name. George Parkin, valuation £1,232 reduced to £9OO. Harry FriedJander-—ownership of sections changed. Miles, Ilassal, and Co.—Sections valued at £5,456 in Ash burton. Certain of tliest had passed into other hands, and other sections had not been placed against appellants. An ad justment was made placing forty-two sections against appellants at a valuation of £3,695. H. N. Nolder, section 207 reduced from £6OO to £4OO.

Tub Mjsbwu Man G orhon . «-»To4»y the mail Gordon, who lias boon so long a miasing, was found near Pi endergast’s farm, and the body was brought into town into town this evening. The body, which was much decomposed, was found by Mr. Greenaway. New Business. —Mr. J. E. Buchanan has commenced business in Ashburton as a general agent. „

To Carpenters. —Tenders for labor only are invited for making and fixing windows and doors at tlie gas works. We refer carpenters to tlie advertisement in another column for further information. The Polling Places in the District. —The polling places in tlie Coleridge dis trict have been increased to twelve, and are advertised to-day. It will now be possible for all the electors in the district to record their votes without much incon venience.

Tea Meeting. —The Presbyterian in duction services, we may remind our readers, take place to-morrow, in the church, and the tea meeting will be held in the evening in the Town Hall. Parish Meeting. —A parish meeting of importance will be held in the Templar Hall to-morrow evening, to elect a new vestry and arrange financial matters.

Via Brindisi. - Outward mails for the United Kingdom via Brindisi and Southampton (for specially addressed letters only) will close this (Monday) even ing at half-past seven.

Sir George Grey at Christchurch. —The Oddfellows’ Hall was crowded to excess on Saturday evening, when Sir George Grey addressed the electors of Christchurch as a candidate. Certain ar rangements had been made by which ad mission to the gallery should lie by ticket only, and within a few minutes of the doors being thrown open, the passages were densely blocked by a standing multi tude, whilst others tenaciously clung to the window sills, one individual coming to grief by being precipitated into the ranks below. The platform was occupied mainly by friends of the Premier, who on rising was received with a tumult of cheers and cries of derision. After he had been speaking for half an hour there was a rush for the platform, and the reporters had to beat a precipitate retreat. The excite ment was so great at this part of tlie pro ceedings that it was proposed to adjourn the meeting, but quiet having been par tially . restored, the candidate continued ]fis address. A vote of confidence was declared carried amidst great confusion and uproar. England’s Power. The London “ Daily Telegraph ” says:—“One effect of the Zulu war has been to furnish a fresh illustration of an old truth— that England as a maritime power can bring her strength to bear at remote distances with astonishing rapidity. The First Lord of the Admiralty, in returning thanks for the Navy, appropriately drew attention to the share-contributed by his department to the relief of Ekowe. It was on the 11th of February that the Government knew the extent of the peril, and so swiftly were the needful measures adopted that two battalions sent from England were in combat at Ginghilovo on the 2nd April, and on the fifty-first day from the 11th of February Ekowe was relieved. Before the 31st March, another battalion, a battery fully horsed, and three companies of the Army Ser vice Corps were also in Natal, which is about 7,000 miles from our shores. But it was not only the centre of power which had shot forth its reserved strength. England is at anchor in her island pos sessions or afloat on her ships of war all over the world. The electric wire had set in motion the 57th Regiment, quar tered in Ceylon, and a transport carried that gallant corps to South Africa in good time for the march upon Ekowe. A few troops, we believe, likewise hastened from the Mauritius. Wherever there is danger, her Majesty’s ships appear promptly on the scene of action.” Sensational. — London “Figaro” says: “ One of the most venturesome gamblers at Monaco is a Mr. Watson, an American, who, at last accounts, was credited with a deficit during the session to the green cloth, of not less than 1,500,000 francs. A mysterious and singularly handsome woman, apparently about thirty-five, who has been staying for two months at the Hotel de Paris, has been noted for her heavy play. She is asserted to be from New. York; but nobody knows, as she speaks English, French, German, and Italian, with almost equal facility and purity. She seems to gamble for distrac tion ; to be waiting somebody; to be on the eve of some tragedy which has cast its shadow before. She has no association with anyboy, but her person and manners are very distinguished, and she goes by the name of the Beautiful Unknown. She is a great “lionne,” from the mys tery that surrounds her.”

A Good Collection. —Rowland Hill once preached in aid of a certain meri torious institution. At the conclusion of the sermon, just before the plates were handed round for the collection, lie made this short address to the congregation : “ From the great sympathy I have wit nessed in your countenances, and the strict attention you have honored me with, there is only one thing I am afraid of—that some of you may be inclined to give too much. Now, it is my duty to inform you that justice, though not so pleasant, should always be a prior virtue to generosity ; therefore, as you will immediately be waited upon in your respective pews, I wish to have it thoroughly understood that no person will think of putting anything into the plate who cannot pay his debts.” It is needless to say that these remarks produced an overflowing collection. Holloway’s Pills. —Important for the Delicate.—lt is difficult to determine which is the more trying to the human constitution —the damp, cold days of the autumn and winter, or the keen, dry, easterly winds of springs Throughout the seasons good health may be maintained by occasional doses of Holloway’s Pills, which purify the blood and act as whole some stimulants to the skin, stomach, liver, bowels, and kidneys. This celebrated medicine needs but a fair trial to convince the ailing and depending that it: will restore and cheer them \viihout danger, pain, or inconvenience, as by a timely recourse to them the fii'st erring func tion may be reclaimed, suffering may be spared, and life saved.—Advt.

MR WEIGHT’S MEETING AT WAKANUI.

(From a Correspondent.)

If the meeting at Wakanui on Satur day night is any criterion as to the result of the election, I must say that Mr. Wright’s chance is a very shady one. About 20 of an audience—and of that small number nearly half of them resi dents of the Ashburton toAvnship—is a poor look out for a candidate in a thickly populated.part of the county. More than that, when a chairman has to pressed into service from amongst Mr. Wright’s own pet supporters—and I may say at once a very inefficient chairman at that—l am of opinion that it augurs ill for Mr. Wright’s return. The paucity of attendance coupled per]laps, with the state of the weather, seemed to have a depressing influence on the oratory of the candidate. I really never heard a balder or weaker exposition of a political creed, and the half-dozen supporters who accompanied him to the meeting must have felt that their cause was weak and their champion weaker. On a show of hands being taken one solitary hand (and that by no means a clean one) was held up which could claim to belong to Wakanui, the balance being composed of supporters from town and non-electors. I venture to prophesy that when the other candidate holds his meeting at Wakanui, it will not be neces sary to import voters and a chairman, hut that the Wakanui electors will show their opinions as to the best man in such a manner as will effectually settle the election in that quarter of the district.

COLERIDGE ELECTION.

Mr. E. G. Wright at Wakanui.

Mr. Wright addressed the electors at the schoolroom, Wakanui, on Saturday evening. Not more than twenty persons attended and of those a large percen tage were townspeople. Some diffi culty was experienced in finding a chair man, aid Mr. G. H. St. Hill was eventually persuaded to occupy the position.

Mr. Wright spoke very briefly, and animadverted very strongly on the mal administration of Sir George Grey’s Government, referring to unauthorised expenditure in Auckland on railways, their broken promises in reference to sale of the liinemoa and the Govern ment resources, and to their breach of faith in not making a higher tariff on the Otago railways than on the Canter bury section by which the rich railways of Canterbury are made to pay for the poor ones of other provinces. Mr. Blair’s report on the West Coast railway was severely criticised ; and the speaker pointed out that no reference was made to the probable traffic from the East to the West Coast, which would be large in the item of stock alone, as at present through driving was at least 20 per cent. This unfavorable report showed that Canterbury was unfairly treated in the matter of public works. If returned it would be his object to see that Canterbury was equitably dealt by in this matter. In reply to Mr. Thomas Walsh, Mr. Wright did not think it wise to give assistance to denominational schools, nor could he see how any children were debarred from attending the public schools, as the education was unsectarian.

Mr. Walsh considered that the pre sent system was godless, and would ask Mr. Wright if he considered the High School should be sustained at the public expense. Mr. Wright considered that children should be educated up to a certain standard at the public expense, and after that any higher education should be paid for privately. In reply to Mr. James Brown —he would vole against Sir George Grey; he would be in favor of taxing all classes of property such as incomes, scrip, banks, &c. It would, however,-be injudicious to lax foreign capital as it would tend to check the importation of it; would not be in favor of a railway from Southbridge to Longbeach which would be an incubus to the colony; would be in favor of dividing the public account amongst all the banks, as when one bank holds the monopoly of the account it tends to compel that bank to lend money reck lessly. To Mr. Earl—Would not accept a seat in the Cabinet if asked. To Mr. Brown —Would vote for the Upper House to be nominated, but for ten years only. Mr. Earl proposed and Mr. James Brown seconded —“ That this meeting does not pledge itself to support any candidate until Mr. Hart’s views are heard.”

Mr. Sando proposed and Mr. M‘Cutcheon seconded “That Mr. Wright is a fit and proper person to re present the Coleridge district in Par liament.”

Messrs. Ivess and Buchanan then addressed the meeting on behalf of the candidate, aud a' show of hands was taken, and the amendment was declared carried, the chairman, however, seemed somewhat in a fog as to the result.

Punctuation. —The ancients had no regular system of punctuation. The most ancient is the period; the colon was introduced in 1485, the comma in 1521, and the semicolon in 1570. The note of interrogation, asterisk, and parenthesis succeeded.

A Yankee tailor dunned a man for the amount of his bill, who replied.that he was sorry, verry sorry indeed, that he couldn’t pay it. “ Well,” said the tailor,“ I took you for a man that would be sorry; but if you are sorrier than I am I’ll knock under.”

TELEGRAPHIC.

LATEST FROM EUROPE.

TO-DAY’S CABLEGRAMS

( Special to the Meibom ue Age. ) The Zulu War.

London, August 23,

The latest news from the Cape re ports that proposals of peace have been made by Cetewayo provided his depo sition is not insisted on. The propo sals have been refused. Sir Carnet Wolseley has demanded an uncondi tional surrender. The remnant of Cetewayo’s army is retreating to the back country with the British in pursuit. Tenders are invited for the new Western Australian Loan. {Reuter's T'elegrams. ) Money. London, August 23. 'There have been large withdrawals of gold for South America. Wool. Wool is in better demand and prices remain steady. Tlis Greek Question. Athens, August 23.

The commissioners who have been appointed to finally arrange details re garding the rectification of the Greek frontier have held the first meeting.

AUSTRALIAN.

(Reuters Telegram. ) Sydney, August 25. The Bismarck, German war ship, has arrived with exhibits.

More Sticking Up. Brisbane, August 25

The Gympie coach has been stuck up by an armed man, who took a quantity of jewellery, which was afterwards re covered ; but the man has not yet been arrested.

TO-DAY’S TELEGRAMS.

INTERPROVINCIAL. New Plymouth, Monday. At seven o’clock this morning the gaoler discovored that the notorious criminal sent here from Canterbury about nine months ago named Orr, alias Hall, had escaped during the night. The prisoner was confined in a cel! ever since his recent recapture, and had not been permitted to leave the cell under any pretence. Pie was last seen at locking-up time last night, when he was safely, as it was thought, secured in his cell. The gaoler, on visiting the cell this morning found, the door unlocked and the prisoner gone. The prisoner had made his escape through a yard, and a padlock to a gate had been un locked, and not wrenched off or broken in any way. The constables are actively searching for him, but up to the present time he has not been secured.

Capt. Skeet addressed the electors of Grey and Bell and received a vote of confidence.

Geraldine, Monday.

Mr. Wakefield addressed a crowded meeting on Saturday. He stated his reasons for voting against the late Go vernment, and asked for a renewal.of their confidence. A vote of thanks was carried unanimously.

LAST NIGHT'S CABLEGRAMS.

EUROPEAN.

i ( Rader's Telegrams.) London, August 23. Lord Chelmsford has received the Grand Cross of the Bath.

The harvest prospects are unfavour able owing to heavy rains. •

Best Australian beef 1 allow, 335. per cwt.; best mutton tallow, 355, per cwt. Rome, August 23. Garibaldi is better. He returns to Caprera shortly.

AUSTRALIAN.

( Reuter's Telegrams.) Melbourne, August 23. In a collision in the bay between the Claud Hamilton and barque Eden, both were damaged. Messenger won the boat race, beat ing Hearn by two lengths.

Odd Epitaph. —“ Jimmy the Duck,” of Virginia City, Nevada, is dead. He made his living by a queer invention. He used to put a duck in a box with its head sticking out of a hole and allow the crowd to throw clubs at it for 25 cents a throw, the bird belonging to whoever should hit. The ducks would of course “ duck” their heads just be fore the sticks whizzed along, and it was not oftener than once in six months that Jimmy would lose. The following is his epitaph :—“ Old Jimmy’s weary bones are now resting peacefully under the sagebush. Let us hope that when the trump of the resurrection shall echo over the rugged peak of Mount David son, he will be able to pop his head up like that famous duck, and should the devil, appear and make a grab tor the old man, may he dodge back success fully.”

MEMORY.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once delivered a lecture at Boston on the greatest of all the mental faculties. The lecturer began by saying that memory was the leading faculty of the mind. It was the principle of gravity which kept all other faculties cohesively together and pre vented them from flying eft’ into the world of action. Man’s memory was the cement, the matrix which contained the various particles of which his intelligence was composed. Its action was to collect and recollect all the experiences of life. It seized hold of history wherever it was to be found—in books, in observation, in conversation, in meditation, or elsewhere —and laid it away in the recesses of the mind in mysterious fashion, becoming a storehouse of knowledge for present and future use. This knowledge often lay dormant for years, but at the proper time asserted itself, if properly stored, in a mysterious Avay. Memory was the prin cipal agent in settling the intellectual rank of men. Two people might start out on terms of meutal equality. Both should read the same books, and living side by side have the same advantages of experi ence. But one read and observed differently from the other. The one fixed what he saw and heard in his mind ; the other alloAved it to slip from him. The minds of the two men then resembled the difference betAveen a well and poorly con structed tool. For example, a finely made Avatcli, or a sharp and perfectly tempered knife-blade represented one mind, Avhile the other was a clumsily manufactured article. It was said of Humboldt lie remembered every book ho ever read, and everything he saw in per fection. This was the case of most of the great men of history. Nearly all of the av oriel’s most remarkable orators, poets, statesmen, Avits, soldiers, philosophers, scientists, &c., were men of tenacious memory. Quintilliau had said that memory Avas genius. While this was true in the main it did not always follow that men of genius possessed it. "Isaac Newton was a remarkable exception. He could net remember oftentimes his own great works Avithout trouble ; and Newton’s genius Avas undoubted. Themistocles on the other hand remembered everything. 011 one occasion an admirer asked the great Athenian lioav lie could remember everything. “ I Avould rather teach you how to forget everything,” was the reply. But this Avas Avit and not reason, said the lecturer.. It has been said that the affec tions or feelings Avere the greatest incen tives to memory. The senses or passions lead men to remember. Napoleon cared nothing for Alexandrine verse, hut not one line of his army returns aauis ever absent from his mind. Scipio kneAv nearly every mau by face and name in his army ; Seneca could repeat 2000 words of a poem only once heard ; Mettendatos, Avlio com manded. an army made up of all the nations of the globe, could converse in all their representative. languages. The Rrince of Orange on one occasion saAV Grotius standing by out of curiosity during the roll call of one of his regiments. Having hoard much of Grotius’ memory, he asked him iE lie could remember the names Avhich had been read. Grotius astounded the prince by giving all the names in inverse order. A great scholar had once been deprived by an enemy of a much loved book. His enemy thought he had conquered him, but the scholar re- Avrote the book from memory, and defied his enemy. As a further illustration of the memory being strong Avlien the feel ings are enlisted, the lecturer said a man never forgets a debt due to himself, nor, as Dr. Johnson says, Avho kicked him last. The late John Brown, of OssaAvatomie and Harper’s Ferry fame, avas fond of sheep farming, and had at one time 3000 sheep, each one of which he could single out from any other flock into which it might have strayed. In his oavii town of Concord, his neighbour, Mr. Abel Norton, who dealt in horses and AA’-as very fond of them, could remember at a glance any one of the hundreds of animals that he had ever seen. Horses which had been years ago to various parts of Massachusetts by Mr. Norton sometimes came back to Concord, and were at once recognised by him as they were driven along the street.

AN ELECTRONEERING BILL.

During the time of a contested election in Meath some fifty years ago, Sir Mark Somerville sent orders to the proprietor of the hotel in Trim to board and lodge all that should vote for him, for which he received the following bill, which he got framed, and it still hangs in Somerville House, County Meath. “ 16th April, 1826. “ My Bill. —To eating 16 freeholders above stairs for Sir Marks at 3s. 6d. a head is to me £2 12s,

“ To eating 16 more below stairs and two preasts after supper is to me £2 15s. 9d. “ To G beds in one room and 4 in another at 2 guineas every bed, and not more than 4 in any bed at the same time cheap enough God knows is to m§ £22 15s.

“ To 18 horses and 5 mules about my yard all night at 13s. every one of them and for a man which was lost on the head of watching them all night is to me £5 ss. Od.

“ For breakfast on tay in the morning for every one of them and as many more as they brought as near as I can guess is to me £4 12s. Od.

“To raw whisky and punch without talking of pipes tobacco as well as for porter as well as for breaking a pot above stairs and other glasses and delft for the first day and night I am not sure but fop the three days and a half of flip aleution as little as I can call it and not be very exact it ip in all or thereabouts as near as I can guess and not to be too particular is to me at least £79 15s. 9d. “ For shaving and crapping off the heads of the 49 freeholders for sir marks at 13d. for every head of them by my brother has a Wote is to me £2 13s. Id. “ For a womit and nurse for poor Tom Kernan in the middle of the night when he was not expected is to me ten hogs. I don’t talk of the piper or for keeping him sober as long as lie was sober is to me £4 10. “ Signed, etc. “ £IOO 10 7 you may say £lll 0 0 so you Honor Sir Marks send me this eleven hundred (?) by Bryan himself who and I prays for your success always in trim and no more at present. ”

TH E ASH B URTO N H fiR AL D

(Monday, August 55, 1579.



s. d. s. d. Butter, inferior to best $ lb l 2 to I 6 Eggs, # dozen 1 3 to 0 0 Cheese, prime quality, $ lb 0 8 to 0 10 Bacon, prime smoked, 4? lb 0 9 to 0 10 Hams in cloth, 4? lb I 0 to 0 0 Flour in bags, ioolb 14 6 to 0 0 Oatmeal, 4? 251b 6 0 to 0 0 Lard, & lb - 0 9 to 0 0



Hew Advertisements, Clearing Sale! GLASGOW HOUSE, EAST STREET. AYIN begs respectfully to , \Jf thank his friends and the inhabitants of Ashburton and surrounding district for the esteemed patronage be stowed upon him during the past twelve months, and hopes to merit a continuance of the same. He desires to announce A CLEARING SALE, For One Month, OF Winter Goods, At Greatly Reduced Prices, TO SUIT THE TIMES. Inspection Invited. BARGAINS ! BARGAINS!!! W. GAVIN, DRAPER, GLASGOW HOUSE, Montgomery’s "Buildings, East Street, Ashburton. 218 a ODDER & COMPANY’S, T R JJODDER & Q TAILORING ESTABLISHMENT Is now under the management of Mr. E. W. Tomkins (from West End, London), Cutter, Practical Tailor, Breeches, and Riding Pants’ Maker. Orders promptly attended to. Exact fit Guaranteed. p&t'k. Large Assortment of Tweeds, Doeskins, and Coatings on hand. 150 a NEW rjIAILORING "gSTABLrSHMENT, THE TRIANGLE, Wakanui Road, near H. M. Jones’. G. J. F. LUBLOW, PRACTICAL TAILOR AND HABIT MAKER, Begs to announce to the public of Ashbur ton and the surrounding district that he HAS COMMENCED BUSINESS, and is prepared to execute orders equal to anything in the Colony. One trial will be sufficient as to Fit, Style, and Workmanship. Dress Suits, in various styles, and latest fashions. Iweed Suits of every kind in latest styles. Fancy Coatings and Vest ings. Cord Pants; Trousers strapped and cuffed. A good assortment of Tweeds and Cloth in Stock. Reasonable Prices will be charged, and satisfaction guaranteed. the address — G. J. F. LUBLOW, Wakanui Road, Ashburton. 283 a Brick Manufactory. BRICKS. rjIHE UNDERSIGNED havir.g COM > PLETED iheir KILN at Ashburton, are prepared to SUPPLY BRICKS, equal U: any made in the Colony, at any Station up or down. Samples to be seen at the Company'» Offices, Ashburton, Rakaia, andY. inslowj W. MONTGOMERY &§CO [Limited], Hit T OFFAT begs to inform the , IVI inhabitants of Ashburton and surrounding districts that His NEW FLOUR MILL AT WAKANUI HAS COMMENCED WORK, And hopes, by strict attention to busi ness, and turning out a First-class article, to merit a share of public support. Special attention paid to Gristing, and Farmers from a distance can have their Griat ground by return. 248 a



Clothing Establishment. ASSIGNMENT OF THE ESTATE OF MESSRS. AITKEN, PASCOE & CO., CLOTHING MANUFACTURERS, TO Mb. J. H. Morrison, Manager Mosgiel Woolen Factory, AND >- Trustees. Mr. John Ross, Of Sargoocl, Sons & Ewing _ THE above large Clothing Manufac turing Firm having had to succumb to these hard times, and assign their estate, we have been induced by the Trustees to purchase the whole of their large Manufactured Stock at a Very Heavy Reduction, and have resolved to sell the same again in our Branches direct to the public at prices at which we could not legitimately sell our own Goods. In fact (without exaggeration) during the next few weeks we are in a position to offer NEW GOODS IN MEN’S AND BOYS’ ATTIRE, Of Colonial Manufacture, at from ONE THIRD TO ONE HALF THEIR USUAL COST. HALLENSTEIN BROS., New Zealand Clothing Factory. The assigned Stock will be for Sale in our Ashburton Branch from and on SATURDAY NEXT, 28th JUNE. New Zealand Clothing Factory. 12a JgNVELOPES, NOTEPAPER, EN VELOPES, NOTEPAPER.—The cheapest ever offered in Ashburton, at the Herald Office, Wholesale Stationery Depot, Saunders’ Buildings. 55



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