MONEY VALUE OF A MAN.

The number of the population has has been often reckoned, not its value as part of the actual wealth, of the nation. A moment’s consideration will show what an important part is played in the structure of the national wealth by the natural and acquired powers of bsdy and mind. They are essentially articles of wealth, and have a distinct economic value. For instance, all wages may be considered to be paid for powers, eithei innate or acquired, in the human being. The lowest in point of value, because the most plentiful, is, of course, physical power, or mere muscular effort with spade, shovel, or hoe— the kind of labour least elevated above that of the horse or ox. The next is mental power, in other words those faculties ot the mind which enable the pessessor to manage complicated affairs, to exhibit discretion and judgment, to acquire knowledge and apply it to the need or culture of society, whether as lawyer, physician, judge, author, or artist. Such powers are not only more than mere brute force, but require for their full development a special education and training ; and, in consequence, demand and obtain more ample remuneration. The last is moral power, or character, without which indeed, both physical and mental power lose much of their value. Without more power, or character there can be no guarantee that the duties which mind and body are fitted to dis charge will be punctually and satis factorily performed. In order that their labour may command its highest price, the ploughman in the field, the barrister in court, the physician in the sick-room, the judge on the bench, must alike inspire their employer, client, patient, or suitor, with the idea that they possess not merely the physical and intellectual qualifications requisite for their respective tasks, but that the exercise of those qualifications will be invariably associated with a due sense of honour; in other words, that they may be trusted. And such a com bination of moral with physical and in tellectual qualities distinctly adds, be it remembered, to the economic value of the labourer. —Leisure Hour.

MENTAL LIFE BELOW THE HUMAN.

(FROM THE PENN MONTHLY.)

Autenrieth, the celebrated German naturalist, has described for us the me tamorphoses through which pass the individuals of a species of butterfly named by him Nachtpfaucnauge. Its grub-life, like all of the same genus, is one of unbroken monotony and dull ness. The sum total of its experiences consists in gorging on.leaf pulp, crawl ing under cover when it rains, and now and then casting its skin. It has no home-life, it parents having died before it began to live. It has no companion ship ; it seeks none. This sluggish, solitary, gormandising, creeping worm is at a certain set time • suddenly ar rested by the electric thrill of some new strange life. It stops eating, and, under some mysterious, prophetic impulse, commences to weave about its body, out of delicate threads that issue from it, a silken palace of double roof, so ingeniously braced by innumerable sup ports that it both withstands violent attacks from without, and yields to the almost spirit touch from within, of that most fragile of fairies which, out of the homely and prone body of the grub, rises erewhile, on brilliantly-tinted wings, to flutter and float like a stray bit of sunset on a summer’s evening zephyr. By this unique contrivance this little creature escapes on the one hand from outside violence, and on the other, from the sad fate of self-burial. Is it conceivable that this worm pos sesses such intimate acquaintance with the occult laws of mechanics. as this piece of work presupposes—that it has acquired by its own exertions this masterful skill in architecture, or that it really discerns with clear prophetic vision approaching changes in its form, its capacities, its needs, and its destiny ? It has had no instructor, no personal experience, no -working model. This is its first attempt, yet it bears the stamp of absolute perfection. The butterflies of other species, when the hour is ripe for them to issue from their cocoons, secrete a fluid that acts on the silk as a solvent. This grub, as if conscious from the first that such power will never be given it, constructs its case on widely different principles. To affirm that it inherits this knowledge, skill, and pre science does not in the least clear up the mystery—it only carries the inquiry further back, for the first grub must have been equally able to spin a similar cocoon on the first trial, or it never could have developed into a butterfly, and become the progenitor of a species.

A Rich Return !—“ The Nelson Even ing Mail” says that, from between 700 and 300 tax returns sent in, the total tax leviable on the properties will amount to Is. -|d. —very far under the cost of the paper on which the returns are printed ! A Valuable Suggestion.— An agricul tural journal suggests to farmers the wisdom of oarefully looking over their machinery when its season of immediate usefulness is past —ascertaining what parts have become chafed or worn so as to be doubtful servants during next season, and at once ordering from the agent duplicates to take the place of the worn parts. This gives time to the agent to give his order if he has not the article in stook, and ensures the farmer having it when wanted. Many machines are reduced in value one half by being left uncared for between the one season and the next. Let it be remembered work is only fair wear and tear; rust is ruin, and destroys far more than labour wears.

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New Advertisements. WANTED a GIRL, about 14 or 15, to help in the housework and with the. children. Apply to Mrs. WEST BROOKE, Cox-street. 705 In the District Court of Canterbury, Holden at Ashburton. IN THE MATTER of The Debtors and Creditors Act, 1876, and The Debtors and Creditors' Act Amendment Act, 1878, and of the Bankruptcy of THOMAS BRADFORD, of Ashburton, in the Colony of New Zealand, a debtor. A MEETING of Creditors of the above debtor will be held at the office of Mr. George Allen, Accountant, Saunders Buildings, Ashburton, on Saturday, the 19th day of April, 1879, at 8 o’clock in the evening. C. CAVENDISH HURRELL, Clerk of the District Court. ASHBURTON COUNTY COUNCIL. RIDING OF MOUNT HUTT. I HEREBY give notice that the follow ing gentlemen have this day been duly nominated for the office .of Councillor in the Ashburton County Council for the Riding of Mount Hutt, namely JULIAN JACKSON, JOHN HOLMES. And I further give notice that a poll will be taken at the undermentioned polling places on WEDNESDAY, 23rd April ins't., between the hours of 9a. m. &6 p. m.: Edgington’s House, Barrhill; The Woolshed, Drayton. CHARLES BRADDELL, Returning Officer. Ashburton, April 10, 1879. 704 Public Notices. THISTLE LODGE, ASHBURTON, S.C., No. 627. rnHE regular monthly MEETING of g the above Lodge will be held at the new Lodge Rooms, Saunders’ Buildings, on THURSDAY, April 24th, at 8 p.m. By order, 699 E. A. GARNETT, Hon. Sec. PUBLIC NOTICE. ppHE Wakanui Road is Stopped for Traffic (opposite Moffatt’s Mill) until fur ther notice. 610 IN THE ESTATE OF TAYLOR AND LILL. t LL ACCOUNTS in the above Estate \ must be paid at once to HUGO FRIEDLANDER, Trustee. April sth, 1879. 691 BOARD and RESIDENCE for two Single Gentlemen, in private family. Apply— Herald Office. 681 To Let. 7 O LET, TWO Good SHOPS, with Dwelling Houses of four rooms attached. Centrally situated. Apply to CHAS. BRADDELL, 515 Montgomery’s Buildings. Tenders. LSYENDERS are invited for the Erection X of a Four-roomed COTTAGE at Wheatstone. Plans and specifications may be seen at the office of Mr. G. M. Robinson, East Street, Ashburton, where tenders may be sent up to 12 noon on FRIDAY, 25th April. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. 693 WANTED. CHERTSEY SCHOOL. TENDERS are invited for the making of a CONCRETE TANK, 10 feet square, together with Pump and Piping. Also FENCE for dividing School Grounds, partly Palings, rest Post, Rail, and four Wires ; and. Screens for Closets, etc. Plans and specifications can be seen at A. R. Markham and Co.’s store, Cliertsey. Marked tenders to be sent in on or before 12 noon on MONDAY, 21st inst. The lowest or any other tender not necessarily accepted. W. A. BROWN, 696 Chairman. Miscellanuous. SEWING Machines and other Requi sites. H. M. JONES, Stationer, Etc., Baring Square. 473 f, BIBLES, Prayers, and Church Services, Hymnals for various churches.—H. M. JONES, Stationer, Baring Square. 473 b SCHOOL Requisites and Artist Mate rials. H. M. JONES, Stationer, Baring Square. 473 c WANTED KNOWN—That the cheap est and neatest CARDS may bp had at the ASHBURTON HERALD OFFICE East Street North. WANTED KNOWN, that Envelopes and Notepaper can be obtained, wholesale or retail, at unusually low rates at the “Herald” Office, East-street North. 648 I ENVELOPES, NOTEPAPER, EN- J VELOPES, NOTEPAPER.—The cheapest ever offered in Ashburton, at the Herald Office, Wholesale Stationery Depot, Saunders’ Buildings. 552



Auction Sales. 150,000 *' EEI 150,000 assorted timber. JONAS, HART & WILDIE have been instructed by Mr. Alpheus Hayes, Waimate, to sell by public auction at his Timber Yards, Ashburton, on TUESDAY, 2 2ND April, 40,000 4x2 Totara white and black pine. 15,000 3x2 „ 10,000 4x3,, ~ ~ 15,000 Gx 6 „ and black pine. 10,000 6x2 ~ white and black pine. 5,000 5x 5 ~ and black pine. 25,000 8 x | Boards, Totara & white pine. 5,000 6 x 1 T. and G. flooring. 5,000 Bxl Totara and white pine. 5,000 Gx-JT and G. lining. 10,000 8 x 1-b Totara white & black pine. 5,000 8x2,, ~ ~ Also, — A Large Quantity of Stakes, Posts, Stable Props, and Firewood. NO RESERVE. —Sale at ii o’clock. JONAS, HART & WILDIE, 657 Auctioneers. Partnership Notices. DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP. rnHE Partnership lately existing be- JL tween us as Engineers, Millwrights, &c., has this day been DISSOLVED by mutual consent. All claims on the above business must be sent in by the sth of April. All accounts owing must be paid by the same date. Signed ( H. J. EDWARDS, \ HENRY LEE, Ashburton, March 22, 1879. 572 Fruiterers, &c. LONDON PIE HOUSE (Opposite Baring Square), Havelock Street, Ashburton. RICHARD MADIGAN, PASTRYCOOK, CONFECTIONER, AND FRUITERER, BEGS to announce to the inhabitants of Ashburton and county that the London Pie House was OPENED on SATURDAY, 22nd February. COFFEE ROOMS. Tea, Coffee, or Cocoa, with Pie or Pastry, 6d. always ready from IO a.m to 11 p.m. Pastry supplied for Parties or Soirees on the Shortest Notice. TRADE SUPPLIED. 40 COME AT LAST. NEW FRUIT. FRESH FRUIT. From Geraldine. J. MOOAR & CO., HAVING purchased a Fine Orchard at Geraldine, are now in a position to supply Fresh Fruit and Vegetables every day. PLUMS, perlb., only ... s<h APRICOTS „ ... sd. GREENGAGES, per lb., only Sd. HONEY PLUMS „ s<h APPLES, per lb., only 3d. and 4d. POTATOES. 32ST- DEFY COMPETITION W. T. DAVISON, GREENGROCER AND FRUITERER, IS PREPARED to supply fruit and vegetables of every description, fresh from the gardens, Wholesale and Retail, at Christchurch Prices. NOW ON SALE BLUE DIAMOND PLUMS, per lb., sd. ORLEAN „ ~ 6d. PURPLEGAGE,, „ 4d. For quantities P er h>. The cheapest house for fruit for jam-making. COOKING APPLES per lb., 3d. and 46. GOOD EATING Do. „ 6d. ONIONS. NEW POTATOES, At reduced prices for Quantity. Fresh vegetables, salads, herbs, etc. Orders Delivered Regularly. W. T. DAVISON, Wholesale and Retail Greengrocer and Fruiterer, Moore Street, Ashburton. 315 Business Notices. TO MEET A WANT Long Felt in Ashburton, S. COLLINS AND SON HAVE opened a shop in Compton’s Buildings, Moore-street, next to Neate’s, chemist, for the sale of NEW & SECOND-HAND FURNITURE Of every description. Curtain Poles and Rings, Venetian, Spring and Roller Blinds made to order. Highest price given for Second-hand Furniture of all kinds. PAINTING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES carried on as usual in town or country. Paperhangings, Paints, Oil Colors, Var nishes, Window-glass, and every trade requisite on sale. Guttering, ancl Piping found and fixed. „ .S. COLLINS AND SON, PRACTICAL PAINTERS, PLUMBERS, AND HOUSE DECORATORS Moore-street, Ashburton. 588



Auction Sales, jgULLOOK & 00. (C. J. Edmiston, P. A. Edmiston, and W. H. G ukdry). TINWALD STORE. Messrs, bullock and co. beg to notify that, for the convenience of their customers and friends on the south side of the Ashburton River, they have OPENED a New STORE at Tinwald, and draw attention to their stock, com prising— j STATION AND FARM STORES, GRASS SEEDS for AUTUMN SOWING, AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY, HARDWARE, FURNITURE, BUILDING MATERIALS, At their TINWALD S T O R F.. Stock Sales conducted at the Tinwald Yards will be settled for at the Tinwald office if required. BULLOCK AND' CO., Ashburton and Tinwald. BULLOCK AND CO., 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. J. DRUMMOND McPHERSON, Manager, Christchurch.



Booksellers, &c. NEW BUSINESS. ] . Y. WARD, BOOKSELLER, COMMERCIAL AND FANCY STATIONER, HAS much pleasure in announcing to the inhabitants of the Borough of Ashbur ton and County, that he COMMENCED BUSINESS ON SATURDAY MARCH I, 1879, in Messrs. Saunders Bros.’ Buildings, EAST STREET, NORTH, With A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF Professional Stationery, Commmercial Stationery, * Household Stationery, Fancy Stationery, &c., &c., &c. LITERATURE— (In Assorted Bindings) COMPRISING ALL THE MOST POPULAR AUTHORS Also, — PRESENTATION BOOKS. SCHOOL REQUISITES IN STOCK. Colonial, English, and Foreign Papers and Magazines supplied to order. WORK-BOXES, WRITING-DESKS, and OTHER FANCY GOODS, AT REASONABLE PRICES. Hamilton’s Library Books on Deferred Payment. Ua.Note the address — J. Y. WARD, East Street North (Saunders Bros.’ New Buildings), ASHBURTON. 440 Business Notices. rjIHE UNDERSIGNED have for SALE and to rrive : Calcutta Cornsacks, 4bushels ; expressly manufactured for shipping Wheat. Woolpacks —Seaming Twine best quality. Fencing Wire, No. 6 to 10. 20 Tons Galvanised Iron, G to 9 feet. 400 Casks Cement. 300 Dozen Ploughshares. Etc., Etc., Etc. FRIEDLANDER BROTHERS.



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THE BEST THING GOING FOR ASHBURTON. THERE IS HO DOUBT ABOUT IT THE GREAT SACRIFICING SALE •F DEAPEEX, HOSIERY, CLOTHING-, BOOTS AAUSTID SHOES, <ScO- 9 Now going on for a Short Time, to make room for Very Heavy Shipments ? at O R R AND C O.’S, E A S T S T R E E T, A S H B U R T O N . ffffT The Greatest Bargains ever offered. . 1 .



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Auction Sales. MONDAY, APRIL *JO\ At 12 o'clock. STATIONERY, BOOKS, FANCY GOODS, SCHOOL REQUI SITES, Ac. /| R. ALFRED HARRISON has been favored with instructions to sell on the above date, about 104 Yols Superior New Books— Prayer Books, Hymnals, Bibles, School Books, &c. Note Paper, Envelopes, Ac. Quantity Fancy Goods. ALFRED HARRISON, 591 Auctioneer, etc. Alfred Harrison, AUCTIONEER, ASHBURTON, IS open to conduct Sales by Auction, at his Rooms, or elsewhere ; also Sales by Private Treaty of any description upon the lowest possible terms. SEND IN YOUR PRODUCE, suck as rics, FOWLS, CHEESE, EGGS, &C., &c., &c., Also, FURNITURE, EFFECTS, and GENERAL MERCHANDISE, for [SATURDAY’S WEEKLY SALE, At 12 o’clock.



The following are upon my hooks, besides many others : Farms from 200 to 1000 acres, on easy terms. City and Suburban Sections. Sections at Tinwald. Two-roomed Cottages and handsome resi dences, on easy terms. SHARES FOR SALE— The Ashburton Gas Company. The Ashburton Templar Hall Company. Properties entered for sale free of charge. SALE YARDS attended every TUESDAY. New Sacks—Very Cheap. Old Sacks, any quantity. Fencing Wire, all sizes. ISSTDON’T FORGET SATURDAY’S SALE, at 12 o’clock. 1 : AG ENT FOR THE M ANCHESTER FI RE ASSURANCE COMPANY. Capital, £i, 000,000. —Lowest Rates, Established 1524. ALFRED HARRISON, AUCTIONEER, STOCK, ESTATE, AND COMMISSION AGENT, BARING SQUARE, ASHBURTON. 252 Business Notices. . BREAD! BREAD, BREAD! ON and after TUESDAY, April Ist, T. R. HODDER & COMPANY, Grocers and General Provision, Hardware and Soft Goods Merchants, sell FULL WEIGHT QUARTERN LOAF of BEST BREAD at PROMPT CASH, delivered any part of the town daily. 614 HAYES’ TIMBER YARDS, EAST STREET, ASHBURTON. ALPHEUS HAYES wishes to inform his customers and the public gene rally that he has RE-OPENED the above yards with a fresh supply of first-class SAWN- TIMBER, all sizes ; SAWN STAKES & PICKETS : BLACKPINE &MIXED FIREWOOD. Also, that, having the Waimate Mills now in full operation, orders for Totara and Black Pine for bridge and other purposes can be supplied of any dimensions. 453 W. H. COLLINS, Manager. SPECIAL NOTICE. WE ARE NOW LANDING— Exp.s. “ Tongariro,” 3 x 1% 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) ' ' And EAST STREET, ASHBURTON. • '■ j* IN BANKRUPTCY. OTJCE—The ‘ ‘ Ashburton Hbio jim ” it a Gazette for all notices under the Debtors and Creditors Acts. GO



Entertainments. / 4 RAND VOCAL & INSTRUMENTAL lx CONCERT, To be followed by a Drama, on M A Y Ist, IN THE ASHBURTON TOWN HALL, To pay for the T EMPORARY TOWEE FOR ST. STEPHEN'S BELLS. 671 Public Notices. TRIP IN THE COUNTRY.—A Drag and Four Horses will leave the Somerset Hotel every SUNDAY Morning at. 10 o’clock, for Wheatstone, Waterton, and Longbeach, returning at 4 p.m. Tickets, 3s. ; Returns, ss. 701 £x REWARD. JOST from Mr. Greenway’s, Wakanui, _J FIVE COWS in full milk —one with rope around neck, and one with horn grown into the eye; also, two Steer Calves. The above reward will be paid for information leading to the recovery of the same. Apply to 698 MR. GREEN WAY, Wakanui. THE CHRISTIAN HERALD. IS Now Published, containing the Preachers’ Plan for the current quarter, and other Church news. Price Three pence ; obtainable at the Heraeii Office, Hooper, Aitken, & Co.’s, and H. M. Jones’. 673 SCHOOL Books, Bags, Etc.—H. M. JONES, Stationer, Etc., Baring Square. 473 d REMOVAL NOTICE. MRS. MANBIRE, Dressmaker, begs to inform her numerous friends and the public generally that she liaß removed to premises behind Mr. Boyle’s Office, Moore Street. N I G H T SC HOOL on Monday Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday Evenings. 634. NOTICE. ALL ACCOUNTS due to the Estate of Thomas Hicks, Ashburton, must te Paid at Once to the undersigned, at Messrs Pass and Co’s, or at the Road Board Office, Ashburton. Accounts re maining unpaid will be sued for without further notice. J. H. PASS, l 454 C. B. BRANSON, j wustees - SLAUGHTERHOUSES ACT, 1577. I HEREBY give notice that I intend, at the Ashburton County Council’s sit ting on the 7th May, to apply for a Slaughtering License, for large and small cattle, on Reserve 3,128, near Ashburton. JAMES SMITH. Ashburton, April Bth, 1879. 660 SLAUGHTERHOUSE LICENSES. I HEREBY give notice that I intend to apply for a Slaughterhouse License at the Comity Council’s next sitting, for the slaughter of large and small cattle, on Section No 25,535, Ashburton. GEORGE PIKE. Ashburton, April Ist, 1879. 627 ASHBURTON ROAD DISTRICT. PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that all OUTSTANDING RATES, for the period ending March 31st,- 1879, will be SUED for on and after the Ist of May next, without further notice. Rates received at the Road Board Offices, daily, between the hours of 10 a. m. and 4 p.m. By order J. E. BUCHANAN. Collector to the Board. '■ Ashburton, April Bth, 1379. 688 ASH B U RTON B 0 ROUGH C O UM..I i_> NOTIFICATION OF VALUATION LIST. mAKE NOTICE—The Valuation last J_ for the Borough of Ashburton is now - open for INSPECTION at the Office of the Council. Montgomery’s Buildings, between the hours 01 10 and 12 forenoon, and 3 and,s afternoon. All objections thereto must be left at the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Ashburton, on or before the 30th day of April, addressed to the Assess ment Court, and a copy of every sue a objection must be left at the Town Clerk’s Office not less than seven days before the next sitting of the said Court. Forms for objection can be obtained at the Town Clerk’s Office. CHAS. BRADDELL, Ashburton, Town Clerk. March 31st, 1879. 617 MOUNT SOMERS ROAD BOARD THE NEXT MEETING of the Mount Somers Road Board will be held at the Office, Mount Somers, on Friday, April 18, at 11 a.m. By order, JAMES FRASER, 067 Clerk. 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, Bavrhill, on 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 Iso taken between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. on THURSDAY, the 2.4 th day of April inst., at the undermentioned places Woolshed, D;" 1 - -nte; * * Edgington’;; House, Bavrhill. . ‘ CHARLES BRADDELL, ‘654 Returning Officer.