POST OFFICE NOTICES.

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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 mam line and branches.

Sydney J. Dick, Chief Postmaster.

The Ashburton Herald AND Borough and County Advertiser (With which is incorporated the "Evening Echo") FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1879.

The Member for Coleridge last even ing met a large, attentive, and patient audience in the Ashburton Town Hall, on whom he may be said to have tried an experiment that he had never tried on them before, and, so far at least as he was concerned, the experiment was not a great success. When Mr. Wason first came before the Coleridge i electors he came with a speech that indicated great preparation and no small, amount of careful thought, but mental toil is evi dently not attractive to him; like Issachar, he has seen “ that rest was good,” and has since contented himself withbeingthe mere diluterand retailer of the opinions of his party. Instead <.£ the decided principles and the original ideas which he at first poured upon us in a deluge of well-chosen words, which he uttered" so rapidly as / to remind us - of was said ; of, Robert Hall— that he had swallowed a dictionary, and could not bring the words up fast enough—we last night had a purely

extempore speech, with nil the disorder all the misapplication of words, and al the want of point aud waste of time to which the extempore speeches,-.- .of; ordinary men are liable. The aim-jand object of the speech was simple)and, direct: it was a parting shot .at- the: Premier, and each question,,. whetlfCr. great or small, was handled : as if its bearing on Sir George Grey and liis Government were its only aspect. - Sir George’s Thames speech served a longtime for a text, and perhaps the best point the speaker-made during the evening was showing the local tenden cies of that speech, and how little it was worthy of the Premier of the whole, colony. And here we must give. Mr. Wason credit for having himself avoided the error he condemned in the Premier, as: during the;, whole of his long speech he never mentioned any thing he had done-for his own; -locality, and did not even give his audience an opportunity to cheer him, as they would certainly have done most heartily, for the energetic and successful' action ;he took to save a remnant of the High School reserves for. Ashburton. The less successful efforts he made for' the regulation of mines might also have been mentioned by him without any egotism or impropriety.......... As on all other occasions- since his duties as a “ whip ” showed him what troublesome fellows they.; are, Mr. Wason did not fail to express his dis approbation of independent members, and he seemed quite - unconscious of the real compliment he paid them when on several occasions he - pointed out that the only .successes his own party had achieved were those in which they had induced the . independent party to join, them; showing, in. fact, that notwithstanding the low estimate he held of the few men who “profess to consult their;,'own: conscience,” it is often in the power of that small, despised party to carry- or to veto some of the .most important measures that emanate from either party. Perhaps the most-xonfused and; unsuccessful part of the speech was that in which the speaker referred to the non-taxation of improvements, and tried apparently to muddle the brains bf his audience on; that subject. The Land Tax Act has plenty of'glaring faults in. its construc tion, and still more in its administration but. few audiences 7 could be made to believe that the.taxation of every fence, drain, stable, shed, or house that- a farmer constructed on his small hold ing would be a boon to an agricultural community or press less heavily on the working and improving farmer than a tax on'the large unimproved .properties that are held by mere speculators. With aIT his .faults, and with all the points on which we differ from-' him, yve regret that Mr Wason is about to resign his seat. ' It is a. pity that there should be another election before the district is divided and allowed to return two mem bers, as it is. entitled to do, and Mr Wason was above / suspicion,o.f the mean and sordid motives which make it impossible To respect "or -to trust some of our Colonial legislators!? . ;

The Resident Magistrate.— At the -sitting of .the Court to-day, Mr. 1 Campbell stated that he rwould... only sit another, Court day in Ashburton,: and probably there would be an interregnum of some length between his own leaving and-the arrival of his successor. During that in terregnum no summons over £2O would b e issued, and he would make an. effort to finish all cases now on hand, so that no continued ones‘would fall-to his successor to dispose of. Mr. Campbell goes to Col lingwood, and the present -Warden; at Collingwood comes to Ashburton. Masonic.— A new .-lodge -under the English Constitution is to 1 be inuagur,-. rated in the ; Town Hall, Rakaia, on Wed nesday, - April :2nd, . The qefemony ,ik to be conducted by the D.D. Grand Lodge Master and officers j- who, will, also, initiate the new . Officers for .’the South Rakaia Lqdge, E.C. After the lodge is formed a banquet is to held in the 1 To wn Hall. •

■ Ashburton -Fire Police. —Persons de sirous of becoming members of the brigade of Fire Police can be sworn in ,by j the Mayor on Tuesday evening lieXt, in’ the Town Clerk’s office, fit 7 o’clock. -L;v. j The Hero’s" Summary. —A summary of Australian news Ho the '22d;iper HefOjfvtj Auckland/'has been -telegraphed, but the items of- any importance.ha,ve alreadyibeen .anticipated by cable,

Diamond Digging at the Dutoitspan fields -lias beequnusually Successful of late, and besides several Jaeautifril .stones ;of 50 -carats each, a large diamond, weighing .244 carats, was recently fficked up on a claim belonging, ito Captain Jones. The water of the- stone , is. not. of/he first quality,.' being, of a light off color, but the gem is free from flaw, and will cut very full. This is the second largest diamond ever found in South Africa, the Spalding diamond found in the river diggings some ygar/3 ago, and weighing 2881 carats, being the largest.

A False Prophet. —Dr Cunjming’s Church, once the most crowded in London, is now ■ comparatively- deserted, the re peated predictions of the approaching end of the world' not having established the worthy. Doctor’s. credibility as a prophet; Shall w© have any more predictions at thfe approaching-rjubilee of Dr. Cumming’s ministry, or has ilie Doctor learned wisdom from his melancholy experiences of failure and loss of popularity ? The congregation is evidently disgusted that the world has not gone to “everlasting squash” arid show it in an unpleasant way. for the; prophet.

Loving.—A well-known clergyman on being accused of leaning toward Universal ism, replied, that lie hoped everybody would go to heaven, and, said he, “ there are some people I wish were there now/’ —“Binghamton Republican.”

MR. J. 0. WASON AT THE- TGYQG W,_4 HALL, ' VfH • \ f|§f— -)■ La^night/MjvM. CMWason, M- ljt.ll. fpr/his his. constituents in/he Toivn Ha.Uk Inhere--w/re,' between 200 arid. 800 porsons rpijesjent, before Tie got well, into his/addrte|s,q';l|ut -when he . .commenced the/attendance-.--, was rather j thin. The night'was 'riot ah inviting one, heavy rain falling just at;the time the meeting was t,o commence, and continuing on during the night./ Considering the. weather, the. attendance may be sot down as remarkably good. - ■'W "'Oil the mbtioir oP’Mr.-Ward"- seconded" by. Mr. iL Paraons, ’took the. chair, and ’introduced Mr. ’’Wason, re marking;; that though,% night;..and .other causes had kept away many, they all liked to read the speeches in the press. Mr. Wason said he concurred in what the Mayor had said regarding the press reports of such meetings, and therefore knowing his speech would be impartially reported hqy-tyriulcjNttPt ab^ttf one -word of what he t lfadT|jsay because ’O/ the then thin attendance. He then proceeded to criticise the doings of the Government and the Premier. They Hvere honored last year about this time by a visit from Sir George Grey, when he addressed them in the Library flail. ~ That,-was an important speech-j coming,’as it did from a man who was, as Premier,'the first citizen of the Colony. On that occasion Sir George had pointed out the inequality of life under which They labored,—(id had pointed out the unfairness-of'’plural voting, under' which some wealthy men held 40 votes— and other evils which he had said it would be his aim to remedy. . He did not blame him for trying to ' remedy those evils, blit he blamed him for trying to win the con fidence of the people with promises and pledges he had failed to fulfil and redeem. He would try.to show :h.ow far Sir-George had carried out the : pledges he had'then made and repeated on subsequent occasions. The importance of that speech was incal culable. It ought, from Sir,George Grey, to have been the enunciation of what measures the Government meant to bring forward, and therefore it -was-fair to con sider it as the outline of the Governmental policy. On the 20fch ‘December another speech had been delivered by Sir George, this time at the Thames —on the occasion .of turning the first- sod of a railway from theTThames-to God.s s -to God. knows .where.” The most prominent feature of that speech was the importance the Premier attached to local benefits, and this seemed to the speaker to be nothing less than log-rolling. The First Minister of the land took - with him his Minister for Public Works, to 1 turn the sod of a railway which was un authorised by‘Parliament.-,- It may have 1 been an excellent railway, and one full .of benefit to the people in the Thames dis trict, but it was not legal, inasmuch as it had not received the sanction of the House of Representatives, and it had only been, undertaken to secure popularity outside Parliament and votes Within, it. The Tapanui job Was another evidence of the course Government.was following, and .-g.tillanother was;the direct steam service,, which was so great a pet with Mr. Mac andrew. If the representatives ‘ of 'the' people had no power of control over the s funds of the colony, but the Government could spend the money unauthorised, then the sooner the people lived under a direct Dictatorship the better.,- At the end of the session Mr. Macandrew brought up the question of this direct steam service, and it was thrown out by Parliament as a premature and crude thing. Mr. Macan drew had himself moved in committee on it that'the Chairman leave the chair, and tlii§ being carried:was a direct negative to ,the fidiole'questions CBulnotwithstandihg the matter had been gone into out of ses sion- .by - .Mr. Macandrew, and for all he (Mr. Wason)'knew the' Stadfc Haarlem the pioneer steamer of the line—might have arrived in the colony, and he asked if it was right that Ministers should act thus independently of Parliament. Regarding the Land Fund, Sir George had said the land had been absolutely given;to. the Canterbury landholders. That meant that it had been given without any due equiva lent ; the oldest set-tier there could say whether a single acre had ever been-given without a due equivalent. The Land Bill was passed under‘the / -Governnjent, and they hadnever raised a-voice against it. Sir George complained that the Go vernor r had not granted a dissolution, but 'the'reason why a’ dissolution' was : not' granted was that he hadnot amajorityinthe House, Mr. Wason recounted the.circum stances under which the Atkinson Govern ment had been deposed, and referred to* Mr. Larnaclvs no confidence motion. Naturally many gentlemen believed Mr. Lgifil-ach, after .succeeding witjj,- his no ooiir fiderice-lhoticm' would assume' .th& -reins of Government, and they were prepared to Support .him. He did not d0.,50, but delegated the' position to Sir George Grey j and many who would have supported a party with;Mr.:Larnach. at- its head, were not prepared to accept Sir George as- fid leader, so that when he assumed the . Premiership, he .had .only.a majority of one.. The Governor refused the dissolution asked 1 for, and had .ever since been treated with a studied discourtesy that was contemptible. After a reference to the Counties Act, and claiming a right for property to have a Aqicq j acpprding, to its possession, in .the imposition of local rates, he said that re garding the plurality of votes question, Sir George Grey had never taken any aetjon to give only one vote, but had con fined. hims.elf to railing and raving against those who held '/hern. It would be re-, membered how Sir George complained against the sufferings under which 70,000 political slaves were groaning. He intro duced a bill to relieve them by an exten sion of the franchise., It,.was not opposed, but while passing through pommittee', Sir George'"'could’ hot -understand why there was no opposition. By-and-by it was found out that ’the settlers in some parts of the North Island would be no longer under the control of the Pakeha Maoris, if the bill passed, and so a clause had to be introduced to priyo a .special vote to the Maoris, and thus swamp the colonists in those districts. This was done ; and one gentleman, with tears in his eyes, and in a voice he could not attempt to imitate, said he could no longer respect and sup port a Government that had failed to •respect if self.. One of the main features of - -the 'Lanti Tax* Bill, suggested in his speeches by Sir George Grey, was that every man should pay a tax in proportion to the property he held. This was the very principle the Land Tax Act did not bear. It enacts that no matter what the amount of your income or revenue from

all; sources may be otherwise, if you have laricLtpi’the value of £SOO jy&u’rims fc pay a tax; This meant that those who were a step , higher in the social' scale , had to ■■■phy', taxes-to the ..exemption, of those who had not £SOO worth, of.land,' and the recognition of \ tlie principle’- was simply ■saying that the larger farmers;of the county were, a pestilential,'nuisance; to it.. The speaker field that, All should be ; taxed' in'a like proportion, and. the Tess wealthy man did riot wish to be “exempted’ from paying his mite to the support of the State at the expense of his more opulent neigh bour. He was not averse to direct taxation, so long as it was upon an equitable principle, and he was.', sure if we were under direct taxation to a-greater extent than we are Hansard and the daily newspapers would be more inter estedly read. He was. averse to. the principle that land should bear all the country’s burdens, and held that property in buildings should bear a share of the taxation. The man with all his homestead in position, his wells sunk, and his farm buildings all up, was in a better position to pay than-the poor- fellow away; on the shingly plain with a sod; wharef aiidit was on that ground that the Oppositiondesired that improvements should be taxed. Sir George had said that it was men with, millions of acres who desii’ed to tax im provements, so that they might be able in the long run to secure -all. the.small farms.. The speaker appealed,’ to knowing; anything of the returns "of - land'if there' was a single individual in the whole colony who had over 1,000,000 acres ; and those of . them who had -any dealings in land knew-whether or riot at that moment it was a profitable thing to hold a lot of unimproved land. He then referred in sneering terms to the phrase “unearned increment ” of land, so often made use of in Parliament by the Honorable the Colonial Treasurer, and said so far as, land in this colony was concerned, it had .110 meaning,, for with all the public works that were' going on, and' the extensive settlement taking place, land fell in value, and the present .tiine-nvas a proof of it. After deprecating any interference with the constitution of the Legislative Council, the hon. gentleman--went on to say that if Sir George, in dealing with burning ques tions, wo.uld introduce practical meausres 'they could calmly consider, instead of raving and railing like an old fish wife, he would command the respect of both sides of the House. On. the question of an elected Governor the speaker expressed a strong opposition to any change. If any change took place the election must be in the hands of the people, for no Parlia ment could dare to take upon itself the duty of saying who would be the Governor of the Colony. But if they were to assume this duty, and cut off this link that bound them to the old country, they might find' Themselves' dropping down to the level of some wretched South American State, where they elected their president one year and. next year shot him. He then endeavored to: palliate the apparent neglect of.. the . colony by the mother country j and referred to the troubled times they were passing through at home —distress, strikes; financial complications, etc. All these, he said, were the result of overpopulation.' We here, too, had now a time of depression, and probably we have riot reached the! Worst of it, but we had enough to eat and drink, while starvation , was the lot of thousands at home. Money was plentiful in the old country, so wore men; and .we could do with a good share of both out here, for while millions at home were fighting with'widespread starvation, we in New Zealand, with 400,000 of a popula tion, were stagnatingbefore untold wealth in undeveloped resources awaiting capital and enterprise to utilise them. The Govern ment papers said there, was no. Opposition and- no leader ; ,’but There: was" an Opposi tion, and plenty of leaders. It was not . the Opposition’s policy to drive the present Government out l of office, but to keep them,in. They had come into office on the .strength of distinct pledges made to the country, and'the Opposition knew this-and played their own game. Regarding the redistribution; of ■ seats Sir George had. spoken with all his powers of eloquence,, and complained, of the hard case of men, women, arid children who were not repre sented in the Govermnent of the country. -But notwithstanding his outcry and his promises he had failed to introduce a Bill on this.question, even, though the Opposi- Tibn had tried to . make him do so. Was this honorable ? Canterbury was scan dalously under-represented, if they took a basis ; of population, and though it may not seem'fair-to take population as a basis of representation, he was perfectly ready to accept that or any other scheme which would fix representation upon a regular' principle, that would remove the possi bility of a man holding a seat for a pocket borough. . It, was all-very well for a man jn.The House To - tall? (sentiment about voting with liis conscience. He admired conscientious voting very much, but when a Brian' identified himself r; with a Govern ment or with an Opposition he should sup port liis party even in the minutest details. After conderiihirig. the action of Govern ment in lifting duty from Colonial wines and .placing it on beer,' he ; referred to the Companies Bill,, .which lie also stigmatised as an unjust measure. Mr. .Curtis’, Educational Bill was then referred, tolas a measure that, adopted, would expel the present excellent system fcQip. pijr s.chools, and substitute one that would give the control of public education in any place to the religions denomination that was dominant. It had been defeated, and he hoped that any attempt to re introduce it would meet a similar fate.; Referring to himself; he said that urgent private affairs would call him soon to the old country, and that was the last occasion on which, for a time, he would have an opportunity of addressing his constituents in Ashburton or elsewhere, and very soon they; would be called upon to elect another representative: for their district. He was prepared to answer any question put to him on subjects he had referred to, or on any he had unwittingly omitted. Mr, Joseph Leggett desired to know how it y/as that, under constitutional Go vernment it yras possible for theJSxecutive tq nnterippoh'such", jobs as thg'Thames railway and the direct service? Could not the House of Representatives stop that? i. Mr. Wason could not explain why Go vernment undertook such things unautho rised. It was only on the will of the ■people Government exisited, and Parlia ment could prevent such illegal doings, but jt was tbp duty of the representative to point these out to thp pgople. „ The present Government come to power on a a popular cry, and it was for the people to

see that power was not retained under false pretences.

Mr. George Cates asked why the Go vernment permitted the country to.-be.in sulted by the natives—for instance' in the stoppage of the Marinate Plains savveys ? Mr. Mason said this was a question of too great importance to be made bnep of arty. While we in the South made a party question of it, the people of the North, wore in a position of danger having pos-, sibly near their homesteads a savage foe ready to devastate their homesteads. Sir D. M‘Lean whose loss they all deplored, saw with a eye of a salesman that the Maori race was diminishing, while the white race was daily increasing in strength, and he had followed a wise and peaceful policy of give, give and take.nothing. It was thought the prestige of Sir George Grey would have tided over the difficulty with the same success as had Sir IX M'Lsan, but it was evident that was a weak reed to lean on, and we could now all see the volcano upon which we stood. The native .may be savage, but he was no fool, and one intelligent Maori had com-' pared Sir George Grey to a bullock in a yard, with a rope round his horns, that rope held by the Maori. By the injudi cious conduct of the,. Government the Colony was being brought down to the position, of it held ten years ago. Sir Donald-had been able successfully in turn to cajole and threat—Sir George had tried both, but the results were different.

Mr. G. A. Andrews asked if Mr. : Wason was to leave New Zealand , before the sitting of Parliament. , . Mr. Wason replied that he was ; where upon the questioner remarked that, it .was useless-asking any more question?.,. Mr. Cates, wanted' to know if'Govern ment >aeant to borrow any more money to carry the colony over the present crisis.

Mr. Wason had no doubt they would if they could get any to borrow. He thought the old country should pay a share of the immigration expenses.

Mr. E. Saunders made some remarks that were, scarcely audible on the plat form,, and moved a vote of thanks to the h®ri. gentleman. . 1 Mr. j. R. Steele seconded, and TKe : vote was : unanimously carried. ■ ■ o Aftera vote of thanks to the Mayor, moved in: a. complimentary speech by Mr. Wason, the meeting separated.

TO-DAY’S COURT.

Before A. L,f, Grand Campbell, Esq., R.M. .. v • : «>j- I ■’ DRUNKS. - T : { Ed. Duggan, charged with being drunk and disorderly on the 25th March, was let off with a caution, it being his first appear-; ance. . ASSAULT. Thomas Quill was arraigned on a charge of assaulting on the Bth March, in the Commercial Hotel, one John B. Water low, in his employ as a waiter. Mr. Crisp appeared for the prosecutor, and Mr. Branson for the defence; ■ J. B. Waterlow, the informant said that .on the Bth March he was in conversation in tlie back kitchen with Martha Tichinski. Mr. Quill came in and seized him by the collar, bundling him out of the house, and threatened to murder him if he found him on the premises. He was not knocked down, hut was staggered. By Mr. Branson—Did not use any influence with any of the female servants to get them to leave Quill’s employment, and never knew anything about Mr. Quill’s giving him notice to quit until he was seized-by the coat, collar and assaulted.

Mr. ’ Branson said 'Waterlow had for no reason whatever, left Quill’s hotel to go to another, and having done so, had returned to the hotel, apparently, to get Martha to do. the same. When Mr. Quill found him upon the servant’s premises, lie directed him to leave, arid-the intruder failing to do so, he was very : properly turned out, and Mr. Quill would testify to no more violence being Used than Was- necessary to turn the than out who was carrying on a flirtation .with Martha.

Mr.‘ Quill said lie had received a letter from prosecutor. There had been a dis charge'' of two servants, owing -to some disagreeableness among them. After the receipt of this letter, he found Waterlow on the stairs with the girl, and told him to go out.. He, refused, and witness took him by the scruff of the neck and put him out. He was sorry he did not kick him. .Case dismissed with costs. ■ * J ! civil cases. " ' I 06; Lancaster v. Baldwin. Claim £3 6s. 6d. Judgment for plaintiff with costs. B.eswick v. Acland, Campbell, and Co. —Withdrawn. - ;W\ mu Lee v. Boswell—Claim, £3l4s for labor arid goods.supplied. Judgmenfi for -plain tiff .with costs by default;; ..... Walsh v. Daley.’—Claim £22 15s. on-a . dishonored promissory, note: Judgment for plaintiff with costs: i ; Hooper, Aitken, and Co. v, Smithel.— Claim' £3O ss. 3d." No appearance for defendant;- Judgment for amount: vcith costs: s/1 1 •• 1 - r - T > Edwards and Lee ; v. Dennis Betts.—- Claim £ll Is. ; Judgment for plaintiffs fbyfull amount with easts, '.v;« ■' ss «-- Bullock and Co. v. Charles Smithel.— Claim £34125. 7cl. : Judgment for amount with costs. ' Bell v. Deveny.—Claim £lO. Mr. Pur nell for plaintiff’, no appearance for defen dant. Summons enlarged for a fortnight.

Jameson Bros. v. Smithel.—Claim £43 7s, 6d. Judgment for amount with costs.

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TO-DAY’S CABLEGRAMS.

[Akgus Special.] The Oriental Bank. London - , March 26. The Oriental Bank is unable to pay a dividend, and has lost its Reserve.

TO-DAY’S TELLEGRAMS.

INTERPROVINCIAL

; Atjckiaxd, Friday. • ] , The Hero brings a fine lot of .draught horses, also two thoroughbred entires for Canny and Richardson, Napier. . Signor Pompei’s opera company has arrived,, nineteen* in number.* Miss Wangenihoiih, the prima donna, is’highly spoken of.

The — Ominous Pr icau :f|i m Wellington, Friday. ’'•'.lSixty mqii. of the,- Armed Constabulary leave here tor-day for Waihoi and Opuuake. • The redoubt; is to be immediately strengthened, and . a considerable force Trill beTnassed ihjThe neighborhood very • shortly. \ I/',.,.. >:■ , :The s (3-pTernof has issued a Proclama tion assuming- the government.

St. Peter’s Vestry have sent home for a peal of eight bells to cost £SOO.

Nice Drinking Water. Dunedin, Friday. Some of the citizens, inspecting the reservoir on Monday last, found a bagffif *'*® kittens, three dead cats, and a dead dog floating about on the surface. * A Flood. . A severe flood was experienced, ’last - * night. For several hours before daylight rain fell in torrents, and the night wash terribly dark. The Corporation street lamps were extinguished just- as the labourers started to cleat Tlie-channels and open the traps. 'Luckily no,one is reported to have been swept down;The .sewers.; A large number of cellars were' flooded; and some’ hundred pounds 'worth of property destroyed. : The tar, pavement, street curbing,-arid roadway were much torn, up, and some of the principalstreets ; were badly damaged. The footpaths • Were covered this morning with tons of rubbish,, and the Corporation carts and laborers are*' still busily employed clearing off the debris. ' ■ r f .- t - - , , ,

Tlie Corporation debentures areprepared for .issue bf .the' £IOO,OOO WatepqSupply Loan. • , ' . Invercargill’" 'declines •to - join GRrist cliurch:t6 .consider Ihejremqval of the seat, of Government to Christcliurcli.

The estimated financial: receipts for the year are close on £l2ljooo‘.

LAST NIGHT’S CABLEGRAMS.

- . [By, Submarine;,CableQ London, March 25. ' After a long debate on Zulu affairs, a vote of want of confidence in Govern ment has been defeated by 156 against 61. .... _ ‘ ’ ■ ' The Prerhiei- made cerning the British policy in Africa. He said that confederation, not annexation, was desirable. - -Sir Bartle Frere vvas the right man in the right place, and he only Warned 'him; because he assumed supreme power on the declaration of war, ■ jv- . ,* f ,f . -,r* The Queen has started for Italy. Mandalay 1 -;is,';.quiet.. The..,King is willing to. make , any concession since the despatch'of British troops. J i General- Tytler, with . trifling loss, successfully attacked 3000 Shinwaris. His loss was 200.; .. Negotiations continue with. Yakoob Khan. •. , ... An unsuccessful attempt was, made to assasinate the chief of the gendarmes at St Petersburg. The assassin escaped.

ID KAO Zb. {Melbourne;-March. 2,7. The Suez mail papers 'advise the following English! departures for New Zealand ports between Feb. 1 and 14 : —Celoeno, for; Napier: Columbus, Dunrpbin, Stad Haarlem, and Westland for Otago ; Glendory, for Weliington ; Red Gauntlet, for Canterbury ; Wey mouth, for Auckland. A Yolunteer fractured a boy’s skull with the butt of his rifle. A. - warrant, has been issued against the principals, in the recent prizefight. ■g y<r , r ' / , Sydney, "March 27. A disastrous fire occured at New castle. ■ r . -. ; =.j;-■ - r ■; . . : ..... ißreadstuffs .. have-.' a1 1 i doyrlward tendency. > .... .I:■;.*;;.Brisbane, March 25. The Courier blames the missionaries for exposing the. coloured teachprs to be murdered, . and not sharing the risk in New Guinea. ■ riisih

, Disease in "the ' PaLACe. —Remarking on. thb and.a brother officer, .Lord.Dalrymple, of ICyphoid fever, “ Truth ” says “ People are asking at Windsor,] howas it that royal palaces arid royal barracks are such favor able nests for typhoid. Can., it. be the water? It. can’t possibly be the wine ; but what can ,it be h Old Death does not .seem to keep to liis bid walk of tapping equally at the doors-of- the " rich and the poor. L/ *■. LL'Uic;.’. f ; ; -, Bleeding at the nose can be stopped by. telling ,£v .ipan that his .parents were born in a poorhouse'.' ’ His noje'; will stop and yours .will begin. • - - ’ ■

Friday, March 28, 1879.]

THE ASHBURTON HERALD



Clothing Establisnment. ENCOURAGE NE W ZE ALA N: D INDUSTRIES.’ TO THE PEOPLE OF THE - A -g HBU R XON DISTRICT. H MESSRS. ALLENSTEIN ROS. Desire to inform you that a RETAIL BRANCH ■ of the NEW ZEALAND CLOTHING . FACTORY, IS NOW OPEN IN THE NEW BRICK BUILDING ASHBURTON, ; J (Next Bullock & Co.’s Rooms) To ' effectually introduce their •. - Goods .and drive out the imported article they have decided to sell a A .. SINGLE GARMENT - ■ AT THE WHOLESALE PRICE. All goods are marked in plain . figures, for net cash only. Any article purchased arid not approved of ■will be 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 praisewox-thy 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 467 - Ashburton Branch.



Chemists. •;v • HERBAL MEDICINES. T3ERSONS suffering from liver com plaints, coughs, colds, worms, skin % .diseases, &c., are invited to try -•“Nature’s cheap and universal remedy, “HERBS.” d ames Neil, importer of Herbs, and Bo ' tanic medicines, George street, Dunedin, has appointed . MR. J. M. CAMBRIDGE, • ' ■'* Chemist, Ashburton, Agent for his highly-extolled medicines, Composition Powder for colds, Dandelion Coffee and. Dandelion Pills for liver com plaints, Headache Pills, Botanic Cough Syrup ■,, Worm Powders . ~ Stomach Bitters ~ Blood Purifyer, &c. Herbs, Barks, &c. of every kind. 370 rJ'j ,-t CAMBRIDGE’S 'ORANGE-QUININE TONIC WINE TS acknowledged to be the mostagreeable .€Eriiflj faridefficacious Tonic Stomachic yet pro duced. ItcontainsthevaluableTonicproper n*s b sties of Peruvian Bark (“Quinine”) with the properties of the Bitter Seville •>3\ ..'Orange, so combined as not : to be objec tionable tv the most delicate invalid ; and, as a “B ITT ERS,” ♦.,-.is far. superior to all other preparations. r Invaluable to all suffering from loss of ; „ . ‘appetite, indigestion, general debility, ner i,. '-t'''- y OU _ s affections, tic, ague, and derange '•> ment of the system, s j When the stomach has become enfeebled ') or disarranged by disease, excess, or irregularities, or the appetite is impaired '/ by mental'or bodily exertion, or from any , cause whatever, it gives a regularity and j «it-witone which is not obtained, by any other } r .medicine. ■ One, two, or three wine-glass- S'iJßdh Ali&y-': be taken during the day by ? 3^-®fe£|>ersohs- : suffering from the above com \ plaints, with the.greatest benefit. It is v highly recommended by the medical pro !,l fossion to be taken whenever Cod Liver •/ f g .is ordered. By pouring the required j v dose of the oil into half a wine-glass of the ; A OrAnge Quinine Wine” scarcely a *■ flavour of the . oil is tasted, and the wine • assists the oil in its beneficial I operations. Price, ,45., Gd. per wine bottle, ) and sent (carriage free)'in cases containing } one dozen, at 435. Sold retail by all g _Chemi.=ts, and manufactured by : £s:d:o vqa j. m . Cambridge, • MEDICAL HALL ASHBURTON. «J/lVi >1 D. i 360 32C&KZ iS ■ ■.( yj Business • Notices. QEOEGE L L E N, ACCOUNTANT, COLLECTOR, LAND, ; AND COMMISSION AGENT, Saunders’ New Buildings, Ashburton. 466



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Special Notice. N O T I I C E . THE Undersigned, having succeeded the firm of “ Taylor and Lill,” Bakers and Confectioners, begs to retitrn sincere thanks for the very liberal support accorded to the late firm, and hopes to merit a continuance by supplying none but the very best article that can be produced. It having been found that the best bread cannot be supplied at less than 7d. per 41b. loaf if credit is given, in future, the price will be 7d. for Monthly accounts, and'6d. for Cash or Weekly accounts. Pastry of the best quality as usual. THOMAS TAYLOR, Baker and Confectioner. East-street, Ashburton, March 21st, 1879. 565 HAYES’ TIMBER YARDS, EAST STREET, ASHBURTON. A LPHEUS HAYES wishes to inform r\ 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 ; BLACK PINE & 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. H OOPER, AITKEN AND are prepared to make CO. CASH ADVANCES ON GRAIN, OR OTHER PRODUCE Placed in their hands for sale in the Home Markets. *390 WHEAT. WHEAT. WHEAT. THE Undersigned require a few thou sand Sacks of Veby Prime Wheat for Immediate Shipment, and are prepared to Pay the Very Highest Price for same. Apply at once to ROYSE, STEAD, & CO., 541 Ashburton.



WHEAT TO LONDON. THE Undersigned are making Liberal Cash Advances on Wheat placed in tlxeir hands for Shipment to England, free of Commission, Interest, or Ex change. Freight, 30s. per ton, in first class iron ships. 534 '' EOYSE, STEAD, & CO., Per J. E. Heaver.



TO-MORROW (Saturday),- March 2f* WATCHES, CLOCKS, ' VASES, -Etc., FRUIT, POTATOES. TVTTESSItS BULLOCK will -LyjL sell by public auction at their Rooms, EasLstreet, ■ y - iTO,MORROW (Saturday), 29th- inst., without the slightest a large and valuable collectionof * Watches, Clocks, Looking-glasses, -,,Glassware, Picture Vases, Toilet Sets, .Tinware, Basketware,- Accordions.



:—Also at'.tlie same time™ K CASES APPLES l a ■ T 0, N S..:V: 4: : OF. LO TA T 25 4 Sale at I‘3o p.m. . 606—560 BULLOCK AND CO., Auctioneers.