AUSTRALIAN.

LAST NIGHT’S CABLEGRAMS

[Special to Association .] Melbourne, April 30.

The Government have bought Mr. Monck’s premises at Wombat for con version into a police station. Henry, the embracery convict, is suffering from catalepsy. His release is probable. The Bank of South Australia has declared a dividend of io per cent. Parliament will be prorogued on May 16 for the quarter’s recess. Arrived —Northumberland.

THE PRINCE IMPERIAL.

The son of Napoleon 111. has obtained permission to attach himself to the staff of the Royal Artillery for the purpose of accompanying the bat teries now under orders for South Africa. On February the 27th he left England for Natal in the Danube. 1 his announcement will be received with a certain interest. In France it is perhaps inevitable that it should give rise to more complicated feelings. The highest virtues of a fallen dynasty in the eyes of the nation that has repudiated it must also necessarily be those of effacement and resignation, and, therefore, French Republicans will hardly care to be reminded of the Prince Imperial’s existence, even by his innocent and indeed praiseworthy de sire to seize the opportunities of his chosen profession. But Englishmen can afford to be at once more generous and less sensitive. They have accorded to the fallen Imperial family the refuge which has never been denied to exiles, whether humble or exalted; but they have done so without pledging their political sympathies in one direction or another. So long as the Prince is con tent with a private station among us— and we must all hope that he may long live to adorn it —we shall not grudge him such opportunities of personal dis tinction as all men who occupy a similar station may seek. His youthful military training has been completed, not without signs of conspicuous merit, in the schools of the British army. If now he is anxious, like many of his former comrades at Woolwich, to bring his theoretical knowledge to the test of actual service, that is so natural that, but for his name and lineage, it would hardly call for remark. Everyone must wish him well on his departure for this his first serious campaign. But no one, in this country at least, will think that his taking the field in South Africa shows any disposition to quit the private station which he has occupied so blamelessly since he first came to live amongst us, nearly nine years ago.

Japanese Silk.— The finest silk'in the world is grown in Japan. They have few power looms, as the silk is nearly all manufactured by hand. The advent of American machinery would completely revolutionise the trade. A New Telephone. —There has been recently exhibited to the French Academy a telephone with some novel features, and said to give remarkably good effects. It is the invention of Mr. Gower, an Ameri can. The most novel feature is the use of a telephone call, consisting of a small tube, bent at a right angle, and containing a vibrating reed ; this tube is fixed on one side of the membrane. On blowing into the acoustic tube, this reed is vibrated, and, consequently, also the membrane, which then moves in excursions large enough to be feltwit.l the finger. A cor respondingly strong sound is produced in the receiving telephone through vibration of -its membrane, which sound may be perceived in a hall of any size, and even (from its peculiar timbre) when other gouuds are present. The tube with the yegd in it does not injure, but rather improves, the distinctness of transmitted speech. Simple phrases spoken with a. loud voice into the transmitter are heard as far as five or six metres from the receiver—-a result never achieved before.

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Public Notices. TO CARTERS, GARDENERS. AND OTHERS. rno LET, 4 Acres of GOOD LAND X with a new THREE-ROOMED HOUSE, on Wakanui Road, within two minutes’ walk of East Town Belt. Rent Low.—Apply G. W. ANDREWS, 786 East Belt. ST. STEPHEN’S CHURCH. TENDERS are required for the con struction of Six NEW PEWS. For particulars apply at the office of Mr. J. Ward, Burnett-street. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. Tenders received up to 4 p. in. on MONDAY, the sth of May. 773 NOTI C E . A NY persons found trespassing in pur suit of game on the Longbeach property will be prosecuted. It is hereby notified that the whole of the land in the Ashburton River bed is freehold. 078 JOHN GRIGG. NOTICE OF REMOYAL. Wrn T\ AVISON, in an . X. a / nouncing his RE MOVAL to more central premises in Tancred-street, takes this opportunity of thanking the public for the liberal support accorded to him in the past, and assures them that he will continue to supply First class and Fresh Vegetables and Fruit at the Lowest Possible Prices. W. T. DAVISON, GREENGROCER and FRUITERER, TANCRED-STREET, Next to J. R. Chapman, Ashburton. 745



Public Notices. ASHBURTON CALEDONIAN SOCIETY. A GENERAL MEETING will be held .at Quill’s Hotel on WEDNES- I DAY, 7th May, at 8 o’clock p.m. Business : Election of Office Bearers. A full attendance is requested. J. E. HYDE HARRIS. 785 Honorary Secretary. MONDAY, May STH, At 12 o’clock. MR. ALFRED HARRISON has re ceived instructions from Mr. Geo. Tricket, bootmaker, Saunders’ Block, to sell by public auction on the premises, Furniture and Effects, comprising— Chest of Drawers, Washstands. Couch, Tables, Bedsteads, Crockery. Knife-cleaning Machine. Blankets and Quilts. 20-gallon Copper Boiler. Iron Boilers, Chairs, etc., etc., etc. At Twelve o’clock. ALFRED HARRISON, 754 " Auctioneer. rjIHIRTY-FIFTH J^EPORT OF THE DIRECTORS OF THE BANK OF NEW ZEALAND TO THE HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING OF THE PROPRIETORS, HELD AT THE BANKING HOUSE, AUCKLAND, ON THURSDAY, the 24th APRIL, 1879. The Directors have the satisfaction of again submitting to Shareholders the result of a successful half-year’s opera tions. The Net Profit at 31st March, £ s. d. after making very full appro pi iations for every bad or doubtful dependency, and the usual reductions in Bank pre mises and Furniture accounts, amounts to ... ... ... 80,240 2 8 To which has to be added— Balance of Undivided Pro fit at 30th Sept., 1878 ... S,BSS 9 o Making a total available for division 0f ... ... ••• 89,128 II 8 Which it is now recommended should be appropriated as follows : To Payment of £ s. d. Dividend at the rate of 10 per cent per annum 36,250 O O To Bonus of ss. per share equal to 5 per cent. per annum ... 18,125 o 0 To Proposed in crease to Re serve Fund ... 25,000 o o To Balance car ried to Profit and Loss New Account ... 9,753 11 8 ,£ 89,128 s. II d. 8 The Dividend and Bonus will be pay able at Head Office, Auckland, on Friday, April 25, and at Branches, on receipt of advice. For the Board of Directors, J. LOGAN CAMPBELL, President. Aggregate Balance Sheet of The Bank of New Zealand, At 31st March, 1879, including London Office at 31st January, 1879. Dr. Profit and Loss Account. To Dividend at rate of 10 per £ s. d. cent, per annum ... ... 36,250 o o To Bonus of ss. per share ... 18,125 0 0 To proposed Increase to Re serve Fund 25,000 o o To Balance carried to Profit and Loss New Account ... 9,753 11 8 £89,128 11 8 Cr. By Balance of Profit and Loss £ s. d. at 31st March, 1879 ... 80,240 2 8 By Balance from last Half-year 8,888 9 o £89,128 11 8 Resen<e Lund, Dr. £ s. d. To Balance ... ... 37, 000 0 0 £37,000 o o Cr. £ s. d. By Balance from last statement 350,000 o o By Proposed addition ... 25,000 o o £375,000 o o Audited— -58. TONKS, l SAML. browning. 787 WANTED KNOWN, that Envelopes and Notepaper can he obtained, wholesale or retail, at unusually low rates at the ie Herald ” Office, East-street North. 648



Public Notices. ■sr FREDERICK PAVITT, COMMISSION AGENT, Etc., East Street, Ashburton, BEGS to notify to the Public that he has received the following appointment:— I HEREBY appoint FREDERICK PAVITT, of Ashburton, a Certifi cated Accountant in Bankruptcy. C. D. R. WARD, District Judge. 766 April 25, 1879.



TO GEORGE HART, ESQ., ASHBURTON. DEAR SIR, —We have much pleasure in asking you to allow yourself to be nominated as a Candidate for the seat in the House of Representatives, about to be vacated by Mr. Wason, and we pledge ourselves to use our best endeavors to secure your return, C. N. MACIvIE D. G. HOLMES E. S. COSTER, and others. Hereford-street West, Christchurch, April 14th, 1879. To C. N. Mackie, Esq., and other gentle men signing the requisition. Gentlemen, — Having been requested by so many of the electors of coleridge to come forward to fill the vacancy in the represen tation of the District, caused by the retirement of Mr. Wason, I feel bound to place myself at their disposal. If I should be honored with your confi dence on this occasion, I would endeavor to give my best exertions to promote the interests of the District, with which my own have for so many years been identi fied. I think, in the present disorganised state of parties in the Assembly, no large measures of general importance should be carried until there has been a thorough re-adjustment of the representation, as it is manifest from the increase of population and progress of settlement that the Pro vincial District of Canterbury, and more particularly the Coleridge District, have not their share of representatives. I cannot come forward as a supporter of the present Government, as I think they have disappointed the hopes and expecta tions of their warmest supporters, as much by what they have done as by what they have left undone, but whatever measures they may introduce I would give them my earnest consideration and trust that I shall always be able to give satisfactory reasons to the electors for the course I may pursue. I shall endeavor to meet the Electors at such places as may be most convenient to them. I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, 760 (Signed) GEORGE HART. 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, 1879. 688 SCHOOL Requisites and Artist Mate rials. H. M. JONES, Stationer, Baring Square. 473 c T^OTICE —The “ Ashburton Herald” it a Gazette for all notices under the Debtors and Creditors Acts. 60 Fruiterers, &c. NOTICE OF REMOVAL. W. T. DAVISON, GREENGROCER AND FRUITERER, "TTsEGS to inform his customers and the public that he has REMOVED to the Shop lately occupied by Mrs. Morey, next to J. R. Chapman’s, Tancred Street. Fresh vegetables, salads, herbs, etc. Orders Delivered Regularly. W. T. DAVISON, Wholesale and Retail Greengrocer and Fruiterer, Tancred Street, Ashburton. 315 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, OD. always ready from io a.m to II p.m. Pastry supplied lor Parties or Soirees on the Shortest Notice. TRADE SUPPLIED.



Auction Sales. 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. BULLOCK AND CO.’S ABSTRACT OF SALES. M AY 3, At our Store Gully’s Chromos., Coach, Waggon, and 15 Sets Harness, &c., &c. MAY 5 . At Watertcn, under Bill of Sale Horses, Machinery, &c. At Waterton, the whole of the Stock and Implements belonging to Mr. D. Evans. MAY 6, At Tinwald Yards, Live Stock, etc. ; also, under Bill of Sale, 10 Horses, Farm Implements, &°c. MAY S, At our Rooms, sale of valuable Sections in and around Ashburton. MAY 14. Freenold Farm, Stock, and Implements be longing to Mr. M. Wren N. Rangitata. BULLOCK AND CO., Auctioneers. Booksellers, &c. NEW BUSINESS. J . 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 1, 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. LITERATUR E— (ln 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. the address— J . Y. WARD, East Street North (Saunders Bros.’ New Buildings), ASHBURTON. 440 Business Notices. fjpHE UNDERSIGNED have for SALE and to •• rrive : Calcutta Cornsacks, 4bushels ; expressly manufactured for shipping Wheat. Woolpacks —Seaming Twine best quality. Fencing Wire, No. G to 10. 20 Tons Galvanised Iron, 6 to 9 feet. 400 Casks Cement. 300 Dozen Ploughshares. Etc., Etc., Etc. FRIEDLANDER BROTFIERS.



Drapery. OKR AND CO.’S



BARGAINS!! BARGAINS!! 150 Pairs Ladies’ Sewn Kid Boots, at 6s. 6d.; former price 12s. 6d, 230 Pairs Children’s Boots, at 2s. 6d. per pair ; former price 6s. 6d. THE ABOVE ARE SLIGHTLY STAINED Through bad Packing, Sale at ORR AND CO.’S



763 ORR AND CO., IMPORTERS. ,



Educational. MUSIC TUITION, VOCAL AND' INSTRUMENTAL. Terms, per Quarter or per Lesson, on appli cation to the Principal. SUPERIOR LADIES’ HOARDING AND DAY SCHOOL, Oxford Villa, Burnett St., Ashburton, Conducted by Miss Steane. Private Lessons in French, German, and Latin, twice weekly ; Music, and Drawing in Various Styles. i Preparatory School for Boys. Inclusive Terms. ASHBURTON BOROUGH SCHOOL. EVENING CLASSES will be continued on Tuesday and Friday ; Fees. 2s. fid. per w r eek. 775 Business Notices. REMOVAL NOTICE. 4 MRS. MANHIRE, Dressmaker, begs to inform her numerous friends and the public generally that she has removed to premises behind Mr. Boyle’s Office, Moore Street. NIGHT SCHOOL on Monday Tuesday. Thursday, and Friday Evenings. 634 SPRINGFIELD COAL DEPOT, East Street, Ashburton, y Near the Railway Station. JG. ANSTEE begs to announce that . he has purchased the above Agency, and has commenced to supply a really first-class Coal from the Springfield Mine, suitable for every use, at a much cheaper rate than imported coal. PRICES: io Cwt. and under- eo „ „ -—4 o —4o s Per Truck of 5 Tons— -10 per cent, discount for cash. One trial will be sufficient. It burns free, and gives' a better heat than New castle Coal. 769 HAYES’ TIMBER YARDS, EAST STREET, ASHBURTON. A LPHEUS 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. W E ARE NOW LANDING— Exp.s. “Tongariro,” Bxij( Totara for Wells Ex “ Clifton,” from Invercargill, 240,000 feet first-class Boards and Scantling Ex “Drover,” from Bluff, 120,000 ditto ditto . Ex “ Wave of Life,” from Thames, 50,000 feet Flooring, Lining, &c. Ex “ Flora.” from Kaipara, A splendid assortment of. 95,000 feet Kauri Timber MONTGOMERY & CO. - (Limited) CHRISTCHURCH, And EAST STREET, ASHBURTON. 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 lands. 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, and Piping found and fixed. S. COLLINS AND SON, PRACTICAL PAINTERS, PLUMBERS, AND HOUSE DECORATORS Moore-street, Ashburton. 58S WASTE PAPER for Sale, 3d. per lb. at the Herald Office. Apply arly. 590 WANTED KNOWN—That the cheap est and neatest CARDS may bt» had at the ASHBURTON HERALD OFFICE East Street North. SCHOOL Books, Bags, Etc.—H. M. JONES, Stationer, Etc., Baring Square. 473 d SEWING Machines and other Requi sites. H. M. JONES, Stationer, Etc., Baring Square. 473 f,



Wants, &c. YYTANTSD, UNDER HOUSEMAID. W Apply MRS. FRANK BROWNE, 777 Prince Albert Private Hotel. TXT ANTED, Apprentices and Improv- V V ers for the Dressmaking. Apply to MISS CAUSEY, at T. R, Hodder and Company’s. 776 WANTED immediately, Tenders for PLOUGHING 500 acres of land at Seafield. For particulars apply to HOOPER, AITKEN & CO., 754 Havelock-street. FOUND, PARCEL, containing some Black Lustre. Owner can have same by paying for this advertisement. Apply 768 HERALD OFFICE. To Let. TO LET, A FOUR-ROOMED COTTAGE. Ap ply to 724 CHARLES BRADDELL. TO LET, A COMFORTABLE FOUR-ROOMED COTTAGE, with Yerandali, within two minutes walk of the Railway 7 Station. Apply 711 HERALD OFFICE. Public Notices. NOTICE OF REMOVAL. HM. JONES begs to inform his , friends and the public generally, that after the 24th inst. he will be found at his NEW PREMISES, BARING SQUARE, (Next Post Office). Stationery, Books, Toys, Fancy Goons, Music, &c. 397 NOTICE. . ALL ACCOUNTS due to the Estate of Thomas Hicks, Ashburton, must te Paid at Once to the undersigned, at Messrs Pass and Go’s, or at the Road Board Office, Ashburton. Accounts re maining unpaid will be sued for without further notice. J. H. PASS, > 454 C. B. BRANSON, } 11 ’ ostees - PUBLIC NOTICE. J | iHE .Wakanui Road is Stopped for Traffic (opposite Moffatt’s Mill) until fur ther notice. *3lO CHEAP TIMBER. AT HAYES’ TIMBER YARDS. BALANCE of Timber unsold at the auction sale. Also, 200,000 feet to arrive, now lying at the Waimate Station, will be disposed of at reduced prices at HAYES’ TIMBER YARDS, East Street, Ashburton. 730 Business Notice. EA. GARNETT begs to inform the , Inhabitants of Ashburton and dis trict that, in consequence of Depression in Trade, ALL GOODS will be offered at GREATLY REDUCED PRICES, consisting of Tobacconist, Perfumery, and Fancy Goods. HAIR-CUTTING IN THE LATEST _ STYLES. E. A. GARNETT, MONTGOMERY’S BUILDINGS, Ashburton. 739 C. PERCY COX, AND AND ESTATE AGENT AND ' ... : VALUATOR, ASHBURTON. TO LET OR SELL -680 Acres first-class land (limestone) with good house, large stables, voolshed, sheep-yards, granaries, etc., etc., com plete ; very convenient. 320 Acres reserve, first-class land, part sub-let, sufficient to cover the whole of Government rent, etc., leaving upwards of 200 acres rent free for 2 years. Low price wanted for goodwill of lease, or would be let to a suitable tenant. 2,500 Acres ring-fenced, to be let in one block for grazing, or in blocks to suit purchasers for cropping, with or with out purchasing clause. Town and Suburban Sections to sell or let in Ashburton and Hindhope. MONEY TO LEND ON APPROVED FREEHOLD SECURITY. Agent for Union Insurance COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND. 717