POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Mails at the Ashburton Post Office pjase as follows

For Christchurch and North at 10.20 a.m. 4 p.m., and 7.30 p.m., daily. p'or Chertsey at 10.20 a.m daily. For Rakaia at 10.20 a.m and 4 p.m daily. For Dunedin, Tinwald, Winslow, Hinds, Coldstream, Kangitata, Orari, Winchester, and Geraldine, at 10.20 a.m, daily. . For Temuks, 'Timaru, arid South at 10.20 a.m and 3 p.m daily. For Greenstreet, Ashburton 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 Seafield, 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 July 28. lhe mail via Brindisi will be due in London on Sept. 22, and the mail via Southampton on Sept. 29. The next mail foi the United Kingdom via San Francisco will be closed at Christchurch on Friday, August 15, and will be due in London on Sept. 30. - A travelling Post Office having been estab ished on the Southern line of railway, letteis 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 having 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 letteis shall have remained in the post office to which they may be addressed, at least ten days.

UNCLAIMED LETTERS.

On the first da; J 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 remaind 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 are then foi wardecl 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.

The Ashburton Herald AND Borough and County Advertiser (With which is incorporated the “Evening Echo"). FRIDAY, AUGUST 17 1879.

The Missing Farmer. —It was rumored to-clay that a clue to Gordon’s fate had been discovered in the finding of a hat on the upper side of the railway line, a little beyond the mill, but on inquiry it was found that the liat picked up in no way resembled the one worn by Gordon 011 the day lie left Ashburton for home, and his fate is therefore as deep a mystery as ever.

Stiff Fines. To-day His Worship levied a considerable sum to the revenue from the unfortunates who came before him. Annie Walsh was mulct in the sum of £l3 to Government; Tyson and Hodgson, £5 ; and a quiet drunk, £l. Wanted. —Things must be very bad in Timaru if the following advertisement (which appears in a southern paper) is not a hoax “ Wanted, a Bookkeeper, tho roughly conversant in costs, for a solici tor’s office. Apply to Box 67, P. 0., Timaru.” Wliat a chance for any unfor tunate who has had to buy his experience ! The Opposition.—A meeting of the Opposition was held last night, \vhen j although no definite resolution was come to, it was generally agreed that the party would not oppose the passing of the Loan Bill, and that they would grant supplies, pending the assembling of the new Parlia ment, but only for the shortest period within which it would be possible to hold the elections and call Parliament together. This is estimated at about two months, and it is said that three months’ supplies probably will be voted by the House, but for no longer period. It is thought that this can bo arranged, and both the Loan and supply Bills passed by next week, when the prorogation would take place, to be followed immediately by the disso lution, and the issue of new writs, made returnable at the earliest practicable date. —Wellington correspondent “ Press.”

Te Whiti.— The Maori prophet, says a contemporary, is a fluent speaker, he utters a few sentences with considerable rapidity and then makes a short pause and then proceeds again. His voice is high nitched and clear, but without sweetness, his hand, and scarcely turning Ills head— neither does he appear to fix his audience. There is some majesty in his presence, but he is deficient in all the. chief arts of an accomplished orator. The Swell Mob Out.— The following is from the Wellington “Post.” Two of the lodgers at the Welcome Restaurant, while waiting for admission into the strangers’ gallery of the General As sembly last evening had their watch chains stolen from them. Some practical thief must have committed the robbery as the chains were broken short off at the watches, which could not have been ab stracted without attracting the owners’ at tention. The Waste Lands Act Amendment Bill. —The Bill to amend the Waste Lands Act 1877, and the Crown Lands Reserves Sale Act, 1877, introduced by Mr. Pyke, has not yet been printed, tut it will, we believe, contain some important provisions affecting the administration of waste lands, and the sale of deferred pay ment lands. It will propose to do away with the present nominated and ir responsible Waste Lands Boards, and to throw the responsibility of administration on the Minister of Lands, through his subordinates, the Commissioners. Smaller land districts than the present ones will also be provided for, and the con dition of actual personal residence on de ferred payment selections will be dispensed with, but cultivation will be insisted on.

New Feature in Advertising. —A new style of advertising lias been intro duced in Wellington. Some boys paraded the streets with white umbrellas, on which the words “After Dark” (the play of which was produced in the evening at the Theatre Royal) were painted in very legible characters. The novelty of the affair caused eve ybody to read the an nouncement. Science and the Afghan War. —The Times correspondent at Daka says that, notwithstanding all that science has done for warfare, the Afghan war has been an unscientific ore. The enemy, like our selves, possesses arms of precision ard artillery. Their artillery at Ali Musp'4 and the Pei-war' Kotal was probably equal, if not superior to our own. Rock ets, however, so easily carried over rough mountain roads, and so terrifying to bar barians from tlieir eccentric course, excit ing their astonishment more than any other appliances of art except the telegraph, have never been introduced in the cam paign. Nor have any steam launches been sent to traverse the navigable Cabul River, explore its windings, and secure the left flank from the gatherings of the enemy. No lime-lights or other lights, of which science boasts so many, have ever been supplied to prevent the enemy per petually harassing our troops and disturb*- S their much-needed repose by creeping iin range, under cover of night, and firing into our camp.

An In r e Rxvff on at. Fishery Exiiidi tion. —In April next year an Interna tional Fishery Exhibition is to be held in Berlin, The exhibition will be fUcs-wati ve of the fisheries of all quarters of the globe, and some of it,? chief objects are the stimu lation of inquiry, and introduction of improvements in tlm various departments represented, and increasing tlie interest taken in the preservation and replenish ment of waters suitable for fish,

TO-DAY’S COURT.

Before Mr. Frank Guinness, R.M. ANNIE WALSH. Mrs. Walsh was charged with drunkenness, using obscene language on the public streets,' and with using abusive language to a constable. fS Mr. Crisp appeared for the accused. ‘Constable Rouse deponed that lie had arrested accused at Quill’s Hotel. She was drunk, and made use of very bad language. He had been sent for to arrest her.

Robert Hill, barman at the Commer cial Hotel stated that Mrs. Walsh came into the hotel seeming very excited. She was especially so when she saw Sergt. Felton. She used very bad language. (Witness here wrote down the words used and handed them to bis Worship.) Refused to serve her with more drink, and she seemed to go quite mad. Sergeant Felton—Had seen accused in a very drunken state, with her clothes all disordered. Her language was very obscene and abusive. (Words written down and handed to his Worship). Had never heard worse language in his life. When in the cell the woman screamed for two hours. 'I he language she used was of the vilest description, and could be heard in the streets. She had been often convicted, and had served several long terms in Lyttelton prison for similar offences. His Worship thought a fresh charge of habitual drunkenness should be laid against the woman, but Mr. Crisp held that having already pled guilty to the offence with which she was now charged, a new charge could only be laid against her for the same offence to which she had pled guilty ; it would be punishing her twice for the same crime. His Worship ultimately decided to deal with the case as it stood.

Mrs. Walsh having expressed a wish to give evidence said she had not had a glass of drink since she had left Lyttel ton Gaol, except the one she had got from Mr. Hill. She could not say what sort of liquor it was, but after she got it she didn’t know what she did.

Mr. Crisp asked that the case should be leniently dealt with on account of his client’s family, and the fact, as ad mitted by the police, that she was a respectable woman when sober. His Worship fined Annie £lO for her obscenity, jfi for being drunk, and jQ 1 for being abusive, with 16s. expenses, adding that he had made the fine so hard in the hope that it would deter her from such conduct in future —(Accused— “l hope so.”)—and lead her to better behaviour—(“ I’ll try ”). The sum she would have to pay in all would be 216 s. 6d. (“ That’ll be all right, your Worship, I’ll pay the fine.”) drunk at the station. co stsTo r ( be mgf hiuF a*h IP cmn ! rn-dvn T 4 nuisance at the railway station. stray cattle —a neighbors’ quar- REI.L. George Hoatten laid an information against Tyson Hodgson, his neighbor, for rescuing from informant nine head of cattle, defendant’s property, that had strayed on to his land, injured his fences, &c., and which he was taking to the pound.

After evidence had been led on both sides, defendant causing some amuse ment by his defence, His Worship said the lowest fine he could fix under the ordinance was ,-£5, and he would decide accordingly, finding that Hodg son had produced no evidence to rebut the charge of rescuing the cattle, which he admitted had been trespassing. Defendant gave notice of appeal.

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AUSTRALIAN.

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Bank Amalgamation. Melbourne, Friday

An amalgamation of the Australian and European Bank with the Commer cial Bank of Australia has been decided upon, and only requires the confirma tion of the shareholders.

LAST NIGHT’S CABLEGRAMS.

(A'enters Telegrams). London, July 30. The new Bank Bill has been read a second time in the House of Com mons. Constantinople, July 30. The Turkish Ministry has yielded to the demands of the British and French Ambassadors, and concecded to Prince Tewfik all the privileges enjoyed by Ismail.

AUSTRALIAN

[Special to Association. ]

Melbourne, July 31

The Merchants’ shipping and Under writers* Association report, under date, London, July 30, tlie following arrivals —Hereford, from Sydney; Canterbury, from Lyttelton; Western Monarch, from Pori Chalmers.

AtiAf.Cb.KS dh Parks.— -in Paris a cer tain Monsieur Lon.ard announces him self as “a public scribe who digests ac counts, explains the language of flowers and sells firied potatoes.”

COST OF STARTING A CATTLE RANGES IN TEXAS.

Most of the stockmen own no land. Everybody’s land is theirs as long as it is unfenced. They select locations for their ranches where there are waterholes or streams, and where the range is not already stocked pretty well up to its capacity, and their herds roam over the open country for miles around. In South-western Texas, however, the busi ness is undergoing a great change. Herdsmen are buying land and fencing their ranges. An old teamster tells me that there arc now so fences between here and the Eagle fiord on the Rio Grande that the country is hardly recognisable, and it is difficult to find the way across it. Ihe onject of fencing is to save the expense of hiring herdsmen. Lumber is cheap since the railroad came here, and a fence of a single board and a barbed wire, which will turn cattle is an inexpensive affair. The land can be bough! v m fifty cents to a dollar and fifty an a md a large tract lying in a compact *dy can be enclosed lor fifty cents an acre- with a single fence thrown around it. Stock men. where they have the means, aie beginning to think it wise to look to the future, and provide themselves with ranges from which they cannot be ex pelled by the settlement of the country about them. A New York gentleman, who came here to escape death from consumption, and who lias been quite successful iu stock raising, gives me some figures relating to the expense of going into the business. “ Supposing you' buy land and fence your range,” he says, “you will want about 3,000 acres for a herd of 1,000 head—we allow three acres per head. This will cost you about 3,000 dollars, and the fencing about. x,s°° dollars. You buy, say 800 cows, eacn with a calf, costing about 10,000 dollars —a cow and calf bringing about 12 dollars. Then you will want to invest a couple of thousand dollars in Durham bulls to improve your stock. The tendency among stock raisers now is to strive for constant improvement in the breed. Your house, stable, and pens you can reckon at 1000 dollars, and your outfit of horses, saddles, wagons, supplies, etc., you can put down at a thousand dollars more. Here you have a capital of 18,500 dollars invested. Y'ou keep your heifer calves, sell some ol your steers when a year old and keep some, and in three years you have a mixed herd of about 1,200 head from which you can sell every year 6,000 dollars or 8,000 dollars’ worth of cattle without diminishing in the least the value of jour remaining investment. A yearling is worth four dollars, and every addi tional year adds from one dollar to two dollars to the value of the animal. If - jv-cu-. u , v ,jn need six herdsmen for 1,000 head ol cattle, and they will cost you from 20 dollars to 30 dollars a month wages a-piece and their board. It is better to fence ; but a man with a small capital, say 4,000 dollars or 5,000 dollars can go into the business without buying an ncrWof land. In a few years he will be able to buy a big ranche and fence it.”

FIGHT WITH A WOLF.

[From the Lafayette [lndiana) Journal.)

M‘Dowell Cox, who lives about four miles from Lafayette, in Wabash Town ship, recently lost a dog which lie highly prized. The last that was seen of the animal was one day about that length of time ago, when lie scared up some unknown creature and darted out of sight after it in the bushes. The disap pearance of the dog remained unex plained until recently, when Mr. Cox accidentally discovered his dead body in the woods, and about thirty feet dis tant the dead body of a large wolf. The ground around where the wolf lay dead was covered with hair torn from his woolly coat, and bore evidence .of a desperate struggle. Evidently the dog, after a long struggle, had killed the wolf and then walking off a distance of thirty feet or so, lain down to die, for his body was found lying by the side of a fallen tree on a bed of leaves which had evi dently not been disturbed. The wolf stood about twenty-two inches in height when on his feet, and was more than twice as large as the brave dog who finally conquered him. Tins is the first wolf killed anywhere near La fayette for many years.

A Cure for Consumption.— A cor respondent of the Lexington Press writes about the flower of a well-known plant : “ I have discovered a remedy for consumption. It has cured a number of cases after they had commenced bleeding at the lungs, and the hectic flush was on the cheek. After trying this remedy to my own satisfaction. 1 have thought piiilanthrophy required that I should let it be known to the world. Jt is common mulleine steeped strongly and sweetened with coffee sugar, and drunk freely. Young or old plants are good dried in the shade and kept in dean bags. The medicine must bp* continued from three to six months, according to the nature of the disease. It is very good for the blood vessels. It strengthens and builds up die system instead of taking away the

rength ; it makes good blood and ala s inflamijvijion a\vay irom the lungs, it is the wFi-1 m she writer tint every periodical in the ihhied states, Cagada, and Europe should publish this receipt for the benefit of the ban an family. Lay this by, and keep in the house ready for used’

"MURDER WILL OUT."

Some sixteen or more years ago a very great sensation was caused by the announcement that a wonderful dis_ covery had been made in Italy—a Florence, I believe—which promised to do more for the cause of justice, in deal !ng with cases of-murder, than all the laws theretofore enacted or police ar rangements organised. The alleged discovery was quite a wonderful and sen.sational affair, yet, like all wonderful discoveries, simple withal. As the tale was told, and widely repeated, it created a thrill of excitement all over the world, and even this remote colony, may be said to have throbbed responsive to the sensation. The tale went that a certain learned Italian professor, whose name at the time was not stated, had been called in to investigate a mysterious case of murder. A beautiful young woman had been foully strangled in her bed with evidence to show that an out rage, worse, if possible than the murder, had been committed. The details were given at some length. Suspicion, so the tale went, soon pointed to one person, a rejected suitor of the lady, a sort of lion Juan who might be supposed as ready to murder as to defame a heroine. But there was nothing to connect this person with the crime committed. It could not be shown that he could have had access without being seen to the lady’s chamber, nor did it seem possible that a desperate struggle, such as had evidently occurred, could have taken place without the noise being heard by an attendant who slept in an adjoining room. But in a short time the atten dant, with some little reluctance, con fessed that on the night of the murder she had slept a deep, heavy sleep, and had only woke up at a very late hour the next morning, feeling as though she had just recovered from the effects ot some powerful opiate, which had ren dered her dead to all sounds for the time being. The suspected man, how ever, proved what appeared to be an undoubted alibi, and he was about to be acquitted when a certain Florentine Professor appeared upon the scene, and announced that he would show, if he was permitted, who was the real mur derer. He said that for years he had been engaged in the study of optics, on which he was an authority of European lame, and he had been investigating the images known to be thrown on the eyes of animals as images are thrown on the glass of a camera obscura. He had found means of fixing these images even after death, and by looking in the eye of one bullock he had picked out of a large crowd the man who had killed it. He proposed to do the same with the eye of the young lady. Permission was accorded, and by means of chemicals he hardened the retina, and had “ de veloped” the image upon it, and the 1 X 3 anlnorod—ly —in Call S_-p f- a-oamera, was then and there produced, amidst a state of excitement never seen in a court of justice before, and the mur derer (the young man who was first suspected) confessed his crime and was executed for it ; whilst his servant, as an accomplice before the fact, was sent to the galleys for life. Thus the tale was told and repeated over the world, but never verified and never fully be lieved. After a while it was forgotten. By a recent mail, however, after all had been forgotten, comes the startling announcement that the printing of ex ternal figures on the retina is not a fiction, but a fact, and the fact had been verified by more than one man of high scientific attainments, Indeed, one respectable London paper was so enthu siastic over the discovery that it gave an account of the experiments three times over in one issue, and announced that the images so obtained were to be called “ optograjm” Kuhne, a German pro fessor, seems to have beep the first to have recently tried the experiment,-and he held a rabbit’s eye to a hole in the shutter, and after exposing it three minutes to the light, cut off the animal’s head, TJi.en, by keeping the retina always In yellow light, and treating it with alum to make it firm, he succeeded in developing a clear and distinct image of the hole in the shutter, just as it would have come out on a photographic plate properly treated, The London Medical Record states that the begin tiful” experiment was repeated by Dr. Gamgee, F.R.S., of Birmingham, who, in the presence of Professor Bunsen, verified the results obtained by Kuhne, and got a discing/: image on a fine red colored ground of the opening ’n the shutter. But Professor Gamgee went something further. He not only got an image of'the rctjna with the eye of a live rabbit but also one from (hat qf a rabbit recently killed, though the latter image was not quite go distinct as the former. It seems, therefore, to be proved that the retina receives and re tains, for a time at least, the image last impressed upon it before death, and also retains apy irpage which may be impressed, for some lew minutes at least, after life is extinct. These are, it seems, sober fac|q. Thh image |s there, and can, with proper be developed, but that is about the ex tent to which, as far as can be judged at present, this can go.

COMPOSERS AND THEIR WORK.

Rossini positively ndvised a young ■ oinposer never to wiitc Ills overture until the evening before the 11 rsf per formance. “Nothing,” he declared, ‘‘ excites ir»siion. ]ike necessity ; the presence of rt copyist waiting hu- your work, and the \ iew of a manager in despair tearing out hair by handfuls.

In Italy in my time all the managers were bald at thirty. I composed the overture to Othello in a small room, where the baldest and most ferocious of managers had me shut up bv forces with nothing but a dish of macaroni and the threat that I should not leave the place alive until I had written the last note. I wrote the overture to the Gazza Ladrad on the day of the first performance under the guard of four sceneshil’ters, who had orders to throw my text out of the window bit by bit to the copyists, who were wait mg below to transcribe it. In default of music. I was to be thrown out myself/’ Handel composed with equal rapidity. His pen could not keep pace with the current of ideas that flowed through his volcanic brain. Haydn, Memielsslion, and Beethoven, composed slowly, retouching and elaborating with the same patient love with which the sculptor puts the finishing stroke to .the creation of his brain and his chisel. The biographer of Beethoven says that when he was in London negotiating the sale of some compositions, he was not a little surprised to receive a letter from Vienna, in which Beethoven begged him to add two notes (a c) to the beginning of the adagio of the grand sonato in b flat, op. 106. He was astonished that an alteration should be required in a composition finished mine months previously ; but his aston ishment gave place to admiration when he saw the wonderful effect ot the introductory notes, which De Lenz calls “ two steps leading down to the tomb.”

Dion Boucicaubt. —The San Ft an cisco News Letter , commenting on Dion Boucicault’s appearance in that city in the Shaughraun,” says:— £; Sixty-seven and as spry as a kitten, a curious mix ture of talent, wit, intelligence, arrogance and insufferable conceit is he—-a man of hobbies and crotchets, an actor of won derful talent, applauded and approved on the stage, disliked and abused on torn fihna. He is the life and soul of the whole performance. His influence is felt, as Figaro says, here, there, and everywhere.’ There 's an irresistible amount of unctuous humor about his Con. In make-up, tone, and gesture he is to life the lazy', good-for-nothing but whole-souled and big-hearted Irish vaga bond. The finish and minuteness of detail perceptible in his acting rre but the usual evidences of the French school Few of our actors care to decend to such (to them; trifles. But they are wrong ; and in this indifference to de tail lies the inferiority of our stage.” New Fodder Plants. —Two new fodder plants have attracted much at tention. The first is the Caucasian pricklv ccmfrey, the yield of which is prodigious, but there is a great deal of contradictory evidence as to what the cattle think- of it. They require, it appears, io Be educated into an appre ciation of its virtues. 'l'he second is the white melilot of Siberia, described as a leguminous plant, vigorous and robust, and capable of flourishing in arid soils. It has been recommended for the chalky regions of France. In reference to this also there appears to be a difference of opinion among the cattle, some portions of the plant being un palatably hard. The new plants, how ever, should at least be worthy of a trial.

Leeches in a Sleeping-Car. — If there be one thing more uncomfortable in a sleeping-car than another it is a leech. A few weeks ago the passengers in a carriage of a night express train from Vienna to Berlin were aroused from sleep by the shrieks of a lady-who in sisted that she was being stabbed with sharp instruments in several places, She would not submit to an examination and the guard was at his wits’ ends what to do, when a stout gentleman roared out that he. too, was being pricked cruelly in various parts of his thigh, Fortu nately the train was near a station, at which the guard gave orders to have it stopped, and the lady and gentleman were handed out, their companions fol lowing them, with no .small curiosity in to the waiting-room. The gentleman was promptly searched, and six colossal leeches were discovered to be feasting themselves upon his leg. The lady had swooned from fright and weakness, and ha.d 1° h e left behind in the Care of a local doctor, TP appeals that one of the passengers had brought an insuf ficiently covered jar of these blood suckers into the carriage, and had placed it upon the seat. They escaped ed and did the mischief. A Colonial Hf.ati-ien. — The follow ing incident, illustrative of the state of religious knowledge ip the country dis trict's of New South Yfytes, is rapordpd by the Murrunindt Times-. —Not long ago a lad nearly 18 years of age had to give evidence in a police court on Liver pool Plains. During the examination lie was asked if he ever said his prayers, arid his answer was to the effect that he had never heap! of fhqm befqre. Again he was asked if he knew who God was, to which he replied, ■ I do not know him but he may be a boundary-aider on the next station.” A “Ladies Court” at the Syd ney Exhibition. A separate court in the eastern tower of the main building of thp Sydney Exhibition has been al lotted for the display of women’s work. The principal features of the court will consist of oil and water-color pictures, crayon drawings, etchings, face-work, embroidery, etc., of the highest class j only. 'Die co-operation of the New j Zealand Commission is invited in pro- j curing within this colony objects of in r j terest worthy of a place in the court. j

H'CSXOWAV’S Piu.si-rVFhe Gi-and Stferet. •—With the variable temperature of this country, ill health will creep ip unless the blood from time to time be purified and noxious matters be expelled from the body. In this the public may be its own physician. Holloway's Pills may be pj.irch.ased at a trifling cost; instruc tions for taking them will be furnished with the Pills, and a little attention, with few in structions, will enable persons to keep them selves in health under very trying circumstances. These. Pills act as alteratives, tonics, and ape rients. Holloway’s medicine should be ready for instant administration when the slightest symptom gives warning of approaching indis position.—Advt.

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Clothing Establishment. ASSIGNMENT OF THE ESTATE OF MESSRS. AITKEN, PASCOE & CO.. CLOTHING MANUFACTURERS, xo Mr. J. H. Morrison, 1 Manager Mosgiel Woolen | Factory, [-Trustees. AND [ Mr. John Ross, i Of Sargood, Sons & Ewing J mHE above large Clothing Manufac -8 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 Yery Heavy Reduction, and have x’esolved 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. I2a CHRISTCHURCH AND SUBURBAN DIRECTORY FOR 1879. ON SALE at the “ HERALD ” Office, Saunders Buildings, East-street. PRICE FIVE SHILLINGS, Neatly Bound in Cloth. The above Volume contains a lot of valuable information, and should be in the 1 lands of every Tradesman,



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ASHBURTON BOROUGH COUNCIL. QIEPARATE Tenders are invited for O FIVE CHAINS of ROAD FOR MATION and LE VEL LING South-East side of Baring Square ; also, for Fourteen Chains of Wrought Timber FENCING round same. Plans and specifications can be seen at the office of Messrs. Fopks and and Son, Borough Engineers. Tenders, accompanied' by a guarantee deposit of £5 (either cash or a marked cheque), ‘ and endorsed respectively “ Tender for For mation and Levelling,” and “ Tender for Fencing,” to be sent in to the. Council’s Office, before noon, on THURSDAY, the 7th August. ‘ CIIAS. BRADDELL, Town Clerk. Ashburton, Ist August, 1879. ,u,' 201a—1 ASHBURTON BOROUGH COUNCIL. HHENDERS are invited for the Supply X of TWENTY (20) LAMPS, for the Street Lamp Posts, and fixing same to posts. ‘ Specifications may be seen at the Town Clerk’s Office, where tenders, ac companied by a guarantee deposit of £5 (cash or mail ed cheque), are to be sent not later than 9 a.m. on MONDAY, the 4th August. ■ ' ; CHARLES BRADDELL, Town Clerk. Ashburton, Ist August, 1879. 202a—2 IMPOUNDED. T" MPOUNDED from Mr. McLean’s 1 Station, South Ashburton, One BAY HACK GELDING no brand visible. If the above is not released oil or before August 7, it will be sold to- defray ex penses. W. B. COMPTON, 197 a Poundkeeper. Y. In the District Court of Canterbury, Holden at Ashburton. IN THE MATTER OF The Debtors and Creditors Act, 1576, The Debtors and Creditors Act, 1876, Amendment Act, 1878, and of the bankruptcy of FRANCIS PHILLIP LeBRETON, of Ashburton, Coal and Firewood Merchant, a debtor. NOTICE is hereby given that the creditors having failed to elect a creditors’ trustee in the place of Mr. A. O. Aitken, resigned, I have appointed Frederick Pavitt, of Ashburton, certificated accountant in bankruptcy, to be the creditors’ trustee in the said estate, and that the said Frederick Pavitt has in writing signified to me his acceptance of such trusteeship. All proofs of debts to be forwarded to the creditors’ trustee. Dated at Ashburton this lrrst diy of August, 1879. C. CAVENDISH HURRELL, 19Sa - Clerk of the District Court. m R, Y. R. In the District Court of Canterbury Holden at Asi-ikurton. IN THE MATTER OF The Debtois and Creditors Act, 1576, and of The Debtors and Creditors Act, 1576, Amendment Act, IS7S, and in the matter of the bankruptcy of JOHN BROOM, of Ashburton, Boarding house-keeper, a debtor. N' QTICE is hereby gi\ eti that the creditors having failed to elect a creditors’ trustee, jn the place qf Mr. A. O. Aitken, resigned, I have appointed Frederick Pavitt, of Ashburton, certificated accountant in bankruptcy, to be the creditors’ trustee in the said estate, and that the said Frederick Pavitt has in writing signified to me his acceptance of such trusteeship. All proofs of debts to be forwaiclec] to file creditors’ trustee, Dated at Ashburton, this first clay of August,’ 1579. C. CAVENDISH HURRELL, 199 a Clerk of the District Court. Tq Let, mO LET,'a Two-Roomed COTTAGE in 1 Burnett Street. Apply at 193 a ASHBURTON HOTEL. TO LET, FOR CROPPING, 1000 Stubble Land, in the Lagmhor District. For particulars apply to 138 a DONALD McLEAN. For Sale SADDLE FOR, SALE, ’ [7l OR SALE, a Strong SADDLE, quite L new. Price—£3 15s. ; worth £5. ALFRED HARRISON, 22a Auctioneer. PIANO TQI?. SALE, fjlOR SALE, a First-class Trichord _iu PIANOFORTE] ; a Bargain, Gua ranteed- Apply tc, H. J. WEEKS, IGSa “ Herald”’- Office. £2 ss. PER ACRE. IyrESSRA saunters brothers JLt_l_ have had placed in their hands for sale 993 Acres of fair Agricultural Land, within £j miles of the Dunsafidel Railway Station. The property adjoins a railway reserve, and water can be obtained within twenty feet of the surface. To effect an immediate sale, the proprietor will accept £2 ss. per acre. Full particulars on application to SAUNDERS BRQTH 2°a Ashburton.