MEMORANDA.

MEETINGS.

This Evening. Thistle Lodge, E.C., at the new Lodge Room, Saunders’ Buildings, at 8 p.m.

The Ashburton Herald AND Borough and County Advertiser (With which is incorporated the "Evening Echo"). THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1879.

At a meeting of Ashburton mer chants yesterday, it was resolved to take steps for the formation of an Agricultural and Pastoral Loan Association, for the purpose of lending money to the farmers in the Ashburton County. It was further resolved to interview the County Council and the various Road Boards •with the object of inducing these bodies to “ distribute their pre sent credits lying in the banks, by depositing the same with the bank or banks which will advance a similar amount to the ' Association for the purpose of relieving the distressed farmers of the district.” The motive actuating the promoters of the meeting is a commendable one, and it is to be hoped they will be successful in reliev ing the present monetary pressure, but we fail to see how they can possibly succeed in doing so through the medium of such an Association as that suggested and warmly advocated by the Mayor at the meeting, and by the tri-weekly paper this morning. It is palpable that such an Association will take time and money to form, neither of which can be spared, and as the great want in the district is simply money—and wanted, too, within the next month —if the pressure, is to be relieved, some shorter path to the raising of cash must be adopted. The idea of asking the public bodies of the county to let loose their tied-up funds is a very practical one, and, in the absence of any influx of capital from outside, is the only hope of immediate relief; and if the public bodies of the county can be prevailed upon to insist on the banks lending out on suitable security, for such pur poses as those contemplated by the Association, the funds they deposit with them, the end -would be at once secured. But to wait for the formation of a Loan Society on a limited liability, shares in which would have to be bought, is simply to wait for the funds that cannot be got. A society such as that suggested may, and doubtless will, be a useful institution in the future; but meanwhile relief is wanted at once, and the public bodies can give it if they choose.

The Auckland Star has perpetrated a huge practical joke, and led the grea Government organs into a trap. For some time several of the larger news papers of the colony have been carrying on a brisk competition in the matter of “ special ” English telegrams, and a few of the more enterprising joined with Australian contemporaries in having “ specials ” sent to them from London. The Lyttelton Times and others of the “ special wire ” compact were not in this arrangement; but they were able, notwithstanding, to publish telegrams via Australia that conveyed the same information as that given by the “ specials ” of their contemporaries. Suspecting that those telegrams pub lished by the Government organs were “ cooked ” by agents in Australia from the “ specials ” of papers there belong ing to the “ special ” partnership with New Zealand Opposition papers, the Auckland Star manufactured the tele gram re Sir Julius Vogel’s retirement, and sent it to their partners in the “ special ” business in Sydney. It was there published as a bona fide telegram from London from the . “ special ” cor respondent of the partnership, and of course the Sydney “ cook ” for the Press Association was at once fetched, and the bogus telegram appeared in the Government organs, but of course not in the Opposition papers, who were in the secret. The clever trick was a success, but it is scarcely legitimate to play, so to speak, with the most important business of the country for no other purpose than to find out whether or not certain papers were pirating telegrams. There is no saying

on what subject a joke may next be perpetrated, nor what may be the result.

San Francisco Mail.— lt is notified that the outward mail, via San Francisco, will close at Ashburton to-morrow (Friday) evening at half-past seven o’clock. Accountants in Bankruptcy. His Honor Judge Ward yesterday appointed Mr. W. It. Boyle and Mr. George Allen, certificated accountants in bankruptcy. Insolvent.— The gentleman who lost the sum of £l3O on the railway last week has been forced thereby to file a declara tion of insolvency. -tsKw:,.* .% Templar Hall. —Owing to the run upon this hall, it has been found necessary to increase the accomodation afforded, and consequently the directors have de cided to add a couple of rooms to the Hall. This increase will tend greatly to the comfort of the Resident Magistrate and those connected with the court. The addition will cost about £SO, and will be made by Mr Peter Gourdie, contractor. Evening School. —On Monday even ing, it is announced, an evening school in connection with the Borough School, con ducted by an efficient staff of certificated teachers under the supervision of Mr. Stott, the head-master, will be opened. Gas Company. —Things look hopeful for the speedy supply of the town with gas. Yesterday tenders for opening the streets preparatory to laying the mains were advertised for ; and along East Street iron pipes of heavy calibre are now lying ready to be finally fixed in their place of useful ness.

The Governor’s Reception. —A special meeting of the County Council will be held to-morrow to consider the matter of a suitable reception to the Governor. • Monetary Affairs. —A meeting of the merchants of Ashburton, called by circu lar, was held in the Somerset Hotel yester day afternoon, to consider what steps ought to be taken to relieve the present financial depression. Mr. Joseph Clark occupied the chair. The following resolu tions were adopted, after discussion : “ That an Association’ be formed, to be called ‘ The Ashburton Agricultural and Pastoral Loan Association (Limited),’ for the purpose of lending money on security to the farmers of the Ashburton County. ” Also, “ That a Committee consisting of Messrs. T. Bullock, E. Saunders, Hugo Friedlander, Joseph Clark, George Jame son, and W. H. Gundry be appointed to interview the County Council and the various Road Boards for the purpose of bringing before them the advisability of distributing their present credits lying in the banks, by depositing the same with the banlc or banks which will advance a similar amount to the Association for the purpose of relieving the depressed state of the district.” Before adjourning, it was resolved to meet at a future date, notice of which would be advertised, to receive the Committee’s reports of interviews with the various bodies. County Council Election. —Yester day a poll was taken of the electors of the Mount Hufcfc Riding in the election of a County Councillor, vice Mr Wason. The candidates were Messrs Holmes and Julian Jackson, and the polling places Drayton and Barrhill. At Drayton three votes were recorded, and at Barrhill fifty-seven. The result of the election is the rerurn of Mr Julian Jackson with 55 votes, against 5 recorded for Mr Holmes. f The Mount Somers Railway.—We understand the contractor for the Mount Somers Railway will commence work in a day or two.

Rough on Sib George.—The Hokianga district is at present undergoing a sort of “Peine fort dure” from Grey and his myrmidons, says the Auckland ‘ ‘ Free Press.” It seems he has set his mind to drive every respectable and well-informed person out of the district because they won’t vote for him or his tribe, and hate him like poison. They are mostly old settlers and know him of old; had he been as well known in other parts of the country he never would have been given the opportunity to render the European contemptible in the eyes of the Maori— and thereby increased the arrogance to a point of danger—or to show himself off as an elderly tomfool in a general way. Giving Up.—The “ Marlborough Ex press says : —“lt is rumored that some of the insurance companies hitherto doing business here contemplate retiring from business altogether in Blenheim, and the head offices of others who will continue here intend to increase the rates of fire insurances. This seems to us an impolitic move, and will prevent many persons from insuring who would otherwise do so. The insurance companies ought to know their own business, but to an outsider the policy contemplated seems the reverse of business-like.”

Who is He?—“The Eangitiki Advo cate ” is responsible for the following : “ A section of the natives complain ot the conduct of a, member of the Ministry, lately among them, which has incensed thorn very much. The nature of the alleged conduct is such that will scarcely admit of newspaper reference.” A Monkey at the Opera.—lt is not often that a pet monkey is taken to hear the opera (says “ The Argus ”), but such was the case at the Opera House recently, when two members of the gentler sex, both intoxicated, contrived in the crush to escape the vigilance of the doorkeeper at the dress-circle entrance, and to seat themselves well forward towards the stage. Here one of them produced a pet monkey attached to her wrist by a chain. The little beast’s antic wanderings over the seats attracted the attention of all who could see it, and alarmed and disgusted many who were near to it. The attention of the manager, Mr. • Kitts, having been directed to the occurrence, he requested the offenders to withdraw, but they refused, and, as the opera had commenced, nothing further was done until the close of the first act, when the order was repeated, .and this time backed by the presence of a sergeant of police, but it was of no avail, and force had to be gently but firmly applied. When one had been thus removed, the other—the “ dame an singe ” —followed quietly. Their money was restored to them, and they were left to seek some more congenial haunt. The offenders are said to belong to Sydney.

LAST NIGHT’S CABLEGRAMS.

THE ZULU WAR.,- Ekowe Abandoned as a Military Position.—Lord Chelmsford’s Camp Attacked by 11,000 Zulus.—The Boers of the Transvaal Rebelling—Sir Bartle Frere a Prisoner.

A NEW BANK BILL.

London, April 22. After relieving Ekowe, Lord Chelms ford returns to Gurgelova, and aban dons Ekowe as a military position. He will form an entrenched camp between Tugela and Port Durnford. Consols, 99^.

News from Cape Town to April Bth states that Lord Chelmsford’s camp at Gurgevola was repeatedly attacked by 11,000 Zulus at daybreak on April 3rd. They were repulsed with heavy loss. Lord Chelmsford relieved Ekowe on the night of April 4th. The total Bri tish loss was 220.

Ekowe has been evacuated and Col Pearson is returning to Tugela.

The Boers threaten to invest Pretoria and retain Sir Bartle Frere as a prisoner unless their demand is granted. Colonel Wood met and defeated the Zulus. The loss of life. was very heavy. The British lost four hundred and the Zulus three thousand. An insurrection has broken out in Transvaal. The Boers resent Lord Chelmsford ordering them on active service. Sir Bartle Frere proceeded to Pretoria to pacify the Boers, who have invested the town, and declare they will hold Sir Bartle Frere prisoner until the British Government redress their grievances.

The House of Commons assented to the introduction of a Ministerial Bill for allowing a bank of unlimited liability to register, with a reserved liability.

AUSTRALIAN.

Sydney, April 23,

The Legislative Council have thrown out the Chinese Immigration Regula tion Bill. The City of New York sails to morrow. She will be detained for several hours to enable replies to be sent to the Suez letters. One hundred and seventy carpenters have struck work at the Exhibition building. A number of Chinese applied to have their names placed on the roll to-day. Breadstuff's have a downward ten dency in Adelaide. ' Melbourne, April 23.

The Melbourne Intercolonial Juve nile Industrial Exhibition offers in prizes. . .

THE MARTINI-HENRY RIFLE.

The results of the recent field firing at Aldershot have again brought to the front the question of the power of the Martini-Henry rifle against guns in the open or in the gunpits. It will be re membered that the Dum Dum experi ments ot 1400 yards were in favor of the rifle. A party of 20 from the School of Musketry in seven minutes fired 384 rounds at 1480 yards, made 18 hits, and killed or wounded eight out of nine gunners standing in the open. Three days later a fourth experiment was made by a picked party of ten men of the 45th Regiment firing (at Hythe) 10 rounds independent, and 10 by volleys at 10 gunners in a gunpitat 700 yards. They made 64 hits, and killed or wounded all the gunners. All regi ments may not be so fortunate in their musketry instructor as the 45th, but the fact remains that a skilled party of men armed with the Martini-Henry rifle, and acting under proper guidance, are deadly opponents to anybody, such as a gun detachment, at even up to 1400 yards. It must be recollected, also, that the Watkin’s range-finder, now officially adopted in the army, will give the exact distance of an enemy in from two to three minutes before a shot is fired to reveal the whereabouts of the rifleman. A further experiment is to be made again at the Curragh, under the supervision of the Depucy-Assistant Adjutant-General from Hythe, the result of which is looked forward to with much interest.

Drunkards and Drunkenness.—Logic ally considered, indeed, the liqour traffic must be admitted to be from beginning to end a crime on the part of all who engage in it, and a disgrace to a civilised age. The distiller who sits in Parliament to make laws for the happiness and welfare of his fellow countrymen, and who in his private capacity is a great philanthropist, is yet as much an accessory to the horrors of a gin-steeped people as the confederate is to the murder when he hands the knife to the assassin. The publican who sells the drug which the distiller supplies him with is, in this analogy, but a second accessory nearer to the crime. All of them, manufacturers, wholesale dealers, retailers, are, as Mr. Fox put it on Sun day evening, partners in guilt and joint participators in the spoil. No one, not even the barman who passes his life in constant contact with drunkenness, denies the horrible suffering which it inflicts on the individual, or on the mass. The miserable deaths from exhaustion, deli rium, not unfrequently starvation; the commonest forms of lunacy ; the suicides ; the furious assaults on men, women, and children ; the desolate homes ; the dis honored families ; all arising directly from drunkenness, are admitted and deplored even by those through whose instru mentality they come to pass. Each of them, however, pleads that his particular share in the process has been insignificant if not involuntary ; but stern logic points to each one of them, and says, “ Thou art the man. — 11 Timaru Herald.”

At a recent London Crystal Palace Poultry Show—the largest ever held in England—there were 4184 entries, and two miles of pens.

LATEST FROM EUROPE.

TO-DAY’S CABLEGRAMS.

THE ZULU WAR. Reported Flight of Cetewayo, Brilliant and Decisive Victory by the British. Loss of the Transport Clyde. London, April 23rd. A great battle has been fought at Kainbula, where Colonel Wood has achieved a brilliant victory. Cetewayo is reported to have fled, after suffering .enormous losses, which must be deemed to have destroyed the Zulu power. The transport Clyde has been wrecked with 800 British troops at Natal. There was no loss of life. The Australian Transcontinental Railway. Melbourne, Thursday. The flying survey of the transconti nential railway from Brisbane to Port Darwin has been successfully com pleted. The proposed line is of easy con struction, and much good land has been discovered. Sydney, Thursday. Sailed —City of New York.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

Auckland, Thursday.

John Meeirs, late M.H.R. for many years for Marsden, has died at the age of 80. He was one of the founders of the Nova Scotian settlement of Waipu, near Whangarei. It is stated that a further stoppage of the big pump at the Thames will result in closing certain mines employing from 400 to 500 men. The Rev. H. I. Davis, Independent minister ot Hamilton, Waikato, is about to take deacon’s orders in the Anglican Church. Native Affairs. A Herald telegram from Waikato says both Tawhaio and Manuhiri declined sending a formal invitation to the Premier and the Native Minister, though solicited by many leading chiefs to do so. It is reported Rewi has invited them to Punui, previous to the meeting. If Sir George Grey and Mr. Sheehan do not go to the Kopua meet ing no other Europeans will be allowed. 2,000 natives are assembled at the Kopua meeting. The Bank of New Zealand. At the Bank of New Zealand meeting, held to-day, the usual dividend and bonus of fifteen per cent, was declared. was carried to reserve and jQ 9700 carried forward. The Report shows coin and cash balance at bankers .£1,700,000, of which £769,000 is held in the colony, the balance in London. The Chairman remarked on the disastrous consequences of the City of Glasgow Bank failure. The reports of this bank’s losses by the said failure were quite untrue, and not a shilling had been lost. Private deposits had increased by £6,800. Profits brought to account about the same as last, but a large provision had been made for future contingencies. A hopeful view was expressed of the pros pects of the colony. The Dowling Case. Dunedin, Thursday. In re Esther Mary Dowling, other wise Hester Middleton, the petition by the mother to be appointed guardian, was heard at the Supreme Court before their Honors Justices Johnson and Williams. The judgment was that the petition be discharged with costs, but they expressed regret that the case was brought before the Court, and that it would be against law and morality to grant the petition ; that there was no real pretext for the application. The child (aged 16) had been examined, and does not desire to go to her mother, and that no more utterly groundless application was ever brought before the Court.

A BULLET 16 YEARS IN A MAN’S BODY.

The New York Twus has the fol lowing “ Frederick Eckert, of East Orange, N. J., died recently from a singular cause. At the second Bull Run, in 1862, Eckert, who was a member of the Second New Jersey re giment, was struck by a Minie-ball in the back. The ball entered his body an inch below the short rib, and two inches from the right side of the spinal column. The bullet could not be found by the surgeons, and the wound was of such a serious nature that the man was discharged, and returned to his home in Newark. The orifice finally closed, and Eckert became en gaged in the grocery business in East Orange. The ball almost imperceptibly crept around the side of his body to a point just above the pit of his stomach, where it caused him much pain and trouble. The point finally came in contact with the right lung, and for over a year before his death he was unable to speak without having severe pain. A few days before his death he told his attending physician where the bullet could be found. When the post mortem examination was made the missile was found within half an inch of the spot designated by the deceased. The point was embedded in the right lung, and the hollow end was filled with a fatty substance. The physicians decided that his death was caused by the bullet shot in his back sixteen years ago.”

MR. CHARLES READE ON THE ART OF WAR.

The following letter is published in The Daily Telegraph : “Sir,— lt,is not necessary to be out witted by Zulus. People that go to war should immediately rub up their wits. If they have to encounter savages superior in numbers and knowledge of the ground, and armed no longer with stone arrows and bone spears, but guns and rifles, the very first question they should ask themselves is this—Does all our superior science furnish us with no engine of war to turn the scale? Now, we do possess an engine of modern. warfare that ought to have been in the unlucky camp, since no German or French army would have invaded even a strange and wooded country without it— l mean a balloon— a la cotde. A very small one would have raised a man t,OOO feet, and shown him in a moment the shallow secrets of Zulu strategy. Lateral : ambuscades though in jungle are no ambuscades to a scout looking down vertically with a powerful binocu lar and sweeping 30 miles at a glance. The nation, therefore,, will feel, obliged to the War Office if it will send out, not a great many more . suldiers to be knocked on the head, but a few more soldiers, more ammunition, more bal loons, more gasometers, more binocu lars—more brains. Paris, for her amusement, raised 25 people in a balloon' 2,400 feet several times daily. ■ Cannot England raise one drummer boy or one gallant little officer— lngenles animos augusto pectero versans— l,2oo feet to protect her chivalry from silly slaughter ? No doubt it is much harder to generate gas in a camp than in a city, but it has been done in camps, and therefore it can be done again, and ought to be done, though ' a jury of inventors have to be convoked. When civilised nations meet in battle, glory may be gained though life is lost; but those who send our heroes to fight with savages should attack defensively and cudgel their brains a bit, grudging so base an enemy the life of a single British soldier, arid the tears of those who mourn him.—l am, etc., Chas. Reade.”

A FUNNY PARTY.

(From the London World.) Pipes and grog at Mr. Frank Buck land’s last Saturday meant much more than the same entertainment anywhere else. An “at home ” in Albany-street is always amusing, and this was, if any thing, above the usual mark. The in terior was dressed up and decorated for the occasion. All the heads and horns of animals extant or extinct, were dusted and furbished up ; the fragrance of the casting room, with its garlands of fish entrails, bottles of shrimps, snakes and whitebait upon the shelves, was toned down but not entirely destroyed. The company was of themost heterogeneous description. There were Sir Joseph Fayrer, learned in the thanatophidia, or poisonous snakes of India:Sir> Samuel Baker, equally fluent upon Egyptian reptiles; African explorers, piscatorial painters, and members in numerable of the Linnsean Society, and of the Zoo. Genial and good natured Mr. Jamrach, with a diamond brooch in his shirt front, and a pleasant smile on his fresh-colored face, dilated, in glowing terms, upon his Peruvian mummy —that of a young girl who fell, or was maliciously pushed, some thou sand years ago into a nitre-pit, and now resembles a few sticks of very dry tobacco. Mr. Peachey produced a plaster cast of the face of Henry VII., the same which was exhibited with that King’s effigy when lying in state nearly four hundred years ago. To add to the general liveliness of the evening, the monkey-box. was drawn near the fire, and its two rather sickly little occupants introduced to the company. A hare ran through-one’s legs, up and down the stairs in perfect amity with men; while a white rat, friendly ! 'creature, with natural sympathies for the human race, sported itself upon the silken robes of the Chinese Ambassador, whose dark, but not unkind face was somewhat per turbed at the pollution. He recovered himself, however, when the green oysters, specially raised by one of Mr. Buckland’s friends, made their appear ance, and his appreciation was fully endorsed by everyone else who tasted them. The host and hostess busied themselves to keep the fun going; and when Frank was tired of talking, his excellent and indefatigable assistant, Mr. Carle, took up his parable, and discoursed on fish, fresh or dead, or exhibited the toy automaton thimble rigger, a legacy of Robert Boudin’s. All alike, foreigners, doctors, lawyers, soldiers, sailors —most thoroughly en joyed their evening. .

Thursday, April 24 1879.]

THE AsHBURTOjSI HERALD



Clothing Establishment. ENCOURAGE NEW ZEALAND INDUSTRIES. TO THE PEOPLE OF THE ASHBURTON DISTRICT. MESSRS. ALLENSTEIN B ROS. Desire to inform you that a RETAIL BRANCH of the NEW ZEALAND CLOTHING FACTORY, IS NOW OPEN IN THE NEW ERICK BUILDING ASHBURTON, (Next Bullock & Co.’s Rooms) To effectually introduce their Goods and dr: ve out the imported article they have decided to sell a SINGLE GARMENT AT THE WHOLESALE PRICE. All goods‘are marked in plain figures, for net cash only. Any article purchased and not approved of will he exchanged . with the same courtesy with which it was sold, or, if desired, the money will be returned. The Success which has attended i 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 praiseworthy 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. HERBAL MEDICINES. BEESONS suffering from liver com plaints, coughs, colds, worms, skin diseases, &c., are invited to try Nature’s cheap and universal remedy, “HERBS.” James Neil, importer of Herbs, and Bo tanic medicines, George street, Dunedin, has appointed MR. J. M. CAMBRIDGE, Chemist, Ashburton, Agent for Iris 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 Purifier, &c. Roots, Herbs, Barks, &c. of every kind. 370 CAMBRIDGE’S ORANGE-QUININE TONIC WINE IS acknowledged to be the mostagreeable and efficacious Tonic Stomachic yet pro duced. It contains the valciableTon i cproper ties of Peruvian Bark (“Quinine”) with the Stomachic properties of the Bitter Seville Orange, so combined as not to be objec tionable to the most delicate invalid ; and, as a “BITTERS,” is far superior to all other preparations. Invaluable to all suffering from loss of appetite, indigestion, general debility, ner vous affections, tic, ague, and derange ment of the system. • 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 tone which is not obtained by any other medicine. One, two, or three wine-glass fuls may be teken during the day by persons suffering from the above com plaints, with the greatest benefit. It is highly recommended by the medical pro fession to be taken whenever Cod Liver Oil is ordered. By pouring the required dose of the oil into half a wine-glass of the “Orange Quinine Wine” scarcely a .flavour of the.oil is tasted, and the wine materially assists the oil in its beneficial operations. Price, 4s. 6d. per wine bottle, and sent (carriage free) in cases containing one dozen, at 48s. Sold retail by all Chemists, and manufactured by J. M. CAMBRIDGE, MEDICAL HALL ASHBURTON. 360 Business Notices. EOIIGE L L E N ACCOUNTANT, COLLECTOR, HOUSE, LAND, AND COMMISSION AGENT, Saunders’ New Buildings, Ashburton. 466



Business Notices. HODDER and COMPANY



N 0 W N ANTED ESPECIALLY, THAT T. R. HODDER & COMPANY HAVE OPENED THIS DAY A Large Assortment of MELBOURNE CLOTHING, Made expressly to order for Ashburton. 57 SUITS, Superior Quality and Style. 24 OVERCOATS AND ULSIERS. 12 LATEST STYLE COATS. 50 PAIRS TROUSERS AND VESTS, Latest Style. ALSO, 26 CASES AND BALES (Ex Coriolanus) of WINTER and CLOTHING, Dress Stuffs, Blankets, Flannels, Scotch Goods, Calicoes, Sheetings, Doeskins, Hosiery, Carpets, Shirts, &c. &c., &., Expected to be opened in a few days. T. R. HODDER & COMPANY, East Street, Ashburton. 685



HODDER and COMPANY



Special Notice. Hooper, aitken and co. are prepared to make CASH ADVANCES ON GRAIN, OR OTHER PRODUCE In the District Court of Canterbury, Holden at Ashburton. IN THE MATTER OF The Debtors and Creditors Act, 1876, and of The Debtors and Creditors Act 1676 Amendment Act, 1878, and of the bankruptcy of JAMES PORTER, of Ashburton, in the Provincial Dis trict of Canterbury, and Colony of Ne.< Zealand, Dairyman. Notice is hereby given, that James Porter, of Ashburton, in the Pro vincial District of Canterbury, and Colony of New Zealand, Dairyman, has this day filed a declaration in the above Court that he is unable to meet his engagements with his creditors. The first meeting of creditors will be held at the District Courthouse, Ashburton, on Wed nesday, 30th April, 1879, at 11 o’clock a.m. Dated this 23rd day of April, 1879. C. CAVENDISH MURRELL, 741 Clerk of the above Court.



France spends fifteen and a half times as much on her army as on her schools, Italy twelve times as much, England five and a half times, Germany four and two fifths times, Austria -four times, , and Switzerland one and one-eighth times. Per head of population France spends oh her army 18s., and England 14s. s|d. Strangers coming to reside in Ashburton ire often at a loss to know which is' the best Establishment to visit for the purchase of Drapery, Clothing, and House-furnishing Iron* mongery, and General Stores. ORR Co, after special advantages to the public that can be met with nowhere else in Ashburton. They keep at all times the largest and best-assorted Stock of every class of Goods, imported direct from the leading manufacturers at home, which beins? bought entirely upon cash terms, they are enabled to offer goods of suHi sterling value as cannot be equalled by any other house in the trade. Every article in stock is marked at the lowest price, from which no abatement is made so that the most inexperienced buy their goods at the same prices as the best judges.—Advt