LAST NIGHT’S CABLEGRAMS.

AUSTRALIAN- Melbourne, April 25. Arrived—Ringarooma. Obituary Monckton Synnot, and White, of Holmes, White, and Co. Sydney: April 24. The strike amongst the carpenters at the Exhibition building has apparently collapsed owing to the firmness of the Government. April 25. Patna rice, £2O to £22 ; raven twist tobacco, is 6d to is 4d; sugar, Four hundred and seventy carpenters at the International Exhibition held out for an increase of threepence per hour, which would have made is 6d per hour. Sir H. Parkes refused, and the strike is gradually collapsing. Adelaide, April 25. Flour from £ll 5s to £ll 10s. Parliament has been prorogued to May 29th. Hobart Town, April 25. _ The Treasurer has introduced his financial statement. The estimated deficit is £36,000, exclusive of £73, 500 for interest on railways. The deficit is to be covered by an increase in the property and income taxes of per cent.

THE FUNCTIONS OF THE NOVELIST.

{Anthony Trollope, in the Nineteenth Century.') The writer of stories must please, or he will do nothing. And he must teach, whether he wish to teach or not. How shall he teach lessons of virtue, and at the same time make himself a delight to his readers ? Sermons in themselves are not thought to be agreeable; nor are disquisitions on moral philosophy supposed to be pleasant reading for idle hours. But the novelist, if he have a conscience, must preach his sermons with the same purpose as the clergyman, and must have his own system of ethics. If he can do this efficiently, if he can make virtue alluring and vice ugly, while he charms his reader instead of wearying him, then we think he should not be spoken of generally as being among those workers of iniquity who do evil in their generation. So many have done so, that the English novelist as a class may, we think, boast that such has been the result of their work. Can anyone, by search through the works of the fine writers whose names we have specially mentioned—Miss Edgeworth, Miss Austen, Scott, Dickens, and Thackeray—find a scene, a passage, or a word that could teach a girl to be immodest or a man to be dishonest ? When men in their pages have been described as dishonest, or women as immodest, has not the reader in every instance been deterred by the example and its results? It is „not for the novelist to say simply and sadly :• — *• Because you lied here, or were heartless there; because you, Lydia Bennett, forgot the lessons of your honest home, or you, Earl Leicester, were false' through your ambition, or you, Beatrix, loved too well the glitter of the world, therefore you shall be scourged with scourges either here or hereafter ”; but it is for him to show, as he carries on his tale, that his Lydia, or his Beatrix, will be dishonoured in the estimation of all by his or her vices. Let a woman be drawn clever, beauti ful, attractive, so as to make men love her and women almost envy her; and let her be made also heartless, un feminine, ambitious of evil grandeur, as was Beatrix—what danger is there not in such a character ? To the novelist who shall handle it, what peril of doing harm ? But if at last it has been so handled that every girl who reads of Beatrix shall say, “ Let me not have such a one as that to press to my bosom —anything rather than that! ” then will not the novelist have preached his sermon as perhaps no other preacher can preach it ?

THE ASHBURTON HERALD.

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Strangers coming to reside in Ashburton are often at a loss to know which is the best Establishment to visit for the purchase of Draper)’, Clothing, and House-furnishing Iron mongery, and General Stores. Orr & Co. offer, special advantages to the public that can be met with nowhere else in Ashburton. They keep at all limes the largest and best-assorted Stock of every class of Goods, imported direct from the leading manufacturers at home, which beint 1 bought entirely upon cash terms, they are enabled to offer goods of suf-h 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 piices as the best judges.—Advt



New Advertisements. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. THE REV. MR. MURRAY, of Geral dine, will preach on Sabbath next, ia Ashburton, in the Morning, at 11, and in the Evening, at 6.30; and at Wakanui at 2 o’clock. The Rev. Mr. Blake, from Otago, will preach on Sabbath, 4th May, Morning and Evening, and at Ashton at 3 o’clock. 752 WESLEYAN CHURCH, Cameron Street. —Mr. Buchanan will preach To-morrow Morning ; the Rev. W. Keall will officiate in the Evening. 755 ■titt'ANTED immediately, Tenders for \Y PLOUGHING 500 acres of land at Seafield. For particulars apply to HOOPER, AITKEN & CO., 754 Havelock-street. Wf ANTED, a SITUATION by a Good YY Ploughman. Apply Echo Board ing House. 753 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH, Wills-street.—The Rev. B. J. West brooke will preach in the above Church— To-morrow Morning and Evening. 765



Entertainments. TOWN HALL, ASHBURTON. FOR ONE NIGHT ONL Y!II TO-NIGHT ! TO-NIGHT ! ! SATURDAY, APRIL 2 6th. nnHL Celebrated Troupe of BLACK BIRDS, late of the Georgia Minstrels, will appear as above, TWO HOURS OF MIRTH & MERRIMENT. —LOOK OUT FOR— BILLY WILSON ! CHARLIE CRUSOE ! HO SEA EASTON ! ALFRED BOWMAN ! J. W. MARSHALL ! ! ! And all the Old Favourites ! SEE DAY BILLS. Prices of Admission —35., 25., Is. lIOSEA EASTON, GEO. WARD, 747 Manager. Agent. VOCAL & INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT, To be followed by a Drama, on MAY Ist, IN THE ASHBURTON TOWN HALL, To pay for the TEMPORARY TOWER FOR ST. STEPHEN’S BELLS. 671



Public Notices. ST. STEPHEN’S CHURCH. A PPLICATIONS for SITTINGS will be received by Mr. J. Ward up to MAY 2nd, on which day the Church wardens will attend at the Church, at 2 p.m. to allot the seats.. By Order, 728 *J. WARD. NOTICE. ANY 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. 678 JOHN GRIGG. 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 JUST ' ARRIVED, Albums, Desks, Workboxes, &c. H. M. JONES, Stationer, Baring Square. 473 a NOTICE OF REMOVAL. W. T. D AVISON, in an 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. 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 WANTED KNOWN, that Envelopes and Notepaper can be obtained, wholesale or retail, at unusually low rates at the “Herald” Office, East-street North. 648 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 k SCHOOL Requisites and Artist Mate rials. H. M. J ONES, Stationer, Baring Square. 473 c OTICE—The “ Ashburton Herald” it a Gazette for all notices under the Debtors and Creditors Acts. 60



THE SOUTHERN PROVINCES ALMANAC, DIRECTORY, YEAR BOOK, & DIARY FOR 1870 Sold by WEEKS & DIXON. WANTED KNOWN—That the cheap est and neatest CARDS may be* had at the ASHBURTON HERALD OFFICE East Street North.



Educational, ASHBURTON BOYS’ PRIVATE SCHOOL. Conducted by MR. I). DAVIDSON (.Edinburgh Training College), Certificated Teacher of many years’ experience. MR. D. DAVIDSON will open the above school (which is situated on the East Town Belt, near Rev. Paige’s) at 9 a.m. on MONDA i, 28th instant. An Evening Class will be commenced on Monday at 7 o’clock. Terms, 2s. 6d. per week. The course of instruction will compre hend the ordinary branches of an English Education ; also Latin, Algebra, Geometry and Book-keeping. 732 ASHBURTON BOROUGH SCHOOL. EVENING CLASSES in connection with the above school will be opened on Monday, 28th inst., at 7 o’clock, under the supervision of Mr. Stott, F.E.1.5., Under-graduate of New Zealand Univer sity, and conducted by an efficient staff of certificated teachers. Fee, for ordinary subjects, 2s. 6d. per week. Extra sub jects at lowest rates. 744 MUSIC TUITION, VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL. Terms, per Quarter or per Lesson, on appli cation to the Principal. SUPERIOR LADIES’ BOARDING 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. Preparatory School for Boys. Inclusi Terms.



Business Notices. BREAD! BREAD, BREAD! ON and after TUESDAY, April Ist, T. R. HODDER & COMPANY, Grocers and General Provision, Hardware and Soft Goods Merchants, sell FULL WEIGHT QUARTERN LOAF of BEST BREAD at PROMPT CASH, delivered any part of the town daily. 614 HAYES’ TIMBER YARDS, EAST STREET, ASHBURTON. ALPHEUS HAYES wishes to inform his customers and the public gene rally that he has RE-OPENED the above yards with a fresh supply of first-class SAWN TIMBER, all sizes ; SAWN STAKES & PICKETS ; 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. FINAL NOTICE. "piDWARDS & LEE beg to request that all Accounts due to them be paid by the 30th April, otherwise legal proceedings will be taken, without further notice, for their recovery. 712



Fruiterers, &c. NOTICE OF REMOVAL. W. T. DAVISON, GREENGROCER AND FRUITERER, BEGS 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, 6d. always ready from ro a.m to 11 p.m. Pastiy supplied lor Parties or Soirees on the Shortest Notice. TRADE SUPPLIED.



Auction Sales, JgULLOUK & (0. J. Edmiston, P. A. Edmiston, and W. H. Gondby). TINWALD STORE. Messrs, bullock and co. beg to notify that, for the convenience of their customers and friends on the south side of the Ashburton River, they have OPENED a New STORE at Timvald, and draw attention to their stock, com prising— STATION AND FARM STORES, GRASS SEEDS fob AUTUMN SOWING, AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY, HARDWARE, FURNITURE, BUILDING MATERIALS, At their TINWALD STORE. Stock Sales conducted at the Tinwald Yards will be settled for at the Tinwald office if required. BULLOCK AND CO., Ashburton and Tinwald. BULLOCK AND CO.’S ABSTRACT OF SALES. A P R I L 29, At the Ashburton Yards, Live Stock, etc. MAY 6, At Tinwald Yards, Live Stock, etc. MAY 8, At our Rooms, sale of valuable Sections in and around Ashburton. 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 i, 1579, in Messrs. Saunders Bros.’ Buildings, EAST STREET, NORTH, With A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF Professional Stationery, Commmercial Stationery, Household Stationery, Fancy Stationery, &c.„ &c., &c. LITERATURE— (In Assorted Bindings) COMPRISING ALL THE MOST POPULAR AUTHORS Also,— PRESENTATION BOOKS. SCHOOL REQUISITES IN STOCK. Colonial, English, and Foreign Papers and Magazines supplied to order. WORK-BOXES, WRITING-DESKS, and OTHER FANCY GOODS, AT REASONABLE PRICES. Hamilton’s Library Books on Deferred Payment. iß®,Note the address — J. Y. WARD, East Street North (Saunders Bros.’ New Buildings), ASHBURTON. 440 Business Notices. UNDERSIGNED have for SALE and to ' rrive : Calcutta Cornsacks, 4bushels ; expressly manufactured for shipping Wheat. Woolpacks —Seaming Twine best quality. Fencing Wire, No. 6 to 10. 20 Tons Galvanised Iron, 6 to 9 feet. 400 Casks Cement. 300 Dozen Ploughshares. Etc,, Etc., Etc. FRIEDLANDER BROTHERS,



Drapery. ORR AND CO.’S



THE BEST THING GOING FOR ASHBURTON, THERE IS NO DOUBT ABOUT IT THE GREAT SACRIFICING SALE OF ~1~)~F?, A Now going on for a Short Time, to make room for Very Heavy Shipments, at O R R AND C O’ S, E A S T ST RE ET, ASHBURTON. Greatest Bargains ever offered. &C



ORR AND CO., IMPORTERS.



Auction Sales. UNDER DISTRAINT FOR RENT. MONDAY, April 28th, At 1 pan. shai’p. MR ALFRED HARRISON has re ceived instructions to sell at Mr. M‘Cuteheon’s homestead, Wakanui, on the above date, the following Stock and Plant : 1 Reaper and binder. 1 Dray and frame. 1 Double-furrow plough, Reid & Grey 1 Single-furrow do. 1 Cambridge roller. 1 Double-seated buggy. 7 Horses, draught and light. 1 Cow, full profit. 14 Store cattle. 12 Pigs. Harness. Farming and contracting imple ments, etc., etc., etc. Sale at I o’clock sharp. MONDAY, April 28th. ALFRED HARRISON, 740 : Auctioneer. WEDNESDAY, April 30TH, At 2.30 o’clock. A LFRED HARRISON has received in- XIl structions from Mr. J. G. Anstee (in consequence of his having purchased the Springfield Coal Agency) to SELL BY PUBLIC AUCTION ON THE PREMISES, THE GOODWILL ' '■ OP ‘ TiT; ANSTEE’S PRIVATE HOTEL. This Hotel, being centrally situated in Tancred-street, close to the Union Bank, having every convenience for boarders and travellers, must, under proper supervision, command a good business, and the Auctioneer would draw the attention of speculators to this rare opportunity for a safe investment. Also, ON WEDNESDAY, MAY 7TH. At 11 o’clock, Will be sold by public auction the whole of the Furniture, Effects, etc., comprising— Horsehair suites. 6 Dozen Chairs. 5 Large tables, from 3 x 4-6 to 3 x 9 ft. 1 Cheffionier. -.5 Dressing-tables. 25 Washstands. : 1 Large Mangle. I Knife Machine. 25 Iron bedsteads, single and double mattrasses, pillows, a quantity of blankets, sheets, a quantity of crockery, kitchen' utensils, carpets (Brussels, Tapestry, Kidder, Felt), matting, oilcloths, Colonial sofas, toilet glasses, pictures, clocks, lamps, fenders and fireirons, house linen, timber, etc., etc. LUNCH PROVIDED, i ALFRED HARRISON, 751 Auctioneer.



Business Notices. SPECIAL NOTICE. WE ARE NOW LANDING— , Ex'p.s. I <c Tohgariroj” ; 8x i Totara for Wells Ex “ Clifton,” from Invercargill, 240,000 feet first-class Boards and Scantling Ex “ Drover,” from Bluff, 120,000 ditto ditto Ex , f 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 kinds. PAINTING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES carried on as usual in town or country. Paperhangings, Paints, Oil Colors, Var nishes, Window-glass, and every trade requisite on sale. Guttering, and Piping found and fixed. S. COLLINS AND SON, PRACTICAL PAINTERS, PLUMBERS, AND HOUSE DECORATORS Moore-street, Ashburton. s^B Envelopes, notepaper, en velopes, NOTEPAPER.—The cheapest ever offered in Ashburton, at the Herald Office, Wholesale Stationery Dep6t, Saunders’ Buildings. 552



To Let. A TO LET, FOUR-LOOMED COTTAGE. Ap ply to CHARLES BRADDELL. TO LET, " A COMFORTABLE FOUR-ROOMED COTTAGE, with Verandah, within two minutes walk of the Railway Station. Apply 711 HERALD OFFICE. Public Notices. IN THE ASSIGNED ESTATE OF MR. J. S. SAVAGE, PAINTER, ASHBURTON. ■'\T'OTICE is hereby given that all par -1 h ties indebted to the above estate are hereby requested to pay the same to Mr. J. S. Savage, of Ashburton, who is empowered to collect the same, and whose receipt will be a sufficient discharge ; and all accounts not paid by the 30th instant legal proceedings will be taken to recover them forthwith. 733 FRED. CROSS, Trustee. BIBLES, Prayers, and Church Services, Hymnals for various churches.—H. M. JONES, Stationer, Baring Square. 473 b NOTICE OF REMOVAL. HM. JONES begs to r 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 Goods, Music, &c. 397 REMOVAL NOTICE. 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 NOTICE. ALL ACCOUNTS due to the Estate of Thomas Hicks, Ashburton, must be Paid at Once to the undersigned, at Messrs Pass and Co’s, or at the Road Board Office, Ashburton. Accounts re maining unpaid will be sued for without further notice. J. H. PASS, ) T , 454 C. B. BRANSON, ) lrustees ‘ PUBLIC NOTICE. fJYHE Wakanui Road is Stopped for Traffic (opposite Moffatt’s Mill) until fur ther notice. MO BOARD and RESIDENCE for two Single Gentlemen, in private family. Apply— Herald Office. 681 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 r VALUATOR, ASHBURTON. TO LET OR SELL— GBO Acres first-class land (limestone) with good house, large stables, woolshed, sheep-yards, granaries, etc., etc., com plete ; very convenient. 320 Acres reserve, first-class laud, part sub-let, sufficient to cover the whole of Government rent, etc., leaving upwards of 200 acres rent free for 2 years. Low r 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