POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Mails at the Ashburton Post Office close follows :

For Christchurch and North.at 10.20 a.m. * p.m., and 7.30 p.m., daily. For Chertsey at 10.20 a.m. daily. For Rakaia at 10.20 a.m., and 4 p.m. daily. For Dunedin, Tinwaid, Winslow, Hinds, Coldstream, Rangitata, Orari, Winchester, and Geraldine,at 10.20 a.m. daily. For Temuka, Timaru, and South at 10.20 a.m. and 3 p.m daily. For Greenstreet, Ashburton Forks, 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, every Monday and Thursday, at 7.30 p.nV.

The next mails for the United Kingdom via s Brindisi and Southampton will close at Ash burton on the nth of March. The mail via .Brindjsi will be due in London on the sth of May, and that via Southampton on 12th of May.! ‘ The next mail for the United Kingdom via San Francisco will close on the 27th March, and will be due in London on May 13.

W.. St..G. Douglas, Postmaster.

NOTICE.

A travelling Post Office having been estab lished on the Southern line of railway, letters bearing a late fee of 2d. may be.posted at any station 1 the mail carriage attached to the express train, and they will be included in the mails made up in trans't for offices on the main line and branches.

Sydney J. Dick, Chief Postmaster.

CHRISTCHURCH GRAIN REPORT

FOR THE WEEK ENDING MARCH Ist. ♦ — Herald Office, Wednesday Afternoon. Our readers have not come into posses sion of the usual weekly report, so soon as we could have wished, our Christchurch correspondent having (like many others) taken advantage of .the facilities afforded by the opening of the through traffic, to pay the South a visit. Wheat has certainly .improved in value since our last report, and a large amount of business has been transacted quietly by those interested. Barley still required for both maltsters and shippers, anything prime offering is bought at extreme figures. Oats.—The splendid crops reported down South has had a tendency to lower the value oLthis cereal. We hardly think they will rececle~~mucbL~ -helow-_Dresent value, this however is one of the problems time alone can solve. Grass Seeds of all descriptions—very quiet trade doing. There are few orders on the books with large stocks left over from last year. Potatoes are now offering freely with no disposition on the part of shippers to : operate. We notice the Sydney market for this article very is dull, quotations £3 to £4 loaded, bags in and fully supplied. Hides/Skins, and Tallow appear to command good prices, At the different auctions in town there is keen competition for all lots offering, resulting generally in remunerative returns to vendors. QUOTATIONS Wheat per bushel, 3s. to 3s. 4d. ; oats, feed, 2s. 9d. to 35.; ditto, milling, 3s. Id. to 3s. 2d., if really good ; barley, feed, 3s. 9d.- to 4s. 3d.; malting, ss. to.ss. 6d. ; maize, 5s 9d, old only ; peas, 4s to 4s 6d. , new dply : ; beans, 4s. 2d. to 4s. 6d., new, very soft ; flour per ton, as last quoted, upward tendency ; potatoes, £3 10s. to £4 —limited, sale ; onions, £7 10s. to £B, fair demand; rye-grass seed, ss. 6d. to 6s. 6d.-, not moving off. ~ .

ASHBURTON RETAIL LIST.

The Ashburton Herald AND Borough and County Advertiser (With which is incorporated the “ Evening Echo"). WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1879.

The little Tinwald of to-day is evi dently going to be a very big Tinwald some time in the future. She had re cently added to her attractions a very fine range of stock saleyatds, around which buyers and sellers of cattle and sheep do largely congregate when the auctioneer lifteth up his voice. Within her borders the Agricultural and Pas toral Association have their annual stock show; and steadily and surely her buildings are increasing in num bers and include amongst them - several of hearty dimensions, and she has been fortunate in securing a recreation re serve of no less than 2 go acres. Evi dently shejis going to grow as she has grown, and be a town amongst the towns. By-and-by, now that the river is to be the dividing boundary of the two new Road Districts, we shall find

in Tinwaid the meeting-place of the Road Board whose jurisdiction is to be over that portion of the present Road district lying south of the Ashburton; and it is quite within ths bounds of possibility that at no distant date, the Mayors and Councillors of the boroughs of Ashburton and Tinwaid may, some fine moonlight evening, hold a brotherly hand-shaking across the boundary line that is supposed to run down the centre of the Ashburton river. Whether such neighborly greetings will be exchanged upon the old bridge that now spans the stream, or upon the new one everybody would like to see, depends on circum stances..: Tor ourselves, we hope the reunion will take place upon the new bridge ; but that such a meeting is not far off, whether on the bridge that is or on that which is to be, is a matter on which several aspirants for hotel licenses seem to be agreed. Of course, it stands to reason that in, community like our own, believing as it evidently does in a “ drop o’ good beer,”—a local contem porary calls us “jolly Ashburton,” be cause of our beery-leanings—a meeting of the civic dignitaries of the , boroughs could not be held without a consider able consumption of nut-brown taking place, and in view of the near approach of such a grand turn out, it is not to be wondered at that the Licensing Bench should be beseiged with applicants for licenses to share the honor of supplying the thirsty that would assuredly as semble on such an auspicious occasioa The light of the .Sew Inn having gone out for the last time, “ quinched” by the rude, laws that demand large rooms and wide passages, that induce free ciir rents of fresh air, there were not want ing willing, volunteers to stand in the gap left by the old-house, and care for the 'drofighthy-onesrthirst, so that “jolly Ashburton” need never fear, while she has a sixpence in. her fob, that her whistle will be dty for want of a foun tain at which to wet it. But Tinwald’s thirsty ones must be more thirsty and more than those of “jolly Ashburton,” for no less than three boni fices desired yesterday to be allowed to draw their barrel bungs for her benefit. Go on, little Tinwaid! you are held in high estimation as a comfortable and advancing town, and you may safely take it as evidence of firm belief in your future prosperity that three aspirants to your “bar” should seek the privilege of practising amongst you. We com mend your enterprising spirit, little sister, but that spirit must be kept up yet awhile by other means than by pour ing spirits dowa

Mail Notice.—The next mail for the United Kingdom via San Francisco will close on March 27, and will be due in London on May 13. Mr. E. J. Wakefield’s funeral this af ternoon was largely attended. The band played the Dead March in “Saul” in front of the procession, in which there were over 60 Masons from both lodges.

Fatal Accident at Winslow.—An in quest is to be held this evening at five o’clock, in the Winslow Hotel, on the body of a young child two years of age, who was accidentally drowned yesterday in a pool of water. The child’s father i 3 Mr. Houston, of Winslow. Choir Union.—The members are noti fied to meet for practice this evening, in Miss Steane’s Schoolroom, Bennett‘street.

Fire. —On Friday a fir© Broke out in some straw ’©tt’ the farm of Mr Doyle, pear Ashburton, and destroyed 900 bushels of wheat, which had just been threshed. - Mr Doyle had, unfortunately, allowed all insurances over the grain to lapse this season, but never before was his grain uninsured., The loss to him is very great. The fire is supposed to havejbeen caused by _a careless smoker.—“ Times.”

Fire at Gisborng. —A fire broke out at Gisborne at five o’clock yesterday morning and destroyed the premises of Dugleany, baker ; Smythe, shoemaker; Schultz, milliner ; and Stevenson’s store. The fire was arrested by the space between the latter building and the Standard printing The Norwich Union lose £4OOO ; New Zealand, £IOO ard, £4OO ; Hawkes’ Bay office £100; The Union and National had . £SOO each: on Stevenson’s stock, subject to a reduction of some hundreds ’ caused by removal of stock to Grey town. Laudanum Poisoning.— On Sunday the death .occurred iii Parnell,‘of Miss Alice Turner, aged 17,' a young lady who had been suffering much from toothache. On Saturday she had obtained some laudanum to allay the pain, and on retiring to rest she complained a good deal of illness. In the morning she did not appear at the breakfast table, and when her room was visited she was found still asleep, and pre senting such aii unusual appearance, that medical aid was procured. Everything was done that could be done to restore her, but her ease resisted every effort of skill and experience, and she expired.

Protestantism and Prosperity.— The Rev. Hely H. Smith, rector of Tansley, Matlock, in a letter to the “Record,” contends that “Protestantism and pros perity have always gone hand-in-hand in the history of England, while a pandering to Popery has invariably been either ac companied with OF quickly followed by national calamities,” Jn proof of this assertion he cites, the fluctuations in the position of the country from Willi&jp the Conqueror down to the present time, when “an ominous darkness is obscuring the long sunshine of our prosperity. ” He goes OR to say that “ the rapid decline of our commercial prosperity, if we may argue from past experience , and analogy, is simply the inevitable Gonsequepce of the giant strides Romanism and Jtifu&tysn} (which is Romanism under another name) are making in our land. The Protestant question is, therefore, the great political question of the day. - It is to be hoped that the electors of Great Britain will bear this in mind when are called upon to choose tfieir representa tives.”

ASHBURTON COUNTY COUNCIL.

The usual monthly meeting of the County Conncil was held to-day. Present: Messrs Walker (chairman), Saunders, Cameron, Wright, Wason, and Reed. chairman’s statement.

The Chairman referred to the difficulty that had arisen with the Government in regard to obtaining the Geraldine County’s share of the Rangitata Bridge cost, owing to the Counties Act not being in full force in the Geraldine County. The Government had therefore been asked to deduct the Geraldine share from that County’s subsidies, but had declined to adopt that course. The Mount Peel Road Board, however, had acknow ledged its liability in the matter, and. it now remained with the Council de cide upon their next step. The adver tisement inviting tenders for the first sec tion of the Mount Somers Railway appeared in this morning’s papers. The Protective Works Committee had been unable to meet, and would require an extension of time. The Hospital Com mittee would report as to what action they had taken towards the establishment of an hospital. The bye-laws for the licensing and management of the slaughterhouse had been approved by Government. It had been decided that these bye-laws should come into force seven days after receiving the approval, but .the Chairman suggested an extension of time for a month to allow applicants to follow the course prescribed by the Slaughterhouses Act, viz., to advertise their intention, of applying for a license once a week for four weeks immediately preceding the time when their applications are to be con sidered. The Planting Reserve Board had been duly gazetted. The County Engineer had been acquainting himself since last meeting with the description and locality of the works to be undertaken by the Council, and his report would be laid before the Conncil. The Chairman had transacted some business during the month, of which he gave a summary of the details. He had recommended to the relieving officer that Mrs Burns, who has hitherto been in receipt of charitable and should hare her allowance stopped on account of her marriage, her husband being now liable for her support. The deed of agreement between the pound keeper and the Council had been sent to the solicitor to be duly stamped. Mr. A. Le Grand Campbell had been asked to hold assessment courts for the ridings of Ashburton, Upper Ashburton, and Mount Somers. He had received a letter from Mr. H. P. Higgemon, forwarding his ac count for payment and stating that his design for Rangitata bridge has been, made for carrying a distributed load of 32 tons per span. THE ENGINEER’S REPORT

was then read, and considered. We hold ovor the text till to-morrow ■ for want of room in this issue. On the matter of th®

PLAINS WATER SUPPLY, Mr. Saunders pointed out that none of the engineers had referred to the utilisa tion of the excessive fall obtained. It would be a great advantage to this agricul tural district if the fall were utilised as a motive power for a number of grist mills along the line of the water-course. Even if the mills were small they would bo of great service in a wheat-growing country, and doubtless letting the power would yield some return. He felt that any courses used ought to be auch as might at any part be forded, so that the expense of fencing may be .saved. He did not con demn the suggested system of pumping as a means of supply, but he thought it should be first ascertained whether the Rakaia could not be tapped as a source. It seemed .to him (Mr. Saunders) that the Rakaia afforded the only satisfactory source for a water supply for the Plains. He complimented the engineer on the. manner in which he had treated iheC ,sub* ject, and the in regard to bridges aqd other works inspired the speaker with much' confidence in Mr.. Baxter.

Mr. Wright would be only too, glad to learn that an efficient supply could: be got from the Rakaia at a cost within means. It might be judicious to ask the engineer to turn bis attention to the question of the Rakaia as a source of supply. - Mr. Wason thought a main race should run through the plains from some one or other of the never-failing creeks in the upper portiohbf the district. It might be brought in a 3ft by 2ft wooden box, or even an iron pipe, and a charge made upon the users of it. It did not appear to him that they would be able to give more water to the Plains than simply to supply drink for man and beast. They could easily get a public meeting to give their popular support to any scheme that would raise the price of land all over the Plains ; but it was a different thing to ask thorn to bear the expense of it. It was subsequently resolved to instruct the Engineer to turn his attention to the matter of obtaining a supply , for the Rakaia Plains from the Rakaia river, and" to make a.careful survey of the river with that view, and also to report upon the scheme suggested by Mr. Wason for the construction of a large reservoir at the foot of Allen’s Bush, the. water from thence to be distributed by pipes.

THE RANGITATA BRIDGE COSTS. The difficulty of recovering> the Geral dine County’s share" of the Rangatata Bridge cost was discussed. Mr. Wason said that it was impossible for the Council to recover from the Geral dine County the money in question. The Government could recover it if they wished, and he would move : as the only means of getting over the difficulty; that the Council decline to undertake any further responsibilty in regard to the Rangitata Bridge, unless the Government recover the proportion of the cost of the' work from the Geraldine County Council, for which that body is liable. The re solution was passed. ’ ; THE BRIDGE KEEPERS. / Mr. Wright proposed and Mr. Reed seconded that “ this Council is of opinion that, in consideration of the large sum contributed, by the Canterbury Provincial Government towards the erection of the combined Road and Railway Bridge over the Ashburton, the demand now male upon the Road Boards for the payment of the entire cost of the gatekeepers, at t.hia Bridge is not a just one, but inasmuch as the Railway traffic over the combined Bridge is a SQUFee of much ffpjay and risk to the road traffic, this Council will pro ceed with the construction of an indepen dent bridge for road traffic, provided the Government will contribute one-half the amount originally contributed by this dis trict to the erection of the Railway Bridge,

and thus save the annual expense of two gatekeepers at the present bridge. The resolution was carried. RECREATION GROUND FOR CHERTSEY. Mr. W. A. Brown applied, for the residents of Chertsey, for a reserve to be set aside as a recreation ground. DOMAIN BOARDS. It waa resolved to grant the sum of £IOO each to the Tinwald and Mount Somers Domain Boards. The Council then adjourned till three o’clock, to allow the Hospital Committee to bring up their report.

THE PROPOSED COUNTY HOSPITAL.

At the last County Council meeting it was resolved to procure plans of the hos pital proposed to be erected for the Ashburton County, and Mr. J. Stanley Bruce waa instructed to prepare these, to be submitted to this day’s meeting. The plan prepared by Mr. Bruce is that of a compact building, the centre portion being of two storeys, communicating by covered ways with a ward on each side, and running along the whole front of the building. The entrance is recessed, ’and is also furnished with seats for out-door patients in attendance for relief. Enter ing the building a lobby, will be on the left, a dispensary and consulting room on the right. Double doors at the end of the lobby, open into the domestic department of the warder, to the kitchen, and th® outbuildings, which can also be •entered from the back. The corridors oh either side of the central building;. are each of, 50ft. in length by Bft. .wide, and the wards are at' either end. The latter will each contain accommo dation for six patients, and when the full complement of patients are in the wards, there will be 1584 cubic feet of air for each invalid. Attached to the ward are a nurse’s bedroom, a large .linen room in which is a small fire-plaoe for pre paring light diet for patients, lavatory, bath-room, &c. There is further attached to on© ward six extra bed-rooms for patients able to pay ; and a fever ward is shown on the plan as also a part of the hospital. A small padded room, a morgue, and an operating room well lighted from above, occupying a place in a building de tached from the main structure are also shown. In the rear of the centre building will be a commodious laundry. Through out the whole, great attention has been paid to the matter, of ventilation. All the floors are to be on concrete walls, 3ft above the ground level. The building will be of 13ft studs, and the style of architecture, Elizabethan.

TELEGRAPHIC.

LATEST FROM EUROPE.

[By Submarine Cable.]

London, March 4.

The British and French Governments have resolved to deelare to the Khedive of Egypt that Nubar Pasha’s retention of the Presidency of the Council of Egyptian Ministers, which office- he recently re signed, is indispensable. Bombay, March 4 The Indian Government have decided to •ncourage the emigration of coolies to Fiji for plantation labour.

AUSTRALIAN.

Melbourne, March 4. The Victorian Government, following the example of N®w South Wales, is now engaging Queensland black trackers to built the Kellys. . ‘ BoswOrth is first favourite for the Austra-. lian Cup.

TO-DAY’S CABLEGRAMS.

Sydney, March 6. A large meeting held in the Town Hall yesterday decided to invite Governor Robinson to a farewell banquet, and pre sent him with a farewell address prior to his departure for New Zealand. ’ Oughton’u body has been recovered from the Wallsend pit. His wife went insane.

The Budget debate closed last night. The Treasurer’s resolution was adopted. Brisbane, March 5. | A boat, with eleven escaped Com-, munists, arrived at Moreton Bay, after being sixteen days out. Govern lent has cabled to the Agent- Goneral to stop all immigration to Queens land for the present.

TO-DAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Auckland, Wednesday. . The inquest pn .the body of Miss Turner onded ia »n open verdict. The medical -evidence was to the effect that death was caused by opium poisoning. Deceased was frequently in the habit of using narcotics. 1, T. B. Hall has discovered a seam of coal near New Raglan Road, in a - dividing range between What;wq.iJio and Raglam i Wellington, Wednesday. j,-> At a meeting to forid a Naval Brigade, held, last night, fifty-seven names were enrolled. ■ 1 « , ~ The Benevolent Society Has Undertaken, the distribution of charitable aid. j • Wm. Miller, engaged on'. the collier Ellefc, fell down the hold, breaking- two ribs.. , - • •' •.. J ' •' i '

THE NELSON RIFLE MEETING,

. Rifle Camp, Brightwatkr. I Wednesday. The firing commenced at .seven this morning jn 'splendid weather. Matches 2 and 3 are finished with the following result

In match 5, at the 500 yards’ range Payn ter and Ki»g have each scored the full mark of 28.

DISASTROUS FIRE AT OAMARU, Oamaru, Wednesday, A disastrous fire, which occurred last night about midnight, destroyed the block of buildings at the comer off" Thames and: Coquet streets. It originated- in -.the. loft

over thhe kitchen of Cogoin’s boarding house, and when first seen might have been extinguished by ft few buckets of water/ but neither watefr nor assistance were forthcoming until the fire had obtained too strong ft:hbla. From Cogoih’a the fire spread to Currie’s produce store, -4 vacant shop, Swinard’s (tobacconist), Lip pert’s groger, and Keenan's boarding-house, the whole of which were enveloped in one mass of flame within an hour of the first alarm. The buildings were all of wood, .and the .fire burned furiously, the whole block being .levelled to the ground in a short , time. Scarcely any water was available, and no appliances could be pro cured, with the exception of half-a-dozen buckets, to make the small supply useful. By dint of perseverance, • Steel and Hen dray’s agricultural implement manufactory was saved., Nearly all the furniture in Cogoin’s and Keenan’s was saved, as was also,a small portion of Currie’s, Swinard’s, and Lippert’s stock. There was no wind, or the fire would certainly have extended still further. " ~

. Dunedin, Wednesday. A man named Kane, who,had both of his legs..amputated sbih'e days ago at the hospital, died last evening. . The members of the Fernlull plub.yrere’ ; deprived of a good ,dinner yesterday. ~A ; newly-caught . salmon trout, weighing , 1711)3, had just bebn placed in the hands of the cook, when Detective Neill called' fojr it; and the Manager of the Club was served with a summons for a breach ,of y statute. . The prosecution occupied the' Bench for upwards of an hour to-day. An objection w‘as raised that although the fish was found iri the Club, no proof of the Manager’s, knowledge was established, and the Bench has taken till to-morrow to con sider their decision The salmon iri the meantime, is left with the police, who are .much concerned about its preservation. A cricketer, named Thomson, who was recently convicted of .stealing the shoes of a fellow cricketer, <was sentenced to six. months to-day for stealing an overcoat from Watson’s Hotel. ‘* :

The “ Daily -Times” comments to-day on the ridiculous lightnesft of the punish ment inflicted on the master of the Taupo. The Rev. Gordon, from the Irish Pres-' byterian Church, was introduced and took, his seat with the Dunedin Presbytery to day. The business transacted was unim portant. ■ ■

A “NEW INDIA.”

(From th t New Zealand Herald.)

The idea of a “ New India” in Central and Southern Africa is before public attention in England. Mr Stanley, the latest explorer in those regions, has been making a tour of the English manufactur ing districts, and he insists that when thf vast resources of the interior of tha u continent are laid open by British enter prise, we shall find in it a mine of wealth without the dangers which harass and beset the tenure of India. The idea of another empire, equivalent to the Asian' one, arising for England on the African - Continent, is an exciting picture; but that it is picturesque is no reason for considering it impractical. Indeed, there is tangible prospect now, very stronjgy probability, that the thing will comestw’f pass before a great many years. Tfejf" British possessions in South Africa already stretch northward from the Cape for 1260: miles. As for the central regions tween the Tropic of Capricorn , and th# Equator, they disclose, where yetf • ex- - plored, an extent of internal water .com munication quite unrivalled except by that of the American lakes and fivers. A great deal, too, of that central country is eligible for; more than European trade. There are numerous table-lands where the climate is just as suitable for the white man as on the plains of the Yaal or the Orange River, which have been settled for more than a generation by the emi-. grant boors of the Cape and Natal. The mysteries of the long-obscure Afri can continent are in our time being fast unravelled ; and e the saying that “ dis coveries are often recoveries” has been wonderfully illustrated there. The tale of Herodotus which he brought from Egypt respecting the origin ;pf Nile has been verified. And so has the atPEy of the Carthaginian navigator, Harino, about the Gurillai. Extraordinary facili ties for trade are presented by the enor mous lakes—the two Nyanzas, Tegsmsika, Nyassa, and others, probably aslarge, not yet revealed—and the Zambezi and other great rivers, as well as the Nil?* The nation which by her marine and manufacturing power is in a position id utilise those wonderful natural highways, will spread her commerce and ciriUsatioriy and with them her sway, directly And in directly, and over those vast regions, and and there is really no forecasting the ex* tent and importance which the probable African empire of England may npt at tain, - ' ; l ’A

in a letter to a friend, dated .Pieter maritzburg, Natal, November 4th, Sir Bartle Frere writes :—“There cqtj,. bf nq doubt that there is a great empireTn future between the Cape , of Storiptyl and Guardafui. . . . . I wish y$J fcpul.4 have come on here and seen what file' southern provinces of such an empire ptOr mise to play hereafter. It is no| jsasy to make a great fortune here in a few y«aw, as. in Australia and America ; but ftbare -.subsidence is so. easily got, and onq so comfortable, that the less ambitious Y |ye soon content, and cease to work energeti cally. Hence the danger of a laGb ap portion of the white population fah*g nito a state of easy-going, lotus-eating epicu reanism. But the Northern races thrive here as well as the Kaffirs, who are quite, the finest race, physically, on this east coast of Africa. But they require ruling j an Arab conquest would be a great help, and still better a Scqtoh immigration. But eyeu licuy.thgna sr§, I hope, the elev ments of a great dominion which, under the Crown of England, may be greater and more progressive than either Australia or America. We have here many things that are wanting there. The Dutch are natu rally Conservatives ; the natives may be come an excellent labour class, and , there is little of the rowdy or . Communist element. There are plenty of good public men quite equal to all the requirements of self-government.- The unsettled native questions, the vast distances, the scattered gopulation and the-local prejudices are 18 obstacles to progress ; and if I have dope something to remoyp them, I shall not regret .my dreary seven months in barracks at King William’s Town last year, or my equaUy unexpected detention., here this year.” '

THE ASHBtfitpN HERALD.

j_ W EDN ESC AY, M ARCH 5 ,. 1879.'



Butter, inferior to best W lb 1 O to I 2 Earcss $ dozen I 6 . to 0 0 Cheese, prime r - ’Hy,lb o TO to 0 0 Bacon, svo!:cd, i> 0 IO to 0 0 Hams in doth, 0 lb 1 0 to. 0 0 FJour in ba/;st \ ?• ioolb "2. 6 to 14 0 Oatmed, $ 2£.b '/ 0 to 0 0 Laid, ib - : O 9 to 0 0



Match a. MATCH. 3. ... l Reid, Thames 37 I Thomas, Thames 37 2 Burns, Nelson 36 2 Burr, Napier 37 3 Fenton, Thames 36 3 Somerville,W’nui 36 4 Sharland, Nelson 35 4 Coleman, W.’kato 34 5 Kitchen, Nelson 35 5 Howie, Wrignui 33" 6 M‘I>eod, Thames35 6 Gordon, Thames 33 7 Skinner, A’kland 35 7 Bannister, Welln 33 8 Ballinger, WeHtnaS 8 Jack, Dunedin f 33 9 Turner, Blenheim 35 9 Moore, Aucklnd 33



General Storekeepers. Now Open Now Open. Now Open. RESERVE YOUR ORDERS. T. R. HODDER & CO., JgEG to inform the Inhabitants of Ashburton and Surrounding Districts that they have OPENED THEIR -PREMISES IN SAUNDERS BROS.’ BUILDINGS,



■With a Large and Carefully-selected Stock, in the following Distinct De partments : GENERAL DRAPERY, MILLINERY AND SHOW ROOM, BOYS’, YOUTHS’, & MEN’S CLOTHING, TAILORING DEPARTMENT under the CHARGE OF A FIRST-CLASS CUTTER FROM MELBOURNE), BOOTS, SHOES, AND MENS’ HATS, GROCERY & PROVISION WAREHOUSE CROCKERY, GLASSWARE, & FANCY GOODS. IRONMONGERY of Every Description. WOOL, GRAIN, & DAIRY PRODUCE BOUGHT FOR CASH, AND TAKEN IN ACCOUNT. Indents received for every description of Agricultural Machinery, or any other commission promptly attended to by their LONDON AGENTS. T. R. HODDER Sc Go., WHOLESALE AND RETAIL GENEpLAL MERCHANTS.



Clothing 'Establishment. ENCOURAGE NEW ZEALAND INDUSTRIES. * ' TO THE PEOPLE OF THE ASHBURTON DISTRICT. H MESSRS. ALLENSTEIN Jg R 0 S. Desire to inform you that a RETAIL BRANCH of the - NEW ZEALAND CLOTHING FACTORY, WILL BE OPENED IN THE NEW BRICK BUILDING, ASHBURTON, j (Next Bullock & Co.’* Rooms) . ON SATURDAY, Bth MARCH, To effectually introduce their •, Goods and drive out the imported article they have decided to sell a SINGLE GARMENT ,|,i! 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 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 ©f 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 Ashburton Branch.



Business Notices. G EOB6I A L L E N, ACCOUNTANT, HOUSE, LAND, AND. COMMISSION AGENT, Saunders’ New Buildings, Ashburton. t , 466 MRS. MOREY’S NEW YEAR’S GIFTS AND ■ CHRISTMAS TREE 111 TTTILL positively be drawn on the 20th VV March next; drawing to take place at 2 o’clock. Tickets, Is. each. All prizes and no blanks. FIFTY GOOD PICTURES. Rocking Horse, Sewing Machine, Silver Watch, Gold Necklet, Large Wax Doll, with a large assortment of V other beautiful prizes ; to be drawn, at the Town Hall. Tickets on Bale at the shop of Mrs. Morey, Tancred-street. 458 gWAGG ER S ’ OO M . MR. FRANK BROWNE desires to* state that he has added to the Prince Albert Private Hotel special accom modation for SWAGGERS and TRAVEL LING WORKMEN using their own Blan kets. All else found, and dietary in the hotel. 17s. per week. 458 NOTICE. ~ A ; LL ACCOUNTS due tathe Estate of /\ - Thomas Hicks, Ashburton, must be Paid at Once to the undersigned, at Messrs Pass" ’and Co’s, or at the Rord Board Office, Ashburton. Accounts re maining unpaid will be sued for without further notice. J. H. PASS, )«. . . 454 C. B. BRANSON, } Truatees - NOTICE. ■. - MR. IRELAND, having dissolved partnership with Mr. J. E. ; H. Harris, is now carrying on business on his own account aa BARRISTER AND SOLICITOR, . IN V' MONTGOMERY’S BUILDINGS, East Street, ASHBURTON. 457 Photograliy. photography! MILLION PRICES. M E - E. TEAGUE begs to announce that he intends reducing the price of Photographs for the Holidays to— Cards ... ~. 9s. per dozen. „ Cabinets 255. Notice.—This Gallery will Permanently Close 14th instant. 42



NOTICE. • A DVERTISEMENTS for the ASHBURTON ~x\. Herald must be sent in not later than 2 p.m. for the Country Edition, and 3 p.m. for the Town Edition, with the number of insertions written plainly on the copy, other wise they will be inserted till countermanded, and charged accordingly. Notice to discontinue Advertisements must be left at the Office in writing, before 12 noon, and alterations the day previous. Subscriptions : In Advance;' If Booked. Quarterly— Delivered in town „ country Posted •s. d. s>. d. ... 60 6 6 ... 80 8 6 Bo' 8 6



THE CHOIR UNION. THE Member# of the Choir Union will Xplease meet THIS EVENING fit 7.30 sharp in Miss .Steane’s Schoolroom, Burnett Street. \ H. J. WEEKS, 477 Conductor.,