COMMERCIAL REPORT

FOB WEEK ENDING JUNE 28t1I, 1879- Mr. J. L. Wilson reports as follows : Business very flat. Confidence is so much, destroyed, that it is next to impossible to do any business. QUOTATIONS. ! Wheat, per bushel, 3*4>d.*; for*seed, 4s. ; oats (feed), 2s. 2d. to 2s. 4d. ; (seed) 3s. ; barley (feed) nominal, at ss. ; (seed) ss. 6d ; maize, none in the market; peas, 4s, ; beans, 3s. 9d. ; flour, per ton, £9 to £lO ; potatoes, £4 ; kidneys, £6 for seed ; onions, £10; rye grass, 4s. 6d. to ss.

ASHBURTON RETAIL LIST.

BIRTH.

On Sunday, May 29th, the wife of E. S. Bullen of a daughter. 24a

The Ashburton Herald AND Borough and County Advertiser (With Which is incorporated the “Evening Echo”). MONDAY, JUNE 30, 1879.

The recent fire in Wellington was a disaster that we hope will never repeat itself in the Empire city, or in any other in New Zealand ; but the better to pre vent a recurrence of similar conflagra tions anywhere in the colony, it would be well to heed the lessons the Opera House fire teaches. By the great burn ing of the 15th inst., several acres of closely built ground were swept by the flames, and many fine buildings, scenes of bustling business, and steady sources of wealth, disappeared in a night like the gourd of the prophetic denouncer of Nineveh. Fortunately New Zealand, though it has many fires to regret, and the general use of timber as the build ing materal of the country exposes its dwellings and other structures to greater danger, has few conflagrations on record of the magnitude of the Welling ton one. We say fottunately it is so, for we believe that our towns and cities’ immunity from large fires is more to be attributed to good fortune than to any existing preventive measures calculated to keep fires within bounds when they break out in thickly populated streets, or in long lines of large buildings erected for purposes of trade or manufactures.

In most of the New Zealand towns the corporation by-laws include a pro hibition of timber as a building material when, from any cause whatever, an old building has been rem'oved.from a close block and a new one takes its place. The new erection must be built of brick, stone, of concrete, so that the chances of fire may be lessened and the danger reduced of the fire spreading to adjoining premises. But circumstances too often occur to permit an evasion of. this prohibitory rule, and just as often as not a wooden building creeps up to fill the empty space left in a busy street where a.fire has occurred. It is easy to understand why this happens. Pleas are urged that the expense of the more solid building is a hindrance to building at all and an oppressive tax upon a man who, mayhap, has already been a heavy sufferer; that the owner of an old tumble-down building will stick to it long after it should have been used as firewood, and put up with its cramped inconvenience and unsightly appearance rather than build a new one—because, though willing to replace the old house with a wooden one, he does not care to meet the expense of the more costly one the laws of the town demand should succeed the building he demolishes Most of the colony’s Borough Council lors, too, are owners of house property, and can scarcely help leaning to the side of the less costly structures. Thus the rule has a great tendency to become a dead letter, or at least can be evaded without much difficulty.

There are other valuable lessons taught by the Wellington fire which ought not to be lost sight of—such as the importance of an efficient fire bri gade and fire police and a copious water supply for fire extinction and pre vention ; but the question of buildings lies nearest to our hand in view of a re consideration of the ‘borough by-laws, and the fact that the questions of fire

brigades and water supply will be fully solved by the Borough Council when funds are sufficiently plentiful with them. It was only at last meeting of the Council that liis Worship the Mayor brought up the question of rebuilding, and suggested a new by-law to compel the use of brick, stone, or concrete in any instance of replacing that might occur in either of the East street blocks, or in any new building whatever that may be erected. He did not succeed in indoctrinating his idea into the minds of the members of the Council, though they were all alive to the advantages it held out. Subsequently, Mr. Donald Williamson’s suggestion to make party walls of brick, stone, or concrete compulsory was adopted. We have always respected Mr. Williamson’s soundness of judgment, and have usually found him on the right side. Butin this case we differ from him. His ob ject in those walls is to prevent the spread of fire, but we contend that party walls of the kind he mentions would be of little service' indeed in the event of fire obtaining a firm hold on such a block say, as Montgomery’s buildings- In that contingency it would not tax the power of fin Ashburton zephyr much to carry destruction down the whole line, and fairly in flames it would not be the separation of a single 18-inch or even 2-feet wall that would prevent the back and front wooden walls' of the next pro perty from catching fire. The burning Opera H*ouse communicated fire to the wooden Wesleyan Church on the other side of the street, and if, that distance off, a wooden wall could not escape it is scarcely to be hoped that a brick or concrete wall would save a wooden only a few inches from the fire. On the other hand, were all four walls built of solid, incombustible material safety would be secured as far as it is possible to secure it, and the difference in expense would be amply repaid by the increased safety, the greater comfort, and the lower insurance premiums. Besides the law is made in the interests of public safety, not of private interests, and while the Council are about it they should not adopt half measures that are only tinkering the danger, but give full consideration to the Mayor’s suggestion, and only a very little thought will be necessary to see its superiority and the claims it has for adoption if any such measure is to be adopted at all.

A curt telegram marked “ urgent ” has reached us to-day from the Associa tion agent in Wellington. It is of three words only, but they are of huge im portance, and are as follows: “ Ballance. has resigned.” No cause whatever is assigned for the Colonial Treasurer’s sudden resignation, and though it has been rumored that he intended vacating his office we were scarcely prepared for the actual fulfillment of the intention. We assume, however, that the telegram is correct, and that the Cblonial Treasurership is vacant. Following closely on the resignation of Mr. Stout we fear the Government will be some what weakened by the defection, just before Parliament meets, of the Ilian whose duty it would have been to place the financial statement of the country before the House, and it will be. matter of interest who will be the hon. gentle man’s successor. ■

Injuries to . the telegraph lines by to day’s floods have deprived us of our usual budget of telegraphic news and cablegrams., Oddfellows. —At the half-yearly elec tion of officers of the Loyal Ashburton Lodge, 1.0.0. F., M.U., which took place on Friday evening, the result was as fol lows: —Bro. Walter Dolman, N.G. ; Bro. Sealy, Secretary; Bro. Geo. Scott, Y.G.; Bro. Charles Reid, G.M.

The By-Laws Declared Invalid. On Saturday His Worship after a length ened hearing of the case against J. W. Mac Itae for furious driving, declared that as no special meeting of the Council to adopt the by-laws had been held and no notifica tion of the Council’s intention to hold such meeting had been advertised for. four weeks previous to the date of holding, the by-laws were inoperative, and he therefore dismissed all the cases under them set down for hearing on that day. A Sunday’s Diversion. — Yesterday, we are told, two men who had had a quarrel over a game at billiards thought they were equal to settling their own diffi culties without an appeal to the judgment of the Resident Magistrate, went over to Tinwald, and had it out in a paddock;, They “ went”, for each other in proper P.R. style, attended by “ seconds,’’ “ bottlfe-holders,” and the usual. mixed multitude, and only shook hands When they had ornamented each other’s frontis pieces considerably. It took nearly three quarters of an hour to bring matters to the “ Hold, enough,” point, but during the time the combatants were not idle, as doubtless will be seen when they getf“run jn.” The leading feature of the “ set-to,” we learn, was a nice “ chancery fii,” in which one of the blackguards was severely mauled by the other. We hope His Wor

ship will have an opportunity of teaching all the scum who took part in the row a lesson they v ill not soon forget. •

Sewed his Brians In. —Wo heard of a second fight yesterday—in the tussocks near the Post Office. ; It is' said twelve rounds were fought, but everything passed ofi’ amicably after the combatants got tired out. Still another ; appeal to arms: happened isk. when. \ve are told by our informant* two men had a.set-to' which ended in one going down with t’other on top of him—top party ‘‘ going ” for fallen foe’s head with a brick. When he was done the doctor who was called in to gather up the fragments had . to sew up a hole in the “ bricked ” one’s head to keep in what was left of his stock of brains.

Woman in Cyprus —At nine or/ten the girls are lovely, having eyes like ante lopes, and softly rounded cheeks, hinting of iHebe by and by/ Bnt in their after years, when comeliness is needed most, much of this beauty fades. Fine eyes re main ; but contour, color, bloom, expres sion, all depart. The Moslem females seem to understand their fate. If their sisters of the orthodox rite were knowing, they, too,, would glide about the courts and market places veiled. A Christian woman bares her n*ck and face ; a Mos lem woman shows-ao q»ore than a pair of sparkling eyes. No man looks twice at the retreating figure of a Greek,' 'though she is habited in pink and amber. Every one turns and gaze?; at the gliding mystery of a girl in white, whose face is shrouded from his view.—Hep worth Dixon.

Holloway’s Tills. —These Pills are more efficacious in strengthening a debilitated consti tution. than any other medicine in the world. Persons of nervous habit of body, and all who are suffering from weak digestive organs, or whose health has become decayed by . billious affections, disordered stomach, or'liver com'- plaints, should lose no time in giving these admirable Pills a fair trial. Cough, colds, asthma, or shortness of breath, are also within the range of the senatiye powers of this very remarkable medicine. The cures effected by these Pills are not superficial or temporary, but complete and permanent. They are as mild they are efficacious, and may be given, with confidence to delicate females and young chil dren. —ADVT.

HEAVY FLOODS.

Railway Communication Stopped.

The continuous and heavy rain of Fri day, Saturday, and to-day has told its customary'tale upon th'eTivers and creeks of the county, and the result is of course iwhat New Zealand is no stranger to— :floods. : To-day not a train of any kind has left the railway station in either direc tion, • except such as were necessary to carry gangs of men to repair damage done, and no train has of course arrived, so that Ashburton is for a time isolated from the outer world.' : The' cause of this is the damage done to the line by accumulations of water, and we learn that from : the Washdylce on the south to Selwyn on the north many patches of the permanent way have been either completely washed away or so displaced as to be useless for traffic. South, our information reaches to the Washdyke where the northern approach to the bridge has been washed away, and Whale’s Creek bridge, half a mile north of Ti'maru, is not safe to cross. Between Winches! er and Orari a quarter of a mile of the railway line has been washed away, and the culverts between Orari and South: Rangitata will require to be rebuilt before traffic can be resumed. Between Ealiny and Hinds half a mile of the road lias also gone, hut as yet no news of the Ran gitata bridge being threatened has reached us. At Tinwald, too, the• line is floo4ed, but not sufficiently 'so to 'interrupt .the passage of a train. Northwards from Ashburton things are safe enough until beyond Chertsey where water is standing.on the permanent "way as high as the saddle girths of a horse and half a mile of the line has been damaged and: displaced, jl. Rakaia. line. 'toj Dunsandel is as yet uninjured, but between the latter, place ancl Selwyn three-quarters 6f a - mile have been affected by the floods,* so that Selwyn is the limit of all railway traffic out of Christchurch south. Prompt steps have been taken remedy the mischief,; but little progress can be niacle while the rain continues, and while we write hopes of its' speedy abatement, .are 1 inot, bright. Mr. Pilkington, the station-master, with a gang of men, went south with an engine this.morning to . attend to the breaches at Hinds and Ealing, and another ' engine took North Mr. Innis, inspector of the .permanent way, land a gang of .men/to repair the evil between Chertsey and Rakaia, while further north repairs will be effected by .a contingent of way-men from • Christchurch.* - * Meanwhile notices are posted at the railway stations.that, no traffic of any kind will be carried on until further notice. As yet nothing definite has been ascertained as to: when traffic will be resumed, but while the rain continues there is every likelihood that the line will be, blocked for some time. .

TELEGRAPHIC.

TO-DAY’S TELEGRAMS.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Special Telegram’to the Herald, .)

RESIGNATION OP HON. MR. BAL-

LANCE.

.... . Wellington, Monday. Mr. Ballance has resigned.

, ~ ,Sly Grog Selling. ■ ; Dunedin,* Monday.' ’ . The charges of sly grog selling against 1 Andrew Reid and Jane Reid were still further adjourned at the police court this morning till 14th - July..; • ■ j\ Several . cases had to be adjourned' owing to the inability of witnesses to attend through the floods on the rail ways; 1 \'J J. i .£ The Floods. The recent heavy rains have placed the Taieri Railway Bridge at Outram in

such an unsafe state that the authori ties there have telegraphed to the Dis trict Engineer asking permission to be allowed to cut the bridge: away in the interest of public safety, .and'to save the •other; parts of the line. <;\ / of The approach td;. 'the '. Taie.'i Road bridge has been washed away, conse quently all communication with Outrain, has been., cut off.' The settlersi . fully expected .last; night . that 'the: Taieri River would overflow its •-.banks and in undate the township, but fortunately at a late hour it subsided. The water on the Otaio--line inear Greytown is now abort', six feet deep. The engineer tried to pilot the engine oyer alone but failed. The engineer was up to eleven o’clock this morning trying to .get the surface trolly over but ■vyithout success. Mr. Ballance’s Retirement.

Great,excitement prevailed here this_ morning on the receipt of.-the'intelli gence that the . Hon. J. Ballance had resigned his portfolio. General feel ings of regret were universally expressed at the step taken by the hoff. gentleman at this critical juncture.

ASHBURTON 50 YEARS’ HENCE.

A Peep:into.Futurity,

[By Junius Secundus'.]

' "Sir, —During my recent tour through the United States I had an opportunity of examining the very latest production of the world-fgmed Mr.--Edison. This scientific marvel,, which for ingenuity and novelty ' surpasses eyeff the' cele brated phonograph, is termed the ftkutoscopc; and by its aid time itself is annihilated and the astonished be holder may literally take a peep into the future, and,view the. world and its every day life at any given period he may desire! ;Jj Thinking that some ;6f your readers—especially those who attended the seances of Professor and Madame Baldwin—might feel interested in learn ing what I actually saw on the occasion referred to, I am induced to lay before them,' : through 'the medium of your valuable journal, my experiences with th t'futuroscopAy and I am the ;mqie in clined to do so as Mr. Edison, for some reason best known to himself, has decided not to make his latest and most wonderful invention public. : But let me . begin at the beginning. On a certain day in April last I met Mr. Edison by appointment at his pri vate residence. The inventor of the talking-machine received me with his usual courtesy, and a long, and-to me .deeply interesting, conversation ensued, during •' whieh;';the respective merits of the phonograph and telephone, with other inventions of iny distinguished host, were fully discussed. And now it was that Mr. Edison informed |me that'he had just perfected an invention far more wonderful than anything he, had hitherto attempted. My curiosity' was at once excited, and I begged, as a very great privilege, to -be favored with : a sightvof the invention referred to. My request was for a long time politely but firmly refused, but ulti-i mately I prevailed upon the great inventor to comply with it. Leading the way to a darkened chamber, I discovered- ;; upon a plain deal table of circular form —the only article of furj niture in the apartment—what looked very much like a small telescope mounted on a ; little- mahogany box. My conductor" now closed the door of the apartment and asked me what place I would like to see and at what date. Deeply, interested as I. am,.sir, in the town of Ashburton and its future, what other reply could I make ;buty“Show';me Ashburton, ,N.Z. V Mr. Edison, if you please—say in the year ,2030 —just fifty years hence.” The inventor turned a small handle at the back of the box exactly 50 times. The noise, caused by the revolving handle remiild'ed me of that made by winding up a Dutch clock. Now X was told to look through the mysterious tubei And this is what I saw : :

A, large and populous city lay spread before me ; the busy hum of thousands sounded in my ears, and, ,1 almost fancied myself for the moment in ' London or Kaiapoi. Many streets of handsome shops and offices, mag nificent; . public • buildings, ;fine hotels— the. ’words,. ? late,, ’ R. W. ’ Shearman,” over the door of one of the largest of them, —countless vehicles, tram cars, cabs and onmibusses —and crowds of foot-passengers elbowing their way along East' street, all combined to form a*' Ipi'ctureN of the . Ashburton, of the future, J,; shall; :npt ; easily, forget. One large building particularly attracted ’my attention. It had a row of lamp-posts before it, and people were collecting about..the .doors: ~lfr ;was, -the Theatre Royal; -and at that moment a string of “ Sandwich ” men; ’ 1 each■ carrying ; a couple of advertising boards, passed down the street in single file. Every board bore the legend, in .many colored type " i : ’ Ashburton Righted; or, The Demons of Gold. j Special Morning Performance p ri ; f This Day. 5 • ■ - < • ? >,• ni; ..... ; y> j j 60,0 th Night To-Night ! Right opposite the' theatre a huge red and green poster stared one in the face. - It. simply stated, in letters two. feet, high; Itha.ti. l.'Jl-i j “ HAWKSHAW, THE DETECTIVE, WAS COMING ! ! !” •; . .‘-p r >• j . Just in frontiof this mysterious an nouncement,, a' coujfie of ragged) little; street Arabs were selling copies of'the Lyttelton 'Times and Ashburton Herald,

and a pretty brisk trade they were doing, judging by appearances, for nearly everyone stopped to buy a-, paper.

My attention was diverted by the spectacle of a man riding in a very furious manner down the Street. ,Ije seemed utterly reckless and several persons narrowly escaped being ridden, over by him. One of these I, persons, i who appeared to be a stranger, was' (naturally) very indignant and asked:;if. there were no city by-laws for the pro tection of the .citizens. An old gentle with whitefhair and an eye-glass shook his head sadly, and replied that the city by-laws were a dead letter, and that the public knew it. ! That, the City Councillors had themselves drawn up a code of by-laws many years ago, but they did not make them sufficiently. stringent to be of any [practical value ; and, the speaker added, despite the prosperous condition of the city, the Councillors could never be induced to avail themselves .of legal- advice in drawing up their by-laws' as they should bave|done, as it would involve an out lay ol six-and-eightpence. Something in the manner of the old gentleman with the eye glass made me think that he had Himself at one Time heen con nected with the legal profession.' At. this .stage .Mr. Edison ab ruptly placed his hand over the object glass'of the instrument - find told me, somewhat brusquely, I thought, that - I had seen enough. .-. Although most deeply interested in. what I saw I was reluctantly, compelled to remove my eye from the wonderful instrument and to be satisfied, as , I hope , your readers will be, with my. peep into futurity. .'

THE ZULU ASSEGAI.

There are two principal kinds of assegais, the throwing and the stabbing, the latter .with a long and straight blade. To a Kaffir this weapon is literally the., staff of life. With it he kills his enemy arid his- game, slaughters and cuts up his cattle, trains their horns,, shaves his own or his neighbor’s head, does his carpentry and farriery, and countless other jobs of various sorts. In its original form the assegai was essentially a missle,, but the, renowned. Chak, among other military reforuis,' converted it into a shorter and heavier stabbing spear, unfit for throwing, and only to be used in close quarters. The shaft, with an average length of nearly five feet, and a diameter equal to a man’s little finger, is cut from the assegai tree (Cuttisia jaginea), which is’not unlike mahogany The wood is brittle yet elastic, the latter quality giving the spear that peculiar vibratory ; motion on avhich' its accuracy, of flight. so much, depends. On account of its brittleness'a novice will;.break;many shafts before he.learns to throw his assegai secundum artem. Inaptly cast, the shaft as. soon as it reaches the ground is liable to whip forward and break, off short above the' .blade. The assegai-heads are generally: blade-shaped,' some consist Of a"mere: spike, and a few are barbed. When'the first shape is adopted, whether- with or without the. barb, there is invariably a raised ridge alongy the centre' of. the, blade, '‘Which is concave' off one side,'aiid convex off the father: The reasons assigned for- tjhis peculiarity of form, are that this blade acts like the feathers of an 'arrow, 'and-that, a-S'the heads are always, made of soft'iron j-they can be more easily sharpened whep blunted-by use. .. . Uv..;

NEWS AND NOTES.

The details of the inhuman butchery of students who were incarcerated in Kief prison, for trifling acts of insubor dination;, taken in, connection with.-the inhuman treatment of political ‘pri soners elsewhere in'Russia, is a kind of justification for the policy of assassina tion adopted by the Nihilists.' If any thing sanctifies rebellion against a go vernment,: : 'tyranny of : this - kind tdoes. England interfered with the King bf Naples for his treatment of political offenders, and paved the way for the revolution which subsequently followed. It is now in order for that power to direct Russia’s attention to the same subject.y/A nearer precedent, however, may be found in Russia’s interference on ‘ behalf'• of l* oppressed ■: Bulgarians.. Who will interfere .bn i behalf of the Tar more, sternly, oppressed subjects of the ‘ Czar? r t ‘ ‘ | p

- Letters from;England state; :that the distress among the, industrial classes is fearful, while the Government refuse to acknowledge it. So great is the desire to' escape from it, that from 500 to 900 written applications :are received daily by the New Zealand agency from per sonsdesirous of emigrating to jthe Colony.,; : iry, ; _ r, y J , I “ How much . will you charge fora, Bologna sausage that will reach from one end of my ears to the other ? ” asked a soldier in Berlin of a 'dealer/ “ Fifty kreutzers,” was the, : reply, i “I take the offer,” replied '“the' Soldier; “ one, of my ears was cut off in battle a thousand ‘ niiles from' here;”--There was a compromise. - ! ■ ! ’. r |J. { LA cheerful wife makes a happy hpme ? ‘ because ’ the emotion is contagious,; and , almost unconsciously the household is: happy in Response; because leveiy mem ber of the ; family is icheerful by The ; genial influence ofthe wife andimqther. ■ : A 'CO'untry: , ' , 'Glergyman?lwas a good deal astonished onA7'day by the 'jjollify of the mourners at ibe' “ breakfast ’Lof A funeral, and"was gravely fold in ejfpla-i nation “ Bless you; .sir; • thejfrbi.not, laughing—they’re Only dissembling their grief” '/ f>i;* '

Monday, June 30, 1879.]

IHE ASHBURTON HERALD.



s. Butter, inferior to best $ ft* i d. 0 to s. 1 d. 2 Eggs, # dozen - - 2 2 to 0 0 Cheese, prime quality, lb o S to 0 10 Bacon, prime smoked, $ lb o 9 to 0 10 Hams in cloth, Tb - I 0 to 0 0 Flour in bags, $ ioolb n 6 to 0 0 Oatmeal, $ 25R) - 6 6 to 0 0 Lard, 4? lb - - ■ - 0 9 to 0 0



Clothing Establishment.



ASSIGNMENT OF THE ESTATE OF MESSRS. AITKEN, PASCOE & CO., CLOTHING MANUFACTURERS, TO Mr. J. H. Morrison, 1 Manager Mosgiel Woolen | Factory, L Trustees. AND Mr. John Ross, Of Sargood, Sons & Ewing _ THE above large Clothing Manufac 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 Very Heavy Reduction, and have resolved 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 O N'E THIRD " ' : • xo i V 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. 1 2a



"Wants, &c. RAKAIA AND ASHBURTON FORKS RAILWAY. WANTED, TWENTY or Thirty Good WORKING MEN. Apply to the Foreman on the Works. None but good hands need apply. 4a WANTED, a Smart BOY, for the Printing Business.—Apply HERALD OFFICE. PIANOFORTE FOR SALE. T7IOR SALE, that Very Fine PIANO- P FORTE, by Brinsmead, used at the Choir Union Concert. Guaranteed to be one of the very best make, with improved action. Price, £SO. Apply -7a HERALD OFFICE. arly. ASTE PAPER for Sale, ad. per ID. at the Herald Office. Apply 590 T OST, on Wednesday, 25th instant, a I 2 SWAG of Blankets, between Ash burton and Rakaia. Whoever will leave the same with Mr. Silcock, Ashburton, or Mr. Partridge, Rakaia, will be rewarded. JUST ARRIVED. F INE Cream-Laid ENVELOPES, No. 6; extra secure shape, ONLY 9s. 6d. per 1000 ; 500, 55.; 250, 35., NETT C A S H. Also, — BANK NOTE AND LETTER PAPER 'OR a#/ WEEKS & DIXON, , , DIREC T IMPORTERS, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL : :i< ' stationers’ "ASHBURTON “HERALD ” OFFICE, 3 a



Public Notices.- TO LET, FOE One Crop, 96 Acres of LAND, Fenced, and ready for Cross-Plougli ing, situated in Seafield. Also, 47 Acres at Wakanui, in its native state. Also, Two 5-roomed HOUSES at Trevorton. Apply to the owner, THOMAS CLAEK, Burnett Street, 19a or, F. PAYITT. nno BE SOLD, CHEAP—Nine £-acre 8 Sections of Magnificent LAND, fon ting on Allen and Middle Eoads, North Town Belt. Apply to E. ELSTON, 1038 South-East Belt. SLAUGHTERING LICENSE. WE HEEEBY give notice that we in intend, at the Council’s sitting on the 2nd July, to apply for a license to kill small and large cattle on R.S. 26598. EOBEETS & WINTER. Selma, June 9, 1879. 990 ASHBURTON PERMANENT BUILD ING AND INVESTMENT SOCIETY. THFi Monthly Meeting of the above Society will be held in Mr. Bullock’s office on TUESDAY EVENING, from 6*30 to 8.30. Subscriptions will be received at the Secretary’s office, Burnett street, be tween the hours of 9 o’clock and 4 p.m. this day, at Mr. Bullock’s office, from G;3O to B*3o on Tuesday evening. J. WARD. 21a Secretary.



Public Notices. ASHBURTON BOROUGH COUNCIL. given that at a [Matting of the Ashburton Cdi|iicilj\viheld on Tuesday, the solution jwapadopted : fj|“ That jififljer/ and in pursuance of the provisions land'powers contained in part X ?6f the Municipal Corporations Act, 1876, and other provisions and powers contained iji*the said-Act, the Ashburton Borough Council idd.'-bofrow and take up at interest on the security or credit of a rate of one shilling in the pound, authorised to be made and levied by the said Council, under section 112 of the said Municipal Corpora tions Act, 1876, the sum of fifteen thou sand-pounds,wto.-. as follows : Seven thousand pounds (ijfOOO) m*supple-“” menting the sum of Five thousand pounds ,(£5000) received Iroih the County Council of Ashhiirfon "!OF"tlie 1 purpose bf’’paying f >« satisfying, r and defraying the cost, >charges;, and expenses of making, erecting and pro viding a system*’of water supply for the 1 ; Borough of Ashburton, and for the pur-jj > pose of purchasing, or paying for any land which may be. required for intakes, reser voirs, 1 or otherwise in connection with the said: ;undertaking or. wojpk,. or which may be thereby injuriously affected ; arid for the purpose of laying:down-pipes, erecting floodgates, and all other necessary works connected with such water supply, the balance of , the said sum' of. fifteen thousand pounds, to wit—Eight thousand pounds (£8000), for the .purpose op defraying, all outlay 'incurred iii 'aud . expenses of, arid - ; incidental to tlie construction) and erection of all buildings,- erections, constructions, protective works, pipes, gutters, channels; sewers, draius, bridges, crossings, and all other works; and operations necessary, and requisite for providing underground and surface' drainage ! for the -said Borough. That .for/ ;the purpose of.; ..securing, the repayment of the' Said' 'sum'' of fifteen' thousand pourids !; (£Ts,ooo), together with interest thereon, the said Council do issue,seven hundreds and fifty y debentures for twenty pounds (£2O) each/ in the form contained in the ninthschedule' of Municipal Corporations, Act, 1876,. oritri •-) the effect thereof to the person or persons by br on behalf of whom such surn or. por tion'or part thereof be advanced. ..TV)-;.*, “ That the said principr 1 sum of fifteen thousand pounds (£15,000) be borrowed for a, term or period of ten (10) yeans, from the making of such debentures and that the rate of dnterest ;to)jbe. - named therein or made payable by such debentures be at-the rate of six pounds ten shillings (£6 10s) per centum per annum, arid pay able half yearly,-andthat coupons for each sum so payable in the form in the tenth schedule to the said Act of 1876, or to the effect thereof, he attached to such deben tures for payment- of such interest. That such debentures befforthwith issued, under the seal of this said Council,' arid offered for sale'by the: Bank,, of- New Zealand as agents for the said Council' iri London or New Zealand.” . . Notice is hereby giveu that a Special Meeting will be held on MONDAY, the 30th day of June next, at 6.30 p.m., for the purpose of confirming the above resolu tion. By order,'- CHARLES DRADDELL, Town Clerk. Borough/Goupcil.Office, Ashburton, May: 30fch,' 187^.“ 9,46



BOROUGH OF ASHBURTON. General Borough Rate. N pursuance of the (C Rating Act 1876,” Public Notice is hereby given that it is the intention .of ; the Ashburton Borough ’Council/ at their’ next-Ordinary. meeting, to be held on Monday the 30th inst., or at an adjournment thereof, to strike a Rate of One Shilling, nsr the Pound on all rateable property* within the said Borough for the period commencing on the 2nd day of January, 1879, and ending on the 31st day of-December,, 1879, .to. be .payable in one’ sum on ; 'the'3lst- July-/arid 'that the Rate Book is now open for Inspection at the Town Clerk’s;; .Office, Montgomery’s Buildings, Ashburton, during office hourß. CHAS. BRADDELL, } Town Clerk. Ashburtbh,’June-17118791 1 1065 LOST, N Saturday, near Bullock & Co.’s _ Auction Rooms, a POCRET-BOOK, containing £5 in notes (numbers known), and some papers. Finder will be hand somely rewarded on returning same to Williamson’s Store, East Street. la Assigned Estate ■ of' Hooper, Aitken, 11,, , AND . Co. >t A LL ACCOUNTS Due to the above r\ mentioned' Estate'must be settled forthwith, .otherwise legal; proceedings.will be instituted for their recovery. O.’-W.. TURNER-Trustees in the 1063 ? W.: GILL, 1, above Estate. S 1 GHOOL Requisites; And Artist Mate* rials.... ,H......M- JONES,; Stationer Baring SqnaxepnYj 473 J Tenders. UPPER ASHBURTON ROAD BOARD. ■>*. il Ki <1 j ■{] Ci : RENDERS,, are invited by. the Board i for the following works v j No. 29 —Forming, &c., about two . ... . miles of,.the, road irom f Wester* ! ’ ‘' field HousAto Bradfield. 1 - • ■ No. : 30—Shingle Iqrepairs,; ,> Lagmhor. U} Road.- ibwof No. 31—Reforming and Shingling a ; ' portion ; ofthe> Alford- Foreit \ -" No;-“ 32—Erecting- Timber -Crate at the Narrows, Alford Forest Road. ;; Timber supplied. - - >’ \Nd; 33-/-Reduciqg Grade of a Cutting ‘ ! ''at'the'Rangitata ,l - ' ; .Tenders, addressed I 'to .the Chairman, aust be sent in riot later than TUESDAY/ he Ist July prox., at noon; if'later, Fiey’will be rejected. , 'Specifications, Ac., are to be Seen at he office up,.to six ..o'clock on. Monday. ight,' the Slsifaustplpti;; * j, ' ih, D ! J PULLAR, .iwio o ifuffii-r; . ‘ Rb’ad’ Board Ofllbe'; 'We^terfield^ June 12th, 1879. 1022