THE CHIMNEY CORNER.

OLD STOBXE3 RETOLD.

A Slayer of Indians —{continu d).

The fort being now in much danger fi’om Indians, and salt running short, Captain Boone and thirty men undertook to make an armed foray, and bring a supply from the Lower Blue Licks, but when the pack-horses, with salt, had just been despatched to the fort, a party of a hundred and two Indians fell on Boone, and made him their prisoner. Although the British Governor of Detroit otfered one hundred pounds for his ransom, the Indians determined that Boone should become a member of their tribe, and Blackfish, a great chief among the Shawanoes, adopted him as his son. The forms of the ceremony of adop tion are often severe and ludicrous. The hair of the head is plucked out by a tedious and painful operation, leaving a tuft, some three or four inches in diameter, on the crown, for the scalp lock, which is cut and dressed up with ribbons and feathers. The candidate is then taken into the river, and there thoroughly washed and rubbed, “to take all his white blood out.” The cap tive is next taken to the council-house, where the chief makes a speech, in which he expatiates upon the distinguished honor conferred upon him, and the line of conduct expected of him. His head and face are painted in the most fashionable style, and the ceremony is concluded with a grand feast and smok ing. Boone bided his time. His rifle-balls being always counted by the Indians, he contrived to split several bullets, and so laid up a store for future use. Finding at Chillicothe four hundred and fifty warriors in their war-paint, prepared to march against the fort, he at once re solved on escape. Secreting some jerked venison, he struck out one morning for his home, and reached it in less than five days, only eating one regular meal during the forced march of one hundred and sixty miles. A few days after, four hundred and forty-four Indians arrived at the fort, with British and French colors flying. Boone’s force was only between sixty and seventy men. The cows and horses had already been driven inside the walls, and water had been col lected in every available vessel. Duquesne, the commander of the Indians, proposed a parley. Though sus pecting treachery, it was determined, after consultation, to accede to the pro position of Duquesne, and hold a treaty. Nine persons were selected for the hazardous and responsible duty—four of them being Flanders Callaway, Stephen Hancock, William Hancock, and Squire Boone. The parties met on the plot of ground in front of the fort, and at the distance from it of about sixty yards. The terms offered were exceedingly liberal ; too liberal, as Boone and his associates saw, to come from honest intentions. The propositions were, that they should re main unmolested, and retain all their property, only submitting to the British authorities in Canada, and taking the oath of allegiance to the king. At the conclusion, tire Indians proposed that on so gi’eat an occasion, “ to make the chain of peace more strong and bright,” they should revive an ancient custom, and that two Indians should shake hands each with a white man, and that this should be the token of sincere friendship. Captain Boone and his associates were from the first prepared for treachery. Before they left the fort twenty men were stationed with loaded rifles, so as to com mand a full view of all the proceedings, and ready for the slightest alarm. The parties on the treaty ground had no weapons, and were divested of all outside garments. As they had agreed to hold the treaty, it would have been regarded as a breach of confidence, and a direct insult to refuse the proffered ceremony at the close. When the Indians approached each grasped the hand and arm of their white antagonist. A scuffle ensued, for the Indians at once attempted to drag them off as prisoners. The Kentuckians, however, either knocked down, tripped, or pushed off their antagonists, and fled into the fort. The fire from the vigilant guard at the same time threw the enemy . into confusion. The Indians then rushed from their camp, and made a vigorous attack on the fort. Squire Boone was wounded, but not severely. The siege lasted from the 7th to the 20th of De cember. The Indians then retreated, having lost thirty-seven killed, while the Kentuckians had only two killed, and four wounded. According to the state ment of Captain Boone, a hundred and twenty-five pounds of musket-balls were picked up round the fort, besides those that penetrated and were made fast in the logs. During the seige, Jemima, the eldest daughter of Boone, afterwards Mrs Cal laway, received a contusion in her hip, from a spent ball, while she was supplying her father with ammunition. While the parley was in progress an unprincipled negrp man deserted, and went over to the Indians, carrying with him a large, far shooting rifle. He crosged the river, as cended a tree on its bank, and so placed himself that he could raise his head, look through a fork of the tree, and fire into the fort. One man had been killed, and another wounded, from that direction, ■when Captain Boone discovered the negro, by his head peering above the fork. The old hunter fired and the negro was seen to fall. After the Indians had retreated, his body was found ; his forehead was pierced with the ball, fired at the distance of one hundred and seventy yards. The Indians, who burned or earned off their own dead, would not touch his body. In a subsequent fight with Indians the Ken tucky malitia were defeated, and Boone had the agony of having his son killed by his side.

- After the defeat, when General Clarice, with whom Boone served, was burning some Indian towns, a small party of south ern Indians attacked a small settlement called Crab Orchard. A party of savages approached a single cabin, in which were a woman, her children, and a negro, from whom they expected no resistance. One of the number entered in advance of the rest, thinking without doubt, to secure the whole as prisoners, or, at least, to ob tain ■ their scalps. He seized the negro man, expecting no resistance from the others. In the scuffle bffh fell, when the children shut and bolted the cloor, and with an axe the mother cut off the Indian’s head. The rest of the Indians hearing

the scuffle rushed at the door which, they found barricaded against them, and as sailed it with their tomahawks. But the mother seized an old rusty gun, without a lock, which lay in a corner, and put it through a crevice in the logs, which so alarmed them that they left the place. In 1783, Kentucky became more settled, and the town of Danville was founded. At a short distance from his cabin, Boone bad raised a small patch of tobacco for the use of his neighbors, for he himself never smoked. As a shelter for curing it, he had built an enclosure of rails a dozen feet in height, and covered with cane and grass. Stalks of tobacco are usually split and strung on sticks about four feet in length. The ends of these are laid on poles, placed across the tobacco-house, and in tiers, one above tbe other to the roof. Boone had fixed his temporary shelter in such a manner as to have three tiers. Ho had covered the lower tier, and the tobacco bad become dry, when he en tered the shelter for the purpose of re moving the sticks to the upper tier, preparatory to getting in the remainder of the crop. He had hoisted up the sticks from the lower to the second tier, and was standing on the poles that supported it, while raising the sticks to the upper tier, when four stout Indians, with guns, entered the low door and called him by name. “ Now, Boone, we got you. You no get away more. We carry you off to Chillicothe this time. You no cheat us any more.” Boone looked down upon their upturned faces, saw their loaded guns pointed at Lis breast, and recognising some of Lis old friends, the Shawanoes, who had for merly made him prisoner near the Blue Licks, coolly and pleasantly responded, “Ah, old friends, glad to see you!” Perceiving that they manifested impa tience to have him come down, he told them that he was quite willing to go with them, and only begged they would wait where they were, and watch him closely, until he could finish removing liis tobacco. While parleying with them, in quiring after old acquaintances, and proposing to give them his tobacco when cured, he diverted their attention from his purpose, until he had collected to gether a number of sticks of dry tobacco, and so turned them as to fall between the poles directly in their faces. At the same instant he jumped upon them with as much of the dry tobacco as he could gather in his arms, filling their mouths and eyes with its pungent dust, and blind ing and disabling them from following him, rushed out and hastened to his cabin, where he had the means of de fence. Notwithstanding the narrow es cape, he could not resist the temptation after retreating some fifteen or twenty yards, to look round and see the success of his achievement. The Indians, blinded and nearly suffocated, were stretching out their hands and feeling about in different directions, calling him by name, cursing him for a rogue and themselves for fools. The old hunter, when telling this story, used "to imitate their gestures and tones of voice with great glee. Boone next removed to the Kenhawa, in Virginia, and from there, seeking more elbow-room, he pushed on to the Femme Osage settlement, in the district of St. Charles, about forty-five miles west of St. Louis. There he received a grant of ten thousand arpents of choice land on the north side of the Missouri, and became commandant of a district. Even in old age he continued his hunting expeditions in search of deer and beaver, and ventured with only a negro boy in the wildest parts of the Osage territory. On one occasion, soon after preparing his camp and lay ing in his supplies for the winter, he was taken sick and lay a long time in camp. The horses were hobbled out on the range. After a period of stormy weather, there came a pleasant and delightful day, and Boone felt able to walk out. With his staff, for he was quite feeble, he took the boy to the summit of a small eminence, and marked out the ground in shape of a grave. He instructed the boy, in case of his decease, to wash and lay his body straight, wrapped up in one of the clean est blankets. He was then to construct a kind of shovel, and with that instrument and the hatchet to dig a grave exactly as he had marked it out. He was then to drag the body to the place, and put it in the grave, which he was directed to cover up, placing posts at the head and foot. Poles were to be placed around and over the surface ; the trees to be marked, so that the place could be easily found by his friends ; the horses were to be caught, tbe blankets and skins gathered up, and he gave some special instructions about his old rifle, and various messages to the family. All these directions were given, as the boy, afterwards declared, with entire calmness. But the old man soon recovered, broke up his camp, and re turned homewards without the usual spoils of a hunt.

At the age-pf fourscore, and without a rood of land, the old hunter petitioned Congress for a confirmation of the Spanish grants. The lonely fort he had once built was now surrounded by four hundred thousand souls, yet he had to crave a little earth for charity. In March, 1813, Boone lost his wife at the age of seventy-six, and in 1820 the old pioneer expired in the eighty-sixth year of his age. For years before exaggerated stories about Boone had been circulated by the American press, one especially, the wildest of the set, had gained wide credence. A traveller from Chillicothe, Ohio, visited the Missouri territory, in the summer of 1818. On his return, an editor of a weekly paper in that town questioned this gentleman for news from Missouri, this territory being then a frontier in the Far West. In a waggish humor, the tra veller replied, “I do not recollect any thing new or strange, except one event that occurred while I was in the territory. The celebrated hunter, Daniel Boone, died in a very singular manner while I was there.” The story, given by the narrator was, that the old pioneer had encamped at a salt lick, watching the deer, as customary ; the morning he was found dead, lying on his breast, with his rifle to his shoulder, and the eyeball glazed in death, as though he was taking sight, or, as a hunter would say, “ drawing a bead” upon a deer. The Missouri Gazette noticed the fiction and contradicted the story ; but truth always lags behind falsehood. A few weeks after this story had obtained currency, a friend told the old pioneer the tale which the news papers had made about him. With his customary pleasant smile, Boone said, “I would not believe that tale if I told it myself. I have not watched a deer’s lick for ten years. My eyesight is too far to hunt.”

The Reverend John M, Peak, who has written an excellent biography of Daniel Boone, has described a visit he paid to the old Leatherstocking. In boyhood he had read of Daniel Boone, the pioneer of Ken tucky, the celebrated hunter and Indian fighter ; and imagination had pourtvayed a rough, fierce-looking, uncouth specimen of humanity. But in every respect the re verse appeared. Boone’s high, bold fore head was slightly bald, and bis silvered locks were combed smooth; bis counte nance was ruddy and fair, and exhibited the simplicity of a child. His voice was soft and melodious, and a smile frequently played over his features in conversation. His clothing was the coarse, plain manu facture of the family; but everything about him denoted that kind of comfort which was congenial to his habits and feelings, and evinced a happy old age. His room was part of a range of log-cabins, kept in order by his affectionate daughter and grand-daughters. The llevcrcnd James C. Welch has sketched Boone at the age of eighty-three. “ I gazed,” he says, “at the old colonel with no ordinary interest, having heard my parents in Kentucky spcak.of him with admiration from the time of my earliest recollection. He was rather low of stature, broad shoulders, high cheek-bones, very mild countenance, fair complexion, soft and mild in his habits and manners, having but little to say unless spoken to, amiable and kind in his feelings, very fond of retirement, of great self possession, and of indomitable perseverance. He never made a profession of religion, and yet be was what would be called by the world a very moral man. He listened to the preaching with apparent interest. I asked the old colonel about the tales I had heard of his digging a large hole in the hill-side, near the Kentucky river, as a habitation for himself and family, and calling it Boonesburrow. ‘Oh ! sir,’ said the colonel, ‘ I dug no hole in any hill; I built my cabin and stockaded it round as a defence from the Indians, as all new comers were in the habit of doing. That was all I did. ’ ” To the end of his life Boone lived in a log-cabin, and his trusty rifle was the most valued chattel he left behind him. His last words were prophetic of the great nation to which he belonged : ‘ ‘ Too crowded, too crowded ; more elbow-room.”

In the rotunda of the Capitol at Wash ington, over the door of the chamber of the House of Representatives, there is a relievo representing Boone in deadly grapple with an Indian, while another lies trampled under his feet. The redskin is raising his tomahawk, but Boone’s heavy hunting knife is already at his heart. This is founded on a fictitious adventure, but it serves at least to preserve the memory of a brave man.

Earthquaky Weather. —It is a general belief that earthquakes occur only in close, murky weather. In the following account of the one which took place on Wednesday week, taken from a North Island paper, something will be found to shake the belief At 3.14 on Wednesday morning one of the severest shocks of earthquake felt for many years was ex perienced at Foxton. The direction was from north to south. The quake was preceded by the usual rumble, which was instantly followed by a severe shock ; scarcely had this ceased when it was suc ceeded by a much heavier one, lasting about five seconds, a third winding up the performance. A phenomenon that usually accompanies an earthquake fol lowed —namely, the crowing of the roosters throughout the township. One or two country residents informed us (Manawatu Herald) that the same thing was noticed to a marked degree in the bush, the pheasants and other birds making loud noises. Although no chim neys were thrown down, nor other damage done, residents generally speak of the shock of Wednesday as the severest felt for many years past. The common im pression that earthquakes are felt during close, murky weather, was proved incor rect on Wednesday, the sky being ex tremely clear and the air bitterly cold. We have felt them (adds the Herald) in all weathers. We remember a most severe shock at Poverty Bay some five years ago, while a heavy storm was raging. A Bankers’ Battle.— -The “Rock” gives the following anecdote, in which the two greatest (pecuniary) potentates of the age were concerned, on what it regards as good authority : —“ At the time of the last great commercial crisis, when the money market was just beginning to show signs of tightness, Messrs Rothschild lodged a large sum (£300,000, we believe) in Lord Overstone’s Bank (then Jones, Lloyd, and C 0..) This seemed so strange a procedure that it aroused the noble lord’s suspicions, and he bid his cashier put the monoy away in a parcel by itself and await further orders, which was done accordingly. Meanwhile money _ grew more and more in demand, and just as the pressure was at its height Messrs Rothschild drewa cheque for the £300,000, hoping, no doubt, thereby to embarrass their puissant rival. So far from that, Lord Overstone had tLe exquisite satis faction of returning the parcel of money precisely in the state in which he had received it some months before. It was such a bagatelle that he had not even cared to make use of it.”

Lamp-Black. —The large quantities of lamp-black employed in the manufacture of printers’ ink and of black and grey pigments, are invariably obtained in Europe by the combustion of resins, pitches, and tars. Burned in a limited supply of air, insufficient to transform them entirely into gaseous products, these substances throw out a dense carbonaceous smoko, which is collected on coarse cloths, and thence removed for use. As thus prepared, lamp-black always retains a certain proportion of liquid hydro-carbons, which give it a greasy feel to the touch, and a brownish rather than deep black tint. Professor Mallet draws attention to a new process of manufacture intro duced by him in the United States, which furnishes a produce far superior in quality to that obtained by the usual method. He makes use of the natural gas mines occurring in the Ohio district, and by burning off the gas night and day, at 1800 jets connected with a suitable apparatus, produces lamp-black at the rate of 32,000,0001 b. a year. On analysis this product proves to be of a perfectly black tint, and to contain no oily matter, while on combustion it leaves only a slight trace of ash composed of the oxides of iron and coppei - . It is, in fact, almost absolutely pure carbon in a state of extremely fine division.

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Auctioneer SATURDAY, ißti-i OCTOBER. 12 o’clock. HARRISON’S Saturday Sale will include Harness Grass Seed Potatoes Carpenters’ Tools Watches Furniture, &c., &o. 12 o’clock. ALFRED HARRISON, Auctioneer. Public Notices. £1 REWARD. lOST, from Trevorton Two Day _J GELDINGS, liad covers on when lost. One a light bay with short tail, white hind foot, and swelling inside of fore leg ; the other a dark bay, no visible brand, had a leather strap round waist. The above reward will be given if de livered at niy shop, or ten shillings for information that will lead to their re covery. JAMES TASKER, Butcher, 553 a Trevorton. “THE ASHBURTON HERALD,” PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING'. Price—ONE PENNY.



ADVERTISERS are reminded that the “ Evening Herald ” commands the largest circulation in the Borough and Suburbs daily, and the prices for adver tisements are very reasonable. Casual Advertisements—2s. per inch, cash. Wants—2o words for Is. Quarterly Advertisements, as per ar rangement. ASH BURTON HERALD, Published Daily. are requested to make known any irregularity in the delivery, whether in Town or Country, which shall be immediately remedied. Country Sub sribers along the Wakanui Road to the ichool, thence to Seafield, Cambridge, and Newland, are supplied by the mail-cart every Tuesda? and Friday, Boarding Houses. PRINCE ALBERT PRIVATE HOTEL jTjpHE undersigned having opened the Prince Albert Boarding House, in Wills Street, near the Railway Station, under the management of Mr. and Mrs. Luca.s, begs to say he is determined to keep GOOD TABLE, and afford Comfortable Accommodation to customers at MODERATE CHARGES. THOMAS CLARK, Proprietor. 333a—27 MR S . ScOTT’S IMPERIAL BOARDING HOUSE, Durham Street South, C II R I S T C II U R C 11. Board and Lodging, 20s. Beds and Meals, Is. each. 509 a



CENTRAL TEMPERANCE HOTEL, Baring Square (Near Town Hall). E-OPENING of the above coinmo- JOd dious and centrally situated Pri vate and Commercial Hotel. T. BROADBELT, PROPRIETOR, Is prepared to give Superior Accommoda tion to Boarders and the Travelling Public on REASONABLE TERMS. Weekly Board and Lodging ... £1 Weekly Board ... 14s. MEALS AT ALL HOURS. Beds (single), Is. Gd. Private Room for Ladies. 334a—28 ECHO DINING ROOMS, EAST STREET SOUTH, Next door to Messrs. Sando& Olsen, Ashburton. A DUPUIS begs to inform the inhabi tants of the County of Ashburton and visitors that he has opened the above. Every attention has been paid to making this establishment all that can be desired. Very Reasonable Charges. Tea and Coffee All Hours. Breakfast for early train ; Table d’Hote from 12 noon to 2 p.m. Tea from stoßp. m. A Chef de Cuisine of considerable experi ence has been specially engaged for this establishment, and all that the proprietor asks is one trial. 54 A. DUPUIS, Proprietor.



Auction Sales, JOHN LLOYD CRAWLEY, AUCTIONEER, &c., Saunders’ Buiildincis, Ashburton. Tentmaker. NOTICE. RE-OPENING. WM. PATCHING BEOS to inform the inhabitants of Ashburton and surrounding dis tricts, that, having purchased the busi ness lately carried on by Sando and Olsen, he will continue the MANUFACTURING of TENTS, TARPAULINS, HORSECLOTHS, WAGGON TILTS, &c. LARGE STOCK ON HAND, Including— Druggets, assorted patterns Tents, all sizes Indiarubber and Canvas Hose ing Canvas, Calico, American Duck, Drill, &c. Clothes, Garden, and Plough Lines Headstalls Flax and Hemp Halters ON SALE, AT UNUSUALLY LOW PRICES. The following : Tarpaulins and Horsecloths Oilskin Suits, Men’s and Bojs’ Macintoshes, Leggings Flax and Manilla Rope Blocks, double and single FLAGS OF ALL NATIONS. J2©“*Note the address— WM. PATCHING (Late Sando & Olsen), East Street, Ashburton 108 a



Public Notices. C. PERCY COX, L AND AND ESTATE AGENT ANT VALUATOR, ASHBURTON. MONEY TO LEND ON APPROVED FREEHOLD SECURITY Agent for Union Insurance COMPANY OF NE W ZEALAND. ■717 W. T. DAVISON, REENGROCER & FRUITERER, Has on Sale — Good Oranges Lemons Dates Rhubarb, in any quantity Cocoanuts Good Potatoes Onions Cabbages Turnips Garden Seeds Thyme and Sage All kinds of Herbs Orders delivered in any part of Ashburton. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, (NEXT TO FOWLER’S, GROCER), : TANCRED STREET, ASHBURTON.



Auction Sales. EDMISTON BROS. & GUN DRY Have on Sale 1000 tabESKat*. 1000 CAPITAL QUALITY AND PRICE LOW. V. D. L. PALINGS, PALINGS, PALINGS, rgIHE Undersigned have on sale 5 and 6 FEET Y.D.L. PALINGS, Of the very best quality for roofing, being perfectly straight and free from twists, which they are now offering at a very low ° EDMISTON BROS. & GUNDRY. EDMISTON BROS. & GUNDRY. AGENTS FOR THE SOUTH BRITISH FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND. CAPITAL £1,000,000. Insurances effected at the lowest current rates on all kinds of Buildings, Threshing Machines, Crops Growing and in Stack.



TO RUNHOLDERS, FARMERS AND OTHERS. fJ!HE Undersigned have on Sale : Fencing Wire No. 6 to 10. Standards and Stakes. Seeds— White Clover Red Clover Cow Grass Alsike Trefoil Lucerne, &c., &c. Rye Grass Seed Coal and Firewood Station Stores of Every Description. We are prepared to allow a very liberal discount for cash. EDMISTON BROS. & GUNDRY. East Street. ASHBURTON Public Notices. NOT! C E. THE Public are respectfully reminded that the undersigned business houses agreed in June last to close at 6 p.m., sharp, for the benefit of employes, who would earnestly invite customers to do their purchasing in good time, in order to adhere to the rule. We, the undersigned, do hereby agree to close our respective places of business, on and after Monday, 23rd June, 1879, at the hour of 6 o’clock every evening, except Saturday, for the benefit of our employe's. (Signed) ORR & Co. T. R. HODDER & Co. FRIEDLANDER BROS. HALLENSTEIN BROS. & Co. per W. Sparrow, 96 D. WILLIAMSON & Co. 567 a



THE ASHBURTON HERALD And Borough and County Advertiser (With which is incorporated the Evening Echo.) ASHBURTON, WAKANUI, AND SEA FIELD “HERALD” DELIVERY. SUBSCRIBERS to The Ashburton Herald, residing at and between the above places will, in future, be supplied by the Boy, at their residences, every Tues day and Friday. GREENSTREET, WESTERFIELD UPPER ASHBURTON, AND. MOUNT SOMERS. Subscribers residing in the above ,’is tricts will be supplied by Cookson'* coach. Orders received by Messrs. Tisch and R. Morgan. New Subscribers will please orward their names to any of the Agents, or our Office, as early as possible. Subscription : By post or Boy, Bs. (id. per quarter; in advance, 7s. Cd. per quarter ; or 28s. per annum. The Ashburton Herald will contain all the latest telegraphic and other news, grain and produce market reports, and particu lar attention will be paid to the wants ol settlers. All notices referring to the Borough Council, County Council, and the Road Beards, will be found in the Heard d Agencies where The Herald can be obtained : Wakanui School Wakanui Creek.. Seafield... Mr. Ginney G. Leadley - Mr. Atkinson T. M. Jones Ed Watkins Mr. Tisch R. Morgan. : Newlands Spread Eagle . Mount Somers The Agents will supply printed forms for new subscribers to sign.



Wants, &c. WANTED Known, an Elementary KINGING CLASS, on the Tonic Sol Fa principle, is to be established. First Lesson WEDNESDAY, October 25, at Quill's Commercial Sample Rooms, Saunders’ Buildings, at Half-past Seven o’clock. Ladies and Gentlemen wishing to join will please be in attendance on Wednesday October 22. Terms—los. 6d. per Quarter. —J. S. SAVAGE, Con ductor. 100—566 a TO PRINTERS. WANTED —A Smart Hand, to make up the “ Ashburton Herald” and u Ashburton Guardian.” Sobriety indis pensable. ? WEEKS & DIXON. 117 ANTED Known, that TWENTY V T Words are inserted in this Column for ONE SHILLING prepaid, and FORTY Words for TWO SHILLINGS prepaid. WASTE PAPER for Sale, ad. peril). at the Herald Office. Apply early. 590 TXT ANTED' KNOWN, that Envelopes VV and Notepaper can be obtained, wholesale or retail, at unusually low rates at the “ Herald ” Office, East-street North. 642 TO LEI', SHOP at present occupied by Mr. Stringer, adjoining Messrs. Fried lander’s Store. T. BULLOCK. TO LET. mO MEET THE TIMES, I am prer B pared to take a very low rental fo- Shops c f mine, situated in Triangle and East street. T. BULLOCK. rnO LET, at a very low rental—Bakery, H together with Dwelling-house and Shop, near the Post Office. 393 a THOS. BULLOCK. T O LE T , WITH A PURCHASING CLAUSE, OR FOR SALE, CHEAP, ACRES, Witch would make a very compact farm, situated at the back of Mr. Digby’s. Apply to THOMAS BULLOCK.



FOR SALE, A GRAIN STORE at South Ashbur ton. Apply to 2— S66a THOMAS BULLOCK. FOR SALE A COMPACT FARM, well-watered, and rea'ly first-class land of about 200 acres, situated on Lonjrbeach Estate. For full particulars, apply to 6 THOMAS BULLOCK. FOR SALE, Cheap, or TO LET, with a Purchasing Clause, a FARM, of 137 Acres, partly improved, and situated about three and a half miles from the Township. Apply to 5 THOMAS BULLOCK. TO PRINTERS. MACHINE FOR SALE. FOR SALE, about the end of October, One Second-1 an 1 Double Demy Tape Printing MACHINE, in thorough working order, with rollers, moulds, &c., complete. We are replacing this machine by a Double Royal Wharfedale, which necessitates removal of the Double Demy Machine now used for printing the “Herald’’and “Guardian,” for hand or steampower. Can be seen and all par ticulars obtained at our office. WEEKS & DIXON. Ashburton, October 14, 1879. 565 a The Stud. THE ENTIRE HORSE, ADMI R A L ILL Travel as follows Monday—Mount Somers Road to Spread Eagle, and thence to Cameron’s Tuesday North side of Ashburton River to Cookson’s, Ashburton Wednesday—Beach Road to Wakanui Homestead Thursday—Wakanui Road to Cookson’s, Ashburton Friday—Tinwald to. Wheatsheaf, stop ping at Fleming’s Saturday Down Winslow' Road to Cookson’s. WM. C. WEBB, 552 a Riecarton. THE IMPORTED DRAUGHT HORSE, BILLY FAIRPLAY, WILL STAND at Ede’s Horse Bazaar, Ashburton, and Travel Wakanui and Longbeach Districts. Terms—£s 55., payable Ist January, 1880. Groomage— -55., payable first time of service. Particulars see cards.—Apply 535a—G3 B. EDE. THOROUGHBRED ENTIRE COLT Of the Trabucer Blood. To Travel this Season the ASHBURTON AND WAKANUI Districts, See future AdvertisemenfcS'for Particulu s. S. H. FOWLER & CO„ Proprietors, s'o4a—2Q Window