POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Mails at the Ashburton Post Office close as follows : For Christchurch and North at 10.20 a.m. 4 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, Tinwald, 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, on Mondays and Thursdays, 7.30 p.m. W. St. G. Douglas, Postmaster. NOTICE.

A travelling Post Office having been estab* ished on the Southern line of railway, letters bearing a late fee of 2d. may be posted at any station in the mail carriage attached to the express train, and they will be included in the mails made up in transit for offices on the main line and branches.

Sydney J. Dick, Chief Postmaster.

MEMORANDA.

MEETINGS This Evening. Choir Union—Sample Rooms, Saunders’ Buildings, at 7.30. AUCTION SALES. To-morrow. Alfred Harrison Sale of Furniture on the premises of Mr. A. Leßreton, Moore Street, at 12.30 sharp.

The Ashburton Herald AND Borough and County Advertiser (With which is incorporated the “Evening Echo"). WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1879.

The Mayor has a happy way of read ing the signs of the times, and looking at the bright side of things. It was not a very encouraging omen to the Borough Councillors when they went to the Town Hall last night, and found to begin with that only a mirerable account of empty benches would undertake the decisison, aye or no, of the proposed ;£i5,000 loan. Only 30 people, or thereby, were present in the hall when His Worship took the chair, but with that happy way of his we have already referred to, he jumped to the conclusion that the absence of ratepayers was not a sign of want of interest, but the silence that means consent. Be that as it may, the ratepayers have still left to them an opportunity of putting their veto or their sanction upon the loan through the ballot box, on the 17th July. It would have been matte r tor surprise had the proposal met with unanimous approval, and we were quite prepared to hear of some opposition to the loan. The opponents to it, however, as far as we could gather from the remarks made and questions asked, were less, if at all, against the loan, than against the man ner in which it is to be expended. Mr. Fooks gave a full and. clear statement of what the Council meant to do with the money, and what the schemes of drainage and water supply were like that the Coun . had in view; and with those schemes before them, it only remains for residents in those parts of the town which seem to have been or appear likely to be, neglected, to take advantage of the vacancies now existing in the Council, and to bestir themselves to put in representatives to watch the particular interests of those parts. The Messrs. Legget, we allow, have reason to cry out against the state ofPeter street, which cannot be numbered amongst the town’s “ ways of pleasant ness,” but the residents in Peter-street, we fancy, are sufficiently numerous, and the interests in that district are suf ficiently strong, if they' hang together, to place a representative at the Council, and we hope Mr. Joseph Legget will now see his way to come forward for a seat. We feel assured he could com mand the confidence of the whole com munity as well as his particular district. And now is the time, when openings occur, for him to seek a place in the Council and a voice in the distribution of the loan. However much respect his utterances from the body of rate payers may command, he will carry far more weight on the Council benches.

Mrs. Walter Hill.— The friends of this lady, resident in Ashburton, have resolved to give her a benefit. A great many ladies and gentlemen have been asked to help, and there is every prospect of a capital entertainment being placed before the public. The concert will come off on Thursday, the 17th inst., at the Town Hall, when we hope to see a full house and large receipts.

Proposed Chess Club for Ashbur ton. —It appears that there are several very good chess-players in Ashburton, but at present their opportunities for trying each other’s mettle are limited. It is now proposed to form a club, the object of which shall be to promote the study and practice of “ye Game of Chesse.”

Service of Song. —A service of song will be held soon, under the auspices of the Presbyterian Sunday School Union, and practice of the music will commence on Friday evening, in the Presbyterian Church. Mr. A. Stott, organist to the congregation, will conduct.

Choir Union.— The Choir Union will meet for practice to-night in Mr. Quill’s Commercial Sample Rooms, Saunders’ Buildings, at 7.30. A full meeting is wanted, as arrangements for a concert are to be made.

“Legal Depositions.” —ln regard to our paragraph of yesterday with the above heading, Mr. Hurrell, Clerk to the R.M. Court, desires us to state that the depo sitions in Hamilton’s case were not taken in the Resident Magistrate’s Court but at a coroner’s inquest. Drunk and Disorderly. —The Mayor to-day fined a first offender, for being drunk and disorderly, and indecently ex posing his person, 10s., and 2s. costs. Two other persons charged with being

drunk and disorderly, were each fined 20s. and 12s. costs, or in default 48 hours imprisonment with hard labor.

Hospital Site. —ln the “Gazette” of July 3, four and a half acres of land in the town of Ashburton are reserved for an hospital. The land is bounded North eastward and North-westward by Reserve 1710 (in red) ; South-westward by Cox Street; and South-eastward by Grigg Street: and numbered 2410 (in red) on the official map. Christchurch Supreme Court. —The Supreme Court was occupied all yester day with two cases —one a charge of em bezzlement of £0 ss. against a clerk named Charles W. Greenwood, in the employ of Mr.. C. F. Barker, whose pro perty the money alleged to be embezzled was, and another a charge of arson against Martin and Emma Ashwin, who were accused of setting fire to a sawmill, in Decanter Bay, in February last. In both cases a verdict of not guilty was returned.

Te Whiti’s Latest. —A telegram in to-day’s morning papers gives us to under stand that Te Whiti has adopted the plan followed by the Israelites with the walls of Jericho. The wives of the imprisoned ploughmen have been to him to inquire what should he done to effect the deliver ance of their husbands, and he recom mended that they should procure horns and proceed with their friends to Welling ton .and encompass the prison, blowing their horns, when the walls would fall and their husbands he delivered. Three hun dred persons will proceed to Wellington on this errand.

New Rush at Kumara.— A great rush has been occasioned at Kumara by a lead of gold being struck near Westbrook, on the west side of Greenstone creek. Parties were out all last night, with can dles, pegging off ground in all directions. Nearly 500 are on the ground now. The prospects obtained were ldwt. to lAdwfc. to the dish. Should the lead be traced as expected, it will open an extensive field.

THE £15,000 LOAN.

Meeting of the Ratepayers at the Town Hall.

A meeting of the ratepayers of the Borough was held last night to consider the Borough Council’s proposal to borrow ;£i5,000 for purposes of water supply and drainage. About sixty or seventy persons were present and the Mayor presided. His Worship introduced the business by reading the advertisement calling the meeting. He referred to the small at tendance and accepted it as a silent con sent on the part of the ratepayers to the proposed loan. The sum voted by the County Council for a water supply for the town was and it had nearly all been expended on pipes. The in terest on the proposed loan of at per cent., would amount to were imposed a return of ,£1,140 would be secured. The Act provided for the taking of a poll on the question of a loan, and this poll had to be taken not less than a week and not more than three weeks after the public meeting. He asked that a resolution on the matter should be proposed.

Mr. Collins asked for some informa tion as to the proposed schemes for water supply and drainage. At the request of the Mayor, Mr. Fooks explained the intentions of the Council. Of the £15,000 pro posed to be borrowed, £7,000 was allocated to supplement the £5,000 given by the County Council, making together an amount of £12,000 to be expended on the water supply scheme. Of the remaining £B,OOO pro posed for surface and underground drainage, the outfall drain running along the South East Town Belt would absorb about -£4,000, and the concrete channelling and kerbing the other £4,000. The cost of the channelling and kerbing is estimated at £7 10s. per chain, so that independent of con tributions from owners of properties, it is calculated that more than 500 chains can be constructed. It was not contem plated that the £B,OOO would complete the drainage scheme in its entirety ; in fact, it was only intended at present to carry off surface drainage, and that the money would be expended on the most necessary works, as component parts of the whole scheme. All the levels had been taken and the plan well con sidered.

In answer to Mr. Collins, Mr. Fooks stated that the water supply would be taken from the clear undercurrent in the bed of the north branch of the Ashburton, about miles from the centre of the town. Thence it would be brought in 9-inch pipes, delivering, if required, about 600,000 gallons daily. There would be a 9-inch main along East street, feeding 6-inch branch mains running down every other cross street. The north-west part of the town, above the railway, would be supplied by 6-inch and 4-inch pipes from the direct main. It was only in tended at present to provide for fire prevention and flushing the side chan nels,* for which purpose stand pipes would be fixed at the corners of the streets, and fire plugs at convenient dis tances. The scheme was planned so that a household supply could be car ried into effect at a future time by lay ing a 2 -inch pipe round each block connected with the main at one point. By this means the service pipes to the houses not being directly connected with the mains, the different blocks could be isolated, and the supply of water concentrated, in case of fire, in any particular locality with little trouble. The fall from the proposed intake to

the level of East street at the post-office was about 48 feet, but if additional pres sure was required when the additional expense could be incurred, about forty feet additional head could be obtained, making a total head of about 90 feet by laying about i)4 miles of piping to tap the river bed above Digby’s. Mr. Legget desired to know on what parts, of the town the money was to be spent in the matter of drainage. He' pointed out that Peter-street was in a disgraceful state, and he had observed that anything that had yet been done by the Council had been done just in and around East-street.

The Mayor said that the object of the Council was that the whole town should profit by the drainage scheme,' but he hoped that they would not ask him to commit himself to particular work in any street, lest he should feel his hands tied at any future' period. The question cf what streets would be undertaken first would be a matter of detail for the Council to settle, and he thought ratepayers should leave it in their hands. Mr. G. M. Robinson desired to know why, if at a cost of 10s. fora pump, an excellent supply of good water could be got at a short distance below the surface of the ground, they should go to an enormous expense for a household supply virtually-from the same source ? The Mayor pointed out that ther e was a greater demand for water for fire extinction and for flushing than there was for a household supply, and a scheme that would combine all three at a moderate cost had been considered by the Council to be best for the borough. He scarcely considered it necessary, however, to discuss the whole question that night seeing that it had been so fully discussed by the Council, reports of whose meetings were always placed before the rate payers.

Mr. Robinson said the Council came before the ratepayers asking liberty to raise a loan for drainage and water supply, but they did not seem to be able to say in what manner the money would be spent. Mr. Ivess was sorry to hear such remarks fill from a candidate for the vacancy in the Borough Council, but had no doubt that when Mr. Robinson became one of the Nine, he would alter his opinion considerably. As to Mr. Legget’s fears that certain parts of the town would be neglected, he was sure there was nothing to fear, as the Council had endeavored as far as their means would allow them to attend to the wants of every part, and he had no doubt with means given them, with the new loan, the Councillors would be able to give full satisfaction. The purpose for which the loan was asked to be raised was one requiring their im mediate attention. The state of the streets was deplorable and the want of water was much felt. He would move “That this meeting signifies its approval of the • Ashburton Borough Council’s proposal to raise a loan of ;£i 5,000 for a drainage and water supply scheme for the Borough, in accordance with the powers contained in the Municipal Cor porations Act, 1876, and Amendment Acts.”' He had every confidence that the Council would not make an extra vagant choice in the selection of their agent to raise the loan, but would do it at the lowest possible figure. Mr. Mac Lean Dunn seconded.

Mr. Legget deprecated the Council coming before the ratepavors with an immature scheme. Apparently not one one of those present was able to give a clear idea of the scheme of drainage or that of water supply to be adopted. After some further remarks the Mayor put the resolution to the meeting, and declared it carried op the show of hands. He then appointed Thursday, the 17 th inst, for taking the poll required by the Act.

A vote of thanks to the Mayor for presiding closed the proceedings.

TELEGRAPHIC.

TO-DAY'S CABLEGRAMS.

AUSTRALIAN (Reuter's Telegrams). Melbourne, Tuesday. Government intimates that they will introduce a Bill to amend the present Electoral Law, and numerous other important measures, unless the Reform Bill should ■ absorb all other questions.

TO-DAY’S TELEGRAMS.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Auckland, Wednesday.

It is slated that notwithstanding Dr. Skae’s opposition, Government has ac cepted Dr. Young as Superintendent of the lunatic asylum. It is contemplated to form the various Auckland volunteers into an adminis. trative battalion. Sergeant (now Sub- Inspector) Gordon, left for Taranaki to-day. Great complaints are made in Waikato re his promotion, he being a second class sergeant of short seivice, with eight seniors. Wreckage. Wellington, Wednesday. A quantity ol wreckage seen at the Wellington Heads on Monday, proves to have belonged to the barque Swallow, recently wrecked off Tory Channel. Opening of Parliament.

Parliament will be opened by com mission on Tuesday (Friday?), so as to to allow the Speaker to be elected. The speech will not be delivered until Tues day next.

The Catholics and the Education Question. : Dunedin, July 9. An aggregate meeting of Catholics was held at the Temperance Hall last evening for the purpose of considering the education question. Bishop Moran presided, and the hall was nearly filled, amongst those present being delegates from various parts of the colony. No less than eight resolutions were passed. Two of these condemned a national system of purely secular education as being contrary to the consciences and convictions of catholics, as also being unchristian and antichristian, and cal culated to impair the moral tone of the community, and to render life and property insecure. These resolutions affirmed that under the circumstances it was a grievous injustice to compel catholics to pay a tax for the main tenance of such a system of education and to pay for the Christian education of their own children by another. It was resolved that a petition, praying for such an alteration in the Education Act as would place catholic schools on a footing of equality with public be forwarded to parliament; the petition to be presented in' the Legislative Council by the Hon. Dr. Grace, and in the House of Representatives by Mr. J. C. Brown, M.H.R. for Tuapeka. In th’e Supreme Court this morning Justice Williams announced that he was prepared to let Cummock out on bail in his own recognisance of £3OO and two sureties of £l5O each. Suicide. At the inquest to-day on the body of Charles McKay, who committed sui cide last evening by taking laudanum, a verdict was returned of temporary insanity. The deceased was over thirty years of. age, and arrived in the colony only three weeks ago in the Otago. He has since been drinking hard. He was a partner in the firm of McKay and Cunningham, Duke street, Edinburgh, who failed a few months ago for £68,000. He learned yester day of his wife being divorced from him, and this was the cause of his committing suicide. Assault and Robbery.

At the police court this morning John Athens Richardson was com mitted for trial for assaulting and robbing Daniel McKeroy of £4 in the north-east valle}'. Rape.

Andrew Murray was charged with committing a rape on his daughter, Jessie Murray, ir years of age. The case is proceeding. The Bankruptcy Laws. Invercargill, Wednesday. At a meeting of the Chamber of Com merce yesterday it was stated that Go vernment did not intend to bring down a Bill to amend the Bankruptcy Act. A petition to Parliament was adopted, setting forth—first, that the provisions, of the present Act were unsatisfactory and detrimental to trade and commerce, and tend to encourage reckless trading, dishonesty, and’ fraud ; secondly, that the alarming number of small debtors who have taken the benefit of the Act,

and whose assets are nil or do not pay any dividend, conclusively indicate the expediency ot Bankruptcy Law reform ; and, thirdly, that a Bill should be in troduced to remedy these evils.

LAST NIGHT’S CABLEGRAMS.

AUSTRALIAN.

(Renteds Telegrams.)

Victorian Parliament.

Melbourne, July 8,

Parliament was opened by the Gover nor, who in his speech on the occasion said the present was a very serious juncture. The universally depressed state of trade was less here than else where. A beneficial change was ap parent, as there was agricultural im provement, and mining was improving gradually. Fie had reason to believe that the Prince of Wales would visit the International Exhibition. The Govern ment had confirmed the Peninsular and and Oriental contract for the mail ser vice. It was announced that no increase of taxation was considered needful by the Government. The loan was a bril liant success. Fie hoped the result of the mission to London would prove beneficial. The speech announced Bills for Amendment of the Land Tax, and Reform of the Constitution, with the object of securing a final adjust ment of the functions of the Council and Assembly, and thus terminating the recurrence of disastrous deadlocks. The address in reply to the speech was carried without opposition. Mr. Gaunson’s motion in the Assembly was withdrawn. Arrived —Arawata. (Special to the Globe.) Melbourne, July 8. Mr. Berry nvill proceed with his Reform Bill immediately after the Address in reply. A number of unemployed are to be shipped from Melbourne to Newcastle.

Wednesday, July 9, 18^9.]

THE ASHBURTON HERALD 1



ASHBURTON RETAIL LIST.



s. d. Butter, inferior to best #lb i o to Eggs, $ dozen - -2 2 to Cheese, prime quality, flb o 8 to Bacon, prime smoked, slb o g to Hams id cloth, slb - I o to Flour in bags, $ ioolb x i 6 to Oatmeal, 251 b * 6 6 to Lard, slb - • - o 9 to . d. I 2 o o o 10 e 10 o o o o o o o o



Advertisements for the Ashburton Herald must be sent in not later than 1 p.m. for the Country Edition, and 3 P*m for the Town Edition, with the number of insertions written plainly on he 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 : Quarterly — Delivered in town ~ country Posted In Advance. .If Booked s. d. s. d ~.60 6 6 ~.80 86 ..80 8 6 Clothing Establishment.



ASSIGNMENT OF THE ESTATE OF MESSRS. AITKEN, PASCOE & CO., CLOTHING MANUFACTURERS, TO Mil J. H. Morrison, 1 Manager Mosgiel Woolen | Factory,* I AND Mr. John Ross, Of Sargood, Sons & Ewings Trustees. 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 isell 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 ONE THIRD TO ONE HALF THEIR USUAL COST. HALDENSTEIN BROS., New Zealand Clothing Factory. 'The assigned Stock will be for Sale in our Ashburton Branch from and on SATURDAY NEXT, 28th JUNE. New Zealaiad Clothing Factory. 12a



ASHBURTON HERALD, Published Daily. Country Edition .... 3p.m. Town Edition ... -4.30p.m. ÜBSCRIBERS are requeue d to make known any irregularity in the delivery, whether in Town or Country, wit ich shall be immediately remedied. Country Sub scribers along the Wakanui Road no the school, thence to Seafield, Cambridge, and Newland, are supplied by the marl -cart •■every Tuesday and Friday.



“Not a Foot between ’em.”—What is the difference between an M. D. and a bargee I—One1 —One follows the healing, the other the towing, path. One of the greatest feats of woman’s en durance, is when the female with the dia mond ring wipes her mouth 3000 times in 3000 quarter-hours without complaining of the least fatigue. Tongue cannot tell the words or express the astonishment of the crippled soldier in Connecticut who awoke to find his wife was using his wooden leg to pound the beef-steak for breakfast.



Schoolmistress (just beginning a nice improving lesson upon minerals, to the juniors) : “Now', what are the principal things we get out of the earth ?” Youth ful Angler (aged four, confidently) : “ Worms.”



A party had met at a public table when the conversation turned on the subject of transmigration. Mr. K. was a firm be liever in the doctrine and was expatiating upon its points, Avhen he was interrupted by a gentleman who was present with— “K., what do you suppose yourself to have been before you were L. K.l” “I don’t know,” replied K., “I might have been a hog, for aught I know.” “Well,” rejoined his friend, “you have not altered much—only get upon your hind legs.”



Holloway’s Pills.— The Grand .Secret, —With the variable temperature of this country ill health will creep in unless the blood from time to time be purified and noxious matters be expelled from the body. In this the public may be its own physician. Holloway's Pills may lie purchase 1 at a trifling cost: instruc tions for taking them will be furnished with the Pills, and a little attention, with few in structions, will enable persons to keep them selves in health under very trying circumstances. These Pills act as alteratives, tonics, and ape rients. Holloway’s medicine should be ready for instant administration when the slightest symptom gives warning of approaching indis position. — Advt.



It is a sad commentary (remarks the Southland Times) on the hollowness of Ministerial professions about being the true “ friends of the people,” that the daily record of facts should be so much against them. The latest illustration is the arrival of a vessel at the Bluff with a cargo of Tasmanian timber for works contracted for by the Government, while local sawmillers complain of a serious falling off in the demand for timber, occasioned by the scarcity of money. One of the largest sawmills on the Bluff-road has been stopped for some time, and we hear that there is a probability of others being closed. Not very encouraging for the working man, truly. A certain rector of a country living in shire was inordinately fond of card-playing, and so great a power had this fondness over him that daybreak frequently found him and S , of the neighboring parish still lingering over the green cloth. So it came to pass that one morning at three o’clock these two worthies were still deeply engrossed over their ecarte ; it so happened that the rector’s wife, without troubling her better half on the subject, had made arrangements with the sweep to perform his duties on the morning in question ; and so, just when the candles were burning low in their sockets, and giving their last despairing light in convulsive throbs, a sudden noise at the fireplace, caused our parson to start and turn to wards the spot whence the sound pro ceeded. The sweep’s boy, all in rags and black from head to foot, was not a cheering sight at best, and our rector, in his state of excitement, aided by the deceptive light, concluded he was in truth an imp ab inferno, and making for the door, gasped forth, “ Who are you? What do you want ? ” To which our imp, in sooty accents, said, “ Wait a minute ; the old man’ll be here directly.” _ But the reverend gentleman did not wait for the “old ’un,” and we hear he has forsworn ecarte from that day.



Entertainments. A Xj E ' ° T 1711 E Will be delivered by MR. J. JOHNS, late of California, IN THE PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH, "Wills Street, ON FRIDAY EVENING, July 11, At 7. 30 p.m. Subject : “ Four Years on the Pacific Coast of America.” Admission Free. A collection will be made at the close of the lecture in aid of the Church Circuit Fund. Hymns will be rendered by the Choir. 75a E N E F I T O N CERT • TO MRS. WALTER HILL IN THE TOWN HALL, ON T. TI URS D.V Y,. J LY, i 7 tii, Monster Programme. Particulars in future issue. Admission —2s. and Is. 73a



Auction gales. Messrs acland, Campbell and Co. have received instructions from the Trustee in the estate of James Quigley to sell by public auction, at their Iron Store, on .SATURDAY. July 12TH, Horses Drays Chaffcutters Horse-Power Quantity of Shaft and Leading Har ness Scoops, &c., &c. Sale to commence at 11.30. ACLAND, CAMPBELL & CO., 64a - Auctioneers Meetings. CHOIR UNION. THE Usual Meeting for PRACTICE will be held in Quill’s Sample Room, Saunders’ Buildings, THIS EVENING, at 7.30. H. J. WEEKS, 70a Conductor. SPECIAL REVIVAL SERVICES . Will commence in the PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH, Wills Street, on OUNDAY, JULY 13th, And continue throughout the week. Preaching each evening to commence at 7 p.m All are affectionately invited. 74a T A P T —NOTICE is hereby given 1.U.1j. 1. thai a DISTRICT CONVENTION of Good Templars will be* held on the 15th July, 1879, in the 1 emplar Hall, Moore Street, Ashburton. All Good Templars in the District of Mid-Canterbury are requested to attend, and especially officers and past officers. The 2nd and 3rd De gree will be conferred on all eligible candi dates. K. SANDO, 7Ga District Deputy, G.W.C.T. Public Notices. MOUNT SOMERS ROAD BOARD. THE Ordinary Meeting of this Board will be held on SATURDAY, the 12th instant, at 12 o’clock. Tenders will be opened on that date. JAMES FRASER, Clerk of the Board. Road Board Office, July 2nd, 1879. 67a ASHBURTON BOROUGH COUNCIL. GENTLEMEN willing to conduct the LEGAL BUSINESS of the Ash burton Borough Council for the ensuing twelve months, are requested to send, written applications to the Town Clerk on or before Monday, the 14th July. Re muneration, £IOO. Schedule of duties may be seen at the Borough Council’s Office. CHARLES BRADDELL, Town Clerk. Borough Council Office, Ashburton,'July 2nd, 1879. 40a ASHBURTON BOROUGH COUNCIL. Applications for the collec- TORSHIP of the Borough Rates (General and Special), will be received at the Town Clerk’s Office up till Monday, 14th July. Applicants to state the per centage required. Applications to be marked “ Application for Collectorship of CHAS. BRADDELL, - ' Town Clerk. Ashburton, July 2nd, 1879. 42a ASHBURTON BOROUGH COUNCIL. JVTQTICE is hereby given that, in _J3j accordance with clause 42 of The Municipal Corporations Act, 1876, the Burgess List for 1879-80 is now open for inspection at the Town Clerk’s Office, during office hours, till the 15th July, 1879. All objections must be in writing in the form of the 6th Schedule of the Act, addressed to me, and delivered to me at my office, on or before the 15th day of July, 1879. CHAS. BRADDELL, Ashburton, Town Clerk. 28th June, 1879. . 28a ELECTION OF MEMBERS. NORTH ASHBURTON ROAD DIS TRICT. PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, that an Election of Five Members to constitute the first Board of the. new Road District of North Ashburton, will be held on WEDNESDAY, the 23rd day of July instant. The NOMINATION of Can didates will take place at 10 a. m. on the above date, at the Gasworks, near Ash burton, and a POLL, if necessary, will be proceeded with immediately after the nomination, and close at 4 p.m. of the same day.. JOHN EDGAR BUCHANAN, v Returning Officer. Ashburton, July 3, 1879. 51a ELECTION OF MEMBERS. LOWER ASHBURTON ROAD DIS DISTRICT. PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, that an Election of Five Members, to constitute -the first Board of the new Road District of Lower Ashburton, will be held on FRIDAY, the 25th day of JULY instant. The NOMINATION of Candidates will take place at 10 a.m. on the above date, at the Schoolhouse,: Wil lowby, and a POLL, if necessa.yj will be proceeded with immediately after the nomination, and close at'4 p.m. the same lay. JAMES WILKIE, Returning Officer. Ashburton, July 3, 1879. 50a