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 Rahaia at 10.20 a.m and 4 p.m daily. For Dunedin, Tinwald, Winslow, Ilinds, 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. IS p.m. daily. For Wakanui and Seafield, on Mondays and Thursdays, 7.30 p.m. JW. St. G. Douglas, Postmaster.

NOTICE.

Mails close at the Chief Post Office for th e following places (subject to the necessary alte rations) as under : . The mext mails for the United Kingdom via Brindisi and Southampton (for specially ad dressed letters only) will, be closed at Christ church on Aug, 25. The mail via Brindisi 'will lie due in London on Oct. 20, and the mad via Southampton on Oct. 27. The next mail foi the United Kingdom via San Francisco will be closed at Christchurch on Friday, August 15, and will be due m London on Sept. 30.

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.

NEW POSTAL REGULATION.

Letters posted within the colony haying tire names and addresses of the senders printed on the address side of the envelopes, accompanied by a request that the letters be returned if not claimed within a stated period, will be return ed unopened. Provided, however, such letters shall have remained in the post office to which they may be addressed, at least ten days.

UNCLAIMED LETTERS.

On the first daj «jf each month a list is ex hibited at each Pc it Office in the Colony of the addresses of all letters received from places be yond the Colony that have remaind unclaimed * for one month at such Post Office; and such of .1 these letters as remain unclaimed at the end of a further period of two rtionths are then foi warded to the Dead Letter Office, to be return ed unopened to the countries where they origi l nated. Unclaimed letters originating in the Colony are not advertised, but at the end of two months are forwarded to the Dead Letter ,s Office, Wellington, there to be opened and re turned to the writers.

ASHBURTON RETAIL LIST.

The Ashburton Herald AND Borough and County Advertiser (With which is incorporated the “Evening Echo”) FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1879.

Sir George Grey means, it is under stood, to do over again the stumping tour of last year and a telegram says that he will commence first at Christ, church, upon the voters of which elec torate he will turn the hose branch of his eloquence, m the hope of extinguish ing the fire of Opposition that has been raised against him for the disloyally he has been guilty of to the promises he has made to the people. Trusting too much, however, to the extinguishing power of this hose of his, he has allowed the Opposition fire to obtain too strong a hold upon the perishable goods of his 1 administration, and he will find the task he means to undertake exceedingly difficult. The misguided men—-we use the most charitable phrase when we so speak of them—who call themselves the Christchurch Liberal Association, have asked the eloquent, but self-willed and impracticable old man to contest the Christchurch election, and there will doubtless be stirring times in the big city. All honor to the men who inscribe the motto “ Liberal” upon their banner and act with faith and loyalty to the interests and instincts of Liberal ism. But when they forget that Liberalism is the very incarnation of freedom, and that Sir George Grey’s two years’ Premiership has been some thing very nearly allied to two years of a despotic monarchy, they cut at the very roots of the Liberalism they pro fess, and act as though they sought to accomplish its overthrow.

Mr. George Hart, in our issue to-day, announces his Intention of again seek ing the suffrages of the Coleridge elec tors. Mr Hart is, a<? yet, the only candi date before the constituency. Mr. E. G. Wright, who is looked upon with some degree of favor, has not yet come forward, and no other has a shadow of a chance in a contest with Mr. Hart.

The San Francisco Mail. —The out ward mail via Sail Francisco will close at the Ashburton Post. Office this (Friday) evening at half-past ..seven.

Mdlle. Olga Du.boin.— The concert which took place last; night at the Town Hall, was not so largely attended as the merits of the performance deserved, but the programme nevertl leless was faith fully carried, out, and to sa y fhe least of it, Mdlle. Olga Duboiir.’s ccommandmg style of playing is really i\ larvellous, and her rapidity, accuracy, and firmness, can scarcely be surpassed. Tfu 3 pieces per formed were all very high clas. ss music, an die charming composition her own, u The Gazelle,” was repeated ~1 11 response to an encore.

Presentation to the Rev, Wyatt. —To-day a very interesting uieet ' ing was held in Ashburton. Some o. f ie Rev. Mr. Wyatt's friends assembler the store of Messrs. Edmiston Bros, ax Gundry, where they met the rev. gentle man. Mr. J. Stanley Bruce read the \ following address: —“We, the undersigned 1 members of the Episcopalian Church, and others residing in the County of Ash burton, bog that you will accept the .small present accompanying this letter as a token of our esteem and regard foe you. We greatly regret that any thing /should have occurred to cause you to leai o the district. Wishing you and Mrs. Wyatt every happiness, we remain yom s sin cerely. (Signed by Messrs. Thos. Bi allock, C. E. Fo-oks, the members of the * vestry, and about fifty others.)” Mr. 13 ullock then presented a purse of sovereig ns, re gretting the comparative smallness of the sum, which he attributed to thedepi ession of the district. He regretted pas t mis understandings and was sure, many t deeply regretted Mr. Wyatt’s ab&euuc©, bi ut all wished him health and happiness ' in the future. Mr. Wyatt made a feeling ; reply, and was evidently affected. The pr. asen tatien, he said, was the last of 11 iany kindnesses, and he regretted dei leaving so many friends. He expres se( i his sorrow for the disturbed state of 1 he parish in which he had been an elemoi. 'L and wished to remove any cause for thoi ,(i disturbances that he could. He woul 1 read a letter he had sent io Mr. Paig ! on the question, and which would be pub lished in the local papers. (The lektep .appears in our open column.) tie wis. hed to live up to the standard of a clergyn xan and be emphatically a peacemaker. 'Dhc meeting shortly afterwards terminated. A He istor’s Ciieek. —The creditors of j T-. Reid, a Dunedin debtor, whose oas-e lias secured an unsavory notoriety, hav.? found £3OOO unaccounted for by the bank rupt out of a deficiency of £7500. At their meeting on Wednesday the bankrupt’s wife asked for an allowance as she was destitute, but one of the gaol warders ob jected, on the ground that Reid, who meffinsed to eat the prison fare, had his mmh sent him from a hotel. The gaol wauuitler was a heavy loser by the bankrupt. Skeleton Found. —On Monday last

~ mm ft imen engaged in fencing on Big j fenil, on the Itakaia, whilst digging a Mp .unearthed the skeleton of a man, i fell -had evidently been buried for a co Tsiidmutble length of time. The remains we redound close to the surface, and from £] u , ir (position iit .is likely that the body jj ac [ Skeen-washed on- to the island during. a ‘fj L 'C(kbyj.Kcl.burie_d',.-\vith silt.

CORRESPONDENCE.

We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondent s.

To the Editor of The Ashburton Herald.

Sm, —I shall feel obliged if you will kindly insert the enclosed letter in your next issue. As that letter contains a refutation of the charges which I had applied to the Bishop to investigate, with that view, there will be no need of any further enquiry.—l am, &c., August 14, 1879. W. E. Paige.

Ashburton, August 14tli, 1579.

Dear Sir, —I hear, with pain, that an allegation is made in Ashburton which is calculated to do you a serious injury : to the efSpst that you refused, when I was your curate, to sign my testimonials for Ordination to the Priesthood. I desire to deny this statement emphatically. 1 never asked you, personally or by letter, to sign my testimonials for that purpose , consequently it is clearly impossible that you can have given me a refusal. I can not tell whence this charge against you emanates, but I am sure it is the result of some grave misapprehension, as it is difficult to believe that it was delibe rately made with a view to injuring you, and consequently the work of the Church in this district. I desire, also, to add that I am sincei ely sorry if any words of mine have led persons to suppose that I had cause for any formal complaints of ill treatment at your hands. As this state ment is injurious to you, myself, and the parish, I shall bo much obliged to you if you will kindly make tbis letter public. I am, yours faithfully,

E. H. Wyatt Rev. W. E. Paige, Ashburton.

ODD GOSSIP.

[By Telephone ]

The so-called political meeting held on Wednesday night was what our Continental friends would call a fiasco, and the inspirer thereof must have gone home with a feeling much akin to that of a puppy travelling with his caudal appendage between his hind legs. The oratory was not of a nature to call for extrava gant praise. Our worthy Mayor has many virtues, but he is too much addicted to a disregard of the duties of the aspirate ever to keep a large and discriminating audience spell-bound, and, to tell the naked truth, his utter ances at public meetings, Mr. Editor,

might just as well be at once stereo typed. The three Ts, Types, Timber, and Tea, had nearly all the rest of the spouting to themselves, such as it was. These three electors should at once organise themselves into a society, and I will offer them a choice of names by which to designate a body which will eventually re-organise the Constitution ; first, “ The Modern Three Tailors of Tooley-street,” or, second, “The Ash burton Mutual Admiration Club,” with Types as first President. Joseph has twice previous to this attempt tiied to enrol himself on the list of heaven-born legislators, and in both has signally failed, that is, he failed in what he tried lor, but succeeded in making himself common amusement for all who listened to him. His offer to sacrifice his time and intellect for the benefit of his fellow men, and his egotism in stating that he did not think it necessary to wait for a requisition to be presented to him, are so like the man, that I feel onvinced he meant what he said, and ~ he can find another admirer besides ' Timber (headed) Saint he will then ° . bly get as many votes as he did the Education Board (.2). The n? r. ’an surely must have forgotten sr '*£*.** m when , te s ° * ; “ glorious and immortal ignored t -> propose a pronounced memory as tc 1 1 1 . , Denominational isv 1 n , e ba ' nt 1C as to sacrifice on Joseph’s part were met • 1 hv tha audience that 1 in such a way by the s vote think he will eventually i.egistei ms vote I V a..; /'cmrlidate ' .our friend in for some otliei candidate, • the timber trade is only a ** politics, but I must say that, if * s thought over what he did and said the meeting, he has either changed. his mind, or he is a very tough piece of wood. But of all the speakers, the Tea man was the greatest. Having a great flow of language (of a sort) he wished to improve the minds of electois, who held been educated all their lives rs to the working of the English Constitution, up to his certainly clever notions, and although laughed down twice, he aired his common-place ideas, imagining that I the audience were being instiucted by him. His vocation is certainly not ' .'ectioneering. I should certainly _ tmmend him to devote his attention rcCk . .

_ lxing sugar. yr v Hugo Friedlander deserves a 'A- ent for the plain straightforward complim. which he exposec i the object manner in neeti and also for the of such a l | fought out the claims way m which rs in » hc matter .j am o. the convene. that the baby also proud to v Councillors can amongst the Boro E js ired _ and make a speech when ]; ) hjs moutll lias got the sense to 1 shut when that is politic

_ . , . authorities, I notice that the railway . st t j ie Ending that they can neither \. c i iar?re traffic on the railway bridge noi , ‘ ° tolls as they kindly promised i ° 'r . some sliort time ago, have adopted 1 } c ■ plan of putting as much obstruction , r the wav as possible for travellers. At 1 the Ashburton end of the bridge there j „ \ is a stack of timber occupying a con-' f

siderable width of the already too narrow roadway, and it is a certain accident to any traveller riding or driv ing a horse any way skittish • surely the authorities could find room somewhere else on their numerous sidings to store their timber without endangering the lives of travellers.

DEAR HUNT.

The clerk of the weather invariably favors Ashburton sport, and the gentle men who met yesterday for a run with Messrs. Saunders Bros.’s beagles were favored with a glorious Spring day, and the clever little pack showed sport of the highest order. At three o’clock the huntsmen on Barry Lyndon and whip on Why Not, made a cast with their hounds near the mill railway crossing and the line was soon picked up and led over a flight of rails on to the rail way and away across Mr. Hay Smith’s property. The Wakanui Creek was resignedly dropped into by all but the huntsman, who cleared it nicely. Some big timber gave the whip a long lead for a few paddocks, but the huntsman, Messrs. Crawley, M. Friedlander, and Buchanan were all at his side at the death near Mr. Hunt’s homestead, and stragglers were coming in when our reporter left the scene. Having enjoyed the hospitality o Mr. Hunt a try was made for real game on Mr. Lemon’s property and was almost at once successful. The hounds worked really excellently, and the obstacles were numerous and of no in considerable dimensions. The hunts man got over the biggest fence we ever remember seeing surmounted, but. it cost him a heavy fall, and the whip, having subsided into the ditch on the take off side an easier crossing was looked for, and fortunately discovered. The next ten minutes produced a large number of spills, but none of a serious nature ; and when the sport ended all expressed themselves highly pleased with the run. This is the first occasion on which these hounds have performed in public, but they give evidence of a lot of private tuition, and we hope next season, when brighter times smile on our district, that we may frequently see them out

TELEGRAPHIC .

LATEST FROM EUROPE.

TO-DAY’S CABLEGRAMS. {Age Special.) London, Undated. The Duke of Buccleuch, the Duke of Richmond, and Earl Spencer have been appointed a Committee to inquire into the cause of the agricultural dis tress in England.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

TO-DAY’3 TELEGRAMS.

Wellington, Friday, Parliament was dissolved to-day.

Dunedin, Friday.

Mr. M. H. Hawkins, late Secretary to the Permanent -Building Society ot Otago was charged this morning at the City Police Court with embezzling the properly of the Society, and remanded for a week.

Sentenced to Death for Witchcraft. Napier, Friday. An extraordinary case is reported from Reporure, the Maori settlement near Gisborne. A man named Henare, at the beginning of last week, was found lurking in the bush about the sheep run. Pie came out at night and begged for food, but in the daytime again retired to the bush. His strange conduct caused Mr. Chambers to ques tion him, when the poor fellow said he

had been accused of witchcraft, found guilty, and sentenced to death.. He was now lying concealed to avoid the Natives. Mr Chambers communicated with the police at Ormond, and Segt. Kidd despatched a constable to Re porure to enquire into the truth of He nare’s assertion. The result of the en quiry established the accuracy of his tale. It seems that nearly a dozen Natives made a formal complaint about hiiN. alleging various acts of witchcraft, demanding an investigation. A run anaa }vas held, and a Committee of chfefsT including a Native clergyman, appointed to hold the enquiry. He nare was found guilty, and sentenced to death, though the precise manner in which the sentence was to be carried out does not appear.. He retired to his whare, but at nightfall escaped. Soon afterwards the natives surrounded his whare and set fire to it, thinking he was inside. Henare made his way to Mr. Chambers’ station. The natives found when they had burnt the whare that he had escaped, and they set about discovering his whereabouts and suc ceeded in spite of his watchfulness in tracing him to the bush. As he was clearly on Mr. Chambers land, the Natives appear to have doubted their right to follow him, and held a meeting to discuss the matter. They decided to demand Henare from his protectors, and next day requested Mr. Chambers

to give him up, threatening him with force if their demands were not com plied with. Constable Villers appeared on the scene at this juncture, and He nare gladly placed himself under the protection of the law. He _ was evi dently in great fear lest his people should capture him, and accordingly the constable took him to Ormond, providing him with lodgings at the olice station, v

LAST NIGHT’S CABLEGRAMS.

[Special to the Melbourne Argus.)

London, August 12

The Oriental Bank notifies that the advices from its branches, now com plete, warrant the payment of a divi dend at 5 per cent. The failure of two Canadian banks has caused a drain on New York cash reserves. The temporary financial panic in Montreal has subsided. The wool sales opened to-day. The total number of bales available was 352,000, of which 17,000 were taken for Yorkshire and Continental firms. There was a large attendance of buyers and keen competition. The prices were the same as during the last series, except for low crossbreds, which are a half-penny lower.

AUSTRALIAN.

[Reuters Telegrams.)

Melbourne, August 14

Arrived —Albion, from New Zealand, and Assam from King George’s sound.

The Rotomahana has left London for Melbourne.

The polling took place to-day on. the licensing question, and resulted in a majority in favor of limiting the num ber of public houses.

Sydney, August 14. Arrived —Ocean, at Cooktown. Sailed —City of New York, for Auck land. Hawkesbury Handicap—Kinsman, 1 Andover, 2 ; Colima, 3.

[.Special to Association .]

Melbourne, August 14.

The favorite For the Melbourne Cup is Democrat. Le Loup is firm at 100 ;o 5. Pollio has been backed at 100 :o 2.

The Merchants’ Shipping and Under waiters Association reports, under date London August 12, the following arri vals :—Harbinger, from Adelaide, via Capetown ; Windsor Castle, from Port Pirie; Maraval and Piako, from Lyttel ton.

WHAT THE MAORI PRISONERS BELIEVE.

(From the Wellington Post.)

In the course of conversation with the Maori prisoners at Mount Cook, some curious facts are elicited as to

their peculiar religious tenets, and the motives by which they have been actuated in their ploughing policy. They believe in Te Whiti and Tohu to infatuation. They are convinced that the second coming of Christ has arrived, and that the two worthies just men tioned are the “ two witnesses ” men tioned in the nth chapter of Revela tions. They believe also that if “ the witnesses” were injured fire would pro ceed out of their mouths and consume their enemies. They are firmly per suaded that all the laws of the pakehas must eventually give place to those of Te Whiti, whom they impiously style as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. They appear, however, somewhat doubt ful as to who is to be in supreme com mand ; some of them say that Te Whiti will be the head, and others give their voice in favor of Tohu. A very favor able view, however, seems to be that the two will reign together—like the three Kings of Brentford—on one throne, that they will form one strong and powerful head, and receive the im plicit obedience of all. The acquain tance which the Maoris have with the words of Scripture is simply marvellous, but they are unable to realise their meaning, or the fact that a great deal of the language used is symbolical The natives are rather proud of their retentive memory in this respect, and take care to inform their hearers that they do not want “ the words of the Book ” to refresh their memories as the pakehas do —that the words of'Fe Whiti remain in their minds with as much certainty as if they had swallowed the Book. Our own impression is that the latter process would hardly be an im provement on the present system, par ticularly if the Maoris were to swallow the brass clasps as well —but this is merely by the way. A great point made by the Maoris in their polemical discussions is that, while their religion is entirely one of charity, and pays no regard to “ pelf,'’ the religion of the pakehas is entirely a worship of Mammon. They observe that the Ministers of the Cabinet, and even the ministers of religion would net work unless they were paid for doing so, and they seem to consider it dis tinctly reprehensible on the part of Mr. Mackay and Mr. Power not to take charge of them merely from a love of the task, and without any hope of re ward at all. Whether Te Whiti intends to recommend a kind of “ repudiation ” policy with regard to all lands sold to the pakehas, and a usurpation of the mana of the Queen, is not definitely known, but it would appear from re marks dropped by the Maoris that his teaching is tending in that direction. It is somewhat curious that the Maoris consider themselves the true Israelites the real lost ten tribes —while the English are the Gentiles the— Tauiwl They argue that the Israelites were copper-colored like themselves, and that we carry in in our complexions in controvertible proof that we are “ out side the pale.” [N. B.—This is not a joke.]

Every individual believer in Te Whiti, according to their ideas, is a regenerated

being, to whom the pakeha will eventually have to bow, down and pay the highest respect. In support ot their acting under the authority of Te \vhiti, they refer to Romans xi. chap., 17th and following verses, arguing that they are the branches and Te-Whiti the root of tire tree, the pakeha being merely the leaves, liable to change and decay every year. They seem to think that it shows great weakness on our part that first one Government should be in power and then another, and they as sert that this unsatisfactory state of things must eventually give way to their everlasting, firm, and just government, which, unfortunately, does not include any of the present rulers. They some what blasphemously quote 1 Cor. xv. 20, as to the authority of Te Whiti or Tobu, or both amalgamated into one, such authority to be observed by those who formerly were asleep but now have the scales rubbed from their eyes:

The Maoris, it may be added, cling to these ideas with wonderful tenacity, and it will take an immense amount of ar gument to drive them out ot their heads. While, however, we have Mor mons, Peculiar People, Second Advent ists, et hoc genus 6m ne , among ourselves, it hardlv becomes us to throw the first

stone at them on this account. There is no doubt that their fanaticism could be turned to very dangerous use in un-

scrupulous hands, and the Government

should lose no time in bringing matters to a speedy settlement, before the pri soners at present in custody are re leased. At present the latter appear to be in a most peaceable frame of mind, they have great faith in the Scriptures and firmly believe that their cause will ultimately triumph. They appear quite contented and happy and make no complaints. They amuse themselves in various ways, wash their clothes, clean their rooms, and spend a good deal of their time in reading the Scrip tures.

CAPTIVE AMONG THE ZULUS.

HORRIBLE CRUELTY OF CETEWAYO.

THRILLING ADVENTURES.

The special correspondent of the London Standard, with General V\ ood at the Cape, gives a thrilling account of the adventures of a trooper of Wea therly’s Horse, who was captured by the Zulus in the Zloblane conflict. His name is Earnest Grandier, 2 8 years of age, a native of Bordeaux Grandier describes the king’s kraal as a circular enclosure of palisades, with no other fortification, the enceinte in cluding a double row of huts. During his stay at Ulundi he had almost daily interviews with Cetewayo, sometimes in a hut but more generally in the open air, where the king sat surrounded by councillors or chiefs, and by what ap peared to be a bodyguard of 160 men. On the first occasion he saw Cetewayo in a hut, where a Zulu was translating to him from a colonial newspaper, of which a number were lying about. He saw also a Portuguese, who was em ployed as armorer, repairing guns and casting bullets. hie conveised fre quently with the English-speaking Kaffir who translated the newspaper, and from him he learned that the Zulus were informed with marvellous rapidity of everything that was going on. Cete wayo appeared to be desirous ot in ducing Grandier to enter his service. He asked him if he could make lead, and showed him the two guns captured at Isandula, lying spiked on:the: ground,

and said that* if he could make them efficient he should have a kraal, and plenty of nice wives, and cattle. 1 his tempting offer was repeated several times, and some very pretty Kaffir girls were pointed out as those to be appropriated to him. ho make a con trast between his position as a captive and what he might attain tomoie keen, Grandier was confined at night in a hut with half-a-dozen hideous old hags, who were divided into watches, two of them being constantly employed in pulling his hair and nose, pinching and scratch ing him the moment he attempted to sleep. During the day when not in the royal presence, he was tied to a tree, and every passing warrior administeied a few blows with a staff or an assegai. He saw plenty of Martini-Henry rifles about, but no ammunition, and from the persistence of their demands whether he could make lead, and the brilliant rewards that were offered him for so doing, he concludes that cartridges were getting short. To ail the offers he only returned the one answer —that he was unable to do what him. He had been living this miserable existence at Ulundi eight days—offers being made to him every day, and Cetcwayo always threatening that he would kill the Boers and the English and occupy the whole countiy, tor men ted day and night, and fed only by being turned into the mealie gardens — when a messenger arrived when he was in the royal presence, with the news that Umbelini and his brother had been killed in the attack on Kambula.

There was great grief and consternation at this, Cetewayo and his court, accord ing to Grandier, weeping with unaffected sorrow in company. This melting changed by his catching sight of the prisoner, who remained in the presence. ITe got angry then, and ordered that Grandier should be reconducted to Umbelini’s kraal, handed over to his people, and be put to death with tire refinements of torture in which the cruel Zulus are great adepts. One ol their favorite methods is pegging out an unhappy wretch close to one of the huge anthills which abound throughout South Africa, cutting gashes in or por-

tions of the flesh away, then breaking up the anthill, and leaving the victim to be slowly eaten to death by the enraged insects, who, attracted by the blood, fasten on the wounds in myriads, and mine into his or her body. Cetewayo was pleased to give specific directions for this horrible punishment to be in flicted on Grandier, illustrating by pantomime with a . stabbing assegai where cuts were to be made in the legs, body, and arms, and finishing off by drawing the blade across his mouth, which means that his lips were to be cut off. Next morning early Grandier was sent off, under the. escort of two men armed with assegais, one of them having also a muzzle-loading rifle. When they had travelled about ten miles they met Inyananie going towards Ulundi wih a strong escort. He spoke to Grandier’s guards, and learning that the prisoner had been sentenced to death at the Zoblane, lie expressed his satisfaction by loud cries of “ Ah, ah,” and laughing as if it were an exquisite joke. Grandier was made to stand by the side of the path while the escort passed, each man cf it grinning at the prisoner as he went by. It was now near noon of the 13th, with a burning sun, and Grandier, wearied by toiling over a rocky, thorny path, pleaded for rest. The man with the gun replied by thrashing him with an assegai staff; but, on reaching a mealie garden a few minutes after, he seemed to relent, for he unbound his arms, leaving his wrists tied, and turned him in to forage. After Grandier had eaten his fill, he came back to his guard, whom he found resting. The man with the gun was sitting apparently dozing, the handles of his assegais being turned in-a very tempting style towards Grandier as he came out of the mealie, while the other had his head averted in

the act of taking snuff, a luxury in which Kaffirs largely indulge. The chance of making a successful struggle for his life flashed across his mind for

the first time, and, acting on the in stant, lie stepped noiselessly to the man with the gun, drew an assegai from his sheath, and with both hands grasping the staff, pined the savage to the ground. Seizing the gun then he tuned to the other, only to see him start to his feet, and without making any attempt to fight, run like a fright ened buck with huge bounds up an adjoining hill. Grandier’s first impulse was to fire, but he remembered that the force which had so recently passed must be still within hearing, so he re strained himself and let the Zulu escape. On the morning of the 17th he was trying to see if he could recognise the outline of any of the hills, when he spied the scouts of Raff's Horse, who formed the escort to a convoy of wounded going in to Balte’s Spruit, His troubles were now practically at an end. He was fed with such scraps of food as the men had with them, and carried into the camp, where, after making his statement, he was placed in the hands of a medical man, and is now doing well

Friday, August 15, 18^9^

THE ASHBURTOH HERALD



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Clothing Establishment. ASSIGNMENT OF THE ESTATE OF MESSRS. AITKEN, PASCOE & CO., CLOTHING MANUFACTURERS, • • TO Mr. J. H. Morrison, i Manager Mosgiel Wooleu Factory, A AND John Ross, Of Sargood, Sons & Ewing J Trustees. THE above large Clothing M&iiitfac turing Firm having had to hWddUtnb io these hard times, and assign their estate, we have been induce«'l by the Trustees to purchase the whole): of their largo Manufactured Stock at. a Very Heavy Reduction, and have r evolved to sell the'same again in our Brandies direct to tho 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 1 ' ATTIRE, Of Colonial Manufacture, at from ONE THIRD TO ONE HALF THEIR USUAL COST HALLENSTEUf BROS., Now Zealand Clothing Factoiy. The assigned Stock will be for Sale our Ashburton Branch from and SATURDAY NEXT, 28th JUNE. New Zealand Clothing Factory. 12



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Holloway's Ointment and Pills. — None except the uncommonly hardy can hope to escape continued, unsettled, and unusually wet weather without some bodily discomfort or actual disease. Holloway’s remedies have won a name and fame previously unknown in medical science for their ability of successfully contesting with colds, coughs, quinseys, rheum atism, and neuralgia. This formidable list o dangerous and painful affections is completely under the control of these inestimable specifics ; which, used according to their accompanying directions, will soon mitigate the tortures, suppress all inflammatory tendencies, and secure the soundest health. The very moderate price charged for these never-failing remedies, places them within the reach of the most humble suf ferer, whose ill-health in producing poverty ex aggerates his personal pangs.— Advt.



TO THE ELECTORS OF THE COLERIDGE DISTRICT LEMEN,—I have the honor to inform you that it is any intention to offer myself for Re-election as your Representative in the next Parliament. I have the honor to remain, Gentlemen, Your obedient Servant, GEORGE HART. Christchurch, 13th August, 1870. 275 a • T E N D E R S. LOWER ASHBURTON ROAD BOARD. BUILDERS desirous of Tendering for the Erection of OFFICES for the j_,o\ver Ashburton Road Board, about six miles from Winslow Railway Station, are requested to send in Sea Led Tenders, duly endorsed, and addressed to the'* Architect, on or before THURSDAY, the 2 Sth August. The Drawings and Specifications can be seen at the Architect's Office, Ashbur ton. J. STANLEY BRUCE, C.E., 276 a Architect. Public Notices DIARIES. —A Few Commercial and Scribbling Diaries on Sale, Cheap, at the “ Herald” Stationery Depot, East Street North, near Railway Station. ~ T O LET , WITH A PURCHASING CLAUSE, OR FOR 9 SALE, CHEAP, ACRES, 453 Which would make a very compact f irm, situated at the back of Mr. Digby’s. Apply to ! THOMAS BULLOCK.