POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Mails al; the Ashburton Post Office close a 3 follows :

For Christchurch and North at 10.20 a.m. 3. 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, Timvald. 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 3.13 p.m, daily. For Wakanui and Seafield, every Monday and Thursday, at 7.30 p.m. W. St. G. Douglas, Postmaster. NOTICE. A travelling Post Office having been estab lished on the Southern line of railway, letters hearing 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.

ASHBURTON RETAIL LIST.

MEMORANDA.

This Evening

Entertainment, Town Hall. —“ Blackbird Troupe. ”

The Ashburton Herald AND Borough and County Advertiser (With which is incorporated the “Evening Echo”). SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1879.

The Rev. Mr Murray, of Geraldine, will conduct services in the Presbyterian Church here and at Wakanu i to-morrow, and next Sunday the town and Ashton sendees will be conducted by the Rev. Mr Blake, of Otago. The Seat for Coleridge. —We hear that Mr Harry Bell Johnston, of Christ church, is a probable candidate for the Coleridge seat, and will personally visit the district shortly. The Governor’s Visit. —The County Council, the Borough Council, and the Contractor for the Mount Somers railway, have invited His Excellency the Governor to cut the first sod of the line, and to par take of lunch to be given in Ashburton after the ceremony. The County Council propose to , present His Excellency with an address at Tinwald, another to be pre? sented by the Borough Council at Ash burton station. It is to be hoped His Excellency will be able to accede to the wishes of the district, and that arrange ments will be made to admit of his spend ing sufficient time in Ashburton to per form the opening ceremony at the railway. At a meeting of the Borough Council to day, it was decided to co-operate with the County Council, and a Committee was appointed to arrange details with' the rail way contractors. Mr. Weymouth Roberts is to be asked to erect a triumphal arch inscribed “ Welcome to Sir Hercules.” Caught a Tartar.— lt is refreshing to hear now and again of a plucky thing, especially when a woman does it. On Thursday evening last a brute of a fellow, grossly insulted a married woman at the corner of Columbo and Salisbury streets, Christchurch. He did not calculate on 'what might eventuate from that insult, and so, reckoning without his host, he unex pectedly came upon the item he had over looked—a heavy blow straight in th e face from the insulted one. He went down like a bullock, and the female escaped. The police want him now.

Tiie R.M.—The Temuka corresponded of “ The Press ” writes :—“ Mr. Lc Grand Campbell, lately Resident Magistrate at Temuka, left last Monday for Colling wood, Nelson, to which place he has been removed. Prior to his departure a numerously signed petition against his removal was forwarded to Government.' Mr. Guinness, of Collingwood, has been appointed Stipendiary Magistrate in Mr. Campbell’s place, and it is rumoured that he intends residing in Geraldine.” The Governor, in deference to his own choice, will be entertained to a ball-at Timaru, instead of a banquet.

The Dregs oe the Easter Review. — Another of the Timaru Volunteers will have to answer at the Dunedin Police Court, on May 1, for his disorderly behaviour when returning from the Easter Demonstration at Invercargill last week. The charge preferred against Captain Hammersley, who commands the Timaru Artillery, will be that of occasioning a riot in the Arcade, the same being an. indict able offence. , -. Fatal Accident at Timaru. —At Mr. Bruce’s saw-mills yesterday, a lad named George Gullick had his clothes drawn between the belt and drum of a revolving shaft, and was whirled round and dashed against the flooring. He died in the afternoon in the infirmary. Street Improvements. —The Welling ton Corporation have put the question to the ratepayers—Shall we raise a loan of £IOO,OOO for street improvement? and the poll has resulted in a large majority of “ayes.” The Nelson Corporation are more modest, and only aim at £IO,OOO for a like purpose. The Nelson Council pro poses to pledge a special rate of 3d in the pound as security for their £IO,OOO, and mean to avoid increasing the amount of tax-levying by reducing their ordinary rate to 9d, leaving the remainder of the shil ling to be raised by special rate. It is one of the signs of the times that every other man you meet is carrying a silver watch loaned him by the jeweller, who is giving his gold stem-winder a regular good cleaning up, you know. Commercial morality is becoming sadly degenerate in Masterton. The Wairarapa Daily sent to one of the brightest and best of its subscribers a moderate bill amount ing to 7s. 6d. It came back endorsed “Not provided for.”

Mdlle. Chareonnet. Mademoiselle Charbonnet is for the present going to give some time to the less brilliant, but perhaps not less profitable, business of teaching. If she can communicate her own playfully brilliant manner to her pupils they will be fortunate in having her for an instructor. A Disavowal. —This is not the paper that advertised that the Rev. Dr. S

would have his regular Greco-Roman wrestling match with the devil last Sunday. That reverend gentleman will, therefore, please not come scowling round this office with an anathema up his sleeve.—San Francisco News Letter. A Funny Sunday-school Teacher.— A Sunday-school pupil of tender age being asked how she liked the gentleman who had addressed the school, replied, “He was a funny man. He told about the handwriting on the wall, and said it was ‘ Minnie, Minnie, tickle the parson.’”— Schoolmaster. Art at Sea. —At an auction art-sale the other day a marine view was about being knocked down at a handsome figure, when a bluff sailor who had happened to wander in, exclaimed earnestly, “My stars, if there ain’t a vessel drifting on to the’ rocks with a strong breeze blowing off the" shore ! ” The artist took his work home to rearrange the wind. Sulphur. —A Wellington paper has the following : —A merchant in-, town has called our attention to the fact that the large sulphur deposits, iii the North Island offer to anyone understanding the manu facture of sulphuric acid a field for enter prise which must prove highly profitable. At present the sulphur deposits are lying waste, and the right to work them could be obtained for a very small sum. Our informant adds that he. and another firm in town would guarantee to take a suffi cient quantity of the acid to keep a con siderable manufactory at work.

V A Past Young Man. —Yesterday a young fellow named Barnett, who came to the colony with £250, a week or two before Christmas, was sued in Wellington for £l3 17s cab hire. Ho had incurred the debt by engaging cab and cabby at 30s a day for eighteen days, to drive about for amusement, and had lived at the rate of £5 a day. He lived at a hotel where he would have to pay £2 a week for board, and to meet his hotel bill he has only a solitary half-crown, a “hope” of £IOO from his father in four months, and a “ hope ” of work as a surveyor’s chainman. He thought he could pay 2s Gd weekly towards liquidating the debt, but the Bench ordered him to pay £2 a week or go to gaol for 14 days. “Our First Century.” —Recently, at the Fitzroy Police Court, says the Mel bourne “Argus,” Mi-. William Stephens, a seller of American books, sued Mr Wil liam Thompson, merchant tailor, for £2, the alleged price of a book sold by plaintiff to defendant. The hook was entitled “The First Century of America,” and from the evidence given by the defendant it appeared that some months ago the plaintiff called on him as a canvasser and obtained an order for the book ; but he then said it would contain steel-plate en gravings and be half-morocco bound. It was several months before the book was left with defendant, and it was then left when he was not at home. He found it was not at all equal to what plaintiff had represented, as it neither contained steel plates nor was half-bound in morocco, and he therefore refused to pay for it. The Bench on Monday were of opinion that the book was not half-morocco bound, as the prospectus said it would be, and Mr. .Lyons who appeared for the defendant, offered to allow the plaintiff to have the case adjourned in order for him to call a bookbinder to prove whether the book was half, morocco bound or not. The Bench said they were willing for the plaintiff to have an adjournment if he thought proper, but if the case went against him he would have increased costs to pay. The plaintiff then elected to have tlie case decided at once, and the Bench, as they did not con sider the book equal to what it had been represented, returned a verdict for defen dant, with £2 2s costs against plaintiff

THE MAN IN BLACK.

“ I know the man that must hear me, To him my tale I teach !”— Coleridge.

A very young friend of mine—a boy of some three summers—was recently ex pounding the ways of the world to his proud mother. “ \says he, “little boys only say ! clash'd,!’ when their boots won’t come on, but big men, like father, say —— it! ” The character of this journal, prevents me giving ver batim the observation frequently made by mature men when dealing with refractory boots, but the majority of my readers, whose delicacy would be offended by seeing in print a verb of such anathematic activity, will probably be able to correctly fill the blank that my modesty has suggested. Councillor Saunders—speaking in his capacity as a legislator for the ‘ ‘ little boy ” . Borough of Ashburton — remarked that our local Inspector of Nuisances had not been efficiently impera tive in extinguishing smells. Mr. Marston —speaking in his capacity as a legislator for the “ big man ” Municipality of Wel lington, the Empire City—remarked that the cess-pool investigator was au empty headed loafer. Now, I don’t even know the name of the gentleman who in our midst discharges the eminently useful but humble functions of Inspector, but I would remind him that we are growing older, and that even our courteous j unior councillor may one day degenerate into the expressive language made use of by his Wellington contemporary.

I understand that the recently appointed Clerk-to the Bench, Mr. Hurrell, is sorely exercised by the complications which are arising in his department. In the language of commerce, drunks and debts appear to be in full supply, and the obliging official who dispenses the Govern mental remedies for these two national epidemics finds his role no Fabian policy. Under the circumstances it would be unjust to adversely criticise the proceed ings of our minor court, but several instances of departmental dilatoriness have come imder my notice, which I trust will be singular so soon as Mr. Hurrell becomes more familiar with the duties and capabilities of his subordinates.

I am no convert to Darwinism, but I cannot fail to notice that the puerile innocency of our forefathers does not crop up prominently in the average man of this century. Constant participation in the struggle for assets does not wear off that “childlike and bland” exterior which is often the accompaniment of the acutest interior, but it does stimulate the reflec tive faculties. A farmer, well-known to many Ashburtonians, was recently com pelled to seek the maternal protection so readily extended by our civil courts, having thi’ee creditors—a lienee, a mort gagee, and a landlord. The assets were about equally divided in the securities of the two first creditors ; but our conserva tive laws making such ample provision for the protection of the last-named, it oc curred to the lienee that one security must be sacrificed for his benefit. The lienee having fully taken in the position, telegraphed to the landlord, an absentee : —“ A in trouble ; shall I act for you 1 ” The landlord, with that simpli city which characterises an aristocrat, replied, assenting and giving authority. The lienee seized the mortgagee’s secu rity for rent, satisfied the claim by sale, and thus avoided interference with his own position. If the quotation -was not a little over-wrought, and it might be too unriddled, I would exclaim with the royal Dane, “ Look, here, upon this picture, and on this ” : The first, the lienee ; the other, the same, in domestic life a meek, gentle youth, scarce capable of melting butter between his guileless lips.

The projectors of the Agricultural and Pastoral Loan Society are evidently enthusiastic believers in homeopathy. The catastrophe threatening our country from excessive borrowing they purpose avert ing by a further plunge ; but, without venturing to express any opinion as to the equity of their scheme, I think that I may write it off as done with. Every credit is due to the gentlemen who have taken such a paternal interest in the well-doing of the depressed farmers, but somehow I cannot divest my mind of an unworthy suspicion that that £60,000 would not circulate much further than the merchants’ pockets. A proposition, emanating from a high civic dignitary, to convert every available .sovereign into thirteen coins of the same specific value by the simple pro cess of a company, was very well received by the tri-weekly director of public thought. The originator soberly assures me that this scheme of multiplication is feasible ; but, as I have previously in formed this persuasive framer, I am not in search of an investment of such 'magni tude. If he will bring down a proposal of smaller pretensions, I may run a nimble sixpence or a modest groat in the venture. This is eminently a time of small change !

MONSTER CAPTIVE BALLOON FOR SYDNEY.

(Froni the Sydney Neivs, April 7th.)

Amongst the many novelties that will be exhibited at the tortbcoming exhibi tion in Sydney will be the captive balloon that created so great a sensa tion at the Exhibition in Paris last year. We understand that this or a similar balloon, has been secured for the Sydney Exhibition, and we have been favored by the gentleman (M. de Voight, late an officer of engineers in the French army) who has received the Exhibition com missioners’ permission to exhibit and work the said balloon here, with the following particulars :—The balloon is fastened by a thick rope to a steam engine, by which its movements are directed, after it has ascended to any height that may be thought desirable (at Paris the height was 2000 ft to 2500 ft.), and after having remained at this altitude for some time, it is hauled down by means of said engine. The car will contain about 30 persons. In Paris the success was so great that in tending passengers had to secure tickets several days before, and all the Royal and princely personages who were in Paris during the Exhibition made the ascent, amongst them the Prince and 1 Princess of Wales. The Prince as

cenilecl several times, and they all gave expression to the great satisfaction their aerial trip had afforded them. During the time of the Exhibition in Paris the balloon ascended more than 5000 times without the slightest ac cident, and it will no doubt surprise many to hear that the fortunate owner of the balloon cleared a profit of francs Hitherto nearly every proposed ascension of balloons in Sydney has been unsuccess ful, on account of the difficulties con nected with the gas supply. This balloon, however, will not be subject to that difficulty, as the aeronaut makes the gas required himself. The sort of gas used is called brint, and is made from sulphuric acid and iron. In Paris the balloon was made use of for conducting scientific experiments, which, of course, will also be done here. We have no doubt that the captive balloon will not be in want of patrons. Those whose good fortune it will be to make the ascent will have a wondrous beau tiful panorama before them, not equalled in any part of the world.

WOMEN IN BATTLE.

Mrs. Leroux, a widow of a lieutenant in the 48th Regiment, British army, has just died in England at the age of SB. From the passage of the Douro, May 12th, 1809, —she was then only 19 —till the battle of Salamanca, July 23rd, 1812, she was the constant com panion of her husband in Spain. An English paper records the fact that Senator Gordon’s wife was with him con stantly during the civil war; that in the Burmese war of 1826 three young and handsome native women, of rank, who were supposed to be gifted with super natural powers, so that no bullet could wound them, rode amongst the levies, encouraging them to fight against the English; and how r , on almost every battle field, the corpse of a woman is to be found among the slain. Sergeant- Major Cotton in his “ Voice from Waterloo,” says that there were many females found among the dead, and that all of them wore male attire, and were, known to have been as martial in their bearing as the ordinary rank and file. Just at the moment when Shaw, the life-guardsman, fell mortally wounded, “ after having killed nine of his steel-clad opponents,” a French officer, whose horse had been shot under him, seized the regimental colors of the 32nd Foot, which was carried by Lieutenant Belcher. A struggle ensued, and the Frenchman endeavored to draw his sword, when he was badly wounded in the breast by the thrust of a halbert, and was immediately after shot dead by a soldier named Lacey. It was in vain that Major Toole exclaimed, when it was too late, “ Save that brave fellow!” and after the battle the generous Major and Colonel Brown discovered that the French Hussar officer whom Lacey had shot was an exceedingly handsome young lady.

CURIOUS DELUSION.

Dr. E. H. Clark, an American physi cian of celebrity, who died a short time ago, left with Dr. O. W. Holmes the manuscript of a curious work entitled, “ Visions, a Study of False Light,” which has recently been published. It contains many curious facts, which came under the doctor’s own know ledge, and amongst others is the follow ing :—The subject was a retired mer chant of Boston, who was a man of parts and education. Possessed of an ample fortune, he devoted more time to intellectual and aesthetic pursuits than to business. He was particularly fond of music, was familiar with the work of great composers, and heard with delight the artists who interpreted them. Early in his career he occasionally visited Europe. These facts are given inci dentally, because it is probable that his love for music, had much to do with the extraordinary occurrence that hap pened to him. He had partaken of his usual diet, and followed his custom ary mode of life. Soon after retiring he fell asleep, and slept until 2 a.m., when he was awakened by the sound of music, which seemed to come from the street near his house. Thinking a serenade was going on, he got up to ascertain where it was, but discovered nothing. The sound ceased when he arose. On returning to bed he heard the sound of music again, and was at the same time surprised by the appearance of three persons, standing near each other, in his chamber, opposite the foot of his bed. It was his habit to sleep with the gas-light burning feebly near the head of his bed. He turned the gas on to its full power, and inspected the intruders. They appeared to be musicians, who were humming and singing as if in pre paration for a musical performance. He rang a bell which summoned his man-servant. John soon arrived, and was ordered to put the strangers out. “ There is nobody here, sir,” was John’s reply to the order. For a moment Mr. A. was not only amazed but alarmed. “ What ! ” he exclaimed, “do you see no one there?” “No one,” said John. “ Go where those chairs are, and move them,” was Mr. A.’s next direction. John did so. The strangers stepped aside, but did not go out. By this time Mr. A. had gathered his wits about him, and was satisfied he was the victim of a hallucination, and he determined to observe its phenomena. Two or three years after this phenomena Mr. A. suffered from a cerebral malady, which at length terminated fatally. Its precise character, however, was not ascertained even by a post mortem ex amination.

TO-DAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Destitute Children’s Home.

Auckland, Saturday.

A meeting of the subscribers to the Neglected and Destitute Children’s Home has been held. Justice Gillies presided. The Report showed 115 children in the Home; 21 boys and 12 girls at service, with in the Savings Bank to the credit of depositors. A meeting was also held to hear a pro posal from Miss Laura Smith, recently of London, to found a Young Women’s Home. The meeting was adjourned for further information. Volunteer Review. The volunteers intend to make a grand review on the Queen’s Birthday. The Native Meeting. A number of northern natives are leaving this settlement to attend the Native Meeting. , Stealing Liquor. James M‘Cormick, commission agent, was sentenced to two months’ imprison ment yesterday for larceny of bottled beer, the property of Edenborough; trading as John Reed and Co. • He laid information against Edenborough for selling beer without a license. Edenborough was fined to-day one shil-' ling and costs in three several cases. Wellington, Saturday. . Mr. George Thomas, auctioneer, has called a meeting of his creditors.

Government will introduce next ses sion the Bill to prevent solicitors practising as barristers unless they pass the latter examination.

MORE MORMON BUTCHERIES.

Some terrible disclosures were made at the trial of Bishop Robert T. Burton, for the murder of Miss Bella Bowman. From the facts stated it appeared that the Morrisites, to which the murdered woman belonged, were dissenters from the Mormon Church of Utah, and had made a little settlement in Weber country. On the 12th or 13th of June, 1862, there appeared on the hills .sur rounding their town a body of armed Mormons, numbering between 400 and 600, who commenced planting their guns over the village. A little boy was sent with a note to the Morrisites, who were given thirty minutes to surrender. The people were called together, and while they were in the Bowery listening to the reading of the note, one of the guns of the besiegers was discharged, killing two Morrisite women and carry ing away the chin of a little girl. Resistance was maintained for three days, when the besieged ran up a white flag and stacked their loaded arms some distance away. A company of the assailants then entered the village, and after placing themselves between the Morrisites and the stacked arms, Mr. Burton called on Morris and his fol lowers to surrender. Morris said to his people, “ All those who will follow me through life and death, step to one side.” At this Burton shot him, where upon Mrs. Bowman called him a “bloodthirsty hound,” and he im mediately killed her also, saying that no one could call him that and live. The witnesses proved that the massacre was hounded on by Burtonf It was shown that the deluded people had regarded their leader, Morris, as equal with Christ, and expected him to, rise from the dead.

A BEGGAR MILLIONAIRE.

A “ beggar-millionaire,” according to the Burger Zeitung of Berlin, has just died in Berlin. The old fellow left property amounting to more than a million ancEa half marks. ' He had a numerous family, children and grand children, and lived in splendid style in Berlin, giving sumptuous entertain ments, at which the champagne is said to have run in streams. The soirees were only attended by middle class - society, and were held only during the winter. In summer the jovial old gentleman invariably left his house for four or five months. It is now known that he has regularly frequented, at least until a few years ago, the principal bathing places in Germany, and that he gathered his immense plunder by beg ging. In wretched dress, with an in valid’s cap, blue spectacles, long snow white hair, and apparently palsied limbs, he used to shamble slowly along the promenades. * He never directly asked for anything, but used to- receive volun tary offerings from the visitors, and these amounted to a large sum, which was regularly despatched to Berlin every week. His biggest harvests were collected in the great gambling towns, when those places were in the full bloom of their hideous prosperity. He got the report well spread abroad that he had formerly been very rich, but had lost everything at the gaming table. He would pace to and fro in and around the great building at Baden Badeh, and more than once during the day some player who had made a lucky stroke of business would sympathetically press a piece of gold upon the old man’s ac ceptance. He is said by the Burger Zeitung to have driven this profitable trade for thirty seasons, and to have owed the greater part of his well-invested fortune to this curious mania, for it became in time a mania, since he con tinued it long after he had become a man of unusual wealth. His last appearance was in Wiesbaden. One day, as he stood on the promenade, with a woe-begone aspect, and tremb ling with feigned illness, a Berliner called him aside, and informed him that he ; recognised him. That evening the old man took his ticket at the rail way station and steamed. -home to Berlin. He never appeared again in his character of beggar. ;

SaTuujav, Amt 36, 1879*]

THE ASHBURTON HERALD,



s. a: Butter, inferior to best $ lb 1 0 to I 2 Eggs, $ dozen I 6 to 0 O Cheese, prime quality, $ lb 0 JO to 0 O Bacon, prime smoked, b? lb 0 10 to 0 O Hams iD cloth, $ lb I 0 to 0 O Flour in bags, ioolb 12 6 to 14 0 Oatmeal, <1? 25R) 7 0 to 0 O Lard, lb * * - 0 9 to 0 O



Clothing Establishment. ENCOURAGE NEW ZEALAND INDUSTRIES. TO THE PEOPLE OF THE ASHBURTON DISTRICT. MESSRS. JJ ALLENSTEIN jg R O S. Desire to inform you that a RETAIL BRANCH of the NEW ZEALAND CLOTHING FACTORY. IS NOW OPEN IN THE NEW BRICK BUILDING ASHBURTON, (Next Bullock & Co.’s Rooms) To effectually introduce their Goods and drive out the imported article they have decided to sell a SINGLE GARMENT AT THE WHOLESALE PRICE. All goods are marked in plain figures, for net cash only. Any article purchased and not approved of will be exchanged with ■ the same courtesy with which it was sold, or, if desired, the money will be returned. The Success which has attended the New Zealand Clothing Fac tory’s Retail Branches in Auck land, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, and other towns, leads the Proprietors to believe that there exists a praiseworthy desire on the part of the public to encourage New Zealand Indus tries, especially where superior advantages are offered, and your support is solicited on this understanding only. WILLIAM SPARROW, Manager 467 Ashburton Branch.



Chemists. HERBAL MEDICINES. PERSONS suffering from liver com plaints, coughs, colds, worms, skin diseases, &c., are invited to try Nature’s cheap and universal remedy, , “PI E R B S. ” J ames Neil, importer of Herbs, and Bo tanic medicines, George street, Dunedin, has appointed MR. J. M. CAMBRIDGE, Chemist, Ashburton, Agent for his highly-extolled medicines, Composition Powder for colds, Dandelion Coffee and Dandelion Pills for liver com plaints, Headache Pills, Botanic Cough Syrup ~ Worm Powders ~ Stomach Bitters ~ Blood Purifier, &e. Roots, Herbs, Barks, &c. of every kind. 370 CAMBRIDGE’S ORANGE-QUININE TONIC-WINE IS acknowledged'to be the most agreeable and efficacious Tonic Stomachic yet pro duced. It contains the valuable Tonic proper ties ofPeruvianßark (“Quinine”) with the Stomachic properties of the Bitter Seville Orange, so combined as not to be objec tionable to the most delicate invalid ; and, as a “BITTERS,” is far superior to all other preparations. Invaluable to all suffering from loss of appetite, indigestion, general debility, ner vous affections, tic, ague, and derange ment of the system. When the stomach has become enfeebled or disarranged by disease, excess, or irregularities, or the appetite is impaired by mental or bodily exertion, or from any cause whatever, it gives a regularity and tone which is not obtained by any other medicine. One, two, or three wine-glass fuls may be taken during the day by persons suffering from the above com plaints, with the greatest benefit. It is highly recommended by the medical pro fession to be taken whenever Cod Liver Oil is ordered. By pouring the required dose of the oil into half a wine-glass of the “ Orange Quinine Wine ” scarcely a flavour of the oil is tasted, and the wine materially assists the oil in its beneficial operations. Price, 4s. 6d. per wine bottle, and sent (carriage free) in cases containing one dozen, at 48s. Sold retail by all Chemists, and manufactured by J. M. CAMBRIDGE, MEDICAL HALL ASHBURTON. 360 Business Notices. EORGE L L E N ACCOUNTANT, COLLECTOR, HOUSE, LAND, AND COMMISSION AGENT, Saunders’ New Buildings, Ashburton. 466



Business Notices. HODDER and COMPANY



w ANTED K SOWN ESPECIALLY, THAT T. R. HODDER & COMPANY HAVE OPENED THIS DAY A Large Assortment of MELBOURNE CLOTHING, Made expressly to order for Ashburton. SUITS, Superior Quality and Style. 24 OVERCOATS AND ULSTERS. 12 LATEST STYLE COATS. 50 PAIRS TROUSERS AND VESTS, Latest Style.



AISO, 26 CASES AND BALES (Ex Coriolanus) of WINTER DRAPERY and CLOTHING, Dress Stuffs, Blankets, Flannels, Scotch Goods, Calicoes, Sheetings, Doeskins, Hosiery, Carpets, Shirts, &c. &c., &., Expected to be opened in a few days. T. R. HODDER & COMPANY, East Street, Ashburton. 685



HODDER and COMPANY



Special Notice, Hooper, aitken and co. are prepared to make CASH ADVANCES ON GRAIN, OR OTHER PRODUCE ASHBURTON COUNTY COUNcET ERESH applications are invited from competent persons to act as PERRY MAN at the Rangitata Road Bridge Ferry. Particulars and conditions of appointment are on view at the Council’s Offices, Ash burton. Applications, with references, endorsed “Perryman Rangitata Bridge Ferry,” will be received at the Council’s Offices, Ashburton, up to 10 a.m. on WEDNESDAY, 4th day of June, 1879. SCALE OF CHARGES: For Passengers 1 0 ~ Horses (including horse & rider ... 2 6 ~ Vehicles 3 0 ~ Merchandise nil. „ Sheep, 2d. per score over 500 ; 6d. per score under 500. ~ Cattle and horses driven or led in a mob, 6d per head By order, F. MAINWARING. Clerk. Ashburton, April 22, 1878. 757



Advertisements for the Ashburton II ;rald must be sent in not later than 2 p.m. tor .be 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 O.fiee in writing, before 12 noon and alterations the day previous. Subscriptions : In Advance. If Booked Quarterly— Delivered in town Posted country s. d. s. d 60 6 6 80 8 6 80 8 6