COMMERCIAL.

Messrs Acland, Campbell and Co., Christchurch and Ashburton,: report on the stock market for the week ending Friday, October-3, as follows - We held our usual monthly sale at the Ashburton yards, on Tuesday, the 30th September. The Annual Horse Parade being held the same day brought a good many farmers into the township, causing an unusually large attendance at the sale yards, and more animation was shown throughout the day, especially in the cattle market, than has been the case for some time. Very few sheep came to han.dj-and.jfor. those the competition was not Very' brisk, but most of them were cleared at, current, rates. A large number of cattle.were yarded, and we were able to place every lot, with the exception of a few calves, at satisfactory prices. We quote three-year old steers in fair condi tion, £6 10s. to £7 10s. ; two-year olds, £4 ss. and £4 10s. to £4 17s. 6d. ; year lings in good condition, 40s. to 475. ; cows in profit, £6 10s. to £lO ; springing cows up to £7 105...; springing heifers from £5 10s. to £7 2s. Cd. The few pigs in fetched good prices. A good many horses were entered, but very few changed hands, as the home market ini this .district is at a complete standstill for the present, and we only of a few inferior horses at low Vates. L t . § * ■ 3 i * ■ * * * v.. : ———— -- -

ASHBURTON RETAIL LIST.

MEMORANDA.

MEETINGS.

This Evening

Fire Brigade—Monthly Meeting at Shear man’s Sample Rooms, 8 sharp. Borough Cricket Club—General Meeting, J Central Temperance Hotel, at 7.

The Ashburton Herald AND Borough and County Advertiser With which is incorporated the “Evening Echo”). TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1879.

At the peeking of the Borough Council last'' nlglit - tlie members had under con -1,, t i a „ suggestion made by the ii;;jM»yoE, iwhich.i they jiltiroately adopted, j.. , ,T)m .suggestion; w&s that: the Council should Hu ? the initiatory jiteps f orma } tioniof ,k. iMjwicip^l;.Association,. 1 ,tp.;eom priser,tlxe. bprougJi3, fljithin., .the .Provincial District of Canterbury.' In advocating the . steps < lieX counselled, / his Worship pointed out that the benefits to be derived fronjisufli ■jwpr.e.fnany, and " substaiitiat . in connection with j an organisatioii 1 of the character suggested! by ■'-possible- for a young borough! like: our :-bwn, or a small borough- whose wants are few and may- be .....supplied -by a* suimof amount-, to ip group I.itself ~ -with/ others,. ? andi jointly t .theidgroupedf t boroughs- .woiiMi be able to enter the London money market for a loan when a single small borough would not be able to float its own little

sqm, There can be no doubt that so far as thp raising of a loan is concerned the suggested Association, if it ever pomes into being, would be a material aid to small boroughs. But the question of borrowing, though just now it is of very great importance to every needy borough, and to the colony itself for that matter, is not the only one an Association like that indicated would be able to throw light upon.. There are a hundred and one subjects affecting municipalities, that it would be advantageous to have dis cussed by representatives from towns in dif ferent districts, and fsuch discussion would have the effect of distributing information, the results of experience and research that would be beneficial to all. The idea is not a new one. It has been successfully carried out in .Victoria, it obtains to some extent in England, and in Scotland the Convention of Royal Boroughs has met annually for thirty years.

The Borough’s Funds. —-Owing to the want of funds it has became necessary for the Borough Council to reduce the staff of men employed by them to the foreman.

Outgoing San Francisco Mail. — Mails for United Kingdom via San Fran cisco will close at the Ashburton post office on Friday evening at half-past seven o’clock.

Borough Cricket Club. —A general meeting of the members of this club will be held to-night, in the Central Tem perence Hotel. Fire Brigade. —The ' usual monthly meeting of the brigade will be held to night. The Borough’s Printing and Adver tising Account. —In a discussion that took place at the Borough Council last night, Mr. St. Hill volunteered the un qualified statement that, the printing and advertising account of Joseph Ivess against the Borough amounted to only £7l 175., while that of Weeks and Dixon reached. £l2O. We do not question Mr. St. Hill’s figures, but we do his honesty, when he sought to charge by implication his fellow Councillors with unjustly favoring Weeks and Dixon. Had the charge come through a medium worthy of notice at all, there would have been some chance of the in jury intended being done ; but as it only came through Mr. St. Hill, the statement is harmless. Still, lest there should be any danger of its being looked at in the light it was intended, we may as well give our version of the affair. Every leaf of printing done for the Borough by Weeks and Dixon has been’done by contract, for which Joseph Ivess had every opportunity to tender if he had chosen. He did ten der, and was unsuccessful, hence the fact that Weeks and Dixon’s account is higher than his. Had his tenders been accepted the cost to the Borough would have been somewhat higher than it is now. As re gards the advertising, the accident of the “ Herald ” appearing every evening may have secured for it an occasional adver tisement, when it was the only means of advertising any particular thing that re quired publicity in the intervals of the tri-weekly publication, but that only shows the value of the evening paper. As re gards the future division of the adver tisements between the three Ashburton papers, as the division is to be made with out increasing the cost of advertising, and at the same time materially increasing the publicity given; to the announcements, the Council only showed their high sense of “ justice and business economy ” when they adopted Mr. Friedlander’s motion.

TO-DAY’S COURT.

(Before Mr. F. Guinness, R.M.)

A man named Gibson, for being drunk, was fined £1 or 48 hours’ imprisonment. Charles Kitchen, an inmate of the Old Men’s Home, was charged by the master of the Home , with insubordination. From the evidence of the master and several of the old men, it appeared that last night Kitchen was upset by finding, that the pannikin in which his tea was poured out had been used as a shaving pot, and that the gentleman who utilised it had not re moved the hairs and soap. Accused had declared that he would rather he in gaol than in a half-and-half sort of place like the Home, and this-morning prepared to take a walk to town, contrary to the rules of the institution. On the master remon strating, Kitchen became so violent, and made use of such obscene language that a policeman was sent for, who took the of fender into custody. Mr. Guinness grati fied Kitchen’s wish to inhabit an estab lishment that was not a half-and-half, but an out-and-out prison by sending him to gaol for three months. Dudson v. Maclauchlin, junr.—Claim, £4 6s. Judgment by consent with costs, Ede v. Moore—-Claim, £ls 18s 6d, for “ tuckering two men ” Ede and Moore had two distinct contracts at Chertsey. Ede employed a contract cook to prepare food for his men. Moore had no cook and his men came to Ede’s camp, and for eleven weeks, it was alleged, “ wittled free” at Ede’s expense. Ede made a claim upon Moore for the cost of the men’s food. Moore denied liability, con tending that he had never given, his men any authority to incur a debt against him, and that he made no contract with them to find their food. Their agreement with him was simply for 25s a week. After a lengthed hearing, and the Bench had been addressed by Mr Harris, for defen dant, and Mr Branson for plaintiff, the. Court reserved judgment until after lunch, when the plaintiff was awarded £ls 18s Bd, which included costs.

The Kumara.— 'The Kurnara “Times” of Tuesday says * There are now thirteen tunnels at the new rush at Cape Terrace, on good payable gold, the last of this number having struck the wash on Satur day last when in 400 feet. This claim which is known as Burns and party, is in close proximity to Tansey’s, and the average prospects obtained are between three and four grains.to the dish.”

A New Phase of Co-operation.—A flourishing Parisian art threatens to take root in London. It is an old trick in Paris for extravagant young women to take -their • lovers into jewellers’ shops and induce 1 these lovers to purchase for them articles of jewellery, made of paste, at an immensei price, the ladies and jewellers sharing the profits between them. I now hear'of' a 'dressmaker having in her pay certain' elegant females, who get men to ■order -certain handsome dresses from her which are never- 1 sent home. This will probably be accepted as the newest development of the co-operative system.— Mayfair.

TELEGRAPHIC.

TO-DAY’S TELEGRAMS.

INTERPROVING IA L.

Wellington,: Oct. 7.

At the Supreme Court this morning Frank A. Moore, for larceny, was sen tenced to twelve months’ hard labor: Walter Thomson, for embezzlement, re ceived six months; and William Matheson, for larceny, got twelve months’ hard labor. The Grand Jury found a true bill against the natives for forcible entry on land at Gisborne. They then adjourned till to-morrow to consider the bill against Flexman, Ward, and others, for rioting at Gisborne.

Nelson, Oct. 7. Mr. Jellyman, an old settler, was killed by bis horse bacldng his trap over an em bankment.

The official enquiry re the wreck of the Messenger is still proceeding. The cap tain, and chief and second officers have been examined. The two former attribute the wreck to a strong current not indicated on the chart; the second officer considers it an error of judgment made by not put ting the ship about earlier. Blenheim, Oct. 7.

A man named Thomas Farmer, who left Havelock for the diggings last Friday, was found drowned yesterday in Flat Creek. Three Greek fishermen left town on Saturday morning to go fisning. _ They were seen leaving the bay in their boat about noon the same day, but as they have not since been heard of it is feared they perished during the heavy gale which sprung up that evening. The rudder of a boat corresponding to the one attached to the boat in which they left has been found on the beach.

LAST NIGHT’S CABLEGRAMS.

EUROPEAN.

London, Oct. 3.

Total reserve of notes and bullion in the Bank of England £20,875,000. Total stock of tallow in London at date 7500 casks. Oct. 4. Stock market buoyant. Cetewayo has arrived at Capetown. Madrid, Oct. 3. The Cuban insurgents have been de feated with heavy loss. Rome, Oct. 3. At an interview between Signor Cairvi and the Austro-Hungarian Ambassador, friendly assurances were exchanged. Athens, Oct. 3.

The negotiations.of the Commission on of the Greek frontier have come to a stand still. :

AUSTRALIAN.

(Reuter's Telegram. ) Melbourne, Oct. 6. The Hon. Graham Berry is seriously indisposed.

LAST NIGHT’S TELEGRAMS.

Auckland, Oct. 6.

In the bribery case in connection with the . Auckland City West election, Mr M‘Donald, R.’M., gave judgment to-day, in favor of plaintiff, whom he awarded full costs. Plaintiff intends taking further proceedings to follow up the petition sent by him to the Assembly. Wellington, Get. 6. .

At the Supreme Court to-day, Bridget Ling, for burglary at Upper Hutt, was acquitted. Truebills have been found in the cases of George Snooks, for larceny, and Cornelius Fisher, for horse stealing and stealing a cow. Hokitika, Oct. 6.

The Clematis, ketch, arrived here to day from Lyttelton. Captain Russell re ports that on the 4th inst, about 25 miles south of Cape Foulwind, being hove to in a gale of wind, at about 9 a.m,, a heavy sea struck the vessel and carried off the mate, Richard Parris, a passenger named Stenhouse, and the captain’s son, a lad seven years old. Parris was washed back again, Stenhouse caught hold of a rope hanging over the side, and in doing so had to let go the little boy whom he was supporting at the time. Stenhouse was hauled on board, but the lad sank and was seen no more. The ships in harbor hoisted flags half-mast. Much sympathy is expressed for the father. Christchurch, Oct. 3.

The Grand Jury found true bills against R. W. Jones, forgery and uttering; W. Barnard, sheep stealing; T. H. Reed, larceny; J. McCallum, receiving stolen property;; W. Woods, larceny from the person : E. Jones, forgery : Jane Mahoney, forgery and uttering; Mary Halliday, false pretences ; Smart, rape ; J. Miller and E. Clarkson, attempted rape ; the same robbery with violence; W. Hall, perjury. No bill was found against W. H. McDonald, unnatural offence, and the Grand Jury were dis charged. Robt. Wm. Jones, William Barnard, and T. H. Reed, pleaded guilty, and were sentenced to six years’ penal servitude and one day’s imprisonment respectively. Reed is a boy, and was let off lightly in consequence of his youth, his good cha racter, and the inability of the authorities to separate young from old prisoners. Thomas McCallum charged with receiv ing the goods R.ed had stolen got six months.

Alary Halliday pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to a month’s imprisonment. Edward Jones and Jane Mahoney were found respectively not guilty and guilty, the latter received a sentence of one year imprisonment. J ohn Millar and Edward Clarkson were sentenced to ten years’ penal servitude, for robbery with violence, and the other charge was withdrawn. The libel case against Matthew Hall fell through, as the Crown Prosecutor declined to appear, and the plaintiff, Bates, refused to take the duty of prose cuting. It was stated in Court that one of the prisoners who received sentence of six years’ penal servitude, is of a highly respectable family, and heir to a large estate in Wales.

Three prisoners, named respectively John James, John Irvine, and Win. Thompson, attempted this afternoon to escape from Lyttelton goal. They were all very soon recaptured. John Janies was convicted at last session of Supreme Court for attempting to commit an

obominttblo olfimco at Tituaru, j<>lm Irvine, who hears the aliases of John Jack and Jack McGuire, was convicted and sentenced to ten years’ penal servi tude last session, and William Thompson was sentenced about 12 months ago at the Christchurch Supreme Court to ten years’ penal servitude for housebreaking. Invercargill, Oct. 6.

At a meeting of the Invercargill Rifles to-night, a resolution was passed to the ef fect that Christmas week would be a most inconvenient week for the members to at tend the proposed volunteer demonstra tion at Christchurch, but that nearly every member will be able to attend were it to be held during Easter week or the one following. Dunedin, Oct. 6.

At the criminal sessions of the Supreme Court before Justice Williams, true bills, were found against Matthew William Hawkins, for embezzlement, and Jonathan Richardson, for assault and robbery. Both prisoners pleaded guilty. Richardson was. sentenced to six months’ hard labor. Hawkins’ sentence was deferred. Oct. 5. Arrived—Good Templar, from Invercar gill (put back). Oct G. Arrived—Hawea, s.s. from Auckland,) via East Coast. Arrived—Prince Rupert, Ketch from Catlin’s River. Sailed Catlin, ketch, for Catlin’s River. Sailed—Janet Ramsey, schooner, for Catlin’s River. At the criminal .sessions to-day, Judge Williams said that the charges, though few in number, were of an unusually serious character. The calendar com prises charges of arson, murder, rape, and of the misappropriation of sums of money by persons placed in situations of trust. The Grand Jury found true bills in the following cases : —Matthew W. Hawkins, embezzlement (two indictments); J. Richardson, assault and robbery ; Andrew Murray, rape ; William Waters, murder and arson ; Alexander Pocard, cattle steal ing ; and Thomas Chalmers Reid, embez zlement (two indictments). Mr Haggitt intimated that he was pre paring an indictment in the case of James Smith, committed that day for murder, and his Honor requested the Grand Jury to return to-morrow and consider it.

Andrew Murray, for rape upon his own daughter, was found guilty, and sentenced to fifteen years’ penal servitude. Waters’ case, arson and murder, will he tried on Monday. At the police Court to-day, James Smith, a tailor, was committed for trial for the murder of his wife, Ann Smith, on Sept. 28. Oamaru, Oct. 6. 1

Alfred James Twinning was charged at the Resident Magistrate’s Court, to-day, with obtaining goods by means of a value - less cheque from David Ferrier, and re manded till Friday. The weather for the past week has been very cold and raw with occasional rain and high winds. No damage is reported. To-day there was a change for the better.

THE YOUNG PRETENDER.

(Cassell's Illustrated History of England.) Charles Edward, at the time of his landing in Scotland, was in person tall, well formed, accustomed to active pur suits in the woods and wilds of France and Italy. In the chase he had acquired the athletic vigour and elastic endurance necessary. for the fatigues of war. He was in countenance handsome,- and in manners graceful, open, and attractive. The blood of the Sobieski had softened the harshness and blackness of the Stuart feature. He is described as having an oval contour of face and a fair complexion: his eyes light blue, and his fair hair generally worn naturally—contrary to the fashion of the times, which was all for wigs. He was cordial and gay in his demeanour, and frank and insinuating at the same time in his conversation with all classes. Those who saw him in the brief Court of Holyrood describe his handsome person, his elegant yet dignified manners, with enthusiasm. In the campaign which he conducted he certainly displayed all the enthusiasm, the courage, and the per severance which became the leader of such an enterprise. Spite of some charges of cowardice against him, had he been able to carry out all that he dared and all that lie planned, the invasion of England might have had a different ter-, mination. He was overruled by the Highlanders, on whom his whole chance depended. Nor was the interior un worthy at that date of the pleasing ex terior. He was generous, daring, affec tionate in his domestic relations, showing a zealous sympathy for his folio vvers both in their trials and their sufferings. But these fine qualities had never been culti vated to the splendour which they might have acquired. His qualities were native and unimproved ; his education had been grossly neglected. Whilst his father could not act with any heroism or deci sion, he could write with the most striking wisdom and grace of style ; Charles, who could both act and dare, could scarcely spell. He wrote a vile, straggling hand, his knowledge in every department was scanty, and in some essentials totally wanting. He spelt a sword, “sord;” humour, “ umer;” and his own father’s name, “ Gems.” This was the disgrace of his father rather than his own. While his orthography and his prosody, too, were grievously defective, there lacked no evidence of mind and spirit in his letters, showing that, with culture, Charles Edward would have made not only a brilliant but an admirable character. He had all the elements of a fine prince, but education, or rather the want of it, and failure, ruined him. He was accused of being penurious ; but when we consider the mean resources with which he under took this most stupendous enterprise, we see causes enough for care and economy ; whilst, on the other hand, he suffered the sharpest evils by refusing to get into debt, to the probable ruin of his friends. “I never love to owe,” he says in his letters; “but onj the contrary, I will deprive myself of little conveniences rather than run into debt.” Such were the qualities of the young prince, which enabled him to land in the most powerful kingdom of Europe with one little vessel and seven followers, raise the Highlands, pour down like an avalanche upon the whole conntry, defeat the arms of the English at Falkirk and Prestonpans, advance like a rushing torrent into' the very heart of England, affrighting the capital and paralysing the Court, and being only turned back again by the less enduring spirit of his mountain followers.

ASHBURTON BOROUGH COUNCIL.

The usual fortnightly meeting of the Borough Council was held last night. Pre sent—The Mayor (presiding), Messrs. Roberts, Saunders,- St. Hill, Williamson, Friedlander, and Campbell.; - mayor's statement. The Mayor said that since last meeting he had been waited upon by a number of working men—many; of; the in. old residents with large families—soliciting work. He had waited upon the County Council ask ing them to urge upon the Government the necessity of extending the Mount Somers ; railway with a view to finding work for the unemployed. .Ho was dis appointed with the reception he had met with at the County Council, who appeared to be lukewarm as to finding employment for these men. He had again been waited upon by the inert, and had promised to telegraph to Mr. Wright. In reply to •: his telegram he had received another from : Mr. Wright stating that work could be j found for the men on the Albury line. J This was to a certain extent satisfactory, 1 but Avhat Avas most Avanted was that work j should he found for the men Avitliin the district, and the extension of the Mount Somers line was means lying to the Go- j vernment’shand for supplying the needed employment. It had been mentioned, that there was a possibilty of the £SOOO ; already voted by the County Council! being required to be refunded. He might say that that sum Avas granted to the Borough when it Avas within the County, and before the municipality of Ashburton existed. He desired to bring before the Council the idea of forming a convention of Boroughs in the Middle Island, Avitli a vieAv to united action in such matters as the raising of a loan. It had often been ; stated that small Boroughs were unable to raise a loan in .the London market, for instance their OAvn Borough required a loan of £15,000, Avhile Timaru required another of £30,000. Were a group of Boroughs; to unite they Avould be able to enter the London market for £IOO,OOO, and thus he able to raise necessary funds. There Avere other advantages that .would Accrue from such a convention, such as the preparation of by-laws, and the inter-, change of ideas Avould certainly be bene ficial. He had received a drawing of the rural endowment land at the Hinds that had been given to the Borough by the : Government. , 'board of river conservators. The Clerk to the County Council Avrote enclosing a copy of a letter forwarded to the member for the district, approving of the Borough Council’s suggestion regard ing the formation of a Board of Conserva tors, and requesting him to urge on the Government the advisableness of adopting the Borough’s suggestion—viz., to intro duce a Bill providing for elective Boards. It Avas resolved to strengthen the County’s hands by also writing to the member for the district, urging him to press the matter on the notice of the Government. THE BOROUGH’S ADVERTISING. .Messrs Weeks and Dixon Avrote, solici ting a share of the Borough’s advertising for the “ Ashburton Guardian.” Mr St. Hill said it was not advisable to spend any more money on the matter of advertising,- and moved that the adver tising be divided between the lavo offices and not between the three,papers. , r .... , Mr Roberts seconded. Mr Friedlander moved an amendment, “ That the advertising he divided betAveen the three papers. ”

Mr Parkin seconded,

Mr St. Hill said this amendment ap peared to be a pre-arranged matter. It had cropped up in all the public bodies, and was evidently a move to take the advertising from one paper to support the other. An evening paper had been started some time ago, and when it asked for advertising it had been refused. Mr. Campbell reminded Mr St. Hill that he had advocated advertising in that evening paper during its brief but not bright career, and one ■ advertisement had actually appeared in it. On a division the amendment was car ried by 5 to 3. THE WATER SUPPLY. Messrs John Cochrane and Co., West minister Chambers, London, the manufac turers of the pipes for the borough water supply wrote, acknowledging the receipt of a letter of credit for £4,000, in payment for the pipes ordered by the borough, but stating that it would be difficult for them to complete the order before the credit expired, viz., the 20th October. They asked that the credit be extended to cover the time required to fulfil the order already in hand, and also the further order for irregular pipes, or that a further credit be sent with the order for the irregular pipes required. • : 7 /"'■< ' ' the £2OOO loan. - ' The County Chairman wrote, in reply to the deputation that waited upon the County Council at its last meeting, on the subject of an advance of £2,000, on the security of the borough’s authorised loan of £15,000, that the Council’s solicitor had given an’ opinion on the subject, which was that such disposal of the County’s funds was against the Counties Act. The Chairman expressed the County’s readi ness to assist the borough in the way sug gested had the course been a legal one. THE LAMPLIGHTER. The Mayor stated that the matter of extinguishing the street lamps earlier than the Council’s contract with the Gas Com pany provided had been seen to by the Company, and all complaint would be re moved in future. THE UNEMPLOYED. A telegram from Mr E. G. Wright, M.H.R., was read, stating that men could be employed on the works at Albury or Weka Pass. The Mayor hoped the Council, would give a strong expression of opinion in favor of the extension of the Mount Somers railway. It was the very best means of absorbing the unemployed men, many of whom were actually in want, of bread for their children.

Mr Roberts said it was a peculiar pro ceeding on the part of the Government to take a mile off the length of the line so as to bring the cost of the job within the es timate,

Mr Williamson moved a resolution em bodying the Borough Council’s regret that a length of the Mount Somers line had not been placed at- the disposal , of the unemployed. The uncompleted line, un extended as it was now intended to re main, was useless while it was incomplete, aud a part of it utilised for the employ ment of the now idle men would have the effect of relieving many distressed families,

and kobping in Uu> district Until harfuaf: men avlio would .otherwise be compelled to loavo it, and their removal would be a great loss to the County. A. j;-: :

Mr Saunders seconded the motion Avhich Avas carried, with an additional re solution that the Mayor and Messrs Saunders, Friedlander, and; Williamson be appointed to draAv up a letter setting forth the Avholo circumstances, to be for- Avarded to the Colonial Secretary, and to Mr Wright, M.H.R.

In the course of discussion on the sub ject some severe strictures were passed upon the members of the County Council for their apparent opposition tp the Mount Somers line, or at least their lukeAvarm ness in having its claims for its comple tion urged upon the Government. PROPOSED CONVENTION OF BOROUGHS. The Mayor introduced the subject of a Convention of Boroughs. He pointed out: the advantages of. such an organisation, 1 Avhich might include the boroughs in-; Canterbury and meet every three months,! or the Avhole of the Middle Island,, boroughs, and meet less frequently, or; the whole boroughs of the colony, and; meet say annually. It aaois an institution; "that had been existing in Victoria- and elseAvhere, and had been found to be very beneficial.' f ' ;!ii - •'/ *' ! ' •*/*" ihi , ‘ j After some remarks favorable- to the subject by Mr Saunders, i.|;;r ./

Mr. Friedlander moved—“ That in the opinion of this Council it is advisable to; form an Association composed of all the! boroughs in the Canterbury Provincial; district, with a view to furthering the in-; terests of municipalities. ” Mr. Campbell seconded, expressing his belief .that such an Association Avould be a great aid to small, boroughs. in. raising loans. He thought, however, that Go vernment should be able to exercise some supervision over the raising of. such loans.: The Mayor said the Association Avould exercise sufficient control. , . j Mr. Parkins pointed out that no loans could be raised Avithout the sanction of the ratepayers. ... v .... . r . . ......... , j The resolution Avas carried. | Mr. Saunders moved thata copy of the resolution be sent to the various boroughs in the-provincial district, which Avas carf ried. - - - -< ' * ; engineers’ report. /. —The Labour Gang have been engaged in trimming the side channels, putting in bridges, making fence and gate at the Borough Council offices, also carting shingle to the offices, on foot path in. Havelock street leading to the Scotch Church, and on some of the streets where earth had been filled in holloAvs. This latter Avas done through a misunder standing, and the carts kept on longer than we intended. Tlie work had been pointed out- as advisable to be done ; but the overseer mistook, our future inten tions as instructions to have it completed before the carts Avere knocked off. ■*-- i

2. —A E. Town Belt.

The contractor has made good progress with this work, the metal being delivered and stacked.

— N. . E. Town Belt.

We find there is more stuff to be re moved than was calculated. It Avould be. advisable to deposit it in the gully on each ’ side of the formation now being made. A few more pipes would be-re quired, and Ave believe the Road Board Avould agree to a small extra expense in order to make a good job. ; The Foreman wishes to apply for the use of the enclosed plantations on the N. W. belt for planting potatoes between the i’oavs of the trees. We venture to recom mend the entertaining of his application under certain conditions, as the ground Avill be, Avell cultivated and'kept free from weeds, and the trees would thus have a fair start for the first year. • j We have prepared a list of works on hand and likely to be required for the use of the Works Committee. : , '.. , ; It was resolved to alloAV the foreman the use of the plantations/ as requested. It Avas also resolved to reduce the; staff to only one man, - owing to the Avant of funds. -OFFICE FURNITURE, ‘ j : It was resolved to leave the purchase of tables, etc.,, for the- new offices in the hands of the Mayor, Engineer, ; and Clerk. - ; REDUCTION OF DEPARTMENTS. Mr.St. Hill.moved the motion of which he had given notice, to appoint a commit tee to consider the best means of reducing the Council’s departmental expenditure. He nominated the Mayor, and Councillors Roberts, Parkin, Campbell, and the mover.-; -• , , : A. ;:- -A j Mr. Parkin seconded, and the motion Avas carried. ACCOUNTS.. Acconnts to the amount of £222 0s 7d were passed for payment, and the Council adjourned.

LOWER ASHBURTON ROAD BOARD.

. The .usual monthly meeting of this Board was held at the Willowby School house on Saturday, the 4th October. Present Mersrs Grigg (chairman), Clarke, Dawson, and Taylor. Correspondence was real from Mr. John Bell, protesting against the Board purchasing any land from Mr. Hubbard as the land was still his (Mr. Bell’s). The Clerk was directed to try and arrange the matter by next meeting. From Mr. James Scott, asking that bridges may be erected over the large drains now made on each side of the Boundary road. j The bridges will be erected when funds permit. From the Ashburton County Council, stating that the Council had recommended to Government that the name of the district should be altered from Lower Ashburton to Longbeach. From the same, to the effect that Mr. Findlay’s application for payment for services rendered as ferryman at the lower Rangitata ferry could not be enter tained as Mr. Findlay acted entirely on his own responsibility and without authority. From the same, informing the Board that the Connty Engineer had been in structed, in conjunction with the Board’s Surveyor, to make a survey. of the district from the Wheatstone to Cold scream, with a view to reporting on the arterial drainage of that district. From the same, stating that Mr. Robert Little had been appointed as poundkeeper at the Hinds pound in accordance with the Board’s recommendation.

r- ’Ftiedlaijdop Bros. h Ash buit6n, s :as'?ing.Hho Board to insure its buildings in tho’r office. Clerk to reply that all the Board’s buildings are in sured. j | From Messrs. i Weeks and Dixon, offer ing fo supply the Board with a file of the ‘ ‘ Ashburton : Guardiau,’’ gratis, provided that it be kept': in the Board’s office for >■future reference. The. offer, was accepted, and it was re solved to ask the other Ashburton papers to do the same. From Mr J as. Butts, contractor for the bridge over the Hinds, on Surveyor’s road, asking that that road may be, put in repair so as- to permit of -his timber on to the ground. / - T To be to, that at present the Board’s funds would not ,p,ermib wqf.jiny thing being done. . From Mr C. H. Dowding/'-asking, on behalf of Mr John Studhplme,."-that; the final part of formation of Crow’ribroad he done, f 1 J'-ocxiau sttaj) - vJL

Surveyor will/report;forjfuture work. , A .letter was .received from of NeAV. Zealand,; in reply' to? an application made by the Chairman• for.' an overdraft, to the effect that the Bank ppuld only allow an overdraft of :£4bQ v fqr. a short time;'/- ■ “*?*** 3&MM- It was resolved/that'.the. Chairman be requested to write to manager of the Bauk again,: urging-him to‘grant;,, the re quired ' oyerdrffi : t,; pomting outTthat stKe Board’s portion of the‘£loo,ooo had been applied for by the County. Council, and this, when received/.Will ib'erp'aidlby. the County at once : also drawing the atten tion of Bauk to. the fact , that large sums have lain to the Board’s predit, and - that this is the first time ‘thafran Overdraft has been, applied for. ,jyj- It Avas further resolved—“ That the .Chairman . be', requested write f -the Government urging them* to'pay at,once our portion of fthe grant.of ahd also the' subsidy now'due,' as’ contracts have been let on the faith, of these-money 3 being paid, and tile worfis being uoav com plete the working men rare depending on the . punctuality of "the Government for payment. I ” £EQ.il o- ‘xMl At It was the advertising of the Board be given equally to all of the three,local newspapers.” . >( . And—“ That notice be given/ tbat ht a special meeting of this Board to beheld at the Water ton. Library,., pn Tuesday the 21st inst, at 4 o’clock, p.m. , J ; it is the in tention of the Board to strike a general Trate of one shilling Jin, the £ on all the rateable property situated within' theJctis trict ” C-T2SAOITCLTA JXL

• A lengthy- report.-from, the Surveyor was read, : in , which a good deaL of new Avork, and a more efficient manner of com pleting some; works mow in • haifd t was re commended, hut owing’, to. the 1 deficiency of funds these matters:-liad .all: to stand over with the exception of the fencing?in of the neAV Road Board office paddock, and a ditch on the Longbeach Road. The meeting then adjourned.

An “ Irregular Marriage.”— Those who have read Wilkie:Collin.;sf ‘ManAnd Wife,” Avill easily understand how, under -the Scotch law, the.-marriage described, in the ‘fbU6wiiig'’“"i)aragraph • .from the ‘‘ Glasgow Herald,” of. August 5, could be possible : —Yesterday a rare occurrence Avas witnessed iii the Sherriffs Court, Dumfries, before Sheriff Hope, in the shape of a declaration of marriage, and request for an order to the Registrar to register the same. Alexander Morrison Phillip, bank accountant, Moffat, and and Bessie Read/ a young-lady from Car lisle, accompanied by several male friends, appeared in Court, and presented a peti tion to the Sheriff, to the effect that in the “ Liver” inn, Dumfries, that day they had mutually; subscribed a declara tion that they had taken each other for husband and wife, and praying that the Sheriff Avould grant authority to the Re gistrar .of. Dumfries tor-record their mar ‘riage in the register ; of marriages for the Burgh of Dumfries. Thomas Halliday and AndreAv Coutts, both of Moffat, gave evidence that the.male petitioner had re sided in Moffat more than 21 days, and that they were present in the “Liver” inn when the parties made the written decla ration/ and: which'- was/also subscribed by them as Avitnesses thereto. The proceed ings though certainly simple enough, occu pied about an hour in .recording the evi dence in Avriting, and preparing an inter locutor authorising the Registrar to record the marriage in the Register of Marriages for Dumfries. The marriage Avas recorded in the register in due course. There is no fee exigible by the Sheriff-Clcrk-Depute for his trouble.

The Unemployed. —At the meeting of the Borough Council last night, the Mayor read a telegram he had received from,Mr, E. G. Wright, M.H.R., intimating that work was available Tor unemployed men upon the Albury- works, and at Weka Pass. Though this was in ope sense satisfactory as being something between the unem ployed men and absolute want, it was far from the wish of the members of the Council that the men should be compelled to leave the district, when work, -if Go vernment had a mind, could be found for them nearer home on the extension of the Moupt Somers Railway. The councillors were not stinted -in their expressions of dissent from the course pursued by the County Council, who had not done what it was thought they might have done to urge upon Government the advisableness of. pushing on the. Mount Somers line with a view to absorbing the surplus labor. It was resolved to appoint a com mittee to draw up a letter/to the .Colonial Secretary, and our own energetic member setting forth the whole circumstances of the case with a view tc prevailing upon the Public Works Department to take action in the matter.

Precept and Example.—Mr. Punch, in the preface to his seveniysixth volume, has an immaginary colloquy with Cete wayo, in which the sable monarch gets the best of the argument. “If you have,” says he, “ missionaries left at home, why do they not teach you the same things as they teach me 1 They tell me I must not invade Englishman’s country. English man invade mine. They forbid me to wash my spears in' Boers’ blood. English man wash his bayonets in Zulus’. They teach me I must not keep up my army of young men. Englishman keep up his army of younger men than mine. They say I must not kill Zulu/ Englishman kill Zulu. I must not take your cattle. You take mine. I must not settle on Englishmen and Boers’ land. English men and Boers settle on my young men’s. ”

.fTtJKSDAVj October ?■, i&j g,

JHE ASHBURTON HERALD.



s. •a. s. d. Butter* linferipr to best $. H> I 1 : to I 0 Kggs^ : dozen* > -* i 0 to 0 0 Cheese, prime quality, H? lb o 8 to 0 10 Bacon, prime smoked,"i? lb o 9 to 0 19 Hams iD, cloth, lb I 0 to 0 0 Flour in bags, ibolb ■ ' 14- 6 to 0 0 Oatmeal, $ 251b - 6 0 to 0 4 Lard, Ifc - - " • 0 9 to 0 0



, () Clothing •OV'i'it' Y&afl ■ ’• fcOOTHu*;;;: J ■ :■ &h:i r{vjj'iXd N .«• in - Z/ >' j. r. i . ‘ • ■ ASSIGNMENT of the estate OF ■ / • MESSRS. AITKEN, PASCOE & CO., CLOTHING MANUFACTURERS, Mr. J. H. Morrison, i-y ? L Manager Mosgiel Woolen Factory, ~ AND Mr. ’ John Ross, ...... Of Sargood, Sons & Ewing ► 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 sell the same again in our Branches direct to the public at prices at which we could not legitimately sell our own Goods. In fact (without exaggeration) during the next few weeks we are in a position to offer ... ...... v /„ ....... NEW GOODS " IN MEN’S AND BOYS’ ATTIRE, J / 'j ( Of Colonial Manufacture, at from .ONE THIRD TO ONE ..HALF THEIR' USUAL COST. * * ,/u>■ a;• -i. •• •.• • ‘ ' . J HALLENSTEIN BROS., 'New Zealand Clothing Factory. rIV ‘ The assigned Stock will be for Sale in opr l & Ashburton i Branch from and on NEXT, 28th JUNE. New Zealand Clothing Factory.