COMMERCIAL.

Auckland, Jan, 23. Mr. Binney reports that the produce market shows no activity, and prices remain stationary. Southern flour is coming forward in excess, and stocks in store are heavy. Southern flour £lO to £ll, and has changed hands at £9. Adelaide flour, £l3 10s. to £l4 ; bran, £5 10s. to £6 ; maize, none in market; pollard, £$ 15s. to £6; oats, 4s. 6d.; oatmeal, 225. ; pearl barley, £24 ; local cheese, 6d. to 7d. ; hams and bacon, iri cloth, Bd.; ditto, bags, 6d. to 7d; potatoes, £2 10s. to £6 10s. Timber, large orders in market, prices very firm. The stock of grain is large, and millers have raised the price of local-grown wheat to five shillings. Wellington, Jan. 23.

Mr. George Thomas reports on the markets as follows Flour, Adelaide, £lB, still very scarce and price reported as being very easily obtained; colonial flour, £lO 10s. to £ll, market full; oats, 4s. sd. to 4s. 6d,, in demand for good samples; bran, is. to is. 2d. wheat, 4s. ; good fowls’ wheat, rather scare market, being full of inferior samples ; hams 9j£d. ; bacon, Bd. ; cheese, to market entirely bare and consignments will obtain a ready sale; maize, 5s 3d., scarce; pollard, 75.; butter, iod; potatoes, Bs., very scarce.

Jan. 24. James O'Shea reports Flour, Adelaide, no stock, £l6, falling in price; Oamaru and 'Canterbury, £lO to ;£ioss.; bran, is. is. id. ; oats, 4s. to 4s. id.; potatoes, 6s. 6d. to 7s. ; maize, 45". 6d.‘ to 4s. 9d. ; no malting barley offering; hams and bacon, country cured, nominal, sd. to 6d.; salt butter, Bd, to gd. Christchurch, Jan. 23. Messrs. H. Matson and Co. report on the live stock market, &c., for the week ending Thursday, Jan. 23, as follows : Live Stock Market.—At the usual weekly sale held on Wednesday at the Metropolitan yards the supply of mutton, although limited, was slightly in excess of the previous week. A fair proportion of store sheep (mostly two tooth cross-bred being also penned.) At the commencement of the auction the attendance was small, and at the first sale one or two prices were a little under the day’s average, but this was soon recovered, and every pen of mutton was cleared with a brisk competition at prices from 2s. to 3s. per head over rates a month since. Mr. James Bell’s prime quality cross-breds being sold at ns. 7d. Store sheep, as now brought to hand, are showing an im provement in condition, and the desire to do business on the part of buyers is certainly keener, advanced rates being offered, but owners, on the strength of the little rain we have had, are in many cases asking a rise of fully 20 per cent, in value, consequently but few changes are being effected. The cattle sale throughout certainly exhibited a decided improvement in tone, as not only was the large entry of beef quitted freely, but nearly every line of store cattle changed hands at better values, a large number being bought for shipment to the North Island. In fat cattle our principal sales were—4 heifers at £8 10s. 7 at £B, 3 at £9 7s. 6d. 4 at £7 25. 6d. 3 at £7 10s. 2 at £9 10s. 5 at £8 2s. 6d; stores 3at £6, 23 at ss. sat £2 ss. 6 at £2 7s. 6d. 21 at £5 15s. 13 at £5 ss. 6 at £5 2s, 6d. 20 at £3 2s. 6d. 24 at £3 10s. 6at £4, 7at £3 7s. 6d. 4at £s 5 s - &c - In sheep we sold—6o at ns. 9d. 28 at 9s. 3d. 35 at 10s. 3d. 46 at 1 os. 72 at ns. 9d. 240 at ns. 36 at Bs. 6d. 64 at lis 6d. 41 at 9s. 6d. 34 at 9s. 80 at I is. 9d. 96 at 6s. 3d. Fat lambs— -52 at Bs. 9d. 29 at 9s. 18 at 7s. 9d. 22 at Bs. 6d. 30 at 7s. 24 at 6s. 6d. Canterbury Horse Market.—At Tattersall’s on Saturday last there was but a small entry of horses, 72 only being catalogued for the day’s sale. We have noticed this last fortnight or three weeks there has been a better demand for hacks and light horses, a great number having changed hands each week, prices vary ing as per description. Our quotations are— Best 1 eavy draughts, £SO, 1 55, /60, and /6s ; medium ditto, /35, to 147 ; spring cart horses, /24 to 132 ; well-bred hacks and harness horses, /20 to /30; ordinary ditto, /15 to/18; weeds, from7B to 1 12. — Lyttelton Times. Dunedin, Jan. 23.

Mr. Skene reports wages to be—Labourers, Bs. 9s. and • iios#; couples, /75 to / 85. ; ploughmen and shepherds, 160, 16$-, and/ 70; dairy people, 15s. 20s. and 255.; female servants, 10s. 15s. 20s. 255. and 30s. ; cooks, waiters, grooms, and boots, 20s. to 50s. ; gardeners, 255. and 30s. ; carpenters, masons, and bricklayers, 1 is. to 16s.

POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Mails at the Ashburton Post Office close 13 follows : :

For Christchurch and North at 10 a.m. % p.m., and 7.30 p.m., daily. For Chertsey at 10 a.m. daily. For Rakaia at 10 a.m., and 4 p.m. daily. For Tinwald, Winslow, Hinds, Coldstream, Rangitata, Orari, Winchester, and Geraldine, at 10.15 a.m. daily. For Temuka, • Timaru, and South at 10.15 p.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, a 3.15 p.m. daily. ' W. St.. G. Douglas,. Postmaster,

CHRISTCHURCH NOTICES.

Mails close at the Chief Post Office, Christ church, for the following places as under, sub ject to the necessary alterations:—

For United Kingdom, via San Francisco, on Feb. Ist; due in London on March 18th.

The Evening Echo. SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1879.

Ashburton High School.— A telegram froiH Wellington states that the first meeting of the Board of Governors of the Ashburton High School will be held at noon on the 29th of the present month. Schoolmaster Abroad. That our schools are by no means unneeded is proved by the following address, which was on a letter sent to a well-known firm in the prosperous town of Ashburton. The firm is composed of several near rela tions, and the direction is as follows : “ Mr. Bro. , Brothers, Ashbur ton, Canterbury, Otago, Zeland.”

Presbyterian Church. —The Rev. J. Elmslie preaches in the Presbyterian Church to-morrow in aid of the Sabbath School.

New Hotel. —Mr. Willcocks opens his fine new hotel at Wheatstone this after noon. It is a very handsome and con venient two-storey building, with a capa cious cellar, and is veiy appropriately named the Wheatsheaf. A number of Ashburton friends will be present at the opening.

Ashburton Picture Gallery. —We notice by advertisement that Mr T. A. Gates has added another branch to his business, and that in future funerals can be furnished at his establishment.

County Council. —On Monday next there will be three meetings, of Com mittees of this Council at their offices, Montgomery’s Buildings, namely the Hospital Committee, Committee for elec tion of Engineer, and Rangitata Road Bridge Extension Committee.

Wakanui. —The election of a School Committee for the Wakanui district takes place on Monday, at the Wakanui school house.

Serious Accident by a Reaping Ma chine. This morning a young man named Joseph Cairns, while engaged at one of the Osborne reaping and binding machines at- Ashburton, met with a very, serious accident. It appears he was standing on the platform putting in the short straw under the crooked needle, which came down before he had removed his hand and went right through the fleshy part about six inches. This part of the machine is pointed and about two inches in width, with a little pulley near the end, all of which went through the hand, making a fearful wound and break ing some small bones. The crank had to be taken off and the man brought into town with it in his hand, a distance of about ten miles. Dr. Stewart attended to the unfortunate man, and had to use chloroform, before cutting out the iron and removing the broken bones.

Loss op La Perouse. —This vessel was lost on December 17th. She had a cargo of piles and timber on board at the time, and was consigned to Messrs.- Cuff and Graham. An inquiry was held on the 11th instant by the Marine Board at Sydney, into the loss by foundering of the schooner La Perouse, bound from the Clarence to Lyttelton. The Board, after hearing the following evidence, reserved its decision :—Patrick Power said he held a master’s certificate from this Board ; that the vessel was built in Jervis Bay about eighteen months since ; when she foundered she was bound from the Clarence to Lyttelton; she was insured.; she had been out about ten hours when she foundered; about half-past two o’clock his attention was drawn to the water in the hold, and the pumps were then got to work ; he then tried to make the Richmond ; the wind then was S.S.E.. and the weather was fine ; she gradually made more water, and when she was abandoned there was 3ft. Gin. ; three hours after the boat left her she foundered; the water had gained at the rate of Gin. every half hour; the mate’s advice was to make for- the Richmond, and. he (witness) kept on that course until he was compelled to abandon her. Before leaving the Clarence the> vessel made about 18in. in the twelve hours. He did not think the vessel a strong one. Peter Ingram, the mate, gave similar evidence, and expressed an opinion that ’the master had done right in leaving the schooner. Two of the seamen stated that the master had done right in abandon ing her. Neither thought the vessel could have been beached.—“ Press.” Died op His Wounds. —l saw in one of the papers a pathetic announcement which, after the lapse of so many years, will have a painful interest to the colonists. It ran thus Died, Nov. 21st, Captain George Graham Duff, R.N., third son of the late Adam Duff, Esq., Woodcote House, Oxfordshire, of wounds received during the attack on the Gate Pah, New Zealand, in April, 1864.” Poor fellow ! to have lived 14 years' suffering from the bullet fired by some rascally Maori ! I wonder if any remember who were present at that sanguinary affair. —“O. D. T.” London correspondent.

ON THE DAUNDER.

“I foucht for my ain hand.”—Hal o’ the Wynd.

I went to the reaper and hinder trial at Tinwald on Wednesday, but was not much agitated by the emulating machines. I fear that this description of entertainment will not draw much until mechanical know ledge is more generally diffused, or a gra tuitous collation is introduced as a pro logue. Having no prejudices, I was in a position to assimilate my views to the particular partisans I might address. There is a good old proverb (I think an aboriginal of Spain) which says it is better to be wise than to be rich, and so I found it. I swam along in agreeable unanimity with the supporters of the different imple ments, and was generally accredited with a discrimination on agricultural pursuits, which has —to preserve the integrity of this column —but a mythical existence. The prize was awarded on the votes of nineteen practical farmers and two intel lectual engineers, and the general dissatis faction expressed at the awards speaks volumes in favor of this popular system. I consider a man with an acute conscience the tallest sufferer current. One of the harrassed reaper arbitrators, afflicted with ,this rare ailment, came to me during the progress of the trial, and confided his trouble. “ You see, sir,” said he, “ Wil kin’s a man I’ve had dealings wi’ sin’ I cam’ oot some ten year sin’, an’ a decent, obleegin’ gent he is ; an’theFriedlanders, tae, are aye willing to dae me ony accom modation. But there’s Morrow, Bassett and Orr—about the most civil tradesfolk I ken; and Harry Hunt’s a well-spoken young chiel; and Wood boucht my wheat at tap price last year. So atween the lot I dinna ken which is the best machine for general wark, and I’m reg’lar fixed about the vote I’ve got to gie. ” I administered what solace I could to the good man, but the trouble evidently preyed on his mind, as later in the afternoon I found him pen sively clinging to the prop of a refreshment booth, with a bibacious expression, which augured well for the impartiality of his decision.

In the nineteenth century, when we are all engaged in the insidious pursuit of the almighty dollar, a case of commercial liberality commends itself to our senses, not alone for its munificence but also for its sweet rarity. One of our landed aris tocracy (as I wish to do him unqualified honor I may perhaps reveal his name— Allen McLean) has, in consideration of the poor season, reduced the rents of his tenants from 50s. to 15s. per acre. Mr. McLean has taken the initiative in a course which will be highly appreciated by those directly benefitted, and which I hope to see largely imitated by wealthy landlords occupying similar positions.

I am fully aware that my references to ministers of religion have not always been fraught with the most profound venera tion. However, I hope that none of my readers have assumed from my irreverent allusions that I underrate the importance or utility of spiritual directors. Births and merriages are relieved of much of their melancholy by the attendance of a good debonnair parson, and the solace that the «sjpth has administered at many an exit will command respect even from those who deny the efficacy of eleventh hour shrifts. One of our local clergymen was recently urgently called to Mount Somers to disparse the serenity of the church to an afflicted member of his flock rusticating in that Alpine village. Some more important parochial duties—matters of tithes or finance—detaining him, he deputed the administration to a brother in-arms, a gentleman of highly nervous and intellectual temperament. The godly man immediately set out on his arduous errand, bestriding a regular old family relic in the way of horse-flesh, and, by dint of that energetic castigation which distinguishes the equine performances of his profession, he arrived at the field of his contemplated labors with a good foot of clerical leg exposedly blushing between his boot and his ineffables, and with a delicate hesitation about using a chair quite painful to behold. Yet, the flesh was subject to the spirit, and he at once sought out his querry, trembling lest he should find him racked with physical suffering, or even ushered off without the solace of the church. But, alas ! the object of all this solicitude had also sub jected liis flesh to the spirit. There was a gentle remonstrance, but the speciality of the trip was not announced to the object and our ecclesiastic friend re turned to town a sadder,. a sorer, but I am sure no less a respected man.

The introduction of the ballot has shorn elections of much of their interest. People are losing all enthusiasm for self-govern ment under the pernicious secrecy of this new system, and the privileges of an election are now of low current compared with the golden age when a place on the roll entitled a man, with impunity, to beat his fellow-citizens about the head with a hay fork, or freely indulge in any similar playful jocundity. Towards the hills this degeneracy is particularly evi dent. They had a Road Board election up there last week, at which only three free and independent turned up. It was a little novel hearing a cove deliver a speech to two which had evidently been prepared for a big crowd. The lavished eulogy of the ratepayers’ integrity and intelligent interest in public matters became a little pointed when one com prised half the audience. However, the attendants at least had the , virtue of cordiality, and affably elected one another to the vacant seats on the Board. The chairman was selected with closed doors, but there is a rumor—supported by some probability—that this functionary was fated by a more familiar and even more

fickle box than the ballot. They are, any way, a nice hospitable lot round those parts, having voted £2O for the entertain ment of strangers ; and I have had busi ness up Bobby Pullar’s way tolerably frequently since. I calculate a big lump of that entertainment vote is appropriated, and no seraphic wanderers are yet to hand.

Lonehand.

TELEGRAPHIC .

LATEST FROM EUROPE.

[special to association.]

London, January 23,

The City of Glasgow Bank accountant said, speaking of the alterations in the balance-sheet made by direction of Stron ach, the Managing Director, for the other Directors, that the alterations enormously underrated the liabilities. The Ameer of Afghanistan is close to Turkistan. All was quiet in the North at the front on Jan. 22. A Conservative candidate has been elected for North Norfolk by a large majority. The December t San Francisco mails were delivered to-day. Pams, Jan. 23. The French Minister of Agriculture and Commerce has resigned. St. Petersburg, Jan. 23. The completion of the Russo-Turkish definitive treaty of peace is now delayed because Russia insists on the treaty of Berlin being made subordinate. Bombay, Jan. 23. The Ameer of Afghanistan is at present in the north of Afghanistan, close to Turkestan. All was. quiet at the front on Jan. 22.

AUSTRALIAN

[By Submarine Cable.]

Sydney, Jan. 24. The Wakatipu has arrived.

Hennessy’s, 33s Gd to 33s 9d ; Adelaide wheat, 5s to 5s 3d ; New Zealand oats, 3s to 3s Gd ; others unchanged. The Chinese Immigration Restriction Bill is being debated in the Assembly. The mail steamer is at Albany. Pas sengers for New Zealand—Messrs Riddi ford (2), Mrs Riddiford. The Canterbury cricketers played a one innings match in Hobart Town. The Tas manians made 87 ; Canterbury 80. The team were afterwards entertained.

A fierce affray occurred aboard the ship Frith of Tay. The cook fired at the sail maker with a revolver, missed, and closed with a knife. The sailmaker’s face and neck were horribly hacked. Forty-six Coal Cliff miners have joined the Union, influenced by the Bulli miners. The English cricketers are out for 248. Ulyett made 51, Lord Harris 50, and Mr. A. Penn 51. Spofforth was thrown out of a runaway cab, and had his wrist sprained, which prevented him from playing.

C. Bannerman and Garrett commenced the innings for N. S. W. When the stumps were drawn, 20 runs were up without the loss of a wicket.

An influential commission has been ap pointed for the Exhibition, including Lord Belmore, Sir Daniel Cooper, Mr Forster, Agent-General, Mr Lowe, M.P., and Sir Cunliff Owen. Melbourne. Jan. 24.

The third bi-annual meeting of the Aus tralian Agency Banking Corporation was satisfactory. The reserve is now £20,000. The ladies of Camperdown presented Mrs. Gibson with a buggy and harness in recognition of her unwearied kindnesss to the survivors of the Loch Ard.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

From the New Zealand Press Asso ciation to the “Echo.”

Wellington, Friday. The Marquis of Normanby’s movements have been somewhat altered. His Excel lency’s commission as Governor of Vic toria, by some error, was not forwarded by the San Francisco mail, and will not therefore arrive here till next month. His Excellency has therefore determined that he will not go to Melbourne in the Ara wata, but will leave her at Christchurch, remaining in the Canterbury and Otago districts, and travelling overland to the Bluff, where he will embark on Board the Ringarooma on February 20. Napier, Friday.

A narrow escape from a serious accident happened here to a woman named Mrs. Loder. She was extinguishing a kerosene lamp, when by some means it exploded. The oil was spilt over the table and Mrs. Loder’s dress. With remarkable presence of mind she moved the table into the yard, but while doing so the flames caught her dress. She was, however, saved from serious harm by Mr. Loder, who wrapped some clothing around her, and so smothered the flames. The only injury Mrs. Loder sustained was by having her wrists scorched.

TO-DAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Auckland, Saturday.

Early this morning three incendiary fires took place in the Papatoitoi and Otahuhu districts. Rogers, of Papatoitoi, had several hay and grain stacks burnt, and his estimated loss is £IOOO. This is the second time in four years Mr Rogers has suffered from fires. On the former occasion his loss was £IOOO. Taylor, of Otahuhu, had hO tons of hay burnt. A vagrant is suspected, and the police are in pursuit.

The loss by incendiary fires in this dis trict during the last four years is £6OOO. Henry Sheldon, alias Thomas Fidgett, has been arrested at Otahulm on the charge of this morning’s incendiarism. He was formerly a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, and was acquitted at the criminal sessions on the charge of placing obstruc tions on the Waikato railway. In consequence of ths disclosures in the recent prosecution against Mrs Deborah Hood, of Ngaruawahia, for travelling by train without paying the fare, the Rail way authorities discharged Holmes, the stationmaster at Newmarket, and Guards M'Donald and Simpson.

A successful concert in aid of the Mer chant and Seamen’s Orphan Asylum and Belvedere Institution came off on board the English ship May Queen. No less than three hundred persons were present. A splendid seam of coal has been dis codered on the property of Mr Anderson, residing between Whanagaurino and Rah giriri. Last evening, at' a meeting of the Tonic Sol-Fa Choral Union, the Rev J. Crump delivered an address on the progress of this system of singing in the South, and said there was a society being formed in Christchurch for the purpose of ensuring greater unity of action amongst all be lievers in the sol-fa system. The Rev D. M‘Nicolls, of Invercargill, detailed his experience. Wellington, Saturday. Hiscocks and Hayman are endeavoring to negotiate a long lease of the Theatre Royal here to work it in connection with the Christchurch and Dunedin Theatres. The ship Hydrabad was moved two lengths further seawards yesterday. A meeting of the city school com mittees approved of the introduction of the Penny Bank system. The following are the final stations of the United Methodist Free Church for connexional year: Auckland, Robert Kyler, Addington, J. White, Christchurch, S. Macfarlane, A. Peters, W. Lockwood, Supernumery, Napier, H. R. Wilkinson, Oxford, and Malvern, J. J. Pendray, M. Bolter, Supernumary Rangiora, T. H. Hodgson, Reefton, J. Parkin, Waipawa, C. Penny Wellington, H. B. Redstone. Dunedin, Saturday. The anniversary of the Scottish poet Burns was celebrated by a supper by the Ayrshire Association, and an appropriate lecture was delivered, abounding with Scottish anecdotes and poetry, which excited the utmost enthusiasm.

A woman named Bridget Kane was convicted for the sixty-fourth time this morning of drunkenness. Several beardless recruits have lately been admitted to the police force. They are making a raid on the vagrants of the city, and their evidence is of such a nature as to make the Bench blush. Four thousand shares, at £5 each, have been subscribed by property-owners for the erection of a tramway to the hill-side lands above Dunedin. It is expected this will largely advance the value of suburban property. Bluff, Saturday. Sailed—-Hinemoa and s.s. Western, Monarch for Dunedin. Rakaia, Saturday. An accident has occurred at Rakaia by which a woman named Johns, with her two daughters and an infant eight weeks old, were thrown from a trap near Messrs. Orr and Co. ’s store this morning. The horse bolted, and Mrs. John’s head was badly cut, and the baby was much shaken. The two others escaped unhurt. Mr. Broderick was in attendance and sewed up the cut, and attended the baby. It is feared that it will go hard with the child, on account of its tender aue.

Inquest at Rakaia. —The inquest on Skae’s body was held to-day. The jury returned a verdict of found drowned.

Timaru Racecourse.—The new grand stand on the Timaru Racecourse is ex pected to be completed within four weeks from the present date. It will be a re markably handsome, imposing, and well finished structure, and erected in a com manding position. Credit. —lt is astonishing how some people get credit. Williamson, a hair curler in Melbourne, now insolvent, whose liabilities amount to £2,750, offers his creditors £42, after the payment of ex penses, for distribution amongst them.

Progress of the Salmon Movement.— “The West Coast Times” says that a young salmon, measuring 7in. long was caught at the Kanieri last week. It was immediately returned to the water, the hook which caught it gently being easily removed. The young fish recently de posited in the Hokitika river are evidently thriving, as this is the second or third occasion on which a good-sized treut or salmoh has been seen.

What is always invisible, yet never out of sight I—The1 —The letter S. Heavy Sleep. —lrascible old party —“Con- ductor, why did you not wake me as I asked you? Here I am miles beyond my station.” Conductor—“ldid try, sir, but all I could get out of you waff —‘All right, Maria, get the children their breakfast and I’ll be down in a minute.”

SATURDAY January 25, 1879.]

THE EVENING ECHO.



Engineers and Foundries. johiTandersonT^ CANTERBURY FOUNDRY CHRISTCHURCH, BEGS to notify that he has been appointed SOLE AGENT for New Zealand for MESSRS AYELING & PORTER, ROCHESTER, Whose Traction Engines, Ploughing Machines, Steam Reaping Machines, and Road Rollers have gained for them a world-wide reputation. An early exhi bition will be made of an 8 h.p. Agricul tural Locomotive Engine, which caii be used either for Steam Cultivation, Thresh ing, Sawing, or Removing Agricultural Produce. Catalogues and prices can be 'had on application. The following Machinery and Goods are now ON SALE at the Canterbury Foundry for the season MCCORMICK’S REAPER & BINDER WOOD’S do. do. OSBORNE do. do. Extras and wire for each of the above. McSHERRY GRAIN DRILL'S. English and American Mowers, by Samuelson, Hqjmsby, Howard, Wood, McCormick, and Osborne; Clayton and Shuttleworth Thresh ing Machines,- Elevators, Hay Loaders, Pacific Hay Cutters, Seed Strippers. ALSO, FOR SALE, Fencing Standards, Best Fencing Wire, Cambridge, Crosskill, and Mixed Rollers, Broad-cast Seed Sowers, Millstones, Grindstones, Flour-dress ing Silk, Leather and India-rubber Belting and Hose, Reaper Sections, Plough Fittings, Machine Oils, Field Gates, &c., &c. Estimates and Drawings for any kind of Machinery furnished on application. D. MIDDLETON, Agent, Ashburton. 63 UNION IRON STEAM WORKS (Next the Horse Bazaar), BURNETT STREET, ASHBURTON. JgDWARDS AND L E E ENGINEERS, MILLWRIGHTS, AND GENERAL SMITHS. Orders for every description of Machinery executed in a workmanlike manner, and guar anteed to give satisfaction, at prices that wil compare favorably with any in Canterbury, Important.—Ex erienced Manufacturers and Repairers of Reapers, Combines, Straw Elevators, Portable Engines, Wool Presses, &c. Wind Pumps, Circular Saw Spindles, and Tables, made to order. General Smith , Wheelwright, and Shot ing wot k warranted to give satisfaction. EDWARDS AND LEE, "Proprietors.



THE CENTRAL FOUNDRY, PETER STREET, ASHBURTON. W. J. HESSEY, BEGS respectfully to inform the public of Ashburton and surrounding districts that he has ON HAND and FOR SALE, Working Men’s Kitchen Ranges, cast or sheet iron ovens. Cambridge Rollers, at Christchurch Prices. Wire Strainers. Plough Shears on hand to suit Hornsby’s Ploughs. Kitchen Ranges from £3 10s. Repairs of Castings in Iron or Brass of every description. Business' Notice. SPECIAL NOTICE. w E ARE NOW LANDING— Ex p.s. “ Tongariro,” Totara for Wells Ex “ Clifton,” from Invercargill, 240,000 feet first-class Boards and Scantling Ex “ Drover,” from Bluff, 120,000 ditto ditto Ex “ Wave of Life,” from Thames, 50,000 feet Flooring, Lining, &c. Ex “ Flora,” from Kaipara, A splendid assortment of 95,000 feet Kauri Timber MONTGOMERY & CO. (Limited), CHRISTCHURCH, And EAST STREET, ASHBURTON. RUBBER STAMPS. T HESE Useful STAMPS, with Ink and Pads, are now being Manufactured at the ‘ ECHO ” OFFICE and can be supplied any shape orjsize from 7s. 6d.



NOTICE.



A travelling Post Office having been estab lished 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.



Advertisements for the evening Echo must be sent in not later than 3 p.m. with the number of insertions written plainly on the copy, otherwise they will be inserted till countermanded, and charged accordingly. Subscriptions—Quarterly in advance, 6s. ; posted, Bs. 6d. ; per annum, in advance, 225. 6d. ; posted, 355. d. ; weekly, paid to collector, 6d. Delivered to any part of the town, and at any of the Railway Stations.



Special Notices. PRELIMINARY NOTICE. Alfred harrison begs to announce that on or about the Ist Feb., 1879, he will open a NEW AUCTION MART In Baring Square. A. H. will make a specialty of Sales of Furniture and Effects, Sales of Stock and Merchandise. ALFRED HARRISON, AUCTIONEER, COMMISSION AGENT, Ac., HAVELOCK STREET, ASHBURTON, Near the Town Hall. 213



Strangers coming to reside in Ashburton ire often at a loss to know which is the best Establishment to visit for the purchase of Drapery, Clothing, and liouse-fumishing Iron nongery, and General Stores. Orr & Co. iffer special advantages to the public that can be met with nowhere else in Ashburton. They Iceep at all times the largest and best-assorted Stock of every class of Goods, imported direct from the leading manufacturers at home, which beinp bought entirely upon cash terms, they are enabled to ofler goods of suHi sterling value as cannot be equalled by any other house in the trade. Every article in stock is marked at the lowest price, from which no abatements made so that the most inexperienced buy their goods at the same pi ices as the best judges. — Advt