POST OFFICE NOTICES.

' Mails at the Ashburton Post Office close as follows :

For Christchurch and North at 10.20 a.m. 4 p.m., and 7.30 p.m., daily. For Chertsey at 10.20 a.m daily. For Rakaia at 10.20 a.m and 4 p.m daily. For Dunedin, Tinwald Winslow, Hinds, Coldstream, Kangitata, Orari, Winchester,' and Gcra'dine, at 10.20 a.m, daily. For Ternuka. Timaru, and South at 10.20 a.m and 3 p.m daily. • For Greenstreet, Ashburton Forks, Mount Somers, and Ashburton Gorge on Tuesdays and Fridays at 10.30 a.m For Ashton, Waterton, and Longbeach, at 3. 15 p. m. daily. For Wakanui and Seafield, on Mondays and Thursdays, 7.30 p.m.

W. St. G. Douglas,

Postmaster.

UNCLAIMED LETTERS.

The following letteis from places beyond the colony were received at the Ashburtcn Post Office during the month of July, and remained unclaimed on Ist September, 1879: —

Bennison, W. Bowden, W. Daly, Joseph Gerry, John Hetherington, William Horsfall, Miss O. Lafgren, P. P. Millas, Mrs. C. Perkins, George Russell, Robert Smith, John Groves Stirling, James Wilkinson, Mr. Woodman, W. D. W. St. G. Douglas, Postmaster,

NOTICE.

Mails close at the Chief Post Office for the following places (subject to the necessary alte rations) as under: —

The next mail fot the United Kingdom via San Francisco will be closed at Christchurch on Friday, Sept. 12, and will be due in London on Oct. 28. The next mails for the United Kingdom, via Brindisi and Southampton (for specially ad dressed letter-; only) will be closed at Christ church on Sc t -t. 24. The mail via Brindisi will be due in London on November 17th, and the mai. \ia Southampton on Novembei 24th.

A travelling Post Office having been estab ished on the Southern line of railway, letters bearing a late fee of 2d. may be posted at any station in the mail carriage attached to the express train, and they will be included in the mails made up in transit for offices on the main line and branches. Note. —A post office called Mayfield has been established on the south side of the Hinds, near the forks of the river, Sydney J. Dick, Chief Postmaster.

NEW POSTAL REGULATION.

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

UNCLAIMED LETTERS

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

ASHBURTON RETAIL LIST.

MEMORANDA.

MEETINGS

This Evenin g. Meeting of Cricketers—Quill’s Hotel, at 7.30.

The Ashburton Herald AND Borough and County Advertiser With which is incorporated the “Evening Echo”). SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1879.

The elections are now so far complete as to give a. certain indication ‘ of the result. Forty Ministerialists have been elected, forty-one Opponents, and four Doubtfuls. Of the three to be elected, it is pretty certain that two will be .Oppo nents, and amongst the forty Ministe rialists there are several who have declared that they will not support Sir George ■Grey, though supporting the present Ministry without Grey avould be much the same thing as supporting the Russian torm of Government without the Czar. It is clear that Sir George Grey cannot get a working majority from such a House, and equally clear that his retire ment would at once remove all difficulty, as ft would have done without a dissolu tion. There will, no doubt, he a few members whose votes can he obtained for considerations such as an existing un scrupulous Government can offer, but, on the other hand, we may fairly hope that many honest men who believed that they were returned to support an honest Go vernment, composed of honest men, will recoil with disgust when they see for themselves the character of the men whose purchased flatterers have misled alike d'the electors and the elected as to the ip; designs and the true nature and effect, of their occupation of positions that were'once considered positions of honor. There is no doubt that the dissolution has dropped out of the .House some of its most objectionable men and most of its greatest .bores. Rees, Barton, Manders, Barff, Joyce, and Hodglcinson are all cleared but, and such a clearance is alone worth allvthe trouble and expense of a general election, unless we are to suppose it possible that their places may be sup plied with equally unfortunate selections. It is true that Fox and Richardson will be much missed, but the House receives good compensation in the addition of the old and tried names of Dick and Hall. Mr. Fox’s heart has not been in his Parliamentary work for some years past, and with all his frank open-heartedness, and all his indignation at deception and trickery he was hardly well selected as a leader pitted'against such a wily Premier as Sir George Grey. If his own reluctance to give up his time to Parliament does not keep him out he will not be long without a seat, and if he had been half as careful of his own seat as Sir George Grey he would have secured some Thames con stituency before he contested the seat with a man who has the only local paper at his command, and had left his place in Par liament to ascertain his chances a week before the business was over, and therefore a week before an honest man would have felt at liberty to neglect his public duty to promote his private interest. There is no man whose rejection from the House we so much rtegret, under the circumstances as that of Mr. Hobbs. It is true that he had not taken, and probably never would take any prominent or bril liant part in the House, but he had taken a conspicuously honest one, and he has unfortunately proved that his con stituents do not wish an honest man to represent them. As. the best Maori scholar in the House he felt himself called on to go and see for himself the conduct of the Native Minister amongst the Maoris, and the result is what would have resulted with any man with whom morality and religion were regarded as of more impor tance than party triumph and the approba tion of his own conscience, than all the flattery and attention that even a Premier could bestow on him. Having satisfied himself that the worst reports ho had heard were only too true, nothing could induce him to refrain from calling a spade a spade, and he made use of his privilege as a member of the House to denounce the Minister and the Ministry he had in ignorance so zealously supported, and was the first to say openly what had so long been whispered, and what so many might have said before him. It is humiliating to see that sucli conduct is not appreciated by his constituency, and that they do not desire or appreciate “ An honest man, the noblest work of God. ”

Mr. Fox’s truthful and powerful accusa tions were never refuted or denied, but they were the more convincing when backed up with the detailed evidence of the most capable ear and eye witness in the House whese party and political instincts would, if possible, have led him to deny them. Words fail us to express our indignation for a man who can take advantage of the privileges of the House to circulate libels on those who in the exercise of their duty have been obliged to cross hi 3 path, but we honor the man who hesitates not to use his Parliamentary privileges for the purpose for which they are wisely given him ; to expose wickedness in high places, to speak of vice as vice, and pollution as pollution, even when it is committed by what is called the fountain of justice, and by those who are entrusted with the appointment and dismissal of our law administrators, of those who should be a terror to evil-doers and a praise to them who do well. Mr. Hobbs is yet a young man, and he may rest assured that his brave conduct in refusing to bow the knee to Baal, even at the bidding of party will long be remembered by those who be lieve in something higher than party tactics and in something nobler than following a leader who delights to honor the victims of the lowest vices and the open, bare faced exhibitors of the basest passions. It is time that men of every party, of every shade of opinion, should see that we are now in the middle of a contest in which not only Despotism is pitted against Constitutional Gevernment, and an un scrupulous autocrat against the power of the people’s legitimate representatives, but in which vise is pitted against virtue, truth against falsehood, and the freedom of the press against a systematic employ ment of the public money to pay a whole regiment of hired assassins of the character of all true men, and estab lish in every New Zealand village some unscrupulous owner pf & }icsntspt?B newspaper whose ' business it shall ba *9 dfjjpvgfl virtue and yicg, pQ pgf the

hand of labor against its employer, to in vade the sanctity of commercial, social, and domestic relations, to drive every man of self-respect from entering the quag mire of public life in its present condition, and to establish a reign of slanderous terror worse than any that ever yet de graded the institutions of America, as it is not yet checked by the lesser evils of the bowia knife, the horse whip, or the re volver. In such a strife there is no middle course to be adopted by any man who values peace, law, order, and decency. To be taken up by these Government hirelings and to be bespattered with their appro bation should mark any man as utterly unfit to be trusted by. those who desire the restoration of order or the enthrone ment of worth .and, on the other hand, the vilification of any candidate for a position of trust by these tools of Sir George Grey and the lion. John Sheehan, should prove to the electors that he is regarded as a man beyond the reach of their corruptions and unlikely to assist them in the longer and further degradation of our colony.

The result of Thursday’s polling for the Borough election was generally anticipated, but the declaration was a very acceptable confirmation of our expectations. In Messi’s. Campbell, Parkin, and Friedlander the Borough has three Councillors who have conscientiously, and with considerable ability discharged the really onerous duties appertaining to their office. This renewed evidence of their fellow-citizens’ confidence will be none the less gratifying to the three gentlemen referred to on account of the direct refutation it gives to the unworthy insinuations put forth by our “ liberal ” contemporary, and its small following. Messrs. Fowler and Sando, the unsuccessful candidates, have nothing to be ashamed of in the result of the con test, and we hope that on some future occasion they may again come forward to do battle for their opinions, and we have no doubt that they have now formed a fair estimation of the value of the advocacy of an organ, the integrity of which is in an inverse ratio to its effrontery.

Mr. IST. Maclean’s letter, published in another column, referring to our tri weekly contempory’s report of Mr. Hart’s meeting at Chertsey, will direct attention to the general system of misrepresentation which has been indulged in by a certain section of the press during the general elections. We have seen the proceedings of different meetings held by opposition candidates so infamously distorted that they would be beyond recognition were it not for the few introductory notes, which connect fact with fiction. Whether such reports are legitimate electioneering tactics or not we do not pretend to say ; but we do say this, most emphatically, that a publication professing to be a newspaper, is irretrievably degraded by the continued admission into its columns of fictitious matter concocted for the direct purpose of deceiving and misguiding its readers.

“ Both Sides. ” —Thanks for your con tribution, and very spii'ited vindication. We must, however, decline to publish your letter. We do not insist upon “gentility,” but the publication you do too much honor to by noticing is indecent, and for obvious reasons, we exclude all reference to such a subject from our columns.

Telegraphic.— A telegraph station has been opened <it Wyndham in the County of Southland/

Election Meeting. —Mr. E. G. Wright will address a public meeting in the Town Hall, this evening, at half-past seven.

The Poll.— Messrs. Saunders Brothers having kindly placed a number of their carrier pigeons at our disposal, we hope to be able to announce the complete returns of Monday’s polling not later than 6 p.m. on that day. Cricket.— We beg to remind cricketers of the meeting at Quill’s Commercial Hotel this evening, at 7.20 p.m., to con sider important matters connected with the forthcoming season.

Bankrupt. —We learn from a Dunedin telegram that the Rev. Father Larkin, that place has become a bankrupt with liabilities £1,700, and assets £212.

Educational. — We learn that at a meeting of the Otago University Council, held on the 11th inst., the Rev. Dr. Stuart was elected Chancellor, and His Honor Mr. J ustice Williams, Vice-Chan cellor of the Otago University. These appointments were rendered necessary by the resignation of the Hon. H. S. Chap man, the late Chancellor.

Maori Shooting Case. —At the Pareoroa, Ohinemuri, where the Maoris shot at the surveyors, Committees have been sitting separately, one going through the voluminous mass of evidence taken by the runanga. As their deliberations have been strictly private, it is impossible to say yet what progress h&3 been made. It is thought, however, that the proceedings will be over to-day. The Committees will make thetr presentment to the assembly of chiefs to-morrow morning at 12 o’clock. It is stated that the Committee, consisting of the old men, will insist on the culprits being given up to justice.

CORRESPONDENCE.

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

To the Editor of The Ashburton Herald. Sir, —Mr. Wright seems to be sailing pretty close between the Opposition and Ministerial persuasions. Although most strongly denouncing the Grey Govern ment he appears to have some comfortable little arrangement with their valid sup porter, the “Ashburton Mail.” A clear statement of his faith might put up a wavering vote or two in these parts,—-I am, &e,, r §’id £. J? . &§$ s scm ■' '**- -- i ••• ’■* ""

To the Editor of the AshisuaroN Herald.

Sir, — In reply to a statement in your issue of Friday, the 9th inst., which in justice to myself I cannot pass over with out contradiction, the statement was as follows:—“The other two were put for ward as a feeler for the more important event of Monday,” ! presume, meaning that they were put forward as supporters of Mr. E. G. Wright How, Sir, speaking for myself, 1 can say that this assertion is totally untrue, as I have not pledged my self to either of the candidates although asked by both of their committees, and at the present .time neither party knows who will get my vote. At the first election of councillors I stood as a candidate, and at that meeting I said I would stand, again if requested to do so by the ratepayers. Apologising for intruding upon your valuable space—l am, &c.,

John Fowler.

MEETING AT SHEFFIELD.

A meeting was held at Sheffield last night, ostensibly to be a public meeting to hear the delegates from Mr. Wright’s Centre 1 Com mittee. The meeting, however, resolved itself into the following components :—The irre pressible Joseph Ivess as Deus ex machina, J. E. Buchanan, the indefatigable secretary, T. Williams and S. B. Nelson, all from Ashbur ton, nineteen men and boys, representing th 6 population of Sheffield, E. Saunders and J. Wilkie. The presence of these latter two ap peared to have a depressing effect on the meet ing, as everybody looked at his neighbour for about an hour, when the irrepressible proposed Mr. Gunn as chairman. Mr. Gunn went off wifh a few remarks, and the irrepressible treated - the audience to one of his stock tirades against Mr. Hart, the Bank of New Zealand, and .the merchants .of Ashburton, garnished however with a few new and choiee selections from the evening issue of the “ Ash burton Mail,” snd select literature of that nature, such as “The motives actuating Hart’s Committee were selfishness and self-interest,” “the statements they made were choked with slime,” “Wright’s party had acted from pure and undefiled motives,” Hart had never answered questions put to him in a straight forward manner,” “ his supportors were never tired of praising him with fulsome flattery,” “ the merchants of Ashburton had exercised tyranny over the farmers by compelling them to promise their votes for. Ilart and the Bank of New Zealand interests, and they should now emancipate themselves from such tyranny.” “AnM. L. C. had been making a house to house canvas in this district in the same in terest. ” He then 'proposed that the meeting cordially co-operate with the central committee and agree to use all means to secure Mr. Wright’s return. Mr. J. E. Buchanan seconded, and pro ceeded to speak on a number of subjects too abstruse - fop-his audience, as they sat in silent wonderment as the lengthy words flowed, but they did not appear to derive much pleasure from the oration.- - A dead silence, again ensued for a long time, when Mr. E. Saunders made a few remarks to point out that Mr. Hart was not qnite so black as represented by the other speakers. Mr. T. ' Williams then spoke in glowing terms of Mr. Wright’s capabilities and virtues, and Mr. Wilkie pointed out a few of his defects, and the irrepressible again treated his audience to another burst of eloquence, stating that Mr. Wright’s-colleagues in the County Council did not support him’ because they were all squat ters and Bank of New Zealand customers. Mr. Hart was decidedly in favor of taxing farmers. The Chairman then called for a show of hands, and eleven were held up, and the chair man declared it canned unanimously without calling for hands in the negative. As there were twenty-six persons in ' the. room, Mr. Gunn’s decision is, to say the least of it, open to question.

LAST NIGHT’S CABLEGRAMS.

AUSTRALIAN.

Sydney, Sept. 12. Parliament has 1 been further prorogued to Oct. 28. It is stated that Sir J. Martin is un likely to retain the Chief-Justiceship, as he is suffering from heart disease. .

Adelaide, Sept. 12.

Government has abandoned the in creases of duty, and also the vote for a permanent force. The Ministry will en deavor to pass £50,000 for immigration. Wheat, 5s 2d per bushel. The market is steady.

THE ELECTIONS.

Nelson, Saturday.

The polling for the Collingwood district took place yesterday, the result being as follows : . Gibbs ... ... 145 Huddleston ... ... 131 Armstrong ... ... 127 \ Mr. Gibbs voted against the Govern ment in the division on Sir W. Fox’s no confidence motion last session. Later. There is a hitch over the Collingwood election. The deputy Returning Officer at one of the polling booths omitted to stamp the ballot papers, and the chief Returning Officer, hearing of this, has announced his intention •of officially' de claring Mr. Huddleston, the second on the poll, as duly elected. Mr. Gibbs has come over to Nelson and consulted law yers, and the opinion of three iegal firms is that the Returning Officer must declare Mr. Gibbs elected. The opinion has been despatched by special messenger, there being no telegraph to Collingwood. Dunedin, This Day.

The result of the Lakes election to hand is as follows, for Queenstown, Kingston, Lower Shotover, and Arrow town :

Finn ... ... 145 Mason ... ... 121 Manders ... ... 99 The return is not yet complete.

The Stern Call of Duty. —At a recent performance in the New Haven Opera House, as a number of students left their seats between the acts, a good lady was heard to observe : —- “ Ain’t it too bad those fellows have to go home and go to studying?” Old gentleman to troublesome boy—“ Look here, boy ; can you tell me why you may be said to be playing at hide-and seek ?” Troublesome boy—“ No, sir.” Old gentleman “Because youare seeking a good hiding.” Specimen of Paris Conversation. — “ What do you say about yesterday’s play ?” M And yqu ?” After you; go'on.’’ “Well, we are of th§ game opinion." '* Ah. how severe Hg9B eur peer frjead,-'

ODD GOSSIP.

[by telephone.]

They say misfortune sometimes makes strange bedfellows, the same trite adage could equally well be applied to the pre sent election, for when we see a thick and thin supporter of the Grey Ministry hold ing the candle (for a premium) to an avowed oppositionist, and making profes sions on paper on one side, and using his blatant voice in support of the other, the question arises in the minds of the electors, “ Which are we to believe? The ‘ Mail ’ supports the Greyites for the sake of their advertisements, and Mr. Ivess supports Wright for the sake of his ad vertisements, only, don’t you see, one is done through the medium of ‘ types,’ and the other vocally.” And the variance between the candidate and his partizan is not only on the question of the Ministry and the Opposition, but the question of Edu cation. The whole colony has been dis cussing denominationalis n versus secular ism in our schools, and on this point, at any rate, there is a great diversity of opinion between the parties. The exist ing partnership is of so hollow a description that it can only be looked upon.- as a temporary, one. A| '

The selection of the polling places in the Coleridge district does not reflect much credit oil the local knowledge of the. offi cial who chose them. lam not aware who Is to blame for the glaring errors which have been made. Mr. Joseph Ivess,with characteristic modesty, laid, claim on the nomination day to the thanks of, ,tlie electors for having used his influence to have twelve polling booths declared. , It was kind and patriotic on his part' to take all this-trouble, but why did he hot go farther and endeavor to discover some thing of the geography and population of the country he lived in before recom mending the booths in such absurd situa tions. For instance, the Mount Somers Road Board office, the School in the same district, and the Alford Forest School are all declared as polling places, the two for mer being within less than tvvo miles of each other, and the last named about five miles further off; whilst Seafield .and Kyle have a large number of electors - re siding from ten to fourteen miles from any polling booth. For the district north of the Rakaia only three 'are appointed,, and one, the Selwyn School, is in'one corner of the district, and away from the centre of the electors. Whilst Courtenay and Kirwee are, with a large voting power, left 20 miles distant from the nearest place-they can vote. The selection.there fore cannot be looked upon as a success.

“Vote for Wright and Liberal Land Laws.” “Vote for Wright and no Tax on Houses.” Just so. I referred afew-ri days ago to his liberality in reference to the land transaction with Archy' dark; that illused individual has now made a plain straightforward statement of the transaction, and the simple language used by him in telling how he, his -wife, and his seven children had to give up a home earned by years of hard labor, is a good illustration of the manner in which the champion of “liberal land laws ” would settle the lands of the Colony. As to his manifesto regarding “No Taxes ;on i Houses,” he seems to acquire houses very cheaply, and then wants to get out of paying taxes on such acquirements. Right, O, Wright! you can look after No. 1 at any rate.

The big event to be run off on Monday will knock spots out of our little Borough Handicap, the proceedings of which were of a very mild nature compared with last year’s election. It is satisfactory to notice that the City Fathers have performed their arduous duties to the satisfaction of the Burgesses, and the return of the triumvi rate must be gratifying alike to themselves and their fellow Councillors. I hope they will soon negotiate their little loan and send things ahead again. ■ /

Musical.— On June 22nd a memorial statue to Boccacio, the author of the “ Decameron,” and “father of Italian prose,” was inaugurated at Certaldo, in Tuscany, where his family possessed pro perty for centuries, and where the house is still pi’eserved in which he lived for many years and closed his life in 1875, when 60 years old. Certaldo is on the railway from Florence to Sienna, and the day being Sunday and the weather beau tiful, thousands assembled to witness the ceremonial. The. Chamber of Deputies was represented by some of its members. The Universities of Palermo and Padua, the Academy of the Grusca, and over fifty municipal corporations sent deputations. There was a procession from the Palazzo dal Municipio to Boccacio’s house. Here a speech was delivered by the Chairman of the memorial committee, Cavaliere Seghi, and a select deputation visited the three modest rooms in which the great humanist passed a considerable period of his life. The procession then passed to the piazza where the memorial has been erected. A musical composition, specially prepared for the occasion, was performed, the cover ing was removed, and the monument was disclosed .to view.. Another speech was delivered by Dr. Horfcis, of Trieste, who is well known as a laborious student of Italian literature. The ; monument has been designed and erected-by- the sculptor, Augusto Passagalia, and gives .general satisfaction. In the afternoon there, was a banquet, at which Signor Tagliqcarne, the President of the Tribunal of Sain Miniato, had the singular want'6f ; tact to make a speech echoing the* sentiment of “ Italia irredenda. ” But the audience manifested dissatisfaction by receiving his remarks with chilling silence.

Said a faded belle to a. fresh, young, 'rival, “You are having a great .triumph to-night I wonder what ydur enemies will say now./,’’ “ I was just going to ask you," was the keen retort.

Holloway’s Pills; —Let the 'Sick take heed.—The stomach is the commissariat of the physical system. It furnishes the material sus tenance of every organ. If disordered, the whole body- languishes ; but however severely it may be affected, its tone and vigor may always be restored by a course of these irresis tible Pills ; biliousness, indigestion, liver com plaints, and other disorders of the stomach can easily be cured by the use of Holloway’s Pills. Thousands attest this assertion, and no sufferer who has ever tiied them will deny their su preme efficacy. In' every case of stomach dis ease, from the mildest case of dispepsia to the disorder of both liver and stomach, froin tl»f nausea of the free liver to the vomiting accom panying ulcerated stomachs, these £}U| iflMM* djately relieve, and by perseveres? J ' 1 f

Saturday, Septfmber 13, 1879.3

’) HE ASHBURTON HERALD



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THE ASHBURTON HERALD. Advertisements for the Ashburton Herald must be sent in not later than 2 p.m. for the Country Edition, and 3 p.m. for the Town Edition, with the number of insertions written plainly on the copy, other wise they will be inserted till countermanded, and charged accordingly. Notice to discontinue Advertisements must be left at the Office in writing, before 12 noon and alterations the day previous. Subscriptions : Quarterly — Delivered in town ~ country Posted Agencies. In Advance. If Booked s. d. s. d ...60 6 6 ...80 8 6 ...80 8 6 ASHBURTON HERALD, Published Daily. are requested to make known any irregularity in the delivery, whether in Town or Country, which shall be immediately remedied. Country Sub zribers along the Wakanui Road to the school, thence to Seafield, Cambridge, and N'ewland, are supplied by the mail-cart every Tuesday and Friday, ENVELOPES, NOTEPAPER, EN VELOPES, NOTEPAPER.—The cheapest ever offered in Ashburton, at the Offuft, Wholesale Stationery Depot, Sanis|*a ! Buildup,



Electoral. OF OOLERIDGE POLLING DAY ON MONDAY NEXT* DO NOT HAVE A MEMBER WITH A BIG Doubtful AFFIXED TO HIS NAME. GEORGE HART IS A PRONOUNCED OPPOSITIONIST. GEORGE HART IS IN FAVOR OF FREE EDUCATION, TRIENNIAL PARLIAMENTS, AND REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS. GEORGE HART DOES NOT BELIEVE IN SPENDING UNAPPROPRIATED PUBLIC MONEY. ALL RIGHT-MINDED MEN WILL ESTIMATE THE STERLING CHARACTER OF GEORGE HART, THE TRUSTWORTHY CANDIDATE. GEORGE HART IS THE TRIED CANDIDATE. VOTE STAUNCH FOR HART. 438 a



Clothing Estahlisv-i ASSIGNMENT OF THE ESTATE OF MESSRS. AITKEN, PASCOE & CO., CLOTHING MANUFACTURERS, TO Mr. J. H. Morrison, 1 Manager Mosgiel Woolen j I< actory, I trustees. AND Mr. John Ross, Of Sargood, Sons & Ewing, 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 NEW GOODS IN MEN’S AND BOYS’ ATTIRE, Of Colonial Manufacture, at from O N E THIRD TO ONE HALF THEIR USUAL COST. HALLENSTEIN BROS., New Zealand Clothing Factory. The assigned Stock will be for Sale in our Ashburton Branch from and on SATURDAY NEXT, 28th JUNE. New Zealand Clothing Factory. 12a Boarding Houses. ECHO DINING ROOMS, EAST STREET SOUTH, Next door to Messrs. Sando& Olsen, Ashburton. A DUPUIS begs to inform the inhabi , tants of the County of Ashburton and visitors that he has opened the above. Every attention has been paid to making this establishment all that can be desired. Very Reasonable Charges. Tea and Coffee All Hours. Breakfast for early train ; Table d’Hote from 12 noon to 2 p.m. Tea from sto 8 p.m. A Chef de Cuisine of considerable experi ence has been specially engaged for this establishment, and all that the proprietor asks is one trial. 54 A. DUPUIS, Proprietor.



PRINCE ALBERT PRIVATE HOTEL PJIHE undersigned having opened the Prince Albert Boarding House, in Wills Street, near the Railway Station, under the management of Mk. and Mrs. Luo is, begs to say he is destermined to keep GOOD TABLE, and afford Comfortable Accommodation to customers at MODERATE CHARGES. THOMAS CLARK, Proprietor. 333 a ASHBURTON CENTRAL TEMPERANCE HOTEL, Baring Square (Near Town Hall). RE-OPENING of the above commo dious and centrally situated Pri vate and Commercial Hotel. T. BROADBELT, PROPRIETOR, Is prepared to give Superior Accommoda tion to Boarders and the Travelling Public on REASONABLE TERMS. Weekly Board and Lodging ... £1 Weekly Board ... ... ... 14s. MEALS AT ALL HOURS. Beds (single), Is. 6d. Private Room for Ladies. 334 a Business Notices. -JVTEWSPAPER INVESTORS. En quire locally before you touch any thlla & Tiparii. ! ® js not