SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

PORT OF LYTTELTON,

The Amaranth left Auckland for Lyttelton on Jan. 23, with 45,000 feet of timber.. The Derwent and Fawn are reported at Kaipara, loading timber for Lyttelton. The ship Hydrabad has floated, and there is now every probability of her getting off

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 Northern Ports, per Hawea, Jan. 25, at 6.30 p.m. For Otago, per Wanaka, Jan. 25. For United Kingdom, via San Francisco, on Feb. Ist; due in London on March 18th.

The Evening Echo. FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1879.

It is a remarkable fact that whenever Mr Joseph Ivess gets beaten in open fight in the Borough Council, he immediately retires to the trenches of the “ Mail’s” editorial columns, and, under the cloak of the anonymous, hurls at those who differ from him abuse he has neither the readi ness of thought to call to mind nor the pluck to fire off when in the Borough Council meeting. Yesterday the “Mail” was severe on what it termed the absurdity of Mr Parkin’s motion and the conduct of those who supported it. The supporters of Mr Parkin’s motion failed to admire the borrowing course suggested by Mr Ivess, and his Worship the Mayor gave counsel for delay in the matter of a loan. Ashburton has two pressing wants —drain- age and a water supply. In vieAV of Avhat all must allow to be the most pressing want of the two, viz., drainage, the Works Committee were anxious to pro ceed Avith an outfall drain, and recom mended in one of their reports its imme diate commencement.. It was the Mayor himself, we think, who first suggested to the Council that the construction of an outfall drain could be looked upon as a legitimate part of a water scheme, and Mr Ivess himself had no doubt Avhatever as to the crying necessity for drainage, and frequent paragraphs in his paper have showed that the neighborhood of the ‘Mail’ office was anything but sweet through the faulty, or rather non-drainage, of Burnett street. But, notwithstanding that he knows the action of the Works Committee is hampered through the unmade outfall drain stopping their Avay, and Avould him self, as he said at the last meeting of the Council, be only too glad to see the motion of Mr. Parkin carried out, if only funds were available, he follows a policy of obstruction, which is quite characteristic of him. “ The Mail’s” article ridicules the idea of passing a motion to go on Avith the work on a peradventure. The Mayor, Avho, along with the Chairman of the County Council, has power to operate ” on the £5,000 voted for the Borough’s water supply, told the Council that it Avas useless applying to the County Council for any diversion of the vote from the purpose for which it was originally placed, and said the almost inevitable answer Avould be a reference to the two gentlemen to Avhose hands the control of the £5,000 had been committed ; but the Mayor also added that he had no doubt Avhatever a proportion of the money would be given for the purpose

of (tisiinago. It on tho .stv-ongth of this, assurance that the motion was passed. Of course, if a clearer light dawned upon the Mayoral mind, by the rays of which lie was able to express his belief that the “ motion carried would never be carried out,” and in that clearer light he should see his way to refuse to “operate” for any other purpose than water supply pure and simple, he is perfectly justified in doing so ; but his assurance that a propor tion of the money would be granted stands recorded all the same, the “ Mail’s” sneer notwithstanding at the men who desire drainage.

The Old Men’s Home. —Storekeepers and others are referred to an advertise ment in another column inviting tenders for the supply of rations, etc., for the in mates of the Home at Ashburton.

Police Court. —The following cases were disposed of to-day by Dr Trevor and James Campbell, Esq., J.J.P. : —James O’Donnell, out on bail, for being drunk and disorderly on the 21st instant, did not appear, and his bail of £1 ivas estreated. John Bradley, for being drunk and dis orderly last night, xvas fined 10s, or 24 hours’ imprisonment. William Millar Avas similarly charged, as also Avith at tempting to rescue Bradley from the police and using obscene language. Mil lar Avas an old offender, and was only a little Avhile out of gaol. The sergeant said Millar was well known to the police, and many complaints Avere made against his bad conduct. The Bench said that, in consequence of Millar’s , character, he would bo sent to gaol for two months. John Cunningham had not been up before the Court for 18 months, but previous to that time lie had put in frequent appear ances at the Court. With the view of helping his apparent reformation, the Bench let him off. John Millar Avas fined 40s, Avith the alternative of 48 hours’ im prisonment, for drunkenness. A case against one M £ Kenzie, from the Hinds, for cruelty to a horse, Avas adjourned till next Aveek. The Rakaia Drowning Case.—Yester day the body of George Skae, the man Avho was droAvned last Saturday evening Avhen attempting to cross the Rakaia River, Avas found about four miles beloAV the bridge. For some time there Avas a degree of mystery as to who the unfortu nate man was, but the finding of the body has put all doubts at rest as to his identity, and the man has been recognised as Geo. Skae, cook to a surveying camp at Burn ham. An inquest will be held to-morrow at noon, before Dr. Trevor, at the Railway Hotel.

Inquest. —An inquest Avas held to - day in the Ashburton Hotel, before Dr. Trevor and a jury of Avhom Mr. G. M. Robinson Avas foreman, on the body of a boy named Charles John Doyle, fifteen months old, the child of J ohn Doyle ploughing contractor, residing at the Hinds. The father of the child stated that there was a Avell 195 feet deep about six or seven yards from the door of his house. The Avell Avas not covered, and it Avas only about a fortnight ago the child had begun to walk. About eight o’clock yesterday morning the Avitness last saiv child alive. He Avent to Avork about half a mile away from the house, and on hearing his Avife screaming, an hour and a half afterwards he came home and found that the child had been drowned in the well, and his dead body had been taken out by a neighbor named Grigg. He could have put a cover on the well for about 2s. The child had not been let out aboA r e a couple of times. Had lived at the house about ten months. The pro perty was Mr. Moffat’s. The mouth of the Avell was flush Avith an earth platform of three feet Avide, but the Avell mouth was tAA r o and a half feet above the ground level, the Avhole being enclosed Avith a post and rail cattle fence. Besides his Avife there was only an old bedfast woman in the house. The door of the house Avas barricaded to keep the child inside, less because of any| danger that Avas feared from the Avell, than from possible mischief by horses’ feet. Deceased Avas Avitness’s only child. Nicholas Grigg, road con tractor, presently living near Maronan’s, said he .had been called by Doyle, Avho feared the child Avas doAvn the well. Descended the Avell and found the body of the child. Three of his OAvn men lowered him. There would be perhaps tAvo feet of Avater in the Avell, Avhich had no protection likely to keep a child, unable to take care of itself, from falling over the side. Honor Doyle, Avife of the first Avitness, corroborated the evidence previously given. She had left the child in the kitchen, to feed the bed fast Avoman already referred to, leaving the kitchen door barricaded. In her absence, Avhich Avas only four minutes, the boy had displaced the box and got out. The Coroner pointed out that there Avere scores of wells in the locality, equally unprotected Avith the one Avhich had caused the death of this child. Where by gross carelessness of this kind death resulted to any one, there Avas liability to a charge of manslaughter against Avho'msoever the carelessness .might be brought home to. He had no Avish to add to the troubles of the parents, but it Avas neces sary that the law should be made knoAvn. It ought to be known that persons having wells dangerously uncoveredlay themselves open to a charge of manslaughter in the event of a death ensuing from it. The j ary found a verdict of accidental death, adding a rider expressive of their condem nation of the carelessness exhibited by many OAvners of sunk Avells in this district in leaving them uncovered against danger to children Avhile by a rail fence they pro tected cattle from the same danger. The attention of the press Avas called to the pluck and humanity of Mi*. Nicolas Grigg in boldly descending a Avell 195 ft. deep, by a fin. rope to rescue the child.

CORRESPONDENCE.

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

THE TINWALD TRIAL.

To the Editor Evening Echo.

Mister, —As to those competing “ claimants,” I guess.neither your report nor that floricultural essay in the “ Mail ” gives me satisfaction. Let me try ! Mind, I was only an amateur spectator, who en joyed the sight very much. But I resent not having been told that the trial was to take place on the south bank of the river, and that the road to it is close to the south end of the bridge. If I had only known that, I should have walked over the bridge, or perhaps even straight across the river in the “old chum ” fashion ; for either way I should have saved sixpence for a ticket, and the precious long round by Scott’s Hotel. However, I saw part of Tinwald, which I had been led to believe would be a dangerous rival to Ashburton, especially if the Alford Forest and Mount Somers traffic be diverted thither along the south bank. But after seeing, I have ceased to believe in any such thing. Ashburton has got too much start.- Its imposing appearance from the trial-field yesterday, compared with the view of Tinwald at about the same distance, is convincing in that respect. Don’t .you think, Mister, the “ Mail ” reporter must be an “unprotected female” in disguise? I heard no “soft summer breeze sighing through the wheat,” but then, —“he that hath ears, let him hear,” and our friend of “ the peeping sun,” “who (? the sun or our friend) laid himself down in golden enjoyment along the hills”—among the banks would have been more appropriate —“ or did forty winks in the little distant valleys between the shady mountains,” must have had long eyes as well as ears to see anything of the sort; for in the forenoon the sun had not yet got to the north, and the mountains, lying mostly west and south-west from us, were not shady, except when a cloud passed over the hot peeper. That this sentimental, yet prosy, poetess must have been a “Jenny” is plain from her “high” appreciation of thistles. She magnifies them into “ four feet” high. I am only five feet eight, and I declare that very few of them reached above my knees : ask the “ Marsh” mower man, who cut a few rows of them with admirable preci sion ; you reckon the wheat at three feet, and I believe you are right; the thistles in the wheat reached as high, but those in the exclusive thistle crop were, although very thick, much shorter. Then you didn’t tell us what the soil was ! Your readers are left to believe from the senti mental one’s account, that it was a “ light grain bearing sandy loam.” I puzzled over this, for I am quite sure —inexpert as I am at farming—that the grain borne there was anything but “ lightas for the soil, I was stupid enough to examine the river-bank, which shows about eight feet of soil without a pebble,—from wheat stalk to water, and a sub-soil considerably impregnated with clay, topped with by no means light loam ; thus presenting the most favorable conditions for a heavy crop of wheat, thistles, or anything else. I regretted to observe that the south branch of the river impinges seriously on this noble wheat field—drift-straw in the river-bed, and pieces of the bank cracking outwards, crop and all, attesting to damage done by the last flood. But I also saw what pleased me much : several isolated ti-palms—commonly called cab bage trees—are carefully protected from damage by cattle, with four panels of three-rail fence between four corner posts, and the great flower bunches are conse quently flourishing, and just about to break into perfumed blossom. The Mail’s sentimental female mourns over the prac tical deficiency of modern farming in poetry, “ rosey blushes on the faces of clean-limbed shepherdesses, and soft lips,” arid other “imaginings of old” more or less “ beautiful,” and complains that “smut and grease of machinery and nip ping screws ” are now substituted. I fancy the shepherdesses of old, if exposed to a dusty nor’-wester on the Canterbury plains, would have been somewhat too rosy about the face, without blushing at their anything but “ clean limbs,” if the poetess of Burnett-street had been permitted, in virtue of her sex, to inspect them. I am glad to say I saw no “smut” in the machinery or in the wheat on Wednesday ; and the “ grease,” if any, was not offen sive to my nose, and was absent from the “clean limbs” of the really handsome draught horses. As for the “nipping screws ” —this certainly did not apply to those quadrupeds ; arid I heard one of the drivers distinctly refuse a “nip” at his next round, offered to him by the care taker of his machine. I hope the female penciller did not do any “nipping” to “ screw ” herself up to such a climax of literary perfection ! As to thistles, let me tell farmers that it is foolish to be scared about them. They come and, in time, they go. Cut them just as they are in flower, and before they are in seed. Then stack them, or let them lie on the ground, and turn milch cows into the field. From thistle-hay is pro duced abundant and rich milk ; of which I saw convincing proof six or seven years ago on the dairy-farmed town belt of Wel lington, where the thistles did really grow four feet high, and more.

The care taken by Mr Carter of his cabbage-trees induces me to recommend farmers and gardeners generally to follow his example, and even to go beyond it by planting them. The stems, laid in a trench horizontally, will send up shoots close enough to form a good live fence and shelter by fastening (without nails) rails across the young stems. Even from the seed fine trees, fully 14 feet high, have been grown by Mr Taylor, of the Maze and Swimming-bath Gardens (once Kohler’s), Lincoln-road, Christchurch.

The hkium Is very abundant, and omita a delicious perfume. It would be worth the while of anyone who understands the distillation of perfume from flowers to collect them from now upstanding trees, and to grow hedge-rows and plantations of this indigenous tree for the special purpose.

As to the reaping and binding machines, I know nothing of their technical working, and, therefore, I can give no opinion as to the comparative merits of the three which competed. But the McCormack appeared to me most free from the fault of deliver ing unbound sheaves. This fault, it was kindly explained to me, arises from the impossibility of coiling the wire without “ kinks,” at which it is apt to break in uncoiling, and in the interval a sheaf drops unbound. I have seen accounts of new American inventions, such as binding with string, and with paper, instead of wire. An expert also informed me that string would blunt any knife in a few cuts, while a knife lasts without sharpening for a whole day’s work upon wire. String, too, might perhaps form “balls” as hair does in .the entrails of cattle eating it, if chopped up with the straw. I leave experts to settle that “knotty” point. Paper binding would, I suppose, obviate both these objections, but I have not yet met with any detailed account of the process by which the paper bands are cut and fastened round the sheaf, or as to whether they are left in the straw, or separated from it at the threshing-machine. I wish every reward to all successful competitors in exhibiting these most valu able “ helps ” to our stalwart farmers, and encouragement improvement to those who are adjudged to be now inferior in usefulness. —So long, Mister!

You- TILL-I-TIE !

TELEGRAPHIC.

LATEST FROM EUROPE.

[special to association.]

London, January 21. Behrens, Banniger and Co., merchants have failed.

The liabilities of the Rosedale and Ferry Hill Iron Co., at Middleton, are half a million.

Consols, 96|; wheat 48s. to 495. ; beef tallow, 355.

AUSTRALIAN

[By Submarine Cable.]

Sydney, Jan. 23.

Mr. Barbon, in addressing his constitu ents, adverted to the squatting organisa tion, which had an income of £200,000 annually applicable to political purposes. The three horse-stealers who were ar rested at Cambalong, have been identified as the men who were mistaken for the Kelly gang when crossing the Murrum bidgee. The Bulli lock-out dispute will probably be settled next week.

Arrived—Easby. News from Hong Kong reports a disas trous fire, destroying 368 houses, nearly lOvr acres of the city, including the' Civil Police Barracks. The loss amounts to £200,000. Brisbane, Jan. 23.

The wreck of the Mecca is hard and fast on the reef, and likely to remain there. Everything saleable in her has been got out. The vessel can be taken to pieces, and possibly may be launched again. • The Melbourne New Guinea Expedition by the Dove found no gold. They suffered fearfully from fever, and several died. All were so prostrated that they had to lay the vessel to, and afterwards made for Anibora. They were attacked near Three fold Bay, but beat off the natives. They afterwards sprang a leak, but were re lieved by the ship Launcelot, and landed at Yokohama.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

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

Auckland, Thursday.

Judge Gillies has given an important de cision re the Stamp Act Duties. Daniel Lynch having made a gift to his wife of property subject to mortgages, the Com missioner of Stamps, Wellington, sus tained the decision of his Deputy that it must be stamped for the amount of the mortgages, and the Judge has now confirmed the decision.

At an inquest on the boy who was drowned in a well in Kelson-street yester day evening, the jury added a rider to the verdict of accidental death, strongly condemning landlords who leave their property in a condition to be dangerous to their tenants. At the launch of the Madonna from the building yards of Messrs. Sims and Brown, at the North Shore, this morning, one of the ropes threw a lady into the water. Two men at once jumped in and rescued her. The lady was being car ried out by the strong tide, and the rescue was considered plucky. At the Wesleyan Conference, the following candidates for the ministry were accepted : —Messrs. N. Isitt, E. Park, W. Slade, C. Abernethy, L. Hudson, W. Brooke, and J. Pinfold. The offer of Mr. O. Dean was declined on the ground of ill health. Fraternal addresses were delivered at the afternoon session by Archdeacon Maunsell and Dr. Kidd (Anglican), Rev.—Jurans (Church Mis sionary Society), and the Revs. M’Nicol and Carrick (Presbyterian). Wellington, Thursday. The Lyttelton to-day brought over from D’Urville Island 50 tons of copper ore, which has been shipped for Newcastle in the Neptune, to be smelted.

The LCydrqbad Has -baou moved uvA another 150 feet, and is almost certain to get off, Nelson,, Thursday. Messrs Acton Adams and. Albert Pitt, the candidates for the city, have com menced election operations in earnest. Both promise to work strenuously to obtain justice for Nelson in the matter of Public Works, and to obtain the fulfil ment of the many Ministerial promises given to connect Nelson with other parts of the Colony by a trunk line of railway. The great fight will, however, be on the education question, and very strong reli gious feelings are likely to be imported into the contest. On both sides com mittees are working hard, and report says that the dissenting clergy are actively can vassing against denominationalism. Timaru, Jan. 23.

The immigrants ex Waikato, comprising 20 families, 47 single men, and 27 single girls, are going off I'apidly. All the latter were engaged at from £2O to £3O per annum in a few hours after being open for engagement, while the majority of single and married men have also found situa tions, and the depot will probably be clear by Saturday. The demand for all kinds of labour in this district is still far beyond the supply. The first meeting of the newly-estab lished South Canterbury Coursing Club is fixed for May 16, when an All-Aged Stake of £2 2s. per dog will be run for. The Washdyke Meat Preserving Works re-open on Saturday. Last year 65,000 sheep were boiled down, and the number this season promises to be still greater. Invercargill, Thursday.

The demonstration yesterday was a great success, although the accident to Mr. Conyers threw a damp upon the pro ceedings. The banquet was the finest ever carried out here, and passed off admirably. There were 300 guests. The Hon. J. Bal lance replied to the toast of the Ministry. All the speakers expressed the greatest surprise at the town, the style and quality of buildings, and the general appearance of the country. A good many returned to Dunedin to-day. The other visitors go upon an excursion to-morrow to Lumsden in the direction of Lake Wakatipu. They will leave for the North again to-morrow.

TO-DAY’S CABLEGRAMS.

London, January 23.

The accountant of the City of Glasgow Bank has testified that he prepared accu rate balance-sheets, but. they were subse quently altered.

TO-DAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Dunedin, Friday.

The discussion on “ The Divine Origin of Christianity,” between Messrs. Green and Bright, was continued in the presence of as vast a throng as the theatre is capable of holding. It had been anticipated that the Controversialists would have brought the discussion to a termination last night, but not being able to do so, Saturday evening, has been fixed for the resumption of the debate.

A colored seaman, who had just done a short sentence in gaol for petty larceny, was arrested immediately on his discharge and remanded to Port Chalmers for being absent from his ship without leave. The want of a Police Magistrate is severely felt. *. Justices are very irregular in their attendance at Court, and for weeks past have almost invariably arrived from a quarter to half an hour behind trine. To day, a publican and a wine and spirit mer chant presided, and several drunkards were treated with unusual severity. The Burns anniversary is to be cele brated this evening by a lecture on “ Burns,” by the Rev. J. W. Inglis, in. the Queen’s Theatre, under the auspices of the Caledonian Society. MR. CONYERS. A telegram received by Mr. Blair, of the Public Works Department, to-day, states that Mr. Conyers is still progressing favorably. j Invercargill, Friday. Mr. Conyers is going on satisfactorily. Auckland, Friday. At the Wesleyan Conference* C. W. Turner, Esq., of the Canterbury district, had been appointed lay-treasurer of the Home Mission Fund. In regard to church properties, it was reported that the churches at Woolston and Heathcote were to be sold and new ones built, new sites for which had been secured. Half an acre of land had been purchased at Wools ton as the site of a new church and school for £l2O. There was no debt. A quarter-acre church site had been secured at Halswell, and at Rangiora a new church and parsonage had cost £I6OO. A debt of £I3OO remained on the latter, but £SOO was expected to be paid off by March next. Two acres at Seafield had been given by Mr Saunders ; four acres at Burnham by Mr Charteris ; one acre at Ellesmere by Messrs Draper and Charteris, and a fifth of an acre site at Richmond by Mr G. King. The church at Seafield had been built at a cost of £l7O. The childrens fund total was £1984. The Education Fund income amounted to £lB9, the ex penditure to £l4l. The Secretary re ported the following statistics :

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Number of Churches " I5 l Other preaching places 116 :: i .. 1*269 Ministers Catechists Sunday-school teachers Local preachers 203 Class Leaders r 49 Fully accredited members - 3,192 Members on probation 307 Communicants 849 Catechumens ... 374 Sunday schools ... 139 Scholars • • 11,149 'Attendants at public worship 29,054 Last year’s attendants .. 27,572



~~ JOHN ANDERSON? 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 can 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. d®. OSBORNE . do. do. Extras and wire for each of the above. McSHERRY GRAIN DRILLS. English and American Mowers, by Samuelson, Hornsby, 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 few. STEAM IRON WORKS (Next the Horse Bazaar), BURNETT STREET, ASHBURTON. WARDS AND J^EE 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 wotk 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. TIT E ARE NOW LANDING— VV Exp.s. “Tongariro,” Bxij( 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. 'JpHESE 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.



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, &0., HAVELOCK STREET, ASHBURTON, Near the Town Hall. 213 PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. THE REY. J. ELMSLIE, of Christ church, will preach (D.V.) in the Presbyterian Church on Sabbath first. Collection in aid of the Sabbath School. 296