In the Bank of England.

“A Rambler,” in the “ Newcastle Courant,” says:—One of my most pleasing reminiscences was a recent visit to the Bank of England, the “old lady of Thread needle-street,” as it is affectionately termed, one of the largest banking estab lishments in the world, its very name calling up romantic visions of untold wealth ; so that one enters its portals with a feeling of awe, which is con siderably increased by the appearance of a consequential-looking man attired in a huge red and gold coat and cocked hat who promenades about the courtyard. Near the entrances are enclosures where detectives are frequently concealed, one or more being always about. On the left is a dial, arranged like a clock, whose pointers tell the art of the wind, and through a doorway on the same side we enter a smaller court, in the centre of which is a pretty little garden, with a fountain playing, and little birds chirrup ing and flitting among the trees ; every thing is so still and quiet that it is difficult to imagine that we are in tlie very centre of the busy, bustling city ; at the end of this court is the bill and draft department. Returning to the larger court on our right is the securities department, while before us is the main building. The outer office is devoted to the cashing of cheques, and exchanging money ; large notices are hung up, so that a stranger need be at no loss to know where to go to. Quarter of a million of sovereigns changes hands here in a day, and the average amount of money turned over daily is from two to three millions. Going through a door and passing along a corridor the Rank parlox - is pointed out. Unfortunately the directors are within, so it is impossible to see into this famous room, where the fluc tuations of the money market are regu lated. This long stone corridor is frequently crowded with an excited and impatient multitude when a change in the Bank rate is looked for. The open windows look into a yard, beneath which are the bullion vaults. Passing through more corridors, we arrive at the stationery office, first of all looking into a room on our right, where some thirty cleiks are engaged in sorting and arranging the notes come in from the country branches.. Each note appears with a round hole pierced through the amount, and the signature torn off. It is examined and its number checked in case of forgery ; for all notes are kept for seven years, and a record kept of each one that comes in, so that any forged note of the same number coming in, it is easily detected, the original note being produced. r, .he stock of paid notes for five years is about 68,000,000 in number, and they fill 13,000 boxes, which, if placed side by side, would reach 2|- miles ; and all the notes in the Bank, placed in a pile, would he six miles high, or if joined end to end, would form a ribbon 11,000 miles long. Their super ficial extent is rather less than Hyde Park, their original value was over £2,200,000,000 and their weight over 80 tons. Almost incredible, is it not ? We pass now into the stationery offices. It may not be generally known that all the Bank printing and binding, no matter how trifling or how large, is done on the premises. The busiest time in this de partment is previous to the issue of the half-yearly dividends. In the machine room some extensive alterations were going on. Proceeding up the narrow, winefing stone stairs, we are stopped by a locked iron gate ; our conductor lyings a bell, and the gate opens by a spring and closes after us. We are now in the note printing department. Some 100 hand are employed, many of them mere hoys, and no one is allowed to leave the premises daring the day. Work commences at nine o’clock and ceases between three and four, dinner being provided for the work men. in tlie rooms. The first machines we came to were printing and stamping In dian notes of the value of ten rupees. The printing of an ordinary bank note was then explained to us, a sheet of plain paper, having only the water marks on it, and the size of two notes, is placed in the press and comes out partly printed ; each machine recording every note that passes through, a guage indicating the number of impressions ; there are four dials, one de noting the units, another the tens, an other the hundreds, and another the thousands, so that at any moment the number of notes that have been printed can be checked. The note is then passed to another machine, where the body is printed in ; in another room tlie notes are numbered and the signature printed. The process is very interesting : the machine is fed by two lads (the notes being still in pairs), the numbers going backwards— that is, the first notes numbered are the highest—and on each succeeding note the number is one less. This is done by a very complex machine, the revolving of a machine causing a number to change each time, and at every tenth two numbers to change. There were two machines going and were superintended by the managers. Two men sit at the end of each machine and carefully check each note at it leaves, placing them in piles, the highest number being at the bottom. Great attention is necessary, as the notes are now ready for circulation, but so particular are these scrutineers that a mistake has never been known to occur. We had thus seen a note from the plain paper go through all the various stages until it emerged value £IOOO, and ready for circulation. In the comer of the room stands an old machine, which was formerly used before the note 1 circulation was so gi'eat as it is now ; it is simply kept as a curiosity. Going down stairs again we made a curcuit of the building, through narrow passages and curious turnings, saw where the soldieis are quartered, and where the officers dine, for in addition to the Bank watchmen, a detachment of soldiers. guard the Bank every night. Re-entering the Bank by the mam door, we proceed to the Treasury Office, a snug, cosy room, with comfortable chairs and a soft carpet and a cheerful fire burning. Around the room are ranged a number of safes the whole containing some sixty millions of money. To open one of the safes, two keys are required. Ihese are kept by different people, so a gentleman is summoned from an adjoining room, and a pile of bags of gold is exposed to view. One bag containing 1000 sovereigns was placed in my hands; another sate is opened containing from fourteen to fifteen million in notes, and a small parcel is handed to me, being £IOOO notes to the value of a million. But perhaps one of the most wonderful sights was the weigh

iug of the gold which had come in from circulation ; this we viewed through a glass casement, all visitors being excluded. The soveriegns lay in long tubes, each resembling a half cylinder raised at an angle, and they slowly slid down with their own weight, and dropped one by one on to a pair of delicate scales, in balance true ; a small hammer knocked the coin off the scale on to a tray, and another sovereign immediately took its place, and so on ; but should the coin prove light it was knocked by another hammer on the other side in an opposite direction. Twenty one of these machines were at work, and required no supervision what ever —each silently doing its work. We next visited the bullion department, where in the cellars are stored the returned notes and the refined gold. A bar is handed to me value £BSO, which had beeu refined at Rothschild’s ; it was stamped with their mark, and also by the Bank. It was 24 carat gold ; before being coined, however, alloy in the shape of copper is added to it, thus reducing it to 22 carat. In the yard are carts bringing in gold, and other’s re-

moving it, while another gorgeous s) ecimen of the beadle class paces solemnly about, eyeing every one with a solemn, ominous, suspicious look.

THE SULTAN’S MISERY.

It takes about an hour and a half to run down from Therapia to Constantinople in a steamer. When they .are not scheming against one another at one end of the Bos phorus, the foreign ambassadors get into their steam launches and go down and see what can he done at the other. Here the Sultan and bis ministers, who are all in triguing against each other, offer a fine field of operations. Constantinople, as perhaps your readers are aware, is divided so far as dogs ai’e concerned, into districts. The dogs all know the limits of their respective quarters, and never venture beyond their boundaries. Should by chance an unfortunate cur from the next district stray beyond his frontier, he is immediately set upon by the dogs in whose territory he has invaded, and, if he cannot make good his escape, is worried to death. Khaireddin, the present grand vizier, is at present exactly in the position of a dog who has got into a district to which he does not belong, and is suffering accord ingly. Summoned by the sultan last year from Tunis, where he had written on Turkish administration in a manner which pleased His Majesty, he was suddenly pitchforked among the pachas and effendis of Stamboul, and given a position superior to them all. Of course, they have ail been down on him ever since. And yet, Khairedden is a superior animal to those of the district he so suddenly invaded. He is a large, stern-featured, beetle-browed man, with a smile that relieves the scowl upon the upper part of his face. He has a very determined and somewhat overhearing expression, a com plexion as light as that of an ordinary European. He is a perfect master of French, for he spent many years of his life in Paris, and a most uncompromising enemy to corruption in any form. He came into office six months ago, and animated by a sincere desire to introduce reforms, lias been persistently thwarted by his colleagues ever since. They have vowed his downfall, and they very nearly succeeded in bringing it about four days ago. Their plan is to sow distrust in the mind of the sultan. Ever since his acces sion to tlie throne, but more especially since the discovery of the last plot against him, his majesty has been morbidly sus picious ; indeed, his fear of treachery amounts to a disease, and fatally injures his usefulness, for he is a man not without intelligence and good intentions. The suspicion has had the effect of making him insist upon knowing everything that goes on in the cabinet, and of not allowing any public measure, however minute, to he inaugurated unless he has been fully in formed in regard to all its details. The consequence is that business is practically at a deadlock. He has not the time nor the knowledge to deal with all the affairs of State. Reports are shelved, important measures postponed, and reforms opposed because they are supposed to contain some secret danger to his authority. Meanwhile the clique opposed to the grand vizier, headed by Osman Pasha, the hero of Plevna, resort to every possible device to discredit him with the sultan.

Two days ago a proclamation was posted on the walls of Constantinople, of a dan gerous and revolutionary tendency, and Khaireddin was accused of having insti gated it. The night before last a descent was made by the police upon all the print ing offices in the city, because it was rumored that disloyal pamphlets were being printed ; but nothing was found. At the same time the Sultan, without consulting his grand vizier, began to open private negotiations for a State loan ; all of which proved too much for the patience of Khaireddin, who sent in his resignation. By the last accounts, however, it would seem that the sultan has allowed his sus picions to he dispelled ; admitted his error in endeavoring to act independently of his minister ; and the grand vizier has so far won a victory over his rivals. How long he will succeed in maintaining his ground it is impossible to predict, The other day in Council lie openly accused Osman Pasha of eislionestj, and Osman, in tlie conver sation afterwards, spoke of him as “ that dog Khaireddin.” The hero of Plevna has turned out a “ dead beat,” and a good deal of an impostor. It now appears that the defence of? Plevna was really con ducted by the chief of his staff. He was captured by the Russians in more ways than one. His venality is notorious. He has been bought by the Russians and the Khedive of Egypt, and is for sale to any one who will pay for him. Indeed, in a late instance lie took bribes from both sides. As commander-in-chief he makes large sums out of army contracts. His brother-in-law is the sultan’s private secre tary, and goes shares in the plunder. There are three or four other members of the cabinet who are in the Osman faction ; one of them a very powerful and influen tial man, who avoids the perilous position of grand vizier, as he prefers rather to make a tool of the occupant of that office. Having failed with Khaireddin, he has now turned against him. Almost the only friend and supporter of the grand vizier in the cabinet is the foreign minister, Cava theodori Pasha, and the downfall of one would probably involve that of the other. —Corr. N. Y. Sun.

HISTORY OF THE CARVED HOUSE “MATATUA.”

(EXHIBITED BV Tins NEW ZEALAND GOVERN MENT AT THE SYDNEY EXHIBITION.)

Many generations ago, while some of the ancestors of the Ngatiawa tribe were preparing a repast of fern root at Whakatane for a stranger named Taukata, he showed them some kumaras. They asked him where he got them, and if they were good for food. He replied that they from Hawaiki, and were their main sustenance ; and that, if they would make him a canoe, he was quite willing to take them to his island for the purpose of bringing hack some seed to New Zealand.

They complied with his request, and named the canoe “To Aratawhao,” and started under the guidance <>f Toroa and Tamakiliikurangi. Taukata remained behind, but told them the direction in which to steer, with orders to dig the kumaras from a hill called Parinuitera, and not to take them from near the sea beach. Also to take precaution to pre vent pakura (water liens) or rats getting on hoard. On their arrival at Hawaiki it was found that “Te Aratawhao” was too small to bring a cargo. Consequently they were obliged to make another canoe, which they called “ Mat at u a,” which was accordingly laden with kumaras ; but they quite forgot the caution about the pakura and rats, hence the first introduction of these to New Zealand.

“Matatua” left in company with a canoe named “ Te Arawa,” which was commanded by Ngatoroirangi. The crew of “Te Arawa” were on the same mis sion—namely, to get kumaras ; but the two canoes had not left New Zealand to gether. They parted company, and “ Matatua ” landed at Whakatane, where the Nagatiavva pah now stands. Immediately the canoe reached the Whakatane shore, the natives in the stem of the canoe jumped out and went inland, and subsequently made their way to Taranaki, where their descendants still live, and retain the name of Ngatiawa. Those in the stern of the canoe did not land at once ; but, when they did they settled there and then on the spot, and so named themselves Ngatiawa proper, while they called the deserters “ Te Roro Ngatiawa” (wanderers). Those who re mained at Whakatane are the ancestors of Ngatiawa, Ngaiterangi, Urewera, Whaka toliea, Wlianauapanui, and other tribes. The “ Matatua” was dragged to the spot where the Ngatiawa pah now stands. Here she was left to decay, and years after two trees grew up. One was a puriri, which was afterwards cut down by the Ngapuhi tribe when they made a raid on Whakatane ; tlie other was a rata, which was called “ Te-Puhi-o-Mata tua,” and was destroyed by the troops under Colonel Fraser in 1867. Taukata did not benefit much by his charitable action in giving information about the kumaras, for the residents of his island gave instructions to kill Taukata as soon as the kumaras came up, or else the gods (under his influence) would be witch their crop, and kumaras would never grow in their land : so they seized an opportunity, and cruelly murdered him in a kumara pit. The idea of the house first originated with Haliaia Matatehokia, chief ot the Ngatipukeko tribe, who consulted with Wepiha Apanui and other natives, and with Major Mail’. The matter was left in abeyance for about two years, when the whole tribe took up the mat ter, and decided to build a house and represent all their ancestors in it. Another object in building this house was to reconcile the tribes Ngatiawa and Urewera, between whom there existed much ill-feeling in consequence of mur ders perpetrated by the latter tribe during the war. The house was completed in 1874. In March, 1875, it was opened by the late Sir Donald M‘Lean with great demonstrations, in the presence of many hundreds of Native and European visitors. The image oil each post represents the ancestor of some tribe or sub-tribe. The principal one is Toi, from whom the whole native race is supposed to have sprung ; his figure is carved on the bottom of the middle post, in company with Awa and Toroa. The front pole represents the figure of Kaliungunul, an ancestor of the Hawke’s Bay natives, Rongowhakaata, ancestor of the Poverty Bay natives, and Te Whatuiapiti, another ancestor of the Hawke’s Bay natives. The small image represents Te Ngarara, who was killed many years ago while trading off Whale Island. The second small image represents Te Maitaranui, grandfather of Wepiha Apanui, and of Mr Faloon, who was murdered at Whakatane some years ago. The carving on the ridge-pole in front of the house represents Ruamoana and Materehe, ancestors of Ngatipukeko. tribe ; also Awatope, a god. The image on top of the ridge-pole represents Mokera, father of Apanui. The twin images on the right hand of the porch represents Taitiinuroa and Wahahamama, ancestors of the Patuai tribe. The twin images on the left of the building represent Tarakiuta anc Tarakitai; these twins were boys belong ing to the Rongowhakaata tribe. Tupuru puru, a chief of Poverty Bay, was by right entitled to the first of the preserved birds —in fact, to a royalty on all birds killed in Poverty Bay; but, on these twins reaching maturity, he would lose it, as they were from an elder branch of the family. He therefore determined to get rid of them, and accordingly dug a deep pit across a road where the twins where in the habit of spinning tops. One day he sent them out to play, and so they fell into the pit prepared for them, and were killed. The footboard across the front of the porch represents Oniawa, ancestor of the Nga tiawa, and the image on it was carved by a Fijian named Kune, in honor of Thako bau, of Fiji. Tlie posts on the right of the house represent Iviore, Paraheka, Talia, Pakalio, and Hikapeliiwai ancestors of the Ngatiawa ; To Dakahotararo, ances tor of the Te Kaha natives : Te Imuwhakapuru, ancestor of Ngatipukeko ; Tuteao and Rangiliouhiri ancestors of the Ngatiawa; Hikareia, father of Ilori Tupaea, chief of Taimuiga; Te Rangi Kawehea, ancestor of the chief Rangitu kehu, of Rangitaiki; and Matckitatahi, ancestor of the Whanauapanui tribe. The posts on the loft side represent Te Rangitumau and Tamaruarangi, ancestors of Ngatiawa; and Te Harawaka, an cestor of Te Whanauapanui. The mer maid is called “ Te Makarini,” after Sir Donald M‘Lean. The next posts repre

sent Waikapuku, Te Tawlia, Pirau whonua, and Tamawhiro, ancestors of the Ngatiawa ; Apanui, ancestor of the Whanuapanui tribe : Te Hukitu, ancestor of Ngatirangi ; Te Kama-a-Pakui, Talia kaioro, and Umutaha, ancestors of the Ngatiawa. On tlie inside of the porch the figures represent Iratumoana, Whetenui and Kohi, ancestors of Ngatiawa. All these ancestors are des cendants of the crew of “ Matatua.” The Taranaki Ngatiawa are not represented in the House, as they were supposed to have left their shipmates, and had no further communication with them. The descendants of the crew of “Matatua” appear to have kept themselves distinct from tlie crew of “ Te Arawa,” although living within a few miles of one another.

A New Route to the West Coast.

Mr Woolley and his party returned to Reefton on Saturday (says the “ Inanga hua Herald ”), after having been employed for some weeks exploring the country in the vicinity of Cannibal Gorge for the purpose of ascertaining the engineering facilities for a lino of railway. So far as having attained the object with which the survey party started, we believe that their labors have resulted most successfully. Altogether the party have been absent about a month, but tlie progress of the work was much iuterferred with by the severe weather, but for which it would have been completed earlier. Examina tion of the country has proved beyond all doubt that a line of railway can he carried on to the Ilaninor Plains with a gradient so easy as to require scarcely an appreciable rise, so that in the event of other circumstances rendering it desirable that the coal traffic should he carried by that route no difficulties of construction would have to he encountered ; and so far the problem has been satisfactorily solved to find an easy pass for a line of railway connecting the East and West Coasts. The disadvantages attending this route are, firstly, greatly increased dis tance to Christchurch and to localities south of Christchurch, where at present a large coal trade could he developed ; and, secondly, that the line of railway would pass through scantily populated districts reaching Cnristchurch, so that no re munerative trade in this mineral could he looked for until the coal had been carried an excessive distance. A final objection is the greater length of the line, being only something like 111 miles by the southern remaining to be constructed to Brunnerton with Christchurch, while by Reefton and Cannibal Gorge the length of railway to be constructed would not be less than 160 miles. According to the result of the different surveys, the trans insular line will be carried either by the Hope or Arthur’s Pass, tlie main trunk line and the transinsular line being one line until reaching Nelson Creek, when the main line will diverge to Cook Strait by Ahaura, Reefton, Lyell, and Hampden.

THE COLONY’S CREDIT.

Major Atkinson has been accused of crying down the colony’s credit in the Home money market, by placing upon the housetop the real present financial posi tion of New Zealand, and what it will probably be at the end of the financial year. We have no idea that the dis closure to English capitalists of a million deficiency will hurt our credit so much as will the telegram that takes Home the information of a reaccession to power by the party whose admirable financing caused the tide of public wealth to ebb so low ; and whose diplomacy kept the true state of affairs concealed from both the capitalists whose good opinion wo desire to court and the people of the colony who find the interest of the money already borrowed, and that of the £5,000,000 loan which is to bo the next increase to our indebtedness.

If wc are to borrow money, let us do it under no false pretence. Do not let us go into the market with a sounding boast that we are financially right, while the fact is we are financially wrong. In the end it will be better for ns if wc tell the truth about our position. Major Atkinson knows this, and lias acted upon it, and the country is his debtor for the information he has given it. All the year through the colony has seen indications that the public exchequer was becoming light, and the hurry to get the £5,000,000 through Parliament gave token that things were not so promising as they ought to have been. But the late Government let not a syllable escape indicative of the true state of affairs. Their tactics have rather been to conceal this from the country, and to lull it to sleep in a fool’s paradise of security. The “speech from the throne,” which was so full of highly Liberal measures, hardly mentioned finance, and what it did say regarding that subject has scarcely met with a corroboration in the Financial Statement delivered last week. The Speech told us the colony was financially sound ; but it did not tell us of the falling oft’ in revenue that confronts us in the Colonial Treasurer’s Statement. It did not tell us that, to make good the falling off, we should have to dig deeper than ever into our pockets to satisfy the tax collector, nor that the duties recently remitted, with no benefit to the consumer of the articles set free, would have to be reimposed, and new and additional lines of taxation struck to make up the revenue to the level of expenditure. No indica tion of this kind was given to us. We were allowed to remain in ignorance of the real state of affairs, and the colony’s knowledge of its public finance was at best but a suspicion. Now the murder is out ; and when tlie hard, cold facts stare us in face, and we know that the Colony of New Zealand, as a going concern, balances with a deficiency, we hear the accountant who has struck tlie balance accused of injuring the concern’s credit when he writes down the figures. Wo repeat, those figures will not injure the colony. When the capitalist learns the position of the concern to which he is asked to lend his money, he will learn, we may be sure, in whose hands its affairs were when it got into difficulties. The sum short will not frighten him. It takes a good deal to break the credit of a colony like New Zealand. But when he learns that under Sir George Grey’s management the colony’s affairs financial got mixed, with no sign of effort made to extricate them from their involvement ; when he learns that Sir George Grey’s Native Minister has been at liberty to do as he would with

the funds of his department ; that the same liberty was accorded to his Works Minister ; and that the same team is again in power ; he will think twice before he lets go his gold to make up the coveted £5,000,000. No, the deficiency will not hurt our credit, but our credit will be seriously injured if wo allow the mis-man aging directors of affairs again to come to the supremacy.

Titr Chink.sk.— We deeply regret to hear as the intelligence is a forerunner of what will inevitably be attempted in Wel lington, that the Chinamen of Auckland in conjunction with other Chinese firms in New Zealand, and backed by a power ful combination of their countrymen in Hong Kong, are about to try the experi ment of importing into that city, as well as into other parts of the colony, a com pletely organised party of Chinamen, re presenting the various trades and callings, in order to compete with local workmen, and that they are to lie followed by other similar shipments should the first experi ment succeed. It seems therefore that the “yellow agony ” is to afflict the North Island of New Zealand on. a scale at tempted hitherto in no other part of the colony. Now is the time for ail persons, mechanics and the working classes es pecially, to be up and doing. The time for mere preliminary discussions has gone by, and such associations as that of the New Zealand Hhal Employees have a dis tinct work to to, and a distinct enemy to face. We shall continue to watch this question carefully, for Mongolian invasion means the most serious interference with the labor market of New Zealand which it is possible to imagine.—“ Chronicle.”

Holloway's Ointment and Pills. — Rheumatic Pains, Tic-Doloreaux.—These dis eases are unfortunately very prevalent in this country, and are frequently most distressing, sometimes for years baffling all medical skill to alleviate the sufferings of the victim. Inno case have Holloway’s Ointment and Pills failed to produce a cure. The Ointment produces a peculiar and soothing influence over the nerves and muscles, relaxing spasms and subduing pain. The attack soon becomes milder and the intervals between the paroxysms longer ; until they cease altogether. The Pills restore the body from a weak and debilitated condition to a state of health and strength. Persons bedridden for months with rheumatic pains and dwellings, after using the Ointment have refuscl in an incredible short period.— Advt.

THE ASHBURTON HERALD.

LWednesbav, October ss, 1879.



Auction Sales. JOHN LLOYD CRAWLEY, AUCTIONEER, &c., Saunders’ Buiildings, Ashburton. J, L FRED JJ ARRISON, AUCTIONEER, STOCK AND ESTATE AGENT, ASHBURTON. Farms, Town Sections, and House Pro perties on the Books for Sale or to Let. AGENT FOR THE TRANSATLANTIC FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY. Chief Office— Christchurch. Public Notices. REAPERS AND BINDERS. THE Undersigned having been ap pointed agent for the sale o : McCORMICK’S & W. A. WOOD’S REAPERS AND BINDERS, is now prepared to treat with those who will want them for the coming season. FREDK. PAVITT, 555a—88 East Street, Ashburton NEW ZEALAND WESLEYAN , Published Monthly. JUST ARRIVED, the “ Now Zealand Wesleyan ” for October. Price 6d, Sold at the Herald Ofhcc, East Street. WEEKS AND DIXON, Agents.



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Boarding Houses. PRINCE ALBERT PRIVATE HOTEL rpHE undersigned having opened the Prince Albert Boarding House, in Wills Street, near the Railway Station, under the management or Mr. and Mrs. Luo as, begs to say he is determined to keep GOOD TABLE, and afford Comfortable Accommodation to customers at MODERATE CHARGES. THOMAS CLARK, Proprietor.. 333a—27 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 lias been paid to making this establishment all that can be desired. Very Reasonable Charges. Tea and Coeeee 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. CENTRAL TEMPERANCE HOTEL, B a rin g Square (Near Town Hall). E-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. Cd. Private Rooji for Ladies. 334—82 a



Wants, &c. TALE. —The Herald publishes a por tion of a readable story ever Satur ay. Read it. TT^ANTED. —The Herald tells your YV Wants in 20 words, for 1/-. HOUSEMAIDS.— The Herald asks a Housemaid for vou in 20 words for 1/-. _ J\j[ RS. ScOTT’S IMPERIAL BOARDING HOUSE, Durham Street South, CHRISTCHURCH. Board and Lodging, 20s. Beds and Meals, Is. each. 509 a TO PRINTERS. \\T ANTED—A Smart Hand, to make VY up the “Ashburton Herald” and “Ashburton Guardian.” Sobriety indig oensable. WEEKS & DIXON. O you Want the News of the Day? Read the Ashburton Herald. fjnriE PENNY made the postal system X of England a success. So has it made che Herald. Everybody buys the Herald. W r ANTED KNOWN—That Money can be saved by purchasing your Sta tionery and Account Books, for cash, at the “Herald” and “Guardian” Whole sale Stationery Dep6t, Saunders’ Build ings, near Station. TUT ANTED Known, that TWENTY VY Words are inserted in this Column for ONE SHILLING prepaid, and FORTY Words for TWO SHILLINGS prepaid. 'ASTE PAPER for Sale, bd. per lb. at the Herald Office. Apply early. 590 ITT ANTED KNOWN, that Envelopes VY and Notepaper can be obtained, wholesale or retail, at unusually low rates at the “ Herald ” Office, East-street North. 642 WANTED KNOWN—That the cheap est 2.nd neatest CARDS may ba had at Pie “GUARDIAN OFFICE.”



TO PRINTERS. MACHINE FOR SALE. FOR SALE, about the end of October, One Second-hand Double Demy Tape Printing MACHINE, in thorough working order, with rollers, moulds, &c., complete. We are replacing this machine by a Double Royal Wharfedale, which necessitates removal of the Double Demy Machine now used for printing the “ Herald ” and “ Guardian,” for hand or steampower. Can be seen and all par ticulars obtained at our office. WEEKS & DIXON. Ashburton, October 14, 1879. 565 a TO LET, SHOP at present occupied by Mr. Stringer, adjoining Messrs. Fried lander’s Store. T. BULLOCK. TO LET. rno MEET THE TIMES, I am prer Jl_ oared to take a very low rental fo- Shops of mine, situated in Triangle and East street. T. BULLOCK. rno LET, at a very low rental—Bakery, 1 cogetlier with Dwelling-house and Shop, near the Post Office. 393 a THOS. BULLOCK. TO LET, WITH A PURCHASING CLAUSE, OR FOR SALE, CHEAP, ACRES, 453 Whlich would make a very compact farm, situated at the back of Mr. Digby’s. Apply to THOMAS BULLOCK. FOR SALE, A GRAIN STORE at South Ashbur ton. Apply to 2—866 a THOMAS BULLOCK. FOR SALE, A COMPACT FARM, well-watered, and rea 1 iy first-class land of about 200 acres, situated on Longbeach Estate. For full particulars, apply to 6 THOMAS BULLOCK. FOR SALE, Cheap, or TO LET, with a Purchasing Clause, a FARM, of 137 Acres, partly improved, and situated about three and a half miles from the Township. Apply to 5 THOMAS BULLOCK. The Stud. THOROUGHBRED ENTIRE COLT Of the Tradtjcer Blood. To Travel this Season the ASHBURTON AND WAKANUI Districts, See future Advertisements for Particulars, S. H. FOWLER & CO„ Proprietors, 504a—20 Winslow Public Notices. Y. R. rnHE ASHBURTON GUARDIAN a (County Agricultural and Sporting Recorder) is a GAZETTE for all Notices under The Debtors and Creditors Acts. October 6, 1879.