pound, -' as r the : ' small sheep may be good merinos or the- first, cross from them. Putting cross-bred rams to cross-bred ewes with the hopes of having anything but a progeny showing extreme varia bility, is an unqualified absurdity, and the same applies to the indiscriminate use of various descriptions of rams of the some breed, expecting to have uniform wool or sheep. The merino has an almost un conquerable tendency to breed back, and this tendency requires much care in management, even when rams of a uni form character are constantly used, and the breeding directed by a single intelli gent will. What, then, can be expected when Tom, Dick, and Harry’s rams, along with their- advice, are used alternately, and the annual classing of the ewes a thing unheard-of 1 This practice, I be lieve, is too common in this country, as well as in the Australian colonies, and this brings me to a vital part of my letter, namely, the reason why some stock-hold ers in Australia can sell their clips even at this bad season to figures ranging beyond three shillings per pound, when their nearest neighbors, in many instances, can hardly get two shillings for theirs. How these neighbors are in possession of precisely tlie same kind of country, the meridianal or -latitudinal difference between them amounting in many in stances to no more than the thickness of a wire fence. These men started at the same time, and with the same kind of stock as the good breeders, and if those writers who lay so much stress on climate were correct, we would expect, knowing that beginnings were equal on each side of the fence, to find equal results ; or if, as other writers assert, all improvement is to be attributed to the inherent qualities of the animal changing for the better with changed conditions of life, we would still expect that, from the same beginnings in the same locality, the same results would ultimately accrue, bat such is clearly not the case in Australia, as anyone at very little expense can prove for himself. To what influence, then, is the world in debted for the magnificent sheep and wool produced by such breeders as the Cummings, Dowlings, Currie, and others, of Victoria, and Gibbons and others, of Tasmania 1 Simply to the sound know ledge of those gentlemen, which enabled them to take advantage of the tendency to variability, which is inherent in all re claimed animals, and the directing of this variability in their flocks to the most profitable end by accumulated selection. By the repetition of this ■ process in one direction for a number of years, tlieir im proved sheep have now the hereditary power to transmit their good qualities to their offspring, with a force and certainty approaching that of species, and every year this power will become greater, and their sheep correspondingly more valuable 1 for improving indifferent stock. The high figures the good breeders Australia receive for their wool from the British and French manufacturers, the enormous sums they are able to get for heir sheep, and the high commendation heir wool called forth at the Philadelphia exhibition this year, clearly points out to the intelligent Canterbury breeder that to Australia he must look for his stud stock, and he will be compelled to do so or see himself entirely distanced in the wool markets of the world. The Australian merino lias for a long time been improving the flocks of Africa. He is performing the same duty in the centre of India, aud I fearlessly predict that in a very few years, by the proper use of the same animal, some breeders in Canterbury will successfully race the Australian wool growers in the London market. I noticed some very good Australian sheep at Christchurch Show last year, exhibited by Messrs. Lee and Chapman. I also notice that the Messrs. Parker, of this province, have purchased fn-st-class stud stock in Melbourne a short time ago. These gentlemen are unmistakeably taking “the tide at flood that leads to fortune,” and

their spirit in buying such stock will be rewarded in a few years beyond their most sanguine expectations, assuming (and I have no doubt of the fact) that they have the judgment to shape their breeding in the direction the voice of the manufac turing world proclaims, to be the right one.—l am, &c.

Fine Wool.

October 23, 1876.

Fish Diet.

From the Scotsman .

The growing demand for animal food in this country has hitherto been chiefly met by increased supplies of meat, obtained in the form of live stock from the Continent, of frozen carcases from America, and of tinned meats from the Antipodes. The gigantic proportions which our foreign butcher’s bill has thus attained of late years may be in part attributed to the comparative neglect in this country of another source of animal food—namely fishes, of which its rivers, lakes, and surrounding seas might, by enlightened enterprise, be made to yield an enormously greater harvest. This neglect is pro bably somewhat due to the fact that the value of fish as an article of food is very generally under-estimated. ' In many parts of the world, and especially along the northern shores of Europe, Asia, and America, where vegetation is of the scantiest description, fish form the chief, if not the only, food of the inhabitants. The Siberians bake bread with a meal formed by grinding down the dried re mains of fish, while it is true of the majority of dwellers in every fishing village, that fish, and rot flesh, form the great bulk of their animal food ; yet, as Dr, Davy remarks ip “ The angler and Ifis friend ’’ —“ In no other class than in that of fishers do we see larger families, handsomer women, or more robust men. ” The number of fish species used as food is much larger than that either of birds or mammals, and there is similarly a greater diversity in their nutritiousness. The nutritive value of any food depends on its digestibility, and on the quantity of flesh and force producing material which a given amount of it contains, the flesh prpclucjng matter consisting chiefly of such nitrqgenpns substances as aibpmen, fibrine and gelatine, while .the force producing qualities lie mainly in its fat. In both of those respects considerable difference obtains between the two groups into which food fishes are usually divided—namely, the white blooded, of which the cod is an example, and the red-blooded, of which the salmon is the type. The latter, as a rule, contain more cil than the former, and have it ; distributed throughout the qnuscie and immediately beneath the shin

in much the same way as the flesh of mam mals, while ill the former the oil is chiefly concentrated in the liver. The red blooded fish thus afford a richer diet, but for the same reason, they are, as a rule, much less digestible than white fish. The maximum force-producing power of one pound of certain common articles of food when consumed in the human body, has been calculated from actual experiment by Professor Fiankland, and from the results thus obtained it would appear that a pound of whiting—one of the white fish thus digested and oxidized in the body will produce a force equal to that expended in raising 491 tons one foot lngh; while a pound of mackerel—me of the red blooded group—owing to _ the _ much larger quantity of oil which it con-, tains, is capable of producing a force equal to 1000 .tons raised one foot high. With regard to force producing power, most of the other food fishes are intermediate between a whiting and a mackerel. Comparing fish in this respect with other forms of animal food, it is found that a pound of lean beef will pro duce a force equal to 885 tons raised one foot—that is considerably less than a similar quantity of mackerel —while the lean of veal is only equal to the produc tion of a force of 756 tons raised one foot. A pound of mackerel, on the other hand, can produce at the maximum 3| ounces of muscle or flesh, while the same quantity of lean beef can only produce 2} ounces. Fish oils are exceedingly rich in the force producing element, cod-liver oil being placed in this respect above all the other food substances experimented upon by Professor Frankland, a pound of it digested and oxidized in the human body being found capable of producing force equal to 5649 tons raised one foot high. The muscle of fish usually contains less nitrogenous or fleshforming material than that of mammals, and generally less fat, but the difference in these respects is, in many cases, comparatively trifling. Thus lean beef, according to Dr. Pavy, contains 19‘3 per cent, of nitrogenous matter, while whitefish contains IST per cent. ; the former having also 3'6 per cent, of fat, against 2‘9 per cent, in the latter. Fish also have special value in human diet, owing to the. larger propor tion of phosphorus contained in them than in other forms of animal food ; and as, according to Buchner, there is “no thinking without phosphorus,” writers on dietetics have recommended them to brain-work ers and all who are liable to mental worry and anxiety. .Buchner s assertion, however, is scientifically ac curate only so far as it is a statement of the fact that phosphorus is a necessary constituent of that nervous matter which forms the apparatus of thought, and that, as a recent writer puts it, “for the integrity of thought, integrity of the ner vous tissue is requisite, and for the integ rity of the nervous tissue a due quantity of digestible phospliatic salts. ” The eel is the oiliest of all fishes, but is correspon dingly deficient in nitrogenous matter, containing only 10 per cent, of the latter, but having at least 14 per cent, of fat. The Jews were prohibited from eating eels by the Levitical law, which forbade the eating - of “whatsoever had no scales or fins in the water.” Prejudice has led to i an almost equal abstinence from the eat ing. of eels on the part of the Scottish people, although in other fish-eating countries they form a favorite dish. Especially is this the case in England, where the demand for eels always exceeds the supply, and where no fewer than ten millions of them are annually brought to Billingsgate for the supply of the metro politan market. It is also a special favorite with the Italians, who cultivate it in the great lagoons of the Adriatic, and the Neapolitans, who import it to the extent of a million pounds annually. The quality of fish is greatly affected by tlie act of spawning. Immediately before this operation they are at their best ; tor some time after it they are out of season, and barety fit for food.

THE STORY-TELLER.

AN UNPLEASANT ADVENTURE. {Continued.) “Troth thin, an’ here they are a comin’. Din intill the room an’ lie down till they be gone. Jimmy an’ Pat sleeps in the far bed, an’ me an’ Biddy in the near one ; she’s away since Christmas, an’ I’ll be for sittin’ up. Jist lie down on my bed an’ rest, an’ I’ll keep the door shut betwixt. ”

On the whole, this seemed the best thing to do, so I did as the old woman bid me. The two beds were very poor, though far superior to what may ordina rily be found in Irish cottages, being placed on bedsteads furnished with coarse blue curtains along the outer side, whereas a straw pallet thrown on the ground is the usual sleeping-place. The bedsteads were placed end to end, and completely filled the room, the uncurtained head of the one she bid me lie down on being close against the wooden partition between the two apartments, and the open chinks in the partition allowed me a full view of what passed in the kitchen. Coarse as was the couch, it could not be otherwise than agreeable to my weary frame, but I bad hardly thrown myself down on it when the house door opened, and six or seven young men tramped in, stamping their feet to shake off the snow.

“ Good-evenin’ till ye, Judy. Sure an’ here’s a night if iver there was one ; it’s mighty little dthrilHn’ we’ll be afther havin’ the night, barrin’ we do it here in the kitchen.”

The speaker was a ferocious-looking, short, thick-set man, powerfully built, and with a hang-dog expression of coun tenance ; his black brows, shaggy unkempt hair, and badly-shaven face adding to the wildness of his aspect ; he seemed to be regarded as the leader, “That’ll be a small parade ground for ye, Mick, though most o’ the boys is away the night,” said a more youthful speaker, with a less repulsive countenance. “ We’ll jist niver mind paradin’ and dthrillin’ the night, but take a dtlirap more to warm us, and dthrink success to ould Ireland an’ dtlirownin’ to iveiy Sassenach in her.”

• c Thvue for ye, Barney,” said the first speaker, “ an’ I’il jist read a letter for the boys from Ameriky, from Paddy Phelan ; an’ sure an’ lie’s a captain now in the army of the great Irish republic, an’ he says we’re to keep up heart and work all tliegither, for that we’ll surely have the boys across from Ameriky afore Patrick’s Day, an’ thin won’t we see the Sassenachs flyin’ V’ The letter was pioduced, as was also an

amp’e supply of the potteen, or mountain dew ; but at this stage of the proceedings fatigue got the better of me, and I fell in to a sound sleep. I hardly know how long I may have slept, certainly more than a couple of hours, when I was awakened by loud and angry voices in the kitchen ; and looking through the crevices in the wooden parti tion, I could see the man addressed as Mick and a younger member of the party facing each other on the floor with angry gestures and violent language. “ Is it you, ye spalpeen, that dar’ say a word agin’ 'med” cried Mick. “By jabers, but if ye don’t jist do every hap’orth I bid ye, I’ll make sich a scare crow of ye that yer own dog ’ll bark at ye.” “I dar’. ye, so I do,” shouted the younger defiantly. “Jist let me see ye lay a sign of yer finger on me, an’ ye’ll see what I’ll do.”

Mick seemed provoked beyond expres sion at this, and he advanced rapidly and struck his opponent a violent blow on the side of the head. The young man stag gered a little, but instantly recovering himself, planted a far straighter and better-delivered blow right in Mick’s face.

It was Mick’s turn to stagger now, and one or two of the “ “ Well done, Tom, give it to him again.” This expression of their opinion roused Mick still more; his face grew purple with passion, and calling out to his com rades, would they see their leader beaten and not stand by him ? he was immedia tely joined by Barney and one of the others, while the three remaining members of the party as quickly sided with Tom, and the scrimmage became general. Mick and Tom had laid hold of each other, and were apparently fighting rather by a kind of wrestling and struggling than by blows, when Tom again managed to throw his antagonist against the jamb wall which, in Irish cottages, generally ferms a screen between the outer door and the hearth. Livid with rage, Mick seized a clasp-knife which lay open on a stool beside him, having been apparently used for cutting tobacco, and struck Tom two rapid blows with it, wounding him first under the ear and then in the heart. The poor young man instantly staggered hack and expired without a groan. I was horror-struck ; and remembering what the old woman had said about Mick’s readiness in using his knife, could not but feel that I had had a narrow escape from a similar fate. Tom’s fall instantly sobered the party, and they gathered round him with terrified faces ; Mick and Barney alone were unconcerned and defiant.

The old woman had run out into the byre, seveaming “Murther, murther,” probably without knowing how awfully true her words were.

“ Och Mick, och Mick,” the men cried, “ye shouldn’t ha’ struck him like that though ye were scrimmagin’. ” “ An’ what did he aggravate me for ? ” said Mick. “ Why did’nt he do what I tould him ? ” “It’s no rason for using the knife, Mick, ye’re always too ready with it,” said one of them ; but a savage scowl from Mick, and a hurried motion of the hand towards the fatal knife again, made the speaker draw back, and tlie ferocious leader of the gang was reproached no more for his murderous deed.

There was no help for it, however, and they consulted together what was to be done with the corpse. To my horror, they decided on putting it in one of the beds, till, as they said, they were ready to start, and then I heard them bringing it to the bedroom. I crouched down as close to the wall as I could. I had no time to get under the bed ; but when they came in I was instantly discovered, and dragged out into the kitchen.

[to be continued.]

IHE ASHBURTON HERALD

TThurssdAy;Aprjli, ,i88o?



Amusements. FIRST TIME IN NEW ZEALAND ! ! TOWN HALL. THE Amateur Dramatic Club, havin'? obtained special license under the Authors’ Copyright Act, WILL PERFORM, ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, April 2 and 3, The Nautical Drama entitled “ASHORE AND AFLOAT,’" With a magnificent cast of 25 clirracters, accompanied with 17 sets of splendid scenery. Full particulars in handbills. Admission —Front seats, 35.; back, 25.; gallery, Is. Doors open at 7.30 ; commence at 8. . G 640 Conveyances. THE LONGBEACH COACH ! GEORGE WILLCOCKS respectfully acknowledges the liberal support which he has received during the short time his Coach has been running, and soiicits a continuance of the same, The fares by Willcocks' coach are exactly 3d, per mile ordinary fares, and lid. per mile for Saturday return. They are as under— Longbeach to Ashburton, ordinary 55., return Bs, Waterton to Ashburton, 3s. fid. ordi nary, Gs. return. Ashton to Ashburton, 3s. ordinary, ss. return. Wheatstone to Ashburton, 2s. fid. ordinary, 4s. return. SINGLE FARE RETURN ON SATURDAYS. The coach leaves the Booking Office, Quill’s Commercial Hotel, each day at 3.15 ; Post Office, 3.30. 292 g ECOOKSON, Wills Street, runs the , MAIL COACH from Ashburton Railway Station to Green Street, Alford Forest, and Mount Somers, every Tuesday and Friday, returning Wednesday and Saturday at 3 p.m. mBE PENNY made the postal system I of England a success. So has it made the Herald. Everybody buys the HEJUir.



Edmiston Bros. & Gundry. TURNIP SEEDS. SALE by the undersigned—- Green Top Yellow Aberdeen Purple „ „ Devonshire Grey Stone Mammoth Purple Top White Stone Stubble Grass and Clover Seeds. White Clover Red „ Timothy Alsike Lucerne Gors© Italian Rye Cocksfoot Perennial Trefoil &c., Ac., &e. Building Material. 100,000 FEET OF ASSORTED TIMBER White & Black Pine Black Birch T. and G. Flooring Y.D.L. T. and G. Lining Totara Kauri, &c., <fcc. COALS AND FIREWOOD IN ANY QUANTITY. EDMISTON BROS. & GUNDRY, East Street. Agents for the SOUTH BRITISH FIRE & MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY. Capital £1,000,000. Risks taken on all kinds of Property, Growing Crops, Grain in Stack, Thresh ing Machines. EDMISTON BROS. & GUNDRY, East Street. FARMS FOR SALE in blocks of 50 to 100 acres. Price from £2 15s. per acre. EDMISTON BROS. & GUNDRY, 106 c East Street.



Bussines Notices. SUSP Sl m M. NEAL AS, BOOT AND SHOEMAKER, AND IMPORTER, S CLEARING OUT, the whole of his Present Stock at REDUCED PRICES, next to Taylor’s Bakery, where he has opened with a Large Stock of Boots of every description. Note the address— M. NEAL AS, EAST STREET, ASHBURTON. 2I 9c NEWS AND MAGAZINE AGENCY. STATIONERY AND FANCY GOODS DEPOT. RE-OPENING. HM. JONES begs to inform his . customers and the public generally that he ha 3 re-opened part of the premises lately occupied by A. Weston and K. Sando and Co. for the sale of Newspapers, Magazinse, Stationery, Fancy goods, Toys, &c. English and Colonial papers, Periodicals, &c., by each mail. Licensed to sell Stamps. Lowest prices—Terms cash. Agent for “ Ashburton Guardian,” “Ashburton Herald,’, “Ashburton Mail,” “Lyttelton Times,” “Canterbury Times,” Daily “Press,” “Weekly Press,” “Otago Witness,” “ Australasian,” “ Town [and County Journal.” Subscribers to “ Canterbury Times” and “ Weekly Press” can obtain their copies at the above Establishment. *l2lc SATURDAY, MARCH 13. OPENING NEW STORE, East Street, Near Bullock, & Co’s. JAMES CLARK Begs to inform the Public of Ashbur ton and Surrounding Districts that he is commencing business as GENERAL STOREKEEPER, FRUIT ERER, BAKER, &&, And trusts by supplying good quality articles at moderate prices, to share public support. Note the Address— JAMES CLARK, PROSPECT BUILDINGS, East Street, Near Bullock & Co’s., Ashburton. 163 c WANTED KNOWN—That Money can be saved by purchasing your Sta tionery and Account Books, for cash, at the “Herald” and “Guardian” Whole sale Stationery DepSt, Saunders’ Build* ings, near Station.



Auctioneers. MR. JOHN LLOYD CRAWLEY. Auctioneer, Stock, Land, and Commission Agent. Farms, Town and Suburban Sections, for Sale and to Let. J. LLOYD CRAWLEY, AUCTIONEER, Offices, Saunders Buildings, Ashburton. 737 a MgqyicawrHiMM Business Notices. BREAD!BREAD! Co-operative Bread and Biscuit Factory. Triangle, Wakanui Road, Ashburton. A. THIELE, BEGS to inform the public that he is now in a position to SUPPLY BEST BREAD, 6d. per 41b. loaf, unsur passed. Delivered daily to all parts of the Borough, also, Confectionery, Ac. Mixed Biscuits reduced from Is. to Bd. per lb. Wedding Cakes made to Order. 986a-5700 TO FARMERS, LIVERY STABLE KEEPERS, SPORTING MEN, AND OTHERS OWNING HORSES. GEORGE KIDD, Moore Street, BEGS to announce the fact that the PRICE for SHOEING hacks and light draught HORSES is now REDUCED to 7s. per set, and that all horses of this description will be specially attended to by himself. Horses liable to cut are shod on a prin ciple of George Kidd's own invention, which has proved an effectual cure for brushing. All kinds of blacksmith’s work, and repairs to agricultural machinery of any description done on the shortest notice. GEORGE KIDD, 75c-526a Moore street, Ashburton. PUBLIC NOTICE. BOOTS! BOOTS! T. CHAMBERS WHILE THANKING the pvblic of Ashburt@n and surroui ding dis tricts for past favors, begs to inf< rn them that he has received, and to arrive, at his place of business, East-street, a WELL-ASSORTED STOCK OF LADIES’, GENTLEMEN’S, AND CHIL DREN’S BOOTS AND SHOES Of all descriptions. T. C. also calls special attentn i to the Measure Department, and imites the gentlemen of Ashburton to inspect the superior class of Sewn Boots and Shoes h© is now making. Riding Boots, Shooting Boots, Walking Boots and Shoes, Cricketing Boots and Shoes, and Running Shoes. WORKMANSHIP UNSURPASSED. A PERFECT FIT GUARANTEED



T. CHAMBERS, PROSPECT BUILDINGS, Next to Montgomery’s, East-street. MEDICINE . QAMBRIDGE’S ASTRINGENT, a certain cure for Diarrhoea in Children or Adults, Is. 6d. and 2s. 6d a Bottle. CAMBRIDGE’S BLACK CUR RANT COUGH ELIXIR, Is. 6d. and 2s 6d. a Bottle. CAMBRIDGE’S ORANGE QUIN INE TONIC WINE, 2s. Gd. and 4s. 6d. a Bottle. CAMBRIDGE’S EXTRACT OF BARK, CURES SORE, TENDER, and CRACKED NIPPLES. CAMBRIDGE’S ESSENCE of RENNET, 3 Drops will turn a pint of milk into delicious sweet curds, Is. and 2s. 6d. a Bottle. J. M. CAMBRIDGE, Chemist, MEDICAL HALL. N.B.—Teeth carefully Extracted. 2s. 6d. REDUCTION IN THE PRICE OF BREAD. EDWARD TAYLOR has reduced the Price of his best Bread to sd. Cash at shop, and if delivered by cart, 5-id. EDWARD TAYLOR, Saunders’ Buie dings, 119 c ASHBURTON. Educational. GOODGER begs to inform the Ladies of Ashburton that she opens a Private School on MONDAY, March 15, at Mr. Jones’, Stationer, Baring square. Terms : English ... ... One Guinea. French ... ... ~ Music ... ... ~ • Referees : The Very Revd. Dean of Christchurch, and J. P. Restell, Esq. 124c-5690t



Business Notices. TINWALD BOOT AND SHOE SHOP. BOOTS! BOOTS!! THE Undersigned begs to draw the at tention of the public to his well as sorted stock of Ladies’, Gents’, and Chil dren’s Boots, which he has just received, and will dispose of CHEAP. Motto— “ Small profits and quick returns.” All kinds of Boots made and repaired on the the shortest possible notice. 382 s C. HAWKINS, Bootmaker. M . Mo.OALLUM,.. AND JEWELLER Every description of Jewellery made to order and repaired. Electro-plating and Gilding. Hair plaits and Devices done. Watches and Clocks accurately Repaired. Diamonds and every description of Stones substantially Set. Clocks from 7s. Gd. each. Do., with alarm, 15s. CASHEL STREET, Next Bank of Australasia, Christ church. 221 c ANSTEE’S DINING ROOMS, TANCRED STREET, ASHBURTON. THE Proprietor begs to inform visitors to Ashburton, and the travelling public generally, that the best accommo dation for Boarders in Ashburton is to be had at the above establishment. A LIBERAL TABLE & MODERATE CHARGES. MEALS AT ALL HOURS ... Is. BEDS Is. BOARD & LODGING ... 18s. & 20s. PRIVATE REFRESHMENT ROOMS FOR LADIES. PROPRIETOR, J. G. ANSTEE. 985 a PAPERHANGING WAREHOUSE, TANCRED STREET, Ashburton. J. R. CHAPMAN PAINTER, PAPERHANGEP SIGN-WRITER, Etc., Has much pleasure in stating that, owing to the large increase of Business, he is now Importing from the Manufacturers- PAPERHANGINGS, WHITE LEAD LINSEED OIL, WINDOW GLASS, BRUSHWABE, And all the necessaries of the Trade, and is therefore in a position to compete with any house in Canterbury for price and quality. Every description of work-in the trade executed under personal superin tendence. Competent workmen sent io all parts of the country. ESTIMATES GIVEN. 251 c



T. Bullock. THE undersigned lias the following PROPERTIES to LET with a pur chasing clause, or FOR SALE on liberal terms of payment — -| Kft ACRES good WHEAT LAND, v/ al] ploughed and ready for cross ploughing for wheat ; situated about three miles from the township. ACRES, near the above ; also good WHEAT LAND, ploughed once and ready for cross-ploughing. ACRES, partly improved, near Wins low. This will be sold very cheap, and on very liberal terms. TOWN PROPERTIES. T7ALU ABLE BUSINESS SITE in Bur » nett Street, being T.S. 177, next the “ Mail” office. PART of T.S. 139, Peter Street. This will be sold cheap, and on liberal terms. FTIO Railway Employes, Mechanics, and -®- Others. —FOR SALE, cheap, Lot 78, situated on East Town Belt. Terms, £5 cash ; balance by monthly or quarterly payments. T. BULLOCK. Drawing paper, ail sizes, just opened at WEEKS AND DIXON, East street. Ball programme cards in very neat styles, with Pencils and Ribbons, printed at the Heiiald Office, East street, near Railway Station. ASHBURTON COPPER, ZINC, IRON, & TIN PLATE MANUFACTORY. JOSEPH HYDE (Late Foreman at the Malvern Works England, and the Canterbury Works, Christchurch, New Zealand) BEGS to thank his friends of Ashbur ton and surrounding districts for the liberal support accorded him during the past two years, and to intimate that he has opened NEW BUSINESS PRE MISES in Moore street (next Mr. Neate’s chemist shop) where he is prepared to execute every description of Plain and Japanned Tinware, Lamps, Gas Reflec tors, Chimney Tops, Portable Washing Boilers, Baths, Cheese Vats, etc. LOCKSMITH, BELLHANGER, GAS FIG TER. Artesian Wells, Beer Engines, Pumps, Ac, Steam Kettles, Hot Closets, made on the premises. Estimates given for Spouting. All work done under J. H.’s personal Superintendence, and guaranteed. J. HYDE, Moore Street Ashburton.



Business Notices. VALUE EXTRAORDINARY THE Great Bargains OF THE SEASON. GREAT CLEARANCE SALE FOB THIRTY DAYS. ORR AND GO. HAVING resolved to clear out the Balance of the Bankrupt Stocks purchased by them during the Season (amounting to over ten thousand pounds) regardless of cost so that they.. may commence the Autumn Season with en tirely a new Stock, ORR AND CO. Will also offer several cheap lots pur chased by them during the late depression. Special Bargains. 90 Pair Twilled Kaiapoi Blankets at 4s. under the usual price. Kaiapoi Flannel at Is. 4d., Is. 6d. to 2s. English Flannel at Is., Is. 2d., Is. Gd.. to Is. 9d. Prints at sd. and Gd., worth 9d. Brown Hollands, 7d. to Is. COSTUMES. 5G Costumes at 215., worth 355. Gd., a Baigain. 64 Print Costumes at 7s. Gd. to 12s. Gd., worth 20s. 1700 yards Dress Goods, Alpaccas, at Sd., lOd., and Is. MILLINERY. Trimmed" and Untrimmed Hats at half price. 2 Boxes Flowers, sold at Gd. per spray. Ladies’Underclothing at very much under usual prices. 20Dozen Stays at 3s. Gd., 45., 4s. 9d., to ss. Gd. CLOTHING. Men’s Suits at 15s. under usual prices. Boys’ Suits at 15s. Gd. to 355. Youth’s Suits at a little over half-price. Braces, Ties, Collars, Socks, and Shirts, unusually cheap. 20 Dozen Harvest Shirts at Is. 6d. to 2s. Gd. BOOTS Men’s Boots still sold at Bankrupt prices. Youth’s Boots in great variety. Ladies’ Kid Boots at old prices. 1 Case Children’s Boots at Is. and Is. Gd., a bargain. TAILORING DEARTMENT.



WE HAVE MUCH PLEASURE IN ANNOUNCING TO THE PUBLIC THAT A Tailoring Branch PI AS BEEN OPENED IN CON NECTION WITH OUR CLOTHING DEPARTMENT, HAVING MADE ARRANGEMENTS WITH MESSRS. CRAIGHEAD AND CO. (LATE OF EDINBURGH AND SAN FRANCISCO), PRACTICAL TAILORS, TO MAKE UP ALL ORDERS EN TRUSTED TO US IN TPIE VERY BEST STYLE. A PERFECT FIT GUARANTEED. SCOTCH, ENGLISH, and COLONIAL TWEEDS IN GREAT VARIETY. THE CELEBRATED BLARNEY TWEED (CORK) KEPT IN STOCK. FANCY COATINGS IN GREAT VARIETY. SUITS from ££ 4s. DRESSMAKING DEPARTMENT. Dresses, Costumes, and Jackets made up to order, under the superintendence of a first-class Dressmaker. WEDDING & MOURNING ORDERS PUNCTUALLY ATTENDED TO. ORE AND CO., IMPORTERS ASHBURTON AND RAKAIA