Thievish Volunteers.

It is painfully evident tliat whatever superiority the mass of New Zealand’s amateur soldiers possess as shots, or at drill, there is a very large per centage of them wanting in the characteristics of manliness that ought to distinguish the true soldier, while, let us hope, only a small modicum of them have such a hazy idea of honesty as those persons who yesterday rushed and openly robbed the shop of Mr. Furness, tobacconist and fruiterer. A special train brought up about 1,500 .Vol unteers from the South for the Christ church encampment. The Volunteers in the carriages were apparently, from their uniforms, the representatives of every company along the line where corps exist. When the train stopped, a rush was made by the thirsty and drunken enes for the refreshment rooms, for the nearest hotels, and for the shops con tiguous to the railway station where any thing eatable was to be obtained. A crowd of fifty, without even the lame excuse of being drunk, swarmed into the shop of Mr. Furness, which out of con sideration for men coming off a long journey, Mrs. Furness opened. Being- Good Friday, and no rush of visitors ex pected, it had not been Mrs. Furness’ intention to open at all ; besides, her husband is lying seriously ill, and requir ing the most of her time and attention. No sooner had she opened the door than the cowardly crowd swarmed into the shop, and while she supplied one or two with fruit from the shop window the rest coolly pocketed everything they could lay hands on, and made off. The shelves on which the tobacco, cigars, pipes, and matches were piled were swept of their valuables. The fruit boxes outside the counter were emptied ; some half-dozen tin boxes of biscuits were relieved of the last bite within them that was eatable, and the stock of lollies was reduced very speedily to low water-mark. And this without any attempt to pay. This is certainly admirable conduct for men wearing Her Majesty’s uniform and claiming to be their country’s defenders. Under ordinary circumstances a poor miserable starving wretch -who dared put forth his hand to steal would be hunted down and sent to prison, while his dis respect for honesty would be made the subject of a high toned moral lecture by the judge. But here we have half a hundred young men, claiming no doubt, to be well brought up and highly respec table, stooping down to the level of the common thief, and in the most cowardly manner possible, robbing the shop of a poor woman who is virtually a widow, for her husband is bedfast and helpless with paralysis, and the medical men have given him up as hopeless. We hope some effort will be made to bring the offenders to justice, for by their blackguardism they bring disgrace upon the whole volun teer force, and it is a pity that the respec table men who belong to the Volunteers should have to he named in the same breath with the ignorant and cowardly louts whose doings yesterday we have been recounting. It is a fact worth noticing that some disgraceful scene always occurs whenever there is a large movement of Volunteers ; and if every event of the kind is to have for a charac terising feature an outburst of larrikinism, then the sooner the New Zealand military movement is a stationary one the better. One could almost be tempted to wish that Te Whiti would assume a warlike attitude and get into battle array, if it were for nothing else then to see how these valiant robbers of a woman’s shop would stand fire when real fighting was to be done. It is evident that some sort of discip line must be exercised over the crowd of ill-bred larrikins who disgrace the ranks of our Volunteers, for it is intolerable that their entrance to a wayside town should be a signal for lawless pillage, and every joui’ney they make considered by them an opportunity for getting drunk and indulging in all sorts of senseless mis chief.. Some of the valiant ones, too, were drunk enough to lose the train, and they were to be seen rolling about the township making asses of themselves until the special train in the afternoon arrived to relieve us of their disagreeable company. The Naval Brigades have now and again been saddled with the discredit of being guilty of little bits of larrikinism, their uniforms being a tell tale evidence against the corps when any of them are caught in the crowd of wrong doers. But the thefts of yesterday were the work of men of all arms and of many corps— artillery, rifle, and naval,— showing that there are larrikins in ranks of other com panies than the rough and ready land seamen. We hope the thieves will be hunted up and punished, and that the guilty ones will be compelled to make good to Mrs. Furness the ravages they have made upon her stock.

The Templar Hall Company.

The Templar Hall Company, Limited, have just issued their annual balance sheet, but we cannot congratulate the shareholders upon having a very lucid statement of the Company’s affairs before them. We are aware that the present management assumed control at a time when the success of the affair had been seriously jeopardized by the shortcomings of their predecessors, and we cheerfully recognise their efforts towards better or ganisation, but the balance-sheet now under notice, is neither so clear as we should like nor so satisfactory as the apparent business of the Company led us to anticipate. The statement of liabilities and assets shows a balance of £403 8s 5d favorable to the former, but this gratify ing appearance is attained by a flattering valuation of the property of the Company, which could not be nearly sustained if that crucial test realisation—were re sorted to. The buildings and section are taken as assets at cost price, and when we remember that these were acquired at a period when such property was at ficti tiously high prices, and the building is subject to rapid deterioration, this course is obviously unsound. Amidst the assets we also notice large items representing ar: ears on calls and rents due, and we must consider the directory of the Com pany singularly fortunate if they have placed their credit where it can be valued at its gross sum. Accepting the figures as pas ; ' ed by the auditors as correct, we find that’the Company have made a profit of £ls Bs. od. during their existence, and as they are now enjoying a golden opportu nity -};o achiere a larger success, we hope ti e present management will make hay w"ln § the sun shines, and by a judicious poli( y insure the favorable issue which the prompters of this and. similar undertak ings deserve* .

Murderers Repaying Stolen Money.

One of the strange features in the double murder in the Faubourg 3t. Honore, that has for some time been the talk of Paris, is the fact that the murderer thought fit to write to the widow of his master and victim to inform her that it was only for the sake of robbery that he committed his crime. “ I have taken aboitVeighty pounds,” he says, in conclu sion, ‘with which I mean to make my fortune ; and I pledge myself to return it some day.” Extraordinary as the scruple may look, this is not the first time that a murderer, without feeling much remorse for the deed in itself, has given signs of being quite awake to the pecuni ary liability which it entails. Thus the Marquis de Salvere, whose father was murdered at San Domingo, about a quarter of a century ago, received by post, after the lapse of a few years, a sum of eight thousand pounds, with notice that it was a restitution of the amount robbed, from the murderer himself, who had made his fortune, but declined to give his name and address. In another case a Parisian senator was for years in receipt of a monthly instalment of eight pounds from London, the sender of which was unknown, with notice that the amount would be forthcoming to complete the payment of a sum of twenty-four thousand francs robbed from one of his uncles after murder.

TEE STORY-TELLER.

TEE EXPRESS TRAIN.

( Continued.) “He refused at first, but finally gave way with a grave civility, which almost made me ashamed of my boyish whim. 1 promised to be the prince of firemen. “ Then you’ll have to be treated as one, Mr. Santley,’ said Blakeley, curtly. _‘ I can’t talk to gentlemen aboard my engine. It’s different from here, on the platform, you’ll remember, I’ve got to order and you to obey, in there, and that s all there’s of it.’

‘“ Oh, I understand, I said, thinking that it required little moral effort to obey, in the matter of shovelling coal. If I could have guessed what that shovelling coal was to cost me ! But all day I went about thinking of the fiery ride through the land, mounted literally on the iron horse.

“It was in the middle of the afternoon when the train rushed into the station;

“ I caught a glimpse of Jane, with Charley, magnificent in his red and green plaid, beside her. “ She nodded a dozen times and laughed, and then hid behind the window, fearing her husband should see hei\ Poor girl ! It was the second great holiday of her life, she had told me, the first being her wedding clay. “ The train stopped ten minutes. It was neither an express nor a parliamen tary train, hut one which stopped at the principal stations on the route —Selms- grove, Sunbury, &c. “ I had an old patched suit on, fit, as I supposed, for the service of coal-heaver ; but Blakeley, when I came up, eyed it and m3 7 hands sardonically. He was in no better temper, evidently, with amateur firemen than he had been in the morning.

“ ‘ All aboard !’ he said, gruffly. ‘ You take your place there, Mr. Santley. You’ll put in coal just as I call for it, if you please, and not to trust to your own judgment. “ His tone anno} T ed me. ‘lt cannot require much judgment to keep up a fire under a boiling pot, and not to make it too hot. Any woman can do that in her ov T n kitchen.’

“ He made no reply, but took his place in the little square box where the greater part of his life was passed. I noticed that face was flushed, and his irritation at my floolish whim was surely more than the oc casion required. I watched him with keen curiosity, wondering if it was pos sible that he could have been drinking, as he had accused poor Jones of doing.” “It strikes me as odd,” interrupted Ferrers, “ that you should have not only made an intimate companion of this fel low, Santley, but have taken so keen an interest in his tempers and drinking bouts. You would not be likely to honor any of us with such attention.”

“No. 1 have something else to do. I was absolutely idle then. Blakeley and his family for the time made up my world. As for the friendship, this was an ex ceptional man, both as to integrity and massive hard sense.

‘ ‘ The knowledge that comes from books counts with me but for little, compared with the education given by experience and contact with facts for forty years. I was honored by the friendship of this grimy engineer. “ But the question of his sobriety that day was a serious one. A man in charge of a train with hundreds of souls aboard, I felt ought to be sober, particularly when I was shut up in the engine with him. “ Just as vve stai’ted, a slip of paper was handed to him, which he read and threw down.

“ ‘ Do you run this train by telegraph V I asked, beginning to shovel vigorously.

•“Yes. No more coal. ’ “ Isn’t that unusual ?’ ‘“Yes. There are two special trains on the road this afternoon. ’

‘ “ Is it difficult to run a train by tele graph V I said presently, simply to make conversation. Staring in silence at the narrow slit in the gloomy furnace or out at [the village street, through which we slowly passed, was monotonous. “‘No, not difficult. I simply have to obey the instructions which I receive at each station.

“ ‘ But if you should happen to think the instructions not right ?’ “ ‘ Happen to think ! I’ve no business to think at all ! When the trains run by telegraph the engineers are so many machines in the hands of one controller, whe directs them all from a central point. He has the whole road under his eye. If they don’t obey to the least tittle their orders, it is destruction to the whole. ’

“ ‘ You seem to think silent obedience the first and last merit in a railway man V “ ‘ Yes,’ dryly.- “ I took the hint, and was dumb.

“ We were out of town now. Blakeley quickened the speed cf the engine. I did not speak to him again. There was little for me to do, and I was occupied in look ing out at the flying landscape. The fields were covered with a deep fall of snow, and glanced whitely by, with a strange, unreal shimmer, The air was keen and cutting. Still the ride was tame. X was disappointed. The excite

ment would b}' no means equal a clash on a spirited horse. I began to think I had little to pay for my grimy hands and face, when we slowed at the next station. One or two pas sengers came aboard the train. There was the inevitable old with bundles, alighting, and the usual squabtle about her trunk. I was craning my neck to hear, when the boy ran alongside with the telegram. “ The next moment I heard a low ex clamation from B 1 ak ele) r . “‘ Go back,’ said he to the boy. ‘ Tell Sands to have the message repeated. There is a mistake. ’

“ The boy clashed off, Blakeley sat waiting, coolly polishing a bit of the shining brass before him. Back came the boy. “ Had it repeated. Sands is raging at you. Says there’s no mistake, and you’d beat get on,’ thrusting the second message up. . . “ Blakeley read it, and stood hesitating for half a minute. I shall never forget the dismay, the utter perplexity that gathered in his lean face as lie looked at the telegram, and then at the long train behind him. His lips moved as if he were calculating chances, and his e} 7 e suddenly quailed, as if he saw death at the end of the calcula tion. . “ ‘ What's the matter 1 What are 3*oll going to do V I asked. " “‘Obey.” [TO EE CONTINUED.]

THE ASHBURTON HERALD

I Sati rday, March



Educational. M ISS 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-5G9a 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. Gd. ordi nary, Gs. return. Ashton to Ashburton, 3s. ordinary, ss. return. Wheatstone to Ashburton, 2s. 6d. 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 a 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. Business Notices- M . McCAL LU M , \IT.ATCHMAKER 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 Stone 3 substantially Set. Clocks from 7s. Gd. each. Do., with alarm, 15s. CASHEL STREET, Next Bank of Australasia, Christ church. 221 c REMOVED TO WAKANUI ROAD, Next to Post Office. JOSEPH WARD, FAMILYBU T C II E R, BEGS to inform the Public of Ash burton that he will Open as above on Saturday next, and intends selling for cash at a REDUCTION in PRICES. First-class Beef, 3d. to sd. per lb. First-class Mutton, 2d. to 3d. per lb. Legs, 3id per lb. JOSEPH WARD, 892a* Butcher.



M. NEALAS, BOOT AND SHOEMAKER, AND IMPORTER, IS 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 . NEALAS, EAST STREET. ASHBURTON. 219 c REDUCTION IN THE PRICE OF BREAD. IT DWARD TAYLOR lias reduced the li Price of his best Bread to sd. Cash at shop, and if delivered by cart, 51,d. EDWARD TAYLOR, Saunders’ Buildings, 119 c ASHBURTON. PjnHE “Herald” is published every 1 evening, tlnis giving every day’s news. This is better than buying a Six penny weekly.



Edmiston Bros. & Gundry. CLEARING SALE. TO FARMERS, CONTRACTORS, AND OTHERS DRAUGHT HORSES, DRAYS, AND FARMING IMPLEMENTS. Messrs, edmiston bros. and GUNDRY, in conjunction with Mr. F. Pavitt, have been favored with instructions from Mr. George Parkin to sell BY PUBLIC AUCTION, ON THURSDAY, Ist APRIL, ISBO, At his Farm, about three miles from Ashburton, and three miles from Dro moro, adjoining Cuff and Graham’s, The whole of his FARMING STOCK AND IMPLEMENTS, Consisting of FIRST-CLASS DRAUGHT HORSES HACKS DRAYS AND FRAMES SETS HARNESS D. F. PLOUGH SETS HARROWS CAMBRIDGE ROLLER BROADCAST SEED SOWERS CHAFF CUTTER REAPERS AND BINDERS ACRES TURNIPS d c., (Ac., (i c. Sale at 1 o’clock. EDMISTON BROS., & GUNDRY, Gs4g-247c Auctioneers. TINWALD YARDS. TUESDAY, 30th MARCH. 7 CART HORSES AND HACKS. Messrs, edmiston bros. & GUNDRY have received instruc- ! tion.s to sell at the Tinwald yards, on TUESDAY, 30th MARCH,' rr LIGHT TRAP HORSES AND H * HACKS. « Sale at 2 o’clock. 8 2 8 8 1 2 1 2 1 9 120 EDMISTON BROS. & GUNDRY, 241 c Auctioneers.



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 Gorse Italian Rye Cocksfoot Perennial Trefoil etc. , ttc. , Aid. 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, Ac., Ac. 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 BEOS. A GUNDRY, East Street. Farms for sale in blocks of 50 to 100 acres. Price from £2 los. per acre. EDMISTON BROS. & GUNDRY, 106 c East Street. WANTED, those in search of employ ' V ment, to call and enter tlieir names at Heiialo Registry Office, on pay ment of Is. 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 Depot, 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 Business Notices. BREAD ! BREAD! Co-operative Bread and Biscuit Factory. Triangle, Wakanui Road, Ashburton. A. TIIIE LE, | >EGS to inform the public that he is * * now in a position to SUPPLY BEST BREAD, Cd. per 41b. loaf, unsur passed. Delivered daily to all parts of the Borough, also, Confectionery, &c. Mixed Biscuits reduced from Is. to Bd. per lb. Wedding Cakes made to Order. 986a-5700 TO FARMERS, LIYERY 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, 7oc-52Gg Moore street, Ashburton.



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, Lampis, Gas Reflec tors, Chimney Tops, Portable Washing Boilers, Baths, Cheese Yats, etc. LOCKSMITH, BELLHANGER, GAS FITTER. Artesian Wells, Beer Engines, Pumps, Ac. Steam Kettles, Hot Closets, made on tho premises. Estimates given for Spouting. All work done under J. H.’s personal Superintendence, and guaranteed. J. HYDE, Moors Street Ashburton. PUBLIC NOTICE. BOOTS! BOOTS! T. CHAMBERS WHILE THANKING the public of Ashburtan and surrour ding dis tricts for past favors, begs to inh rn them that he has received, and to ai’rive ; at his place cif business, East-street, a WELL-ASSORTED STOCK OR LADIES’, GENTLEMEN’S, AND CHIL DREN’S BOOTS AND SHOES Of all descriptions. T. C. also calls special attentu 1 to the Measure Department, and invites the gentlemen of Ashburton to impect the superior class of Sewn Boots and Shoes he 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 . 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. Cd. and 2s Gd. a Bottle. CAMBRIDGE’S ORANGE QUIN INE TONIC WINE, 2s. Gd. and 4s. Gd. 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. Gd. a Bottle. J. M. CAMBRIDGE, Chemist, MEDICAL HALL. N.B.— Teeth carefully Extracted. 2s. Gd.



Business Notices. TIN WALD 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 lias 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 g 0. HAWKINS, Bootmaker. C. PERCY COX, r AND AND ESTATE AGENT ANT Lj valuator, ASHBURTON. MONEY TO LEND ON APPROVED FREEHOLD SECURITY Agent for Union Insurance COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND. 717



ANSTEE’S DINING ROOMS, TANCRED STREET, ASHBURTON. nnHE Proprietor begs to inform visitors 1 to Ashburton, and the travelling public generally, that the best accommo dation for Boarders in Ashburton is to bo 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, PAPERPIANGEP SIGN-WRITER, Etc., Has much pleasure in stating that, owing to the large increase of Business, he is noF Importing from the Manufacturers- • PAPER HANGINGS, WHITE LEAD LINSEED OIL, WINDOW GLASS, BRUSHWAP E, 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 vrork in the trade executed under personal superin tendence. Competent workmen sent io all parts of the country. ESTIMATES GIVEN. 43 a T. Bullock. THE undersigned has the following PROPERTIES to LET with a pur chasing clause, or FOR SALE on liberal terms of payment— -| tZto ACRES good WHEAT LAND, -LeJU a l] ploughed and ready for cross ploughing for wheat ; situated about three miles from the township. ACRES, near the above ; also good H « WHEAT LAND, ploughed once and ready for cross-ploughing. fc'A ACRES, partly improved, near Wins low. This will be sold very cheap, and on very liberal terms. TOWN PROPERTIES. VALUABLE 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. TO Railway Employe's, Mechanics, and Others.—FOß 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 Herald Office, East street, near Railway Station,



Business Notices. VALUE EXTRAORDINARY. THE Great Bargains OF THE SEASON. GREAT CLEARANCE SALE FOR THIRTY DAYS. ORR AM) CO. 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 lot 3 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 23. English Flannel at Is., Is. 2d., Is. 6d., to Is. 9d. Prints at sd. and Gd., worth 9d. Brown Hollands, 7d. to Is. COSTUMES. 5G Costumes at 215., worth 355. 6d., a Baigain. G 4 Print Costumes at 7s. Gd. to 12s. Gd., worth 20s. 1700 yards Dress Goods, Alpaccas, at Bd., 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. Gd. 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. 6d., a bargain. TAILORING DEARTMENT. WE HAVE MUCH PLEASURE IN ANNOUNCING TO THE PUBLIC THAT A Tailoring Branch HAS 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 THE VERY BEST STYLE. A PERFECT FIT GUARANTEED. SCOTCH, ENGLISH, ar.d COLONIAL TWEEDS IN GREAT VARIETY. THE CELEBRATED BLARNEY TWEED (CORK) KEPT IN STOCK. FANCY COATINGS IN GREAT VARIETY. SUITS from M As. DRESSMAKING DEPARTMENT. Dresses, Costumes, and Jackets made up to order, under the superintendence of a first-class Dressmaker. WEDDING & MOURNING ORDERS PUNCTUALLY ATTENDED TO. ORR AND CO. IMPORTERS ASHBURTON AND RAKAIA.