THE STORY-TELLER.

A CLOSE SHAVE. chapter v— continued. “ Fother again ! Confound the fellow. How do you know anything about him ? ” “I am his wife,” said the woman. “ I helped him to escape ; 1 secured the plunder for which he was sentenced. I brought it over from England in my black bag—you know the black bag,” she said archly, “so you see that I know some thing of William ; and I know for certain that he will kill you if he can, for getting him condemned. Do not neglect this warning. I would not have him commit that sin, nor would I have you the victim of it. Good-bye.” Mrs. Fother was gone, while we stood wondering at what she had told us. We then walked back to our hotel, and smoked several pipes in John’s locked and barricaded bedroom, and discussed the singular, not to say unpleasant predica ment, in which we found ourselves. John objected strongly to my suggestion that he should have himself described anew in his passport as •‘ Convicts’ '..light porter : ” he also rejected as absurd the notion that Mrs. Fother had fallen in love with him, and had, therefore, been at the risk and trouble of coming to w r arn him of his danger. At first he pooh poohed the matter ; but the information given to us by the detective at Boulogne confirmed the woman’s tale as a likely one ; then it was proposed to go to the French police, to communicate -with our friend the detective at Boulogne, to write to the newspapers. Eventually it was resolved that we would leave Paris on the following day, visit Normandy for a fortnight, and then return to Paris with the idea of seeing something more or something less of the convict’s wife. If ■we should return, we resolved it should be in company with Mr. John Hudson of London, detective officer, now stationed at Boulogne. CHAPTER VI. t( I am just going to the barber’s round the corner, to have this hair shaved off,” said John (who had grown a moustache since his emancipation from wig and gown) as he presented himself at my bed side the morning after we had decided to leave Paris. “ All right. I’ll follow you presently, I want my beard trimmed too. But you’re plaguy early. Suppose you couldn’t sleep because of the convict and his bride. Glad to see you with a com plete throat this morning, old man. Keep a whole skin till we quit this city of doom,” I said jokingly, for it must be allowed that I was a disbeliever in the danger that was scaring us away, and I was anxious to make a convert of John Lloyd as -well. The hair-dresser to whom John went lived in the Rue de la Guerre, which was close to our hotel. The shop was a very small one, having just enough accomoda tion for the barber and the barbered, and for two persons besides. A glass door opened into a narrow passage -which led to the interior of the house. There was a large mirror in front of the chair used by customers, a wash-stand, some pegs for hats, and a small bench for people who might be waiting. The glass door towards the street was hung with a cur tain to prevent people prying in. Al phonse Gras, -well-known all over Paris as a skilful, civil, and amusing fellow, was the proprietor of the shop, and so great was his fame as an instructor in the art of hair-dressing, that pupils came from afar to learn their business in his little den.

When John Lloyd went in (it was only half-past six in the morning), M. Gros— or Alphonse, as he was more generally called, was busy dusting out the place.. “ Would the gentleman look at Galignani for a minute, while the water was made to boil? Would Monsieur excuse Alphonse from serving him himself, since Alphonse had at that moment to go to the house of His Excellency the General de Blanc, upon whom Alphonse waited daily? Monsieur would perhaps permit the absence of Alphonse, since monsieur could be equally well served by Alphonse’s deputy.” The first thing John saw on looking at Galignani was a full description of William Fother, the escaped convict, and the offer of one hundred pounds reward for his capture. “Hang the fellow, he sticks to me like a burr,” John said, and flung the paper down in disgust. Presently Alphonse bustled in with his deputy, and having seen John comfortably seated before the glass, went on his way to the general’s, leaving his shop to John and the assistant. The assistant chattered away in broken English on several topics, and seeing that John had been looking at Galignani , asked him had he seen the (£ announce of the English police courts about the escape of a man with an odd name,” in whose history, as given in the paper, the assistant said he took a lively interest.

Poor John ! he could no more get away from the convict with “an odd name” than Hercules could from the poisoned coat of Dejanira. I w r ill not repeat the expression John made use of by way of answer to the assistant, who, having lathered his face and throat, was about to commence shaving. Shaving ! Bless us and save us ! John happened to look up in the glass, and saw there the reflection of a man with a develish expression of face, malignant hatred in his eyes, standing over him •with a razor grasped firmly in his hand, and apparently in the very act of trying the blade on his throat. John had not noticed the assistant when Alphonse brought him in, but now, in spite of his wig, close-shaven cheeks, and false moustache, John recognised the assistant under whose hands he now sat for the same William Fother whose con viction he procured at Preston. There was no time for deliberation, and sepech would have been fatal. Instantly, as if by instinct, John bounded off the chair, and doublihg back on the assistant, caught his right arm with his own left and flung it upwards, while with his clenched fist he struck the man a blow on the shoulder which made the arm drop power less to his side,and hurled him against the wall, making the room shake again. In another moment John had got the man down and half throttled him. There was no'mistake as to indentity. The wig fell off, revealing the yet short hair which had npt yet recovered from the prison clip, the false moustache got askew on the man’s lip ; and in the few words the poor wretch could get out, broken English was dropped in favour of the British vernacu lar,

John’s first impulse was to complete his half-done work on William Fother’s throat, his second to hand the man over to the police, his third to follow neither his first nor liis second. He loosened his hold on the throat, but stiil kept mastery over the man. The razor, one of Alphonse’s best had been thrown to the end of the room in the scuffle.

“ Why did you want to murder me you fool V’ said John. “ What good could my body have been to you, lying here ?” “It would have made us quits for what you did for me at Barnborough. ” “ No, it wouldn’t. You would have been hanged for my murder, and then you would have been where you are now as re gards settlement for that,” said John, shocked at the absurdity of the equation Fother had imagined for himself. “A minute ago I had a good mind to kill you, and now I am uncertain whether to have you liqng or not; but lam under obliga tion td you, though you don’t know it ” (John would not betray the informant who had put him on his guard), “ which makes me hesitate. You don’t deserve any mercy, but I will show it you on two conditions, -which you must accept or not as like, but you must do it at once.” [to be continued.]

Libel on the Queen.

The following low and coarsely-worded paragraph appeared in an article in the Williamstown Advertiser of May 15 : H! “ We are now fully supplied with a list of the new (Gladstone) Ministry, and the further intelligence that the result of the elections has completely upset the plans of Her Gracious Majesty and the Prince of Wales, inasmuch as, I suppose, they have fully calculated on a release of the great Jingo party that has succeeded during its term of office in bringing the nation into contempt and disrepute. What a blood-red page the renegade Jew mountebank has written in the history of our country. A seven years’ bountiful harvest for the reaper Death ; and the net results, titled distinction to the charlatan, an obese, not overburdened with brain, old woman, dubbed Empress, Zulu murders, Afghan massacres, and millions added to the national debt.”

As this newspaper is owned and con ducted by Mr. A. T. Clark and Mr. W. M. Clark, two members of the Yictorian Legislative Assembly, attention was called to the article in the House. Mr. Service, the Premier, desired Mr. Berry, as leader of the Opposition, to join him in condemn ing the publication of the degrading para graph, but the latter declined to act, main taining that attention had been drawn to the matter by the metropolitan press for party purposes only. Mr. Zox, one of the members for East Melbourne, asked Mr. A T. Clark to say whether he in tended to own or disown the article. He emphatically described the whole affair as disgraceful, and contended that anyone capable of writing such an article was un worthy of a seat in the House. Mr. A. T. Clark replied in an angry tone, neither apologising for the offensive words nor attempting to justify them. He held that a 3 the proprietors of the paper were answerable at law for anything they printed, nobody had any right to call them to account in Parliament. Mr. W. M. Clarke, the other proprietor, reiterated •what liis colleague had stated, simply telling persons who felt aggrieved to seek out -i legal remedy. On the following day, Mr. W. M. Clark said that the article appeared without his knowledge, and that he regretted its publication; also that the co-proprietor had nothing to do with the matter. This ex planation was received with favor by the House, particularly as it indirectly cor rected the prevalent rumor that the article had been written by Mr. W. M. Clark.

What gave a certain amount of point to the article before these explanations were forthcoming was the fact that Mr. A. T. Clark held a commission from the Crown as an officer of Volunteers.

“ GentleAirjn of the jury,” said an Irish barrister, “it will be for you to say w’hether this defendant shall be allowed to come into this court with unblushing foot steps, with the cloak of hypocrisy in his mouth, and draw three bullocks out of my client’s pocket with impunity.”

THE ASHBURTON HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 1880.



Boarding Houses. CENTRAL TEMPERANCE HOTEL, BARING SQUARE. THOMAS BROADBELT, PROPRIETOR. PRIVATE ACCOMMODATION FOR BOARDERS. 947g-563c Alfred Harrison. FRIDAY, i ßth JUNE. 1 o’clock sharp. ALFRED HARRISON has received instructions from the Trustee in the Estate of George Paul Hoatten, to sell by Public Auction, on the Farm, 3 Heavy Draught Horses 2 Cows in full profit—really good 1 Reaper and Binder, by Wood, complete 1 Chaff Cutter, horse-power and inter mediate, complete 1 D.F. Plough, by Ransom and Sims 1 S.F. Plough, by Hornby 1 Dray, nearly new 1 Spring Trap—nearly new 1 Set Harness, etc., etc. Also, STACKS OATS. Sale at 1 o’clock sharp On the Farm situated next to Mr. Tyson Hodgson, on the Seafiekl road. ALFRED HARRISON, 557 c Auctioneers.



Edmiston, Gundry & Co. FOR SALE, BY PRIVATE TREATY. THE undersigned have for sale by Private Treaty, the following Pro perties : R.S. 2821 G, 7,8, 9, containing 686 acres, which will be sold in farms of 100 acres and upwards. This property is within 4 miles of Ashburton township, is very good land, and will be sold on very reasonable terms, viz, 10s. per acre cash and the balance at a low rate of interest on a term ®f years. 210 ACRES on Gould and Cameron’s run. This property is partly fenced with gorse fences. 128 ACRES at Chertsey, all securely fenced, and is at present sown with turnips. This property will be sold at a low price on easy terms. 125 ACRES at Grecnstreet, securely fenced with live fences, and sub divided, and a permanent stream of water. 285 ACRES at Greenstreet, to be sold of let on a purchasing clause in one or more blocks. This is excellent land, and laid down in English grass, and well watered with creeks. This would make a capital farm, and will be sold on very liberal terms. 210 ACRES close to the township of Ashburton, with good dwell ing-house, stable, granary, &c. This property will be let for a term of years at a low rent. 500 ACRES at Orari, in one or more blocks. 150 ACRES at Tinv aid. A capital farm, being all fenced and ready for cropping. There are three creeks running through this pro perty. 160 ACRES at Ashton. A well com pact farm, together with house, stables, &c. Price very low. BQO ACRES at Mount Possession. 1500 ACRES near the spread Eagle Hotel. T.S. Vo 879, Ashburton. T.S. 301, 302, Burnett-street, Ash burton. T.S. 247, Kermode Street, Ashbur ton. T.S. 182, 183, opposite Church, Tinwald, a bargain, &c. EDMISTON, GUNDRY, & CO., Auctioneers and Estate Agents. Agents for the JgOUTH BRITISH FIRE & MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY. Capital £1,000,000. Risks taken on all kinds of Property, Growing Crops, Grain in Stack, Thresh ing Machines, &e. EDMISTON, GUNDRY, & CO., East Street. 106



T. Bullock. TO LET FOR CROP OF WHEAT 200 AOR E s 200 About six miles fiom Ashburton, on the Wakanui Estate. FOR SALE OR TO LET, WITH A PURCHASING CLAUSE, 450 ACRE FARM 450 Or in Two Farms—one about 220 Acres and another about 230 Acres. Well watered on Longbeach Run. Also, 50 AOE E S 50 Ashburton Forks, now in grass. For Sale, cheap dwelling house of seven rooms, near the Parsonage, East Town Belt. To Let, two shops in East Street. Also Office in do. Two-roomed house with lean-to, in Mona Square. Two-roomed cottage. near Mr. Hay T. Smith’s Also, That old established blacksmith and wheelwright’s workshop, and Dwelling House in Ashburton, centrally situated, close to the Somerset Hotel, and now in the occupation of Mr. H. J. Edwards. For full particulars Apply to 453 c T. BULLOCK. Public Notice. NOTICE. EDWARD TAYLOR, BAKER, Sauk dees’ Buildings, BEGS to intimate to his customers and the public generally that he has this day disposed of his Business to W. White, and solicits a continuance of support for his successor. ACCOUNTS. MR. W. WHITE is AUTHORISED to COLLECT ALL DEBTS due to me in respect of my Bakery Business due at this date. EDWARD TAYLOR, Baker, Saunders’ Buildings. Ashburton, 9th June, 1880. 552c-937g



Business Notices. W. WHITE, CONFECTIONER AND BAKER, SAUNDERS’ BUILDINGS, ASHBURTON, BEGS to announce that lie has taken the business lately carried on by Edward Taylor, Baker, &c., Saunders’ Buildings, and trusts by supplying a first class article at a moderate price, to merit a continuance of public support. Best Bread, 41b. Loaf, sd. Cash, t 6d. Delivered. 928g-550c EVERETT BROS. AND CO., CHEAP DRAPERS, HAVELOCK STREET, ASHBURTON. E. B. and Co. are now showing their TINTED -jQ R?A PER Y, Comprising EVERY NOVELTY IN EACH DEPARTMENT. NEW GOODS ARRIVING MONTHLY. 505 c DAVIS’S Cheap F U R N ITURE AND BEDDING MANUFACTORY, MOORE STREET, ASHBURTON. EVERY article Sold at Christchurch Prices and guaranteed best of material and workmanship. FUNERALS CHEAPLY & COMPLETELY FURNISHED W. DAVIS. MOORE STREET, ASHBURTON. 529 c



Ashburton Bakery, EAST STREET, ASHBURTON. BAKER, PASTRYCOOK, AND CON FECTIONER. ALL ARTICLES GUARANTEED TO BE OP THE BEST QUALITY. Soiree, Picuic, and Wedding Parties supplied on the shortest notice. ps?- HOT TEA, COFFEE & PIES From 9 a.nu to 9 p.m.; Saturdays, 9 a.m. till 11 p.m. THOMAS TAYLOR Ashburton Bakery. 492 c



CENTRAL BUTCHERY, (Baring Square, Ashburton). J. WARD, Family Butcher, JN thanking the public for their very liberal support, and in consequence of having so large a patronage, is now in a position to supply the best meat that can be procured at the following reduced prices for cash : BEEF 2d., 3d., and 4d. LEGS MUTTON, PRIME, ... 3d. FORE-QUARTERS, Ifd Customers can be supplied at the prices either from the shop or cart. J. WARD, Butcher.



c OTTON & CO. HORSE CLIPPERS, 24 Years’ Colonial Experience. HORSES BROKEN IN TO SADDLE AND HARNESS. Moderate Charges. Apply Baldwin b Hotel, or Brighton Boarding House, Triangle 842g-450c



TO HOTELKEEPERS AND OTHERS. WE have been supplied by the Go vernment Printer with a Stock of BILLS now before Parliament, with a view to supplying those who desire intelligently to follow the debates in the House. The first instalment com prises the batch submitted by the Statutes Revision Commissioners and THE NEW LICENSING BILL Price—2s. Each. WEEKS AND DIXON.



'AYE you Lost Anything i—Tell the finder through the Herald for a Shilling. If he is honest he will bring it to you without a reward, but you can bait a finder of shaky morals by a tempting offer of remuneration for his trouble. Al‘ for a Shilling cash.



Business Notices. LATEST STYLES FROM LONDON & PARIS. CRAIGHEAD & CO., Merchant Tailors, TANORED STREET, (Next Orr & Co.) PERFECT FIT GUARANTEED. 982a-445a DON’T! PLEASE! DON’T! STOP! DO STOP! STOP before you give your next order for a Suit of Clothes. IF you want Style, Fit, and Quality, try the Undersigned. R EAD the following, then call and in spect the Goods. (YARDS READY ) 350 TO CUT. JUST ARRIVED—The best Stock of Winter Cloths to be got for money SUPERIOR in quality to anything eve yet shown in Ashburton. I SAMPLES ) 70 10 70 (SELECT FROM ) Comprising the following : German Cloths, plain and fancy, the most fashionable Beaver Cloths, suitable for Winter Scotch Tweeds, assorted Mosgiel ~ ~ Kaiapoi ~ ~ West of England Cloths Bedford Cords Irish Frieze, &c., &c., &c. CALL and inspect this Splendid Assort ment before you order. MOTTO: Small Profits and Quick Returns. Terms—Cash. and Finish second to none. ■gCONOMY £1 Is. Cash for a Pair of Trousers £3 15s. Cash for a Tweed Suit. The Address is— G. J. F. LUBLOW, THE TAILORING DEPOT, Triangle, Ashburton, Between Post Office and Baldwin’s Central Hotel. 782g-390c T. R HODDER & CO. HAVE much pleasure in announc ing to their friends and the public generally, that their stock of WINTER DRAPERY, MILLINERY, MEN’S AND BOYS’ CLOTHING HATS AND HOSIERY, BOOTS AND SHOES, IS NOT TO BE SURPASSED FOR QUALITY AND ASSORTMENT, Each Department being replete with everything suitable for the season. JUST TO HAND— A Very Large Assortment of Melbourne Clothing, MADE ESPECIALLY TO ORDER. T. R. HODDER & CO. having been encouraged by their greatly increased trade in the Clothing Department, have ENLARGED THEIR PREMISES, Enabling them to keep a Larger and More Varied Assortment. Tailoring In all branches by most experienced hands. SUITS, RIDING TROUSERS, HABITS, &c., made on the most im proved principle, at the shortest notice, and as cheap, or cheaper, than any house in Canterbury. T. R. HODDER and CO., seeking to Encourage Local Industries keep a well assorted stock of Kaiapoi, Roslyn, and Mosgiel Manufactured Goods. Boots and Shoes, Imported and Colonial make, from the best Christchurch and Dunedin Manufacturers. T. R. HODDER & CO., while not pro fessing to sell everything at COST PRICE, are prepared to meet EXISTING COM PETITION and to encourage all Cash Purchasers. An experience of twenty six years Colonial storekeeping has taught our Firm the value of a Cash Grocery Business, which they have found succeed so well in Ashburton since bringing down the prices of many leading commodities, which course they are still prepared to continue and show their preferring PROMPT CASH, rather than risk long credit with large profits. Ironmongery and Crockeryware AT LOWEST PAYING RATES. Sole Agents for Singer’s Sewing Machines Sole Agents for Wanzer Sewing Machine. Agents for Norwich Union Fire Insurance Company. T. R. HODDER & CO. 407c-948g



Business Notices. Dissolution OF Partnership. o ORE AND CO., JDEG to announce that they intend to DISSOLVE PARTNERSHIP on Ist SEPTEMBER They -will therefore, on Saturday, May Ist, offer the whole of their superio stock, amounting to over £20,000 worth of DRAPERY, IRONMONGERY, AND GROCERIES, AT COST PRICE. The reductions in price extends to every Department in our Business, And we trust our Customers will pay PROMPT CASH DURING SALE. All Goods will he marked in plain figures with Red Ink. % % % All outstanding accounts must he paid at once so that partnership accounts may he adjusted. ORR & CO., ASHBURTON & RAKAIA April 24th, 1880. P.S.—A Large Shipment of Drapery Goods just opened up ex Pallala. Guns! Guns! Guns!



POWDER SHOT. GAPS. ORE AND CO. JJAVE now on hand a very fine assortment of f BREECHLOADING DOUBLE AND SINGLE-BARREL GUNS, And as these have been imported direct from the manufacturers, we are prepared to Sell at the most Reasonable Prices— From £2 10s to £25. ORR AND CO IS9c-0g



Business Notices. BEST NEWCASTLE coals =ms LAMBTON COLLIERY. 50s. PER TON ' 1 A PER CENT. DISCOUNT, ? for CASH. SPRINGFIELD COALS 40s. PER TON. 10 Per, Cent. Discount for Cash. To be delivered in my yard. Acconnts to be paid monthly. ; r 359C-773G C. PERCY COX. HALLO! HALLO! QUILL AGAIN. REDUCTION IN PRICES. BOTTLED WINES & SPIRITS. T. QUILL, SEEING the necessity of a Wholesale Bottling, Wine, and Spirit Store in Ashburton, has determined to supply that want, and therefore begs to submit the? following list of Prices, every article guaranteed to be of the best and purest description. PRICE LIST. Brandy Flasks, 2s. and 4s. per flask. Fine Old Port, per Bottle, ss. and 6s. Superior old Dry Montelado, (old Sherry) sfe. & 6s. Very old Scotch Whisky, per Bcttle ss. Fine old Irish Whisky, per Bottle, ss. Superior old Jamaca Rum, per Bottle, ss. Fine old Martelle’s Dark Brandy, per Bottle, ss. Hennessey’s Brandy, per Bottle, 6s. Superior Square Gin (J.D.K.Z.), per Bottle, 6s. Superior Old Tom (Swain Booth’s), per Bottle, ss. All other brands equally Reduced. QUILL’S Assorted Dozen of Best Wines and Spirits for £3 10s, containing— • 3 bottles Brandy 2 ~ Port 2 ~ Rum (Ready packed, and forwarded to any part of the County on the shortest notice.) 2 bottles Whisky 2 ~ Sherry 1 ~ Old Tom One trial will prove to Quill’s customers the quality of his taps. COMMENCING MONDAY, 26th APRIL. - : y -y. Open from 7a. m to 6 p.m. during winter months. Note Address— T. QUILL’S, WHOLESALE BOTTLING STORES, Commercial Hotel, (Near Railway Station), ; ; Ashburton. 751g-336c PRACTICAL WATCH & CLOCK MAKER, JEWELLER, &c. ROBT. MURRAY, MOORE STREET, BEACH ROAD, ASHBURTON, ' A HAVING had over thirty years’ ex perience in some of the leading establishments in England and Scotland, trusts by good workmanship and atten tion to business to merit a share of the patronage of the inhabitants of Ashburton and County. A well-assorted stock of Watches, Clocks, Jewellery, Spectacles, &c. Watch Glasses and Keys, of best quality, fitted. All Watch and Clock Work and Jewel lery repairs executed on the Premises. ’ Specimens of Workmanship by R.M. shown in the window, AT MOORE STREET (Next Door to the Road Board Office), BEACH ROAD, ASHBURTON. 8240-429 M. McCALLUM, 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. 6d. each. Do., with alarm, 15s. CASHEL STREET, Next Bank of Australasia, Christ church. 221 q