THE STORY-TELLER.

A STRANGE CAPTURE

Some years ago, T commanded one of Her Britannic Majesty’s Dispatch gun vessels, stationed on the west coast of Africa for the suppression of ihe slave trade. In the course of two years thus engaged we had, as usual, done very little good, and lost a great number of men by coast fever and sickness generally. A few vessels had been captured, but many more had slipped through our fingers, by reason of the treachery of the informers on shore, most of whom eventually proved to be in the pay and interests of the slave-dealers. The slave captains, too, had become very knowing ; they were mostly old hands at the business, and contrived to give us the slip in many different ways. For instance, in chasing them on a dark night, they would show a bright light over the stern, and after we had followed this for some hours would drop a large cask with a lighted lantern fitted to it, at the same instant putting out their own light. It was easy for them then to alter their course so as to double back and sail away in the darkness, leaving us intent on watching their false light. This strata gem generally succeeded when the nights were very dark. Or, when hotly pursued in the daytime they frequently practised a most inhuman trick to increase their distance. When we were close upon them they used to throw a slave overboard with a plank for him to cling to, or very often without even that. They well knew that a British man-of-war would not pass a poor wretch struggling in the water and leave him to drown. Thus, whilst sail was being shortened, the ship hove to, boats lowered, the man picked up, and the vessel got on her course again, they contrived to get a 'fine start ahead, for these manoeuvres, even in the smartest ship, will take some consider able time ; and in this way, as much ground was lost as would takp many hours to recover, for a stern chase is a long one.

■ The luck had been against us for a long time, and after many false informations and fruitless chases, we succeeded in cap turing a slaver in a most singular manner, without any chase at all. It happened in this way. One fine morning, when cruising off the coasts of Loango and Congo, the officer of the watch reported a strange sail in sight. I went on deck, took my glass, and there, surely enough, was a very suspicious-lookr‘ i g craft right ahead. It was a dead calm, and we soon steamed up to her. She was a clipper barque of about four hundred tons. From her taut spars great clouds of snowy canvas flapped heavily against the rigging as her long low hull rolled slowly from side to side on the glassy surface of the heaving ground swell. Judging by her rakish appearance, and by her being a great deal out of the usual’traekpf homeward or outward bound vessels—in fact, being in a very suspicious locality— one naturally came to the con elusion that she must be a slaver. I hoped very soon to have the pleasure of lifting her hatches to ascertain whether this assumpion were correct or no. As a preliminary step, the demand to show her colours was made ; to my great annoyance she hoisted the stars and stripes of America. This precluded the right of search. However, 1 resolved to board her, and try and detect some signs of her having a black cargo. 'With that object in view I had the gig manned, and in a few minutes was alongside the doubtful craft.

The captain, a tall, gaunt Yankee, received me at the gangway, and, without waiting to he asked, produced his papers, which seemed to be all regular enough. The barque was the Indepeudance, of Boston, Massachusetts, Itobert Stor mont, master, from New York to the Cape of Good Hope and back on a trading voyage. She was now homeward bound, and was twenty-seven days out from the Cape, so the captain informed me. Having taxed him with being out of the usual route, he explained that this was a new notion of his—he kept well over to the eastward so as to make a fair wind of the north-east trades, when he should meet them. Whilst pointing out to him the fallacy of this idea, I took a few turns up and down the deck with him, and suc ceeded in drawing him into a long argu ment. 'Whilst thus engaged, I noticed that all the hatches were indeed battened tightly down ; but that there were no things stowed on the top of them, as is usually the case in merchant vessels whose hatches are never required to be opened during the voyage. This strengthened my suspicions, and from the captain’s eagerness to satisfy all my enquiries, I had very little doubt as to the nature of his cargo. It was certain that if he had slaves on board, those hatches could not remain closed for an hour, without suffocating them. If they were opened during that time, the presence of slaves would be easily perceptible, and in that case the vessel would be a lawful prize. Considering these things, I sat on the taffrail, and taking out a bundle of choice Havannahs, proposed a smoke. This the Yankee agreed to, and we smoked away and got tolerably social, although at the same time it was amusing to see how very fidgety he was getting. In the course of conversation it turned out that fhe had been in China, and as that was tke last station on which I had served we were enabled to compare notes on that subject. He interested me very much by giving an account of the clever way in which he suppressed a mutiny that broke out in his ship on her last voy age. It appeared that he was chartered to take three hundred Chinese coolies, the very dregs of the population, from Hong Kong to California. It occurred to these Celestial vagabonds, some time after the vessel had put to sea, to murder the officers and crew and run away with the ship- In order to effect their purpose they adopted a highly ingenious expedi ent. Several large bonfires were made on the lower deek an a cry of “ Fire fire,” was raised ; the Chinamen thinking that the officer and crew would rush down to extinguish the fires, and then they would he easily able to fall upon them with their knives, and murder them all simultane ously. But our friend the captain, far too wide awake for that, simply hadjallthe hatches battened down, and smothered the Chinamen in their smoke. When they were sufficiently choked and thus re ' duced to subjection, he demanded that they should deliver up the ringleaders of the mutiny. This they did, and without any trial he hung them six in number, at the foreyard arm the same day.

We continued thus, spinning yarns and smoking for some time longer, when a breeze sprang np, and the Yankee, think ing to shake me off, said— “ Wa’al, stranger, guess Ave’ve got wind at last. I’m sorry you must say good-bye, but I reckon I must fill away and go on my course, for I can’t afford to be stopping here all the day talking.” “ Don’t mention it, my dear friend,” I replied. “ You see there is no necessity for that. I may just as well go your way as any other, for I’m anly cruising. Here take another cigar and settle down again. ” I then shouted to the first lieutenant to keep within, hail, on the same course as the barque. Upon this the„Yankee’s long sallow face darkened and grew longer ; he was evidently much put out. He certainly did not appear to appreci ate this act of courtesy on my part. I kept on talking, and tried to involve him in another argument, anything for an ex cuse to pass the time. But he was trying equally hard to put an end to the conver sation by sullenly replying “yes” or “no” to everything, and never volun teering a remark or comment of his own. But, in nowise put out by his broad hints, I commenced a series of long-winded stories, keeping him at the same time well supplied with cigars. It was delightful to see how excessively nervous and fidgety he was. He well knew that if this lasted much longer his cargo would not be worth much ; so he kept on giving mo the strongest hints to go, all of which I pretended not to under stand. At length he appeared to be losing his temper, and the more cross he got the more obtusely good-natured and urbane I became.

I now very quickly brought matters to an issue by hailing the gig that was towed astern.

“ Gig there.” “ Sir,” replied the coxswain. “Go on board and get your dinners, and tell the first lieutenant to send the boat back with some more cigars in an hour’s time, and say that I found the captain such a remarkably agreeable man that I intend to spend the afternoon with him. D’you understand ? ” “ Ay, ay, sir.” When our friend the Yankee heard this he let fly a volley of oaths, and then said resignedly— “ Guess it’s no use, captain. I’m fairly smoked out this time ; the ship’s yours, I reckon,” and then, turning to the mate, “ Here, Nathan, haul down that flag and git them hatches up and let them unfort’- nit cusses git some air, for I reckon they’re smothered pretty considerable. This is a dodge I never heered tell on afore. ”

She had nearly six hundred slaves on board. lam glad to say none died of suffocation through my ruse. She was the best prize that we took during that com mission.

How to Save Liquid Manure.

{Praii ie Farmer .)

An inquiry has come to hand in regard to the value of liquid manure —Ihe urine of domestic animals—and the simplest mode of saving it. When it is recollected that it is to the urine in it, that barnyard manure chiefly owes its fertilising proper ties both as regards nitrogene and salts, the value of liquid exerementary matter will be appreciated. Some of the most eminent authorities deny that there is any available nitrogene in horse manure. In 100 pounds of barnyard manure when it has been properly cared for, as has been found by anaylsis, there are sixty-five pounds of water. Of the remaining thirty five pounds twenty-five are inert carbona ceous matter, leaving but 10 per cent of inorganic substances and 0.6 of nitrogen as true fertilising matters. This, it must be borne in mind,- is based upon good manure, and not such as has been thrown from stables and subjected to sun and rain which drive out and leach out about everything which will cause a plant to grow, leaving little or nothing that is soluble. But urine, rotted with water contains a large quantity of nitrogen, and many valuable salts also, already dis solved and suitable at once for plant food. The urine of all animals is very much alike in chemical constituents.

For preserving the liquid, various methods are employed. The floors of the stalls in which the animal stands are laid with a slight incline, from which the urine runs off into a small gutter immediately in the rear of the stall, and is conveyed to some receptacle provided for it under, or very near, the barn. The following description of such a tank was recently given by Professor G. 0. Caldwell : “First of all, a suitable water-tight covered receptacle must be provided, which should be deep rather than shallow, and have a capacity of ten to twelve gal lons for every adult animal in the stalls, on the supposition that it will be emptied once or twice a week. This tank may consist simply of a hogshead sunk in the ground; but it will be cheaper in the long run if built of stone, laid in a mix ture of coal-tar, pitch and sand, liquefied by heat, or of brick first warmed and soaked in tar, and then laid in the same manner. The tank should have a banking of clay. A supply of water should be provided in addition to that coming from the stalls, which may be turned into the tank at pleasure; with this the manure can be diluted before it is applied, and the manure pile can be kept moist, for it is poor policy while making liquid manure to let the solid manure burn up by too rapid fermentation.”

The urea which exists in urine consti tutes its chief value, and when the latter begins to ferment, the former changes into carbonate of ammonia, and escapes rapidly into the air unless means to prevent it are employed. The tank should be kept covered, and sulphuric acid, plaster, or peat, can be mixed with it, to prevent the ammonia from passing off, which will be detected by its pungent odour. When it is desired to apply it to the field or to the crops light carts or hogsheads are employed.

‘ ‘ The Lord loveth a cheerful giver,” but there’s no use chucking a copper cent into the contribution box loud enough to make the folks on the back seat think the communion service has tumbled off tlie altar.

“Bis Hat, Qui Cito Dat.” —“My dear,” asked a grocer of his wife, “do you think it is true that ‘ man wants but little here below ?’ ” The wife replied, “ That sometimes depends whether he has to pay cash down or not. If you trust some men they’ll take all they can get. ”

A Clever Trick.

In a western city of America there lived two young fellows who painted signs for a livelihood. On a certain occasion one of the painters had some outdoor business to attend to, and left the studio in charge of his partner and a boy who was em ployed to grind paints. During his absence, the partner, to gratify a whim, painted the boy so as to represent a large gash upon his forehead and a cut over his eye. He bespattered the floor with red paint, clotted tiie boy’s hair, and made him lie down in a corner; he then painted a great gash on his own cheek, bared his bosom, disordered his dress, dipped a long bladed knife in the red paint pot, and patiently awaited the com ing of his partner. Directly afterwards he heard him knock at the door, and then the performance commenced. The part ner Iffloked in at the door, and saw the boy prostrate on the floor groaning and crying “Murder!” chairs, tables, benches, jugs, and paint-pots, being strewed about the room in dire confusion while the murderous looking partner with the red knife in his uplifted hand, was running about the room uttering incoherent ex pressions. It was evident to the artist at the door that his partner had killed the boy. Swift as lightning he fled to obtain assistance, and a number of friends were speedily mustered, and repaired to the scene of the supposed terrible tragedy. The crowd augmented as it neared the shop, and in walked the whole “ posse ; ” but in the meantime everything had been set to rights—the boy was without a mark of any kind, the room was in perfect order, no marks of blood were perceptible, and the artist who had been left at home was engaged in painting a sign. On hearing what he was charged with, the latter declared his ignorance of the whole matter but took the opportunity of dis tributing business cards amongst the crowd, and the result was a great influx of fine art orders.

THE ASHBURTON HERALD.

[Friday, April 9, 1880,



Business Notices. 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, &c., 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. IG3c



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. 2igC NEW PRINTING MACHINERY, FOR JpRINTING LADIES’ AND GENTLEMEN’S VISITING CARDS FROM COPPER PLATE. fat ASHBURTON. Specimens and prices on application at the EVENING HERALD AND GUARDIAN OFFICES, ASHBURTON. 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 l|d. per mile for Saturday return. They are as under— Longbeach to Ashburton, ordinary 65., return Bs. Waterton to Ashburton, 3s. 6d. ordi nary, Cs. return. Ashton to Ashburton, 3s. ordinary, ss. return. Wheatstone to Ashburton, 2s. Gd. 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 t 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.



Edmiston, Gundry & Go. FOR SALE, BY PRIVATE TREATY. THE undersigned have for sale by Private Treaty, the following Pro perties : R.S. 28216, 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 of years. 210 ACRES on Gould and Cameron’s run. This property is partly fenced with gorse fences. 128 ACRES at Cheitsey, 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 Greenstreet, securely fenced with live fences, and sub divided, and a permanent stream of water. 285 ACRES at Greenstreet, to be sold or lot 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. 150 ACRES at Ashton. A well com pact farm, together with house, stables, &c. Price very low. 800 ACRES at Mount Possession. 1500 ACRES near the spread Eagle Hotel. T.S. No 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 gOUTH BRITISH FIRE & MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY. Capital £1,000,000. Risks taken on all kinds of Property, Crowing Crops, Crain in Stack, Thresh ing Machines, &e. EDMISTON, GUNDRY, & CO., East Street.



Business Notices. NEW TAILORING ESTABLISH MENT. CRAIGHEAD & Co., MERCHANT TAILORS, HAVE opened those premises situated in Tancred street adjoining Messrs. Orr and Co’s General Store. A SPLENDID ASSORTMENT OP TWEEDS, FANCY GOODS, &c., &c., JUST ARRIVED. Mr. Craighead’s experience as Head Cutter in connection with First Class Tailoring Establishments in Edinburgh and San|Francisco has extended over a period of ten years, and from the immense success which has always attended his efforts to please, he is prepared to guarantee a perfect fit in every case. TANCRED STREET, (Next Orr and Cl’s. CRAIGHEAD & CO. 982 a NEWS AND MAGAZINE AGENCY. STATIONERY AND FANCY GOODS DEPOT. RE-OPENING. HM. JONES begs to inform his . customers and the public generally that he has 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. *l2lO T~ OST AND FOUND, a Sensational Story, by an Australian author, on sale at “Herald” and “Guardian” Sta tionery Depot. BRACELETS, Earrings, Scarf Pins, and a variety of Fancy Goods, must be cleared out at once. Weeks & Dixon.



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. 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, &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 backs 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-526g Moore street, Ashburton. PUBLIC NOTICE. BOOTS! BOOTS! T. CHAMBERS WHILE THANKING the public of Ashburton and surrour ding dis tricts for past favors, begs to inft 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 attentii i to the Measure Department, and incites the gentlemen of Ashburton to inspect 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. 6d. and 2s 6d. a Bottle. CAMBRIDGE’S ORANGE QUIN INE TONIC WINE, 2s. 6d. 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 od. Cash at shop, and if delivered by cart, sid. EDWARp TAYLOR, Saunders’ Buildings, 119 c ASHBURTON. Ball programme cards in very neat styles, with Pencils and Ribbons, printed at the Herald Office, East street, near Railway Station. LABOURERS requiring work can secure first opening by applying early at Herald Registry Office, on pay ment of Is. ITTANTED KNOWN—That Visiting W Cards, plain or mourning, can be obtained printed in various styles, at the “ Herald ” and “ Guardian ” offices, near the Rai w ay Station CHINIQUY’S LECTURES.—Just Ar rived, New Edition H. M. Jones, aring Square.



Business Notices.



Gams! Guns! Guns! POWDER. SHOT. CAPS. ORE AND CO. JJ-AVE now on hand a very fine assortment of 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.



Business Notices. TINWALD BOOT AND SHOE SHOF 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. 3820 C. HAWKINS, Bootmaker. 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. Gd. each. Do., with alarm, 15s. CASHEL STREET, Next Bank of Australasia, Christ , CHURCH. 221 c ANSTEE’S DINING ROO MS, 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 . lg. BOARD & LODGING ... 18s. & 20s. PRIVATE REFRESHMENT ROOMS FOR LADIES. PROPRIETOR, J. G. ANSTEE. 985 a PAPERHANGING WAREHOUSE, TANCRED STREET, Ashburton. J. R. CHAPMAN PAINTER, PAPERHANGER SIGN-WRITER, Etc., Has much pleasure in stating that, owing to the large increase of Business, he is now Importing from the Manufacturers- • PAPER HANGINGS, WHITE LEAD LINSEED OIL, WINDOW GLASS, BRUSH WAS 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 work in tho trade executed under personal superin - tendence. Competent workmen sent to all parts of the country. ESTIMATES GIVEN. 251 c T. Bullock. 150 THE undersigned has the following PROPERTIES to LET with a pur chasing clause, or FOR SALE on liberal terms of payment— ACRES good WHEAT LAND, all ploughed and ready for cross ploughing for wheat; situated about three miles from the township. OfJ ACRES, near the above ; also good 'G 6 WHEAT LAND, ploughed once and ready for cross-ploughing. ££ A ACRES, partly improved, near Wirs low. This will be sold very cheap, and on very liberal terms. TOWN PROPERTIES. YTALUABLE BUSINESS SITE in Bur * nett Street, being T. S. 177, next the “Mail” office. T>ART of T.S. 139, Peter Street. This will be sold cheap, and on liberal terms. • . TO Railway Employes, Mechanics, and Others.—FOß SALE, cheap, Lot 78, situated on East Town Belt. Terms, £5 cash ; balance by monthly or quarterly payments. T. BULLOCK. FOR SALE, Cheap, Dwelling-house of 7 rooms, situated on the East Belt, near the Parsonage—For particulars apply to T. Bullock. 206 c 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’a 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 FII TER. Artesian Wells, Beer Engines, Pumps, &c. 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. r\ RAWING PAPER, all sizes, just opened at IWEEKS AND DIXON, East street.