that all their power of revenge would he brought to bear upon my unfortunate head if they could ever see one of my cases terminate as their own so often do. It was fourteen years ago last October that I returned to my home in Nelson, after a few days’ absence, and found my wife in a most dangerous and apparently dying condition. She was burning with fever, dashing her arms about with pain, and had had no sleep after her confine ment 30 hours ago. She had been at tended most of the day by Dr. Oldham, well known to many Ashburton residents, but fortunately he had left to attend an other patient. As I rolled her up in a wet blanket, the excellent nurse Mrs. Jordan said “Oh, sir, you will be hung ; she can not live, and all the doctors will try to hang you,” In half an hour the patient was asleep. Early in the morning the doctor returned. I took care not to seehim, but poor Mrs. Jordan explained with fear and trembling the daring deed that had been done, and the sound refreshing sleep that had followed. He was nonplussed and could only say “well it has turned out all right at any rate. ” Long before her last illness Mrs. Buchanan had had some experience both with drugs and hydropathy. She took the measles when on a visit to some kind friends in Bath about 12 years ago, who of course sent for a legally-qualified medi cal practitioner, when she was drugged for the- first time in her life, kept ill for several weeks and out of health for several months, and was never so robust and well afterwards as she had been up to that time. She afterwards saw seven of her . brothers and sisters go through the measles at honi9, without any legally qualified attention or any drugs. She saw them all suffer—nothing compared to what she had done, saw them recover within a week ; and instead of being any the worse for it, were all evidently the better for the wet packs they had worn most of the time. When she came to New Zealand in the Lady Jocelyn she had an opportunity of seeing the effect of drugson herown and other children. Every one of the infants on board that ship, ex cept hers, died of what was called dysentery. A fond, kind, and in most things a very intelligent mother, who lost tu o infants, told me that she obeyed the doctor to the letter, never brought her darling infants on deck after they were taken ill, never even changed their flannels for fear they should take cold, and waked them up at all hours to give them their medicine regu larly. The said medicine seems to have consisted chiefly of opium. My less obedient daughter, who certainly did not wake her babies up at night to dose them, though in obedience to her orthodox hus band she placed one of them under the “ legally-qualified” treatment of the ship’s doctor, landed that one in just the last stage of opium poisoning. A few days’ hydropathic treatment and fresh air cured the dysentery, but it took many painful months to recover the child from the opium poisoning. b . ..... , . . *,. -

. I may here just observe that although every infant on board the Lady Jocelyn, except Mrs. Buchanan’s, died on that voyage or immediately after landing, no enquiry was held as to the cause of their death. Why should there be ? Had they . not been duly dosed by a “ legally quali fied ” young gentleman who had come direct from the great seat of medical knowledge 1 No meddlesome hydropathist had interfered with his able and orthodox treatment, or dared to suggest that the lungs and skin might be made to relieve the oppressed bowels. No daring heretic of a father had ventured to carry one of the infants out of the salubrious air that is always to be found in a ship’s hold, es pecially when it is full of infants dying ■with dysentry. No mother had been so presumtuous as to disobey him by chang ing a night dress—and of course clean sheets were never thought of. But above all, no hot baths had made them “ weak,” and no water, hot or cold, salt or fresh, had touched their tender skins during their illness, whilst they had morphia pills enough to keep, them quiet both day and night. That all the infants in a ship should die under such thoroughly orthodox legal treatment, is one of those inscru table mysteries which no one can fathom and into which it would be presumptuous to enquire either by coroners’ inquest or post mortem examinations. Still, such memories had' no doubt something to do with that want of faith in the morphia pills, and unchanged sheets, and unmade bed, and unclogged skin which Dr. Boss complained of in Mrs. Buchanan. When I first saw my daughter in the fever, excited as she was, she wildly grasped my hand and hold it as if she expected me to pull her at once out of all her misery, Her first words were “ Oh father, must I be kept constantly sick with trying to take such a lot of milk and beef tea. Dr. Boss says I must take three pints of milk a day, and I can’t do it. This constant sickness will strain me all to pieces, and I can feel that beef tea is poison to me.” This was said with great difficulty and with most laborious panting. The choked lungs were trying to do duty for themselves and the blocked up skin too, and anyone but a legally qualified allopathic doctor could see that .the thing to be done was to reverse that order and make the skin do double duty to relieve the incapable lungs. There were several ways of doing this. Priessnitz would have done it with cold wet sheets. Smedley would have done it with hot soap-suds and water, using mustard to the feet and legs. The first would have been dangerous, as there was not vitality enough left in the patient. The stomach could not prepare the fuel to make heat, and if it could have done so the lungs could not introduce oxygen enough to burn it off or to keep up the insensible fire which sustains the natural heat of a healthy body. Smedley’s strong soap suds might have done it, and done it quickly, bqt they, vyouJd plpstroyed the oil in the skin, arid fhere was no power left to quickly replace it, as healthy organs would have done ;. and the want of it would have caused a sense of dullness which it would have been difficult to meet. For although t had oppressively ho ( t weather and a highly-fevered patient to deal Avith, I knew that the fever would disappear as soon as Nature’s refrigerator W-as got to work, and that my ultimate difficulty avoulcl be to keep up heat or strength with impaired stpmach and impaired lungs. Besides this, there was the difficulty of effectually soap budding a patient who could only get breath enough to keepalive in one parti cular position:, and the great desirability of resting for a, single hour the worn-out skin and muscles that had so long been sustain ing the body,in" its one-possible position.

It Avas a clear case for a hot bath, which would certainly dissolve the peculiar gummy obstruction on the skin Avhich generally appears in fevers, especially Avhere beef tea has been much forced on the patient—Avould draAV many pounds of blood from the gorged lungs, the inflamed stomach and bowels, and relieve the irri tated sympathising brain, Avhile it Avould cool the burning body, and AA r arm the cold lifeless feet. I knew that allopathic, homoeopathic, and many hydropathic doc tors agreed that a hot bath was weakening, and that Dr. Boss had held up his hands in horror at the idea, and said that if she Avas put in a Avarm bath she might pro bably never get out. But I kneAv from my OAvn experience and observation that a hot bath was not weakening, and that Avhen it opened an obstructed skin it Avas Avon derfully strengthening. As Dr. John Armstrong says : “It will bring pounds of blood to the surface which AYere suffocating some internal organ : it will balance the circulation sooner than any other means I knoAV. The patient is raised as by the touch of a magic Avand from Aveakness to strength.” And Dr. Carpenter says : “Perspiration has no Aveakening effect in itself, except by the diminution of the water in the blood, Avhich may be re-supplied from the stomach : it may induce very much to invigorate the system.” I knew that I had to deal Avith a patient to Avhom the exertion of getting into or out of bed might prove fatal, but who, nevertheless, had been constantly doing so, and had, moreover, been for days straining with nausea and sickness pro duced by the most mad attempts to force food on a diseased stomach, in quantities and of a character that she could never have digested in health. These constanc spasmodic efforts to vomit Avere violent enough to burst every one of the Aveakenetl blood vessels in her body, and both the patient and her attendents, orthodox as the latter Avere in their ideas of legally qualified doctors, saAV that it Avas ridicu lous for a doctor to continue to order treat ment that excited such destructive efforts, and at the same time to tell them that the patient must not be moved eventohaveher bed made, or for any purpose of cleanliness or comfort. However, she Avas safely got into and out of the bath, and Avith all the invprovement I expected —the action of the skin restored, the lungs relieved, the feet AA r armed, the nerves soothed, and a comfortable sleep folloAved. But the viscid character of the perspiration con tinued and soon choked the pores again, so that a daily warm bath Avas for several days necessary to keep her comfortable and the lungs relieved, a large Avet body bandage being worn the Avhole time. • After two days of this treatment Dr. Trevor saw her and formed a very favor able opinion of her. Had he seen her on the evening that I first saAV her his opinion Avould probably have been very different. Dr. Boss told him that there had been complication of the right lung, but that he had put that to rights. In telling me of it my daughter said to me “I Avonder Avliat they thought had put it to rights. John gave me one pill of his which Dr. Boss said Avas a great mistake, and he sent another directly after it, like a ferrit after a rat, which Avas to prevent all the mischief of the first pill, but he never pretended that either of his pills Avere to do anything for my lungs, Avhich got Avorse every day, and nothing ever did do them any good until you put my skin to Avork, which they seem to have no notion of doing.” In four days the fever Avas quite sub dued. Hydropathy, as usual, had done that easily and quickly, to the great relief of the patient, but Ave now knoAV that there Ava 3an injury to the lungs AA r hich nothing could cure. Long as this letter already is, I must not conclude Avithout saying something about the inquest. It AA r ill, I knoAV, be con sidered a proof of my naturally heterodox mind if I say anything that may seem to suggest the possibility that even the Besident Magistrate of Ashburton, Avho acted as coroner on the occasion, could have made any mistakes in his manner of conducting the case. But knowing, as I did, thatif I had kicked my daughter to death Avith a pair of hob-nailed boots, I should havebeen entitled to some reasonable not ice that a charge was to be brought .against me, and should have had some voice as to the Avitnesses to be heard by the jury, some opportunity to question them, and pos sibly have been alloAved to say even a few Avords in my. own defence—l thought it a little strange that, even for the greater crime of relieving her sufferings and pro longing her life, Avithout any legal authority to do so, I should be entirely de barred from all the privileges of an ordinary criminal. I thought it stranger still that I should hear for the first time, not in the coroner’s opening speech, but in his final address, that I stood before the jury as an accused pai’ty, against whom it would be their duty to find a verdict of manslaughter if they could possibly suppose from the purely one-sided evidence before them, that anything I had done had shortened my daughter’s life. Every Avitness that Avas called. was knoAvn to be unfavorable to hydropathy, and most of them strongly interested in opposing it; whilst the two nurses Avho Avere supposed to believe in my treatment Avere not ex aniined. Nevertheless those hostile Avit nesses Avere perhaps better than friendly ones, as they proved, Avithout any equivo cation, that my daughter always got better under my treatment, and always got worse under Dr. Boss’. Although some of them SAVore that the food I had given her Avas not sufficiently nourishing and stimulating,” they also SAVore that, at the post mortem examination, they found the body “fairly Avell nourished ” —a state of things I should never have expected to find after several Aveeks of typhoid fever.

The verdict of the jury was what every one would expect from the evidence before them, and the common practice of juries in similar cases ; but if they could have had competent and impartial wit nesses, properly examined and cross in their presence, I believe they, would have found that death was produced, not by natural, but by unnatural causes —by a most un natural disregard of the first cause of the disease as well as of the violent distinc tive efforts that nature was making to defend the weak diseased stomach and bowels from a load of unnatural rubbish that was being forced upon them. With the rider to the verdict, of course every one must agree. It was a very canny one. It reminds one of the prudent'conscientious' determination of the-old Scotch minister whf>, would not

Avould say “ God defend the right.” The only thing I Avonder at is hoAV it Avas that the coroner, with all his profound Arenera tion for the powers that be, did not manage to get the jury to put legally qualified instead of “ properly qualified.” But perhaps he thought it dangerous to call their attention to the difference, as, if they had once adopted that important distinction, they might have carried the same idea so far as to apply it to other legally constituted authorities, and might have come to the absurd conclusion that even a Besident Magistrate might be legally and yet not properly quali fied. We shall all heartily, agree to “ strongly disapprove of other than pro perly qualified men undertaking the con duct of serious cases. ” This is just the opinion I acted on, Avhen I asked Dr. Boss to leave the case alone. Of course none but “ properly qualified men ” (or women) should take “ serious cases ” in hand, if such competent persons could only be got. But Avhere do Ave find them ? Certainly not in those Avho come to cases of typhoid fever armed with nothing but morphia, quinine, champagne, and brandy. Not in those Avho can attend a very serious case of typhoid fever for three Aveeks, and never even let their noses guide them to the well knoAvn and universally admitted cause of typhoid fever ; or take any steps to re move it from their patients nostrils, their patients’ lungs, or their patients’ drinking Avater. Not in those who stand helplessly by and Avish the skin Avould return to a state of health, and reduce the dangerous temperature of their patients’ blood, but either do not know or dare not adopt the simple, straightforAvard means to make it do so, Avhich have been practised and pub lished Avith so much benefit to mankind for the last fifty years. Not in those avlio do not yet know that Dr. Bichardson has, by a series of the most able, exhaustive, and impartial experiments, proved the error of his oxvn previous opinion, and that of most of his fraternity, that alcohol Avas useful as a medicine—that he has shoAvn exactly how the mischevious delu sion originated and held its ground so long, and proved to a demonstration that alcohol ahA r ays lowers and never raises Autality”; that it “ begins by destroying and ends by destruction and that “it is as impotent for good as it is potent for evil.” Not in those who have not yet even learned that food to sustain life, health, and vigor must not only contain the required nutriment, but must contain it in a form, and Avith the additions that adapt it to the machine that must assimi late it, and Avho call the most nourishing food that can be procured for any human being—such as Neavo’s food, oatmeal, milk, and beans, “loav diet,” and designate brandy, eggs, and beaf tea —a restriction to Avhich Avould soon starve the strongest man or child in Ashburton to death— “nourishing food.” And certainly not in those Avho publicly avow that they knoAV nothing of the only discovery that has ever been made in the art of healing disease since the day of Hippocrates, and Avhose practice seems intended to teach that health can be preserved, and even restored, Avithout observing any of the Creator’s laAvs for health, so long as a certain amount of drugs, Avell knoAvn to be poisons, are sAvalloAved under the direction of a “ legally qualified medical practitioner.” I say, sir, that such persons are not competent to guide us to health either in “ serious ” or trivial cases ; and as Ave have no Priessnitz, nor Sinedly, or Grinrod, or Johnston, or Barter, or Trail, or Graham here, Ave had better do the best Ave can with the assistance of their writings, and the instructions of those Avho are best acquainted Avith the principles and details of their Avonderfully success ful practice. Misfortune may yet compel me to seek the assistance of the Ashburton surgeons, in which capacity I honor them more than most persons do—and I knoAV that, even after this letter, I should find at least one of them very skilful, very generous, and A r ery forgiving—but I shall never come to them for any of their drugs, however “serious” myillness maybe; andlhopemy sons Avill have the courage to let Ave die ille gally and peaceably in a warm bath, or a Avet sheet, and leave the doctors to hold as many inquests as they please over me and to cut my body about as they like, to ascertain the cause of my death, which they will probably pronounce to be “ drugopliobia. I am, &0.,

Alfred Saunders,

THE GREAT SILENCE MATCH.

(From the New York Weekly.)

The match Avas arranged upon the fol loAving basis : Mr Hunn offered to bet Mr. Banks that Mrs. Banks could keep absolutely silent longer at a single stretch than Mrs. Hunn. Mr. Banks said he did not knoAV much about Mrs. Hunn’s capacity as a talker, but he felt certain that Mrs. Banks couldn’t hold her tongue for ten minutes, excepting Avhen she Avas asleep, and even then she always talked a little. So it was agreed to make a trial. Hunn to pay for a sillc dress if Mrs. Banks spoke first, and Banks to pay for it if Mrs Hunn spoke first. When the match was proposed Mr. Hunn suggested that the contestants should go in for training ; but Mr. Banks protested on the ground that if Mrs. Banks got to trying too hard to keep quiet it would kill her. The contest took place in Mr. Hunn’s dining-room, the two ladies sitting oppo site to each other. When the signal Avas given Mrs. Banks Avas in the midst of some remarks about the cheapness of calico, but she broke off short, and by holding her hand over her mouth reso lutely, suppressed a poAverful impulse to finish the sentence.

There was profound silence for ten minutes ; and then Mrs Hunn started to say something, but remembering herself she turned it off by pretending sho. was clearing her throat. 2VJ”\ Hunn claimed the stakes the. ground that it was |oul bqt Banks, objected. Then Hunn, Avith malignant indignity, started a dis cussion Avith Banks about spring bonnets, and as they talked it was noticed that Mrs Hunn had to hold tightly to a chair to restrain herself, while Mrs. B.anks was absolutely pale from suppressed emotion.

This having failed, Banks turned the conversation on the infamous price of butter, with a diabolical purpose to strike Mrs. Banks in the weaker point, it soon be.came apparent that the strain upon the. neowous system Avas terrible. Violent twitchings vyere. observable, about the npiscle.s pf liar, mouth, and Banks felt certain for a moment that he Avas going to win ; but Mrs. Banks suddenly arose and

pounded the dinner table vigorously Avith her fist, and this seemed to give such relief to her pent up feelings that she became quite calm again. Mrs Hunn meantime had her finger -in her ears. She recognised that as her only hope. The brief discussion on tho hired-girl question, of the incapacity of servants, and of the awful dimensions of their Avages, followed ; but both contestants held out, although Mrs Hunn rushed to the cupboard, and getting a piece of paper wrote on it— “l must scream! Is screaming al lowed ?” Banks said it wasn’t, and Mr. Hunn burst into an extravagant eulogy of Mrs. Hunn’s present servant girl Avith such effect, that Mrs. Hunn became partly hysterical. But she succeeded in hold ing her tongue. And then Hunn, Avith unparalleled brutality, actually expecto rated upon the carpet. Mrs. Hunn bounded from her chair and shook her fist at him, and Avhen he laughed, she flew round the room, at the rate of sixty knots an hour, dishevelling her back liair and behaving Avildly. Hunn thought she would succumb, but she didn’t emit a sound. Banks’ little Harry was playing in the yard, Avaiting for his parents to come out, and when he saw him a happy thought struck Banks. He went out and paid Mrs. Jones, next door, a dollar to spank Harry, and to do it in front of her Avindow where Mrs. Banks sat. When Mr. Hunn saAV Mrs. Banks rise right up and charge through the side door upon Mrs. Jones, he felt he might as well throw up the sponge ; but as Mrs. Jones succeeded in getting away before the indignant mother reached her, and as Mrs. B. found that she could expend her fury by indulgence in frantic pantomime, expressive of her purpose to annihilate the entire Jones’ family at the earliest practical moment, Banks began to feel less confident.

Half-an-hour had expired, and both con testants, although evidently suffering acutely, held out bravely. Mr. Hunn saw that a single bold stroke Avould give the victory to either one side or the other. He rang tho bell on the table. Mrs. Hunn’s chambermaid came in. She Avas a good-looking chambermaid, rather un commonly good-looking, and Mrs. Hunn Avas —Avell, homely. As the girl entered, Hunn, brute and ruffian that he AA r as, Avent up to her, put his arm round her A\ r aist and kissed her. Mrs. Hunn greAV Avhite about the lips, and her feet beat a Avild tattoo upon the floor. Then Hunn chucked the chambermaid under the chin, and kissed her again. With one bound Mrs. Hunn leaped betAveen them, and hurling the girl aside she screamed : . “ Out of this house this instant, you huzzy, or I’ll break every bone in your body !” and then turning to Hunn, she said: “Who Avants your old silk dress, anyhoAv Then she followed the chambermaid from tho room in a fury.

Banks gave in—he had lost; but as he went home he whispered to Hunn : “ You’ve won, old felloAV, but I Avouldn’t be in your place for the amount of the national debt.”—“ New York Weekly.”

THE ASHBURTON HERALD

[ Saturday February , 21, ,-i ß£o.



Lost and Found £l REWARD. LOST— A dark GELDING, 6 years old, 2 white spots on each side of saddle ; white star on forehead, mark like P.R. on rump. Any person returning same, or giving information leading to its recovery, will receive above reward. 51c-501g A. THIELE. Public Notices. WAKANUI ROAD BOARD. RATE NOTICE. aIHE Rate for 1870-80 will be COL LECTED FORTHWITH and not in April as previously notified, and all over due rates for 1878-9 will be sued for at once. Rates to be paid at my residence, Great South Road, next the Gasworks. JAMES WILKIE, 477g-34c Collector. TO CONTRACTORS AND FARMERS. WAGGON AND TEAM FOR SALE, By Private Treaty. |OR SALE, by private treaty, . one first-class second-hand Waggon and six good Draught Horses, belonging to the Westerfield Estate. The new branch line being nearly ready for traffic, the pro prietor will have no further use for the waggon and team. Further particulars on applying to the undersigned, at the Westerfield Station. C. F. REED. February 15,1880. 516g-s9c NOTICE. TO MERCHANTS, STOREKEEPERS, AND OTHERS. ALL CLAIMS against the estate of the late CHARLES REED, Esq., of Westerfield, must be sent in by Feb. 29, 1880, to the undersigned, addressed to Westerfield. 68c-515g C. F. REED. NOTICE. will not be responsible for any DEBTS contracted by my wife after date, she having left my home of her own will. T. P. GLEE SON, Hinds River, Feb. 12, 1880. 504g-54c TO FARMERS, LIVERY STABLE KEEPERS, SPORTING MEN, AND OTHERS OWNING HORSES. GEORGE KIDD, Moore Street, >EQS 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, wlfioh has proved an effectual cure for brushing. All kinds of blacksmith’s work, and repairs to. agricultural machinery of any description demo on the- shortest notice. GEORGE KIDD, 75c-52Gg Moore street, Ashburton.



T. Bullock. THE undersigned has the following PROPERTIES to LET with a pur chasing clause, or FOR SALE on liberal terms of payment — 1 £A ACRES good WHEAT LAND, all ploughed and ready for cross ploughing for wheat ; situated about three miles from the township. Al°7 ACRES, near the above ; also good WHEAT LAND, ploughed once and ready for cross-ploughing. AC RES, partly improved, near Wins low. This will be sold very cheap, and on very libei'al terms. P 7 ACRES, fenced and planted ; situated * near the East Town Belt, good site for private residence. TOWN PROPERTIES. ■\7 ALU ABLE 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. TO PRINTERS. MACHINE FOR SALE. For s a l e. One Second-hand Double Deniy Tape Printing MACHINE, in thorough working order, with rollers, moulds, &c., complete. This machine has been replaced by a Double Royal Wliarfedale, which necessitates removal of the Double Demy Machine formerly used for printing the “Herald ” and “ Guardian,” for hand or steampow r er. Can be seen and all par ticulars obtained at our office. For a Country Office this Machine suits admirably, as it can easily be turned by hand, for which we have fitted a fly wheel and handle. Pkice £7O. WEEKS & DIXON. Ashburton, January 14, 1879



Publications. AGRICULTURAL PAPERS. rjpHE PUBLISHERS have much pleasure in intimating to the Farmers of the Couuty of Ashburton, that they have issued THIS DAY (Saturday), Jan. 10th, a reprint in pamphlet form of a selection of AGRICULTURAL PAPERS Read before the Lincoln Farmers’ Club, compiled by J. Stanley Bruce, Esq., Price One Shilling. Orders for the above pamphlet, ac companied by thirteen stamps, should be addresssed to WEEKS & DIXON, Publishers, East Street.



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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 &c., &c. Gorse Italian Rye Cocksfoot Perennial Trefoil &c. Building Material. 100,000 FEBT OF ASSORTED TIMBER White & Black Pine Black Birch T. and G. Flooring Y.D.L. T. and G. Lining Totara Kauri, &c., &c. 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. F ARMS FOR SALE in blocks of 50 to 100 acres. Price from £2 15s. per acre. EDMISTON BROS. & GUNDRY, East Street.



Hotels. BUTLER’S FAMILY HOTEL, ASHBURTON. J. F. BUTLER (Late of Arahura, West Coast) ~jp>EGS to inform his friends and the public generally that he has opened the above large and commodious hotel, which is situated at the CORNER OF CASS AND HAVELOCK STREETS, And is convenient to the Railway Station. Excellent accommodation for travellers, families, and boarders. All wines and spirits of the best brands. One of Alcock’s best billiard tables. 965 a JOSEPH BALDWIN Begs to inform his friends and the public that he Has Opened THE CENTRAL HOTEL, AT THE JUNCTION, WILLS STREET AND WAKANUI ROAD, ASHBURTON, THIS commodious hotel is situated within three minutes’ walk of the Railway Station. Table d’Hote daily at 6 p.m. Luncheon on the table from 12 to 2 p.m. The Jug and Bottle Department will be made a special feature, single bottles and small quantities being supplied at the lowest remunerative rates. Only the best quality of Wines, Beers, and Spirits procurable will be kept. J. BALDWIN, 540 Proprietor. R. JOHN LLOYD CRAWLEY. Stock, Land, Auctioneer, : 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. TINWALD BOOT AND SHOE SHOP, C. HAWKINS. CH. begs to inform the inhabitants of . Timvald and surrounding districts that he has taken the Boot and Shoe Shop adjoining Mr. S. Stephens’, saddler, and hopes by strict attention to business to obtain a share of public patronage. 742 g 937 a JOSEPH WARD, FAMILY BUTCHER, PETER STPEET, r | (Opposite Journeau’s Smithy) BEGS to inform the Public of Ash burton that he will Open the Shop lately occupied by G. Pike, on JANUARY 3rd, as Family Butcher, and trusts b;y supplying none butagood article, to merit a share of public support. Families waited on daily for orders, which will receive prompt attention. JOSEPH WARD, 892 a Butcher. C. PERCY COX, ! - AND AND ESTATE AGENT ANT? ' VALUATOR, ASHBURTON. MONEY TO LEND J ON i,i] APPROVED FREEHOLD SECUR , f Agent for Union Insurance COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND. 717



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 Yats, etc. LOCKSMITH, BELLHANGER, GAS FIT TER. Artesian Wells, Beer Engines, Pumps, &c. Steam Kettles, Hot Closets, made on the premises. Estimates given for Spouting. A All work done under J. H. V- personal Superintendence, and guaranteed. J. i H Y D E , Moore Street, Ashburton.' ' NEW BUSINESS. CO-OPERATIVE BREAD AND BIS CUIT FACTORY. TRIANGLE, ASHBURTON, WILL OPEN ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2. All orders, town or country, punctually attended to. Wedding Cakes made to order. Dinner, Ball, and Pic-nic Parties sup plied on reasonable terms. All other Confectionery made to order. A. THIELE, - 986 a 1 Manager. 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 ROOM FOR LADIES. PROPRIETOR, J. G. ANSTEE. 985 a HAVE you Found Anything that don’t belong to you,, and wish to act on the square ?—Bring a Shilling to the Herald’s Advertising Clerk. He’ll put your qualms of conscience at rest, and find the owner through the Twenty-Words for. a-Shilling-Column, cash. THE PENNY made the postal system of England a success. So has it mad the Herald. Everybody buys the Herald,