CORRESPONDENCE.

We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondents.

HYDROPATHY AND ALLOPATHY.

To the Editor.

Sir, —There is very little in the letter of your correspondent, “ Eve’s Grandson,” with which Ido not entirely agree. The greater part of his letter seems intended to show how difficult it is to bo quite sure that we are right as to the character of any particular disease, and how easily one disease may be mistaken for another, No one doubts or denies this, and it appears to me one of the strongest arguments he could produce against allopathic treat ment, or against any kind of trer tment which avowedly depends upon such dis tinction being correctly made. His argument most strongly recommends a system in which we deal only with w hat wo can see, and feel, and in which we adopt a treatment that will certainly assist nature to throw off the disease, whatever it may be. It may be exceedingly interesting for a patient to know the difference betweeen the “ symtom expectation” and the “ sign sputa,” to be sui*e the disease he is suffering from is one which his learned medical attendent can do nothing what ever either to cure or alleviate. But I think most sensible persons would prefer to know that, whether the disease of the lungs has. or has not reached the in curable stage, the utmost possible relief is afforded them by immensely improving the action of the skin, relieving the stomach, and purifying the blood—all of which the intelligent liydropatliist knows howto do. Then, even if “ scarlatina co-exists with typhoid fever,” the great business of the liydropatliist would still be to get the skin restored to healthy action, and the combinations, known or unknown, would lead him into no mistakes. He never dreams of the incomprehensible folly of producing pers piration on the known, seen, felt, and ac cessible skin by using James’ powder, or putting a “ drug, of which he knows no thing, into a stomach of which he knows less. ” If we even happen to mistake, as we are told “ ignorant people ” must do, “ malignant scarlatina for diphtheria,” we should still make no fatal mistakes in the treatment. Both require the utmost at tention to the skin, the utmost care forthe stomach, and the utmost economy of every atom of strength, and inneither casedo we want to bleed, or purge, or stupify with opium, salivate with mercury, burn with caustic, paint with iodine, or paralyse with brandy. Themostsuccessfultreatment I ever saw in my life was a case of small pox, which was mistaken by the sufferer’s “ignorant” wife for fever, and vigor ously packed until the unmistakeable eruptions showed her the alarming mis take she had made. But her patient re covered with a rapidly and completeness that never follows from any other treat ment. I once saw the same mistake ad mittedly made by an allopathic practi tioner,- whose patient died, as a matter of course. The mistake was found out and exposed by the legally qualified fraternity, because the practitioner was not “ legally qualified,” but was an old man who had acted for thirty years as the trusted and undoubtedly trustworthy assistant of a legally qualified doctor with a large country practice, in which the assistant had given pounds of opium and mercury, cartloads of brandy, and drawn hogsheads of blood from the doctor’s poorer patients, entirely on his own responsibility. Your corres pondent says —“Mr. Saunders makes a very sweeping charge against medical men generally when he says that they make grievous mistakes in their treatment. ” To that I can only say that I could fill' many volumes with evidence of that well known fact; but I never yet met with anyone to deny it. Your correspondent greatly mistakes me when he says that “Mr. Saunders insinuates that if all patients were treated liydropathically they would not have died.” You will admit, Sir, that this is very hard upon me, after I concluded my long letter with a very plain intimation that I hoped to die myself in a warm bath or a wet sheet.

I think, too, that his notice of the great fouuder of homoeopathy is rather unkind. Both phrenologically, professionally, and historically, I have always thought Hahne man a truly great man, and I cannot help thinking that the allopaths would find out a lot of their mistakes if they would only do as he did, and try their medicines on themselves before they try them on their patients. I admit that it is passing strange, and that it puzzles me more than anything else I know of, that those wh© are most inti mately acquainted with the anatomy of the human body, and have acquired the greatest skill as surgeons, and have devoted their lives to disease and its cure, who have the advantage of all past experience, a monopoly of the evidence to be obtained from dissections, and information taught in our hospitals, of all the advice that the most able men of their day can impart to them, have never led but always dragged behind in the art of curing disease ; have left a poor hunted down heretic to dis cover the circulation of the blood, and to be burnt, with his books, at the stake for his success ; a brave and intelligent milkmaid to tell them that having taken cow pox would make her safe in nursing a case of small pox, and a poor farmer to show them that water and not mineral poison is the agent by which animal poison can be washed out of the animal system. In every century they have condemned in the strongest terms, and proved in the most satisfactory manner, that the practice of their craft in the past century was not only useless and mistaken, but culpable and destructive. Nay more, we need not go from one century to another to get a condemnation of their practice—each generation of doctors condems the practice of the past one, and proves that they were worse than useless ; and yet when they look back three thousand years, at once the most modern legally qualified practi tioners tell us that “ it is positively certain that none among the most eminent of the new schools, or sects of more modern date, have been more successful in curing diseases than were Hippocrates, Galen, and Syden ham,” or, as Hr. Rush says, “We have done little more than to multiply diseases and increase their fatality. ” How can we ac count for such a total and admitted failure by thousands of the best and ablest men in every civilised community, under every advantage of experience and education, ex cept on the ground that all along they hav e been hunting on a false scent, have been wasting all their strength in attempting im

possibilities, and expecting to cure disease by the drugs that are only fitted to pro duce it; whilst our untrammelled farmers, an I manufacturers, and mechanics have successfully sought the agency, not of poisons, but of the great carrier which nature uses to effect every important change, and to build up and sustain every function both of vegetable and animal life.—l am, &c.

Alfred Saunders.

THE ASHBURTON HERALD.

Monday; March S,



Holloway's Pills. —These Pills are more efficacious in strengthening a debilitated con stitution than any other medicine in the world. Persons of a nervous habit of body, and all who are suffering from weak digestive organs, or whose health has become deranged by bilious affection, disordered stomach, or liver complaints, should lose no time in giving these admirable Pills a fair trial. Coughs, colds, asthma, or shortness of breath are also within the range of the sanative powers of this very remarkable medicine. The cures effected by these Pills are not superficial or temporary, but complete any permanent. They are as mild as they are efficacious, aud may be given with confidence to delicate females and young chil dren. Their action on the liver, stomach, and bowels is immediate, beneficial, and lasting, restoring order and health in every case.— Advt



Educational. MISS GOODGER has much pleasure in informing the Ladies of Ash burton that she is about to open a PRIVATE SCHOOL, and solicits their patronage. subjects : English, French, Music, Plain and Orna mental Needle Work. Referees : The Very Revd. Dean of Christchurch, and J. P. Restell, Esq. Terms on application to MISS GOOD GER at the Somerset Hotel, Ashburton. For address, see future Advertisement. 124c-5690 T. Bullock. 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. OH ACRES, near the above ; also good U ■ WHEAT LAND, ploughed once and ready for cross-ploughing. ACRES,partly improved, near Win slow. This wi 11 be sold very cheap, and on very liberal terms. TOWN PROPERTIES. T7ALUABLE BUSINESS SITE in Bur » nett Street, being T.S. 177, next the “ Mail” office. “OART of T.S. 139, Peter Street. This will be sold cheap, and on liberal terms. mO 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. Publications. NEW ZEALAND WESLEYAN Published Monthly. JUST ARRIVED, the “New Zealand Wesleyan” for March. Price 6d Sold at the Herald and Guardian Office, East Street. WEEKS AND DIXON, Agents. AGRICULTURAL PAPERS. rpHE PUBLISHERS have much pleasure in intimating to the Farmers of the Couuty of Ashburton, that they havejssued 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. ALMANAC for 1880, printed on a neat card, with Ashburton Direc tory, Postal and Railway Guide, can be obtained gratuitiously at the ‘ ‘ Guardian ” Office. PROMISSORY Note Forms, in Books of 25, unstamped, for sale at the Herald Office. Price 2s. Gd. e?ih. lULL of Reading Matter is the Herald every Evening. THE “Herald” is published every evening, thus giving every day’s news. This is better than buying a Six penny weekly. THE PENNY made the postal system of England a success. So has it made the Herald. Everybody buys the Herald HAVE you Lost Anything ?—Tell the finder through the Herald for a Shilling. If he is honest he will bring it to you without a reward, hut you can bait a finder of shaky morals by a tempting offer of remuneration for his trouble. AJ" for a Shilling cash.



J. E. Buchanan and Co. TO-MORROW. TO FARMERS, CATTLE DEALERS, SPECULATORS, & OTHERS. IMPORTANT SALE OF GRAIN, STOCK, FARM IMPLEMENTS, &c. FOR ABSOLUTE SALE. Messrs j. e. buchanan and Co. have been favored with instructions to sell BY PUBLIC AUCTION, ON TUESDAY, 9th MARCH, At the well known Farm of Mr. James Ward, Watcrton, The whole of his FARMING STOCK and GENERAL



1 Reaper and Binder (M f Corinack’s)r 1 Single Furrow Plough 3 Sets Cart Harnoss 1 Tip Cart 1 Chaff Cutter 6 Sets Draught Harness 1 Double Seated Buggy and Harness Harrows, Farm Implements, &c. Also, The GRAIN CROP, Viz.— The Auctioneers call SPECIAL AT TENTION to this announcement. A RARE OPPORTUNITY. Sale at 12.30 p. m. Sharp. Luncheon Provided. J. E. BUCHANAN & CO., 573 g Auctioneers. Tenders. ASHBURTON GAS, COAL, & COKE COMPANY, LIMITED. FRESH TENDERS are invited for the OPENING and FILLING IN of 28 chains, more or less, of Trenches for Mains in Tancred street, at per chain. To be left at the office of the Secretary not later than 1 o’clock on TUESDAY, the 9th March. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. By order J. WARD, 143c* Secretary. Public Notices. CAUTION. ANY PERSON BATHING in our Mill Race without our written per mission, will be PROSECUTED. 132 c SAUNDERS BROTHERS. NOTICE. RATING ACT, 1876. "OTHEREAS at a sitting of the Assess * » mcnt Court for the Road District of Longbeacli, held this 28tli day of FEBRUARY, at Longbeach, before me, F. Guinness, Judge of the said Court, it, was proved that no Valuation List had been prepared as required by the said Act. Now, therefore, under the provisions of Clause 28 of the said Act, I order that a Valuation List be made, and I hereby appoint FRANCIS GEORGE PARRY LEACH to be the Valuer for the said dis trict, and I do further tix SATURDAY, the 20th day of MARCH next, the day for the completion and inspection of such list, and that the last day for delivering objections thereto shall be SATURDAY, the 10th day of APRIL next. The Court will sit at 10 o’clock in the forenoon on Saturday, the 17th day of April next, for the purpose of hearing and determining all objections to the Valua tion List for the said district, FRANK GUINNESS, 585 g 148 c Judge. Gazette in Bankruptcy. V. L ffi - R. N is a OTICE—The “ Ashburton Herald’, Gazette for all notices under the Debtors and Creditors Art? TEACHERS call obtain the MULTI PLICATION TABLES, printed on gummed paper, in any quantity at the Herald Office, East street, near the Railway Station.



Edmiston Bros. & Gundry. THURSDAY, 25th MARCH. ASHBURTON MUNICIPAL RESERVES. Messrs, edmiston Bros, and GUNDRY have been favored with instructions from the Borough Council to LET BY PUBLIC AUCTION, at their rooms, East street, on THURSDAY, 2 otii MARCH, the following very VALUABLE SECTIONS in the Township of Ashburton for a term of 21 years— T.S. 210, West street, next to Messrs. Jameson Bros’. Store. T.S. 211, corner of Baring Square. These sections are first-class BUSINESS SITES, being close to the railway station, sidings could be easily obtained. Also, Reserve No. 1689, Fronting Wills street, Cameron street, and the East Town Belt. This Reserve has been divided into ten lots, upon six of which are erected SIX TWO-ROOMED COTTAGER. These lots will be let separately on 21 years’ lease. Sale at 1.30 p.m. EDMISTON BROS. & GUNDRY, 581g-147c 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 &C< , &C. , Gorse Italian Rye Cocksfoot Perennial Trefoil &c. Building Material. 100,000 FEET OF ASSORTED TIMBER White & Black Pine Black Birch T. and G. Flooring Y.D.L. T. and G. Lining Totara Kauri, &c., &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. Farms for sale in blocks of so to 100 acres. Price from £2 15s. per acre. EDMISTON BROS. & GUNDRY, 106 c East Street. MR. JOHN LLOYD CRAWLEY. Auctioneer, Stock, Land, and Commission Agent. Farms, Town and Suburban Sections, for Sale and to Let. i J. LLOYD CRAWLEY, auctioneer, Offices, Saunders Buildings, Ashburton. 737 a WASTE PAPER for Sale, ikl. perlb. at tbe Herald Office. Apply early. 50a FORMS PRINTED “To Let” and “For Sale ” —can be obtained at the Herald Office.



Acland, Campbell, and Co. THURSDAY, 11th MARCH. HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, COWS, TRAP, HARNESS, &c. Acland, Campbell, & co., are instructed by Mr. Gaukrodgcr to offer by public auction, on THURSDAY, 11th MARCH, All his Household Furniture, Cook ing Utensils, Milch Cows, Trap and Harness Ac., Ac. Also, A largo quantity of good Oaten Straw, all hand tied. The Auctioneers beg to draw attention to this sale of Furniture, as it is all new, only having been in use for twelve months ; and also that as Mr. Gaukrodger intends leaving this province, every lot will be sold without any reserve. ACLAND, CAMPBELL, & CO., 94c Auctioneers. Business Notices. TINWALD BOOT AND SHOE SHOP, C. HAWKINS. CIL. begs to inform the inhabitants of , Tinwald 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. 382 g 937 a 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, s|d. EDWARD TAYLOR, Saunders’ Buildings, 119 c ASHBURTON.



C. PERCY COX, L AND AND ESTATE AGENT ANT VALUATOR, ASHBURTON. MONEY TO LEND ON APPROYED FREEHOLD SECURITY Agent for U NION I NSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND. 717 ANSTEE’S DINING ROOMS, TANCRED STREET, ASHBURTON. THE Proprietor begs to inform visitors to Ashburton, and the travelling public generally, that the best accommo dation for Boarders in Ashburton is to be had at the above establishment. A LIBERAL TABLE & MODERATE CHARGES. MEALS AT ALL HOURS ... Is. BEDS Is. BOARD & LODGING ... 18s. & 20s. PRIVATE REFRESHMENT ROOMS FOR LADIES. PROPRIETOR, J. G. ANSTEE. 986 a PAPERPIANGING WAREHOUSE, TANCRED STREET, Ashburton. PAINTER, PAPERHANGER, SIGN-WRITER, Ext., Has much pleasure in stating that, owing ■ to the large increase of Business, he is now Importing from the Manufactukeks- PAPER HANGINGS, WHITE LEAD LINSEED OIL, WINDOW GLASS, BRUSH WARE, And all the necessaries of the Trade, and is therefore in a position to compete with any house in Canterbury for price and quality. Every description of work in the trade executed under personal superin tendence. Competent workmen sent to all parts of the country. ESTIMATES GIVEN. Ha



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, Gd. per 41b. loaf, unsur passed. Delivered daily to all parts of the Borough, also, Confectionery, Ac. Mixed Biscuits reduced from Is. to Bd. per lb. Wedding Cakes made to Order. 122c-570g TO FARMERS, LIVERY STABLE KEEPERS, SPORTING MEN, AND OTHERS OWNING HORSES. GEORGE KIDD, Moore Street, BEGS to announce the fact that the PRICE for SHOEING hacks and light draught HORSES is now REDUCED to 7s. per set, and that all horses of this description will be specially attended to by himself. Horses liable to cut are shod on a prin ciple of George Kidd’s own invention, which has proved an effectual cure for brushing. All kinds of blacksmith’s work, and repairs to agricultural machinery of any description done on the shortest notice. GEORGE KIDD, Moore street, Ashburton. 75c-52Gg



ASHBURTON COPPER, ZINC, IRON, & TIN PLATE MANUFACTORY. JOSEPH HYDE (Late Foreman at the Malvern Works England, and the Canterbury Works, Christchurch, New Zealand) BEGS to thank his friends of Ashbur ton and surrounding districts for the liberal support accorded him during the past two years, and to intimate that he has opened NEW BUSINESS PRE MISES in Moore street (next Mr. Neate’s chemist shop) where he is prepared to execute every description of Plain and Japanned Tinware, Lamps, Gas Reflec tors, Chimney Tops, Portable Washing Boilers, Baths, Cheese Vats, etc. LOCKSMITH, BELLHANGER, GAS FPJ TER. Artesian Wells, Beer Engines, Pumps, Ac.' Steam Kettles, Hot Closets, made on the premises. Estimates given for Spouting. All work clone under J. H.’s personal Superintendence, and guaranteed. J. HYDE, 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 infi 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 attenlu 1 to the Measure Department, and unites 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. Cd. and 2s. Gd 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. Gd. a Bottle. CAMBRIDGE’S EXTRACT OF BARK, CURES SORE, TENDER, and CRACKED NIPPLES. CAMBRIDGE’S ESSENCE of RENNET, 3 Drops will lurn 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. JUST ARRIVED —English Papers and Magazines, Young Ladies’ Journal, Bow Bells, London Journal, Ac., &c. H. M. JONES, Stationer, Baring Square. LABOURERS requiring work can secure first opening by applying early at Herald Registry Office, on pay ment of Is. TIT ANTED, those in search of employ- YV ment, to call and enter, their names at Herald Registry Office, on pay ment of Is. SERVANTS requiring situations, call and get your names entered in the Herald Registry, Is.



Business Notices. TALUE LLU XT RAORDINARY. ■» :T& 3P, £' ; Ct THE " ' ' ?;J. Great Bargains OF THE SEASON. O! GREAT CLEARANCE SALE FOR THIRTY HAYS. OXili AND 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 lots pur chased by them during the late depression. Special Bargains. 90 Pair Twilled Kaiapoi Blankets at 4s. under the usual price. Kaiapoi Flannel at Is. 4d., Is. 6d. to 2s. English Flannel at Is., Is. 2d., Is. 6d., to Is. 9d. Prints at sd. and Gd., worth 9d. Brown Hollands, 7d. to Is. COSTUMES. 56 Costumes at 215., worth 355. Gd., a Baigain. 04 Print Costumes at 7s. Gd. to 12s. Gd., worth 20s. 1700 yards Dress Goods, Alpaccas, at Bcl., 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. 20 Dozen Stays at 3s. 6d., 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. Gd., a bargain. TAILORING DEARTMENT. WE HAVE MUCH PLEASURE IN NNOUNCING 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 M \KE UP ALL ORDERS EN TRUSTED TO US IN THE VERY BEST STYLE. A PERFECT FIT GUARANTEED. SCOTCH, ENGLISH, and COLONIAL TWEEDS IN GREAT VARIETY. THE CELEBRATED BLARNEY TWEED (CORK) KEPT IN STOCK. FANCY COATINGS IN GREAT VARIETY. SUITS from <£4 4s. DRESSMAKING DEPARTMENT. Dresses, Costumes, and Jackets made up to order, under the superintendence of a first-class Dressmaker. WEDDING * MOURNING ORDERS PUNCTUALLY ATTENDED TO. ORR AND CO. IMPORTERS A.SHBURTCN AND JRAKAIA.