relief as he looked from the summit of the cliffs across the unruffled waters of the bay, upon which no sail —not even of the tiniest fishing boat —was visible. Still, he could not repress a sense of appre hension. The danger to Ettie had been so recent and so terrible that the dread of it still hung upon his mind. Knowing the character of Richard. Ellerton, he feared the possibility of some renewed outrage or attempt at abduction. Upon questioning Ettie, her lover found that alarms of the like nature had taken possession of her mind. These were deepened by the rumors which began to spread about Stanton, that mysterious figures had been seen in the dusky evening amongst the rocks near Saint Bridget’s Cave, and that signals were made from shore to sea, and from sea to shore. This led to the revival of old stories about smugglers and their haunts and people in general sought no further solution. But strive as she might, Ettie could not divest' her mind of the idea that these reported movements had something to do with Richard Ellerton and his designs; and once or twice she fancied that she saw Ellerton him self lurking on the hill paths near Stanton Holm. So, to quiet her alarms, George Thursfield proposed to hasten their marriage, to let Thursfield Farm and Stanton Holm, and go for a time either abroad or into some inland city, where protection might be obtained against any possible designs on Eller ton’s part. To further this arrangement it was settled that the marriage should take place by license instead of in the old-fashioned way by banns ; and the date for the sacred rite was fixed within ten days of Ettie’s rescue in the bay. This change of plan seemed to restore firmness to Ettie’s mind ; and, indeed, George him self was reassured by it, for although he did not share her feirs jto the full extent, yet he was anxious to bring her under his own immediate protection. The lovers were confirmed in this decision by an occurrence which caused them no little uneasiness. The rumours that smugglers had reappeared at Stanton soon became known along the coast, and caused an unusual stir amongst the pre ventive men, who had a station a few miles distant. With these rumours there also got into circulation distorted versions of the attack upon Ettie Stanton, and her opportune deliverance, for though both George and Ettie had striven to keep the occurrence secret, a few broken hints, escaping one or other of them, had en abled the servants to patch together stories far beyond, even the truth. The first evidence that such rumours were abroad was given by the appearen.ee of a coast-guardsman to make inquiries about the reputed smugglers; and with him came a Mr. Thompson, the excise officer of the district who announced his inten tion of staying for a time at Stanton, to keep watch. His presence scarcely suited George’s arrangements. Therefore, with a view of preventing idle gossip, he thought it better to take the exciseman into his own keeping. So Mr. Thompson was invited to make Thursfield his resi dence ; and George took care to accom pany him in his rambles along the coast. Nothing, however, was discovered. The clifts were thoroughly searched, the caves explored, every possible hiding-place ex amined ; but no trace of smugglers could be found. At last, having exhausted all means of inquiry, Thompson became con vinced that he had been allured by a false alarm ; and acting on this conviction, he prepared to leave Stanton. George, who had taken a liking for the man, urged him to wait a day or two longer, to be present at the wedding. Thompson, however, had conceived the notion that his host knew sometbi g n:or j of the smuggler than he chose to tell; and he therefore resolved to make a private examination of the coast, without Thursfield’s presence. So, appointing a coast-guardsman to meet him a few mileß out of the village, he set off in the evening, with the avowed inten tion of spending the night at the nearest preventive station. George went with him along the cliffs, and there, at a path leading down to the main road inland, they parted. For a little while, George lingered on the cliffs, watching the figpre of the exciseman, till the latter disappeared behind a projecting rock, round which the pathway turned. Then Thursfield pursued his way home wards, thinking of Ettie, and still, in spite of himself, troubled with the evil image of Richard Ellertpn, which came like a black shadow across his mind. Once he paused, thinking he heard a cry amongst the rocks below. He looked keenly round, but he could see nothing. Evening was fading into twilight—it was hardly possible to distinguish between the grey of sea and sky, while around and below, deep gloomy shadows were fast Settling uppn the cliffs and obscuring the broken rpeks at their base. [to be continued.]

Earmaids.

The licencing Xfiip as ft now lies before Parliament, is perhaps the most compre hensive attempt any New Zealand Go vernment has yet made to regulate the drink traffic. It aims at being conserva tive of the interests of those whom Go vernment have licensed to dispense liquor; and at protecting them against undue competition, increase of which would be calculated, by injuring their trade, to lower the tone of their establishments and reduce their standard as houses of enter tainment ; while at the same time the Bill has in view the protection of the com munity by restraining, as far as legislation can restrain, the tendency to abuse of alcholic beverages. There are many points of the Bill which even hotelkeepers allow to be excellent, and it introduces reforms which all grant were much needed. But it is not expected by the majority of people that an Act of Pai’lia ment will ever make men sober who will be drunken, and the present Bill attempts no such Utopian idea. Still, it takes steps in one or two directions that New Zealand legislation has never tried before, and having done so, it does not appear to us yery extraordinary that one of the leading newspapers of the colony should not con fer‘it 1 too much to expect of the present Parliament when it asks that a still further step should be taken. After strongly deprecating the granting of licenses to unmarried females, urging that though exceptional cases have occurred where fepiales have been successful in keeping orderly houses, the female character is in geperal weaker ip moral force than is that of its sterner opposite, the Netv Zealand Herald goes on to put forth that no female,

other than members of the licensee’s family should be employed in the sale of liquor. With this view taken by our contempory we entirely agree, and in much of what he has to say against the employ ment of barmaids we are with him. We grant, as he grants, that the presence of a respectable female in a bar may have an ameliorating and restraining influence ill many cases, “but not always, and on the whole their presence is productive of incalculably more evil than good.” The barmaid lias come to be held in light esteem as a class because individuals of that class have forgot themselves ; and in consequence of the indiscretions of which .the weaker ones have been guilty, their sins have been visited on the heads of all who choose bar attendance as a profession. This contumely of thewholegenusisas cruel as it is unjust, for if the condemnation of every profession is to be sealed because of the weakness or-wickedness of a few of its members then no calling is safe, from the peasant’s to the priest’s ; for in every flock is found one or more black sheep. Still, notwithstanding, the barmaid, if she have any personal attractions, whether in face or in conversational powers, is eagerly sought after by the proprietors of public bars, simply because an attractive barmaid is as good an asset in a hotel as the hotelkeeper’s character for keeping good liquor. She draws—both beer and custom, and many a man who would be content with a single glass from the hands of a bluff male waiter, will indulge in more when he has a temptation to talk with the owner of a pretty face behind the bar. The barmaid is thus a cause of, or at leastan inducement to, drinking, and as legislation on the liquor traffic is intended to reduce the temptations to drunkenness, the re moval of barmaids would be a perfectly legitimate step. No one denies that excessive dx-inking habits are an evil, both to the individuals who are their victims, and to the communities to which those indi viduals belong; both by the effect of these habits upon the individuals and the money that is uselessly spent and lost to the community ; and if the use of barmaids tends to the increase of these habits and the heightening of the evils that follow them, it seems to us that the pro hibition of the employment of females behind public bars is a perfectly legitimate proceeding. But there are nobler reasons why they should be debarred by law from such employment. No landlord, however be may wish, can fully protect the females in his employ from the influence that they must necessarily come under while behind a public bar. A public bar is available to all classes of men as a place of resort, and amongst our humanity wo find those -who care not a straw what passes their lips in the hearing of a bar maid, and who are rather delighted than otherwise at the opportunity afforded them of indulging in coarse language and broadly insinuated inuendo in the hearing of these females. The protection of the womanhood of our women is as much aduty of the State as is the education by the State of our children, and though the men who consider themselves entitled as they wish to outrage a barmaid’s finer sensi bilities by their coarseness of language, or impurity of thought expressed in carefully chosen language are, let us hope, in the great minority, still there are quite enough of these constantly frequenting every hotel bar in the colony to contami nate the best mind that ever guided the actions of a girl. The only safeguard against the evil effects of the public drinking room upon the employed girl is her banishment by law from that position. We cannot admit the argument that she i 3 there of her own choice, for not one girl in a hundred has a full realisation of all the disadvantages of the position until she has experienced them. To many light-headed and light-hearted young females the bar possesses attrac tions, but there are few houses indeed where they leave their employ with the pure imagination that was theirs in their early girlhood, or even that later period of it, before they came into contact with the rough stream of masculinity that flowed past the counter they attended, and drank the liquor they served, and the more copiously that tl\ey did serve it. We know many a good hotel-keeper who would rather a thousand times that he could carry on his business without the bar maid’s aid ; it is not the respectable hotel keeper who is to blame for the girls' em ployment sq much as the public who geejq $0 demand them by th@ir more extensive patyqnqge qf the hotels where the girls are. But a law prohibiting the employ-, ment of barmaids would certainly reduce the temptations to drink and save many good women from positions where they are exposed to both covert and open insult at the hands of men who would not dare conduct themselves so to women in another sphere ; and save them from dangers which no man would care to see his own female relatives exposed to, and which every honest man would wish to see very woman escape.

THE ASHBURTON HERALD, TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1880.



P}OLLp\YAY’s Pills.— The extraordinary range of temperature prevailing in our climate is extremely trying to the delicate-chested, the weak and nervous. All troubled by these afflictions should resolve to resort to the strengthening and legulating medicine immedi ately they perceive in themselves discomfort of that feeling of restlessness which betokens dis ordered digestion and defective secretion or bile. One of Holloway’s Pills taken about noon and followed at bed-time by a dose suffi ciently large to act apperiently will speedily recruit the faulty functions, and restore order throughout the whole system. A treatment so safe in operation and so successful in result should be known and practised when, from cold and sundry other causes, disease is at tempting to-gain a vexatious footing.— Advt.



Public Notices. NOTICE. EDWARD TAYLOR, BAKER, Saunders’ 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



Edmiston, Gundry & Co. 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 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 Greenstreet, securely fenced with live fences, and sub divided, and a permanent stream of water. 285 ACRES at Greenstreet, to be sold or 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 towmship 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. Vo 879, Ashburton. T.S. 301, 302, Burnett-street, Ash burton. T.S. 247, Kcrmode 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, Growing Crops, Grain in Stack, Thresh ing Machines, &c. EDMISTON, GUNDRY, & CO., East Street. 106 T. Bullock. TO LET FOR CROP OF WHEAT 200 ACRES 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 Longbeaoh Run. Also, gO ACRES 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 TO LET, ONE of those Newly Erected COT TAGES in Tancred Street, near Mr. Anstee’s Private Hotel. 571 c T. BULLOCK. TO AUCTIONEERS AND PERSONS DESIROUS OF STARTING BUSI NESS IN ASHBURTON. TO LET —By Tender, from Ist July, for a term of two years, the old established HORSE BAZAAR., situated in Burnett street. This will afford a capital opportunity for persons desirous of starting business. Tenders to be sent to the undersigned not later than 28th June, The lowest or any other tender not necessarily ac cepted. ' * T. BULLOCK. TO LET—An Office in East street, near the Union Bank. Also, Shop and Dwelling-house, in same street. T. BULLOCK, i



Business Notices. 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 w r ell 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-948a DON’T! PLEASE! DON'T! STOP! DO STOP! TOP before you give your next order for a Suit of Clothes. F you want Style, Fit, and Quality, try the Undersigned. READ the following, then call and in spect the Goods. C YARDS READY 1 350 TO CUT. 350 JUST ARRIVED—The best Stock of Winter Cloths to be got for money SUPERIOR in quality to anything ever yet shown in Ashburton. ( SAMPLES } 70 TO ( 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. ES £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 Boarding Houses. CENTRAL TEMPERANCE HOTEL, BARING SQUARE. THOMAS BROADBELT,; Proprietor. PRIVATE ACCOMMODATION FOR BOARDERS. 947g-563c



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. Gash, |6d. Delivered. 928g-550c EVERETT BROS. AND CO., CHEAP DRAPERS, HAVELOCK STREET, ASHBURTON. E. B. and Co. are now showing their w :t i n t e r R A P E R Y, Comprising EVERY NOVELTY IN EACH DEPARTMENT. NEW GOODS ARRIVING MONTHLY. 505 c DAVIS’S Cheap F U R N ITU RE AND BEDDING MA N UFACTORY, MOORE STREET, ASHBURTON. "Cl VERY article Sold at Christchurch Prices and guaranteed best of material and workmanship. FUNERALS CHEAPLY & COMPLETELY BURNISHED W. DAVIS, MOORE STREET, ASHBURTON. 529 c Ashburton Bakery, EAST STREET, ASHBURTON. mHO M A S T AYL 0 R , BAKER, PASTRYCOOK, AND CON FECTIONER. ALL ARTICLES GUARANTEED TO BE OE THE BEST QUALITY. Soiree, Picnic, and Wedding Parties supplied on the shortest notice. ps- HOT TEA, COFFEE & PIES From 9a. m. to 9p. m.; Saturdays, 9a. m. till 11 p.m. THOMAS TAYLOR, Ashburton Bakery. 492 c



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



ASHBURTON HAIRCUTTING ROOMS. REDUCED PRICES. E. A. GARNETT, Hairdresser, East Street, WILL REDUCE his PRICES from June 19th, in order to meet the times, as follows : 6d. GENTS’ HAIRCUTTING 6d. BOYS’ haircutting, under 12 years 3d. 3d. BHAVING Bd. A large and well-assorted stock of Tobacco, Cigars, Perfumery, and Fancy Goods, at greatly reduced prices. Note the address — E. A. GARNETT’S Old-Established Haircutting Rooms, East street, Ashburton. Agent for the sale of the Ashburton Guardian and Evening Herald. 565c-959g 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 ANDf DIXON.



Business Notices. Dissolution OF Partnership. j • o ORR AND 00., ~p>EG to announce that they intend to DISSOLVE PARTNERSHIP on Ist SEPTEMBER They will therefore, on Saturday, May Ist, offer the whole of their superior 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. AIIJ Goods will be marked in plain figures with Red Ink. $ $ f All outstanding accounts must be paid at once so that partnership accounts may be 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. CAPS. OER AND CO. J'JfAVE 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 Frices— From £2 IQs', to ££s. ORR AND CO IS 9c-9g



Business Notices. BEST NEWCASTLE COALS LAMBTON COLLIERY. PER TON. 50s. 1 A PER CENT. DISCOUNT AU for CASH. SPRINGFIELD COALS 40s. PER TON. 10 Per Cent. Discount for Cash. To be delivered in my yard. Acconnts to be paid monthly. C. PERCY-COX. 359 C ~773 G



HALLO! HiLLO! 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) Bfe.&6s. Very old Scotch Whisky, per Bottle 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 2 bottles Whisky 2 ~ Sherry 1 ~ Old Tom (Ready packed, and forwarded to any part of the County on the shortest notice.) One trial will prove to Quill’s customers the quality of his taps. COMMENCING MONDAY, 26th APRIL. Open from 7a. m to 6 p.m. during winter months. Note Address— T. QUILL’S, WHOLESALE BOTTLING STORES, Commercial Hotel, ; e u toj (Near Railway Station), Ashbu r ton. 7 51g-336c PRACTICAL WATCH & CLO.CK MAKER, JEWELLER, &c. BOBT. MUBBAY, MOORE STREET, BEACH ROAD, ASHBURTON, HAYING 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. 824 G-429 M. McCALLUM, ATCHMAKER AND JEWELLER Every description of Jewellery made to order and repaired. Electro-plating and Gilding. Hair plaits and Devices done. Watches and Clocks accurately Repaired. Diamonds and every description of Stones substantially Set. Clocks from 7s. 6d. each. Do., with alarm, 15s. CASHEL STREET, ‘ Next Bank of Australasia, Christ church. i 221 c