beat. Mr. Oliver had to wait three years before he got nnittoh. He (Mr, Sargent) had third and fourth crosses from merino ewe*. He killed them in their first year, and had his return while Mr. Oliver waited three years for his. - In regard to in-and-in breeding, no man ought to go in for high breeding at all unless he knew it thoroughly. Mr. Oliver again said ho had not dealt with sheep-farming to profit—but with breeding. The Chairman instanced Mr. Moore, of Glenmark, who never used any but his own rams, and must have bred in-and-in ; and Mr. Booth for thirty years had always used his own bulls. Ho (the chairman) did not particularly favor in and-in breeding, though he practised it himself to some extent—but they ought

to be judicious with their crosses. He would not advocate breeding long-wools, and placing them on tussocks. He had been Home recently, and in Bradford the people had approved of our colonial wools —it had much more brightness and lustre than any other. But they said we were great rogues, and sent them lots of stones .and. flax amongst our wool—they had somehow got to know even what we called flax in this colony. They said if we kept on breeding for the same kind of wool we would get a better market and be more thought of. We ought to get good wool — merino of whatever breed we adopted. He would ask Mr. Oliver if lie favored a Lincoln : or,a Leicester ewe as the best cross with a merino ram ? > Mr.' Oliver would sooner put a good Leicester ewe to a merino than any. He preferred the Leicester for the smallness df its head, and a lamb to a Leicester because of its small head gave easier par turition, and less chance of loss in lamb ing. •The Chairman said Lenesters could be got away; in 2-tooth, which was an advan tage, and in his own experience they were the best cross for merinos. Mr. Oliver said a first cross between a Leicester ewe and a merino ram would exist anywhere on ordinary feed, but a cross fromjjthis again was not to be desired.

Mr. Silcock said that every critic of Mr. „ Olijar had started off that night with a disbelief in something he had advanced. Mr! Silcock would only be following the ' crowd if lie did the same. He thought it was a mistake to believe that a good second cross could not be got from a first. He had some experiencewhile managing his father’s sheep at home. They used the best'rams in succession, but never the same breed tvo years in succession. The sheep had a mixed look no doubt, but he never knew liis father to get less than Is 7d for his wool. Lambs dropped in August he had known weigh 701bs. »when killed at Christmas, and had killed two tooths weighing 1401bs. In reply to Mr. Brown, Mr. Oliver said he would run ewes with rams in this country from the Ist of May to the Gth of J une.

Mr. Lewis, referring to the Chairman’s remarks about Mr. Moore, of Glenmark’s, flocks being bred in-and-in for generations from the same rams, asked if this fact liad anything to do with the scab that was found in that flock at one time. (Laugh ter.) Mr. Oliver was quite right when he said that the best breeders bred in-and-in, but he said .nothing of the many inferior culls that were bred front the same rams. He had no doubt there were many of the great ram’s offspring that were not worth 7s; But to get good rams in-and-in breed ing had to be practised. Mr. Oliver was quite right when he said that more atten tion should be paid to w®ol than to mut ton. When he came to the colony first he had had the best sheep for the colony pointed out to him, and though he was astonished at the time, he soon discovered that his English notions were on a strange soil, and that the selection ha would have made guided by them would not have been the best. Mr. Oliver'said culls liad F to be made, arid it it was only by continually culling out the bad ones that a really good sheep could be got, and if this were done a fixity • of type would result in spite one’s self. Every breeder culled out liis bad sheep and kept the good ones. The Chairman defended Mr. Moore against Mr. Lewis’ chaff as to scab, and said that the (the Chairman) had been twenty years in the colony and had not seen a scabby sheep yet. Mr. Moore’s flock was the best in Canterbury. A short discussion here followed on scab, which Mr. Lewis explained was not consti tutional, and was only communicated by infection. Mr. Oliver, in reply to Mr. Silcock, ex plained what fixity of type was. By breeding in one direction for a series of years it .was aimed, as far as possible, to secure the same kind of animal being thrown by the ewe to an almost certainty. Mongrels having a dozen different strains of blood in them would always tend to throw something different from the direct parent, no matter what ram was used. ■The Chairman 'said he he had got a dozen sheep out from Home to begin with. He had stuck to them, using always his own rams. The breeding had been close, 1 but he had retained the type. He was sure the district could not go on growing oats for ever. It must go back to sheep, and it would be well to see how best to suit jhem to the land apd pot ppt . pesters where |iincolns plight to be, nor either where they should put merinos. He begged to move a vote of thanks to Mr. Oliver for the paper he had read, and in elpsing the meeting he desired to state that it’would be the last paper of the season, but the New Year would be begun wjth apQtfcpr pfippp |dr. Oliver acknowledged the compli ment, but was not sure thfit he could con sent to a request made by Mr. Silcock to read the next paper oii sheep-farming, He did not care to read two papers in succession. He might take the speoud. Mr. John Orr, inmoying a vote of thanks tp the Chairman, said he had learned more about sheep that night than he had ever known bpfor.e, and he could easily see that the best breeder would be the man who used the best judgment, anj to be a suc cessful breeder it wanted a great dpal of carefiil^dgmept, -- totd having been passed, the meet ing separate^^^^^^^^^

THE STORY-TELLER.

THE DISRVPfIOH A TALE OF TRYING TIMES.

• -CHAPTER XXIX — continued. The man in fact had constituted himself a kind of general agent or fac

totum to Mr. Bacon in all matters con nected with Auchterbardie. He had been born on the estate a few years before Mr. Bacon himself, and had contrived to keep that gentleman, in spite of all his high aspirings and visionary greatness, in a kind of perpet ual minority. He was a fiery, presum ing little cockatrice of a person,, and maintained a disasterous ascendency over his master by sheer imprudence. Ate was, in fact, the master, and Mr. Bacon only a sort of unavoidable in cumbrance, in whose name all the business of the property had to be managed, but whose will was seldom if ever consulted. Mr. Bacon even stood in considerable awe of him, and never willingly ventured to incur his displea sure. The poor factor-ridden gentle man, therefore, expressed some regret that he had not, on this occasion given Mr. M'Corkle earlier notice of his coming, that he might have had matters prepared to receive him. Robin Afleck, however, would by no means admit that the omission was to be regretted. On the . contrary,, he main tained that it was highly proper, and that it might be greatly advantageous for- Mr. Bacon to visit bis property without giving previous warning, that he might be able to judge how it was managed in his ab sence. This point continued under discussion till they reached the Auchterbardie property, and here Robin had all his eyes about him to observe, as well as the fading light would permit him, the state of fences and the general style of cultivation. Everything appeared in the most wretched condition, and Robin was loud and unsparing in his condemna tions of the slovenly management that was on all sides evident. When they reached the gates they found the porter’s lodge without either roof or tenant. The main gate, hung wide open, and one of the pillars was prostrate and in pieces. The park wall was in ruins, and in many places could only be traced in a heap of nettle-covered rubbish; the lawn itself had become a jungle of brambles; and the avenue, which was neither wide nor long, but had once been shaded with stately elms and trimly gravelled was now green with a wilder-, ness of weeds, and encumbered with blown-down trees, rotting where they fell. The state in which the house was found may be gathered from the following letter from Robin Afleck to Jean Brown : “Auchterbardie 7th September 81402 “ Deer jeen,—you will be supprized to noe that i am Hear but if ye kent All thatt i Have suffered Since you left embro ye wood be supprized Att knowthing and Thankfool that i am in The land of the leaving after We partit I gaed daunderin Hame sing ing til mysel ‘ Off aw the airts the win can blaw’ (for ye sea jeen yere Aye uppermost in my Mind when i hae knowthing Else til Fash me) Weel just before i got intil my ludgings Saunders drouthytbrapple stoppit me and . .

. . . . but the steem bott Was a dour theef and snoovt awa and snoovt awa tho the water was jaupin Up till the Lum tap soe At last and length we cam Ashore at a toun red with tiled houses and gott to Our feet on dry laun again But sitch laun As ye never clappit your gleg Twa een On i can compart to knowthing but jist what it is a Muir battering thick wi quarries and noe a bush Ont bigger than a broom cowe but the grun aye grew Better the farer We gaed till ",vee Cam to Auchterbardie and here its jist as gude grun as Ever a modiwart bort a hole in but jeen of all the places yee Ever saw am Sure ye wad give this The gree for a sluggarts den Mr bacons ain person is noe Hawf soe ill guided as this fine Bit of property and his House in embro dirty as it is is Like dalkeith pallace compart with the house he has here when we had managed to sprauchle through the Weeds and rotten timmer in the Avenue and got up till the door of the house (a house big enough for a kirk but not a hale Window in it all) wee were met on the mooly stairs by Mr makorkale He is a Wee man with a red Face and the een of a Wulcat the Callant Neddie had gotten him drink ing In the only room in the house that can be leavt in Alang with a Minister body something of Doctor Snapper dudgeons kind and When he heard that rar Bacon Was conting he stormt apd swore jist the same as if he Was the Maister and poor ntr Bacon the man then When he Met us He maist pro vokit Me at the first Word to dust His coat till him he curlt his Brows at mee and asked mr Bacon what he had brocht Me for and mr Bacon the cuif hardly durst own me for a Freen it was lang before we got onytbing either to eat or- drink and then wee got jist the tail of the Factors feast its my opinion jeen mr. Bacon Bias been Driven daft or at least been keept from Being like ither folk by This etlercap of a Boddy for I see he has not a word to say In his ain House but 111 hole out makorkle before I be many days aulder or yee may say am noe Better than a cuif mysel i wad tak him by the nose at yjnce if i could get mr Bacon to back me but he Cannot bee per swaded to Risk a rippet With hint soe i Must wait till Mr Duncason comes and i think i May drive my pint Then Tjntes is to b@ here as shoon As he can steer and i think hell beJShure to help me in this gob font hough he aye gloomt When there was Onything funny to be dune with mr Bacon he canna but Wish to gpt hjm rightit When he sees him Impqst on noo jjcen ye thinlc j am pf rumlegump

tion wi nae mair sense than a hen could haud in its steekit nieve but yell surely Alloo im right in this Business dont think Mind ye that its only for mysel that im working To be shure if i Could get makorkle awa from auchter bardie his place wad fit me fine for he has a snug twa story hous for Hansel no abune a gun shot from the big hous and An income gude Eneuch to keep it Het and fou All the year round but i Could mak it a gude Change for mr Bacon as weel as for Mysel he needs Knowthing but the like of me for his factor and you jeen for His factors wife between Us i think we could mak auchterbardie a different place And mr Bacon a different kind of Man and Noo jeen fare ye weel yeel bear from me again When onything comes Out of my prospects the nip i got from you at Habbies how ye ken yersel What for is aye blue yet and i wish it was just to get again Im Maybe’noe just sae douce as i should be but ye ken jeen ye must just put up with Me since im your Ain faith fool ‘Robin Afleck.’ The happy thoughts he had thus so imperfectly expressed put Robin so much in key for singing that he did not cease till he had extemporised the following ditty, which he hummed over to himself, and encored the per formance more than once with great applause:— JEAN BROUN—A SONG Tunc —“Within a mile o’ Embro’ Toun ” My Jeanie is sonsie, light-hearted, and young, Wi’ a bonnie face brimfu’ o’ glee ; There is music to me, in her glib merry tongue, And aye love and truth in lid - e’e, O, she is a winsome quean ! My laughing, daffing, charming Jean, She makes foul weather fair ? Wi’ her it’s summer a’ the year; I canna, mauna, winna, sha’na Roose her niair. As for me, wanting Jean, I’m a blate, simple chiel’— But wi’ her I’m three times a man ; I could loup o’er the moon my head turns like a wheel, For she’s atled to me heart and han’. Mayna I be proud and croose ! How can I be dull or douce ? It needs but little lair Through a’ her fun to see wi’ me She canna, winna, downa Ony man compare ! It was rare luck for Jean, and gtiid fortune to me, Our hiring at All Hallow Fair ; I ettled at only a pair ploughman’s fee, But the prize o’ my life met me there. Happy was that hiring day ! Jean hersel’ will ne’er say nay ; Though whiles wi’ saucy air, But just to tease me, she pretends She canna, winna, mauna, muckle For me care. What care I for toil, or a bare, scoury coat ! I’m rich in the heart o’ my Jean ; Wi’ nae laird in the lan’ would I niffer my lot— I’m the richest man ever was seen ! I.ouns dead set on worl’s gear Keep your bargains cheap or dear— Your wealth f weel can spare ; In riches cash can never buy Ye canna, mauna, shan’a ever Match my share, (To be continued—commenced on ’Yuly 2 6. )

THE ASHBURTON HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER ix' 1880.



Wanted. WANTED, PLAIN NEEDLEWORK. W Address “ P.M.,” Herald office. 1000 c WANTED, a FAMILY’S WASHING. Apply, by letter, to “K. Herald office. Id TXT ANTED by a young man, a SITUA ' ' TION as Cook on a station or run. Apply at once, Herald Office. 2d WANTED— Two GENTLEMEN to Board in the house of a private family, unexceptional reference regarding the cuisine. Address, X.Y.Z., office of this paper. 987 c WANTED KNOWN. SOMERSET LIVERY AND BAIT STABLES. JW. M‘RAE beg 3to inform the , .publicthat he has taken the above Stables from Mr. Bossenberg, and is making extensive repairs. Buggies and saddle horses on hire. Lowest prices and best attention. 908c—286g



Meetings. NOTICE. \ . MEETING of the ASHBURTON A EIRE POLICE will be held on WEDNESDAY NEXT, at Mr. W. H. Gmidry’s office, at 3 pm. W. H. ZOUCH, 990 c Hon. Secretary. ASHBURTON RACING CLUB. A SPECIAL MEETING of the Com mittee of the above Club will be held at Quill’s Hotel, on TUESDAY, October 12, at. 4 p. m. Business : To consider the amended programme. JAMES WILKIE, 988 c ’ Hon. Sec. THE ASHBURTON TOWN HALL COMPANY (LIMITED). AN EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Shareholders in the above Company will be held in the Town Hall, Ashburton, on TUESDAY, the 19th day of October, 1880, at 8 o’clock in the Evening, for the undermentioned purposes : 1. To consider the advisability or other wise of increasing the nominal value of shares. 2. To consider the advisability or other wise of reducing the quorum of shareholders necessary to'be present at meetings before business can be transacted. 3. To regulate the election and retire ment of Directors of the Company and their powers and business. Dated this 9th day of October, 1880. THOS. BULLOCK, 991 c Chairman of Directors. Tenders WANTED.— TENDERS to ROLL 70 acres of Wheat, with Cam bridge Roller, near Tinwald. Apply, S. Hardley, East street. 996 c TENDERS. TENDERS are invited for the EREC TJQN of a COTTAGE near Masonic Hall. Plans and'specifications can be seen at Messrs. Frjedia,nder Bros’, office. 997 c



Quill and Co. TO-MORROW. QUILL & CO., instructed by various owners, will sell To-morrow (Tues day), at the New County Sale Yards— HOUSES CATTLE SHEEP PIGS QUILL & CO., Auctioneers.



To STATION-HOLDERS, LANDED PROPRIETORS, FARMERS, CATTLE - DEALERS, AND THE RESIDENTS IN ASH BURTON AND SURROUND ING DISTRICTS. Messrs. Quill & Co., AUCTIONEERS, STOCK, LAND, & ESTATE AGENTS, SAUNDERS’ BUILDINGS, Ashburton, T3EG to announce to station-holders, D landed proprietors, farmers, cattle dealers, and residents in Ashburton and the surrounding districts, that they have COMMENCED BUSINESS in the above line ; and, from their long experience in the various departments, feel assured that all commissions en trusted to them will be conducted satis factorily to their patrons. Sales will be held as required, at the Salerooms and Yards in Ashburton, or any part of the district. They will also hold a Regular Sale of STOCK, LAND, FARM PRODUCE, FURNITURE, and GENERAL MERCHANDISE, at, their Rooms, every Saturday, particu lars of which will be duly advertised. The interest and the support of sellers and buyers are respectfully solicited. Cash Advances made on all classes of Goods placed in their hands for sale. For particulars of Sales please see advertisements. Quill & Co., AUCTIONEERS, SAUNDERS’ BUILDINGS, j Ashburton. 2lßg-995c* Gazette in Bankruptcy. R. J^pOTICE —The “ Ashburton Herald” is a Gazette for all notices under the Debtors and Creditors A rt* V. R. In the District Court of Christchurch, Holden at Ashburton. IN THE MATTER OF the Debtors and Creditors' Act, 1876, the several Acts amending the same, and of the bankruptcy of EDMUND ALFRED FIELD, of Seafield, Farmer, a debtor. THIS IS TO NOTIFY that at the first meet ing of the Creditors of the above-named debtor, Samuel Saunders, of Ashburton, mer chant, was duly appointed Creditors’ trustee of the estate and effects of the said debtor, and that the said Samuel Saunders has signified to me injwriting his acceptance of the said office. Dated this nth day of October, 1880. C. CAVENDISH HURRELL, gage Clerk of the above Court. In the District Court of Christchurch, Holden at Ashburton. IN THE MATTER OF The Debtors and Creditors Act, 1876, the several Acts amending the same* and of the bankruptcy of EDMUND ALFRED FIELD, of Seafield, Farmer, a debtor. T HEREBY SUMMON a MEETING of the i- creditors of the abov«named debtor to be held at the offices of Messrs. Branson and Purnell, solicitors, in East street, Ashburton, on Thursday,the 14th day of October, instant, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon, to consider the intended application by the said debtor for an order of discharge. Dated this nth day of October, 1880. SAM. SAUNDERS, 998 c Trustee.



T. Bullock. rjIHE Undersigned begs to intimate to former constituents and settlers generally that li« has RETURNED TO BUSINESS AS Auctioneer, Estate, AND | GENERAL COMMISSION AGENT In the premises, EAST’ STREET, And at the BAZAAR, BURNETT STREET, Formerly occupied by him. Weekly Sales or PROPERTIES, MERCHANDISE, ETC., Will be held as foi'merly, ALSO, SALE of HORSES AT THE HORSE BAZAAR, BURNETT STREET, SAME DAY, and intends holding periodical sales of Wool and Grain During the ensuing season. Will also attend the usual Fortnightly Stock Sales AT TINWALD, AND AT THE COUNTY SALEYARDS, When opened. 934 c T. BULLOCK FOR SALE—CHEAP. FOUR SECTIONS in one block—viz., 502, 5C3, 510, 511, situated in Tin wald. Small deposit cash : balance by instalments. For sale or to let, with a PURCHASING CLAUSE, 266 439 Acres, all fenced, and partly improved situated in Wakanui compact Farm, all fenced, well-watered, and partly in English Grass. Improve ments consist of a comfortable Five-roomed Cottage, Stable, Stockyard, &c., &c. burton. TOWN PROPERTIES. That Valuable TOWN SECTION, 159, Tancred Street, will be Sold very cheap, and on easy terms. 539, (part of) £ of an acre, terms same as as above. 341, Kermode Street. 77 ; 37, (Lot) Mayo’s Block. 78, (Lot) with Dwelling-house of Seven Rooms, near the Parsonage, East Town Belt. TO LET, A Four-roomed COTTAGE, situated on the North Town Belt, opposite the High School Site. Commodious BOARDING-HOUSE in East Street. Shop and Office in East Street. That convenient SHOP, situated in the Triangle, Wakanui Road, now in the occupation of Mr. Lublow, tailor. SHOP or BOARDING-HOUSE, situated in Burnett Street, opposite the Mai Office, and lately in the occupation of Mr. Dufrates. Apply. 571c-186g T. BULLOCK. Ecclesiastical. WESLEYAN CHURCH. ON WEDNESDAY Evening Next, October 13. at Half-past Seven, a PUBLIC MEETING will be held in the Church, for the same object, and Addresses given by "tlie Revs. J. B. Richardson, W. Beck, and others. Collections will be taken at the Ser vice on behalf of the Wesleyan Home Mission Fund. 954 c FORMS PRINTED —“To Let ’ and “ For Sale can be obtained at th« Herald Office. *



Public Notices. LONGBEA.CH ROAD DISTRICT. ELECTION OF MEMBERS. ~VT OTICE is hereby given that ft MEET _i\| ING of the Ratepayers of the Longbeach Road District will be held at the Board’s Office, on Longbeach Road, on MONDAY, the 25th day of October, 1880, at the hour of eleven in the fore noon, for the purpose of NOMINATING and ELECTING two persons eligible to serve as Members of the Board for the above District, in the places of Messrs. E. G. Wright and Joseph Clark. A poll, if required, will be taken at the same place immediately after the nomin ation, closing at four o’clock p.m. W. CUTHBERT, Returning Officer. Longbeach Road, 7th October, 1880. 297« THE NATIONAL 'MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRAL ASIA (LIMITED). Established 1869. Actuary and Secretary—J. M. Templeton, F. I. A. The MOST LIBERAL and EQUIT ABLE OFFICE for Life Assiu-ance in the Australasian Colonies. The best office for young men. Profits divided every three .years. Offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Wellington, and Hobart Town. The New Zealand Branch—A LOCAL INSTITUTION, investing all moneys in the colony. Resident Secretary Thomas Swain, Temple Chambers, Featherston street, Wellington. Agent for the County of Ashburton— S. SAUNDERS (of the firm of Saunders Bros.), Ashburton. Note the name—The National Mutual. 1690-218 c BRANSON & PURNELL, BARRISTERS AND SOLICITORS, EAST STREET, 394



Business Notices. THE SOUTHLAND TIMBER YARDS. THE UNDERSIGNED BEGS to in form his friends and the public gene rally, that he has made arrangements with the best SAWMILLS in Southland for a constant Supply of Building Timber, including Red and White Pine FLOORING LINING SKIRTING ARCHITRAVES MOULDINGS and will >pen the same OCTOBER Ist, 1880, at 'nis yards, corner of C \MERON AND WEST STREETS, Next Jameson and Roberts, ASHBURTON. . JOSHUA TUCKER, 217g-884c ' Proprietor NEW INDUSTRY. ASPHALTING. * JAMES BRADLEY is prepared "to take orders for ASPHALTING at very moderate rates. All orders to be left at the Work's, Park srreet. -0. All work kept in repair for twelve months. 695 c PICTURE BUYERS and others will do well to call at my Picture Frame Manufactory, where I keep in stock some THOUSANDS OF PICTURES, framed and unfrained, from Fine Art Pictures to Cheap Lithographs. Two Hundred Patterns of MOULDINGS to select from. Frames made to order, from Is. each. E. BEARDSLEY, PICTURE FRAME MANUFACTURER, AND Importer of MOULDINGS, PRINTS, &c Manchester street, Christchurch, Near the Station. 889 c FURNITURE ! FURNITURE ! ! Made to Order by QHARLES JgRADER, PRACTICAL CABINETMAKER, FURNITURE DEALER, &C. Chests of Drawers, 3ft. Gin. x 3ft. Gin., with five drawers, Price 70s. Scotch Chest of Drawers, with six drawers, ’rice £5 10s. Kitchen Cupboard, from 30s. Do. with Dresser, from 40s. Venetian and other Blinds, Curtain Poles, Oxford and other Picture Frames made to order. Furniture repaired and renovated. GREAT SOUTH ROAD, TINWALD, Beyond Clark’s Grain Stores. For Sale, a Light Waggon, nearly new, in good order, Price £22. A good chance for anyone requiring a useful conveyance cheap. 1 346 c HORSE CARDS. / H ORSE CARDS of all sizes printed at the office of this paper.



Business Notices rpHE “ CRUSADER” is afloat 1 for Lyttelton, with a large consignment of all kinds of Material for GENTLEMEN’S CLOT BING for. ALEX. CRAIGHEAD & CO., * Almut which we shall have some thing to say in this space when the Goods are delivered. A. Craighead d Co., Merchant Tailors, TANCRED STREET, (Next Orr & Co.) PERFECT FIT GUARANTEED. " 982a-445a TEN PER CENT. DISCOUNT AT EVERETI BROS &CO. HAVELOCK STREET, E. B. and Co. will give 10 per cent. Dis count, or, in other words, will take off TWO SHILLINGS for every Pound’s worth of goods purchased. TERMS—CASH. From this day, October sth, until further notice. EVERETT BROS. & CO. 505 c JpiNVELOPES, NOTEPAPER, EN VELOPES, NOT E P APE R.— The cheapest ever offered in Ashburton, at the Herald Office, Wholesale Stationery Depot, Saunders’Buildings. ’ Money. MONEY TO LEND. Trust moneys—£2,ooo, £4OO, and £250. These sums are now ready for investment on real security, at current rates of interest. F. P. O’REILLY, 899c-2260 Solicitor., Tancred street. Sporting. A SHBURTON RACING CLUB. ANNUAL MEETING. WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, November, 17 and. 18, 1880. FIRST DAY. 1. Handicap Hurdle Race of 50 *sovs. Distance, 2 miles, over 8 flights of about 3ft. 6in. high hurdles. Nomination I sov.; acceptance 2 sovs. 2. District Handicap Hurdle Race of 20 sovs. Distance, i]/z mile, over 6 flights o f about 3ft. 6in. high hurdles. Nomination 1 sov.; acceptance I sov. " District horses only. Ae . .. 3. Ashburton Cup Handicap of 70 sovs., added to a sweepstake of 5 soys, each for acceptors. N omination, 2 sovs. ; ac ceptance, 2 sovs. 2 miles. 4. * Ladies’ Purse, of 25 sovs.; welterweights . for age ; gentleman riders, who must be members of the Ashburton Racing Club. Entrance 2 sovs. 1 % mile. . District horses only. 5. Selling Hack Race, of 10 sovs. . No weight under Bst. Winner to be sold by auction immediately after the race for any surplus to go to the fund. Post, entry, 1 sov. ; about I J4 mile. SECOND DAY. 1. County Steeplechase Handicap of 30 sovs. : over 2 miles of fair hunting country ; nomination 1 sov. ; acceptance 2 sovs. District horses only. : 2. Racing Club Handicap, of 50 sovs. : nomination 2 sovs. ; acceptance 2 sovs. ; Weights to be declared af 9 p.m. on the evening of the first day’s racing : . miles. 3. Farmers’ Plate of 30 sovs. : weight for age ; entrance 2 sovs. ; 1 mile. ■ 4. Consolation Handicap of 20 sovs. : for • all horses beaten at this meeting ; nomina tion 1 sov. ; acceptance 2 sovs.; I mile. 5. Trotting Race (Handicap), of 15 sovs.: (Isthorse, 10 sovs ;. 2nd horse, 5- sovs.) Catch weights ; 3 miles ; nomina tion 10s. ; acceptance 1 sov. District horses only. Rules and Regulations. Qualification fee £2 2s. ; members of the Ashburton Racing Club fiee. No entry will be received for any of the races except on the condition that all dis putes shall be decided by the Stewards, whose decisions in all cases shall be final. A district horse shall mean a horse which has been commonly resident in, and owned by a resident in the County previous to Sept. 1, 1880. and up to the date of the forthcoming meeting; provided always that any district horse shall not be disqualified from having run in his bona fide owner’s name in races outside the County during the above-mentioned term. 1 Canterbury Jockey Club rules strictly adhered to unless otherwise specified. No protest will be entertained unless L2 2s be deposited, which will be forfeited should the protest, in the opinion of the Stewards, prove frivolous. All entries and nominations to be in the hands of the Secretary, addressed to Quill’s Commercial Hotel, not later than nine p.m. on Tuesday, November 2nd. Weights will be published on Saturday, November 13th. Acceptances and Sweeps to be paid to the Secretary not than nine p.m. on the night of Monday, November 15th. All entries to be sealed and addressed to the Secretary, Ashburton, enclosing entrance fees, name and age of horse, and colors of the rider. Any jockey riding in other than hi; declared colors will be fined one sovereign.-’ Horses walking over will receive only half the stakes. 2750 JAMES WJLKTB,- ' A Hon. S««i