BROCKLEBANK’S TENT.

A TALE OF UNFOUNDED ACCUSATION. It was now nearly fifteen years ago since I was attacked by an epidemic disorder which prevailed among tlie young men of tlie United Kingdom. It was commonly styled the gold-fever, and the fit seized me very suddenly. I called one evening in Camden Town—it was a pleasant airy suburb at that time—to see two bachelor friends of mine who shared lodgings together. I found the floor of their sitting-room lumbered with boxes. “What are you doing?” I asked in astonishment. “ We’re off'for the gold-diggings.” “ By .what ship ? ” “ The John Taylor ; next Wednesday week.” I recklessly flung my hat to the other end of the room, gave such a leap that my head nearly bumped against the ceil ing, and cried— “ I will go with you.” “That’s right, old boy,” they responded. “Go and secure your passage the first thing in the morning. She’s filling up quick. ” The London atmosphere was at that time surcharged with auriferous insanity. The grey, sober light of the morning did not induce me to swerve from my resolu tion of the previous night; on the con trary as soon as the governor appeared at the counting-house I boldly walked into his private room, and discharged myself. The governor -was, and, I am thankful to say, is still—for I am once more back in the old shop— a very jolly fellow. “ You going too, Parker? Well, well, I’m sorry for it; but if you young men will insist on seeing the diggings, I sup pose you must. Make out a cheque for your salary, and I’ll sign it. ”

I next rushed off to the firm who were agents for the John Taylor. Dismal news : every berth on board of her was engaged. I had to take my passage by another vessel, and this accident proba bly led to the adventure I have under taken to relate.

I shall not describe the voyage on board the Coldstream, but shall merely say that we reached Hobson’s Bay safely in the month of September. Melbourne was a queer place at that time. . Emigrants were pouring in at the rate of three thou sand a week ; there were eighty thousand people in a town built to hold only twenty-five thousand ; provisions were at famine-prices, and all social distinctions were turned topsy-turvy. The John Tay lor had arrived some time before the Coldstream, and her passengers had been scattered over the length and breadth of the colony. After waiting three days at the miserable little post-office window in Elizabeth street —now supplanted by a palatial edifice—in the midst of an eager struggling crowd of letter seekers, I got a communication from my London friends, saying that'they were gone to Bendigo, and would let me know where they were as soon as they -were settled. I scarcely knew what to do. I had come to Aus tralia solely and entirely for the purpose of going to the diggings, and to the diggings I was determined to go ; but I did not care to go up the road all by my self. The hundred, miles of bush which lay between Melbourne and Bendigo was swarming at that time' with escaped con victs from Yan Diemen’s Land, who were making up for a lengthened period of en forced honesty by plundering and mal treating Her Majesty’s lieges right and left. Terrific rumours of their outrages were circulated. It was of no protection to be poor. The man whose pockets were well-lined was robbed and released ; but the wretch who had nothing wherewith to satisfy the cupidity of his savage assail ants, was beaten to a jelly ; or, being tied naked to a tree in the lonely forest, was exposed to all the horrors of slow starvation. Moreover, the weather was extremely unfavourable for travelling: rain fell in torrents, and the roads were such hopeless quagmires that one hundred and twenty pounds sterling was gladly paid for the conveyance of a single ton of goods to tho Bendigo Creek. I decided therefore, to wait awhile, and took up my abode at a tavern called the Duke of York, which stood in those days at the corner of Stephen and Collins Streets. Tlie Duke of York had no doubt been a comfortable hostelry in the primitive days of the colony, but at the time of my soj«urn there it was crowded to excess. Extra beds had been crammed into all the bed-chambers, and were instantly secured at prices which would be thought exor bitant in an aristocratic West End hotel. Mattresses were laid at night on all the sitting-room tables, and a large shed in the yard, with rough stone walls and an earthen floor, was filled with iron bed steads ; but even this apartment—which we nicknamed the cholera hospital—was fully occupied, and I was fain to pay lralf a-crown a night for the privilege of laying my own blankets on the ground in the confined space between two of the afore said beds. There were some drawbacks to this mode of passing the night. As most of my room-mates indulged in the objectionable practice of smoking in bed, and as I lay on a lower level than they did, I was apt to become the uninten tional target for some of the results of their tobacco-vapor. Again, it was not unusual for some jovial gentleman to enter the cholera hospital at two o’clock in the morning, with a bottle of cham pagne in his hand and a couple more under his arm ; he would wake up every body in turn, and insist that each of the sleepers so awakened should either drink his health or fight him on the spot. I have several times been aroused by the unwelcome apparition of this veritable “ Champagne Charley” On the whole, however, we had very good fun at the Duke of York. As the weather was cold and wet, and as the streets after dark were full of footpads, we mostly amused ourselves by assembling in the parlor under the superintendance of an experienced chairman, and singing songs in the most approved Sons of Har mony fashion. Mr. Mills took the chair, a man whom we greenhorns looked upon with no small awe, for although only a twelvemonth in the colony, he was re ported to have amassed a fortune in the diggings, and was now on the point of returning to England. Moreover, as Mr. Mills was thirty 'years of age, and had a prematurely bald forehead, he assumed quite a'fatherly "air towards a .youngster like me, for I was not yet out of my teens, and my beard was still all “under ground.” [to be continued.]

HARVESTING.

By a Plains Farmer.

[We are ever ready to open our columns to contributions of the kind below. The writer is a practical farmer, who has several times sent us valualle contribu tions, the result of well applied experience, and we have no doubt the useful hints he gives below will be as highly appreciated as those lie gave on former occasions on other subjects. We would far sooner publish the productions of practical men who know their business, and study it iutelligently, than give space to the lucu brations of mere theorists.]

In going around the district, I have noticed what a difference there is between some farmers and others as to the time taken in getting their harvest secured. No doubt there are some possessing more tact and energy who will get as much work done with four men as others will with six, in about the same time. But, as a rule, farmers do not fairly calculate on the number of acres in crop, and what num ber of men, horses, and machines it wall take to harvest it in such time as v 7 ill secure it safely. It always grieves me to see crops lying on the ground for weeks, and never stocked. I have seen some lying six weeks, and some crops are standing now that were ripe three weeks since. Yet such men will complain if the crop gets shaken or sprouted, and think they are unfortunate, whereas more grain is injured through carelessness, and not having sufficient strength to get it seen to in proper time, than is injured fey bad weather. I have always found that the sooner it is stacked after it is suffi ciently dry, the better the sample will be. Wheat left in the stook for a long while although there may not be much rain it will not come out so bright and fresh as what has been stacked a few days after cutting. Then there is the risk of getting rain.

Now that we have the reaper and binder, farmers can easily calculate before harvest what men they will require to keep the work on in all its stages, so as to have but as little crop as possible exposed to the rain, if it should come. Now, as a rule, no farmer having upwards of 300 acres, should trust to one machine. In this res pect many are penny wise and pound foolish, and yet 1 know some farmers hav ing this year from 400 to 000 acres, and cutting it all with one machine. They work it with six horses and two men, changing every four hours, and keeping the machine going from daylight till dark, and by night in the moonshine. And then it has taken them five or six weeks to get the crop cut, and now they have just begun to stack. The weather has been excep tionally fine, or they might have had their grain all spoilt, and whose fault would it have been ? If a farmer has three or four hundred acres of crop he should put two machines to work for a week or ten days then, he might stop one and put men to stack, and all would be secure within a month. But there are some large farmers with their thousands of acres of crop, some of which was ripe a month since, only now cut ting. Such men are not -worthy of the name of farmers. One machine should be calculated for every 250 acres, and men should be put on sufficient to stook it close up after the machine every night, and the stacking keeping on about four days after. If that were attended to strictly, but very little grain would be in jured, even in a wet harvest, compara tively speaking.

And now a word about stacking. Not withstanding all that has been said about the way to build, so as to keep the wet out, I see some still going on in the old way, making the stack quite flat even in the roof; and then they don’t make any proper finish, but I have seen some with the sheaves lying fiat on the top, instead of which the middle should be well filled all the way up, so as to keep the outside ring the lowest. But when commencing to put the roof on it should be filled much higher, and so kept on, every ring or round of sheaves until the last, which should be brought in like a round “ shock,” as we use to call them in Eng land, and then run a band round the top to prevent the wind blowing it off. In Cornwall, we used to put the wheat up in small stacks, or Irish mows, as they were called there. In a good crop we should put about four to the acre, two of these would be a waggon load. They would be built without any filling, and we had to make the size according to the length of straw. It was thought good work to make three of these in one hour, which I have done many a day. In building these you have to keep the sheaf straight up, or nearly so, and bring the top in with small sheaves, which would be kept back for the last, so as to be able to cover it with one large sheaf, turned head downwards, and tied fast. These would keeji out all the rain that might come, which, in Corn wall, is not a little. Men that have been accustomed to build these small mows, will know how to build a large one so as to keep out the wet, be it little or much. It is a great pity when grain is put into the stack in good condition to have it spoiled with the wet afterward.

AMERICAN DAIRY PRODUCE.

Professor Williard, of New York, de livered a lecture in that city, on the 12th of December, before the American Agri cultural Association, on “'The Dairy ; its Profits and Prospects.” Referring to the co-operative system in that State, he said that in 1871 New York liad 1139 of these co-operative factories, at which more than 23,000 farmers were delivering the milk of 308,452 cows. As the factories of New Yorkhave been considerably increased since 1874, it is estimated that at least 30,000 farmers and as many farms are now identified with the dairy interest. The dairy conventions, which for 16 years have had remarkable sway, are an out growth of the co-operative system. These have stimulated inquiry and a desire for improvement. At Little Falls more than 25,000,0001 b. of cheese from the factories annually change hands, and at the Utica Board of Trade much more. For the last 20 years, or up to 1879, dairying of all kinds has been very remunerative. Ameri can dairymen have a foieign market for all their surplus. The annual consumption of cheese in England is estimated at 504,000,0001 b. Tlie British make has been estimated at 312,000,0001 b. and is pow, according to Professor Sheldon, 282,000,0001 b., leaving 222,000,0001 b. as the annual amount required to supply the English demand for consumption. For the year 1878 American cheese exports

amounted to i~34,000,0001b., while the Canadian exports, during the same time, were about 42,000,0001 b. The import of cheese into England from Holland and other countries on tlie Continent was not far from 64,000,0001 b., making a total of 240,000,0001 b., or 18,000,0001 b. more than is ordinarily required in Great Britain for a free consumption. In view of these figures, it became plainly evident a year ago that the surplus cheese of 1878 carried over to the spring of 1879 must sell at low prices, making a loss to holders. It is now estimated that the make of English cheese, owing to the bad season, is one quarter less this year than that of IS7B, showing a decrease of 70,000,0001 b. The American and Canadian crop, it is believed, xvill fall short 50,000,0001 b. from that of 1878. This total decrease of 120,000,0001 b. is good reason for tho recent advance in prices. Whatever may be the disposition of the crop of 1879, it can hardy be ex pected that the cheese crop of 1880, in ordinary circumstances, can be marketed at much above 7c. The turn in the Fall trade lias influenced dairymen to keep full herds, and it will stimulate an exten sion of business in new' districts, especially in Canada, which has become a formidable competitor for the English trade. The cattle and dead meat ocean trade will also exercise some influence on the price of cheese. The best brands of American cooked corned, boneless beef, put up in tins, sold in London at 50s. per lOOlbs.; Australian mutton in tins at sd. per pound ; and American bacon at 445. to 465. per cwt.; while secondary Ameri can cheese is quoted at 525. to 54s per cwt. The maintenance of such high rates upon cheese would drive consumption upon meats. The real prosperity of American dairymen is not to be promoted by high prices. Low prices mean the reduction of the make in England and an outlet for an increased exportation from America. American cheese makers have made some mistakes in the past, in devoting all their energies to one style of product, in look ing forward too exclusively to a foreign market and neglecting home wants. The home market is the best in the world if properly supplied with a variety of goods.

The Devil’s Books. —ln the year ending March 31st last, the duty of 3d. on every pack of cards amounted to L 13,685 ss. 9d., the number being 1,094,823.

THE ASHBURTON HERALD.

j Monday, March 15, ISBO.



j^OTICE— The “Ashburton Herald’, is a Gazette for all notices under the Debtors and Creditors .Art? THE ASHBURTON HERALD. AND Borough and County Advertiser. THE following are AGENTS for the Sale of the “ Ashburton Herald” in Town :■ — H. M. J ones, Stationer, Baring square. E. A. Garnett, Perfumer, Hairdresser, Etc., Montgomery’s Buildings. A. J. Smith. 105 c TO FRUITERERS, CONFECTIONERS, AND OTHERS. FANCY Show Cards, neatly printed 1 “Finest Lemonade and Cordials” —on Sale at the Herald Office. PROMISSORY Note Forms, in Boohs of 25, unstamped, for sale at the Herald Office. Price 2s. Gd. ev ah. nnHE “ Herald ” i 3 published every j evening, thus giving every day’s news. This is better than buying a Six penny weekly. LABOR MARKER REGISTRY OFFICE FOR MASTERS AND SERVANTS, AT THE ‘EVENING HERALD ” OFFICE. Farmers requiring hands can engage men through the “Evening Herald ” Registry for 1/- each, prepaid. LABORERS REQUIRING SITUA TIONS can engage through the “ Herald ” Registry Office by paying 1/-. SERVANTS REQUIRING SITUA TIONS can get them by applying at the “Herald” Registry Office, and paying 1/-. ENGAGEMENTS will be POSTED UP every day at 12 noon and 4 p.m., by numbers given to the applicants, who will learn the address on enquiring. SPECIAL or URGENT WANTS will be inserted in the “ Evening Herald ” in the registry column on payment of Six pence additional in advance, for each issue. Further Particulars on application at the “EVENING HERALD” REGISTRY OFFICE. SAUNDERS’ BUILDINGS, EAST ST., ASHBURTON. Found- HORSE FOUND. FOUND, opposite Wakanui Mill, a HORSE, with saddle and bridle. Owner can have same on application to the undersigned, and paying expenses. H. Moffatt, Wakanui. 14Gc-583g Educational ~|^/|~ ISS GOODGER begs to inform the Ladies of Ashburton that she opens a Private School on MONDAY, March 15, at Mr. Jones’, Stationer, Baring square. Tf.bj.is : English ... ... One Guinea. French ... ... ~ Music ... ... ~ Referees : The Very Revd. Dean of Christchurch, and J. P. Restell, Esq. 124c-569g



Edmiston Bros. & Gundry. SALE by the undersigned— Green Top Yellow Aberdeen Purple „ ~ Devonshire Grey Stone Mammoth Purple Top White Stone Stubble White Clover Red ~ Timothy Alsike Lucerne Gorse Italian Rye Cocksfoot Perennial Trefoil (tc. , &C. , tCC. 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 50 to 100 acres. Price from £2 15s. per acre. EDMISTON BROS. & GUN DRY, 106 c East Street. T. Bullock. THE undersigned has the following PROPERTIES to LET with a pur chasing clause, or FOR SALE on liberal terms of payment— Tj fcjA ACRES good WHEAT LAND, JLrJ\> nil ploughed and ready for cross ploughing for wheat ; situated about three miles from the township. Or? ACRES, near the above ; also good ® WHEAT LAND, ploughed once and ready for cross-ploughing. ACRES, partly improved, near Wins low. This will be sold very cheap, and on very liberal terms. TOWN PROPERTIES. \T ALU ABLE BUSINESS SITE in Bur v nett Street, being T.S. 177, next the “ Mail” office. IOART of T.S. 139, Peter Street. This -®- will bo sold cheap, and on liberal terms. TO Railway Employe's, Mechanics, and Others.—FOß SALE, cheap, Lot 78, situated on East Town Belt. Terms, £5 cash ; balance by monthly or quarterly payments. T. BULLOCK. Conveyances. THE LONGBEACH COACH ! GEORGE WILLCOCKS respectfully acknowledges the liberal support which he has received during the short time his Coach has been running, and soiicits a continuance of the same. The fares by Willcocks’ coach are exactly 3d. per mile ordinary fares, and lid. per mile for Saturday return. They are as under— Longbeach to Ashburton, ordinary 55., return Bs. Waterton to Ashburton, 3s. 6d. ordi nary, 6s. return. Ashton to Ashburton, 3s. ordinary, ss. return. Wheatstone to Ashburton, 2s. 6d. ordinary, 4s. return. SINGLE FARE RETURN ON SATURDAYS. The coach leaves the Booking Office, Quill’s Commercial Hotel, each day at 3.15 ; Post Office, 3.30. 0 g jjl A COOKSON, Wills Street, runs the aU, MAIL COACH from Ashburton Railway Station to Green Street, Alford Forest, and Mount Somers, every Tuesday and Friday, returning Wednesday and Saturday at 3 p. m. t f'B’lHE PENNY made the postal system 1 of England a success. So has it made the Herald. Everybody buys the Hekalp,



Business Notices. TINWALD BOOT AND SHOE SHOP. BOOTS! BOOTS!! mHE Undersigned begs to draw tlie at -1 tention of the public to his well as serted stock of Ladies’, Gents’, and Chil dren’s Boots, which he has just received, and will dispose of CHEAP. Motto— “ Small profits and quick returns.” All kinds of Boots made and repaired on the the shortest possible notice. 382 g C. HAWKINS, Bootmaker. C. PERCY COX, AND AND ESTATE AGENT AND ’ VALUATOR, ASHBURTON. MONEY TO LEND ON APPROVED FREEHOLD SECURITY Agent for Union Insurance COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND. 717



ANSTEE’S DINING ROOMS, TANCEED 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. 985 a PAPERHANGING WAREHOUSE, TANCEED STREET, ASHBURTON. J. R. CHAPMAN P AIN TER, PAPERPI ANG ER, SIGN-WRITER, Ext., Has much pleasure in stating that, owing to the large increase of Business, he is nov Importing from the Manueacturers-- PAPER HANGINGS, WHITE LEAD LINSEED OIL, WINDOW GLASS, BRUSH WAP £, 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. 41a ESTIMATES GIVEN.



REDUCTION IN THE PRICE OF BREAD. TAYLOR has reduced the Price of his best Bread to sd. Cash at shop, and if delivered by cart, skh EDWARD TAYLOR, Saunders’ Buildings, 119 c ASHBURTON. REMOVED TO WAKANUI ROAD, Next to Post Office. JOSEPH WARD, FAMILYBUTCHER, BEGS to inform the Public of Ash burton that he will Open as above on Saturday next, and intends selling for cash at a REDUCTION in PRICES. First-class Beef, 3d. to sd. per lb. First-class Mutton, 2d. to 3d. per lb. Legs, 3-id per lb. JOSEPH WARD, 892a* Butcher. Drawing paper, ail sizes, just opened at WEEKS AND DIXON, East street. Ball programme cards in very neat styles, with Pencils and Ribbons, printed at the Herald Office, East street, near Railway Station. CHINXQUY’S LECTURES.—Just Ar rived, New Edition H. M. Jones, ' Baring Square.



Business Notices. BREAD ! BREAD! Co-operative Bread and Biscuit Factory. Triangle, Walcanui Road, Ashburton. A. THIE LE, I >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, &c. Mixed Biscuits reduced from Is. to Sd. per lb. Wedding Cakes made to Order. 122c-570g 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 FFJ TER. Artesian Wells, Beer Engines, Pumps, Ac. Steam Kettles, Hot Closets, made on the premises. Estimates given for Spouting. All work done under J. H.’s personal Superintendence, and guaranteed. J. HYDE, Moore Street, Ashburton. PUBLIC NOTICE. BOOTS! BOOTS! T. CHAMBERS WHILE THANKING the public of Ashburton and surrour ding dis tricts for past favors, begs to inf< rn them that he has received, and to arrive . at his place of business, East-street, a WELL-ASSORTED STOCK Ol' LADIES’, GENTLEMEN’S, AND CHIL DREN’S BOOTS AND SHOES Of all descriptions.



T. C. also calls special attentk 1 to the Measure Department, and in' ites 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. WORKMAN SHIP UNSURPASSED. A PERFECT FIT GUARANTEED T. CHAMBERS, PROSPECT BUILDINGS, Next to Montgomery’s, East-street. 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-6260



MEDICINE. /CAMBRIDGE’S ASTRINGENT, a certain cure for Diarrhoea in Children or Adults, Is. Gd. and 2s. 6d a Bottle. CAMBRIDGE’S BLACK CUR RANT COUGH ELIXIR, Is. Gd. and 2s Gd. a Bottle. CAMBRIDGE’S ORANGE QUIN INE TONIC WINE, 2s. Gd. and 4s. Gd. a Bottle. CAMBRIDGE’S EXTRACT OF BARK, CURES SORE, TENDER, and CRACKED NIPPLES. CAMBRIDGE’S ESSENCE of RENNET, 3 Drops will turn a pint of milk into delicious sweet curds, Is. and 2s. Gd. a Bottle. J. M. CAMBRIDGE, Chemist, M EDICAL HALL. N.B.—Teeth carefully Extracted. 2s. Gd. JUST ARRIVED—English Papers and Magazines, Young Ladies’ Journal, Bow Bells, London Journal, Ac., Ac. H. M. JONES, Stationer, Baring Square. lABOURERS requiring work can J secure first opening by applying early at Herald Registry Office, on pay ment of Is. IJT ANTED, those in search of employ- Y V ment, to call and enter their names at Herald Registry Office, on pay ment of Is. QjERVANTS requiring situations, call io and get your names entered in the Herald Registry, Is.



Business Notices. VALUE EXTRAORDINARY. THE Great Bargains OF THE SEASON. GREAT CLEARANCE SALE FOR THIRTY DAYS. Y ORE AND GOm 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., werth 9d. Brown Hollands, 7d. to Is. COSTUMES. 56 Costumes at 215., worth 355. 6d., a Baigain. 64 Print Costumes at 7s. 6d. to 12s. 6d., worth 20s. 1700 yards Dress Goods, Alpaccas, at Bd., lOd., and Is. MILLINERY. Trimmed and Untrimmed Hats at half price. 2 Boxes Flowers, sold at 6d. per spray. Ladies’ Underclothing at very much under usual prices. 20 Dozen Stays at 3s. 6d,, 45., 4s. 9d., to ss. 6d. CLOTHING. Men’s Suits at 15s. under usual prices. Boys’ Suits at 15s. 6d. 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. 6d. 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. 6d., a bargain. TAILORING DEARTMENT. WE HAVE MUCH PLEASURE IN ANNOUNCING 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 MAKE 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 ASHBURTCN AND RAKAIA