A Poor Rate for the Colony.

For some time back, if wo read the signs aright, there has been a tendency in some parts of the colony to favor the levying of a poor rate, and a few dajs ago we read an article in the Wellington “ Post,” which not only favored such a rate for the colony, but advocated it—at least, so far as the larger cities are con cerned. There are some men so thoroughly thorough that they must call a spade a spade, and cannot bear even the slightest mincing of matters. While we have a system of charitable aid that is unsatis factory in its working, and a source of heart-burning between the Government and the public bodies, and out of which disputes are continually arising, these thorough men fancy it is just as well to be hanged for a sheep as a lamb, and would rather have a regularly imposed poor rate thau dispense charitable aid from the Government coffers. They hold that charitable aid, as we know it in New Zea land, is only another name for the poor rate, or rather the poor rate raised in a different way, and like the drunken man on the road with a ditch on either side, who chose to go into the ditch at once and flounder along in the mud in preference to enduring the mental torture of keeping up an appearance of sobriety and putting forth his befuddled efforts to avoid the ditches, these very thorough men want to be into the poor rate at once, and ha\e all the ills they now fear brought upon them. We confess to the existence of all they point to. A stone’s throw from our own township we have an institution called by the name of the Old Men’s Home, and there are other similar institutions in various parts of ths country. We may speak sentimentally about these institutions, and gloss over their character as we may, but they only hold the place that other institutions, with other and less pretty names would, were a poor rate the means employed to supjsort them, instead of votes from the general funds of the colony. We confess, too, that the number of un employed who now ask for Government aid, and clamor for work, brings the ques tion of a poor rate very near to us ; but we are not satisfied that the time has y'et come for us to consider the advisableness of a poor rate. The unemployed exist and the Old Men’s Home exists, to be sure, but before we cast off the old system, with all its faults, we would do well to consider what effect the introduction of a poor rate would have. The little flutter has scarcely subsided that was caused by the tour of the Lincolnshire farmers’ delegates, and and we now cast our eyes longingly to the old country, and wish for men of the class of Grant and Foster to come and settle among us. We still keep agitating in the Home land the grandness of the colony as a refuge for the stalwart sons of crowded England, and we cease not to tell the people of Britain that we are a country without poor and without beggars. We boast of the room we have for thousands more of our fellow-countrymen, and point with pride to our fertile soil, the broad acres of it the plough has not yet reached ; and when we invite our brethren to come we are not slow to tell them that in coming here they leave poverty and all its unpleasantness behind them. Notwithstanding that for the time being free immigration has been stopped and the introduction of even pas sage-paying laborers discouraged, it is not intended that the avenues of immigration should be closed for ever, and that in bet tertimes we shouldnot as heartily as we did in the past invite our countrymen at Home to join us the colony. True, the borrowed millions that brought free immigrants here, and found hundreds of them work have been spent, and those works that found them employment, have, to a large extent, ceased. A time of depression came upon us in common with all the world, and the slackness that followed upon the spending of all our borrowed money was heightened by the general dulness. But those very works that found the immigrant work when he first came over, have opened up for settle ment a wide area of country, and that area is constantly extending It may be that we have imported more labor than we are able to employ at [this moment, but the time must come, with the prosperity that is returning to the whole world, when all the now idle hands will be busy, and the cry will be for more. 400,000 no more represents the mouths New Zealand is able to feed than its present population represents the utmost feeding ability of the great continent of America. Are we then to levy a poor rate and confess to the outside world that the halcyon days of our prosperity are gone, and that here the laborer is no better off than at Home 1 Certainly not. Settle ment truly does not progress at so fast a rate as we would wish it, nor do manu factures increase as they ought to do, but there’s a goodtime coming, just asbadtimes have come, in the ebb and flow of life, and when the cloud of depression has been thoroughly lifted, not only from England but from the whole world, then we must get a share of the sunshine of prosperity. New Zealand’s future is not a dark one. “ The poor ye have always with ye,” are the words of one wiser than any statesman that ever lived, but still in a young land, where only a small portion of the virgin soil has been broken, and not half a million people have settled on its ample bosom, it is not yet time to go back to the institution of the great teem ing land where poverty and squalor beg for bread at the doors of untold wealth, and the relieving officer doles out a miser able pittance to keep soul and body to gether till the time shall come when the poor starved body shall be “rattled over the stones, only a pauper whom nobody owns.”

g|A Boston paper somewhat sarcastically says it’s no use vaccinating the New York police —they never catch anything. Cultivation of the Soil. —A corres pondent of the Auckland Weekly News writes as follows “In your article on the cultivation of the soil, you left un-said one of the principal reasons why so few take up fanning as a means of livelihood. I allude to the way children are brought up. Most parents in towns endeavor to obtain a Government billet for their sons, and they are brought up so artificially and effeminately that they have not the pluck to do hard work Until boys in towns are educated for an agricultural life there will always be a large proportion of the town population wasting their lives. Though the writer exaggerates the evil very greatly, there is a proportion cf truth in his remarks. A

THE STORY-TELLER.

AN UNPLEASANT ADVENTURE.

( Continued. )

Deeper and deeper I sank at intervals during these two days and the intervening night, listening meanwhile to the trickling of the little stream formed of melted snow which ran down the centre of the gully, and which appeared not far from me. I was completely buried in the snow, owing to the continued drifting by the wind, and only the small passage which the warmth of my breath kept free remained to main tain my communication with the upper world or with the vital air. I tried to be as patient as I could, alternately resigning myself to my fate, and then again trying to hope for some chance of release. Towards the close of the second day— for I could distinguish the light from the darkness by means of the aperture —I ex perienced a sensation, after one of those short sudden descents that I have men tioned, caused by the melting snow giving way under me, as if something sharp were pressing into my right shoulder, which was undermost. Wriggling a little, so as to relieve myself from it, I made it worse, and then became aware that it was a sharp piece of rock on which I was leaning. I had sunk to the ground, or nearly so, ap parently not far from the centre of the gully. A gleam of hope shot across my mind. Might I not manage to cut the hay-rope which bound my hands by meaus of friction against this same sharp rock ? Working and pushing, wriggling and turn ing, with great difficulty I got myself for ward through the snow till I brought my wrists against the piece of rock instead of my shoulder, and then slowly and labori ously commenced rubbing the hay-rope against the sharp edge. It was weary work, behind my back, and under a weight of snow. The hay was very tena cious, and friction had not so much effect on it as it would have had on a hempen cord ; but by degrees I managed to insert little sharp points of the rock between one or two of the straws and the rest of the rope, when the former were of course broken without any difficulty. It was necessary, moreover, to cut the cord in two places, so effectively was it tied round my arms, but at last my toilsome work was accomplished, and I found myself free.

To work my knees up through the snow and release my feet was an easy task com pared with that of setting my hands at liberty, and now, at length, I began to have some definite hopes of surviving my entombmen t. Luckily the ruffians had left me my pocket-flask and sandwiches, and to satisfy the excessive cravings of hunger was my first step. How intense these had become, I think no one can know who has not been in a similar situation, and the knowledge that I had food about me cer tainly did not tend to diminish my ener gies. Having demolished my sandwiches with great relish, and also made a liberal demand upon my flask, I set to work in earnest, scooping away the snow above me with my hands, and working it behind me like a terrier dog in a hole, or a mole burrowing his underground passage. But it would not do : my weight pressed down the snow behind tighter than that which was above me, so that I had soon a cham ber as high as I could reach, and further progress upwards was, of course, impos sible. It then occurred to me that if I could run a level in the downhill direction I must soon come out in the light of day, and on this track I accordingly set to work, for although the exercise kept me warm, the fatigue was very great, and my hands were torn and lacerated with the sharp pieces of stone and fragments of thorn which were embedded in the snow. The first object I encountered was the corpse of the poor young fellow who had been so brutally murdered, and whose fate I had so nearly shared. Shuddering with hor ror, I endeavored to avoid it in my course; but when I got past it I determined to try and bring it out along with me, and after some hours of patient work I succeeded, to my great joy, in boring my way out to the upper world again just as the first beams of illuminating the eastern sky across the mountain range. I brought the corpse along with me, but of course no further than out of the snow-drift. I have little more to tell. I made my way in safety to a lower and more hospit able region, and on to the next village, where, seeking out the constabulary ser geant, I told him my story, enquiring whether he knew who the individuals were who were addressed as Mick and Barney. “ Lrather think I can guess, sir,” he replied. ‘ ‘ Mick must be a fellow of the name of Flanagan, the biggest ruffian on the country side ; and Barney, I have no doubt, is Bernard Ryan, who is well known to be his right-hand man. I shall see after them.” So I have no doubt he did to the best of his ability, but without effect, for I heard from him subsequently that they had both without question left the country, accompanied no doubt by the rest of the party, early on the morning after the mur der of the young man and their endeavor to bury me along with him in his snowy grave. At the inquest on poor Tom war rants were issued for their apprehension, but they were doubtless already on safe ground in some unknown region. For weeks after my adventure I was haunted by the rememberance of the dangers I had experienced, and would wake in the night with the old falling sensation like that in the snow-drift. My present task recalls it all now, and I have given up walking tours till Ireland shall be in a more settled condition. CONCLUDED.

Current Coin.— The defaced and mu tilated silver coin now circulating in Dun edin (we learn from the “ Otago Daily Times”) is becoming an intolerable nuisance. Whenever a messenger is sent out for a small article the chances are that he brings back, among the change, either a shilling with a hole in it, a half-franc piece, or, worst of all, a half-crown in "which there is a great patch of lead. From inquiries made, it appears that such coins reach Victoria in large numbers, but are declined by all tradesmen. The unfortu nate holders take them to pawnbrokers and others, and receive half of their nomi nal value. They are then sold in parcels to seafaring men bound to New Zealand, who quietly palm them off on the citizens of this innocent village. A gentleman who went down to the post-office a few days ago in a great hurry with a five-shil ling piece was told that he could not have any stamps until he brought good money. He lost the mail, and has no remedy.

Is the Thistle a Nuisance?

One of the many things connected with farm management which attracted the attention of the Lincolnshire Delegates, in their tour of inspection throughout New Zealand (says the “ New Zealand Country Journal”), was the undisturbed possession of the soil in many places permitted to the thistle—a weed against which an in cessant crusade is maintained in England. Their astonishment was not lessened, on inquiring the cause, by being informed by some that, so far from , being a nuisance, the thistle had come to be regarded as one of the surest and best means of preparing the soil for the luxuriant growth of grasses and corn. On the other hand, farmers are found who will tell you that the thistle is a terrible nuisance, robbing the soil of its nourishment, smothering grasses and clover alike, and completely usurping the ground for the time being. Those who advocate the thistle say that the roots penetrate to a great depth into the subsoil, and bring up large quantities of potash, etc., which is deposited on the surface, in their decaying stems and leaves, and that the vacancy left by the decaying roots opens the way to a great depth for water and air, the mechanical action of which i 3 to pulverise and render the subsoil more accessible to the roots of other plants ;no doubt this is true. The question naturally suggests itself, what is the coat of this natural mode of tillage? The thistle usually possesses the soil for at least three years, consequently the ground must remain unremunerative for that time ; if the thistle only invaded un reclaimed or exhausted soils much might be said in its favour, but unfortunately such is not always the case —on the con trary, it is partial to rich soils of all de scriptions. We fancy that the secret of the impunity with which the thistle has been allowed to spread in this colony, arises more from a want of ability to cope with % the constantly recurring crops of this persistent plant, caused by the want of cheaper labour. That the soil is much improved by thistles is admitted by many who have had to cope with them, and that toleration is cheaper than extermination is also true ; so that for the present the thistle must remain master of the posi tion. There is just one comforting re flection, and that is, it leaves something behind it, according to its adcocates, as shown above, whereby the farmers may reap some after benefit.

Fresh Strains in Poultry.

The “Poultry World” (American) gives the following advice as to the introduction of fresh strains in poultry breeding : 1 ‘ The individual breeder of fowls will sus pect that he needs fresh blood for his stock when the annual number of eggs diminishes, when a loss of size is notice able, and when the flock begins to show signs of debility. But the frequency and method of introducing fresh blood is a matter that can only be decided according to the ob ject sought after. If size and utility are desired, with no regard to permanent type, crossing every year with distinct fresh blood will give progeny, as a rule, superior to either parent stock ; but these hybrids cannot be depended upon to produce others with the same merits. On the other hand, if it is desired to establish a strain of thoroughbreds which may be relied on to breed true, then the most judicious influx of fresh blood every second year is necessary. But here, while near relationship should be carefully, avoided, itis equallyiinportantto use birds of not too remote connection with the dominant strain, in order to preserve the prepon derence of the breed sought after. Scien tific breeders usually prefer hens for this purpose, as it has been ascertained that the male bird has the most influence upon the color of the progeny and what may be called the “ fancy points,” while the form, size, and useful qualities are principally derived from the hen. Hence, if the ob ject is to preserve a specific type, there is less risk in using a hen, as the progeny, if not satisfactory, may be killed ; while if the cross be with a male from new blood, and the young prove undesirable, the whole season’s w r ork is lost. When a strain has been fully established, it is a good plan to put a promising cockerel in an adjoining yard, and bring him back in a year or two, when the relationship will be remote enough to infuse without de ranging the type.

THE ASHBURTON HERALD.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 13. OPENING NEW STORE, East Street, Near Bullock, & Co’s. JAMES CLARK Begß to inform the Public of Ashbur ton and Surrounding Districts that he is commencing business as GENERAL STOREKEEPER, FRUIT ERER, BAKER, Ac., And trusts by supplying good quality articles at moderate prices, to share public support. Note the Address— JAMES CLARK, PROSPECT BUILDINGS, East Street, Near Bullock & Co’s., Ashburton. . 163 c 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 solicits 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— Longbeacli to Ashburton, ordinary os., return Bs. Waterton to Ashburton, 3s. 6d. ordi nary, Gs. return. Ashton to Ashburton, 3s. ordinary, ss. return. Wheatstone to Ashburton, 2s. Cd. 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. 292 g ECOOKSON, Wills Street, runs the . 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.



Edmiston Bros. & Gundry. TURNIP SEEDS. SALE by the undersigned— Green Top Yellow Aberdeen Purple ~ ~ Devonshire Grey Stone Mammoth Purple Top White Stone Stubble Grass and Clover Seeds. White Clover Red ~ Timothy Alsike Lucerne Gorse Italian Rye Cocksfoot Perennial Trefoil Ac., Ac., A«. 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, Ac., Ac. 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. & GUNDRY, 106 c East Street. Bussines Notices. M. NEALAS, BOOT AND SHOEMAKER, AND IMPORTER, IS CLEARING OUT the whole of his Present Stock at REDUCED PRICES, next to Taylor’s Bakery, where he has opened with a Large Stock of Boots of every description. Note the address— M. NEALAS, EAST STREET. ASHBURTON. 219 C NEWS AND MAGAZINE .AGENCY. STATIONERY AND FANCY GOODS DEPOT. RE-OPENING. HM. JONES begs to inform his , customers and the public generally that he has re-opened part of the premises lately occupied by A. Weston and K. Sando and Co. for the sale of Newspapers, Magazinse, Stationery, Fancy goods, Toys, &c. English and Colonial papers, Periodicals, Ac., by each mail. Licensed to sell Stamps. Lowest prices—Terms cash. Agent for “ Ashburton Guardian,” “AshburtonHerald,“Ashburton Mail,” “Lyttelton Times,” “Canterbury Times,” Daily “Press,” “Weekly Press,” “Otago Witness,” “Australasian,” “ Town *and County Journal.” Subscribers to “ Canterbury Times” and “ Weekly Press” can obtain their copies at the above Establishment. *l2lc NEW TAILORING ESTABLISH MENT. CRAIGHEAD A Co., MERCHANT TAILORS, HAVE opened those premises situated in Tancred street adjoining Messrs. Orr and Co’s General Store. A SPLENDID ASSORTMENT OF TWEEDS, FANCY GOODS, &c., &c., JUST ARRIVED. Mr. Craighead's experience as Head Cutter in connection with First Class Tailoring Establishments in Edinburgh and San Francisco has extended over a period of ten years, and from the immense success which has always attended his efforts to please, he is prepared to guarantee a perfect fit in every case. TANCRBD street, (Next Orr and Cl’s. CRAIGHEAD & CO. 982 a



Auctioneers. MR. JOHN LLOYD CRAWLEY. Auctioneer, Stock, Land, and Commission Agent. Farms, Town and Suburban Sections, for Sale and to Let. J. LLOYD CRAWLEY, AUCTIONEER, Offices, Saunders Buildings, Ashburton. 737 a Business Notices. BREAD!BREAD! Co-operative Bread and Biscuit Factory. Triangle, Wakanui Road, Ashburton. A. THIELE, BEGS to -inform the public that he is now in a position to SUPPLY BEST BREAD, 6d. per 41b. loaf, unsur passed. Delivered daily to all parts of the Borough, also, Confectionery, &e. Mixed Biscuits reduced from Is. to Bd. per lb. Wedding Cakes made to Order. 986a-5700 TO FARMERS, LIYERY 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 Bhod on a prin ciple of Gborgb 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, 75c-526a Moore street, Ashburton. PUBLIC NOTICE. BOOTS! BOOTS! T. CHAMBERS WHILE THANKING the public of Ashburtan and surrourding dis tricts for past favors, begs to inf« in 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 l to the Measure Department, and incites the gentlemen of Ashburton to inspect the superior class of Sewn Boots and Shoes h© 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. 6d. and 2s. 6d a Bottle. CAMBRIDGE’S BLACK CUR RANT COUCH ELIXIR, Is. 6d. and 2s 6d. a Bottle. CAMBRIDGE’S ORANGE QUIN INE TONIC WINE, 2s. 6d. and 4s. 6d. 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. 6d. a Bottle. J. M. CAMBRIDGE, Chemist, MEDICAL HALL. N.B.—Teeth carefully Extracted. 2s. 6d. REDUCTION IN THE PRICE OF BREAD. EDWARD TAYLOR has reduced the Price of his best Bread to sd. Cash at shop, and if delivered by cart, sid. EDWARD TAYLOR, Saunders’ Buildings, 119 c ASHBURTON. Educational. GOODGER begs to inform the Ladies of Ashburton that she opens a Private School on MONDAY, March 15, at Mr. Jones’, Stationer, Baring square. Terms : English ... ... One Guinea. French ... ... ~ Music ~ Referees : The Yery Revd. Dean of Christchurch, and J. P. Restell, Esq. 124c-569«



; Business Notices. TENWALD BOOT AND SHOE SHOP. BOOTS! BOOTS!! mHE Undersigned begs to draw the at -1 tention of the public to his well as sorted 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* C. HAWKINS, Bootmaker. M. McCALLUM, 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. 221 e 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 bo 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, TANCRED STREET, Ashburton. J. R. CHAPMAN PAINTER, PAPERHANGEP SIGN-WRITER, Etc., Has much pleasure in stating that, owinr to the large increase of Business, he is now Imtortinu from the Manufacturers— PAPERHANGINGS, WHITE LEAD LINSEED OIL, WINDOW GLASS, BRUSHWAPf, And all the necessaries of the Trade, and is therefore in a position to compet® 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. 25] c T. Bullock. THE undersigned has the following PROPERTIES to LET with a pur chasing clause, or FOR SALE on liberal terms of payment— -| Kf\ ACRES good WHEAT LAND, JLeJI/ a u ploughed and ready for cross ploughing for wheat; situated about three miles from the township. 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. VALUABLE BUSINESS SITE in Bur nett Street, being T. S. 177, next the “ Mail” office. PART of T.S. 139, Peter Street. This will be sold cheap, and on liberal terms. TO Railway Employes, Mechanics, and Others. —FOR SALE, cheap, Lot 78, situated on East Town Belt. Terms, £5 cash ; balance by monthly or quarterly payments. T. BULLOCK. 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. 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 yoars, and to intimate that he has opened NEW BUSINESS PRE MISES in Moore street (next Mr. Neate’e 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 PI! 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, Moork Street Ashburton.



; business VALUE EXTRAORDINARY. THE Great Bargains OF THE SEASON. GREAT CLEARANCE SALE FOR THIRTY DAYS. ORR AND CO. HAVING resolved to glear 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 neir'Stock,. U 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 6d., worth 9d. Brown Hollands, 7d. to Is. COSTUMES. 56 Costumes at 215., worth 3os. 6d., a Bargain. . 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. 6d. i 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. TAILOBING 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 H 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 ASHBURTON AND RAKAIA