to pay, if lie does much grain growing, and requires.three men (besides himself), and 3even horses to crop 259 acre 3. I cannot agree with him in his estimate of horse power required. I have carefully reckoned the time it will take four horses to do all the work required in ploughing, sowing, harrowing, rolling, and harvest ing, and make it 225 actual working days. Neither can I agree with him in his estimate for horse-feed. 1 admit being a little under the mark, but I think .he has erred much further on the other side, ac cording to English authorities if we allow feed only for the actual work n, f d .yand allow oats at Is. 6d per bushel (my price was Is.) the cost of corn for four horses would be L 25 12s.

I do not say the§ quantity of oats per horse allowed by him is too much ; but if he reckons his oats and his acres he will find that it will cost him nearly three shillings per acre for oats, not allowing anything for chaff, &c., which should be fully one-third more. This will make is four shillings per acre. A.dd to this the wages and keep of two ploughmen, which comes to 3s. 10|>d. per acre ; total, 7s. 10id. per acre for horse feed and wages. Add to this cost of ploughshares, _ wear and tear, risk on horses, and depreciation in value, and then ask “ Yorkshirobite whether it will not pay him better to let his skim ploughing by contract at 4s. 6d. per acre. I admit having made a mistake in reckoning my quantities of grass and clover seeds required for sowing down 200 acres. 'My reply to “ Yorkshirebite’s” query re gorse fences is, if he can’t trim them him self, let him pay for them out of annual returns. The error in number of bushels, over which he waxed poetic, was the printer s, and not mine. In conclusion, I would like to ask “ Yorkshirebite” a few questions on the management of bis real (not “imaginary”) farm : Where will you get your water from 1 Won’t you have to s:nh the largest part of L2OO in a well and wind mill pump ? Will it not be cheaper and better to buy or rent rams than fence a paddock for them, and have the trouble and risk of keeping them 1 Will you need a paddock for the calf of one cow 1 Won’t it be more profitable on the plains to keep working horses than breeding mares 1 Are two wireß “a good and sufficient fence enough to keep in crossbred sheep? If you break up your 1,000 acres all at once, where will you keep your thousand sheep while the grass grows? “Yorkshirebite, ’ you have made a mistake. Your scheme is for an unreclaimed piece of native soil —mine, for a farm in working order. I am, &c.,

W. J. Silcock.

Sketches From the Gallery.

(From our own Correspondent.) Wellington, August 5,

There are no new members this year to write about, and old ones are never so .interesting. But changes are inseparable from our mortal state, and the old ones of this session are not adopting exactly the same course that they pursued last session, so that there is quite room to say some thing new about your local celebrities now exhibiting their powers amongst the people’s representatives. Of course the first Canterbury member we must notice is “ our Johnny,’' who is

really a great curiosity in hi 3 way, chiefly because no amount of public office or public pay will teach him the ££ Govern ment stroke.” At ten a.m. he is in Ins

office, beset with enquiries and en quirers of every kind, and directing answers to heaps of letters. At eleven he makes his appearance at the Public Ac counts Committee, and can give that Com mittee a full and clear explanation upon the most minute details that would only

be expected from a clerk who had nothing else to divert his attention. At 12.30 he goes to a Cabinet meeting, and there nothing can pass in any department until he has entirely mastered the subject and assented to or amended the proposals of each Minister with as much courtesy as Fox, and yet with more searching in spection than Stafford. At 2.30 he is in his seat at the House, where no one can ask him a question that he does not know all about. At one the next morning he may be heard pleading with the House to sit just one more hour, or to pass one more Bill, or to get through one more class in the Estimates. When he can keep a House no longer he goes to bed, taking a few new Bills with him by way of light reading, just to see that they are all right and consistent with everything else that has been prepared by his. Government. All this seems to be nothing more than the natural course of life to him. Like a thin-skinned thoroughbred horse, he can stand any amount of work, but he can’t stand the rough curb or the thoughtless whip and spur. When Soddon proposes to ‘‘amend the phrase7iology of this’ere Bill,” or Macandrew advises him to practice economy, or the Knight of Kawau informs him that the Prime Minister of the Colony should not make statements calculated to mislead the House or the colony, it is just a little too much for his nervous temperament, and he is apt to boil over. The sight of his face at present is 'not reassuring to those who know how much he knows about our financial condition —there is no expression of hope upon it—his eyes show that they don’t get sleep enough—the quick start with which he turns to every sound in the House betrays the excessive tension of his too long strung nerves, and everything about him shows that he wants turning out to grass for a month. Mr. Rolleston’s face looks brighter and happier than ever. He has a wonderful .power of being quite awake when he is wanted, and going sound asleep when he is being abused. He does his own work and laughs good-temperedly at Hall for wanting to do it for him, or for supervis ing what he has done. He does not . speak much from the Government benches, but says that he his trying to get a repu tation for wisdom. He is never weak nor washy, hut is rarely fluent —he seems in a hurry, and that hurry makes him slow in his utterances.

At their right hand sits the hon. member for Kaiapoi, ready to pop up and have a go at anyone who attacks his friends. He can speak with his face as well as with his tongue, and the looks he bestows on Seddon and Shrimski are as little flattering as the speeches he flings at Stewart and Sir George Grey. He has a peculiar way of pronouncing “ the great Liberal party,” which no one else could imitate. He is- himself a strange combina

t ion of Liberal and Conservative a Liberal by nature, a Conservative by education drawn to Liberalism by natural benevo lence and the highest sense of justice, repulsed from it by the preposterous pre tentions of those who claim the name but k now nothing of the practice. He is not good at retrenchment, ho can never find the rhdit person to operate on, and is on y second to Gisborn'in promptness to de fend any Civil servant. I mean, ot course, second in zeal, not in ability or judgment in both of which he stands head and shoulders above that eccentric champion of the wildest communism of property, and the most ultra-conservatism of the sacred rights of all who have once tasted the sweets of any Government office. (to be continued.)

THE STORY-TELLER.

THE DISRUPTION: A TALE OF TRYING TIMES.

CHAPTER Vll— continued. About a week after the despatch of this letter, Robin received the following re ply : ££ Whinnyside 03th May 81402 “ deer Robin,—i hav Dun al i coulde to gett seaing miss Migummerie but i Hav nott bean abble she is Never to be seen now cep at the curch and then her father is always with her soe tliat_ no body Can get spoeking to Her by herselff their servant is a skinnie old crab j ust the Kind off wife you should gett robbiu and she will neither speck About the young leddy Nor let anie wan see her but i Will not be bait yet for i have a plan that i am going to tri which i think will doo i can not tell you about it in rite for it iz nott eezy for me to rite with penns i need to mend with the gully nyfte and i have a grate dail to say You May tell mr jimes that if he Has lost his lass his antie has gotten A lad wha doo ye think is to be Mr Duneansons unkle —just Mr mak wurkie now Dont lach robbin for its true that the mistress is Kesling aboot it like a klokin hen if ye saw hoo she dresses herselff it would make you split And wee Mr mak wurkie is just a pawtron of a ooorter if ye could coort like him ye might cum on yet for al your faults Your kist was sent Away with the harrier a week agoe i mended all your things but the breeks but I was not going for to be affronted With them the taylior gott them to mend and when he brot them bale i took them from him With the tangs to learn you for your impidence and mind robbin this is no fun iam very angry at you for what you rote about the Cradel if i was near your chafts with a dish clout i would maybe Mak them as red as ye made mine With your nonsense if you cannot rite dissent letters you must not rite to me againe when i Manage to see miss Migummerie you may xpec another letter from yours . £! Jean Brown ”

The contents of this grotesque epistle greatly surprised Mr. Duncanson and his fellow-lodger. The former, after a little consideration, concluded that the report regarding his aunt and Mr. M’Quirkie must bo groundless, or founded on circum stances which, if rightly understood, would bear a very different construction. He thought it probable enough that his old acquaintance might be inclined to follow up the advantage which he conceived himself to have gained at Sir John Bald win’s table, and, with this view, might have been making new visits to the neigh bourhood, and among other places to Whinnyside, in the hope of obtaining fur ther notice from the Baronet; but that he could be courting Mrs. Rensliaw, except for her influence and hospitality, he could not believe. Moreover, he thought it probable that the whole story was a fiction created by the fancy of the fun-loving Jean Brown.

Not so, however, thought Robin Afleck. “ I’ll wager my head against a cabbage stock,” said he. “there’s nae fun in the story. Man, it’s bee-like. Your auntie is no past the time o’ day yet for jumping at a man if she just has the offer. There’s nae fule3 like auld fules, and talc’ ye my word for’t, minister J?'mes, neither your lass nor mine cares half as muckle aboot mautrimony as your auntie. And, then, yon pawky, greedy-looking wee chiel, Makwurkie—fegs, he’s just ane o’ the kind that wad seek sic a weal-gathered auld hen; ’specially noo, when he kens that ye’re out o’ favour, and that a’ she has in the hugger may be his ain,, if he just tak’ her alang wi’t. It’s my opinion, Maister Jimes, ye may coont on havin’ Mr. Makwurkie for an uncle just as sure as Mrs. Renshaw’s your auntie.”

Mr. Duncanson did not incline to dis pute the point; for his mind was far more deeply engrossed with anxiety regarding Miss Montgomery. It appeared plainly from Jean Brown’s letter that she was subjected to close surveillance ; and it was too probable she was the victim of severe domestic tyranny. At all events her situation was one of such restraint as might crush her gentle spirit and blight her happiness. These reflections made him very miserable ; for he now had little doubt of the steadfastness of her attach ment to him, or of the fact that she was suffering deeply on that account. With feelings much depressed, and half remorse ful, he proceeded to the house of his friend, the Rev. Mr. Aspen, where he had been invited to dine.

It was the day immediately after the breaking up of the Assembly —that memorable Assembly of which patronage was voted a nuisance, and the claim of the Church to Spiritual Independance was asserted by a large majority. The com pany at dinner consisted only of the minister’s own family, and the two clergy men whom Mr. Duncanson met on the Calton Hill with Mr. Aspen, as formerly described. These gentlemen were now more serious looking and excited than before. Previous to entering the dining room, they had some animated conversa tion in an adjoining apartment, from •vs hich it was evident they all felt deeply sensible that a momentous crisis in their interests, corporate and personal, had arrived. The lady of the house, a staid looking, thoughtful woman, seemingly about middle life, received them al 1 graciously on arrival, but took little share in the conversation which ensiled. She was, however vigilantly attentive to all that was said. An appearance of mystery hung about the reverend host himself. He spoke with an air of abstraction, and like a man charged with some important purpose, which he felt at a loss how either to conceal or disclose.

When the company had entered the dining-room and taken their places at table, Mr. Duncanson was called on to ask a blessing, which he did with due solemnity. No sooner had he opened his eyes than he saw that something strange was about to take place. Mrs. Aspen, at the same moment fixed a scrutinizing look, not unmixed with fear, on the coun tenance of her husband, who was begin ning to take a survey of the viands pro vided fo? the repast. The removal of the dish-covers disclosed to him tho astound ing fact that a sheep’s-head and trotters at one end of the table, and a tureen of tripe at the other, with an ashlet of mashed potatoes between, composed the entire display. “ What kind of a dinner is this ? ” ex claimed Mr. Aspen, with a voice and look of astonishment.

“An experimental dinner, my dear,” answered his wife, with a smile in her eyes and a quiver on her lips. “ A what, Rachel 1 ” rejoined Mr. Aspen ; ££ you don’t mean to say that this is the whole dinner 1 ”

££ It is,” replied Mrs. Aspen, ££ the first and only course I have provided for din ner to-day. We have the prospect of be ing put to our shifts very soon, you know, and I thought it might be worth while to make a trial of such humble fare just now, to see how we could relish it. I told you, my dear, it was just an experi mental dinner.

Mr. Aspen looked not daggers but re proaches at his lady as she spoke, hut he was restrained by prudential considera tions from giving expression in words to the vehemence of his feelings. He merely said, in a sulky manner, as ho stuck his knifo and fork into the sheep’s head, ££ I think, my dear, you might have reserved the experiment for another day and had something comfortable, when you knew our friends here were to be with us.”

The guests "felt uneasy, and tried to laugh off their embarrassment, but it would not do. They commenced to eat with the best grace they could, but seemed not to relish the homely feast. Mr. Aspen was less successful in carving the sheep’s head than he expected, for, after digging and hacking at it for a while he found it to consist of little else than bones, and his ill-humor increased with his disappointment. At length, flinging the knife and fork from him pettishly, he darted a look of anger at his lady, such as she had never seen him assume before, and said, ££ Positively, Rachael, this is too bad for a joke. I hope you will not try such experiments again, at least when we have company. You need not bo so very much afraid of being put to shifts. Keep your mind easy about my stipend. It is not thrown to the winds yet and perhaps may not be in a hurry. At any rate, you ought to be content with the opportunities you have of giving your opinion, in the curtain lectures you bestow on me, without demonstrating in such a style as this. I think I have reason to be much displeased indeed.”

Saying this, Mr. Aspen got up from the table and strutted through the room in a towering passion, leaving his guests to make the best they could of the tripe and trotters, which they unanimously declared to be very good ; but there was more civil ity than heartiness in the commenda tion. (To be continued—commenced on July 26.)

THE ASHBURTON HERALD. MONDAY, AUGUST 9, j8&o.



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



Business Notices. AGENTS FOR THE SALE OF NEW BILLS, ACTS, h\ms, AND OTHER GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS. THE following NEW BILLS intro duced into Parliament can be ob tained at the Ashburton Guardian office : No. 21 Adulteration Prevention ~ 20 Aliens „ 22 Animals Protection „ 30 Bank and Bankers ~ 31 Bills of Exchange Procedure ~ 15 Brands and Branding ~ 23 Building Societies ~ 33 Chattels Securities , 35 Corrupt Practices Prevention ~ 24 Cruelty to Animals „ 25 Deaths by Accidents Compensa tion ~ 19 Dog Registration ~ 14 Fencing ~ 4 Fisheries ~ 38 Hospitals and Charitable Insti tutions ~ 13 Impounding ~ 20 Juries ~ 17 Licensing ~ 27 Marriage !} 28 Married Women’s Property Pro tection ~ 32 Mercantile Law 11 Native Land Court ” 12 Native Land Sales ” 34 Regulation of Elections ” 45 Pharmacy , 42 Municipal Corporations Acts Amendment Also, Financial Statement, with Tables Estimates for 1880-81, in detail Roport of the Civil Service Commission. CROWN LANDS GUIDE, No. 11., With Map of the North Island. WEEKS AND DIXON, Authorised Agents.



Business Notices. » A THING OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOB EVEB.” THE advertiser wishes to remind the re sidents of Ashburton Town and County that his Studio is open every day for tiie taking of Photographs, and that his apparatus for this purpose is very complete. Carte-de-viste, and cabinet size portraits, views of buildings, landscapes, etc., can be taken in all weathers, and an inspection of his show cases and studio walls is invited. The advertiser is prepared to guarantee a satis factory portrait of the sitter, inasmuch as he has supplied himself with all the latest improvements in the Photographic art. He makes a specialty of COPYING Pictures also, and parties having a por trait of a friend can have it multiplied to any extent. Having secured the services of an artistic colorist, patrons' tastes can be satisfied on this point. Prices are reduced to a minimum, and are now within the reach of all. G. F. Henry, PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTIST, SAUNDERS’ BUILDINGS, ASH BURTON. 73g-702c LATEST STYLES FROM LONDON & PARIS. > d Craighead & Co,, Merchant Tailors, TANORED STREET, (Next Orr & Co.) PERFECT FIT GUARANTEED. 982a-445a NEW PROPRIETOR. CENTRAL TEMPERANCE HOTEL, Havelock Street. THE undersigned having taken the above Hotel, hopes by strict atten tion to business to merit a fair share of Public patronage. Board and Lodging, Ll per week; Meals and Beds, Is. GEORGE WATTS. Proprietor. 6440 Ashburton Bakery, EAST STREET, ASHBURTON. rjp hom a s rjn ayl or , BAKER, PASTRYCOOK, AND CON FECTIONER. all articles guaranteed to be of the BEST QUALITY. Soiree, Picnic, and Wedding Parties supplied on the shortest notice. HOT TEA, COFFEE & PIES From 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Saturdays, 9 a.m. till 11 p.m. THOMAS TAYLOR, Ashburton Bakery. 492 c



CHAFF ! CHAFF ! ! CHAFF ! ! ! FIRST CLASS CHAFF can now be obtained at Oil. per bag, by applying to B. C. SMITH, Carrier, 706 c Moore street. PUBLIC NOTICE. IF you want a first-class SEWING MACHINE, hand or treadle, either for Cash or Deferred Payment, go at once to T. R. HOODER AND COMPANY, STOREKEEPERS, &c., Sole agents for Ashburton for the world famed “ Wanzers, ” for “Singer’s” superior simple working machines, and “ Wertheim’s ” celebrated. A Large Supply just Received. t. Orders Promptly Attended to. G36c-15«



ANNUAL Clearing Sale!!! OP - WINTER GOODS. W.ILLI AM GAVIN, EAST STREET, ASHBURION. CHEAP SALE Winter Drapery, AT GREALY REDUCED RATES, TO SUIT THE TIMES. BARGAINS!!! 721 c



Business Notices. W. WHITE, CONFECTIONER AND BAKER, SAUNDERS’ BUILDINGS, ASHBURTON, BEGS to announce that he ha 3 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, 6d. Cash, W. WHITE, SAUNDERS’ BUILDINGS. 928g-550c DON’T PASS THIS BY !! QITOP 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. ( YARDS READY ) TO £ CUT. ) JUST ARRIVED—The best Stock of Winter Cloths to be got for money SUPERIOR in quality to anything ever yet shown in Ashburton. TO SAMPLES TO SELECT FROM TO 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., Ac., THIS IS THE MAN FOR ym MY MONEY. go taj , A ' / Between Post Office and Baldwin’s Central Hotel. c ALL and inspect this Splendid Assort ment before you order. fOTTO: Small Profits and Quick L Returns. Terms—Cash. Qi TYLE and Finish second to none. jgCONOMY £1 Is. Cash for a Pair of Trousers £3 15s. Cash for a Tweed Suit. 780g-390c EVERETT BROS. AND CO., CHEAP DRAPERS, HAVELOCK STREET, ASHBURTON. E. B. and Co. are now showing their T INTER R A P E R Y, Comprising EVERY NOVELTY IN EACH DEPARTM ENT. NEW GOODS ARRIVING MONTHLY. 505 c NEW INDUSTRY. ASPHALTING. JAMES BRADLEY is prepared to take orders for ASPHALTING at very moderate rates. All orders to be left at the Works, Park srreet. All work kept in repair for twelve months. 095 c TINWALD. tytANTED KNOWN—C. HAWKINS VV an( j CO., have opened a Large and Varied Stock of Boots and Shoes, and having engaged a PROPER BOOT and SHOE MAKER, can guarantee Good Fit and Workmanship. Men’s Strong Water tights 14s. 6d. per pair. No connection with any other shop. Note Address: Next door to S. Stephens, Saddler. G93c WANTED KNOWN —That G. Haiv kins, The Tinwald Bootmaker, has REMOVED to premises Opposite the Tinwald Post Office, where he is still open to Sell first-class Boots and Shoos at his usual Cheap Rates. All kinds of Boots Made and Repaired. 805g —417e NOTICE. WESTERFIELD MILL. TO FARMERS, BAKERS, & OTHERS. rjMIE Westerfield Mill is now in full work, and the public can be supplied with FIRST-CLASS FLOUR on most reason able terms. Every attention will be given to Public Gristing, and farmers from a distance can have grist done immediately after de livery. Apply to the Miller, HENRY BOWERS. Grain stored on liberal terms. 389c-796g



Business Notices. CASH IN DEMAND AND CASH ON DEMAND AT ASHBURTON, A REAL GENUINE CASH SALE o? Drapery, Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Sewing Machines, Crockeryware and General Merchandise. FOR ONE MONTH ONLY Commencing THURSDAY NEXT, JULY 22nd. T. R. H. and Co. deem it the most prudent Course under present circum stances to quickly clear off about 000 WORTH of their well bought and well selected Stock. The few quotations now made should convey to the public some idea of the IMMENSE REDUCTIONS in their different departments. OBSERVE THE PRICES!!! FOR NET CASH ONLY. Drapery, Winceys, 3sd. per yard to Is. 9d. Wide crisp Saxony Wincey, reduced from lOkl. to 6|d. A lot of Dress Stuffs reduced from Is. to 6|d. All Wool Serges, Cloaking, &c., reduced from Is. 9d. to Is. French Merino, Russel Cords, Persian Cords, Alpaccas, Cobourgs, Baratheas, &c., &c., all reduced Rochdale Flannels (our own importing from the Manufacturers), reduced from Is. 6d to Is. |d. per yard Grey Calicos, fine and heavy, reduced from ss. fid. to 4s. per dozen Super Wide Mexicans, reduced from 7M. per yard to fid. Heavy Twilled Unbleached Sheeting, Is. 9d., reduced to Is. 4|d. Do. Do. White, reduced from Is. Bd. to Is. 2d. Colored Counterpanes, 3s. lid. Horrock’s Long Cloths, 4s. 7-Jd. per dozen The above Cotton Goods, splendid value, being old stock A large lot of Children’s Black Cloth •Jackets, about half price, 4s. lid. to 10s. 9d. Women’s ditto, 13s. lid. to 485., about 30 per cent, reduction A lot of new Costumes, reduced from 30s. and 255. to 18s. lid. Colored Cotton Shirting 3, reduced from 8|- to sid. per yard Crimean Shirting, reduced from Is. 2d. to Is. |d. per yard Men’s Colored Fancy Regatta Shirts, reduced from 3s. 6d. to Is. 9d. Men’s Strong Working Shirts, reduced from 3s. fid to 2s. fid. Felt Carpets, Is. 3d. per yard Hemp Druggetts 8| per yard White Blankets reduced from 15s. to 11s. fid. Super. Whitneys, Kaiapoi, Roslyn, Grey, . Blue, and Scarlet, equally reduced A large lot of Women’s Dressed and Rough Brown Stockings, worth Is. 2d., reduced to Sid. per pair 60 dozen Plain, Striped, and Fancy Cotton and Merino, at and under cost price A splendid assortment of Millinery Hats, Bonnets, Feathers, Flowers, Ribbons, Laces, Fancy Goods will be sold REGARDLESS OF COST. Berlin Wools, Is. 9d. quarter - pound packet; outside colors, Is. 3d. per packet. Ladies’ Linen Cuffs and Collars reduced from Is. to 6|d. Clothing. 85 Men’s Tweed Suits from 275. fid. Victorian Heavy All-wool Extra-finished Suits, reduced from £4 to £3, guaran teed Tweed and Doeskin Trousers from 7s. 9d. per pair A job lot ©f 50 pairs heavy Tweeds, original price, 16s. fid. and 14s. fid., all reduced to 10s. 9d. per pair Men’s Strong Tweed Coats from 15s. 9d. Men’s Blue Diagonal fast-color, 205.; Trousers and Vests, 18s. fid. Men’s heavy Beaver Munster Coats, worth 425.; reduced to 295. fid. Boys’ and Youths’ Clothing equal bargains Men’s Heavy Colonial Wool Socks, re duced from 2s. to Is. Bd. Men’s Heavy Colonial Wool Socks, re duced from 2s. fid. to 2s. 2d. Men’s Wool Shirts, Drawers Tweed and Felt Hats, Tweeds, Doe skins, &c. —Bargains Boots and Shoes. A large lot bought from an overstocked market at LESS THAN ENGLISH COST PRICE. Ladies’ Kid, Elastic-side, Buttoned, and Lace, worth from 11s. fid. to 14s. fid., all at Bs. lid. per pair Ladies’ Strong Imitation Kid, 4s. lid. per pair Men’s Strong Elastic-side, 10s. fid. Men’s best make Colonial Shooting, 15s. fid. Men’s Heavy Watertights, 15s. fid. Men’s Bluchers, Bs. fid. Sewing Machines, Hand and Treadle, best makers, Wanzer, Wertheim, Singer’s (for which we are Sole Agents in Ashburton). Liberal Reductions on List Prices. Inspection invited of our prices and qualities of Groceries and Provisions, Crockery, Brushware, Glassware, Hard ware, and Cutlery. Horse -covei'3, bast quality, 225. fid. NOTICE. The whole stock clea recently-bought, and well-selected. No Patterns cut or Goods sent out on approbation during Sale. Net Cash only at the re-marked and greatly reduced prices at T. R. HODDER & COMP ¥S



Edmiston, Gundry & Co. ~ I TO RUNIIOLDERS, FARMERS, AND OTHERS. : ■ H/TESSRS. EDMISTON, GUNDRY JjJL & DO. have ON■SALE Farm d Station Stores, OF EVERY DESCRIPTION GRASS & CLOVER SEEDS. AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY. FARM DRAYS. We have just received a well-assorted shipment of BUILDING TIMBER, INCLUDING WHITE & BLACK PINE TOTARA KAURI T. & G. FLOORING MATCH LINING, &c. ALSO 500 TONS BEST NEWCASTLE COAL. We would draw special attention to our stock of BUILDERS’ IRONMONGERY FURNITURE, &c., &c. AGENTS FOR JOEL’S CELEBRATED DUNEDIN BEER. In case, kilderkins, barrels, and hogsheads. All orders left at our office will be punctually attended to. LIBERAL DISCOUNT FOR CASH. EDMISTON, GUNDRY & CO. SOUTH BRITISH INSURANCE COMPANY (fire and marine). Capital - - - £1,000,000. THE COMPANY is prepared to take risks on all kinds of Property at CURRENT RATES. EDMISTON, GUNDRY, & Co., Agents, Ashburton. AUSTRALIA MUTUAL PRO VIDENT SOCIETY. ESTABLISHED 1849. LIFE ASSURANCE on the MUTUAL PRINCIPLE. ACCUMULATED FUNDS, £3,000,000. This Company offers special advantages. For particulars apply to EDMISTON, GUNDRY, & CO., East Street, Ashburton. TITLES UNDER THE LAND TRANSFER ACT. MESSRS. EDMISTON, GUNDRY & Co., Licensed land brokers, Under the Land Transfer Act, East Street, Ashburton. MONEY TO LEND ON APPROVED FREEHOLD SECURITY. 106 T. Bullock. rjlO LET FOR CROPPING, 150 Acres on the Wakanui Estate 200 ~ ~ ~ FOR SALE OR TO LET, WITH A PURCHASING CLAUSE, 439 Acres, all fenced, and partly improved situated in Wakanui A compact Farm, all fenced, well-watered, arid partly in English Grass. Improve ments consist of acomfortable Five-roomed Cottage, Stable, Stockyard, Ac., &c. All fenced, partly improved and well-watered. All fenced, and a portion of it in English Grass. Near the above, will be sold very cheap. About Three Miles from the Town of Ashburton. Near the above, and adjoining Mr. George Aston’s About Six Miles from Ash burton. 266 220 360 50 65 150 290 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. Lots 503, 504, 509, 510, Tinwald, con taining One Acre. TO LET, NE of those Newly Erected COT TAGES in Tancred Street, near Mr. Anstee’s Private Hotel. Commodious BOARDING-HOUSE in East Street. Shop and Office in East Street. That old established Blacksmith’s Work shop, next the Horse Bazaar, Burnett Street. Also, Cottage, near the above, lately occupied by Mr. H. J. Edwards. 571 c T. BULLOCK. Business Notices IN BANKRUPTCY. WEEKS & DIXON have on Sale a their Office, East Street North, — PROOFS OF DEBT FORMS, FORMS OF AFFIDAVIT. Also, — FORMS OF TO LET AND FOR SALE,