. Clauses 1,2, 3,4, 5,6, 7, and 11 were approved of. Clauses 8 and 9—Mr. Huston’s offer was considered very reason able, but the Board decided that they could not accept any offer for this ford or the drains on Crow’s road from want of funds. Clause 10—A plough furrow is to be run along each side of the road line, and the Surveyor is to take steps to have the next direct road line opened up. Clause 12—The three crossings recom mended were decided to be given. ■ Clause 13—The Surveyor was desired to maintain the front fence, but the Board did not see the necessity of fencing all round the gravel reserve. Clause 14 —The offer received was considered to be too little. Clause 15—The Chairman stated that from a conversation he had had with Mr. Baxter, he could see that that gentleman quite missunderstood the Surveyor’s drain age project, as Mr. Baxter did not think the Surveyor meant to follow or utilise the gorse fence drain. ” WATEETON. Correspondence was then read from Mr. P. O’Shannasy, asking for some better drainage accommodation at the Waterton Hotel. The Surveyor was desired to remedy the defective drainage, now that permanent relief was about to be afforded by the County Council. WARD QUESTION. A letter of advice was read from the Board’s solicitors on the subject of the severance of a part of the district, or its division into wards. The Clerk was de sired to write to the Government, reply ing to the petition for severance, and opposing it. RESIGNATION. From Mr. Joseph Clark, resigning his scat on the Board. The Board expressed its very great regret at losing Mr. Clark’s services. The resignation was accepted. BOUNDARY ROAD. From Mr. D. McLennan, objecting to to floodwater being diverted from Ede’s. creek bn to his land, and threatening to close up the' outfall drain. The Surveyor was directed to explain that no water diversion was being done, nor would his or any other property be injured by the Board’s work. GREAT SOUTH ROAD. From Mr. R. Little, asking that the Great South road, near Hindhope, may be metalled, and the crossing at the Hinds river ipade easier. Clerk to reply that tile Board had no funds at present. ASHBURTON BRIDGE. From the Ashburton County Council, referring the Assistant Railway Engi neer’s memorandum, asking that the ap proaches to the Ashburton bridge may be shingled, to this Board for its informa tion, as far as the southern approach was concerned. The Board had already re solved that no work should be done in in that locality until the question of severance was settled. PAY SHEET. After some minor matters had been discussed the accounts were examined and passed for payment, so far as the funds of the Board would permit. The meeting then adjourned.

THE STORY-TELLER.

T HE DISRUPTION: •/ A TALE OF TRYING TIMES.

CHAPTER XVll—, continued. “ Fegs, I should hae’t aff at ony rate, for it’s no right for me to keep it on here. But ye needna guffaw at it in that way, Jean; for the hat’s a decent hat —it’s exackly the same as the Provost’s and the Lord High Com missioner’s.” “ Silence ! ” said Mr. Bacon, in a solemn and somewhat severe tone. “ Silence ! we must proceed now with the' ceremony, and it. must be gone through with great decorum, or not at all.” '

He proposed that Jean should per sonate the Queen, in the chair of state, that Robin should officiate as Master of Ceremonies, and that he 2nd Miss Stimperton, should enact the parties presented to her Majesty. This, proposal was warmly seconded by Robin Afleck, in as far as concerned Jean Brown’s part of the performance. “But mind, Jean,” he said to her, “ nane o’ your lauching’. Ye maun gloom like the mischief, or ye’ll no be hawf a queen.” Turning to Mr. Bacon, he said—“As for me being Maister o’ the Ceremonies, I dinna see hoo that can answer, for I ken neither buff nor style aboot what should be dune.” “ Well, well, just pay attention and I’ll show you.” Here Mr. Bacon condescended on a number of particulars to be attended to, and concluded his instructions by impressing,strongly on Robin Afleck the necessity of pronouncing audibly and correctly the names and titles of the parties presented, as they approached the throne. This was in fact the cere mony of presentation, and its import ance could not be over-rated. Jean was informed that, as the Queen, she was to acknowledge ordinary persons —such as provosts, bailies, town councillors, justices of the peace, and private gentle men of no eminence in rank or reputa tion—by a gentle inclination of the head ; but she was to extend her hand to let it be kissed by people of quality, and persons of great consequence either from station or talents. “As for myself,” said Mr. Bacon, “ I don t value , the privilege ; but I can t see how it can properly be witheld from me. bo when Mr. Afleck piesenls me, you must mind to extend your hand, and you may even smile on me —yes I think you may —in a very gracious manner.” Lastly came directions to Miss Stimperton how to behave. “ In experienced as you are in the forms 01 courts, allow me, most lovejy and amiable lady, to say that the chief thing you have to attend to is to approach the royal presence with every appear ance of respect you can assume; curtsey deeply when your name is pronounced, and retire with your face towards the throne, walking backward t all the way to the door.”

These preliminaries being settled, Jean Brown was duly called to the chair, and mounting the steps, she seated her self with the air of an empress, dashed only by an occasional smirk, indicating a strong unqueenlike disposition to laugh.

Robin stood for a few moments wrapped in mute admiration. He was not insensible of the absurdity of the scene, and was as much disposed as Jean Brown herself to have a hearty laugh at it; but its mock pageantry was almost as good to him as if it had been real, and he was particularly delighted to see his sweetheart even on a mimic throne. His admiration of the pageant was like the idolatry of the savage tribes who can worship an idol fashioned by their own hands. Robin contrived to forget the old chair, the chest, and the dirty red curtains, and to see in them, for the moment, a magnificent throne, since Jean Brown was seated there and seemed to him exactly what a queen should be. Mr. Bacon and Miss Stimperton then left the room by one door in order to enter formally by another, and in their momentary, absence, Jean had only time to whisper in the very languishment of over-excited mirthful ness, “Oh Robin ! ” Robin responded, almost with equal brevity, “Fegs, Jean, this is high fun,” when the extraordi nary pair of courtiers entered, and with measured pace, approached the throne. When they had reached the steps, Robin, in his - capacity of Master of Ceremonies, said, “ Please your Ma jesty, Miss Stimperton : of Stiffriggs and Mr. Horace Winkie Bacon, Esq., of Auchterbardie.” Jean Brown was about to hold out her hand to be kissed, as she had been instructed, when Mr. Bacon interrupted the pro ceedings by exclaiming, “ Mr. Afleck this will never do. My name is not Winkie, but Wynkin Bacon, as you ought to know; and its very absurd of you to give both the honorary appella tions of. Mr. and Esq. Only one of them—Esq. in my case—is proper.” “ Surely, sir, baith’s best; and as for Wynkin and Winkie, they’re just sax and half-a-dozen; I canna see the difference.”

“ Well, but there is a difference, and you must observe it, or we can’t pro ceed. And recollect that to say both Mr. and Esq. is quite improper. Take notice'of these corrections and we shall try it again.” Away, again, then, went the lady and gentleman, and immediately re turned as before. Robin managed this time to get through his part with out any blunder, and the illustrious bachelor of Auchterbardie, having kissed the royal hand, began, with his partner to walk backwards towards the door; This retrogade movement was not, however, so easily executed as he imagined. Miss Stimperton man aged her paces very dexterously, by taking the precaution to hold up the flounces of her gown; but Mr. Bacon forgot the length of his flowing robe, and its ermined hem, getting beneath his heels, brought him down all in a heap on the Turkey carpet. At the sight of this disaster, the mimic Queen and Master of Ceremonies fell into each other’s arms in a fit—of laughing. (To Ire continued—commenced on ’July 26.)

The Work of the Session.

At first sight, looking over the list of measures introduced, abandoned, and passed by Parliament this session, one is inclined to cry out against the barren ness of the time spent by our representa tives. Scarcely a newspaper in the colony has omitted to make the “barrenness of the, session ” the sub ject of a jeremiade, and the refrain has followed a defence and commendation of the Government, and the denuncia tion of those opposed.to if; or a lauda tion and justification of the Opposition, with an accompanying tirade against Go vernment ; according to the political color of the journals taking up the cry. At first sight, we say, the session looks barren. Measures expected by the people, promised to them, .and looked upon by them as what must be within a short space of time and ought to have been now, are absent from the list of things accomplished. But, notwith tanding, examination shows that the session has not been so barren as it seems. True, much time has been wasted in useless talk that might very well have been done without, but the New Zealand Parliament has not yet reached the standard of the House of Commons', and until it does so we must be content to bear with the over fondness for oratory which so many of our members—from the leaders to the humblest followers —display. The local Board element, with all its “ our district ” notions, is still strong in both Houses, and till the colony grows older and its power and influence expand with its growth, bringing with it to the constituents of the Plouse of Repre sentatives a more liberal political educa tion, we must be content, looking upon the colony and its legislators, with the reflection that both are yet young, and that “ as the man is, so is his strength.” Yet in the midst of much time frittered away there has been work done, and good work, too. Parliament has .begun to learn that the colony cannot live always on borrowed money, and that a country’s business must be conducted on the same principles that regulate the business of a private individual—viz., with a view first to make both ends meet, and after that to work to profit. Gorged with the wealth of the English money-lenders the country has been taught a bad lesson difficult to unlearn,

and has contracted bad habits that must be got rid of. The continual feast of fat things of the past ten years has tended to blind its eyes to the nearness of the time when the bill for these should be presented, and to the question of how the bill was to be met. The Treasurer’s account of his chest has given the colony a rude awakening, the report of the Civil Service Commission has brought it face to face with the know ledge of how great an army of officials has to be supported; the Local Industries Commission shows how little.is done in the colony in the way of production to find work for busy hands that are now idle, and shows at the same time how much may be done ; while the Railway Commission has brought vividly to our view that railway lines which were, to be the making of our country and the de veloping of its resources fail to give a return at all equal to paying the rent of the money spent in their construction, and shows how wild and extravagant have been many of the railway projects of the past, and for the folly of which we have now to pay. The rail way report has come l in time, however, to enable , Parliament to steer clear of projects not attempted, but proposed, that would have been, as unproductive and as great a waste of money as those already embarked in which are condemned. All these re ports have their lessons,• and with pockets touched by fresh taxation, the colonists and . their representatives will be quickened ,to learn. Experience teaches fools, and bought experience is the most valuable. We contend that the costly lesson the colony has learned in the session just closed, and the one that preceded it —a lesson that was being prepared by an austere teacher while the colony tumbled heedlessly on in its youth —will be worth more to it as a country in the future.than we can well estimate at this period of its history. It will teach us to cultivate the much wanted virtue of self-reliance, it will teach us not to accept as progress every work that is done in the colony unless we are fully assured that work is to be beneficial, and before we undertake it to satisfy ourselves that the assurance of its benefits is not simply the ipse dixit of those whose axe is to.be ground by the undertaking. Those Commis sions’. reports ought, to make us more careful, less visionary and more practi cal, to induce us to look more to ulti mate and actual results than present promises, and to lead us to exercise a wider grasp of the present so that we may include therein more of the future.

Then, the work of the Native Com-, mission has not been barren. It has thrown light upon a question that was to a large proportion of the legislators, and to a still larger proportion of the colonists, a political skeleton in the closet; and if the light so thrown will enable Parliament to approach nearer to this skeleton. and ultimately and shortly effect its removal the reproach of the session’s barrenness will un doubtedly be past. The Parliament’s weakness has been from the beginning to the end too great a desire to legis late. An old printer in the Govern ment office used to say that, provincial and colonial, we had had forty square feet of laws in force and effete since the colony first began. This mass has been considerably reduced, but still enough remains to be cumbersome, and even contradictory. The Revision of Statutes Committee has been at work on the codification of this, and surely it is no small thing gained when we are able to say that on many subjects on which there was a multiplicity of laws there is now only one. In fact, the best legislative work of the session was that done in approval of the Revision Committee’s work. The session has no gaudy measures of popular attractive ness to show; it has no statutes to point to passed in response to'a popu lar cry, but after all it has not been altogether barren and unfruitful.

THE ASHBURTON HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1880.



Holloway’s Ointment and Pills. — Diseases of the skin, ringworm, scurvy, jaundice, scrofula or king’s evil, sore heads, and the most inveterate skin disease to which the human frame is subject, cannot be treated with a more safe and certain remedy than Holloway’s Ointment and Pills, which act so pcrculiarly on the constitution and so purify the blood, that these diseases are at once eradicated from the system, and a lasting cure obtained. They are equally efficacious in the cure of tumors, burns, scalds, glandular swellings, ulcerous wounds, rheumatism, contracted and stiff joints. These medicines operate mildly and surely. The cures effected by them are not temporary or apparent only, but complete and permanent.



Alfred Harrison. SATURDAY, 11th SEPTEMBER. 1 o’clock. ALFRED HARRISON lias been favored with instructions from the owner to SELL BY PUBLIC AUCTION, at Iris rooms, on the above date Section No. 53. Immediately behind East Town Belt, being in extent.nearly half an acre, well fenced and planted with about 100 Fruit and Forest trees. There is also a well built THREE-ROOMED COTTAGE, Lined, papered, and varnished, good cup boards, Leamington range, registeredgrate, etc. Also— A quantity of new useful FURNITURE AND EFFECTS. Terms Cash. Without Reserve. ALFRED HARRISON, 848 c Auctioneer.



Robert Wilkin and Co. TIN WALD SALE YARDS. TUESDAY, 14th SEPTEMBER. Messrs. Robert wilkin & co., are instructed to sell, at the above Yards, QAA MERINO AND CROSS OUU BRED WETHERS .. JAMESON & ROBERTS, 868 c 1 Agents, Ashburton.



'ESSRS. ROBERT WILKIN & CO., in conjunction with Messrs. Jameson and Roberts, are instructed to offer BY PUBLIC AUCTION, osr SATURDAY, 18th SEPTEMBER, '... RURAL SECTION No. 29492,. . Containing 120. AOR E S 120 Situate at South Ashburton, two-and-a half miles from the Winslow Railway Station. 7 • ■ The land is of good quality, and will be sold WITHOUT RESERVE. ROBERT WILKIN & CO., - ‘ Christchurch ; ' JAMESON & ROBERTS, , ~ 866 c Ashburton.



: preliminary notice. Messrs. Robert wilkin & Co. (In conjunction with Messrs. Jameson and Roberts) have been in structed by the Trustees in the estate of Thomas Clark, to offer BY PUB LIC AUCTION ON Saturday, 18th Sept. THE FREEHOLD PROPERTIES. Belonging to.the estate, as follows: Lot 1. —-Town section No. 517, with large SUBSTANTIAL BOARDING EtOUSE, containg 40 rooms. The building is almost new, and fitted with every convenience, and can be. had on most reasonable terms. Lot 2.—36 SECTIONS at Trevorton. These are close to the township, are well situated in a rapidly improving neighborhood. Upset price £5 each. Easy terms of payment. Lot 3.—Half-acre section at Trevorton, facing the Beach road, with three roomed cottage thereon. Lot 4.—The trustees’ interest in sections Nos. 2 and 3,' on the East Town Belt, with two; cottages, four and five rooms each. Lot 5. Section at Trevorton facing the Presbyterian'Manse, being lot 39, known as the Belfast Bakery. The above are for absolute sal& ROBERT WILKIN & Co. , Christchurch. . JAMESON . & ROBERTS, . . 867 c Ashburton., ‘ T. Bullock. FOR SALE-CHEAP. TJIOUR SECTIONS in one block—viz., JJ 502, 503, 510, 511, situated in Tin wald. Small deposit cash : balance by instalments. EOR SALE OR TO LET, WITH A PURCHASING CLAUSE, 439 Acres, all fenced, and partly improved situated in Wakanui 266 ~ A compact Farm, all fenced, w.ell-watered, and partly in English Grass. Improve ments consist of a comfortable Five-roomed Cottage, Stable, Stockyard, &c., &c. TOWN PROPERTIES. That Valuable TOWN SECTION, 159, Timcred Street, will be Sold very cheap, and on easy terms. 539, (part of) £ of: an acre, terms same as as above. . I . 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, 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 Mail Office, and lately in the occupation of Mr. Dufrates. Apply, 671c-186u T. BULLOCK. For Sale. FOR SALE. A GOOD Brick Four-roomed HOUSE, with back, kitchen, wash-house, and boiler, all well finished and complete, good out-houses, and every convenience, Quarter-acre Section, nicely fenced, well cultivated, with a number of trees planted thereon; very cheap; can be had on terms. Also, Quarter-acre SECTION adjoining, well fenced. Full particulars by applying to “P. IL W.,” Herald Office. 798 c



Business Notices; BOOTS'! BOOTS! BOOTS? To Meet the .Times. e HAWKINS, the Cheap Boot and . Sh oemaker, TIN WALD . (opposite the Post Office), ha’s determined -to CLEAR OtIT liis large and well-selfected Stock at sweeping prices. Only one trial will convince the public of the genuine cheapness of his Stock. His own make equally reduced. Come and see for your selves. Note the address— C. HAWKINS, r- iV ; PRACTICAL BOOT & SHOEMAKER ; Opposite the Post Office, Tinwald. •Note—No connection with any other shop. NEW INDUSTRY. A S P H A L -T I N,- G. ( - ’ JAMES BRADLEY is prepared to take orders for ASPHALTING at very moderate rates. • All orders to be left at the "Works, Park street.. '• . ; All work kept in repair for twelve months. 695 c LATEST STYLES FROM LONDON & , / PARIS. ■I . f Craighead d Co., Merchant Tailors, TANCRED STREET, (Next Orr & Co.) .. PERFECT FIT GUARANTEED. ; 982a-445<?' CHANGE OF PROPRIETARY. PjTVHE UNDHRSIGNED ' has much -A- pleasure iji announcing" to the in habitants of Ashburton and district that he lias TAKEN OV»R the BUSINESS ef Mr. J. S. SAVAGE, East street, Ash burton, and respectfully solicits a con tinuance of the jatronage so liberally bestowed on his jsredecessor,' trusting by keeping a choice assortment of all classes of FRUIT, CONFECTIONERY, &0., to merit a fair share of the public support. T.;; 1 BE IT NET TO, /, _ . FRUITERER. AND. CONFECTIONER, East street, Ashburton. 814 c



CABINETMAKING & UPHOLSTERING ESTABLISHMENT, REMOVED TO • B URN' ET T STREET, Opposite the Mail Office. Cheapest House in Town for New and : Secondhand Furniture. • MEECH, PRACTICAL CABINETMAKER, upholsterer PAPERHANGER, &c. Drawers from 30s. and upwards, Dressing tables and Washstands 10s. and upwards. ALL KINDS OF REPAIRS. Furniture Renovated and Repolished, "-• or Exchanged. GOOD PRICE GIVEN FOR SECONDHAND FURNITURE. 248 c



DON'T PASS THIS BY !! S: ,500 TOP before you give your next order for a Suit of Clothes. IF you want Style, Fit, and Quality, try the Undersigned. EAD the following, then -call and in spect the Goods. YARDS READY 1 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. 70SAMPLES TO SELECT FROM? 0 Comprising the following : German Cloths, plain and fancy, the most fashionable Beaver Cloths, suitable for Winter Scotch Tweeds, assorted Mosgiel ~ Kaiapoi ~ „ 1 • - West of England Cloths Bedford Cords Irish Frieze, &c., &c., THIS IS THE MAN FOR MY MONEY. ta GO TO LU p ] , f>^^TniANGLH, Between Post Office and Baldwin’s Central Hotel. and inspect this Splendid Assort j ment before you order.' OTTO: Small Profits and Quick Returns. Terms—Cash. TYLE and Finish second to none. C £1 Is. Cash for a Pair 71CONOMY<) of Trousers , \ £3 15s. Cash for a Tweed f Suit. ... ? WOg-SQOc



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Business Notices. • - , -[A CAltD.] i. TO BUSINESS MEN, FARMERS, AND OTHERS OF ASHBURTON. ;: ,3 GENTLEMEN, —In consequence of the high costs ruling here in reference to obtaining the simplest of LEGAL DOCUMENTS, and in. consideration of ins’- having had seven years’ experience as Law Clerk in Christchurch and Ashburton, I beg to inform you I -have opened a DEEDS OFFICE'and AGENCY, where all Bankruptcy and other]'Legal Business will be attended to through me. E. WADMAN, 7 Up-stairs office, Saunders 1 Buildings. 839c-189g East .street, Ashburton. Public Notices. 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 Assurance iu the Australasian Colonies; The best office for young men. Profits divided every three years. Offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Wellington, and Hobart Town. ft 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—Thd : National Mutual. - N 1690-821 c TENDERS FOR. INLAND SERYICES , FOR 1881 AND 1882. General Post Office, Wellington, August 17, 1880. I SEALED TENDERS will be received at the Chief Post Office, Christ church, until THURSDAY, September 30, proximo, for the conveyance of mails between the undermentioned places, for a period of two years, from January T, 1880, to December 31, ISB2. V Postal District of Christchurclv 1. Christchurch* and Green Park, thrice Weekly ' - . ' 2. Christchurch and Green Park, daily 3. Christchurch and Courtenay, thrice weekly' 4. Christchurch'and Courtenay, daily *s* Christchurch and Sumner, twice daily 6. Christchurch and New Brighton, thrice weekly ? 7. Christchurch and New Brighton, daily *B. Christchurch and Akaroa, thrice weekly *9. Lyttelton and Pigeon Bay, thrice weekly ■ *lO. Lyttelton and Little Akaloa, weekly 11. Lyttdlton and Port Levy* weekly 12. Lyttelton and Gebbie’s Flat, weekly 13. Lyttelton and Gebbie’s Flat, twice weekly 14. Lyttelton Post Office and Railway Station,: and vessels in harbor, as required 15. Duvauchelle’s, Little Akaloa, and Okain’s Bay, twice.weekly. 16. German Bay and Le Bon’s Bay, twice weekly , N I 17. Akaroa and Wainui, weekly 18. Kaiapoi and Saltwater Creek, thric . •' weekly 19. Kaiapoi and Saltwater t'redk, daily 20. Kaiapoi and Coutts Island,- twice weekly 21. Kaiapoi and Coutts Island, thrice weekly 22. Kaiapoi and Clarkville, twice weekly 23. Kaiapoi and Clarkville, thrice weekly 24. Mandeville and Eyrcton, weekly 25. Mandeville and Eyreton, twice weekly 26. Oxfcrd and View Hill, weekly 27. Oxford and View Hill, twice weekly 28. Flaxton Post Office and Railway Station, daily: . . • 29. A shley and Loburn, twice weekly 30. Ashley and Loburn, thrice weekly. 31. Balcairn and Leith field, thrice weekly 32. Balcairn and Leithfield, daily 33. Waikari and Waiau, weekly 34. Waikari and Waiau, twice weekly 35. Hurunui and Upper Waiau Ferry, weekly 36. Upper Waiau Ferry and Hanmer Plains, weekly 37. Waiau and Hawkeswood, weekly 38. Waikari and Lake Station, weekly 39. Waipara and Cheviot, weekly 40. Prebbleton and Broadfield, twice weekly 41. Prebbleton and Broadfield, thrice weekly 42. Irwell Railway Station and Brookside, twice weekly 43. Irwell Railway • Station and Brookside, thrice weekly 44. Irwell Post Office and Railway Station, as required 45. Leeston and Lakeside, twice weekly 46. Leeston and Lakeside, thrice weekly 47. Springfield and Kovvai Bush, weekly 48. Malvern Post Office and Russell’s Flat, weekly 49. Malvern Post Office and Russell’s Flat, twice weekly 1 'cb 50. Darfield and Kimberley, Weekly 51. Darfield'and Kimberley, twice weekly . £2. Darfield and Greendale, weekly ■■ 53. Darfield and Greendale, .twice weekly 54. Coalgate and .Hororata, daily 55. Hororata and Lake Coleridge, via Wind whistle House, weekly " 56. Hororata and .Acheron, via Lake Coler idge and Windwhistle House, weekly 57. Glentunnel Railway Station, Windwhistle , House, and Lake Coleridge, weekly 3 58. Glentunnel and Acheron, via Lake Coleridge and Windwhistle House, weekly 59. Dunsandel and Killinchy, twice weekly 60. Rakaia and’ Kyle, weekly * \ 61. Rakaia and Barr Hill, twice weekly 62. Rakaia and Barr Hill, thrice weekly 63. Lauriston Railway Station and Barr Hill, twice weekly ’ x 64. Lauriston Railway Station and Barr Hill, and Alford twice thrice weekly 65. Methven Railway Station Forest, thrice weekly 65. Ashburton and Mount Somers, weekly 67. Mount Somers and Ashburton Garre, weekly ;*■ Ashburton and Seafield, via Elgin, Wak'a nui, and New land, twice weekly Ashburton and Seafield,'yia Elgin, Waka nui, and Newland, 'thrice weekly Ashburton and Longbeach, daily Hinds Railway Station and Mayfield, weekly : Upper Riccarton Post Oflice and Middle ton Railway Station, daily East Oxford Post Office ’ and .Railway Station, daily Christchurch Post Office and Railway station and Town Receivers, providing mail-cart, driver, horses, <S.c«, as re- S*ed. „ *75 Pigeon Bay and Akaroa, thrice weekly. * Terminable on one month’s notice iron the Postmaster-General. 8630-2080