The Ashburton Herald

AND BOROUGH AND COUNTY ADVERTISER

VOL. 11.—589.

ASHBURTON, TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1880.

Price One Penny.



Auctioneers and Commisssion Agents ALFRED HARRISON, AUCTIONEER, COMMISSION AGENT, v ' etc. -JV AND SALES, Sales of Stock, Mer chandise, Furniture and Effects, also Pigs, Fowls, and General Produce. WEEKLY SALE Every SATURDAY at 12 o’clock. SALE YA V DS ATTENDED. ntries can be made at my office or at the '! ■" . Yards. Agent for the Transatlantic Fire Insurance Company. 5 171 DMISTON BROS. & GUNDRY • (late bullock and CO.), ASHBURTON, ■ General Merchants, Auctioneers, Stock, Station, Estate, and Commission Agents. Sales of Stock, Farm Implements, &c., will be held at their Yards, Ashbur ton, and the Tinwald Yards, on alternate TUESDAYS. CASH ADVANCES Made on Stock, Produce, &c., consigned ■ f for Positive Sale. EDMISTON BROS. & GUNDRY. 19 [Card.] J E jj TTr,HA]srAN & CO, Auctioneers, Land, and Estate Agents, ASHBURTON. 3!3a gA UN DEBS’ JgROTHERS, MILLERS, GRAIN MERCHANTS, AND GENERAL COMMISSION AGENTS, ASHBURTON. AGENTS FOR THE LONDON AND LANCASHIRE FIRE INSURANCE CO And the wallsend COLLLIERY. “THE ASHBURTON HERALD,” PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. Price—ONEPENNY. * DVERTISERS are reminded that tlie \ “ Evening Herald ” commands the L-gest circulation in the. Borough and lburbs daily, and the prices for advel sements are very reasonable. Casual Advertisements—2s. per inch, cash. Wants —20 .words for Is. Quarterly Advertisements, as per ar rangement. JL in Ashburton DO you Want the News of the Day! Read the Ashburton Herald. inly a Penny, is to be got every 3re in Town, along the Railway [of Country Agents. OMISSORY Note Forms, in Books of 25, unstamped, for sale at the Price 2s. 6d. e?.ih.



Public Notice. NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND. Capital £1,000,000. Paid up £50,000. Reserve Fundj£Bs,ooo. A LOCAL INSTITUTION. FIRE Department.—City, Suburban, and Country properties, Flour Mills, Mills, Breweries, Barns, Stables, etc., insured on the most favorable terms. Grain in Stoolc or Stack. Steam Thresh ing Machines, in yard or at work, insured at the lowest rates. MARINE RISKS of all kinds effected at current rates. ’A. CARRICK, Manager, HEREFORD STREET, CHRIST CHURCH. This Company covers risk of explosion of gas. 975 a PHOTOGRAPHY. -pORTRAITS taken in any weather, at MARTIN’S PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIO, Saunders’ Buildings, Ashburton. 19c Great Reduction in Prices. CHERTSEY. A. R. MARKHAM (Next Montgomery’s, Chertsey), GENERAL STOREKEEPER, HAYING taken over the store of Messrs. Orr and Co., and increased the stock, is prepared to supply first-class articles in Grocery, Drapery, Ironmongery. etc. Agentfor THE ASHBURTON HERALD. 423 INK for Marking Packages, Sten cilling, &c. Large bottles, 2s. each WEEKS & DIXON, Stationers, &c., East street. CRICKETING Materials —Bats, Balls, " Stumps', J ‘Ktrgg r ‘Pad§7‘<6s. ,'at H. M. JONES’, Stationei, Baring Square. CHRISTCHURCH AND SUBURBAN DIRECTORY FOR 1879. O N SALE at the “ HERALD ” Office, Saunders Buildings, East-street. Price : Two Shillings and Sixpence. Neatly Bound in Cloth. The above Yolume contains a lot of valuable information, and should be in the hands of every Tradesman. IN BANKRUPTCY. WEEKS & DIXON have on Sale at their Office, East Street North,- - PROOFS OF DEBT FORMS, FORMS OF AFFIDAVIT, Also, — FORMS of TO LET and FOR SALE. Advertise. If you want 'to sell a Farm, to sell a Horse, to rent a Farm, to buy a Horse, to buy a House, to rent a House, to obtain Board, to sell Groceries, to sell Furniture, to sell Hardware, to hire a Servant, to borrow Money, If you want ■{ to sell Dry Goods to sell a Carriage, to sell Real Estate, to seek a Situation, to obtain a Servant, to engage a Salesman, ~ to sell Millinery Goods, to sell a House or Section, to find a Strayed Animal, to find any one’s Address, to sell a piece of Furniture, to find an owner for Anything, to buy a second-hand Carriage, to find anything you have Lost, If you want lto sell Agricultural Implements YOU CAN DO SO, MAKING YOUR WANTS KNOWI I# THE ASHBURTON HERALD, office : SAUNDERS’ BUILDINGS, ] East Street.



Business Notices. WINTER DRAPERY. NOTICE. f. WINTER DRAPERY. EVERETT BROS. & CO., HAVELOCK STREET, ASHBURTON, Jj~~|~AVE much pleasure in announcing to the inhabitants of Ashburton that it is their intention to OPEN ON SATURDAY, MARCH Gtti, with alarge’and New Stock‘of WINTER DRAPERY & CLOTHING, In the premises lately ocdupied by Hooper, Aitlcen and Co. Will open on Saturday, March 6th, 1880. NOTE.—Being direct Importers from the Cheapest Home Markets, we are enabled to OFFER the best class of goods at the very LOWEST PRICE. OUR TERMS ARE STRICTLY CASH. EVERETT BROS. & CO, HAVELOCK STREET (next Harrison’s Auction Rooms), ASHBURTON. The New Improved Althouse Vaneless Windmill [ S NOW ON EXHIBITION ERECTED IN FRONT OF OUR STORE. m \ /1 i m '.W-WN Prices are lowered and are within the reach of everybody, we therefore invi the public to examine the same. For full particulars address or call on FRIEDL ANDER BROS., EAST STREET, ASHBURTON.



Hotels. BUTLER’S FAMILY HOTEL, ASHBURTON. J. F. BUTLER (Late of Arahura, West Coast) ~jp>EGS to inform liis friends and tlie public generally that he has opened the above large and commodious hotel, which is situated at the CORNER OF CASS AND HAVELOCK STREETS, And is convenient to the Railway Station. Excellent accommodation for travellers, families, and boarders. All wines and spirits of the best brands. One of Alcock’s best billiard tables. 965 a



Hotels. JOSEPH BALDWIN Begs to inform his friends and the public that ho Has Opened THE CENTRAL HOTEL, AT THE JUNCTION, WILLS STREET AND WAKANUI ROAD, ASHBURTON, THIS commodious hotel is situated within three minutes’ walk of the Railway Station. Table d’Hote daily at 6 p.m. Luncheon on the table from 12 to 2 p.m. The Jug and Bottle Department will be made a special feature, single bottles and small quantities being supplied at the lowest remunerative rates. Only the best quality of Wimss, Beers, and Spirits procurable will be kept. 540 J . BALDWIN Proprietor.



Milliner and Dressmaker. MRS. ADAMS, AND DRESSMAKER. Ladies’ and Children’ o Dresses made up in the newest styles, at Lowest Charges. Wedding and Mo urn j 7 g Orders promptly attended fco. Mas Adams devotes special attention to Millinery. M RS, ADAMS, Mooke Street, Opposite Mr. Bovle’s Office. T<>la Conveyances. THE LONGBEACH COACH ! EORGE WILLCOCKS respectfully VX acknowledges the liberal support which he hr* received during the short time his Ccaoh 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— Longbeach to Ashburton, ordinary 55., return Bs. Waterton to Ashburton, 3s. 6d. ordi nary, Gs. 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. Ofl 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. Business Notices. A SHBURTON STEAM SAW MILLS SASH AND DOOR MANUFACTORY. G. PARKIN, Proprietor, BUILDER AND CONTRACTOR. Moore Street, Every description of Timber and Building Materials in Stock and supplied on most reasonable terms. Plans prepared and Estimates Given on the shortest notice. 2G RABBITS! RABBITS!! P . HARPER, FISHMONGER AND POULTERER Near the Ashburton Hotel, East Street. BEOS to inform the - inhabitants c f Ashburton that he HAS OPENED •n the above line, and trusts, by stria attention to business, and supplying but articles of first class quality, hopes t merit a share of public patronage



OYSTER SALOON. Hot Fried Fisli and Tea and Coffee al all hours. BUTCHERS, BAKERS, GENERAL STOREKEEPERS, GRAIN AND SEED MERCHANTS, NORTON FARM, SEAFIELD. JONES AND CO., Norton Farm, Sea field, return thanks to their patrons for the hearty support accorded to them since Norton Farm was opened as a Butchery, Bakery, and General Store, and solicit a continuance of past favors, assui’ing customers that their interest will always have first consideration at the hands of the advertisers. Jones and Co. beg to inform their friends and the public in the Seafield and neighboring districts, that their Bread Meat, and Store Carts travel the following routes on the days given below' : Seafield to Kyle, and Acton — Wednes days. Seafield to Wakanui Homestead, Waka nui School, and Creek, back by Christie’s Road — Thursdays. Seafield to North Seafield, Charing Cross, Dundas, Cambridge, returning by Pioneer Road — Fridays. In view of the Harvest, orders for at tendance of the Cart may be left at the Store, Norton Farm, Seafield ; Wakanui School, with Mr. Ginney; with Mr. Lambie, at Kyle ; and with Mr Brown, blacksmith, Clontarf. JONES AND CO., NORTON FARM, Seafield. Butchers, Bakers, General Store keepers, Grain and Seed Merchants. AGENTS FOR THE ASHBURTON HERALD AND GUARDIAN. 679 a



Business Notices. TO MERCHANTS, TRADESMEN, AND OTHERS. STUDY ECONOMY! STUDY ECONOMY! GREAT SAYING EFFECTED BY PURCHASING YOUR STATIONERY AT THE WHOLESALE STATIONERY DEPOT CASH PRICES : ENVELOPES, Cream Laid, Per iooo - 6s. 6d. Ditto Per 500 - 3s. 6d. Ditto Printed, 1,000, 11s. 6d. Notepaper, ruled, per packet of 5 Quires, from is. 6d. Large quantities at lower rates.



ACCOUNT BOOKS OF ALL KINDS. TEN PER CENT. OFF FOR CASH!!! STORES LIBERALLY DEALT WITH.



WEEKS & DIXON, Wholesale Stationers HERALD OFFICE.



Business Notices. MONEY. £SO £SOO AND £IOOO. These sums are ready for immediate investment, on approved Freehold securi ties at current rates. Apply to THOMAS & BRUGES, Solicitors, 13c CHRISTCHURCH. TIMBER! TIMBER!! 300,000 feet OF SUPERIOR BUILDING TIMBER. Also, 20,000 SAWN STAKES, Now on Sale at Hayes’ Timber Yards, East Street, Ashburton, at reduce Drices. 557 TO THE LADIES. TT 7 ANTED KNOWN That MRS. YV CARSTENS has always on hand trimmings and lining, and dresses made on the shortest notice. MRS. CARSTENS, Tancred street, 933 a Ashburton. BRANSON & PURNELL, BARRISTERS AND SOLICITORS, EAST STREET, ~jj~F you want a CHEAP SUIT OF CLOTHES go to ' A ; ; G. J. F. LUBLOW, TAILORING DEPOT. Triangle, Ashburton, Between Post Office and Baldwin’s Central Hotel. G. J. F. Lublow, importing his own goods, is enabled thereby to make as Cheap a Suit of Clothes as any tailor in New Zealand, and a First-class FIT i» Guaranteed.



Terms —Strictly Cash. 5 per cent. Discount off all Orders Paid IN ADVANCE. 813 a CABINETMAKING & UPHOLSTERING ESTABLISHMENT, East Street (next Echo Dining Rooms), ASHBURTON. M O H N IXL E E C H, PRACTICAL CABINETMAKER, UPHOLSTERER, PAPERHANGER, Ac. ALL KINDS OF REPAIRS. Furniture Renovated and Repolished, or Exchanged. 963 a ASHBURTON HERALD, Published Daily. are requested to make mown any irregularity in the delivery, whether in Town or Country, which shall be immediately remedied. Country Subs cribers along the Wakanui Road to the ichool, thence to Seafield, Cambridge, and Newland, are supplied by the mail-cart every Tuesdaj and Friday, WANTED Known, the “Ashburton Herald ” circulates throughout the Provincial District of Canterbury. Housemaids. —The herald asks * Housemaid for you in 20 words for 1/-. TT7ANTED.—The Herald tells you* V V Wants in 20 words, for 1/-.