The Borough’s Claim on the Land Fund.

The Borough of Ashburton’s star of -.hope seems to be in the ascendant again, if we may judge from the tone of lithe County Council towards the depu tation, composed of Mr. Williamson and the Mayor, who waited upon the Council at its meeting on Wednesday last. The return from Wellington of Messrs. Wright and Saunders has given a-new turn to affairs, and there is every chance now that the County Council, • hitherto hostile to the Borough in re gard to its claim on the Longbeach Road Board, will become a friend. That claim amounts to about L3OO or so, and the Borough has a similar claim on the Wakanui Board. The lat ter has “ parted,” the former has not, and seems very loth to do so. The claim appears to us to be a well founded one, inasmuch as before the Borough was. declared, it was a ward in the old Ashburton Road Board, and as such ward, it was clearly entitled to a share of the funds when, to use the Mayor’s expression, it dissolved partnership with the Board. When the separation took place a division of .the funds then in the Board’s hands was made, and the Borough got its share, with the under standing, howevepf that when certain moneys that bau at that time yet to. come to from Government should be'paid over, a further division _woilM take place, and the Borough would again be the recipients of funds that actually belonged to it. It was a long time before this money did come, as. those who remember the trouble about the land fund are aware, but it did come at last, and it went to the Road Boards. In the interval of wait ing for this money, the Board again suffered a severance, and was divided into the Longbeach and Wakanui Boards. These bodies being all that was left of the Ashburton Road Board, of course received the share of impounded land fund that had accrued, but had not been paid to the Ashburton Board pre vious to the declaration of the munici pality. The Borough only claims the share of land fund that it would have received when it left the Board, had the monev been paid by Government at that time, and it appears to us that to this money it is justly entitled. The chief opponents to the payment of the money appear to be the Chairman of the County Council and Mr. John Grigg, and the arguments they adduce have certainly a color of right, in so far as they assert that the land fund was at the disposal of the County Coun cil. Still, if the Bor.ough -was entitled to this money at the time of its separa tion, and would have got the money had it been, in the hands of the then

Road Board, we do not see that the fact of so many months elaps ing renders its claim less valid. The grant for a water supply was apart from any consideration of the land fund, and to put that grant for , ward as a payment by the County to the Borough in satisfaction by the former of all claims on the land fund by the latter seems to us beside the question, arid we are pleased for the Borough’s sake to observe that Messrs. Wright and Saunders look upon the claim of the Borough .as a sound one. It is their return to take part in the County Council’s business that has changed vthe aspect of affairs, and we feel assured that at the next monthly meeting of the -County Council the claim will be recog nised, and a decision will be come to to ' deduct from the. land fund yet to be distributed amonngst the Boards a sum sufficient to cover the amount to which the Borough is entitled.

THE STORY-TELLER.

THE DISRUPTION A TAXE OF TRYING TIMES.

CHAPTER XXIX,

“ I’m no just clear if I can. If it , was disease o’ the bod} 7 , like the rnooly grubs or the cholic, I wad advise a dose o’ gambouge, or a rumble o’ glauber 7 salts or jalap ; but I’m no sae well up to what’s gude for the mind. Ye see, 7in the yet—veter—veterininary hind of doctrine, that’s nae part o’ the study, for there’s nae brute beasts hae ony kind o’ mind, unless it be the Hieland povvnies. And, fegs, sir, the maist o’ them ha’e a mind o’ their ain that naething but bluiding or hard physicking can calm. A' dose o’ gamboge might be the best thing for you after a’.” “ Throw physic to the dogs ; I’ll have •7 none of it.” “ Dougs are clean different again. But if ye like to let me gang wi’ you to Auchterbardie, I’ll do my best.” “ For me you can do nothing; but nevertheless come. I shall find enough . for you to do, I doubt not, and also for , /Mr. Duncanson. Both of you must go with me.” v:: “As for Jimes, puir man, I doot he’s no in a state to travel either by sea or laun’. He might be the. better o’ the country air, if he was fit to steer owre the door; but that’s what he’s noo, nor like to be for a while.” : “Well, he may follow when he can ; -«but let us set to pack up immediately after supper, and be off by steam to morrow morning for the north.” “ Wi’ a’ my heart. Fegs, that’s the vera thing that’ll fit me. I trow the beagles may wear the shoon aff their 'feet before they find me oot at Auchter bardie.”

“Yes, we shall make all haste to go. I would not remain here another day

p, though Sir Robert Peel were to write in | the most urgent manner to have a

second interview with .me. No, nothing, at least no solicitation from that quarter, would induce me to re main. It is possible —highly probable, indeed —that on reflection he may repent bitterly of his infatuated con duct. Mv words must yet ring in his ears, and he will be aware of his error when it is too late. Yes, when it is too late —that shall be my revenge. If he should write to me ever so pressingly, I will pay no attention to his letters; I shall refuse to correspond with him, I will let him stumble on in the dark from" one. blunder to another, and never put forth my little finger to pre vent the anarchy he is producing.” “Weel, sir, I think ye’ll be perfectly straught, partic’larly if ye mak’ a reform at Auchterbardie, and get quat o’ the untrusty, domineering laun’ steward I’ve heard you compleen o’.” “ Aha ! that’s not so easy though ; but we shall see. Neddie, be active and get some tripe stewed for supper. You have to go a message afterwards to Pitt Street.”

This message, of course, was to carry a note to Mr. Duncanson, invit ing him to Auchterbardie, either the following morning or as soon after as might suit him ; and very kindly ex pressing a hope that the jaunt would prove beneficial to his health. During the whole night Mr. Bacon, Robin, and Neddie worked hard, pack ing up all sorts of portable articles, books, .manuscripts, musical and philo sophical instruments, clothes, dishes, and even man)’- of the smaller articles of household furniture—such as fire irons, bellows and cooking utensils— for the bachelor thought it thrifty to keep only one set of such things, and carried them with him in all his migra tions. At an early hour in the morn ing, Mr. Bacon, with his attendants and entire travelling equippage, reached the pier of Leith, and embarked for the north. When passing out of the har bor, he stood on the steamboat quarter deck, and surveying with a mournful look the distant spires of Edinburgh, which were gleaming under a bright autumnal sunrise, he thus addressed bis rustic companion—‘Look yonder, Mr. Afleck, how glorious and secure the city appears ! There is not a cloud over it to denote coming danger. And yet I tell you there is danger at hand — imminent danger. The public build ings, you see, may not be razed to the ground, but the institutions they are connected with must come down. And whose fault is it ? Not mine cer tainly ! My conscience clears me of that. I have done all I could—at least all I have been permitted to do to save the country; but you know how I have been treated. The Church of Scotland, which bristles the city yonder with her steeples like a hedgehog, is in the throes of death, and will soon become a putrid carcase crawling with loathsome disease. Mark my words, Mr. Afleck. She will die of this Non intrusion mania. She is frantic, and gnawing her own vitals. The vice of democracy in her constitution is kill ing her, and it would be little matter if the mischief could stop there. But it can’t. The thing is impossible. She will involve the whole body politic in her ruin. Revolution and anarchy must ensue. No social order can exist after the common herd of man kind—the immense masses who have only hands and stomachs—begin to act for themselves, as if they had brains to think with.’

‘And what div ye think the common folks’ skulls are filled wi’, if it’s no wi’ brains ? ’

‘ Nothing, sir, nothing. They Lre empty—quite empty—or are just filled with a stuff incapable of thought.’ “To be shure, there’s but few o’ them crackit, so it’s no easy to see a sample o’ their stuffin’ as lang as the life’s in. But if they were a’thegither toom, as ye seem to think, I dinna see that they could do muckle mischief’

“ It’s not to be thought, Mr. Afleck, that you can be a judge in the case. You must allow me to say you are one of the canaille yourself, and must na turally have a bias in your judgment.’ “ Weel, aweel, maybe. I’m glad ye think I ha’e ony judgment ava—biast or biast. But here’s what puzzles me, Mr. Bacon—ye misca’ the Kirk o’ Scotland up hill and doon brae, and ye ken what ye said to the Queen and Sir Robert Peel anent it. Noo, sir, if it’s this black and that black, ye should shurely be glad to think it’s gaun a’ to pigs and whussles.’

“ So I am, since the remedy I was ready to apply has been rejected. But had my voice been hearkened to, the church might have been saved, and converted from a public nuisance into an engine of inca'lculabe power for good. By the slight change of giving it an Episcopal constitution, its fiery spirits might have been tamed, and its ambitious men gratified. That trouble some little fellow, Candlish might have been made peaceable enough by add ing a bishop’s mitre to his stature; Dr. Chalmers might have been smoothed down with apostolic unction from the hands of a true successor of the Apostles; and the bully Cunningham might have been taught to speak softly and reverently of the dignitaries by making him one himself. Yes, Mr. Afieck, the problem that baffled King Charles and Laud, and the last James and Lauderdale, I could have solved had I been permitted. I could have tamed the wildness of the Presby terian monster, and made it a docile draught-animal in the car of state. But I have been prevented by the insolence of office, and particularly by the fatuous stupidity of Sir Robert Peel. On his

head then be the blame ; I wash my hands of it.”

“If I was you, Mr. Bacon, I wad put everything richt at Auchterbardie, and let Sir. . Robert Peel and the Kirk o’ Scotland fecht doug fecht bane.” This broad hint sobered the philo sopher, and made him dull and taciturn for the rest of the voyage.' He sat in moody silence, chewing the bitter cud of his reflections, while Robin and Neddie gave the contents of their stomachs to the fishes of St. Andrew’s Bay. They landed in the course of the day at one of the northern seaports, and pursued their journey inland to Auchterbardie. The country they traversed was so bleak and barren, that Robin Afleck began to doubt if the land of promise he had pictured to himself and Jean Brown would be found flowing with milk and honey after all. But by-and-by they reached a more inviting district. The dreary tracks of moorland gave place to wooded knolls and cultivated hollows, in which the land seemed tolerably rich. On many fields crops were still standing, and displayed an appearance that gratified Robin’s practised eye ex ceedingly. But the villages were few, the farm houses widely scattered, and the labourers’ cottages of the meanest description. Here and there was seen a church of toy-like smallness, and generally in bad repair. The ruins of ancient castles were pretty numerous, and a chance old turretted mansion, still in a habitable state, now and then came into view. One of these was seen far to the westward, as the sun was near setting. Pointing towards it, Mr. Bacon said—“ Yonder is Auchter bardie,” and Neddie was sent forward to announce the Laird's approach to his land-steward or grieve, Mr. Roderick M'Corkle. (To be continued—commenced on July z 6.)

THE ASHBURTON HERALD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1880.



Wanted. WANTED— SITUATIONS as Nurses or General Servants, by two re spectable girls, lately arrived by Crusader. Apply office of this paper. 986 c WANTED— Two GENTLEMEN to Board in the house of a private family, unexceptional reference regarding the cuisine. Address, X.Y.Z., office of this jjaper. 987 c WANTED, a YOUNG GIRL, to assist in housework.- Apply at once to the Herald office. 975 c WANTED, a good GENERAL SER VANT. Apply to Mrs. S. Saun ders. 9760 WANTED KNOWN. SOMERSET LIVERY AND BAIT STABLES. JW. M'RAE begs to inform the , public that he has taken the above Stables from Mr. Bossenberg, and is making extensive repairs. Buggies and saddle horses on hire. Lowest prices and best attention. 908c—286g SMeaEggaggggogaßyaKßHMaMi «iwncirm.--*»aßncp Meetings- NOTICE. a MEETING of the ASHBURTON A EIRE POLICE will be held on WEDNESDAY NEXT, at Mr. W. H. Gundry’s office, at 3 p.m, W. H. ZOUCH, 990 c Hon. Secretary. ASHBURTON RACING CLUB. A SPECIAL MEETING of the Com mittee ef the above Club will be held at Quill’s Hotel, on TUESDAY, October 12, at 4 p.m. Business : To consider the amended programme. JAMES WILKIE, 988 c Hon. Sec. THE ASHBURTON TOWN HALL COMPANY (LIMITED). A N EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL A MEETING of the Shareholders in the above Company will be held in the Town Hall, Ashburton, on TUESDAY, the 19th day of October, 1880, at 8 o’clock in the Evening, for the undermentioned purposes : . i. To consider the advisability or other wise of increasing the nominal value of shares. 2. To consider the advisability or other wise of reducing the quorum of shareholders necessary to be present at meetings before business can be transacted. 3. To regulate the election and retire ment of Directors of the Company and their powers and business. Dated this 9th day of October, 1880. THOS. BULLOCK, 991 c Chairman of Directors.



Ecclesiastical. WESLEYAN CHURCH. PUBLIC SERVICES will be lield in the Wesleyan Church, Ashburton, on SUNDAY, October 10, 1880, sit Eleven and Half-past Six o’clock, on behalf of the Home Mission Fund. Con ducted by the Rev. J.*H. Simmonds, of Timaru. Also, on WEDNESDAY Evening, October 13. at Half-past Seven o’clock, a PUBLIC MEETING will be held in the Church, for the same object, and Addresses given by the Revs. J. B. Richardson, W. Beck, and others. Collections will be taken at each Ser vice on behalf of the Wesleyan Home Mission Fund. 954 c HORSE CARDS. JJ ORSE CARDS of all sizes printed at the office of this paper.



Quill and Co. To STATION-HOLDERS, LANDED PROPRIETORS, FARMERS, CATTLE - DEALERS, AND THE RESIDENTS IN ASH BDRTON AND SURROUND ING DISTRICTS. Messrs. Quill & Co., AUCTIONEERS, STOCK, LAND, & ESTATE AGENTS, SAUNDERS’ BUILDINGS, Ashburton, 'll) EG to announce to station-holders, landed proprietors, farmers, cattle dealers, and residents in Ashburton and the surrounding districts, that they have COMMENCED BUbINESS in the above line ; and, from their long experience in the various departments, feel assured that all commissions en trusted to them will be conducted satis factorily to their patrons. Sales will be held as required, at the Salerooms and Yards in Ashburton, or any part of the district. They will also hold a Regular Sale of STOCK, LAND, FARM PRODUCE, FURNITURE, and GENERAL MERCHANDISE, at their Rooms, every Saturday, particu lars of which will be duly advertised. The interest and the support of sellers and buyers are respectfully solicited. Cash Advances made on all classes of Goods placed in their hands for sale. For particulars of Sales pleas© see advertisements. AUCTIONEERS, SAUNDERS’ BUILDINGS, Ashburton. 284g-960c*



Lost. LOST —On Monday morning last, a claret colored WOOLLEN SHAWL. Anyone returning the same to this office will be rewarded. 977 c Public Notices. WAKANUI ROAD DISTRICT. PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that it is the intention of the Wakanui Road Board, at a meeting to be held on SATURDAY, Oct. 23rd, 1880, to Strike a RATE of NINE PENCE in the pound on the rateable value of all property in the District for the year ending the 31st day of December, 1880, payable in one sum on and after MONDAY, the Bth day of November, 1880, and that the rate book is open for inspection at the Board’s Office, Moore street, Ashburton. FOOKS & SON, 295g-992c Surveyors &c., to the Board. 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 in the Australasian Colonies. The best office for young men. Profits divided every three years. Offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Wellington, and Hobart Town. 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—The National Mutual. 169n-218c BRANSON & PURNELL, BARRISTERS AND SOLICITORS, EAST STREET, 394 FORMS PRINTED “To Let” and “ For Sale ” —can be obtained at the Herald Office. WASTE PAPER for Sale, 3d. per lb. at the Herald Office. Apply early. 590



For Sale. FOB, 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.H.W.,” Herald Office. 798 c



T. Bullock. fjpHE Undersigned begs to intimate to former constituents and settlers generally that he has RETURNED TO BUSINESS AS Auctioneer, Estate, AND GENERAL COMMISSION AGENT In the premises, EAST STREET, And at the BAZAAR, BURNETT STREET, Formerly occupied by him. Weekly Sales or PROPERTIES, MERCHANDISE, ETC., Will be held as formerly, ALSO, SALE of HORSES AT THE HORSE BAZAAR, BURNETT STREET, SAME DAY, and intends holding periodical sales of Wool and Grain During the ensuing season. Will also attend the usual Fortnightly Stock Sales AT TINWALD, AND AT THE COUNTY SALEYARDS, When opened. 934 C T. BULLOCK



FOR SALE—CHEAP. FOUR SECTIONS in one block— viz., 502, 5C3, 510, 511, situated in Tin wald. Small deposit cash : balance by instalments. For sale or to let, with a PURCHASING CLAUSE, 439 Acres, all fenced, and partly improved situated in Walcanui 266 ~ A compact Farm, all fenced, •well-watered, and partly in English Grass. Improve ments consist of a comfortable Five-roomed Cottage, Stable, Stockyard, &c., &c. 220 ~ All fenced, partly improved and well-watered. 360 ~ All fenced, and a portion of it in English Grass. 50 ~ Near the above, will be sold very cheap. 65 ~ About Three Miles from the - Town of Ashburton. 150 „ Near the above, and adjoining Mr. George Aston’s 290 ~ About Six Miles from Ash burton. 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. TO LET, A Four-roomed COTTAGE, situated on the North Town Belt, opposite the High School Site. Commodious BOARDING-HOUSE in East Street. Shop and Office in East Street. That convenient SHOP, situated in the Triangle, Wakanui lioad, now in the occupation of Mr. Lublow, tailor. SHOP or BOARDING-HOUSE, situated in Burnett Street, opposite the Mm Office, and lately in the occupation of Mr. Dufrates. Apply, 571c-186g T. BULLOCK.



Money. MONEY TO LEND. Trust moneys—£2, ooo, £4OO, and £250. These sums are now ready for investment on real security, at current rates of interest. .• • • F. P O’REILLY, 890c-220g Solicitor, Tailored street. Sporting. SH BURTON RAGING CLUB. ANNUAL MEETING. WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, November, 17 and 18, 1889. FIRST DAY. 3 t. Handicap Hurdle Race of 50 Jsovs. Distance, 2 miles, over 8 flights of about 3ft. 6in. high hurdles. Nomination 1 sov.; acceptance 2 sovs. 2. District Handicap Hurdle Race of 20 sovs. Distance, IYz mile, over 6 flights o f about 3ft. 6in. high hurdles. Nomination 1 sov.; acceptance I sov. District horses only. 3. Ashburton Gup Handicap of 70 sovs., added to a sweepstake of 5 sovs. each for acceptor'. domination, 2 sovs.; ac ceptance, 2 sovs. 2 miles. 4. Ladies’ Purse, of 25 sovs.; welter weights for age ; gentleman riders, who must be members of the Ashburton Racing Club. Entrance 2 sovs. 1 '/■ mile. District lio: s-'\s only. 5. Selling Hack Race, of 10 sovs. No weight under Bst. Winner to be sold by auction immediately after the race for any surplus to go to the fund. Post entry, 1 sov. ; about 1X mile. / - SECOND DAY.' > 1. County Steeplechase Handicap of 30 sovs. : over 2 miles of fair hunting countiy ; nomination 1 sov. ; acceptance 2 sovs. District horses only. 2. Racing Club Handicap, of 50 sovs. : nomination 2 sovs. ; acceptance 2 sovs. ; : Weights to be declared at 9 p.m. on the evening of the first day’s racing : l? 4 miles. 3. Farmers’ Plate of 30 sovs. : weight for age ; entrance 2 sovs. ; 1 mile. 4. Consolation Handicap of 20 sovs. : for all horses beaten at this meeting ; nomina tion 1 sov. ; acceptance 2 sovs.; I mile. 5. Trotting Race (Handicap), of 15 sovs.: (Isthorse, 10 sovs; 2nd horse, 5 sovs.) Catch weights ; 3 miles ; nomina tion 10s. ; acceptance l sov. District horses only. Rules and Regulations. Qualification fee £2 2s. ; members of the Ashburton Racing Club fiee. No entry will be received for any of the races except on the condition that all dis putes shall be decided by the Stewards, whose decisions in all cases shall be final. A district horse shall mean a horse which has been commonly resident in, and owned by a resident in the County previous to Sept. 1, 1880. and up to the date of the forthcoming meeting; provided always that any district horse shall not be disqualified from having run in his bona fide owner’s name in races outside the County during the above-mentioned term. Canterbury Jockey Club rules strictly adhered to unless otherwise specified. No protest will be entertained unless L2 2s be deposited, which will be forfeited should the protest, in the opinion of the Stewards, prove frivolous. All entries and nominations to be in the hands of the Secretary, addressed to Quill’s Commercial Hotel, not later than nine p.m. on Tuesday, November 2nd. Weights will be published on Saturday, November 13th. Acceptances and Sweeps to be paid to the Secretary not later than nine p.m. on the night of Monday, November 15th. All entries to be sealed and addressed to the Secretary, Ashburton, enclosing entrance fees, name and age of horse, and colors of the rider. Any jockey riding in other than his declared colors will be fined one sovereign. Horses walking over will receive only half the stakes. JAMES WILKIE, Hon. See] 275 g



THE “ CRUSADER” is afloat for Lyttelton, with, a large consignment of all kinds of Material for GENTLEMEN’S CLOTHING for Alex, craighead • & too., About which we shall have some thing to say in this space when the Goods are delivered. A. Craighead & Co., Merchant Tailors, TANCRED STREET, (Next Orr & Co.) PERFECT FIT GUARANTEED. 982a-4460 TEN PER CENT. DISCOUNT AT EVERETI BROS & CO. HAVELOCK STREET, E. B. and Co. will give 10 per cent. Dis count, or, in other words, will take off TWO SHILLINGS for every Pound’s worth of goods purchased. TERMS-CASH. ' From this day, October sth, until further notice. ... r „ •» , * .. EVERETT BROS. & CO. 505 c ■pNVELOPES, NOTEPAPER, EN VELOPES, NOTEPAPER.—The cheapest ever offered in Ashburton, at-the Herald Office, 'Wholesale Stationery Depot, Saunders* Buildings.



Business 176 bices. ' c *’ <5 ; 'B~ THIS ADVERTISEMENT SHOULD BE CAREFULLY READ AND RE MEMBERED BY EVERYONE IN TERESTED IN FENCING. THE PATENT OVAL SAMSON FENCE WIRE ETas now been before the public for four years, and during that time 5,000 TONS HAVE BEEN SOLD Giving very great satisfaction, in proof of which we hold numerous testimonials from well-known colonists ; and' the demand is daily increasing to such an extent, that numerous spurious imitations have lately been introduced in the various markets of Australia and New Zealand, for the sole purpose of damaging the reputation of the Patent Oval Samson Wire. The Samson Wire By using the Patent Oval Fence Wire you get a better and cheaper fence than any other, and the best proofs are the mitations already referred to. comprehensive circular as to its advantages, with numerous testimonials from well-known colonists, will be posted to any address on application ■ : •' | The state Forests of Victoria are fenced, with the Patent Oval Samson Fence Wire; the one at Dookie is, without doubt, the best Wire Fence in Australia, and people come from great distances to see it. PRICES GREATLY REDUCED The public, when purchasing, are there fore cautioned to see that each coil bears a tin tally thus : v : - PAT ENT OVAL SAMSON WIRE, IN' OVAL ; And the Patentee’s Tally .or Trade Mark:— . M B X V:A-Vc r \, R - IN PADLOCK. Manufactured by the Whitecross Wire Company, Warrington, England. : y Was patented and introduced four years ago in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, and New Zealand ; and the principal claim set fourth was itsbeingmade Oval to prevent fraud. Yet, in the face of these patents, firms—many of respecaltry standing—have, for the sake of n paltry commission, lent themselves to the intro duction of various spurious imitations, which render them liable to actions at law, and annoyance and disappointment to the users. We would point out to intending pur chasers that any person erecting Oval Wire Fences, other than the Patent Oval Sam son, renders himself liable for damages, The Patent Acts on this point'are very explicit ; therefore, after this notice no excuse can be made. We have had instances brought under our notice where seme persons have been so un principled as to mix the Spurious Oval Wire amongst the Patent Oval Samson.in order to make a sale, and damage the the reputation of the genuine article. We have a great aversion to take legal proceedings in this matter, but shall be compelled to, in self-defence, unless these practices are at once stopped.



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