POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Mails close at the Ashburton Post Office, as follows :

For Christchurch and North at 10.20 a. m. 4.30 p.m., and 8 p.m., daily. For Chertsey at 10.20 a.m daily. For Rakaia at 10.20 a.m and 4.30 p.m daily. For Dunedin, Timvald Winslow, Hind s , Coldstream, Rangitata, Orari, Winchester, and Geraldine, at 10.20 a.m, daily. For Temuka. Timaru, and South at 10.20 a.m and 3.30 p.m daily. For Greenstreet, Ashburton Forks, Mount Somers, and Ashburton Gorge on Tuesdays and Fridays at 10.30 a.m For Ashton, Waterton, and Longbeach. at 3.15 p.m. dlily. For Wakanui and Seafield, on Mondays and Thursdays, 7.30 p.m. W. St. G. Douglas, Postmaster.

The Ashburton Herald AND Borough and County Advertiser (With which is incorporated the “Evening Echo”). MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1880.

Ashburton and JRakaia Forks Rail way.—The company owning This railway have made arrangements with the Govern ment to work the line, and Mr. Back expects to be able to commence running next week.

Good Templary. —Mr. Robert Elston has been elected District Deputy of this district, by a majority of votes over Mr. Knud Sr. lido.

Sunday Trading. —Owing to the Christ church P.M. having decided that Charles the 11. ’s Act for the better observance of the Sabbath is inoperative in this colony, th 9 Christchurch fruit and lollipop sellers had a field day on Sunday, and did a roar ing trade.

Temperance Lecture. —The Pev. Dr. Roscby, LL.D., of the Congregational Church, Dunedin, the Grand Worthy Chief Templar of the colony, will deliver a lecture to-night on temperance, in the Town Hall Apart from the rev. gentle man’s position as the head of the Templar Order, he is at once a scholar and an orator, and his lecture, which is free, will certainly be worth hearing.

The Registration of Electors. — Appointments of Registrars under The Registration of Electors Act, 187ffi” have been made, and will be gazetted early next week. Mr. Treadwell and the Land Com pany. — -Mr. Treadwell, the gentleman who was so emphatically snubbed by the Auckland Land Board, has boon ex pelled by the Christchurch Co-operative Land Company, and his letter to the Land Board denounced as a misrepresen tation of the company. A Big Difference. —At the last meet ing of the Mount Somers Road Board the tender of Mr. Wm. Howson, con tractor, was accepted at L 378 for addi tions to the Board’s office and cottage. He failed to take up the contract, and the next lowest, Messrs. Nelson and Coutts, at L4BO, was then accepted. The latter linn are now busily engaged with some 12 carpenters in the erection of the Dromore goods shed.

Rakaia Railway Bridge. —As the Saturday night train approached the Rakaia bridge the danger signal was observed to be shown, and the train was stopped. It was discovered that the bridge had taken fire, probably from the use of Malvern coal, but before any serious damage had been done the gate keeper had extinguished the fire. It would be as well if the railway authorities adopted the same precautions on this bridge as they have on the Ashburton one, viz., erecting a couple of tanks, and leading the water ly pipes, with taps at intervals along the ivhole length, and buckets near the taps. There is no doubt a great risk, in such dry, hot weather as we are now experiencing, of serious damage to the bridge by fire, as the wood work is as liable to ignite as tinder. An other correspondent who crossed in a trap this morning says the damage must have been very slight, as he saw no sign of a fire on the structure.

A Wonderful Stroke of Business. — A gentleman in Auckland (says the local “ Herald ”) has received a letter from a relative in England giving an account of a clever and daring business stroke. The writer, who dates from Liverpool, says : “ We have had great excitement in the cotton market. A German Jew, called Ranger, bought, some months ago, all the cotton in the United States that was likely to reach this port in October. He then went about in Liverpool, buying all the cotton to arrive from the local brokers. They sell cotton that has no existence, if they think it a good speculation, trusting to buy in a lower market, and so hundreds and thousands of bales are sold daily that have no existence Mr. Ranger bought from all who would sell, with the promise that the delivery would take place in October. When October came, and the cargoes began to arrive from America, the brokers found that they could not make purchases, that the cargoes were disposed of, and were not for sale. Mr. Ranger then called upon the brokers to fulfil their con tract to him, failing which, he would execute the penalty for non-delivery. They found that no one had cotton except Mr. Ranger, and they were obliged to go to him to buy in order to sell to him again. The delivery under these contracts was to take place before noon on Oct. 31. During the last days in October the ex citement was terrific, and the Exchange on the last day of the month was a little Babel itself. A place about the size of the Albert Bar rack square was filled with a clamorous excited multitude, shouting and hollowing at the top of their voices, just like the m>b on Derby Day, when the horses are first seen rounding Tattcnham cor ner. In all this whirlpool of excite ment Mr. Ranger was a calm as Jupiter. He clears LI 50,000. He is a short, thickset man, with a firm determined chin, not a happy face. He has the telegraph wire alongside his bed, from which lie can send messages and news all over the world.”

South Rakaia Assessment Court.— A sitting of the above Court was held at the Road Board office, South Rakaia, on Saturday, Feb. 21, before F. Guinness, Esq., R.M. Mr. A. Makeig, secretary to the South Rakaia Road Board, ap peared to object on behalf of the Board to the roll in to to, on the grounds of its being incomplete and irregular. Mr. F. G. P. Leacli, the compiler of the roll, ap peared to refute objections. After a short argument the objection made by Mr. Makeig was withdrawn. The roll, how ever, being found to be incomplete, liis Worship ruled that it had been proved that no valuation list had been prepared as required by the Act, and under pro visions of clause 28 of said Act, ordered a valuation list to be made, and appointed Mr. F. G. P. Leach to be the valuer for the district without remuneration. Thursday, March 11, was fixed for the date for com pletion and inspection of such list ; the last day upon which objections to said valuations could be received to lie Mon day, March 20, and the Court then ad journed till Monday, April 5.

The Communists at Auckland.— The French people who arrived at Auckland by the Griffin from New Caledonia are in gieat tribulation over the refusal of the owner of the vessel to deliver their luggage unless they pay the charges, which, it is alleged, ho now mentions for the first time. The difficulty is likely also to lead to an action for assault. It seems that Mr. Peltzer has befriended his unfortunate compatriots in many ways since their arrival, and on hearing of Mr. Bishop’s demand he went down to the vessel and interviewed the captain. He expressed his opinion in vigorous terms, and he avers that the'owner assaulted him

l >y pushing liim off the vessel besides making use of threatening language towards him. The facts will come out in due time.

A Curious Indian Mask. —Dr. Hitch cock of Tucson, Arizona, has a curiosity in ail Indian mask for the face. It was found about eight miles out of Tucson It is carved in wood and is a work of art in its way. It is decorated by engravings in the form of vines and armour plates, with a modern cross on the chin and another on the forehead under a crown. Across the eyes is a dense mass of white hair projecting down somewhat after the present style called banged. On each cheek is a long tuft of hair also from the chin. This hair work is all drawn through from the inside, and is ingeniously done. The mouth is open and the stumps of two teeth are still visible, others are broken close. The whole is painted black, while the engraved lines show the white wood. Taken altogether it is the most hideous thing an Indian could invent. —“ Tucson Citizen. ”

Prehistoric Man in California Spearheads of an Early Race. —B. B. Redding, in tlie Reno “ Gazette,” urges the miners to carefully save all the curiosi ties they may find. He speaks of the spears of the earlier rices, and says there arc two of those spear heads in the Smith sonian collection, one from the hydraulic mines of Calaveras county, and the other, numbered 7342, from Folsom, Sacramento county. This spear head was found, with a disk of slate, having a hole in its centre, on a ledge of granite at the bottom of the gold mines, twenty-three feet below the

present surface of the streets of the town of Folsom. About thirty feet below the streets of Folsom the miners found a bed of hard, salt water mud, filled with fossil oyster shells, and shells of the extinct crustaceans of what Clarence King calls the miocene ocean. This ledge of granite is a point from the foothills of the Sierra that jutted out into this ancient sea. Who were the people that hunted and fished along the foothills when die base of the Sierra was washed by the ocean ? Was the top of Diablo then an island 1 Or was die Sacramento Yalley an inland sea, like Puget Sound or the Black Sea ? It is not singular that more of tlie spear heads of these primeval people are not found, or that when discovered they should be found beneath the drift and boulders of our gold mines. If any were left on or near tlie present surface, and had been discovered by the ancestors of our present Indians, they would have been split into knives and arrow heads, for obsidian in any form was of the first necessity, and the most valuable materials in use until white men brought iron to the coast. So far as I can learn, there are five of these peculiar spear heads in public institutions, two at the Smithsonian, two in the pos session of Professor Cope, and one at Harvard. There are probably dozens in miners’ cabins, or ornamenting bar rooms in the mountains, or used as paper weights in village grocery stores in California and Oregon, which, if they could be gathered in some public institution, with the facts and history of their discovery, would go far to prove that mail made liis appearance on earth, and lived on this coast when the mastadon, elephant, cave bear and sabre tootlied tiger wandered among the foot hills of the Sierra, or, perhaps, earlier still, when the earth had so far evolved from hot chaos as to develop a climate that would give him food and provi le him with shelter.

An Arctic Arcadia.— About 250 years ago the Tsceuktsclii wei-e distinguished and gallant warriors. The discoverers have gathered a valuable assortment of the arms and armor of that period. Many of these implements are preserved among the families, whose habits are no longer aggressive. Very noticeable are tlieir cuirasses, carefully wrought out of mam moth ivoiy, and fashioned with a remark able resemblance to the old Roman panopty. The spears and bows are made of whale-bone, wood, and ivory, spliced and bound with the sinews of the reindeer, and showing an advanced perception of arctic ornamentation on the part of the makers. One hundred and fifty years ago the famous Russian, Colonel Panlovski commanded an expedition sent against them from Siberian settlements. In his first engagement with them he was badly worsted. He subsequently defeated them, but with heavy loss to his own troops, and has recorded much such a tribute to their valor as Pyrrhus bestowed upon the Italian legions which he overcame. Strangely enough, they have no Govern ment, no laws, and almost no religion, if any. A Russian starous is their nominal ruler, but has neither authority nor in fluence. Very little foreign clothing is employed by them, their vestments being almost exclusively of skin. The nation probably numbers 10,000 souls, of whom one-half inhabit the littoral between Tscliaun bay and Behring strait, and the other half dwell in the interior of the country. On the whole, it is im possible to imagine a more Arcadian race, though no philosopher ever 3’et expected to discover Arcadia so near the north pole. A people without chiefs and without criminals, experiencing no difficulty in the distribution of their joint exertions in fishing and hunting, whose solo sign of pride of wealth or fancy is the possession of a boat a little larger than ordinary, may well deserve the respect they have earned from Nordenskjold and liis party and prove fitting subjects for further ethnolo gical study.

TELEGRAPHIC.

TO-DAY’S CABLEGRAMS.

BRITISH & FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE The Rise in the Price of Wool ( Reuter's.) London, Feb. 20. The present scries of wool auctions to date show the following increases in the prices of [wool as compared witli last auction :—Greasy, lid to 2d, ; scoured, 2d. ; tleeces, lid. London, Feb 21. At to-day’s wool sales 9900 bales were offered. Prices were firmly maintained. The Duke of Argyle on the Afghan Policy. (Ai>e Special.) London, Feb. 21. The Duke of Argyle declares the Afghan policy of the British Government to be

deceitful, weak, cowardly, and a stain on the honor and prestige of England. The Orient liner Sorata sailed for Mel bourne on Saturday.

AUSTRALIAN.

Escape of Prisoners. {Renter's.) Sydney, Feb. 23.

Three prisoners effected their escape from Casiro gaol yesterday, by removing a sash in the wall. They secured the police's horses and got clear away. The police are now in pursuit.

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

IN TER PROVINCIAL.

Alburnias.

Gii.viiamsto'vvn, Fob. 23. Alburnia shares advanced 10s. This price is owing to a statement that gold has been found in the low level. The Catholic Archbishop. Archbishop Steins is visitingtheThames. Pie receives an address from the congrega tion and the Hibernian Society and Christian Doctrine Society. A very large congregation heard him preach yesterday. A Good Claim. Dunedin-, Feb. 23. Lamond’s chvin at Vinegar Hill, Cam brians, washed up COO ounces for three months’ working, dividing LSQO per man after paying expenses. . A Walking Match. In the seven-mile walking match be tween Claxton and M'Donnel, the former won in oGmin. 32sec. A Chinaman’s Legs Reaped Off. At Waikouaiti a Chinaman had both legs cut off by a reaping machine. Arrival. Arrived—The Corialanus, 98 days from anchorage to anchorage. She brings 39 passengers and 1700 tons of cargo. The passage was a mere yachting trip. The Sticking-up Case. Featherston and Murphy have been committed for trial for sticking-up at the Bald Hill Flat. The Dunedin Cup. The filial payment for the Dunedin Cup must be made before 8 pan. this day. No Dividend. The Standard Insurance Company’s re port states that owing to the depressed state of business, and frequent heavy losses, the company has been gradually diminishing its risks. No dividend is recommended. Net premiums received during the half-year, 1132,152 ; interest on investments, L34BC ; fire and marine losses, L29,G19,

LAST NIGHT’S CABLEGRAMS.

LATEST FROM EUROPE. [Reuter's). London, Feb. 20. At the wool sales to-day 8800 bales have been catalogued; there was a firm and active demand. In the House of Lords an important dis cussion took place on the Afghanistan question. The Duke of Argyle again at tacked the policy of the Government. The Premier replied, defending the course pursued, stating that Russia sought to embarass England in Asia. The duty of the Government was therefore to secure the gates of India. Until such had been achieved it was impossible to retire from Afghanistan, as anarchy still prevailed in the country. Berlin, Feb. 21. The German Government are taking active interest in the preparation of ex hibits for the Melbourne Exhibition, and are adopting steps to be adequately repre sented, and have determined to grant a liberal subsidy. Constantinople, Feb. 21. Colonel Lyngc, accompanied by his wife, who were engaged in relieving the refugees at Roumelia, have been captured by Greek brigands and threatened with death failing an adequate ransom. Galle, Feb. 21.

The P. and O. Company’s steamer Bangalore left here to-day with the in ward Suez mails.

(A rgus Special.) London. Feb. 31. Sir Garnet Wolseley has been appointed Quarter-master General at Whitehall. Wool firm , opening rates have advanced : greasy fleece lid., scoured 2d., cross breds 2d.

Carruther’s Honcywood won the Water loo Cup, runner-up Plunger ; Shepherdess the Purse, and Pebonnaire the Plate.

MPORE NATIVE OUTRAGES.

Threats of Violence.

The Hands Frightened Away from the Stations. The Settlers’ Sheep Shot. The Volunteers’ Targets Threatened. [_l3Y TELEGRAPH. | Napier, Feb. 23. Mr. Mills arrived in town on Saturday, and reported to the police that the Wan ganui natives had shot a number of sheep at Murimutu, belonging to Mr. Moore house, and had threatened to burn down the homestead. He stated that the whole of the hands had left the station owing to threats made by the natives, and that he was the last to leave. Murimutu is in the Wanganui police district, and no action can therefore be taken by Inspector Scully in the matter. Topea, the head chief of the Taupo lives at present in Napier. Not withstanding the threatening aspect of the natives, Walker Neville is just about to drive 4000 sheep on to land immediately adjoining that of Mr. Moorehouse. The Taharate natives have given Mr M'Master notice to leave his run, which he leases from them, within a week, under threats of violence if he refuses to comply with their demands. M‘ Master is now in town, and has reported the matter to the proper authorities. Even the rifle butts seem to be an offence in the eyes of the Maoris, They have removed some of the sand bags and other accessories, and doubtless they will next carry off the tar gets for private practice by' themselves. Major Routledge lias reported the matter to the Government, and awaits instruc tions before taking any action in the matter.

CORRESPONDENCE.

We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondents.

HYDROPATHY.

To the Editor- Sir, —I read with much interest Mr. Saunders’ exhaustive letter on hydro pathy in your Saturday’s issue. As there are others, like myself, in this township who would adopt the hydropathic system in preference to any other if they were sufficiently informed upon the subject, 1 would like to ask Mr. Saunders, through your columns, two questions : —l. Which is the most reliable work published on the subject; 2. Are there any doctors in the colony who practice hydropathy alone ? If Mr. Saunders w mid kindly answer these questions, or supply any other in formation relating to the subject, there are those, I am sure, in this district, who would feel grateful to him for so doing,—l am, Ac.,

W. H. PUDDICOMRE,

AMERICAN GRAIN RING.

To the Editor. Sir —Seeing a telegram recently in your paper that the American grain ring had bought up all surplus grain in America, could you inform me what amount of grain, Ac. As our harvest has been such an abundant one this year it would be a great benefit to this country to know the foundation of the said telegram, and as to the truth of it.—l am, Ac.,

Subscriber

Ashburton, Feb. 23, 1880. [The ring referred to is simply a large clique of American grain buyers, who buy up all the grain they can lay hands on and hoard it. This causes a fictitious scarcity, and consequently a fictitious' price. As to the truth of the telegram, we have no reason to doubt it. If the ring hangs together, extreme prices may probably be reached. If the ring col lapses, and the members of it. are com pelled to realise on their stocks of grain, of course a fall in price will undoubtedly follow on the market being flooded with grain. The estimated wheat crop of the United States for 18S0, is 500,000,000 bushels. The average value in Chicago is 3s. 2d. per bushel. — Ed. A. H.J

Drink’s Doings.

(From the North Devon Journal .)

It is a ghastly incident of this Christ mas time which we have to report as having happened at the village of Wear giffovd, near Bideford, by which one life has been sacrificed and another placed under the shadow of the gallows. It- was the life of a young wife, the mother of two children, and likely soon to have added a third ; and her murderer is her oivn husband and their father. We need scarcely add, so common is the case, that tho inspiration of this foul and unnatural crime was the drink—nothing but the drink ! But for it they had now been a happy family, enjoying all that heart could wish. Strong drink has made her a victim, their children motherless, and branded him as a murderer ! And this drink is an indulgence for which many good people plead, and say many soft things in extenuation and even in praise of it. When will our country rise as one man to declare war against this monster, which will surely ruin her if she do not crush out its life ? We need not dwell long on the circumstances of this tragedy, for they are but few. A gentleman and his wife, of the name of West, from Cornwall, have been living at Weargifford a little more than two years. They seem to have been of ample means, and lived in a style of much respectability. But he was known to be a drunkard, and they appear to have made no acquaintance of their own rank in society. Fond of his wife, and affectionate when he was out of his cups, he was a demon when the drink possessed him. In his frenzy he had many times threatened to shoot her, and she was known to have expressed her apprehension that he would some day do so ; but with a woman’s love and a woman’s weakness she persisted in running the lisk of her life rather than leave him. And her worst fears have been realised. It does not appear that there had been any quarrel between them on Saturday night ; lie had been drinking, but was somewhat in a frolicsome mood, and spent an hour or two with their maid-servants in the kitchen, where he induced his wife to join them, and some pleasantries passed between them. Little did the ill fated lady imagine that she had only a few short minutes to live ! Yet so it was. She retired to her bed-room, whither he followed her. No sound of quarrelling was heard, but an ejaculation from her once repeated, “ Oh Frank, don’t !” Then a rifle-shot, and all was over ? She sat in her chair a corpse, the blood flowing from the fatal wound in her neck. And there, stupefied with drink, it must be supposed, he remained with the dead body the rest of the night, while all besides in the house slept. The servant went in the movi i-ig with a cup of tea for her mistress, and found her sitting in the chair dead ! And the murderer—lie had gone to his workshop—to amuse himself, it may be, or to await the issue. And the issue came full soon ; and now in the hands of justice he is immured in a dismal cell, by and by to be exchanged for the murderer’s doom. Such is the tragic story—one of thousands of instances in which the same deamon' of drink is multi plying its victims every year. Are there none who will be moved to make the only atonement—if we may so speak—possible for the young life thus brutally destroyed, by breaking off from, and vowing eternal enmity to, that accursed habit to which, not in herself, but in him who had solemnly sworn to guard and protect her, she owes the unutterably cruel fate which has overtaken held

Value of the Berkshire Pig for Bacon.

_ American hams, lard, and bacon are con tinually increasing in favor among Euro pean consumers. Our markets are year by year widening, and local pork-packing establishments are beginning to appear in many places. It is evident the best way to send pork to market is not to crowd it in a fresh state upon any one place, but to properly prepare it, and so put it upou the markets of the world.

The growing competition of Americans in these products has caused considerable alarm emong English agricultural writers, one of whom, in a recent letter to the London ‘ ‘ Field,” contends that the theory of a large-growing pig being more profit able than the small fashionable breeds, is perfectly correct. He narrates the result of an experiment made by himself last year. He procured, early in the spring, three pigs, one of a small white breed, and of a stock which has regularly taken prizes at royal and other shows : another of a Tamworth breed, and a third of the ap proved Berkshire. The Berkshire pig was the only one of the three that proved profitable to keep for bacon purposes, for which, as farmers well know, a proper proportion of fat and lean is required. At eight months the Berkshire weighed 23G lbs. The writer goes on to remark that pigs which are intended for bacon should be allowed to run about for six weeks or two months after weaning, before they are put up to be fattened. One hundred and eighty pounds is a good size for bacon.

HOW TO MAKE A CHEAP GREEN HOUSE.

(Californian Paper.)

A small green-house in which to grow a few choice plants for the house, and for cut flowers in winter, is capable of giving a great deal of pleasure if only it is well caved for. But the trouble with most people is that their ideas are too large. They want what can be dignified with the title of a conservatory, and they build for looks instead of for utility. It is good to have a small, low roofed, well filled, cosy nook for plants, in which the rafters are wound with trailing vines, and the spaces between the larger plants are covered with bits of shining fein and moss-like licopodiums. It is, on the other hand, not desirable to be the owner of a vast dome-like, chilly space, glass walled and fit only for a few palms, dracenas and hardy begonias. Do not build for looks merely; consider the comfort of the plants you expect to grow. In country places, where land is plenty, •take an eastern exposure. The east side of a fence, shed or outbuilding, or of the dwelling-house, is a good location. If cheapness is an object, use rough timber, two by three scantling, and inch redwood for the walls and door, and ordinary hot bed sashes for the glass roof. Arrange the sashes, either so that they can be slid from the top, or so as to be lifted, with a prop underneath. The height at which the plant-tables should be placed varies, as it depends on the person who is ex pected to take cave of the plants. In a small green-house for a lady’s use three feet is enough, and the whole height of the green-liouse should not be over six or seven feet midway between ridge-pole and eaves. Plants undoubtedly do better in a low green-house. The floor may be covered with planking, but this is not necessary, as, if the soil is rounded up so as to allow the water to pass off readily, and is kept sanded and free from dried leaves, and rubbish, it makes an entirely satisfactory floor. In summer time it is a good plan to nail a three-inch slat to the front edge of the plant-bench, and fill it with tan-bark, or some similar substance, in which the pots of plants are plunged. This process keeps them at a more equable tempera ture than any other. In winter, however, this process is not only useless, but detri mental. Avoid giving too much water to plants during the colder mouths, and let them have all the light and heat possible. Stir the soil on the surface of pots oc casionally. Trim oft’ withering or de cayed leaves and flowers. Pinch back s oots which have grown too long and rambling, so as to keep well-shaped plants.

In city homes the cheap green-house is seldom possible owing to lack of space out of doors. It must be made a part of the house, and of course requires a degree of finish. Avoid too great a height, as this only adds so much more cold air for the sunlight to warm. We have seen a plant-box made on the roof of a wood shed, in tin’s city*, by the use of an old hot bed frame made of double thickness, and a space of three inches, filled with tan-bark, left between the outer and inner planks. During the recent cold spell an old carpet was thrown over the glass and the plants came through in safety.

THE STORY-TELLER.

MUTINY ON BOARD. By Lewis Hough. I commenced my medical career with exceptional disadvantages. My parents were dead, and I had not a friend or relative able or willing to help me ; I was cast entirely on my own resources, which were a diploma, a respectable wardrobe, and twenty pounds in cash—the balance of the capital that had sufficed for my education. Feeling desperately the neces sity of exertion, I applied to all sorts of people, rushing into the presence of big wigs, who ought not to be approached without proper introduction, and outrag ing them with demands for surgical em ployment. I should say I sometimes received as rpany as five snubs and rebuffs in a morning. At last I broke down in tlie presence of a haughty young admiralty clerk, who was perturbed and melted by my distress, when, on my ask ing him to tell me how I could get into the British Navy, he replied ; Suppose you apply on a pwupper form through the pwopper channel, Look here,” he said, calling me back ; leave your name and address surgeons are wanted for tilings sometimes in a hurry,” Two days afterwards I received a letter, informing nie that a surgeon was wanted for the Alccto, which was io sail fqr Sydney on the following Sunday with a cargo of convicts, and that if I applied in person at a place and hour named, and answered certain questions satisfactorily, there was little doubt but what I should get the appointment. • ’

Hon day, February 23, ISBO.I

■ THE ASHBURTON HERALD.



New Advertisements. A SH BURT ON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. President —E. G. Wright, Esq., M.H.R. "Vice-Presidents—J. E. Trevor, John Grigg, W. C. Walker, and Alfred Saunders, Esqs. Committee —Messrs. H. C. Jacobson, W. H. Collins, G. Smith, J. G. Anstee, J. Sealey W. T. Davidson, J. Orr, H. W. Charlton, J. Sim inonds, J. R. Chapman, T. Sealey, J. Coutts. Treasurer—A. H. Shury, Esq. Secretary—Stephen E. Poyntz. The First Show of the Society will be held on SATURDAY, MARCH 6th, ■ At the TOWN HALL. Admission up to 1 p.m. 2s Cd. „ After 1 p.m. Is. Competition for prizes open to the Public. N.B.—lt is particularly requested that all those who have articles suitable for competition, or exhibition only, will bring them forward, in order to make this, the first show, a success. Notice for space must be forwarded to the Secretary on or before March 3rd. Any information with respect to entries, &c., may be obtained from the under signed. STEPHEN E. POYNTZ, 474 g 33c Secretary. NOTICE. RATING ACT, 1876. "TT THE REAS, at a sitting ofthe Assess y\ ment Court for the Road District of WAKANUI held this nineteenth day of February, at Ashburton, before me, F. Guinness, Judge of the said Court, it was proved that no Valuation List had been prepared as required by the s.ud Act. Now, therefore, under the provisions of Clause 28 of the said Act, I order that a Valuation List be made, and I hereby appoint Francis George Parry Leach to be the Valuer for the said District, and I do further fix THURSDAY, the eleventh day of MARCH next, the day for the completion and inspection of such List, and that the last day for delivering objec tions thereto shall be the twenty-fifth day of March next. The Court will sit at ten o’clock in the forenoon on the third day of April next for the purpose of hearing and determining all objections to the Valuation List for the said District. FRANK GUINNESS, 79c Judge. LABOR MARKET. REGISTRY OFFICE FOR MASTERS AND SERVANTS, AT THE «EVENING HERALD ” OFFICE. Farmers requiring hands can engage men through the “ Evening Herald ” Registry for 1/- each, prepaid. LABORERS REQUIRING SITUA TIONS can engage through the “ Herald ” Registry Office by paying 1/-.



SERVANTS REQUIRING SITUA TIONS can get them by applying at the “Herald” Registry Office, and paying I/-- ENGAGEMENTS will be POSTED UP every day at 12 noon and 4 p.m., by numbers given to the applicants, who will learn the address on enquiring. SPECIAL or URGENT WANTS will be inserted in the “ Evening Herald ” in the registry column on payment of Six pence additional in advance, for each issue. Further Particulars on application at the “EVENING HERALD” REGISTRY OFFICE. SAUNDERS’ BUILDINGS, EAST ST., ASHBURTON. TIT ANTED, those in search of employ- W ment, to call and either enter their names at Herald Registry Office, on pay ment of Is. LABOURERS requiring work can secure first opening by applying early at Herald Registry Office, on pay ment of Is. SERVANTS requiring situations, call and get your names entered in the Herald Registry, Is. EMPLOYERS requiring any kind of laborers can engage through Herald Registry Office, on pay ment of Is. in ad vance. AVE you Lost Anything '! —Tell the finder through the Herald for a Shilling. If he is honest he will bring it to you without a reward, but you can bait a finder of shaky morals by a tempting offer of remuneration for his trouble. A 3 for a Shilling cash. V. R. mg rrOTICE —The “ Ashburton Herald’ ' a Gazette for all notices under the ebtors and Creditors Arts .. ... .



New Advertisements. LECTURE "Will be given by DR ROSEBY, L.L.D. G.W.C. TEM PLAR of NEW ZEALAND, IN TICE TOWN HALL, On MONDAY, FEBRUARY, 2.3 rd. Alfred Saunders, Esq., M.H.R., has kindly consented to take the Chair. Admission Free ! ! ! Doors open at 7.30. Commence at 7. 5320 , rp 0W N lIA LL, ASHBURTON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEB. 24th, 1880. PROFESSOR HUGHES WILL DELIVER HIS POPULAR LECTURE Entitled — “THOMAS MOORE,” Poet, Author, and Musician, Illustrated with MELODIES SUNG BY MISS. PAU LINE BEST, AND VIOLIN SOLOS BY PROFESSOR HUGHES. The net proceeds will be given to the suffering poor in Ireland, Professor Hughes having already forwarded the sum of L 59 14s. Gd. Doors open at 7.30, to commence at 8. Admission—3s., 2s. , and Is. Books containing words of the songs, Gd.



PIANOFORTES, Harmoniums, and American Organs for sale on de ferred payments, at the rate of 10s. per week. H. M. Jones, Stationer, Baring square. WANTED, a smart respectable YOUTH, about 15 ; must be trust worthy. Apply to H. M. J ones, Stationer, Baring square. 87c MONEY. £SO £m £250 ’ £SOO AND £IOOO. These sums are ready for immediate investment, on approved Freehold securi tics at current rates. Apply to THOMAS & BRUGES, Solicitors, 13c CHRISTCHURCH. NEW ZEMDHTD^RAILWAYS. DUNEDIN AUTUMN RACE MEETING At Forbury Park, 2Gth, 27th, and 28th February, 1880. SINGLE FADE Tickets will be issued on 23rd, 24th, 25tli, 20th, 27th, and 28th February next from all stations be tween Christchurch and Invercargill in clusive, with branches to Dunedin, avail able for the return journey up to and including Tuesday, 2nd March. WM. CONYERS, Commissioner of Railways. Commissioner’s Office, Dunedin, 10th Feb., 1880. 74c-528 BRANSON & PURNELL, BARRISTERS AND SOLICITORS, EAST STREET, CHRISTMAS Number Young Ladies’ Journal, London Journal, Family Herald, Family Reader, Boys’ Standard, Ac. Just arrived.* H. M. Jones, Sta tioner, Baring Square. OFFICE and Pocket Diaries for 1880 H. M. Jones, Stationer, Baring Square. NEW TAILORING ESTABLISH MENT. CRAIGHEAD A Co., MERCHANT tailors, HAYE opened those premises situated in Tancred street adjoining Messrs Orr and Co’s General Store. A SPLENDID ASSORTMENT OF TWEEDS, FANCY GOODS, Ac., Ac., JUST ARRIVED. Mr. Craighead’s experience as Hear Cutter in connection with First Class Tailoring Establishments in Edinburgh and San Francisco lias extended over a period of ten years, and from the immense success which has always attended his efforts to please, he is prepared to guarantee a perfect fit in every case. TANCRED STREET, (Next Orr and Cj.’s.) CRAIGHEAD A CO. 982 a NOTICE TO ADA r ERTISERS. All orders for insertion of advertise ments must be written legibly on the face of the advertisement. When no order is given the advertisement will be inserted until countermanded, and charged accord ingly. Orders to withdraw or replace advertisements must be sent in in writing hot later than 9 a. m. each day. All notices of Births, Marriages, or Deaths must be accompanied by the sig nature of the sender, as a guarantee of good faith. All advertisements and business letters to be addressed The Manager ; literary communications should be addressed to The Editor.



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