Page 1 Advertisements Column 4

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 957, 31 May 1883, Page 1

Business Notices. MERCANTILE UNION INSURANCE COMPANY (LIMITED). CAPITAL £250,000. Twenty Per Cent, of Profits Divided Annually among the Policy Holders. LOWEST RATES OF PREMIUM. STACKS, BARNS, AND AGRICULTURAL RISKS GENERALLY, on most Favorable Terms. Special Notice. —As this Company has been the means of Reducing Fire Premiums, Insurers will best consult their own interests by. heartily supporting it, and so prevent a return to the Old Rates. Agents for Ashburton and District, ORR & CO, : 13n William Patching, rpENT, TARPAULIN, & HORSECLOTH MANUFACTURER W. P. has always on hand a large stock of Tents, Tarpaulins and Horsecovers, Waggon and Trap Tilts, etc,, Men’s and Boys’ Oilskin Suits, Canvas, Calico, American Duck, Drill, etc.; Clothes, Garden, and Plough Lines; Flax, Manilla, and Hemp Rope, of all sizes. Wood and Iron Blocks always in Stock. REAPER & BINDER CANVASES CHEAPER THAN THE IMPORTED ONES. N.P —Reaper and Binder Canvases Repaired at Low Rates. Flags of all Nations Made to order or Lent on Hire.

the Address— WILLIAM PATCHING, East Street, Ashburton. 530 e CANTERBURY BRANCH. '//? uses m vs :-*£■ m■f'itr. *>• 1 i LL-Jr 'mm. ESTABLiSMCD !859. CAPITAL t 1,000,000 ' 'irro LfaaiLmroFShareholders : (JIHE PREMIER COLONIAL COMPANY. FIRE AND MARINE RISKS TAKEN AT THE LOWEST p CURRENT RATES. ASHBURTON AGENT— George Jameson. 24

D MoFARLA n e a (Late Guard N.Z. Railways), Regs to inform his numerous friends that he has taken over the GROCERY BUSINESS lately carried on by Mr James Baker, and hopes to merit a fair share of the patronage hitherto accorded to his predecessor. All goods will be of the Best Quality, and will be sold CHEAP for CASH. Cash Purchaser of Fresh Butter and Eggs, Note the Address— D. MeEarlane . (Late James Baker), HAVELOCK; STREET. [286

TO EMPLOYERS, STATION HOLDERS, FARMERS, HOTELKEEPERS, CONTRACTORS, AND OTHERS. Parker’s OLD ESTABLISHED LABOR EXCHANGE, Armagh street west, Christchurch. ' ; The beet,Office in Canterbury for'Employers to meet with good Male and Female Servants. First Private Enquiry Office for discovery of Missing Friends and Next of Kin. Communications from all parts of the colony punctually attended to. Address communications to J. JULIUS PARKER, Agent, 118 Market Place, Christchurch. Cl N'RMURRAY'^ 4 a M rnAKE TIME BY THE FOR ± LOCK.” The circumstances of social life are widely different in these colonies from those at Home, and therefore the colonial market requires different treatment. This fact Robert Murray, PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER, East street, Ashburton, was not long in learning after his arrival on these shores, and ,he at once set his attention upon supplying WATCHES, which, while constructed with every regard to accuracy and reliableness in time-keeping, are also supplied with extra heavy cases, to resist the wear and tear of colonial life. He has just received another , supply of watches, and invites attention to prices. Celebrated Englisn levers, made expressly for R. Murray, specially suited for colonial wear, with extra heavy cases, all the latest improvements, at L 6, L 6 6s, L 6 10s ; higher classes, L 7, L 8 10s, HO 10s, and Ll2 12s; Rotherhams, L 6 10s; Printed guarantee with each watch sold.’ Attention is called to the Clocks; Jewellery, and English Plate in stockj and to the fact that aU kinds of REPAIRING are done on the premises and GUARANTEED.

George Lea, jgUILDBR AND CONTRACTOR. Estimates and Plans furnished Opr all kinds of Brick, Stone, or Timber Buildings. Funerals furnished at moderate prices. Workshops—Cameron at west. 812

Monuments, headstones, & CHURCHYARD CROSSES, Made from e handsome and onduring Stone of 1 ' District, either Red or White. Designs submitted. Prices moderate. Inscription accurate and neat. All Goods carefully packed and put on the Railway at Anama Station. A. Pollock, ARCHITECTURAL STONE CARVER, Moust Somers. 382

Geo. Booth & Sons, Manufacturers and importers of AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. CARLYLE IMPLEMENT WORKS, Sydenham (near Christchurch). Makers of Carlyle Iron Windmills Carlyle Seed Strippers Carlyle Improved Disc Harrows Carlyle Drays, Tip Carts, Spring Traps, &c. Ploughs, Harrows, Cultivators, Broadcast Sowers, &c. Sole Agents for RANSOME’S STEAM THRESHING MACHINERY. Offices and Stores—--213 Tuam street, Christchurch.. Postal Address—P.O. Box 89, Christchurch. 473 e

R. MURRAY’S SHOP is CON 4 SPIOUOUS by the “ REGULATOR ’’ of hia own manufacture which occupies a place in his window, and serves as an authority on mean, time to the town. Watches free and: safe b r ' post on receipt of P. 0.0 730c-96d lj Office of t 1,, AOT r; 1881, on Sale at this Paper

H E H : ’A R V E S T. . OWNERS of THRESHING MACHINES are reminded that Receipt and; Delivery Books, for Machines are printed expeditiously and cheaply at the Office flf this Paper. next TatterflaH’a, West stree' J