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Ashburton Herald, Volume I, Issue 213, 2 December 1878, Page 2

A private letter from San Francisco says:—“A move is on foot to impose a special tax upon all insurance companies, including Eastern offices. This would hit New Zealand offices hard. The underwriters will fight; but they take a more effectual plan of meeting s ich a proposal by making a purse and squaring the officials. This will be done. ” A Russian Yiew of it. —The Berlin correspondent of the London “Times” sends an extract from a letter in the “ Golos,” dated from Orenburg, the city forming the base for Russian military operations in Central Asia. The letter says:—“ The inhabitants of British India at this moment impatiently await the arrival of their Russian liberators. The hope of imminent emancipation from foreign yoke is universal in the country. The English, fearing' that the Russian host, bent upon freeing the Hindoo race, will thread their way through Afghanistan, are determined to anticipate their adversary, and to occupy the passes in advance. ” The Russian outposts, it is added, being only 700 miles distance from the Indian frontier, the possibility of a Russian invasion is constantly apprehended by the. frightened Englishman. Strangers coming to reside in Ashburton ire often at a loss to know which is the best Establishment to visit for the purchase of Drapery, Clothing, and House-furnishing Ironnongery, and General Stores. Orr & Co. iffer special advantages to the public that can be met with nowhere else in Ashburton. They keep at all times the largest and best-assorted Stock of every class of Goods, imported direct from the leading manufacturers at home, which beinr bought entirely upon cash terms, they are enabled to ofier goods of sterling value as cannot be equalled by any other house in the trade. Every article in stock is marked at the lowest price, from which no abatement is made <o that the most inexperienced buy their goods at the same puces as the best judge*,— Ady* i