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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XVIII, Issue 4366, 8 December 1897, Page 2

A new half-penny stamp is being issued by South Australia. The Socialists of Wellington propose organising a league in that city. •• In describing a wedding a Wanganui paper says that the marriage service was "ably conducted." Some of the opposuma which were ordered from Tasmania b^ the Premier have arrived, < and others have yet to come. " ' i The costs of water for the Wellington | Hospital is £247 a year, and some of the trustees think there should be a rebate on this amount.

The Cine in some parts of the north of N«w South Wales has been attacked by a small black-headed grub whioh bores into the plant underground and kills ib.

People justifiably complain of the cost of carriage in New Zealand. An instance juat given is that of a few disc a for a disc harrow, which, being of the value of 15s or 16s, cost over 8* for transport from Christohurch to Hawera. A judgment creditor, when explaining his financial position at the Magistrate's Court, Wellington, said that a man who had to keep a wife and five children in a place like Wellington did not have very much left out of a salary of £2 per week.

Mr Alexander Milne, the Government ordinance artificer, inspected the arms and accoutremeuts of the Ashburton R flea on Tuesday evening. In no company whose arms are subject to his inspection has he found, he says, the arms so well kept as those of the Ashburton Rifles. The rifhs are in perfect condition—as good, in fact, in every particular as when they first reached (new from the factory) the hands of the young men whose pride it is apparently to maintain them in show order.

An amusing incident (says the N.Z. Times) GccuTed in connection with Mr Buchanan's banquet on Saturday, when a oonsoientions doorkeeper refused admittance to Mr Scobie Mackenzie, M. S.R., who arrived on the scene unarmed with a ticket of admission. Mr Mackenzie is alleged to have said: " Don't you know who I am ' I am Mr Scobie Mackenzie, and I have come to speak at this banquet." The doorkeeper's reply was shortly as follows:—" Well, I don't know you from a bar of soap, and you don't get in without a ticket." Somebody came to the rescue just then, and the senior member for Dunedin City was passed in.

Just in Time fob Christmas.—ln order to keep " up-to-date" with our steadily increasing business we have decided to effect considerable alterations to our premises, and to make room for the builders we have resolved to greatly reduce our stock before Christmas. We have therefore culled a large quantity of our Tweeds and Worsteds, eto, to clear at the following reductions :—Men's suits to measure, usual price 90s. now 70s; Men's trousers, usual prica 265, now 15s od; etc. We have also pleasure in notifying that we have just been appointed agents for the famous " British Lion' and " Waverley" Bicycles (both gents' and ladies'), which we are now selling with all the " up-to-date " improvements at the lowest cash prices, or on the most liberal terms to suit the convenience of our customers. (Every machine guaranteed).— Craighead and Berryman, the leading Tailors and Outfitters.