News in Brief.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXI, Issue 6204, 26 February 1904, Page 2

News in Brief.

The Hon. W. Hall-Jones sailed for London yesterday by the Kaipara, The Eangitata, Rakaia, and Waitaki rivers are fishable.

The G-. H. Carson Cycle and Motor Works are selling lamps at low prices, as mentioned in their advertisement.

At the Christchurch Police Conrt on Thursday a youth was fined £2 and costs, or in default 14 daya' imprisonment, for putting his arm round a girl iv the street and kissing her.

Mr 11. Stephenson will offer at his mart to-morrow a quantity of furniture, chick wheit, potatoes, fruir, etc, also 30 stubblers, porkers and store pig?.

A line of particularly fine 1 fat lambs recently penned at the Gore yards was claimed to have been brought to that condition by feeding solely on ragwort.

Eleven thousand photographs, illustrative pp New sc-nery and life, were sent to various parts of the world last year by the Tourist Department.

Tenders are. invited by the Publio Works Department, Christehuroh, and will be received till noon of Thursday, March 10th, for repairs, pointing, etc., to the Ashbnrton Police Station,

Mr Oabb ha 3 been appointed regist/ar of dogs foe the Tinwald Town Board, iv place of Mr W. G. Biggs, resigned.