News in Brief.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXI, Issue 6205, 27 February 1904, Page 2

News in Brief.

The Ashburfcod Hardware Company have bargains in fishing tackle.

Mr F. Ferriman reporbs the sale of town section 1170 and dwelling thereon, oa account of Mr Lawrence, to a client.

The Rangitata, Rakaia, and Waitaki rivers are fishable.

.The National Mortgage and Agency Go. will of er at the liakaia yards several largp lines of sh,e.ep and lamb,3, as per adrertia3: ment.

The Ashburton Cownfcy Stock and Sa'e r yards Co. Ltd., announce that their annual ram and P, w<? foir VfU *>P. held at Tinwal4 on 1? rsdoy, Marpft 25f/h,

Mr Patrick O'Gonnof requests us £o state that he was not the defendant in the civil case Thomas v O'Connor, heard at the Court yesterday.

The vital statistics of Christohurch and suburbs for 1903 were :—Estimated population 50,558, births registered 1353, deaths 571, number of deaths to every 1000 of the the population 11.29.

The Tinmru Harbour Board has decided .to offer tlieir' Samson crane for sale for •JBI&QD. '' ....... ,

A traction engine ownfjr and driver we?e each fined 10s ""at Timaru yesterday for havjng driven an engine vfitljoot being licensed.

St. .John's Fr^sbjrtejrian Church, Wglling.bn, has'#pjied tp fntr,9dnc§ eominunion gups..

it fe understood that Mr Geo, Jameson^ Mostya Estate at Sppingston has been disposed of privately afc a satisfaptory figure.

Mr Studholme, of Waimatp, has recently imported a thoroughbred Clydesdale stallion which arrived in Wellington, par the Turakina, on Monday last.