SOUTHERN NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 245, 13 October 1908, Page 5

SOUTHERN NEWS.

1 TLMARU BAND CONTEST. TIMARU, this day. Competitions in connection "with .the 1 second-class hand contest commenced last evening. The prizes in each easa were a gold medal and two guineas, ' first; silver medal and one guinea, second; and the maximum 90 points. Flugel horns (four entrants): R. R, Munro, (Timaru), SO, 1; W. "Wildemoth (Inver- ! ' cargill), 2. E flat cornets (five entrants): J A. McNish (Bluff Navals), 80, 1; A. Hos-, 1 ken (As-hburton Temperance), 76, 2. B t flat cornets (13 entrants): E. Sullivan, (Lyttelton), 85, 1; W. Wearne (Lyttel- ) ton), SO, 2; W. Taylor (Timaru), 79, 3. 1 SHEARING RATES. [ DUNEDIN, this day. The Otago and Southland Sheepowners' Association discussed the prices of. shearing for the ensuing season. of owners were opposed to any increase , in shearing rates on account of the low prices of wool and other causes. It was i decided, .therefore, to make no recom- , mendatdon, which means that 16/8 per j 100, with rations, for hand or machine, will .be paid as under the existing award. POLICE PENSIONS. WELLINGTON, this day. At a meeting of the Police Provident Board to-day pensions were granted as follows: Inspector MacDonneU (Napier), 33 years' service, £225 per annum; Constable A. Crozier (Palmereton North), 38 years' service, £104 per annum. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. WESTPORT, this day. The steamer Kaituna, on the voyage from Lyttelton to Greyrnouth, lost her propeller blades, and was towed to West- ' port roadstead by- the s.s. Charles Ed- > ward. She -will be brought into port by . a, ,tug this afternoon. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. WAIROA (Hawke's Bay), this day. The past winter has caused the greatest mortality yet known among the natives of this district.