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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1811, 20 March 1891, Page 2

ZEALAND RAILWAYS. EASTER HOLIDAYS, 1891, In connection with the above, Cheap Excursion Tickets will be issued at the undermentioned fares from 25th to 30th MARCH, inclusive, and will be available for Return up to and including 14th APRIL : From Ist Class. 2nd Class. Kingston to Dunedin 335. 225. Available either via Waimea or Invercargill. The time for which above Excursion Tickets are available may be extended to make them available for a further period of two weeks on payment of the difference between a single ticket and half the Excursion fare. Persons desiring an extension of time must apply at the station to which the excursion ticket was originally issued before the expiration of the ticket. BY ORDER. FOOTBALL CLUB. THE ANNUAL MEETING of Members of above Club (and others wishing to join) will be held on WEDNESDAY EVENING NEXT, 25th instant, at 8 o'clock, at M'Bride's Family Hotel. J. J. M BRIDE, Hon. Sec.

Through a misleading postal notice we stated last week that the outward 'Frisco mail would close here 011 Tuesday evening last. It appears, however, that the mail will not leave Dunedin until Wednesday morning next, and consequently will close at the Queenstown post-office on Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock. Our Skippers correspondent wires to-dayA miner, named Matthew Harney, while working in the Phienix mine, had the thumb and fore-finder of his right hand blown ott this morning by a charge of dynamite exploding whilst charging a hole." The sum of £8 4s (including £1 kindly returned f->r u.ie of the Garrison Hall) has l een forwarded to Dunedin, as the proceeds of the entertainment given by the local Brasß Band in aid of the Ivakanui Relief Fund. One day's takings last week at a cheap drapery sale at Christchun h amounted to the very respectable auin of £9OOO.