LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLI, Issue 306, 15 November 1906, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

I The production by the Richmond amateurs of "The Pirates of Penzance" was so successful that it has been decided to yield to requests mad6 and the opera will bo produced at Wakefield on tire 22nd inst., and the Theatre Royal, Noison, on the 6th December. Tbe proceeds are being de- ' voted to clearing off the liability on the Richmond Spor{,s Qrounfj. Wire Dish Covers, all sizes, opened to-day.— R. Snodgrass and Sons.* With the advent ot spring coines Victory butter. If you appreciate de- ' licious butter made on the most approved scientific principles, ask your grocer | for Victory, and take nothing else.* I I

A magnificent five-year-old roan bullock was landed at Nelson to-day, consigned to Messrs Fairey Bros. The *_ beast, as fine a one as has ever been j_ brought here, was grown by Mr Parkes,- --| of Kaponga, Taranaki, and is estimated j_ to weigh 16001bs. The animal will be '& on view at the forthcoming show at | Richmond, having been entered in tho rj fat beast classes. |j On Saturday next, at 11 a.m., Mr a Wm. Lock will sell at the photographic M studios, Hardy-street, the furniture | and effects belonging to Mr Markland ; |q and Saturday week, 24th, he will sell I the tools and plant belonging to Mr S. B. Johnson. Messrs Rout and Sons report the sale of one acre of land, fronting Cambria-street, the Wood, from the executors in the estate of George Fairhall, deceased, to a city buyer.