NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.
[own correspondent.] Te Aroha. Friday. At the meeting of the Town Board last night instructions were issued for the Returning Officer to take the necessary steps for the election of five new members to succeed the present Board, whose term of office, according to the Act, expires at the end of next month. On every hand there are indications of a remarkably early spring. Should sharp frosts occur later in the season it is to be feared they will cause much harm to many crops. [press association.] Chkistciicrch, Friday. The annual meeting of the Canterbury Art Society was held to-day. The report; showed —Receipts, £744 ; expenses, £7-il ; balance in hand, £!»7<" : against £1583 lastyear. The society has 6 life, 09 ordinary, and 89 working members, against 4 lift?, 138 ordinary, and 84 working members last year. Ixvkhcaexiill, FridayPeter Grant, clerk of the fi.M. Court, Riverton, and the holder of -other public offices in the district for many years, died of dropsy last night. He had been thirty years in the colony.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9130, 11 August 1888, Page 5
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