NEWS IN BRIEF.
Another Whitechapel murder. 1 Mr. Murdoch has been re-elected Mayor j of Mosgiel. j Mr. Mitchelson arrived in Wellington yes- j * terdav from Sydney. ; > The Walton Park Coal Company has de- j C claretl a dividend of 5 per cent. j j The North Canterbury volunteers are to 1 t have a field day on December 17. : Glass has been marie from sand obtained . 0 in the neighbourhood of Christchurch. . j, A local candidate, in the person of Mr. j t, J. Woodward, is out to contest Lincoln | h seat. ! s The books ordered by the City Council , a for the Lending Liba r y are expected to j come to hand in January. 1 1 Mr. Matson, of Christchurch, was re- : q quested to become a candidate for Lincoln, v but declined. h One of the Chinese market gardeners at c the Domain has requested the Domain v Board to reduce his rent. li The South Canterbury Charitable Aid q Board has a balance of £897 12s upon the ; £ wrong side of the ledger. . j We ought, at this date, to be sweltering . i, under a tropical sun, instead of which we r , are having antarctic weather. t! Mr. W. Atkinson, an old colonist, died a s , , few davsago at Rangiora, Canterbury. He n landed at Nelson early in the forties. a Miss Cornwall accompanies Phil Robin- v son on his visit to Duuedm next week in the - interest of the Schauseiiiefl Light. ! p The Canterbury Archery Club have Ij, opened the season. The match for the championship is to be shot off in December. At the Balclutha Police Court Joseph v Valentine was committed for trial on the j charge of having murdered an illegitimate c ] child. j c About 10.000 sacks of Ashburton wheat ; j have changed hands at 4s, the sacks extra, g A large proportion of the parcel was short- * ( berried. _ • I ( Burglaries appear to be rife in the South, j g On Wednesday night a butcher's shop was • . broken into at Lyttelton and a quantity of f beef stolen. ( Captain Edwin wired at 12.40 p.m. yesterdav : " Expect west and south and southeast heavy gale, and much colder weather, ], Glass will rise." £ Mr. C. Louisson, the retiring Mayor ot t Christehurch, and .Mr. Langdown, retiring t Mayor of Sydenham, have been elected 0 without opposition. fi The Wellington Post has taken up the subject of the need tor better arrangements > on Wellington wharf for the storage and j, shipment of cutter. b The collapse of the Dunedin Freethought a Association has been followed by the sale j; of the Lyceum Hall, which cost over ioIKX), 0 for £2000 to D. C. ameron. _ c At a meeting of St. Andrew's congrega- t tion \New Plymouth) it was unanimously agreed to give a call to the Rev. Mr. _ Grant, who is now labouring there. n The Christchurcb City Council have c adopted a by-law prohibiting riding and j, driving across the intersection of the prin- a cipal streets at other, than a walking pace. t Understood new volunteer regulations v oniv atlect companies in the four principal jj towns, and that the principal alteration is q an increase of the maximum strength of the n companies. _ t 1 The governing body of Christ s College have refused to consider the reinstatement of Mr. Corfe to toe headmastership, and n have ..Jered the appointment to the Rev. c F. A. Hare. t Mr. Thomas Daniel, Elsie Cottage, Rich- t mend Road, has nothing to do with the apologies that have lately been advertised in the papers, in which a Mr. Daniels has been mentioned. j Among the other special prizes, the Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Association have received a donation of two guineas for the best Berkshire boar under nine months old. q at the forthcoming show. _ At the monthly meeting of the directors £ of tne Temuka Dairy Company Mr. Job Brjw a, th 1 } secretary, reported that during s the month of Uctober 6 122 gallons of milk j- : had o-en received at a cost of £76 10s Sd. t Two .A the book-hawking fraternity j named Arthur Clayton and J. D. Camp were fined at Wanganui yesterday 40s each, v 0- in default 14 "days' imprisonment, for refusing to leave premises when requested. Tae L'hr:3".c;iurcn Telegraph has a leading article commencing:—"lt is difficult to understand wuv the Government should have called upon 'the Auckland Justices to ' explain their conduct in sentencing Sir t Chine- Burnett to fourteen days' imprison- , meet." A South Australian merchant writes to a ; friend at Dunedin: —"Things here are ( very bad. Our harvest is something fright- j ful," and will not average three bushels to ( the acre. It simply means ruination to , most vi our farmers. We can only hope for • . the oest." ,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9219, 23 November 1888, Page 6
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