mHB QTAGO WITNESS. [Established 1851.] CIRCULATION 6000. This old-established and popular Family Newspaper, having been permanently enlarged and improved, is now recognised as one of the best weekly papers in the Colony, and CIRCULATES EXTENSIVELY throughout the FARMING, MINING, and PASTORAL DISTRICTS of New Zealand: Great attention is bestowed on every department of literature Included in Us columns, and as a First-class Weekly Newspaper, containing information for all classes of Jown and Country Readers, it should be found in every household. Subaoription-Town, £1; Country, £1 2s 6d per annum, payable in advance. THIS DAY' 3 ISSUE Contains PP c£ c - Advertisements . . 1, 2, 3, 4. 14, 15, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 Accidents and Offences: Local, Interprovm ul, Fire at Chiietchurch lv i™ Births, Marriages, and Deaths.. .. •• « Brevities .. •• •• ' •• " f» SSESrOMtom'i Returns The* Week's Business, Wholesale Prices, Domestic Produce, Retail Household Markets, Produce Eeports, Property Sales, Labour Bepoife* Stock and Station Reports; Wool Market, Share Report, Commercial Telegrams . . IS Correspondence : The Chinese Question, the Keliya »nd the Victorian Police, by an old Trooper, More Ba^ .- ••„,," ' Cricket: English Gentlemen v.New South Wales -Return Match; Locul Matches, The Interprovincial Match .. •• 8,9,11 Chess : Chess in Chri*tchurch, Problems, Answers to Correspondents, &c. •• •• •• * l Draughts: Problems, Games, &c. .. .. Dramatic and Musical: By Fitzeili .. -- 12 Dunedin Athenwum . • • • • • il » l * Educational: School Committee Elections, Miscellaneous. .. •• •• •• ° Judicial: Important Judgments, Palmerston K. M. Court, The Waikouaiti County Chairmanßhip, the Easterhill Inquiry, A Disputed Sale ?>l Leading Articles .. .. m•• m . ••,1&, 1& » 16 Meetings: West Taieri River Trust, Taieri County Council, The Interoational Exhibition Committee .. •- •• ..10,20 Miscellaneous: The New Zealand Gazette, the Gaol, Mr Varley and the Reporter, Champion Schooner Race, Our Volunteers, New Insolvents Civil service Examinations .. 5,6,10,20 Bible in Schools, Fire at Gisborne . . . . 12 Hem of the Week .. .. •• .•• 16 » 17 Odds and Ends : Compiled expresily for the Withbss ,„ •• •• *° Our Correspondents : Waitahosa, Upper Wa pori, Mount Fe-.ger, Cambrian, Kyebum Diggmgc, More I and .. .. •• •• v Our Home Letter: Scotland— The Commercial Crisis. The Caledonian Bank, The City of Gjasgow Bank, Investigating Directors' Affairs, Mr James Mcol Finning, The Commercial Bank, A bad Winter and its Accompaniments, Disress among the Working People, the Clyde Shipbuilding Trade, Social, Educational, Religion, Statistical 6 Our Melbourne Letter .. •• .. U Passing Notes'i^ .. .. •• ..15,16 Questions from Correspondents .. -- lo Religious: The Weeks' News, Father Henneberry at Auckland .. — •■ •• 8 Hound the Sanctums: Ponson dv Terrail, a Dreadful Siory, George Eliot .. .. 23,24 Shipping .. .. ..> •• 12 Sale Register .. .. .. .. •• lo Selected Poetry : The Modem Farmer, Faith in Works .. .. .. .. -- 21 Sporting Intelligence : Racing Fixtures, Review for the Week, by Beacon ; The Wellington Races, Wanganui Races, D.J.O. R ces, Hawke's Bay Races, Tapanui Races, Coursing in the Middle Island 38 Station, Farm, and Garden: Forthcoming Shows; The Farm-Chats with the Farmers, a visit to the farm of Mr Alexander M'Kay, Dunrobin, East Taieri; Local and General, Local 1 rials of Reapers and Binders, with a description of M'Cormick's and the Wood, Osborae, and Marsh Keapsrs ; Wheat Growing in America, ■ Robey's Improved Thresher, the Echo Farm 1 Dairy (with illunration), a new Post-hole digger (with illustrations), Chicory, Action of cold upon Milk, Salt for Poultry, Gleanings, Tne Station— station Management (No 4), written for the Witnbbs. .. •- 4,5 Statistical .-Bankßetnitiß, Our Railways, Miscellaneous .. .. .. ■• •• 8 The Novelist: The Lone Star— Chapter IN, A Tragedy ; A Dwelling Place, aud yet no Habitation - by Fabian Bell, (specially written for the Witnfss),— Chapter I M The Deserted House ; An Adventure wi h the Native Police -concluded 21,22,23 2he Ladies' Column: Song, Hints on Fashion, The True Girl, Miscellaneous .. .. 23 She Children's Corner: The Little Chicken, Our Pig Dennis-(wruttn for the Children's Corner) 23 The Mines: The Macttown Reefs, The Tipperary, ahe Homeward Bound, The Lady Fay re, and the Gladstone Companj's Claims; The Maryborough and All Nations Companies' Claims and Machines ; The Victor Emmanual and Premier Claims ; The Main Lode, Advance Peak ; the General Havelock and Lord Neli on Claims ; concluding remarks, Waitahuna. Wetherstones Cement, Miscellaneous . . 9, 10 The Mathematician: New Problems, Answers to Problems, Correct Answers . . . . 21 The Riddler: New Riddleß, Answers to Riddles, Correct Answers .. .. .. .. 21 Telegrams .. .. .. .. '.. 17,18 JPaste Lands Board .. .. .. .. 13 Witness {subscriptions .. .. .. 15 Work and Wages: Rise in Wages, Industrial and Co-operative Societies, England and America, Miscellaneous.. .. .. 10 I "VTEW COLONIAL STORY.i On the lßt March, in THE OTAGO WITNESS, Will be commenced a new Serial Story of absorbing interest, from the pen of the well-known Colonial Novelist, FAB[AN BELL, entitled §tffc* gfflty |fW*. Subscriptions :— Town, £1 j Country, £1 2s 6d (in advance) ; may be commenced at any time. " AUCTIONS. TUESDAY, 18th FEBRUARY, At 12 o'clock. STOCK, GROWING CROPS, &c. By Auction at Saddle Hill. Maclean" brothers, instructed by Messrs E. and D. Kennedy, will sell by auction, on the Farm, Saddle Hill, on the above date, 13 head dairy cows » 1 Clydesdale mare, with foal at foot 2 draught horses 3 two-year-old steers 4 yearling heifers Plough, harrows, dray, and frame roller, &c, &o. j And #5 acres growing oats— a good crop. Terms at sale,
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Otago Witness, Issue 1421, 15 February 1879, Page 14
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