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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2736, 28 December 1881, Page 1

Robert Willtim. & Co, SOUTH BRITISH FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY. CAPTAIN SUTTER having resigned the Agency of this Company in Timaru, Messrs ROBERT WILKin & CO. have been APPOINTED thereto. Proposals for Fire and Marine Insurance can fee made on and after November 1 to Mr Charles Bourne, their local Manager. J. DRUMMOND MACPHERSON, Manager. OBE R T WILKIN & C~O Strathallan Street, Timaru, HAVE NO W LANDING AND TO ARRIVE per Lutterworth, Sam Mendel, City of Tanjore, Padishah, Rangitikei, etc. — Fencing Wire, 8.A., No. 6 to 10 Barbed Wire Galvanized Strand Wire Straining Brackets Staples, diamond point Iron Standards punched to gauge Salt, Fine, Coarse, and Rock Cornsacks Woolpacks Seaming Twine Galvanized Iron Nails and Washers Wire Nails, Roseheads Oils Paints , White and Red Lead Seed Sowers Seed Drills Harrows Cambridge Rollers Ploughs Root Pulpers Corn Crushers Chaff Cutters, horse-power and inter mediates Wines and Spirits. Bottled Ale and Stout Disinfecting Powder White Powdered Arsenic Gen eral Groceries Soda Crystals, <fec., &o. TURNIP SEEDS. TURNIP SEEDS. THE undersigned have just to hand ex “ Waipa ” and ex “St Leonards,” TWENTY TONS TURNIP SBEDS_ Specially selected from the best English and Scotch growers. We have tested the Seed and the per centage germinating is placed against each variety:— Devonshire Grey Stone - - 96 per cent Mammoth Purple Top - - 93 „ „ Green Top Yellow Aberdeen 95 ~ ~ Purple Top Yellow Aberdeen 94 „ „ Swede - - - - • 92 ~ „ Yellow Tankard - • - 95 „ „ White Stone - - ■ 97 Also, the following Seeds: — Long Red Mangold, Orange Globe Mangold White Belgium Carrot, Intermediate James Scarlet, and Short Horn Rape, Mustard, Field Cabbage, Kohl Rabi ROBERT WILKIN AND CO., Strathallan Street, Timaru. Business JNoticesBRICKS and Fresh Burnt LIME now ready; pure water supply JAMES SHEARS, STEAM BRICK AND LIME WORKS Near Domain AND W - J. H. BOWER, AND IMPORTER. Just to hand by Mail Steamer — WATCHES, CHAINS & JEWELLERY, In Gold and tilver, of First-rate Quality. Splendid variety of CLOCKS. Expected daily by ships Dunedin, Loch Fleet, and Nelson, STERLING SILVER AND ELECTRO PLATE. Watches, Clocks and Jewellery Cleaned and Repaired. Note Address — OLD POST OFFICE BUILDINGS, (Next Messrs Coy and Drummond’s) TIMARU. NEW YEAR’S DAY. SOUTH CANTERBURY CALEDONIAN SOCIETY. THE SEVENTH ANNUAL GATHERING will be held on MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 1882. on the NEW AGRICULTURAL SHOW GROUNDS, TIMARU, Sports Open to all Comers. Nominations for the Handicap Races (Boys excepted) accompanied by entry money and description of colors must be sent in to the Secretary by 6 p.m. on Saturday December 24,1881. Entry money—Five per cent on value of first prize. For Programme see Posters. Late trains to suit country visitors. W, E, WHITCOMBE, Secretary THE' 0”Fa~G0 POUN DRY, Cumberland Street, Dunedin. (Established 1859.) | AVID SON AND |OONYERS leers, Boiler Makers, Iron and Brass mders, &c, Flourmill, Quartz-crush-og, Hoisting, Dredging, and Sawmill Machinery Made and Repaired, kers of High-class Stationary and Locomotive Engines, kinds of Multitubular and Lancashire fs, Tramway and Railway Machinery ppliances made and repaired. Agents fob's John Spencer and Sons, Newcastleme, Manufacturers of all kinds of castings. Messrs Appleby Bros, ifactures of Steam and Hand Cranes all kinds of Hydraulic Machinery, •s J. and F. Howard, Bedford, Agnral Implement Makers. Mons DecauVine France, Patent Portable Railway Rolling Stock. A. B. Hallidie. Ban nsco, manufacturers of all kinds of and Wire Rope, Barbed Fence &c. [A CARD] CONYERS (late of the N.Z. Railways), Assoc. Mem. Inst. C.E., st. M E., is prepared to act as ConIn'gineer to Railway and Tramway es. The preparation of Drawings ilioations undertaken*