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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2737, 29 December 1881, Page 1

Wilkin <Bc 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 be made on and after November 1 to Mr Charles Bourne, their local Manager. J. DRUMMOND MACPHEItSON, Manager. >OBERT WILKIN & CO Strathallan Street, Timaru, HAVE NOW 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 PaintQ 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 Arsenio General Groceries Soda Crystals, &c, &c. TURNIP SEEDS. TURNIP SEEDS. THE undersigned have just to hand ex " Waipa " and ex "St Leonards," TWENTY TONS TURNIP SEEDS 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, Tim abu. .Business Wotices. EW BRICKS and Freßh Burnt LIME now ready; pure water supply JAMES SHEARS, STEAM BRICK AND LIME WORKS Neae Domain AND W - J. H. BOWER, "TATCHMAKER AND IMPORTER. Just to hand by Mail Steamer— WATCHES, CHAINS & JEWELLERY, In Gold and f.ilver, 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. *~< OUTH CANTERBURY CALEDONIAN ! SOCIETY. THE SEVENTH ANNUAL GATHERING will be held on MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 1882. IN GREEN'S PADDOCK, Elizabeth Street, Timaru. Sports Open to all Comers. Nominations for the Handicap Races (Boys excepted) accompanied by entry money and description of colors mußt 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. _3p Late trains to Buit country visitors. W. E. WHITCOMBE, Secretary THE 0T A G O~FO UND RY, Cumberland Street, Dunedin. (Established 1859.) -DAVIDSON AND |~iONYERS Engineers, Boiler Makers, Iron and BraßS Founders, &c, Flourmill, Quartz-crush-ing, Hoisting, Dredging, and Sawmill Machinery Made and Repaired. Makers of High-class Stationary and Locomotive Engines. All kinds of Multitubular and Lancashire Boilers, Tramway and Railway Machinery and appliances made and repaired. Agents fob — Messrs John Spencer and Sons, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Manufacturers of all kinds of steel castings. Messrs Appleby Bros, Manufactures of Steam and Hand Cranes and all kinds of Hydraulic Machinery. Messrs J. and F. Howard, Bedford, Agricultural Implement Makers. Mons Decauand Rolling Stock. A. S. J Francisco, manufacturers of all kinds oi Wire and Wire Rope, Barbed Fence Wire, &o. _________ [A CAKD] ft /'M CONYERS (late of the N.Z. RailJ\ ways). Assoc. Mem. Inst. C.E., Mem. Inst. M E., is prepared to act aa Consulting Engineer to Railway and Tramway Companies. The pieparation of Drawings and Specifications undertaken.