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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2738, 30 December 1881, Page 1

SOUTH BRITISH FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY. '~' j resigned the / Agency of thin Company in Timara, Messrs ROBERT WILKIN & CO. have been APPOINTED thereto. Proposal* lot Fire and Marine Insurance can be made on and after November 1 to Mr Charles Bourne, their local Manager. J. DRUMMOND MACPHERSON, Manager. IOBERT WILKIN & CO \) Strathallan Street, Timabu, HAVE NO V 7 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 Cornsackß Woolsacks Seaming Twine Galvanized Iron Nails and Washers Wire Nails, Roseheade 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 Arsenio General Groceries Soda Crystals, &c, Ac. TURND? SEEDS. TURNIP SEEDS. CHE undersigned have just to hand ex " Waipa " and ex "St Leonards," TWENTY TONS TURNIP SEEDS Specially selected from the beßt 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, Eobl Rabi ROBERT WILKIN AND CO., Stbathallan Street, Tim aru. JBmsiness BJotices. EW BRICKS and Fresh Burnt LIME now ready; pure water supply JAMES SHEARS, STEAM BRICK AND LIME WORKS Neab Domain AND W - J. H. BOWER, TATCHMAKER AND IMPORTER. Just to hand by Mail Steamer WATCHES, CHAINS & JEWELLERY, In Gold and Silver, 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. I OUTH CANTERBURY CALEDONIAN 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 Racea (Boys excepted) accompanied by entry money and description of colors must be sent in to the Secretary by 6 p.m. on Saturlay December 24,1881. Entry money—Five per cent on value of first prize. For Programme see Postern. gar Late trains to suit country visitors. W. E. WHITCOMBE, Secretary "THE OfAGO~~FODNDRI, Cumberland Street, Dunedin. (Established 1859.) AVIDSON AND iMONYERS Engineerß, Boiler Makers, Iron and Brass Founders, &o, FlourmiU, Quartz-orush-ing, Hoisting, Dredging, and Sawmill Machinery Made and Repaired. Makers of High-class Stationary anS Locomotive Engines. All kinds of Multitubular and Lancashire Boilers, Tramway and Railway Maohinery AOENTS FOBMessrs John Spencer and Sons, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Manufacturers s>i 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 Decauville Aine, France, Patent Portable Railway and Rolling Stock. A. S. HaUidie, San Francisco, manufacturers of all kinds of Wire and Wire Rope, Barbed Fence Wire, &o. . I [A CARD] t-M CONYERS (late of the N.Z. Rail. . . ways), Abboc. Mem. Inst. C.E., Mem. Inst. ME., is prepared to act as ConBulting Engineer to Railway and Tramway Companios. Tb« preparation of Drawings and Sneaifioations untertskea,