SECOND EDITION LATEST.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2877, 14 June 1882, Page 3

SECOND EDITION LATEST.

NEW ZEALAND. (Per Press Association.) % Bravo, KaiapoiChristchurch, June 14. The industrial prize at the Exhibition has been awarded to the Kaiapoi Woollen Manufacturing Company. 'Ladies’ Club. It is proposed to establish a Ladies’ Club in Christchurch. A Defective Bridge. Wanganui, June 14. In an article on the Rangitikei bridge, the “Herald ” says :—“Repeated warnings had been given to the authorities of the dangerous condition of the bridge and something very like what has occurred was foretold. It strongly urges an enquiry and states it was only by an-accident that there was not a disaster of the same nature us that connected with the Tay bridge. Good TravellingInvercargill, June 14. A boy named Adam Wells, aged ten years, who was recently committed to the Dunedin Industrial School, was charged at the Court this morning with having absconded therefrom. It appeared he had walked to . Invercargill, 1 doing the journey in three days. The Magistrate ordered his re-committal, a year being added to his former term of confinement. Sale of Southland RunsA number of runs in Southland were submitted for lease to-day, but only in three cases was more than the upset rental of two pence per acre per annum obtained. The tenure of the lease is ten years. There was a large attendance of squatters and others interested.