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South Canterbury Times, Issue 3316, 17 November 1883, Page 3

The s.s. Taiaroa w : 'l leave for Lyttelton on Tuesday next, at 5 p.m. There will be no steamer to Dunedin on Tuesday. The Express train from the South has been stopped by a flooding of the line nearOtaio. Ine trrm on reaching Makikiki, wn rrable to proceed further, and on receipt of a telegram to that effect Mr Jones, District Stationmaster, despatched a special txrin to the scene of the obstruction, and is meanwhile awaiting information. It is rumoured in Town that the bridge over the OtrV river has been carried away but the rumour requires confirmation. The District Court has been occupied during a considerable portion of the day with a most tiresome case, which, however, presents some peculiar features. Among the parties interested —the plaintiff is absent from the colony—a solicitor, a landagent, a debtor, and the defendants being examined, appear to have forgotten all the circumstances surrounding a bill of sale, and an assignment thereof. Money has changed hands, understandings have been arrived at, interviews have taken place between the parties, and yet everything appears to have slipped from everybody’s reco r ection. Those who heard the case are in a state of bewilderment and how His Honor wiU be able to adjudicate in the matter, is quite beyond everybody’s comprehenslon. ..

JL, ate ST. MOBY’S SUNDAY SCHOOLS. QONOERT. .1 AID of SCHOOL FUND. ODDFELLOWS’ HALL, B? T nard Street, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2CTH. HAY. FOR SALE—a few tons ENGLISH HAY. Very prime. Will be delivered carefully trussed. F. ARCHER, Windsor Park. For sale--212 Acres of Land at South Bang!tata. For particulars and price, apply to hugh mcolellan, Lyttelton, OLT7S HOTEL BILLIARD-ROOM, TZMARD. PJ. BELL, late of the GROSVENOR , wishes to inform his fi lends and the public generally that he has taken the new BILLIARD-ROOM at the Club Hotel. The Room, which is situated downstairs, has a Private Bar attached, is comfortably seated and matted, and supplied with one of Alcock’s First-prize Exhibition Tables. P. J. BELL, Lessee.

UNION STEAMSHIP COMPANY (Ld.) The b.b. TAT AROA will LEAVE FOR LYTTELTON on TUESDAY 20th INST, at 5 p.m. There will be NO STEAMER to Dunedin on TUESDAY. N.M. & A. COMPANY, Agents. J. S« Bennett, ELIZABETH STREET, Timabu. New and Second Hand General Furnish' ing Warehouse. V. R. NOTICE OF INTENTION TO APPLY FOR A TRANSFER OFPUBJ"CAN’S LICENSE. “THE LICENSING ACT, 1881,” AND “ THE LICENSING ACT AMENDMENT ACT, 1882.” I ALFRED JOHN PARSONS, of . Tiinaru, Hotellr eper,being the holder of a License in respect to the House and Premises situate at Timaru within the Timaru Licensing district, and known as the Club Hot 1, do hereby give notice that I desire to obtain and wi’l at the next Licensing Meeting, to be holden at Timaru during the month of December next, apply for a transfer of the said License from myself to Wi’iam Darby. Dated this 17th day of November, 1883, A. J. PARSONS.