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South Canterbury Times, Issue 4736, 28 June 1888, Page 3

The whole of the dresses and bonnets mentioned in our notice of the wedding to-day were made by Messrs Ballantyne and Co., of Timaru, and did credit to the staff of that well known firm. Hitherto, at more stylish weddings in Timaru, the ladies’ drosses have been obtained from Christchurch or Dunedin. The appearance of the wedding party to day, as a whole and in detail, showed that there is absolutely no necessity whatever to pass over our local dressmakers on such' occasions. More tasteful dresses could not have been mad 3 anywhere. The S., 0. Hospital and Charitable Aid Board invite tenders for Hospital Supplies. A Wellington inventor proposes to make telegraph (poles (hollow), and various other things, of! cement moulded on askeleton of steel wire netting. A fews days ago we republished a paragraph stating that mantelpieces in cast iron, in imitation of wood carving, are coming into use in the best houses in London. Such mantels have been in use in Timaru over ten years. There are a couple in the clerk’s offices at the court house, that were put in when the building was erected in 1877.

The purchase of the Auckland saw mills by an Australian syndicate, with a proviso that the sellers shall not re-engage in the business in Auckland for a term of years, has made Auckland papers appear a useful medium for advertising the sale of Australian sawmills. The Herald contains an announcement of that kind.

Inspector Broham has had a brush with the Auckland Bar about the precedence of police over summons cases in the Police Court. Hitherto the practice has been to take summons cases first. Inspector Broham asked that police cases be taken first, so that his men could get away to their duty, or if they had been up all|night, to bed. The “ new Broom ”, as the Inspector was punningly referred to, was not able to sweep away the old custom.

We hope that none of our readers, if misled, were either inconvenienced or annoyed by our local yesterday stating that the Fifeshire was to leave at seven last evening. A largo number of people of both sexes went down to the wharf, possibly to see the steamer start, and if so they were disappointed. We published the statement on good authority, and we understand that it was only late in the afternoon it was decided to work another lido.

Porter, the bank clerk who absconded from Cambridge, £l2O and the bank revolver and cartridges to the bad, was a married man, his I wife living at Napier. He kept his marriage a secret owing to the bank rules, and in Cambridge was looked upon as an eligible bachelor, and by reports current had trifled with the affections of more than one young lady there. He was arrested near Napier. We received a telegram a few days ago from Wanganui, stating that a prominent commission agent had levanted. His name is Dudley Eyre. He was agent for the Pemberton Special Settlement, and it is said that some of the moneys received from members have not been accounted for to the Government, and that the Auditor-General has been writing, claiming interest. Eyre was agent for insurance companies, life and fire, and had several agencies as well as house rents to account for. Eyre was superintendent of the Church of England school and a lay reader, and took a prominent place in religious and temperance circles. The Times says the relative merits of colonial-made and imported barbed wire were discussed in the House last week. Mr J. McKenzie protested that the local article was hardly fit for use 5 one ton of the imported make was more serviceable than ten tons of the other. Mr Fish warmly defended the New Zealand made article, and finished up his remarks by challenging Mr McKenzie to prove what he said. This challenge was presently accepted by Mr Duncan, who joined Mr McKenzie in abusing the local manufactures, saying the American article was worth 5s a cwt. more than any other. Mr Scobie Mackenzie also preferred the imported wire. The last to speak on the subject was Mr Buxton, who assorted that the best wire made in the colony was superior to any other. As Mr Buxton was the only country member to take up that side of the question he was warmly cheered. —Of course he referred to the Timaru factory’s products. ’ A funny meeting was held at Northcote, near Auckland, recently, to protest against the probable appointment of a Mr Seaman as property tax valuator for that district, on the grounds “ that (1) ho is collector on commission to the local highway board, and that as the highway rates are based on the property-tax valuations, ho has a direct interest in making the said valuations as high as possible. (2) That being implicated in the Stark purchase he puts as high a valuation as he can on other properties in the district, so as to justify his excessive valuation of Stark’s property. (3) That being a resident of the district, and having friends and enemies therein, and being at the same time property-tax valuator, he is in a position to assist his friends and punish his enemies through the agency of a Government tax.” The latter ground would apply to nearly every possible valuator, and sweeps the dfeck. The meeting seemed to think this statement of grounds of objection too strong and too personal, and the comical alternative was adopted, provisionally, of appointing a deputation to wait on Mr Seaman to ascertain his views on the subject of the valuations, and what course he would pursue were he again appointed valuer”’

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