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South Canterbury Times, Issue 4985, 18 April 1889, Page 3

The South Canterbury Times will not be published to-morrow—Good Friday. The cable office on Good Friday will be open from 9 30 am. to 10.30 a.m. and from 5 p.m. to 11.30 a m. A grand minstrel and dramatic entertainment, in aid of the school funds, will be held in the Catholic boys’ schoolroom, on Easter Monday,

The revenue of the Auckland Harbor Board for the March quarter of 1889 was £10,704 lls Bd, as against £6422 17a 4d, the sum for tho corresponding period of last year. We often hear of “judicious advertising.” A very good specimen of the “judicious ” advertisement is tho new one of Messrs Ballantyne and Co., in this issue. The variety of the stock kept by the firm in Timaru, is well indicated, and tho efficiency of their working departments well insisted upon, in a few clear sentences. Tho advertisement is an orderly and business like notice of an orderly business. At Invercargill yesterday John Wells or Willis, a vagrant, was committed for trial on a r charge of setting fire to a stack of oats belonging to a settler who had refused to give him a night’s lodging. Tho Wilson of Wilson, Taine, and Co., parties to important civil actions mentioned in telegrams from Invercargill, is Mr Alexander Wilson jun., formerly of Temuka, where ho was well known as “ Alick ” Wilson, in the general store of Wilson and Sons, and in musical circles and the football'lleld.

The shooting season opened at last midnight and the popping of guns was frequently heard in town from the direction of Washdyke lagoon during the small hours this morning. By this time the poor greys have suffered for the confidence they had learned to misplace in those who have during the past few months regularly fed them on quiet pools to induce them to stay about till the day of slaughter arrived.