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South Canterbury Times, Issue 5009, 17 May 1889, Page 3

Messrs T. and J. Thomson announce the arrival of new goods. Messrs Ballantyne and Co, announce in another column that they have a splendid assortment of wools on sale, especially suitable for the winter season. Wellington is getting three miles of footpaths kerbed and gravelled, by contract, at £2 13s fid per chain. Mr H. J. Hall, of Leeston, has just completed threshing out some heavy jields of barley. One paddock yielded 85 bushels per acre and another 70 bushels. Another farmer, when engaging the threshing machine estimated he had 95C0 bushels to thresh, but finds he has between 14,000 and 16,000 bushels to pay for. It is reported in Auckland that several payers of property tax in the Wangarei distrie* 1 will give the Commissioner the option of taking their properties if he does not reduce the valuations. A big reduction was made on the valuation of one estate near Wellington, the reviewers reducing Mr J. 0. Crawford’s estate, Miramara Peninsula, from £53,000 to £26,000. The Bay of Plenty Times says there is now living at the pa at Awahuri a very old Nalivoi who has long passed the span allotted to frail humanity. The Maoris state that the old gentleman was a sturdy warrior of not less than 18 years of ago when Captain Cook last landed on the shores of New Zealand. Ho is very frail, as might be expected, and spends most of his time basking in the sun and sleeping. A young man named Charles Penny was lost in the bush between the Upper Hutt and Pahuatahanui for three days. The only food he had during the three days was a wild pigeon, which ho was fortunate enough to catch. Bis clothes were almost torn to shreds in his efforts to make bis way through the bush, but beyond this ho did not appear to have suffered any ill effects from his experience of being “ bushed.” The Eesident Magistrate was occupied from eleven o’clock this morning till a quarter past one in hearing a charge against the licensee of the Melville Hotel, of permitting “ Yankee Grab ” to be played in the bar last Saturday night. The offence was proved and defendant was fined £5 ; the conviction to be endorsed on the license. The Court then adjourned till half past two when a case of unnatural crime was to be taken. In the interval Mr Wray, as sheriff, with counsel struck a special jury to hear the civil case of Silcock versus Geraldine County Council, which is at present set down for hearing before Judge Denniston on the 291 h inst. Last year 354 bears were killed in the State of Maine, on each of which a bounty of £L was paid. Coal-dust, flour-dust, starch, and flour arc all explosives when mixed with certain proportions of air. The noted quality of the Coffee made in the Cates of Turkey, France, and America is chiefly duo to tho fact that only Fresh Koastod Coffee is used ; so that none of the volatile oil and oilier essentials are lost. Ask your grocer for Anderson’s Coffee, and you will have a beverage alike refreshing and stimulating, as it is fresh roasted and ground at the factory, Timaru.—fAnvT.l

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