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South Canterbury Times, Issue 5023, 3 June 1889, Page 3

A report of the Saturday afternoon’s proceedings in the Silcock-Qeraldine County ' Council case will be„ found on our fourth page. Mr D. Owers has a new advertisement in another column. A man named B. Currie was fined 60s, or seven days’ hard labour, by the Besident Magistrate this morning for being drunk yesterday. He was up on Saturday, and was then dismssed with a caution. Californian quail are being tinned for export in Nelson ; and some hava been sent Homo frozen. A new interpretation cf the phrase, " a shilling in and the winner shout,” was given by Chief Justice Prendcrgast at a sitting in Banco in Wellington last Wednesday. Ho remarked tha« the winner of the game evidently could drink all the liquid refreshments paid for out of the stakes. Counsel emphatically denied this. The Wellington Education Board has been asked to declare void the election of a school committee because a man who lives in a tent was elected a committeeman. The Board declined to upset the election, as no definitiou of ” dwelling ”is given in the .Act. The solicitor to tho North Canterbury Board advised them that the occupant of a tent is not a householder. The Pod wants to know what the Customs Department has done since Mr Fisher’s retirement from office, in tho matter of the j seizures at Christchurch for breaches of the Customs regulations. Are there any actions or prosecutions instituted on either side ? The present Commissioner of Customs, although ho | has the opportunity of being ailed, supported ] and advised by Mr Jackman, does not seem to display in these cases any of that feverish desire to prosecute for attempted evasions of duty which was so conspiciously displayed in regard to the Wellington brewers. The Canterbury importers are, however, no doubt very superior beings to tho Wellington brewers but it would never that their names should be exposed, or that they should bo subjected to the indignity of a prosecution. Despite the dictum to tho contrary, the law 1 in New Zealand is a very great respecter of persons, especially when its administration is ! conli’.llcd by political considerations. The great reservoir disaster in Pennsylvania, reported by cable to-day, recalls a similar disaster which occurred near Sheffield, England, on March 11th 1864, when a new embankment constructed for tho Sheffield Water Supply Company, at Bradfield, broke down, and let out a body of water 93 feet deep from a reservoir 78 acres in extent Tho destruction of life and property by this flood was unprecedented in Eng'and. Sheffield and the country 14 miles around were inundated, mills, houses and hamlets swept away ; 250 lives were lost; and the damage to property was estimated at £327,000. Nearly £53,000 was subscribed to help the sufferers within twelve months. Tho American catastrophe was vastly more distressing and destructive. The reservoir was an enormous one—three miles long and half that in width. The noted quality of the Coffee made in the Calcs of Turkey, France, and America is chiefly due to tho fact that only Fresh Boasted Coffee is used ; so that none of the volatile oil and other essentials are lost. Ask your grocer for Anderson’s Coffee, and you will have a beverage alike refreshing and stimulating, ns it is fresh rousted and ground at tho factory, Timnru— [AnYT.]

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