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South Canterbury Times, Issue 5024, 4 June 1889, Page 3

The annual meeting of the Timaru Licensing committee will be held to-morrow (Wednesday) at the court house at noon. Mr Moss Jonas will sell by auction tomorrow, at Mr Stratford’s residence, William Street, at 1 o’clock, —horses, drays, harness, etc., also at bis rooms on Friday next at 1 o’clock —a lot of superior household furniture. B. Turnbull and Son will sell to-morrow at Messrs Waller and Co.’s shop, glass cases, bools, counters, envelopes, etc. In an Auckland civil case lately the plaintiff’s name was Soo Meo. What’s in a name? If anything, his ought to have been Soo Him. We have to thank the Government printer for a supplement to the Gazette containing the new scale of fees, rates and charges on the railways. Wo have not yet had time to compare the new with the old scale. The Timaru School committee last evening adopted the compulsory clauses of the Education Act. This gives them power to summon, and a magistrate power to inflict penalties upon, parenls who do not send their children to school in compliance with the law. Some farm lands close to Ngpara, North Otago, were offered for sale at Oamaru on Saturday by the N.Z.L. and M.A> Company. The total was 1190 acres, subdivided into six lots ; one lot of 59 acres was sold at £ls per acre; one lot of 44 acres at £l2 15s ; 9 acres close to the township and railway station at £25 15s. A 234 acre farm was passed in at £lO 10s ; and two other and larger ones at £8 and £9 respectively. A sale was announced to take place at noon to-day, on the premises lately occupied by 0. Waller and Co., of s(ntioner’s"stock-in-lrado. This sale was at the instance of a holder of a bill of sale, and the holder of another docu' ment of the same kind had forbidden the sale by advertisement. Of course under these cir. cumslances buyers were not likely to turn up, A few persons assembled however, “ to see the fun.” The amtioneer and the second claimant appeared on the scene, and there was some discussion between them. An entrance was effected by a back door, which was opened otherwise than by key and latch handle, and then there was found within a “ man in possession,” on behalf of the landlord, whose claim for rent was unsatisfied. A further parley resulted in the sale being declared off. Postal officials sometimes have queer addresses to wrestle with in the execution of their duties, but they generally manage to come out right. An absent minded young musician, with his head full of ‘masses and fugues, and ops,’ posted an important letter in Germany for the last ’Frisco mail, bearing the lucid super-scription, 1 Mrs, Coote road, Napier, N.Z.’ The letter was duly delivered at its proper destination unopened, without so much as an intimation that ‘ Mrs, Coote road ’ was 1 not known to the letter carrier,’ The Oamaru Mail has for some reason or other been most spiteful in writing of the reletting of the runs, and in commenting on the sale, after the event, it descends to falsehood. ( The Mail says : “It was the competition of a few outsiders that ran the runs up at the , recent sale to prices that so shocked the | nerves of the old iniquity that they indulged j in groans, which were changed to cheers when j a purchase was made at the upset price." This is bold no-such-thing. There was no groaning except in one case and that one does not fit the Mail's assertion anywhere. New Zealand never has such destructive droughts as Australia; and on the other hind never has such heavy rainfalls. Witness the heavy floods recently reported from Victoria and New South Wales, when there fell in a day as much rain as New Zealand gets in six mouths. Mr 11. 0. Bussell, the Government astronomer, in a report published, states that, in Sydney, rain has often fallen at the rale of an inch per hour for several hours in succession. One one occasion rain fell at the rate of 5.23 inches per hour. At Newcastle during a storm, 10 61 inches of rain fell between 1.30 p.m. and 4 p.m., or two hours and a half. Probably, however, a fall of sixteen inches without intermission, such as produced the late floods, is quite exceptional. The noted quality of the Coffee made in the Calcs of Turkey, France, and America is chiefly due to the fact that only Fresh Boasted Coffee is used ; so that none of the volatile oil and other essentials aro 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.]

For Continuation of Reading Matter See Fourth Page. Tenders. LEVELS ROAD BOARD. npENDERS arc required for llio followX ing:— Contract No. 32—Filling and Carting Broken Metal for Repairs to Mount Horrible Rond. Specific it ions to bo eceu at Board’s Office from this dale, whore Tenders will bo received up to -i p.m., on MONDAY, the 10th June, IBS9. WM. ANNAND, Overseer.