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South Canterbury Times, Issue 5029, 10 June 1889, Page 3

We leirn that tho Tiraaru Naval Artillery intend to elect Mr B, Gooch as their lieutenant this evening. Mr Gooch has been for a long time a non-commissioned officer in the C Battery and their loss will he the Navals’ gain. During the last few days many men have been employed breaking spalls on the market reserve, and the result of their labours has been to pile up several good heaps of metal. Two or three of tbs men, more expert than the general run of nappers, have made very decent wages, and have found the money come in very handy at this slack time of the year.

The improvement (?) of George Street has resulted, through the cutting down of tho footpath, in exposing the base of the concrete foundation beneath the front of Mr Sidney Wolf’s rooms in the Assembly building. Tho weight of (he upper structure, however, is supported on broasu minors which rest on piers, the foundations of which have been carriod deeper. A column at the angle of window and door however will need under-pinning; In our repoit of tho proceedings in tho Resident Magistrate’s Court on Saturday we, with a good motive, left out the name of the children who were charged with stealing firewood, and were discharged, merely staling that they were children of a widow. We are informed, however, that there are at least two other widows, each with two children, living in tho part of tho town stated, and in order to avoid causing an annoyance to these, we must mention that the name of the children was Barker.

It may not bo generally known, but it is said to be a fact, that if a man buys another person’s books debts ho must send to each person owing the said man money a letter notifying that ho has purchased the debts, and not only (hat, but ho must register the letter even though the individual so owing money lives in the same town. If the purchaser of the debts ever proceeds in court against any of the debtors, and he has not registered the letter according to law, the case can be dismissed by the magistrate even though the debt is not denied. A nothern Resident Magistrate gave an intimation to that effect in his court a few days ago. A meeting was hold on Saturday evening, to take into consideration the formation of a junior football club. It was unanimously decided that a club be formed,to be called the Colonial Football Club. After some discussion the election of officers was proceeded with, and resulted as follows Captain, Qoorgo Thompson ; Yico Captain, A. Bilton j Secretary and Treasurer , H. Maine ; com-mittee:-The Captain, Yico Captain, Secretary, and Messrs Boys and Chapman. The first game will be played on Thursday nest, at the Park, when all members and intending members are requested to attend. At Sydney the other day a young woman named Kellie Bond, who rejoiced in the possession of half a dozen aliases, was charged with a number of petty larcenies. She made a practice of taking situations as housemaid> and afler serving a couple of days would decamp with the most valuable things she could lay her hands on. A witness said that she was the daughter of a doctor practising in Surrey (England), and was highly connected. He offered to pay her passage to another colony, if she were leniently dealt with bnt the Magistrate stated that to release her in another colony would be only giving her further opportunity to prey on the public there, and sent her to gaol for eighteen months.

A Dunedin resident, an old identity, somewhat of a pedant, to wit Mr J. G. 8. Grant, writes to tho Herald :—The learned Dr Macgregor wished that I should assign the causo of the rising generation being averse from solid reading. To explain this melancholy fact—attested by all the booksellers—would require more time and space than can be afforded. But how comes it that some young colonisls figure to great advantage 'at Homo. Those only carry honours in a 'single department —medicine ; these honours ranging only from tho 21st till the 74 th degree ! A long way from the top ! This is simply professional apprenticeship to a lucrative trade. But point out to us young men bearing off palms of victory in purely academical branches of learning—in literature, philosophy, theology, etc. Until this bo done we should discontinue cur blowing of trumpets annually.” A severe westerly galo was expected at Auckland on Saturday, the glass having fallen lower than it has been for over 20 years, and a telegram to-day states they have had a bit of a gale with rain. Wo have to-day had a stiff nor’-wester, chill, but dry, though rugged clouds on tho ranges indicated rain or snowfall there. The streets were rendered most uncomfortable by the clouds of dust that wore raised by the bx-oeze, and draper’s goods shown outside were considerably “ weighted ’’ and otherwise improved (?) by the dust that settled upon and within them. Tho wind storm may bo supposed to have been working round from tho eastward, as yesterday a pretty strong north-easterly swell was running,—the ripple from a galo in that direction in some distant reeion.

Some time ago we received a cablegram stating that Mr A. R. Wallace, tho famous naturalist, was about to visit Australia and New Zealand. It turns out that tho " distinguished visitor ” who is coming, who has reached Australia in fact, is a somewhat less distinguished man. He is Mr Robert Wallace, Professor of Agriculture and Rural Economy in the University of Edinburgh, formerly professor in the Cirencester College. Professor Wallace intends to travel throughout Australia and New Zealand with the object of observing tho methods of farming and stock-raising in the colonies, and the peculiar characteristics of colonial agriculture. In 18S4 Professor Wallace performed a similar tour through India, and the result of his observations is embodied in a volume treating exhaustively of the varieties and management of cattle and horses, and of agricultural methods, in tho Indian Empire. Professor Wallace disclaims any intention to publish tho notes of “his Australian and New Zealand travels in book form, but he intends to make use of the information ho gleans in his lectures to his students in tho Edinburgh University. Tho noted quality of the Coffee made in the Cafes of Turkey, France, and America is chiefly duo to tho fact that only Fresh Roasted Coffee is used ; so that none of the volatile oil and other essentials are lost. Ask your grocer for Anderson’s Coffeo, and you will have a beverage oliko refreshing and stimulating, as it is fresh roasted and ground at the factory, Timaru.—TAdYT.]