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South Canterbury Times, Issue 5030, 11 June 1889, Page 3

A letter was received by the Levels Hoad Board to-day, from a prominent settler in the Geraldine County. It was agreed to act upon it, eo far as it could bo understood, but some passages were Chinese to tho members. Yet it was declared to be, "not bad at all, much better written than usual."

The attention or our readers is especially directed to an important notice by tho Gas Company in another column, notifying a considerable reduction in the price of gas per 1000 feet. The reduction is subject to consumers paying their accounts promptly.

It is stated that the late Mr Pelham Jones, the unfortunate victim of the accident at Dunedin, left the bulk of his property,amounting to £IO,OOO or £12,000, to two friends who have well earned this mark of his but a relative talks of contesting the will. At the request of the South Canterbury Jockey Club the Metropolitan authorities have removed the disqualification imposed upon M. and H. Kerr, for their connection with the notorious Princess Royal case. The monthly meeting of the Levels Road Board was held to-day. Cur full report is unfortunately crowded out. !1 ho board decided not to pay half the cost of the lump on main road and south belt. A number of requests for small works wore attended to. An order was issued that all gorse be cleaved off roads by adjoining property holders. A general rate of jjd in the £ was struck for the current year, payable in one sum on the Ist September. One tender of £5 received for the old road engine, was declined as ridiculously small. For carting metal on Mount Horrible Eoad the tender of W. Stevenson at £2O 3s 2d was accepted, R. Forgau £25 15s Bd, and J. Rogers £2B, also tendered. On the overseer’s report a few works wore ordered to bo done. The board decided to again provide poisoned wheat, also a little rape seed as an experiment, for gratis distribution, the overseer to prepare it.

Sir Henry Blake, says a Homo paper.appcaro to have lost no Umo in stepping into tho front rank of public favour in Jamaica, and his official career in that Colony appears so far to bo full of promise. His Excellency is winning golden opinions upon all band:!, and it is gratifying to learn that ho is thus enabled---in tho best of all methods—to give a good answer to the ignorant detractors who ecruplod not, for parly purposes, to throw mud upon tho character of an able honest man, of capacity and principles they really knew nothing at tho timo.—Thio is a rub for QeeoßUnd#