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South Canterbury Times, Issue 7285, 12 August 1893, Page 3

A woman who was remanded yesterday for drunkenness was this morning fine ! 10s and ordered tj pay costa of a witness. Messrs Glasaon and Co., will sell Mr Border’s stoekiu-trado, plant, furniture, etc., including a magnificent Ooilard and Collard piano on Monday. The question has been asked whether, in the general purification which has been going on since the measles began to disappear, school buildings which have been i i some degree at least centres of infee ion, have been disinfected. We refer the query to Education Department and the School Committees of the district Mr W. Coll ns, who bad u parelytic stroke some months managed to get into town to-day, and was gladly greeted by many old friends, flois badly crippled, having one | arm in a sling and walking with a crutch. ! His oldest friends, however, could only recognise him bv his voice, as he has allowed his whiskers to grow, and they alter his looks profoundly. A ptrcel of snow-griss seeds brought down from Mount Cook by Mr Huddleston was examined with much interest by the farmers attending the mee'ir.g of the T A,P. A. this afternoon, on account of the strong development of ergot in the s'eds. Snow-grass seeds are about the size of those of rye gra»s and the ergot was in some cases fully three quarters of an inch Ion?. It was stated that numbers of sheep are being killed by this snow-grass ergot. The shingle has been making out pretty fast lately, and if goes on at the same rate till then the harbourmaster’s next quarterly report on its advance ought to astonish the members of the Harbour Board who deny that the rate of advance is anything like what it really is. They have however fixed their own standard or beach mirk for reckoning from, and the advance of the face from highwater on “ 15.5 93 ’’ cannot be questioned. The Band of Hope coanec l ed with the Congregational Oburch hsld an “open meet” ing ” last evening, inviting parents and friends > to an entertainment in which the children played a part, singing hymns and solos, adult friends assisted and a very pleasant evening wes spent. The president of the Band of Hope, Mr Hollow, presided. The guest,, were so well pleased with the way the evening passed that a general request was made that the experiment would be repeated at an early 1 date.