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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2369, 29 December 1898, Page 1

At the Opihi on Tuesday night, Mr Whitesides, of Christchurch, landed a 171 b fish. He used a large gilt Devon minnow. At Rangitata during the holidays, Mr T. Brown caught a handsome fish scaling 17lbs'. Mrs F. Brown the same evening caught one of 61bs, and Mr F. Barker one which turned the scale at 12Ibs. At Knox Church, Waimate, on Sabbath last, on the motion of Messrs Smith and Coltman, the name of the Rev A. S. Morrison, of Hastings, Hawke’s Bay, was inserted in the call, which was largely subscribed to. The call will come before the Presbytery on January 10th, and if sustained will be-duly forwarded to the Presbytery of Hawke’s Bay. A DELIGHTFUL BEVERAGE Wolfe’s Schnapps is a delightful beverage, as agreeable to the taste as its properties are beneficial to the health. A copy of the Canterbury Times , a special number devoted to Christmas reading, reached us yesterday. The paper is a thoroughly good one, and contains a mass of carefully selected and very good reading matter. It is in all respects a particularly good holiday newspaper. A Chinese vendor of vegetables had an experience yesterday that rather startled him. He and his horse were rath.er fresh after the enforced holiday irestj and he was clipping corners to make fast time, when in turning the corner from Barnard street into George street at the Assembly Rooms, the wheel of the cart went between the stone fender post and the gutter, and locking, over I went the cart. A' result of the capsize was to send the vegetables flying in all directions. Fortunately. the horse, like its owner, had a placid temperament, and remained quiet while the cart was put right side up again. This done, the vegetables were put back, tind John proceeded on his round, being careful to swing corners much , more widely and carefully than he had done previously. 'Hews has been received, of the death jof the Rev. A. H. Stobo, for many years chief pastor of St. Paul’s, Invercargill, and an ex-Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Otago and Southland. The deceased gentleman was widely esteemed, and came to the colony in 1860. Though settled in Invercargill he had i charge of a large area, afterwards embraced in the province of Southland. Deceased had proved himsol! one of the ablest ministers of the Church in the pulpit and in the conduct of the business of the church courts, and had earned the esteem and confidence of hth 1 parishioner and also of the community among whom he had been fear so-many year®. He revisited Scotland twice, ijusfc irecently for the benefit oi his health,, and while there took part in the, proceedings of the Presbyterian representing bis:ChU«fiiv