BRIEF MENTION.
■Wanganui is to have a tow } n clock at ft cost of £240.—A road, six milei long, and twelve feet wide, bai been opened to connect Dillman'eTown with the Christchurch road. The workco»t two thousand pounds—Mr Hungerford, of Dunedin, hai putcbaiieW » quantity of rich quartz ipecimens from the Keep-it-Dark and other Beefton mtnei. He intends to exhibit the specimens.—A new industry hai been started at Wanganui, being the manufacture of lead*headed nail* for roofing purposes.—The Christchurch papeM contradict the repotted death of Mr P. H.Digby, '.the I*oafer.is. the Street,' and states that Mr l)ij|by, though still mentally very bad, is in good health. —Mr W. H. Laeh has had hi* sawmill at Halcombe totally destroyed by fire. The insurance waa £800 in the Colonial office.—A number of valuable dogs have been poisoned at Wanganui. —At Oamaru, a Congregational chorch ia to ;be erected at the cost of £1,000. —Mr liMPlatt has given'tbe Bishop of Danedin £50 towards a Theological pollege.—The widow of the late Mr Marcus Clarke, of Melbourne, hat again, Jiaken to: the stage, in order to maintain^her' 'fomily.—Mr and Mrs John Priest, of Pareora, Canterbury, have just celebrated tbeir golden wedding.—?Mr Beetham, K.M., has been seriotlaly ill at ■ Chnstchurch, of low fever.—This (iason, up to June Brd, 146,083 bags of grain were received at the Oamaru railway station. —In the lobbies of the House, the names of Mr iMacandrew and %Mr<E. Gii;: Wright, are mentioned in connection with the vacant portfolio -of Minister for Public "Works.—On June 9th, there were heavy floods at Bull§, Marton, and Palmerston North. One or two bridges were destroyed. Over one thousand sheep, a hundred valuable rams, two hundred fat pigs, iome cattle, and horseaj were; dlrowned.— Mr George tJom^ton,' builder, of Aehburtoa, has been found drowned in the river at that placet—An old Wanganui Bettler, named George Hunt Cunnabell, has diedit'the^age of seventy-six years.—For salary, passage of self and familyi &ci Captain Hume, the inspector of Prisoni, coat the Colony sixteen* hundred and eighty• nine pounds. —It is stated the new loan is to be for the amount of three million pounds.
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Colonist, Volume XXVI, Issue 3480, 13 June 1882, Page 3
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352BRIEF MENTION. Colonist, Volume XXVI, Issue 3480, 13 June 1882, Page 3
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