TOWN & COUNTRY.

Timaru Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 5195, 16 July 1891, Page 2

TOWN & COUNTRY.

Tho Oazellt of the 9lh inati contains noiiooa of the temporary reservation of 17 lots of land, totalling 5000 acres, m tho Mackenzie County, " for plantation purpoflos." Moafe of tho piecoa aro on tho Bhoros of Labe^ Tokttpo, and Pukaki, : ' : ; Attohtiori is flirooted to llio notico respecting The Weekly Press ond llafarcc. The luttor journal hib recently boon incorporated with tho former, with Uio . result that flic Frrss is now the mout popular and, widely circulated wookly journal m Now Zoalond. Tho paper oomprieoa 48 closoly printed pagoa, and contains a mass of news most interesting to all olasaos oi rcadors, Mosnrn Hutton and Co. nro locrl ugents.

The Aoracgi arrived at Woilingtou at noon yostorday. Passengora for Timaro, steerage : — Mrs J, Dick,: MißsDiok, Rasters Diok (21, and Mr J. Mucaulay. ' '■ , '•; C. A. Wray JEsq., R,M, occupied the bench at the Bosident Magistrate's court yesterday when the following cnec b were dealt with : — A. White v. J. Andrews, claim £1 7s ;R. Hanson v. T. Richmond, claim £5 10a ; J, Jaokson v. J. Keen, claim £2 ; judgment going by default iv all tho cases. This was all tho business. Xhe Geraldine County Acclimatisation. Society have procured some pheasants for breeding purposes, and have decided to keep tho came at Arowhcnua Station. A lot of Calif ornian quail. hovo also been purchased, and released m the Gully Bush. The Society intend to procure some French partridges, if possible, and to generally encourage tho acclimatisation of feathered game. At the masting of the Harbour Board yesterday, Mr Blatmau asked leave to refer to newspaper raporta of the previous meeting for the purpose of pointing out an error connected with his name. He was made to cay that Mr Teßchemakor, before he went Homo, exprossed approval of shifting the Bhingle experiment. What he said was— to show .his own conoisfcenoy — that ho mentioned to Mr Tesche. makor that if Messrs Wilson and Boll's report was on tho same lines as the preceding one, he (Mr Flatmaii) would approve of the experi rnont. Wo huve received from Mr F. Cargill, secretary to (he local freezing company, a list compiled by Mr P. Cunuiugharn, for. the Shaw-Savillo and Albion Company, showing ttio expats of frozen meat from the various Now Zealand ports f«r (ho twelve months onded 30th Juno last. 'Xbero were eleven shipping ports, and it will be satisfactory to South Canterbury pooplo to know that liinaru occupies the fourth place m regard to number of fheep and lambs, or total weight of meat shipped. The total shipments were — I,6oo.9Bs 'oareaßea, 67,101 lega and 2251 pieces of putton, weight 89,780,544 lbs ; 357,910 carcases of lamb, weight 12,683,860 lbs ; and 10 333,675 lba of beef. The total weight was 50,347 tons, an increase of about 9400 tons, or moro than 20 per cent, over the export of the previous year. Wellington was •the largest chipper, with 12,682 tons (including 2915 tonß of hurt), Lyttollon is a eloae second with 12,465 tona (about 90 tons beef). Napier is third wiili 8838 tons, and Tiraavu fourth- a good vrvv off— with.S9BG tono/ and O.imoru fifth whh 3233 tons.' Other ports follow m this order— Dunedin, Bluff, Giijborne, Wui'ara, Auckland, Picton. Hogardiug mutton Bnd lamb only Lyltelton rcakes tho largest return, with Wellington next, but. tho lut! era heavy ahipm?nt of beef pats her at the top. Adding together the Lvttolton j and Timaru shipments, it is seen that Canter- 1 bury, north and soulii, cent away moro than I one-third of tbo whole of. the mutton and j lamb, and very nearly one third of the whole ] weight with the North Island beef thrown m. The large shipment of bejf from' Wellington | should be noted, und the auestion nsied whether come pirt3 of Canterbury could not bo profitably dovoted to dairying and beof " raising for export.

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SYNOPSIS OK SHW /VI) ViWTJSEMKMTti. Weekly Press and Referee— Important notico to roadors of sporting, otc. Eutland and Co— Soil saddlery and tinwaro on Saturday. T.A. and P.A.— Notice of special and othor prizes for show. CSraoio, Rloolean ana Co— SoU koraes, oto; on Saturday. W. S. Maslin— Stock m trade of storekeeper on Saturday. : Mundoll and Co— Soil horses at Geraldine this day. Levels Road Board— Caution ro Walton Mills raco. J. W. White— Has proporiies for sale ; money to lend. In Bankrnptcy — Bo dividend m Marianne Perceval's estate. ' ' J. Gall, Fairlio Creek — Wants a storoman.