TOWN & COUNTRY

Timaru Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 6067, 28 September 1894, Page 2

TOWN & COUNTRY

» ■ Nominations for the Timaru Trotting Club meeting fall due at 9 o'clock this evening. Jurors summoned for Monday next, for the Supreme Oourt, are not required to attend, ; Xamba are very numerous about the coaetal lands, and m fairly sheltered paddocks the percentage of inorease it very large. The alight fall of rain early this week had a marked benefioial effect on the crops, the few paddooka m crop near the railway line being now green and healthy looking. We are advised by the Telegraph Depart, ment that the telegram of the 20th insfc. re the South British Insurance Company should have read " dividend at the rate of 16 pec cent, per annum." The'Geraldins spring meeting was opened on the oourie, Orari, yesterday; and will be brought to a conclusion to-day. Ihe meeting was oipitally conducted, and waj got, through m good time. ihe«peoiilrao.e r train to Orari yesterday wai atriotly •' on time " on the return jour^ ney. It could haye been at lunara by^lO, but a wait of ten minutes oecurred-at the Washdyke, so that Timaru |hp^ld nil be till 7.80.' : ' ' ' '

The opening match of the Temuka Cricket ' Olub takes place on Thursday next (not to- ' morrow as pro vioualy stated). Several more' members have joined the club during the week, and cricket oertainly looks fl.uriibicg m the " angling village, " Teams from the Timaru and Temuka Biile corps mot to fira a friandly match on the Tomuka rauge yoetorday afternoon. The match was olose and exciting. The eoores were level as the men got; baok to the last range, but here the Timaru men got a slight lead and won a good match with juet a point or two to spare. , As some of the Borough Oounoil'e men were trimming up the footpath on Forth street at the foot of the bank cutting below St Mary's Churoh they came across a moa'a leg bone m the solid olay. The bone was nearly at the footpath level, or twelve feet below the original ground surface. It was of good size, but not a large one as moa bones go, As usual with bones found m the clay it is m a soft cheesy condition. Here is a very old joke revived by the Minister for Eduoation. A member was speaking of the early colonists of Australasia and their suitability. Qnoth Mr Beeves to a friend : " The early settlers of Australasia ought to have been eminently suitable, as they were selected by some of the best judges m England !' A Wellington ooaldealer, Rendered to supply membera of an association (numbering 200 odd members) with coals at the following prices : — Co&lbrookdale, £1 13a ; Newcastle, £1 83 per ton net cash. Upon this becoming known to the coal ring they gave — — notioe that unless he at once reverted to the ring prices (£1 18s Ooalbrookdale, and £L 16b Newcastle) they would immediately cut off his supply ; consequently he has had to surrender his contract.