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Star (Christchurch), Issue 696, 16 August 1870, Page 4

'■ Majob Kemp.^A Wanganui paper of August, 5 had the following -—Major Kemp was sued this morning for the price of, a crinoline, but as he would not. pay^ and did not appfear to defend.the: case, he ' probably thought the whole thing beneath his dignity drid notice. Considering that .he has. just received' a. large';stim of mpney the Grpyerniiient, he ought undoubtedly to pay for.h is crinoline. A Majpt ought alwayß to ke£p out,bf_Courfc if 'tie : can, but if he cannpj; he should go in- hqnprabljr f p r a bigger thing than' such a non-essential to' the ' pristinebeauty of 'tho 'flgufe : /as a crinoline. ' ! ; iNWiRir "ABpißitt6Ns;--The. fpllpwiTjg;' is f ropi -^ Wellington; 'coij]teiap.prary • : Tr-Purijog the discu'sßiqn in the Hpuae .of JFiepresentatiVep on Mr Griiliei' motion rtelatfye W the disability of "Colonial^ Officers /to h^ld seats in' the Hquse, 'Mr Cariefcbni in the. cptiirse of his Temttrks on the motion, took occasion, tq •ay that, the, Proyincial Councils and taries we're 1 Bubordin'ate .to theySupertriten-. dents, to which the/ Superintendent of Otagq, ilir/Macandrew, teplie^ fcttq vgce . "j yrish they some little No doubt this was a'sincere and hearty aspiration on tlib partJ-bf the hob. member. ' ; "'Tun' : Wlita]ul— Thb Oamaru'; p^per bf a recent date'skyfl :^We have been shown by a gentleman in this town . certain correspondence' Yespecting the bridging' o,f the^Waitaki/in _the,same. principle as that of the now constructed, across the Rakaia, viz t the use of pipes driren into the shingle.. r From this we learn that a light tpmpprary''bridge_tp, carry a tramway could b,e erected 1 oh thia principle at a very moderate cost, and that a substantial bridge 4000 feet in length, and sufficiently wide to allow of the passage of two draya, and w ith considerable weightTcarrying capacity, might be cpn'structed for £15,000.