LOCAL AND GENERAL
The School of Arts will re-open on Feb. 26. ■ • ■- - ' :■ • ' - .•- ■ ' . Two large picnic parries went to Purau from Lyttelton this morning. The employees at O'Brien's Bpot . Factory proceeded thither by the s.s. John Anderson-, and those of Messrs Hollis: and Brown by Messrs Agar acd TJioanas's steam launches. It is a singular coincidence (says the We&ngtoa.- " Post ") : • that,, Sergeant-Major Lockett,, who returned home to Wanga«ui from Souti; Africa recently with, his right arm shot" away, should have met with a:; similar mishap to that which his. father, Major L^ockett, suffered in the Maori war, that gallant officer having also lost an arm. Mr Browiiing, the superintendent of the Eastern Extension Cable Company at Waikapuaka, has been advised that the cable steamer SCJtia- is now paying put the final section of the Cape-Australia cable between Fremantle and Adelaide. . Yesterday she was in latitude 35.42 south and longitude 116.20 east, .and had laid 375 miles of the 1600 ■miles length. 'She due an Adelaide about Feb 24, and the^ final. section of 'fee cable should be. open, for •work oq 'March 1. . Townend's Sulphur Hair Restorer will positively restore grey or faded hair to its natural colour; is not a dye. Price 2s per bottle^ by post, securely packed, 2g 9d Townend." Chemist. Christchurch. 2521
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7330, 17 February 1902, Page 3
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