LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7508, 16 September 1902, Page 3

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

• ■ "♦— ""' At latest advices, eggs were selling in Durban at 8»-6d <per dozen. Valuable limestone deposits have been discovered a few miles from Patea. The quantity is. large, and the quaiity is said to be of the best. Deputations representing the Wellington Chamber of -Commerce and the Wellington Carriers will wait on the Railway Traffic Manager this afternoon with regard to congestion at the goods shed there. The Mayor has received ten guineas from Messrs M. Harris and Son, and £3 8s Id, forwarded by Mr C. H. Wil_&,. being offertories at the K-_linohy, .Sou_-_ridge and Sedgemere' churches for the Veterans' Home. Mr H. R. Walker has now completed the staking of the channel of the River Avon. The stakes are fifty yards apart in the narrow reaches of the river, but vary further out in the estuary. They are tapred and pointed white at the top, and each stake is numbered. There are one nundred stakes in all. A deputation from the New Brighton Beautifying Association waited on- the Borough Council last night to obtain permission to remove the two enclosures at present on the Esplanade in order to protect the two places on each side of the King Edward's well reserved for trees and flowers. The deputation also requested that a pipe should w laid from the Coronation Well to each of those enclosures. The requests .were granted. Speaking at the dinner given at Wellington on Saturday evening to the North and the South Island football teaDns, the Act-ing-Premier (Sin Joseph Was-d) referred to the proposed tour Home of a New Zealand team, and etated that the Agent-General (the Hon W. P. Reeves) was actively working to bring it aibout. He had been __sured by good judges that a New Zealand representative"team -oould hold its own with the best teams in the Old Country, * and he hoped to ccc them do as well as the Aus-trali-n cricketers. The market in Australia, for frozen meat Is attracting Argentine competitors in this branch of trade. When the last onail left, three cargoes of frozen mutton from this Argentine were daily expected to arrive for the Sydney market, the consig_ment"consisting of about 150,000 carcases. A Sydney buyer of beef, who is at present in this colony, expresses the opinion that the mutton market in Sydney is unlikely 'to keep up, and he advises caution in regard to future shipments from this colony, otherwise exporters will find themselves in ■traits. There is (says the Auckland "Star") a prospect of a regular trade in kahikatea being; established be-vreen Auckland and the Argentine. Mr Henry Rey- ' nolds, formerly of Waikato. and ifhe founder of the butter industry in this province, but who is now managing large -butter factories at- Buenos Ayres, is at present on a visit to Waikato, and has ordered 1 100,000 ft of kahikatea from Taupiri, for shipment to the Argentine, for use in (making butter-rboxes, end if this is a success further large orders will be at once placed. At present the timber used for butter-boxes in the Argentine is pine from North America, but it is by no means satisfactory. tTownend'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, 2s 9d. Townend, Chemist, Christchurch. " 2621 Fire at Maine Bros. — Our great sale o_ Salvage Stock is now on. Bargains in Ladies' and Gents' Light Foot Wear. We aro also making a special sale of nailed boots. Farmers note— Prices low. 7069 Only forty-four persons took out papers of naturalisation in the whole" of the Frenoh last year.

Messrs Tonks, Norton and C<k advertise! in this issue a sale by auction of fumitnire, piano, drapery, groceries and general storekeeper's stock, at the premises of Mr J. Lord, 93, Lower High -Street, to-morrow and the following day. The sale will commence at 12 noon each. day. Although there may be people who conI rider Dr Torrey a great speaker, they cannot say that his utteramces are always consistent*. Last night he said, " You Christchurch infidels are .a most unintelligent lot. I find more intelligent and attentive infidels in Sydne*y." On Saturday evening he declared that : "You Ohristchurch infidels are a more attentive crowd of infidels than the Sydney infidels."