LOOKING BACK

Western Star, 2 August 1938, Page 2

LOOKING BACK

AUGUST. 1888. (From the files ol the 'Western Star’).

Dr Hodgkinson will be the first candidate to open the campaign for Wallace. A public meeting will be hold at Calcium to chose a representative at the forthcoming election. There were six applications for the teachership of the Thornbury school, two of which were females. Mr W. Gilchrist-, of Frankton, Queenstown, was recommended for appointment. Before leaving, the committee presented Mr and Mrs McClure with a testimonials The adjourned meeting of the shareholders of the Aparima Dairy Factory was held on Wednesday afternoon, Cap*. Stevens presiding. He mentioned tljat the overdraft was £1326. A guarantee of 219 cows had been made for the coming season, and it was decided to pay 2d per gallon fo r milk, and aftqr the overdraft had been reduced a further payment of Id would be made. A motion by Mr Blackstock that the factory be not opened on Sunday except for taking in milk in the evening was calf ried.

Mr Edward Saunders, on behalf of Mr Gregg, of Longbeach, Canterbury, has been buying horses during the past week foi’ the Indian market. About fifty of our best animals have been secured, and will be shipped at Lyttelton for Calcutta. , The stamp of animals required is young, well-boned and sound horses not under fifteen hands. A Roxburgh hotelkeeper advertises liquors at thq following prices:—Whisky and brandy/ 4s. 6d per bottle; Colonial ales. 3d pel* bottle; stout, 9d a bottle; nobblers, 3d each. Surely" there must/ be a “still” in the Teviot district. News is to hand from, the west coast of Africa that Stanley’s expedition for the relief of Emin Bey left Amuiz on June 2nd. The highest price offered for a'racehorse has just been proposed for Bendigo. The sum of, £14,000 was given by the-Duke of Westminster for Doncaster, the Derby winner of 1873, while Lord Dupplin gave £2OOO more for Petrarch. Friday next will be observed as a general holiday by the business people on account of the ploughing match which comes off in Mr J. B. McLean’s paddock near Thornbury. A message from the Congo states that. Stanley, the explorer, was shot _dead while fighting a native tribe on the jour- 1 ney to Wadel&i. Three years ago all Australasia was satisfied with £6075 worth of threepenny bits, but the interest in religion has so happily advanced that it now requires £22,000 worth to meet the exigencies cf the Sabbath Day collection. • Mr H. Feldwick has formally announced his ■ candidature for Invercargill, and Mr J. W. Bain is out for Awarua.

Sections in Manipori village settlement are gazetted as open for application on 24th August. _■ ■ The fourth anniversary of the Night- ' caps school will be celebrated by a concert and dance on Friday night. /The first shipment of the new repeating rifles adopted by the New Zealand Government will leave San Francisco by the next mail steamer on the 29th iflst- ■ ..■■■■■ ’.A West Coast paper declares that among the labourers employed in the \j JJidland Railway works are an Oxford ■■ h£A.. a Cambridge 8.A., and a Trinity College (Dublin) man, assisted by an M.D., an ex-clergyman, an architect, and an ex-wine merchant.