TIMARU.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVII, Issue 21, 13 September 1889, Page 19

TIMARU.

(From our own Correspondent.) Ah addition has been made to the Church property here by the purchase of the section known as McGregor's. It is intended, as soon as a suitable residence is erected, to make an application for Christian Brothers'to take charge of the boys' school, and it for this purpose that the section mentioned has been secured. As it adjoins the property on part of which the boys' school is erected , it completes the square of ground lying between Brown and Heaton streets, and facing the North Belt. With a good residence and the spare ground attached, the Brothers Bhould be very comfortably situated when they are amongst us. I learn that so many demands are being made for Christian Brothers from various parishes that it is rather hard to get them, and therefore it is impossible to guess as to the time the boys' school will be placed under their managment. In the meantime the school continues nnder the efficient managment of Mr. Lowe and his staff of assistants.

A concert is to be held on Thursday, 12th inst., to provide funds for repairs to the school and surroundings. The programme is an exceptionally good one, and the concert should prove as equally successful as the previous ones held in the boys' schoolroom. No further steps have been taken in preparing for the expected visit of the Irish delegates. The further delay in Australia of Mr. Dillon and bis colleagues has given more time than was at first supposed. That successful preparation will be made, and in good time, is, however, a matter of certainty. To be on a level with your neighbours on going to bed, and wake up in the morning to find yourself on the top of a hill is not an unusual experience in this enchanting locality. The Corporation workmen are again usefully employed. This time it is at what is termed " striking the levels," which means that wherever they notice a street in an unusually good state of repair, they plough it up in such a manner as would convey to most observers the impression, that a spring crop was being put in. In some instances they almost consign some unfortunate resident to a living grave by banking up the street immediately in front, until one would imagine they were erecting earthen fortifications around the dwelling. In others they seem to have an anxiety to elevate him, <>o that he may be visible to all the surrounding neighbours from their doorsteps. This is meant to be improving the town, but to me it looks like as if some erratio earthquake with under and over proclivities, has been dancing a caper under Timaru to the tune of " Bob up serenely." Mr. Egan, who has been so long the hospitable lessee of the Fairlie Creek Hotel, has 'joined the list of Bonifaces in Timaru, having leased the Boyal Hotel, lately sold by Mr. Jas. Sullivan. A narrow escape from an accident happened to three Timaru citizens while driving in the country some days ago._ The horse suddenly shied and upset the conveyance over a deep drain, the result being that two of the occupants were thrown clear of the'eonveyance, the other one was pitched into the drain underneath it, while the horse, in his inverted position, looked like some peculiarly rigged ship with all her sails blown away, but with the ma9ts still itanding. After repeatedly declaring he was dead, and refusing to credit any opinion to the contrary, the man in the drain bade his friends a last farewell. After some time he was persuaded to emerge, and arriving at an hotel close by, he was resuscitated under precisely the same treat* ment as the corpse at Tim Flaherty's wake.