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Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 25, 31 December 1874, Page 2

r f With the object oriesFening our labora? -; this week in view of the holidays, theii J Leader appeals this issue as a bix, instead^ J| ot an eight pave < paper. Next week it wilrj/| resume its usual dimensions. " )'o\ We have to correct a very absurd blun-| | der which appeared in last week's issued | In the first editorial article the following^ 3 sentence appears as printed :— "lt is rights | -■ nd the duty of each church, to look afterj I its own people, however scattered ; but it J 1 is sad to witness a Presbytery ministration! % where the members of the PresbyteryJ \ Church may be counted almost on the 1 1 fingers of both hands." — The sentence! | should have read —^proselyting ministration; I \ where the members of the proseli/tingS 4 Church may be counted on the fingers of lf 1 both hands. Ml We learn by telegram received froinl j Wellington that . Mr. James Patterson, off jPort M<>lyneux, has been gazetted a Justice |^ ,of the Peace. | i ■the New Year's Day race meeting and! -> sports take place to-morrow. Judging by.i j the nominations, a good- day's sport may bfta j expected. We have been requeued to fi&ylj that all horses must be at the 1 -< Newmarket Hotel, to? morrow morning atj | \6 o'clock sharp ; foot race entries upon;! 4 the ground. , •'-' " ■ *':■'.;-:-■;.-• §1 We are inarmed on.gopd authority that! ] the new stern wheel steamer in course ofj 1 being built at Port Molyneux, by MrK.| ,1 B. Mason, will be ready for being launchedj ! about the latter en 3 oiF EeHruary. There-1 \ raainder.pf the. fittings -will be completed ia| ;] the course of a week or so afterwards, sol .= that the river traffic may be expected tpj | be fairly resupcied in' time for the'tiarvestl % traded „T t ' )\ _ ;c \ „": ; >„( ' :Vi Ji :\,,i ..l| A special, meeting >f f the; Municipal! | Council was' hefd*on -the '/evening) pt Mon-| ,1 day. Present,, the Mayor and Messrs ; ; | 1 Dunne', Krigour^arid^asbni'iSome^routinQl : q business^ including the,, jpassing of acpountsi -I foi: 'payment:^ afte^^whicn^^XDouh^cUloMl Pun.ne tabled, a;motion p< affirmingrjthe ,de- r | ■§ jsirabiiity of *f or'miiig twelve 5 chains'more inj ':% (Continuation of Clyde-street, " T^.-.]V '*.-. '..'Mi *3 3