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Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 44, 14 September 1870, Page 4

"ANTED, a BAKER. A good general hand required. Apply immediately SCALLY & STAJiKEY, Nevis. FOR SALE, SET OF LIGHT HARNESS, NEARLY NEW. Apply to Mr. SfIANLY. To Professional " Sundowners." "N consequence of the SCARCITY of WATER - in the Town Race, I would recommend you to wash before coming into the city, as. I object after this notice to carry water across the Bridge for your convenience, and also to provide Towels, Soap, and Looking-glasses on the Cheap. JOHN MARSH. New Advertisements. DUNSTAN RACES. SMITHAM'S \ OUR-HORSE COACH 1 will leave the KAWARAU HOTEL for the Dunstan Race Course on FRIDAY morning at 9 o'clock, returning the same evening. Fares : To Race Course, 12s 6d ; Return Ticket, £l. ">ARTIES wishing to form a CRICKET CLUB are invited to attend at the BRIDGE HOTEL on SATURDAY, 17th September, at 7 o'clock, p.m. Cromwell, September 13. ENDERS WANTED for DRIVING FIFTY FEET (or more) in the Golden Pikenix Quartz - Mining Company's Claim, Smith's Gully, Carrick Range. Specifications to be seen on the ground, or at Harding's Commercial Hotel, Cromwell. J. HARDING. TO-MORROW, THURSDAY, At 12 o'clock. By virtue of a Distress Warrant. T T • Acting Bailiff to sell by auction, at the j Mart, on the above date, without reserve, rpHE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE and PERSONAL EFFECTS of Richard Francis Badger; together with a quantity of Garden Seeds, &c., &c. Terms Cash. ->Y Virtue of a DISTRESS WAR- * RANT, under the hand of Vincent Pyke, Esq., Resident Magistrate, sitting at Cromwell, in the suit HALLIDAY V. HOLLIDAY, for the sum of £49 13s, I this day seized the interest of one Joseph Holliday in a Mining Claim situate in Pipeclay Gully, Bannock bum. Therefore, unless the amount stated in the warrant (£49 13s), with costs, shall be sooner paid, I will sell the interest of Joseph Holliday in said Claim on MONDAY the 19th inst., at the POLICE STATION, Cromwell, at 12 noon. GEO. COMYN, Acting Bailiff. Dated September l3tb, 1870. mEA PAPER on sale at the ARGUS " Office, Cromwell. Will be sold cheap. TT^LOWER'SEEDS — assortment on sale at the Argus Seed Warehouse, CU&RANT AND GOOSEBERRY BUSHES 'on sale at the Argus Seed Warehouse, A PPLE AND PEAR TREES on sale at the „ Argus Seed Warehouse. BOOKS ! STATIONERY ! BOOKS ! > Large Stocks arrived at T>EITH AND WILKIE'S, i Princes-street, Ex " Leucadia," " Wayward," and " E. P. Bouverie." fig-For List, see Witness.

The thunderstorm on the evening of Wedncs day last was one of the heaviest ever witnessed iu this part of the colony, yet we are glad to state that no serious damage was done, though on board the Daphne schooner,, lying at the Bluff, the lightning entered the hold, and set fire to two hales of flax. Fortunately, these were stowed on the top tier, and were easily quenched when the accident was discovered. Subsequent examination of the bales satiHfied those interested that the fire was really occasioned as stated, and that there was no room to suppose it due to spontaneous combustion—the interior of the bales being perfectly cool and unconductors : i #lilwK slectric fluid. —Southland Weekly tfeivs/Stq*. & ■ A'-