The * Tuapeka Times’ mentions, as an on dit, that Mr Horace Bastings will stand for the Assembly at the next general election for the Mount Benger district. The Rev. I. H. Wills, of Canterbury, preached at St. Paul’s Church yesterday morning, and at Roslyn in the evening. The rev, gentlemen leaves for Timaru to-morrow. Mr J. H. Baker, Inspector of Surveys in the Southland district, proceeds Home by the next San Francisco mail on twelve months’ leave of absence, and it is stated that the Provincial Engineer has received leave to visit Victoria. The clerks in the Chief Post Office at Christchurch presented Mr S. J. Jago, on his transference to kelson, with a massive signet ring, suitably inscribed, and a set of very chaste pearl studs in recognition of the courtesy and kindness they bad all experienced at his hands during the period he bad been with them. A very sudden death occurred at Invercargill an Wednesday last. William Smith, a carpenter by trade, had tea with hia wife that day and was then quite well. Sometime afterwards his wife observed him leaning as it were against the wall, and on examining him she saw he was dead. Deceased was about fifty-one years of age. According to the local papers the Waste Land Board of Southland is in a fair way of becoming famous for the eccentricity and humor which it imports into its manner of transacting its business. At its last meeting Mr Wade, solicitor, told the Board that it was in the habit of settling a piece of business three or four times finally, and of then taking it up and discussing it again. At the last meeting of the Oamara Municipal Council it .was intimated that the Council’s loan of : 20,000, 7 per cent, thirty yea-, s’ debentures had been taken up by Mr A’ . A. Low at. 90, The i.'ouucil substantially recognised the services of the mayor (Mr Nhtimuki) in negociating the loan by voting him L 250, as they were of opinion that double that ambuut would have been charged in the usual way of commission. Mr J. M‘Gregor, photographer. Princes street, has favored us with three excellent card photos of the Honorable 8, D. Hastings. Two are in the medallion form.; one in profile and the other three-quarters full. They are both striking likenesses; perhaps the profile beiug the beat artistic pictures. The third is struck off the same negative as the full-faced medallion, but being rectangular it gives a more perfect representation of the figure. Mr Hastings’s friends and admirers will be glad to supply themselves with mementoes so faithful. Mr Steward, M.H. R., and the Hon. R. Campbell, M.L.C., waited upon the Provincial Government on Tuesday, and represented the argent need of arranging for freight traffic on the Awamoko Branch line without delay. We learn from the ‘N. O Timei ’ that Mr Reid explained that the delay which had already occurred was partly attributable to tbe fact that a number of cases of dog spikes for this line had been by mistake taken charge of by tbe General Government, and mis-sent to Wellington. Tho f'rovincial Government were anxious to give facilities for railway traffic at the earliest possible moment, and had arranged for a 12-ton engine to be sent up from Invercargill at once. Trucks are being made in Dunedin, and it is expected that freight can be brought down to Oamara from Awamoko in three weeks or a month at the outside.
A wedding, attended with rather remarkable circumstances, occurred at Queenstown in the early part of the present week. A young lady, well known in the district, got up very early one morning with the ostenmblo purpose of gathering mushrooms, hut (adds the ‘ Duns tan Times ’) instead of doing so she found her way to the Registrar’s omce, where, together with a certain well* known young gentleman, in presence of a lemale triend, they entered into the bonds of matrimony. On board the Antrim steamer, at 0 30 a.m. the next morning they were surprised by the father of the young lady whose consent to their union they had forgotten to obtain, and at the bursting out of whose pent-up wrath a scene ensued. Paterfamilias threatened the life of the partner of her and proceeded to put his resolve into practice, when the bride fainted, and peace was only restored by the production of the legistrai’s certificate of marriage, wh; uce followed mutual and satisfactory explanations. and a paternal forgiveness -and the happy couple left in the steamer on their wedding tour to muthland.
meeting of the Union Permafrom 7to 8 Sr*’ *" held
P 33 * l week there 19 admissions to ana ,25 discharges from the Hospital. The deaths wore Donald M'Kay, groom, aged 20, native of Sutherland, from disease of the brain; Janet Double, aged 16, native of Otago, from gastric fever.
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Evening Star, Issue 3756, 8 March 1875, Page 2
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