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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2058, 28 September 1880, Page 2

STANDARD PROPERTY INVESTMENT SOCIETY. Ofike : City Chambers, Hereford street. THE DIRE TORS are prepared to receive applications for Loans, on the security of freehold properties Full particulars on application. THOMAS R. FISHER, Manager for Canterbury. Chriatchurch. August 10>h. 1880. 5318 Now On View, _ Ex "Loch Ckee," A SPLENDID STOCK OF PRING AND SUMMER GOOD 3. v J. MILLS. TAILOR, Pratt'a Buildings, Colombo street. ODDFELLOWS* HALL. ■R H. BRUNTON, of Punedin, who recently lectured on the Great Pyramid, will give a Lecture at the above place on WEDNESDAY NEXT. Subject —"The Second Comingt.f the Lord." Illustrated with lsiagrams Any question submitted in writing will bo answered by the Lecturer. The lecture will commence at 7 30. 5839 EXCURSION TRIP TO SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE. TTNTENDING Excur--6~,.v sionista to S-ydney ond Melbourne via s.a. HERO Are requested to send in their namsa at once to Mr J. Ladbrooke, at the office of F. Jackson, Hereford street. Number of excursionists are limited to 150 gentlemen. 5826 m CRICKET. ripHE LARGEST, CHEAPEST, and BEST JL ASSORTED STOCK EVER IMPORTED INTO NEW ZEALAND. Hundreds of magnificent Bats to select from. Duke's best crown gut sewn Balls, 7s Gd. Good practice ditto, 33 Gd. Cane handle Bats from 7s Gd. Cobbet's best cane handle. 15s. India-rubber Batting Gloves, 6s. Wickets, fall size, 7s. Nets, full width, 22s Gd. A choice assortment of Buchanan's LAWN TENNIS Bats, Balls, Poles, Nets, Shoes, &c. Fall sets from 655. To open in a few days, a magnificent stock of FISHING TACKLE, with a reduction of 50 per cent on previous priees. Forty Gross of 'lrout Flies, all kinds, at Two Shillings per dozen. W. B "pTI C E, Opposite Bank of New Zealand. 5855 1.0.0.r\,A.C. AVON LODGE, No. 23. \ SUMMONED QUARTERLY MEET- . ING of the above Lodge will be held on WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 29th, 1880, At the Lodge Room over Thomson's Sewirjg Machine Depot, Colombo street, Christchurch. Business : To receive ad interim B-tlance-sheet, Auditors' report, and other general business. 5852 HKBBERT L. WELCH, R.S. LYTTELTON PERMANENT LAND, BUILDING, AND INVESTMENT SOCIETY. rHE NINTH ANNUAL MEETING of the above Souiety will be held at the Colonists' Hall, Lyttelton. on MONDAY NEXT, OCT. 4th, 1880, At 7.30 p.m. Bttsinfss : To receive theßalancs-hheet and Accounts of the past year, and elect two members of Committee in place of two who retire by rotation. 5853 JOHN S. WILLCOX, Sec N ACTION having been commenced in the . Supreme Court of New Zealand by MR CHARLES NAPIER BELL, of Chriatchurch, Civil Engineer, against us, the undersigned Proprietors of the " Raniiiora and North Canterbury Standard," in which damages are sought to be reaovered by Mr Bell for the publication of a libel contained in an article hereafter Bet forth, and Mr Bell having consented to discontinue the action upon payment by us of all costs incurred by him, and upon the insertion of the following APOLOGY in the leading newspapers throughout the colony : We therefore hereby beg to apologise to Mr Charles Napier Bell, of Chrihtchuroh, Civil Engineer, for the insertion of the following article in the issue of our paper of the twentysecond day of May, and again on the sixteenth day of June last, and we farther state that wo are satisfied that the facts expressed and implied with reference to Mr Bell in the said article are altogether untrue and unfounded, and we beg to withdraw the statements containedin them :

" Architects in New Zealand, and in the goody-goody city of Christchurch notoriously, have often times carried ont with Buccess the good—or bad—old .English custom of exacting a percentage upon the value of material they implied in their specifications. We remember, well, for example, Sir Cracroft Wilson elevating his powerful voice in the Provincial Council against the practice of a then Provincial Arohitect demanding 5 per cent, from a certain quarry proprietor, if he—the architect—directed in his specifications that the stone to be used came from the quarry of the quarry proprietor in question. We are told that in the matter of the pipes ordered from England by the Drainage Board for the purpose of the Christchurch district, that, according to ' usage immemorial' —savo the mark—from a colonial taxpayer's point of view—the engineer of the Drainage Board, Mr Bell, through whoso hands the ordering of drainage piping to England is made, is to get 5 per cent, upon the English price of the pipes. A larger percentage is even stated. Now we can scarcely believe this. The last contract for pipes amounted to some £33,000. At 5 per cent. ; the sum netted by Mr Bell would be a very tidy one. What will Protectionists—and Freetraders for the matter of that—think of this." MARSHALL HUME BROWNE. HENRY TURNER. 5862

[SPBING: 1880. "EW Silk Stupe Mohairs, 83 9d the dress, or 9J per yard Black Grenadines, new goods, excellent color, at Is Drab and Grey Lußtres, at Bid All Colors in Chenille Fringe, 9d Mohair Fringe, new shade, 6d The above are wonderfully cheap, and well worthy your notice. H. B. MAY & CO., The Hall.