From the local papers we learn that the scarcity of small silver coin is so great in Christchurch as to have given rise to a bet that £SO worth of sixpences could not be collected in that city within oca week.
The demand for labor is so great in Canterbury that nearly the whole of the immigrants by the Charlotte Gladstone which arrived a few days ago were engaged within a short time of their arrival. All the single men, single women, aud married couples without children, were soon engaged, and out of about 150 immigrants landed six families remained for engagement. The following rates of wages were given :—Married couples, £6O per annum and found ; single men, farm laborers, £4O to £45; ordinary laborers, £35 to £4O; single women, domestic servants, cooks, £3O per annum ; general servants, £2O to £3O; nurses, £25; housemaids, £2O,- nurse girls, £l3 to £ls.
The " Timaru Herald" of the 2nd February reports an accident that occured to Judge Ward on Tuesday last:—He was returning on horseback from town, and whilst shutting the gate in the road fence, the horse (a spirited one) was struck by the gate, and bolted off full gallop for home, clearing a lot of posts which were lying in the paddock, and jumping the garden gate —or the fence close alongside —which would be no small jump in the hunting field. The distance from the garden gate to the house is short, and the roadway to the stables at the back runs alongside the house, turning off the front road almost at right angles. la making this turn, the horse swerved so sharply that his Honor was thrown, and fell against the stone wall of the house. Fortunately, his hat saved him from serious injury.
The sl2 Lever Watch, No. 13,580, pur chased from Ohas. P. Norton & Co. 86 Nassau street, New York, January sth, has been carried by me over six months, with a total variation in time of only 26 seconds, without the slightest regulating, and presents the same brilliancy of color as when purchased.—JAS. E. WILSON, Sec. American S. M. Co. N. Y., New York, July 10, 1870,
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 55, 10 February 1872, Page 8
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