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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2286, 15 July 1880, Page 3

a private letter, dated Kanduloun, May 10th, gives a graphic account of campaigning experiences'll! Afghanistan “ My regiment is in hut barracks her? —much cooler and roomier than sevenfeet square tents, but our 80lb of kit looks very small laid in a room. There is a great difficulty in getting wood for doors, shelves, &c. Nearly every tree is a fruit-bearing tree, and of these there is an abundance; mulberries, plums, and apricots are nearly ripe now, and we have peaches, pears, apples, figs, pomegrauates, and grapes and mcllons in almost endless variety to look forward to. Barley and lucern are the chief crops, and these grow in the most luxuriant way; but as it is unsafe to go out unarmed, or even then alone, we get rather tired of this profusion of nature. Even armed parties are sometimes attacked, and yesterday evening three officers, with an escort of two native troopers, were fired at from behind a wall, and one officer and trooper badly wounded. They must have been very bad shots who fired, for the first which struck the officer was so close that the flame of the powder burnt his coat. Our politicals are so anxious to make out this part of the world as peaceful and English-rulo-loving, that if you see this attack mentioned you will probably see that the authorities are of opinion that this attack has no political significance. But no one else here would agree with them.”

A Boston physician states, as the result o£ his experience, that the use of high-heeled hoots causes injury to the eyes, not only weakening the sight, but producing a sensation of constant pain. It is not altogether so suprising as might be supposed at first sight, that the eyes should thus sympathise, as it were,with the feet, for it is well known to physicians that the eyes suffer in a specific manner when other parts' of the body arc affected, and there arc some ailments whose presence the physician has been able to detect in this way, when the patient himself would have concealed the real nature of his illness.

Wauled, WANTED— A TURNOVER to the Printing Business. Apply, Ollice of this Paper. WANTED, an ENGINE DRIVER. Apply, J. G. Allen, Belford Flour Mills, Timaru. WANTED —A Respectable Person to adopt or nurse a boy, aged 14 months. Apply, A.T., Oflice of this Paper. WANTED, a good Female COOK for an Hotel. Apply to Messrs Cliff and Co. ANTED Cooks, Housemaids, and » » General Servants. Apply, Mrs Peters Registry Ollice. w ANTED, a Female COOK. Apply immediately, Old Bank Hotel. Late Aclycrtiseineuts. NOTICE. CHEAP COALS! CHEAP COALS!! rpHE undersigned has, in order to comI pete with the times REDUCED his PRICE for COALS and FIREWOOD as under: — Best Newcastle —Screened, 50s per ton ; Unscreened, 45s do. Good Smithy Coal, any price. Firewood, cut in very small pieces, 35s to 40s per cord. Splendid Posts and Rails, cither sawn split or round. A. SHERRATT, Church Street. EARLY CLOSING. QOWAN & JjJIOSTER, Drapers, Beg to advise their customers and the general public that their place of business will be CLOSED in future at 9 p.m. on Saturday’s, commencing on Saturday, July 24. FOR NATAL DIRECT. The Nearest Port to the South African Diamond Goldfields. THE FINE A 1 CLIPPER BARQUE. “B. J. S P E N C E.” Captain J. H. Gill, WILL be despatched from Melbourne for the above port on or about July 24. Intending passengers will require to make early application to secure berths. For particulars apply to J, A D. SPENCE, Melbourne. Y. IN BANKRUPTCY. E. IN THE DISTRICT COURT of TIMARU and OAMARU Holden at Waimate. This is to notify that Valentine Clarkson of Waimate laborer has this day filed a statement that he is unable to meet his engagements with his Creditors. The first meeting of Creditor* to be held at the Resident M agistrate’s C«iut House Waimate on Friday the 23rd day of July 1880 at eleven o’clock in the forenoon. Dated this 14th day of July 1880. G. H. GRAHAM, Clerk. W. B. Hawkins, Solicitor. IN BANKRUPTCY. IN THE DISTRICT COURT of TIMARU and OAMARU Holden at Timaru. In the matter of “The Debtors and Creditors Act 1870 ” and of “ The Debtors and Creditors Act Amendment Act 1878’’and of the bankruptcy of James Hilton a debtor. This is to notify that James Hilton of Timaru in the Provincial District of Canterbury New Zealand laborer has this day filed a statement that he is unable to meet his engagements with his Creditors. The first meeting of Creditors to bo held at the District Court House Timaru on Thursday the 22nd day of July 1880 at the hour of 11 o’clock in the forenoon. Dated this loth day of July 1880. CHAS. L. WIGGINS, Deputy Clerk. James Hilton, Acting for Self.