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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2318, 21 August 1880, Page 3

Yesterday morning Mr Samuel Holmes sustained a loss of £2-30 through the destruction by fire of his residence hear Hildorthorpe. The premises were not insured. J. O’Connor, the Timaru pedestrian, will undertake to walk seven miles under the hour, at the Oddfellows’ Hall, Christchurch, on Monday next. O’Connor is about to leave for Australia, we understand. The Excelsior bottling stores, established opposite the new Post office, promises to meet a widely felt want in Timaru. The object of the bottlers is by selecting and bottling off beer and,'porter of the finest quality to prove that New Zealand with its excellent malt is capable of producing as fine a beverage as anything that can be manufactured out of Thames mud, or dirty water from the Liffey. We have tasted some of their prime Dublin Stout brewed in Timaru, and we can recommened it as quite equal in flavor to the imported article. The company are working up a good trade connection, and their enterprise etitles them to every patronage. •