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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2386, 9 November 1880, Page 3

Miss Josephine Taylor, daughter of the head of the Mormon Church, lias fled from her home to escape polygamy. A member of the Guards’ Club, London has been expelled for brutally beating one of the house servants. Mr Conway says that Carlyle neither reads nor writes, but lies on a sofa and longs for death. Carlyle will be eightytwo in December. The authorities of Detroit, Michigan, have refused to license a company of barc-lcggcd blondes who sought to exhibit their figures there. They say at the London Jockey Club that Mr Lorillard’s two years career on the English turf has cost him nearly £40,000. At a meeting at Gisborne to consider the unemployed question, one of the speakers said he knew of an instance in the town where a family had only breakfasted on potatoes and salt. Another man begged a small bit of meat to go fishing, and instead of doing so took it to his family to make soup of. This is a sad state of affairs. During one of Mr Proctor’s lectures in Wellington he was describing the great age of the earth, when an individual in a front scat of the stalls suddenly and angrily observed, “ That is not true ;■ if that is true, then the Bible is a lie and, having so delivered himself, he jumped up and left the theatre, followed by a companion apparently of the same way of thinking. Dan Smith, who last evening was found indulging in a heavy spree, and required the services of three constables and a quantity of rope before he could be conveyed to the lock-up, was brought before Mr Beetharn, R.M., this morning, and ordered to pay 10s for his lodgings and 20s for, assaulting Constable Satchwell. It is said that Inspector Mallard of Dunedin, who has just been numbered among the police reductions and quitted the force has been offered the post of tire inspector for the United Insurance Companies, at a salary of £BOO per annum. If so, Mr Mallard’s friends will be able to congratulate him on his bad luck. For continuation of News sec fourth 'page. To ILet. rpo LET—Three-roomed Cottage and .JL Scullery. Apply to A. H.u;x, Customs. rpO BE LET—Five-roomed Brick COTI TACIE. Apply W. Stericker, Fyfc’s Buildings. TO Let A Six-roomed HOUSE, with Verandah and under ground Tank, Centrally Situated. Apply, office of this paper. TO LET, A FARM of 800 ACRES, near Silver stream, fenced and improved. Im mediate possession can he given. Apply to T. HALL Late Atlvertisements. JEWELLERY AND FANCY GOOES REPOSITORY, MAIN NORTH ROAD. Messrs gibson and cockroft beg to inform the Public in and about the vicinity of Timaru and the outlying districts, that they have Entered into Partnership, and have opened, in addition to their well-known Jewellery Shop, the Fancy Goods Repository adjoining their'premises, Main North Road, and near the Ship Hotel, which will be found replete with Cigars and Tobaccos of the very Best Brands, Pipes of every description, Stationery, a large assortment of Perfumery of the very Best Quality, and Sundries too numerous to particularise. G. and C. having purchased from the Estate of T. R. Proctor, of Christchurch, a Large and Varied Assortment of Gold Watches of every design, which, for Stylo and Finish, Cannot be Surpassed in the Colony, they arc in a position to offer them to the Public at Prices that will Defy Competition. G. and C. have also arranged to Indent Shipments of Jewellery, Ac., from the famous ROTHERHAMS of LONDON, and will be in a position to offer the Public the advantages of Purchasing, from the DirccImporters, one of the : LARGEST AND BEST ASSORTED STOCKS OP JEWELLERY AND WATCHES IN TIMARU TO SELECT FROM, Inspection Invited. Note the Address— GIBSON AND COCKKOFT. JEWELLERY AND FANCY REPOSITORY, MAIN NORTH ROAD, {Adjoining the Ship Hotel), TIMARU.