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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2411, 8 December 1880, Page 3

At an early hour on Saturday last a j relative of the landlord of the Commercial 'Hotel at Clinton, jumped out of his bedadorn window and disappeared. He was •only partially dressed at the time. The police are making search after him. On the subject of “ Church rows ” our Auckland correspondent writes:—Since I last wrote a few more ecclesiastical squabbles have ruffled the surface of the social atmosphere and provided matter of gossip for the local quid mines. The principal one has been a bitter contention between a Congregational minister and his flock as to whether or not he should be allowed to wear a gown in the pulpit. The cleric has gained his point, but at the expense of such embitterment of feeling that it is not improbable that another row may ensue, leading directly to his resignation. The “JSew Zealand Times ” thinks KThat the rabbit plague is proving to be not so very much of a plague after all. In the case of the Huangaroa Hun, Mr Martin assures us that although the rabbits held possession for a time, and devoured every blade of pasture they did the land good by heavily manuring it. One section of id,ooo acres, that a short time since looked as if it had been blasted, is now, since the rabbits have been killed off, a foot thick in luxuriant pasture, and of course, carries numbers of sheep. There are still a few rabbits about the run, but they are easily kept under, phosphorus proving a most potent means of suppression.

The attention of speculators on racing events is directed to the Grand Novelty •Consultation on the four chief events of the forthcoming Dunedin races in February. '.The promoter, Mr Abraham has conducted sthese sweeps for the past two years and the •results have invariably given the utmost satisfaction to subscribers. In some of the great boot and shoe factories of Massachusetts (the ‘ Pall Mall Gazette’ states), hydraulic shoepresses are employed, by the aid of which one operator can sole 700 pairs of shoes per day; power-machines for trimming and planing the edges of soles of- shoes, each doing the work of three men and doing it better; sewing-welt machines, making shoes as pliable and comfortable as when hand-sewed, and turning out 120 pairs a day per machine. The ‘ Daily News ’ says : —“ Sir Bartlc JTrere will be justly set down in history a.g the author of two of the least excusable and, in their small way, most calamitous wars that England ever had to encounter —the Affghan war and the South African war.” For continuation of News see fourth page. TO LET —Four-roomed House, within five minutes walk of Post Office. Apply to Samuel Busby, Heaton street.