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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2420, 18 December 1880, Page 3

At an adjourned meeting of the Canterbury Farmers’ Co-operative Association held this afternoon at Mr Green’s store, the following Directors were elected ; Messrs W. Postlcthwaite, J. Page, J. Hayhurst, J. Talbot, C. Bourn, J. TCclland, junr., E, M. Godwyn, J. S. llutherfurd, W. B. Howell, J. Campbell, A. Cleland, M. Studholme, W. N. Slack, J. Bradshaw and J. Buckle. The Articles of Association were considered and approved of. A vote of thanks to Mr Thornhill Cooper for his exertions in assisting to establish the Association were proposed and carried unanimously.

According to the Home papers a

; Welsh local Board of Guardians quar- ' relied with the reporters concerning the accuracy of a report of the Board’s meetings. The reporters swore by thir notes, and offered to submit them to the inspection of competent shorthand writers. The B‘>ard at first thought of having the notes sent for ; but eventually they were content with specimens of the phonographic art. Having inspected these for a quarter of an hour they told the reporters that it was absurd to supposc-that such things (as the shorthand characters), could be relied on, or that speeches could be taken down at all with accuracy. It was all humbug * “to imagine such a thing.” A reporter who ventured to say that he could take the speech of any “ intelligent” speaker, was told that he was talking nonsense ; whereupon he and his fellow-scribes left the Newtown (Montgomeryshire) Board of bfuardiaus to their wise delibrations. At Westport on Monday a prospecting party, of throe were going up Mackay’s creek,when their canoe upset, and Samuel Jenkins and Alexander Waddell were drowned.

The programme of the New Years’ sports, of the Tiraaru Caledonian Society, will be found in our advertising columns. called to* the announcement re the annual distribution of prizes at the Timaru Public School.