NEWS OF THE DAY.
B. N. Garland, a settler of Cambridge, has been committed for trial on a charge of sheep stealing.
The vacancy created by the resignation of Mr Maginnity, Secretary of Telegraphs, will not be filled up. The bereaved Dr Lemon is henceforth to be entitled “ Superperintendent,” and Mr Gray “ Secretary ” of the Postal and Telegraph Department of New Zealand.
The trustees of the bankrupt estate of T. S. Waymond, draper, of Nelson, have received a warrant to have a quantity of goods shipped by him for the South, detained at Lyttelton.
The jury in the libel case, Griffiths v. Johnston, tried at Blenheim, have been discharged, being unable to agree. Captain Dillon, of the steamer Kennedy, died on board, in the Duller roadstead, Westport, on Saturday.
In compliance •with a petition, the Mayoral election at Hokitika has been declared void on the ground that a supplementary burgess-roll was illegally used at the election.
A meeting of the South Canterbury Caledonian Society takes place at the Grosvenor Hotel at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, for the transaction of general business. Peacock and Geaney, West End Butchery Church street, while thanking their patrons for past favors wish to intimate that in accordance with their annual custom, they have arranged for a Grand Christmas Show of meat. No expense has on this occasion been spared in securing the very cream of the stock of South Canterbury, and the exhibition of beef, veal, mutton, lamb, porkers, sucking pigs, small goods and other delicacies, will be one that has never yet been approached in Timaru or surpassed in the colony. The proprietors encouraged by the result of their previous efforts to tickle the palates and suitably furnish the tables of the meat consuming public during the Christmas festival, have resolved to make the forthcoming exhibition something worthy of the richest agricultural and pastoral district in New Zealand. Th.e show will be ready for inspection at 1 p.m., on Thursday, Dec 23.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2421, 20 December 1880, Page 2
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328NEWS OF THE DAY. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2421, 20 December 1880, Page 2
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