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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2443, 17 January 1881, Page 3

The tender of J. Anderson of the Canterbury Foundry, for the construction of a new surf-boat for the Harbor Board’s Landing Service has been accepted. The cost of the new boat is £4lO.

It is anticipated that when the wharf alongside the breakwater has been extended 300 feet further, steamers of large draught will be ab’e to come alongside.

The Bench administered a severe rebuke to hard-swearers in Courts of Justice this morning. A lady publican and her representative barman, being charged with selling after hours resolutely denied the offence. The evidence for the prosecution, however, was considered conclusive and the licensing magistrates marked their sense of the additional enormity by inflicting a fine of £lO.

Two little girls had a really marvellous escape this afternoon. They were passing along the temporary footbridge in front of the old post office, when one of the big scaffolding poles used in the building operation®, which had been stuck in a small keg or barrel to keep it upright, suddenly blew over, falling across the footbridge and resting on the hand-rail at the moment that the little girls were passing. Indeed their escape was so narrow that those w r ho saw the pole fall expected to find the children crushed. Fortunately a Coroner’s inquest and the inevitable rider were avoided.

The streets on Saturday night were enlivened by the strains of the Timaru Artillery Band who played from the vacant elevation near Mr Hamersley’s office. A crowd was collected by the music. It seems a pity during the long summer evenings that something cannot be done to enable the citizens to hear the bandsmen a little oftencr. A band stand in s me central position, and a little public appreciation of a substantial character would do much to encourage our musicians and keep them together. The liberal conduct of two members of the S.C.J.C. at the last meeting of the Committee in connection with the forthcoming races, desenes more than a passing notice. The offer of Mr Moss Jonas to contribute £SO for a special prize, constitutes the most handsome donation that has ever yet been made by any patron of the turf in South Canterbury. Mr Hamersley’s liberality in providing the band for two days on the course means a donation of fully £l6 to the Club. When members of the Committee come up to the scratch in this gallant and liberal style, the public should have no hesitation in rallying round their standard. Instances of the kind we have mentioned shew that the Club is sound at the core, and we trust that the liberality of Messrs Jonas and Hamersley will prove an incentive to others.

The programme of the next race meeting of the South Canterbury Jockey Club which takes place on April 28th an 1 2t)tb. appears in another column of this evening’s issue. The regular monthly media? of the Timaru Loyal Orange Lodge No 13 will be held this evening in the Oddfellows’ Hall Sophia street, for the transaction of important business, at 7. 30. Architects are reminded that the dale for plans for the Mechanics’ Institute is posponed to the 28th inst. A sale of town, suburban, and rur .1 lands including sections at Albury and othc parts of South Canterbury takes place at Davies and Winter’s rooms South Eakaia on Feb. Sth. Mr Thomas Ellis, plumber and gasfitter, has removed to premises next J. II Stanscl.l’s ironmongery warehouse, Main South road. We notice that Messrs J. Hoskins and Co., have succeeded Messrs A. Cubitt and Co., as proprietors of the Excelsior Ale and Stout Stores, immediately opposite the new Government Buildings, and are nowprepared to supply ale and stout to consumers in bulk or bottle, and of tbe best obtainable quality.