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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2533, 4 May 1881, Page 3

There was a clean sheet at the R.M, Court this morning. ’ Mrs J. L. Hall the wife of the eminent comedian and actress, well-known in New Zealand, died a few days ago at Adelaide. ; The barque Cambrian, from London, ar- . xived at the Otago Heads to-day. The sub post offices at Lake Tekapo. and , Pukaki. Ferry having been closed, correspondence hitherto sent to these offices will now be sent to Burke’s Pass, - TheWashdyke School Committee deserve no small credit for having solved the difficulty , re appointment of teachers. They have advertised for a teacher at their own personal cost, selected a suitable applicant, and the Education Board has confirmed the appointment. This is carrying ouf the Education Act in its integrity in everything but one small item—the Committee have no right to suffer pecuniarly. The Washdyke School will be re-opened to-morrow under Mr Andrews. The“Lyttelton Times” office issued no less than.21.,000 copies of the number of the : paper containing the account of the Tararua disaster. This was on Monday, and on the same day the crowd is described by a Timaru visitor to Christchurch, as having been so great around the “ Press ” office that there was no , getting near the door. People rushed up and threw down shillings and . half-crowns in exchange for their papers without waiting for any change. The Timaru Harmonic Society give their final concert of the season in the Theatre Royal, to-morrow evening. Mr G. F. Clulee invites tenders for the erection of a rubble wall bn Racecourse. Henry Willsher, described as a person of gentlemanly appearance, was convicted on Feb. 2, at the London Central ..Criminal Court, of bigamy. According to the statement of the prosecutor, the prisoner had a most extraordinary career. In 1864 he contracted a marriage with a woman named Eleanor Erie, and in the following year he was tried for forgery and acquitted. In 1868 he was married to a woman named Leslie in the name of Grantly, and in the same year he was tried and convicted for bigamy, and sentenced to five years’ penal servitude, and he was released upon a ticket-of-leave in the month of June, 1872. In the month of July 1872 he married a young woman named Marshall, who was at school at Coblentz, and in 1876 he was divorced from this person on the ground of cruelty. On December 10, 1877, he was tried for perjury and subornation of perjury, and sentenced to eighteen months’ hard labor. In September, 1879, he married a young woman named Lavers, and in the following year he contracted another marriage with a person* named Miller. ~TO STONEMASONS AND OTHERS. rnBNDEES WANTED for fifty feet long by three feet ten high of* RUBBLE WALL, to be erected opposite the Grand Stand on the Racecourse. Either Cave or Coal Gully white stone. Tenders to close on 9tb May. Specifications to be obtained from MR G. F. CLULEE, Timaru.