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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2620, 13 August 1881, Page 2

The new Timaru Mechanics’ Institute Reading Room and Library will open at 7 o'clock this evening. Mr G. Pearson, fruiterer and confectioner, has received a large shipment of fruit and has the same now on sale. Messrs Philpott and Co., hotel brokers and valuators, Timaru, have a large number of hotels to let and for sale. They are also general merchants and bottlers, and have on hand a varied assortment of choice groceries and household requisites, also special brews of Speight’s and Strachan’s Ales. We understand that a new weekly paper, in the interests of the licensed victuallers and the trade generally, will be published in Christchurch at the beginning of next month, —“ Press.”

nsin the House of Representatives yesterday afternoon, Mr Bryce gave notice that he would move that the Government should, during the recess, effect a reduction in the Estimates of at least £30,000. The following are the correct insurances re <ho fire which occurred at New Plymouth yesterday morning : —Murphy’s boarding-house—Union Company, £4OO on the building ; Standard, £2OO on the furniture. Oddfellows' Hall —National, £550 on the building and £2OO on musical instruments (all saved) ; South British' £4OO on the building and £IOO on the furniture. Turner’s crockery shop— Northern, £l5O on the building and £IOO on stock (saved); New Zealand, £IOO on the building.. Driller’s shed—Standard £IOU (only partly damaged]. The tota insurances amount to £2250,

Women who paint have just discovered what has long been known to the ladies of the stage that the face can be made to look round hy putting the rouge 4n the centre of the cheeks, and elongated by putting it on a line near the mouth. The married ladies this season in London carried away the palm of beauty. Lady Lonsdale, Lady Mandevijle, Lady Castlereagh, Lady Dalhousio, Lady Claude Hamilton, Mrs Masters and Mrs Arkwright are the acknowledged sovereigns of loveliness.