We are requested to draw attention to Mr James Strachan’s local advertisement which appears elsewhere. Holder? of tickets in the art union are reminded that the drawing will positively take place on Monday evening next, and that the cheap sale of drapery will also close on the following day. Housewives and others who are desirous of investment in cheap remnants, &c., should lose no time in visiting the scene of Mr Strachan’s sale. At the last annual meeting of the Victorian Insurance Company at Melbourne, a dividend at the rate of 100 per cent on the paid-up capital was declared, beside-, making a considerable addition to the reserve fund. The Victorian Insurance Company appears to he about the most prosperous concern in existence. Another payment of conscience money. Pour one pound notes were on the 3rd ult. placed under the office door of Messrs Boss, Sims, and Go., Timaru, agents of the Victoria Insurance Company, as an encouragement for other persons to relieve their conscience in a hke manner. Ihe payment is acknowledged in our advertising columns. How publicly and as a matter of course the traffic in “ black ivory ” is carried on by the Dutch Doers in South Africa, Lord Kimberley recently showed in Parliament by a quotation from a letter written by the wife of a Boer, in which she states that a “ Boer had come home with six head of cattle and one Kaffir girl,” and that another “ came home with 32 large Kaffir girls, whom he was selling for half a sovereign apiece.”
Joe Coburn, who fought a very severe drawn battle with Mace in America Nov. 30, 1871, is still living, but at latest accounts was in gaol. The Bush Electric Light Company have made a 100,000 candle-power lamp, for which 40-horse motive power is required. It is intended for use in the army. EiigM-h bookmakers, laid the American sportsman, Lorillard, £ISOO to|£2o many times over lhat lie would not "in the English Derby. Hence Lorillard’s big winnings over the result.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2624, 18 August 1881, Page 3
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