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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2640, 6 September 1881, Page 3

One of the worst dust storms experienced hi Timaru for a long time, soon cleared the streets this afternoon .between! two and three p.m. It is no exaggeration to say that the atmosphere was temporarily as dense as that of London in a fog, and quite as disagreeable.

To-day was the day appointed to open applications for the post of Hospital Surgeon to the Timarn Hospital. The Board’s work was light, however, bn this occasion, as there was not a single application put in. ' & man living at Washington recently sent a phrenologist of that city one photo of hi nisei!: dressed as a woman, another ;,J nn arciiitecl, a third as a professor. Throe charts were sent back. The •"chitect was advised to marry the woman" while the professor, being of uncongenial temperament, was advised not to marry. . Mach amusement was caused at Brisbane by Judge Harding refusing to adjourn for the Princes’ reception, on the n quest of the Attorney-General, ultimate y he did so, at the request of the par gem; rally. lie gave as his reason that the- Judges had been slighted by rnintimation of the Princes’ visit having been officially given. he attended die levee himself, and the jury in the ca.-o under trial had to be locked up for ha.f an hour extra in consequence.