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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2677, 18 October 1881, Page 3

An English gentleman who keeps a large stud of hunters, and interests himself greatly in English racing matters, writes that “ there are not any oats to compare with New Zealand for feeding.” Messrs Bailey & Kerr announce that this is the last week of their Timaru sale of American novelties. Cement appears to be their special line, but . they have on sale numbers of Yankee notions which attract crowds of people to their shop every evening.

The cats which Messrs Beetham have succeeded in accumulating on their station do not appear to be altogether an unmixed blessing, Says the Wairarapa Daily ; —•'The 700 odd pussies at Brancepeth are under a delusion that their mission there is not to hunt rabbits, but to purr round the domestic hearth. The consequence is that when a window is left open in the house, a string of cats, several chains in length, passes through the orifice, and takes charge of the dwelling with almost as much determination as Bishop Batto’s rats.”