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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2731, 21 December 1881, Page 1

JKotoert Wilkin Ik, Co, SOUTH BRITISH FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY. CAPTAIN SUTTER having resigned the Agency of this Company in Timaru, Messrs ROBERT WILKIN & CO. have been APPOINTED thereto. Proposals for Fire and Marine Insurance can be made on and after November 1 to Mr Charles Bourne, their local Manager. , J. DRUMMOND MACPHERSON, Manager. >OBERT WILKIN & CO j Stbathallan Stbeet, Timaru, HAVE NOW LANDING AND TO ARBIVE per Lutterworth, Sam Mendel, City of Tanjore, Padishah, Rangitikei, etc.— Fencing Wire, 8.A., No. 6 to 10 Barbed Wire Galvanized Strand Wire Straining Brackets Staples, diamond point Iron Standards punched to gauge Salt, Fine, Coarse, and Rook Cornsacks Woolsacks Seaming Twine Galvanized Iron Nails and Washers Wire Nails, Roseheads Oils Paint 3 White and Red Lead Seed Sowers Seed Drills Harrows Cambridge Rollers Ploughs Root Pulpers Corn Crushers Chaff Cutters, horse-power and inter mediates Wines and Spirits. Bottled Ale and Stout Disinfecting Powder White Powdered Arsenic General Groceries Soda Crystals, &c, &c. TURNIP SEEDS. TURNIP SEEDS. rHE undersigned have just to hand ex " Waipa " and ex "St Leonards," TWENTY TONS TURNIP SEEDB_ Specially selected from the beßt English and Scotch growers. We have tested the Seed and the per centage germinating is placed againßt each variety : Devonshire Grey Stone - - 96 per cent Mammoth Purple Top - - 93 „ „ Green Top Yellow Aberdeen 95 „ „ Purple Top Yellow Aberdeen 94 „ „ Swede 92 „ „ Yellow Tankard - - • 95 „ „ White Stone - - - 97 Also, the following Seeds:— Long Red Mangold, Orange Globe Mangold White Belgium Carrot, intermediate James Scarlet, and Short Horn Rape, Mustard, Field Cabbage, Kohl Rabi ROBERT WILKIN AND CO., Steathallan Stbeet, Timabtj. Business .Notices. EW BRICKS and Fresh Burnt LIME now ready; pure water supply JAMES SHEARS, STEAM BRICK AND LIME WORKS Near Domain AND W - J. H. BOWEE, "TATCHMAKER AND IMPORTER. Just to hand by Mail Steamer— WATCHES, CHAINS & JEWELLERY, In Gold and fcilver, of First-rate Quality. Splendid variety of CLOCKS. Expected daily by ships Dunedin, Loch Fleet, and Nelson, STERLING SILVER AND ELECTRO PLATE. Watches, Clocks and Jewellery Cleaned and Repaired. Note Addeess — OLD POST OFFICE BUILDINGS, (Next Messrs Coy and Drummond's) TIMARU. NEW YEAR'S DAY. • OUTH CANTERBURY CALEDONIAN SOCD3TY. THE SEVENTH ANNUAL GATHERING will be held on MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 1882. on the NEW AGRICULTURAL SHOW GROUNDS, TIMARU. Sports Open to all Comers. Nominations for the Handicap Races (Boys excepted) accompanied by entry money and description of colors must be sent in to the Secretary by 6 p.m. on Saturday December 24, 1881. Entry money—Five per cent on value of first prize. For Programme see Posters. HEr Late trains to suit country visitors. W. E. WHITCOMBE, Secretary THE O~tTGO~FOUNDRY, Cumberland Street, Dunedin. (Established 1859.) iAVJDSON AND 10NYEBS Engineers, Boiler Makers, Iron and Brass Founders, &c, FlourmiU, Quartz-crush-ing, Hoisting, Dredging, and Sawmill Machinery Made and Repaired. Makers of High-class Stationary and Locomotive Engines. All kinds of Multitubular and Lancashire Boilers, Tramway and Railway Machinery and appliances made and repaired. Agents for — Messrs John Spencer and Sons, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Manufacturers of all kinds of steel castings. Messrs Appleby Bros, Manufactures of Steam and Hand Cranes and all kinds of Hydraulic Machinery. Messrs J. and F. Howard, Bedford, Agricultural Implement Makers. Mons Decauville Aine, France, Patent Portable Railway and Rolling Stock. A. S. Hallidie, San Francisco, manufacturers of all kinds of Wire and Wire Rope, Barbed Fence Wire, &o. [A caed] j'M CONYERS (late of the N.Z. Rail- , , ways), Assoc. Mem. Inst. C.E., Mem. Inst.ME., is prepared to act as Consulting Engineer to Railway and Tramway Companies. The preparation of Drawings and Specifications undertaken.