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South Canterbury Times, Issue 7065, 10 February 1893, Page 3

Ibe 0 Battery hold a special parade on Tuesday next, 14th inet., at 7.30 p.tn. The business of the Bluff Harbor shows an increase in the last ten years from 103,967 tons of shipping to 224,257 tons ; and in wharfage receipts from £IBSB to £5907 (for 1891). Timaru’s wharfage return for this year is £7447. The employees of Mr S. Anderson’s boot factory held their annual picnic yesterday, the employees and their friends making up a party of about eighty. They proceeded to Gordon’s Bush in three drags, and, being favoured with fine weather, spent a very pleasant day. Cheers were given for Mr JSlworthy, for his permission to use that favourite gipsying ground. Local bodies will encourage cheap tendering. At the Taierl County Council’s meeting it was stated that a couple of contractors, who appealed for help because they had come on more rock work than they had anticipated, had taken the job about £49 under the inspector's estimate, and £2O below the next tenderer. Though a strong opinion was expressed about the unfairness to other tenderers of giving work to men who could not make their wages, the Counoil, by a majority, decided to vote these men £5, but it wss understood that their case was not to form a precedent. A cricket match is to take place to-morrow afternoon on the Caledonian ground between a team from the Colonial Club and one from the Timaru Herald office. The following will represent the former Grey, Macintosh, Thompson, Wake, Hice, Cornish, Whittrkor, Ogilvie, Finch, King, and Swallow ; b-nergency - Patterson. Timaru Herald team ■tdameron, Campbell (2), Soper, Powell, Boys, W. King, PhilpoU, HfeSlh;, The gams starts at 2 o’clock

gry nice point of law, and one of great L to hotelkeepers, was decided by Dr. K the Besident Magistrate’s Court at B. a few days ago. An action had Hwght against Mr Pan ter, of the one of the oldest licensees in ■Bio recover £l6, the value of a ■HpHeft at the hotel and afterwards Host. The plaintiff had slept at the Bn but after paying his bill, fetched ■ft teau and left it with the porter. WKL id his account plaintiff, however, cover, seeing that be was not a the meaning cf the statute responsible for be missing after it bas been jj^^^ft'ustody. and Co. have removed into HH next door to their old ones, agree with us that the the new shop ■HBand bettor lit ; it looks! and ssts off the | The firm also occupy ( of rougher goods, and upstairs a largo bookbindery. Ihe one, and will take a well done it will to every passer-by. and his staff they have taken, business, and it take hing perfectly throughout the com--130 miles along ;/« the railway alike fat < ocean — the To me hardly limitless his a course runHBHBKt therein, six hours, ever know is smitten - together climate—are New Zealand use AnnasOnslow Biscuits.