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South Canterbury Times, Issue 7076, 23 February 1893, Page 3

i A Christchurch spiritualist calls upon hi 9 | i fellow spiritualists to roll up and oppose Steen j the exposer of spiritualism. The annual meeting of the Colonial Foot* ball Club wiil be held on Friday evening, in the Oddfellows’ Hall, ut 8 o’clock. The Hew Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company have lately taken into I Auckland several samples of a new stone, ! which they intend introducing for building purposes, and have considerable confidence j that it will before long become popular with the trade. It is found at the company’s! estate at Matamata, where it exists in almost | unlimited quantities. At the present time ! there is no quarry yielding saleable building j atone in the Worth Island, ail the material i having to be imported from Canterbury, Otago, Melbourne, and Sydney. j Beauregard, the Confederate General, is dead. He was a trained military man, and bad various official appointments till ho became Superintendent of the "West Point Military Academy, where he had huneelf graduated. Ho held this important post only five days, whm he resigned it to go to bis native south, and take part in the great civil war against the Government his late em players. So began the war by the bombird ment of Fort dump'er. He was in command of the Rebels at the famous Battle of Bull Eua, and subsequently def-mded Charleston, when by Gill more. Hioc» the war he ha« been a railroad president and ore of the managers of 'ho Louisiana State Lottery. He was born at Now Orleans in 1818. i Ladies.—For Afternoon Tea use Axjxbe- ■ i brook’s Royal Desert and Onslow Biscuits. • -[Abtx’J.