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South Canterbury Times, Issue 7079, 27 February 1893, Page 3

We have to thank the Government printer for a email batch of Parliamentary papers. The Timaru portion of the San Francisco mail arrived from Christchurch by the 2 o’clock train to-day. The mail for here was a heavy one. The police desire to warn householders and others against a woman who is making a house to house canvass “ telling fortunes for 6d.” A good many people have already encouraged the lady. A Palmerston fruitgrower states that from half-an-aere of apple trees he has this year realised for the fruit £25, while last year the same extent of orchard yielded £SO, the apples being sold at 2d per lb. It is stated that the Government Labour Bureau at Wellington, is very slack just now» few applicants for bush work offering them selves. Each steamer from Australia brings over a number of bushmen, many of whom, after making inquiries at the Bureau, depart in peace up country, paying their own fares. The Taranaki News states that the men who have been brought to the district by the Labour Bureau are asking very high rates of wages for work. Some of them have refused a shilling an hour for bushfelling, and demand as much as 15s a day, and this by mere novices at road work or bush-felling* They do not got it. At Saviour’s Church, Temuka, on Sunday evening, the J3ev. W. €• Gillam preached on the Bible in Schools question, and enforced upon parents the urgency of their children being afforded more opportunities for religious instruction than are at present gives by the Sunday schools. There was a large attendance at the service. Some of the leading theatre managers of London are giving up advertising on hoardings and relying on the newspapers. They say that practicelly no one goes to the theatre who does not read a newspaper, and those who read a newspaper do not take much notice of wall posters. A recent case in which Enahota, a native, sued another named Eicharda for £ls was decided in favour of defendant at Wanganni, but the magistrate recommended that both should be prosecuted for perjury, and steps are being taken to do so. The Auckland fferald says that “ many enterprising farmers in Canterbury—men who have made the agriculture of that district what it is—are thoroughly dissatisfied with the operation of the graduated land tax, and it is believed that in that quarter a formidable storm is brewing in regard to that subject." Who and where are those farmers ? and where is the storm ? i

The Timaru Liedertafel has taken a fresh lease of life- The annual meeting which was held on Friday night,was very fully attended. A hearty vote of thanks was accorded to the secretary and treasurer, Messrs Jefferson and Cargill, for the very large amount of work they had so successfully carried out last year. The fallowing officers were elected Captain Wray, President ; 0. A, Jefferson, Becretary ; F. Cargill, Treasurer ; l£llis Wood, Conductor; R. Foster, Librarian. These officers, with F. Jones, and E. Holdgate, form a committee. With such capable officers as these and under a conductor of such tried zeal and ability as Mr Bilia Wood, the society can confidently look forward to a most successful year. The Primitive Methodist church was nicely decorated yesterday with corn and fruit for the harvest tbankgiving services, when apprise sermons were preached by the Hev. W. O. Woodward ; in the morning on the harvest as an evidence of (Sod’s goodness ; in the evening on the interdependence of com* muoities of men, each one sowing for others to reap, and reaping what others sowed. Next Sunday Mr Woodward preaches his farewell sermon prior to removing Co Geraldine, and a farewell social will be held on Thursday. At the sale of properties by Messrs Guinness and LeOren on Saturday, Mr W. Balfour’s farm, Seadown, 262£ acres, was bought by Mr Dunnott, at £l7 per acre. Mr 0. Bowker bought section 165, Timaru, 1 rood with building, at £9O ; lots 41 and 42, each 1 rood, Kensington, at £SO, and lot 97 part of rural section 1786, Kensington, with threeroomed wooden house at £4O. Two lots on ( Elizabeth street, were bought by Mr S. F. Smithson at £45 10s ; and half an acre with cottage and blacksmith’s shop, Washdyke, by Mr G. F. Oluleo at £9O, the same buyer taking a five-roomed bouse and lot X on Elizabeth street, at £7O. Max O’Sell said to an interviewer in Auckland : —“ Everywhere through the colonics my audiences have been extremely appreciative. The superiority of the New Zealand pit audiences, however, has struck me markedly. They have not bean composed of men who slouch in because they have a shilling to spend, but the pits have been filled with highly int elligent people, well dressed people, to whom it has been a pleasure to talk. Both my wife and myself will carry away from Australasia the sweetest recollections of the kindness and hospitality we have everywhere mot. If ever I a chapter on Australasian manners and character it shall begin like this: ‘The inhabitants of j Australasia are the kindest and most hospit* able people I have over met. The Coroner, Mr Wray, held an inquest at Winchester on Saturday afternoon into the death of an infant child named Donnithorno aged 20 months, accidentally drowned in Ohapi creek, near its parents’ house. Mr Do I Kenzy was foreman of the jury. The mother i of the child gave evidence that she had the child in her arms about nine o’clock that morning about the house, put it down, and missed it a few minutes afterwards. Searched for it at once, and her sister found it lying in the creek near the house. The mother’s sister, who found the child, and her brother, who I t i row the body out of the creek, in three feet i of water, also gave evidence. The child showed j no sign of life, and they tried in vain to restore ’ animation. The creek was quite near the bouse, ! they,had recognised the danger, and watched I the child carefully to keep it from the creek It was found near a plank crossing to the garden, and the witnesses supposed the child tried to mi.ke its way to its uncle, who was working in the garden, and fell off the plank. 4 verdict of accidental death was returned. j Sanders and Sons’ Eucalypti extract.— I (See Advt.)