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Temuka Leader, Issue 1958, 19 October 1889, Page 1

The Dunedin butchers have raised the price of beef a penny and mutton a half penny per lb. The dwelling house of Mr James Chambers, at Waipahi, Otago, was burned down on Wednesday night. Insurance, £3OOO. At the bicycle races at Christchurch on Thursday, A. C. Wilmot covered one mile in 2 min. 50 sec., lowering the record for the colony. A settler named . Grice, near Cambridge, has come into possession of a legacy of from £60,000 to £70,000, and has left on a visit to England. At the annual meeting of the Drapery Importing Company at Dunedin the chairman announced that the directors were able to raise the dividend from 6£ to 7 per cent, and the bonus from 3f to 4 per cent, Pome one has discovered that Invercargill bakers work 90, hours a week, and that the price of bread there is dearer than at Auckland or Dunedin. A co-operative bakery for the town is talked of. At the Supreme Court, Wanganui, on Wednesday, Daniel Philips was sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment tor larceny as a bailee, Wm. McDermott was found guilty of rape, and sentenced to 5 years. C. W. Langston, for forgery and uttering, got 2 years; William Whelan, for false pretences, got,3 months. Negotiations are going on for the purchase of the Awarua block, on the line of the Northern Trunk Railway. It contains about a quarter of a million acres,, and is said to be the finest land left in the North Island for, settlement. The Rifle Association’s meeting; at Blenheim resulted in a loss of £2O, At the next meeting, .which takes place at Dunedin it is expected there will be ,400 competitors, Tasmania, South Australia, New South Wales, and Victoria send a team of ten men each, and Queensland a team of 20. His Honour Mr Justice Denniston granted an injunction at Christchurch on Wednesday against the Christchurch Meat Company using the brand “ North Canterbury ” on wrappers of frozen meat. In the case of Mrs Baldwin v. Rev. W. Pascoe, claim £2OO for refusing to administer the Holy Communion to her, the learned Judge upheld the contention raised that the proper place to adjudicate on such cases was the Ecclesiastica 1 Court, Costs were allowed*