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A farewell coffee sapper will take place in I the Army Barracks this eyeing. I The appointment of Mr Samuel Baird as postmaster at Greenstreet is gazetted as from March 1, and the Springburn office has been opened for postal note business. There are no fewer than five Irish peers, ! who take their titles from places that are not to be found in the map of Ireland. These are the Duke of Abercorn, the Earl of Sheffield the Earl of Barnley, Viscount Bangor, and Viscouut Hawardea. By order-in-Council, forty reserves in the Rangitata, Hinds, Westerfield, Spaxton, Alford.and Shepherd's Bush survey districts ranging from one acre to five acres (mostly five acres) have been vested in the Ashbur tcn Council, and the vesting is now gazetted. 