General Intelligence.

Clutha Leader, Volume IV, Issue 178, 7 December 1877, Page 6

General Intelligence.

Of 600 candidates at the Victorian m Civil Service examination, 114 were^ ladies. . . - . The -members of the Ashburton County Council have agreed to "bring* .. the Act into operation. . , The house and store of Francis Crowder, Carey's Bay, Poit Chalmers, was burned down on. Sunday morning 1 .. The proprietor of the South Canterbury Times has been summoned to appear before the R. M. Court to answer two charges of libel against JudgeWard. • The Rev.. Father Hanneberry, Catholic mission priest, has, during his short stay in Ghristchurch, induced about 8,000 pet-sons to take the temperance pledge. . ■ . • Mrs James Griffin, better known . as Gassy Mathews, once a popular actress, and who bus bsen m ill-health for some time past, died in Wellington hospital on Sun da}'. A fine specimen of a brown trout, measuring 2ft. G^n. in length, and weighing lOlbs, was caught in the Wvuvjy ol' LeitW ; u^nr th© Old Botanical Gardens, on Saturday. A telegram from Adelaide says : — A. frightful murder has been committed at Port Auuusta. A man named Fagaa split open the head of another man named Bonne, while his victim was fast asle«i>. The Morning 1 Herald learns, from a good and reliable source, that : Messrs Ufiitiiston and Stewart, who were engaged by Angns in the case of George Proudfoot, have received instructions ta discontinue further proceedings. The raid against sly-grog selling ia Oarnaru continues. At the Li. M.. Court, on Monday, James Robertson was. fined L4O. The Magistrate, in inflicting the fine, said he would make, thepenalties higher when. the next case came before the Court. A Grahamston telegram says a woman named Levy has been fined 20s and costs in the Resident Magistrate's. Court for assaulting the head teacher of the -Kauaeranga Girls' School. She had been to the school and shook the teacher because he had punished one of her children. At last meeting of the Vincent. County Council a motion was carried toplace LIO,OOO in one of the banks at, interest. A portion of the County is in the Canterbury Provincial district, the contributions of land rnven le from, which account for the financial position of the County. ; „ • Arthur Von Poelnitz, late curator of the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society, was brought, up on. remand, charged with embezzling funds of the Society, and discharged, the Resident Magistrate holding that the Society had no existence in law for the purpose, of prosecu^ tior. in cases of this kind. At the quarter y Licensing Courts Dunectin, on Tuesday, there were five applications for new licenses. The whole w«re refused, Mr Bathgate explaining thnt in the opinion of the Court; thtrt* were already a sufficient number uf licensed houses in Dunedin to satisfy the requirements of the people/ .. ; ...... I The installation. at Auckland of Brb. F. Whi taker as P.G.M., Scotch. Constitution, and of Bro. Graham as G.P. M.j English.. , Constitution^ took plane at the Choral Hall,, on Saturday, in the presence of a splendid assemblage of Masons. The day was observed as a holiday by the banks and publio offices, and most of the private business places were closed.