NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 27, 1 July 1874, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Burgess List for 1874.— The above list is now ready for inspection at the City Council Chambers. Canterbury Horticultural Society. —A meeting of members of the Canterbury Horticultural and Arboricultural Society will be held this evening at the Clarendon Hotel, at half-past seven. Trinity Church, Avonside.— The new organ in the Holy Trinity Church, Avonside, will be inaugurated this evening by a choral evensong at seven o’clock. A sermon will also be preached by the Rev E, A. Liugard. 1.0.0.F.M.U. —The half-yearly meeting of the Loyal Leithfield Lodge was held on Wednesday last. There was a large attendance of members. The officers elected were Bro G. Calder, N.Q., C. Sage, V, G., Gibbs, secretary, G. Collier, G.M.

Christchurch Horticultural Society. —A committee meeting of the above society will be held to-morrow evening at the Clarendon Hotel, after which Mr W. Wilson will deliver a lecture on “ Californian coniferie,” to which the public will be admitted.

Sunday Trains. Council last evening, Mr Haskell’s resolution that two trains run on the Northern Railway on Sunday, was negatived. Mr Maskcll has given notice of motion for this day, that the Sunday trains on the Lyttelton and Christchurch line be discontinued.

Educational, —A proclamation appears in the “ Gazette ” stating that, as the inhabitants of the educational district of Kaiapoi north have failed to contribute the amount fixed by the Board as the contribution of the district for school purposes, the Superintendent has levied a rate of ninepeuce in the pound, and appointed Mr R. Wright as the person to whom it shall be paid. For the same reason a rate of threepence in the pound has been levied in the educational district of Fernside, payable to Mr A. Fenall.

Kaiapoi Volunteer Fire Brigade.— After practice with the steam engine on Monday evening, a meeting of this brigade was held, Mr Foreman Smith presiding, at which it was unanimously decided to ask Mr William Eckersly to allow himself to be nominated to the office of superintendent. His consent having been obtained, it was then resolved that the fire prevention committee of the Borough Council bo asked to recommend the Council to make the appointment.

Canterbury Railways. —The following is a summary of the traffic on the Canterbury railways for the month of May Passengers —Lyttelton and Christchurch Railway, £1127 5s lld ; season tickets, £lOl 4s 6d ; parcels, &c, £75 4s; passengers —Great Southern Railway, £IOOS Os sd; season tickets, £7O 14s 3d; parcels, &c, £7B 18s 5d ; passengers— Great Northern Railway, £1)10 10s sd; season tickets, £33 9s; parcels, &c, £3O 7s Sd; freight up —Lyttelton and Christchurch Railway, £2783 4s lid ; freight down, £1745 17s fid ; freight up—Great Southern Railway, £1139 10s Id ; freight down, £695 2s Id ; freight up —Great Northern Railway, £Ol9 12s 9d ; freight down, £278 5s Od ; storage, £lB9 19s 2d ; labor, £313 3s 7d ; wharfage, £765 9s 3d; totals, £12,029 11s sd. The total receipts for May, 1873, were £7223 9s sd. Church Extension. —On Sunday last the Bishop of Christchurch, Primate of New Zealand, held morning service at St Thomas’s Church, Eyreton, administering the rites of baptism and holy communion. In the afternoon service was held by his Lordship at the Kaiapoi island (north) Chapcl-of-case, on its re-opening since the addition of a chancel : increased accommodation has been made for the congregation and Sunday scholars to the extent of 44 more sittings. A neat threelight stained-glass window has been put in the east end. The inside wall has been varnished, and the exterior also repainted. All the expenditure, amounting to about £72, has been met by private subscriptions. Two anonymous donors have also provided matting for the aisle and a suitable Brussels carpet for the inner space of the communion rails. In the evening the Bishop held service, at 6.30, at St Paul’s, Flaxton. In each instance there was a crowded congregation, especially at Flaxton, and, after the service, several interested in the spiritual welfare of the district met his Lordship, and desired him to appoint a suitable minister to meet their wants. At each place the offertories were in aid of the Church work extension fund,

Thirty years ago a young man entered the city of New York in an almost penniless condition, and without a single acquaintance in the great wilderness of houses. To-day his name is known wherever humanity breathes. It is spoken in every hamlet, is heard in every city, and is as familiar to the worker in the mines as to his brother in the mills, and wherever language is known and ideas expressed, the name of this penniless, unknown, and uncouth lad of thirty days ago is uttered. It was John Smith.