NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 44, 21 July 1874, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

St John's Parochial Entertainment. —The usual weekly entertainment will be given this evening in St John's schoolroom.

Journalistic. We have received the first number of a new weekly paper called "The Olutha Leader,'' published at Balclutha, Otago. It is very creditably got up. Snow Storm.—Shortly after eight o'clock last evening snow began to fall heavily, and continued to do so during the night, the streets being covered to some depth.

City Council's Banking Account.— £IOO tenders for the banking account of the City Council for the next three years were considered last night in committee, and, after some discussion, that of the Bank of Zealand was accepted.

Board of Education. The usual weekly meeting of the Board of Education which was to have been held yesterday, lapsed for want of a quorum. The only member present at the time appointed by the Ordinance for a quorum to be present, was the chairman, MrC. C. Bowen. Licensed Victuallers' Association.A general meeting of the members of the trade, under the auspices of the above Association, will be held at Morton's Hotel, this evening, at 7 p.m., to consider the question of opening during certain hours on Sundays. City Surveyor.—ln response to an invitation from the City Council, nil e applications were received for the office of surveyor, and considered last night in committee, when Mr C. Walken, who has been acting as surveyor for some time to the Avon Road Board, was appointed to the position, at a salary of £3OO per annum and allowance for horse forage. The College Site.—The petition against the appropriation of a portion of the Domain as a site tor the College is being very rapidly signed, no less than 522 signatures having been obtained yesterday before 3 o'clock. The meeting to consider the action taken with respect to the Domain Bill will be held this evening, in the Music Hall, at 7.30 p.m., and not in the Oddfellows'Hall, as previously announced, when signatures to a petition to the Upper House against the passing of the Bill will be taken.

Supkbme Court.—The civil sittings of the Supreme Court opened yesterday at II a.m., the case being Rhodes and Wilkin v Thomas Ellis, in which the plaintiffs claim £IOO3 damages from the defendant for the negligence of his servant having set fire to a portion of his property, which fire extended to the run of the plaintiffs and did serious damage to fences, &c. The examination of five witnesses was got through yesterday, and it is probable the case will last three or four days yet. The other cases for trial stand over until next week.

Inquest.—An inquest was held yesterday at Trclevan's Hotel, Seven Mile Peg, before J. W, S. Coward, Esq, coroner,ou the body of W. Wilson, tlie boy who was burnt to death on last Sunday morning. Mr Wilson, grandfather of deceased, stated that about four o'clock on Sunday morning he was aroused by hearing deceased call to his niece, Agnes Wilson, saying that the house was on fire. He immediately got up, and rushed to the ifitch.cn', but found the stairs leading up to boy's; room in (lames. He then tried to get into his room by the window but could not, and (kept calling to the boy but got no answer. He then went into the girl's room, and broke.the partition with an axe to where the boy's bed was, but the flames and smoke rushed in so quickly that he was obliged to get out the best way he could. He and his wife got out of the window, and the next he saw of the deceased was - -when he was dug out. He (witness) was the last to go to bed the previous night, and before doing so separated some logs that were burning, thinking he had left everything safe. Agnes Wilson, niece to previous witness, gave similar evidence, and said they could do nothing to save the boy, as the flames came in so quick. Her uncle, aunt, and herself had to get out as quickly as possible. The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death."