NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 47, 24 July 1874, Page 3

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Domain Bill,— The total number of signatures to the petition against the Domain Bill up to yesterday was 1328. Geraldine Domain Board.— Messrs David McKenzie and* Robert Fish are gazetted as members of the Geraldine Domain Board. Akaroa Domain Board.— The Rev WAylmer, Messrs J. D. Garwood, J. Dalcy> and S. Watkins are gazetted as members of the Akaroa Domain Board, M.U.1.0.0.F. —The anniversary dinner of the Loyal Perseverance Lodge will be held this evening in the new hall, Woolston, at half-past seven. Avonsidb Entertainment,— This entertainment will be given this evening. The vocal and instrumental portion of the programme will be followed by the comedy “ In a regular fix.” St Luke’s Entertainment. —This entertainment was given last night, in the schoolroom. There was a very good attendance, and the different items on the programme rendered in a very creditable manner. Immigrants per Eastern Monarch; — The single women by the above vessel may be engaged at the depot, Addington, on and after Saturday next, and the families and single men on Wednesday next. Dauntless Lodge. —The attendance of the members of this lodge are particularly requested this evening, to consider business of importance. Brethren members of other Good Templar lodges are also invited to be present. The “Grip” Company.— By a private telegram received from Wellington yesterday, we learn ■, that . the Grif Company opened on Wednesday evening to a crowded house, and that Miss Rosa Towers was a great puccess.

Christchurch V. F. Police.— A notice appears in our advertising columns requesting gentlemen desirous of enrolling as members of this corps to send in their names and addresses to the office of Captain Mitchell in time for the general meeting, to be held August 11th. Football. To-morrow afternoon the match commenced last Saturday will be continued. It is hoped the club will muster well, when a different result may be expected. Colors : Club —Med ; Fifteen l>luo The following arc the fifteen —Anderson, J. ; Holton, C,; booth ; Chapman, T. ; Cotterill, E.; Dobson, U; Hartland, Loughnan, Lewiu, Macquarie (capt), Mathias, Ollivier, L. ; Thomson, J.; Thomson, O.; and Waxman. Public Meeting.—A pubPc meeting of citizens called by liis Worship tire Mayor, iu compliance with a requisition presented to him numerously signed, will be held at the Oddfellows’Hall, this evening, at 7.30 p.m.. to obtain an expression of public opinion as to the advisability of petitioning the General Assembly to pass an Act whereby the fees of the various licenses arising within the boundary of any city or borough may form part of the revenue of the respective municipalities. Ingratitude. —lt is a strange thing, but nevertheless a fact, that the more hospitality is extended to certain individuals the more ingratitude is shown. The captain of a certain ship, peculiarly accessible at present, has entertained a great many people at no small expense, and His reward has been that the seats in the saloon, which are unusually handsome, have been “ whittled” to such an extent as to disfigure them. We all know the intense delight which it appears to g ! ye certain individuals of our nation to chip mementoes from any work of art, and thereby disfigure or utterly destroy it. P>ut in this case there is not even the incentive of ancient celebrity. That the unvarying kindness shown by the captain and officers of this ship should have met with such a base return is a disgrace to our port; and w" hope never again to be the chroniclers of a similar offence.