NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 87, 10 September 1874, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Political. —His Honor the Superintendent will address his constituents at the church schoolroom this evening.

St. Luke’s Entertainment. —The usual weekly parochial entertainment will be given in the schoolroom to-morrow evening. Theatre Royal. —There was only a moderate attendance at the Theatre last evening, when “The Great World of London” was repeated, and went well. To-night “Lucille’ will be produced.

Saturday Train.— lt will be seen from our advertising columns that the Government have determined to discontinue the market train which runs from Dunsaudel to Christchurch on Saturday.

Election for City Council. —There was not much excitement to-day about the election of councillors, none of the candidates showing up at the polling booths. The general impression when we went to press seemed to be that Messrs Ick, Gapes, and Raphael would be returned. A large number of ratepayers registered their votes during the day.

Lytblton Election. —There is consitierable excitement in Lyttelton with regard to the borough election, and sweeps are being drawn regarding it in every available place A fictitious statement of the state of the poll was posted up at the Albion, and the burgesses appear generally to take a warm interest in the matter. The poll will be declared at about five p.m. if possible. Energy. —An active boy in the employ of the Star was'going about in a dingy, in the harbour this morning, when he tumbled overboard, and was rescued with great difficulty by a man on board the Strathnavar, who jumped in and held him up and sived him with great difficulty. The boy showed great pluck, and gasped out “ all right” when he was landed.

New Bus. —Mr J. Barlow, the proprietor of the line of coaches between Papanui and Christchurch, has just added a new bus to his plant, which will make its first trip tomorrow. It is a very convenient and roomy vehicle, and all the fittings are of first-class character. It is built upon the most improved principle, and fitted to carry thirty passengers. The wheels, body, &c., are painted cream colour, picked out with Vermillion and ultramarine blue, relieved by edgings of black. A red string panel runs round the bus, underneath which the body panel is painted dark blue. This portion of the work reflects great credit upon Mr Barlow, coach painter. The lettering and ornamentation has been executed by Mr T. Gapes, and is very creditable.

1.0.G.T. —The usual weekly session of the Excelsior Lodge was held last evening (Wednesday) when there was a crowded attendance of members. Nine members were initiated, and seven admitted by clearance card. The election of Grand Lodge representatives was postponed till the 23rd inst, as by that time it is confidently believed the lodge will contain eighty members, and thus be entitled to two representatives instead of one as at present. After the business of the lodge was disposed of, the remainder of the pieces not given at the entertainment last week, consisting of two songs by Bro Hammond, a speech by Bro Bennets, and a readby Bro White were duly disposed of.

Lyttelton Parochial Association A meeting of the committee was held on Tuesdaj evening, in the Church of England school, present—Rev F. Pember in the chair, Mesdames Rouse, Nalder, and F, Graham, Messrs Plimmer, T. A.W. Parsons, R. Cotton, V. Parsons, Hillier, Wollstein, H. R. Webb, Dr Rouse, and G. N. Phillips, Hon. Sec. The rev President invited suggestions as to the best means for making the association more widely known among Church people in Lyttelton. A conversation followed, in which Messrs H, R. Webb, Dr Rouse, and others took part. At the general meetingof the association in October, Dr Rouse will bring forward the subject of “ The best means to be adopted for increasing the sitting accommodation in Holy Trinity Church.” Under Distress Warrant. —A peculiar case occurred on Monday. A set of buggy wheels had been loft at the Brittania Foundry, Kaiapoi by a person whose goods were subsequently seized under distress warrant, Among the articles taken possession of was the body of a buggy, and hearing that some wheels had been left as stated, the bailiff proceeded thither, but was refused permission to take them, Mr Keetley’s men stating their employer, who was absent, had given instructions that no articles were to be taken oft his premises without an order. The bailiff in putting the law into force was resisted. The two men who obstructed him were subsequently brought up at the Court, and fined, the fines and costs amounting to 235. The wheels were taken and about to be sold when the real owner turned up and claimed them, O f course they had to be given up, but the question suggests itself whether the fines inflicted on the two men ought not in justice to be refunded, seeing that after all they could not be resisting a bailiff, when he had no colorable right to the goods, as the wheels did not even match the buggy.

The Auckland Ibt.es The lessee of the Auckland Islands (Dr Monckton), says the Southland Nows, nothing deterred by the difficulties that beset the previous cruise of the Mnblc Jane, has lost no time in laying the tight little schooner on again, the, time with a cargo of sheep, which experience hi\a shown will be much easier to handle at first than cattle. She takes also several thousand feet of timber and other materials required for the construction of buildings, &c. Mr K. M‘lvor goes in charge of the expedition, and is accompanied by a married couple and two or three single men, whom it is purposed to leave on the island to commence carrying out the works required to be performed in terms of the lease, together with the construction of the stock yards and house', that will be necessary for the management of the horned stock which it, is intend'd to take down. We may add that the schooner is now fully manned and equipped, and will sail from .Riverton with the first slant of wind,

Kaiapoi Brass Band.—A ball, under the auspices of this band, will bo held on the 18th inst.

Papanui. —The first of a series of parish entertainments, announced to take place fortnightly, was held in ,>t Paul’s schoolroom, on Tuesday evening, the Rev F. G. Brittain, incumbent, occupying the chair. The various pieces, consisting of readings, songs, &c, were well rendered, and received with applause by a large audience. The glees of Messrs Hobbs, Dunlop, Price, and Bell, in particular, meeting with well-merited praise.

Sporting. —The special correspondent of the Australasian telegraphs from Sydney on the 28th ult. as follows :—“ There are 28 nominations for Tattersall’s Two-year-old Stakes. Speculation was out this morning, and cantered slowly, but goes tenderly. The probable starters for the Metropolitan are— Dagworth. Reprieve, Javelin. Horatio, Goldsbrough, Poodle, Fitz-Yattendon, The Arrow, Westminster, The Prophet, Stirling, Rory O’More. Crazy Jane. Syren, Wombo, Sunlight, Myrtle, Viva, King of the West, Ladybird, Champagne, and. if all right, Rose and Speculation. 100 to 16 offered on the field to-day. Considering that it was Friday morning, a fair amount of work was done. Doubtful went steadily twice round. A.T. and Gladstone a striding gallop, coming home in capital style. Neredah, Nea, Syren, FitzYattendon, Kingsborough, all did steady work ; the last-named has not been out of a canter hardly since the Hawkesbury Meeting. Newbold cantered for two miles, and was then joined by Lancer, and came home at a fast pace. Loyal Devoir shaped well in his gallop with Washed Ashore. Duffer, Ptarmigan, and Morris did good work. Hyperion and Barbara had several canters, and Adventurer did his usual work. Myrtle made her first appearance on the course since her arrival from the country. She went at a steady pace with Eros. Nightlight and the Sylvia colt cantered to the Derby corner, and then spurted up the straight, both going well. The Fly colt and Timothy did similar work. Horatio had a sweat, coming home fast. King of the West did steady work, and Prodigious sweated. During the week Speculation has done little or no work. Neither Lamond nor the veterinary surgeons can make out his ailment. The horse is well one day, and lame the next. From what I have seen I think the Metropolitan an open race. The Arrow, Goldsborough, Horatio, Dagworth, Poodle, Sterling, and Fitz-Yattendon have all good shows. When the weights first appeared I selected the Arrow, and should he go on well shall stick to him. Poodle goes very strong, and his party fancy him very much. Kingsborough cannot be beaten for the Derby unless by accident. Betting—The Metropolitan—6 to 1 against Goldsborough and Horatio, 8 to 1 The Arrow and Fitz-Yat-tendon, 12 to 1 Sterling and Dagworth, 15 to 20 to 1 the others. For the Epsom Handicap I fancy Poodle, Maid of Avenel, and King of the West. Pass to the West Coast. — A new pass between the West and East Coasts is supposed to have been discovered by Mr James Evans of Hokitika. This gentleman, it seems, was out cattle hunting up the valley of a river called the Waitahi, and passed over to another watershed, which is thus described by the West Coast Times —“ Between forty and fifty miles inland, as the crow flies, the river, or some other that joins it, divides into three streams. One of these flows down to the West Coast, another goes off diagonally, but a third flows to the eastward through an, as yet, unexplored canon or gorge. As it must be very evident water cannot run up hill, there seems every reasonable ground for believing that either the stream in question finds some lake into which to empty itself, or that it affords a clue to a route through the rift into the M'Kenzie country, or some other part of the low lands of Canterbury. The country cn route is described as magnificent. Timber flats with splendid trees of the most valuable kinds of wood, long reaches of beautiful pasture, and everything, in short, to tempt settlement of the most substantial kind.” Mr Evans, it is further stated, has gone with a party properly provisioned on an exploring expedition,

The Enemies of Young Salmon.— The following letter is addressed to the Australasian'. —Sir, —As your journal circulates throughout Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand, I would feel greatly obliged by your inserting in its columns the enclosed extract, cut out of Land and Water, warning those who are desirous of introducing salmon into their rivers that one of the greatest and most persistent enemies the young of the salmon have are brown trout. I have for years brought this fact under the notice of Tasmanians and New Zealanders, and recommended them on no account to place the trout in any river they wish to stock with the salmon. The rapidity with which it has been proved the trout grow and multiply at the antipodes makes me more anxious than ever on this matter, and it is possible this independent statement from an experienced pisciculturist will have more effect than my repeated warnings.—I am, &c, JAMES A. Youl, Waratah house, Clapham park, July Ist. [The portion of the extract which bears upon the point re r errcd to by Mr Youl is the following:—“A year or two ago an experiment in the artificial breeding of salmon, a description of which appeared in your columns at the time, was made by the Duke of Sutherland, in the gardens at Dunrobin Castle. A wooden house was erected, 14ft long, by 10ft broad, and Sft high. It was fitted up with 86 wooden troughs or boxes, each Sft long, lOin wide, and 6in deep, and supplied by a constant stream of water from a fountain. The boxes were so arranged that the water passing into the one on the highest level traversed the whole series. On the 18th November about 80,000 ova, from fish taken in the river Brora, were deposited in the boxes, and in 60 days from that date signs of life were apparent. On examining the eggs by menus of a magnifying glass a white streak round the inside of the egg was visible, and attached to this was an orange colored bag—two black specks which were the eyes, the head faintly traced, and a line somethin" like a mouth. After 120 days the young fish began to emerge from tire eggs, small red beings having little or no resemblance to fish. In this state they continued for seven weeks, existing entirely by the absorption of the umbilical bng; afterwards they fed by mouth on minute animalcube. scarcely visible to the naked eye. In tie's, the first singe of their existence, they were naturally very weak and helpless, and in their native breeding grounds they would fall an easy prey to the brown trout, which hunt for them eagerly, and devour them by thousands. The seagull, also, is a formidable enemy.”!

Valuable Importation. —Sir J. C. Wilson has recently imported a number of sheep, which, for pureness of breed and quality have not been equalled here. The number originally shipped was thirty, viz., twenty rams and ten ewes, and they were selected by Major Grantham, manager of the C'racroft estate, Lincolnshire, especially for Sir Cracroft. The sheep were shipped by the Columbus, which vessel arrived at Port Chalmers on the 30th August last. It is matter for regret that fourteen rams should have died on the passage, while not a single ewe was lost. From these facts two deductions may be drawn, one that the pens were too small. It was originally intended by the shippers that only four sheep should be placed in a pen. The agent in London for the N.Z. Shipping Company, however, put five sheep into a pen. The space was not sufficient for the five rams, but it appears to have sufficed for five ewes. The second deduction is that a quart of water in hot latitudes (this was the quantity stipulated for) may have been sufficient for the ewes and not for the rams. The ewes appear to be superior to any yet imported into Canterbury, and the loss of so many rams of a similar breed, is an incalculable loss, not only to the province but to the colony at large. Major Grantham, who selected the sheep writes as follows to Messrs Sinclair, Hamilton, and Co., London, Sir Cracroft’s English agents ;—“ Dear Sirs, —I this day forward by Great Northern RaTway, thirty sheep, twenty rams and ten ewes. They are for Sir J. C. Wilson, K.C.5.1., C. 8., of Cashmere, Canterbury, New Zealand. They were purchased by me over four weeks ago from three healthy flocks, and have since been on my farm. They are all perfectly healthy, and have not been near any unhealthy sheep ; my own flocks being very healthy. Eight of the rams arc from the flock of Mr S. Marshall, of Hackthorn, and descended for years from the flock of Mr Marshall, of Branston. The remaining twelve rams are from the well-known flock of Mr Robert Howard, of Temple Brear, Lincolnshire. The ten ewes are from the flock of Mr Edward Howard, of Hockton Rise, near Lincoln, and six of them are by a ram of Mr Kirkhara, of Biscathorpe. H. V. Grantham.”

New Inventions. —The American people have, from their go-ahead nature snd happy knack of inventing labor-saving and economical machinery, taken the first rank in the matter of patents, and by a recent arrival from San Francisco we have been enabled to inspect several of the latest products of their ingenuity. Mr A. H. McCarthy, who has recently arrived in Christchurch, and is the holder of the patent rights over the articles mentioned below, has one or two inventions with him which promise to be largely used both in New Zealand and the Australian colonies. The first item to note is a patent stove, the heating power of which is something wonderful. It is oval in shape, having at one side a small pipe communicating with a reservoir, the supply from which is controlled by a tap similar to ordinary coal gas burners. In this reservoir is placed a small quantity of the first refining of petroleum, possessing a low gravity, about 70 deg, and a small pan which is in the centre of the stove being wet with a little of the fluid from the reservoir, a match is applied, and a brilliant flame is the result, the heat generating a gas, which throws out a very great heat, warming the room, or cooking, as may be required. The cost per hour by this stove is Besides this, should it be wished, a pipe can be attached to the stove, and the gas burned for illuminating purposes. In addition to a very high degree of heating power, the stoves can be placed on this market at a less cost than is now paid for the ordinary colonial oven. Another patent held by Mr Macarthy is a powder for prevention of explosion of kerosene lamps, or the shattering of chimneys by variation of temperature. Having placed a small quantity of powder in the oil well of a lamp, Mr Macarthy takes the chimney, plunges it into a vessel of cold water, and then immediately puts it on the lamp, turns up the flame as high as possible, and generates an intense heat, the glass, however, remaining intact. A lock, and patent ventilator for curing smoky chimneys, completes the list of novelties. Mr Macarthy intends establishing an agency here for the sale of the stoves, which will be manufactured in Canterbury.

At the prize shooting at Wimbledon this year Mr H. W. Scriven, of Victoria, in the contest for the Daily Telegraph Cup—won by Mr Mortimer, of the London Scottish, with 84 points—took the first money prize of £lO, making the same score.