NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 126, 26 October 1874, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Fine Aets. —Mr H. Fisher’s Art Union will be drawn to-morrow evening, at Warner’s Commercial Hotel.

Diocesan Synod.— The Synod will resume its sittings at 4 p.ra. this day. It is expected that the session will close about Friday next. Tbleqeams.—The steamer Albion is expected to leave Hokitika at 9 a.m. on Tuesday the 27th. Telegrams for the Australian colonies or Europe will be received at the telegraph office for transmission to Hokitika up to 8 p.m. of the 26th. Rangioba. —The usual fortnightly meeting of the Resolution Division of the Sons of Temperance was held in the Methodist Hall on Thursday evening, when, in addition to the ordinary business, two brothers were duly initiated members of the order, and a committee appointed to make arrangements for the celebration of the first anniversary of the division. Accident. —A young man named Charles Putt, in the employ of Mr Favilla, baker, Addington, met with an accident on Saturday afternoon near the Immigration Barracks. Driving round the corner of a street too sharply he came in contact with the kerbing, and was thrown out, sustaining a fracture of the left leg. He was removed to the hospital, where he was at once attended to. School Committees. —Meetings for the election of school committees and auditors for those districts in which the meetings were postponed on account of the weather, will take place this evening as follows East Christchurch, Oddfellows’ Hall ; Riccarton, schoolroom ; Hillsborough, schoolroom ; and Lower Heathcote, schoolroom. Opeba Company. —The opening opera of the farewell season of the Allen Opera Company will be Balfe’s “ Satanella. ” During the season, in addition to the operas given during their previous visit, the company will ppodqce “ Faust,” “ Martha,” and “II Trovatored’ Mr Raphael, the agent, has made arrangements for the publication pf an Entr' Acte during the seaspn, containing the cast of the opera and miscellaneous reading. Inquest —An inquest was Jheld at the hospital on Siturday last on the body of John Sheridan, who died there the previous day. From the evidence it appeared that a man, named John Barrett, was leading an entire horse across the Selwyn river. The horse refused to go into the water, and the deceased, who was riding behind, tried to drive him in, when he kicked him in the right leg, breaking it below the knee. Dr Campbell, who made the post mortem examination, stated that death had resulted from the effects of the kick, and the jury returned a verdict of “ Accidental Death,”

A Chinese author in a book of travels thus describes an English court :—“One man sits silent and sometimes shakes his head, two qb three others talk all the time, and twelve y/ise men condemn a man who has not said a ■jyord, ’’ M. Ernest Renan's splendid work, La Mission de Phenicie, is now complete, consisting of 888 quarto pages of letterpress, and seventy folio plates. It gives a complete account of the excavations and researches carried on in Syria in 1860 and 1861, during the occupation by th R French army. M, Renan and Dr Qaillardot have neglected no detail which might prove useful in the event of future researches, The collection of inscriptions especially has been made with all possible care, and each text is accompanied by explanations. The plates are executed under the direction of M. Thobois, architect.