NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 178, 4 January 1875, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Cricket. —The return match Woolston v Lake Ellesmere will be played at Southbridge on Tuesday next. Transit of Venus,— By the arrival of the Magellan Cloud, we learn that the American party for the observation of the transit of Venus at the Chatharas were unsuccessful, the sun being obscured both at the ingress and egress. Philosophical Institute.—A special meeting of the Institute will be held tomorrow evening at 7.30 p.m., at the Public Library, to consider a communication from the Board of Governors at Wellington. A paper, “ Suggestions for enlarging the sphere of action of the New Zealand Institute,” by Mr W, M. Haskell, will also be read, American Circus. —There was a very good attendance on Saturday evening at the circus, when a good programme was presented. The acrobatic feats of the company, more especially Senor Gonzales, are well worth seeing, and Mr Gilham’s horsemanship is also good. The performance concluded with Dick Turpin’s Ride to York, in which Mr King personated the character of the gentlemanly highwayman very effectively. To-night a change of programme is announced. Immigrants per Crusader. —Saturday being the day advertised for engagements to take place, a number of farmers and others employers of labour from the country, attended at the Depot, Addington, and a large proportion of the immigrants met with employment at satisfactory wages. The following rates were given:—Married couples, £65 to £7O per annum and all found ; single men, £SO to £55, with 10s per week extra during harvest; boys and farm lads, £26 to £35; laborers, 7s per day; single women, domestic servants, £25 to £3O per annum. A number of farm laborers from this ship have been selected for the Rangiora and Oxford districts. They will be forwarded by train to-morrow (Tuesday). Kaiapoi Island.—On New Year’s Day the anniversary commemoration of the Kaiapoi Island church Sunday School was unfortunately interfered with by the rain, otherwise the gathering would have excelled any of its antecedents. About noon, the children, with their teachers and a more than usually large assemblage of the public, collected in Mr Giles’s paddock, kindly lent for the purpose, where various games were in request till three p.m,, when showers began to descend, compelling a retreat under shelter of the marquee. The children were supplied with plum cake, tea, and sweetmeats, Afterwards the seniors formed a tea party, whose wants were attended to by Mrs and the Misses Giles (2), Mrs Neeve, Mrs Brown, Mrs Clothier, and Miss Wilson. It was then mutually resolved to postpone the distribution of prizes to the children till a more favorable day, when an afternoon’s amusement will be arranged, and competitions for the tcys-purchased by the committee, and a lot of well bound and superior book prizes for proficiency and good conduct will be presented at the close of the proceedings. ♦ The life of an editor is not always strewn with roses and free passes ; but it does our heart good to learn every now and then that the craft is worthy of the great name, and that heroism is not yet dead in its ranks. In Kentucky, when a young man gets in love deep enough to speak his sentiments in rhyme which he is sure is poetry, and which he wishes to see in print, he loads his shotgun, and starts for the editor of a country paper. If the editor refuses to publish his “pome,” the irate child of genius unloads his gun under the editor’s ear, or in some other portion of his anatomy. To the honor of the craft be it said, a great many often prefer death to dishonor.