NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 199, 28 January 1875, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Christchurch Artillery.—The annual meeting of this corps will be held at the orderly room at eight o'clock this evening. Canterbury Athletic Club.—A general meeting of this club will he held at Warner's Hotel on Monday evening next, at half-past seven. Volunteer Lodge, T.O.G.T. —This lodge will meet to-morrow evening, at half-past seven, when the election of officers for the ensuing quarter will take place. Political. The Wellington Evening Post says that Dr Walter Builer, Mr Ballauct! and Major Willis are spok-n of as probable candidates for the representation of Kangitikei, if Mr Pox resigns his seat for that district. Lincoln Sheep.—From the Lincolnshire Chronicle, it appears, at the annual sale of the Pan ton flock of Lincoln rams, belougii g 10 the Messrs Dndding, the prices reilised were higher than ever before obtained in that county. Mr Coleman, Napier, N Z., purchased eleven rams at £IO2O 12s, being an average of £92 15s 8d each. The seventy sheep sold b ought £2565 3s, the average being £B6 12s lid per head. Of this number, it is interesting to add that lorty were purchased for New Zealand. Exported Stock.—By the Taranaki, Mr A A. Fantham shipped three bull {calves for Napier. They are all of his own breeding, and one named Lord Gwynne, out of Lady Don, by Loyal Gwynne, is the property of yr Millar. The other two will be disposed of, if possible, by Mr Fantham on their arrival. Both are by Royal Gwynne, and their names are respectively, Neptune and Koval Count, their dams being Countess of Oxford and Kairy Qu<en; Royal Count was a first prize taker at the last Christchurch Agricultural Show. Mr Fantham proceeded to Napier with his stock, which are in good order and condition. Little River—A meeting of the library committee was held, in the library building on Saturday the 23rd instant. Piesent— Messrs E. Vickers (chairman), Powrie, Walters, Hyde, Ftt.ton, and James Reynolds. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. A statement of the accounts of the sports committee, showing a credit balance of £5 12s 6d, was laid before the meeting. The following resolutions were then passed, viz—" That a statement of the accounts be posted in the library." '•That the balance from the sports committee (£5 12s 6d,) be handed over to the treasurer of this committee." " That a vote of thanks be given to all those who assisted at the sports. " That Mr James Reynolds be requested to put up the chimney to the library." " That Mr Powrie be requested to cut sufficient boards for lining the library building." Mr Vickers, in consequence of leaving the district, here handed in his resignation as chairman and member of the committee. He wished to thank the committee for the kind way in which all the members had worked -with him. The proceedings then terminated. New Zealand.—The Saturday Review of November 7th contains an article on Southern New Zealand, giving an account of the progress of the provinces of Canterbury and Otago. It concludes as follows :—" It is worth while to notice the steady and substantial progress of this southern country since the New Zealand Constitution was granted twenty-two years ago. Jts founders, Scotch and English alike, failed in thosedays to realise their ideas of colonisation under Church patronage. But they can now see in thriving adolescence the lusty young Scotland and England whicn t'ey begot in 1848 and 1850. Lord Lyttelton when he visit'd the antipodes must have found, in the sight of Canterbury Province, a compensation for his past trouble in its first settlement. There is nowhere in the Queen's dominions a community that preserves so faithfully the genuine characteristics of English middleclass society. It ha* no admixture either of an liish!or a German immigration, nor has it, tike Otago, been invaded i>y the Australian diggers. To any well-bred Kngli-h family of small fortune seeking a new home beyond the seas, that remotest colouial shore, if go they must, offers probably the most congenial abode."

St Michael and All Angels.—lt will be remembered that, at the last parish meeting of the- above, it was determined to send for a curate to assist the incumbent in the spiritual adrainisfc ation of this large parish. In compliance with instructions from hen 1 , ihe Kev De Berdt Hovell was appointed to the curacy, and arrived by the VVaimate. Reception op Governor Weld at Fobakt iowN. —The Hobart Town Mercury, of January 141. h, contains a long account of he public entry into that.city of Governor Weld, on the previous day. He was me*", at the boundary of the city by the Mayor, and who was accompanied by his chaplain and the town cleik. and congratulated on his entry into the city of Hobart Town. A profession was then formed, consisting of earriages containing the aldermen, the Mayor, the Premier, the Colonial Treasurer and Secretary, &c, aud the clergy, on reaching the Court House, the ceremony of swearing in took place under a canopy erected for the purpose, Chief Justice "Sir Francis Smith administering the oath. As soon as the oath had been subscribed to a vice-regal salute was fired from the Queen's battery. The Premier at the same time stepped forward and called for three cheers for his Excellency the Governor, which was responded to by the crowd in a most enthusiastic manner, his Excellency bowing his acknowledgements. Following this came more cheering, this time for the Queen, and then the band struck up the National Aflthem. His Worship then presented an address from the Corporation, although, for a time, it appeared that this important ceremony might have to be omitted. It was at first intended that he should present the Council's address from a lower position than that occupied hy others taking part in the proceedings. This the Mayor thought, infra dig., and positively refused to do, but finally reaching the dais, he was et abled to welcome his Excellency on an equal footing. The Palmer Rush The following letter just to hand lias been kindly placed at our disposal for publication:—" Dear—, lam now in Cooktown. I had a very poor Christmas. I have been up to the diggings, and it is all a storekeepers' rush and a publican's rush. It is only to bring men here that have got a little money to spend. It is only the new arrivals that keep the place up. Three parts of the population are publicans. Every steamer that comes in brings about 100 diggers, so that if any one in Canterbury is thinking of coming to the dipgings you try and stop him. It is an awful job to be hard up here, for there is no work to be done of any sort. The men ttre coming in from the diggings by hundreds, and what they are going to do I do not know. My mate and I went up to the diggings and we got 2dwts of gold in a week, and I thought we had had quite enough of it. A man wants to get half an ounce per day to pay him, as the price of provisions is so dear. Men are leaving one diggings to go to a new rush, and when they have been away two or three days they return empty handed. Two out of our steamer died on the road up to the diggings. I saw their graves by the loadside as I came down. Just a hole made and four rails, and their names engraved on a tree close by. I saw hundreds of poor chaps on the diggings with fever and ague. They made my heart ache. Going up we had to cross one river twenty-two times, sometimes the vyater was nearly up to the neck. We had to keep our clothes on, and when they were beginning to get dry there came another c r osßing, and so on. The place is too hot for any white man, and I shall only be too glad to get away."

A telegram from Bonrke, published in the Sydney Morning Herald, states that the body of O'Hea, one of Hume's companions on his exploring expedition, has been found by the blacks, not far from where Hume's remains were discovered, and buried by Mr Tilbury, the manager of the Nocatunga Station.