NEWS OF THE DAY

Globe, Volume III, Issue 223, 25 February 1875, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY

The San Francisco Mail. —The mail, which was to leave London on January 12th, is due at Auckland to-morrow. Waimate Steeplechase. —This meeting is fixed to take place on Tuesday, the 18th May. The stakes amount to about £3OO. Theatre Royal. —“ Camille ” was produced last night at the Theatre with fair success. Wilkie Collins’ dramatic version of his novel of “ The New Magdalen,” will be presented to-night. Baker’s Hibernicon. —There was, as usual, a very full house at this entertainment last night. The troupe perform in Christchurch for the last time to-night, aud will play in Lyttelton to-morrow evening. Cricket, -On Saturday the match Tall v Short, began last week, will be continued. Papanui will meet an eleven of the U.C.C.O. —viz, E, Cotterill, H. Cotterill, Oondell, Dawe, Deacc n, Nalder, O’Connell, Ollivier, Parkerson, Tosswill, Webb. The Lyttelton Times will play the Stage Club. Play in all these matches will begin at 2 p.m. Sunday-School Union.— This association will hold its annual tea-meeting tomorrow evening, in thenew Wesleyan schoolroom, Dnrham-street. It has been arranged that each connected school in Christchurch is to provide a table; the proceeds to be devoted to the purchase of a grand moving panorama of the Holy Land, for exhibition in the various schools during the winter season. The annual report will be submitted and various addresses will be given, interspersed with vocal and instrumental music. Suicide on the Berar — A. Wellington contemporary gives the following particulars regarding the suicide on board the Berar :—“ On the 6th January, at about six p.m,, Joseph Potten, chief steward, went into the captain’s cabin, and, having obtained the key of the medicine chest, took out a bottle of laudanum, from which he drank two ounces. After he had taken it he went forward to the cook, and said, ‘ Good bye, cook ; I shall be a gone coon in about ten minutes.’ The cook of course did not believe him and told him so, whereupon the steward said, ‘By , I shall,’ and went away. The cook, fancying something wrong, went to the boatswain and said he thought the steward had been up to something. The boatswain went aft, and found Potten with the bottle in his hand, and reported the case to the chief officer, who went to the doctor. Emetics were immediately administered, and the steward was kept walking till eight o’clock, when he fell asleep. He was then put in a hot water and mustard bath, and stimulants were tried, but the deceased never rallied, and he died at eleven o’clock.” New Boats for the O.R.C. —Four new boats were brought through from Lyttelton on Tuesday last, ex barque Alice, from London, to the sheds of the Canterbury Rowing Club. They are built by Messrs J. S. Salter, of Oxford, and are excellent specimens of boat building. The first to be noticed is a pleasure boat, with strong iron guards for the back and sides, to be used by members who may have an inclination to take their wives and families a trip down our pretty river. Though the beam is not as wide as might be expected, being only a little over four feet, yet there is no doubt that she is as safe as could be desired, and will certainly prove a great acquisition to the club. She is 22ft 4in in length, and can be used for double sculls or a pair oar as required. The next under notice are two clinker-built stump outrigger pair oars, with grand lines, after the manner of the Cygnet, Moa, aud Swan. These can also be used as double sculls, as occasion may require. They are 22ft lin in length, and their beam is 3ft Sin. The last of the quartette is a practice sculling boat, looking almost a miniature of the Isis. Her lines are also superb, and no doubt she will prove to have a fair turn of speed. Her length is over 21ft. with a beam of 2ft lin. She is clinker built, and will be specially useful in lumpy water such as most sculling men ore accustomed to on the Heathcote and Kaiapoi rivers. The boats have arrived in magnificent order. Besides the boats proper we have to notice a large number of racing oars, sculls, and boating plant generally, and there is little doubt that at the present time the Canterbury Club, judging from the plant in the shed, is as well furnished as any in New Zealand, and the officers are to be congratulated on the enterprise which they have shown with regard to the present shipment. It is not intended to launch the boats this season, as it is so far advanced, and the shed accommodation is limited ; but the club intend next season to establish a branch shed on the river, near the Hospital, which, besides providing the additional accommodation required, will be a great advantage to members residing at the west end. Now that contagious diseases are abroad, every housewife should use carbolic soap for household purposes, as it is a thorough disinfectant, and recommended by the faculty, [Alv'i.]