NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 239, 16 March 1875, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Cr FARR.—Cr Farr’s resignation was read last night in the Council, and accepted. Bank Holiday.— To-morrow will be kept as a holiday by the various banks in Christchurch. Football Club. —A general meeting of the Christchurch Football Club will be held at Warner’s Commercial Hotel at 7.80 p.m. this evening. Diocesan Choral Association.—-The first general meeting of the above association for the election of officers, &c, will be held in the College library this evening at eight o’clock. Mr and Mrs Case. —These well-known artistes opened their season in Christchurch successfully, at the Oddfellows’ Hall, last night. Their entertainment was entitled “Latest Intelligence,” and it was well received throughout. To-night another enterment, entitled “Housewarming,” will be produced. Good Templars. —The usual weekly meeting of the Northern Star Lodge (late Star of St Alban’s) was held in the Oddfellows’ Hall, Montreal street north, on Thursday last. There was a fair attendance of members. The committee appointed to revise the bye-laws brought up their report, and with a few slight alterations, their recommendations were agreed to. It was decided to meet in the Temperance Hall, Gloucester street, on Wednesday night this week, as the Oddfellows’ Hall is undergoing alterations. Theatre Royal. —There was a good house at the Theatre last night, the occasion being Mrs Walter Hill’s benefit. This lady is such a favorite with Christchurch playgoers, that the announcement that she would play Eily O’Connor in “The Colleen Bawn” last night was quite sufficient to attract a numerous audience. The piece was very well mounted and put on the stage, and Miss Howard, Mrs Hill, and Mr Collier were all well received. Some of the company were not at all perfect in their parts, and the voice of the prompter was heard unpleasantly often. The comedy of “London Assurance” will be repeated to-night. The Late Fire at Mr Hulbert’s.— The agents of the different insurance companies in Christchurch interested in the late fire at Mr H ulbert’s have made their valuation, and consider the loss to be fully equal to the insurances in force on the house and stock. They have, therefore, promptly decided to pay the whole amount for which the different offices are liable, and they have also given their approval to a sale of the salvage for the benefit of the principal sufferer by the fire. Mr Hulbert has merited the sympathy thus afforded to him in a practical shape, and we trust that the results of the fire will not be so disastrous as were at first anticipated, and that a considerable portion of the stock may prove to be in good condition for selling. Steamer to Dunedin. —The agents for the s.s. Bruce advertise that she will leave Lyttelton for Port Chalmers at 2 p.m. on Sunday next. The agents, we are informed, guarantee intending passengers that they shall be landed in Port Chalmers in time to catch the last train to Dunedin on Monday night. The Bruce is well-known as a fast and comfortable passenger boat, and there is therefore no chance that those who wisli to be present at the Dunedin races will be subject, as has previously been the case, to the mortification of missing the principal race of the meeting. There will be a large exodus of sporting men by the steamer, and Canterbury should be well represented at the forthcoming gathering at Forbury Park, Athletic Club. —A general meeting of the Canterbury Athletic Club vas held last evening at Warner’s Hotel, for the purpose of receiving entries, &c. There was a very large attendance. Mr F. Pavitt was voted to the chair. The minutes of the last meeting having been read and confirmed, one new member, Mr T. Searell, was proposed and duly elected. It was resolved that the secretary be requested to make arrangements for having a booth on the ground. It was proposed by Mr Tosswill, and seconded by Mr Hawkes, “That the entries for the Strangers’ Race (110 yards handicap) close on Friday, 19th, at 7.30 p.m.” The motion was agreed to. The following entries were received :—Running High Jump, T. Gordon and W. Tosswill; Running Long Jump, W. Stringer, H. McCardell, A.M. Ollivier.W. Tosswill ; One Hundred Yards Flat race, A. H. Anderson, W. Stringer, E. R. Deacon, A. M. Ollivier, G, A. Macquarie ; Halfmile Handicap, J. W. Davis, D. Thomson, H. Black, H. McCardell, J. Hawkes, W. Tosswill; Two Hundred Yards Handicap, W, Stringer, H. McCardell, J. Hawkes, E. Hawkes, W. Hartland, A. Anderson, E. R. Deacon, A. M. Ollivier, G. A. Macquarrie, W. Tosswill; Two Miles Walking race, C. Bowley, P. Davie, W. Tosswill, P. H. Duncan; 440 Yards Flat race, J. W. Davis, M. Davie; 120 Yards Hurdle race, B. R. Deacon, M. Davie, A. M. Ollivier, W. Tosswill; One Mile Flat race, D. Thomson, H, Black, J. Gordon, G. Mathias; 440 Yards Hurdle race, J. W. Davis, M. Davie, W. Tosswill; Half-mile Flat race, D. Thomson, H t Black, M, Davie, G, ilathiai.

The Kennedys.— The friends of this clever family will be interested to learn that after a very successful season in Tasmania they are now playing to good business in Adelaide, en route for Scotland. Fieb. —A few minutes before ten o’clock last night, Mr T. Anderson, blacksmith, Hereford street, while standing talking with his brother, saw a glare of fire in Barlow’s stables. He at once gave the alarm, and shortly afterwards the Lichfield station bell was rung, immediately followed by the bell at the Market place. Mr Anderson with assistance led five horses out of the stables, and Sergeant Wilson and Constable Bares, who had heard the cries of “ fire,” assisted in removii g a quantity of harness and a coach from the yard. The flames quickly communicated with the Warwick Hotel stables, and with some difficulty a horse in the latter was got out. So promptly were F’ire Brigade on the scene, that in six minutes from the bell being rung, the hand engine Dreadnought that had been placed at Matheson’s tank was playing on the fire. In three minutes afterwards the steamer Deluge was also at work from the same tank, and in a few minutes more the steamer Extinguisher, notwithstanding the distance it had to be taken, was in full play at Wilson and Sawtell’s tank. The Pioneer with the hook and ladder company preceded the Extinguisher on the scene, and good service was rendered by that department of the brigade in covering the hotel with blankets, and by keeping them saturated no doubt saved it, and being only a few yards from the burning stables and storeroom, it was a wonder how the men were able to keep their position and endure the intense heat. A large supply of spirits, &c, was in the storeroom attached to the stables of the Warwick Hotel, which was removed to a place of safety by the bystanders. With the three jets of water in strong play it was soon seen that the brigade would be able to confine the fire to the two stables, and this they succeeded in doing. The stables attached to the Warwick were insured in the New Zealand office for £IOO. The stock was also insured. As Mr Barlow resides at Papanui, our reporter could not learn if he was insured. Some loss was occasioned to; the stock in its removal from the storeroom. It is difficult to say how the fire originated, but when Sergeant Wilson arrived it was confined to one stall in Barlow’s stables. Too much credit cannot be given to the brigade, not only for the celerity shown in turning out, but also for the manner in which they got the fire under, and prevented it from extending. Good service was rendered by Mr Inspector Buckley and police, and also by Captain Mitchell and his corps. We omitted to mention in our notice of the fire on Sunday morning that the fire police were as usual present in large force on that occasion, no less than twenty members answering to their names when theroll was called. It may be mentioned that on the return of the brigade and engines to the station, Mr Superintendent Harris told the men that there had been a slight breach of one of the regulations that night in placing the steamer Deluge at Matheson’s tank instead of at Cobb and Sawtell’s, which should have been left for the Extinguisher, but on arriving at the fire he had found it necessary to allow the Deluge to remain at the former tank, and the satisfactory result assured him that more good was effected by the breach than would have been had he strictly adhered to the rule. Being so satisfied with the good service rendered by the Dreadnought company on the last two or three occasions the brigade had been called out, it gave him great pleasure to promote acting foreman Turton to be foreman of that company, and Private Ashby to be branchman. 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.— [Advt.l