NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 276, 30 April 1875, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Football. —The alphabetical match will be continued on Saturday—A to L blue caps, and M to Z red caps. RACE Horses. —By the Phoebe yesterday went the race horses Parawhenua, Ngaro, Hercules, and Princess Mary, and also a draught horse, for Wellington. Cattle. —The Phoebe took yesterday two cows and a calf for Auckland, shipped by Mr R. Wilkin. They are all pedigree cattle, and the calf was by Mr Fantham’s last Imported bull. Football. —A general meeting of the members of the Christchurch Football Club will be held this evening at Warner’s Commercial Hotel, at half-past 7 o’clock. Canterbury Archery Club, The season of' the Canterbury Archery Club will close to-morrow. Prize shooting will commence punctually at 2.15 p.m. Cricket. —We believe it is the intention of the match committee to call a meeting of cricketers early in May to co-operate with Auckland and Otago in inviting a New South Wales eleven to play against the various provinces. Due notice of the meeting will be given. Theatre Royal. —The bill of the preceding evening was repeated last night at the Theatre. To-night Miss May Howard will make her reappearance for this night only as Harriet Routh, in Sterling Coyne’s drama of “ Black Sheep.” W e feel sure Miss Howard on this occasion will receive a hearty welcome from Christchurch playgoers. Mr and and Mrs F. Bates will appear to-morrow evening, in the play of “ Elizabeth.” Drapers’ and Clothiers’ Association. —A general meeting was held last evening at the Foresters’ Hall, Mr Dawson in the chair. The business done by the committee was approved. The following were admitted as members of the association :—Messrs Gibbs, Rutledge, Rosewarne, Church, Miles, Fuller, Ecath, and Messuage. A sub-committee was appointed to consider the advisability of holding a series of entertainments during the winter months ; to report at a future meeting. The meeting closed with a vote of thanks to the chairman.

Mr H. H. Hall. —The Sydney Morning Herald aays :—“ It is stated in a private letter, received by the Suez mail, that Mr H. H. Hall was in London in the month of February, and was then endeavoring to persuade Sir Daniel Cooper and Mr Russell (the representatives of the colonies of New South Wales and New Zealand in the business of negociating and the contracting for a permanent Pacific mail service) that he had obtained a valuable concession from the directors of the Pacific Railway in respect of the transmission of mails by their line, which was deserving of consideration in connection with the proposed contract; and that the representatives of the two colonies did not appear to coincide ’in opinion with Mr Hall as to the value of the concession in question. Orchestral Society. —The first concert of the season , given by the Orchestral Society, took place last evening at the Oddfellows’ Hall, and attracted a very large audience. The programme was a wellselected one, comprising as the principal items Mozart’s symphony in D, three movements, and Beethoven’s sonata No 1 in D for violin and piano. As a whole the performance \yas a success, though in the symphony there was a paucity of strings, there being only four violins, two first and two second, and no double bass in the orchestra,. The first part opened with Mozart’s Don Giovanni, capitally played, with that due attention to light and shade—piano and forte—which goes so far to render instrumental music a success. Of the symphony, we may say that all the' movements were taken excellently, the finale and presto especially so. There was a trifling indecision in the taking up of the change of fc movement, but it was only trifling. In this last movement the theme was taken by the strings excellently, both with delicacy and ' precision. The quaint " overture, •‘King Stephen,” by Beethoven, was well taken. If anything there was a want of crispness in the treatment of some of the passages, but generally the overture was capitally played. The next overture, “Le Colporteur,” was decidedly the best taken of the whole, being'given with much fire and spirit. We can congratulate the society upon the innovation of the introduction of an operatic selection as a relief to the heavier portion of the programme. The selection taken was from “ II Trovatore,” and the various airs were . played capitally. Of the performance of the sonata by Mrs Robison (piano) and Vlr C. Bounington (violin), we can speak in terms of high praise, the whole of the movements being given in a very artistic manner. In the last Mr Bounington broke a string, but having another violin in reserve he took up the theme without any serious interruption. The pait songs by a double quartette party, were excellently sung, especially “Health to the fairest’ - and “ The war song, ” both of which were very nicely given. A trio, “Arise, queen of night,” and a solo, “ Good night, beloved,” concluded a very enjoyable concert. His Excellency and Lady Normanby, accompanied by his Honor the Superintendent and Mis Rolleston, and attended by Captains Le Patourel and Phipps, A.D.Gs.. were present during the whole concert. The arrangements made by the society for his Excellency and Lady Normanby’s reception were very complete. The nex concert will be given early in August,

Runaway.— A man named Daniel Wilson, employed by the City Council to drive one of the corporation carts, met with a serious accident yesterday. When driving along Colombo street, near Gloucester street, the horse took fright, and in endeavoring to pull him up Wilson was thrown out of the cart, and much hurt. The accident was observed by Sergeant Kennedy, who picked the man up and conveyed him in a cab to his residence, at the Market place station. Dr Coward was called in, and found he had received a fracture of the breast bone. On enquiry last night, Wilson was said to be improving. Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association.—A meeting of the committee of the Canterbury Agricultural Association wus held yesterday afternoon at Tattersall’s. . Present —Messrs H. P. Murray Aynsley (in the chair), J. Palmer, Washbourne, H. F. Gray, D. Craig (hon treasurer), Reynall, Fantbam, and H. E. Alport. Mr Fan f ham moved—“ That the following gentlemen be requested to wait upon the Provincial Government to ask for a grant in aid of the association—the president (Mr Murray-Aynsley), Messrs G. Gould, R. Wilkin, B. B. Bishop, J. Palmer, W. Norman, D. Craig, A. Duncan, and the mover.” Mr Washbourne seconded the motion, which was agreed to unanimously. The committee then adjourned.

The London “ Standard” on New Zealand. —The Standard of February 22nd contains a long article on New Zealand, from which the Otago Guardian publishes the following extract :—“ The conclusion pf the long feud between the colonists and the natives in New Zealand affords a fitting opportunity for reviewing the policy which has led to that result. The history of no British colony presents such a notable example of the innate governing capacity of our race ; nor is it too much to say that, if all other evidences were wanting of that imperial genius which -is the proper boast of Englishmen, what this handful of our people in New Zealand have done to lay the foundations of a great State, and to create in the South a newer Britain, with but scanty help from Home, may, in spite of cruel neglect and ill-usage, be sufficient to indicate our national aptitude for what Bacon calls * the ancient, primitive, and heroical work’ of colonisation. On the whole it may be said that no other colony has had to encounter so many impediments, some natural and inevitable, and some wantonly or ignorantly imposed on New Zealand. It was the farthest removed from the protection of the mother country. The islands were inhabited by a warlike and intelligent race, of exceptional superiority of character, who, wisely treated, might have formed an element from the first in the prosperity of the colony, but who, through the blind and foolish policy of the Imperial Government, were purposely kept aloof from the European settlers, and treated as an alien and non-integral portion of the population. There could not be conceived a combination of circumstances better calculated to embarrass arising colony; and if the Imperial management bequeathed to New Zealand, by the withdrawal of the Imperial garrison, a long series of desolating vVars with the natives, ending in almost total isolation of each race from the other, it was not the taxpayers of Great Britain alone who had a right to be disgusted, and the; burden thus abruptly and rudely thrown upon the colonists was one under which they' might have been expected to have reeled. The colony, however, after some natural murmurs at the Imperial policy which had first ■ made the war, and then left it to be concluded by those who were its victims, accepted the responsibility, and devoted itself loyally to the work of pacification. In what spirit it was undertaken, and with what success it has been accomplished, may be read in an article by the New Zealand - Prime Minister in the current number of Frazerh Magazine, A review of the progress of the colony follows this, and the work done under the immigration and public works policy. The article concludes thus : —•* By the prosecution of the wise and hold policy of the pushing forward of immigration and public works a very large expenditure has been incurred. Under all these circumstances Mr Vogel has a right, to ask us'not to blame the colony, because it aroused itself to the task of improving its means to bear Rs liability for unproductive expenditure on native purposes. Whether in her struggles to overcome her early difficulties, New Zealand has not earned some right to Imperial help, seeing that those difficulties were thrust upon her by that Imperial' policy of which she made the first victim, may be a fair question in view of the local and earnest efforts which are being made by the colony to rid herself of her financial embarrassments, to do justice and to restore peace to the patives, and to lay the foundations of a State of which England may be justly proud, and in which, of all her children, her own lineaments are destined to be moat faithfully mirrored.” Now that contagious diseases are abroad, every housewife should use carbolic soap for household purposes, as it is a thorough disin-, feqtant, and recommended by the faculty.— [Advt.l