NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 321, 23 June 1875, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Minister of Education. —We understand that Mr A. C. Knight has been appoiuted Minister of Education. Slaughterhouse Licenses. — A special meeting of Justices of the Peace will be held at the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Christchurch, on Thursday, Ist July, to consider applications for slaughterhouse licenses. Telegraphic. —Telegrams for the Australian colonies or Europe will he received at the Telegraph office for transmission to Dunedin, to be forwarded per Omeo, which steamer leaves that port on Friday, at 1 p.m. Harmonic Society— The final rehearsal of Sir Michael Costa’s oratorio of “Naaman,” which will be given by this society tomorrow evening, took place last evening at the Music Hall, and was well attended. The work went very satisfactorily throughout, and we look forward to the concert on Thursday evening as likely to prove a great success, judging from the way in which the rehearsals have gone, and the evident care bestowed upon the rendering of the music by those concerned.

Accidents —Two cases were received into the Hospital yesterday—the first was a man named Patrick O’Connor, who had been working for the llakaia Road Board, and while riding on a load of rough stuff which he was carting, the dray got into a deep rut, when he was jerked off, and before he could regain his feet the wheel passed over his right arm, fracturing it in two places. Dr Trevor attended to the man at the time, and O’Connor was brought to town by the midday train. The second was a man named Richard Coleman, working as a laborer at the Christchurch railway station, who had been engaged in loading some trucks, and when jumping from one truck to the other he missed his footing and fell, coming in contact with the buffer, fracturing his right leg near the ankle. Both men were at once attended to on arriving at the Hospital, and are doing well. Presentation.— The South Canterbury Times says:—On Sunday last, the members of the Roman Catholic Church, Timaru, after the celebration of mass, at the morning service, assembled in the grounds attached to the church, when Mr Pender, in the name of the presentees, informed Father Chataignier that a short while since a meeting had been held by the Catholics of Timaru, and a subscription list was then started for the purpose of purchasing for their pastor a buggy and horse, to enable him to perform his arduous duties when travelling in the district with more comfort than had hitherto been the case. The call for subscriptions had been most liberally responded to, and he "now had the pleasure, on behalf of the subscribers to hand over to Father Chataignier, the horse and buggy now before them. As there was a sura of money left, beyond the sura required for the purpose, he also had the pleasure of handing to their reverend pastor, a purse containing £SO, which he respectfully requested him to accept from his flock, as a token of their esteem. Father Chataignier, who was agreeably surprised at the gift, thanked the donors in feeling terms, and stated that as probably the Bishop of Wellington would remove him to that city in a few days, he should hand the horse and buggy over to his successor or successors. He might inform them that it such were the decision of his superior, in all probability there would be two priests to take charge of the district in his stead. He also thanked the donors for their present of the purse, the contents of which he would devote to expenses incurred in laying the foundation stone of another church. Afte* - addressing a few more words to those present Father Chataignier then withdrew, The value of the gift is about £2OO,

Fakir op Oolu. —The Theatre Royal was again crowded to excess last evening, when the Fakir of Oolu gave another of his clever entertainments. The programme throughout was excellently carried out, the sleight of-hand tricks in the first part, the bloodwriting on the arm, and above all the Aneotcs and the suspension illusion, all being loudly applauded. The dancing sailor, as usual, evoked shouts of laughter, and the fairy fountain, into which the doctor has introduced some new and beautiful com binations of color, was also received with loud plaudits. The Fakir will appear again this evening. For the convenience of families and those desirous of attending the midday performance on Saturday next, tickets are now procurable at Mr Bennington’s, where seats may be reserved.

Delightful.— This is the way of going to sleep at Oooktown, as described in the Northern Territory Times :—“ ‘ Sleep, that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care,’ is a thing the more difficult to procure in proportion as it becomes the more necessary. A person worn out by the intense heat of the day, retires to rest—or rather to bed, when this is the order of affairs :—First, the mosquitoes sweetly sing the evening hymn, commencing at the first verse, long metre, and then proceed to extract a gory repast from his prostrate form. Friendly i-ats gambol playfully over his stomach. Troops of dogs outside avail themselves of Dr Watts’s permission to bark and bite. Stray horses of the coal-tar breed scrub themselves against his sleeping caboose, and then go round the corner and dance the fandango on piles of houlli tins and bottles. He knows that the crickets are devouring his inexpressibles, whilst he feels that the cockroaches are making a hearty meal off his toe-nails.”