NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 355, 2 August 1875, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

O.J.C.—A general meeting of the Jockey Club, will be held this evening at 8 p.m., at Warner’s Commercial Hotel, to consider the programme for the Metropolitan, and other business. Telegraphic. —The steamer Albion is expected to leave the Bluff at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, the 3rd inst. Telegrams for the Australian colonies or Europe via Java cable will be received at the Christchurch telegraph office for transmission to the Bluff up to 10 a.m, to-morrow. Mails. —The inward Suez mail consisting of twenty-three bags was brought by the Tararuaon Saturday. The outward Suez mail consisting of twelve bags was taken by the Albion on Saturday, but the Hawea took a supplementary mail of three bags yesterday. The Ladybird took the outward San Francisco mail of twenty-one bags yesterday. Shocking Occurrence.— A woman, the wife of a labourer in Lyttelton named James Young, whose children have been suffering for some time from typhoid fever, yesterday in her husband’s absence drowned one of her children, five years of age, by throwing the girl into a cask containing water. The woman is supposed to be insane. Sudden Death. —A man named Edwin D. Parry, a cook on board the ship Countess of Kintore, died suddenly at 4 a.m. on Saturday morning; he has been four years in the ship, and was a coloured man, a native of Barbadoes. He is supposed to have died of congestion of the lungs. An inquest will be held to-day at the Royal Hotel, Lyttelton. Popular Concerts. —The fifth of the seriesof these very successful popular concerts will be given to-night in the Oddfellows’ Hall, under the conductorship of Mr J, T. M. Smith. The principal vocal solos will be taken by Miss Winter, who will sing the sceua, “ Roberto tu che adoro,’’ from Myerbeer’s “ Roberto,” and the Scotch ballad Robin Adair.” Mr J. Cliff will sing “ The Trooper,” and the remainder of the vocal portion in the first part will be composed of choruses by the choir and part songs by the members of the German choir. The second portion of the programme comprises Lahee’s cantata — fifteen numbers —“The Building of the Ship.” The solos will be taken by a lady amateur, Messrs Smith, Paschel, and Johnson. The accompaniments, which are written for piano and harmonium, will be rendered by Messrs R. Searell and R, Parker.

Death. —The South Canterbury Times, of Saturday, says “ Yesterday morning, July 30th, Inspector Pender received a telegram from Waimate to the effect that a death had occurred near that township under the following circumstances : —John Henry Bidder and William Hens were out duck shooting yesterday morning, when the latter was shot by the former. Bidder is in custody, and the body was taken to the Club Hotel, Waimate, awaiting a coroner’s inquest. No further particulars are yet to hand, beyond that the accident is supposed to be accidental.

Soap. —Many persons who have cometothis province of late, may not know that the soap branded with a star, is of a very superior description, to most other sorts in use here. Very severe tests have proved that it is manufactured on the strictest chemical, principles so as to produce an article, which whilst it possesses thorough cleansing properties, does not injure the finest fabrics, or affect the hands in the slightest degree. The public generally, will find it to their advantage to use this soap, as in addition to the above mentioned qualifications, it is sold at a lower price than most other kinds. A single trial will prove the foregoing facts to the satisfaction of all.— Advt. Stamp Fee Act. —A Bill entitled the Stamp Fee Act, 1875, has been introduced by the Hon C. 6. Bowen, and is to make prodsion for the collection by means of stamps, of fees payable in the various departments of the public service. It repeals the Supreme Court and Begistration Offices Fees Act, 1806, The Governor is empowered to fix the time for bringing the Act into operation by proclamation in the Gazette, in any public department or office connected with the public service, and after the time specified such fees, fines, or penalties shall be received by stamps and not in money, and the stamps used shall be impressed or adhesive, as the Governor from time to time directs. Clause 6 enacts that when any sum comprised in any such notice is payable in respect of a document, the stamps denoting such sum shall be affixed to or impressed on such document, and when such sum is payable otherwise than in respect of a document, the stamps denoting such sum shall be affixed to, or impressed on such document the k Govfernor requires to be used for the purpose. Clause 7 states that any document which ought to bear a stamp

under this Act shall not be of any validity until it is properly stamped, but if the omission has been made through mistake or inadvertence, the Court in which the document is received may, if it thinks fit, order it to be stamped, and the document shall then be as valid as if it had been properly stamped in the first instance. The sections from 6to 26 inclusive of the Stamp Act, 1875, is to apply to the stamps to be used under this Act, and is to be read aa part of this Act.