NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 420, 16 October 1875, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Orchestral Society. —The last concert of the season by the above society will be given on Thursday, November 4th. Telegraphic. —The Alhambra is expected to leave Hokitika at eight p.m. on this day. Telegrams for the Australian Colonies or Europe, via Java Cable, will be received at the Telegraph office for transmission to Hokitika up till 7.30 p.m. Ergot in Grasses. —The conditions of the prize of twenty guineas offered by the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association for the best essay on the recent appearance of ergot in rye and other grasses appears in another column. Opening op the Boating Season.— The boating season of 1875-6 was opened this afternoon in the usual form, with a procession of boats and scratch four-oar and canoe races. The procession was marshalled by Mr J. H. Hcrdson, and started punctually at 3 p.m. There was a gold muster both of boats and men, and this part of the programme was fairly gone through. The* four-oared scratch race was rowed in heats, and the distance was for one mile, starting from Pratt’s and winning at the Brewery. The entrance fee was ss, and the prize £4. The boats and crews for the first heat were as follows: Illyssus (south bank) —Messrs Jones, Ollivier, Pavitt, and Winter. Tamesis (north bank) — Messrs Gundry, Hartland, Bowron, and Cook. Second heat —Tamesis (south bank) —Messrs Davis, Loughnan, Nankeville, sen, W. Callender. Illyssus (north bank) —Messrs J. Callender, Lanauze, Templer and Nankeville, jun. A canoe race took place bctween the second and final heats of the four-oared race.

Mr E. D. Davies. —The Oddfellows’ T Fall was well filled last night at this gentleman’s entertainment. Each of the items in the programme was received with applause, and deservedly so, as the playing of Miss Davies, the singing of Mrs Empson, and the feats of the Du Ville Brothers, and the Man Fish, were each excellent in their different ways. Mr Davies was a host in himself, and the vontriloquial part of the evening’s amusement was as successful as ever. On Thursday next a Spelling Bee is announced and Mr Davies offers three prizes to be competed for.

Runaway Accident, Rangiora —Yesterday two horses in a dray belonging to Mr H, Blackett bolted from the railway station Li proceeding past Sinclair’s Junction Hotel one shaft of the dray was brought into contact with a saddle horse belonging to 0 Webster, Gust. The shaft entered the body of the horse a distance of twenty-two inches. The animal was subsequently shot by Mr Wheeler. Its owner claimed £io damages. Sad Occurence at Stoke. —On Wednesday morning a respectable man, named William Perdue, residing at Stoke, between Gust and Fernside, was missed from his home, and search at once made. On Thursday a neighbor, Mr Macaulay, reported the affair at the Oxford police station, when almost immediately afterwards it was stated that Mr Perdue’s body had been found at the bottom of a dry well 103 ft in depth on his own property, half a chain from his house. The top was partially covered with manuka sticks, and observing these to have been removed the well was examined on Wednesday by means of a lighted lantern lowered into it without any result; but on Thursday during a second examination a caudle only being lowered, the body was found face downwards. A portion of the sides of the well where it lay had given way. The presumption is that the shade from the lantern prevented the searchers finding the body before. Macaulay went down to endeavor to raise it, but failed ; but a second neighbor, Mr John Doig, who was let down with a rope, succeeded in putting another rope round the body, by which it was lifted to the surface. On arrival of the police the corpse had been removed and laid out. So far as a superficial examination went, there were scratches on the head and face, with a few slight bruises on the body. His age was thirty-four ; he leaves a wife and his mother to lament his loss. An inquest will be held at Messent’s Halfway House to-day, before 0, Dudley, Esq., coroner. Lyttelton Yachting Club.— A general meeting of the members of this club took place on Thursday night last. There was a fair attendance, and Mr P. Cunningham took the chair. The minutes of the prior meeting having been read and confirmed, Mr W. Cameron proposed that Mr Dorrington should be elected secretary, Mr Young seconded the resolution, which was carried. The Hon J. T. Peacock and Messrs J. C, Boddington, J. H. Herdson, and T. A. W. Parsons were proposed members of the club. Votes of thanks were passed to the Secretary for Public Works, the railway engineer, and traffic manager, for carrying the ballast for the club. Mr Packard said that Mr H. P. Murray-Aynsley was unavoidably absent, Mr Cunningham said it was absolutely neces savy that some bulwark should be raised on the yacht, as she would not be safe to travel in without. Mr Packard said Mr MurrayAynsley had proposed iron stanchions and ropes. Mr Cameron said if they did this, it would cost a great deal, the expense of the repairs already completed was more than estimated. The matter was left to the sub-commit-tee. In reference to opening day, Mr Cameron said that Messrs Eyes, D’Authreau, Forbes, and himself, had been getting the yacht ready. She would be finished by Saturday week. Mr Packard asked if the Annie Ogle would be ready by that time. He hoped they would have a good opening day, and get the yachts, boats, &c, to form a procession like last year. He wished captains of vessels in harbors to be invited to send their boats, and hoped a scratch match or two would be got up, as was done last year. Mr W. Cameron proposed —“ That there be an opening day for the Lyttelton Yachting Club, that there be scratch matches instituted, and that the hon secretary be requested to inform members that the opening would take place on Saturday, 23rd Oct.” Seconded by Mr Packard and carried. The meeting then adjourned.