NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 606, 29 May 1876, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Db Murska. —We have to remind our readers that the second of the series of De Murka concerts will be given at the Oddfellows’ Hall this evening. A Bazaar Gift Auction, in aid of the Primitive Methodist Church, is to be held in the Music Hall to-morrow and Wednesday. The auction will take place on Wednesday evening. Lecture at Lyttelton.— Mr Charles Bright, assisted by Mr and Mrs Hoskins, will give, at the Colonists’ Hall, Lyttelton, to-morrow night, the same entertainment which drew a crowded house and was highly successful at the Oddfcllows’s Hall in Christchurch.

Football —On Saturday afternoon about lift," players attended to contest the return match Club v Banka and Civil Service. The game was a most even one throughout, and up to the last ten minutes both sides had obtained two force-downs. At this period, however, the Club by a good rush carried the ball into their opponents’ quarters, and Potts obtained a clever touch-down for them. The kick, which was entrusted to H. W. Moore, proved unsuccessful, the game ending in favor of the club by one touch down.

Death under Chloroform.—a man named Robert Bell Thompson, a laborer employed upon the Christchurch and Lyttelton Railway, was on Saturday taken to the Provincial Hospital, for the purpose of undergoing an operation to the urinary organs. Thompson had for some time been suffering from disease of these organs, and had had an operation performed upon him at the hospital about eleven months ago, but his disease had gained upon him lately, and it was found necessary to again perform the operation on Saturday. It was considered advisable to place the patient under the influence of chloroform, which was administered by Dra Nedwell and Campbell. The sufferer gradually sank, and died shortly after the chloroform had been administered. Dr Powell was sent for when it was found the man was sinking, but when he arrived life was extinct.

1.0. G T.—A degree temple, in connection with the above order, was instituted at the Wesleyan schoolroom, Lyttelton, on Friday evening last, byßro S. E.Webb, D.D.G.W.C.T., assisted by Bro J. Buxton, P.D.T., and Bro R. Pierce, of Olive Branch Temple, Christchurch, The temple, on opening, consisted of twenty-one members, all of whom are third degree members from the Rainbow Lodge, No 84. and Seashell Lodge, No 105. After the temple had been duly instituted ami opened by Bro Webb, the election of officers for the present term was proceeded with, and resulted as follows : Bro A McWilliams, D.T ; Sister 8. Tibballs, D.Y.T; Bro T, L. Smith, D. Sec; Bro H. Clarke, D.F.B. ; Bro W. Reed, D.T.; Sister F Ockford, D.O. ; Bro E. Blackley, D.M. ; Bro J. Graham, D.D.M, ; Bro G. Dimond, D.G. ; Bro P. Childs, D. Sec ; Bro T. Fogarty, D.A.B. ; Sister A. Dimond, D R.H.S. ; Bro D. Brown, D.L H.B. It was resolved that the temple be called the Lyttelton Advance Temple j it may a'so be stated here that the above is the third degree temple instituted in Canterbury. Woodend. —The first of a series of popular entertainments, intended to be held fortnightly during the winter in the district schoolroom, took place on Friday evening. There was a full attendance. Mr H. B. Gresson presided, and in an opening address adverted to the object of the entertainment committee, which was to provide amusement and instruction, and to cultivate a taste for music and reading. With regard to reading, he hoped the readings would be so given as to bring about a taste for writings of the best authors. The items of the programme were—lnstrumental duet, Misses Bowie aud Mathias; solo and chorus, “ Auld lang syne;” reading, “Early Rising,” Mr T, May; duet, “ Gipsey Countess,” Mr and Mrs J. Gresson; solo aud chorus, “You’ve been a friend to me,” Mr Bosence and company; recitation, “Bachelor’s Dream,” Mr B. R. Good; solo and chorus, “ Driven from Home,” Miss Bowie and company ; reading, “ McMillan the ventriloquist,” Mr R. Clayton; solo and chorus, “ Silver moonlight winds are blowing,” Mr Bosence and company ; song, “ I think I have seen you before,” Mr Good ; song, “ The Mountebank,” Mr J. Gresson ; song and chorus, “Just before the battle,” Mr T. Williams; song, “Auld Robin Gray,” Mr J. Gresson; song, “The Blacksmith,” Mr Good ; National Anthem. Mr Thompkins, Royal hotel, had kindly lent his piano, thus materially assisting the committee. The proceeds amounted to nearly £3, Ellesmere Agricultural and Pas toral Association. —A general meeting of the committee was held at Loe’s Lecstoii Hotel, on Friday, the 26th instant. Present —Messrs Thos. D. Aclaod, president (in the chair), D. Marshall, J. Cunningham, D. Moorhead, J. Lockhead, Job Osborne, Q. Stevens, W. Bisbop, C. T. Dudley, W. G, Lunn, and C. Bourn. The minutes of committee meeting, held on the 28th April, were read and confirmed. Letters were read from the secretaries of the Northern, Lincoln, and Timam associations, acknowledging receipt of information relative to date fixed by the Ellesmere Agricultural and Pastoral Association, for holding their annual shows. That from the Timaru society expressed regret at the date fixed upon, as in future years it would clash with the day chosen by them. It was resolved to leave the matter in the hands of the president and secretary, who would communicate with the Timaru association on the subject. The committee then considered seriatim the programme, which had been revised by the sub-committee appointed for that purpose, and with a few slight amendments adopted the same ; and also unanimously decided that the suggestions of the sub-committee, in regard to adding a poultry show to the programme be carried out. The secretary was instructed to get fifty copies of programme printed at as early a date as possible, and circulated amongst the members ot the association. Several other matters of routine were then then considered, and a vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the proceedings. Double Accident at Timaru.—Saturday’s Timaru Herald says;—“Yesterday evening, at about five o'c lock, as a cargo boat belonging to the George street Landing Service was being launched, through some mishap it failed to get afloat and stuck in the shingle at the water’s edge. Every effort failed to movt her, and it was at las. decided to haul her up f gain. She was loaded with about 150 sacks (■f. oats belonging to Vlessrs P Cunningham and n o, which were neing shipped off to the s.s Maori, The sea, which was making rapidly, broke over her as she lay, and in a few minutes she was filled with water, com-

p’etely ruining her cargo. On applying the steam power, it was found impossible to fetch her up, and after breaking one pulley and trying another, the job was given up for the time being, and the oats were taken out of her. Unfortunately, out of this accident arose another. A. number of people , had assembled on the beach below the engineshed, to watch the proceedings, and when the large cast iron pulley-wheel broke under the enormous tension of the steam engine, a piece of it, weighing some pounds, flew down the beach amonst the spectators, striking one person, William Goodeye, and prostrating him. The rest of the people, who had scattered in all directions, hurried back to the spot and found the unfortunate man insensible. He was carried on to the bank, where he rallied, and it was found that one of his legs was broken below the knee. He was promptly placed in a trap and conveyed to the hospital, where he received every care and attention. It was a most extraordinary circumstance that no one else was injured besides the person we have named, as there could not have been less than thirty or forty people standing close by at the time.”