NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 691, 6 September 1876, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The New Brighton Bridge.— The New Brighton bridge will be formally opened to the public on Saturday next, at 2 p.m. In the absence of his Honor the DeputySuperintendent, the President of the Executive, accompanied by the members of the Government, will perform the ceremony.

Lyttelton Borough Council.— Messrs John .Smith Willcox, Harvey Hawkins Joseph Illingsworth, Harry Allwright, John Green Garforth, Thomas and Kobert Forbes have been nominated candidates for the vacancies in the Council, caused by the retirement, by rotation, of CrsiHawkins, Allwright, and Graham. The election takes place on September Uth.

Deborah Bay Tunnel.-— Work at the Deborah Bay Railway Tunnel continues, says the Daily Times, to progress apace. Dilapidated as the state of the tunnel had become, securing it, nevertheless, is being performed with celerity, and so far without accident to life or limb. Sixteen chains, exclusive of the half-chain at the month, have been bnilt up with masonry and brickwork, and at the rate the work is proceeding the south section of the tunnel will be secured right to the face in the course of a month or six weeks. Drifting the tunnel from the north end is in hand and good headway being made with it.

Canterbury Glee Club —The first performance of this club in public will takeplace this evening in the Oddfellows’ Hall. The programme is a very good one, comprising both instrumental and vocal items. Amongst the former we may notice “ Preciosa,” overture for two pianos; Beethoven’s Sonata No 2 in A, for violin and violoncello; Haydn’s symphony for two pianos ; Clinton’s duet, “ Santa Lucia,” for flute and piano ; and Weber’s “ Polonaise,” as a pianoforte solo. The vocal numbers are part songs by Kucken, Schubert, Hatton, Kreutzer, and Beichardt, the latter being the German national song, “ Wast ist des Deutschen Vaterland.” The solos are also well selected. The club has been established on a principle which entitles it to the heartiest sympathy and support of the public, the proceeds being devoted in each case to some charitable object. The recipient of the receipts of tonight will be the Dunlop fund. As the late Mr Dunlop was an old comrade in music, the club wished to add its quota to the concert given recently; but the offers of assistance were so numerous that the committee were reluctantly compelled to decline. Hence the club determined that their first concert should be devoted towards this object. We hope not only to see a full house on this occasion—to which alike the object and attractiveness of the programme entitle the club—but also that it will have before it a )o .g and successful existence.

The Babbit Nuisance —The rabbit nuisance committee (the Wellington correspondent of the North Otago Times telegraphs) reports that they have carefully studied the reports of inquiries into the subject made in the Australian colonies, New Zealand, and elsewhere ; they have also examined a sufficient number of witnesses to confirm beyond doubt the facts of the case. The mischief already done is most serious, and is increasing, and unless some effectual remedy bn adopted, is likely to increase. The committee recommend that a Bill should be introduced into the Legislature without delay, to establish inexpensive machinery by which owners and occupiers of land may be compelled to keep in check the increase of rabbits on Iheir holdings, The committee are of opinion that such a Bill might be extended so as to include pigs and other noxious animals. They further think that a grant of money for the purpose of introducing weasel , as a natural check, into the country would (if the object were attained) be of very great service. The committee call the attention of the House especially to the evidence of Captain Walker, Conservator of State Forests, showing that forest-planting by the Government will be a useless expense if rabbits are allowed to multiply uncontrolled in the neighbourhood of plantations.