NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume VII, Issue 711, 29 September 1876, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Northern E airway. Traffic on the Northern line will be resumed to-morrow morning. Quoiting Club.— The members of the Christchurch Kilwinning Quoiting Club will re-open their season to-monow at 2 p.m. The Kumura Rush.— These diggings are attracting many from Christchurch and Lyttelton, not a steamer leaves port for North without many proceeding in her to the new rush. A great many went in the Hawea yesterday. The November SHOW.--Qaite a formidable array of cups, &c, are now on view at the shop of Messrs Coates and Co, Colombo street, They are intended as private prizes to be awarded at the Metropolitan show in November next. Old Boys’ Race. —Entries for the old boys’ race, to be held at the College on October 19th, must be made with W. Hartland, at Messrs Miles and Go’s, or with A, Rhodes, at the College, before Thursday, October 12th. Volunteer Inspection. The City Guards were inspected by the Officer Commanding the District last evening, at the Drillshed. To-night the Engineers will parade for inspection. After the parade a general meeting of the Company will be held in the orderly room. ACCIDENT NEAR Kaiapoi, —On Thursday a spring cart, in charge of two sons of Mr Hinge, of Woodend, was capsized on the North road. One of the boys received a severe cut on his head, caused by the wheel. He was promptly attended to by Dr Ovenden.

Horse Parade Entries.— The entries for the horse parade, which takes place on Saturday, closed yesterday afternoon. The numbers were as follows; Ponies, B■, roadsters and carriage horses, 5 ; thoroughbreds (colonial), 11 ; thoroughbreds (imported), 4 ; draught horses (colonial bred), 27 ; draught horses (imported), 8. St. Michael’s. —The Annual Dedication Festival of this church will be held to-day. There will be full choral evensong at eight o’clock, when in accordance with annual custom the choir will give a complete musical work as the anthem ; the one selected for to-night being Weber’s fine Mass in G-, with the English words. The offertory will be for special choir purposes. Debating Society. —A new debating society, to be called “ The Christchurch Literary and Debating Society,” has just been started. Its object is to discuss social and political subjects, &c. Sir Thomas Tancred has been elected president, Dr Turnbull and Mr Brewster, jun, vice-presi-dents, and Mr H. Fleming, secretary, Eighteen members have already joined. The meetings will be held every Tuesday evening, in St John’s Schoolroom, at 8 p.m. Football. —The annual match, Past v Present Collegians, will take place on Saturday afternoon, on the College ground, and under their rules. The following comprise the Past team :—Messrs W. H. Atack, T. and W. Chapman, H. E. and W. Cotterill, W. Hartland, B. Gi. and J. H. Hawkes, F. Johnston, H. McCardell, L, M. Ollivier, A. and G-. Potts, W. Tosswill, and J. Wachsmann. The colors of the Past Collegians will be red and black ; play to commence at 2,45 p.m sharp. Midland Cricket Club— -A special general meeting of the Midland Canterbury Cricket Club was held at Warner’s Hotel last evening, when sixteen members were present. Thirty-eight new honorary and active members were balloted for and duly elected members of the club. Rule XV of the club was brought forward for alteration, it having been ascertained that the colors chosen at the general meeting could not be obtained. After some discussion, the uniform fixed on was white shirt and blue and white quar-

tered cap, A vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the proceedings. Imported Animals. —By the Merope have arrived two shorthorn bulls, which will doubtless prove of great advantage to breeders in the province. They are consigned to Matheson’s Agency, and as well as we could see from a superficial glance, are immense animals, showing great quality. They have arrived in very fair order. By the same vessel arrived two splendid greyhounds, a dog and a bitch—the dog is Golden Lion, by George’s Glory out of Gaudy Poll, and is for stud purposes ; the bitch is Regalia, by Rocketer, out of Belmontine, who as a pup won the Derrynacash Stakes at Lurgan, against sixty-four others. As the Sporting Calendar says, she was never asked to exert herself, so easily did she dispose of her opponents. She was then put in training for the Waterloo Cup, but cut her foot badly with some broken china while out exercising, which disabled her for some time. At Abergale she ran for the big stake, after which her owner sent her to the stud for a season, when she was purchased by Mr A. P. Morris, her present owner, who paid a long pries for her, and intends running her for •lex* year’s Australian Waterloo Cup, During l.he voyage, on July 10th, in 38 north, teg dia littered seven pups—viz, one brindle, and one brindle and white slut, one black, two brindle, and two brindle and white dogs. The pups are by Farrier, by Cavalier out of Carlton, half brother to the celebrated Master Sam, who took the great 128 dog stake, the Scarisbrook Cup, All have arrived in good order, and will no doubt prove great acquisitions. The pedigrees of these dogs are traced back to 1828. Cricket. —Mr J, H. Bennett, agent to the All England Eleven, arrived here yesterday, per Hawea, to make preliminary arrangements for the visit of the above team to this province about the beginning of February next. The team left England by the P. and O. steamer, leaving on the 21st of this month, and will be due at Adelaide on November 12th, at which place they play first. The team is a very strong one indeed, and we do not think could possibly have been better chosen to represent England’s strength, comprising the following thirteen players Jupp, Pooley, and Southerton, from Surrey ; Charlwood, and Lilly white from Sussex ; Greenwood, Ullyett, Allen Hill, Emmett, and Armytage from Yorkshire ; A. Shaw, Selby, and Wild from Nottinghamshire. From the above it will be seen that England’s best bowlers are en route to prove their strength against the colonies, as also some of the finest bats, and if this province wishes still to maintain its acknowledged prestige our cricketers must certainly air their flannels early this season, Mr Bennett visited the ground yesterday morning, and formed a very favorable opinion of it, and deemed it quite equal to any in 4straliß,

The Late Gale at Burke’s Pass.— A correspondent of the Timaru Herald sends the following to that paper:—“ The wind commenced to blow at Burke’s Pass about 10 a.m, on Friday, and by 11 o’clock it increased to such an extent that people considered it unsafe to be out. At about 11.15 a.m. a stable at the Pass was fairly blown away, being lifted over a fence 4|ft high, and some portions were carried a distance of 100 yards down the Pass, A draught horse which was standing under the lee of the stable was knocked down by the shock, but as the building was carried over it, the animal remained unhurt. A stack of timber and iron was utterly dispersed, and some of the sheets of iron are lying crumpled up at least 200 yards from where they were stacked. One man positively asserts that while standing on a trestle he was fairly lifted over the head of another man working near him. So much for the wind. As regards the floods, the tracks through the river beds that have been used for years and were well worn are utterly destroyed, and in some cases the ground in the river beds is so cut up that one might easily imagine some one had been at work on it with picks and shovels.” Billiards,— Mr J. Roberts, junr, played his fourth match last evening, giving Mr Weston 450 points out of 1000. Neither player was in his form of the previous evening, and though there were splendid exhibitions of billiards at intervals by each, the game dragged very 'slowly, Weston eventually winning by 185 points. The champion, however, in addition to the points given, being barred the spot stroke. Tonight he plays a local gentleman"amateur, giving him 350 points out of 500, and will again play Mr Weston, giving him 250 out of 600 points, spot strokes to count. The purchaser of an entrance ticket will also have a chance of winning Mr Roberts’ duplicate match cue, with which he has scored breaks of over 500 on two or three occasions. Yesterday afternoon the champion played two matches in the billiard room of the Canterbury Club one with an gentleman amateur, and other with Mr Cole, his agent. In the former he gave 350 out of 500, and won by 50 points, his highest score being 288, putting down the spot ball 92 times. In the second, he gave 325 out of 500, and won by |lO points, his best break this game being 110, Mr Cole made a break of 42, and scored his first 100 to the champion’s 77. Agricultural and Pastoral Association. —Tne usual monthly meeting of the committee of the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association took place yesterday. Mr H. F. Gray occupied the chair. The secretary brought up a list of the gentlemen who had consented to act as judges at the November Show. The report of the aommittee on the subject of protests was read and adopted, as also was the report of the committee on the improvements necessary on the grounds of the association. Mr Wilkin moved—“ That a cottage be erected at a cost not exceeding £l6O, for a keeper on the ground, who would be allowed to occupy the cottage rent-free, on condition of looking after the trees, fences, &c, and generally supervising the grounds of the association. Mr Norman seconded the motion, which was agreed to. It was resolved that the matter of selecting judges for the Oamaru Show be referred to the sub-committee already appointed. A letter was read from the Timaru Association, asking if the Christchurch Association would join with the North Otago Association and the Timaru Association in offering a prize for the best gorse-cutting machine. The matter was discussed at some length, and ultimately it was decided on the casting vote of the chairman—“ That the Timaru and Oamaru Societies be informed that the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association will join in the expense of offering a prize for a gorse-cutter, and will also give a further sum of £6 towards the expense of advertising the prize.” A letter was read from Mr Roskruge, offering a prize of £5 5s each for best colt and filly got by his horse Black Champion. Mr Wilkin moved—“ That Mr Holley and Mr Bruce see Mr Roskruge, and ascertain whether he intends the prize to apply to the present year’s show or next year’s.” The secretary brought up a copy of the plan of the ground intended to be placed in the catalogue. On the motion of Mr Wilkin, the plan was referred to Messrs Henderson and Norman, Mr Wilkin moved—“ That a sub-committee be appointed to arrange for the show dinner, and that Messrs Aynsley, Mcßeth, Bruce, and Mann form the committee.” Sumner. Another entertainment was given in the schoolroom on Thursday night, this time in aid of the Church Bell Fund. The room was comfortably filled, and the various items being well rendered, drew forth the hearty applause of the audience. The Rev Charles Merton occupied the chair, and expressed his pleasure that such entertertainments had been initiated, which served a two-fold object, namely, as recreation and amusement for the residents, and granting monetary assistance to their church and school funds. He was happy to say that their new church would be opened for divine worship on Sunday week, and took the present opportunity to thank those ladies who had so generously contributed towards providing the necessary furniture and fittings. The following programme was then carried out, which, by the way, is far above what is usually submitted at such entertainments—Pianoforte duet, Misses Marshman; part song, “Mayday ” by the Misses Marshman (3), Miss Helmore, and Messrs Appleby, Knox; song, Mr Knox, “Life’s a river; ” reading, by Mr John Ollivier, “ How the parson lost his breeches; ” trio, “Ti prego,” by the Misses Marshman and Mr Appleby; two duets, for piano and cornopean, by Miss Tombs and Mr J. S. Monck; recitation, “Tam o’ Shanter,” by Mr Taylor; quartette, “ Sweet and low,” by the Misses Marshman, Appleby, and Knox; reading, by Mr Ollivier; song, “A free lance,” by Mr Knox; two songs, “ Whip-poor-will,” and “ Remember or forget,” by Miss Miles. The Carnovale Chorus closed|the programme, and was loudly re-demanded. The rev chairman thanked the ladies and gentlemen for their assistance, and announced that “ The Wizard of the South” had generously promised to give an entertainment in the schoolroom on that night fortnight, entitled “ Mirth, magic and music,” the proceeds to be given to assist in purchasing a library for the use of the Sunday school children. The National Anthem closed the proceedings.

An officer in the army laughed at a timid woman because she was alarmed at the noise of a cannon when a salute was dred. He subsequently married that timid woman, and six months afterwarcs he took , off hie boots in the hall when he came in late at night,