NEWS OF THE DAY

Globe, Volume VII, Issue 712, 30 September 1876, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY

A.OP., Court Star op Canterbury A quarterly summoned meeting of this lodge will be held on Monday evening at half-past eight o’clock. Canterbury Museum. — The Museum will be closed from Monday next, October 2nd, to Sunday, the Bth October, noth days inclusive. The Clematis. —The hull of the schooner Clematis, as she now lies in Lyttelton harbor, was submitted yesterday for sale by Mr R. Walton at his rooms, and knocked down to Captain Dunsford for £SOO. Supreme Court. —The quarterly session of the Supreme Court, in its criminal juris diction,will open on Monday before his Honor Mr Justice Johnston. Witnesses and jurymen are reminded that the hour of opening is 10 o’clock. Canterbury Railways —The receipts en the Canterbury Railways for August were as follows : —Merchandise, £9466 Os Id ; rents, £B3 3s 5d ; wharfage (£l2ll 2s Id) and cranage (£94 2s 7d), £1305 4s 3d; passengers, £5162 9s ; parcels, £397 13s 2d ; horses, carriages, &c, £127 Os Id ; total, £16,541 10s 6d. The total receipts for August, 1875, were £12,202 2s 2d. Educational —Proclamations appear in the Provincial Government Gazette levying the following ratesßast Christchurch, eleven pence in the £, payable to Mr P G. P. Leach; West Christchurch, si'pence in the £. payable to Mr G. Armstrong ; Mount Grey Downs, fourpence in the £, payable to Mr J. H, Moore ; Timaru, one shilling in the £, payable to Mr T. G. Cork,

Billiards. —Mr Roberts played two matches last night, each 500 up. The first was with a gentleman amateur, to whom he gave 350, the latter winning by .170 points, The other he played with Weston, giving him 250 points, and this the champion also lost by 57. He plays his final match in Canterbury to-night, when he will give Weston 400 points out of 750, for a wager of £2O a side At the termination of the match llr Roberts will play seven games of lyramids,

Trout Pishing. — A proclamation appears the Provincial Government Gazette , taking regulations for fishing in the rivers f the province. It is lawful for any prson, upon obtaining from the secretary d the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society a license, to fish with rod and line it the rivers of the province from Otober 16vh to February 28th, 1877. Al trout taken, not exceeding eight inhes in length, shall immediately be retuned aiive into the river ; anyone infringin' this regulation is liable to a penalty not vcd. _ Otherwise than provided in this regulation, no person shall fish in the rivers ; atfone offending is liable to a penalty not Breeding £IOO. This last regulation does ni apply to fishing for whitebait with nets,

The La Hogue,—A telegram forwarded by the Press Agency to-day, states that “ it is feared that the wreckage on the Karamea beach, forty miles north of Westport, shows that the ship La Hogue has been lost; she was 1331 tons burden, commanded by Captain Wagstaff, and was due at Sydney on the 2nd instant, then ninety-two days’ out. She probably encountered the late gale off the Australian coast. ” On reference to the Home News and European Mail, we find that the ship La Hogue sailed for Sydney on July 20th, and was therefore only sixty-two days out, at the time the wreckage was found. In the Jerusalem list, the La Hogue is stated to have cleared on July 18th for Sydney. Of course, as the La Hogue is a very fast vessel, it may turn out that she has been wrecked upon our coast after all; but she is not yet overdue. St Michael and All-Angels.— The annual dedication festival was held in this church yesterday. The services commenced with choral celebration at 8 a.m, at which there was a rather thin attendance; evensong at 8 p.m, at which the service was full choral, the choir being supplemented by a few choristers from St John’s and St Luke’s. The canticles were sung to Tours in F, and the anthem was Weber’s Mass in G, given nearly in its entirety. Taken as a whole it was fairly rendered, the Sanctus, Benedicts, and Donna Nobis were noticeable as the best. The Rev Mr Hamilton intoned the prayers, and Archdeacon Willock preached an appropriate sermon on music as a means of honoring the Creator. Probably on account of the threatening weather the church was not as full as it would otherwise have been. The offertories were devoted to choir purposes. O.J.C.—A meeting of the members of the Canterbury Jockey Club was held yesterday afternoon, at Warner’s Hotel ; Captain Ciogstoun occupied the chair, The following gentlemen were elected members of the club, viz. :—Messrs W. J. G. Bluett, R. Saunders, W. M. Maskell, and C. F. Todhunter. The resolution amending rule 3 given notice of by Mr Read at the last meeting, was passed as follows : —“ Any person desirous of becoming a member of the 0.J.C., shall be proposed by two members, in writing to the secretary, and such proposal shall be posted in the club room on a board provided for that purpose, and the person proposed shall be balloted for at the first meeting after such proposal has been posted, provided that such meeting be not held until after the expiration of one month from the time of the proposal being posted. One black ball in five to exclude.” The meeting then adjourned. The Late Gale. —The following account of the effects of the late gale at the Haka teramea station depicts, says the Timaru Herald “such an extraordinary state of things that we should not be surprised to find our readers coming to the conclnsion that we had been made the victims of a hoax, but we are in a position to vouch for its accuracy. Our informant says that the wind sprung up from the north-west at about 10 o’clock, and increased into a gale, which destroyed a great portion of the station, the debris in the shape of iron, wood, and stone flying about, rendering it dangerous to life to be anywhere’uear the buildings. The gale first took effect on the iron roof of the smith’s shop, a part of which blew clean away. A little while after this the cart shed, which was built of stone with an iron roof, gave way. A man was half buried by the debris, and several dogs were completely covered. Luckily, however, the man was got out without having sustained much injury, and the dogs were rescued unscathed. Not a stone of the shed was left in position, and all the things that were inside, including a buggy, were badly damaged. The whole of the roof of the dip, including the rafters, as well as the iron, blew away, and the boiler chimney was toppled over. The woolshed weathered the gale, but it was feared for some time that it was doomed—the roof lifting at times bodily off the masonry for a distance of five or six inches. Some of the iron roof blew away, and a small portion of the stone wall caved in. It was also believed that the stables would go, and the horses were taken out in consequence, but the building was not injured. The roofs of all the buildings were injured, the chimneys were blown down, and nearly all the windows were broken. The fences are also greatly damaged. The woodwork that has been blown away has been so injured that it will be useless for rebuilding.” All housewives and washerwomen should try the Star Brand Soap, and so save both their hands and pockets at the same time. Persons who have used it say so.— [Advt.]