NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume VII, Issue 744, 7 November 1876, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

New Baths,—Mr W. H. Barnes’ tender of £279 10s for the erection of the new baths, opposite St Michael’s Church, was accepted yesterday by the City Council, Jockey Club Delegates,— A meeting of delegates from the various jockey clubs in New Zealand will be held in the jockey club room, Warner’s Hotel, on Thursday, at 10 a.m. Dr Care. —There was a very good attendance at the Oddfellows’ Hall, when Dr Carr gave another amusing seance. There will be no performance this evening, owing to the Hall being engaged, but to-morrow the doctor will again appear in a new programme. Me and Mrs Hall, —These old favorites left for Christchurch per City of New York last evening at 8 p,m., under engagement to Mr Hoskins. They open on Monday evening next in a new play. Mayoral Election.— His Worship stated yesterday that the election of Mayor for the current year, to take place on the third Wednesday in December, would be carried out under the old Municipal Act, and that the voting would be cumulative, as heretofore. Grant to Municipalities. —As the General Government have approved of the Provincial estimates to the end of the current year, it is not improbable that the City Council will receive £4OOO or £SOOO, the balance of the grant voted by the Provincial Council,

Inquest. —At an inquest held at Killinchy on Friday last, before Mr R. B Willis, deputy-coroner, and a jury, of whom Mr James Oarston was chosen foreman, touching the death of Mr D. Moorhead, a verdict of “ Death from natural causes ” was unanimously recorded. The evidence of the wife of deceased and of Dr H. Chapman, who had made a post-mortem examination of the body, clearly showed that the deceased’s heart and lungs had been seriously affected, and that he had on several occasions suffered considerably from the same causes.

Billiard Match,— A billiard match took place last evening at Warner’s Commercial Hotel between the celebrated French player M. Carme and Mr W. Weston, the former giving the latter 400 points out of 800. The game was that known as the French cannon game, and it was played on a French table without pockets, belonging to M. Carme, the arrangement being that each cannon should as in the English game count two. The attendance was numerous, and the match created a considerable amount of interest among the spectator-', M. Carme led off, and throughout the game no particularly large breaks were made, with the exception of one of M. Carme’s of 120 ; when the game was called Carme 300, Weston 460. From this to the finish M Carme continued to score freely, passing Weston at 500, and from this juncture, the game was somewhat one-sided, Carme winning by 222 points. The time occupied in the game was Ih 16m. After the match, M. Carme exhibited some of his celebrated fancy shots, including a cannon from a ball placed at the table to one on the top of a handbell, resting on the head of the marker who sits in the centre of the table. Another to a ball placed in the bowl of a pipe in the marker’s mouth, and the bottle trick, in which he sent six balls spinning in and out of fourteen bottles, without touching them, and with such strength and side that all the balls were brought back again into the corner of tie table. He then proceeded to display his marvellous powers upon an English table, on which he struck a ball, which travelled round a hat in the form of a semicircle, and •annoned the other ball at the opposite pocket, thus showing his wonderful power of screw. Several other fancy shots were ro.de and drew forth rounds of applause. VI. Carme intends to play Weston again tonight, giving him 500 points out of 800, and after the game will show some more of his fancy shots, which certainly are far above anything of the kind in point of skill ever before witnessed in Christchurch. Lovers if billiards should not lose the present opportunity of witnessing this gentleman’s extraordinary power with the oue,

Labchnt Case.—The hearing of a case of larceny of eighty sovereigns from a boarder at the Port Phillip Boarding House, occupied a considerable time at yesterday’s sitting of the Magistrate’s Court. The prosecutor had the money in a belt in gold, in a box in his room, which had been seen and remarked upon on two occasions by the accused, H. Flemming. It was shown that the latter was short of money up to Saturday last, the day before the money was missed, and on that morning he changed ten sovereigns for notes at the Prince of Wales Hotel, and also purchased a watch and pair of boots. After hearing lengthy evidence, his Worship committed the accused for trial, allowing bail himself in £BOO and two sureties in £l5O each.

Inquest at the Hospital.—An inquest was held yesterday at the Hospital on the body of Margaret Currie, who committed suicide by cutting her throat on Sunday morning last. The evidence given was confirmatory of the particulars which appeared in our notice of yesterday, and her employer, Mr Grey, stated that for some time past the woman had been in a very desponding state of mind, Dr Doyle, who had been attending Mrs Gray, had seen deceased at her request; though knowing the woman to be very despondent, did not anticipate any serious results therefrom. The jury returned a verdict of “ Suicide, committed whilst in a state of temporary insanity.”