NEWS OF THE DAY

Globe, Volume VII, Issue 779, 19 December 1876, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY

P.olleston Testimonial —The whole of the plate presented to Mr iiolleston, is now on view at Mr Handstein’s, Cashel street. Confirmation fßimcE,--The rite of Confirmation was administered on Sunday last by the Primate, at the Sumner church. The number confirmed was six females and four males, Asphalte Footpaths, —As will be seen by our report of the proceedings of the City Council yesterday, the question of carrying out the asphalting of the footpaths has been referred to a poll of the ratepayers. Mayor of Kaiapoi, —Mr Isaac Wilson, a candidate for the office of Mayor of Kaiapoi, intimated yesterday his intention of withdrawing from the contest. Under the Regulation of Elections Act, a candidate can only withdraw by giving two clear days’ notice before the day of polling of his intention so to do. In this instance the poll is to lake place on Wednesday. Accident. —A serious accident happened this morning near the Post-Office. Mr and Mrs Currrie were driving down the Papanui road, when the horse got startled opposite Trent’s and bolted down the street and over the bridge. In attempting to turn opposite Messrs Millett and Saunder’s, Mr and Mrs Currie were thrown out, the latter being stunned, though no bones were broken. Medical aid was speedily called in, and the sufferer properly attend to. Runaways. —Two runaways through the city occurred yesterday The first was a two-horse waggon from the City Brewery, which was stopped at the North town belt without doing any damage, though causing a little alarm iu its progress through the city The other was standing at Brown's butcher’s shop, High street, when the horse became studied and bolted towards the east belt, but before being stopped the cart bad come into collision with the side channel, and was considerably damaged.

Watchmakers and Jewellers. A metingwas held last evening of the committee appointed at last meeting to carry out the picnic, when it was decided that it should be held during next month. The committee had also considered the basis of rules to be submitted at a general meeting. After further discussion it was determined that a general meeting of members should be called before the date of the picnic, when the arrangements made would be laid before the members, and a determination arrived at as to the advisableness of adopting the rules arranged by the sub-committee. The meeting then adjourned. Gallant Rescue. —Last Saturday evening at the Selwyn, about the time when Mr Knight the inspector of permanent way of the Canterbury Railways, was just about dismissing his staff, which had been engaged repairing the bridge, he noticed a person with a horse and dray, together with a pair of horses fastened behind, endeavouring to cross the stream. When they had reached the middle of the river, they got into a quicksand, the shaft horse was immediately overpowered and fell, and the driver was pitched into the water. At the imminent risk of his own life Mr Knight immediately ran to the rescue, waded out and up to his neck, clutched the man and brought him to the bank, By this time some members of his staff had reached the spot and succeeded in freeing the horse, and eventually all were saved. But for the timely aid afforded by Mr Knight, the driver must have drowned, and probably the horses would have shared the same fate. Ship Rangatiki. —Last week we recorded the presentation to Dr Tighe, surgeon-super-intendent of this ship, of a written testimonial from the immigrant married couples and single men on board. Further to mark their appreciation of Dr Tighe’s kindness in a substantial manner, the subscribers to this testimonial, presented him by the hards of Constable Armshaw, with a very handsome silver cup, bearing the following inscription: —“ To Dr Tigbe. from the emigrants, ship R.ngatiki to N.Z , 1876." On the previous Wednesday, at the same place, a very handsome diamond scarf ring (purchased by the joint contributions of the single girls) was presented in their name to Dr I'ighe, by Miss Ellon Nugent. It bore the following inscsiption “To Dr Tighe, from the single girls, ship Rangatiki, N Z, 1876,” and was accompanied by a written testimonial in the the following terms "Wo, the undersigned single, women, desire to express to Br Tighe our heartfelt thanks and gratitude for his extreme kindness and attention to one and all of ua during the voyage from England. We cannot find words to express our feelings for all his goodness to us, we can only say he has proved a perfect gentleman in ali respects, and shown throughout that he has had our welfare at heart.”

Concert— Leithjield.—A concert in aid of the Kowai Rifle Club fund was held in the Public Library Hall on Saturday evening. The day was observed as a general holiday, and the room was crowded to excess. The hall had beep decorated with the rifl?a and Sage of the club, with which evergreens were intermingled. In the unavoidable a sence of the president, Mr R. Booster, Mr C. W. Dumergue occupied the chair, and before the concert commenced, stated that the club had that day had their opening match, which, he was glad to say, had resulted in some excellent shooting. The concert was held to bring the club more prominently before the people of the place, and he was glad to notice such a large attendance, and hoped the club would be proportionately benefited by it, He then introduced the ladies and gentlemen who were to give the concert. The following programme was successfully gone through, and appeared to give general satisfaction, encores being so frequent as to prolong the concert to a late hour. Overture, Miss Moore; song, 'Mr Merton, “ Bloom on the rye ” ; song, Mr Thomas; reading, Mr Moore, “Courting”; song, Mr Taylor, “ Wha’ll be King but Charlie” ; song, Mr B. R. Good, “ I am so volatile V (encored) ; song, Mr Dumergue, “ British lion ” ; song, Mr Hunter (encored); reading, Mr Mobre, “ The first baby ” ; song, Mr Merton, “ The white squall ” (encored) ; song, .Mr Thomas (encored) ; song, in character, Mr Pemberton, “ Robinson Crusoe” (encored) ; overture, Miss Moore ; song, Mr Merton, “ Desert ” (encored) j song, Mrs Feathery, “ Adieu my native land’ (encored); (from Tom Hood), Mr Good (eucored") , song, Barclay (encored), song, Mr Moore (encored) ; song, r 3 a )t°r (eucored) ; song, Mr Dumergue, “ One übfse shay ” ; song, in character, Mr Good, “ Take it Bob 1 ’ (encored) ; song, Mr Pemberton; senj, Mr Hunter (encored) j song, Mr Thomas, •

Hot Weather in Australia.— Accord* ing to cabl 1 news from Sydney, the weather in N T ew South Wales and several of the other colonics has been intensely hot during the lasi few days, and a number of deaths have i ccured from sunstroke. Accident. —An accident occurred on the works at the Officer’s Point Breakwater yesterday morning, by which one very vainable horse belonging to Messrs Hawkins and Martindale had to be destroyed, whilst another was seriou ly injured. It appears that the contractors have had to shift and lessen the breadth of their service road, in consequence of the space required for the now shed, on the Gladstone Pier, so that at present they have nothing to work on but a track barely the width of the truck, so there is barely sufficient space for the horses to get clear when unhitched from the waggons. This difficulty is rendered even more serious from the fact of the horses having been accustomed to work in a much larger space. At 7.50 a m yesterday two of the horses were drawing a truck loaded with stone along the road, and when unhitched by the driver, instead of standing in the narrow space and letting the waggon pass, became restive, and jumped down amongst the huge stones which form the sea face. The effect was most disastrous ; one of the animals broke the leg bone near the haunch, and had to be instantly destroyed, whilst the other was so seriously injured about the back and shoulders that his recovery is doubtful.