NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 818, 5 February 1877, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Ceo weed out.—Elsewhere we publish the letter of our London correspondent, and a full report of the Drainage Board and the Board of Health held to-day. "We have in consequence been compelled to hold over our leading article, &c. The Eastern Question.—According to a telegram published elsewhere Europe is looking anxiously for an indication of Russia's coarse of action. It is believed however that she wishes' to recedo from the ground she assumed at the time of the Czar's Moscow speech. Cricket.—At a meeting of the All England Blatch Committee held in Dunedin on Tuesday, it was decided says the Daily Times " that the following members of country clubs should be at once informed that they have been finally selected : —Messrs MilHrgton and Nicholls (Oamaru), Downea (Lawrence), Everest (Palmerston). It is likely that Messrs M'Hutcheneon and Rees will be in town some days before the match, arid should they show their usual form, there is but little doubt they will be chosen. The town players will be chosen from the following :—Allen, Austin, Boucb, Clark, Cargill, Collinson, Douglas, Dixon, Fuller, Fultou, Glen, Lathbury, M'Donnell, Macfarlane, Meares, Morrison, Niven, Paramor, Bose, Bhodes, Bobimon, SutcHffo, and Tait." Skating Bink. —Despite the inclement weather, the Bink throughout Saturday was very largely patronised, especially in the afternoon. In the evening the attendance wns not so good, Jthere obeing only about IEO persons present, including skaters and on-lookers. There was quite a novel feature introduced by Messrs Millet and Sauuders, namely, a quarter of a mile race backwards Six competitors entered, and the skates were won by Mr Bule (who won the skates also on the previous Saturday in the forward contest.) The following hr'the time :—lst, 1.39 3-sths ; 2nd, 1.46 J ; 3rd, 1.47£ ; 4th, J. 49 ; sth, 2.10 - ; the sixth competitor came to grief, and retired, Sunday School Treat.—On Thursday the annual gathering of scholars belonging to tbe churches of St. Luke's and St. Matthews, took place. At a quarter to nine the scholars assembled at their respective schools, where conveyances were ready to take them to Sumner. Those belonging to St. Matthew's were under the charge of Mr Thomas Gordon, their superintendent, and the other teachers, numbering altogether 160. At nine o'clock the order to proceed was given, when the procession wended its way down the Springfield road, singing Hymns, and thence to St. Luke's, where they joined in with those belonging to that church, numbering 350, and under the superintendence of the Revs J. W. Stack and E. A. Scotf, and the teachers. All were very sorry that the incumbent, the Rev E. A. Lingard, was unable to be with them, and hoped that whan the next one omes round he will be able to be amongst them again. Everything having been arranged for a start, the procession moved onwards, singing Hymns ali the way to Sumner, where they arrived about half past eleven. After playing on the beach for a while the scholars were assembled on the cave rocks for dinner, and after that games of various sorts were resorted to till the hour of four, when the bell was sounded for the return. By half-past all was ready, and all the way home Hymns were sung. At six o'clock they were safely landed in the St. Luke's school ground, whe:e tea was provided. The two schools then stood up opposite each other, and sang two Hymnß verp well indeed togeih-r. After which the Rev J. W. Stack pronounced the Benediction. The prizes for the games were distributed, and when three cheers were given for the Kev E. A, Lingard and Mrs Lingard, and all the teachers and fiiends who so kindly assisted in providing such a pleasant day's amusement, they returned horse, H.M.S. SHIP 3 IN degree of alarm was created in Sydney on Friday last gays the (Sydney Morning Herald of 20lh iust), when it was noticed that the yellow flag was flying on no less than three of H.M.S. ships in the harbor—she Wolverine, the Sappho, and the schooner Conflict. On board the Sappho two cases ot ti cknefs occurred, which, bung of a cuspi-

cious nature, induced the authorities to take at once the step of placing the vessel in quarantine. But the health officer was not in a position to state whether the cases were really small pox or merely some less virulent kind of disease. The seaman who was taken ill on board the Wolverine had been placed on bftard the schooner Conflict, which has been m\d& fjr the occasion to do duty as a hospital ship, and this is the reason that she is now flyir;g the quarantine flag. From the Colonial Secretary we learn that the reported case- of illness on board H.MS. Wolverine has been pronounced to be smallpox, and also that a second case of the same disease haa occurred on board. A man on b;ard H.MS. Sappho, who had exchanged from the Wolverine, baa also been attacked with small pox. The Commodore has arranged that one of the colonial schooners (the Conflict, we believe) shall receive the patients from the other two vessels, who will be attended there by a naval surgeon. The commanders of the ships will look after their own people, they asserting that they got the smallpox here, a fact however which the Government, haviug no evidence to that effect, "are not prepared to admit. The three vessels beforementioned are flying the yellow flag today, and the commodore, under the advice of Captain Hixson, of the Marine Board, and Dr Alleyne, has consented to the removal of them to any place those gentlemen might suggest, although he holds that his vessel is in a different position to that of the Brisbane, as the latter admittedly brought a case of smallpox into the port. The steamers now in quarantine will be allowed to leave to-day, but it has not been considered advisable to send the men-of-war there. There have been no deaths on board the Faraway since that of the little girl Holden on Saturday last, and the accounts of the patients on board that vessel are so far satisfactory. The efforts of the Government, the police, the health officer's staff, and the men under the direction of the mayor, to discover smallpox in the city, have been unavailing; nothing of the kind has been found. It has been ascertained that there was no party of ladies and gentlemen on board the Wolvtrine on the evening reported, bnt a great number of people have been on board since her arrival and up to the time of her being quarantined. The death of one of the oldest residents of Brookfield recalls an incident in her career, which happened some fifteen years ago. She was going to Stamford to visit a daughter, and took her seat in the cars for the first and oidy time in her life. During the ride an accident occurred whereby the car in which she was seated was thrown down an embankment and demolished. Crawling from beneath the debris she spied a man who was held down in a sitting posture by his leg 3 being fastened." "Is this Stamford ?" she anxiously inquired. The man was from Boston. He was in considerable pain, but he did not lose sight of the fact that he was from Boston, so he said—" No, this is a catastrophe." " Oh," ejaculated the old lady ; " then I hadn't oughter got off here':" This was so evident as to make a reply unnecessary.