NEWS OF THE DAY

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 860, 27 March 1877, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY

Q.troiTiNG Club.—A meeting of the Canterbury Kilwinning Quoiting Club will be held at the Scotch Stores on Wednesday evening, at eight o'clock.

Lyttelton Regatta Committee. —A meeting of the regatta committee is announced to be held, at the Mitre Hotel, on Thursday afternoon, at 4.30. Christchurch Artillery.—The inspection of the Christchurch battery of Artillery by the officer commanding the district will take place at the Drillshed thi3 evening. Mission Service.—A special mission service is to be held in the Colombo road school on Thursday evening, at 7 o'clock. The service will be conducted by the Rev H. B. Macartney.

Supreme Court.—The criminal session of the Supreme Court will open on the 4th April, before his Honor Mr Justice Johnston. The proper date for holding the Court is the 2nd April, but as that and the following day are Court holidays, being Easter Monday and Tuesday, the alteration has been found necessary. There is a heavy calendar, and in addition to the committals already recorded, there is likely to be several more.

Durham Street Wesleyan School. — A concert of vocal and instmmental music, including Macfarren's cantata " May Day," and selections from Auber'a " Masaniello," together with several instrumental pieces, will be given at this school to-night. The performance will be under the conductorship of Mr J. T. M. Smith, and judging from the excellence of the programme there should be a crowded attendance. The Body Found at the Waitaki Identified —At the inquest held on the body found on an island in the Waitaki river, one of the witnesses, George Titmus, butcher, identified the body aa that of Arthur Dimmick, who had lately been shearing od Deepdale t-tation. but the jury brought in a verdict to the effect that the deceased was to them unknown. Since the inquest further particulars have beea obtained by the North Otago Times, which go to prove that the witness Titmus was correct in his conclusions. Dimmick had been drinking heavily, and disappeared from Lewis and Don's farm while suffering from drink. The tatooed marks on the arm 3cf the body corresponded with those on Dimmick. He was a man of scarcely thirty years of age, of good education, and his father is a prosperous man, carrying on business in Wolverhampton, England. He had led a careless life in the colony, and had been confined more than once in the gaols of Canterbury.

Child Drowned.—A sad case of drowning occurred on Saturday afternoon by which a fine little fellow, two years old, son of Mr Henry Piper, brewer, lost his life. It rtwma that Mm Piper left her house on South town belt, about five o'clock on Saturday afternoon, leaving her three children—two girls and the boy—playing in front of the premises. After returning in about ten minutes from a neighbour's house, she asked two of the children where their brother was. One of the girls went to look for him, and found the chi d with his head in a shallow tub placed under the artesian well in the back yard. The tub was only about a foot high, and let the water out about 6 inches from the bottom. She at once lifted the cb'ld out, and screamed that her brother was dead. A neighbor heard the cry, and jumped over the fence, carrying the boy into his parent's house. Every means ,to restore animation was tried, but life was extinct. An inquest was held yesterday, at Mr S. Manning's private bouse. After evidence ™d been given to the above effect, the jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death."