NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 930, 18 June 1877, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Primitive Methodist Church. —Special services will be held in this church every evening during the week. St. John the Baptist. —The oratorio of “ St. John the Baptist” will be given in the Durham street Wesleyan Church on Thursday evening next. The Art Exhibition. —The exhibition of works of art, &c., at the new Museum building closed on Saturday evening, when there was a very large attendance of visitors. Professor Bickerton’s scientific experiments were a source of great attraction. Mr Schwartz’s band was in attendance, and added greatly to the enjoyment of those present. Theatrical. —Mr DeLias has received a telegram from Auckland stating that letters received by the San Francisco mail inform him that Mr Charles Wheatleigh and company, including Miss Helena Carey, leave San Francisco for Auckland by the City of Sydney, which is the next boat due here. The company play first in Auckland, and will then probably make a tour of New Zealand under Mr DeLias’s management. Hake Catching. —On Saturday Mr Farr (bon. sec.) and Mr Jameson (lion, treasurer), of the Acclimatisation Society, with Mr Farr, jun., the Curator and his assistant, spent Saturday afternoon in catching hares in Hagley * Park south. Nets were set in the gaps of the centre gorso fence, and the plantation beaten from the Eiccarton Hotel end. As no dogs were used, and the number of persons was insufficient to spread across the Park, the hares could not be prevented from doubling back in numbers. Four were however secured, and it is intended to have another try shortly with a larger number of beaters, <uded by a few dogs.

Eyreton Railway. —Communication on this line was re-established on Friday evening, last, but the country round Ohoka, was considerably flooded. Telegraph Stations. —A telegraph station has at last been opened at Amberley. We understand that arrangements are pending by which nearly all the railway telegraph stations in Canterbury will shortly be opened to the public. The Gaiety. —The Mirror o£ the World was exhibited for the last time on Saturday evening. During its stay here the patronage accorded to it has not by any means been commensurate with its merits, and it is to be hoped Mr Clifford will be more successful further north. The views exhibited on Saturday evening comprised some of the choicest bits of scenery on the River Thames, from the source to London Bridge. Some very beautiful statuary was also exhibited. Altogether the exhibition was both interesting and instructive.

The Georgias. —There was a capital attendance at the Theatre Royal on Saturday afternoon, when these clever Minstrels gave their first matinee. Those present, both young and old, thoroughly enjoyed the programme set before them, which included some of the best of their sketches and songs. In the evening there was again a large audience, when the programme of the preceding night was repeated very successfully. The dancing and sketches, together ■with Mr Crusoe’s lecture, were received with loud plaudits. To-night a change of programme is announced. Accidents. —A man named Daniel Anderson, in the employ of Messrs Montgomery and Co., met with an accident at the Christchurch Railway Station on Saturday morning last. While engaged in stacking timber a heavy piece rolled on to his left ankle, dislocating and fracturing it. He was conveyed to the Hospital, where his injuries were at once attended to by Dr. Collins, house-surgeon.— On Saturday afternoon a man named Henry Lemon was riding on the Lincoln road, when his horse bolted and ran him with great force against a trap coming in the opposite direction. Both shafts of the trap were smashed, but the occupants were not hurt. Lemon was, however, thrown violently to the ground, and sustained a severe compound comminuted fracture of the right leg. He was immediately picked up and removed to the Hospital. —Yesterday morning, W. H. Sims, working at the repairs on the North line near Chaney’s corner, was sitting on the end of the engine drawing a ballast train, and when in the act of getting off his foot slipped and he fell, the buffer striking him severely in the lower portion of the stomach. He was brought to town in a truck and conveyed to the Hospital, and late last night was pronounced to be in a very dangerous state.