NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1003, 12 September 1877, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Municipal Election. —Wc are informed that the official declaration of the poll will be made at noon on Friday. Nominated Immigration.—An error appeared in our advertising columns yesterday. Instead of lists for passages closing on the 27th, it should have been Monday next, the 17th inst. Public Meeting.—A public meeting, at which the sixteen gentlemen who are candidates for municipal honors are expected to address the ratepayers, will be held in the Oddfellows' Hall this evening. The proceedings will begin promptly at half-past seven o'clock. Presentation.—The presentation to Cr. Hobbs by the City Council and citizens of Christchurch, took placo yesterday afternoon, at the Council Chambers. It comprised a silver epergne, suitably inscribed, for Mrs Hobbs, and a silver tea and coffee service for Mr Hobbs. The presentation was made by Mr Ollivier. Durham street Wesleyan Sunday School. —The annual soiree in connection with this Sunday school will be held to-mor-row evening. Tea on the tables at 6 o'clock. After the tea a public meeting will be held, at which addresses will be delivered by the Revs. Hodgson and Dallaston, and by Mr Howard, Principal of the Normal School. During the evening selections of hymns will be sung by the children. The Fire Police.—The annual meeting of the Fire Police, called for yesterday evening, was adjourned till Tuesday, the 18th instant. Letters of apology for non-attend-ance on account of other engagemnts were received from the treasurer, Mr R. C. Bishop, Mr W. R. Mitchell, Mr Fisher, and Mr Reader. Mr Bishop mentioned incidentally that the books showed a credit balance of £B. The members who met agreed, Mr Alport being in the chair, to adjourn the meeting on account of the concert being given in the Oddfellows' Hall for the benefit of Mr Cotterell, of theatrical renown. Dastardly Conduct. —A most dastardly attempt to upset a passenger train between Sefton and Ashley on the Northern railway was made on Monday morning or Sunday night last." Some person or persons wrenched off two of* the cattle pit bars near Duffell's crossing, and laid them across the line. Fortunately one of the platelayers proceeding to his work discovered the obstruction and had it removed. It is hoped the perpetrators of this dastardly action will be found and be severely punished. In connection with this matter it may be mentioned that the nearest telegraph station on either side of Ashley, Sefton, and Balcairn is at Amberley or Rangiora, and that if any accident occurred between any of these stations an hour or two would elapse ere assistance conld be sent for any one who might be hurt.

New Buildings in Lyttelton.— Messrs Talbot and McClatchie's new shed on the G-overnnient reclaimed land at Lyttelton has been commenced, and has to be completed by November Ist. The building will be 107 ft long and 60ft broad, and will be two storeys high. The cost of building and fittings is estimated at £2300, and the contractors are Messrs Sutton and Wcastall, Mr J. Stinson doing the concrete foundations and a retaining wall of masonry fronting Norwich Q.uay. Messrs Miles, Hassal, and Co. are erecting handsome new oflices on Norwich Quay en the section adjoining Messrs Gar forth and Lee's, and Messrs Garforth and Lee are also putting up a building on part of their section which is unoccupied. These two buildings will be joined together, and are to be called Norwich Quay chambers. Concrete is the material to be used, and the oflices when finished will be a great addition to the Lyttelton buildings. The front will bo 73ft, and the depth 44ft Sin, height 28ft off the pavement. Messrs Holhs and Williams are the contractors, and the work is to be finished by 16th December next. Collecting Education Eates.—A reference which was only remotely comprehensible was made by Mr Macfarlane, M.H.E., to the business connections of Mr Lusk, to whose speech on (lie education question lie was replying. Some explanation is afforded by the following paragraph which appears in the " Star," Auckland : —" Mr Beale's account for law charges and expenses was presented to the Board of Education yesterday, as follows : Recovery of the education rates for part of L 874, 1875. 1876; £793 being solicitors' charges, and £714 10s 2d costs and fees paid by him ; total, £1177 16s 2d. By advance from Board, £350; rates and costs received >y solicitor, £1 <»36 12s lOd j total £1386 12.tOd. Balai:c3 duo to solicitor by Board, £9l •is 4d. Mr May said it appeared from tin statement just read that £1477 had been spenl to recover £1036. The secretary said that oi< •ach summons Mr Beale was allowed a charge 4' 10s for his services. Thus the 1400 summonses that had been issued had involved an expenditure of £763, the £63 being for advice given by Mr Beale in matters outside his contract. Tho remaining £714 had baen paid frffuy in Copt i'ees, untaesgee' &c,"

Tashan-ian Salmon. —The Melbourne "Argus" mentions that qnite a solemn rite was enacted at the Athenaeum Club recently. His Worship the Mayor invited a few friends to lunch to taste two Tasmanian salmon which had been forwarded to him by the Mayor of Hobart Town. The two together weighed rather more then 61b. Moke of the Tichborne Claimant. — The " Albany Times " publishes the following from a correspondent at San Francisco : —" A short time ago the ' Call' published news relative to the schooner Osprey, said to have picked up the Tichborne claimant. The article was read by Oliver Perry, a prisoner in the penitentiary, who states that he was second mate and carpenter of the threemasted schooner Osprey, which sailed from New York, February, 1854, for San Francisco. In April or May following, they picked up five men in a boat off Brazil —three Englishmen, one Norwegian, and one mulatto. One of the Englishmen was called Tick. He considered him an overgrown boy of about twenty. He spoke EnglL.i with a German or French accent, and said that his father was a lord or something of that sort, and he had been in South America travelling for pleasure. The Osprey after coming here went to Australia. It is supposed that Tick went on in her. The captain's name was Owens. His remembrance of the circumstances came by degrees. He knew little of Tichborne, having been in the more unsettled portions of the Pacific coast for the past fifteen or twenty years. He met Captain Owens at Idaho city in 1873 or 1874. Persons who have known Perry say that he was always considered reliable, and got into the penitentiary more through misfortune and whiskey than dishonesty."