NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1004, 13 September 1877, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

St. Many's, Merivale. —The next entertainment is announced to take place to-mor-row night at eight o’clock. Police Court. —At this Court to-day Frederick Bonner was fined 10s for being drunk and disorderly, a first offender ss, and Henry Williams, charged with drunkenness and with soliciting alms, was remanded for a week, as lie had had to be removed to the Hospital on account of physical weakness. The Ship Ocean Mail. —lt will be noticed by our shipping telegrams that a vessel which has arrived at Auckland from the Chatham Islands reports that the lat ely wrecked ship Ocean Mail has gone to pieces, and that three hundred bales of wool, portion of her cargo, had been washed on shore. Railway Servants’ Society. —The usual monthly meeting of aboA T o society will be held at the old Oddfellows’ Hall this evening at eight o’clock. A special general meeting will be held afterwards to consider the proposal of the superintending engineer re amalgamation of the existing railway societies. Accident near Oxford. —On Sunday last as Mr A. Cockburn and another were examining the stone culvert, the latter slipped, and catching hold of a rope attached to a large triangle pulled it over so that one of the beams struck Mr Cockburn on the head inflicting a serious wound. It was fortunate he was not killed outright.

Licensed Yictualleus’ Association.— A meeting of members was held yesterday at the Commercial Hotel to receive the report of the sub-committees appointed to secure Mr Eadcliffe’s return to the City Council. The chair was occupied by Mr G-eo. Beatty. The reports showed that a very satisfactory canvass had been made of the different portions of the city, and after completing arrangements as to employment of cabs, &c., the meeting adjourned until this morning, when the committee will meet at the Clarendon.

City Election. —The polling for the seats in the City Council to-day appears to excite considerable interest. Soon after the opening of the poll a steady stream of votes set in, and continued throughout the day. The arrangements for the polling are defective in the extreme, the Council Chamber being far too small to allow of the votes being recorded as quickly as is necessary. With the exception of Mr Eadcliffe, in whose interest a large number of cabs and traps were at work, none of the other candidates made any great show of exertion. The official declaration of the poll will take place at noon to-morrow. Football. —A match will be played on Cranmer square on Saturday between the Merivale and North Canterbury Clubs. The following are the sides : —North Canterbury —Boys, Brown, Blunden, J. Chapman, E. Chapman, E. Chapman (captain), D’Auvergne, Fulton, C. E. Good, W. Good, Hartland, Hawkes, Leach, Merton and Broughton; emergency: Martin. Merivale Boyd, Brewster, Gordon, Graham, Martin, W.

Millton (captain), J. Millton, Peter Moore, R. Searell, J. Searell, M. S. Smith, M. Stringer, H. Stringer, Taylor. As the northern men return by train the same afternoon, the match will commence punctually at two o’clock. The Cost oe George Jones. —A correspondent of the Wellington “Post” contributes a curious calculation of the cost to the country of the George Jones debates. Taking the remuneration of each member of the House at £200; the sitting days at seventy, averaging ten hours each, and the time spent in discussing George Jones at twelve hours, that little article in the “ Oamaru Mail” has already cost the country, in talk alone, £274. Another £IOO may safely be added for the expenses of pi’osecuting him. But the correspondent fails to remember reporters, printers, and many other sources of expenditure, to say nothing of the cost of delay of the ordinary business of the country. Railway Plant. —It will be observed by the telegraphic report of proceedings in the Legislative Council, that the Government have made arrangements for a very substantial addition to the rolling stock of the Canterbury railways, in preparation for the grain trade of next season. The iron-work for the same had been ordered some time ago from England, but, according to the discussion on Mr Burhg’s motion favoring colonial manufactures, the Government are thoroughly disposed to make the colony, as far as possible, the market of future supply. In another column wo publish also information as to the amended railway tariff which will, no doubt, be of interest to those to whom the tariff is a subject of practical and pecuniary study.

Absent Members. —A number of members of the House of Representatives, fatigued with the long drawn-out and hitherto fruitless session, have lately obtained leave of absence for short periods, and amongst the number is Mr Button, member for Hokitika, who is now in Christchurch on his Wil y thither. On the flay before he left Wellington, we notice, Mr Button had a narrow escape of serious injury by being ridden over by a rash horseman in the streets of Wellington. A fellow-traveller with him towards Hokitika is Mr Virtue, chairman of the local Harbor Board, who has lately been in Wellington representing the urgent necessity for assistance in improving the navigation of the Hokit’ka river—a subject which has once more been brought prominently under the notice of the residents by the complete closing of the bar for many weeks, and a subject in which Canterbury exporters and shipowners are eminently interested. It is understood that, as a result of Mr Virtue’s representations, the Government are well disposed to assist in the execution of the works which the Hokitika Harbor Board contemplate,

Railway Return Tickets—Christchurch TO Timaru.—lt will be interesting to railway travellers to know that it has been decided, for the purpose of issuing passenger tickets between Christchurch and Timaru, that the distance shall be reckoned as over 100 miles. Passengers will thus be entitled to the privilege of the three days’ return, at the published rates for that distance, namely, a fare and a half. Gazette Notices.—lt is gazetted that, by order in Council, the 27th instant has been appointed as the day for electing the members of the Rorough Council of Lyttelton, instead of the 13th. In the same “ Gazette” it is notified that the appointment of Birch’s bonded warehouse, Kaiapoi, has been revoked, and that a brick building, roofed with iron, situate on town section No. 7, Norwich Quay, Lyttelton, and known as the Norwich bond, has been appointed for the reception of goods under bond. Railway Traffic Returns.—The following arc the detailed returns of the traffic on the Christchurch section of the colonial railways during the month of July :—Passengers, 32,542. Goods —Wool, 116 tons ; grain, 7337 tons ; merchandise, 10,818 tons ; sawn timber, 4919 tons ; minerals, 6623 tons ; total, 29,813 tons. Live stock —Horses and cattle, 180; sheep, &c., 1391 ; total, 1571. Receipts—Passengers, parcels, &c., £6976 6s lOd ; goods and live stock, £9378 4s ICd. Total revenue, exclusive of wharfages, £16,354 11s Bd. Accident at White’s Bridge.—On Tuesday a somewhat serious accident occurred at White’s Waimakariri bridge, on the North road, by which a brewery wagon belonging to Yincent and Co, laden with return casks, driven by Mr John Lamb, was precipitated from the bridge on to the river bed, a distance of 22 feet, and the driver severely hurt. The three horses attached to the wagon were coming to the North approach at an ordinary pace, when a bull, rushing through a fence, caused them to gallop off. With the sudden jerk on the wagon, the pole came out, and before there was time to turn the horses off the approach they had reached the bridge. Lamb held to his horses in good style, whilst the wagon running irregularly threatened to cannon into the hand-rails and go over into the stream. The worst part of the river had been crossed, when suddenly the vehicle swerved into the rails, sweeping them away like matchwood, and fell over. The horses’ harness becoming disengaged they escaped. Lamb holding to the reins was dragged from his seat and fell into the river bed in advance of the wagon. It was fortunate he was free, as the wagon turned quite over and he might have been killed. A portion of the wreck fell on him and broke his watch into pieces. The men at work on the pile-driving for the new bridge conveyed him to Smith’s Courtenay hotel, and Dr. Ovenden was called into attendance. The sufferer yesterday was improving. New Brighton—Church Opening.—A new Church, dedicated to “ All Saints,” and to seat eighty-five adults, but which on Sunday probably held 120 souls, was opened by the Primate on the 9th instant, at New Brighton. The building itself stands on a knoll lying east of the district school, and is after designs by Mr Mountfort, its shapely bell turret forming quite a land mark in a district somewhat bare of such, whilst its high pitched roof, roomy church porch, and slender lancets give it a thoroughly ecclesiastical aspect. The interior is equally effective and churchlike, although lacking at present the painted window intended to fill the three eastern lancets, and which is now on its way from England; and no efforts seem to have been spared in rendering the Church, in its fittings and completion, a good specimen of what a country Church should be. The service on Sunday afternoon was very largely attended. Mr Milner, the organist of Holy Trinity, Avonside, presided at the harmonium, the gift of a few ladies interested in the district, and the singing, which was congregational, was supported by some volunteers from the Avonside choir. Prayers were said by the Rev. H. Glasson, 8.A., Incumbent of the district, and an earnest address was delivered by his Lordship the Primate, who also baptized the infant grandson of the late Mr Peter Kerr, who had been for very many years closely connected with New Brighton. The offertory, which was for the building fund, amounted to £l2 14s.