NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1029, 12 October 1877, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Shipping—By cable telegram received by the New Zealand Shipping Company this morning, the arrivals of the Carnatic and Piako at London all well are advised. Teout Fishing.—The season for trout fishing commences on the 16th inst. Gymnasium at the Normal School.— The gymnasium which is being provided for the use of the students at the Normal School will be ready for use in the course of ten daifl. Normal School Cricket Club.—The male students at the Normal School have formed themselves into a cricket club, of which Mr 0. 0. Howard, the Principal of the school, is at present the moving spirit. The members turned out for their second practice yesterday afternoon, and the play was on the whole very fair, although characterized by some of the mishaps incidental to such beginnings. One player got his eye blackened, another his thumb bruised. Cricket—M.C.C.C. Eleven v Twenty - two. The following are the respective teams for this match on Saturday next and following Saturday : —Eleven : Messrs Ashbolt, Barringer, Crawford, Fuller, Hislop, J. Horner, Palairet, Parker, Reeder, Stewart, and Warner. Twenty-Two: Messrs Allard, Atack, Atkinson, Birch, Cookson, Fairhurst, Gray, Hartland, Hill, W. Horner, Hunt, McCardell, Mclntyre, Monck, Moore, Newman, Owen, Pavitt, Ritso, Thompson, G. A. Turner, and Williams. Play to commence at 2 p.m. Revolution in Banking.—A revolution, the end of which might be an insurrection among an estimable class of young gentlemen, is hinted at by a correspondent of the Melbourne “Age.” Ho says;—“lf the Bank managers would see a little ahead of them, they could very easily put a stop to embezzlements by adopting the system so in VO cnie in Germany, particularly in Munich, and also carried on to a very great extent in New York, and that is, to employ educated women. There are gaol records which will prove this, for 1 don’t think the records could show the names of six educated, women there for breaches of trust; but if women do the same work with greater safety to the funds of their employers, they should have the same pay as the »en they puperwde."

Old College Boys’ Association. —The first annual dinner of the Old College Boys’ Association of Christchurch was held last night, in the Oddfellows’ Hall. There was a large gathering of the “old boys,” and the proceedings passed off in a heartily genial manner. Mr George Harper, president of the association, occupied the chair, the Primate the vice-chair. A number of leading residents were present, amongst whom were his Honor Judge Johnston, Dean Jacobs, and Dr. Donald. Waimakaribi Gorge Bridge. —A correspondent writes : —Many of your readers will be glad to learn that the new bridge, which is really a substantial structure, was surveyed and declared open for traffic at midday on Tuesday. It is constructed of iron, and is about 110 yards in length, exclusive of the approaches, the height above the water being nearly 100 feet. —A petition to the House of Representatives has been numerously and influentially signed in the adjacent districts, praying for the formation of the Malvern and Oxford railway as soon as possible, now that the new bridge is completed.—The neighboring districts were covered with snow from about three to nine o’clock on Wednesday morning. Cattle Inspector’s Returns. —ln the “ Gazette ” there are published returns from Mr Hill, Inspector of Cattle for the Canterbury district. The first refers to cattle imported to Lyttelton from foreign ports. The imports included one Arab entire, 3 shorthorn bulls, 3 Shetland ponies, 10 head of Alderney cattle, 219 merino sheep, and a thorough-bred mare. This was between October Ist last year and April Ist this year. With regard to one importation of merino rams and ewes, the inspector says : “ This lot was not landed at Lyttelton at this time; the necessary veterinary surgeon’s certificate was wanting, all other certificates right. They were sent back by steamer to Dunedin, landed there, and then brought back here and landed as New Zealand stock ; the sheep were perfectly right, and passed the Scab Inspector, Ac. ' But it seems that the inspector at Dunedin is either ignorant of the law or very lax in his inspections ; if they could not have been landed here according to law, they had no right to be landed at any New Zealand port. There were two entires brought down from Sydney some time since not allowed to be landed here ; they were taken on to Dunedin and allowed to be landed.” In the same six months, 779 head of cattle were inspected at the Hurunui, and 18 head at Weka Pass — the only interprovincial cattle, says the inspector, that had been inspected for several years. Diocesan Sunday School Association. —A meeting of this association was held last night in St. John’s schoolroom. The Rev. Mr Watson occupied the chair, and the attendance was fairly numerous. The subject chosen for discussion was “ The Best Way of Imparting Church Teaching Systematically.” In opening the discussion the Rev. E. G. Penny, Incumbent of St. Michael’s, said that he was not prepared to make a formal address, only a few remarks, and he observed that he should have preferred to hear the subject discussed in the main by the Rev. Mr Watson, who had suggested it. Mr Penny then proceeded to comment on the system of imparting Church teaching to children, and remarked that it might be made more definite and direct, for the boldest method of instruction was always the best and most effective. Frequently the instruction imparted to children was not in keeping with their powers of comprehension. The Catechism should be more generally used, greater interest should be taken in the home teaching of children, and he thought that great advantages would arise from holding a short Sunday morning service in the church, solely for the benefit of children. He did not think it was reasonable to expect children to understand much of the ordinary services, and hence he advised the adoption of the course mentioned. Above all he urged that the Church teaching of children should be direct, for by that only could the young be preserved from drifting into neutral positions. Other gentlemen expressed their views on the subject, and the meeting closed with the usual observances.

A Plea for the Pawnbrokers.-—At the Magistrates’ Court on Thursday morning, Mr Nathan, pawnbroker, asked if the Court could not make an order for the restitution of 12s, which he had advanced to a young girl on goods which, it afterwards transpired, she had stolen. He had inquired particularly of the I girl whether the goods were her own pro- : perty, and she had assured him they were, and the circumstances were such that he had no reason to doubt her. He and others for whom he spoke on the occasion were always careful to inquire into the bona fides of pledges, and were ever anxious and ready to give the fullest information to the police in cases of doubt or dishonesty. He wished to ascertain on the general question whether the trade could not be protected from loss in cases in which money had been unwittingly advanced on stolen property. Mr Hellish promised to consider the matter, and, if he deemed it advisable, to make a recommendation to the Minister of Justice on the subject. The Kumaea Murder.—The hearing of evidence in the case of Ryan, charged with the murder of Joseph Daniels, has at length been concluded before Mr Price, the Resident Magistrate at Kumara, and the prisoner, it will be seen, has been committed for trial before the Supreme Court at Hokitika. An extraordinary feature, not of the case for or against the prisoner, but of the commital and of the arrangement of the West Coast Courts, is that his trial will not take place until the month of March next year. Whether guilty or otherwise, the man will thus have the charge hanging over him, he being for the time imprisoned, for a period of nearly six months. In former years the Circuit Courts on the West Coast were held at much shorter intervals, and, now that the population has increased nearly to its former dimensions, by the influx of people to Kumara and Inangahua, with the chances of the criminal and civil business of the Courts enlarging, it seems anomalous that the facilities for trial before the Judges should be diminished. Only the other day a case which occurred at Reefton was tried at Nelson at great cost and inconvenience, and the occurrence of this case so soon afterwards points a moral upon which, no doubt, the local organs of opinion will not be. slow to dilate. And, looking at all the circumstances, with others of recent occurrence, it can scarcely be said that, with regard to the arrangement of the Law Courts, the district and individuals are not without a grievance. With regard to the charge against Ryan, it appears that no case has created such local excitement since the murder of Mr Dobson, and the other crimes in which Sullivan was concerned, and, by whomever done, there appears no doubt that a brutal murder has beea perpetrated.

The Haast Teack.— The Jackson’s Bay correspondent of the “West Coast Times” states that the Resident Agent, Mr Macfarlane, and a party of three, hare been busily engaged at finding a better track between the mouth of the Haast River and the Lake District of Otago, and they have succeeded in discovering a passage through the G-orge which, with little expense, might be converted into a good dray road, of about fortysix miles in length, between the Haast bar and the close vicinity of Lake Ohau. The Indian Famine Fund. —The following were two of the resolutions passed at the meeting held in Dunedin on Monday evening, the third providing merely for the appointment of a committee ; —“ That this meeting learns with sorrow and alarm that nearly twenty millions of our fellow subjects, Christian and Heathen alike, are suffering in Southern India from starvation, that the area of the famine is extending, and that the existing means are wholly inadequate to the relief of the sufferers.” “ That this meeting, without prejudice to the claims of local charities, desires to express its sense of the strong claim of these suffering millions upon our sympathy and aid, and resolves, in common with our fellow subjects at home, to contribute towards their relief.”