NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1042, 27 October 1877, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

■— ' - Juvenile Sympathy.—Mr A. Loughrey, headmaster of the East Christchurch school, handed to Mr W. E. Mitchell yesterday the sum of £35, being the proceeds of a voluntary subscription made by the scholars towards the funds of the Famine Relief Committee. Local Board of Health.—A pressure on our space compels us to hold over a report of the proceedings of the Local Board of Health. Volunteer Inspection. The usual monthly inspection of the Head Quarters Companies took place last evening. There was a good muster, and after being inspected the men were put through company drill and battalion movements. A “march out” through the town followed, the Engineer’s band preceding the battalion. Public Health Act. —In the report of the public meeting held in the Oddfellows’ Hall on Thursday evening, to consider the Public Health Act Amendment Bill, the remarks of the speakers were necessarily given with brevity. Lest the meaning of Mr Pratt’s remarks thus given may be misapprehended, we give more fully what he said in seconding the motion proposed by Mrlck :—“That this meeting protests against any additional rating powers for local purposes being given to anybody outside of the City Council for the city of Christchurch.” Mr Pratt said he had much pleasure in seconding the resolution. It embodied a principle which had been affirmed at a previous public meeting held to consider the Domains and District Railways Bill. Notwithstanding which a Bill directly at variance with it had passed its third reading in the House of Representatives, before they were aware of its having been introduced. This Bill conferred upon an outside Board the power of coercing the Council to impose a rate, over the administration and expenditure of which the Council had no control. They, the City Council, were their representatives, and their powers should be supreme within the Belts, and they called upon the ratepayers to support them in opposing this rating Bill. They could lay it on quite thick enough, and object to any outside Board having a finger in the pie. He did not feel competent to run a tilt against public writers who are supposed to guide public opinion, but ho could nut help characterising the maimer in which this i.| uctl jon had been put before the public, and the action cf the City Council m reference to it, as disingenuous, to say the least, It had been made to appear that the Council was ehielly concerned for its dignity. Now, he for Ids part would, lie hoped, always endeavour to support, the dignity of the Council upon fitting occasions, but this was a question of far greater importance than the dignity of the Council. It was one of taxation without representation, and therefore should meet witli a strenuous opposition. He t-hcrefore pegged to second tlis yepolutiop, 1

Italian Opera. —The manager of the Opera Company has telegraphed the following as the first week’s programme in Dunedin : —lst, “ II Trovatore” ; 2nd, “ II Barbiere di Siviglia” ; 3rd, “ Norma”; 4th, “ Eigoletto” ; 6th, “Unßalloin Maschero” ; 6th, “Lucrezia Borgia.” Pigeon Bay.—The Famine Fuhd. —Capt. McLean, of the s.s. Akaroa, yesterday handed over to the committee appointed by the Lyttelton Borough Council to collect for the Indian Famine Fund the sum of £2O, which had been collected in Pigeon Bay by Miss Marshall for this good end. Lyttelton Harbor Board. —This Board were to have met yesterday at their offices, Lyttelton, at 3 p.m., but there being no quorum present at the appointed time the meeting lapsed. The next meeting will be held at Lyttelton at 3 p.m. on Friday, November 2nd. The Famine Fund. —lt may be fairly mentioned, without any feeling of local vanity, that in several parts of the colony the liberality of Canterbury people in contributing to the Indian famine fund has received notice. The Dunedin “Star,” for instance, heads its telegram respecting the result of the feto at Hagley Park with the words, “ Well done, Christchurch.” Wesleyan Mission Services. —Services on behalf of the Wesleyan Home Mission and Church Extension Fund will be given tomorrow, morning and evening, at the Durham street, St. Alban’s, Lyttelton, Kaiapoi, and Waltham Churches. On Wednesday evening a public meeting will be held in the Durham street Church, at half-past seven.