NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1045, 31 October 1877, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Wesleyan Home Mission. —A public meeting will be held to-night in the schoolroom, Durham street, in connection with the Home Mission and Church Extension Fund. Addresses will be delivered by the Rev. A. R. Fitchett and the Rev. W. Morley. Distribution of Young Trout. —The Council of the Acclimatisation Society decided at yesterday’s meeting to place a number of the young trout in the Ashburton River, and also "in the water courses known as the Main Drain, and No. 1 Drain, Rangiora. Painful Accident. —An exceedingly painful accident occurred to Mr W. F. dewberry, tailor, Oamaru, on Saturday afternoon. He was riding along one of the roads at the back of the town, when his horse shied and threw him. He came to the ground with great violence, breaking his collar bone, several ribs, and sustaining a severe shaking. He was at once conveyed home, and attended to by Dr. Maclntyre, but though he was progressing as favorably as could be expected, he continued in a half unconscious state. Ashburton Indian Famine Relief Fund. —Already the sum of £139 Is has been sent to Christchurch from Ashburton in relief of the sufferers, and a further [sum of £B9 18s has also been collected. The collections at the various churches on Sunday last were—Wesleyan, £2 16s, Presbyterian —, Church of England £l4, and £5 15s 3d at Longbeach. It is stated that two gentlemen residing at Longbeach gave £2O each. The treasurer, Mr Bullock, informs us that the sum of £228 19s has been forwarded to Christchurch. Ashburton — Inquest. —An inquest was held on Saturday on the body of Edward Corbett, before Dr. Trevor, coroner for the district. Mr O. Taylor was chosen foreman of the jury. Sergeant Felton conducted the enquiry. The evidence went to show that deceased had met his death, through his horse falling in some unaccountable manner. From the time of the accident deceased never recovered consciousness. The medical evidence showed that death resulted from concussion of the brain. The jury returned a verdict of “Accidental death.” On Sunday last the funeral, took place. A large number of the inhabitants, members of the Ashburton contingent, C.Y.C., and members of the Oddfellows and Good Templar societies, of which the deceased was a member, followed his remains to the cemetery. Lecture. —A lecture entitled “The Holy Land ” was delivered in the Congregational school-room last evening by Mr T. S. Mannering, who has just returned from a tour in Palestine, Mr S. C. Parr occupying the chair. The lecturer narrated in a pleasant and graphic style what he had seen in his tour, and the reflection to which it had given rise in gazing on those scenes which the Bible has rendered so familiar to Christians, In the course of his remarks he paid a well-merited compliment to the Latin monks of Palestine for the kindness and hospitality with which they treated him and all travellers. A number of dissolving views of the most remarkable scenes of the tour were exhibited at the conclusion of the lecture, Mr Mannering fulfilling the duties of cicerone in an able and lucid manner. The proceeds were devoted to the funds of the Sunday-school connected with the Church. At the close, an enthusiastic vote of thanks was accorded to the lecturer.

Fatalities at Lawrence.—The body of the unfortunate man James Barclay was interred on Sunday. The funeral was a very large one. Nearly every miner on the Spur followed his body to the cemetery.—The man Andrew Murray, who tried to end his days by going head-first down a well, never rallied, and was buried this week. —The scarlet fever lias carried off two this week, and several new cases are reported. One of the local pupil teachers, Miss E. Parry, was one of its victims. Fatal Btjqgt Accident,—The “North Otago Times” gives the following particulars of a sad accident already reported by telegraph : —Mr James Borne, a well-known and respected settler, residing at Papakaio, met with a violent death on Saturday, while on his way home from Oamaru. Deceased had been in town during the day, and drove homewards in his buggy. He was last seen alive by Mr Thomas Duncan, to whom he was conversing, opposite Mr Thompson’s blacksmith’s shop, Pukeuri Point. He then drove on in thp direction of his home. At about 6.30 p.m. the brother of the deceased, Mr Donald Borrie, who, we understand, had also been in to Oamaru, and was driving homewards with his family, noticed, after passing through the cutting at Pukeuri Point, a buggy upset by the roadside, and on going over to it, discovered his brother lying near it, quite dead. Dr Fleming was sent for, and examined the body, but found life quite extinct. There were several bruises about the head. The deceased leaves a large family of orphan children, their mother having died only about two years ago.