NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1263, 5 April 1878, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Fisk near Ohoka. —On Tuesday night a shed near the Olioka flour mills, was burnt down. The origin of the fire is not known. Kaiapoi Borough Council. —Another vacancy has occurred in this Council by the somewhat unexpected resignation of Councillor J. Lowthian Wilson. Avon Road Boaed District. —A meeting of ratepayers in the Avon district will be held this evening at seven o'clock, in the Road Board ofiice, to consider the proposals of the Canterbury Tramway Company. Civil Sittings. —As there are no civil cases for trial the jurors summoned to attend on Monday are excused from attending. The Court was yesterday formally adjourned until Monday, but will not sit on that day. Pheasant Shooting. —At the request of the South Canterbury Acclimatisation Society, the Christchurch Society have resolved to exclude that portion of the provincial district lying between the rivers Rangitata and Waitangi when issuing licenses to shoot cock pheasants. Resignation of Me Haebns. —At the meeting of the Education Board yesterday the resignation of Mr Habens of his post as Secretary to the Board, in consequence of his haying accepted the appointment of InspectorGeneral, was tendered and accepted. The New Education Boaed. —At the meeting of the Board of Education yesterday afternoon the result of the election of the new Board was announced. It is worthy of notice that all the candidates who were members of the old Board, including Mr Bowen, ex-chairman, were elected. Lyttelton Piee Police. —A meeting of the above corps was held at the Colonists’ Hall on Wednesday last. The attendance was very poor. Some lamps which Mr Forbes had ordered from home for the use of the fire police, from Messrs Shand, Mason and Co., were much admired. It was resolved to request the Mayor to swear-in the members for the present year on Monday, 15th April, —The following will play for the M.C.C.O. against the Railway on Saturday at the Association’s ground : —Messrs Parker, Row, Hislop, Ashbolt, Ross, Morice, Stewart, Ritso, Haddrell, Moore, and Allard. The game will be commenced at 2 p.m. The M.0.0.G. will also play a match with the Sumner Club on Saturday, the following being their team -Messrs W. H. Atack, W. G. Atack, Ilebden, Reeves, Palairet, Cuthbert, Hartland, Pavitt, Davis, Fairhurst, and McCardell. The team will leave by the ten o’clock coach. Lyttelton Colonists’ Society. The usual monthly meeting was held on Wednesday night last, the president (Mr A. Joyce) in the chair. The receipts were reported by the treasurer to be £ll 5s for the month, and accounts amounting to £8 5s 6d were passed for payment. The use of the hall was granted to the Choral Society every Tuesday, on payment of 5s cost of gas. The committees for carrying out winter evening readings, and to make an investigation regarding the property owned by the society, were formed. Cooper and Bailey’s Ciecus.—Yesterday's matinee at the circus was what might have been called a children’s day, there being some 1400 present. By the kindness of Mr Murray-Aynsley, the children attending the Lyttelton and Hillsborough schools were treated to a free trip and visit to the circus, whilst Mr Bailey’s generous invitation to the children of the. charitable institutions here was responded to by the Orphai age inmates. The performance went off capitally, every item in the programme being loudly applauded. The side show was also well patronised. In the evening the placard “No standing room,” which has become almost an institution with the big show here, was displayed before 8 o’clock, some 300 or 400 persona having to return to the country without having an opportunity of seeing the performance. Every corner was packed to the utmost extent. The various items on the programme went capitally. The side [show and variety theatre was largely attended, and the varied programme there submitted elicited loud applause. This afternoon the usual performance was given, and the show will be open this evening atseyen o’clock,

Local Bodies^- Thet Wellington correspondent of the Hawke’s Bay “Herald ” says the Government'intend next session to concentrate as many of the public bodies into one as possible. He says they would like to conjoin boroughs and Harbor Boards, and to entrust Municipalities with the care of hospitals, A Wrecked Liee. A man named Michael John O’Connor, who stated that he was a duly qualified surgeon and physician, was charged with vagrancy at the Wellington Police Court on Tuesday. Prisoner stated that epilepsy and general ill-health prevented him from following his profession. Formerly he had been frequently convicted of drunkenness, but for many months past there had been no complaint against him, and he urged that ho had altogether abandoned drink, but could not get a living. He had been taken in charge at his own request. Missing Child. —A little boy, named Alfred Rogers, five and a-half years old, son of Mrs Rogers, living in St. David’s street, Lyttelton, came up yesterday afternoon with the school children to visit the circus, but did not return, and was not missed until the arrival of the six o’clock train at Port. As he did’ not arrive by the following train, messengers were despatched to town, bu, up to a late hour last night he had not been found. The little fellow wore dark blue knickerbockers, a Garibaldi jacket, and Leghorn hat. Highway Robbery at Wanganui.—A semation was created in town yesterday morning (says the “Chronicle” of March 28fch) by the report that a well-known citizen had been stuck up during the previous evening by some “bold highwaymen,” and, after having being cruelly mangled by them, had been relieved of his purse, and left half dead. From information received, we understand that Mr W. Ross, bootmaker, of Taupo Quay, while taking a constitutional in Wilson street, at about eleven o’clock on Tuesday evening, was set upon by three individuals, one of whom ho says he recognised, who maltreated him greatly. One of his assailants, ere attacking him, called out, “ You call yourself a Scotchman !” Having rendered him helpless, they then proceeded to remove from his pockets £7 or £B. A Suspicious Public.— The public of the Thames are not pleased with their local Councils, Municipal or County, and at a late crowded meeting passed the following resolution—“ That, in the opinion of this meeting, the Borough and County Councils have been unnecessarily expending public money, and that fuller accounts should be published for the information of ratepayers.” The mover of the resolution said what he wished to ascertain was the number of foremen of works or bosses on the roads being made, and whether it was necessary that two or three or four County Councillors should accompany the engineer everywhere at a guinea a day each. He should like to see a return of all moneys received by councillors. When the county system was introduced it was to lift us up to heaven almost. And what did he see ? A number of men who had never taken their coats off since they came to the field. The system of contracts in the county was this—lf he tendered for a contract which, by the specifications, required the removal of 18 inches, say, of soil, he found that the successful man only removed two. He didn’t think it fair play.

: Philosophical Institute of Cantebbttbt. —The usual monthly meeting of the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury was held last night at the Public Library. The president of the institute,, Professor Yon Haast, F.R.S., occupied the chair. After the minutes of the last meeting had been read and confirmed, the following business was transacted ;—The ballot for new members was taken, and resulted in the election of Messrs N. K. Cherrill, A. Lean, G. L. Hellish, and W. Kitson. The president then made some further observations on Banks’ Peninsula. His observations were elucidated by diagrams, showing the similarity of its formation with that of other volcanic localities. The diagrams had been made thirty years ago. Several members spoke briefly upon the same subject, and Professor Bickerton, at length, spoke of the importance of the proof afforded by Banks’ Peninsula, as shown by Professor Haast, of the truth of the theory of dykes radiating from a volcanic centre, which had long been suspected, but of which no perfectly satisfactory evidence had previously been found. The Rev. JVW. Stack read some interesting notes on the ancient rock paintings in the Weka Pass Ranges, Canterbury, in a letter dated February 9th, 1878, addressed to Professor Yon Haast, F.R.S., by A. Mackenzie Cameron, interpreter of Oriental languages to the Government of New South Wales, with a postscript by Professor Yon Haast. The Rev. Mr Stack then made some remarks on Mr Mackenzie Cameron’s theory respecting the Kahui Tipua. In the course of these remarks he related some highly interesting traditions. Professor Yon Haast considered the institute very much indebted to Mr Cameron for his paper. He had sent photographs of the rock paintings to many other scientific men in all parts of the world, and expected in the course of time to receive explanations of their probable meaning and origin. The meeting then closed. Three Guides to the Money Market—Russian “Advances,” Turkish “Principles,” and British “Interests.” According to a telegram in the “ Neue Freie Proese” on December 27th, the Turkish prisoners taken at Plevna are being sent, despite the severe frost, barefooted and half naked to the interior of Russia, and consequently many are dying on the way. The distinction conferred upon Prince Charles of Roumania, the Czarewitch, and the Grand Duka Yladimir, on the part of the German Emperor, by the gift of the Iron Cross, provokes much comment im Germany. The Iron Cross was instituted by the Emperor’s father as a decoration for valour displayed in the German war of liberation in defence of the Fatherland. It was renewed in 1870 with the same specific meaning, and its employment in the present instance is scarcely consistent with the principles upon which it was avowedly founded.