NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1351, 13 June 1878, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Shipping, —The New Zealand Shipping Company’s ship Piako arrived at London, from Port Chalmers, prior to the 9th inst,, all well. The Colonial Insueanch Company.— The list of applications for shares will be closed to-morrow (Friday). Applications will he received at the Bank of New Zealand, and the agent for Canterbury (Mr Fredk. E. A. Graham) will also receive any applications posted on that date. Land Sale. —Mr Charles Clark sold to-day, at auct on, quarter-acre town section 723, situated in Worcester street, between the new Government Buildings and the Clarendon Hotel, for £3168, or at the rate of £4B per foot. Mr Clark also sold 31- acres of land on the Eiccarton road, just past the railway gates, for £1450. Canterbury Couesing Club. —A special meeting of the above club will be held at the Shades on the 18th inst., at 4 p.m. Lyttelton Haeboe Boaed. —The usual fortnightly meeting of this Board will be held in Lyttelton to-morrow. Theatee Eoyal. —The sensational drama entitled “ Forsaken,” was repeated last night to a fair house. The performance terminated with a farce.

H.A.0.8. Society. —The half-yearly meeting of the Christchurch Branch No. 82, will be held at St. Patrick’s Hall on Wednesday, the 19th inst., at 7.30 p.m. Cexcket Association. —A meeting of the general committee of this association will take place this evening at Eadcliffe’s Hotel.

Meeivale. —Another entertainment in aid of the Sunday School funds will be given tomorrow evening, in the schoolroom, Merivale. During the evening the Eev. T. Flavell will give a short lecture on “ Wit.” Conceet. —Mr H. M. Lund will give his concert this evening at the Oddfellows’ Hall. The composers, selections from whose works will be interpreted by Mr Lund, range from Sebastian Bach to Eubinsten. Another Vacancy in the Assembly.— In his address to his constituents last night, Mr George Lumsden announced his resignation of his seat for Invercargill, This step on his part appears to have been quite unexpected. Football. —The match which was to be played last Saturday between the Eastern Football Club v Leeston will take place on Saturday next, when the team from Christchurch will leave by the 7.30 a.m. train. Colours —Blue and white. Canteebuey Jockey Club.— Owners of racehorses are reminded that their Training Fees for the season of 1878 9 are now due, and that no horses will be permitted on the course without the production of the usual pass.

Sunnyside. — A concert in aid of the funds of the band connected with the Sunnyside Asylum will take place at the Asylum this evening. A very excellent programme of vocal and instrumental music, the latter including an organ recital by Mr E. Searell will be given on the occasion. A strong orchestra have given their services for tho occasion, and generally the concert promises to be a success.

Akaeoa Municipality.— A poll of the burgesses was held at the Council’s offices on Monday, 10th instant, in terms of the Municipal Corporations Act, for the purpose of ascertaining the views of the inhabitants in regard to raising a loan of £3OOO for general purposes. Shortly after six o’clock the Mayor stated the numbers in favor of the proposal to be 67, and those against 70, and declared the proposal rejected accordingly.

The Volunteers. The headquarters, companies of volunteers paraded last night at the drill-shed. About 100 were present, the companies on parade being the Artillery, City Q-uards, and Engineers. His Excellency the Q-overnor, Lord Hervey Phipps, A.D.C., and several members of both Houses of Assembly were present. Sundry battalion manoeuvres were gone through, and a detachment of the Artillery also went through gun-dismounting practice very smartly. His Excellency subsequently addressed the volunteers present.

Templaey. —lt has been decided by the Templar body in Christchurch to commemorate the anniversary of the introduction of Q-ood Templary into Canterbury by a tea and public meeting. The date is fixed for the 18th July, and the meeting will be held in the Oddfellows’ Hall. Several gentlemen in the district have accepted invitations to attend and deliver addresses, and it is expected that an excellent programme of musical selections will also be prepared. Full particulars will shortly be advertised.

The Dobbib Beoadcast Sowee.— ln a former issue we gave a description and noticed a preliminary trial on a public road of this machine. On Wednesday a trial was held in a ploughed paddock belonging to Mr Hay T. Smith, and adjoining the Ashburton racecourse. There was not a large attendance, but those who were present were of a class qualified to judge critically of the sower’s capabilities. The machine proved its power as well on the rough surface of a ploughed field as on the smooth face of the road, and the farmers present expressed themselves satisfied with the work done by it. It worked smoothly and with regularity for several hours.

Cuuech Peopeety. —At Mr 0. F. Barker’s land sale at South Rakaia yesterday, thirtyfive acres of the parsonage land were sold at £22 per acre to Mr GK Robertson. Ten acres were reserved for the parsonage, which will bo handed over to the Church Property Trustees, There is a small debt remaining on the parsonage of between £3O and £4O, which thanks to the liberality of the promoters of the new district railway, will be at once cleared off. During the half-hour devoted to refreshment at the railway meeting, the matter was mooted by Mr E. S. Coster, and in the course of a few minutes £4O was subscribed in the room. This sum will be ample to liquidate the liability.

New Zealand and the Paeis Exhibition. —The Paris correspondent of the Melbourne “Argus,” after giving a glowing description of the display made at the Universal Exhibition by the several colonies, and adverting to the great increase of knowledge respecting them which will result from this show, and the attention they attract, goes on to speak of the unrepresented colonies thus: — Everyone will regret that Tasmania has refrained from displaying the progress it has made and from allowing us to examine its exports or learn its requirements. The absence of New Zealand is also greatly regretted. The colonies will make a most imposing show, and French people who have taken very little notice of what was going on so many thousand miles away from their own country, will be compelled to admit, in presence of the many proofs given them, that there are other places which can compare favorably in every respect with the land of the Gaul, which Victor Hugo has declared to be the capital of European civilisation.

Akaeoa County Council.—A meeting of this body was held on Monday last, at Haines’ Hotel, Barry’s Pass. All tiro members were present with the exception of Mr Fleming. The meeting had been specially called for the purpose of considering the Sheep and Fencing Bills which the Government propose to introduce next session. The Council at once went into committee and considered the Bills clause by clause. Suggestions were made in regard to the mustering of sheep for sale, and with reference to the clauses in the Fencing Bill requiring fences to be sheep proof. It was ultimately resolved that the chairman, Mr E, C. Latter, and Mr Jas. Hay should represent the Council at the conference to be held on the subject at Christchurch on 30th inst. The chairman incidentally pointed'out that the question of the amount of slaughtering licenses would require to be reconsidered at next meeting of the Council^ on 4th July, as ho was afraid they had been fixed too low.

The Hokitika Election. —In his address to the electors of Hokitika Mr G. G. FitzGerald says:—“ I am prepared to give a general support to the Ministry of which Sir George Grey is the chief, and in the meanwhile I pledge myself that, if returned, I will conscientiously and to the best of my ability devote my energies to secure the welfare of the district, not forgetting that it forms a part of one of the most flourishing and important colonies in the Southern Hemisphere.”

Licensed Houses in the United Kingdom:.—A P. rli imentary paper states that in 1875 there were 109,421 houses licensed for the sale of intoxicating liquors to be consumed on the prcu is.s, as against 109,147 in 1876, t>howingn decrenseihthelatter year of 274. In 1875 the number of houses with “ six-day licenses” were 2992, as against 3059 in 1876. The houses with “ early closing licenses ” were 218 in 1875, and 231 in 1876. The houses whose licenses are marked both as “ six-day licenses” and “ early closing licenses” numbered 355 in 1875, and 387 in 1876.

Municipal Conpeeence. —A Wollingw contemporary says that the suggestion made by the Thames Borough Council that a conference should be held in Wellington before the next session of Parliament, to be attended by delegates from the municipalities throughout the colony, appears likely to be generally adopted. The conference will probably assemble here in the first week in July, and the Mayor has been requested to make arrangements for the meeting. One of the first things to be done will be to decide whether a permanent league should be formed to watch over the interests of municipalities. Me Setmoue T, Geoege. Eegarding this young man’s candidature for Hokitika, the “ Wairarapa Standard ” dispenses the following flummery to its readers:—“ We feel personally gratified with this intelligence, on account of the candidate, the Premier, and the Hokitika constituency, as it reflects more or less credit upon them all, and more particularly on the latter, who, by taking the course reported, have taken the most effective mode of showing their confidence in the Premier and their gratitude for the services he has rendered to them and the colony.” Paety Caeklessness.— There is much truth in the following remark from the Napier “|Telegraph,” if only the words “lovers of orderly progress” are substituted for “Conservatives”: —The neglect that has been generally shown by the Conservatives throughout the colony of electioneering precautionary measures is, for a party claiming a high political cause, nothing but culpable. It may be extremely respectable to rely on honorable principles and purity of motives, but it is supremely ridiculous to utterly ignore the power of clap-trap, and the advantages to be derived from organisation. Lyttelton Boeough School Committee. —A meeting of this committee was held on Tuesday evening last. A letter was read from the Board of Education sanctioning the purchase of Mrs McGowan’s house on the Sumner road, as a head-master’s residence, at the price of £IOOO, Letters were read from two of the Misses McGowan, tendering their resignation, as they were going to reside in Wellington. It was resolved to take the necessary steps for the appointment of their successors. A letter was read from the headmaster complaining of the very irregular attendance of some of the children. It was resolved that the Board should be written to, requesting them to bring before the Legislature the question of giving better effect to the compulsory clauses in the Education Act, A Paeticulae Judge. —The “West Coast Times” states that Mr D. Davidson, one of the trustees in a bankruptcy case, who appeared in Court in a suit of tweed, was mildly admonished by his Honor Judge Weston, to show his respect to the Court in future, by attiring himself in solemn black. His Honor pointed out that solicitors came in wig and gown to plead before the Court, and therefore gentlemen in Mr Davidson’s position might well also dress for the occasion. Mr Davidson seemed somewhat taken aback by his Honor’s observations, and left the Court in considerable dismay. It is to be remarked, however, that one of the solicitors wore neither wig nor gown, and was clothed as to his legs in vividly brown trousers and long boots. Possibly his Honor made Mr Davidson the medium for administering a dig to his learned brother.