NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1378, 16 July 1878, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Chahitable Aid Board.— The meeting of the Charitable Aid Board, which was to have taken place this evening, is postponed till to-morrow evening. District Railways Act. —The “ Gazette” of July 11th contains regulations under the above-named Act for taking the votes of ratepayers and owners o" property. 1.0.G.T. Anniversary. —This event takes place on Thursday evening in the Oddfellows’ Hall. A tea meeting will take place at 5,30, and a meeting and concert at 7.30. The programme appears elsewhere. Bible Society.- The annual meeting of the Canterbury auxiliary of the British and Foreign Bible Society, was held last evening at the Oddfellows’ Hall. Addresses were delivered by several ministers. Sydenham Borough Council. —A special meeting of this Council was held l ist evening, and resolutions passed as to the points in municipal reform to be brought forward at the conference in Wellington by the representative from Sydenham. Southbridqe Orange Celebration. — The members of the Royal Southbridge Lodge of Orangemen, in commemoration of the 12th July, held a ball and entertainment in the Town Hall. The usual ceremonies of the Order having been performed, dancing was commenced and kept up until the interlude, when some of those present gave songs and recitations, after which dancing was resumed. The Impounded Land Fund. —lt is understood that an application will be made to his Honor Mr Justice Johnston on the 30th inst. in banco for a mandamus calling upon the Colonial Treasurer to show cause why he should not he compelled to pay over to the Road Boards within the provincial district of Canterbury the balance of the land fund due to them on 31st Marcli last. The Sparrow Question. —At an adjourned meeting held on Saturday evening.at Lewton’s Junction Hotel, Rangiora, there was a fair attendance of farmers. Mr Melntyre occupied the chair. After some discussion, it was decided that Messrs Bell, Luxton, and D. Auvergne he appointed a committee to prepare twenty bushels of grain with strychnine, to be distributed among those undertaking to purchase the same. Important to Insurers. —During the hearing of the case of Rankin v. the Norwich Union Insurance Company, Mr Hey wood staled that in no case does insurance on a building cover register grates, stoves, or mantel pieces, unless they are specially mentioned on the proposal form under the head of fittings. This will be news to many insurers who have hitherto been accustomed to regard these articles as coming within the policy effected on a building, though they might not be expressly detailed. Supposed Drowning. —Sergeant Scott, stationed at Kaiopoi, has reported that a ganger named Water - , on the No. 2 section of the Northern line, has found a drab felt halt Yankee hat and a draft-board under Hie girder bridge of the river Styx railway station. Knowing the banks to be sleep, and the river deep at the spot, he considered it his duty to report the circumstance to the police, conjecturing Unit possibly the owner of Iho articles may have fallen into the river and been drowned. Proposed New County— lt is proposed (says the “ Auckland Herald ”) to form a new county, having Cambridge for its cent ic. The ridings which it is proposed to associate in the formation of the new county of Cambridge are —Pukerimu from the present Waipa County, Cambridge and Tamahere from Waikato County, Taotaoroa ard Patateie, with, perhaps, part ot Mntaxnata from Piako County. This amalgamation would form one of the richest counties in the North Island, and would extend the working of the Counties Act over a large area, where hitherto it bus not beca ia operation,

Greyhounds.—By the barque Columbus, whicb arrived yesterday, Mir Draper lias imported three greyhounds—viz., two fawn and white dogs and a, black and whit e slut. They are handsome hounds, and have arrived n splendid condition. Appointments.—Mrß. F. Bolton has been appointed Crown Lands Banger for the provincial district of Canterbury. The Rev. James Hill and W. Beck are appointed managers of the Lyttelton public cemetery. A. Generous Act. —The Sydney “ Evening News” says: —The friends of the late Mr Robert Craig, who, it will be remembered, met "his death by violence at S ai hilelo, Queensland, soma months ago, will he glad to hear that, though his policy of assurance with the Austral.an Marini Provident Scoury for £SOO hud lapsed some weeks before his death, the directors of the society have most liberally made a gift of £4OO to his widow, for investment under trustees, for the sole benefit of herself and children. When it is considered that Mr Craig, at tho time of his death, had been a member of the society for lens than three years, this generous act (remarks a ..Queensland journal) speaks well for the liberal management of the Australian Mutual Provident Society. A Reckless Education Boaed.—The “ Wellington Post ” advises the Minister for Education to loot up the Wanganui papers, so that he may learn from the reports therein what the Wanganui Education Board is about. It seems that the Board has Veen “outrunning the constable,” and is now fairly on the road to insolvency. One of the members, Mr John Bryce, M H.R., has protested strongly against this line of action, and at a recent meeting of the Board somewhat of a stormy scene took place. The chairman of the Board, however, put down Mr Bryce by enunciating the astounding doctrine “ that the Board should get into debt in the hope that the Government would step in and relieve it from its embarrassments.” In other words, the Board proposed deliberately to exceed the income placed at its disposal, with the idea that once the liabilities had been incurred the Government would be almost forced to pay them. The Land Ceizb in Wellington.—A contributor to the “ Wanganui Herald ” tells the following story ;—The land craze seems at fever heat just now in Wellington, Tho euctioneers there must be reaping a golden harvest out of the crop of new townships they are continually putting up for the highest bidder to be the purchaser of. In this connection a good thing occurred not a hundred miles from here lately. One of our settlers, with a keen eye to business, laid off a portion of his estate into town lots, and showed the plan to a Wellington speculator, who at once made him an offer for the lot, which was accepted, and my friend chuckled to think how expeditiously and inexpensively he had worked off his township, but his joy was somewhat lessened on learning (hat his astute client had traded off the whole lot at a profit of some £2000! He won’t rise so quickly to a Wellington fly next time he has a township to sell I fancy. Political —The Hon. E. Richardson will address the electors of the city of Christchurch at the Oddfellows’ Hall this evening. Forthcoming Entertainments. The second of the winter series of entertainments in convection with tho parish of Avonside will take place this evening in the Church schoolroom, at 8 o’clock. An entertainment in aid of the Harewood road school library fund will bo given to-morrow, at 8 p.m. The first of a aeries of winter entertainments will tnke pl.ee at St. Michael’a schoolroom on Thursday evening.