NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1418, 31 August 1878, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Citic Elections. —Mr Toomor, senior, will be a candidate for re-election to a seat in the City Council at the approaching election. The’ Goyeenoe’s Visit. —His Worship the Mayor received a telegram yesterday intimating that His Excellency the Governor would leave Wellington in H.M.S. Nympho on Tuesday, arriving in Lyttelton on Wednesday. Religious. —The Rev. J. S. Smalley will conduct service to-morrow at the Colombo Road Wesleyan Church, at the usual hours, delivering an address to the young in the morning, and an evangelistic address in the evening, with Sankey’s hymns. The Gloey of the Peess. —Mr Thomas Bracken, of Dunedin, will deliver his lecture with the above title, in aid oflthe Widows and Orphans’ Eund of the Loyal Avon Lodge, A.C., at the Oddfellows’ Hall, on Tuesday evening next. The chair will bo taken by Mr John Ollivier, and, in order to make the affair as successful as possible, there will be at intervals, yocalSand instrumental music, which will take off from the lecture that apparent dryness which often accompanies this class of entertainment. As a very largo number of tickets have already been disposed of by the Oddfellows, the hall will no doubt be crowded. St. Luke’s Bazaar. —Arrangements for the bazaar and gift auction to take place on the 4th and sth prox,, at the Oddfellows’Hall, are rapidly approaching completion ; and the result will doubtless be one of the most successful reunions of the kind ever held in Christchurch. The debt on the church is £7OO, and judging from the number and variety of articles, and the works of literature, art and science to be displayed, the result of the bazaar ought to be to wipe off a very c msiderable portion of this debt. For the last two or three mouths the ladies of the committee have been working very hard in the good cause, and we trust their efforts will have a highly successful issue. On the first day the proceedings wdll take the shape of a bazaar, pure and simple, from which all railles are to be expressly excluded, by the general vote of the committee. On the second clay there will be what is known as a “ gift auction,” when all goods will be sold absolutely without reserve. It is more than probable that his Excellency the Governor will be present on Thursday. The Miksteels. —The performance last evening of the Minstrels was very largely attended, all parts of the theatre being filled. All the items on the programme wont web, especially the specialty act of Messrs Checvers and Kennedy, and they had to respond to no less than four encores. The other members of the company, especially Mr Bent in his funny farces, were also successful. Mr Simonson’s violin solo was of course excellent. His first was Miska Hauser’s well known and difficult “ Bird on the tree,” which was most artistically played. In response to an enthusiastic encore he gave “Annie Laurie” with much pathos and expression. The brilliant and intricate variations on the theme were also executed in a masterly manner. To-night is the last appearance of the Minstrels, when Messrs Choevera and Kennedy will take their benefit. A Noetheeneb’s Opinion of Cantebhuey.—On Thursday, according to the “New Zealander,” Mr Chamberlain, in the Legislative Council, moved for a return showing the price paid for land in Canterbury and Otago. In making the motion he said lie was going to tread on the Canterbury members’ corns, if those gentlemen would excuse him. He had heard from a man in Auckland that under the Canterbury shingle bods there was excellent soil, which the people there had all along been hiding. Scotchmen were canny, but the Canterbury people were sly. Land in that district had been sold for a sixth of its value. Mr Hall said Canterbury was always being pitched into, but this was the hist straw that broke the camel’s back. Here they were accused of spreading a coating of shingle over tbeir land to hide its goodness. He had the best possible answer to Mr Chamberlain’s statement that land was sold too cheap in Canterbury. IE land had been sold for a sixth of its value Mr Chamberlain would have been a great buyer of land in that district. He hoped Mr Chamberlain would go to the opening of the railway. The trip would do him good, and he could, instead of trusting to the man in the street, see the shingle himself. The Hon. Mr Miller—“ Anyhow ho will see they are not a shingle short down there.” Mr Gray said some Canterbury land had turned out better than was expected, but if there was any slyness it was Providence itself who had been sly. Colonel Brett said ho had paid £2 an acre for several thousand acres years ago, and ho would sell it for the same price now. Would Mr Chamberlain tell them what he paid for his own land near Auckland ? He thought about half-a-crown an acre. Mr Chamberlain said he paid 10s an acre twenty years ago, but he should certainly object to self it for the same price now.

Tub Circus.—There was a fair attendance at the Circus last night, when a good programme was gone through. Ensoh’s Road Station.—A movement is on foot to interview the Hon. Minister of Public Works on his arrival in Christchurch, with a view to the establishment of a railway platform at Ensor’s road, Opawa, a petition for which is being extensively signed. Injured at the Fire.—The fire of yesterday morning was an exceptionally unfortunate one for the Fire Brigade, of which body the following members, Messrs West, Pillow, and Turton, were burned or otherwise injured, more or less seriously. Another member also, whoso name has not been ascertained, was badly burned. Lecture. —An interesting lecture was delivered last evening in St. Andrew’s schoolroom, by the Rev. H. C. M. Watson, the subject being “Secrets of Central Arabia.” The Rev. 0. Fraser occupied the chair, and introduced Mr Watson, who from first to last treated his subject in a very exhaustive and interesting manner. The usual votes of thanks brought a pleasant evening to a close. Larceny. —A man named John Turner was arrested last night on a charge of larceny. He was detected in the act of taking a pair of trousers, which wore hanging outside the shop of M. I), Barsht, in Colombo street, by a man named Thomas Yates, who at once collared him. Turner broke away, at the same time dropping a pair of trousers which ho had concealed under his coat, and ran up Hereford street pursued by a crowd of people. After running about 200 yards he was seized by constable Harold, who took him to the police depot. Mr Barsht on investigation missed two other pairs of trousers, in addition to the pair dropped by the prisoner, Yaldhuest School.— A meeting of the district committee took place on Thursday evening last. Present —all the members. Mr Taylor, the chairman, read a letter from the Board of Education, containing the names of gentlemen nominated by the various school committees to fill the vacant seat on the Board caused by the resignation of Mr Wm. Rolleston. The committee decided to record their vote in favor of Mr Andrew Hunter Cunningham. After a long discussion it was determined to bring into operation the compulsory clauses of the Education Act, and instructions were given to the chairman to give the requisite notice to the parents of the children complained of, in compliance with the 91st clause of the Act. The enlargement of the school was next taken into consideration, when the teacher explained to the committee that there had been several more children at school that day than the room was calculated to hold, and the want of a class room was also very much felt. The chairman said he had drawn the attention of the Board of Education to this matter some time ago, but nothing had yet been done. It was then decided to ask the serious consideration of the Board to the necessary alterations.

Scandinavian Service.— The Rev. J. S. Smalley will conduct religious service in the Scandinavian language in the Durham street Wesleyan Church on Sunday next, September Ist, at 3.30 p.m. Special Sermons to the Working Classes. —The Rev. S. Macfarlane will preach to-morrow evening at the United Methodist Free Church, St. Asaph street, a special sermon to the working classes on “ The Great Teacher.” Poultry Society. —This society intends to carry out the scheme proposed by the secretary for importing stock by members, who will be allowed to pay off the amount of the order by monthly instalments. As the orders will be sent by the next outgoing mail, the matter should be at once taken up by intending importers, who can get further particulars from the secretary, Mr W. G. Walker.