NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1428, 12 September 1878, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Oddfellows’ Hall, Lyttelton. —The Riley and Allen Minstrel Troupe gave an entertainment in the above hall on Tuesday evening last. It was fairly attended, and the audience expressed their approbation of the different items on the programme. Nominated Immigration. —The number of persons who have been nominated at the Christchurch office for passages from the United Kingdom, since the departure of the last San Francisco mail, has been 112 s ouls, equal to 10U statute adults. Departure of tub Governor —His Excellency the Governor left Christchurch by special train shortly after 11 o’clock last night. He was accompanied by Captain LePatourel, A.D.C., the Hon, C. C. Bowen, the Hon. Colonel Brett, Major Lean, and Mr .Saunders, M H.R. The vice-regal party sailed from Lyttelton about midnight. The Municipal Election. —The public meeting last evening to hear the various candidates for municipal honours was crowded to excess. From the first it was pretty evident that those assembled came to have fun rather than to listen to the addresses of the various speakers, and scarcely any of them were thcr uglily audible to the reporters. Theatrk Royal. — A new comedy drama, entitled “£100,000,” was produced last night. It is written by the popular author H. J. Byron, and is quite up to that clever dramatist’s usual average. * The plot is compact, the language smart and pointed, and the situations good. The principal characters were successfully sustained by Mbs Tilly Andrews and Messrs Hill, Hydes, Graham, and Stark. The performance concluded with “ Turko the Terrible.” This evening Miss Florence Colville will appear in the “ Tragedy Queen.” High School Cadets. —The usual weekly parade of the High School cadets was held lust evening, when there was a very large muster, and the various evolutions were gone through in a creditable manner. After the parade Captain Johnson, on behalf of the cadets, presented Lieutenant Willis, on his resignation, with a very handsome li-ld-glass, bearing the following inscription —“ Presented to Lieutenant Willis by the members of the High School Cadets, September 11th, 1878 ” Lieutenant Willis esplah ed that, as his time was otherwise occupied, he was compelled to resign. The parade was then dismissed. Appalling Catastrophe. —The Baltirmre “American” of the 20th July suis :—The most remarkable birth ever known in the history of accouchement recurred at or near Salesville, Ohio, on last Monday night, Mrs •McCormick gave birth to five healthy children, four boys and one girl. The medical works have but few instances of such wonderful births, and when they do occur the children have scarcely been known to live. In this case the mother and children in the common language on such occasions, are “doing well.” The community there is excited, and the famous father is the hero of all the country around about. His home is already an object of pilgrimage for all the old women of the region. Two births of four children have occurred within the last fifteen years near this region. Another Nelson Copper Lode. A meeting of several persons interested in fairly testing a supposed copper lode discovered some years ago upon land now held by Messrs Johnson Brothers at Aniseed Yalley, was held on September 3rd, at Mr Mabin’s office. Preliminary arrangements (says the “Mail”) were made by which the Messrs Johnson hand over all their rights to the promoters, who intend spending £2OO or £3OO in getting out as much ore as possible, and sending it to Sydney for a thorough test of its value. The promoters have been fortunate in securing as manager Mr E. Thomas, an old Cornish copper miner of great experience, and who was for some time manager of the celebrated Caledonian mine at the Thames.

Mdllb. Anneeeau. —This equestrienne, who recently met with a fatal accident while performing in Messrs Hayes and Benhamo’s Circus, although comparatively young, had had a long professional career in various parts of the world. The following brief sketch of her career will be read with interest by her many friends in Australia and New Zealand. She commenced the equestrian business in America when a child, under the tuition of her brother-in-law, Mr Lee, of Lee’s American Circus. About thirteen years ago she went to Australia as a member of Wilson’s Gtreat World Circus, with which she subsequently travelled all through New Zealand. She afterwards went to Calcutta, and performed in the principal cities of India, eventually returning to California, where she remained until the company broke up. From San Francisco she returned to New South Wales, and she and her husband, Mr Henry Wallace, joined Leon’s Circus in Sydney. Her last engagement was with Messrs Hayes and Benhamo, whom she joined in Adelaide, and afterwards accompanied to Tasmania, and from thence coining to Dunedin and Christchurch, where she met with the accident that terminated fatally. As an equestrienne she possessed a large share of talent, while in private life her amiable qualities made her universally liked. Her untimely death, at the early age of thirty-one, will bo deeply regretted by the many friends she had made, privately and professionally, both in Australia and New Zealand. The funeral will take place on Friday morning, when all the members of the dramatic and equestrian professions will follow her remains to the cemetery.

Midland Cricket Clou. —'The annunl general meeting of this club will be lipid on Monday evening, not on Saturday as previously annouueed. St. Luke’s Church Debt Fund —A concert iu aid of the above fund will be given in the Oddfellows’ Hall by the Orchestral Society on Thursday, the iOth inst. Temperance Lecture —A lecture will be delivered this evening in the Good Templar Hall, by the G.W.C.T. Mr Jago, of Dunedin, on the subject of temperance. Durham St. Wesleyan Sundu School. —The annual tea and public meeting will be held this evening, the former in tin schoolroom at (! o’clock, and the latter in the church afterwards, when addresses will bo delivered by several ministers. Tho scholars will sing selected hymns under the leadership of Mr J. T. M. Smith. Football. —On Saturday next tho following fifteen of the Christchurch Club will play the concluding match of tho season against the Eastern Club and tho remainder of the Christchurch Club Messrs Bray, Bolton. Evans, field, Hartlaud, M. Lewin, G. Mathias, L. Ma-bias, McCardcll, Miltnn, Olivier, Parker, and Potts. The colours of the Fifteen will ho scarlet and black. Tho compiittec bofG to sea & large attendance on tha occasion,