NEWS Of THE DAY.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1466, 28 October 1878, Page 2

NEWS Of THE DAY.

Ckeistchubch Aetilleey. — This corps will be specially inspected by Colonel Packe to-morrow night, when every member is expected to attend. Spoeting. —The well-known steeplechase horse Eversloy changed hands on Saturday, being bought by Mr H. Prince privately for £3OO.

Bbdfoed Row. —The necessary funds having been provided by the residents and property owners of Bedford Row, and forwarded to the City Council, the work of forming, channelling, and asphalting this thoroughfare will be commenced forthwith. The work is a very necessary one and, as the street is of the usual width, it will, when completed, be a very useful addition to the city thoroughfares.

The Cantbebuey Amateur Minsteels.— This newly formed amateur troupe of minstrels made their first public appearance on Thursday evening, at the Sunnyside Asylum, when they went through a most excellent programme, with which the patients and the other persons present appeared to be much pleased. They will probably give a performance in town in the course of two or three weeks, in aid of some charitable object.

Dueham Stebet Wesleyan Chueoh.—The annual sermons in aid of the Wesleyan Home Mission Fund were preached yesterday, in the Durham street Church, in the morning by tho Rev. G-. Crump, President of the New Zealand Conference, and in the evening by the Rev. A. R. Fitchett, of Dunedin. On Wednesday, the annual public meeting will be held, when addresses will be delivered by the the President of the Conference, Rev. A. R Fitchett, and other ministers and gentlemen. The choir of the Church will render several pieces of sacred music during the evening. A Discoveey.— On Saturday morning, between six and seven o’clock, two lads named Robson and Allen, were walking on the Oxford Terrace side of the river, opposite the Government Buildings. Stooping to take a hoop out of the water, they saw a bundle lying at the bottom, which they pulled out with a stick. On examining it they found it contained six electro-plated pewter measures, one quart, three pints, and two half pints. They informed Sergeant Wilson of the circumstance, who took tho articles to the police depot, where they now lie for identification. The measures when found were wrapped up ia paper, and apparently quite new.

The Immigrants teb Waitangi.— The whole of the immigrants who arrived by this vessel, and who were afterwards taken to the immigration barracks for engagement, have found employment, with the exception of three or four married couples wffh families, who will be this week forwarded to the country. There are applications to the department from one or two Road Boards to the south of Christchurch, and as there arc immigrants’ cottages in these districts the offers will be closed with, and the families in question will be probably settled in the course of two or throe days. RUNAWAY. —On Saturday morning, as a milkman named Charles Haughoy was serving a customer with milk on the North Town Belt, near Madras street, the horse bolted and galloped along the footpatli in Kilmore street, thence turned on to Park Terraco and finally capsized at the corner of Salisbury street. The horse was uninjured, but the cart slightly damaged. Inquest.— An inquest was held on Saturday afternoon as to the death of the lit tie girl Olivo Susannah Beule, who died on Friday under the circumstances already detailed. After hearing the evidence, which showed that the child had been suffering from the effects of swallowing a quantity of spirits of salts while her mother’s back was turned, a werdiot of “Accidental Poisoning” was returned,