NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1476, 8 November 1878, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Tempebance Hotbl Company. The shares in this company are being rapidly taken up, and it is expected the company will be able to commence operations by about the middle of next month. Several first-class sites have bsen offered, and are now under consideration.

Agbicuititbal and Pastobal Associa tion.—The annual dinner of this body r' " this year be under the patronage of hir cellency the Governor, and will take r' ' the Queen's Hotel, Cashel street, o r v. inst., at 7 p m. Thei Show - To-day the •' d com . menced their labors on theAgr ic J ulfc * ral Show Grounds with the sheep hr rse and { ments Judging from the > £ the show ot 1878 will r jQ fu „ fco the standard of (if not surpp . } & former years. °' OWNEB FomTD.-' . fe the police author F J ridden about by * -he ]adfJ Del d Hurdi has been chime d b Q Q £ ft farmer residing at St _ Albans> possession r nce fche 4th of october , SCHOOL Buildings.—As will be seen in the repr jrfc in aaQ^jim co i umn 0 f the proceeding 0 j fcbe Board of Education yesterday, Government have allotted £15,000 to the Nor th Canterbury Education Board, out of *■ i. 00,000 voted for the service of the current 'year.

Singing and Dbawing- A suggestion has been made by the West Christchurch school committee for the training of pupil teachers at the Normal School in si: oging and drawing, to qualify them to impart these accomplishments in tho various Government schools.

Mixed Bchools.—The question of the desirability of mixed schools came up at the meeting of the Beard of Education held yesterday. It was in connection with a strongly expressed opinion adverse to the system of the Kaiapoi school comm ittee. The Board, after discussing the question, decided for the present to let things rem; lin as they are.

The Mabionettes.—This clever company had a large audience at the Graie'ty Theatre last evening, when the performance went capitally throughout. They will appear again this evening, and on Saturday an afternoon performance will be given, for the convenience of schools and families.

The ClECrs.—As might have been expected, the circus was crowded last evening with holiday makers. The programme was rei:dered with that completeness which is such a feature in the performances of Mr Burton's company. To-day the first matinee performance will be given, in addition to the usual one in the evening, and on Saturday also there will be an afternoon performance-

The Methopolitan MBBTIN&.—The race meeting of 1878, which haa been throughout one of the most successful we have had here, came to a close yesterday. The racing has been good, the attendant? j highly satisfactory, and not a hitch occu'.-red throughout the meeting to mar its snee ?ss. To the assiduity and zeal of the offici' Üb—notably Mr Campbell as starter—this v cry satisfactory result is largely due. The Biacksmiti c*s Bream This clever little show, with tb e interlude of Punch and Judy, st'.il attract/ , many visitors of nn evening. As this is 'the last week of its stay in Christehureh, feb jse who have not seen it should not lose t he opportunity of admiring the patience ar d mechanical skill shown in the construction i of the various groups comprised in the '£ .lacksmith's Dream. No. 5 C 0.., C.R.A r .—The members of this company har « been undergoing uctive drill during the i.mst eight, or ton evenings, preparatory to the Dunedin review. About twenty-five members of the company, with the fife mj id drum baud additional, under Lieut. Pen in, the officer commanding, arrived in the city last evening en route. It is pleasing to see thn/c this .veteran corpa w)U be Wli r 6» prestoieij at the Review,

Amuri Count? Election.—Sir Cracroffc Wilson and Messrs Gh W. Mcßie and John McArthur, have been elected members of the Amuri County Council. The Hoki'tika Marriage Case.—Francis Foster, late of the Robert Burns Hotel, Hokitika, was (says the " West Coast Times " of November 4th) charged before Mr Price, R.M., at Kumara, on Thursday last, with having made a false declaration before Mr Birch, Registrar of Marriages for the district of Kumara, for the purpose of procuring a certificate of marriage with Ellen Cashman, the said Ellen Cashman being the sister of hisdeceaeed wife; also, that he had said he resided in the locality named tor three days before the day of the marriage. Mr Perkins appeared on behalf of the police. The evidence of Dr. Dermott, to whom a similar application had been made by Foster, likewise the evidence of Patrick Maguire, who knew the accused and Mary Cashman to have been married, were taken, and the case was adjourned until Thursday next. New Explosive.—A new explosive agent has just been discovered by Professor Emerson Reynolds in the laboratory of Trinity College, Dublin. It is a mixture of 75 per cent, of chlorate of potassium with 25 per cent, of a body called sulphurea. It is a white powder, and can be ignited at a rather lower temperature than ordinary gunpowder, whiJe the effects it produces are even more remarkable. It has been successfully used in small cannon, but its discoverer thinks it will be of more service for blasting, shells, torpedoes s and like purposes. While ordinary gunpowder leaves about 57 per cent, solid residuum after explosion, this leaves but about 45 per cent. It can be produced at a moment's notice by a comparatively rough mixture of the ingredients, which can be transported and handled without risk so long as they are separate. The sulphurea discovered by Professor Reynolds can be procured in large quantities from a product of gas manufacture which is now wasted.

Pommelling the Teach eb.-—Things have v have come to a pretty pass at the Westport State school, says the " Buller News," as indicated by the circumstance which transpired the other day. The boys of the first class, or at least a portion of them, had formed a '• mutual protection society," with intent to mob the master should he, in their opinion, unjustly or excessively punish one of their number. Naturally, it must be inferred from the combination of the scholars to defend each other that the master has been in the habit of ill-treating them. On the other hand, it is said that the spirit of insubordination is of long standing ; that the school waß, when the present master entered it, in a terrible state of disorder, and that he has accomplished a good deal in reducing it to even its present state of discipline. If we are not misinformed, "the conspirators" committed their first depredation yesterday. The schoolmaster was administering a little caning when the caned hand closed and obtained possession of the weapon. Other hinds helped, and sad be it, but it remains to be reported that the schoolmaster was pummelled on the floor. The use of the cane appears to have had a contrary effect upon the discipline of the school which was maintained in good order by the late master, Mr Larchin, by moral suasion alone.

Pbesident Hates.—From every quarter (says the New York "Commercial Advertiser") comes up the wail of despair from Republicans that President Hayes and his Administration have depressed, disheartened, and demoralised the party of which his friends claim ho is the head. We see it announced that a committee, selected by the Republicans of the Second Congressional District of Virginia, has been sent to Washington to remor [ strate against allowing the Federal patrons '" to be used against the Republican Pa? t °. The Committee says the Administratioj { \' doing everything in its power to re-elec' J j^ r Goode, the present Democratic member U aild declares that it is prepared to give fas' ' and figures. The Committee asserts th at Mr Q-oode has filled the Navy Yard afc ' jj- or f o ik with Democrats, who openly seek to a j d patron, and that it is impossible for a R eDU b. lican or a Union soldier to obtaia • consideration. It is also asserted that f ,he Renub-" licans have a fair majority of 300 f t \ n the JDlstrict, and that there would not be t ke B Tj e ht e6 fc difficulty in electing a 3*publa , an 0oE fe man if the Administration wot . id not s ergißfc in helping the have become too gei>; era l. J low can & b . licans hope to ee- jUre amf t] - orit in th £ exfc Congress when pa trona f ;e of the Govern, ment is perm- tted to b a us. ;d to elect Democrats. \jr reßßman Poster, who has been regarded &g one of the anogfc dißcreet and sagacr dug of his adv i ßerSj ta^ea ocoaß i on> «T* jugh a representative of the Pbiladephia times," to relieve General Garfield and himself from all responsibility as advisers of

President Hayes. All these things lead to the suspicion that the President is drifting without rudder or compass. Rewi, the King, and the Govebnment. —The correspondent of the "New Zealand Times," writing from the Waikato on October 28th, says:—Hoani has returned from Waitara. Rewi, I hear, is coming back to Punui very soon. A messenger from Grey to Tawhiao has gone to urge the King to assent in writing to the offer made at Hiku rangi, and to beg humbly for an expression of the King's confidence in the Premier and Mr Sheehan to put in the papers. Manga (Rewi) complains of being pestered by Government agents, and says that he does not send all the telegrams reported to come from him. He will not return to Waitara, and the great March meeting will not come off there. Te Whiti wants to have a meeting at Parihaka, I hear. He has discovered a new Atua, an article altogether superior to any of the old

gods, and Te Whiti, as his prophet, promises that true believers will recover the confiscated lands and have plenty of cattle, of gold, and of all go*>d things. The mana of the Atua is to be greater than the mana of Tawhia or of Rewi, and the pakeha must clear out. The Tekau-rna-rua and a section of Natives are leaving Waikato to join Te Whiti; they are now busy selling their cattle, horses, pigs, &c. Hiroki, the man who killed McLean at the survey camp, is, I hear, at Parihaka. He was wounded by McLean, and not by the natives who were in chase of him. The ball passed through or ronnd the abdomen, and lodged in his back. He says he cut it out himself. He is quite a hero at Parihaka, and Te Whiti honors him very much. Te Whiti has asked Sheehan to go and see him, but requested him not to bring any "dogs" with him. If Grey and Sheehan go to Parihaka and hold a meeting Hiroki may be surrendered for trial on conditions which will be very hard. Te Whiti will play the big man, and open his mouth very wide about the Waimate Plains and the confiscated land. Manga probably sees trouble ahead, and wishes to keep out of. the way. There is much uneasiness amongst the natives, and distrust anent the lf.iia buying Friendly relations appear not so securely established as they were "at '.ast " some throe months since, and the worde "all-a-gammon " are ViTP commonly u*ed J u conversntiou by aboriginals upon politics.