NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1496, 2 December 1878, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Promenade Concert. —There will be a sale of goods and promenade concert this evening in the Sydenham public school. A very pleasant entertainment may be expected. The proceeds will be devoted to tho building fund of Sydenham Wesleyan church. The Loss or the Southminster.— The account of this wreck, which we have from our own correspondent, is much fuller than that given by the Press Agency. As it appears that from some private telegrams doubt has been created as to the locality of her loss, we may say that her position must not bo mistaken for “ Kelp Reef,” which is only a few miles from Wellington, She lies inside a kelp reef sometimes called “ Shepherdess Reef,” between Cape Campbell and Flaxbourne, about 120 or 130 miles north of Lyttelton Heads. New Zealand seems to have entered its “ unlucky season’ ’ as regards this class of disaster. City Council.— The fortnightly meeting of the City Council will take place at 7 o’clock this evening. Rain.—A genial rain fell in the northern districts on Saturday, and there was every appearance of it continuing for a day or two. Large Wool Clip.— The Leicester ram exhibited by Mr Barker at the late Ellesmere show has been shorn, and the fleece weighs twenty-six pounds, independent of locks and pieces. Malvern. —There was a favorable change of weather on Friday morning, when the sky became very cloudy, and slight showers fell at short intervals throughout the day. On Saturday more rain fell, and when the mail left there were indications of plenty of rain coming. Inquest. —An inquest was held on Saturday afternoon at the house of David Round, who was thrown out of a cart on the Heathcote Valley road on Sunday, the 24th ult., and who died early last Friday morning. The particulars of the accident have already been published. After hearing the evidence of the medical witness, Dr Frankish, who deposed that the deceased’s skull was fractured, the jury returned a verdict of <i: Accidental Death.” Accident. — A man named Thomas O’Brien was admitted into the hospital on Saturday, suffering from a dislocated shoulder. He stated that he was in the employ of the Hon. B. Richardson, of the Glentui Station, in the Oxford district. It appears that he was driving in a buggy along a road he was unaccustomed to, and which had been partially washed into holes by the floods, when the buggy capsized, and he was thrown violently out and his shoulder was dislocated. The limb was set, and the man is going on favorably. Female Graduates in America.—Oberlin College (says an American contemporary) took a new departure this year in awarding the degree of A.M. to nine ladies, graduates of its literary course. Among them was Mrs Antoinette Brown Blackwell, and members of the faculties of Wellesley, Tabor, Santa Barbara, Oberlin, and the Woman’s Medical College of New York. Vital Statistics. —The Registrar’s returns of births, marriages, and deaths in the City of Christchurch and district during the the month of November, are as follows: Births : City, 50; district, 113 ; against 41 and 84 in November, 1877. Deaths : City, 14; district, 28; against 21 and 25 in tho same month of last year, showing a diminution of 4. Marriages 20 and 9, as compared with 27 and 6in the corresponding month of 1877. Compared with the month of October the births showed a decrease of 175, the marriages a decrease of 7, and the deaths an increase of 5. The Education Commission.— The list of the members of this Commission, as telegraphed and published last week, was not complete. The following are the members : Messrs J. A. Tole, M.H.R,; O. M. O’Rorke, M.H.R.; Rev. Dr. Wallis, M.H.R.; Mr W. Gisborne, M.H.R.; Rev. W. J. Habens, In-spector-General of Education ; Dr. Hector ; Professors Cook and Brown, of Canterbury College ; Professors Stand and Sale, of Otago University; Dr. Macdonald, Rector Dunedin High School; Mr W. H. Cutten, M.H.R.; Professor Ulrich, Otago University. Of the above, Messrs Tole, O’Rorke, Gisborne, and Dr. Wallis, or four out of the five members of the Assembly who are on the Commission, voted for the second reading of the Education Act Amendment Bill, introduced by Mr Curtis. Mr Outteu’s name appeared on the other side. A telegram, published this morning, states the nature of the enquiry which the Commission is to make. Reuter’s Agency. —On Saturday a Reuter’s cable message from Victoria was published, wherein it was stated that Messrs Holt and M'Carthy had been appointed New Zealand agents for Reuter. The “Otago Times ” points to a telegram from its Auckland correspondent—said to have the authority of the manager of some new Press Agency, about which there has of late been some tremendous trumpetting —to prove that Reuter’s cable message told an untru'h about Router’s own business. On this subject, our Wellington correspondent telegraphs tho following:—“ Houghton, on behalf of the newly projected Press Agency, has telegraphed to the “ Chronicle ” to-day that Holt and M'Carthy have been circulating a false statement by saying that they are appointed Router’s agents for New Zealand, and adds that ho has an arrangement with Collins, Reuter’s head man in Australia, to supply the Government agency with cable news. There is great misapprehension here, because I have seen original telegrams and letters, which leave no doubt as to the genuineness of the announcement that Holt and M'Carthy will be sole distributing mediums of Router's European telegrams in Now Zealand. Details of the arrangement are unknown till Captain Holt returns per Tararua.” The Amy Sheewin Concerts.—To-mor-row evening and two succeeding nights Mies Amy Shorwin, Miss Era Davenport and Signor Pompei, the latter formerly the fellow impresario of Signor Cagli, wiio inaugurated Italian opera on a grand scale in Now Zealand, will make their appearance at the Oddfellows’ Hall, Lid)field street. They come with most flattering credentials from the Press of New South Wales and Victoria, which have been endorsed by tho northern New Zealand journals. Miss Amy Shorwin is said to be a soprano assoluta of rare excellence, and Miss Davenport, possessing the same quality of puice, is credited with ft large amount of ability. Signor Pompei’s reputation as an accomplished buffo vocalist is established, riieir repertoire comprises selections from the works of Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini, Meycrnoer, and Gounod, with songs by Gabriel, L’ ickor, and Millard. They appear both in md out of character. The band will embrace he talent of Herr Bunz and Messrs H. F. Fowlo, Thompson, Poore, and Tankard. The irst programme contains a grand duo from ‘ Don Pasquale ” for Miss Snerwin and Signor Pompei, a cavatina buffo tor the latter from ‘La Cenerentola,” a grand duo from I L’ Elieir d’ Amore ” for Miss Eva Daven>ort and Signor Pompei, as well as the famous dad Scene from “ Lucia di Lammermoor ” or Miss Sherwin. Writing of the latter, the Melbourne “Argus” says: —“The Mad leone was of course t lie t est of her highest towers, whether us actress or singer, and it in pith a feeling of satisfaction wo have to record icr complete triumph.” The ‘ Sydney Morntig Herald ” and Melbourne “ Age ” write qually eulogietieally. As will be seen by the dvertised programme, a rare treat may be uticipated.

A StruTßT Office Blttndkb.— The following letter from the Chief Commissioner of Crown Lands to Mr Boyle, of Ashburton, dated November Ist, is published by the “Ashburton Mail The Chief Surveyor has just reported that section 32962, 14 acres, purchased by you 12th August, 1878, is identically the same as that included in section 21123 sold by auction, 4th August, 1874, to Mr James Storey Bland. Owing to the Survey Office having omitted to put the section number on the application map, there was nothing on the map to indicate that .the land had been already sold. I should be obliged if you will surrender the license to occupy and take a refund of the purchase money.” The “Mail” adds—Wo believe that Boyle, thinking himself the owner of the land, went on it and effected several improvements, and he has now to leave it without compensation for the loss he has had to sustain through an official error. This is anything but fair to a working settler.