NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1552, 8 February 1879, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Temperance Lecture. —Mr John Harding of Hawkpb Bay will lecture on “ The I Temperance Movement,” in the Wesleyan Church, Sydenham, on Monday, February 10th, at 7 30. Wesleyan Church, Sydenham —The Rev. J. S. Smalley will conduct services tomorrow morning and evening. There will be the second of a series of p ;pular addresses to young men and women in the evening on “ How to make a fortune. Resident Magistrate’s Court,— Anne Stuhbersflold was this day brought up for stealing a pair of boots from (ho shop of Mr Archibald. She was sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment. David Gray, alias McKellop, charged with stealing pome machinery the property of Messrs Wood, Shand and Co., was remanded for a week Larceny. —Gertrude Burgess was this day arrested for stealing a gold ring, the property of Mrs White, of St. Asaph street. United Methodist Free Church. —The Rev. S. Macfarlane will preach in this church, St. Asaph street, to-morrow, both morning and evening. The subject for the evening’s discourse will be “ Rest for the weary.” The Orphanage. —Dr. Macdonald, of Lyttelton, received intimation from the Government on Thursday of his appointment as surgeon to the Orphanage, to date from the 18r,h ult. The Addington Workshops.— Mr T. H. Parsons, the contractor for the carriage and waggon shops, is also the successful tenderer _ for tho machine shops. The work is to bo commenced at once, and will be completed in four months. Attempt to Upset a Train. — It will be soon from the telegrams published this morning that two men have bean committed for trial by the Palmerston magistrate for having placed a pair of trolly wheels on tho line near that township on Tuesday last. The Railway Fire Engine —An examination of this engine yesterday morning showed that through the fires having been improperly lighted damage had been caused to tho boiler, and so rendered the engine unserviceable. It was yesterday sent to the railway workshops to undergo a thorough overhaul. Blue Cliffs Estate. —This well-known estate and the stud sheep, which were to be sold by auction on the 12th and 13th inst., by Messrs J. T. Ford and Co., have been dis posed of by private treaty, hence the sale will not take place. The purchaser was Mr R. Rhodes, son of the late Mr G. Rhodes, of Timaru. The Canterbury Marble Quarry Company. —The annual meeting of this company was held last evening, when the only business transacted was the re-election of two directors, and the passing of a resolution to forward specimens of marble to the forthcoming Sydney Exhibition. Mr Conyers —Early yesterday morning Mr Back, the General Manager, received a very satisfactory telegram as to the condition of Mr Conyers, and later in tho day the following telegram was received :—“ Gore. To W. M. Hannay, Esq., Acting Commissioner of Railways, Christchurch. Mr Conyers is progressing most satisfactorily. The doctor pronounces him out of danger, and in a fair way for speedy recovery. N. W. Wbhhy.” The Uncle Tom Combination. —This evening tho Theatre Royal will be re-opened by the Uncle Tom Combination Company, who make their first appearance in Christchurch in the dramatised version of Mrs Stowe’s novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” which has had a long and successful run in the Australian colonies. In addition to a number of names unknown to Christchurch, tho company contains several New Zealand favorites, including Mr Harry Stoneham, Mr George Collier, and Mr W. Musgrave, That popular actress, Mrs Walter Hill, has also been engaged to strengthen the caste, and will sustain the character of Eliza Harris. A number of slave scenes will bo given by real negroes, and no doubt the play will be as successful in Christchurch as it has been elsewhere. Theatre Royal. —There was a good attendance at the Theatre Royal last night, on the occasion of Mr Bunz taking his benefit. The entertainment was partly musical and partly dramatic. The former embraced the talents of Mdlle. Charbonnet, Signora Vennsta, Mrs Arthur Toko, Signor Luisetti, and Mr J. Marshall. The programme was well selected, one of tho principal features being a reading, “ Mary Queen of Scots,” by Miss Florence Colville, admirably rendered. Professor Scott sang a couple of songs in a humorous manner, and amused the audience exceedingly by the witticisms with which they were introduced. The dramatic items comprised the quarrel scone from the “ School for Scandal,” Sir Peter Teazle being enacted by Mr Walter Hill, and Lady Teazle by Miss Colville. The performance concluded with the comedietta “As Like as Two Peas,” with the same caste as on Wednesday evening. Progress of New Zealand. —The “Australian and Now Zealand Gazette,” a London paper, reviews at considerable length, in a very favourable manner, the extraordinary progress being made by New Zealand. The concluding portion of the article is as follows : - “ And all this mighty bulk of mercantile enterprise must be the work of, at the very utmost, less than one quarter of a million of persons, whose exertions have thus lifted the colony to a position of commercial power and opulence which, doubtless, is socretely envied by more than one of the old-established States of Europe. Competent authorities, who arc intimately acquainted with the material capacities of New Zealand, tell us that the two principal Islands will event ually support a population of at least fourteen or fifteen millions; several millions more, indeed, might be maintained, were it not that the Southern Islands includes along its centre much barren mountain, which, it is not pro- . bable, can be brought under cultivation. This means, in a word, that the population may expand so far as to become twenty-five times as great as it is now. Should the evolution of material wealth proceed in the same ratio, wo may, indeed, expect that the future ef the Britain of the South will be something beyond what the world has yet seen in the way of human progress.”