NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1747, 25 September 1879, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Unemfloybd.—Of the men who gave in their names to the City Council for employment, seventeen were itarted to work on the Ferry road this morning. The Mayobalty.—As will he seen by a notice elsewhere, Mr J. G-apes has announced that he intends becoming a candidate for the Mayoralty of Christchurch for next year. We understand there is a requisition about to be circulated asking the present Mayor, Mr Ick, to become a candidate for the Mayoralty in November. An Evening With Tennyson. The annual meeting of the Cathedral Guild will be held this evening. After the business a very attractive programme will be gone through. It will consist entirely of renderings of songs written by Tennyson, and of readings from the same author. Mr E. Ellis, M.D., will undertake the latter, while the songs will bo sung by a number of our leading amateurs.

Resident Machstbate's Coubt.—To-day H. F. Wareing, aged eight years, was Bent to the Burnside Industrial School, as being an uncontrollable child. John Templeton, charged with obtaining £5 10s by means of false pretences, was remanded to Saturday.

Road Repaibs.—The steam road roller was engaged last evening in picking up the portion of Colombo street between Gloucester and Armagh streets, with a view to a coating of "metal being laid thereon. The Domain.—The grounds of the domain are just now looking exceedingly pretty, and, considering the small amount of assistance at his disposal, Mr Armstrong deserves very great credit for the admirable order in which the large extent of ground under his control is kept.

Cork Exchange.—At a committee meeting held recently the sub-committee appointed to inspect the sites offered for a Corn Exchange made their report. After a good deal of discussion it was resolved —" That none of the sites offered be accepted, and that the project of building a Corn Exchange be for the present abandoned. At the same time the directors keep in view that the establishment of such a tiling is desirable, and greatly to the benefit of the farming community ; in view of this, that each of the directors shall be on the outlook for any desirable site that may present itself, and report same at any subsequent nisetiug, when the subject will be reconsidered." Juvenile Inditbteial Exhibition. There is now on view at the shop of Mr H. Fisher, Hereford street, an exhibit intended for the Juvenile Industrial Exhibition to be held in Melbourne at the close of tho year. It is a large size picture, executed by the pupils of the Canterbury Foundry, containing pen and ink drawings of a lighthouse, locomotive engines, reapers and binders, dredges, bridges, &3., all of which have been very artistically executed. The drawing is well worth a visit, and may, perhaps, serve to stimulate other youthß to forward articles for competition. Outstanding Rates.—2?he finance committee of the City Council having determined to reduce the Bank overdraft, active measures will be taken to insure the prompt payment of rates, which have been slow to come in, and a great many of which are now outstanding. Some fifty summonses were issued yesterday morning. Meriyai/e Entertainment. —An entertainment in connection with St. Mary's, Merivale, will be given this evening, for which a specially attractive programme has. been prepared.

Thb Waitangi.—The New Zealand Shipping Company's ship Waitangi arrived at Lyttelton th:'s morning, after a passage of eighty-nine days from Graveiend. An Aspiration by onb of thb Unemployed.—A correspondent has forwarded the following lines, with an earnest request that they may be published. We consequently do so for the benefit of whom they may concern. They are entitled " One Mate to Another," and though not hopeful in tone, convey the gloomy side of the question with considerable force. We sincerely trust that our corrsspondont will, eventually, succeed in reaching that happy land after which his soul lustest : Tom, finish this fence as quick as yon can; For the Council, they are wanting men. Go up to the office and see the clerk, Ho')l give yon a ticket to go to work. The wages, it seems, as I've heard say. Is only to be fivo bob a day. Thoy only want us Just to live, No higher wages they will not give. The Councillors of our Christchnrch town They want to keep tho working-men down. They wont crow long; we are well aware That shearing and harvest will soen be .here. And many a one now knocking about Will make a cheque, and then clear out. They will think of tho meetings they had here. By the dreary lamp-post in the square. And many a man as he goes away Will d the place and the five bob a day; And once on the sea or away on the track, It's not very likely they'll ever come back. But they'll seek a home in another land, Where there is labour in bettor demand; And never more to be annoyed By having meetings of unemployed.

Gaiety Theatre.—The Loftus Variety Troupe last night appeared before the public with an entire change of programme. Messrs Riehey and McCarthy were clever in their pourtrayal of Irish eharacter, and Messrs Watters and Kelly were, as usual, good in Negro sketches. The entertainment finished with a burlesque, which was by no means a brilliant success, end was, in parts, excedingly coarse and vulgar.