NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1843, 19 January 1880, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

City Council.—The meeting of tne members of the City Council will be held this evening at the nsual hour.

Sydenham Borough Council.—The usual fortnightly meeting of the Sydenham Borough Council will be held this evening at seven o'clock.

Masonic—The installation of Bro. Hobday, the W.M. elect of the St. Augustine Lodge, No. 60D, C.E., and his officers will take place on Thursday. A large attendance of brethren working under the different constitutions is expected on the occasion.

Rb Stotes.—ln the " Star's " report on Friday on the Association for the Encouraging Local Industries, Mr Wood is made to say " That a son of Mr WataoD, of the firm of Watson, Gow, and Co., the great ironfounders, Glasgow, had recently paid a visit to this colony, and had called upon him. Mr Watson stated that he had seen a stove at the foundry of Messrs Scott Bros.—a very handsome one —and inquired if it was manufactured hero, and on being answered in the affirmative said that it was no use sending any more stoves to Ohristchurch from Glasgow, as they could not compete at Home with bucli an article as he had Been." We are desired by Mr Watson to state that he never made the statement alluded to. It is obvious that the representative of a firm that does a large colonial trade in stoves would be moßt unlikely to make such an assertion. Mr Wood, probably, was labouring under a misapprehension or was incorrectly reported. Engineer Voltjntbbbs.—Owing to the ianpection parade called for Wednesday evening, when Colonel Scratchloy will inspect the head quarters Volunteers, the riflo match— Artillery v. Engineers—will not be fired until the following Wednesday, commencing at 1 p.m. An advertisement, in another column, calls upon every member of the company to be present at the inspection. Habbob Boabd.—The annual meeting of the Lyttelton Harbor Board waa held at noon today, for the purpose of passing the accounts for the past year. The chairman delivered an address dealing with the various points raised by the printed statements laid before the Board, and also paying a high tribute of praise to Mr Williams, the secretary, Mr C. L. Bell, the engineer, and the officers of the Board generally. The accounts were adopted, and after some formal business the Board adjourned. Distress in Ireland.—We see by an advertisement which appears in another column that Professor Hughes invites the co-operation of ladies and gentlemen willing to assist at a grand concert to be given in aid of the suffering poor. Loose Biflb Pbacticb.—lt is reported that a court of enquiry was recently held in Christchurch to investigate circumstances connected with rifle practice at the Cashmere range, which might have been attended with very aeriouß consequences. From enquiry we learn that about a month ago a fquad of cadel • and one of adults were practising with the rifle at the 100 and 200 yards butts. One of the latter squad aiming at the longer range fired through inadvertence into the 100 yards target, the result of which, but for good luck, might have the sacrificn of the life of any of the juvenile squad, over whose heads the bullet passed. No blame further than carelessness was attributed to the marksman, but it was very properly made the matter of semi-official inquiry, the result of which up to the present has not been published. With the fact of the recent fatal accident in Wellington fresh in our readers' minds, it is obvious that the very greatest caution should be exercised to prevent even the possibility of the repetition of aeimil<rcasuality. ltis extremely desirable to encourage volunteer rifle practice, but it certainly behoves those under whose command the firing takes place to see that the rules are strictly carried out at all times in the interests of marksmen, markers, and the public in general. Appointment.—The Rev. Mr Mcintosh, recently of Lyttelton, has been appointed to the Native school at the Onuku kainga, Akaroa, by the Native Department. Lyttblton Rowing * Ciitjb.—The first general meeting of this club was held in the Lyttelton Colonists' Hall on Friday night. The club has fifty-eight active and fifteen honorary members, but as there was not a majority present a resolution was carried to adjourn the meeting until to-morrow night, when the rules will be passed and officers elected. Okain's Bat Road Boabd.—This Board held its first meeting for the year in the library, Okain's Bay, on Saturday, January 10th. All the members were present, and Mr Wm. Moore, sen., was elected chairman in room of Mr J. B. Barker, who was not returned &t the last eleotion. A quantity of routine business was transacted, and Mr Callaghan gave notice of a motion in regard to the olerk's engagement, making it terminable in three months.

Ancibnt Oedee of Shbphebds.—By the Penguin on Saturday Bro. D. T. Smith, P.P., arrived from Wellington, for the purpose of opening Sanctuary Star of Canterbury in connection with the above order. He was met at the railway station by a deputation headed by Bro. S. P. Andrews. In the evening a number of officers and brothers of the Gourt assembled at Coker's Hotel, where the visiting brother is staying, and a very pleasant evening |was spent. It is decided to open the Sanctuary to-morrow (Tueeday) evening at eight o'clock.

NORTHERN RAILWAY EXTENSION.—For a time at least, the works on the extension of the line through the Weka Pass are to be suspended so far as the employment of the occasional hands is concerned. Mr Dunn, who has charge of the laborers, on Saturday, acting under instructions from the Public Works Department, paid off 170 of the men. The camp between v the Weka Pass and Waikari will be deserted for a time. The works will certainly not be resumed till harvest is over.

Mastsb Bakers' Picnic—A committee meeting was held on Saturday evening, at Mr P. Taylor's, Tuam street, to make final arrangements for the forthcoming picnic; Mr G. Hawker in the chair. There were three tenders for a band, the Railway Band being the one chosen. Arrangements were also made with Messrs Dowdell and Hellowell for the conveyance of the band, goods, &o. A vote of thanks to the chairman closed the proceedings. Inquest.—An inquest was held at Waterton on Wednesday on the body of a child of fourteen months, named William Milne. It appeared that deceased had tilted over a billy of boiling water, scalding himself so badly that death resulted. A verdict of " Accidental death " was recorded. Railway Employes Bbnepit Society.— At a special general meeting of the above society, held on Thursday, the 15th instant, A. E. Schultz, timekeeper, was appointed secretary and treasurer. In future all members are requested to pay in their subscriptions at his office.

Death feoat Chlobodyne. A child named Mary Jane Wills was poisoned by chlorodvne at Winslow on Wednesday last. It appeared from evidence at the inquest on Friday that the parents of deceased, who was six months old, were both absent on the day the poisoning took place, Mrs Wills having taken her husband hia tea. On Mrs Wills' return she found the baby gasping, and on inquiry ascertained that one of the other children, five years old, had found the bottle of chlorodyne (which was carefully hidden on a shelf) and administered a dose to the baby. The little one lived till 2 p.m. on Thursday. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death" at the inquest, which was held at Winslow before Dr. Trevor. Destruction op Timber.—An extensive conflagration has been raging in the Tapanui bush for some weeks past, doing an enormous amount of damage. As the bush is the property of the Government no one takes the trouble to extinguish the fire or limit its ravages. It is said that some bushmen fired a tree to kill a hive of bees, and thus fired the bush. If such is the case steps ought to be taken to bring the offenders to justice. Since writing the above we (Tapanui " Courier") learn that Messrs Patterson and McGregor have extinguished the fire. Band op Hope.—An entertainment, consisting of readings, recitations, and Pinging, by members of the above, assisted by the Lincoln road Band of Hope, will be given in the Baptist Cnapel, Oxford terrace, on Tuesday, at 7.30. High School Cadets.—The members of the High School cadets are requested to muster at the drill shed at 7 p.m. sharp this evening. The Geometry of Grief.—Our dear son Gustav lost his life by falling from the spire of the Lutheran church. Only those who know the height of the steeple can measure the depth of our grief.—Obituary column of a German newspaper. A western chap who saved three children from a wateiy grave was offered a gold watch by their mother, but he refused it and would take nothing but a tin tobacco-box, which can't get out of order and make him expense Some women are very absent-minded, and frequently forget where they left the dishpau after usiDg it, but the world hasn't yet produced a woman who ever forgot where she hung her f ilee hair before retiring. Duty forced Brutu- the grand old Roman, to condemn his son to death ; but when Mrs B. said it was his duty to take her to the circus, he flared up and said he'd be goldarned if he'd do any such thing, as times were too hard This littlo event proves that Brutus was a man.

A good story is told by the " Parisian." The heroine is a marquise as young as she is beautiful. Her most remote ancestor was a stable boy under the walls of Jerusalem. This lady recently took unto herßelf a page, or rather, aa the phraseology of the day has it, a secretary. This secretary is twenty-five years of age, and his eyes are shaped after the manner and form of the most elongated almonds. The marquise had never before noticed the fact; for to ladies of such old ancestry as hers, inferiors have neither looks nor age. Unwittingly, however, she had turned the head of her page, and the other morning, being by some accident more richly adorned and abundantly than usual, the poor secretary could not command his usual coolness. He waa uneasy, he blushed, he shuffled on his chair and made mistakes. The marquise asked him what was tne matter. " Que madame la marquise me pardonne it is not my fault underneath the secretary is a man " Hardly had he uttered this veiled confession, this confused and trembling explanation of a natural emotion, when the marquise screamed, called, hung on to the bell-iope, ordered the servants to look under the furniture ana behind the curtains, and in short feigned the greatest alarm. Her secretary, she said, had just seen a man under the secretary. This was an instance of what ia called tact. The indirect warning saved her own dignity and spared that of her eecretary. A learned German doctor (says a Paris paper) has discovered a means of dyeing the eyes of animals In general, and of man in particular, any color he pleases. He is accompanied on his travel for speculation by a dog with a rose-colored eye, a cat with an orange-red eye, and a monkey with a chrome yellow eye. But the most cuiioua specimens of hia art are a negro, with one eye black and the other blue, and a negress with one eye gold-colored, and the other silver, white. The doctor says the process of ocular transformation, far from injuring the sight, strengthens and improves it.