NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1865, 14 February 1880, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Colombo boad Wesleyan Ohttboh.— The Rev. J. S. Smalley will conduct service to-morrow morning and the Rev. W. Bautnbor in the evening.

A Savage Buttebman.—The times are not so hard but what storekeepers can afford to exhibit a fine specimen of independence occasionally. This was demonstrated by a tradesman not a hundred miles from the Oddfellows’ Hall yesterday. A respectably dressed person went to the shop in question to purchase some fresh butter for an invalid. He was a little particular about the quality, and wanted to taste before he bought. This the shopman permitted him to do and then asked if ho was satisfied with it. “ Yes,” returned the other. “ Then you shan’t have it,” yelled the shopman, in what appeared to be a sudden burst of pent-up wrath. As further abuse followed, the customer thought it advisable to retire, which he did. Some customers, under these circumstances, would have walked round that shop and mixed up the storeman with his groceries.

Death of Mb Day.—The death of Mr George Day, whose obituary appears in to-day ’u paper, marks an era in the young history of Canterbury. The deceased was one of the very old identities. He came out in the pristine days, and settled at Sumner twelve months prior to the arrival in Canterbury of the first settlers. Mr Day kept the Sumner Hotel for many years, and remained during the remainder of his life at Sumner, where he died yesterday, at a ripe old age. Mr Joe Day, his son, is pilot at Sumner, and is well-known as one who bears a reputation for the many lives ho has saved from drowning. Abbiyal of the Mail. —The steamship Wanaka arrived at 9.30 a.m. to-day with the inward mail via San Francisco. There wore 165 bags of it, 54 of which were for Christchurch, the remainder being apportioned among fifteen other Middle Island towns.

Public Meeting.—The city is being canvassed for signatures to a requisition to his Worship the Mayor to call a public meeting at an early date for the discussion of the questions of the re-distribution of seats,” and the removal of the head-quarters of the railway department to Dunedin. A Juvenile Gilpin.—A youth of the Oliver Twist type and size was endeavoring to emulate the famed Johnny Gilpin in Colombo street to-day. He came up at a fine pace towards Cashel street from the south. An old man stood in the way. The horse knocked the old man down, and the boy was “ shocked ” off the horse. Old man got up and swore, boy got up and grinned. Nobody was hurt. Lyttelton Police Couet. Florence Ebbitt, a young woman of prepossessing appearance, was charged at this Court this morning with stealing a lace shawl left at the Ocean View Hotel, Governor’s Bay, at which she was employed aa a housemaid. She was remanded until Monday, bail allowed being two sureties of £25 each.

Mb. Chiniqut. —Mr Ohiniquy delivered a lecture last nuht at the Oddfellows’ Hall, on “Temperance.” Jlhore was a large atlem dance, the chair being taken by the Rev. A. Reid.

Inspector Hickson. —Mr Hickson, removed to the Clyde district, loft Christchurch on Thursday. His successor at (this station, Mr O’Donnell, will not arrive for some days. Tiib Damns.—lt is announced that a new lodge in connection with thia order will shortly be opened in Lyttelton. A meeting will take place at the Lyttelton Hotel on the 26th inst.

Canterbury Rifle Association. — The firing in oounoctiou with the Canterbury Rifle Association has been postponed for the present. A general meeting of the members of the Association will be held on Wednesday next for the election of the Council and officers. Tbmpkeancb Library. —At the last meeting of the St. Andrew’s Lodge of Templars the following resolution was passed;—“ That this lodge recommends the establishment of a Temperance Library in Christchurch.” Delegates were appointed to visit the other lodges in Christchurch to bring the matter before them. Ashburton District Court. —The following is the list of cas n s set down for hearing on Monday before Judge Ward : —Hugo Friedlander v D. Cameron, claim £7O ; Robert Patton v M. Lake and another, claim £142 2a lid ; Trustees in estate of W. Ford v O. O. Hurrell, clerk of District Court, claim £SO ; Arthur J. Huston v 8. and E. Saunders, claim £SO. In bankruptcy, J. T. Ward, for order of discharge ; J. P. Parker, application for payment of costs ; George Thompson, for discharge ; Thomas Dudson, for payment of costs ; Thomas Williams, for payment of costs, and application for letter of administration in estate of late D. J. Dennihay.

Ashburton Magistrate’s Court. —At this Court yesterday James Gardiner was charged with the larceny of three horses, the property of one M. Higgins. The case arose out of a civil action lately heard here, Higgins v. Gardiner, in which the defendant was ordered to give up the horses to plaintiff. The bailiff, acting upon the order of the Court, seized the horses and handed them to Higgins, but they were subsequently taken, as is alleged, by Gardiner, who was seen driving them from Ashburton. The case was remanded to allow the Police to prosecute. The accused was allowed bail in £2OO, and two sureties of £IOO each.

Magistrate's Court, Southbridgb.— At thia Court on Friday, before Messrs B. J. Lee and H. P. Hill, Nicholas Columbus, on remand from Christchurch, was charged with breaking into the house of John France at Taumutu, on the sth instant, with intent to commit a felony. Mr Stringer appeared for the accused. A number of witnesses having been examined for the prosecution, Mr Stringer addressed the Bench, contending that there was not one particle of evidence to show any felonious intent. The prisoner was drunk at the time he broke the door in, and the following morning repaired the damage he had done. The Bench, after a few minutes’ consultation, decided to dismiss the case, at the same time stating that the prosecutor could enter a civil action for any damage he had sustained.

Inquest. —On Friday an inquest was held at Oxford, before 0. Dudley, Esq., coroner, touching the death of the man Evans, referred to in a previous issue as having been drowned at the Waimakariri Gorge. A verdict of “Accidentally drowned" was returned. The Review. —The arrangements for billetting the corps expected to be present at the Easter Review are now almost complete. It is expected that with the Canterbury contingent over 1500 men will take part in the review, which will be held on the Racecourse.

Presentation. —At the Commercial Hotel last evening Mr W. Smith, late postmaster at Temuka, was presented with a testimonial from a large number of friends, accompanied by a purse of sovereigns. Mr Smith has been removed to the Telegraph Department in this city. Oxford Road Board. —The usual meeting of the above Board was held on Friday, 6th instant. Present—Messrs. Wilson Fisher, Bennett, and Mullin. Mr Fisher was voted to the chair. The clerk’s report was read and considered, and it was resolved to call for tenders for a number of works. The offer of Mr Keats for 11 acres of land on Church street for £4l was accepted. The question of the drain through Mr Keats’ land was allowed to stand over. Tenders were opened for the various works, and one in each case accepted. Accounts to the amount of £179 Is 2d were passed for payment, and the Board adjourned for one month. The Fastest Ocean Voyage. The “ European Mail says —The rapid passage of the Orient will no doubt lead to the construction of many more vessels of its class to ply between this country and Australia. The distance from Plymouth to Adelaide by the Capo being about 12,000 nautical miles, the Orient, to have accomplished the voyage in thirty-seven days and twenty-two hours, must have maintained an average speed for the whole voyage of over fourteen knots per hour, a performance, having regard to the great distance, unequalled in the annals of steam navigation. Irish Famine. —The Mayor of Christchurch and members of the committee appointed at last meeting will on Tuesday next call at the Banks, merchants’ offices and business houses to receive the donations and the subscription lists distributed. Canterbury Cricket Association. —A meeting of the general committee will be held this evening at the Commercial Hotel at halfpast eight o’clock. Baptist Church. —A tea and public meeting in connection with this church, Oxford terrace, will take place on Tuesday, February 17th.

Thera was a long discussion in the Art section of the Social Science Congress on Saturday on the moral aspects of the drama and the stage. The Bishop of Manchester presided, and papers by the Kev. F. Woodhouse upon “ The power of the drama as a moral teacher,” and by Mr Herman Yezinon“ The moral and artistic aspects of the stage,’ wore read. Mr Yevin suggested an association of actors to form a high class theatre on the joint stock company principle. The Bishop of Manchester, in summing up the discussion, said that there appeared to be a healthier moral taste in the middle and lower classes of this community than in the upper, whose moral standard was half conventional. He noticed that the worst type of plays in London appeared during “ the season.”