NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1914, 13 April 1880, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Oddfellows hip. A special summoned meeting of the Loyal Avon Lodge, No. 23, A. 0., will be held to-morrow evening at the Templar Hall. The CabandiniS.—This popular company will appear at Ivdapoi this evening. Their Oxford trip has been postponed for the present, but duo notice will be given when they are ready to appear in those parts. Defaulting Jheob.—Mr W. Buss, one of the special jurors in the case of Morris v Shayler, which was before the Supreme Court this morning, was fined £5 for nonattendance.

San Ebancisco Mail —lt will be seen by reference to the shipping column that the Rotomahana, with the English mail, sailed at one o’clock to day. She will, consequently, arrive in Lyttelton early to morrow morning. Genebai. Synod. —The opening of the session of the General Synod, summoned for to-day, is postponed until to-morrow at 2.30 p.m. Synod Seevioe.—As will be seen by advertisement, in another column, owing to the detention of the Rotomahana the evening service at St. Michael’s Church, advertised for this evening, is postponed to to-morrow evening at 7.30. The preacher will be the Bishop of Nelson.

Academy or Music.—“ Jessie Brown ” formed the bill at the Academy of Music last night. Mrs Walter Hill, as the heroine, played with great success, and she was admirably supported by the other members of the company. The “ Two Orphans ” will be played to-night, with Mrs Hill and Miss Arethusa May in the parts of Henrietta and Louise. Mr W. G. Qeddes, the advanceagent of the company, proceeds to-day to the North to make arrangements for the appearance of the company in Wellington.

Sydenham Amateur Musical Society.— The final rehearsal in connection with the above took place last evening, and was largely attended. The items in rehearsal were gone through remarkably well.

Thbatbb Royal.—The revival of “ After Dark ” has had the effect of increasing the attendance at the Theatre Royal, both stalls and pit being well patronised last night. The piece was received with the same favor which greeted its representation on Saturday night, and will be repeated every evening until further notice. New Rate.—The Council have decided to strike a rate of Is in the £, to be due and payable on 27th April, 1880. Teamway Oversees.—Mr J. W. Drewitt has been appointed overseer of the tramway by the City Council, under the Tramway Act. There were thirty-three applicants. Union Steamship Company. —It is stated that the head office of this company here will be shortly removed to Christchurch from Port, the Lyttelton office taking the subordinate work. The offices will also bo connected by telephone. Episcopalian Chubch, Ashburton— The Rsv. M. Hands, the newly-appointed incumbent, held his first service in the above church last Sunday. He preached eloquent sermons to crowded congregations at the morning and evening services. The Fish Hawkers.—The City Council have determined to give those selling fish on the Victoria street frontage of the market notice to discontinue the same, and sell on the reserve apportioned to them. Presentation.—Yesterday afternoon Mr P. Kearney, who has resigned his post of teacher of St. Joseph’a Roman Catholic School at Lyttelton, ,was the recipient of a presentation from his quondam pupils. In their behalf the Rev. Father Donovan handed to Mr Kearney a handsomely bound set of Shakepeare’e works, and an ornamental inkstand, conveying to him also expressions of the esteem in which he was held by the scholars. The presents were suitably acknowledged. Horses Killed by Lightning.—Wakanui, near Ashburton, was during last Saturday night visited by a fierce hailstorm, accompanied by thunder and lightning. The hailstones which fell are said to have been about an inch in diameter. Five horses belonging to Messrs Sweeny Brothers were killed by the lightning. The horses were seen together on Saturday evening in a paddock on the farm, and on Sunday morning they wore found lying dead side by side. They wore all lying on the same side, within a few feet of each other ; they boro no marks of violence, and one of them had a bite of grass in its mouth, which indicates that death must have been instantaneous. The horses wore valued at £IOO.

Pioneer Bicycle Club.—A core m'ttoo meeting was held last evening, at tho Commeroial Hotel. Correspondence was read from Mr R. J. S. Harman, Chat ss .n Domain Board, and Mr Elder, lo?sce of the park, granting permission to the club to use the cinder path on Saturday next. Tho championship club races wore fixed to start at 2.b0 p.m. It was decided to have programmes printed. The entries for the races close on Wednesday nest.

Ashburton Boeouoh Council. —At a special meeting of the above Council, held last Saturday, the report of the by-law committee on tho proposed building-regulations was adopted with some additions and alterations. Tenders for works in connection with supplying of water to tho town wore opened, and that of Mr James Wilkie accepted, the amount of which was £285. Newcastle Ooal Trade —Affairs at Newcastle, N.S.W. (says the “ Melbourne Argus ”) begin to wear a very unwholesome aspect. As our readers are doubtless aware, arrangements were made some time ago whereby it was hoped that given rates of [pay for coal and labour might be artificially maintained. The elaborate machinery, as might have been expected, was totally unable to fulfil the expectations formed concerning it. Under its fostering influence the trade of the port has fallen oft to the extent of about 50 per cent., and the consequent distress is serious and widespread. By maintaining on exorbitant rate, New South Wales coal has been practically shut out from tho markets of the world. It would be well for mine owners and workers however, if this was the only punishment they had brought upon themselves by their folly in attempting to fly in the face of experience and economic teaching. They have not only lulled demand by their prices, but they have so stimulated production elsewhere that returning common sense will have a difficulty in finding fields wherein to operate. To those remarks of our contemporary we may add that the loss of New South Wales has, in this instance, been our gain, a largely increased consumption of New Zealand coal being the result of tho short-sighted policy of the Newcastle mine owners. A Machine you Inducing! Sleep. —A correspondent of tho “ Nachricten,” Basle, who subscribes himself “ E. F. Y.,” and dates from Sycamore Brook, Long Island, gives a curious description of. the latest and most incredible of tho inventions of Professor Edison; for it is an old hoax in a very slightly altered form. The professor has perfected, wo are assured, an apparatus by which a human being can be cast into a sleep for the whole winter season, like a badger or a marmot. The professor has named bis invention the dormitor. It is not a drug, but a species of electrical machine, the construction of which remains a secret all his own, which is guaranteed to send a man to sleep and keep him therein for so many months, while ho lies comfortably upon a sofa or bed. The length and eight of the electrification of the patient will determine the duration of his uomnification. Tho duration must further depend, however, upon the zone in which the operation is applied. Thus if the patient makes his bed upon the shores of Lake Winnipeg, in the northernmost region of Canada, Mr Edison can promise him four months of sound sleep, whereas in Philadelphia the sleep would be reduced to two months, and in Panama, where it is never cold, the machine would be absolutely powerless. The Russian Navy. —A correspondent at St. Petersburg, writing to the “ Pall Mall Gazette,” says : —“ The commission appointed to consider Rear-Admiral Tehikatcheff’s plan for a reorganisation of the Russian navy, reported in favor of the following proposals : 1. Disarmament and sale of such ships found to be useless for service, 2. Disarmament of such ships as may still be used for purposes of defence, and which should therefore be retained. 3. Reduction of the personnel from 29,000 to 17,000 men. 4. All ships which are seawortny and capable of being employed as cruisers to remain at sea for a whole year ; training ships are to remain at sea from four to six mouths. 5. Immediate abolition of certain commands on the coast. 6. Establishment of a fixed census of age for each rank. 7. Establishment of a fixed maximum of ago for active service. 8. All officers now on active service to remain so until they are able to obtain their present pay in the shape of pension. It is calculated that by the above measures upwards of 7,000.000 roubles would be saved, and it is proposed to apply this amount to the building of new ships. The scheme is to come into effect, if approved by the Grand Duke the Admiral-in-Ohief, on January Ist, 1881.”

Local Industries. —A special general meeting of the members of the Association for fostering and encouraging local industries will take place to-morrow evening in the Congregational Schoolroom, Manchester street.

A workingman at Manehestsr, England, recently made a very effective temperance address in the public square. In his hands he held a loaf of bread and a knife. The loaf of bread represented the wages of the workingman. After a few introductory remarks he cut off a moderate slice. “ Tnis,” he said, “ is what you give to the City Government.” He then cut off a generous slice, “ and this is what you give to the General Government then with a vigourous flourish of his carvingknife ho cut off three-quarters of the whole loaf. “ This,” he said, “ you give to the brewer.” By this time only a thin slice remained. He sot aside the greater part of this to the “ public house,” and had loft only a few crumbs ; “ and this you keep to support yourselves and your family.” Without Gloves—A Michigan journal says, *ln this State etiquette permits a bride to be married without gloves, because that’s the way she handles the groom after the marriage.” A well known Evangolioan clergyman, on being accused of leaning toward Universalism, replied that he hoped everybody would go to heaven, “And,” said he, “there are some persons I wish were there now,”

Mabel’s sitting in the firelight, Waiting for her lover true ; All the room is filled with darkness—’Tis the shadow of her shoe.

Domestic bliss—Kissing the maid of ail work. Boston “Transcript.” Domestic blister—When your wife surprises you in the act.—Norristown “Herald.”

A man was standing on a corner the other day, gazing around at nothing in particular, when a friend stepped up and said, “ I see you have a mourning band on your hat.” “ Yes, I have ; it’s for my mother-in-law.” “ Your mother-in-law ?” “Yes, my mother-in-law,” replied the man in mourning. “Why, I did not know she was dead.” “ Well, she isn’t; she recovered.”

An actress recently obtained a divorce from her second husband in London on the somewhat novel ground that when she married him in 1876, her first husband whom she had married in 1867, and who had loft her soon after, was, without her knowledge, still living. Ho had also married a second time in 1872, and did not die until, 1877.