NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1920, 20 April 1880, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Lyttelton Electors. —Mr H. Alin right, M.H.K. for Lyttelton, w ;l l address br> constituents to-moi.ow evening, at the Oddfellows’ Ha’ 1 at Port. Lyttelton Magistrate's Court.— The business st the E.M. Come, Lyttelton, this morning, consisted of fir’ng a fi .st offender 5s for being drunk and disorderly. Mr H. / 1 1 - wright on the Bench. The Lyncii Family of Bellringers The Lynch Family of Bellringers end English Combination Troupe e .Ived in t iwa th's morning after a very successfc 1 tour from the South. They are announced to open at the Academy to-moi.ow evening. De Plofdndis. —The “ Now Zealand Sim ” has ceased publication, the p'ant having been purchased by the propiiotora of the Ob»-’st-oburch “ Bobo,” who purpose uti’ismg it lor their own ’’sue. Olive Branch Degree Temple, I.O.GFr. —The usu-1 fortnightly meeting of the above Temple was held last evening, the Templar Hall, Worcester street ; Bro. Lam*, Degree Templer, in the chair. Two candidates, one from the Hope of Christchurch Lodge, and the other from the Pride of Sydenham, were init’atod into the Degree of Fidelity. After a short recess, the question of the formation of a Comic’ 1 ' of Instruction was introduced by the D L.H.S. Considerable discussion pro ct eon having taken place, it was resolved, on the motion of the D. 0., to edjor-n the debate till the next degree session. After spending a very nleasant evening, tbo Temple Wf v closed with the usual ceremonies at 10 p.m. Health Statistics. —During the psst fortnight the following cases of infectious diseases have been reported : —Christchurch : Scarlet fever, 1 ; diphtheria, 2 ; typhoid, 4 total, 7. Sydenham ; Typhoid, 4 —total, 4. Heathoote: Diphtheiia, 3; typhoid, 2 total, 4. Grand totals : Scarlet fever, 1 ; diphtheria, 4 ; typhoid, 10 —15.

Damage to the Streets. —A conferouoe was held yesterday between the works committee of the City Council and the similar body connected with tho Drainage Board respecting the damage done to tho city streets by the drainage works. It was agreed that payment should bo made to the City Council by tho Board at the rate of £3 per chain for repairs necessary to Madras street, the North belt, and Antigua street, and at £1 per chain for the remainder of the streets affected. Tin WALD. —A movement is on foot in tho flourishing little township' of Tinwald to erect a Temperance Hall there. Tho matter was only mooted on last Thursday, when it was proposed to form a company for that purpose with a capital of £2OO in £1 shares, and since then more than half the shares have been taken up. The following provisional directors have been elected, namely :—Messrs T. Williams (chairman), W. H. Smith, F. S. Shearer, Jones, D. Toppett, J. Gudsell, B. Beove, 0. and W. Hawkins, and Co’regan.

Ancient Obdee op Foresters. —Court Star of Canterbury, A.0.F., held their ordinary court meeting at tho Foresters’ Hall, Oxford terrace, last evening. There was a argo attendance, and a considerable amount of important business was gone through. A case of a brother in groat distress having been brought before tho court, it was unanimously resolved that the brother’s contributions be paid to date from tho incidental fund, tho balance of the sum voted to be given to tho brother. The death of a brother in Auckland having been reported, the usual funeral donation was passed, to be forwarded on receipt of certificate of death. An initiation took place, and a clearance member from England was admitted. Several propositions wore read. Tho receipts for the quarter amounted to £302 I2s lid. Tjieatbb Koval. —“Jonathan Bradford” and “ High Life Below Stairs” wore repeated fast night to a very good house. To-night “ Aurora Floyd” and “ Nothing to Wear” will ho played. Avon Deainaqe Bate. —Tho question of tho drainage rata struck for the Avon district, which has lately boon tho subject of several public meetings, was before the Drainage Board yesterday. The Board had under discussion the resolutions forwarded by tho chairman of tho public meeting held at Bingsland, and answers were ordered to be sent to each of them, explaining the action of tho Board. A Stranded Whale, —Tho whale reported outside Lyttelton Hoads on Friday night drifted on the beach about throe miles north of Sumner on Saturday night. Tho Mess:a Day Bros, took possession of it, and were busy yesterday boiling the monster down. They expect that something like £2OO will bo realised from the oil. The exact length of the whale is 65ft. Melbourne Exhibition Commission. — A meeting of the members of the Sydney Exhibition Commission, with a view to their acting in a similar capacity as regards the forthcoming Melbourne Exhibition, was convened for 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon, at the Chamber of Commerce. Tho only members present were Messrs L. E. Nathan, P. Cunningham, G. G. Stead, W. D. Wood, and tho'hon. sec., Mr J. A. Bird. After some discussion as to the chairmanship of tho Commission, a letter from tho interim secretary at Wellington to Mr C. W. Turner was handed round, and it was agreed that a further mooting should bo called, when the question of tho chairman had been settled with the Wellington authorities, Tho meeting then lapsed, 1

The Statb op tub Avon. —At yesterday’* mooting of the Drainage Board the engineer was directed to see that the contract for clearing the Avon was strictly enforced, many complaints having been made as to the present foul state of the river. Tub Eruption of Kilauba. —One feature of tho last eruption of Kilauea the remarkable volcano in the Sandwich Islands, is the fact that the groat molten lake of lava, occupying a huge cauldron nearly a mile in width, and known as tho “ South Lake,” was drawn off subterraneously, giving no warning of its movements and leaving no visible indication of its pathway or the place of its final deposit. The old process of replenishment which had gone on since the last eruption in 1863 is reported to have begun again, and after another decade another disgorgement may take place. Tub Eukctuic Light.—A French inventor, M. Perrucho, has presented a now description of electric candle tc the Paris Academy of Science. The candle consists of three carbons, two being cylindrical and O'OOt metro in diameter, and applied to each other, the third of square section, 0 005 metro inside, and placed in the angle formed by the first two. The cylinders are in pivoted brass holders between brass plates brought together by a spring. Tho holder of the square carbon is also capable of oscillation, and the carbon is held by a spring in contact with the other while no circuit passes, but when the current begins takes its separate position. It is regulated by an iron layer and electro-magnet in circuit. Lord Oranmore, examining Mr Bright’s scheme for regenerating Ireland, shows that the cost of reclamation of the land will be £210,000,000, and £60,000,000 more must be advanced to enable the proprietary to carry on good cultivation, and asks :—“ If the State fulfils its duties and advances this little sum, and whatever little trifle may bo necessary to carry out Mr Bright’s scheme for buying out landlords, what will bo tho price of Consols ?” An absurd rumor, prevalent both in London and Paris recently, to the effect that tho Empress of Russia was dead, and that her dead body, rather than her living form, was being convoyed to St. Petersburg, had a twofold origin. The -journey was in many respects a remarkable one. She was quite unconscious when her couch was wheeled into the Imperial train, and it is now said in Paris that it contained a coffin among the luggage, and that one of the suite was an individual who could have embalmed the body in case anything had happened. Mr Vanderbilt has recently sold 250,000 shares of the stock of the New York Central Railway. It is the largest sale ever made by one individual —in fact, no other person in the country ever held so large an interest in railroads. Tho debt of California in four years has been reduced 356,204 dole, and is now less, than 3,500,000 dole, while there is 1,498,150 dols in the Trcuury