NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1931, 3 May 1880, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Thb Late Mb Nbiison.—We muoh regrot having to record to-day the death of Mr W. F. Neilson, who has died at the early age of twenty-nine, after a long illness. From hiß first arrival in the colony Mr Neilson took a prominent part in the sportiug matters of the province, and it may indeed be said, of the colony. He was an ardent supporter of cricket, and did his utmost to promote its interests. He was captain of the Canterbury team that visited Victoria and Tasmania the season before last, and he also took a cricket eleven a tour in the North. But it is not only as a sportsman that his place will be missed. All who knew him will miss his oheery presence and these graceful indications of a kindly heart that endeared him to his friends. The funeral will leave G-rosvenor House, Gloucester street East, at 4 p.m. to-morrow (Tuesday).

Suggestions fob Bbeakfabt.—What to have for breakfast is a question that is too often debated to be insignificant. The following suggestions of easily obtained but not often thought of dishes are made by the " Queon " newspaper'—"Trout or mackerel split open and broiled, scrambled eggs on anchovy toast, buttered eggs with tomato sauce, fried soles with cut lemon, kidneys stewed or fried, kidney toast, ham toast, omelets, kedgeree, kromeskys, curried fowl or rabbitt, rissoles, potted meat, and lobßter or salmon outlets, ure all excellent dishes for breakfaßt, and not very difficult to prepare." Kaiapoi Wesleyan Ohtjbch.— Advics have been received of the shipment per the Hudson of tho pipes for the organ of this church. Sporting.—The friends of W. Wilson will regret to hear of the death of his greyhound, Abel, who was killed at Mr Stead's farm on the Ist of May. Abel's name was entered for the Canterbury Derby.

Chmbteby Boaed.—The ordinary monthly mooting of this Board, which was to have taken plaoe to-day, lapsed for. want of a quorum. The only members present were tbe Be vs. H. O. M. Watson and 0. Eraser, and Mr F. de C. Malet. Mistaken Identity.—At the Resident Magistrate's Court to-day Elizabeth Dennis was summoned for having in her possession two hares, and J. H. Morgan for buying or offering to buy the same. In the absence of any members of the Council of the Acclimatization Society the case was dismissed on the ground of insufficient evidence. Mrs Dennis said she thought the hares were rabbits—a most interesting case of mistaken identity. The Bbllbingbbs.—The .Lynch Family of Bellringers appealed at the Literary Hall, Rangiora, on Satur Jay evening, and succeeded in attracting an audience that crowded the Hall to its utmost extent. The entertainment was well received, and a second performance was announced for Tuesday (to-morrow) evening. Thbatbe Royaii.—"The Ticket of Leave Man" formed the bill at the Theatre Boyal on Saturday night. Miss Lizzie Morgan played the part of May Edwards very nicely, and sang the incidental song in a manner which evoked loud applause. Mr Hoskins was the Hawkshaw, Mr Boothman Jem Dalton, and Mr Aloxander Bob Brierly. To-night the charming piece of " Alixe" will be produced. Entebtainmbnt at Oust.—On Thursday evening last an entertainment, got up by the Advance Lodge of the 1.0. Q-.T. was held in the Institute Hall. About 130 persons were present, and a capital programme was gone through. Bro. George White occupied the chair. Addresses were given by Kev. Harrington and Messrs Twose, Hassal, Boyd, and Meredith; and songs by Mrs Watson and Messrs Victor, Cork, Twose, and Robinson.

Faix pbom a Tbain. —A woman named Mary Roilly, a passenger by the express on Friday had a somewhat narrow escape. It appears that shortly after' the train left Timaru for the South some person observed her lying close to the rails with her face badly cut. Information was given to the police, and the woman, who was under the influence of drink, was conveyed to the station. A ticket from Ashburton to Oamaru was found in her possession, and beyjud the cuts on her face she did not appear to have sustained any injury. Fatal Accident.--An accident, which terminated fatally, ooourred on Saturday, the victim being a young man named Patrick Mullins, laborer, in the employ of Mr J. W. Andrews, of Greenpark. It appears that Mullins was driving" a team of horseß from Chrißtchuroh, and when about 150 yards from the Junction Hotel, the horses suddenly swerved round, the driver jumped down and endeavored to arrest their progress, but in doing so was dragged to the ground and the wheels passed over his body, killing him instantly. Deceased was a single man and boro an excellent character. An inquest will be held to-day at three o'clock. Cbicket.—A match between Mount Somers and Ashburton teams was played on the ground of the latter on Saturday. Play commenced at 11 a.m., the Ashburton men going to the wickets, and making 87 in their firßt innings. The principal scorers for Ashburton were—Amos 22, Hill and Curtis 17 ;each. Tho Mount Somers team made 72 in their first innings, the highest scorers being—A. Potts 13, Bayley 11, and Tomlinson 10. The Ashburton team scored 87 again in their second innings, Grant making 14, Eyton 11, and A. Fooks 10. At the time our express left the Mount Somers team, who were playing their second innings, had six wiokets down for 48.

That Heathbn Chinee.—The "Bendigo Advertiser " states that "Mr Elderson Smith, of the London Chartered Bank, detected a very fine sample of spurious gold presented to him for purchase on Saturday by a Chinaman. Mr Smith says he has had various kinds of spurious gold presented to him at different times, but this differs from anything he ever had before. The parcel presented would be about 15d wt.in which there appeared to be about 3dwt or 4dwfc of spurious ; the specks were small, of various shapes, like most alluvial gold, of a flat, water-worn appearance ; the centre was lead nicely covered with a thick coat of gold. The centre being softer than the outside, a:d the specks flat, when cut the outsides cover up the centre and hide the load from view. Even when immersed in cold nitric acid nothing wrong is discovered, but when boiled in the acid then it shows itself. There were several gentlemen in the Bank while Mr Smith was testing it, but they all declared they could see nothing the matter with the gold, even after their attention was drawn to it, and one of them was a gentleman whose profession is the treatment of gold." HEAT ExpOXT.—An English paper says : " The carcases of 10,000 sheep brought by the Paraguay from South Amerioa have arrived at Havre in first rate condition, and quite fit for human consumption. Two forwarded to London weighed 581 b. and 421 b. each, and were sweet and good, dressed ready for cooking, and if hung up in an open thoroughfare no ordinary passer by would have suspected that they had been sent 7000 miles aftor being killed." A Happy Man —Mr G-aunson, in a speech in the Victorian Assembly against increasing the duty on imported boots, appealed ;to Major Smith. "It does not affect ma," said tka Treasurer, " they cannot import my size." Smuggling in G-ebmany.—The additional duty imposed on tobacco in Germany has had the not unexpected effect of greatly stimulating the smuggling of foreign tobacco. This contraband traffic is described as having assumed most extensive proportions aoross the frontiers of Holland. It is an open secret that gaDgs of ten, twenty and thirty men, ohiefly Dutohmen, are regularly engaged in taking large quantities over the borders, and it is asserted that the tobacco manufactories in Nymwegen are unable to keep pace with the demand which has sprung up from this cause. The Custom-house guards on the frontiers do their utmoßt to prevent the traffic, but they are far too few in number compared with the extent of frontier, to produce much effect, and the smugglers manage constantly to escape detection. The Nihilist Pbogbammb. —On the same day that the attempt was made to blow «p Ihe Winter Palaoe at St. Petersburg, there appeared in Holland the first livraison of a work wh'ch professes to be an impartial inquiry into the causes and working of Russian Nihilism. In about fifty pages the author reviews the well-known volume of Nicolai Karlowitsch. Acoording to Karlowitsch, himself a staunch Imperialist, the Nihilists, most of them of the upper classes, have but one programme — ttMwaite, strjeljaite, buntuite—murder, shoot them down, rebel. An Intbbbsting Rblic.— In 1849 the late Prinoe Consort presented Professor Anderson, " the Wizard of the North," with a superb suite of Highland chief's ornaments, and the wizard, going abroad, took them with him. A recent visitor to Natal bought the jewels at an auction there, and has brought them back to England. The suite of ornaments, whioh is complete, from shoe-buckles to bonnet brooch, is of ebony, with large cairngorms, some of them of very fine quality. The inscription on the great horn is—" Presented by Prinoe Albert to Professor Anderson, in testimony of the Prince's approval of the classical arrangement of the grand fete, in conjunction with Prcfessor Anderson's own extraordinary magical performances, on the occasion of Prince Albert's birthday, 28th Sept., 1849."

Shobthobn Eloquence.—A contributor to a Chicago paper finds great satisfaction in the Anericau mode of describing and naming cattle, as compared with the English style of doing it. "I have before me," says this writer, "an English newspaper cutting in which a shorthorn's name is styled ' a baptismal patronymic;' another describes a young bull as the ' scion of a lordly raoe,' and an old one as ' the monarch of the yard." A cow and a calf are referred to as " Lady So-and so and her handsome daughter," and another cow is said to have " grown bigger, if not more ladylike." "If an animal is good over the loin," continues our censor, "it is written down as having a ' broad expanse of tableland;' the hair on a shorthorn beast is described as 'downy,' 'mole-like,' ' velvety,' ' mossy,' and ' like that of the Esquimaux dog ;' the touch like that of the ' sea-otter,' ' superb,' ' lusoious,' ' lovely ;' and the newest definition of a shorthorn hide is an ' elastio wrapper." He adds —" I hsve seen the word ' grand ' used with regard to every pai t of a shorthorn except the ear and the tail, and I have seen the former described as 'beautiful' and tho latter as 'aristocratic' " He quotes one paragraph in which a young bull "of gaiety of carriage and lordly style " is compared with a diamond of beautiful setting—" entirely a jewel of this nature which every Englishman must feel regretful to lose from his country ; but being destined to adorn tho bosom of tho Southern Ocean, wo only hope it will blazon there in brilliant lußtre, and for many years attract attention from every part of the civilised globe."

Wosiau—A Mystbey.—A writer in "Notes and Queries ".Bays that there yet remains to be seen on a pane of glass at Little Moreton Hall, in England, the following distich, out with a diamond, dated 1621 : "Man can noe more knowe. .woman's mynde by teares, Than by her shadow judge what clothes she weares." Tho Oleareland " Herald " gets in a point by advising christians to hire a steamer, give a Sunday excursion, and then suddenly open religious services on the crowd of loafers. They must either listen or jump overboard. A mob tarred and feathered a comic singer out West for eloping with another man's wife. Bis manager bills him now as the " Great Feathered Songster." A Paris despatch says the Communists at Geneva, who were condemned in default in 1871, are about to meet to consider the propriety of surrendering themselves to stand trial in Paris. Since the passing of the Land Act, 1877, there have been 38,608 acres of land in the Provincial District of Otago taken up on the Deferred Payment System, tho price paid for the same being £137,468, being a little over £3 lis per acre. The great demand for Bessemer and mild steels has compelled England, Prance, and Germany, to import large quantities of non phosphoric ores. In the Lower House of the Austro-Hungary Reichsrath, a deputy recently introduced a motion in favour of a general and simultaneous proportionate reduction of the armies of the European powers.