SOT OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1939, 12 May 1880, Page 2

SOT OF THE DAY.

Theatre Royal. Tho “School for Scandal” was repeated last night at the Theatre Royal. Miss Colville played Lady Teazle with much of her old force and spirit, and was loudly applauded. Mr Hoskins again received an enthusiastic call for his really excellent acting in tho screen scene. To-night the “ Road to Ruin ” will bo preset ted. The Drainage Board. Tho Mayor of Sydenham has convened a meeting of the burgesses of that borough for to-morrow evening, to consider the action of the Drainage Board in levying a rate on tho Borough, and other matters. Small Birds.—A meeting of delegates from Agricultural and Pastoral Associations and Sparrow Clubs, will bo held to-morrow at thi offices of the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association, to consider the question of small birds.

New Zealand Guano National Steeplechase Club, —A meeting of the stewards of tho above club was to have been held at Oookson’e Commercial Hotel at eight o’clock last evening, but up to nine o’clock the secretary did not put in an appearance. Municipal Accounts.— The city accounts for the year ended 31st March, which have already been published, were passed by the City Council last evening, and ordered to be signed by tho Mayor. Woodbnd District School. —At a meeting of the committee held on Friday last it was resolved—“ That owing to the very irregular attendance of the children, the compulsory clause 'of the Educational Ordinance should be strictly enforced.”

Wesleyan Mutual Improvement Association. —The above association hold their usual weekly meeting on Monday evening, the Rot. Mr Reid in the chair. The business of the evening “portfolio” was thenprocecdcd with. The best speech of the evening was made by Miss Janet Grossman, one of the newly elected lady-members. The subject for next week is an essay on “ Man,” by Mr Black. Ashburton Borough Council. —At a special meeting of the above Council held yesterday afternoon, tho annual balancesheet and auditors’ report were adopted. The balance sheet showed a sum of £6OO to tho credit of the Council, and this was made the oubjeot of congratulatory speeches by several councillors. Tenders wore accepted for metalling East street, Tancred street west, and Alford Forest road, and tho meeting terminated. The Mosgiel Woollen Factory.—A very handsome piece of work in connection with the prize won by the above company at tho last Metropolitan Show, has just been completed by Messrs Coates and Co. It is a solid gold medal, tho two faces of which are sunk and having a small ornamental beading running round. The inscriptions are as follows, on one side :—“ Agricultural and Pastoral Association Prize, offered by 8.8. Bishop, Esq., for bast exhibit of New Zealand Manufactured Clothing,” and on the other —“ Also prise offered by Messrs Mason, Struthers and Co. for largest prize-takers in New Zealand manufactures, 1880, awarded to the Mosgiel Woollen Co.” Tho engraving and general finish of the medal are excellent, and altogether it is a highly creditable specimen of colonial workmanship. Mandbville and Rangioba Road Board. —The ordinary monthly meeting of this Board was held at the Board room, Bangiora, on May 7th. Present—Messrs A Parsons (chairman), Duncan, Sansom, and Stalker. Correspondence was received from the railway engineer, declining to grant a strip of land to the Board at Flaxton. From Mr R. Hicks, requesting the Board to put pipes across Allen’s road. Granted. Mr W. Sooon waited on the Board and requested them to shingle the Maori road, from 0. Watson’s to the first turn. Tho clerk was instructed to see Mr Stack and ask him if the Natives would hand over the roads to the Board, in which case the road would be shingled. Tenders were received for the works as previously advertised, and one in each case accepted. Accounts amounting to £550 Is 4i were passed for payment, and the Board adjourned, Kaiatoi Borough School. —This committee held thsir usual monthly meeting on Monday last. Present—Messrs Revell (chairman), Pashby, Porter, and Mathews. Letters were read from the Kaiapoi Board of Health re night soil, and drawing attention to the want of better ventilation in the closets ; from the Board, sanctioning the appointment of Mr Dixon as second master, and giving the result of tho pupil teachers’ examination ; from the head master, calling attention to the want of trees in the master’s garden. The chairman reported that the doctor for the Board of Health had advised that the school should remain closed for a week longer, which he had given orders should be done. The secretary was instructed to apply to the Board for trees for the garden, as requested by Jthe master. Tho secretary was also instructed to invite tenders for a supply of coal, and to accept the lowest one. Accounts amounting to £3 10s were passed for payment, and the meeting adjourned. Kaiapoi Institute. —Tho adjourned meet ing of the committee, at which eight members were present, was held on Monday evening, the president, Mr J. Lowthian Wilson in the chair. Tho treasurer reported a balance of £44 17a 5d in hand. A letter was

read intimating tho passing of a grant to tho library. The librarian reported 9S rnlimn, missing from the library. It was resolved, on the motion of Mr Bourke, seconded by Mr Clark—“ That the librarian take steps to recover the missing books.” A sub-committee was also appointed to report at next meeting on the system of registering books issued and returned. A vote of thanks was passed to the president for having paid the cost of decorating the ceiling of tho reading-room. Mr Revell moved, Mr Mathews seconded—- “ That £35 bo expended in books.” Mr Pinching moved, Mr Smith seconded, an amendment —“ That the question of purchase of books be deferred till the annual meeting.” The amendment was agreed to. An honorarium of £3 was voted to the librarian for extra serviced. Accounts amounting to £lO 10s were passed. Messrs Revell and Bourke were elected auditors. Tho president, Messrs Mathews, Hewlings, Bourke, and Powell were appointed a committee to arrange a scheme for winter entertainments, and report at next meeting. Mr O. Smith gave notice to amend Rule 33. Tho committee then adjourned.

A Gallant Rescue. —Tho ironclad Invincible, Captain the Hon. Edmund Free mantle, C. 8., was tho other day ordered from Alexandria to Aboukir Bay, a passage which leads across the Nile mouths, in a shallow and often turbulent sea. The ironclad was steaming about seven knots to the hour, when one of tho leadsmen fell into tho rolling waves. At once tho cry of “ man overboard” rang through the ship, and all tho necessary measures were taken which good discipline and maritime knowledge prescribed. The engines were stopped and reversed, the lifebuoys loosed from tho bridge and taffrail,while the boats were called away, manned, and lowered with tho utmost promptitude. But the poor fellow who had slipped overboard still held, or had managed to lay hold of, tho loadline, the consequence being that, although kept up in the water, he was dragged below its surface by the vessel’s motion. After a very little while of this submersion, tho unlucky blue-jacket became choked by the sea, and letting go his grasp, floated, insensible and already half dead, astern of tho ship, with his head dropping nndor tho water. Captain Preemantle, who was watching what was going on from the bridge, understood in a moment that any delay must cost his poor seaman’s life. Without an instant’s hesitation, therefore, tho gallant officer sprung into the waves —just as ho stood in cap, coat, sea boats and all— and, striking out hard and straight for his object, reached the spot to find his man slowly sinking away from sight. Ho caught him up, got his head clear of the sea. and so, with groat difficulty, held the drowning bluejacket during tho interval in the arrival of assistance. Help of course, soon came. Sub-lieulenant Moore and tho blacksmith’s mate, Cunningham, were the first two whose bravo hearts sent them overboard to lend the captain a hand. These gallant fellows, nevertheless, only just swam up in time, for tho captain’s boots and heavy clothes were dragging him down, and it was a glad moment when tho boat drew near and took all four safe from tho water.

A Ghost Stoey. —A correrpondent of tho “ Geelong Advertiser ” is responsible for the following “ghost ” story :—“ As I know you feel interested in such circumstances, I write, in case you may not have heard it, to toll you of a very remarkable circumstance connected with tho death, at Hamilton, of tho late Archdeacon Innos. The archdeacon, as you know, died of diphtheria, and though perfectly sensible to the last, was unable to articulate a syllable, and was, therefore, compelled to have recourse to writing. This lends additional value to tho circumstance which I have to tell you. For some mouths tho archdeacon had been assisted as lay-reader by a young man recently arrived from homo named Lissorman, who, though not remarkable either for culture or natural ability, yet endeared himself to the archdeacon and all who know him by his thoroughgoing earnestness and goodness. After working for a few months he fell a victim to prostrated energy, and died at the parsonage, at Hamilton, a few weeks before tho archdeacon. Just before his death the archdeacon, who, as I have told you, expressed all he had to say in writing, and was compos mentis to tho last, wrote that going into his study one evening, after Dieserman’s death, he saw him standing at the study table, and involuntarily exclaimed, 1 Holloa 1 are you here!’ ‘Ye?,’ replied the apparition, ‘and where I am now there will you soon be! ’ Mr Innes was not a man of fancies, or of impaired physique ; end when he saw the apparition was in the enjoyment of robust health.”