NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2032, 28 August 1880, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Tramway Company and the Cab-men.—To-day one of the cabmen at the railway station, named John Crew, plaeed his cab in front of the tram-cars which were about to start. Sergeant Pratt, who was on the spot, attempted to remove the cab, but Crew persisted in keeping his cab in front of the tramcars. Sergeant Pratt then arrested Crew, and took him to the depot,'on the charge of resisting the police in the execution of their duty. He was immediately bailed out, and the case will be heard on Monday at the Besident Magistrate's Court. Thb Osbobn Abbon Case.—Messrs CWhitefoord and J. Beßwick, Esqrs., B.M.s, sat ss a commission, this day, to take evidence necessary for the distribution of the rewards offered for the conviction of offenders in this respect, at a time when incendiary fires in Ohristchurch were alarmingly rife. The proceedings were private, but the president, Mr Whitefoord, informed the reporters that the award, as soon as given, would be made public.

Ladies in the House.—There is one aspeet of the ladies' gallery of the House of Representatives, says the "Chronicle," which is amusing to witness —the industrious appearance of its occupants. Some are industriously stitching mysterious looking garments or dainty little hate; others are tatting, knittiDg, or crocheting. With the exception of one young lady who reads assiduously, and another who poses a lead pencil in the air and gazes pensively at a sheet of paper before her, in the hopes of something "noteable" turning up, all the fingers in the gallery are active. In fact, judging from the piles of work in front of some of the ladies, it is obvious that but for the unpleasant noise, a sewing machine would not be out of plaoe. The scene far more resembles what we should imagine a "Sewing Bee," or a " Dorcas Circle," to be (could the profane eye of a man penetrate it) than the gallery of a House of Parliament.

St. Asaph stebbt Mutuai Impboyement Society.—The usual weekly meeting was held last evening at the St. Asaph street schoolroom, when, after the ordinary business, Mr Campbell gave an essay on " Spelling Reform." After some discussion and explananations had been given, the members expressed the opinion that the spelling of words as pronounced would be a general benefit, and would greatly facilitate the education of the young. Besident Maoistbatb's Cocbt.—At this Court the only police oase for hoaring was that of an inebriate, who was brought up for his first offence. He pleaded hard not to be detained, as, if so, he would lose a job that bad been promised him. Seeing that he had no money, and that tho offence was not a " complicated one," he was allowed to go after a lecture from the Magiitrate. Wbli. Qualified. —Mr Zincke, who has undertaken the defenoe of Kelly. the bushranger, is not only a lawyer, bu'.JPthe junior member for the Ovens district in the Victorian Parliament. His qualifications to defend Kelly are explained in the concluding words of his definition of his nationality, as given to the electors:—"My father was a Hungarian, and my mother an Englishman. I was born in Jamaica; I was suckled by a yellow gal; I was educatod in Great Britain; and I was transported—so to speak —to Australia."

Jock jaw.—Within a few years there hare been five fatal cases of lockjaw in Dunedin. A correspondent to the " Evening Star" states that he cured a case by pouring into the mouth of the sufferer a small quantity of cayenne pepper in a wineglass of hot water, and then giving him an impromptu vapor bath.

Pensions.—The colony pays in pensions £21,262, which represents the interest on nearly a quarter of a million of the colonial debt.