THE GLOBE. MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1880.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2033, 30 August 1880, Page 2

THE GLOBE. MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1880.

Parliamentary.—The House met at 11 o’clock this morning. The amendments made by message to tho Financial Arrangements Act and the Public Works Bill were agreed to. The Suez Mail.—As will bo seen by roreference to our shipping column, the Rotomahana arrived at the Bluff early this morning with the Suez mail. Body Found. —Tho body of a man named George Willcox was found by two diggers on the bank of tho Waimakariri, near Oxford, this morning. An inquest will be held there to-morrow.

Accident. —H. Fisher, an elderly man, a casual hand employed on the wharves at Port by the Railway Department, received an injury to ene of his thighs this morning while at work receiving timber in a waggon from the brig Moa. He was conveyed home. The Late Accident at Cashmere. — The man Hawthorne, who was severely injured on the evening of the 25th, is still in a semi-conscious state, although showing signs of improvement.

Football —About twenty members of the two clubs turned up on Cranmer square on Saturday afternoon, when a very enjoyable match took place between the East and West sides of Colombo street, both sides obtaining a goal. An United Fifteen is being formed to play the representative team on their return from the South. St. Asaph street Mutual Imbeovement Society.—The usual weekly meeting was held on Friday evening at the St. Asaph slreot schoolroom, when, after the ordinary business, Mr Campbell gave an essay on “ Spelling Reform.” After some discussion and explanations 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. Miss Tilly Andrews.—The many friends of this lady in Christchurch will be glad to learn that her success in the profession at San Francisco has been very great. By the mail reaching here yesterday have come notices of a very flattering character for her impersonation of Queen E'irabeth in Andrew Halliday’s play of “ Amy Robsart,” with Miss Adelaide Neilson in the title role. Miss Andrews has just entered into a year’s engagement as leading etock lady at the Baldwin Theatre. Templeton School Committee. —A meeting of the above committee was held at the Library, Templeton, on the 27th inst. The following members were present: —Messrs Bailey (in the chair), Kissell, Voice, Hodgon, Lucock. It was unanimously resolved—‘‘That the compulsory clauses of the Education Act, 1877, be put in force in this district.” “That the master be allowed to introduce the necessary books for the fifth and sixth standards.” “ That the chairman be authorised to obtain models, map, &0., from the Board and “ That the committee meet the second Monday in each month, at halt-past 7 p.m. Spbinqetbld Brass Band.—A short time since several of the miners in the employ of the Springfield Colliery Company, Kowai Pass, met together and resolved to form a band under the above title. The band now numbers forty members, under the leadership of Mr Treghear, and has attained considerable proficiency. Their first appearance in public was on Thursday last at the Junction Hotel, Kowai Pass, the occasion being the farewell dinner to Mr Aldred, bank manager, when they played a varied programme of music in a manner that would have reflected credit on an older company. The Volunteers.—For some reason or other, the Saturday afternoon parades do not appear to find favor in the eyes of the volunteers. On Saturday, only eighteen of all corps put in an appearance, the ones represented being the Artillery, City Guards and Engineers. There were in addition to these some members of the Cadet Corps. The officers present were Major Lean (in command), Captains Warner and Hawkes. The officer in command put the men through some skirmishing drill on the open ground in front of the shed, after which they were dismissed. Harbwood Road Steam Threshing Company.—A meeting of the shareholders of the above company took place at the White Hart Hotel on Saturday afternoon, at 2 p.m. In the absence of the chairman of directors, the chair was taken by Mr Bell, who read the working manager’s report of the season’s operations, and also the balance sheet duly audited. The receipts for the past season wore £llßl 11a lid ; expenditure, £974 14s 4d ; leaving a credit balance of £225 15a lOd, in addition to which the value of grain on hanil and debts due to the company gave a further asset of £43, the only liabilities being two email accounts for advertising. The total quantity of grain threshed during the season was 63,892 bushels, the work by time representing 1221 hours. At a meeting of directors held on August 24th it was decided to declare a dividend of £7 per share, which would have been increased to £8 per share if their machine had been in working order at the beginning of the harvest. The declared dividend is equal to 31 per cent, on the paid up capital. Several questions were put to Mr Kruse, the working manager, and answered satisfactorily; and on the motion of Mr Hack, seconded by Mr Haskett, the report and balance-sheet as read were unanimously adopted. The chairman said that the next bueine a was the election of a director in the place of the late Mr G. A. Durey. Mr Manning proposed, and Mr Jeason seconded, Mr Robert Anton to fill the vacancy. As there was no other candidate the chairman declared Mr Anton duly elected. On the motion of Mr Amyes, seconded by Mr Olaridge, a hearty vote of thanks was unanimously accorded to Mr Kruse for his zeal on the company’s behalf during the past season. Mr Kruse returned thanks, and expressed a determination that no delay should occur at the early part of next season, as was the case last season, and then he was sure they would have a still larger dividend than at present. The meeting then adjourned. City Council.—The usual weekly meeting of the City Council will take place this evening at seven o’clock.

Sydenham_ Borough Council. The meeting of this Council will be held at seven o’clock to-night. New Zealand Eifle Association. —A special meeting of the local committee will be held at Warner’s Hotel, on Wednesday evening next, at 8 pm. The business is to consider some suggestions as to expediting the work of the annual mooting at Nelson and other matters in connection therewith. The committee will be glad to receive suggestions from persons interested.

Ellesmere Bacon Curing ComPany.— A general meeting of shareholders of the above company was held at Spring’s Leeston Hotel on Thursday, the 26th inst. Present— Mr J. Beanie (chairman), Messrs W. J. Q-. Bluett, A. and J. MoLachlan, Or. Sandry, Lockhsad, Stapleton, J, Osborne. The chairman explained that the only business they had before them was to confirm the minutes of the previous meeting, which was done unanimously.

New members for 149 (nearly cue fourth) of the seats in the House of Commons were elected during the existence of the last British Parliament. Sixty of the vacancies were caused by death. In the Upper House out of 137 changes, 108 were caused by death.

At a recent religious ceremonial, at the Hofburg in Vienna, twelve old men were presented to the Emperor of Austria whoso collective ages amounted to 1082 years, giving an average of ninety years and two months each. Thirty-six old people on exhibition at the same time aggregated a total of 3165 years. The consumption of cigars in the United States last year amounted to the enormous total of 2,083,356,362, being an average of fifty cigars for every head of the population, or two-fifths of the value of the entire consumption of wheat. The export of horned cattle from the United States has increased from leas than 700,000 dollars in 1873 to 8,379,200 dollars in 1879. Of the latter amount stock to the value of 6,616,114 dollars found its way to Great Britain.

A rare fossil bird has been acquired for the Berlin University at an outlay of £4OOO. It is only the third discovered and preserved, and is in the best state of preservation of them all. Of the two others one is in Bavaria and the other in the British Museum.

Mir Aulad Ali (Professor of Arabic and Hindustani in Trinity College, Dublin), asserts that the small farmers “ can never exist long by themselves,” and says that the peasant proprietary system “ has been tried and signally failed in various parts of the East.”

Dr. Neagle reports that during the year 1879 255 deaths in New York were directly attributable to intemperance. Of the individuals thus dying, 105 were natives of Ireland, 84 of America, 35 of Germany, 10 of England, 4 of France, and 1 of Scotland. A few weeks ago Shakespeare’s comedy, “As You Like It,” was performed for the first time in the theatre at Wilna, Russia. The play gave great satisfaction, and the delighted audience began uttering loud cries for the author. The manager, in great embarrassment—for ho knew no more of Shakespeare than the s.udience—at last came to the front prepared to trust to luck for his excuse. Finally, after much preliminary verbiage, ho regretfully announced that Mr Shakespeare, the author of the piece in question, had been dead nearly twenty-five years. The crowd was sorry, but satisfied. At the New Hall. 190 Piccadilly, Professor Faber is now exhibiting his talking machine. This machine, which was recently exhibited before the Physical Society, is an ingenious contrivance by which articulate sounds are made to proceed from a head which is furnished with a mechanical larynx and other parts of the chest and throat used by human beings in the production of the voice. To describe the machine would occupy too much space, nor would the explanation bo intelligible to the general public. Tho result, however, is that Professor Faber is able, by a manipulation of a sort of keyboard, to make his machine utter several words in various languages. The machine was begun in 1815 by one Joseph Faber, by whom it was exhibited before tho King of Bavaria in 1841. The originator dying, bequeathed the machine to his nephew, also Joseph Faber, who has greatly improved and is now exhibiting it. New York papers state that during the last ten years no dramatic season has generally ended with greater satisfaction to those who are connected with the management of public amusements than that which is now drawing to a close. At Wallaok’s Mr Boucicault’s “Contempt of Court” was played thirty-two times, “ Our Qiils” ran twenty-three nights, while “ The Shsughraun” had a similar run. At Daly’s the following were tho chief successes: —“Newport,” and “Love’s Young Dream,” opening bill, wore acted fifteen times; “ Divorce,” revival, twenty-three times; “Wives,” forty-eight times; “Arabian Nights,” seventy-six times; “ Royal Middy,” eighty-six times; “The Way we Live,” twenty-one times. At tho Fifth Avenue “The Pirates of Penzance” has been tho chief item in the bills, and recently a play called “ The Gentleman from Nevada” has been produced. At the Bijou Opera House Messrs Gilbert and Olay’s “Ages Ago,” Mr Alfred Collier's “ Charity Begins at Home,” and Messrs Albery and Collier's “ Spectre Knight” have been presented. Mr Sothern and Mr Emmet have occupied the Boards of Abbey’s Park Theatre, and, Mr Bartley Campbell’s “ Fairfax” was produced and ran for four weeks, followed by “The Wedding March,” “ Engaged,” and “ A Fool and his Money.” At the Union Square Theatre “ French Plats” was played ninety-four times, the “ False Friend” was played sixty-throe times, and “ The Two Orphans” was revived with a run of twenty-nine performances. “My Partner” was played thirty-three times on its first representation and thirty-five times on its revival. At the Grand Opera House tho bill has been excessively varied, Florence, Jefferson, Fanny Davenport, Edwin Booth, Sothern, Frank Mayo, the McKee Rankins, Ada Cavendish, Wallack, Emmet, and Raymond having been among tho season’s stars. The other theatres have been proportionately active, so that altogether the season has been anything but a dull one. Tho increase in the number of original and successful American plays is its most marked feature.

In some respect* the gentler sex far surpass us. No man, for instance, can deliver a lecture with a dozen pins in his mouth. The just published report of an Irish benevolent society says, “ Notwithstanding the large amount paid for medicine and medical attendance, very few deaths occurred during the year.” A young man who had recently taken a wife says ho didn’t find it half so hard to get married as he did to get furniture.