NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2091, 5 November 1880, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Disteict Couet. — A sitting of the District Court (before his Honor Judge Ward) was held this morning. Judgment was delivered in the case of the Colonial Bank of New Zealand y Isaac Sergeant, being in favor of the defendant with costs; and tho postponed case of Morton v MKerrow was heard, Mr Joynt appearing for the plaintiff, and Mr Oowlishaw for the defendans. This was an action to recover £2OO, tho value of propel ty wrongfully converted by defendant. The Court was left sitting when we went to press. Defaulting Witnesses. —At the Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning Edward Hiorns, the principal witness in a case of forgery and uttering, failed to appear, although he had been properly warned by the poliee. After some strong remarks from Commissioner Broham and the Bench as to the trouble caused by his negligence, a warrant was issued for his arrest, and he was ordered to be brought up in custody at a later period of the day. SYDENHAM AmATEUB MUSICAL SOCIETY. —As will bo seen by reference to advertisement on tho subject, the above society’s practice will be held on Monday, the Bth inst., instead of on Tuesday, the 9th. Pbeshntatton. —A handsome silver decanter, suitablyinscribed and intended for presentation to Mr Charles Ward, of H.M. Customs, from “the merchants of Christchurch and fiiends,” was on view in the Custom House at Lyttelton this forenoon. It will, with a purse of sovereigns, be presented to the gentleman to-morrow at the Scotch Stores. Lyttelton Magistbatb’s Ooubt. —Mr Beswick, R.M., and Mr T. H. Potts, J.F., presided at this Court to-day, and disposed of the following business : —Lyttelton Gas Company v Thomas Wright, claim £1 4s; judgment by defalt. A case of assault preferred by Mrs Julia Smith against William Smith, was postponed until defendant, who failed to appear, will be brought up on a warrant.

U.A.O.D.—Lyttelton Hearts of Oak Lodge held their regular meeting in the Foresters’ Hall at Port on Thursday night. There was a large attendance of members, who after disposing of the ordinary business, adjourned for refreshment, and thus brought a very pleasantly spent evening to a termination. A special feature of the lodge business was nominating three medical gentlemen for the position of medical officers to the society, the election of whom will be held shortly. It was also determined to effect an insurance upon the property of the society. A. D. Bro. Hildyard presided. Railway Accountant’s Office. —lt was rumored in town yesterday that orders had been received for the removal of the Railway Accountant’s department to Wellington. Mebino Sheep. —The s.s. Rotorua, yesterday, brought from Tasmania a number of grand merino rams and ewes. They are advertised to bo sold next Thursday by Messrs R. Wilkin and 00.

Cambridge School. —At a meeting of the committee of the above school, held last Monday evening, it was resolved that the master be asked to make a uniform charge of 10 per cent, on all school books and material supplied to scholars. Si. John’s. —An entertainment in connection with St. John’s, Latimer Square, took place last evening, at the schoolroom, when there was a fair attendance. A very good programme of instrumental and vocal music, &e., was gone through satisfactorily. Excelsior Band. —The Excelsior Band gave another of their open air concerts in Cathedral Square last night. They went through a very well selected programme efficiently, and there was also a good attendance of visitors. Thb Windsor Fund. —The amount raised for the above fund exceeds £IOO, of which £93 5s 6d is at present in the bank, the rest having already been given to Mr Windsor. The committee wish to thank all who have responded to their appeal. What with subscriptions and contributions in kind, the family is now better off than ever, as far as this world’s goods are concerned. The list of subscriptions was closed by the amounts paid in by Mr James Torrens’ daughter, viz., £2 si, and by Mr Plimmer, viz., £5 ss. A complete list will be left at Mr Hanson’s store for inspection. Theatre Royal. —“ Under Two Flags ” was repeated last night at the Theatre Eoyal. To-night Miss Stephenson will take her benefit, when “Ireland as it was,” and “Ixion,” will be given. Durham Shorthorns. —A valuable shipment of Durham shorthorn cattle arrived yesterday in the e.s. Rotorua, consisting of two bulls and five heifers. They were shipped by the well-known breeder, Mr S. Gardiner, of Victoria, from his Bundoora herd, and are consigned to the Hew Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. It was intended to exhibit them at the Agricultural Show on the 9th inat., but under the existing regulations they had to go into quarantine, and will not probably be released for a month. 1.0.Q.T., Northern Star. —The anniversary celebration of the establishment of this lodge at Eaiapoi, by a tea and public meeting, took place in the Oddfellows’ Hall on Wednesday evening. About 150 were at the tea, which was provided by Bro. A. Anderson, baker, of that town. At the public meeting the Bov. P. B. Mnnro occupied the chair. Addresses were given by the Bevs. R. McGregor and Munro and Dr. Bnssell. Songs, readings, and glees by Dr. Bnssell, Bros. Bridges, Mellor, and the Liberator Lodge choir. The usual votes of thanks were recorded, and the singing of the National Anthem concluded the proceedings.

St. Michael’s Entertainment. The announcement of the performance by the choir of St. Michael’s of two sonatas with toy instruments, which created so much interest in England at the time, had the effect of filling tho schoolroom. The youthful performers, though acquitting themselves creditably, were hardly so well up in the time and tune of their respective parts as might have been expected. The young gentlemen who performed the parts of tho cuckoo and the canary must however be excepted from this. The other portions of the programme, especially Mrs Townend’s song, “ The Bailiff's Daughter,” was well rendered, except that tho gentleman who read from Pickwick rather imposed on good nature by giving a solid five and twenty minutes’ reading. Local Industry. Yesterday, Messrs Moor and Son of the Whately road celebrated the turning out of a most creditable specimen of local industry, in the shape of a oar for the Canterbury Tramway Company. Tho work, alike in the building and painting, has been moat faithfully and excellently carried out by Messrs Moor and Son, and is quite as good a specimen of carriage building as the American vehicles now running. The appointments and general finish of the car are the same as the American ones, except that a much needed improvement has been made on the roof by the addition of a board running along the outside, for the special benefit of the temale patronisers of the tramway. Tho directors of the tramway paid a visit to the works and were much pleased with the result of Messrs Moor and Son’s work. The oar was also seen by some members of the committee of the Industrial Association. The now car will run oa Saturday next.

The Kelly Exhibition. —This exhibition continues to attract numbers of visitors daily. Those wishing to see it should lose no time in doing so, as wa understand that it will leave for Ashburton immediately after the races. ' Fancy Faib, —It is announced that, on the 9th and 10th instants, a grand fancy fair will be held in the Oddfellows’ Hall, Liebfield street, in aid of the funds of the Cathedral and Merivale parish. The arrangements, which will be conducted by a large number of ladies, will be of unusual excellence. There are to be, in addition to general stalls, stalls specially set apart for the sale of flowers, china, dolls, refreshments, &o. We understand that the flowers and china in particular will be of a very recherche description. There will be music and singing at intervals during the day and evening. The fair will be open from 10 a.m. till 11 p.m. We are informed that special tramoars have been engaged to run from the neighbi riood ot the hall at about a quarter-past ten in the evening for the convenience of visitors, and that the services of the railway band will add to the attractions of the fair. Ybey Bably Off. —Here are two good stories of “ Irish distress.” A landlord in the county Westmeath has a tenant who refused the other day to pay his rent, amounting annually to some £450, pleading inability to do eo from the bad times. The landlord sent a courteous but firm letter to say that ho must take eteps to make him pay. A few days after the tenant appeared at the London residence of the landlord and offered to give him £12,000 for the foe simple of the farm 1 A landlord in Ireland the other day had some fat bullocks for sale, and one of his tenants came and became the purchaser, and paid for the cattle down—ready money—in sovereigns. The landlord, on going out, saw the tenant’s cart standing at the door, into which he was getting to drive away, and remarked some large full sacks in the cart. “ What have you got there in the sacks ?" “ Sure, yer honner, it’s the Belief male” (meal). Agriculture in thb Pulpit. —The Northern Ensign ” records an unusual deviation on the part of a Wick minister from the ordinary theological path. It was like a descent from the sublime to the ridiculous, when, as a finishing to a poetio dissertation on the beauties of nature, the rev. gentleman said : “ When I was coming along to church, I could not help thinking how beautiful all the lorops looked, especially the fields topdressed with nitrate of soda*’ Cetewayo at thb Oihous. —The “ Cape Times” of August 28th, says:—“The performance ot the circus last night was under distinguished patronage, for his Majesty the ex-king of the Zulus, accompanied by Captain Poole, 8.A., and staff, occupied one of the boxes. When we say staff, we of course refer to those fortunate Zulus who were caught with the King in the kraal near Unkojameo’s, and became through the accident of opportunity, their monarch’s fellow prisoners. Seeing them in the early days of their captivity and again last night, we must say that they appear none the worse for their captivity. Cetewayo has lest little of his physique and none of his spirits. He was altogether in good form last night, and his first appearance in public would suggest that civilised life, even with its restrictions, may be enjoyable to a barbarian. But Cetewayo always conducts himself with great decorum. He has evidently a keen sensitiveness and a haughty desire to suppress all indications of surprise. But he thoroughly enjoyed the entertainment at the circus, aud manifested his delight in a moat unmistakable way. Chinese Sheet Lead Factobibs. —The manufacture of lead for the lining of tea sheets is an important industry in Hong Kong. The melted lead is pressed into sheets by hand between pairs of large paving tiles, smoothly covered with unsized paper. As he drops the melted lead on one tile the workman quickly presses it into a sheet with the other. The paper being a bad conductor of heat, the lead does not solidify immediately it loaves the ladle, and as by long practice the workman always ladles out exactly the same quantity of lead, the sheets vary little either in size or thickness. The sheets are afterwards trimmed by hand with largo shears.^ Calcutta Sweeps. —Sweeps on the various events at the forthcoming Metropolitan meeting will be drawn this evening at Mr J. L. Fleming’s auction rooms, and to-morrow at Mr Hawke’e rooms, Hereford street. The Mayoral Election. —Mr James Gapes, one of the candidates for the Mayoralty, will address the burgesses at the Oddfellows’ Hall to-night. Confirmations. —The Most Bev. the Primate will hold a confirmation on Sunday next at St. Mary’s, Addington, at the morning service, and also on the same day at St. Mary’s, Halswell, at three o’clock in the afternoon.

The death is announced from Paris of Louis Gueymard, for twenty years one of the moat distinguished tenors of the Opera. He left the stage rather suddenly in 1868, and from that time till his death —at the age of fifty-eight—he lived in complete retirement on an estate he had bought at Oorbeil. The “ New York Herald ” says of “ treating ” —“This habit of standing treat is the cause of more physical and mental discomfort than every other convivial custom combined.” The “ Herald ” knows. A colored gentleman was busily engaged in sawing some wood for a Galveston gentleman. The “ man and brother ” had a large Masonic breastplate on his shirt bosom. “Do you colored Masons and white Masons affiliate ?” “ Don’t fillyate wuff a cuss.” “What’s the matter?” “Dunno, boss, but I’se tried it. Dar is a bar keeper in dis town what toted die heab berry same emblem. I was in distress ; hadn’t had a dram all dat morning. I cum iu and gabe de distress signal.” “Did he respond?” “He didn’t respond right. He made a motion at the doah wid one hand and reached under the bar. I made the sign once moah and he fetched me between do shoulders wid de bung starter, jess as I was getting out da doah.”