NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2094, 9 November 1880, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Sydenham and the Wabd System. —At the meeting of the Sydenham Borough Council lost evening, the recommendation of the works committee that the borough be divided into four wards was ratified by that body. The divisions are named respectively—The Addington ward, the Northern ward, the Waltham ward, and the Sandridge ward. Full particulars of the boundaries of each ward can be seen on application to the town clerk. City Council. The City Council met yesterday evening, and at its rising adjourned for a fortnight, according to custom at this time of the year. Ashbubton Racing Club. —At a meeting of the Ashburton Racing Club, held last Saturday evening at Quill’s Hotel, it was agreed to add another race to the programme, to be called the District Farmers’ Plate, of of the value of 30 sovs. Dbainagb Boabd. — A meeting of the Christchurch District Drainage Board was held yesterday afternoon, when among other business, the question of the Bingsland drainage scheme was considered, on certain representations from a deputation appointed by a meeting of Bingsland ratepayers. A meeting of the Local Board of Health was also held.

Thbatbb Royal. —“ East Lynne ” formed the bill at the theatre last night, and Miss Stephenson played the part of Lady Isabel with much pathos and power. The other parts were well filled, the piece as a whole going capitally. To-night there will be a change of bill.

Opposed to Reduction.—At the Sydenham Borough Council last evening a proposal to reduce the wages paid to all extra bands employed by the Council was negatived, it being contended by the majority of the councillors that 7s per day was little enough for men who did a fair day’s work.

Dastardly Thick at Bangioba.— On Friday night last, the sth inst., a diabolical attempt was made to set fire to the cottage of aMr Oolson, near the tramway and Church street North, Bangiora. The offenders had kindled a fire in the angle of the chimney and cottage wall, and but for the sheet of zinc that was placed up the woodwork to prevent the mould from dribbling under the cottage, there is but little doubt that the house would have been burnt. Mrs Oolson has been bed-ridden for years, and her husband is a confirmed invalid and could have rendered no assistance. We sincerely trust that the miscreants may not evade punishment.

United Insurance Company. — Mr J. 8. Jameson, agent in Canterbury for the United Insurance Company, has handed us a copy of the eighteenth annual report presented to tho shareholders at the annual general meeting of the company hold at Sydney on the 20th October, from which we observe that tho total receipts for the year ending 30th September, 1880, including £BOBO 18s 6d brought forward from the previous year, were £70,889 14i 3d. The expenditure, including fire and marina losses, re-insurances, expenses of management, &0., was £48,631 15s Hd, leaving a balance, after payment of an interim dividend in April last of 10 per cent, of £19,757 18s 4d, which it has been determined to dispose of os follows :—£sooo to the reserve fund, which will then stand at £30,000 ; £2500 dividend of 2s per share for half-year j £12,257 18; 4d, balance carried forward to next year ; £19,757 18s 4d. The Lyttelton Mayoralty.—This day 1 week the nominations for Mayor close at tho Port, and the election is to take place on the 24th inst. Bumor is rife with the names of coming men, some of whom are quite possibly unaware of the honor their friends would thrust upon them. The probabilities at most may be said to indicate that a poll will be necessary. The Accident at Waiau.—The many friends of Captain Brounoker will be glad to learn that ho was not the person drowned at Waiau mentioned in our telegram yesterday. A Tebbiblb Encounter. Homicide by stabbing, a crime formerly of as rare occurrence in every part of Germany, except the Bavarian Highlands, as it was of yore in these islands, has within the last few years (says the “ Daily Telegraph” steadily increased throughout the Fatherland, until now-a days hardly a week passes by without bringing us the record of some deadly affray, in which Germans have used, or abused, the knife with fatal effect. The latest sanguinary incident of this class is reported from Beuss. Little more than a fortnight ago, two men, named respectively Adam Duerrscheidt and Heinrich Schiftelmann, drinking together in a dram-shop at Delhoven, a village close to Dormagen station, quarrelled over the price of a glass of spirits, whereupon Sohiftelmann, seizing a common table - knife, stabbed his companion in tho abdomen. Although mortally wounded, Duerrscheidt grappled with Sohiftelmann, threw him, and kneeling on his chest, wrested the knife from his grasp, and with it deliberately cut his throat from ear to ear. Within ten ininutes from tho commencement of their trivial dispute both men had breathed their last, _ weltering in each other’s blood, and clinging to one another with so fierce and convulsive a hold that their corpses were with difficulty disengaged from the mutual death clutch. The inhuman ferocity displayed by either party to this barbarous encounter appears to have made a more than usually deep and painful impression upon the German public, judging by tho tone of horror and consternation which characterises Teutonic Press utterances upon the subject of tho double murder at Delhoven. Masonry. —Companions of the Canterbury Kilwinning Eoyal Arch Chapter, 136 S.C., are notified that, owing to Thursday, the 11th inst., being a holiday, the regular convocation is postponed till Thursday, the 18th inst. Back _ Consultations. —Mr Stapleton’s consultation was drawn most successfully last night at the Foresters’ Hall, when there was a very large attendance. His next, on the Dunedin Cup, of 2000 subscribers, will open on December Ist, and no doubt will, like the one just drawn, fill up rapidly. Harmonic Society.—Members of the Christchurch Harmonic Society are requested to be punctual at rehearsal to-night at 8 p.m., the performance of *’ St. Paul ” having been fixed for next week.

Obiokbt. —A match wag played on Saturday lugt between the Sandridge C.O. and the Heathcote 0.0., which resulted in a win for the Sandridge by one wicket and five rung. For the 8.0.0. George, Bearo, Mason, and Walls, and for the Heathcote C.O. Pavitt, J. Cooks, and Fisher played exceedingly well. : v :

Calcutta Sweeps. —Sweeps on the Darby and 0 J.O. Handicaps were drawn as follows at Hr Hawkes’ rooms last night:—Derby sweep, No. 1, value £44 10s—Lure, £2l; The Governor, £3; Sir Modred, £5 ; Virginia Water. £l2 ; Badsworth, £2. Sweep No. 1 on 0.J.0. Handicap, value £s4—Sir George, £4 ; Luna, £2 ; Hornby, £3 ; Betrayer, £7 ; La Loup, £9 ; Virginia Water, £3 ; Marie Antoinette, £2 ; Foul Play, £9 ; Piscatorious, £5; On Dit, £2. Sweep No. 2, 0.J.0, Handicap, value £49 —Sir George, £2 ; Betrayer, £6 ; Maritana, £2 ; Le Loup, £8 ; Virginia Water, £2 ; Marie Antoinette, £2 ; Foul Play, £10; Piscatorious, £4. Sweep No. 3, 0.J.0. Handicap, value £sß—Sir George, £2 ; Hornby, £2 ; Betrayer, £l3 ; Lo Loup, £G; Mario Antoinette, £2 ; Foal Play, £11; Piscatorious, £2. Sweeps will be drawn to-night at the same place. The following, on the Handicap, were drawn at Mr J. L. Fleming’s rooms:—No. 5, value £4l 15s—Le Loup, £5 ; Sir George, £3; Betrayer, £6; Virginia Water, £2; Pisoatorious, £3 10s ; Marie Antoinette, £2 10s; Foul Play, £8 ; Miss Domett, £2; On Dit, £1 10a. No. 6, value £3l ss—Betrayer, £3 ; Volunteer, £1 10s ; Virginia Water, £1 10s ; Piscatorious, £2 ; Marie Antoinette, £1 10s ; Le Loup, £3 10s ; Sir George, £2 ; Foul Ploy, £6 ; Hornby, £1 10s. No. 7, value £SB 15s —■ Lo Loup, £7 ; Hornby, £1 10j ; Foul Play, £ls ; Sir George, £3 ; Betrayer, £lO ; Maria Antoinette, £2 10s ; Luna, £3 ; Piscatorious, £7 10a. No. 8 sweep, value £so—Hornby, £1 10s ; Piscatorious, £3 10s ; Betrayer, £7 ; Luna, £2; Marie Antoinette, £1 10s; Le Loup, £7 ; Sir George, £2; Foul Play, £lO ; Miss Domett, £1 10s.

“You’re a fool, Frank,” a Deadwood maiden said to her bashful lover ; •* here I’ve been waiting two hours for you to kiss me, and there you sit just as if dad wouldn’t come down in about ten minutes and close the shebang.” The year 1881 will be a mathematical curiosity. From left to right and from right to left it reads the same ; 18 divided by 2 gives as a quotient. If 1881 is divided by 209, 9 is the quotient, if divided by 9 the quotient contains a 9; and if multiplied by 9 the product contains two 9’s. One and 8 are 9, 8, and 1, are 9. If the 18 be placed under the 81, and added, the sum is 99. If the figures be added thus —l, 8, 8,1, it will give 18, reading from left to right is 13, and 18 is 2-9ths of 81. By adding, dividing, and multiplying, 19 9’s are produced, being one 9 for each year required to complete the century. Man that is married to a woman is of many days and full of trouble. In the morning bs draweth his salary, and in the evening behold it is all gone. It is as a tale that is told, it vanisheth and no one knoweth whither it goeth. He riseth up clothed in the chilly garments of the night, and seeketh the somnolent paregoric wherewith to soothe the oollicky bowels of his infant posterity. He becometh as the horse or the ox, and draweth the chariot of his offspring. He spendeth his shekels in the purchase of fine linen to cover the bosom of his family, yet himself is seen in the gates of the city with but one suspender. Yea, he is altogether wretched.— “ Danbury News.” Mr Tennyson, according to the “Peri,” for his poem “Da Profundis,” which recently appeared in the “Nineteenth Century,” was paid £3OO. Not an inconsiderable snm for sixty-five lines of verse.