NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2118, 7 December 1880, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Lyttelton Licensing Oovst. —The quarterly licensing meeting was to have been held at port this morning. At the hour appointed, there being but one commissioner, J. W. Maopherson, Esq., present, the business consisting of two transfers, went over until Friday next. Cole’s _ Ciscos.—This mammoth circus, which arrived yesterday, will open this evening. Originally to-morrow was the day fixed for the opening day, but the company have arrived so much earlier than was expected, that the management have determined to commence operations at onoe. Consequently the public will be gainers by a day in their chances of seeing this gigantic show. The performance to-night will bo full and complete, with electric light illumination and a tall programme, including all the most sensational features. The band of the circus discoursed gaily through the streets this afternoon, and to-morrow morning at ten o’clock the street parade will take place, as previously announced. To-morrow there will be a matinee and evening exhibition, and two performances will be given daily daring the stay of the circus in Christchurch. For the matinees the doors are open at one o’clock, the performance beginning an hour later. For the evening, doors are open at seven, the performance beginning at eight. Police Cotibt.—This morning before Dr. Deamer and F. E. Wright, Bsqs., J.P.'s, Helen Anderson, for being drunk and disorderly on the gaol premises at Addington, was fined 40s, or ninety-six hours’ imprisonment. For a similar offence Mary Ann Cook was fined 10*, or twenty-four hours’ imprisonment. F. W. Oldham, brought up under the Vagrancy Act as having no lawful and visible means of support, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment with hard labor.

Licensing Const.—Tho Bench this day refused four betel licences for places in the suburbs of Christchurch, granted an hotel licence for a house at Courtenay, one wine and beer licence fnr the cafe, Cashel street, and confirmed several temporary transfers.

St. John’s Chttboh.—The special services, conducted by the Rev. O. M. Pym, are attracting .much attention, and the Church was crowded both: morning and evening on Sunday. Mr Pym will preach every evening this week except Saturday, each service being preceded by a short prayer meeting in the schoolroom at seven o’clock. This afternoon and Thursday there will bo a Bible reading, when questions are invited from those present. On Saturday there will be a prayer meeting in tho schoolroom at 7.30. Oaktebbuey Sunday School Union.— The usual monthly meeting of the above was held yesterday evening, in the vestry of Trinity Church, Manchester street. Tho following schools were represented :—Philipstown, Ferry road and Manchester (Congregational), Bingaland (Free Methodist), Sydenham and Oxford Terrace (Baptist), Montreal street, St. Andrew’s (Presbyterian), Durham street (Wesleyan). The minutes of last meeting wore read and confirmed. The subcommittee appointed to arrange for the annual gathering of schools reported that they had selected hymns and appointed the following places of AssemblySt. Paul’s Church, Colombo road; Wesleyan Church, Durham street and Bingaland. The following gentlemen have bean asked to conduct the services, viz. . Rev. White, St. Paul’s ; Rev. Dalleston, Durham street ; Rev. Elmsley, Colombo road ; Rev, Slocomb, Bingsland, Meetings at Papanui and Woolston to be arranged for. It was resolved—- “ That the thanks of the Union be conveyed to Mr O. S 3. Brown for so ably representing the Union at the Home Centenary. The secretary was requested to send a letter of condolence to Mrs and Mies Greenaway. The President spoke in high terms of the assistance he had received from our departed brother. The following gentlemen were appointed a committee to arrange for a Service of Song, viz. :—Trip, Cooke, Smart and Scott. It was arranged that the annual prayer meetings be held on Sunday, December 26th, at East belt church; Young Men’s Christian Association rooms, Sydenham; Wesleyan church, Woolston and St. Albans. It was decided to hold a special meeting on December 30th. The meeting was closed with prayer. Dibtbiot Const.—The monthly sittings of this Court commenced yesterday. At its rising the Court adjourned till Wednesday, at 11 o’clock, Ambbbley.—Tho Post-office has been removed to a room attached to the Railway passenger station, where the telegraph business will also in future be conducted. The transfer was effected on Saturday, after hours.

Infection in Milk.—The Health Officer in his report to the Board of Health yesterday, brought under the notice of the members the necessity of some legislation in the direction of licensing and inspecting dairies. Out of sixteen cases of typhoid reported to the Medical Officer nine were found to be served by a milkman whose cows it was strongly suspected drank from water into which sewage was allowed to flow.

Boys’ High School. The following telegram was received yesterday by the Canterbury College from Mr W. Kennaway, convener of the commission appointed for the selection of head master for the Boys’ High School, Christchurch. The commissioners were Professors Blackie of Edinburgh, Jowott of Oxford, Bev. J. Wilson, head master of Clifton College, and Mr A. Sidgwick of Oxford—“ Head master, Thomas Miller, Master Arts, Cambridge, classics, University College School.”—Signed W. Kennaway, London. St. Mark’s Church, Opawa. —This church has recently been enlarged by the extension of tho naye and the addition of a south aisle. Additional accommodation, to the extent of 150 sittings, is thus provided, and is much needed, in order to keep pace with tho growth of this favorite suburb. The work has been carried out by Mr Q-. J. Croft, under the superintendence of Mr Cane. It harmonises well with the original building, and, at the same time, adds much to its strength. A special service, to inaugurate tho opening of tho new aisle, will be held on Thursday evening, when the sermon will be preached by the Most Reverend tho Primate. The service will commence at seven o’clock and the offertory will be in aid of the building fund. The churchwardens will attend at tho church to-morrow evening at seven o’clock, for the purpose of allotting sittings. Expenditure in the “ Times.” —Talking of newspaper affairs (says a London correspondent), I give an item relating to the “ Times” which I know to bo true, and will afford an idea of the scale on which business is carried on in Printing-house square. The over matter —this is, the nows and other newspaper material set up but distributed without being used from pressure on space—represents an annual expenditure of from £14,003 to £16,000.

The Brunswick Pabk Shobthobns. — These celebrated shorthorns, whose detention in quarantine prevented their being paraded at Tattersall’s at the shorthorn sale on November 12tfa, have been released and forwarded to Christchurch, from whence delivery will be given to the respective purchasers. Five Women Bubnbd to Death.—A shocking calamity in connection with a fire occurred at Cincinnati on October 20th. The fire broke out in the shoddy factory of Benjamin Hey, Second and Broadway, in each a way as to cut off escape from the third story, where a number of women were at work. The firemen made heroic but ineffectual attempts to rescue the women. After extinguishing the fire, they succeeded in extricating the dead bodies of five women. Two have not yet been identified. The loss is estimated at 25,C30d01.; insurance, 12,000d01. Twenty girls and eight women were in the third story when the fire broke out. The girls passed downstairs safely, but only two of the women followed their example. It is supposed that six of them delayed to change their clothing until the fire cut off their escape. One of them broke her legs jumping from a window, and the others were burned to death. The Hematite Paint Wobxs. The “Nelson Colonist” says:—“The now work* erected for the New Zealand Hematite Paint Company at Para Para, Oollingwood, are now finished, and have been in full operation for the past fortnight. As considerable doubt was expressed by several shareholders as to the machinery proving effective, it is satisfactory to find that it works smoothly and well, and though only four out of the six stampers are at present used, three tons of paint are being turned out ' per week, worth at the present telling price seventyeight pounds. The cost of manufacture is estimated at about half what it was when the article was made in Nelson. The Company will probably lower the price of their paint in order to enlarge the market, and should the demand extend in the degree hoped for, the other stampers may be bronght into use with two additional berdans, the supply of water for the large wheel being greatly in excess of present requirements. We understand that the paint is becoming gradually known in Australia, and is in growing demand.” Miditaby Mad. —" Here is an extraordinary point in the present condition of this country,” writes an Englishman travelling in the United States. “ America is, as all would agree, an indnstrial country, and yet I do verily believe that not even in Germany is so much drilling, so much individual preparation made to fight in mass, and so mnch organisation of the masses so drilled, as in America to-day. The Freemasons, a most important body here, are always on the drill; then there is the militia—quite a separate organisation, of coarse—the army of the Great Republic (a Republican organisation), of which Grant is the head, which has its customs and meeting-places and other organisations of various kinds. In addition to these there are the working-class unions and socialist bodies, most powerful in Chicago, and they drill too. It has come upon one as a sort of revelation. What are they all after ? Ask them, and they cannot tell you, except, perhaps, the Socialists, and they are hazy enough as to what they want. Most of those whom I have inquired of as to what this access of military furore means bad not even noticed it until I asked the question, and then they admitted that it is so and that it is very odd.” New Medicad Discoybby. —“ There is something like excitement in medical circles just now,” writes the London correspondent of a Scotch paper received by the last mail, “ in regard to the announcement of what appear to be startling discoveries by French physicians. A short time since M. Pastern, an eminent physiologist in Paris, gave out his belief that the day would come when almost all epidemic diseases might be prevented by inoculation, in the same manner that smallpox is prevented by vaccination. He had already succeeded in proving that the principle might be advantageously applied to fowls, to protect them from the species of cholera to which they are subject. Now, Professor Tousaaint announces that he has discovered the means of saving sheep and cattle from the terrible effects of the foot-and-mouth disease, which yearly destroys so large a number of animals. If this news be true, the professor will have proved a benefactor to the race of men as well as quadrupeds. His mode of procedure is to take some blood from an animal which has died of the same disease, and simply to defibrine it by means of heat, and this done, to inoculate sheep several times with it, and the animals are unable to contract tho malady. Tho only question which remains is as to whether the good effects continue for any length of time, and we may safely suppose that the inoculation operates as a safeguard as long in the animal a* in the man. Several French physicians are now pursuing similar investigations on a large scale. They believe that a new era is about to dawn, in which all contagious diseases may have their preventives. ”

Southland Oats. —lt is commonly said of Southland (remarks the “ News ”) that it is a grand oat-growing district, and the following statistics supplied us by a gentleman who takes an interest in agriculture amply proves the assertion to be correct: —In the course of a casual conversation with one of the farmers mentioned below last week, his friend incidentally mentioned that he had just figured out the average of his last oat crop, and our informant took a memo of the amount. Curiosity led him to see if the weight of this particular crop was exceptional, and he therefore made enquiries from other farmers about the Wainiwa, to see what their turn out had been. The results in five instances were as follows:—Mr Lauchlan Fraser had a crop of 45 acres of Danish oats that averaged 105 bushels to the acre, from seed put in at the rate of If bushels to the acre ; Mr William Bonald, who had seeded at the rate of 1} bushels per acre, in land adjoining the first-named crop, threshed an average of 115 bushels, also Danish’oats; Mr John Wilson, off a first furrow on 22 acres, averaged 95 bushels ; Mr D. Noble, from Felling’s paddock, bagged Hi bushels to the acre, and a neighbor, off 45 acres cut a 75 bushel crop. The thin seeding of two of the larger crops is worthy of note. Consumption of Buttbb in England.— From statistics published, it appears that 50.000 tons of butter are annually imparted into England—a quantity representing in value between four and five millions sterling. About a fourth of this is sent from the States, and a large quantity from France, Germany, Holland and other continental countries. About 450.000 firkins, equal to about 14,000 tons, and of the value ot £1,600,000, pass annually through the Cork market alone, and there are other Irish ports—Waterford, Belfast, &o.— from which very large quantities are sent to England, a great deal of which is subsequently exported. Notwithstanding the enormous imports, in August last—a time when there is a generally abundance of feed, and when cows are giving plenty ot milk—the wholesale price of fresh butter in London was 16s per dozen pounds.

Cutting Tbbth at Sbtbntv-onb Ybabb op Aqb. —The truth of the following somewhat singular freak of nature is vouched for by a gentleman on whose word the “ Launceston Examiner” says it can rely:—Mr Thomas Buttery, late of Golden Well Farm, Ascot, who arrived here in 1824, and was born on October sth, 1809, has got a full set of new teeth, to commemorate which event he has had one of the new masticators taken out for a friend. There are a few points of interest connected with Mr Buttery’s family history. Hie grandfather lived to the advanced age of 109 years, and at 101 years ho was still so hale and vigorous that he reaped a “stook” of wheat, and stocked it himself. Mr Buttery’s own father was accidentally killed at the age of eighty-six during a fox-hunt. The origin of this family cm be traced to the times of William the Conqueror in England—one of the commissariat under the Norman King, who gave him the name of Buttery out of compliment to the satis f actory manner in which he had discharged his duties.

AusTEAiiiN Mbat Expobt. —An influential meeting of shareholders in the Australian Meat Export Company was hsld on the 30th ult. The chairman stated that two London contractors were prepared to take fifty sheep daily, and this number would probably be increased to two hundred. He believed that the market was capable of indefinite expansion. The report was unanimously adopted, the directors being urged to expend whatever sums were necessary to ensure the company’s success. Ekapkes and Bindbes. Not a few farmers will bo glad to notice tho arrival of the I. W. Parker from America with a cargo of reapers and binders. Wo understand that nearly the whole of the cargo consists of tho well-known Beering machines, for which the agents, Messrs Mason, Struthers and Co., received such a largo number of orders as to render tho special charter of the vessel necessary.

Improvements in Blab tuts. — A civil engineer, writing to the “ Timet ” atates that 1 * B £ me A er y pit* in the neighborhood, of Barnsley a *y*tem of bloating i* performed where water ie need in addition to gunpowder, with the beat possible reanlta. The prooeaa ie performed in the following mannerlnto the bore-hole is inserted a powder cartridge, with fuse attached; next to the powder cartridge is inserted a tube containing water. These tabes should be as large as the borehole will admit, and of any convenient length, the longer the bettor. They may ho made of any convenient cheap material, thin tinplate or of stout brawn paper turned round on a wooden roller and pasted together, the ends closed with corks; the bore-hole is then tamped, the fuse lit, and the cartridge fired in the usual manner. The result of this operation may be briefly summed np. The powder, in exploding, bursts the tuba containing the water ; the rending force of the powder is extended through the water by the wellknown principles of hydraulics demonstrated years ago by Bramah, over the enlarged area of the bore-hole, due to the space occupied by the water-tnbe. A much larger quantity of coal is thereby brought down -nth a smaller quantity of powder ; the heat given off by the burning of the powder and the gases converts a portion of the water into steam, the elastic fores of which assists in the operation of blasting ; the steam and water together put out the flame and flash of tho powder, and absorb and nentralise the greater portion of the gases and smoke resulting from the explosion. Education System in France.— A correspondent of the “Daily News" refers to a recent article on the religions teaching orders in France, in which it was said that in their schools “ perpetual watchfulness, the most minute restrictions, and the most petty interferences are practised. The healthy freedom of English boyhood, out of which comes the sturdy independence of English manhood, is scarcely known in France.” The correspondent contends that these words apply to the State rather than to religions schools. “It is not the provincial of tho Jesnits, but the Minister of Publio Instruction, who can take out his watch and tell his astonished interviewer what every schoolboy in France is doing sjt the moment. The subject of education in France is thoroughly and exhaustively treated in Mr M. Arnold’s 'Schools and Universities abroad,’ and when so competent a witness gives it as his opinion that the schools of the Jesnits and Dominicans are conducted far more on English principles than the State lyoees, it may, I think, be donbted whether their suppression will lead to that improvement in the character of French schoolboys which, as you justly observe, would be the sole justification of so arbitrary a measure.” Chuech Anniversary. —The vestry of the Church of Holy Innocents, Amberley, purpose celebrating the anniversary of their church on the 28th instant with a luncheon, to which the members of the rations other vestries in the Amberley—Laithfield—Sefton district will be invited, also a concert in the Town Hall in the evening.

Canterbury Buh/dino Society, Permanent. Subscriptions, both monthly and quarterly, are due this day, when the office will be open from 7 to 9 p.m., as well as the usual hours from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.