THE GLOBE. FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1881.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2197, 11 March 1881, Page 2

THE GLOBE. FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1881.

District Court.—The Court sat thi morning at eleven o’clock, when tho case of Sargood, Son and Ewen v E. George, a claim of £65 17s 6d, amount of an overdue bill, came on. Mr Garrick appeared for the’plaintiffs, Mr Izard for tho defendant. The case was adjourned, on the application of defendant’s counsel, on the terms that defendant pay into Court tho sum of £2B, being the amount previously tendered by him to the plaintiffs. Bbitibh Israel Association.—The above association held an ordinary general meeting last evening in the Templar Hall, Worcester street, the president (Mr T. S. Lambert), in the chair. After the usual preliminary business had been gone through, Mr Gee opened the subject for the evening’s discussion, “ Israel must bear another name in captivity,” by reading a highly interesting and instructive paper, which not only treated of the subject for the evening, but also of all the subjects discussed by tho association from its formation. There was a good attendance, and the meeting closed in the usual way. Impoetbd Fecit.—At the lunch given by the Bangiora Flower Show committee, on Thursday, during the speeches, one grower of apples rated the importers of fruit pretty soundly for bringing into tho country insipid fruit which here would not be picked up under the trees, when they might have purchased all the supply needed for Christchurch by going into the country districts for it and obtaining wholesome apples. A fruiterer who was present explained that owing to its having been stated in one of the newspapers that tho early frost here had cut off the fruit, the persons engaged in the same trade as himself had felt compelled to order fruit from other places in advance. He was surprised to find that there was such a largo quantity of fine fruit grown in this neighbourhood, and was certain that the fruiterers were as anxious as any persons to assist local industries. B.M. Couet, Lbkston. —At this Court on Thursday, before Dr. Donald, 8.M., the following were each fined 10s for being the owners of unregistered dogs :—John Morrison, E. Moore, W. J. Mawson, John Donald, John Cunningham, T. Banks, H. Height, W. Bobinson, Wm. Watson, Doyle v M, Woods, claim £7 10s, judgment for plaintiff ; same v Slattery, claim £5 18s. In this case Doyle applied for a judgment summons, which was granted, and judgment given for 6s per week. Montgomery and Co. v A. Johnston, claim £l, judgment for amount claimed with costs ; Palmer v J. Hayes, claim £25 Is lOd, adjourned to Southbridge, as tho B.M. was not sure up to what amount he had jurisdiction over. Main Donald v Stephens, judgment for £2 8s 7d ; A. L. Glasson v J. Hicks, claim £3O 12s Bd, was also adjourned for a month. J, H. Doyle v Wm. Donald, claim £lßlls 9d, judgement for plaintiff for £5 17s fid and costs.

Noeth Belt Presbyterian Ohuech.— A very interesting lecture was delivered last night in the Oddfellows’ Hall, Montreal street north, by the Rev. J. G. Patterson, of Invercargill. Mr Beattie occupied the chair. The subject of the lecture was—“ Is it possible to make the best of both worlds.” The rev. lecturer showed that religion was a principle that entered into life in its business, its commerce, its politics; that godliness was profitable for business, as it developed those qualities such as honesty, industry, forethought, dtoision, that go to success in business, and that, other things being equal, the godly man was the best business man and the best citizen. There was a large attendance, and at the close a liberal collection was taken up on behalf of the Sabbath school. The Rev. J. D. Fergusson moved a vote of thanks to the rev. lecturer, and the meeting closed.

Temuka Mutual Improvement Society. —The above society has been lately inaugu rated by a general meeting of those interested in forming an association for the purpose of debating, reading, recitation, &c. At the general meeting the Rev. J. O. Welsh was elected president, and the Rev. Mr Gordon delivered an address on “ Thought.” The first ordinary meeting of the society was held on Monday evening, the 7th inst., when there was a good attendance of members ; a few ladies being also present. The subject of debate was —“ Whether is a limited Monarchy or a Republic the preferable form of Government.” Mr Diddams and Mr Lawrence took the side of the limited Monarchy ; Mr McKay and Mr Hayhurst advocating the Republican side. There were a good number of speakers on both sides, and the debate was carried on with animation. A show of hands was taken, which was in favor of Republicanism. Dr, Hayes undertook to read an essay on “Evolution ” at the next meeting on Monday fortnight. A vote of thanks to the chair terminated the meeting.

Tempeeanok Meeting at Papanui.—A meeting was held last night in St. Paul’s schoolroom, Papanui, to consider the advisability of opening a Templar lodge in that district. The chair was taken by the Rev. P. Q-. Britton, who, in his opening remarks, announced his sympathy with the temperance cause, and signified his intention of joining the Templar order if he could in any way help the cause of temperance by so doing. Mr J. T. Smith then addressed the meeting, pointing out the many evils of intemperance, and the wrong done to the community by every man who drinks intoxicating liquors. Mr J. Efford then spoke of the power capable of being wielded by the Templar organisation against the drink evil, and urged those present to join the order of Good Templars. Mr C. M. Gray explained the working of a Templar lodge, and instructed those present in the manner of opening a lodge. A form of application for a charter was then handed round and signed by several of those present. Dae notice will be given of the opening of the proposed lodge.

Hkathcote Regatta Committee. A meeting of the Heathcote Regatta committee was held at the Commercial Hotel last evening at eight o’clock. Mr J. O. Jones occupied the chair. A letter was read from Mr P. Back, railway manager, stating that arrangements had been made to convey the boats of competing crews from Lyttelton and Kaiapoi free. Mr J. S. Monck wrote, advising that he bad engaged Mr Button’s band, also that Mr Ravenhill, of the Oaversham Hotel, would erect a publican’s booth in hie (Mr Monck’s) paddock. The list of entries for the various events was then road, showing that three clubs had entered for all the events, except the Senior Pairs and the Nos. 1 and 2 four-oar sweeps, for each of which two crews only had entered. Very general regret was expressed that the excess of work entailed by the grain season had prevented the Lyttelton crows from competing. The starting positions of the various crews were then ballotted for. It was decided that the programmes should bo entrusted to members of the committee for distribution on the spot, also that omnibusses should leave Morton’s Hotel at 12 and 1.30 on the day of the race. Some routine business was transacted, after which the committee adjourned.

Mttpp Cbiokbt Match.—A most enjoyable match was played yesterday between two teama selected from the members of the Muff Cricket Club, captained respectively by Mr O. E. Briggs and Mr W. R. Mitchell. The former were the victors, scoring 146 in their two innings against their opponents’ 134. Mr Oookson provided a capital lunch, which was done justice to by both teams.

Accident at Lkeston.—A man named John Robb met with a rather a painful accident at Leoston yesterday. Ho was working at a threshing machine for Mr Osborne, and as ho was carrying a scales to the combine he slipped, and in falling, one of his logs got doubled under him, causing a simple fracture to that limb. He was sent to town, and received into the accident ward of the Hospital for treatment.

Abhlbt School Committee. —The monthly meeting of this committee was hold on Monday last. Present—Messrs E. Wright, B. O’Neill, J. Fraser and F. Croft (chairman). Several communications were read from the Board 'of Education, among others one fixing tho meeting of householders for election of a now committee for Monday, 21st inst, “ha accounts connected with the late treat and prize disfribu’ion were pes?ed, th' receipts just balancing the expenditure. j% vote of thanks was unanimously passed to Mr H. Peat of Lcburn for his kindness in cq/i----ducting tho examination for prizes. The committee then adjourned.

Aghbttbton Thmplae Hall Company.— At a mooting of the shore company, hold last Wednesday evening, it was resolved to borrow £125 to pay off the debt duo to the Building Society, after a long discussion. E.M. Coubt, Ashburton.—At the above court yesterday, before J. Nugent Wood, Esq., B.M , Horace Quinton was charged with the larceny of £3 from one Thomas Brewer. It appeared that Constable Neil met the accused on the previous night, about twelve o’clock. Ho was looking for a boardinghouse, and tho constable, to whom he said he had only two or three shillings, directed him to the Ashburton Hotel. He was sent to a room by Mr McKenzie, landlord of the Ash burton Hotel, Shortly afterwards he came down stairs with a£l note, and asked for a drink. Tho complainant, Thomas Brewer, who was sleeping in the same room with the accused, made a complaint to Mr McKenzie that he had been robbed of £S. Tho police were sent for, and the accused was arrested. He stated that when he went into the room Brewer’s pocket-book was lying on the floor of the room, and that ho put It under Brewer’s bod for safety. Brewer recognised the note given by the accused to Mr McKenzie as one of those stolen from him. The accused had nothing to say, only that ho was innocent. His Worship said there was very strong circumstantial evidence against the prisoner, but as the complainant's evidence, owing to his having been drunk, was not reliable, he would give him the benefit of the doubt, and discharge him. Thomas Brewer, complainant in the last case, was charged with having been drunk and disorderly. He had appeared before the court in the forenoon under tho influence of drink, and tho case had to be adjourned until four o’clock, as he was not then in a fit state to give evidence. He was fined ss.

Pionbbr Bicycle Club.—The monthly committee meeting of the Club was held at head-quarters last night. Present—Messrs Farr (captain), Dalton, L, Hubbard, Fox, Norris and Olarke (hon. sec.) The protest entered by Mr Quirk against Mr Allison taking tho prize for the consolation race was considered, and was decided in favor of the protestor, as the handicap had closed when Mr Allison had wished to enter for the one mile race in which he ran. Accounts for the prizes and expenses attending the races were passed for payment. The runs for the month were fixed as follows—l2th, Heathoote for regatta at 1.15 p.m.; 19th, Halswell; 26th, Kaiapoi. The meeting then adjourned.

1.0.0. F., M.U., Loyal Phillipstown Louse.—At a meeting of the above, held on Tuesday, P.G. Bro. Guntrip, on behalf of the lodge, presented the secretary, Bro. J. McCormick, with a handsome English lever watch and chain, in appreciation of the valuable services he had rendered to the lodge as secretary. On the inner case was the following inscription : —“Presented to Bro. J. McCormick by the brothers of the Loyal Phillipstown Lodge, 1.0.0. F., M.U., March, 1881.” Bro. McCormick thanked the brothers for their mark of esteem and confidence, and was gratified to find that bis services had been of some use to the lodge. After some harmony, the lodge was duly closed.

The Orphanage Treat.—The annual treat of the children at the Lyttelton Orphanage took place yesterday. The children, with the exception of the very youngest, were taken over to Quail Island in the s.s. Lyttelton, which was kindly placed at the use of the party gratis, and a most enjoyable time was spent on the island. An abundance of good things was provided and thoroughly enjoyed, and games, &c., were the order of the day. The children returned homo in the evening, having enjoyed themselves to the utmost. On reaching the wharf they gave hearty cheers for those to whom they were indebted for their very enjoyable outing, and to Messrs Agar and Roberts for the use of their launch. The youngsters then fell in and marched home in high spirits.

Kaiapoi Pbesbyteeian Church.—The ordination of the Rev. Robert McGregor and his induction to the charge of this Church took place on Thursday. After the service usual on such occasions had been proceeded with, the Rev. B. J. Westbrooke preached the induction sermon. Prayer was then offered by the Bev. T. R. Cairns, which was followed by the ordination service, the Moderator, Mr Cairns, being assisted in the imposition of hands by the Revs. Elmslie, Horner, Hill, Westbrooke, and McCallum. The Rev. W. Horner addressed the newly ordained and inducted minister on the duties and responsibilities of his position, the Rev. N. McCollum following with an address to the people on their duties as members of the Church. The service closed with the customary introduction of the congregation to their minister at the church door. A tea meeting was held in the evening in the Orange Hall, at which the liberal provision made by Mesdames Kidd, Young, J. Stevenson, B. Moody, R. Wilson, and the bachelors, was done justice to by a large number of visitors. At the public meeting subsequently held the chair was taken by the Rev, R. McGregor. Addresses were given by Revs. Cairns, Horner, Hill, Elmslie, Armitage, and Munro, the speeches being interspersed with selections of music by the choir. Votes of thanks were passed to the ladies for providing the tea and to the choir.

Josh Billings says, “Success don’t konsist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one the seckond time.” " Would you like to look through the big telescope ?” asked one girl of another. To which the latter replied: “No, I’d a great deal rather look through a keyhole.”—“ Harvard Lampoon.”

A newspaper commenting on the fact that a farmer nearly lost his life by sinking in a quagmire, adds : “ Men who do not subscribe for a paper must expect to be sucked in every now and then.”

We hope the good time will one day come when every man shall have his personal and peculiar champion belt, and there shall be no more wrangling over isolated and sporadic ones.—“ Boston Herald,”

An exuberant youth hails a supposed acquaintance on the street with “Hello, Joe,” but finding his mistake, adds, “O, excuse me; I thought you were another man.” Laconic stranger answers, “lam.”

A Boston minister concludes his sermon as follows : —“ But I hear the rustling silks in the pews as if some of the ladies were impatient to leave ; I will therefore say, God bless you, ”

It is a remarkable fact that the moment a woman writes a letter she is frantic to put it in the post-ofliee, although she may have been putting off the writing for six months. A Connecticut farmer, who set out an elaborate scarecrow in his strawberry patch, was disgusted to find that a pair of robins had built their nest and were raising their young under its hat.

His Revenge.—Not long since a young lady, who had been engaged to a fine young man for some time, met a richer person, and soon put off the old love for the new. She wrote to her old lover requesting him to return her photograph. Here was a chance for revenge, which ho took by sending her the following note : —“ I would gladly comply with your request, hut if I do it will spoil my euchre deck. I have a collection of photographs which I use for playing cards, and I do not want to break it by giving away the queen of diamonds.”

Only “Fatigued.”—The lost sitter at a private dinner in Scotland, who had at length made up hie mind that it was time to retire, announced his intention to the butler ; and, fancying that he saw something like a smile in the servant’s face, he turned gravely round, saying ; “ Ah, John, I think I’ll go to bod ; but I’m no fou’, John, mind that. I’m no’ the least fou’ ; but I’m just fatigued wi’ drinking.”

A Funny Fact.—Sol Smith Russell tells the following story of his experience as an entertainer : —At a small Ohio town, where he had given his performance the previous night, he met at the depot the following morning an elderly ranger who, while he peacefully munched a huge quid of tobacco, intently eyed the humorist, and finally said : “ Say, mister, hen’t you the fellow what gen the show np to Smoot’s Hall last night?” “Yes,” replied Russell, “I did give an entertainment at Smoot’s Hall last night,” “ Wall, I thought you was the chap. I wanted to tell you ’bout a boy of mine ; you ought to have him—he’s just {he fellow for your show. He's the d—th 0t fool you ever see,” In a recent English railroad accident Mrs Mitchell, a widow lady of fortune, on her way to a cummer retreat, lost two sons and a daughter, while she, another son, and her servant, were seriously injured. A sovereign and costs in each case was the sentence lately passed on a brick-making firm in Lancashire for employing a number of children physically unfit for work and under the proscribed age.

A black ash tree with beautifully figured grain, taken out of a Dunwich marsh, when out up sold in New York for 3000dol*. Tho stump sold for another lOOdols. The product was used for veneering.

Colonel E. L. Drake, who has just died at New Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, drilled the first well at Titusville, Pensylvania, and thus became founder of the immense petroleum business. For several years past Colonel Drake received a pension from the State on account of the benefit which the State received from his pioneer enterprise. So many tenants on the Duke of Marlborough’s Oxfordshire property have given up their farms that ho has over 5000 acres unoccupied and thrown on his own hands. Many other largo landlords in the country are in a similar predicament, and in Warwickshire, Gloucestershire, and Wiltshire things are even worse.

A splendid now tombstone of Aberdeen granite has just been placed over Flora Macdonald’s grave in tho Isle of Skye, It is authoritatively stated that the Hon. W. J. Clarke intends going home shortly and remaining there for some years. Apart from tho loss to tho country of so nobly representative a man, there will not be a little wailing and weeping among the very many poor families towards whom he acts the Good Samaritan.

Baron Liebig, the eminent chemist, says that upwards of 50 per cent, of the nutritious properties of wheat are lost by separating the bran, &0., from the flour, and public attention at Home is being favorably drawn to the impoverished condition of the finest and whitest flour, and to the superior nutritious qualities of bread made from whole or entire meal.

“ Would you mind standing here till I go in and get a cigar ?” he asked. “Of course not,” she replied; “ but don’t you think, Henry, that smoking is expensive, and that it will be easier practising economy after marriage if it is practised during courtship?" “ You’re right,” he said; “I shan’t smoke any more, sweet,” and she looked unutterable love as they resumed their stroll. Just then they came to an ice-cream saloon, and he said, “ There, now, I meant to treat you to an icecream, but, as you say, it is tho best to practise economy during courtship. Ten cents for a cigar, thirty cents for two ice-creams—-forty cents saved in one single night. Lot’s go over to the fountain and take a drink of water.” They went, but she was mad enough to bite her own head off.

A San Francisco paper remarks—Hotel dorks do not, as a rule, bear the reputation of being the most courteous of the human family. The amount of provocation they receive should, no doubt, be taken into consideration when their shortcomings are noted, still they are at times gratuitously and unnecessarily rude in their intercourse with strangers, A recent visitor from Australia was rather taken aback the other day by the politeness of the elegant individual who presides in the office of the Hotel, where he had taken up his quarters. The dap after his arrival, which happened to be one of the windiest of the season, he went out for a stroll round the streets of ’Frisco to see the sights end exhibit his linencovered helmet. He returned to the hotel rubbing his eyes and very much disgusted, and remarked to the clerk : “ You have a great deal of dust here in San Francisco.” “ Y-a s,” drawled the clerk i "I suffer from it myself.” “Weak eyes?” inquired the stranger. “No, sir.” “Your lungs are affected then?” “Not much,” yawned the clerk. “In 'what way, then, do you suffer from the dust?” asked the somewhat surprised Australian. “By hearing about sixty times an hour every fool who comes in here say, ‘ You have a good deal of dust here in San Francisco.’ ”