NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2265, 6 July 1881, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Lyttelton Police Coubt. William Mayue, a stowaway from Wellington to Lyttelton on Tuesday by the Botomahana, was fined 40s or a week’s impm« iment, at the Ly tlelton Police Court this morning. George S. Mackretb, on remand from Eangiora for lunacy, was sent to SunEyaide. The Financial Statement.— In the House last evening, the Hon. J. Hall stated that the Treasurer had not been able to get his statement ready for delivery that night, but ho hoped to be able to do so this (Wednesday) evening, Aehest.—Two man and two women, named James White, Frank Carey, Jane Brown, and Maggie Sutton, were arrested by Constable Bowse at Ashburton, yesterday, on suspicion of robbing a man at Bakaia of £26. It appears that they walked from Bakaia to Ohertsey, and there took the train for Timaru, but their intentions were frustrated by the constable arresting them in a railway carriage at Ashburton. Lecture. —Mr W. M. Ma shell will deliver a lecture to-night at St. Patrick’s Hall, Barbados's street, in connection with the Catholic Literary Society. The subject will he “ * hristianity. Modern Science and Evolution.” Wilful Destruction of Property. —On Saturday night, or early on Sunday morning, five casks of cement, intended to bo used in making a concrete culvert near Turner’s flour mill, Ohoko, had beer, rolled into the stream, and the tent in which they were stored was found slit, as if cut with a knife. Messrs Ballanlyne and Thompson were the contractors for the work. The concrete was provided by the Eyrcton Bead Board. A young man named Armstrong was arrested by Sergeant Gilbert on Tuesday, and will be brought before the Court to-day. Canterbury Buqby Union.— A meeting of delegates was held last evening at the Clarendon Hotel, at eight o’clock ; Mr Hawkes in the chair. The secretary read two letters from the Wellington Eugby Union re the proposed represents!ivo football team to visit Sydney this season, asking the views of tho 0.8 U. on the matter ; also stating the terms proposed by tho Southern (N.S.W.) Union, for use of ground, and that arrangements would be made to play five matches—viz., three at Sydney, one at Newcastle, and tho fifth at Bathurst. Tho middle of July was suggested as tho best date to ils for the matches, tho team to consist of eighteen or twenty men picked from the unions of New Zealand. The second letter contained suggestions from the captain of tho Auckland football team, proposing that represenlive teams should meet in Wellington this season and play a series of matches, adding that it would afford the best facilities for selecting the team for Sydney, and suggesting a football tournament. The letter went on to

say that the proposed gathering would afford the opportunely of considering the advisability of forming a New Zealand Union, and arranging annual competitions for a challenge cup, further adding that footballers from Nelson and the East and West Coasts had promised to be in Wellington on the occasion. The letter concluded by going into details as to gate money, &c., and asking for suggestions from the Canterbury Union. A letter was also road from the Otago Engby Union, referring to the proposed visit of the Otago footballers to Christchurch, suggesting the dale to bs arranged to bring about a meeting of the Auckland, Wellington, and OanterburyOtago men at Christchurch, in a North v South match, immediately after the Wellington meeting. After a long discussion Mr Parker proposed, Mr Fuller seconded, and it was resolved—“ That it is premature to send a team to Australia, and in any case too late to do anything in ihe matter this season.’' The question of holding a tournament in Wellington was then discussed, and it was resolved—- “ That the secretary write to the secretary of the Wellington Bugby Union, stating that the 0 R.U. arc in communication with Otago about, the inter-provincial match, and will communicate further after receiving a reply from Dunedin.” The secretary was also instructed to write to the Otago Eugby Union, inquiring whoiher they would agree to send the South Island team to Wellington, providing Wellington can satisfy the South men as to the ground tbey can offer for the match, or whether they have finally decided not to send an Oiago team to Wellington this year. A vote ot thanks to the chair terminated the meeting. J'eansfeb of License. —An application to transfer the new license of the Club Hotel from H. D. Monk to J. Carpenter was granted by Mr Whitffoord, 8.M., at the Eangiora Court or. Tuesday, Pigeon Feting. —The match flown under the- auspices of the Ei»t Christchurch Pigeon Flying Club, on Monday last, resulted iu Mr Usyenton winning the first prizs with the aid of rlcud. Mr Ashby’s Don Pedro was second, •V'r Mryeulon’o Sputter the Dew third, Messrs W.Mkcr and Grouth’e Glanmore fourth. Ashburton Bkahs Band — At a complimontaiy supper given on Monday night by the members of the .'ehburton Brass Band to their leader, Mr J. S. Savage, who is leavi- g t -r Ohrietchu-ch, that gentleman was presen’ , d with an address. A present of a watch and chain was also made to Master George S ivage, son of the lecd'r, in recognition of his services as cornet player. AsnnuitTON Hunt Club. —At a meeting o sporting gentlemen in Ashburton yesterday it was resolved to form a Hunt" Club, and a committee to make arrangements "as appointed, also to see to the securing ot a rack of hounds. It is believed that by the first week in August a pack will have been secured.

Thsatbioal. —Our Sydney correspondent •end* ub the following, dated June 25th: The Theatre Royal wao crowded to its utmost limits last Saturday evening to witness the first representation of “La Fillo du Tambour Major.” The artistes engaged are the same as those who appeared during the long run of the opera boufie in Melbourne, with the exception of Miss Nellie Stewart as the Little Drummer (vice Miss Ruth Grey) and Mrs Edouin Bryer as tne Abbess, in place of Mrs Wooldridge. It is almost needless to say that the piece was enthusiastically received and promises to have a lengthy run. On the same evening Mr Wybort Reeve introduced “Diplomacy” to a Sydney audience at the Gaiety Theatre. The company was strengthened (not before it needed it) by the engagement of Messrs Titheradge and Oates, and Mrs Marion Stammers and Miss Alma Sainton, the consequence being that this sterling comedy was acted—to quote the words of a morning journal hero—- “ with a completeness and finish we have never seen equalled, even in tho palmy days of the London Comedy Company.” Mies Annie Mayor, who has made great strides in her profession, is well suited in tho part of tho heroine, and the realistic acting of herself and Mr Titheradge insure them several calls before the curtain. Crowded houses are the rule nightly at this theatre, and tho audiences show no signs of falling off in numbers. At the Queen’s Mr Dillon has been playing a round of those sensational dramas which he loves so well to only moderate business. — The Opera House, which has been thoroughly renovated and re decorated, will be re opened to-night by dear old Johnny Hall, who will appear in two of his best parts—Captain Qinaar in “ Our Girls,” and Tobias Shortcut in “ H.M.S. Spitfire.”

Popular appreciation of French authors may be estimated by the following figures, representing the number of conies sold of the works named :—Daudet’s “ Hois in Exile,” •51,000; Zola’s “Page d’Amour,” 3G.000; Dumas’ “Femme qui Tuent et les Femmes qui Yotent,” 28,000; Halevy’s “ Mmo. et Mods. Cardinal,” 17,000 ; About’s “ Telia,” 12.000 ; Taine’s “ Notes sur I’Angleterre,” 6000; while the late M. Thiers, more fortunate than his fellow-historian, received 100.000 dol. each for the copyrights of his “Histoire de la Revolution Franoaise,” and “ Histoire du Consulat et do I’E-npire," of which enormous editions have been published. Mr Macready was fond|of tolling the following story as his experience of American independence, exemplified in a Western actor of the self satisfied kind :—“ In the last act of ‘Hamlet,’ said he, “I was very anxious to have the ‘King,’ who was rather of a democratic turn of mind, to fall, when I stabbed him, over tho steps of the throne and on tho right-hand side, with his feet to the left, in order that when I was to fall I should have tho centre of the stage to myself as befitting the principal personage of the tragedy. No objection was made to this request on the part of the actor, but at night, to my great surprise, ho wheeled directly round after receiving tho sword-thrust, and deliberately fell in the middle of the scene, just on tho spot whore I was in tho habit of dying. Well, aa a dead man cannot move himself, and as there wao no time for others to do it, the King’s body remained in possession of my place, and I was forced to find another situation, which I did, and finished the scene in the best way I could. When I expostulated with his Majesty for the liberty he had taken, he coolly replied : ‘Mr Macready, we Western people know nothing about kings, except that they have an odd trick of doing as they please ; therefore I thought, as I was a king, I had a right to die wherever I pleased ; and so, sir, I fell back upon my kingly rights, from which, you perceive, sir, there is no appeal.’ I retired,” said Mr Macready, “ to my dressing-room to have a hearty laugh over what I felt more like crying over a moment before.” The King of Portugal’s translation of Shakspcare has had a very large sale; his ■Majesty’s royalty on the tronslation has already yielded him 5000 dol. A burlesque on Tennyson’s new play, “The Cup,” has been written by Burnand, entitled “ Hiccup." Tennyson feels hurt.