NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2638, 20 September 1882, Page 3

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Fseex Road Team Linb.—Traffic will be resumed on the tramway below St. Peter's Church, Ferry road, on Saturday next. Thb Gut'nob. —Out reader* are reminded that Mr J. L. Hall's Byronio Oompai.7 opens this evening with Mr Byron's oomedy of " The Guv'nor." A summary of the plot was given in our issue of yesterday, and the pieoe is evidently most amusing. Mr Hall is excellently supported, and in Dunedin the vagaries of the retired oonfeetioner and the deaf boatbuilder were found to be very taking. Thb Mail.—The inwaid English mail, via Ban Francisco, arrived in Lyttelton by the s.s. Stella at 11 a.m. to-day. Aesault by A Prisoner.—The prisoner in Lyttelton Gaol who was assaulted I y the prisoner Butler, with the leg of a table in May, 1881, seems not to have forgotten the affair, for on Monday last, while out on the works, he seized a favorable opportunity and struck his old enemy Butler two or three blows over the head with a good sized stone, which he had oonoealed in his bread bag. The offender wsb brought before the visiting Justices, Mr John Ollivier and the Hon. E. Richardson, this morning. Frozen Mbat Compact's Wobkb.—The tender of Mr James Ctoss has been accepted for the erection of the new works for the Frozen Meat Company at Belfast, a description of which has already appeared. Land Sam.—Messrs Ayera and Co. to-day ■old sixty qaarter-aore sections in the new township of Alford Forest at an average of £2 each. Thb Bbxdlb Path, Lyttbltoit.—Mr Kitson, of the Survey Department, under instructions from the Chief Surveyor, is now engaged at livttelton surveying that muoh •bused and misrepresen'el part of the borough known as the Bridle Path. Some time sinoe the harbormaster at Lyttelton, who resides on the disputed territory sent a petition to the Borough Council, largely signed, asking for an independent survey to be made, and as a portion of the land has actually been brought under the liand Transfer Act, the Government recently instructed the Chief Surveyor to have the survey made. It ia intended that this survey shall be final, and to that end about a dozen datum atones, it is said, will be put down. St. Asaph Steeet Methodist Church. —A gift auction in aid of the trust funds of the above church was held last evening in the schoolroom at the rear of the church, when a miscellaneous collection of fanoy and useful articles was submitted to competition. Mr A. Ayera officiated as auctioneer, and register stoves, window sashes, opossum rugs, boxes of tea, candles, and artiolea of infantile apparel were rapidly disposed of. There was a good attendance. Acoidbkt. —A little lad named Michael Buddington, ten years of age, met wi h a nasty acoident yesterday afternoon whilst working in the flax mill at Selwyn, by which his right hand and arm was bo seriouily injured as to render amputation necessary. He was brought to Christ ohuroh the evening express train and taken to the hospital, where the operation was successfully performed, the limb being taken off just below the elbow. Thbatbioal Hobpitaxitt,—The Sydney football team, during their stay in the city, will be the guests of Mr Hall at the Theatre, and will be present to night on the occasion of the opening of the season. Mibsing.—An employe of Messrs Harris and Son, merchants, Hereford street, named Winter, is reported as missing. It appears he left Ohristohurch on the 14th of this month with the avowed intention of visiting some friends at Akaroa, going by way of Pnrau. As he has not reached his destination, some anxiety is felt for his safety, and a search party will leave for Furau this morning to endeavor to ascertain his whereabouts. St. Marx's, Addington.—The opening of the new organ for this church will be celebrated to-morrow (Thursday). St. Matthew's day, by a special eervioe at 730 p.m. The sermon will be preached by the Rev. Canon Oholmondeley, and there will be a special offertory in aid of the organ fund. Mr Landergan, the organist of St. John's, will preside at the organ, and play a seleotion of pieces at the oloae of the servioe. An Expbbt on Bacing.—At the Bangiora Court on Tuesday a witness, who in. formed the Bench he waa an expert and had given great attention to race-horses, vouchsafed the gratuitous information that a horse was useless as a racer unless it was thoroughbred. The presiding Magistrate wished to know if a non-thoroughbred was useless if he won a race. The witness was nonplussed for a moment, but came up again by informing the Court that, having made a study of it, he had never known a full mouthed horse to win a race, a remark which was reoeived with some amount of merriment. Thb Doctrine of Evolution.—Of a pamphlet lately issued in Auckland having the above heading for its title,;tte"New Zealand Herald" says:—When Mr W.Denton waa here recently, he delivered a series _of lectures upon geology and quasi-scientifio subjects. Many of those who heard the lectures believed they had a misleading tendency, and that he was not so thoroughly conversant with the subjects he dealt with as he ought to have been in assuming the position of a public lecturer. The most elaborate attempt which has been made to refute the arguments of Mr Denton is that made by Mr T. W. Leys in a series of six papers, which have been neatly printed in pamphlet form, and published at sixpence per copy. Mr Leys deals largely with the labor of other workers in the biological and geological fields sni quotes 1 freelv from their published works. Some of the arguments he makes use of are apt and to the point, and might have been driven to a muoh greater length than the author haß chosen to do. However, there has been placed in a handy form for the general reader a large amount of matter, fairly quoted, from ■3. class of books whose price places them beyond the reaoh of the great bulk of the population. The pamphlet will sepply interesting reading for a few evenings, or a Sunday afternoon. Wkazhhe EXOHAHGH. Few Zealand, yesterday—Fine weather all over, with light S.E. winds in the North and westerly in the South. Australia—Slight depression over Tasmania and N.W. wind { showery on the south coast and wind N.W. j in Weßtern Australia and Hew South Wales, fine, with light westerly winds. Barometer —Buisell and Wellington, 80,0» Bluff, 89.9 1 Albany, D.lt Hobart,29.7j Portland, 29 8 Sydney, t

Entkbtainmknt.—An entertainment m connection with St. Mary's Merivale, will «« e place at the schoolroom this evening- The pr gramme comprises vocal and instrumental mus.o and the whole will oonclnde with the «nw»?»J bnrletta of "The Lean of » Lover. «• charaotera in which will be sustained by ama taars. .- . ShipmwG.—Advices elsewhere state that the ketoh Emerald, from Kaikoura to Lyttelton with timber, bumped on a rocky led»e abreast of the jetty at the former plaoe, and immediately filled with water, 1.0.0.B 1 ., M.U.—lt is intended to celebrate the anniversary of the Loyal Phillipßtown Lodge I by a publio dinner, to be held in the Oddfellows Hall, Phillipstown, to-morrow evening. Tbottins Match.—A trotting matoh for £S a side took place at Papanui on Friday last between Mr Bell's Formosa and Mr Watson's black mare. The distance was about onq mile, and the competitors were piloted by their owners. The black mare got away first, but was soon passed by Formoia, who won easily by 200 yards. Exobss of Lovn—A rather pitiful inoident ooourred reoently at the Hobartwharf. Ayoung woman named Margaret Baker, aged about nineteen, residing in Groulburn street, was anxious to say farewell to her lover, who it appears left for Sydney by the steamer Tasman. She was late in getting down, and when she reaohed the Old Market, seeing the steamer leaving the wharf, she set off at a smart run, screaming for the vessel to stop. In her fren*y at being unable to lay goodbye to her sweetheart, she rushed aoross to the crane wharf and jumped into the river. She was observed by a number of people, two of whom leaped into a boat whioh was moored near the plaoe, and soon got the woman out of the water. She struggled hard to free herself from her rescuers, and oansed one to tumble into the water himself. She was, however, handed over to the polioe, who conveyed her to the hospital for treatment. Kangioba Domain Boabd.—A meeting of this Board was held at the Boad Board oflioe on Tuesday. Present—Captain Parsons (chairman), Messrs Luxton, Ivory, Muloook, and Dunoan. The Board met to receive tenders for a grand stand, when that of Boyd ad Keir, £llO, was aocepted, the work to be completed by Ootober 18th. Mr O. Gr. Chapman was appointed to act as clerk of the works.