THE GLOBEL. MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1882.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2654, 9 October 1882, Page 2

THE GLOBEL. MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1882.

Ohaeity Sunday.—As some doubt* have been expressed as to the Cathedral Chapter giving services on Charity Sunday, the following letter from the Dean to Mr E. P. Crosbie will be read with interest;—“Cranmer square, Ootober 6th, 1882. Dear Mr Crosbie—l im happy to eay that the Chapter of the Cathedral have agreed that Sunday, the 16th instant, shall be kept as 1 Charity Sunday’ at tho Cathedral, and that the offertories both morning and evening shall be given without deduction to the funds of the Benevolent Aid Society of Christchurch. Please inform the committee of this, and make it as public es you like. Faithfully yours (Signed), Henbt Jacobs. B. F. Crosbie. Esq.” Astronomical,—A defendant at the E.M. Court, this morning, having been ordered to pay £1 for not keeping a light burning, made a novel objection. He said the Aot stated that a light was to be kept burning from sunset to sunrise. Now (he suggested), the sun is a fixed body, which neither sets nor rises ; this being so, the phrasing of the Aot waa nonsense, and demanded conditions which could not be fulfilled, therefore the fine should be remitted. The Bench, while admitting that, strictly speaking, the astronomy in this particular Aot of Parliament was not that of the schools, yet the majesty of the law must be upheld, or, in the words of an ancient poet, justice must .be done, if tho heavens should fall. No doubt, now the defect was discovered, an Aot would be passed to compel the sun to rise or set as might be required. The flue was not remitted. New Town District. From tho 11 Gazette ” of the sth instant we observe that an area bounded on the north by the river Avon ; on the south by Park road, Ollivier’s xoadund Ferry road ; on the'oast by the Canal Reserve road; end on the west by the Eafct Town belt, has been proclaimed a town district, under the Town District Aot, 1881, under the title of “Linwood.” It is further proclaimed teat seven is the number of Commissioner!! to be elected at the first election, which is to take place on Saturday, the 28th Ootober instant, at the Oddfellows’ Hall, East bolt. Mr Geo. Leslie Lee is to be the returning officer for conducting the first election, and the first meeting of Commiooioners is to be held on Thursday, the 2nd November next, at the Heathoote Boad Board officer; at 7 p.m., as will appear more fully in our advertising columns in a few days.

B.M. Coubt, Litmltok. Alexander McLean, one of the crew of the Oity of Nankin, was charged with being helplessly drank on Sunday afternoon. Mr All-right, J.P., questioned him as to where he purchased the liquor, an enquiry which waa met with the characteristic reply—“ I don’t know the names of the hotels.'’ He waa fined 20i, or ninety-six houra’ imprisonment. Inquest at Ltttbltok Gaol. —Dr. Coward, the coroner, held an inquest on the body of a deceased prisoner named John Walsh this morning. Mr Thomas McDonald waa chosen foreman of the jury. 8. C. Phillips, the gaoler, gave evidence as to deceased’s sickness. Deceased was seventytwo year* of age. He was an inoffensive old man, and had never been punished for misbehavior in the prison. The foreman of the jury asked whether deceased had complained of suffering from pain caused by a large hole which the jury had seen in the breast of the deceased. Hr Phillips replied in the nej;ttive. Dr. J. T. Bouse, gaol surgeon, testified to having attended the deceased up to the time of his death. Ho wai present when he died of congestion of the lungs. The bole in his ohsst was an old injury ho had received by a kick from a horse. A verdict of death from natural causes was returned.

A Parental Duty,—A duty which devolve* upon parents, “according to Act of Parliament,” ie that of registering the birth or death of any member of their family, but notwithstanding the law on the subject, it i* a duty amengst a great many others devolving upon the heads of families, which is a good deal neglected. The Government recognising this fact found at the last session an amendment to tha Bsgistration Act to be in force for twelve months, or until September 15tb, 1883. This amendment enables the Eegistrar to receive registrations of births and deaths which hare occurred in the colony without reference to tha time elapsed between the occurrence and the registration. Hitherto the registration was to have been made within twelve months of the birth or death, after which no registration could bo received by the Begistrar. Parents or others who are conscious of a neglect in respect to this particular duty, should make reparation, and guard against future trouble by at once Betting themselves legally right with the Begistrar, a piivilege which is granted them by the amended Act. But it should be borne in mind the privilege is open for twelvemonths only and, moreover, those who avail themselves of it must pay to the Begistrar a fee of £1 by way of punishment no doubt for their negligence. District Court. —Tha monthly sitting of tha District Court will open to-morrow at 10 o.m:, before his Honor Judge Ward. The following is the cause list:—Borman v the Queen, Sopp v Howard, Menzie* v Parish, Sheppard v filackmoro. Weather Exchange. —Hew Zealand, yesterday. Fine weather, with moderate winds, S.W. changing to N.W. Australia— Fine weather with moderate winds. Barometer— Bussell, 30 2; Wellington, 29 9; Bluff, 29 9; Albany, 29 9; Hobart, 29.9; Portland, 30.0 ; Sydney, 80.2. Masonic Funeral. —The funeral of the lata Bro. Landcry, of the Conyers Lodge, 1916, E. 0., and Crown Lodge, 5.0., took place yesterday at the Addington Cemetery. All the metropolitan lodges bailing under the three constitutions were represented, and there were also several sojourne!*; The ordinary funeral service being concluded, that peculiar to the craft was gives, and the | brethren then filed past the grave, each casting in a sprig of acacia. Banquet. —The “ Palmerston Time ” says that the banquet to be given to Mr McKenzie on the 13th instant promises to be a brilliant affair. The Hon. Captain Fraser and Mr George McLean, M.L.O.’s, and Messrs Mac ondrsw, Shrimaki, Barron, Fish, Bracken, Bathgate, Green, White, Steward, Duncan, and Pyke, M.H.B.'s, are expected to present, and Mr Montgomery, M.8.H., will most probably also attend. It is anticipated that there will b> close on 160 at the banquet. The Mayor of Palmerston will take the chair, and Mr A. Barr, of Otepopo, is to bo vice chairman.

Trade Between England and Akeeioa. —While commerce with other countries has been increasing this year, the trade with America has consistently fallen off. (The Beard of Trade returns of shipping with cargoes entered from and cleared to the United States in July shewed, says the “ Poll Mall Gazette,” a decline of 170,000 tons a« compared with July last year, but the aggregate entered and cleared for all countries during the month was 330,000 ton*, so that the movement of shipping generally far more than made up for the heavy decline between British and American ports. A very similar result oomca out if the entries and clearances for the past seven month* ewe examined. With the United States there’, appear* a decline of 830,000 ton* compared with the same period of last year; but other countries have mode up for this diminished movement, and indeed *how an inorea*e of 2,130,000 ton* on the corresponding aggregate last year. Ncno the leas a speedy improvement in business to and from American port* will doubtless be very welcome to the shipping interest at largo.

Sydbnhaje Boeotjob Council. The ordinary meeting of this Com oil will bt held this evening at Berea o’clock. Fobbbtbbb. —The Court Thistle of the Forest, A. O.FNo. 6491, held its quarterly meeting in St. Saviour]* Schoolroom, Sydenham, on Tuesday evening, there being a good attendance of member* present. After the the usual routine of business had been gone through it was resolved that this Court take no part re joining proposed dispensary. It was resolved by the members present that the question of the purchasing a piece of land bo left over to some future date, and it was resolved that the Court pay an official visit to Court Papanui on the 19th of October. The secretary read tho quarterly statement of receipts and_ expenditure, whioh'showed the Court to be in a flourishing condition. Two propositions were read for the second time, after which the Court was closed in due form by O. B. Bro. Haig, Aocidekts. —An accident happened on Saturday afternoon to Mr John Lean, a. schoolmaster, who resides near Colombo bridge. It appears that whilst walking in Colombo street, accompanied by a retriever, he stopped to caress the animal, when losing his balance he fell over the dog anddieloeated his shoulder. Ho was taken to the hospital, where prompt attention was psid to hia injuries. Yesterday, about 5,15 p.m., a cart, containing four men, was passing the Golden Fleece Hotel, when the horse was startled by some horsemen cantering past, and swerved. Thehear wheel of the vehicle being locked in the tram rail the cart was overturned, and two of the occupants, named. Edward Barclay and James Cullen, were thrown out, and slightly bruised, but not seriously, as tho psrty again took their seats in tho trap and drove off. 0.Y.0.—1t haring been arranged that the annual six days’ drill cf the Canterbury \ eoroanry Cavalry shall take place ia Christchurch this year, the necessary arrangements have been made at the drill shed and grounds. The north end of the building hs* been tastefully fitted up as a mess room, the other portion being devoted to the sleeping accommodation of the men, whilst the various tents for officers, orderlies, Ac., have been pitched in the grounds attached. The 0.Y.0. are divided into two troops, via.:— The A troop, under the command of Captain Slater, Dr. Chapman, of Leeston, being acting lieutenant. This troop includes contingents from O jristohuroh, Ellesmere, Ashburton, Bakaia, and Hangiora. The B troop, under tho command cf Captain Wright, includes the Timaru, Makikihi, Temuka "and Pleasant Point contingents, the men pertaining to which arrived by the midday train from the South, which also brought the Ashburton and Bakaia men. The camp wt» formed at 930 p.m.; the Ellesmere and Bangiora contingents marched into camp yesterday. Nothing was done except giving the horses needful exercise. LieutenantColonel Packe will be prevented by illness from iußoooting the Cavalry on Friday next, but Major Lean will act instead. Captain Gardiner, of the Southland Hussars, will be present as a guest during the period of the cue mpmett The adjutant is Mr W. W. Dundas, and there is, therefore, no doubt tbe most will be made of the time. To-day’s orders are—Mounted drill c.t 630 a.m. and 3 p.m.; foot drill at noon ; mess, 6.30 p.m.: watch setting (or tattoo), 10 p.m.; lights cut, 10 45; gates locked, 11.30 p.m. All contingent are represented. At the mounted drill at 630 this morning between sixty and seventy turned up, and tho various evolutions were creditably performed. A good muster also turned np at the noon-day drill. The asess arrangements ere most satisfactory, the caterer beirg Mr J. W. Morton, whoso name is a antihunt guarantee that such is the case.

Thh New Passenger Statiok a* Timastj. —The erection of the new passenger station (says the “ Herald ”) progresses, and the structure gets uglier every day. The weather boarding is of the common leau-to description, and the entire absence of anything like an attempt to relieve the bareness of the building, is accepted generally aa an indication that the railway authorities do not intend this for a permanent structure. Guided by the experience of Lyttelton and other places, they may possibly foresee that a mnob mors commodious and pretentions building will be needed to meet the increasing traffic of the belf-way station between Dunedin and Christchurch. This impression is snbttantiated by the rumor that the contractor for the station offered to build it of Oamaro stone, instead of timber, if the railway people would carry it froo trom Oamaro, and that the offer was declined. Legal Foemalitibs. —Law and its forms (remark* the “ Southland News") are curious things. The latest, instance occurred in the Police Court at Invercargill, where, on Monday, a man waa twice brought up charged (Frith deserting his daughter, a young girl. He wao arrested by a sharp local constable from the description given of him in the •‘Police Gazette,” and on being brought before the Bench was remanded pending the arrival of the warrant from Christchurch. That document cams yesterday, but on accused being again brought np this morning the Court ruled that he had no business to be in custody till .the warrant was received. It was in vain Inspector Buckley pointed out tfcat if the police had let the man go when be was found, the probability waa that he would not be got when wanted. The Court stuck to the letter of the law, and the accused, who showed throughout a disposition to oblige, was set at liberty—that is to eoy, he was allowed to leave tbo dock and walk outside the Court-room door, but he got no further. Constable Carroll “stuck to him like a burr,’’ and, armed with the Christchurch warrant, at once brought him back. All the forms of the law having thus been duly complied with, the prisoner in two minutes more found himself remanded to Christchurch.

Teadh between England and Spain.— A »hort dkcuesion arose recently (says the “ Spectator ”) in the House of Commons on the Spanish financial proposals for shutting ub altogether cut of the benefit of the recent

reductions of duty on Spanish imports, unless we make a special commercial treaty with Spain, satisfactory to her Q-orernment as regards our wine duties. Mr Gladstone declared that it would give him the most cordial satisfaction to lower the duties on Spanish wine, yet protested warmly against the notion that we ought to buy off Spain from her unfriendly treatment of our exports, by humoring her as regards the wine duties a single day before it would otherwise suit our finance to reduce them. The complaint of the representatives of Spain against this country, said Mr Gladstone, comes to this: —“They do not think our scale of wine duties sufficiently favorable to Spain, But at any rate, it is favorable enough for this, that under the operation of that scale, the imports of wine from Spain have enormously increased, and for that increase it is proposed to repay os by enacting a tariff against ua ” which, according to Mr Monk, will extinguish our export trade to Spain, That it, indeed, a strangely unfair kind of retaliation. “ You do a great deal more for me already than I do for yon , but unless you greatly increase what yen do for me, I will refrain altogether from doing even the little I row do for you,”—such it the Spanish formula of retaliatory duties, baaed, of course, on the rsdicilly fake notion that a nation confers benefits by what she buys, and not by what she sells ; but even as measured by that absurd notion, it if a meet inequitable style of retaliation.

Oil ox Teodbuid Waters.— The House of Lords had a curious discussion recently (tajs an exchange) on. the utility of pouring oil on troubled waters, a disolution which had no reference to Lord Salisbury's irsub’ing of tha waters, tr to any episcopal attempt to pour oil cn his breakers, —but which simply r. f-.'rred to ths experiments made off Peterhead, la Aberdeenshire, fer the oiling of bars and breakers near a harbour's mouth, or round a ship in a hesvy gale. Lord Carnarvon brought the subject up, referring to the remarks of Pliny and Plato on the subject, and asking for information as to the results of the Peterhead experiments of Mr Shield, Lord fndeley replied at length, intimating that at present the experimentation must be done by private persons, but that tbs Board of Trade would carefully w.-.tch the results and mate a«e of the Method, if it appeared to bo trustworthy. It seems that, unquestionably, oil diffused over a bar in time of storm may enable ships to pass it easily which oould not otherwise pan it at all ; but the difficulty of the method is that when there is a high wind.vtho oil is opt to be swept out to sea, instead “of discharging its soothing function*. By the way, where does the phra--e about “ pouring oil cn the troubled waters” oome from ? Lord Sudcley spoke of it a* if it were scriptural, which we believe it i* not, —nor Shakespearian either.

Tkupbbanob and Politics. Xho tcir» peranoo people, writes the Washington o rrespondent of the “ Sydney Morning Herald, •«re becoming more and more an appreciable element in our politioa. There are niw four prohibitory States lowa, Kauris, Maine, and Vermont—in spite of the liot that Maine, the original prohibitory State, makes a much poorer showing of progrose daring the past generation than the States, like New York and New Jersey, whore a license law prevails. But what can statistics avail against the bitter, fanatical hatred against drunkenness which seems to have taken the place of the old agitation . against slavery ? Like slavery, liquor is an evil which gives its assailants the excitements of righteous wrath and benevolent pity. The poor drunkard takes the place of the poor slave; and the rum sellers ere hated very much as were the slave dealer* and slave catchers in the old days of abolitionism, Probably, two native Americans out of three in the North are in favor of absolute {temperance, and in many churches all the members abstain alike from nun and tobacco The strength of the foreign vote, however, which is oast almost sol'd against ea-called "sumptuary laws,” and the activity of the rum sellers in practical politics prevent the American sentiment from getting the ascendancy. It seem*, however, to be merely a matter of time. In Ohio the Republicans have had to choose between alienating the Germans and losing the temperance vote, and they have preferred to lot the Gorman* go. Damns—The Oak of Sydenham Lodge of Druids held their usual fortnightly meeting on October 4th in the Oddfellow*’ Hall, Sydenham. There was a large attendance of members, also of visiting brothers. Official visits were received from Pioneer, Mistletoe, Anchor, and Perseverance Lodge*, also representatives from the Hope of St. Albans, Atheletau, Campbell, and Dunstun Lodges, making a total of about 220 brothers present. The Oak of Sydenham Lodge having taken the opportunity afforded them by the Grand Dodge of initiating twenty members at the reduced rates, they have succeeded in getting forty-one candidates, who were initiated on the above date by A.D. Bio. Back, assisted by D.P. Bro. Skinner, P.A.’a Bros. Bose, Hill, and Burnett. After the ceremony had taken place an adjournment for harmony was made when refreshments were handed round. Some good songs were sung by various brothers, and a pleasant evening was spent. A hearty vote of thanks having been passed to the visiting brothers the Lodge was closed. Accident at Bakaia —As Mr Oakley and his brother were returning from the Oddfellows’Hall about half past nine on Friday evening the horse they were driving became frightened at the noise of a concertina in Bolleetoa street and bolted in the direction of the railway. One of the occupants jumped out, and the other managed to guide the horse for some time. Ultimately ho came in'o collision with the poet at the Bank of New Zealand, knocking it over, and miming the shaft through the horse’s neck. Mr Oakley was thrown out headfirst- Fortunately neither of the men were hurt. The hotss had to be shot.

Kaiappi Musical Society. — A meeting of gentlemen interested in organising the programme for the musical rehearsal to be given in the Oddfellows’ Hall at Christmastide, was held in the Municipal Chamber, on Saturday evening. The committee reported their success in obtaining the scores of the “Messiah” and Mozart’s “Twelfth Maas,” for a full band and chorus; and it was resolved that a further meeting be hold on Wednesday evening, at the Institute, when all who intend to assist are expected to be present. Lyttelton Rowing Club. —The annual general meeting of this club was held at the Oddfellows’ Hall, on Thursday, sth October. Mr H. Allwright, president, occupied the chair, A large number of members were present. The annual balance sheet was submitted by the hou. treasurer, which showed that the finances of the club were in a very satisfactory state, and was received and adopted. The Secretary read the report of the committee for the past year, and concluded by moving its adoption, which was carried. The election of officers and committee was then proceeded with, and resulted as follows:—President, Mr H. Allwright, M.H.8., re-elected j vice-president, Mr F. Dransfield, re-elected ; hon. treasurer, Mr J. Maloolmson, re-elected; hon. secretary, Mr J. E. Galbraith ; captain, Mr A. McWilliams; vice captain, Mr T. Harkis*|jcommittee, Messrs IT. L. Smith, B. J. McWilliams, W. T. Taylor, J. F. Willoox, and B. Wood. Mr W. T. Taylor was elected custodian. It was resolved—“ That the opening of the boating eeason take place on the 21st October at, 3.30 p.m.” It was decided, after considerable discussion, to Hava the matter of erection of a boat-shed in the hands of the committee. A hearty vote of thanks to the retiring officers and committee was accorded. The meeting closed with a vote of thanks to the chairman.

Concert.—A very enjoyable concert was given on Friday evening Isat at the Town Hall, Fapanai, in aid of the funds of St. Paul’s, Papanui. Toe musical arrangements were under the direction of Mr G. R. Fleming, the organist of the church, and the programme comprised a number of vocal and instrumental items. Mr G. B. Fleming played a pianoforte solo, and songs were given by Miss Jackson, Messrs O. Fleming, Wil•tead, Francis, Hartle and G. Davis. The latter gentleman sang “The British Lion ”eo well as to evoke au enthusiastic encore, and the same compliment was paid to the ballad by Mr Francis, a song by Mr O. Fleming, and two chorales by the choir.