South Canterbury Times. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1879. NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Volume XV, Issue 2063, 3 November 1879, Page 2

South Canterbury Times. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1879. NEWS OF THE DAY.

The usual monthly fair will be held at Winchester on Wednesday. The Timaru High School Board of Governors will hold an ordinary monthly meeting to-morrow evening, at 5 o’clock. The manager of the Levels Station calls for .tenders for the pressing of wool. The advertisement regarding the same appears elsewhere. . . The residents in the St Andrews district will bold a meeting for the election of a committee to supervise educational matters in the district to*morrow. Two men named Bolger and James McKee, patients in the Hospital, died on Saturday last, from the effects of accidental injuries received.

The acceptance; in connection with the Timaru Athletic Club sports on Monday next, are published in another column. A meeting of the Committee will be held this evening The Roman Catholic Schools were opened this morning. During the day 45 boys and 57 girls were in attendance The boys’ school is under the supervision of Mr i.i’Shea. and the girls under Miss DenheyThe Fire Brigade intend to ring the fire bell this evening at half pas' seven o’clock. The good people of • imam therefore need not rush wildly forth in the hope of seeing something exciting when the bell peals out. Information has been received by the Government 'hat the loan wil be success* fully floated. This is good news and will go a long way towards dispelling the de' pression now existing throughout the colony. During the mon:h of October the immi' gration agent in Timaru. received nomina* tions for free and assisted immigration for 21 souls, summarised as follows: —English, 2 souls ; Irish, 14 souls ; Scotch, 5 souls; equal to 19 statute adults. The members of the ■" ou h Canterbury Caledonian ociety will hold a general meeting this evening, to receive Committee’s report, and draw up a programme for the forthcoming New Year's sports. The meeting will take place at 8 pm. at the Grosvenor Hotel

The forgery case against Edward James, and charges of implication in forgery against Henry David Manning and Alfred Godby Saunders will be investigated at the RM. s Court ten morrow. There are 20 witnesses for examination for the prosecution, and a lengthy sitting of the Court may reasonably be expected. Ihe Hospital reiuns for the month ending October 31st. 1879. are as follows: —Admitted during the month —2im., 7f>; total, 28; Cured-9m., sf. ; to al, 14; Relieved —2m ; Dead —3m , If ; to al 4 ; Totals di-charged—20 ; Remaining under treatment—22m , 4f; tot d, 26. During the month 22 outdoor patients received medical trea m ut, 20 being relieved. There was a good attendance at the The tre R >yal on Saturday evening, to witness Byron’s comedy of ‘ £ 00 000,” Miss da Lester sustained the part of Alice Barlow the heroine of the piece and acted as she a’ways do- s wih an ease and naturalness which always pease her audience. As for Barlow, the grocer, Mr Joyce was excellent. He brought out the lights and shades of the character without exaggerarion and was frequently app'auded As Bennythorue. the sporting livery stable keeper and aspirant for the hard of Miss Alice. Mr Rede was quite at home. His make up was ffective and he invested the character with an interest whicn was sus* tained throughout Mr Boothman as Gerakl Goo 'w n, and Mr Fisher as Major Blackshaw played carefully in their re* spective parts. Miss Lizzie Laurence gave a careful and praisewor'hy rendit on of the part of Mrs ; ariow. Taken altogether the comedy was mo-1 enjoyable and is well worth seeing. The burlesque of the “ Pride of Abydo s ” concluded the pro’ gramme, which will be repeated to'night. The annual meeting of the couth Can' terbury Jockey (Tub took nlaeo on .Satur* day evening last, in the Gr sv-nor ho el, Mr E. J. Kerr presiding and there being a good a'tendance. The balance sheet shewed eht indebtedness of the Clubt o be about £l6O- Mr Hall acted as the treasurer in the absence of that gentleman. Messrs R, f-tansell, Meikle Kerr. D Maclean and M. Jonas were elected a committee and Mr Hamer-ley was re elected Relative to a let er in reference to a disputed

bet, received from a member of the ‘Jmb it was decided that the Club would take no cognisance thereof him would refer the wri'er to Tattersall’s Club. It was pro posed by Mr Neilson— '* That the pro' gramme be referred back to the Coramiitee with a Hew to its re consideration and remodeling ; and that it be a rccommenda' tion to the Commi tee to limit 'he distance of the Timaru Cup 'o two miles, aud that of theS.C.J.O. Handicap io one a half miles,” but Mr E. Stansell having moote 1 the desirability of making the Cup race l£miles, in an amendment aud Mr Neilsou and the seconder of the original mo ion acquiescing, an alteration to this effect was made and the amendment having been withdrawn the resolution was carried, ihe subject of the Hon Secretary having a vote in the affairs of'he Club was brought up but lapsed. The regulation requiring horses to qualify in hurdle races by jumping ing in front of the judge’s box was rescinded The stakes of the next annual meeting were fixed at £633. The proceedings terminated with a vote of i hanks to the chair. To dayattheß.M.’s Court a first of fender, charged with drunkeness, was fined 5s and ordered to pay 2s expenses. A man charged with lunacy from drink was remanded till to morrow. An affiliation •summons was dismissed owing to the non* appearance of either party. Mr M. Jonas to-day collected subscription-; amounting to £BO for a fund with which to commemorate the termination of the first contract in connection with the Timaru breakwater. iwo inquests were he'd this afternoon at the Hospital on the bodies of the men who died there on Saturday afternoon the verdicts in each instance werein accordance wffh the medical testimony, viz :—Moses’ Bolger, “Death from blood poisoning ;’ James McKee, “ Accidental Death.”