South Canterbury Times. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1879. NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Volume XV, Issue 2067, 7 November 1879, Page 2

South Canterbury Times. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1879. NEWS OF THE DAY.

On and after Monday next the business in connection ■with the office of this journal wi'l be conducted in the premises of Messrs Lane and Co . Church street, opposite Mr Jackson’s coal yard. Our issue of to-moi-row will be published early in the day to facilitate a removal of the printing plant, &c., to our new offices. _ Advertisers 'are requested to forward their favors not later than 12 o’clock. nun Messrs Jonas. Hart and Wilclie will hold several sales tomorrow. Full information will be found in another column. We have to acknowledge receipt of the monthly number of “ New Zealand Brices Current ” ihe half holiday to day wa* observed by the majority of the business firms in town. I was ushered in by a “noon gun, - ’ fired by the Rocket Brigade. Messrs Palmer and Collins will hold their usual weekly sales to-morrow. Particulars as to the t me &c., will be found in our advertisement columns. In connection with the forthcoming sports it is requested tha* - all members of the Timaru athletic Club meet at the Criterion Hotel, at 10 a m., on Monday, The Club supper widhe held in ihe Queen s Hall, at 7,30 the same evening. Yesterday a hurdle racing match took place at the Makikihi races, between Mr Hedge's Alma and Mr Bourne s Lottery, and was won by the latter. The stakes were £5 aside and the winner was mounted by Mr Bradley. At the meeting of the Literary and De> bating society last evening the vote taken on the debate relative to the respective merit of the authors Thackeray and Dickens, resulted in favor of the latter author. The members of the Good Templar fraternity are reminded that the quarteily meeting of the Lifeboat Lodge, I 0.G.T., will take place ; his evening at 7 30. The bu.iness includes the instalation of the D.D. and other important matters. Yesterday, at the Makikihi Race Meet’ ing, the Hurdle Race was won by Mr Bradley’s Milo, the Maiden Plate and Makikihi Handicap by Mr Duncan s Thild, the Hack Race by Burney's Abbot, and the consolation Race by Mr Hoskin’s Jack. _ To day, at the R.M.’s Court, a lunatic named Stevens was committed to the Asy’ lum. The charge of larceny of beer resulted in tee dismissal of the accused with a caution. Messrs Gutter and Woollcombe were the presiding magistrates. A young lady in California threatened to get a divorce on the novel ground of ’ ‘ protracted festivities ” -"he said her husband celebrated his marriage by getting drunk, and kept u|> Ike festival three weeks,

A very smart arrest of a forger was effected yesterday evening by Constable Sul ivan, of the local police force. It will be remembered that in the morning a man named Doyle who had been brought from Temuka by ergeant Carlyon, charged wi‘h drunkeness and dismissed with a caution 1 m being brought before the R.M. During yesterday afternoon Mr Leonard Tombs, lessee of the Royal Hotel, Temuka, reported at the police station ihat on the night preuious he had cashed a cheque for u man named Doyle, purporting to be drawn by Mr Richardson and payable to bearer. This, however, on presen a Ton at the Bank turned out to be a forgery. Con’ stable Sullivan, whose - uspicions were aroused regarding the prisoner mention ed, was despatched to pick up par iculars and I within half au hour had not only picked up i articulars, but also picked up his mau, who, on being charged with the forgery, admitted the offeace. 'I he prisoner was brought up at the R M’s Court to-day and remanded till ’ uesday. The following is a copy of a “ handbill ” for one of “Captain” Barry’s lectures:— Release " ichborne. Captain Barry and the Claimant. Apubl.c meeting wil. be h Id in Ladebroke Hall, Hotting Hill, on July 24, 1879, when Captain Barry of >ew Zealand will give particulars of the Thrilling I, terview with >he Pri. soner and his knowledge of both Urtou and Cas’ro, and the startling iuciden's of his Colonial Life. Addresses wib be delivered Mr Kimbor, solicitor, and Mr J De Morgan, candidate for Leeds, Mr : kipwor h, Mr Powall, and other gentle men. Mr Hall in the chair, Admission —6cl and Is. Men and women of Kngland, we appeal to you to come forward like Chistians and assist us to rescue au innocent man from prison ; to purge our coun try from the stum which now rests upon it and to establish the administrati n of jus’ tice on a pure nd solid foundation ' hrouglr out the length and bre ulth of the land Recently tbe head of Frank Tolies, the leader of a baud of highwaymen, was borne into Cheyenne Wyoming erritory, and and exhibited to a jubilant crowd. When the people had t iken a look at it, it was buried in the prairie in the outskirts of the town In passing over the prairie a few evenings ago G P- Ciarke saw the skull dancing along and bobbing up and down the cactus bushes. nis hair stood on end. Cold chills struck him. when he reached Cheyenne he was as white as a sheet Everybody scoffed at his story; but a few were induced to go out and look. They, too saw the skull tilt ting hither and thither. •he next morning a large crowd went out to investigate There again was the moving skull. The boldest in 'he party approached. 11 at once a ittle prairie dog bounded from the kull and shot away into its ho e ue-.r by. It had appropriated the highwaymans s head for a resting place.