South Canterbury Times. TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1880. NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2170, 2 March 1880, Page 2

South Canterbury Times. TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1880. NEWS OF THE DAY.

Messrs Grant and Foster, the delegates from the farmers of Lincolshire, have started for Auckland en route for America.

A fancy Bazaar in aid of the Congregational church opened at two o’clock this afternoon at the Queen’s Hall of the Mechanics Institute. There were a large number of stalls devoted to the sale of pretty fancy articles. At G p.m. a tea festival will be held, and at 8 o’clock a public meeting will take place when several ministers and other gentlemen will address the meeting. The proceeds will be devoted to church extension.

The remarkable facility with which children are “ run in” to the charitable institutions of the colony has frequently been the subject of public remark. In Otago it has attained the magnitude of a imblic scandal, and the last straw has broken the Magisterial back. A woman applied to have an infant child committed to the Industrial School. The child was illegitimate, and the clerk to the Court explained that the mother was in receipt of 10s per week from its father, and the object apparently was to pocket the maintenance money and leave the jmblic to look after the child. The mother, it transpired, was again in the Hospital for the purpose of being delivered of another illegitimate child. The Bench were of opinion that this was not a case for the Industrial school, and declined to entertain the application.

At the close of the Homan Catholic Synod, recently held in Boston, Archbishop Williams is reported to have read a letter from Leo XIII. to a European bishop, in which the Pope urged the establishment of a Catholic schools, and conferred upon pastors the authority to withhold the sacraments from parents who refused to send their children to them. That, the Archbishop declared, was to be the policy in the archdiocese of Boston. At the same time—and this was regarded by some as an allusion to the Cambridge pastor—he deprecated any tyrannical action on the part of priests. He then instructed the assembled pastors to begin at once the establishment of schools in their respective parishes, and he informed them that if, after the schools were in operation, parents refused to send their children to them, pastors would be sustained in denying them the sacraments. He went even further, and said that if any priest was satisfied that the Public Schools in his particular locality were injuring the Catholic children, spiritually, he should withdraw them immediately from within the range of the bad influences, even if there were no parochial school ready to receive and educate them. This he justified on the ground that the spiritual welfare of the children was paramount to the intellectual. The earthquake that occurred in North China lately, partially ruined thirty cities and districts. The first violent shock at Kansu, made a noise like thunder causing the ground to open and water to rush out. The city walls, as well as the public otlices, ancestral and other temples, and private houses were either levelled to the ground or split and rent assumlcr. The number of persons crushed to death varied from ten in some places to 200 to ;-iOO in others, in addition to which a large quantity of cattle were destroyed. In some places, only one shock was felt ; in others several in succession S while in others they continued for 10 days, causing the people to live in constant dread of being crushed. Many of them passed their nights in the open air, and at moments when the danger was imminent their cries of distress was really piteous to hear. There being no one to attend to the animals, even more of these than of human beings were injured or crushed to death, while most of the city walls, temples, public offices, and private dwellings were destroyed, and havoc wrought of far greater extent than in disasters of an ordinary kind. Sir Frederick Hughes has announced his intention of becoming a candidate for Wexford. In his address he says: —“I don’t care three rows of pins whether you return me or not, but should you think proper to do so, I believe I can represent your interests without discredit, and peradventure with some credit to myself. I am a gentleman, I trust, with a sprinkling of honesty.’

Members of the Library of the Institute will be sorry to learn that Mr Henry Read is about to sever his connection with the Institute, having secured an appointment in Invercargill. Mr Read has done good service while acting as Librarian, having got the department under his control into thorough working order, and effected a much-needed reform in the management of the Library and Reading Room. He will carry the good wishes of very many friends in Timaru.

On the afternoon of the 28th ult. (says the Dunedin “ Times,”) while the pilot-boat at the Heads was proceeding out to a passing steamer, and not many hundred yards from the beach, Mr Milne, coxswain, was violently jerked by the boom of the steer oar. Looking astern, he saw a huge shark making a second rush at the blade of the steer oar. Had Mr Milne not been an active, strong man, he would have been knocked overboard —his arm and shoulder being sorely bruised. The monster came up again, but did not attack the boat. On examining the oar, which is 21 feet long, the cuts arc as clean and deep as if done with a sharp adze

The usual monthly meeting of the Timaru School Committee was held last night. Present—Messrs R. R. Walcot (Chairman), Bruce, Hart, Hall, Hamilton, Machin, and Jones. The Head Master wrote suggesting the appointment of a fourth Master in place of a pupil teacher. It was resolved to confer with the Board of Education on the subject. The Visitors’ Report for the past month was read and adopted. It was resolved that the whole school be placed under the immediate supervision of the Head Master, from date, and that he be alone responsible to the Committee for the management thereof, and through whom all communications from the teachers to the Committee must henceforth be made. The Chairman reported that the sum of £179 15s Id had been paid to the credit of the Committee for teachers’ salaries. Some small accounts were passed for payment, and the meeting adjourned.

The “ Ashburton Mail ” states that a, field of oats on Mrs James Birnie’s farm, Kaiapoi Island, threshed out last week, returned the enormous yield of 93 bushels per acre neat.

The “New Zealand Times” states that Dr Skac has been appointed Inspector of Hospitals of the Colony, and at the same time retains the position of Inspector of Lunatic Asylums. Excepting travelling expenses, the appointment of the doctor to the inspectorship of hospitals will not entail any extra cost to the Colony.

Messrs Jonas, Hart, and Wildic will sell by auction to-morrow, at Winchester Fair, 20 bead of Store Cattle, and two Sections of Land, with Granary thereon.

Messrs Maclean and Stewart will sell tomorrow, at Winchester Fair, Ewes, Wethers, and one Shorthorn Bull. Sale at noon. Wanted Known—What a Bookseller declined to dispose of: —Specimens of grammar, good, bad, or indifferent, supplying a want to make it lively. A case to counteract the fear of mania relating to the time when Adam began to think lie should leave off lapping of milk his death. First proof copies (less the correcting) required, price Gd, previous to making up a book. How I meet the idea that it is easy to practise upon the supposed inferior monkeydom. We don't know much, do we ? Giving the local scribe a chance—in all the determination to follow up the failure of Churches (one Church or none) against the cultivating a winking impudence for a record of the period. Haying of cards. A diamond. Hay the devil to that. Is it clubs? Answer —The people has left their God to become Church furious, coddling up in secret like the skimings of a pot well fed with blood and fat, to run over and ascend up to heaven with sticks before the Throne of Glory and the angels, dressed in modesty, in garments of white down to their feet. Can that be true? O, Sarah ! let us pray. Best card played first'. Poking Bourack. Not for Joe. Determined victory so come out. How this leaven world is taken in for once! (Signed) Youxu Adam.— [Aim.]