NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2232, 13 May 1880, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Mr G. Anderson who has been employed for about five years in the Telegraphic office, Tiniaru, was yesterday presented by his fellow officers with a gold pencil case, as a token of their regard and esteem, prior to his departure for Lcithficld, where he lias gone to take charge of tho Telegraph department.

A Mrs Driscoll, of Dunedin, who was sent to gaol for six months on Tuesday for stealing two parcels of drapery, got: in a great rage with the Bench, and as she was leaving the dock she blurted out, with a great deal of venom : “I wish ycz may be dead the next time I come before yer Hindi I”

Referring to the death of one of the most conspicuous trainers of the English racing turf, the “ European Mail” says :— ■“ The Veteran trainer, Mr Thomas Dawson, expired the other night at Middleham, in the north of Yorkshire, in his seventy-first year. Few men have borne a more important part in the turf history of the last forty years than the deceased. At one time or other he had under his charge some of our most celebrated racers, and few trainers have sent a larger number of winners to the starting post. Outwardly of a peculiarly testy temperament, ho was possessed of very warm and generous sympathies, and his hand was never withheld when • a true tale of distress was told. Within recent years his representatives took a most important part in the chief racing events of this country, and his deathjwill be regretted, not only in his own immediate district, but throughout sporting circles generally.” By a singular coincidence, the new electoral roll for the district of Timaru, after being carefully revised, and the names of all disqualified electors having been struck out, contains exactly the same num-

bor of voters as figured on the old roll. From a Scotch paper wc learn that Lord Aberdeen, having been bafilod in bis effort to promote the welfare of his tenantry, by the provision of cheap and ready locomotion —namely, the construction, at his own expense, of a railway between Methliclc and Udny station, was not to be prevented from conferring a boon on those for whose benefit the railway was designed. He therefore resolved to remit to each of his tenants numbering nearly 1200 persons, the entire half-year’s rent due next June. This muni' licence implies a gift to the occupiers of the so: 1 on Lordship’s estates of upwards of £20,000. Robert A Little, bootmaker, of Queenstreet, Auckland, has been remanded on a charge of concealing pictures with intent to defraud his creditors.

Thia afternoon about half-past three o’clock, an accident occurred in the Main North road. One of Mr Henry Kelland’s farm waggons had come down from the Wash dyke, and the driver had occasion to stop at the shop of Messrs Priest and Holdgate. The horse was young and somewhat fresh, and the waggon had hardly pulled up before the horse suddenly bolted causing the waggon wheel to come in contact with the right hand pillar (wood) supporting the verandah, and snapping it off in the middle. On reaching Messrs Hallonstien’s shop, next door, the waggon came in contact with the two last right hand pillars of the verandah and broke them both also shaking and loosening the boards of the verandah itself. Fortunately the damage done is not very serious.

Welsh Luxury.' —An Englishman and a Welshman disputing in whose country was the best living, said the Welshman “ There’s such noble house-keeping in Wales that I have known above a dozen cooks employed at one wedding dinner.” “Aye,” answered the English man, “ that was because everyone tested his own cheese.”