South Canterbury Times. TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1880. NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2266, 22 June 1880, Page 2

South Canterbury Times. TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1880. NEWS OF THE DAY.

The football match arranged for Saturday next is a picked team of twelve v. the . remaining members of the Club, and should result in some good sport. An officer who holds a head and upper-lip erect and prominent in the Court presided over by Mr Justice Johnstone, was bailed up just outside the Hall of Justice, on Saturday, by a group of dissatisfied jurymen. The discontented ones hailed, in some instances, from the country, and , they had been summoned to town, only to find that their services were not needed. “ We want our expenses ; our railway fare, at any rate, your worship,” said the leading button-holer. “I’ve nothing to do with your expenses, go to the Clerk ” said the officer. “He told us to go to you.” “ Can’t help you then,” “ And who are •wc to go to then,'” said a savage-looking juryman. “Go to the devil,” testily re plied the officer. “ And that’s just the reason we came to you’’was the ready retort.

An ingenious method of swindling the Government has been discovered at New Plymouth. It is alleged that in November last a draper supplied blankets, table linen, &c., to the late Steward of the Hospital, James Hill, who promptly substituted a fictitious voucher for the goods and obtained the money from the Government. Hill has been committed for trial.

The Lifeboat Lodge, No. .101, 1.0.G.T., held its usual weekly meeting, on Friday evening last, in the Oddfellows’ Hall, Sophia street, Bro. Thos. E. Lyle presiding. After the usual opening preliminaries the Lodge business was proceeded with, and the Lodge was opened for harmony, in which the following members took part—Bros. Walcot, Lyle, Moore and Cody,Bro. Clayton presiding at the harmonium. The meeting terminated in the usual way, at 9.30. The Shag Point Miners have struck and other miners are warned to have nothing to do with the coal workings at present. The demands of the strikists are :—6d per ton advance ; 8 hours labor ; pay fortnightly.

The seventh section of the Civil Service Regulations has operated disastrously on the candidature of Mr Ollivier for the Christchurch mayoralty. As the Regulations stand in the way, Mr Ollivier intends to witdraw.

Mr Wiggins, one of the borough Councillors at Akaroa, and proprietor of the local paper has been fined £lO by the Resident Magistrate there, for being concerned in work to be done for the Council, or, in other words, publishing the Borough Council advertisements in his paper. It is stated that a similar prosecution is to be proceeded with at Rangiora against a councillor there.

The London “ Lancet” observes that practically, warmth is to be sought and cold avoided; but with this qualification, that the heat must be elicited by organic processes going on within the body, and not borrowed from without. The chief, if not the only use, of wraps and “ warm” surroundings is to avoid the loss of animal heat by abstraction. It is neither scicntitic nor hygienic, in any true sense, to trust to external sources of supply for the warmth we require to live well, happily and usefully. The food is more than the raiment, and those who desire to help the poor and melancholy over “ dead points ” in the course of life should be chiefly anxious to feed them well and sufficiently. Bo in the management of self—to live well is to feed appropriately. Stimulants do not give strength, because they cannot add to the normal and healthy sources of animal heat. Nutriment is the only true fuel.

The insurance losses by the wreck of the s.s. Wanganui between Sydney and Clarence river are as follows : New Zealand ol'liccs — Colonial, National, Union, £137 10s each, Globe. Australian Alliance, Derwent and Tamar, Batavia, £137 10s each ; Imperial, £l2lß 15s ; Universal, £2lB 15s.

A girl two years of age, a daughter of a man named Smith, employed on the Orcpuka railway line in Southland fell into a watcrholc the other day and was drowned.

The body of a man supposed to be one of the crew of the ketch Anna, wrecked near Bluff Harbor a week or two since has been washed ashore at Dog Island.

The Dunedin Corporation have got to the end of their borrowing tether. They owe £600,000 and they propose making it a round million, but it is understood that their new Loan Bill will not pass through Parliament. The “Daily Times” recommends them to modify their proposal and ask permission to borrow £IOO,OOO instead of £IOO,OOO. The members of the lately disbanded Wellington Fire Brigade have divided their Accident Fund amongst themselves. The total amount was £SOO, and each member received from a few pounds up to £6O, according to length of service.'

Petitions, requesting the American Government to grant free passages to the United States of America, are being largely signed in Christchurch and Wellington and it is believed that working men all over New Zealand will follow the example.

At a meeting of Auckland teachers re the Teachers’ Pension Bill, the following resolution was moved—“ That in the opinion of this meeting the proposed Teachers’ Bill Fund, 1880, requires considerable modification and amendment before it can meet the wishes of teachers generally, and no scheme for the maintenance of superannuated teachers will be acceptable unless it provides, within certain limits, for widows and orphans of deceased teachers.” An amendment meeting approves of the principle of the Bill, but the details, which are obscure in many points, and ought to be revised,” was carried by a considerable majority.

Two men named John Fraser and Edward Welsh have been committed for trial on a charge of forging and uttering a deed of conveyance, with intent to defraud, and purporting to be signed by George Moore, deceased, on April 26. The deed was for four acres of land at Mahauranga, and the fraud was arranged in a hotel, Fraser being the prime mover in the affair. An information against Alex. Martin, who prepared the deed was withdrawn, as it was considered he might have acted without a guilty knowledge. The ranks of the unemployed arc being recruited by the corporation laborers of Wellington, who arc being discharged in the hope that they may harass Parliament, and extort from the Government a further supply of unnecessary public works.

Two men were drowned in a bay at Bank’s Peninsula, called Waikerikcri, on Saturday last, while loading the E. U. Cameron with timber. It appears that in launching the boat it hung for some time on the ways, filled with water and capsized. Waller and Rowland tried to reach the shore, but became exhausted and wore drowned. They were both single men. The body of Waller was washed ashore at Waikerikcri on Sunday. A Christchurch publican has been fined £lO for allowing what is known in Victoria as “ Castlemaine grab” or “a shilling in and the winner shouts.”

A new Atlantic yacht race has been arranged but this time the vessels are to be steamers, and the winner will receive £9OOO, Four steam yachts are being built at Chester and Newburg, in the United States, which, when completed, will race from New York to Southampton. The stakes are £3OOO each, the winner to take the pool. The affair is mainly a sporting event, but it will unquestionably have a great effect on the languishing steamship building trade of the States.

A highly successful musical and elocutionary entertainment in winch all the performers were Maori students was given in Auckland last evening

The application of Mr Robert Colo for a renewal of his license, for the Old Bank Hotel (adjourned from the last Licensing meeting), was considered to-day. Mr White, who appeared for the applicant, produced evidence to shew that the drunken men complained of by the Inspector of Police, were drunk when they reached Mr Cole’s house, and that Mr Cole had refused to supply them with drink. The application was granted. Mr Bcctham, however, taking advantage of the opportunity to lecture publicans generally, on the danger they run of having their licenses cancelled if it was proved that they supplied drunken men with liquor. Our report of the Chamber of Commerce meeting and several other items of importance arc held over. Boy guards and hoy porters arc being employed at wages ranging from 20s to 30s per week, to take the place of the experienced officers now employed on the Middle Island Railways. This is surely carrying economy to a reckless extreme. The next thing wc will probably hear of will be boy constables, and some day we will be having a boy Governor.

The unusual spectacle of railway engines “in the rough” travelling like tourists between Dunedin and Christchurch has lately been tickling the fancy of the habitues of the Timaru railway station, The fourth of those iron horses passed through Timaru to-day at the rear of an elegant buggy. It seems that some twenty engines, five of which were destined for Christchurch were lately landed in Dunedin, and the jealousy that pervades the locomotive departments has necessitated the transfer of the Christchurch engines to Bydcnham in order that they may be there fitted up. The engines arc from the foundry of Ncilson, of Glasgow and they contain a few valuable improvements one of which is a process by which the water used is heated by a worm passing through the smoke box, so that it is boiling by the time it reaches the boiler-

An entertainment of a very pleasing kind is arranged lor Friday evening next at the Wai-ili Schoolroom. A capital programme has been prepared, a largo number of ladies and gentlemen having promised to assist. The affair promises to be more than ordinarily successful.

The Tradesmen’s Quadrille Assembly will be held in the Cuccn's Hall to-morrow evening instead of Thursday. Wc understand that thcTimaru Artillery Band intend giving a grand ball at the Queen’s Hall in a few days, for the benlit of the Band Fund. Mr H. George lias been appointed honorary secretary, and wc have no doubt that under his piloting, the affair will be a big success.