NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2268, 24 June 1880, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

In addition to the ordinary meeting of the Harbor Board, on Thurday next, a special meeting will be held to consider Hr McGregor’s report. The adjourned sitting of the District Court was to have been held to-morrow, but a telegram received from Judge Ward states that he cannot possibly be in Timaru in time for the arrangement to bo oarri-d out. It is probabl,c therefore, that the District Court will not sit again until the ordinary time, July 1. At the R. H. Court, this morning, Daniel O’Brien, an old offender, was charged beforeß. Woollcombc, and li.Beliicld, Esqs. J.IVs, with being drunk and disorderly, on the railway platform, yesterday. Hr Jones, station-master, deposed to the disorderly conduct of the accused, and to his making use of obscene language at the Railway Station. The Bench sentenced the accused to 11 days’ imprisonment, with hard labor. At the R. M. Court, Tcmuka, yesterday before E. Guinness Esq., R.M., H. D. Barker, and W, Postlcthwaittc, Esq., J.L”s., the case against H. Hamer, charged on remand with vagrancy, was dismissed. Several unimportant civil cases were also disposed of.

Captain Hedges, master of the s.s. City of Cork, was prosecuted at Auckland yesterday for stealing a gun from the ol'iicc of the Kaipara steamship. The prosecution broke down.

Abe Hickcn, the pugilist had a light with the waves at Auckland, by falling over the wharf as the s.s. Rotorua hauled off, Abe lost Ids passage and be would probably have lost Ids life ns well but for aby-stander who jumped alter him and a convenient boat.

The Express train from the South was half an hour late .yesterday afternoon on arriving at Timaru. It appears that the delay was caused by a a carriage, or carrrnges getting off the line, when the train w:is near Palmerston. Our reporter happened to he on the platform when the train arrived, hut strange to say, could obtain no information from the officials respecting the accident.

Two men on board the St Kilda had a narrow escape during tire last voyage of that steamer from Dunedin to Wanganui (says the “ Post”). When between Kapiti and Wanganui, the gangway over which two of the crew were heaving ashes from the stokehole, came adrift, owing to the vessel rolling heavily, the men being carried away with it, and drifted rapidly astern'. The engines were immediately stopped, a lifebuoy thrown, and the starboard boat manned and lowered with all haste. Meantime, though the engines were reversed, the men had drifted some considerable distance from the ship, but guided by their cries for assistance, the boat's crew had little dilliculty in ascertaining their whereabouts. Within 18 minutes from the time the accident occurred, the luckless mariners were rescued from their unenviable position on the gangway, to which they were found clinging a quarter of a mile from the vessel.

The Oriental Exhibition opens to-morrow, at ;5 p.m., in the Queen's Hall; The exhibition, which consists of Eastern curios, jewellery, etc., has been largely patronised during the last few days at Temnka. The exhibits comprise, among other things, the rose of Sharon, which expands or shrivels up according as it is placed in water, beautiful carvings from derusalom, tortotsc shell ornaments from Ceylon, pearl shell from Egypt, and a general fancy goods collection.