NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2299, 30 July 1880, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Theatre goers will be glad to hear that the Clara Stephenson Byronic and Burlesque Company will arrive in a day or two from Wellington, and open for a short season at the Theatre Iloyal, Timaru.

The football match on Saturday will be the final one between Colonials and the World. The match with Oamaru is fixed for August 18, Applicants for the post of waterworks engineer to the Borough Council arc reminded that their applications must be, handeddn by 7 p.m., on Monday. At the Auckland Magistrate’s Court, yesterday, in the ease Henry James Lj on v. Be Lias, claim £lO, penalties for breach of the Copyright Act in performing a piece entitled “One Hundred Thousand Pounds,” at the Theatre Boyal, the plaintiff, by his registered agent (Mr Gillon, of Wellington), who represented him, was nonsuited. The charge of perjury against W. L. Bees, of Gisborne, has been dismissed. The net proceeds of the Christchurch Industrial Exhibition, will amount to £SOO. Gratuities of £3 each have been voted to tire Police library fund, and Fire Brigade library, in recognition of services rendered. It was resolved that the surplus funds should be handed to the Committee of the Association for fostering and protecting local industries, with a recommendation that a sum not less than £3OO be invested in promoting similar exhibitions in future, unless the Association shall, at a general meeting, convened for the discussion of this particular resolution, otherwise direct.

The Insurance Companies Bill was almost unanimously condemned at a meeting of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce yesterday on the ground that it would create a monopoly, and drive foreign companies out of the held.

The laying of another section of the monolith at the breakwater was commenced this afternoon. This means another 18 feet added to the contract. Of the SJfJO feet undertaken by the present contractors 218 feet have been finished leaving only about one hundred feet to he completed. The work has been seriously impeded of late by the rough weather, hut the heavy seas have not been without their advantage for they have washed out about two feet of sand from beneath the blocks on the south side, enabling them to settle on the solid rock.

A great clearing sale of drapery takes place to-morrow, next the Shamrock Hotel.