South Canterbury Times, MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1880. NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2313, 16 August 1880, Page 2

South Canterbury Times, MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1880. NEWS OF THE DAY.

A match between the Australians versus eighteen of Sunderland has been won by the former in one innings with 38 runs to spare.

The “ Otago Daily Times ” of Saturday philosophises as follows:—“Surely there must be something rotten in the condition of this section of the lower classes in Victoria, in spite of our boasted educational systems, when such a boundless villain as Edward Kelly can attract one spark of kindly feeling towards himself.” But surely there must be something infinitely more rotten in the condition of the “upper classes” of a city where they allow such human fiends as a Mrs Reid, a Waters, or a Butler to escape the hangman.

A lesson to intending insurers on the danger of procrastination may be learnt from the fate of the three men who were drowned at Dargaville, near Auckland by the upsetting of a boat on Friday. Two of the party, T. J. Wilson and Win Allwright had both tilled up proposals for insurance in the New Zealand Accident Insurance Company some months ago, but had failed to pay the premiums thereon. Had the deceased paid the premiums their afflicted families would now have something substantial in the way of relief to fall back upon, instead of being exposed to the bleak winds of adversity and the charity of strangers.

A friend of mine, says a writer in “ London Society,” was introduced the other day to a very charming young American lady at Geneva. AYith a naivete and frankness characteristic of Yankee womanhood, she soon informed him that she was spending her honeymoon in Europe. “ That must be very delightful,” exclaimed my fiiend < “Yes,” was her reply, “ I enjoy it immensely.” Then it occured to him that he had seen nothing of the lady’s husband. “ Your husband is not here to-day, then ?’ he added. He says he shall not easily forget the comical expression of amusement and surprise upon her face as she answered with a merry laugh :“ My husband here! AVhy, he is not with me ! I left him in New York.” The idea of a honeymoon is unique. I wonder if the husband was enjoying his honeymoon with equal zest on the other side of the Atlantic ? Perhaps ho was. A AYellington bailiff has got into trouble through swearing to the service of a summons which it is alleged he did not serve. Mr Ireland, M.H.11. for AYaikaia, died at seven o’clock on Sunday morning. He had been ailing for some time, but was in the House on Thursday. The same night he consulted his medical adviser, and on the following day was taken seriously ill, and has been confined to bed since. The supposed cause of his death was heart disease and congestion of the lungs.

The Southern F'ross, which has arrived at Auckland from the South Sea Islands, brings news that H.M.S. AA'olvevinc arrived in Lcvuka on the sth inst., from Tavnina. She struck on a reef on the north-east end of Garo, and is said to be considerably damaged, having six feet of water in her hold, while she is reported to be making three feet per hour. A seven mile walking match, for £IOO, came off at Auckland on Saturday, between A. Hendry and Thos. Fernandez. Fernandez won by 100 yards in (iCunin. 2isecs. The match excited great interest. The betting was 3 to 1 on Hendry up to the fourth mile, and a large amount of money changed hands.

The “ heathen Chinee ’’has outwitted the Auckland bench and driven a square-gin bottle through the Licensing Act. Alf Suit was charged with selling the liquid Dutchman to another Chinaman without a license. The “cute” celestial, however, proved, with the aid of a box of matches, that the gin had been subscribed for by several Chinamen prior to purchase, and the information had to be discharged.

A correspondent of the “Clutha Leader” tells the following story, illustrative of how the monotony of every day life at I’uerua is occasionally broken : —“ Last Saturday, as a settler had left his house in this dis. trict and when passing along a district road leading to the main road, a neighbor, geographically, though not in feeling, ap proachcd him in a hurry and assailed him in language the reverse of complimentary or refined. A family of eight all told were soon on the scene, and while the settlerreferred to was seized, by the beard and held fast by a blushing damsel of 28 summers, her father, an old grey-haired I’rcsbytcrian, belaboured him over the head and otherparts of the body with a piece of scantling four by one and a half arches. The victim at last got away with his life, but still suffers severely from the effects of the affray. I am informed not the slightest provocation was given,