South Canterbury Times. TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1880. NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2320, 24 August 1880, Page 2

South Canterbury Times. TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1880. NEWS OF THE DAY.

AAliile driving in a buggy along the peninsula road, opposite Dunedin, on Saturday last Air Andrew Mercer, grocer and J.P. got entangled in a fallen telegraph wire and the buggy and its contents were pitched into the bay. Air AJcrccr had three ribs broken and Airs Mercer had her hip fractured. The unfortunate couple are progressing favorably.

A dispute is raging at Tokomairiro, Otago, as to whether a certain cow died of rinderpest or was choked by a turnip. The local “ vet ” declares in favor of rinderpest while the “Bruce Herald” swears by the turnip. The two men who were injured at Lyttelton gaol and Cashmere in the recent gale are recovering from the effects of their injuries.

The Christchurch soup-kitchens unless better patronised will shortly be closed. Unregistered dogs are becoming scarce in the Cathedral city.

Burmeister, the owner of an oyster saloon near the Theatre lloyal, Christchurch, has been repremandod by the Bench for entertaining fallen angels unawares.

O’Connor the pedestrian gave a farewell walk of seven miles in 59J minutes at the Oddfellows Hall Christchurch, last evening, prior to his departure for Australia.

The Colonial Bank at Oamaru owed its preservation from lire on Sunday morning to some buckets of water from the Star and Garter Hotel.

H. J. Guildford, clerk to the Portobello Hoad Board, was arrested yesterday on a charge of embezzling £2OO the funds of the B Board.

Air Lambet h, ajjDunedin contractor wa engaged on Saturday superintending the demolition of a building in Princes street, when a nail ran into his foot, and it is stated that lockjaw has set in.

A number of stevedores at Lyttelton struck work yesterday because Talbot and McClatchie their employers, in recognition of the dull times, reduced their wages from 12s to 11s per day. The well-known Clydesdale Stallion, Sir Walter Scott, was a passenger per express train yesterday for Tnnaru. Sir Walter is a handsome dappled bay sixteen and a half har.ds high and with plenty of symmetry and breeding. Sir Walter is by Ivanhoe, out of Beauty, by Thane of Clyde. He is for private sale, and is now on view at King’s stables. The good folk of Wanganui appear to be thoroughly in earnest in everything they do. They have taken kindly to Mr Bradley and his pack of hounds, and appear to have literally gone hunting mad, so mad indeed that, as described by a local exchange, one enthusiastic Nimrod, during a recent “ firstclass run,” occasioned much fun by his “ madly chasing a respectable old ram.” A sheepskin was evidently the object hunted, and it appeared immaterial to the hunter whether it was in the nature of an aniseed drag, or formed the natural covering of the father of a flock.”