South Canterbury Times. FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1880. NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2323, 27 August 1880, Page 2

South Canterbury Times. FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1880. NEWS OF THE DAY.

The next ordinary monthly meeting of the Timaru Harbor Board will take place on Thursday.

Mr Haylock was last evening elected second lieutenant of the Rocket Brigade. In future voting by proxy will be permitted on the occasion of the election of officers.

The Library of the Mechanics Institute is now open from 7 to 10 p.m. every evening and not from 6 to 9 p.m. as formerly. On Wednesdays it will also be open from 1 to 4 p.m. and on Saturdays from 12 to 2 p.m* Telegraphic communication with the North was restored yesterday evening, one wire being repaired on the direct line, and one via Westland and Nelson. The ’Frisco mail arrived at Auckland yesterday rnorn-

An inquest was held at the Sportsman’s Arras, Saltwater Creek, at 4 o’clock, yesterday afternoon, before R. Bcetham, Esq., coroner, and a jury, on the body of Ah Song, a Chinamen, who met with injuries while driving into Timaru last Saturday morning, which terminated fatally on Wednesday afternoon. The medical evidence went to show that death had resulted from injuries to the head,and the jury found that “ the deceased was accidentally killed by the overturning of a cart.”

The Government have issued a circular memo to the effect that any railway employe becoming insolvent is to be at once dismissed the public service. Why should an exception be made of the Railway Department ? The Commissioner of South Island Railways in his annual report says that by the adoption of native coal we are not only conducting our business at a clear annual saving of £8,500, but retain in the Colony a large sum of money, and find profitable employment for labor. Yet it was with the utmost difficulty, that the Railway Department could be induced to give the Colonial Coal a chance.

Inquiry is being made by the police into the circumstances attending the disappearance of a xabbiter named J. Hardy, who is supposed to have been drowned in the Waiau last week. From the information to hand it appears that after imbibing freely in a public-house near Sunnyside Station he walked into the water to meet the ferry-boat, and was swept away by the current and never seen again. Parties for searching the river were organised, but up till yesterday no trace of the missing man, who was no doubt drowned, has been found. The Wesleyans are to be congratulated upon the success, attending the third, of their series of concerts, which was given last night at the School-room Bank Street. The zoom was crowded with" a select, and appreciative audience, and, the programme submitted [consisted of songs, duets, recitations. and Glees, in which Messrs Walcott, Foster, and Mesdames Simmons, Evans, and Holdgate, took a prominent part. On the whole, the programme was well carried out, and the entertainment was concluded with the National Anthem. We understand that the committee purpose giving the next entertainment in about a months time.