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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2345, 22 September 1880, Page 3

A man was injured yesterday afternoon while working at the railway excavations near Fairlie Creek ; a quantity of earth fell upon him throwing him down and breaking his leg. He was brought into town by the last train and conveyed to the Hospital. One of his “ mates ” accompanied him to Timaru. The friends of a newly-married couple assembled on the railway platform this afternoon to see them off on their honeymoon trip, and just as the train moved out of the station the “ happy pair ” were pelted with handsful of split peas and Hour. However kindly meant this little attention may have been it was rather misplaced, and the objects of it looked as if they could have willingly dispensed with it. " A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.” At tkc R.M. Court this morning, a couple of first offenders were charged before Mr Beetham with being drunk and disorderly, and were fined 5s each, with the alternative of 24 hours imprisonment. One of the men had some money, but the other had not a cent, and would have had to go to the lock-up but for the interference of his companion in trouble, who generously paid both fines. The men were strangers to each other. Mr Milner Stephen is becoming almost as great a celebrity in Sydney as Dr Tanner, the fasting man, is in New York. The extraordinary curative powers attributed to him seem to increase by their exercise His receptions at the National Hall are crowded with spectators and patients. The Sydney “ Dally Telegraph” gravely asserts that he frequently commands the diseases to leave the patients, who thereupon turn round, and amidst the applause of the spectators, confess their pains have vanished. Lumbago, sciatica, rheumatism and rheumatic gout, deafness, and even blindness, have all in turn been cured almost instantaneously, and the papers are full of certificates purporting to substantiate the genuineness of the wonderful acts of this modern miracle-worker.

The Nelson “ Colonist” says :—“ Mr Charles Pradlaugh the Kadical member for Northampton, who lias recently created such a sensation in the House of Commons by preferring a request to make an aflirmation in lieu of the usual oath of allegiance to the Queen, docs not appear to be without his friends and sympathisers even in this distant corner of the globe. The outgoing mail of this month conveys to Mr Pradlaugh a letter, signed by several residents of Nelson, expressive of their esteem and goodwill, applauding the unflinching manner in which he upholds the cause of religious and political freedom, and congratulating him upon the victory ho has acheivcd in the matter of the oaths question. The letter is accompanied with a hank draft for the substantial sum of £24, to assist Mr Pradlaugh in prosecuting malicious persons, who since they cannot controvert his arguments, scruple not to have resource to libel. A furl her sum amounting to several pounds, was forwarded at the same time in aid of the National Secular Society, of which Mr Pradlaugh is President.”

At a meeting of the Committee of the Timaru Mechanics’ Institute held yesterday evening, it was resolved to order tne bound volumes of the following magazines for 1881: “All the Year Round,” “Argosy,” “Cassell’s Family Magazine,” “ Cornhill,” “Family Herald,” “London Journal,” “ London Society,” “ Once a Week,” also Cassell’s “ Art Magazine,” to be supplied regularly by the London agent. Accounts to the amount of £l4 18s were passed for payment. The action of the Secretary in altering the hours for the exchange of books from 6-9 p.m. to 7-10 p.m., was approved of.