NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2376, 28 October 1880, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

It is stated that Mr Proctor will visit Timaru towards the end of next month. A severe south cast gale has been raging at Gisborne and the rivers are Hooded.

A woollen manufacturing company has been projected at Napier. Thirty-five of the armed constabulary at Cambridge, Auckland are to be utilised for road-making purposes at Rotorua. Sir Francis Dillon Bell has been appointed Agent-General, at a salary of £1250 per annum.

Mr James King has replaced the thoroughbred Castaway, which died the other evening, with Dfcfamer.

At the inquiry held on the human remains found in the bush at Owake, near Catlin’s river, they were identified as those of Robert Gray, who was missing in May, 1870. Gray was employed at Mr Robert Anderson’s sawmill.

There are about 130 men at present working on the Hindon goldfields. Eighty of these work alluvial, and all of them are making small wages. The remaining fifty are employed on the reefs, mostly at day wages.

The “ Bruce Herald” throws out the following brilliant suggestion:—" The baby who was born in a railway carriage is the offspring of a member of the Byronic Dramatic Club. If the letter Bis deducted from ‘ Byronic,’ the remainder is ‘ yronic.’ The railway is an ironical road, aud if the baby is named Ironia the title will be strictly appropriate.”

The bazaars continue to be all attractive. Last evening they were largely patronised and it was with some difficulty that the sightseers could make their way from one end of the buildings to the other. At the Church of England Bazaar £370 were taken during the day, making the handsome total for the two days of £770. This bazaar was re-opened at 2 o’clock this afternoon. The Primitive Methodist bazaar held in Messrs Priest and Go's Auction Rooms has been open again to-day and will be so this evening. A ball under the auspices of the Tirnaru Fire Brigade in aid of the Sick and Accident fund, took place last evening in the Oddfellows’ Hall, Barnard street. Half an hour or so before the ball opened the Brigade made a torchlight procession through the town. The hand engine was prettily decorated and heralded by the Artillery band, playing appropriate music. Coloured fires were burnt as the procession proceeded with remarkably good effect. The ball was a great success. Mr C. Patton presided at the pianoforte with his usual efficiency. To show the stratagem, tact, and cunning of the criminal class with a view to change their prison life to a more congenial situation, we may mention the case of two wellknown thieves of a very dangerous class named Sullivan and Gilchrist, lately discharged from our gaol. Sullivan has just completed a sentence of six years’ penal servitude for a most daring and brutal garroting robbery in Melville street. He it was whom Mr Justice Johnston, when sentencing him, characterised as “ a brute unworthy to live.” The pair lately proceeded to Oamaru, and crossing the Waitaki, committed a robbery in an hotel on the South Canterbury bank of the river. They were immediately arrested, conveyed to Oamaru, and committed for trial, but claimed as their right to be sent to Timaru, as the robbery with which they were charged was committed in that judicial district. The Dunedin detectives kept these two men under such strict surveillance that they were glad to shake the dust of Otago from off their feet.—“ Dunedin Star.”

Owners of sires are reminded that nominations for the South Canterbury Jockey Club’s Sires Produce Stakes, 1881, together with the subscription of 10 soys, must be handed to the hon. secretary before November 1.