NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2409, 6 December 1880, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

A reward of £lO has been offered for the conviction of the Geraldine window smashers. Mr Ewen McColl, Government librarian at Wellington, died from an apoplectic fit on Saturday. As a proof of the heat of the weather to-day we may mention that the thermometer stood at 120 degrees in the sun at eleven o’clock this morning, At a meeting af the Provisional Directors of the Farmers’ Co-operation Association held on Saturday afternoon, a large number of shares were allotted. The general meeting of shareholders takes place on Saturday next. While on his way to Wellington in the Hinemoa, Tuhi, the Maori arrested for the murder of Miss Dobie, gave as his reason for the crime, that after deceased gave him her money she threatened to tell the soldiers and to prevent her doing so he killed her. Kumara, on the West Coast, was illuminated at three o’clock on Sunday morning by a destructive fire. The premises consumed comprised Morris’ Rose and Thistle Hotel, Davis’ (tailor), Holmes (tentmaker), andJßaber’s (fruiterer), and a small shop. The buildings were uninsured and most of the sufferers saved nothing. Other buildings were severely scorched, and were saved with difficulty. The Lynch family of bellringers gave their final farewell performance on Saturday night at the Theatre Royal, when another capital house assembled to enjoy the bell-ringing, singing, ventriloquism, and the performance of a farce, “ Dr Brown’s Dispensary,” in which the Messrs Lynch, and Mr Sankey were as mirth provoking as usual. The Saturday afternoon matinee was very well attended also, the juveniles for whose especial behalf it was given, testifying their delicht by frequent applause. The company proceeds south en route for Melbourne, Java and Batavia.

Mr Bradley, boat-builder &c., yesterday afternoon went out for a stroll, and while he was away some person or another seems to have climbed over the fence of his yard and done some damage. A new racing whaleboat intended for the regatta, was on the stocks and about half full of water to swell the timber. On Mr Bradley’s return he found that the boat had been taken off the stocks’, carried about ten feet away and placed bottom up on two tressles. The damage done to the boat is considerable, one of its planks being split &c., and the repairs will take some time to effect. It is to be hoped that the mischievous perpetrator or perpetrators of this freak will be discovered.

Special attention is called to the price list of the Bodanow Manufacturing Co., of Boston, published in these columns. All those wishing to secure an excellent and correct timekeeper are recommended to address themselves to this old and reliable firm. No further evidence of the invariable good quality of their manufactures will be required beyond the following facts ; The firm ■was established in 1840, and since then have gained prize medals at the Exhibitions of London, Paris, Vienna, etc., for excellence of manufacture. They are appointed, by warrant, watchmakers to the Queen of England, Prince of Wales, the Emperor of Russia and the Bey of Tunis. fAdvt.J