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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2412, 9 December 1880, Page 3

Robert Mollroy, a storekeeper at the Seventeen Mile, Beach, West Coast, was accidentally drowned in a small lagoon yesterday. He was driving some cattle along the beach, and was trying to head a bullock when he slipped off his horse into the water. A consignment of Ligurean bees per Bangitikei to the Canterbury Beekeepers’ Association died on the voyage from British cholera. The last member of a community of four hives and two queens expired three weeks before reaching Lyttelton. The Stewart’s Island rush has turned out a complete failure. A solitary speck was obtained from twenty shovels of dirt, and the gold in the quartz specimens is pronounced to be mundic. The miners who visited the spot are returning to Invercargill. Mr James Howey of Sandietown requests us to.state that the application, re a hotel license was made in his own name and not that of Mrs Howie, as it appeared in our report. The mistake was due to the bad acoustic properties of the Court house, and the fact that the reporters’ table has been removed from the position it formerly occupied below the bench, to an inconvenient site against the side of the building. At the Waimale E.M. Court on Tuesday a man named John Boyes was charged with the larceny of a dray valued at £7, the property of John M’Guinness. Mr Hawkins prosecuted. Accused asked to be remanded till Thursday, and the request was granted, bail being fixed in one security of £25. Dr Donald so well known in Christchurch and Lyttelton, after a two years vacation in Great Britain, returned to his happy hunting grounds by the Hangitikci yesterday. To-day the weather was exceedingly sultry. The forenoon was calm but tropical—almost warm enough to cook eggs in the open air. The afternoon was warm, and a strong north-east wind raised the dust in clouds, and knocked the corporation shingle about. No accidents have been reported of the slightest consequence, beyond the collapse of a potted geranium, wbich descended from a window- sill through the panes of a verandah and nearly made potted meat of an unoffending passenger.