South Canterbury Times, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1880. NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2418, 16 December 1880, Page 2

South Canterbury Times, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1880. NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Otago Harbor Board have decided to increase their engineer’s salary from £3OO to £BOO, on 'the understanding that his whole time be given to the service of the Board.

The Directors of the Union Sash and Door Company Auckland have been authorised to borrow £IO,OOO on debentures of such rates, and for such terms as they may deem expedient.

The Commissioner of Lands at Hawera telegraphs re the further sale of land on the Waimate Plains Fourteen of deferred payment contested sectons sold at about upset, there being little competition between applicants. Other eleven sections were briskly competed for at prices ranging from £l7 10s to £l4 5s per acre. Four sections which were taken up on the 13th, not contested.”

We regret that we arc unable to furnish our readeis with more than a partial report of to-day’s Flower Show. The judges completed their task shortly after 1 o’clock, but the book containing their awards, which at all properly conducted exhibitions is always available to the press, went through a scries of misadventures. In the first place it appears to have been removed by a member of the staff of another journal. Our representative, after repeated enquiries went in pursuit of it, and was in the act of copying out the list when the Secretary’s son, Mr Lough Junr, entered an appearance and insisted on taking it back to the show. Our representative returned to the exhibition, but on applying to the secretary for the book in order to finish the list ho was treated by father and son to a display of insolence and incivility which might be pardonable on the part of an inspector of nuisances, but which was certainly unbecoming on the part of a secretary to a public institution. The consequence is that we have been unable to publish more than the awards in the gardeners’ class, pur repen t having been suddenly terminated by the impudence of the Lough family at kidney potatoes.

A Deep .Sea Fishing Company is to be formed at Lyttelton, with a capital of about £IOOO. The shareholders, it is understood, will be limited to twelve, and a cutter will be at once purchased to facilitate operations.

The Hon Mr Olivier has been in Oamaru for the last day or two. He was threatened with an inundation of deputations, but out of regard foi his peace of mind he gave them all the bye-go. Oamaru is intensely dissatisfied.

Mr Caster manager of the Bank of N.Z. at Christchurch, has accepted the office of Managing Director of the N.Z. Steam Shipping Company. It is understood that Mr Henry Law of Newcastle, N.S.W. will succeed Mr Caster in tire Bank.

It is understood that the contract with the Union Steam Shipping Company for the conveyance of the Suez mails between Melbourne and the Bluff is not to be renewed The discontinuance of this contract will save a large amount of money and the public ir.convenience will be quite inconsiderable.

A complaint was recently made by the Christchurch Hospital Board to the Minister of Justice that the Coroner had exceeded his powers in a recent postmortem examination, but the Minister has answered that the Coroner was quite justified, and he could not interfere with him. 'This is cutting up the living as well as the dead.

London a reformed Mormon in America, and Elder Bat,Morman missionary in Auckland arc exchanging compliments through the Auckland papers. Lundon says the Mormon elders are murderers, scduccis, and debauchees of the vilest kind and Batt retorts that Lundon “is as mean as the devil," and this is latter-day saintism.

An inquest took place at Ashburton yesterday on tbe body of the illegitimate child of Sarah Brimmicombe, which was found at South Rakaia on Monday. The medical evidence went to show that the child was still born, and a verdict was returned accordingly. The mother will be charged with concealment of birth.

AYc were shown to-day the gold medal presented by I’. AY, Hutton and Co. to the High School for competition. The medal is of solid gold and chaste design, and the inscription on both sides of it is neatly executed. On the one side is engraved the name of the liberal donors together with the name of the winner, Master William Ward, and on the other side are the names of the Chairman, Rev. AY. Gillies and the Principal A.L. H. Dawson,also the different branches of education which constituted the examination. The medal was manufactured in Dunedin to the design of Mr Hutton and is valued at £3. The winner, Master Ward, of Waimate, is to be congratulated on his success in securing this trophy, and Waimate has just cause to be proud of its representative.

Further particulars concerning the accident to a boy named Leith, at Tiri Tiri, in the Auckland district, state that he fell over a cliff on the island 22 feet high, while gathering Christmas flowers on Monday afternoon. The father of the boy and the lighthouse-keeper tried to reach the spot by sea, but owing to tbe rough sea the boat was stove in on the shingle. Yesterday the Customs launch went to Tiri Tiri, but as it was blowing a gale they failed in the search. She returned to Auckland to-day and tows down the police boat. It is believed the hoy fell on a ledge 200 feet down and the body bounded oil into the sea below. The lighthouse-keeper was lowered down the face of the cliff, but failed to see the body on tire ledge. The mother clings to the belief that he fell in a chasm in the ledge not yet explored, and will be found alive.

The meeting up North to protest against thePatetcre land job was not after all such a liasco as was telegraphed. The Auckland “ Star” of December 8 has the following The promoters of the anti-Patetere meeting at Tc Awamutu explain their absence from the meeting at the hour appointed by the fact that they were waiting for their letters. After those favorable to the Government had carried their resolutions, the other party came in and turned the balance of the meeting. A resolution, moved by Mr Cunningham, and seconded by Mr Ramsay, in dead opposition to the former resolution was put and agreed to by a largo majority. It was as follows That in the opinion of this meeting, the Houses of Assembly will not be doing their duty if they do not make a searching enquiry into the action of the Government in handing over the Patetere block to Messrs Whitaker and Sheehan. Mr Roche moved, “ That Mr Cunningham’s resolution be forwarded to Sir George Grey to lay before tbe House ” Mr Sloane said the resolution should be forwarded through their own member, but his suggestion was overruled, and Mr Roche’s motion carried.”

Clark, the new .Mayor of Auckland, is going in for pure water. Fish, of Dunedin, ought to go North.

In sentencing the Maori Tuhi, convicted of the murder of MissDohie, his Honor is reported to have said ;—“ Prisoner at the bar, it may be that the only motive for the crime of which yon liiive been convicted was that which yon told to Constable Taylor, I myself believe that there was no other. From your confession I believe yon have long since repented of taking the life of Miss Dobie; if you have not no words of mine can alfect you. I think it well to observe that you have been convicted not only on European evidence, but on that of your own people, not only of the same race, but of your own connections. The sentence of the law is that yon he taken from here to the place from which you came, and from there to the place of execution, and that you be there hanged by the neck until you be dead, and may God have mercy upon your soul.” Horace Lingard, the comedian, has called two meetings of his creditors at Auckland, hut nobody will attend. His liabities are as follows :—To Williamson, Melbourne, lines recovered for performances of Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta “ lI.M’S. Pinafore,” ,£3BO ; Scare!l, musician, services £3OO ; Craig, actor, £2BO ; Haggerty, actor, £33. The charge against George Gleoson for attempting to pass a counterfeit sovereign at the late Oamaru races has been dismissed, the Magistrate ruling that there was no evidence of guilty knowledge on the part of the prisoner, and the evidence of identity was weak. He could not, therefore, do otherwise than dismiss the charge. The “ Mail ” adds that “ the coin in question in some respects is a very fair imitation of a sovereign, but its real nature may be easily discovered. It is considerably lighter than the legitimate sovereign, and does not bear the proper impressions. The reading is not correct, and a very cursory glance at it is quite sufficient to convince anyone of its true character,” Mr Wakctield, M.H.R., delivered an address to the Geraldine electors in the Crown Assembly Rooms, Temnka, last evening. There was a numerous attendance, and Mr Talbot,.Chairman of the Road Board, presided. The meeting was tolerably orderly throughout. Mr Wakefield’s address was in substance a repetition of that given at Geraldine on Monday evening, in reply to questions he said lie had applied for new Court buildings at Teniuka, but the Government had no money to spare. He condemned uniform railway rates, maintaining that the tarilf should be regulated by the cost of transit by road. He disapproved of high school pupils being allowed to compete for Government scholarships, and said he was absent from the South Canterbury Board when the obnoxious proposal was carried. He considered that R..M. Courts should be Courts of equity, and lawyers should he excluded from them. An income tax would bo preferable to a property tax, but lie hoped that neither would be required in future. Mr \V. Wright proposed and Mr .1. Harmp seconded a vote of thanks to Mr W akefield which was carried, an amendment by Mr Reach that tiie meeting was dissatisfied, failing to find a seconder.

Special railway arrangements have been made for the accommodation of visitors to Cole’s Circus.

A capital entertainment is announced for this evening at the Theatre Royal, which should attract a crowded bouse. Tbe programme comprises all sorts of good things in the musical, dramatic, and gymnastic lines, and with the assistance of Air Moran the well-known Irish Comedian, and Miss Kate A'ernon, the charming vocalist, and a whole host of well-known local amateurs, the affair should prove a big success. Peacock and Geaney, AA’est End Butchery Church street, while thanking their patrons for past favors wish to intimate that in accordance with their annual custom, they have arranged for a Grand Christmas Show of meat. No expense has on this occasion been spared in securing the very cream of the stock of South Canterbury, and the exhibition of beef, veal, mutton, lamb, porkers, sucking pigs, small goods and other delicacies, will be one that has never yet been approached in Timaru or surpassed in the colony. The proprietors encouraged by the result of their previous efforts to tickle the palates and suitably furnish the tables of the meat consuming public during the Christmas festival, have resolved to make the forthcoming exhibition something worthy of the richest agricultural and pastoral district in New Zealand, The show will he ready for inspection at 1 p.m., on Thursday, Dec 23. AuvT.j