NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2419, 17 December 1880, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

There was a total eclipse of the moon at an early hour this morning, but tbe weather was too cloudy to allow it to be seen properly.

Children playing with matches, destroyed the hotel of Mr Lake at Coromandel, on Wednesday evening.

Bishop Cowie, has returned to Auckland, after inspecting the root of all evil at the To Aroha diggings. No satisfactory tender having been received for the purchase of the Wellington “ Evening Chronicle ” publication has been suspended.

Mr W. Bateman, of Christchurch, is to deliver a series of lectures on Co-operation, in the Oamarn district.

The Union a.s. Company intend laying on one of their best steamers this year for their usual annual excursion to the Sounds of the West Coast.

At the Waimatc < 'ourt yesterday C. Inder was committed for trial at the forthcoming sittings of the Supreme Court, for horsestealing from Messrs Hunt Bros., of Waimatc. The accused was liberated on bail, which was lixedas follows :—Accused in the sum of £IOO, and two sureties of £SO each.

Cole's American Circus troupe will arrive in Timaru from Christchurch, per rail, at about (1 o'clock to-morrow morning, so that all those who desire to see a human and wild beast menagerie on the move will have to rise early. Arrangements have been made by the railway authorities for bringing in tbe residents of the country districts. These visitors will have the advantage of special trains to convey them to their homes about midnight. The Circus will take its departure for Oamaru on Sunday.

The privileges at the Caledonian Sports will be sold on Monday. Single fare tickets issued at the railway stations from Dec. 2d, to January d will be available for return up to January L’eacock and Geaney, West End Dutchery Church street, while thanking their patrons for past favors wish to intimate that in accordance witli 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 be ready for inspection at 1 p.m., on Thursday, Dec 2d.— Wnvr.]