NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2423, 22 December 1880, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Saturday being Christmas Day no issue of this journal will be published that evening. Our Christmas supplement will be issued with Friday’s publication.

The master of the Lyttelton Orphanage Asylum will gratefully receive any donations towards the childrens’ Christmas treat and recreation fund. Christmas comes but once a year, and the little ones at the Orphanage look forward to it all the year through. The treat Ac., cannot be given, however, without funds.

An entertainment by the children attendthc Public School, took place at the Theatre Royal last evening, to celebrate the breaking up for the Christmas holidays. Such a house has not been seen for a very long time at the Royal, and some of the professional companies that arc in the habit of playing occasional}- in Timaru, would have regarded the packed pit, the crowded circle, and the blocked passages with envy, could they have teen amongst the spectators. A lengthy programme was done excellent justice to by the youngsters, whose songs, readings, recitations, and dialogues in character, were given with much spirit. Indeed some of the young performers, sung, and acted with astonishing ease and sc {-possession. The school band of flutes, drums, and triangles was present, and played several pleasing selections. At the close of the proceedings, Mr Walcot, Chairman of the School Committee, thanked those present for their attendance, as also the givers of special prizes, those who had contributed to the cost of the band instruments, and last, but by no means least, the school teachers, to whose exertions the success of the entertainment, was in so large a measure attributable. The performance of God Save the Queen, by the band, brought the evening’s amusement to a close. At the R. M. Court this morning, a first offender for drunkenness, was fined ss. John O’Brien, was remanded to Temuka, on a charge of stealing two bottles of beer, of the value of 2s.

The] adjourned annual meeting of the Borough Council takes place this evening at 7 o'clock, when the Mayor will be formally installed for the ensuing year.

A meeting of the South Canterbury Caledonian Societj', for the transaction of general business, takes place to-night at H, at the Grosvenor. Mr William Collins’s £5300 Consultation on the Champion llace will be drawn at the rooms of W. Collins and Co , auctioneers, on Friday, 551st December, at 8 p.m. Early application is necessary to obtain tickets. The race will bo run in Melbourne on New Year’s Day, 1881, at 2 p.m. Consultors only, on production of their tickets, will be admitted to the drawing.—Anvr. I’eacock and Geaney, West 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 l)e ready for inspection at 1 p.m., on Thursday, Dec 255. “No Gas.” —'Ann'.]