South Canterbury Times, MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1881. NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2431, 3 January 1881, Page 2

South Canterbury Times, MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1881. NEWS OF THE DAY.

— In Wellington the police made a raid on tbe public bouses yesterday. A man named Loader, nearly blind and very deaf, was run over by a train at Napier on Saturday, A valuable three-year-old stallion recently purchased by Mr J. Healey, of Timaru, and brought from the Taieri, died suddenly on Thursday. A poll for the election of a member of the Levels Road Board for the Seadown Ward, takes place at the Washdyke on Tuesday. On the following day the election of two members for Point Ward will take place, the polling places being—the Road Board Office, Pleasant Point, and the N.Z. and A. Land Go’s homestead, at Totara Valley. The candidates are —Seadown Ward, W. C. Beswick and W. Frew; Point Ward—M. Maze, A. Mee, C. R. Shaw and J, Sullivan.

Carrington, the rider of King Quail, who was injured on the Auckland course has quite recovered.

A man fell off the Express on Saturday between Dromore and Ashburton, but escaped with some contusions on the forehead.

The Government steamer Stella has at last found an occupation. She will be engaged carrying tbe mails to ports south of Hokitika once every three months.

There is nothing like “ making hay while the sun shiaes, ’ and we note that the Lyttelton Harbor Board are determined to do this in quite a different adaptation. The bed of the inner harbor at lyttclton appears to be composed of a.species of cay that the Board considers might be utilised, and the}" have accordingly given instructions to have some of it forwarded to tbe local earthenware manufacturers for experimental purposes.

Buckland’s hay market at Auckland, has been totally destroyed by tire, The premises were stored with llax, wool aud sejd, and although there was a splendid water supply the material was so inflammable that nothing could he saved, The insurances in Auckland are In the National, £2OOO on building ; New Zealand, £3OO on stock ; and South British, £IOOO. The stock was fully covered; as some of the sellers insured in their own names for some £SOO additional. The loss will he on the building. The appointment of the Hon. Mr Dick to the portfolio for Education has stimulated the Otago Bible-in-schools party to renewed exertion. At a meeting of that body in Dunedin on Wednesday the following motion, amongst others, was agreed to, viz. : —“ That a meeting of parents be convened at an early date, by invitation of this Association, for the purpose of ascertaining the feeling of such meeting as to Bible reading in the public schools, and to consider what action, if any, should be taken to have the Education Act amended so as to allow of such Biblc-rcading, and generally to tqke into consideration such matters auxiliary to the subject as the meeting may determine.”