South Canterbury Times, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1881. NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2468, 15 February 1881, Page 2

South Canterbury Times, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1881. NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Governor’s tour through the South Island has been postponed. Major Atkinson it is feared, has contracted a permanent limp. Mr H. Herbert, 8.A., Canterbury College, has been awarded the Gilchrist Scholarship. News has been received of the arrival in London of the ship Gemma, from Oamaru, and the s.s. Durham, from Lyttleton. Colonel C, W. Lisgar, formerly commandant of the New Zealand Militia, has died at the age of 72. Eewi refuses to occupy the stately mansion built for him in the North Island by the Government, until he receives the Grown grant. Mrs Hampson, the lady evangelist, is making a great impression at the Thames, turning the hearts of the males and the heads of the old women. Teniers have been opened for t’no construction of a railway between Emerald and and Capilla In the north of Queensland. The lowest is at the rate of £IO9O per mile. The composition of the Otago Harbor Board has undergone a material change. Messrs Eamsay and Fish have been reelected ; the others —Messrs H. Guthrie, W. J. M. Larnach, and A. H. Boss are new members. Messrs Conyers and Armstrong, late of the railway depmtraent, have gone into the ironfoundry business, the former at Dunedin, the latter at Invercargill. A survey party at Tiki Tiki, Hawke’s Bay, have been stripped of their instruments and otherwise demoralised by Maori women.

The Sclwyn County Council considers wharfage rales at Lyttelton arc too high, and that the. shipping interests are being favored at the expense of the producing interests.

Mr McDermott, barrister of Duncan, writes to the local press, severely commenting on the action of Mr Dunuislon in can-dag the ‘ : s>caiied apology” of Mr \V. I). Stewart to be published with the evident irrention of prejudicing him in cornu eiion with his action for slander.

An inspection of the crops south of Timaru shows that the harvest is move advanced and likely to be far more prolific on the north than to the south of the U’aitaki. Between hero and Oainaru a largo quantity of grain has been cut, and harvesting operations will be pretty well finished by tiro end of the present week. The heads of the wheat appear plump and full, and the grain is likely to bulk well. Already some samples of the new crop have found their way to town, and arc being converted into Hour. Some heavy crops of barley arc still standing, but generally speaking the straw is rather short. To the south of Oaraaru the crops arc not so well advanced, nor do they look so heavy, but the yield will no doubt prove satisfactory.

So far as the elections for the Timaru Harbor Board have gone there is no great change in its composition. Mr Moody was re-elected yesterday to represent Waimato ; Mr Postlethwaitc has been re-elected for Gera dine; Mr W. Evans for the Timaru Chamber of Commerce; Mr F. K. Gray for the Temuka Road Board ; and Mr Mcc fertile Levels Road Board. Tire only member not returned to his accustomed seat is Mr Beswick, who formally represented the Levels, and wc may say, without flattery, did excellent service on the Board for his constituents.

The people of California, arc letribly in earnest over the Cbiue-;e immigration question, Referring to liic new Chinese Treaty the “ Alia California" of Dec. -nth says:—We do not believe in trusting even the Senate of the United Stales with legislating for us. We have had enough of free and uatraimnelled immigration. The peop’e have demanded a new treaty, a new deal, and they will “make Home howl ” if another treaty like that now existing shall have been thrust, upon them without al'owing them to know anylhing of its provisions until it shall have fixed upon another blight, Tae “ Fatherhood of God and the biolherhoud of man M is a very nice expression in poetry, bat it will nob satisfy the stomaeh wanting bread. The wed at one of the Invercargill public schools was cleaned out lately, when among (lie mieoiisiderei trilles that bad accumulated were a number of full grown rats in various stages of decomposition together in with mice, worms, and such like small deer, is it to be wmidered at (the “News' 1 ask-) that the children (irinking such “ broth” are frequently attacked hy obscure diseases.

A match will be commenced on Saturday next on the ground of the Timaru Cricket Club, between eleven selected by Mr M. J. Godby and a fifteen selected by Mr E. Fowler. The sides ate as follows: Eleven —Godby, D’Linden, Blundell, 0. T. H. Berry, Frazer, B. Jones, Jefferson, Raymonel, Eichbaum, Whitley junr., A. Berry. Fifteen—E. Bowler, Hughes, Lawrence, Reid. Cameron Bony, Lough, T. Jones Squire, Withey, Whitley senr., Ness, Norrio, Courtis, Shepherd, and King.

Aii extensive sale of fumitnre and effects takes place at Mr M. Jonas’ Auction Booms to-morrow at 2 pan. The annual soiree in connection with the Primitive Methodist Church takes place this evening in the Oddfellows Hall,Barnard street. Tea will be on the table at G.HO, to be followed by a public meeting in the church at 7.-15, when addresses, hymns and recitations will be given.

Our readers arc reminded that this evening Herr Baudmann’s brief season at the Theatre lloyal, commences, when “Hamlet” will presented, with Herr Bandmann in the title role, and Miss Beaudct as Ophelia. Both artistes have received the warmest commendations from the Dunedin press, and indeed from the press of places far more important than Dunedin, for their impersonations of Bhakespear in characters, and as it is very rarely that artistes so well known as Herr Bandmann visit Timaru, he will doubtless be received by a crowded house.