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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2482, 4 March 1881, Page 3

Captain Steele, on behalf of Messrs Grant and Foster, has finally accepted the terms of the Government re the Te Aroha sestlement. Anyone coming into possession of any of * the following Colonial Bank notes are desired to communicate with the police £5 notes, 9585, 9524, 10,283; £1 notes > 67,835, 70,313, 47,926. Those who go in for popular entertainments should be warned by the experiences of the Sheridan Dramatic Club. Lately they decided to give a benefit to the Timaru Hospital. A good programme was arranged,'the members had plenty of rehearsals, and to ensure a substantial benefit they bore the cost of their own wardrobe and sundry other expenses. As the result of two entertainments in the Theatre Royal they are £9 15s 6d out of pocket. Their receipts amounted to £l9 7a and their expenses were £29 2s 6d. Lest any may suppose that the expenditure was extravagant, we append some 'of the chief items : License fee to Mr Gillon, Wellington, £l. Miss Arethusa May, travelling expenses, &c., £7 30s ; hire of Theatre, £8 ;,S. C. ‘Times, printing and advertising, £ll7s Od; k‘ Timaru Herald,” advertising, £3 14s 5 [nano, &0., 355,. | He the street shooting case at Christchurch yesterday, the “ Press" says : —“ln the course of the afternoon the depositions of several persons having a knowledge of the prisoner or circumstances bearing on his unfortunate situation, were carefully taken by Sergeant Morice at the Police Depot. It appears from the statement of one witness that prisoner had previously informed him that John Spring was the cause of his (Beaufield’s) matrimonial, troubles—that in fact, to use a common expression, “ A woman was at the bottom of it.” To another person he stated that Spring had beaten him or something to that effect.

At the Resident Magistrate’s Court Dunedin, on Wednesday, a solicitor who exhibited unmistakable signs of being under the influence of drink was about to enter rhe witness-box to give evidence in a case which he was conducting, when Mr Simpson 11. M. addressed him as follows ;—“ You are not only unfit to plead, but you are not fit to go into the box. I will not take you on your oath. You are intoxicated. I warn you against making your appearance in Court in such' a condition again, I shall bring the matter before a Judge of the Supreme Court in some way.” The want of a strong ward or padded room at the Timaru Hospital is likely to lead to complications. About three weeks ago a patient was forwarded on the certificate of two medical men from the Timaru Hospital to the Sunnyside Lunatic Asylum. The Asylum authorities thereupon commun’cated with the Charitable Aid Board at Christchurch, intimating that the case was a surgical one, and more suited for an Hospital than a Lunatic Asylum. The Christchurch Hospital authorities have written in consequence to Timaru, threatening to send the unfortunate patient back to the institution from whence he came. Nothing further has transpire I as yet, but it is to be hoped that “ a case of a serious character, which renders removal to a long distance hazardous,”, will not be bundled about in the way proposed. A tall and comely but shabbily dressed woman, who had evidently ‘‘loved unwisely but too well,” appeared at the Police Court to-day to tell the same “ old, old story” so frequent in the colonies, she had two young children hanging on to her skirts, and on the floor of the Court stood a strong, well-fed, able-bodied man who acknowledged their parentage, although the mother, unfortunately for herself, was not his wife. The goods aud chattels of the discarded one had been sold off, and, as Inspector Pender put it, unless something was done to bind the father, the probability was that the children would be thrown upon the country'. The man denied that he intended to abscond, and the case was adjourned to enable further enquiries to be made.

The time for receiving entries for the sports on March 17 has been extended to the 10th inst. Intending competitors are reminded that entries will not be received after that date. The handicaps will be declared on the 14th. A meeting of persons desiriousof establishing a branch in Timaru of the Dunedin Free Thought Association, will be held in the Hall above Mr Clayton’s Concrete Store on Sunday evening. We have been requested to state that a Waxworks Exhibition, containing the Kelly Gang, the Two-headed Nightingale, and a collection of interesting celebrities is now an roitfa for Timaru, and will be opened in the course of a few days.

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