NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2493, 17 March 1881, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Melbourne “ Argus ” sporting contributor says: —“I believe that although Mr W. Long has not any intention of sending Grand Flaneur to England, he would be quite prepared to match his colt to run Robert the Devil, if the owner of the latter would consent to meet him half way and have it decided at Bombay.

Fourteen subscribers to the extent of LSO each to the Church of England could not be found in the whole of Queensland in six weeks. The Bishop of Brisbane offered L7OO if fourteen of them could be found in that time.

When the Governor was luncheoned at Oamaru on his way to Dunedin the opportunity was embraced for offering an unpardonable insult to the district members, Messrs Jones and Shrimskie. When the toast of “The Parliament” was given, all reference to the two memaers was studiously avoided. Commenting on the fact the “ North Otago Times” says:—“ In proposing this toast the Mayor made not the slightest reference to these gentlemen, though, he was bound by the commonest rules of politeness, and in courtesy to the majority of the electors, if not to the members themselves, to name these gentlemen while giving out the toast. We do not suppose that the Mayor was individually responsible for this rude and needless slight to the electors and their representatives., The Reception Committee must be saddled with the responsibility, and it is regretted that gentlemen who have in other respects on this occasion managed matters so successfully should have been guilty of a thing so discreditable to themselves and so insulting to the electors.”

A melancholy case of dying under chloroform has occurred in Sydney. A lady from the country went into the city to have her teeth extracted, but was too timid to undergo the operation in a state of consciousness. A leading physician of Sydney accompanied her to the dentist and pronounced her in a safe condition to be put under the influence of the anaesthetic. “At the first application (reports the Sydney correspondent of the “Hobart Mercury”) the lady manifested a perfect tremor of nervousnesr and was advised not to persevere ; but she summoned up courage and was calmed down to the desired state of oblivion to all that was passing around her, indeed, to such a degree as to make it an impossibility to recall her to life. Her husband and mother were present at the melancholy scene, and their feelings can be better imagined than described.