NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2533, 4 May 1881, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY .

At Auckland, a boy of 14 has died from lock-jaw arising from a wound inflicted on his band by a glass bottle. Two publicans were fined yesterday by the Wellington Bench for Sunday trading. A small penalty was regretfully inflicted as the liquor was supplied for an invalid lady. The Duke of Manchester whose progress through New Zealand has been carefully traced by obsequious news vendors, is a passenger by the mail steamer, and the big gooseberry, magnificent pumpkin, and two-headed puppy will now have a chance again. At a meeting in the Wesleyan schoolroom, Christchurch, yesterday, a committee was appointed to collect subscriptions for the families of the Eevs. Richardson and Armitage. Mr George Gould has promised £IOO, and £220 more were promised by others in the room. A lad named Campbell lies in the Christchurch hospital in a precarious state from a gunshot wound. He was out shooting at Little Lake with a lad named Ellis when the latter’s gun exploded and Campbell who was walking in advance received the charge in his left side and arm. The directors of the unfortunate (?) City of Glasgow Bank, says a cor temporary, seem to be flourishing. From a correspondent in Scotland we learn that the manager is living in the modern Athens “ as bright as ever.” Potter is also located there in a fine mansion, Inglis, another director, is a factor for a Scottish nobleman in London. Another resides in a magnificent house near Stirling, and giyes State banquets ; while another has built a beautiful palace on the shores of Lake Geneva.

A shooting party of Timaru Residents, recently visited Mr Rtudholme’s place at Waimatc, and with nine guns, succeeded in two days, in bagging some 220 bares. Had John Smith, or Dick Jones visited the preserves unbidden, and killed this number of hares they wouid have bad to pay £5 a-piece—the price exacted by the Resident Magistrate—just £llOO, besides being abused in the newspapers for “ the reckless destruction of an animal, it has cost the colony hundreds of pounds to acclimatise. But circumstances alter cases.

The recent elections for the Education Board of South Canterbury have been pronounced by the Government illegal The Minister of Education intimates that the retiring members this year should have been, Messrs Lovegrove, Howell, and either Mr Barker or Mr Gray, and that Messrs Bellield and Barclay, who retired and were re-elected, hold their seats by virtue of their election in 1879 till 1882 before retiring. This entirely bears out the opinion expressed by the Kev. W. Gillies in the letter which he recently sent to the Board and which the latter treated so cavalierly. The members of the Board feeling themselves in a quandary have addressed a corteous epistle to the Hon. Thomas Dick, submitting that they are the victims of legal opinion, and asking what they should do! Two young men of Hawkinsville settled the ownership of a double-barrel gun in a novel way. The gun was won in a raffle —the two young men being joint owners in the chance that won it. One of the men proposed that they should go down to the river at a shallow point and wade into it, and the one that waded the farthest or held out the longest should take the gun. The water was freezing cold, and the margin of the stream was lined with ice, and the icicles were pendant from every limb, from every bush. Partly divesting themselves of their clothing they entered the water and waded out. One of them went until the water reached his arm.j its, but his companion went a little fur'her, and was allowed to come out and take the gun.