NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2562, 7 June 1881, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Mr William Jones has been elected a member of the Timaru School Committee vice A. W. Hogg, resigned.

At tire ordinary monthly meeting of the Volunteer Fire Brigade, held .last night,,a vote of thanks was , passed' to -Sir-‘James Erucc for his recent donation. Three new members were elected and ,-pr -Hammond ■ was elected honorary surgeon. ... ; ... - The usual weekly session of tho English' Lodge Victory No. 42 1.0.Cf.T. was held last evening at the Foresters’ Hall. Owing to the inclemency of the weather there was not a large attendance, and in the absence of the W.C.T., the chair was occupied by Bro. Edward Jones, P.W C.T. .One candidate was proposed for membership, and being in the ante-room was. introduced and duly initiated. After a .short recess a reading and a few songs were given hy some members, the accompaniments on the organ being... played, by . Bister .Jane Jones, The LojJgsf closed a "9.30 pan. At the ordinary monthly meeting of the Timaru school committee .held, last night it was resolved on the niolioirof Mr Hall seconded by Sir Hart—“ That in accordance with clauses 80, DO, 01, 02, 03, of the Education Act 1877, the Inspector of L’olicc be requested to furnUh this Committee with tin names of parents of children between the ages of seven and thirteen in the Timaru school district who arc not attending ’c-iKus 1 ,‘ T it was also resolved (in acooidivuce wall a circular received from the Cour-L — Thai Mcyirs iVidcot and Avion he va|m.;vl to ail themselves to ix; no.iiimued a. m a a her.-, • f the Board oii Education in place oi tie av. Love-grove an 1 i’.-r; W iiwabd resignedV A good deal of routine banners was also <us. posed oP. The Inverc.inrul c .-riCsponJent o.‘ Lie “ Western dim" mom ions it as a nminriim; hr J. W. hain, for faithful service, is to be elevated by the prcsr.it Ministry to a scoj. in the Upper House.

We hare been requested by several working men, now out of work, to state that'there will bo a meeting of the unemployed at the breakwater to-morrow (Wednesday) morning. . At a meeting of the Waimea Plains Railway Company, Mr Larnach, the Chairman, said he fully expected the tine to pay 9 or 10 per cent in course of a year or so. It was stated the New Zealand Land Company had sold £130,000 worth of land to fifty farmers.

Commenting on the finding of the Court of Inquiry on the wreck of the Tararua, the Dunedin “ Star ” says that : —“ No efficient efforts were made to establish communication with the shore. If a boat could live outside the surf, and swimmers land by struggling through it, the conviction forces itself on the mind that every passenger might have been safely dragged through it had lines been availed of judiciously.” Mr J, Bathgate, formerly Minister of Justice, is likely to bo a candidate at the next general election for Dunedin.

Invercargill has the distinction of being the point nearest the South Pole at which newspapers are published.

The donation box at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Auckland, was robbed, and a man named Adam McOornish has been arres'ed on suspicion. A telegram from Napier stales that a native squabble about a disputed boundary occurred at Omahau on Saturday. Donnelly’s people had been driving some sheep upon a piece of ground claimed by Renata’s Kawepo, and the result was that Renata’s party killed 280 sheep hclon.-ing to Mrs Donally’s mother and other natives. An inquest on the recent fire was held at Tanranga yesterday, before Captain Tovey and a jury. Mr Le- 1 , in whose house the fire originated, and a number of other witnesses were examined, but no fresh facts were elicited. The jury returned a verdict “origin unknown.” Mr J. A. Morgan, starch and farina manufacturer, of Christchurch, has applied for a whisky distilling license, offering to pay Government the same duty as charged on the imported article, Mr Morgan writes to the Commissioner of Customs, “IE you cannot grant the license under the existing laws, will you be good enough to bring the matter under the notice of Government.”

A Wanganui nursery man, writing to the local “ Chronicle ” expresses surprise that the Government should have decided to send for 500 white mulberry trees,, and adds that for years past large numbers of these trees have been grown in the nurseries of the colony, but there being but little demand, the supply has fallen off. He is, however, in a position to supply a considerable number, and believes that as many thousands could be got as the hundreds now asked for.

The Oamaru “ Times ” of yesterday states that a slight disturbance took place on the railway platform the other day, between the owner of a number of dogs and the stationmastcr. The owner of the dogs insisted on the canines travelling in a passenger carriage, and to this Mr Coring objected. JJuring the altercation the train was started, and the dogs and the owner left behind. V7c believe the rule on the railway lines is that passengers and dogs are not compelled to travel together in the same compartment, and to insist that dogs should be allowed in passenger carriages is unreasonable, as it might certainly he objectionable to many of the passengers. Home provision, though, might be made by the authorities on occasions when numbers of valuable dogs have of necessity to be convoyed by rail.

The special correspondent of the London “Times” says Irish tenants enjoy more privileges, freedom of action, and security of tenure than any in Europe. A large proportion of the present generation of landowners ‘ are strenuously, sometimes of late rather thanklessly, doing their duty and endeavoring to improve their estates and their jieople.’ ‘ Ireland,’ he adds, ‘ can ill afford to alienate or remove such landlords or to minimise the good they are doing.’ There arc exceptional cases of rack-renting and of reckless evictions, but these are rare, and the effect of the general leniency of landlords has been to allow the informal right of the tenant-right which it is now proposed to recognise by law.” The daughter of a well-known police magistrate in Victoria eloped with a son of a Ballarat solicitor, and they were married at a registry office. The irate father intercepted the couple immediately after the ceremony, and took his daughter home. -The Customs revenue of Brisbane for May amounted to nearly £28,000, being an increase of £BIOO, compared with the same period last year. The increase at Eockhampton .was £656. Here is news which should rejoice the hearts of followers of old Izaak. We take it from the “ Arrow Observer” ;—“ During the past week it has been worth a visit to Lake Hayes to see the trout swimming about in shoals —thousands in number—close to the shore. The length of the majority of them is from two. to three feet, and they appear to be in splendid condition. We have an idea that the formation of an Angling Club next season would bo the means of seeming some grand ‘ fakes’ for the lovers of the 1 gentle art.’ I’unl-fish-intr—which could bo one if a club existed—- . would, we think, prove effectual in keeping The trout in'cheek.”

Great excitement was occasioned at New Seali am Colliery recently, by a fall of stone some 25 yards long, battering in some of tbc hewers. Men were at work clearing away the rubbish, but it is not expected to reach the imprisoned men for some time. “ Jowiing has been beard to proceed from beyond the fall. As soon as ibc occurrence became known at the bank oil kinds of reports were raised, one being that the.pit had been. tiled. Piinr-k. a town in Russia, of about 20.000 inhabitants, and HUVJ--1 on lie; River i’iinct, in the district of Mcn~k, and Ifa mile®. ‘V. of that town, has been bund to ibc giwimd. tlhc jdace has been onti'oiy destroyed, and lAbOO pc -pic are rendered homeless. Ii i< not known whether tiic. lire Cii- arciden'al or due to die maeii iualaons ut N illi i: ■ t . An emergency meeting of the Caledonian Lodge, No 531, 5.0., is caked for to-night, at 8 o’clock.