NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2591, 11 July 1881, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Nearly 3000 persons attended the Dunedin Exhibition on Saturday.

The football match, Timaru v. Oamaru, took place on Saturday afternoon and resulted in the local men scoring a win by one goal and eight touch-downs. The ordinary fortnightly meeting of the Borough Council takes place this craning at the usual time and place.

The Lifeboat Lodge, No. 101, LO.G.T., held its weekly meeting in the Foresters’ Hall on Thursday evening, a strong muster of members being present. After the routine business had been disposed of, one candidate was balloted for and admitted a member. Two brothers applied for clearance cards, owing to their leaving New Zealand, which were granted. The D.D. Bro. Proctor reported that he had received three applications to open Lodges at Oiari, Woodbury, and Hilton (Kakahu), respectively. The report of the Entertainment Committee was to the effect that the first of the winter evening entertainments would be held in the Oddfellows’ Hall, Barnard street, on Monday, July 18, full particulars of which would be duly advertised. Several members contributed towards the harmony, Bro. Clayton presiding at the organ, The body of a man who has not yet been identified was found on the Port Hills, near Lyttelton on Saturday. He had been dead about three weeks.

At Auckland on Saturday, Edward Sorgatz a seaman belonging to the ship Oxford, was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment for wounding the steward of the vessel, who had informed against him for broaching cargo on the voyage.

A contemporary says :—Satan has lately been reproving sin through the medium of the Otago Licensed Victuallers’ Association. In a recent declaration that body sa y S — ‘i Bottle Licenses we consider unfair to hotelkeepers, on account of the expense we are compelled to incur to provide for the public. It has been proved that it has done harm from the facilities it offers to female heads of families to get spirits and have the same charged to groceries 1” Mr John Bright, writing to a gentleman in Bradford on the subject of protection as a remedy for depression in the worsted trade, says “ You have had great prosperity with the present tariffs,_ and to suppose that your case would be improved by refusing to buy what you want from foreigners seems to me an idea worthy only of the inmates of a lunatic asylum. Great expansion is followed by depression, to be followed, I believe, by a return to a fair measure of prosperity.”

Referring to the case of Stapleton, the Kiama farmer, who for flogging m a nude state his orphaned apprentice was fined £lO, the Sydney Bulletin” utters this well-founded wail:—“ Oh ! Justice, which condemns us to pay £I,OOO for trying to save uncared-for girls from destruction, and mulcts a scoundrel who outrages modesty and humanity in his treatment of an orphan girl entrusted to his charge in £lO, who will tear off the bandage from your eyes?

The earthquake appears to have been severe in the Manawatu district. On Sunday morning a German living nearßainesse found that during the night his well, which was six feet deep before, bad become so deep that the bottom could not be reached with a 40-feet line, and he also asserts that when he first wont to the well the water was bubbling up.

John O’Connor Power, an Irish M.P., in reference to a letter wherein Egan abuses Power and M'Coan for voting for the second reading of the Land Pill, taunts Egan with skulking in Paris, and warns his countrymen that if they allow themselves to be goaded into unarmed insurrection by the screaming of hired demagogues, who have already shown the white feather, they will be abandoned and betrayed in the hour of trial. M'Coan also taunts Egan with hiding in Paris, and hints that Egan’s letter was inspired by others. The hearing of the Ashburton arson case was resumed on Saturday. The Court was densely crowded. Miss Buckman was discharged, the evidence against her being inconclusiV’. Evidence is to bo taken for the defence of Buxton and his wife, before the Magistrate decides whether it is in his opinion, a Case for a jury. The case will be resumed on Saturday next. An accident occurred this morning, fortunately unattended with serious consequences. It appears that Thomas Mewis, who is employed by Mr Hurcombe, fishmonger, was driving a small spring cart out of Murphy and Stocks stables in Beswick street, and when going down the hill into the Main Eoad something caused the horse to swerve aside, and as a consequence the trap was capsized and Mr Mewis was pitched out on his face, but escaped with a good shaking. The horse was not hurt, but one of the splash-boards of the trap was broken off by the concussion.

A grand carnival and ball masquo, is announced to be held at the Oddfellows’ Hall, Barnard street, on Thursday evening, July 28, further particulars of which will be duly announced. Mr G. Cliff announces coal of premier quality, cut firewood, cement and lime, iron nails and sundries at prices hitherto unknown.