NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2613, 5 August 1881, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

By our telegrams it will be seen that Father Larkin has been committed at Honolulu on a charge of manslaughter, a building which he had designed having fallen and killed a Kanaka boy. Father Larkin was for a long time stationed in Otago and Westland. It will be reloembered that he and several other Fenian sympathisers were tried and convicted in Hokitika, on a charge of treason felony. Latterly he has been engaged 'in leaching a school in Honolulu. Father Larkins, although hot-headed and indiscreet, was regarded by all parties, as a warm-hearte 1 and kindly disposed gentleman, and would be one of tlie last men in the world to inju.c anybody but himself. People will be sorry to hear that misfortune has followed him to his new home. It is said a man who is his o •• n lawyer is a, tool. The axiom, it would seem, applie equally well to architecture.

There was a clean sheet at the B.M. Court this morning. The Quarterly Licensing Court for the town of Tiraaru, Levels, and Mount Cook distdcts w’ll be held at the B.M. Court at noon on Tuesday, September 6.

Ae inquest was held at Napier yesterday afternoon on the body of a boy named Cross, who was shot by his brother. The latter picked up the gun which was supposed to be nnloaded, put a cap on it, and it immediately exploded, and the ramrod which was in the barrel, entered the other boy’s back, who died at the Hospital whither he was removed. A verdict of accidental death was returned.

The foT owing alterations in the programme of the February meeting of the Dunedin Jockey Club have been agreed on:—City Stakes Handicap, first day, altered from a mile and a distance for two and three-year-olds only ; D.J.C. Handicap, second day, will be handicapped after the first day’s racing; Queen’s Plate, weight for age, altered from £BO to £l2O.

William Molding, the keeper of the refreshment room at the Ashburton Railway Station, was on Wednesday fined £3 3s for assaulting the stationmasi.er and breaking a window in the office, besides using insulting and abusive language. John Grigg, Esq., J. P., was on tbe Bench. A telegram received from Wellington today states that by proclamation in the “ New Zealand Gazette” hares have been declared not to be game in South Canterbury. The above step was a highly advisable one. There was a tendency to enforce the game laws too severely in this district. Mr Beetham’s remarks in dealing with offenders were utterly against the spirit of the age, and particularly so in a now country.

Messrs Philpott and Co., merchants and hotel-brokers, Timaru, have an eligible hotel property for disposal. Attention is directed to Messrs Priest and Holdgate’s announcement in another column, to which we shall refer at greater length in to-morrow’s issue. Mr W. J. N. Upton, architect, invites tenders for erecting hotel at Saltwater Creek. We would direct attention to Mr John Murdoch’s announcement re timber. Mr Murdoch’s premises are situated at the corner of North and Latter streets, and he has now on hand all descriptions of timber, which he can supp'y at lowest rates.