NEWS OF THE DAY.
A special general meeting of the members of the G Battery, N.Z.A., is called for to-night, at 8 o’clock. The business is of particular importance. At the meeting of the Diocesan Synod in Christchurch on Wednesday, the Rev. P. C. Anderson spoke in favor of joining with the Roman Catholics in attempting to gain denominational schools. He could always tell a boy who came from a secular school from one who came from a church school, by his ruffianly manner and irreligious behaviour. (Oh! oh! hoar! hear!) (The Rev. H. C. M. Watson—By his greater intelligence?) He was less intelligent than a boy trained in a church school.
The “Wairarapa Star” states that at Kokotou, on the Ruamahunga, Mr R. Kendall, son of the Mayor of Mastcrton, is trying to solve the rabbit difficulty with the aid of dynamite. His plan is to net the rabbits alive, take them one at a time to the b'g burrows, tie half a cartridge round each animal’s neck, insert the cap with a lighted fuse attached, and then start Mr Rabbit down the hole, when np goes the whole establishment. His first experiment resulted in 28 rabbit being reduced to fragments.
A Mr McKelvie has presented to the Auckland Institute a collection of flint implements found in the Swiss Lake Dwellings,” and curiosities from Pompeii. The implements ought to interest the Maori visitors to the Institute, as specimens of the skill of another race in a kind of work with which they are themselves familiar.
The licensed victuallers of Auckland had some idea of establishing a newspaper in their own interest, but at a special meeting yesterday they decided not to do it. "Wouldn’t pay.
11, Coxliead, photographer, has taken those premises lately occupied by the Americans, in George Street, near Railwaj' Station, and having had extensive alterations, can now take photos instantaneously. A trial respectfully solicited. Photographic albums and views on sale, and can be seen in the window.— [AdVT],
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2637, 2 September 1881, Page 2
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332NEWS OF THE DAY. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2637, 2 September 1881, Page 2
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