NEWS OF THE DAY.
The Timaru School Committee meets this evening at 7.50.
A man named Jas. H. Crawford was this morning fined 5s and 2s for cab hire, for being drunk while in charge of a horse in the borough ; and a second inebriate was also fined ss.
Messrs Park and Anderson, who has succeeded to the drapery branch of the business formerly occupied by Mr J Strachan, displayed a very choice assortment of millinery, See., in the new shop window on Saturday evening, and were patronised by a large influx of customers desirous to be first in the pick of the newest shapes.
Mrs Holder will deliver a lecture this evening in the Primitive Methodist Church the subject being “ Daniel, or Lessons from the Life of a Hebrew Captive.” To-morrow evening the Anniversary soiree will be held in the church, tea being on the table at half-past six. The ministers of the Primitive Methodist bodies, at Geraldine and Ashburton, and Mrs Holder, among others, will deliver addresses to the public meeting after the tea. There appears to be some local belief in the Terawhiti (Wellington) quartz reefs. The report of the Albion Company is said to be very favorable, and shares have gone up.
The Government received a telegram on Saturday from Pungarehu, to the effect that the alarming or sensational reports about the natives fencing are unfounded, aud that whatever may be done as regards fencing, the Natives arc very civil and good tempered. It is understood further that, Te Whiti has ordered the men not upon any account to use violence. The following weather note was cabled from Sydney on Saturday evening:—“ The depression first reported on Wednesday is now passing over Hobart, with barometer at 21) .1. The front edge passed Sydney yesterday at 8 p.m., and the barometer has fallen to 29.8 with’strong N and W winds. The rate of the eastward progress of the centre is about 400 miles per diem. On Friday last several fatal accidents occurred, some of them certainly of a preventible kind. A child was killed at the Lower Hutt by a piece of furniture falling oif a loaded dray on which the load was not properly tied. A man was found dead at the foot of the cliff behind First Church in Dunedin, he having fallen over in the darkness of night. And two men of the crew of the Mary Ogilvie, lying in Otago harbor, were drowned Irom a boat, the one being supposed to have fallen out and the other to hare been lost in attempting to rescue him. Since writing the above one of the men has turned up. Last week (says the “ Tapanui Courier”) a new settler at Scrubby Flat was severely maltreated by a party of Chinamen, and be had to come Tapanui for police assistance. Hearing of the conflict, a party of fencers on the same ground went and put the Chinamen through their facings. One energetic European administered punishment in schoolmaster fashion by placing “John” across his knees, at the same time using a manuka stick with great skill and activity. No bones were broken and both parties now talk of legal proceedings.
Cooking is a far more important matter than the general run of people suppose. Married men sometimes come to realise the importance of the question when, • unfortunately it is too late to apply a remedy. An American lady of Chicago, Miss Ewing has been lately lecturing on the subject to some purpose. She says that the wife of a devoted husband is always a good cook. Intemperance, profanity, disgust of home life —all are born of bad cooking,” lo a very great extent all this is true. Let any mairied man ask himself the question, and deny our assertion if he can. To our young men we say, let your beloved one be handsome, ugly, accomplished, or ignorant, or what she may ; but above all things let her be an adept in cookery. A good cook, at the head of a fam ly, is a joy for ever—a prize beyond all value—a preserver of peace and goodwill in the family .circle, whose importance could not be 'over-rated.
An old man .named Harrington, 68 years of age, who lives at Waitakeri, Auckland, met with an awkward accident a day or two ago. He was rubbing kerosine on his chest as a cure, or to obtain ' relief from, asthma, stooping before the lire as he did so. Somehow or other he allowed the flames to reach him, and the oil on his chest took fire, and before it was extinguished the 4 unfortunate man was terribly burned. But surely a very little common sense would have saved him from making such a blunder as to use kerosine in such a way near a fire.
Turing stocktaking and until Saturday, 17th inst, an allowance of three shillings will be returned to purchasers for every pound’s worth of goods bought at J, Strachan’s Clothing and Boot Establishment.— [ADVT.] H. Coxbead, photographer, has taken those premises lately occupied by the Americans, in George Street, near Railway 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 2639, 5 September 1881, Page 2
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