NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2648, 15 September 1881, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Timaru Harbor Endowment Bill was read a third time in the Legislative Council last night.

In our summary of .yesterday’s proceedings in Parliament will be found aii important notice of motion given by M.i J. B. Fisher, icspectiiig the constitution of the Legislative Council.

A concert will be given in tbe Presbyterian Clmrdi, Timaru, to-morrow evening, to raise funds for painting the building. The programme, given in our advertising columns, consists of an excellent selection of sacred pieces. There arc only two cases to be disposed of at (he Criminal Sessions of the District Court to-morrow, at which His Honor J udge Ward will preside. William Byers will be charged with a larceny committed at Waimatc, and Patrick Clancy with assaulting Timothy McAuliffe with intent to do him grievous bodily harm.

At the 11. M. Court this morning, before E.G. Kerr, Esq., J.P., W. M. Rogers, was charged with being drunk and disorderly and also with using obscene language in a public street. Tbe defendant said this was tbe first time such charges had been brought against him. He was in the act of knocking at his door for admittance when arrested. His Worship said he would treat the charge of drunkenness as a first offence and would dismiss the other charge. Defendant would be fined 10s, and it was to be hoped that this would act as a caution to him for the future.

Messrs Kempthorne, Prosser and Co. have manufactured 50 tons of sulphuric acid, and intend to claim the Government bonus of £SOO.

Mrs Walter Hill, the well-known actress, is about to quit New Zealand for “the other side.” She is not to be permitted to depart from this colony, however, without a benefit at- the Christchurch Theatre Royal, which her friends and admirers are now busily engaged in organising. Ihc “ Lyttelton Times” Dramatic Society have promised to give a pcrformrnce of Robertson’s comedy of “ Caste” on the occasion, and arc now actively rehearsing the same. Altogether the benefit should prove eminently successful, A telegram to hand from Christchufeh states that the tickets are going off rapidly. We understand that it is Mrs Hill’s intention to settle in Sydney. A correspondent writing to the “ Otago Daily Times” says the settlers of Hawke’s Bay are about to spend £IO,OOO in placing wiic-netting along their southern boundary to keep back the swarming rabbit® of Wellington province, and consider they will be amply repaid if they only succeed in shutting out their enemies for a few years ; that an invasion such as the Wairarapa suffers from would involve an annual loss of £2d0,000 ; and that the great district north of Napier would be abandoned.

As no copies of the Revised New Testament could be had in England previous to publication day, although numerous ingenious attempts had been made to obtain them, a happy idea struck one of the New York publishing firms. A staff of men was employed, and immediately on tiic first copy eo.i.ing to hand, the whole book was set u:» in type and styorootyped plates taken whilst on board the steamer on the royage to New i urk.

Local industries for ever I The Auckland boot factories arc driving out imported goods, Between JtoOd and -1000 pairs of boots :ue now beiug made per week.

The .Viand martial spirit is on the w.' c. At a volunteer parade held last night one company was represented by a single private and a solitary ollieer,

stated that a company with a Capital of '£42,000 has been formed in ./Nelson, toi work coal deposits in Queen , Charlotte’s Sound.

•' The* well-known Dunedin .bookmaker, Fleming, " has come into a fortune of £30,000.

Work at the Kaiapoi Woollen Factory, which had been suspended for some time while extensive additions were being made to the premises and machinery, was resumed yesterday. The Little Akaloa Dairy Farmers’ Club sent home a trial shipment of cheese per the Otaki, each member sending six cheeses of his own make. The accounts of the venture have just been received by them and are as follows: —Total receipts on loewt 3qrs 271 b of cheese £SO 15s lOd ; expenditure on do, £l3 8s 3d ; balance available for division, £37 7s 7d. This gives a net result of about 5d per lb. Three carrier pigeons flew from Herbert railway station (Otago) to Christchurch, about 150 miles in a direct line, in 2 hrs 28 mins, or at a rate exceeding a mile a minute.

During 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, S true ban’s Clothing and Boot Establishment.— [AWT.] H. Coxhead, photographer, has taken those premises lately occupied by the Americans, in George Street, near Railway Station, and having made 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],