NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2656, 24 September 1881, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Another monolith of the Breakwater was filled in to-day. This ist.the last out one required to complete Messrs Jones and Peters’ contract.

The usual parade of entires under the auspices of the Timaru Agricultural and Pastoral Association will be held on Saturday next. Entries are to be made on or before the previous Thursday. A public meeting of householders in the proposed new school district of Kingsdown is convened by the Secretary to the Education Board for half past seven on Tuesday evening next, the meeting to take place at Mr James Cragie’s house.

At the general meeting of members of the Timaru Athletic Club last evening there was a good attendance, about 40 being present. A statement of the Club’s financial position was presented, from which it appeared that the Club owed about £9O, but had funds to the amount of between £2O and £3O more than that. The officers of last year were re-elected, with the exception that Mr T. R. Jones was elected President vice Mr Newberry. It was decided to hold a sports meeting on the Prince of Wales’ Birthday, and the Sports Committee will meet on Monday to draw up a programme. This will be made a good one, the prize list running over £IOO, It was also resolved to give an amateur entertainment at the Theatre Royal on the evening of the sports day, to assist in raising funds.

We have been requested to remind our readers of the sale on Monday at Mr Jonas’ rooms of the • Maranui Estate, in 10 to 20 acre lots. The sale should attract a'large number of buyers, as the sections are of convenient size for many purposes and at an easy distance from town. Measles and scarlatina have shut up the Lyttelton Borough School.

A lad named Power got a shocking smashing up yesterday by falling under the wheels of a tram car in Wellington. Nelson barley shipped to London this season sold there at 44s per 4481b5, equal to about 4s lid per bushel.

The United Alpine Company at Lyell, this week got 387 ounces of amalgam on the plates only, from 190 tons of quartz, The people of Caversham have resolved to borrow £3OOO to carry out a water supply scheme.

The total area of freehold forests in New Zealand is about equal to that of Crown forests.

A lady named Moore is lecturing in Auckland, to ladies, on home nursing. Not all the little boys of Auckland City will go to school, so default officers arc ordered to hunt them up. Mr Alexander Joyce, the author of the “Land Ho!” pamphlet, is spoken of as a probable candidate for Lyttelton at the next election.

The copper lode at Moke Creek, Otago, is to be opened up by a Melbourne Company. Other claims will, it is expected, be marked off and shepherded till the result is known.

Mr Robert Graham has sold the Hawera Hot Springs Estate to a Southern Company tor £15,000, It will be maintained as a sasatoriura.

An important meeting of Maori Chiefs, from all parts of the North Island, is about being held. One of the cheif items to be discussed is the question of opening Kawbia Harbor to Europeans.

A kiwi was captured near Outram, a day or two agNone of the settlers in the neighborhood ever saw one thereabout before, and they are puzzled for its appearance.

Mr Pond, an Auckland chemist, has successfully produced cowpox in a heifer vaccinated in seven places with pure bovine lymph imported by Dr Fischer from Germany. The “ Star” says it is turning out a fir.st-ratc spec, there is such a rush for the new lymph. Traffic has been suspended for some time on the Roslyn wire tramway, Dunedin, to enable some improvements to be made in the rope line and the breaks on the cars. These have now been completed, and traffic resumed. The Albion arrived at Auckland from Sydney yesterday. Her passengers and crew were vaccinated before leaving Sydney, and the lymph having “ taken ” they were not quarantined. The mails and cargo were sent to be fumigated. Fub-Inspector Coleman is on his way from Wellington to Christchurch to act as recruiting officer for the Armed Constabulary. Men who have been under discipline before will be preferred.

A young woman, who was married onlylast month, applied to the Dunedin Bench on Thursday for a separate maintenance order. She was soon tired of matrimony. The Bench advised her to give it a longer trial.

A co-operative store is to be started by the farmers about Ngapara and Maerewbenua. North Otago, to provide groceries, drapery, implements, &c. Shareholders wiil be supplied at current rates, and the profits shared every six months. Police Authorities throughout the colony have been notified by the Government that on and after Oct 1 all officials under the rank of Sub-Inspector will be subjected to a reduction in pay of 6d per diem. It is needless to add that this intelligence has not been received with joy.

A steam laundry is now in operation in Christchurch, capable of turning out from 100 to 150 dozen articles, washed, starched, and ironed, in a day. A 12 horse-powor engine is employed for pumping, washing, drying, and turning the mangle. The drying is mainly done in a centrifugal machine, which flings the water out of the clothes so completely that very little exposure in a warm room completes the drying. The household of Mr Budd, farmer at Winchester, has been painfully afflicted. Two daughters have died within the past fortnight of typhoid fever, the mother is so ill with the same disease that the doctors almost give up hope of her recovery, while the father, who was the first to be struck down, is still in danger. He was delirious almost from the first, and did not learn of the death of his two daughters till yesterday. Another family at Winchester is suffering from typhoid, but the patients are now recovering.

His Honor Mr Justice Johnston at Dunedin on Thursday, set aside a conviction against Mr'Waters, of the Prince of Wales’ Hotel. The conviction was for giving a glass of liquor to a man who called at the Hotel on fc’unday. It appeared that the magistrate was satisfied that the liquor was given and not sold, but held that this giving was “ supplying” within the meaning of the act; the words of the Act being “ sell or supply.” The Chief Justice sustained the contention that “ supply” did not include a genuine gift of the liquor, but meant supply in the way of business, and allowed the appeal, quashing the conviction without costs.

There is some talk of establishing a paper mill in the Marlborough district. The Marlborough Times” says two-thirds of the capital required, £20,000, could be got in London, and the balance could be easily raised in the district. “ Matters of this nature,” says the •‘Times," •*are of far more importance to Marlborough than the discussion of party politics, and we could wish that a disposition was displayed by alt our leading men to sink these questions for a time at least, and devote themselves by common consent to the work of ensuring the permanent prosperity of the district. Wc trust some of our leading business men will indeed take the matter up, for in doing so they will not only be studying the welfare of the district, but also their own interests.”

' The antimony lode discovered about a year ago at Nevis Bluff, between Cromwell and Arrow, is about to be taken in hand shortly. Some young fellows in Taranaki tried to improve the appearance of their watches by rubbing them with quicksilver. The local watchmakers now want a quartz miners’ retort.

Major Atkinson’s estimate, given in his Financial Statement, of the receipts on ordinary revenue account for the current year was £3,297,650. Ihe amount actually voted for expenditure is said to exceed five millions and a-half.

An agricultural and pastoral association is to be established in Waikouaiti although there was already one association in the district. The “ Oamaru Mail ” speaks of the new society getting up a mere “ parish” show. This is hard on an association adopting the title of “ Royal ” Agricultural and Pastoral Association, Nothing like a big handle to a name.

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].