NEW ZEALAND.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2691, 3 November 1881, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

(Per Press Association.)

Par-reaching Charity. Wellington, Nov. 3. A Branch of the Anglo-Jewish Association, the object of which is to promote education in the East, has been established here. Fiji Tobacco. Mr Edmonds from Fiji is here, with excellent samples of tobacco leaf, grown in Fiji, and is trying to get a company formed to establish a tobacco manufactory here. He says he could supply 50 tons of leaf during the first year, at from 9d to Is a lb, delivered here. The estimated capital required is £2OOO. Strike Ended. Westpoet, Nov. 3. The colliers’ strike has ended, the miners having agreed to a fortnight’s notice on both sides. C.J.C- Meeting. Christchurch, Nov. 3. Very little work was done on the racecourse this morning. The gallops were all of an ordinary character. There is very little betting. Amulet is the favorite for the Derby ; Grip for the C.J.C. Handicap; and Mata for the Cup. Arrived- • Dunedin, Nov. 3. Arrived —Marie, brig, from Boston ; Vivid, barque, from Mauritius. Lock-jaw-Adams, the boy who was run over by a tram-car a fortnight ago at the Water of Leith, died to*day from tetanus.

Mr J. 0. McKerrow has received a requisition, signed by 147 ratepayers, asking him to stand for the Levels Riding in the Geraldine County Council, and he has accepted the invitation. A copy of the requisition is published in our advertising columns.

The programme of the entertainment to be given in the Wai-iti schoolroon tomorrow evening, is given in our advertising columns this evening.

A negro in the United States, an exslave, hired a field from his old master to cultivate, he to receive one-third and the roaster two-thirds of the crop. The old negro was honest, but not up in arithmetic. The field yielded two loads both of which he put in bis master’s crib, and reported to the astonished landlord, “ Dar is no third, sah; de land am to pore to produce de third, sah.”

Democratic railway accidents, says an American paper, are no respecters of persons. The Duke of Athol was in a sleeping car in a train bound for Omaha. When standing at a station the car was run into by a freight train, which, as an American reporter graphically expressed it, “shook things up lively, but did not do particular damage.” The sleepers were alarmed, however, and the duke jumped out. Immediately the passenger train moved on, the accident being, presumably, an ordinary occurrence which demanded no investigation ; and the duke found himself on the boundless prairie in his nightshirt. Happily his clothes were sent to him by the next train, and by this time it is hoped that he has recovered his equanimity.