NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2702, 16 November 1881, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Mr B. Turnbull invites the electors of Timaru to meet him in the Theatre Royal at 8 o’clock nest Tuesday evening. The District Court sitting at Timaru, fixed for to-day, was adjourned to Dec. 16, His Honor Judge Ward being away at Wellington. Dr Fisher notifies that he will meet the electors of Gladstone at Pleasant Point, next Saturday evening, and Mr Postlethwaite that he will hold a meeting in the Pleasant Valley schoolroom on the same evening.

Messrs Maclean and Stewart will offer for sale early in December, the splendid herd of Shorthorn cattle belonging to Mr G. G. Russell, Otipua. They comprise half a dozen bulls, and 127 cows and young stock. This sale should attract a large concourse of stock-breeders.

The contractor for the supply of stone to protect the cliffnext theWaimataitai lagoon has commenced to deliver the material. It is quite time, for the bank between the railway and the spa at that point is getting narrow. The completion of the Breakwater will save it from damage in the future, but in the meantime it needs protecting.

Our respected townsman, Mr James Bruce, who has been to the United States to make a personal inspection of the latest developments of the milling industry in that land of big mills, returned to New Zealand by the last Frisco mail boat, and to Timaru by the special mail train last night. Scarlet fever of a mild form is said to have made its appearance in Oamaru.

Mr Pond, a chemist in Auckland, lias made some citric acid from limes grown in the colony, and he considers a large and valu ible industry may be set on foot in its production. Citric acid is largely used for many purposes.

Major Atkinson is “stumping” his district, and is receiving votes of confidence everywhere. Mr Sheehan will probably stand for Waitemata,

The new bridge over the river Olutha, at Balclutlia, was formally opened on Monday by Hr Macandrew.

A little boy, [five years old, was burned to death at Green Island on Monday, during the temporary absence of his mother from home.

The “ visible supply ” of wheat in America early in October was estimated at 19£ million quarters, or about 5 million quarters more than at the same time last year.

A young woman named Way jumped oil the steamer Charles Edward, on the passage from Westport to Hokitika a day or two ago, and was no more seen. The 6000 acres of confiscated land that are to be sold next month are not at the back of Paribaka, as previously stated, but at the back of Manaia, twenty miles from Paribaka. The extension of the franchise has been largely taken advantage of in Southland. The Invercargill roll contains 1773 names, or 1010 more than last year, and other rolls in the district show large increases. The manufacture of Portland cement is to be commenced at Whangarei, in the Auckland Peninsula. Two orders, for 240 tons, have already been received, A Mrs Bernard Moore has been lecturing to the ladies of Auckland on “home nursing,” and several gentlemen, thinking that a knowledge of this art must often prove useful to them in bush life, have induced her to repeat her lectures to mixed audiences, “A Shearer” writes to the “Oamaru Mail ”to the effect that it is intended to charge a higher rate per 100 this year owing to the scarcity of Australians and the exodus of working men from the colony.

An Intercolonial weathei exchange, dated Sydney, last evening, says there is a depression off Tasmania, and the barometer is very low, but fine weather continues with light winds from N.W. to W. A telegram was yesterday received from Captain Hamersley stating that the Canterbury contingent would probably leave the front for home on Thursday (to-morrow), arriving home on Tuesday next.

The Auckland “ Star ” condemns in unqualified terms the issue of blank warrants reported to have been made in connection with the proceedings at Paribaka. The whole question of blank or general warrants, it says, was definitely settled in 1763, when John Wilkes and a number of others were arrested on one. Lord Chief Justice Pratt characterised the issue of such warrants as “ totally subversive of the liberty of the subject.” Wilkes obtained £IOOO damages for illegal arrest, and others arrested with him £3OO.

Dr Wallis told the electors o£ Auckland City West, that there were ten planks to the Liberal platform of New Zealand poll* tics. 1. A written constitution, setting forth principles for New Zealand. He would support that. 2, The confirmation and improvement of the education system. 3. Local legislation. 4. Enfranchisement of women. 5. Personal and proportional representation. 6. Local Government. 7. Free trade with encouragement of local industries. 8. Ratification of finances and stoppage of borrowing. 9. Legal assimilation of Maori and European. 10, Reform of parliamentary procedure. He would put down stone-walling. Jack ashore is proverbially most amusing when he gets on horseback, (says the “ New Zealand Times”) and undertakes to steer the craft in a crowded street. Two of the men from H.M.S, Emerald, voluntarily undertook this duty yesterday, and resigned the helm long before they arrived at their destination. One of the jolly tars got aboard somewhere in the Te Aro end of the town,and having reached McDowell’s corner was ignominiously unshipped. The horse had come down Willis street at full speed, and on reaching the corner, shied, the rider falling heavily on his head. A similar mishap befel another and equally bold sailor, who having steered up Boulcott street at a speed that would have done credit to any jockey, lost his judgment and his balance, and was picked up insensible opposite Marist Brothers’ school.

It is to labor, and to labor only, that man owes everything of exchangeable value Labor is the talisman that has raised him from the condition of the savage; that has changed the desert and the forest into cultivated fields; that has covered the earth with cities, and the ocean with ships; that has given us plenty, comfort, and elegance, instead of want, misery and barbarism. It is labor that has made the boots that J. Strachan sells so cheap. Mens balmoral watertights, 12s 6d per pair.— [Anvar.]