NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2716, 2 December 1881, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Mr T, W. Pyfe announces a clearing sale of superior household furniture, direct importations at wholesale prices.

Members of the Timaru Mechanios’ Institute are reminded that the first annual general meeting of subscribers since the completion of the new building will be held to-night at eight o’clock. Our telegrams inform us that Mr O’Reilly, one of the lawyer candidates for Wakanui, retired at the last moment in favour of Mr J. Ivess, He had bitterly opposed Mr Ivess throughout the pre-nomination cam* paign.

We have been requested to draw attention to Mr J, Mundell’s advertisement on the first page, in which he announces that he can supply roomy vehicles at short notice, for the convenience of picnic and other parties, who desire to visit any part of the Geraldine district during the holiday season now approaching.

Mr A. J. H. Bower announces the receipt by him, direct from Home, of consignments of clocks and watches, silver and plated goods &c. He has taken premises next Coy and Drummond’s.

The Geraldine School Committee have nominated Dr Foster for the vacant seat on the Education Board.

A respectable farmer in Hawke’s Bay, named Gillingham, has been missing from his home for a week.

Shaw, the steward of the Working Men’s Club at Waimate, was fined £2O on Thursday for illegal retailing of liquor. The Magistrate characterised it as one of the most impudent cases of sly grog selling ever brought before him.

The Customs duties collected at Timaru last month amounted to £1209 2s XOd,about £l3O more than was collected in the same month last year. Spirits gave more than a third of the whole, and beer and tobacco more than a fourth. Returns for the month at Christchurch were £IB,OOO, and at Dunedin about £37,000. The Canterbury Fire Insurance Association held a special meeting for the purpose yesterday, and agreed to reduce by 12£ per cent the rales on all risks in Timaru that are within 100 feet of a fire plug of the water supply.

The most interesting musical event in the history of Timaru since De Murska visited us, will take place on the 12th and 18th inst at the Theatre Royal, when “ the monarch of the violin,” Herr August Wilhelmj. who is now creating a great sensation in Dunedin, assisted by the eminent pianist;Mr Max Yogrich, and the charming prima donna Miss Marie Conron, will make his first appearance in two grand concerts An artist of such acknowledged fame as Herr Wilhelmj is seldom seen in this country, and surrounded as he is by such talented and accomplished companions the occasion should be all the more appreciated. No violinist since Paganini has had such a brilliant career. The great Liszt said to him: 11 The violin is your destiny. Had there been no such instruument it would have been invented for your sake,” Signor De Vivo, who piloted De Murska in this country, is in town perfecting arrangements for this forthcoming event, and assures us a most enjoyable entertainment. The prices of tickets, considering the great attraction, have been put to the lowest figure possible in order to give all classes an opportunity of hearing the greatest of all violinists. The prices are notified elsewhere. The reserve seats are to be procured at Mr H. Friedlander’s, Main road.