NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2740, 3 January 1882, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Permanent Enlargement on the South Canterbury Times.—To meet the large demand on our advertising space and in order to admit of our supplying pur readers with an increased amount of reading matter, this journal has been permanently enlarged. The " Lyttelton Times’’ excepted, the South Canterbury Times is now one of the largest papers published in Canterbury, and its low price, —viz., one penny, places it within the reach of everyone,

Captain Clogstoun of Four Peaks station, died suddenly of heart disease on Sunday night.

There is £20,000 already collected to meet Mr Ormond’s oiler of £25,000 towards an Anglican Cathedral for Melbourne.

A shop and dwelling-house in Wanganui, occupied by Mrs Ridgeway, milliner, was burned down last night.

A Friendly Societies pic-nic party from Wanganni yesterday occupied 30 railway carriages and trucks.

The Waitaki Sparrow Club have paid for 3000 eggs and 470 heads of birds since the formation of the Club a short time ago.

The Jackson’s Bay Returning Officers have turned up safe. They say they were stuck up by a flood in the Blue river.

Plummer, the Auckland burglar, has now about thirty charges to face, so many person? having identified property found in his bouse.

A little girl named Ayton, ten years of age was killed at Waimate on Sunday by being thrown out of a trap while going to Church, the horse bolting. During the present holidays the traffic on the Victorian railways has been much larger than in previous years. The arrangements were quite inadequate to meet the rush of people. On New Year’s Eve at Auckland, a person named Merrick went out to see the fireworks, leaving a candle burning in the sitting room. Result—his own shop gutted and two others damaged.

The victory of the A ucklahd-built yacht Taniwha, at Melbourne, has caused a Mr K. A. Morrison, »n English tourist, to give her builder, Mr Niccol, an order for a similar one of ninety tons, to be used for cruising in the South Pacific.

The children belonging to the Congregational Sunday School, Timaru, and a good number of friends, had a picnic at Normanby yesterday, proceeding by a special train. The party thoroughly enjoyed themselves. Photographs were taken of the group on the grouud to serve as mementoes of the occasion.

We have been requested to draw attention to Messrs Ford and Ogden's advertisement, which appears in another column. This firm having recently made extensive additions to their works at South Malvern, are now prepared to execute orders for all kinds of fire clay goods, &c, quite equal to the imported article, and at a lower price. Samples of the goods have been subj ;cted to several tests by Professor Bickerton, colonial analyst, and that gentleman’s report, as well as other testimonials we have seen, fully confirms the superiority of these local manufactures.

The Bohemians, a small dramatic com* pany consisting of Miss Madge Herrick, Messrs J. P. Hydes, R.Love, E. Alexander, and T. J. Kennedy gate a peformance at Theatre Royal last evening to a crowded house. The programme opened with a domestic comedy play entitled “ Cousin Matthew ” in which Mr Kennedy made a great hit. The other characters are well known, and they played in their usual mirth provoking manner. Several comic songs followed, and kept the audience in roars of laughter. The concluding item “An Hour’s Delusion” gave scope for some excellent low comedy acting. Mr B. Alexander warf inimitable ; n the Irish character, and he ~il deserved the frequent bursts of applause which came from the audience. Mr Hyde« "nd Mias Herrick acted their parts well. The Bohemians will appear again to-night in a change of programme.

Christmas Holidays.—H. Coxhead, having secured the services for the Xmas holidays, of Mr Gamble, for many years head operator with Mr Cherrill, Photographer, Christchurch, is now perpared to execute with despatch, first-class photographs at from 12s fid per doz. A large assortment on hand of Photographic Views and Frames suitable for Christmas presents.— [Advt.]