NEWS OF THE DAY.
Taranaki has been declared free of scab by the sheep Inspector. . The Dunedin Fruit Preserving Company commenced work yesterday. The wheat crops in Taranaki are promising well.
Mr Hirst has lodged a petition against the return of Mr Daniel for Wallace. The English Cricketers will play a;match at Auckland.
The Auckland Harbor Board have increased the salaries of their officials all round.
Ambetley has developed a new religous society, who have dubbed themselve •* The Holy Innocents.” Colonel Scratchley will shortly conduct an enquiry into the present state of the New Zealand Volunteer Force.
The township of Hawera, on the Waimate Plains, has been proclaimed a borough. '
The ship Campsie Glen was expectei to leave New York for Timaru about Dec. 16, with a cargo chiefly composed of machinery for the Waitangi Mills.
The Bprqugh Council meet this evening to receive a Committee’s report upon proposed ■ extensions of the water-supply to Wai-iti and South Otipua roads. The adjourned annual meeting of the members of the South Canterbury Jockey Club will be held at the Grosvenor Hotel, at 8 o’clock this evening. The Christchurch Charitable Aid Board propose to establish a training ship in Lyttelton, to be used in connection with the Orphanage there. Williamson’s “Patience” Opera Company come to New Zealand in February, and make a tour of the colony. " Patience ’ has been an immense success in Australia.
~ Two young lads named Cones, and another named Mills,went fishing in a boat outside Auckland harbor last Thursday, and have not yet returned. The project to form a woollen factory company in Wellington has been abandoned, owing to the lack of interest displayed by the public. ; At the R.M. Court this morning, before B. Woollcombe, Esq, J.P., two first offenders, charged with being drunk and disorderly, one of them a woman, were dismissed with a caution.
The Otago Land Board continued its sitting yesterday and selected a few blocks for agricultural settlement on some of the runs. The test they agreed to let in subdivisions.
The upper Waitaki bridge has been closed for traffic, a slight fresh in the river having loosened two rows of piles on the Canterbury side. The railway authorities are repairing the damage, The success of the “Yc olde Englishe Fayrc,” recently held in Melbourne has led to the announcement of a second, under the auspices of the managers of the Theatre Royal.
The Timaru United Cricket Club have concluded arrangements with the agent of the English Eleven for a one day’s match at Timaru. This will take place on Wednesdaynext.' At the inquest on Charles Rhodes, who poisoned hims-lf at Hororata with strychnine, the jury found that “the state of deceased’s mind was uncertain.” The evidence showed that Rhodes.had not been in good health for some time. The Armed Constabulary are busy making roads in the neighborhood of Parihaka. Men are said to be leaving the force at the rate of fifteen to twenty per month; but whether discharged or on their own motion is not stated.
Opponbeimer and Co., of Auckland, have received a letter by the mail from the French Minister of Posts and Telegraphs, stating he would examine and give favorable consideration to proposals for extending the Service Messageries Maritimes to New Zealand.
The small-pox patients per Zealandia are both Auckland passengers,; their names being 11. T. Crawford and George Stainger. Crawford had been vaccinated and Stainger not, Staingey is so well that it is doubtful whether he has got small-pox at all. Dr Landes has been sent down and has been isolated on the quarantine island with his patients. The Australian stowaway, John Anderson, has been sent to the quarantine station and appointed to attend on them. He and Brandsley, the quarantine keeper, have been vaccinated by the Health OUicer.
The Penguin left Auckland with a portion of the southern mails yesterday ; owing to the insufficient appliances for fumigating the mails, the work is tedious and slow. The Penguin has a bag of letters for Temuka, but only a bag of newspapers for Timaru, and another for Geraldine, 'ihese should reach here by the express on Saturday. The rest of the mails may be expected on Tuesday. The decease is note! in the Sydney press of a clerical gentleman—Canon Reilly—who prided himself ,on being the bitterest foe to bookmakers on the face of this earth. He is averred to have stated that “ he would rather not enter the Kingdom of Heaven at all, if the metallic fraternity enjoyed the same privilege.” Rather hot language this for a supposed preacher of ‘‘goodwill towards men.”
The Supreme Court at Christchurch was occupied all yesterday with the case Bailey, v. Wilkin and Co., in which the plaintiff ß sought to compel the South British Insurance Company to pay the balance due bn a policy for £4OO, covering crops on his farm at Balcairn. The defendants had a lien on plaintiff’s policy. The crops when stacked were burned, and the Insurance Company refused to pay more than £244 l7s6d, which they alleged to be the total value of the crops. This sum the defendants had accepted in full of all demands. After hearing the evidence of a number of witnesses the jury returned a verdict for £55 11s 4d.
The ‘‘ Sportsman” says' the A.J.O. Summer Meeting at Randwick seems to have been quite successful on Monday, according to telegraphic summary, and the great race of the afternoon produced the fastest mile-and-half ever run this side the line, viz., 2 min 37 sec, by Trump Yoss, who ‘won the Summer Cup under the apparent “ steadier" o£,Bat 71b, The next to him, the three-year-old Valetta, carried only sst 71b, and Tom Hailes, of “ ours,” barely managed to do the trick in the last stride by half a head. So great a delay is wired me to have occurred at the post in this event that the public hooted the starter.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2747, 12 January 1882, Page 2
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