South Canterbury Times, FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1882. NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2754, 20 January 1882, Page 2

South Canterbury Times, FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1882. NEWS OF THE DAY.

An emergency meeting of the St. John’s Lodge is called for this evening at 7.30. ‘ Mr A. P. Waugh has succeeded to the business of fishmonger lately carried on by Mr Price, and has made considerable improvements in the premises. During the hearing of a case in Court, to-day Mr White asked a witness “ On what terms were you with the plaintiff at this time ?”—meaning friendly or otherwise. “ Ten shillings a week, sir,” was the reply. A special meeting of the Timarn School Committee will be held this evening to approve of the annual report and balancesheet for presentation to the meeting of householders on Monday next. The case National Bank v. O, D. R Ward has been adjourned till after the vacation.

The Christchurch Domain Board have unanimously decided to grant a site for the Exhibition in Hagley Park, if it can be done legally.

The valuation of the rateable property in the town of Invercargill for this year is £60,557. In 1872 the total valuation was £10,659.

A Native Land Court is sitting at the Thames, Mr Sheehan is attending it,- and by his influence Government have secured 78,000 acres of land in the Piako district.

At a public meeting hold at Rangiora on Wednesday it was unanimously resolved that a peal of six steel bells, at a total cost of £SOO, including all necessaries, be procured, and a Committee was appointed to collect subscriptions. Steps were also taken towards having a tower erected for the bells.

The celebrated Waitara Chief, Wiremu King! te Eangitake, has just died at the advanced age of 90, and a big “tangi ” is being held over him. It was through his influence that the Maori war of 1860 was brought about. For many years he has been a peaceful subject. He was excessively corpulent, and this may .have been one reason for his peaceful behaviour.

The Commissioners appointed by the Christchurch Chamber of Commerce to examine the proposed line of railway to the West Coast, have handed in their report to the promoters. It is understood that the report is unfavorable to the floating of a public company for the purpose of constructing and working the line, on the gronnd , that the enterprise is not likely to prove remunerative lor some years to come.

A young man named Robert MoCartin, of Onehunga, was brought up to the Hospital last week, suffering from tetanus, brought on in an unusual way. Tetanus is most frequently induced by fractures, burns, and injuries to the fingers and toes, and sometimes, though rarely, by cold, this case is singular, as it appears to have been caused by the strain of lifting one side of a dray for the purpose of greasing the wheel.

In reporting a school children’s | picnic on the 2nd inst, the “Kumara Timet i” opens in the following grandiloquent style : “As a bridegroom cometh out cf his chamber and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race,” so came forth the stately orb of day on the morning of the 2nd of January 1882.. And to none was his majestic appearance yesterday more welcome than to the hundreds o! the rising generation of K’.umara who were to hold their annual Tpicmc,” See.

Speaking in the Presbyterian Synod at Dunedin, on the subject of receiving the Rev, A, C. Gillies,' who hails froija Australia, as a minister, the Rev Mr Sutherland said it was time to call a halt. They had been receiving one applicant after another until their Church seemed to be becoming a kind of benevolent institution for wom-out ministers. They were receiving men who had tried their hands in many countries and churches. The best of their work was over, and yet directly they knocked at the door the Synod replied, “ Oh, produce your credentials and we will let you in.” At the R.M. Court, Waimate, yesterday, before J. Beswick Eaq., R.M, and W. J. Stowart J.P., two boys were charged with stealing firewood. The prosecutor saw them near his place with a wheelbarrow, in which was soma firewood of the same description as his, s.nd one of the boys was at his woodpile, imside a fence. The boys were cautioned and discharged. Mundy v. O Sullivan, clai ra £1 12s, costs ordered to be paid to plaintiff on account of a previous case. Defemdant ordered to pay 5s per week, 14 day b imprisonment for any default. In a csisc Williams v. Sinclair, claim £l4, plain tiff did not appear, and defendant filed a set off of greater and got judgmen t for £3 14s with costs £1 Is. In two otbfjr cases : Manchester and Co. v. Morris, claim £l2 0s lid, and Clement v. Clearer, claim £3 6s, judgment was given by default.

At a trial of reapers and binders at Mr Boag’s farm near Christchurch yesterday, twelve machines competed; The Osborne, the Excelsior, two Peering, two Wood’s, the McCormiok, and Howard’s Simplex string binders, and the McCormiok, the Osborne and the Aultraan wire binders. Each machine worked.well cutting 2£ acres of oats within two hours, and3J acres of wheat within three hours. The Osborne, Aultman and Samuelson machines used three horses; the others only two. The Inspector ofjnuisances in an Otago Borough, reporting on a matter of drainage drew the attention of the Borough Council, to the urgent necessity of steps being taken " to prevent the present stagnant water from being absorbed by the warm weather'’

As Mr Thomas Snoswell of H. M. Customs Lyttelton, was passing by the waterman’s steps in Port, just after five o’clock last evening, he heard the cries of a child, and on going down the steps found a little girl named Robinson hanging on to a rope in the water. He at once got her out, and started her off home not much the worse for her bath, beyoud being very cold and frightened.

As an outcome of some banter levelled at the Oamaru Club’s twenty-two over their defeat by the Englishmen an interesting match ,is likely to take place says the' “ Mail.” Possibly unable to bear so’ much chaff as was levelled at them, some members of the defeated twenty-two openly declared that the best eleven of the Oamaru Club would play any twenty-two cricketers outside the Club.' This challenge has been taken up in earnest on behalf of the other Clubs, and the challengers will be called upon to meet the twenty-two upon the trysting ground at an early date.

The San Francisco “ Merchant ” of December 16 says:—“lE the present Post-master-General succeeds, as he hopes, in reducing the time occupied in carrying the mail between New York and San Francisco, 24 hours, and Lorillard’s new passenger steamers on the Atlantic make their trip as expected in six days, allowing for delays in transferring from train to steamer, letters will reach their destination in London on and within the 12th day, from this city. The. Australian mail between Sydney and London could then be delivered on the 32nd day, beating by several days anything the P. and O. S.S. Company running via Suez could possibly do with any vessels yet built, designed,;or talked of. Certainly over a week can bd saved over the P, and O.’s fastest time, giving them all the advantage they expect from their new boats.”