NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2781, 21 February 1882, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Australian pedestrians, O’Connor Brien, and Freeman are expected to give .an exhibition in Timaru un Saturday As will be seen from advertisement elsew here in this issue, Mr George Roberts, and Mi* J. Maitland Paxton (formerly wiui Ro:7se, Stead and Co.) notify having enti ?red into partnership at Christchurch in the grain business.

Messrs Wildie/Allan and Stumbles will hold a large wool sale at their wool stores, Beswiek street on Tuesday next February 28.

E. Laycock, the Australian oarsman, will soon leave Sydney for England to assist Trickett, It is likely that he will challenge the principal scullers.

Bishop Crane, of Sandhurst, who left for Rome on the loth Inst., was presented with a purse of 1000 sovereigns. There has been great suffering from want of water in the interior of New South Wales. The coach from Mount Brown was compelled to travel 90 miles without: water. The diggers have been compelled to leave Mount Brown, and serious loss of life is feared through want of water.

Mr Baird, manager of the Suffolk Brewery, Christchurch, was fined ,£2O yesterday for giving away a keg of beer on which no duty stamp had been affixed. A man and his wife, named Wright, were .before the Resident Magistrate at Christchurch yesterday on a charge of arson. They were remanded, bail being allowed in £SOO. Several other changes are said to be. pending. A fire at Ashley* Bank destroyed five or six large stacks of corn and a combine and elevator. None of the property was insured. I

At the nomination of candidates for the Licensing Bench for the Temuka district on Saturday the following were nominated: —J. Talbot, A. E.,Cox, James Paterson, S.| D. Barker, H. W. Campbell, J. Brown, 3,. S. Hayes, G. H. Thompson, apd W. A. Murray. j

A man named Thomas Henderson has been arrested in the Auckland district for a debt of £6 7s, for which judgment was obtained against him at Qamaru in his •absfcnCe. Henderson says he never received a summons, and oh the advice of bis solicitor he deposited the amount owing to the plaintiff in the hands of the police, until his case is heard before the Court,

The Premier has left Auckland for the Thames, and'the Attorney-General for the Waikato. Mr Bryce joins them at Te Aroha. The Premier is expected to return to Wellington next week.

The 1 crops throughout Southland are turning out very indifferent, the only exceptions b ing on the New River and other alluvial flats, or on some other specially growthy land. The loss from shaking has been serious.

Fifteen thousand young trout have been successfully placed by. the Acclimatisation Society in streams in the Southland district during the past season.

A six-roomed cottage in Cumberland street, Dunedin, was burned down yesterday. It was insured in the Rational' for £250, and the furniture in the New Zealand " for a like amount. The fire originated in the kitchen. The Brigade worked splendidly, and saved the adjoining places, y ■ ■' ■ “ ASgles,” in the “Australasian,” writes: "A joke is none the worse fo* its point: being against one’s friends, or even against one’s self. Mrs MacTaggart, who has been a country subscriber to a Melbourne weekly for many years, sent to the local newsagent this intimation :—Doh’t send the —— any more. The paper is no good for my business, I can't make up small parcels in it. Send me the ‘ Australasian’ in future.’ ” This says the Dunedin “ Times” almost comes up to a country dame we have heard of in Otago, who, of the two l papers published in her district preferred ■to subscribe to the one which made the best ’curt-papers.; ; . , '.\-j \