NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2798, 13 March 1882, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

A whaling company will shortly be . formed in Auckland with £IO,OOO capital.

The Exhibition buildings will require from 15,000 to 20,000 feet of gas per night. : Auckland city and suburbs wish to go in jointly for a water supply, to keep taxation down.

. A Farmers’ Co-onerative . Association has beeri formed iri Invercargill, Mr Bateman being Secretary pro tcm. “ Patience ” has had a fortnight of undiminished popularity in Dunedin, and the 1,1 Pirates of Penzance ” will appear tonight. Another case of life-saving is reported "from Auckland. A lad of twelve, Samuel Martin, saved another boy from drowning in the Waikato. New Zealand can boast a :goodly register of names ennobled by such bravery,

The'well-known and, of lawyers, w.ellbeloyed suit, of Ehodes v. Rhodes has been d'ecided by the Privy Council in England, who have allowed the appeal from here. Their decision confers on Miss Ehodes a rery big income from the estate of the late Mr Rhodes.

The Ministry are on the move, not of course in a united, political sense, they being the last body likely to move except in a backward direction, but individually. Major Atkinson has just landed from the Haweain Wellington. .Mr Dick intended, as soon as Sunday had gone by, to sail for Nelson to inspect the gaol and lunatic asylum. It’s nice to be a Minister. Lyon’s Tourists had an excellent downstair house on Saturday night, though the attendance in the circle was very limited. The performance was vastly more entertaining than that of the previous evening, the extravaganza of Tulipatam being characterised by tasteful and enjoyable acting. The dresses were as gorgeous, and the faces as pretty, as the advertisments had led ua to expect, and the quick succession of light character songs, remarkably good choruses and excellent dancing, as well as tasteful groupings and constant motion kept the attention of the audience continually alive. The encores were frequent and vociferous and the performance closed with an entertaining histrionic burlesque.

The N. Z, “ Public Opinion” says that on Mr Denton’s return to Dunedin it is the intention of the Dunedin Young Men’s Christian Association to have him prosecuted for blasphemy. A logal gentleman, Who is connected! with the Association, has succeeded in unearthing an old Act of the English' Parliament, passed some centuries ago, that has never been repealed which deals with blasphemers in a pretty sharp manner, and it is under this measure that Mr Denton is to be arraigned. If the Association should go to the ridiculous extreme indicated by the foregoing, they would place themselves in a most contemptible position. If the Christian Association can meet argument only by legal process, it is high time it wound up. Mr Denton’s lectures in Timaru contained no blasphemy, and Timaru ears could have detected blasphemy as soon as anybody’s. During the hearing of a case in the li.M. Court, this day, Dr Lovcgrove awakened the Bench, the officials, the reporters, and everybody else, to quite a breathless interest, as the Apostle did the inhabitants of Melita when the viper fastened on his hand. The question of whether a certain substance was strychnine or salts being doubtful, the learned doctor proceeded to make investigation, not with crucible or mysterious process, but by a simple apparatus carried in his mouth. In short, the doctor actually took a small quantity on the tip of his tongue. Bench, Bar, and public looked on in breathless expectation of seeing the doctor “ shuffle oif” there and then, and the Bench regarded him with awe when he smacked his lips and pronounced it very good strychnine indeed. What a thing It is to be a man of science! An American paper says : —Last week at Los Angelos, a married woman eloped with her coachman, in consequence of which her husband shot himself. The next day ids daughter, who was also in lovo with the coachman, wont insane, while the servant girl, who was in turn gone on the defunct husband, tried to drown herself three times. Wo shall got out an extra as soon as wo learn of tho course taken by the housedog In the matter.