NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2809, 25 March 1882, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

There was a clean sheet at the E.M. Court this morning.

f .Mr ;Brogden,; M.T*. (thh,'£loo,ooo 'suitor) leaves for England at oneb to take his place in the House of Commons. To-day Hearn and Messenger will hold their rowing contest in "Wellington for £IOO a side, wjinji and weather permitting. Otherwise the race will come "off on Monday.

The two scoundrels -who garotted and robbed a boy in a public urinal in 'Auckland have been committed for trial.

The attendance at the Christchurch ram •and ewe fair yesterday wa’s' very small. Some good prices, however, were, obtained for some of the sheep, but a number of lots 1 were passed in.

The Ministers are still on the move. Bryce and Kolleston are to “ foregather” in Auckland and’jrefcumi fo;| Wellington in company, taking Waikato, Eotorua and, Napier by the way. At the last place they will endeavour to settle the ancient land dispute. : From Wellington we learn that yesterday! the Directors of the’ Frozen Meat Company met and after a long discussion de-, cided, on |oV- order a Haslam machine for erection' here. The chief argument -of the dissentients -was that nothing would be lost by waiting for further results from the Australian shipments. It is expected that the machinery, will arrive in time to be got into work by next season. : ? ; i

A chemist recently came to a London magistrate with tears in his eyes to know how he could possibly get rid of his assistant, This last gentleman had bad the misfortune to dispense arsenic instead of Dover’s powders, by which three children wore poisoned, and the circumstance did not tend to inspire confidence in the establishment; but though his employer had repeatedly given him warning, he declined to go. The applicant “ did not wish to be hard upon him, or to press the matter with severity, but. it, was really getting very inconvenient,”

The “New Zealand Times” has the following “ His Worship ’ the Mayor possesses a stern sense of duty, and this rare quality was brought out in a marked manner at yesterdayV- meeting of the Thorndon Licensing Committee, of which he is a member, After the ordinary business of the meeting had been disposed of, and just as the members were about to disperse., the Mayor gravely remarked that it was their duty to personally inspect at least one of the hotels in the district. The proposition was acted upon immediately.”

The Vienna “ None Frcie Prcsso ” quotes from ' Dacitus ..... ’.ascription of the collapse of the vc.icn ampitheatre at Fideuse during the reign of Tiberius, by which, according to the Annals, 60,000 persons were k illed or wounded, The immense structu; re was a flimsy affair, put tip by a certain Afctiliua, and there is much comfort, after rt ading about the horrors of the catastrophe and the measures adopted to prevent their repetition, in being informed by Tacil .us, with characteristic terseness, that “ A; tilius was burned.”

...A large detachment of Guards is to proceed to Moscow -'to be present at, the* coronation of the Czar, as it is feard that a Nihilist .plot to compass the [lmperial family driring their stay in the Holy City is being matured.

A clever company is announced to appear, in the Theatre Boyal for three nights only, Tuesday, Wednesday, arid Thursday next, in a delineation ,of the ‘' New Craze.” The performance comprises an extravaganza with r some choice singing'andpianofore playing, The ladies and gentlemen of the troupe are reported by the southern papers to be exceedingly clever and versatile, and; we hope to see a good house on Tuesday. A new and powerful physical medium has appeared in Bmola in the form of Pelaguay Nikleaf, a young girl of 19 years. The demonstrations that were produced is her presence were the most violent bn record cows, pigs, and other animals seemed to go mad in her presence and try to climb the walls, and at a seance at which were present the most noted spiritualists of St Petersburg, the circle had* hardly seated themselves when what seemed an electric shock ran through them all, then the table violently .assaulted sitters and medium, Upsetting them, andall,andfellripon the floor—when the chair of the medium began to perform such violent and astonishing gyrdtioaS, that ’the-Whole company took to their heels. “ iEglea” in the "Australasian” referring to the claims for compensation arising out of the Jolimont railway accident, pays : —" There is ; one qheerink Übing yrimidst much that ia melancholy, in these railway, compensation trials,* ‘ It is quite delightful and encouraging to find upon their own evidence how prosperous were "the men who patronised that fateful train. From 1 two to three or four thousand a year profit seems to be an income quite easy to make in any business—according to the evidence The. injured Government officers’ claiins are hampered by a knowledge of, what their salaries are. But how splendicfly everyone else was getting on but for that upset—according to the evidence. Arid the doctors-—good fellows —how moderate the little r bills they slipped . in, to their patents to be paid by Government! After reading these trials;! don’t wonder at heads ot families puzzling themselves which trade or profession to put their boys in, all seem so according to the evidence.” ■ i