NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2813, 30 March 1882, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

■ The Timaru'Sohpol Committee meet on Tuesday evening, and will probably appoint an infant mistress,to the main school.

Another case of wife desertion has turned up. One John, of Christchurch, was ; arrested yesterdayin Timaru, and will most likely.be reijianded to Christchurch.

; Th'e iligh- : School Board meet on Tuesday evening'at the Education office. They will then probably appoints secretary and an assistant master. The proposal to institute terms instead of quarters as at present, which has. been made by one of the members, will also be considered.

’ There waVa miserably thin attendance at the .Theatre last night.. The, programme -was, however, faithfully gone through, and .ttie'.perform'ers'executed’ the difficult task of playing toa small and somewhat listless audience, ’ with commendable spirit. The opening piece, “ Our friend the Doctor ” was as good a little piece of high comedy ‘as could well 6e presented) and was worthy, of a better attendance. ; , ■

There are 22 prisoners awaiting trial at the Supreme Court, Auckland. Captain Matheson, injured a few days ago by a falling spar, died in the Auckland Hospital yesterday morning,

Three thousand six hundred shares have been already subscribed in the Invercargill Cp|fee .Palace Company. 1 / Slr'Jjt '-B.ACargiii la< a director of the Colonial Bank vivo Mr Rattray who has gone home on a visit. ;

The residents of Mangaroa (Wellington district) are .'Of a different mind to the Invercargillomans. They vote for new licenses of every description. The publican is a popular

There are burnings of stacks all over the country. Not, cine in. fifty .pan ,be accidental, and it is to be greatly lamented; .that tjhe dastardly’ scoimduqls who raise the fires cannot be caught. The annual report of the “ Melbourne Total Abstinence Society ” is hand, for the year 1881. It contains a good deal of information interesting to temperance societies. _ .J ; .-y “ Tekiarmblii 'a ‘Maori paper, has been started by an ■ American t vfhip. has been labouring among the Natives at Rotorua, in the cause of temperance; ■ This gentleman (Mr Snow) is a true benefactor,

The footballers mean business. The South Canterbury Club commence operations on fo/tpight, 15th Apriland a new Club/is ’ being got up by the sturdy yeomen of the .Cfiaio district. Patrick Gleeson, of Gleeson’s Hotel) Auckland has been fined £2O and costs for breach of the Beer’Act by withdrawing beer without defacing the stamps.

Mr of con-; fidenceon Wednesday might at Tindall, but at' Wakanuion; Tuesday. the electors thanked him politely for his speech, but declined to express confidence. ; The Right Hon. Mr Childers, Secretary; of State for War, in speaking to his con-i stituents, adverted to army organisation, and in’the course of his remarks he said ; he would like all young officers to note the. following from lefter he' had’ seen from one of the most distinguished'; soldiers living “ The foreign officer'; teaches ttyi spldier toi ride, to £>; shoot, to drill, and in this he is always at work. With us it is too much the custom to regard the adjutant and the drill instructors as the masters of our army schools. The army is aprofession in which the officers are : ‘thb’ legitimate professes;, a greqt sqhoql.in which they are the professors anddutots."

Eegarding the condition of tho frozen meat sold ip London, ex -.Cuzco, the “European Mail ” says: terribly negligent packing, however, which has caused the price to fall off, and this has always been a bad feature in the shipments by the Orange Company. Whether tho meat thaws in transit from Orange to Sydney, and so gets soft, wo cannot say, but certain; it' is that hundreds of the carcases have come out terribly misshapen, and many mutilated. Some have tlio ribs broken, and holes in their sides through which one might place k fist. Others have had their legs broken off, some close up to the carcase, some at tho thigh, and altogether the show made by them Ims been far from creditable.

■ Reply-paid post-cards haye proved a i great Bucefss in Switzerland, where the j idea originated. - The English Postmaster- ; . General is thinking of introducing them in 1 England.

A mild case. of sticking-up is reported front* Gore. A man named Sim, of Balclutha, forcibly relieved an old man named Manro of bis watch. On being pursued, by.some. Gore residents, he, kept them at bay .by. flourishing knives, and ultimately swam the Mataura river and made tracks in ,the direction of Croydon bush. .Since. Monday nothing has been seen of him. He is reported to be of weak intellect.

At the Woodstock rush yesterday another claim bottomed, seven claims from the prospectors, or about a quarter of a mile to the south-west. The prospects obtained were ten grains to four dishes. Considerable excitement exists on the, ground between parties getting out business sites. At the Supreme Court in banco at Auckland in demurrer to the action Tinline and Pickering v. James McKay ani J. Cwynneth, Mr Alexander, wno appeared- in support of tbe' demurrer, applied for an adjournment. The action is for recovery of ‘£3ooo damages for breach of agreement in connection with the survey and' purchase of native land. ,■: Lawrence Hayes, who in October last, was convicted at the Auckland, Supreme Court on a charge of' committing rape on a woman at Hamilton, and was sentenced to five years penal servitude, has now been pardoned. From the fiist a large number of the. residents of Hamilton were of, opinion that 'the evidence' was not of the character to warrant a conviction, and since'that time have taken steps to have him released. His ; Excellency, on. the recommendation of Ministers agreed to pardon Hayes, and he will be set at liberty without dplay,, - , ~ ■ ■ M. Maiche has found by experiment that sounds of different characters produced from two separate' sources can be sent simultaneously on one wire and received separately. He- used at the. receiving station two telephones of,, different resistances, and at the transmitting station caused a musical box to be set going on a microphone of small resistance, while an induction telephone transmitter was spoken into at the same time. The musical sounds wete reproduced' in the'telephone which had .the least resistance, and the vocal sounds in the other, so. that, with the two telephones tq the ears, the music could be heard by one ear , and the speech, by the other.