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NEWS OF THE DAY.

The half-yearly dividend of the Timaru Gas Company is now payable at the office of the secretary.

The South Canterbury Building and Investment Company notify by advertisement that interest for the quarter ending March 31 is now payable at the company’s office.

The full programme of the N. Z, Grand National Steeplechases to be hold in Christchurch on May|2l appears in another column,

' Mr James Bruce, the enterprising millowner, hopes to commence operations in May, a twelve-month from the time of the fire. Judging from appearances he is likely to realise his expectations, and truly if anybody deserves success it is Mr Bruce.

Messrs Wood and Smith announce a splendid show •of winter goods ' this evening. The windows will bo illuminated until.lo o’clock, ao that everybody interested (and which of tho fair sex is not ?) will have an opportunity of judging for himself of the worth and variety of the goods displayed.

Burton’s great®Australian r ' i -cus opens here on Tuesday next for two nights only. There will be a day performance on Wednesday The circus has been visited by innumerable thousands in the colonies during the last 30 years and everybody has pronounced capita). A monster house will no doubt greet the enterprising proprietor, Mr Burton, who is travelling with the Show himself.

The Lyttelton gnol is overcrowded. The Lake Tekapo races were to be held to-day. Civilization is advancing in the interior. Her Majesty’s consent to the Chinese Immigration Act, 1881, is notified in the “ Gazette.'’ General entries for the O.J.C. Autumn Meeting, and payment of 8 uovs to the Champagne, close at 9 p.m on Saturday. Services of song are becoming a favorite institution ; one was given at Temnka on Wednesday with much success. It is proposed to form a company to erect sale yards at the Washdyke, and a public meeting' is called for to-night at the Doncaster Hotel to consider the proposal. The Hope of Hilton*, Lodge of Good Templars had a public meeting on Tuesday evening- for the purpose of inducing people to join the order.

Prostitution is being put down in Auokland by the police. Eight women were arrested on Wednesday night, and the police have a list of 137 women of the unfortunate class-

A festive party has left Auckland for Waikato, comprising the Hon’s Ilolleston Bryce, and Atkinson, with some representatives of Essex farmers. What jolly company to travel with 1 “ Jessica’s First Prayer ” was given with success last night at the Congregational church. There was a large attendance, and the music was capitally rendered by a very well-trained choir. Mrs Hatnpsou’s revival work has prostrated her so much that she has had to take rest. Preaching to Christchurch sinners and praying for them must indeed be hard work.

Cockney sportsmen, attend I Declarations fixing the shooting season for imported and native game, and the license fees, &o , f<r the various districts of the colony, are gazetted.

The diocese of Wellington is in shoal water financially. The “ work of the diocese can no longer bo carried on on existing financial arrangements ’I is the very mellifluous way it is expressed by tho Standing Committee.

“ Patience ” is not creating st» great a furorc'vo Christchurch as it didin Dunedin. Either the Christchurch people are bottling up their enthusiasm for the Exhibition, or they have not the taste of the Dunedinites, who will always support a good thing. A man named Pratt was convicted of systematic communication with the prisoners in Lyttelton gaol and was fined £IO or a month's imprisonment. The evidence showed that he got money out of prisoners or promises of money, and then in some instances swindled them after all.

Major Atkinson has been looking into local industries, and it is generally believed ho meonsto propose a reduction in the Customs tariff during the coming session. Possibly, however, the hope is to be dangled before the public, like the bunch of green before the donkey, to keep them in good humor with the Government.

The Frozen Meat Company arc communicating with the various Shipping Companies trading to New Zealand, in order to obtain a sufficient number of of ships fitted with freezing apparatus. By next season it is estimated that from five to eight large ships will be required, and endeavors are being made to get at least one steamer also. A child fell into a reservoir on his father’s ground at Christchurch on Wednesday, and would have been drowned but for the singular fact that he was seen by the passengers in a passing tram car. The manager of the line jumped off the car and into the water and rescued the child, who would otherwise have been drowned.

According to the " New Zealand Times’ the Rev Gow Jukufifar, the African missionary was to leave Wellington lor Timaru within a day or two, enroiite for his native land,;7oo miles up country from Capetown, Tho people of Timaru will doubtless welcome this evangelist for he seems to have delighted everyone up North by his fervency, his descriptive power and the practical information he' has given about Africa and its productions. He is evidently a man of uncommon, power of mind.

Mr Seddon had an interview with Mr Rolleston in reference to payment in advance for water and the use of tbe sludge channel at Kumara. Tbe Minister agreed to allow the suspension of the order demanding payment in advance for water, and that the terms and conditions for using the sludge channel should be amended; and also that liberal concessions of free water should be given to miners to assist them in opening out their claims.

Mr Dillon (M.P.,) the Irish agitator was offered his liberty if he would promise to leave Ireland. This was his reply to the Chief Secretary :—“ Sir, I have received a message from you to the effect that if I desire to go to the Continent the gates of Kilmainham are open to me. Ido not know why this message was sent, as I have not made any communication to you upon this, nor indeed upon any other subject. If any representations have been made by my friends, it has been done without my consent or knowledge. So far as I can understand your message, it amounts simply to a renewal of an offer mmde to me two months ago through Captain Barlow,of the Prison Board, that I would be released on condition that I would leave this country immediately. I stated upon that occasion to Captain Barlow that under no circumstances would I enter into a.ny conditions with the Government, and that 1 wished to have no further communications with him on this matter. I must? now request that you will not address to me any further communications on this subject.—Yours sincerely, John Dillon.” Oscar Wilde an exponent of msthedicism, who is engaged in a lecturing tour made a mistake in Boston, which is generally regarded as the intellectual centre of the United States. The Bostonians would not have him at any price and some students of Harvard University let him know it. Just before Mr Wilde mounted the rostrum, sixty young gentlemen marched into the front seats of the lecture hall, one and all arrayed in an ..citation of Mi’ Wilde. All were in dress coats, smalls, and silk stockings ; all wore long flowing hair, and carried Allies in their button-holes and sunflowers in their hands. The audience, tickled, roared till the rooftrec shook,. Mr Wilde glared, and refreshed himself with water. But nothing could stop the laughter, and in the end the unfortunate lecturer collapsed.

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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2814, 31 March 1882, Page 2

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NEWS OF THE DAY. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2814, 31 March 1882, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2814, 31 March 1882, Page 2

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