NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2815, 1 April 1882, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The entertainment at Temuka on Thursday night was a great success, and brought the School Committee the sum of £l3.

There are a few ardent sportsmen in this community to whom this, is /a red letter day, for it is the opening of the ’B2 shooting season.

The Makikihi people are goingheavily' in for athletics. Mr Cowie is to give a cup as prize for a race. A football Club has been started, too, the colors to be amber and black* On the players’ shins the prevailing' colors will no doubt be black. They have a stationmastcr and a schoolmaster who are a host in themselves.

At the Police Court this'morning, before TI W. Hall, Esq., J.P., a man named Wm. Walsh was brought up, charged with deserting his wife and seven children at Cristchurch. He was remanded till Tuesday. Napier advices state that Mr Miller’s sale of the Rissington estate on the 30th April is attracting considerable attention The block to bo sold comprises nearly 900 square miles, and has over 400 miles of boundary- It includes every variety of country, and is divided into 28 runs and farms. Owing to such a large area being' thrown into the market at one time, prices are certain to rule low when compared with recent sales.

The Paradise duck has hatched himself oat of England successfully. It is all over with the trout and salmon ova imported by the Acclimatisation Society. The batcher of the John Elder, when the ice in the ice-house gave out had been cherishing the eggs in the coal bunkers, potatoe bags and cattle pens, but they did not seem to thrive. ‘ Some eggs don’t know when they are well off. These actually died. The Otago Acclimatisation Society have fixed the shooting season within the Otago district as follows For cock pheasants and Californian quail, from June Ist to July 31st, 1882; and for taking or killing hares, from May Ist to July 31st, 1882, from sunrise to snnset, excepting within the lake country. License fee, £2, An application was made at the Supreme Court yesterday, in Christchurch, for an order directing the trustee in bankruptcy to prosecute John Cother for fraudulent bankruptcy. He was a draper carrying on trade at Cashel House, and failed lately, his liabilities being some £6OOO or £6OOO, and his assets less than £IOO. ;

The Hon.s Atkinson and Bryce took a sudden turn and arrived in Auckland last night to everbody’s astonishment, and on Sunday they Heave for Wel|ingtori. Why tins hurrying and dashing and driving about the country 7

Dunedin commercial men were a little agitated by the abrupt departure of our gay young storekeeper, “Waft him ye winds” is not the song the mercantile fellows sing just now, , . ( An oil mill starts in Dunedin on Monday/ Mr ; Singer (perhaps a cousin of the illustrious sewing machine man) is going to manufacture linseed, colza and salad oils. As it is the first in New Zealand Mr Singer will, if he succeeds, claim a Government bonus.

Dent, the supposed incendiary, was discharged from custody with a caution. The affair throws no light bn the' recent fire at the National -Hotel, Cambridge. Dent laid down intoxicated ia a stable adjoining the hotel, and was awakened by fire, dying round him, He extinguished the : fire and told the watchman. Men who go about in that style are not incendiaries. It wants a cool and steady head to make a good incendiary. The boys of the Industrial Home were formally recommitted by Mr McDonald, Magistrate at Kohimarama, as well as the remnant of the lads at the Naval Training School. Some of the latter threatened to abscond.

Arrangements have been made for using the electric light at the exhibition, and the art gallery will be so lighted amongst other portions. Mr Fletcher, in whose' charge the pictures for the gallery are,’has just received a letter from Sir Herbert Sandford, the British respresentative at the Melbourne Exhibition, stating that a number of English artists to mark their appreciation of the services he has rendered, have subscribed to present him with an honorarium of 200 guineas. He has > also been presented with a bronze medal by H.B.H. the Prince of -Wales.

A curious story is told at some length by the “ Figaro ” concerning the negotiations which it asserts have recently taken place relative to the expected departure of the Pope from Borne, This the Vatican, according to this authority, has long been a fixed idea of Leo XIII, but it is only recently that he has decided where to go. Prince Bismarck, so the story runs, offered 5 to repeal the May laws and to authorise the expelled priests to return to their parishes if the Pope would consent to fix bis future residence at Frankfort. He ft promised that the city should be neutralised as in the time of the Herman Confederation, and offered the Pope its temporal sovereignty, with a subsidy of many millions per annum. Leo declined. Strasbourg was then offered him' oh the same terms ns Frankfort. The offer was tempting, but it was also refused. A refuge in France was out of the question, owing to the ascendancy of M. Bert and company. So at last the Pope closed with the offer of Salzburg, which has been made him by the Hapsbnrgs. The city is to be neutralised, and the Pope subventiohed from the Austrian exchequer. Everything is said to be in readiness for the transfer of the Holy See from Borne to Salzburg, and before long, we are told the hour of departure will be fixed, Notts vermis,, Joubert and Twopeny write to the Christchurch " Star” as follows "Sir,— — We always pay our debts more readily, and cheerfully of course, when they are debts of gratitude. To ourjarchiteot, contractor, and more particularly to' the workmen engaged in the building we are hajipg erected in Hagley Park, we wish to tender our thanks for their zeal and co-operation; It is indeed a fact worth making known that the main transept of the Exhibition building, a feet long, #4 feet wide, and 26,feet ..high |o walbpjptes, -has been; substantially and exceedingly well put np in a marvellously short space of time, viz,, 48 working hours. Many. of out: friends who visited the, Exhibition buildings on Saturday last will remember the gap between the New Zealand and foreign courts. In the time above mentioned the transept has been put up, and is now being painted, preparatory to, hanging the pictures.”

Judge Higinbotham, in sentencing a number of larrikins to several terms of imprisonment at the assizes, Sandhurst, Victoria, addressed the prisoners at considerable length. He pointed out the cowardice and stupidity of larrikinism, the suffering it inflicted on victims, on larrikins themselves, and on their friends and rela-, tions. Referring to the feeling in the country on the subject, he remarked that the .evil had grown to such an extent that the authorities had determined to put it down, and put down it would be. Three of the prisoners he sentenced to a month’s solitary confinement, in addition to long terms of imprisonment. There seem to be similar feelings to those expressed by Judge Higinbotham in the mind of our justices, and heavy sentences, are now the order in cases of larrikinism. The heavier the better; the nuisance will be stamped out the sooner. .

The latest American freak of fashion is for every lady to have her, ago indicated on her hat brim: each inch of width to represent three years* A lOin brim means that the lady is thirty years old, a 20in brim shows that she is sixty, and so on. It is the fashion now at weddings in New York to wear but one flower, for instance, of all shades of roses, of jonquils, or chrysanthemums. At a recent wedding in that city of a young lady named Violet, the costumes worn were all shades of that color, and the guests carried bunches of violets in compliment to the bride,

Judge Fenton and Major Mair opened two Native Land Courts at Botorua on Thursday. The Rev. W. Simmonds,the well-known Wesleyan minister, who was known and valued here as a thoughtful and cultivated man, has been reviewing Mr Denton at Kaiapoi, with very considerable power. We have just heard of a wonderful cure of a gentleman suffering from a sort of blood-poisoning, which has just been effected by the hot springs of the Rotorua district. He had been with great difficulty conveyed to the sulphur springs and a few day’s of “steaming” sufficed- tp restore him almost to his original health. i Mr Alexander Gordon, of Camera,; adver- r tises his Temperance Hotel, which., is particularly well situated, having a balcony with a magnificent view of- the sea,. suites, of well furnished rooms, and in the rear, a detached cottage suitable for private families, Visitors to the hotel speak very highly of its comforts, ' Those who were present at the B.M. Court on Thursday will remember that a man was brought np there charged with stealing a saddle, and that on being asked, to reply to the charge he shook his : head and protested that he was stone deaf, On Detective Kirby with all the strength*of a stentorian voice bawling into his ear, almost bursting himself, in fact* in- his efforts to. explain the matter, the innocent-looking deaf one smiled serenely and said be was very sorry, but he did’nt, really hear a word, but; on the charge being shown him in writing, he nodded cheerfullyi This_ eccentric was remanded to Christchurch and: appeeared before the Bench thereyesterday. When he was asked, by means of writing, what be had to say at the conclusion of the case he wrote the following This is a sad case, I’m not very old; I began my corear when that saddle i etold.

An English tutor pays a tribute to the value of bis own instruction,.by publishing the answers of some of his pupils at their annnal examination; Newton shot the apple off his son’s head. Achilles was killed by Hannibal, for which the eyes of the latter were put out by Queen Ophthalmia. An hyphpthesis is an instrument for drawing up water, or it is a thing which happens to people after death. The letters of the alphabet are of two kinds, viz., positive, comparative and superlative. One pupil “ supposed’* that Adam was the first; person singular ; another that the difference between singular and plural is that one is masculine, the other feminine. On the tutor’s reading that “ Holland is cut rip into a network of canals in which numerous windmills are continually pumping water,” one.of them asked “ What, is the use of pumping the water into networks?”