NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2818, 5 April 1882, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Tho ’Frisico mail will probably reach Lyttelton t( (-morrow morning, in time to catch the '.South cxjpretsa.

I The Board- ofEducation is. like':■<a I tempest-tossed barque. ;For years pqst it ! has : been bearing up under afHrong north gale,” But now the wind;-, has suddenly 1 veered■ round to the opposite point apd is i blowing strong ' from ' the ■ south. l Mr ! Barclay, Geraldine, was the well-favored, ! now, AVaimate rules the roost. Between Ahem-, sits, , Timaru,., helpless and despom dent. , ■ t . •

. Attention is drawn tO Mr A.- J.' AVhite’s advertiscmontr.in .another- column. Mr White’s furniture is the largest of the kind in. Christchurcli, and being an extensive purchaser in the Home market he has been appointed to represent a large number of the leading manuiacturing firms in England, at the exhibition.

The Education Board occupied an hour .this morning in.discussing’the “Scholarship Regulations,” the result of the debate being to land them back just where they started, from, and it was decided to refer the matter to a Committe who are to discuss, report and recommend in the usual way; As a learned Doctor of . the laws is a member of the Committee, we await something quite out of the ordinary run of results., y■. <

A marriage notice appeared in our ad? vertising columns yesterday which turns out to be a hoax. It was stated that Mr John Mcßeth, of the Old Bank Hotel, had been married that afternoon to Miss Sarah Wright, The advertisement was handed to ua by Mr .Gold, late :of the Old Bank Hotel, and we had no reason to suspect that its contents were hot genuine. A marriage did take place yesterday alternooh, bht Mr William Mcßeth (Mr John Mcßeth’s brother), was, the bridegroom and Miss Leßeaux was the bride. AVc regret that an incorrect notice should lave appeared in our columns, but leave the matter to be settled between Mr Cole and! the persons WhosAnames were mentioned. ;

There are nearly 1000 diggers on tbe ground at Woodstock.

• The ' Christchurch Tramway Company are going, to adopt horse instead of steam power for their cars, if possible. . Mr H. P. Higginson,-M.I.C.E, is appointed engineer; to the Wellington-Mana-■watu railway,; which’, starts operations forthwith.

North, tha “ sweep ” levanter, whose departure from Wellington with sundry pounds belonging to a too-confiding public will be remembered,-has a shaving shop at Santa Craig, near San Francisco, He is doing well, but* is too fond of tlie flowing bowl. ’ ’

The Oamaru people are ambitious. They are.. actually going in for a two-mile tramway!/ It" will be a. one-horse affair. With a two;-mile tram and'sbnjetjiing of a Breakwater, Oamaru will be,heard’ of in the world. Bishop Moran received a cordial welcome from the Catholics of Dunedin yesterday. It was a thousand pound welcome. He said the outrages in 1 Breland were greatly exaggerated and the people much depressed, and that in Italy the Church is flourishing. These statements will father surprise most people,. , , The City Fathers of Christchurch have l voted the Mayor an extra £2OO for the year, wherewith to meet the increased expenses consequent on the Exhibition. The people of New Plymouth are hot rabid on the subject of the liquor ;Of 400 ratepayers for the Bast Ward, 33 !turned up at the poll. Twenty-eight of these voted against an increased number 'of publican’s licenses, and five for increasing the number. On Saturday there will ‘be a meeting af Wesderell’s Hotel; Fairlie Greek to arrange for races on May 24.

Some wheat stacks belonging to Mr .Studhblme of Waimate have been burned; but, the matter being referred to the,police ;they consider it was accidental., A public Subscription will, probably ; be; started in Waimate to assist poor MrStudholme. : They had a squally meeting at L the High School Board 'last'night. Mr LeCren’s motion to alter the system 1 from “ quarters' ’> to' “ terms ” was carried but not without a protest frofli-; the Rev. Mr Gillies, and the scholarshipbusiness was the. bccasion of another breeze. There are too many strong minds on that Board, ,a plethora, of intellect. ’ . ; • ,

The C Battery,.of Artillery will be furnished with new carbines in time for the opening of the Exhibition. ■

■ Burton’s Circus had a crowded house last night, and everybody appeared delighted With the performance,' which from first to last was^ clever and amusing. ,

, Evidently the notorious criminal Butler does not give up all hopes of being able to make his way out of gaol. We learn from .a Christchurch paper that his latest feat of ingenuity was_to make a key from a piece of ■wood and cover it with tin, the facsimile of ■one of the gaol door keys. Besides, he has made a saw from a piece of tin’the size of ;a dinner table knife. The authorities, to impress (Upon him that this' skill of his is not appreciated, has; so it is said,- given him two months “ solitary,” ‘ the proper uvay to reward’ his cussed ingeniousness. The consulting surgeon of the Royal Humane f S6cicty makes an announcement in one of the Home papers " which nervous people will find a, great source of comfort. He has succeeded, ho says, in discovering “a 1 series of’ very delicate, cheap, and simple tests, within the comprehension of any qualified practitioner, which involve no disfigurement, and will establish beyond doubt the stage at which death is and the possibility of resuscitation ; while the system gives the key to the restoration of suspended animation, whether life is in the balance,gfter drowning, or has, to external seeming flickered and passed away in the crisis ( Qf a wasting disease.”

The Barclay Presentation Committee met for the third time on Tuesday evening at 8 p.m., in the Litterary Institute, Geraldine. The majority of the Committee were present, Mr Angus McDonald occupying the chair. An apology was read from Mr Pearpoint regretting his inability to attend owing to a business engagement and enclosing cheque for amount collected by him. The Secretary stated tho lists to hand were fairly satisfactory. Timaru has contributed £ll2 17s, The lists from Tomuka am' ’'"'■’male were not yet to hand and it was that those lists would .largely increase the total amount. It was « 1 to formally make the presentation on Saturday, April 8, at five o’clock p.m. at the Manse, Geraldine, when it was hoped as many of tho sub.-' Hcribers as could make it convenient would attend. The Committee meet again on Thursday evening, April 6, at the same time and place.

r A warder named Binhey and a prisoner named Paget had a narrow escape from ■drowning in the Dunedin harbor on Monday night. ' They were taking stores to the prison hulk-when they encountered a squall and the prisoner -seized, I'a box.They drifted down the horbor, and after being in the water for an hour and a half, they landed .on.v.Goat- Island, greatly. dis-. trussed. There,is nothing like accomplishment. 5 The warder knewhow toswim and the prisoner was able to box. ....