NEWS OF THE DAY.
A license poll for the Temuka district will be held on 2nd May,
Mr Stead has resigned his seat on the Handicapping Committee of the Canterbury Jockey Club.
Pupils are pouring in to the Wellington College in excess of building accommodation.
Mr of Dunedin Shand has bought the homestead and 3000 acres of Edendale. The company retain 90,000 acres, Mr C Napier Bell has been nominated by Government to examine and report upon Tasmanian harbor works, at the request of the Tasmanian Government. The Misses Fish, for their services as organists to St Mary’s Church, Geraldine, have been presented by the incumbent and people with handsome bracelets.
Mr Chalmers a well-known resident of Makikihi, yesterday, had his leg broken by a skid, at the Railway Station, He is however doing as well as a man can be expected who, at an advanced period of life, breaks a limb.
License polling in North Christchurch resulted in an overwhelming majority against increase of licenses. Mr Seymour George attends Sir George Grey to Wellington whither the veteran has gone from Auckland in the Arawata. Wellington advices state that the tender of Messrs Thomas and Hill (Amberley) for £9076 has been accepted for the Waiau Bridge contract. Their’s (was the lowest, and the highest was that of E. Johnson, Waikau for £12,740. Rather a wide difference.
A n old man named Ramage was committed for trial yesterday for a criminal assault on his grand-daughter, aged nine It was conclusively proved that he had violated the girl on two occasions, the former one being a year ago. At a meeting of the Auckland Harbor Board, the draft Bill for a new loan of £150,000 was approved, and the schedule of works under it passed. £120,000 of the sum is for a graving dock. Messrs Maclean and Stewart (with Messrs IV Wilkin and Co.) will to-morrow sell Mr T. 1. Joynt’s valuable property of Sutton Farm. This is magnificent land and is altogether one of the best farms in South Canterbury. Wm. Welsh, charged with a breach of the Shipping Act, by travelling to Auckland in the steamer Penguin without paying his fare, got a remand, as he said he had property at Taranaki. The Magistrate said he must pay or go to gaol, A new road engine was tried at Dunedin yesterday with every success. It is claimed it will attain a speed of 15 miles an hour. It is the invention of Mr Scott, jun., of Wellington, and will be started on the journey by road to Christchurch tomorrow.
A well-known architect in Christchurch was subpoancd as a witness in a case at the District Court, and he gave his evidence in such a way that the council who called him had to treat him ns an adverse witness. Some notes that he had taken on the subject of the action were quoted to him sentence by sentence, and he admitted that they were taken from personal observations) and that all in them would be true, but he flatly denied that he had any recollection of anything criticised in bis notes, and swore that he did not know what they meant. His evidence was given in such a way that he was asked if he had ever taken an oath in a Court before, which he confessed he had done, and His Honor eventually said he thought it was useless questioning the witness further, as it was one of the most extraordinary lapses of memory he ever remembered.
Three more claims have bottomed on gold at the new rush, two of which are on the east side of the Boss road. The population on the ground is gradually increasing.
The Supreme Court was opened yesterday at Hokirika by Chief Justice Prendergast. There was only one case, that of P. J, Humphreys for larceny. Prisoner pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to 18 months’ hard labor. His Honor congratulated the Grand Jury on the lightness of the calendar, and also on the prospects of a largely increased population, which he trusted would not be attended by an in" crease of crime.
On Christmas night a prisoner who was being court-martialled on the United States flagship Lancaster, at Nice, France, broke from his guard and leaped into the water. Some sympathising comrades tried to intercept his pursuers, but John Morris, a corporal of the marines, pushing them aside, jumped in with clothing and equipments on, caught him after swimming 150 feet, held him under water until he submitted to arrest, and delivered him on the deck with soldierly rigidity and gravity. This was something like a soldier. Among other interesting matter to be found in Mr .Treloar’s recently-published work on Ludgate Hill is a full description of the grandest Lord Mayor’s Show that London ever witnessed. This took place in the reign of James 1., and must have been much better worth looking at than the modern procession, for there was the “ King of the Moors on a golden leopard,” attended by six tributary kings, and a m n-at-arms carrying a representation of Wat Tyler’s head on a, dagger, and “an angel, with golden wings and crown, riding on horseback,” and a grand triumphal car “ drawn by two mermen and mermaids.” The show of the present year, would, indeed, look poor by the side of this glorious pageantry, and it may he that we have not improved upon our ancestors in such matters.
The “ New Zealand Times” special Home correspondent says —The export trade of your colony is now dull. Only small ships are laid on. The Crusader has had her sailing date put forward a fortnight, she being a larger vessel than the others on the berth. Cargo steamships seem to be gradually displacing sailing ships in the Australian trade. George Thompson and Co., the well-known sailing ship firm, follows suit with a fine new steamer of large carrying capacity and steam power, the is called the Aberdeen, and advertised to sail shortly for Melbourne. Messrs Money, Wigram and Sons (Limited) are building four steamers of 4000 tons register and about 750 horse-power for Australian trade, Messrs Shaw, Savill and Co. are largely connected with this new Company, one of the firm being a director of it. They are also on the direction of the Canterbury Grain Shipping and Grain Growing Company, recently so successfully floated that its 30,000 shares were taken up at once, there being actually 45,000 shares applied for. I believe that Messrs Shaw, Savill and Co., so long and so largely connected with the shipping interests of your colony, are now the largest sailing shipowners in London, and have been for some years. I am glad to be able to add that they neglect no opportunity of forwarding the local and general interests of New Zealand.”
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2825, 14 April 1882, Page 2
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