NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2841, 3 May 1882, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

H.M.S. Emerald leaves, for England to-morrow.

There is to be a Poultry Show at the Exhibition shortly.

The railway at the Taicri was under water last night.

The Rotomahana found the bar at the Otago Harbor so bad that she had to anchor outside the Heads.

. Some twenty laborers on the reclamation contract for the railway station site at Dunedin are on strike for 7s a day. They have been offered Gs Gd.

The presiding officer at Oreti gave his casting; vote in favor of increase of publicans’ licences. He will be placed on the free list by the grateful victuallers.

The " wise men ” of Invercargill think the explosion they heard last month was caused by the large meteor that appeared a' few days ago descending on Stewart Island.

The stars arc foregathering. Mr Bryce from the North and Mr Eolleston from the South are due in Wellington to-day, to gird up their loins in readiness for Parliament.

The jury have returned an open verdict in the case of Smith (ferryman near Mastcrtou) his wife and children whose shocking death by fire was recorded on Monday.

At a meeting of the Auckland Gas Company it was decided to issue 3000 shares at £o each, and to sanction a consumption of gas in the city estimated at fifty-six million feet per annuni. The Geistenger Comic Opera Company from the German Theatre, New York, will be passengers through to Sydney by the next mail steamer. The prima donna is Madame Geistenger. Madame is engaged to give 100 performances in the Australian colonics.

The Customs revenue at this port for the year ended March 31, was £20,531.

The National Bank will occupy their newquarters on the 15th of this month.

The “Australian Sketcher” for the month of April is up to its usual standard of excellence. Two.pictures, “The Vintage in Victoria,” and “Melbourne- in the Sunset,” are especially good. Mr Connell, of Connell and Moodie, has drafted an amendment on the present Land Act for presentation to the ensuing Parliament. Its main feature is the substitution of the ballot system for auction in the sale of deferred payment lands. At the Police Court Dunedin, yesterday, a married woman named Eliza White was charged with the theft of £IG worth of jewellery from a private house, in the day time. She went to the house the door of which was open, and walked in. A little girl happened to open an inner door from the back apartments at the moment, when the woman asked some question about a house to let. The girl answered it and went back, and the woman, before she went away, is alleged to have helped herself to the jewellery from one of the front rooms. There have been numerous robberies of the same kind, The present charge was remanded.