NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2844, 6 May 1882, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Mr John McOombc of Oamaru, is to build our new railway station.

A chemical lire engine is on its way from Baltimore to Christchurch.

An <£Booo bridge over the river Taicri, is proposed. The saw mills arc working night and day in Auckland, so great is the demand for timber.

There was a highly successful concert at Tcrauka on Thursday evening last in aid of the Presbyterian Choir.

The illustrious Barnum will soon be cn rouie for the colonies with a great zoological collection, flow old can T, B, possibly be '/

The Kakino has found no trace of Min-y-don survivors on Stewart Island. She is going to search the Auckland Islands.

Mr Qoyen, recently appointed School Inspector in Otago, has sent his resignation to the Invercargill Board, and it has been accepted with great regret, The Auckland City Council are thankful to Sir Arthur Gordon for throwing open Government House grounds to the public. So somebody has a civil word to say of His Excellency.

The excessive demand for Mosgiel tweeds keeps the factory at work night and day. Intending shareholders in the Ashburton enterprise may take heart.

In divorce and matrimonial business the Supreme Court, at Wellington, will be pretty busy this time. Foriy cases are down for hearing. ■lt is becoming fashionable to untie the knot.

At the B.M. Court, Temuka, yesterday, before J. Mendelson, Esq,, George Wadsworth, charged with larceny of a roll of leather, was remanded to Christchurch, as he had been arrested on a warrant from there.

The Sultan of Zanzibar intends to light his chief town with the electric light. Such is the progress of science 1 We shall soon have a school of marine engineering among the Hottentots, the Red Indians will take to chemistry, and the Patagonians found a Royal Academy.

A new feature of Christchurch is the Metropolitan Temperance Hotel, situated at the corner of Cashel r'and Madras streets. It is an establishment worthy the attention of the travelling public. The accommodation is first-class, and comprises about GO bedrooms, a number of private drawing-rooms suitable for families, dining, refreshment, and billiard rooms, all handsomely furnished, and a liberal cuisine.

About thirty Dunedin gentlemen, including representatives of various Insurance Companies, went by special train to Mosgiel yesterday, the object of their visit being to inspect the new carding and spinning room just erected, and to fix the rate for the new insurance policy. A number of speeches were made, and it was stated that although the machinery was working night and day, the factory was unable to keep up with the demand for its productions.

Yesterday a test case was brought up in the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Oamaru, to prohibit shooting game on Sundays. The prosecution asked the Bench to decide whether, as there was no New Zealand Act in force, the English Acts would be in force in the colony. Argument was heard in favor of defendant, after which the bench decided that the case must be dismissed, as there was no act in force in New Zealand, prohibiting the shooting of game on Sundays. What will the “ unco guid ” say to this 1

The Marquis of Townshcnd, when Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, said of the omnivorous greed of John Hely Hutchinson, ancestor of the present Earl of Donoughmore "If I were to give Hutchison,” said he, “England and Ireland for an estate, he would ask for the Isle of Man for a potatoe garden.” It was the same Hutchinson who, begging as usual, was told by Lord Townsheud that there was positively nothing to give away except a Major’s post in a cavalry regiment. " I’ll take that” coolly replied the place beggar, “ for my daughter.” And it is a fact in Irish history that a girl of 16 was actually gazetted a major of cavalry I But in the Ireland of a century ago the ruling powers did not care what they did, or left undone.

The dream of the great Boulevard to extend itself in a circuit of 25 miles in the shape of a circle of four miles radius, the centre being taken from St. Paul’s, is actually now engaging the attention of the London Metropolitan Board of Works. It is a part of the programme to run a tramway round the Boulevard orbit, and the sum of £3,000,000 is all that is required in the way of capital to float this magnificent undertaking.

A Scotch minister in a sermon in Kilmarnock, recently, said ;—“ In not a few cases in Glasgow we see women climbing up to the position of headship, and taking their places as heads in the Church and professing to administer its ordinances. We need have no hesitation in saying that movements of that kind, carrying on them tho brand of anti-Christ and subversive of thcfundamental principles of Christianity, are movements which no man instructed in these principles cau look upon except with mingled sorrow and abhorrence.”

The Melbourne " Telegraph ” his been given to understand that the late tour of the English Eleven throughout the Australian colonies and New Zealand has proved a financial as well as a cricketing success, the gross amount taken from all sources being in close proximity to £13,000. The promoters, Messrs Shaw, Shewsbury, and Lillywhite, pay the remaining nine professionals £2OO each, and allowing £SOOO for expenses of the trip, this would leave the very handsome sum, in round numbers, of £6OOO to be divided between the three above-named.

A "Soldier since 1848” writes to the “ Post ”as follows " Having attended at the Drilhhed during the presentation of prizes by Mrs Reader, I was astonished to seethe recipients giving her the military salute, which, when I was a soldier, was never accorded to any lady with the exception of Her Majesty. As I suppose the Volunteers were ignorant of the recognised method adopted by the Imperial Army, I may state that a bow, on accepting the prize, is all that is required. I remember some years ago a soldier making the same mistake in my regimept, and he was severely reprimanded by his commanding officer.”

At a meeting of the Invercargill Chamber of Commerce yesterday, a Committee was appointed to draw up reasons, for submission to both Houses of Parliament, why the Blutf Harbor should be the first and last port of call for any line of steamers between England and New Zealand subsidised by’the colonial government. It pointed outjthat in addition tojeargoboth coming and going, Southland Jhad now a coallield connected with the Bluff harbor by rail, and that consequently steamers could very easily call there. One of the members pointed out that in view of the obslaclea nature had provided to steamers entering Port Chalmers or Dunedin, it was quite possible Lyttelton and Bluff would be the only Middle Island ports to be visited. What will the Otago people say to this last suggestion,

Hargis, the gay Auckland levanter, has been arrested in Adelaide. Hrs H. had drawn £BOOO in gold out of the Colonial Bank, a few days before they left.

A first offender appeared at the R.M. Court this morning before His Worship the Mayor, charged with being druuk. He was fined 6s, with the alternative of 48 hours pennance. The flue was paid. A shocking accident occurred in the quarry at Greymouth, yesterday afternoon. While Patrick Fogerty and Bichard Owen were clearing away the result of a shot, a flake of stone weighing about 5 cwt fell, striking Owen on the side of the head and severing his left arm between the elbow and wrist. Fogerty was wounded in the skull and otherwise much bruised. There are no hopes of Owen’s recovery ; Fogcrty’s symptoms are more favorable. Both are steady men with wives and families. They were taken to the Hospital.

Here is a nice old gentleman. 4n old man named Hablin was brought up as a vagrant yesterday in Christchurch. He had been discharged from Addington only the previous day, where he had been doing a month for misbehaving himself at the Ashburton Home. The police and the Bench both appeared at a loss what to do with the old scamp, who is quite blind and must be looked after in some way. At Ashburton he misconducted himself towards the females, and at the ga d he was so unruly that he had to he punished. As the best way of getting out of the difficulty, the Bench sent him to gaol again for a month, in order to give time to consider what should be done with the old man.

A new oyster sa'oon, to be conducted by Mr W. R, Wilson, will be opened next week opposite the Theatre Boyal.