NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2846, 9 May 1882, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Wine and publicans’ licenses will not be tolerated at Ashburton.

Mr J. C. McKerrow is gazetted a Hospital Commissioner, The post of Engineer to the Dunedin Harbor Board is vacant. Labor at the Dunedin reclamation works is paid at 6s 6d per day. i The cable steamer Agnes has had to suspend operations owing to bad weather. Nearly £6OO was laid on the foundation stone of the Dominican Convent School at Oamaru, on Sunday. Dr Campbell is appointed to assist in binding up the wounds of the Temuka Volunteers when they go forth against the enemy.

The Hinemoa is coaling up. She is off to-day to Manukau to fetch the Northern legislators to Wellington, thence down South for the Governor.

A German geologist, George Fume, has been lost in the bush at Coromandel. Everybody has turned out to search for him.

The United Alpine Company at Lyell have retorted for the month 527 ozs. gold. The prospects of the mine are excellent and . the new, stampers have been 21J days at work. : Te WWti and Tohu were shown over the shipping and goods sheds at Lyttelton yesterday. The great chiefs are having a goed time. Te ft’hiti is interested and lively, but Tohu is rather stolid and sulky. Gilded chains are no less chains because they are gilded.

Archibald Forbes has been banquetted in Sydney. He will do the Australian colonies, and then favor us with a «visit. It is doubtful whether he will be a success.

No further particulars are to hand regarding the horrible assassination of Lord Frederick Cavendish and his secretary, in Phoenix Park. It is satisfactory to learn that the Ministry is likely to have its hands strengthened by the support of the Opposition, in establishing martial law in Ireland. It is to be hoped no more half measures will be taken.

Mr Brown, o£ Ashburton, had his cashbox containing about £7O taken from under his pillow on Sunday. They think it was during a fit of unconsciousness on the part of Mr Brown, It may have been, but more likely it was during a fit of abstraction by somebody else. Councillors absent from last night’s meeting may congratulate themselves on their value. The meeting was very sleepy and without “ go.” One Councillor had promised to attend, but did not show up, another had a boil on bis neck and could not come, a third was down south, and there was a general feeling in the Council that business had belter be held ever. Had not His AVorship and Cr Gibson been to the fore to stimulate their activity, Councillors would have dozed off in their luscurious chairs.

Last night John Ellis fell off a horse and broke his collar bone. He was , taken to Dr Hogg, who set it. Then W, Coe, a friend of his, mounted the ill-omened horse and rode away for a conveyance to take John home in, when, near the Club Hotel, the horse and he came down, he undermost. Two doctors were sent for, but he was uninjured and went away in a cab. That horse is marked out by fate. The formal opening of the Kaipara Canning Company’s Works took place on Saturday. The Company propose canning fish, especially mullet, and have a plant capable of turning out 3000 one pound tins per day. The Arawa tribe, men, women and children, are preparing a monster petition to Parliament, praying that the Thernal Springs Act be not repealed, and that all their lands be dealt with in accordance with its provisions, namely, leased by auction in suitable blocks for long terras of years.