NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2865, 31 May 1882, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The “ own correspondent’’ of the “ Herald” characterises Mr Montgomery’s spirited opposition to the West Coast Peace Preservation Bill, as “ weak but vicious.” The application of the term vicious to such a man as Mr Montgomery, speaks for itself of the character of “ our own.”

It will bo observed that on the division re appointment of a Chairman of Committees, one of the South Canterbury members, Mr Postlcthwaitc, voted for the Government, the other three against.

The Waimatc people are getting up an entertainment in aid of the Timaru Belief Fund,

Major Harris states that the hearing of the election petition in his ease cost him .£360.

The Wanaka will be a| Wellington this evening and the Uawea will immediately bring down the Frisco mails.

A Maori, at Wangarei, haa taken to

burgling and forgery. Ho broke into a store, stole a cheque book and forged a cheque. Maoris can bo highly civilized.

There is likely to be a bottle factory in New Zealand. A gentleman from New South Wales is disposed to start it, using Kaiapoi sand. This enterprise can hardly fail to pay.

The sum of £1 750, in three subscriptions has been promised in aid of the building of a Free Thought Lycccum in Christchurch.

There will be a half holiday to-morrow for the Steeplechases. The Oamarn Sparrow Club have paid £'lo for small birds eggs, and £5 lOs for heads. These sums represent 32,000 eggs and 2,200 heads.

The state -of things disclosed at the examination of the Invercargill defaulter, Tait, rclleets shame and discredit upon the Railway Department.

Commodore Kxskiuc, the new naval commandant on the Australian Station, was yesterday welcomed by the Wellington City Council, who presented nn address.

Auckland tradesmen are agitating for protection of local industries. The great chief Tukukino has come to Auckland as a witness for the defence at the trial of Bpiha and Pakara, Last time he was in Auckland,’he was on a visit to Rauparaha who was a prisoner on board H.M.S. Calliope, in 1847. Mr Loring, the stationmaster of Oamaru, has been’ presented with a purse of sovereigns and a testimonial, by the people of Oamaru, through their Mayor, Mr Loring goes to Invercargill,

Te Wlriti and Tohu were shown over the “• Otago Daily Times ” printing office and the Mosgiel Woollen Factory yesterday. Visiting cards were printed off for them at the former place. In the railway yards Tohu was allowed to drive a locomotive and blow tbe whistle.

At a special meeting of the s Court Southern Cross, A.0.F., last evening, £25 was unanimously voted to the Relief Fund, from the funds, and a sum of over £2O besides was shown on a subscription list. At the Invercargill Police Court yesterday, Thomas William Tait, late clerk in local good sheds department at the Invergill railway station, was charged with embezzling £569, the moneys of the Government. After an examination of witnesses, he coramited for trial at the Supreme Court, bail being refused on the ground that he had been taken in the act of absconding. One of the witnesses stated that Tait, through whose hands large sums of money passed weekly, was in receipt of only £llO per annum, and it further transpired that no regular audit of the books in his charge had been made since February 14th, 1881. '

The Dunedin Chamber of eommcrce have pa&ed J the following resolution: — “ That every bill of sale hereafter executed within six calender months the bankruptcy of thejgranter thereof, whether given to secure payment of a present advance or an existing debt, shall, as against the trustees in bankruptcy or under any assignment for the benefit'd creditors, be fraudulent" and void so far as regards the property comprised in any such bill of sale, and that the time for registering a bill of sale be limited to ten days from the making thereof; and that copies of this resolution be printed and sent to each member of the House of Representatives am' the Upper House.”