NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2866, 1 June 1882, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Thu mail via. Brindisi, was delivered in Timaru yesterday. There was a clean sheet at the R.M. Court to-day. The District Court sits to-morrow, his Honor Judge Ward presiding. The Customs revenue at Dunedin for May is £30,012. Orange tree growing is making progress J n the Auckland district. Captain Jackson Barry is lecturing in Auckland, to moderate audiences. The case of outrage against surveyors by the natives Pakara and Epiha, has been adjourned to Bth Juno. This evening Mr Wakefield will lecture at the Oddfellows’ ilall, .Sophia street, ou “Thomas de Quincy, the Opium Eater.” The lecture cannot fail to be most interesting. The Timaru portion of the Frisco mail will probably arrive here by the evening train. This evening, Power and Fisher's Comedy and Burlesque Troupe will appear at the Theatre Royal. The programme is a varied and lively one.

The “ Timaru Herald ” correcting Edmond Yates, is lively reading, —vide this morning’s “ Notes,” which are more than usually brilliant.

The Timaru Hospital Commissioners meet to-morrow at eleven, in the Town Hall.

During the month of May there were registered in Timaru, 32 births, 14 marriages, and 15 deaths.

There was a very successful concert at the Hook on Tuesday evening. An excellent entertainment was given at Pleasant Point, at which Mr Walcot’s tenor and Mr Kennedy’s comicality were highly effective, in addition to the 'local talent. £i 10s 4d was collected for the Relief Fund.

The inteqsely funny contributor of “ Notes ” to the “ Timaru Herald ” has discovered that Lord Frederick Cavendish was a son of the Duke of Devonshire, and the Governor of New South Wales the son of a Marquis, and therefore to both gentlemen the title of “ Lord ”is conceded by courtesy I Waat a genius this man of Notes has for discovery 1 Some day he wi’l tell us who built the Ark!

•The Orangemen of Auckland are sending a congratulatory message to the Queen, on her escape from the attempt on her life; and letters of condolence to the relatives of Lord Cavendish and Mr. Burke.

Miss Agnes Thompson, an assistant in Dampicr’s Drapery Establishment, has been arrested for larceny of silk. Agnes was unlucky enough to quarrel with a fellow-assistant, and thus the whole thing came out.

A man named John Mortimer was struck by a crane in Montgomery’s saw-mill yesterday, His right arm was broken, his right elbow dislocated, and his right leg broken.

218 liccnses-have been issued in North Canterbury fblf killing hares', and 39 for shooting pheasants, this season. The Acclimatisation Society considers that a large quantity of poaching 'is carried on, but they cannot catch the offenders,

The Chamber of Commerce in Christchurch, have for some time been considering the propriety of erecting a building for themselves. They have a good site, but the plans drawn up would involve such an expenditure that, after much deliberation, tliey have abandoned the idea of going in for an elaborate edifice.

The Hokitika Gas Company have declared a dividend of 7s 6d per share. The Wahabi County Council are urging Southern Members of Parliament to agitate for an Agricultural College for Otago.

Larrikinism has many phases. The latest is developed by a promising youth in Auckland, who deliberately lay clown in front of a trap and suddenly rose with a shriek. The horse bolted and capsized the buggy, the occupants, father and son, were seriously injured by being thrown out, and the horse was so much lirni that it will have to be shot.

Tlu! population nl Woodstock rush, continues steadily to : ivreuse, ami new claims with payable prospects are being opened daily. 'Considerably over a thousand miners arc on,tiic Held, and paddocks and whims are in active course of construction, ami water is expected io be brought on to the field in the course of four weeks. Two sawmills arc actively employed, three new publicans’ licenses have been granted, and the number of.stoics is increasing.

Another body is said to be very near the shore, but on account of some obstruction It has not yet been brought ashore.

Hamblyn, the mate of Harris, who died the other day from the effects of the trolly accident at Waiho, has also died.

Messrs P. W. Hutton (on behalf of Messrs Bcgg and C 0.,) have generously offered the use of a piano for next Wednesday evening’s performance, free of cost, At the meeting of theTimaru Mutual Im-. provement Society held last evening, two very interesting papers were submitted, on The South Sea Islands ” and " Courage.” It was decided to repeat the “ Trial by Jury” on sth July, and to invite friends of members to attend. Three new members were proposed. Only four persons turned up at the Makikihi Hotel to attend the sparrow nuisance meeting called for Monday, and the meeting therefore fell through. So much the_ worse for the hotel, and the better for the birds,

The promotion of Mr H. E. Seager to the charge of the Leeston station will give general satisfaction to his many friends in this district. Mr Seager when stationmaster at Washdyke, was highly esteemed, and later, when at Makikihi, he won everybody’s good will.

A seven-roomed house and eight-stalled stable, contiguous, in Hereford street, Christchurch, were burned down at 7 o’clock last evening. The buildings were old, and were insured in the Northern for £SOO. The occupant, Mr Lodge, was uninsured, His loss was £IOO, most of his furniture, buggies, harness, <fcc., being saved The winter cricket pavilion, just erected by Mr Lodge, which was only three or four feet from the house, was not burnt. The fire began in the hay loft. Two cabmen living in the house also lost a lot of things. Eckersley and Macfarlane, a brewing firm at Kaiapoi, were charged with a breach of the Licensing Act by selling bottled beer and porter, in quantities less than two gallons, from a branch establishment in Christchurch. The prosecution argued that a separate license was necessary for e tch district, as “ otherwise a firm could plant a brewery in one place and sell at any number of branches all over the country so long as they supplied the liquor from their own brewery.” The defence was that defendants were authorised to sell under their license without reference to the vessels used, and that the premises were all part of the brewery under the Act. Decision was reserved.