NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2868, 3 June 1882, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Board of Education will meet on Wednesday, next. The Harbor Board meet on Thursday next. There is going to be an amateur Christy Minstrel troupe in Temuka.

Mr J. Opie and Mr G. H. Graham were elected Borough auditors at Waimate.

The Timaru School Committee meet on Monday evening next. The Power and Fisher troupe had a wretched house last night, but they went through their parts faithfully.

The Licensing Committee at North Christchurch granted all renewals Jasked for yesterday.

One of Messrs P, and D. Duncan’s men at Christchurch has secured a patent for a new gorse-cuttcr.

The outbreak of diphtheria at St. Albans is very serious. The Health ofiiper advises people not to visit one another. In one family there were three deaths in two days. A sailor, who had been “ splicing the main brace ” too long, fell into the Auckland harbor the harbor,the other night, and was rescued by a Maori. Two hours after poor Jack fell in again and was again rescued.

Measles are rife in Auckland, Detective Farrell has been dismissed, for fighting with a civilian. He had been in the force 34 years, and was of first-class rank.

The sum of £2312s Gd has been collected for the Timaru Relief Fund at Invercargill. Up to date, the attendance at the Exhibition has been 146,000. Mr Christophers, manager of the Bank of New South Wales here, has been presented with a piece of plate by his friends. He is removed to Dunedin.

Te Wbiti and Tohu have been visiting Invercargill, and are now at Lake Wakatipu. The Qovcrument have decided not to allow the Hinemoa to convey members to Lyttelton for the purpose of visiting the Exhibition.

Temuka is taking steps to assist the Belief Fund, A Committee composed of Mcssjs Franks (Chairman), Mendelson, Ollivicr, Lewis, Hooper, Lawson, Mackay, Twomey, and Bolton has been formed to canvass the district.

A man yesterday fell into the water between the Waitaki and the wharf. Some of the crew pulled him out just a moment before the vessel lurched against the side or he would have been killed. The old story, too much liquor on board I

A poor woman was observed waltzing on the wharf at Auckland, on the 25tb of last month, at an early hour, The constable noticing a perfume of liquor around the danse use, escorted her to the lock.up. She said she was very sorry, it was the Queen’s Birthday that upset her. Seven stacks of grain (wheat) were burned on Mr Gosling’s farm last. night. The grain was owned by Mr D. Heffernan and others, and was insured for £4OO in the Liverpool, London and Globe Office. It is to be hoped that the police will be able to arrest the scoundrel who set fire to these stacks, as there is no question that the fire was lighted wilfully. The stacks were placed in different parts of an 84-aore paddock—some of them a quarter of a mile from each other—yet they were all burnedj

From Invercargill we learn that a strange discovery has been made at some sandhills near Waikawa. A few days ago two gen. tlemen living in the locality discovered a great heap of skeletons that had been uncovered by recent winds. Some are nearly perfect, while others arc mixed up in a chaotic mass of heads, hands, feet, arms ( legs, &c. It must have been many years since the grave was filled with its ghastly occupants, and it is of course presumed that the remains arc those of natives.

At the Central Telegraph office in Eng* land there are among the operators no fewer than 700 females.

The entertainment on Wednesday evening next (which includes the trial scene Bardell v. Pickwick), promises to be a grand success. Some very talented amateurs are to take part in the musical portion of the entertainment; more especially one lady formerly well known in musical circles here.

A lady-teacher in America was recently struck on the back of the neck with a snowball. Brain fever resulted, and she died in a few days.

Raratonga correspondence by the schooner Flora states that. Goddefroi, the German Consul at Tahiti, went over to Parata last month to settle some slight difference between German subjects and the natives there, and while in uniform was subjected to gross insult by the latter. He had to ask protection from a French man-of-war lying in the harbor, and bis wishes were conceded. At the same time Goddefroi chartered a schooner and sent her to Samoa with instructions to the German Consulate, when it was promised that two war vessels would be sent immediately to put matters straight, and settle the high-handed dealing of the natives.

A case of a somewhat painful character was heard at the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Dunedin, yesterday. A well known solicitor, Mr J. H, Harris, sued a client for a small debt which his son, also a solictor, had collected. The son declared his father had given him authority to do so, but the father declared there was not a word of truth in the statement. The Magistrate gave judgment for the plaintiff, on the ground that the defence must prove that the person collecting had authority to do so. He said he placed belief in the statement of plaint'ff. It is understood there are a number of cases of a smaller character, and it is not at all improbable that the matter will be further heard of in Court.