NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2871, 7 June 1882, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The entertainment in aid of the Belief Fund takes place to-night, and a grand success is confidently expected.

The Eocket Brigade were on duty last night at the lighthouse”, as the weather was threatening.

No midnight licenses have been granted in Lyttelton ; and all licenses are 10 o’clock ones in Ashburton,

A public meeting at Sydenham proposed starting a N.Z. Mutual Fire Insurance Company. The Drainage, and Fire Brigades’ Bills were condemned. There are 418 entries for the poultry show at the Exhibition, including a number from Otago and Wellington. The Christchurch City Council have decided to again tost the feeling of the citizens respecting a loan for water supply. This time the amount to be asked for is £60,000.

All applications for renewals were granted by the Christchurch West Licensing Court yesterday. The Bench said they would have to insist on fire escapes being provided, as suggested by the City Council,

Mrs Marcus Clarke (flee Kosa Dunn) is returning to the stage. When she left it to marry Poor Marcus she had a career before her. Now she goes back, not to gratify ambition, but to support a large family wholly dependent upon her exertions. Mrs Clarke may confidently count upon a sympathetic hearing.

This Dunedin item sounds sarcastic : The employes of Messrs Marshall and Copeland have presented Mr Daniel Maslen, who has been in the employment of the firm for 15 years,with a congratulatory address and a purse of sovereigns on the occasion of his Gsth birthday. This is a portion of the address : “ During this time (15 years) your conduct has always given satisfaction to your fellow employes, and also to your employers, you having always been a strong supporter and consumer of the firm’s products, which is amply testified in your person.”

The owner of a boat, by the capsize of which a man was drowned in Auckland Harbor on the 2-1 th nit., has been fined for having an unlicensed boat.

Through a landslip in a cutting near Shag I’oinl, the 4.10 p.m. (yesterday) mixed train from Oamaru to Palmerston ran off the line. 'The engine and six wagons were off the ’me, but nobody was hurt.

The Oamaru Cup of the North Otago Coursing Club has been divided by Mr McAuly’s Miranda and Mr Duthie’s Jack-thc-Lad and Progress. The weather was wet and disagreeable during the whole of the coursing.

The sum of £2110.3 6d from Invercargill, and £25 from the shipping at Port Chalmers, have been received by the Belief Committee. Harbor affairs arc not looking more cheeiful. The sea has encroached on the railway reclamation, and the clay is being driven down into the. shingle used for concrete making. Mr and Mrs J. Priest, of Pareora, celebrated their golden wedding on Monday last, and a very pleasant re-union took place at their residence. The last occasion on which a jubilee wedding day was celebrated in Canterbury was in the case of Bishop and Mrs Harper.

The Licensing Committee in Cambridge refused a license to a Working Man’s Club, though the poll had declared for increase of licenses.

A peculiar case of assault came before Mr M'Culloch, RM , at Lumaden the other day. The correspondent of, the “Southland Times,” relates that “ Mr W. Basstian, of Hamilton Bros., was sued by Mrs Ailwool, his housekeeper, for assaulting her by kissing her forcibly'. It appears Mr Basstian's hearing was affected by climatic influences, and he prevailed upon the lady to syringe his ears. The effect must have been almost, magical, for it bad such an exhilarating effect upon his spirits that in the exuberance of them he placed his arm around the fair lady, telling her that he must have a kiss, and, we are told, got one. The lady, of course, very properly objected; hence the action. During the hearing it came; out that the lady had been the possessor of no less than three husbandsThe first was dead ; the second is alive somewhere, I think at Heddon Bush ; and husband the third was present. His Worship, being of opinion that the lady had no business with No 3 husband while No 2 was alive, adjourned the whole case for a month.'