NEWS OF THE DAY.
The first section of the Akaroa railway from Lincoln to Eirdling s Flat was formally opened yesterday. It is 17 miles long, The Christchurch Resident Magistrate has decided that before committing children to the Industrial school at Burnham, security for the cost of maintenance will have to be given. The Licensing Court of the once model Borough of Sydenham has been besieged with applications for new licenses. They have adjourned ..all, the applications to enable the Committee to inspect the different houses for which licenses are applied.
Mary Orowhursr, wife of a dairyman, living at Woodhaugh, near Dunedin, was found lying in Howe street yesterday morning with her shoulder dislocated.
A man named Stephenson was wounded in the back, at Auckland, yesterday, by his ■young brother, who was playing with a pistol, oblivious of the fact that it was capped and loaded. W. G. Wheeler, manager, of the Auckland Working Men’s Club, received such severe injuries in ejecting a man from the Club, that he is not expected to recover. Peritonitis has set in.
There arc mountain quail and prarie hen fanciers in Auckland. Large numbers of both kinds of birds, have been stolen from the Acclimatisation Gardens recently. There have been heavy falls of snow, in the back country during' the past fortnight. The Christchurch “ Pres” Company will have to appear before the Supreme Court at nest sitting, for an alleged libel on the Mastodon Minstrels.
The Duncdinites arc working hard to secure the holding of the next New Zealand' Riflr Association meeting at Dunedin.
•-..;G. O. Wilson, the pianist and vocalist, travelling with the Mace and Miller show, was arrested in Christchurch yesterday on a charge of deserting bis wife .in Wellington.
Wet,- boisterous weather lias been general over the colony since Saturday last, and according to. telegraphic advices there is no sign of its abating. The promoters of the Christchurch Exhibit ion have forwarded a cheque to the Mayor for the proceeds of the Exhibition concert, in aid of the sufferers by the late shipping disaster. The amount is 4118 17s (id..
An attempt is being made to get a side school erected at Woollcombe’s Gully. The promoters of the scheme should meet with success as the population in that locality has largely increased during the past few years.
Mr Tcschemaker, representative of the Mount Co ,k Road Board, has resigned his seat on the Harbor Board. The Board have expressed confidence in Mr Teschmaker and reelected him. Thinking men will ask if there is much benefit to be gained by. appealing to a constituency of five. The affair looks too much like a farce.
An “ Old Colonist,” writing to “Land and Water,” advises “ doctors to avoid New Zealand as a ground for tbeir talents if what a correspondent in the “ Lancet ” writes is correct. He depicts the doctor’s life as one of hard, work, little pay. It appears that a system exists of getting up clubs which contain nine-tenths of the population, and are subscribed to by men who would blush to do so -in England ; well-to-do people; who would be shocked over here at the thought of attending a dispensary. The doctor’s fee per annum varies from IGs to 20s. This includes medicine and attendance on family under 18, and the man and wife. It really is not better than drudgery, and the place is overrun with quacks and homoeopaths. My advice to young doctors is, stay at home,” Is this not too severe ?
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2872, 8 June 1882, Page 2
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583NEWS OF THE DAY. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2872, 8 June 1882, Page 2
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