NEWS OF THE DAY.
The Theatre Royal, Auckland, is fitted with fire escapes, H.M.S. Nelson went to Great Barrier Island for gun practice. The " Contagious Diseases Act” is expected to be enforced in Auckland. Up to Saturday, the attendance at the Exhibition had been 174,000. The Lyttelton harbor was successfuhy lighted by electric light on Saturday. J. L. Hall's Comedy Company have been a great success in Wellington; Such of the old soldiers of Gar'baldi as are living in Christchurch, are going to erect a statue to his memory. A man insensible has been picked up on the Otahuha road, Auckland, suffering from internal injuries. Two men belonging to a cutter in Auckland, have been seriously injured by the fall upon them of a stack of timber. Mrs Ellen Kelly on 10th October last, married Alexander Dawson, Mr Kelly being alive. For this offence sthe lady has just been arrested at Auckland,
Mr Massey has instituted proceedings against the Dunedin City Council, by q\u> warranto, to compel them to reinstate him as Town Clerk.
A young man named Edward Russell was thrown from his horse at Wellington,, on Saturday and broke his collar bone. His condition is critical.
Frederick Plummer, the burglar, and.' W, T. Bolton, the forger and horse stealer, have been sent to Wellington with others, to assist in building the new gaol. Captain Baldwin’s donkey tumbled over him near the Pyramids. It was a clever creature to get over Captain Baldwin, well known in Dunedin.
Some, people worship without going to church in America, The minister goes through bis services in the pulpit, while tho people stop at home, hearkening through the telephone.
Only two 12 o’clock licenses have been. granted in Christchurch East. Tho Benchinsisted on the two entrances from th©’ Palace Hotel to the Theatre being bricked up, before they renewed the license.
Captain Hume, Inspector of Prisons,, says the male prisoners of the colony, as a.; rule, are not of tiro hardened class, but have been led lo crime through drink ; but: of the women lie says, “ they are of the: most degraded, class, and long past all! chance of reform.
Another Italian patriot, the aide tfs camp of Victor Kmmanuel and King Hum. bert,successively, has just died at the agci of GO. He had rendered some grand ser • vices to Italy as a soldier, and still mor 5 valuable ones as a ■■statesmen.
Truly, we mc.y be proud of the rising { generation I From Ashburton comes thin nice story. Some youths took an’ old’ horse to the river side and amused themselves by “ shoot! ug it in a manner as novel as it was humane.. A revolver was loaded and live or six times discharged up the horse’s nostrils, The last shot severed tho rope Jry which tire wretched animal was held, and it plunged away up the riverbed Lo die a time cring end horrible death. The gentle youtl is witlfthe revolver wore highly tickled with the agony of their dumb victim. In rt thought it a pity that the rope was s' hot away—it was cutting f. short such esce i?lent sport. This incident; is not ovor-ceh gned,” '
A new Biblical authority says (referring to the difficulty, about Joshua making the sun stand still), that the Hebrew word should be read " dumb,”’not " stand still.” It is certain the sun did not talk back to Joshua, and it has not spoken since jus time. , ..... . .. The Hutt train ran into, a horse yesterday. No harm was done to the train but the horse was terribly injured, The temperance advocates in Wanganui arc against any amendment of the “ Licensing Act” and consider it ought to have a fair trial.
One ot the Dunedin Suburban Borough. Councils last night passed a resolution asking Messrs Seaton and Barron, M.H.R.’s to bring in an amendment on the “ Licensing Act” to constitute local bodies the Licensing Committees. The added money for the 0.J.0. meeting on New Years Day is to be £lOlO. The Club has fesolved to increase the stakes for the Dery in 1884 to £SOO added money* and make the entrance 25sovs instead of 15sovs. This will make three races of £SOO in the Club’s programme, ■ The Educational Institute of Otago will hold its fifth annual meeting in Dunedin, on June 27, 28, and 29. A number of papers on practical subjects will be read and discussed, the session winding up with a concert. Messrs J. Scott, Ward, and Hughes, will represent South Canterbury, and will discuss with their Otago brethren, "a basis of union between the Canterbury and Otago Institutes^’
At the next meeting of the Invercargill Borough Council Mr J. L, Macdonald will move that legislative authority be obtained for the borrowing of £25,000, to further the prosecution of harbor Works in New River, and for the reclamation of the foreshore adjacent to the ; town of Invercargill, the construction of wharfage accomodation, &c. The Stanmore candidates are in full swing now that the writ is out. Messrs Cowlishaw and Pilliet both addressed meetings last night. The former had a very rowdy gathering, and no vote of any kind was passed. Mr Pilliet had an orderly meetingfand got a vote of thanks and confidence. Mr Andrews announced that he should withdraw in Mr Pilliet’s favor.
At Dunedin South the question came up, whether a transfer of license could be granted to a person who has become bankrupt since his application. Counsel .held that this was allowable, as. the license would immediately become vested in the. trustees. The Committee however, refused the application, adjourning the case for a week to admit of a fresh applicant being procured for the premises. Yesterday there was an awful tragedy in Auckland. A mill hand named Henry Foreman, aged 22, and who had been married only seven weeks, took down his carbine and threatened to shoot his wife. She ran out of the house, but had not gone many yards before she heard a shot. Foreman was found dead, with a Targe hole over the region of the heart. Jealousy is assigned as the cause of the terrible act. Mrs Foreman is enoiente. The deceased was a member of the Naval Brigade.
Mr Napier Bell, engineer to the Christchurch Drainage Board, has returned from Tasmania. He informed the Board yesterday that the nine-inch pipes were amply sufficient, to carry away the excreta, and the- flushing power not only was quite sufficient hut could be increasd whenever wanted. This is diametrically opposite to the arguments of the opponents of the Drainage Board's operations, who argue that the sewage pipes would not do the work expected of them.
The “dauntless three” who claim by virtue of election to hold the position of a Licensing Committee for Linden, held their adjourned meeting yesterday, but the Borough Clerk, who is also Clerk to the Licensing Bench, locked the Council Chamber on them, and refused to recognise them. Then they adjourned to a store close by, taking this course by the advice of a solicitor, who holds that under subsection 8 they are entitled to hold office. They proceeded to reconsider the applicacation for a new license already decided adversely by the gazetted Bench of five, but one of the three said he had been advised not to transact any business, although he was willing to meet till it could be determined whether they really are the Licensing Committee. Alter a %ood deal of discussion the trio agreed to further adjourn till July 7, on which date also the gazetted Committee hold a meeting.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2881, 20 June 1882, Page 2
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