NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2895, 6 July 1882, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Rev, Thomas Scott, of Coromandel, died suddenly yesterday. The ship City of Perth has been sold to Mr John Mill, of Port Chalmers, for £6C JO.

Forty-three nominated, emigrants ex Tiraaru, have gone to Invercargill, and eleven to Oamaru. The Eosebank estate of 400 acres at Whangarei, Realised nearly £9500, It is unimproved land.

Mr R. Stansell is elected to the directory of the steam Colliery Company, vice Mr M. Kennedy.

’Re the Farnie case, Mr Goyen, the new Inspector, is the most to bo condoled with, His position will not be a pleasant one.

The “ Witch of Bndor,” a real Salvator Rosa has just turned up in Victoria. Its market value is seldom at less than from £IO,OOO to £12,000.

The Zulu war diorama fetched enormous crowds in Auckland. The Theatre was not large enough to accommodate visitors, and hundreds were turned away.

The spectacle of a Marquis advertising that he is “ not responsible for his wife’s debts,” is not common. The Marquis of Anglesey, however, has felt compelled to adopt this course.

“ Timaru” writes to the “ Otago Daily Times” of yesterday indignantly contradicting the unmanly implications and false statements made by Captain Macdonald in a letter to that journal of Friday last.

The Wisconsin legislature has passed an act forbidding the sale of toy firearms. These Senators know what carrying firearms leads to, and want io nip the custom in the bud.

A varied and interesting programme will be gone through this evening by the Literary and Debating Society. It is understood that a Shakespearian Club will shortly bo formed in connection with the society.

One of the'overland telegraph station masters thinks he has found traces of Leichardt. Some blackfellows he met have told him about a white man who died at a time corresponding with that of Leichardt’s expedition.

The Adelaide Government have informed the police of this colony that a little boy named Charles Grimes has been missing from his home in South Australia since April. It is thought he has come over to New Zealand. Poor little wanderer.

A very old and efficient public 'servant (Mr C. D. Wbitcombc) the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the province of Taranaki, has tendered his resignation on account of ill-health. The Government, however, have granted him a further leave of absence for six months. This is a proof of the value the Government put upon Mr Whitcomoc’s services.

At yesterday’s meeting of the Education Board, the Chairman read, a list of sites with prices (at which they were under olfer to the Woollcombo’s Gully 'School Committee), and suddenly came upon the name of a prominent member of the Board who was set down as offeriug a site at a very low ligurc. He was obliged to explain that this oiler existed only in the imagination of the framor of the list. Reckless generosity should not be encouraged. It is said that the. aggregate of arrears of rent duo to Irish landlords amounts to JE6,000,000. ;

A grand concert will be held at Temnka to-morrow night, in aid of the Relief Fund. A splendid programme has been prepared.

The Dunedin “ Morning Herald ’’ has collected and forwarded to the Timaru Relief Fund the sum of £35 18s.

While Bum’s anniversary festivals, and Burn’s statues arq all the rage, and the praises of the poet are in every Scotchman’s mouth, his nephew Gilbert Begg is an inmate of the Glasgow workhouse. A Miss Hayes of Auckland, received severe injuries on the back of the head, on the passage home of the Glenlora. She recovered, however.

A public meeting in Christchurch last night emphatically refused to countenance a water supply loan scheme. The promoters are not discouraged, however, and will have a ballot taken, sending a post card to every ratepayer, giving date and particulars of ha 1 lot. A resident at Woodland (Southland), who had his horse killed on a recent Saturday night by the late train to Wood, lands, was yesterday prosecuted for allowing the animal to wander on the line. It appeared in evidence that the horse could only havcjgot access to the railway, which was fenced on both sides, through a gate left open by a railway servant at the station yards. The negligence in this particular instance could not be proved, and the Resident Magistrate inflicted a nominal fine of fire shillings, remarking that these sort of cases were matters of great hardship. He had often found great difficulty in construing the provisions of the Public Works Act in .he matter of fencing and straying animals on the railway.

At the Land Board meeting in Dunedin, yesterday, considerable disapprobation of the introduction of ferrets and polecats was expressed. It appears they destroy woodhens, which themselves are rabbit exterminators, and should not be destroyed-

The Board of Education had a short sitting yesterday. The Secretary made his statements, one or two members chatted, and Mr Wakefield supplied a perennial stream of resolutions, which being passed to the Chairman, were quickly put and carried.

Mr George’s notice of question that the Hinemoa might be placed at the disposal of members to enable them to visit Auckland, must be a sly poking Jof fun. Suppose they run over to the Fijis, for a change, or suppose we have an itinerant parliament. The Timaru Intellectual Society had a crowded audience to witness a mock trial by jury, last night, and a most enjoyable evening was spent, the performers and the audience appearing equally to enter into the spirit of the thing. The prisoner was tried for embezzlement, Mr Glasson aoting as Crown Prosecutor and Mr Manning as counsel for the defence. It would be hard to say which of these acquitted himself best. The prisoner was acquitted and the proceedings terminated with a round of applause fiom - the audience.