NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2897, 8 July 1882, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Sixty Chinamen leave Greymouth for the Flowery Land by the s.s. Bowen.

Messrs Taylor and Bowie contemplate extensive alterations to their premises.

The stationmaster at Ashburton, Mr Pillkington, is transferred to Oamaru.

Is is intended to get up a tea meeting and concert at Winchester, in aid of the Anglican church debt. The new dredge at Dunedin harbor, has been doing some good lately.

Burke and O’Connor are to run a mile race in Dunedin in a few weeks.

Fourteen seamen and marines have been arrested for desertion from H.M.S. Nelson. Ross and Glcndinning have imported an electric light apparatus for the Kai Korai Woollen Factory. The Bank of New Zealand ships 6000 ounces of gold by the Hero from Greymouth.

The Borough Schools re-open on Monday morning. The infant department will not be open, however, until the following Monday 17th inst., the repairs not being yet completed. The Auckland Borough .Council have compromised with McLean, the fish-stall keeper, whose stall they had pulled down. They pay him £35 and all his legal expenses. It is notified, by cable, to the Government, that a light has been placed on a wreck, 5 miles to the S.B. of San Francisco Harbor. The officer of Constabulary stationed at Alexandra has boon warned that should the Constabulary go to certain localities in the vicinity, they will be in danger from the friends of Winiata. Replying to Mr Sutter in the House last night, the Hon Mr Johnston said the rule prohibiting the transfer of railway tickets, was needed to check the return ticket system. Government may probably consider the expediency of abolishing tho return ticket system. Tho Wellington cemetery appears to bo in a disgraceful state. In digging a new grave in a crowded part a child’s colfin has been unearthed,and it lay exposed for: days. In another' there was an abominable ntench which made it almost impossible for the

The drama of “ The World ” has had a splendid run in Dunedin. j

Mr Dee, of this town, is the lucky individual, to whom reference was made in last night’s issue, who has come into a fortune. He was advertised for in the “Australasian” for some months.

There will be a series of performances in the Exhibition building next week, under the direction of Signor Carmini Morley. Culhburt McKellar, who failed to appear in answer to the charge of embezzlement at Mosgiel, has been re-arrested. The New Zealand Woodware Company have determined to liquidate their affairs. Their assets have greatly deteriorated in value, and they allege that many losses have been sustained at the branches.

The “ Illustrated New Zealand Herald ” for this month contains some very good pictures. The frontispiece (the Te Anau in a gale) is capital. There is a page devoted to the “ Timaru Wrecks,” and a capital engraving of“ Little Wilfulness.”

A new non-conductor of electricity has been discovered that supersedes guttapercha and ebonite and is cheaper. It consists of wood saw-dust, cotton waste, paper pulp, and other fibrous substances. A Roman Catholic clergyman was recently denouncing the Phcenix Park murders with vehemence, when he fell senseless on the altar and died in a few minutes. The rev. gentleman had doubtless been agitated by the event, and that augmented his heart disease. The Czar of Russia invited His Majesty of Germany to go with him to Moscow. The latter, taking into consideration the unfortunate tendency to resort to dynamite for wrecking trains, replied, modestly, but firmly, “No, thank you.”

It is now staled in reference to the alleged “understanding” between Mr Parnell and the Gladstone Government that Mr Gladstone was shown a private letter of Mr Parnell’s sketching the proper course for the English Government to pursue towards Ireland, and that he instantly changed his tactics in accordance with the terms of the letter.

A young woman named McLean, the daughter of a Coal Creek settler, seeing her boat drifting away, ran into the Grey River to catch it, got out of her depth, and was carried along with the current. She managed to get hold of the boat, and was drifting down the river holding on when an alarm was raised, and Captain Chambers, of the Ellerton, seeing the stale of affairs, pulled off his coat, jumped overboard and caught the boat as it and the woman were floating by, and brought both safely ashore. The writer of “ Letters to Eminent Persons,” in the “ World,” thus addresses Sir Charles Dilke “ The secrecy with which you veil your movements is not less conspicuous than the steadiness of purpose with which you direct them. If, on leaving England, you were to order your brougham to meet you at Charing Cross six w'eeks hence, at 6 o’clock, your coachman would understand that you would bo there to the minute. You might in the interval have penetrated to the remotest wilds of Crim Tartary, or you might have been on a diplomatic mission in some European capital, or in seclusion at your Provencal retreat. Few persons would know: and the one thing certain is that you would rc-appear in London to a day and an hour at the time you had fixed.”