NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2898, 10 July 1882, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Borough Council meet this evening at 7 o’clock.

The members of the Kitchener family are now all doing well. The Auckland Teachers Association is well supported and prosperous. The Auckland tradesmen given ball to the petty officers of H.M.S. Nelson. “ Curling” has commenced in Dunedin, It is a highly popular game there. The police concerned in tho capture of Epiha and Pakara, are to be rewarded.

Two inebriates, being first offenders, were this morning dismissed by P. LeCren, Esq., with a caution. Messrs W. Collins and Co., announce a large and important sale of groceries, at their auction room on Wednesday next. The Auckland Stud Company have refused £IOOO for a Mnekot-Silvia yearling filly. No sound bottom |has been found at 70 feet for a railway bridge across the Waikato.

Daly, a publican of Wairoa, has been fined 2s and costs for drawing beer from a cask without defacing the stamp.

Baron De Lessep, the ever-energctic, has bought the Panama railway and the Canal will very soon hem, fait accompli. Egyptian affairs remain unchanged, but vigorous preparations are being made on all sides for apparently inevitable hostilities.

Two youths have been arrested on suspicion of having committed the recent burglary at tho office of the “ Otago Daily Times.”

Byron’s new comedy "The, Governor” was played in Auckland on Saturday night. This was the first performance in the Colony and it was a grand success. Twelve hundred marines, artillery, and infantry have left England for Alexandria by the troop ship Cronies to bo ha readiness tor an outbreak.

The Good Templars meet in Dunedin in public, on Wednesday, to consider the amendment in the " Licensing Act ’’ proposed by publicans. Minnie Helen Taylor, a member of the London School Board has been mulcted in jEIOOO for libel on Mr Scrntton, also a member of the Boar .

A large public meeting in London rerepresenting every shade of politics was unanimous in urging vigorous measures in Egypt. The football match on Saturday, between the “ Schools” and the “ Light "Weights” of the Timaru Club, was won by the latter by a goal and three tries, the “ Schools" getting two tries. The “ Otago Daily Times” Company have rendered the Timaru Belief Fund substantial service. The “ Herald" states that Mr Wakefield has received in all £79 Os 3d through the Company, in aid of our sufferers. The Bordeaux Chamber of Commerce have been battquetting the Australian representatives at the Wine Exhibition in Bordeaux. They expressed surprise at the quality of the Australian Wines and commended the Melbourne “Argus” for its consistent 'advocacy of free-trade, At the R.M. Court, Wellington, on Saturday, Thomas Farron, night watchman of the ship Crusader, was charged with stealing £lO and £1 respectively from two men. Ho was summarily dealt with, and sentenced to three months’- imprisonment on the "latter, and committed for trial on the former. Tawhian thinks Mr Whitaker's general amnesty to the Natives, ought to protect Winiata for punishment for his crime. Such a view is not creditable to Tawhiao. Mr Whitaker’s amnesty extended to political offences, not cold bloaded * private' murders. Sundry persons have barked their shins and damaged their knee caps, besides being stung to profanity, by coming in violent contact with a lamp post and the stone pedestal which lies prone on the ground, just on the corner of the Post Office building. General Skobeloff, whoso death at the early age of 39, is chronicled to-day, was a Russian offices' of great experience, conspicuous ability, and extraordinary courage. Ho had seen continuous service, and rose by simple m erit. Tho “Morning Herald’s” Wellington special hints that the Government have been instructed to " lookout” ; in consequence of imminent war in Europe. Tho poor man m ust say something. Theprcaemt** Star of the Bast” is Arabi Bey, a democrat, who has passed at a bound to supreme command in Egypt. This man is destined to bo one of the foremost I, if not the foremost, man of the century.

There have been 25 summonses taken out by the Property Tax Commissioner, for arrears. Some have been already met, but the large proportion come on for hearing to-morrow.