NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2900, 12 July 1882, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Seven ferrof s have arrived from London at Christchuj ;ch, to the order of the Government. There is general dissatisfaction in the nolico force i n Christchurch, and nearly all the old haj nds have loft it. A landowner near Palmerston, Otago, has been lined .£lO for neglecting to destroy rabbi ts.

There are now 103 subscribers to the Telephone Exchange in Dunedin. The new Presbyterian Church at Port Chalmers is to seat 700 persons, and to cost £4965,

New railway station buildings are to be begun at Auckland forthwith. The electric light is spoken of for the town of Hokitika.

Fine specimens of quartz have been found at Mokinui, near Westport. Eighty ladies attended Miss jßernard Moore’s first lecture in Dunedin, on nursing.

Telephonic communication is established between Dunedin and Port Chalmers,;

Mr Arthur, station master, Invercargill, goes to Ashburton,

The Invercargill Tramway Company have resolved to cease runnning on Sundays. The monthly meeting of the Union Total Abstinence Society takes place at the Hall of the Mechanic’s Institute to-morrow evening, at 7.30. The Rev Mr Sharpe, of Gloucestershire, England, arrived in Lyttelton yesterday, as successor to the Rev B. T. Hallowes, who leaves Timaru for England shortly A public meeting ’in Christchurch decided that the fire insurance rates were exorbitant, and undertook to support any scheme for the better conduct of insurance business.

The wharf laborers at Queen’s Wharf, Auckland, struck work, demanding an extra shilling. The Board declined to grant the extra money and decided to employ 12 permanent hands at 42s per week. Most of the men resumed work in the afternoon.

At Palmerston yesterday, John Munro, farmer, was proceeded against for selling game to Robert Smith, a game-dealer in Dunedin. The evidence showed that Munro had forwarded a box to Smith by rail containing nine hares and a pheasant. Smith, however, swore that the game was sent to him as a present, and the information was withdrawn, the prosecuting counsel commenting on Smith’s action in keeping this from the police when asked how he came by the game. At the Crown land sale in Otago yesterday four runs passed in at the February sales were offered. Two in the Wakatip district found no bidders. Bun No. 389 of 14,000 acres, on the Oreti river, Southland, near Marora lake, the upset of which was £SO per annum, was bought by Mr Baird at £lB5 rental. Run No. 476, of 6000 acres, upset £lO per annum, situated between Dusky Sound and Wet Jacket Arm was sold to William Dooherty at the upset price. The electric light experiment at Boss and Glendinings woollen mills at Roslyh is eminently successful. There are nine lamps in the main building and one in the finishing room, and it is proposed to light the smaller rooms with Swan’s incandescent lamps. The lamps used are the “ Joel,” and the power is supplied by one of Siemen’s D 2 dynamo machines, driven from the main shaft. Five horsepower is required for the ten lamps, and the machine is driven at the rate of 820 resolutions per minute. The light has no glare, is,steady and mild, and caste no deep shadows. An estimate of its cost shows this to be leas than one-seventh that of gas at the current rate in Dunedin, and it is calculated that the saving effected will, in six months, pay the entire cost of the plant.

A disgraceful exhibition of larrikinism took place last evening, A newly married couple having gone home, were annoyed by a lot of roughs, who at length went so far as to pelt shingle through the windows. It is satisfactory to know that the two ringleaders have been identified and the eye of the police is upon them. It is probable, if these youths do not speedily betake themselves to bettor courses that they will make the acquaintance of Mr Cotter, whose hotel is on the town belt, and who keeps a collection of " cats ” for the delectation of larrikin visitors. .

The “Australasian” of July 1, has an illustrated supplement containing portraits of Lord Frederic Cavendish and Mr Burke, and, at foot, a sketch of the scene of the horrible tragedy of which these gentlemen were the victims.