NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2906, 19 July 1882, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Davidson wad Conyers, engineers and machinists, oil; Dunedin, have called a meeting of 4E teir creditors, and assigned their estate t o Messrs Houghton and Stronach. Thi 9 National Bank’s claim against them is £IB,OOO

Winiata occupies his time in smeking and reading the Bible. Capt Kitchener, who was injured by th Are at Dunedin, Is not now doing se well as could be desired.

A meeting of those interested in coursing is called for niue this evening at the Grosvenor,

The Lower Heathcote school enquiry, before Dr Jiles was continued yesterday. Nothing fresh has been elicited. The Lyttelton Borough Council will co-operate with the Harbor Board in establishing the electric light in that port.

The Rev. G. W, Sharp, who is to succeed the Rev. B. T. Hallowes as pastor of the Timaru Congregational Church, arrived in Timaru yesterday. Sergeant Jackson while searching for the deranged girl Sarah Qwan in Auckland domain, fell and broke several ribs. The injury was not discovered for two days.

The customs authorities are said to have seized 406 lbs of tobacco on board an American whaler at the Bay of Islands. The tobacco had not been entered on the manifest.

Charles H. Saunders, lately in the employ of Mr Jacob Young, baker, Timaru, was arrested in o Oamaru yesterday, on a charge embezzling £l2 16s from his employer.

It is stated that several farms on the Levels estate have been sold recently, This is good news, but the sooner the Company reduce the upset prices and sell the lot, the better for the district.

The bondmen for Cutlibert McKellar, the absconding bank clerk, (Messrs Reid and Park) were yesterday called upon at the Police Station, Dunedin, to show cause why bail should not be estreated. The question was deferred till to-morrow. McKellar, it will be remembered, was arrested at the Bluff.

The R.M. Court, Wellington, was yesterday occupied in hearing a charge against one, Adams, his wife, and daughter, for conspiring to obtain a conviction against a young man named Longhurst for rape pn the daughter. He was convicted in 1880. The case will be continued te-day.

Dr Von Haast has received for the Canterbury Museum three very beautiful oil paintings, which have been exhibited in the Art Gallery of the Exhibition. One is a Swiss landscape, by Kumaseg, of the Salon, ■ Paris. The second picture is a “Winter Landscape” in Holland, by Vester, a Belgian ; and the third is a head, “Evening,” by Brack Lagos.

On the 25th April, 1882, the employees of Messrs John Brinsmead and Sons, of London, presented to Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, and Princes Helen of Waldeck, a grand oblique pianoforte, in a very handsome ebonised case, decorated in Adams’style. It is 7 1-3 octaves in compass, and contains all the recent improvements of the firm, including a third pedal that produces most melodious effects, the sound being sustained to an almost indefinite length of time.—“ Morning Post.”