NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2919, 3 August 1882, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Geraldine Ploughing Match takes place to-morrow. The Sheriff has forbidden anyone to take a cast of Winiata’s head after dent!).

The Public Works Department are making a survey of the bar at Dunedin Harbor.

A boy named Edward Asyling was run over by a tramcar yesterday, in Christchurch. He sustained compound fracture of the leg.

A good number attended the meeting in Christchurch in aid of the persecuted Jews’ Relief Fund, and a subscription list was opened. A miner named Augustus Henry Travers, was found dead in the sitting-room of a hotel at Palmerston yesterday. Congestion of the lungs and heart disease were the cause of death.

In Waimate for the month of July there were 16 births, 2 deaths, 4 marriages. In Temuka the number for the same month were 12, 0, 4. The inhabitants of Woodbury will hold a public meeting shortly, for the purpose of urging Government to construct the Oxford-Temuka railway line. The remains of Mr P. B. Luxmoore were yesterday consigned to the grave. A large number of the friends of deceased were present at the burial. One Daniel Dailey fell over the Auckland wharf last night while drunk. He was rescued by a constable McDonnell, and a waterman named Hawk in an exhausted condition

{ The Literary and Debating Society meet | to-night in the Oddfellow’s Hall, when j dramatic readings will be given by Messrs ■ Jameson,' Kirby, Davidson, Taylor, Kim- > ber, Thompson, and Fraser. | The Stanmore electors are getting mors : and more angry with Mr Pilliet. They have now passed a resolution affirming that Mr Pilliet is unfit to hold a seat In any British representative institution.

Professor Salmond has got the Dunedin Presbytery to consent to union with the Northern Church; Dr Stewart’s amendment that union was just now inexpedient, notwithstanding.

Not long before his execution, it is said, Guiteau sold the suit he wore when he shot Garfield, and it is a paying eatd in the show business. His sister has taken the lecture field, and will make money out of his crime.

The four persons taken up at Waimata for robbery and vagrancy last week, were dealt with yesterday. Thomas and Ellen Ritchie were sent to gaol as vagrants, for fourteen days; the other two were dismissed and ordered to leave Waimate within twenty-four hours.

An inquest was held at Temnka to-day, before J. Bestviok, Esq., Coroner, and a jury of whom Mr Uprichard was chosen foreman, touching the death of Robert Jardine, who was found hanging in an outhouse a few days ago. Evidenoehavingbcen heard, the jury returned a verdict to the cf.'ect that deceased came to his death by banging himself, while in a fit cl temporary insanity.

A conference of local bodies having jurisdiction within the Cnristohurch drainage district wan held yesterday afternoon, to consider what amendments were necessary in the Public Health Act. After discussion on the delegation of the Board's powers to the City Council, and a proposal that the Board should consist of delegates appointed by the different local bodies, the meeting took refuge in the reference of the whole matter to a Committee to report.

On the 15th nit several natives got drunk near Whangarei, and grievously assaulted and robb d Wm. Bussell and John Dailey. Owing to the action taken by the Native Minister and Commissioner Ellendon, the culprits were surrounded at the close of a native meeting, taken before the Resident Magistrate at Wanganui, and sentenced, Tapeta to four months’ imprisonment, Heta to two months' imprisonment, and Tarawha to one month’s imprisonment. The prospectus of the New Zealand Electric Light Company, Limited, has been circulated. It is to be floated in 10,000 shares of £lO each. The Company is formed for the purpose of lighting the principal cities in New Zealand by means of electricity and also using it as a motive power. An influential provisional directory has been appointed, in addition to whom local directorates consisting of three shareholders in each will be appointed in Dunedin, Christchurch, and Auckland, to take the management of the works in their respective cities, and by this means do away with the expense of having full lists of directors, in those places, Nearly 6000 shares have already been subscribed. Mr David Stuart announces in another column that forms of application for shares in the Mntnal Fire and Marine Insurance Company of New Zealand can be obtained from him. The Company has now been folly established, and withont any appeal to the pnblio. Over 10,000 shares have been applied for. The advantages derivable from an undertaking based on the mutual principle must appear clear to every intelligent mind, for the shareholder and the insurer are stimulated alike to advance the interests of the Company and to prevent losses. There seems no reason why this Company should not be as inoeesiful as kindred institutions in Australia, more especially as it is'the only office of the kind in New Zealand. The unlocked for success which has attended its initiation gives promise ”of a successful career.

A drowning ease is supposed to hate occurred at New River, near Greymoath, on Tuesday afternoon. George Bidgood, an old settler and well*known drover, left Paroa with 82 head of cattle, and has not been seen since.' One bullock was found drowned, bnt the remainder were found grazing quietly by. The deceased’s dogs and horse were also found along with them. Marks on the opposite bank showed a horse had struggled up it. The beach has been searched between the Teramakau and Grey rivers, bnt there is no sign of the body. The river la considered the most dangerous on the coast. The deceased leaves a wife and a large family. A telegram has been received from one of the Canterbury members, stating that the amendment of the railway tariff bad been under, consideration for some time, and large reductions will probably be made in the charges for agricultural produce. This is a matter in wbiob pretty well every public body in and around Christ* church is agitating at the present moment, and facts and figures of all kinds are pro* duced to show that the present tariff weighs unfairly on Canterbury. It is known that in many places wagons are doing work cheaper than the railway, and, the charges on the Government lines are much heavier than on any other similar line in the colony. This, it is argued, ought to be changed, and it is to be hoped that the meeting advertised for Saturday next, at Messrs B. Wilkin and Co.’s auction room, will be largely attended.

Mr Dnfaur, Winiata’e counsel, has returned to Auckland from the King country after conveying the murderer’s last messages to his relatives. Tu Tawhiao, the King’s son, said to Mr Dufavr that tha Eingites were principally vexed at the means adopted for Winiata's capture, If the relatives of the murdered man hod come and taken him it would have been fair and just, as his body should be payment for his sins. But for Barlow, who pretended to be a friend, and who bad slept in the same house and eaten from the same dish, to capture him, was very wrong and treacherous. Tawhiao remarked that both men (Winiata and Barlow) were murderers. Winiata had killed a man for money, and Barlow had given up one of his people to death for money. The Kingites deny that Winiata's father intends taking utu and consider the rumours were circulated by Europeans for the purpose of getting the Constabulary stationed at Alexandria.

“ The bees are swarming, and there’s no end of them," said Farmer Jones, coming into the house. His boy George entered a second afterwards, and said there was “ an end to one of ’em, and it was red hot too.”