NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2945, 2 September 1882, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Sir George Grey has returned to Auckland,

At the Waimate B. M. Court yesterday, a man was fined 5s for drunkenness.

Mr B. Turnbull's salvage 'sale of groceries, &c., is to close on Tuesday next. The Associated Insurance Company have presented the Waimate Fire Brigade with a new engine.

William Walters, a well-known horsebreeder and sporting man in Auckland, has been stricken with apoplexy. One, Dennis O'Connor, has been com mitted for robbing an ox prisoner in & brothel in Auckland.

The Bev Mr McKee, of Mafltcrtoh, succeeds the Bev G. Lindsay as pastor of Knox Church, Waimate. The Seafield people felt two shocks of earthquake on Thursday night by which their clocks were stopped. From Auckland advices, it appears the timber trade has much revived, high prices being quoted all round, and the southern and Australian demands being brisk.

The doctor who attended Sarah Johnston in her last illness in Auckland, says he'suspected arsenical poisoning from the first, and treated the patient accordingly.

A young man of 21, named Ralph Newton a seaman of the barque Norman MacLeod, from London to Wellington, died from the effects of a fall on deck, during the passage.

T. Price’s sawmill, near Dalefleld station, Wellington, was burned early yesterday. Nothing was saved. The origin of the calamity was unknown.

Carpenter’s suicide at Bangiora was of a most deliberate character. He had carefully cleared away the small branches of the tree before hanging himself. He leaves a wife and six children destitute. No cause has yet been assigned.

While Mrs O’Brien and her two daughters were out yesterday driving in Waimate, the horse bolted. The oldest daughter succeeded in steering the animal and so avoiding the obstructions; and, assistance arriving, the equipage was brought to a standstill, after a very narrow escape had been experienced by the occupants. The Artillery Band will play opposite the Shamrock Hotel this evening. Quite right to give the southend of the town a turn. The programme is as follows Quadrille, "Echoes from the West;" fantasia, "La Favorita; valse, "Lucky Stars; ” fantasia, " London Echoes;” lancers, "Lights o' London;" grand fantasia, "Honoriaschottische, "Vaudeville;” overture, “In Memoriam;’’ grand quick march, "Fusiliers;” "GodSave the Queen."

The Riverton school will probably be erected into a District High School. Why is this example not followed in South Canterbury 7 Mr P. Goyen, Inspector of Schools, recently transferred from Southland to Otago, has been presented by the members of the Southland Institute, with a souvenir. A microscope for Mr Goyen, and a bracelet for Mrs Goyen were presented.