NEWS OF THE DAY.
Arabi’s forces in Egypt appear to be very numerous.
Lord Charles Beresford, the hero of the Condor, commands at Alexandria and is maintaining order.
The English forces occupy a commanding position on rising ground near Arabi's encapmment at Bamleh. The Khedive is securely installed in Bas-el-Tin palace, where be is in constant communication with the British com* manders.
Frank Gardiner, formerly a noted bushranger in New South Wales, has died a pauper in a hospital at San Francisco. It is rumored that Sir George Grey may possibly be appointed Governor of New Zealand, and that he is actually going Home to make arrangements.
Another Company. A Tallow and Manure Company with a capital of £6OOO has been started in Auckland. The Bank of Australia, Auckland, received £IO,OOO in specie yesterday ex Botomahana.
The steamer Tongaririo met the Eotomahana yesterday at Auckland harbor, with a deputation to welcome the footballers from Sydney. The sum of £261 has been collected in Timaru for the relief of the persecuted Jews ; and that amount will be forwarded to the Lord Mayor of London by Mr Jonas.
The Victorian Excise officers have been making a raid on the various Railway Befreshment rooms in the colony with the result that they find bad liquor preponderates.
An idiotic story, put forth in the first instance as a joke, by some lunatic, has gone all round, about Sir George Grey, the Hon, John Martin, and “ digosma,” When may we look for the interpretation 2 The Rev. Mr Lindsay, the late muchesteemed pastor of the Presbyterian congregation, Waimate, was on Tuesday presented with a gold watch and chain by his parishbners. The soiree, after the induction services, was well attended and highly successful.
The attendance at the new Waimaitsitai school now exceeds 90.
To-morrow the Telegraph office at Pleasant Point, will be open to the public, A Meat Preserving and Refrigerating Company is projected at Napier. Capital, £45,000.
The building of the Rangitata Traffic Bridge will be commenced forthwith by the Ashburton County Council.
The inquest on Fanny Lewis at Gisborne resulted in a verdict of ‘suicide while of unsound mind.’
Mr Richmond Beetham who is just in a state of convalescene after a protracted illness, goes to the Otago Lakes to recruit himself.
A license was yesterday granted by the Dunedin Land Board, to prospect for minerals over six square miles at Doubtful Sound, on the West Coast. It seems to be the consequences of the Egyptian embroglio not the disturbance itself, that is most seriously regarded by the various European Powers.
England has incurred a good deal of illfeeling on the Continent, The Italian Press is violently anti-English, the Russian, German, and Austrian papers are most unfriendly. • ,The Te A nan yesterday took away from Lyttelton eight Ayrshire cows and heifers from Mr King’s herd at Lyttelton. They are for Melbourne and were bought for Messrs R. Gibson and Go., of Victoria, the well-known breeders.
The most cordial support to the war measures of the English Government has been given by the Opposition. In commenting on the vote of credit of 2| millions in the House of Commons, some Conservative speakers said the amount was inadequate for tbe purpose. Yet another insurance company is projected, to have its head quarters in Dunedin. It is te be called the Equitable Insurance Association of New Zealand, and to include fire and life business -in this colony. It will issue bonuses after the dividend of 10 per cent.
Not a single vote was returned up to the closing of the poll in the Coleridge Licensing District on the local option question. The Returning .Officer, however, was equal to the occasion, and gave his vote against an increase of licenses. The Oust District, where one man only voted, is therefore now cast in the shade.
The Dunedin Resident Magistrate yesterday gave judgment against a wagoner who claimed the value of a horse which had teen destroyed as the result of injuries received through taking fright at a steam tram engine, holding that the engine was of the class called noiseless and was lawfully upon the highway. Barlow denies having fired shots at himself, and states that it is impossible be could have bribed the natives as stated, as he had only £5 with him. Tn Tawhiao and Fatupitu have been examined before Captain Gascoigne, and both deny the previous statement that the alleged attack on Barlow was a put up job. This it how the “Sydney Morning Herald,” August 16, begins the account of a tramway accident“ The opening of the tram line to the Glebe yesterday was not permitted to pass without what might now be called ' the time-hopored ceremony’ of blood- spilling, being peformed. This grim observance was carried out between the hours of 10 and 11 o’clock in the evening." A strange story comes from Eaikora. Mrs Stacey, a relative of Mr Henry Hickey, left Waipawa. by railway on Saturday afternoon for home, which is some four miles from Eaikora. On getting out of the train at Eaikora she proceeded to walk to her residence, and was not heard of till she was found on one of the bills in the neighborhood quite unconscious, with her clothing partly torn off and her head and the upper part of her body much bruised. She cannot account in any way for the strange condition in which she was found. Mrs Stacey is an elderly lady. A case of attempted suicide from unrequited love took place at Waipuknrau on Saturday evening last. A man named Hammond, employed as gardener at Mount Herbert, on Saturday evening was found dangerously ill. Upon bein g questioned as to the cause of his illness, he stated that he had taken a dose of arsenic, with a view to “end his days’" He was removed to the Gounty Hospital and prompt remedies applied, but he is still in a very precarious condition. Two packages labelled “poison,'* one containing strychnine and the other arsenic, were found in bis box, also a will, in which he directed that all his goods should be sold and the proceeds handed over to his fickle lady love. The days of dying for love are not yet over.
“By the way, the modern pronunciation of Latin is rather mysterious to the Latinists of forty years standing. Prolessor Blank, in a pamphlet he published on Latin pronunciation, describes bow a young brother professor, who was nervous and bashful, was shocked by a class of young ladies reading in modern Latin “ Vicissim,” which to his started ear seemed to be “we kiss him.”—- “ ASgles."
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2949, 7 September 1882, Page 2
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