NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2967, 28 September 1882, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Libeller is scratched for the CJ.O

The lad Garrick, whose leg was, amputated lately in Dunedin, is doing well. ■ The Mutual Insurance Company Com' mence business next week.

The B.M. of Oamarn, Mr Bobinsqn, is to take the Waimate district, commencing some time next month. ;

The Harmonic Society give the first concert of their sixth season in the Theatre Eoyal this evening. ; The building of the Hurunui bridge has been so long delayed, that it will not now be available for the wool season. ■

F. Sheasby’s cottage at Three King’s Auckland, has been burnit down. The North British Company , will pay. j ■' The Bev. J. Berry had a . crowded house at the Temperance Hall, Dunedin, to hear his lecture on America.

Bobert Marsh, a burglar, has been committed for trial at Auckland, on half-a-dozen charges of burglary. Some time ago the Chriatchurah Acclimatisation Society sent 4000 trout ova to Gisborne. Only 600 were landed alive. HA' Chinaman at Auckland ,is reported to have received a ghastly wound, extending from ear to throat, through the bolting of a trap.

1 Duncan Oatneron, a lad of 13.' was yester-day-committed to Sunnyside by Fi LeOren Esq,, and Dr Fisher,' on the certificates of Dra Maointyre and Hassell. ! ' i: ' The Colonial Secretary yesterday visited the gaol. Lunatic Asylum, and, Industrial Home, at Auckland. He. expressed satisfaction with the management of each.

John Young, convicted at last sessions of indecent assault, and . sentenced to twenty lashes at Lyttelton, has gone mad, and has been removed to the Asylum.

At the Inquest on the woman who died at Springfield, the jury found death to have resulted from child-birth, but censured the husband for neglecting his wife. •Referring to our cablegram of last night, announcing the arrival at LondonTof the Mataura, it appears from' a despatch wired' to the Shipping Company that the meat is in excellent condition.

Eighteen persons await trial at the criminal sessions of the Supreme Court, Auckland,;.' .Bigamy, -perjury, wound ng and burglary are the principal offences.- - 1 -' ;

Two* hundred ladies. yesterday met in Auckland to protest against the enforcement of the “ Contagious Diseases Act." Petitions are being signed, and the clergy are going to raise their voices against it. > ; ; Mr J. A. MoKelow presents a further gift of 100 volumes on the early history of New Zealand, to the Auckland Institute. There appear to be more histories of New Zealand extant, than of England.

Dr Burrows, formerly of Rangiora, died yesterday in Christchurch. He met with a buggy accident spine months ago, and had to relinquish his practice. Recently he had been completely out of his mind.

The Wellington “ Post” draws attention to a reckless waste of water from the tanks of the Custom House - quays, while the City Council pounces with severity on quiet citizens for watering theifigardens.

A severe attack of erisypelas in the face at the eleventh hour threatened to keep Sir Garnet Wolseley at home. As it was he went on board the transport with his bead bandaged.

There are at present no fewer than eight West Coast boys, four of them holding scholarships, attending the Dunedin High School. A boy from Greymouth, named William Wilson, was to-day presented with the Watkins’ gold medal, won by him at the Greymouth public school. The donor of the medal is the Rev. Mr Watkins, of Trinity Church, Greymouth.

' The Sydney footballers left Dunedin yesterday f- r Wellington. Mr B G. Wrieht, is said to have been offered a seat in the Cabinet. ; ,

An official enquiry will be made into the origin of the recent fire in Wellington.

The Pihama sections have been sold at the Government land sale, (at Hawera), at the npset price of £lO per acre. Mr Bryce has passed through Hawera on his way to Opunake. He next goes to Napier, and then to Auckland.

Christina Jansen baa been arrested at Wellington on a charge of manslaughter in connection with the death of an infant in her charge; The plough is now at work on the ground occupied by the late Exhibition. The building and the promoters have vanished into thin air.

Oliver Harris, an employee of Messrs Barningham and Co, of the Victoria Foundry, was received into the Dunedin Hospital yesterday afternoon suffering from a severe accident. The injured man is a grinder, and the belt breaking, caused it to fly out and strike him. by which he received a compound fracture of the right elbow and wrist and a similar fracture of the ; right jaw.

Mr Izett, editor of " Society,” brought an action yesterday at Ghristchurch against Crocker, who; horsewhipped him the other day, for £2l Is damages. The cause of the assault was a paragraph referring to the defendant’s millinery establishment, which the plaintiff denied referred to it at all, but which the evidence showed could not relate to any other., Both parties claimed to have the best of encounter. His Worship said he had no doubt that an assault had been committed, and he had only to assess the damages and consider if the defendant had received any provocation. Nothing could entirely exonerate the assault, but it had not ■ been of a very serious nature, and no doubt Mr Crocker had been annoyed at the article in question, which there could be little doubt referred to his establishment. Mr Crocker was entitled to a denial from the' plaintiff if the article did not refer to him, but this had not been given, and none of the establishments mentioned by Mr Izett answered the description given. His Worship thought the assault would bp atoned for by} ordering the defendaht to pay £5 damages, with costs £3 18s. So much for the lowest walks of journalism I