NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2976, 9 October 1882, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Borough Council meet this evening at 7 o’clock.

The regular convocation of St John’s Royal Arch Chapter will be held tc-nigbt, at 7 30.

The wife of Mr F. M. Ooxhead, the wellknown Customs agent in Dunedin, yesterday fell dead in a fit. At the meeting of the Teachers' Institute, on Saturday, Mr Ligertwood was appointed Secretary.

The Timaru School Committee will hold a special meeting on Thursday evening, re dismissal of teachers.

If the Harbor Board loan business is not pushed on a little faster, the time will go by and the money will not be obtainable. There will be a horse parade to-morrow, at Temuka, under the auspices of the Temuka and Geraldine Agricultural and Pastoral Association.

The Rotomahana is to leave Port Chalmers on the 26th inst, arriving in Melbourne on the night before the Cup race. •

Splendid gold has been found at the Victor Emmanuel Mine, Newr ( Creek, Wellington province. The specimens already shown are of extraordinary rich, ness.- ' ‘ ' . ! ’

The Council for the prosecution;.has informed the Minister, of Justice of the. verdict in the late conspiracy case at Wellington, and prays for the release of George Longhurst, Ann Sherry, a well-known Dunedinite wfio has been convicted on, 88 previous occasions, was, on Saturday sent to gaol for two years as an incorrigible rogue and vagabond. It is said that a difficulty has 'arisen, in regard to the payment of the men employed in the wharf extension here, add that in consequence they stopped work on Thursday last. The Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry hold, their annual drill at Christchurch during this week. The Timaru and Temnka squadrons went up by special train on Saturday. Would it not have been better practice to march them up by road, carrying tents and pickets. ’ Inspector Pender will probably leave for Ohristohurob on Friday next. Before his departure he will be presented with a handsome time-piece, as a souvenir of his residence here, and a token of the respect in which he is universally held.

The huntsman and members of the Waikato Hunt Club were recently summoned for trespass on Mr Fantham’s land at Cambridge. Judgment was given for plaintiff, against 12 of those prosecuted, for 10a damages,- and costs £lO 10s, and for four defendants, with' costs, £lO. The huntsmen will be careful in future.

The three playful youths (Matheson, O’Keefe, and Storey) who pushed an old man through a plate glass window at Auckland recently, and were committed to the Supreme Oonrt for malicious injury to property, were released on sureties to come up for judgment when required, and to pay £ls, value of the window.

The pack of bounds for the Waimate Hunt Club Were forwarded to Mr W. S. Armitage’a residence by the afternoon train on Saturday, en route for Blueoliffs. The pack comprises very fine dogs, selected from the’ best English packs. The New Zealand Shipping Company named them free of charge, and they arrived, in splendid condition.

Mr T. H. Ritchey, (Master of the Otaio School, recently promoted to the charge of the Lyttelton Orphanage) has received testimonials from residents of Otaio, and from his late pupils. The Church, of England community suitably acknowledged Mrs Ritchey’s services as organist and choir instructress.

The efforts of the several steamship companies to reduce the.time occupied in the voyage between England and the United States are watched .with deep interest in both countries. It is now possible to breakfast in Liverpool on one Sunday morning, and to go through the same necessary process in New York on the nest. The Alaska, of the Union Line, recently made the passage in seven days two hours and four minutes.

: at Avenel,' Invercargill, a Are broke out .in a thfeeroomed cottage, and extended to stables adjoining. - Both buildings were old and were entirely consumed. They were the property of Mr T. Kemp, who holds an insurance of £75 in the Colonial office, The cottage was let last week to Mr Bicketson, a shoemaker recently from Oamaru, where it is said he was burnt out two months ago. Bicketson did not live on the premises and has not been seen since. A person calling herself his wife, says he went out of town on Saturday, and that the stock was insured, but she does not know in what office.

At Dunedin, yesterday morning, a sad fatal accident occurred on the tramway. About eleven o’clock, the steam engine, with two oat-s attached, was coming from North-east Valley into town, when a little boy named Fellers, aged about ten, son of a shoemaker in the Valley, who was in the car nearest the engine,, attempted to get out without giving the signal to stop. He swung right under the car, and the wheel passed over his neok and am. Hie head was cut almost entirely off. The conductor was in the second car taking tickets at the time, and a gentleman who saw the lad getting off gave the signal to stop, but it was too late to prevent the accident. The bpdy was taken to the Morgue, and an inquest is to be held to-day.

At the R.M. Court this ‘morning, before P. LeOren Esq., a first offender was fined 5s for drunkenness.

Another important bequest has been made to the South Kensington Museum, a collection of about 400 pieces of carved jade and Oriental crystals. They have been on lorn for some time past at the Museum, in two cases, in the court where the Chinese and Japanese objects are kept. The late owner, Mr Arthur Wells, has left the whole collection to the nation ; he died about three months ago. The gift is a most desirable addition to the treasures in the South Kensington Museum, and in money value cannot be estimated at less than from £26,000 to £30,000.