NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2996, 2 November 1882, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The business men of Hawera have agreed to a weekly half holiday,

Dr Philson retires frotn the Auckland Hospital. At Temuka during October there were registered 16 births* 1 marriage, and 2 deaths.

The S.C. Teachers’ Institute will hold a meeting in the Public School on Saturday next at 11.30.

The Auckland Presbytery are going to try the Kev Moses Breach on six charges of contumacy.

The Eodney electors have passed a unanimbu8 f , vote of confidence in Mr Seymour George.

The Customs revenue for .October at Christchurch, was £18,551 against £15,532 last year. [

. The vital statistics for Oamaru for the month of October, were—Births, 30 ; marriages, 3 ; deaths, 11. , It is said that £7,000,000 have'! been applied for under the Boads and Bridges Construction Act.-

Mr Allan McLean, of Napier, has resold Foul Play to Mr Bloomfield of Poverty Bay for £SOO.

Over £7OO has been taken at the fancy fair, Napier, in aid of the Wesleyan church.

The Hawke’s Bay Meat Export Company has been floated; the application .for shares being in excess of the number available.

3 jjThe Customs revenue received at Oamaru during October wus £1024 3s, a decrease of £450 12 as compared with the same month last year. , The native reserves are being leased, and the natives are’ coming to perceive the benefits they are likely to derive from the arrangement. In the "Zoo Jumbo” consultation at Auckland, an expressman and a draper of the City, ;drew Assyrian and Gudarz respectively. The Hon, Major Atkinson returned to Wellington; last night in the Stella. The Stella in the Straits spoke Mr Turnbull’s barque Alexa.from Poo Chow, with a cargo of tea for Wellington. • The Customs revenue at Napier for October was ; £4675, of which £2305 was collected at the port, and £2370 at the branch Custom-house recently opened in Napier. The Customs duties collected at the port of Wellington for the month ended Oct. 31, amounted to £16,043, while for the corresponding month last year they were only £15,224 9s 3d.

There are 1161 entries for the Christchurch Show', with a few still to come in. Sheep are 335 in number ; cattle, 137; horses, 119 ; pigs, 45 ; implements, 313 ; dairy produce, 69; and Now Zealand manufactures, 110. Poultry is eliminated altogether. Last year there were 1380 entries. The chief falling off is in horses.

The annual general meeting of the 1 , c outh Canterbury Teachers’' Institute wi’l bo held in the , Timaru Public School on Saturday next at 11.30 aim.;

The Wairarapa Agricultural Show was a

grand success. An old man at the Ashburton Home alleges that he has been assaulted by the master; and the Mayor with Mr March will conduct an enquiry;

? ‘Mr Malone, a . member of the County Council at Hawera, accidentally rode over a little boy, on his way to the meeting yesterday. The little fellow is not expected to live.

The owner of the barque Gazelle, recently seized by H.M. Customs for a breach, of the “ Customs Act,” still declines to accept the terms offered by the Government, and the vessel accordingly continues at the anchorage in Auckland harbor in charge of the officers of the Customs Department.

Mr B. Culver, formerly gas engineer to the Dunedin City Council, was presented yesterday with a purse of one hundred guineas by some friends who thought he had been badly treated by the Oounoil. Mr H. T. Pish, M.H.R., made the presentation. . ■;

The prospects of Tasmania never looked : brighter than they do at present. The revenue shows a steady increase each month. The mines are being opened up and showing further deposits of hidden Wealth, and in agricultural matters everything looks most promising. Sometime ago the ketch Adah left Auckland for Lord Howe’s Island,’having on board Mr William Rowe, with a party of men proceeding thither with the purpose of bringing 20 or 30 tons of tin ore found on that Island for -testing purposes. The party are expected to return in three weeks.

In the case heard in Dunedin a day or two ago of Goodisson v. Edmond, a claim for a ho-se sold to defendant, who pleaded that he was drunk, and the whole affair was a swindle, the Resident - Magistrate gave a verdict for defendant, stating that in his opinion defendant must"'have been drunk or temporarily insane, and no doubt he was drunk to Goodisaoh’s knowledge. A fatal affray, took place at Hororata on Tuesday. Two men named Perry and Hobbs had a fight, which was provoked by the former. After one round the men closed and fell to the ground, from which Perry never rose again. Hobbs bore the reputation of being quiet and sober, while Perry was quarrelsome and eccentric. He was said to have been in a lunatic asylum. Mr Scott, senior, of Milford, died very suddenly yesterday morning. As he was walking out of the [door of his own house, about 9 o’clock in the morning, apparently in his usual health, he fell forward on his face, hud expired immediately. He was dead before he was raised off the ground. Heart disease is supposed to hays been the cause of^death. During the last ten years (says the Melbourne “ Weekly Times ”) the manufacture of tobacco in Victoria has increased wonderfully, and oyer 600 tons of leaf are now being made up annually into plugs and figs. We had the climate and soil a few years since, but we had not the skilled labour necessary to prepare the leaf for the manufacturer. We have imported this skill from the Southern States of America, and now it is a question of time as to when the importation of tobacco ceases altogether.