NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3015, 25 November 1882, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

A church and parsonage at Hollock (Auckland) has been burnt down. Te Kooti has called a meeting of Natives at which Tawhiao will be present. . ■ The manager of the Wellington Building Society is being enquired for anxiously.

The gate money taken at the Dunedin Show yesterday amounted to £217 13s 6d.

Tbe Auckland Choral Society have been asked to send a contingent to the Melbourne festival, but have declined.

Mr Joseph Pilner, who was in the Austrian Army before the battle of Waterloo, has recently died in Auckland, aged 87.

The Rothschilds are said to own onefifth of the fertile land in the Delta of the Nile, and £12,000,000 is their share of the Egyptian bonds. An observant visitor to Ashburton yesterday, was struck with the animation and apparent commercial briskness of the town in comparison with Timaru. A laborer named J. Gorton, in the lockup at Dunedin charged with stealing a watch, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a penknife, and expired shortly after.

Mr Fenton, late Judge of the Native district at Auckland, has informed Te Wheoro and others that Government will allocate certain lands to landless Natives.

Mr Leo G. Reid, of the firm of Reid and Knubley, solicitors of this town, has been appointed to succeed the late Mr W. Lewis, whose melancholy suicide was recorded lately, as Assistant Crown Law Officer.

There will be a public meeting on Wednesday evening next in the Barnard Street Ha.ll, to consider a proposition to raise a loan of £IOO,OOO, for the completion of the Harbor Works.

A sale of shorthorn cattle took place yesterday in Dunedin, Mr Shand’s bull Oxford Wildeyes 11. was sold for 200 guineas, and a cow, Oountess Alvie, belonging to Mr Menlove, brought 135 guineas,

Mr John Boss, Sargood, Son and Ewen's Otago representative, has been admitted a partner in the firm, and goes to Auckland to take chsirge there. The mercantile community of Invercargill gave him a dinner.

Pastor Love, of the United Presbyterian Church' at Harrisville, Ohio, was chloroformed and robbed of 5000dols by his two sons, whom he had reared to the ages of 12 and 14 with -exceeding religious rigour. Kindness is not always to be measured by the value so much as by the usefulness of the attention. The Rothschilds presented the British troops in Egypt with 12 tons of tobacco and 5000 pipes, “ There is much kindness in the Jew.”

Mr Easton, the new appointed master of the Wai-dli school was on Thursday presented with a number of testimonials and addres-es from the Sydenham' School Committee, - -the parents, teachers and children, he being held in very high esteem in the locality.

There was a clean sheat at the E.M,

Court this morning. Summerhill estate, Knitangata, was put up to auction in Dunedin yesterday, and passed in at £IO,OOO. A splendid white peony was exhibited at a Druidical re-union in Christchurch t’ e other night. It is 16| inches in circumference and the edges are tinged with pink.

At the Ashburton races yesterday, the County Plate was won by Marchioness Neil, Zulu being second, and Winnie third. The Flying Handicap resulted in a win for Turquoise, with Contessa second, and Gold Dust third. The Consolation Race was won by Winnie.

There is a convocation of sharks about this ports. Yesterday morning, the occupants of a fishing boat captured a monster 14 feet long, and brought him to the breakwater. While they were hauling him up however the rope,broke and the carcase fell to the bottom of the sea.

Regarding the [jewel robbery from the s.s. Wellington, it appears that the owner was a commercial traveller; his sample boxes were robbed, audjthe articles buried in various places. There have been found under a house in Freeman’s Bay, 17 watches, 28 gold brooches, 36 lockets, 28 pairs earrings, keepers, bracelets, rings, &c, &0., amounting in all to £2OO.

The postal authorities have determined to have some necessary alterations made to the Timaru Town Clock,and the alterations are to be carried out by Mr Littlejohn, the maker of it, who is now in town. The heavy pendulum of the clock has twice become detached, and but for the precautions taken by the Chief Postmaster (Mr Cook), it would have caused considerable damaged in its fall. The bell'attached to the clock is to be shifted into a better position, so that it can be more distinctly heard at a greater distance. These alterations will necssiiate the stoppage of the clock for three or four days, from Monday next. An occasional correspondent says ;—I am beginning to wonder / when ever the Ryan excursionists are coming home again > There will be quite a large party for us to welcome: — The Ryan family, the two trustees, and that luckiest of policemen, Detective Kirby. I should like very much to know how the money is getting on, and how much is likely to find its way into the pockets of the expectant creditors. Unless the Melbourne lawyers have forgotten their old cunning, they will not let all that cash go out of the colony without levying on it. Just a modest percentage for their trouble.

Attention is drawn to the advertisement of Mr Clapham, proprietor of the Timaru Clothing Factory. This factory has met with great'success since its establishment and to meet the increased demand for garment Mr Clapham announces that he has secured the services of one of the best and most experienced cutters in the colony. In referring to this business it may be stated that the pic-nic given by Mr Clapham to his employees on Thursday last was a great success. It is to be hoped that other employers of labor will follow his liberal example, as it is one calculated to foster local industries and create a good feeling between employer and employed. If we only had a number of men in Timaru possessed of as much pluck and enterprise as Mr Clapham, Timaru would not be behind Kaiapoi or Mosgiel in its local industries.

The .Z. “Times’' says.:—Some curiosity was expressed by passers-by in Cuba street yesterday morning at the apparently eccentric movements of two individuals clad in “ solemn suits of customary black” and belltoppers. They had lifted one of the wooden covers which give access to the silt and unsavory odors of the drains below the street, and were industriously prodding therein with a stick. Some youngsters said they were bobbing for eels, others, of maturer growth, thought they were trying to recover a lost coin; others again, who professed to know, said they were experts in the use of the divining rod, and were hunting either for springs of pure water or stores of hidden treasure. We have reason to suppose that they were members of the Drainage Reform Association fishing up evidence for the next meeting of the Drainage Inquiry Committee. Here is a hint for the Timaru Borough Council.

Mrs Smith, a married woman at Greymouth, who had been leading a drunken dissolute life of late, was found dead yesterday, her death being caused by drink. Her house was quite destitute of furniture. The husband of deceased had left her some time ago on account of her bad habits. At the inquest the verdict was, “Died from alcoholic poison.” It appeared from the evidence that the house was not fit for human habitation, rain coming through the ceiling and walls, wetting the paper which was rotten, and the whole house was wretchedly dirty. A man had taken up with her a few days, and was keeping her supplied with drink ever since, and both were drunk all the time. There was no food or any of the comforts of life in the place.

The R.M. at Auckland yesterday gave judgement in the horsewhipping case. He sentenced Cornwall to; 24 ;hours imprisonment with hard labor. As the whipping was intended to degrade the complaint, Cornwall could not complain of being in turn degraded by imprisonment. He thought the case one in which a pecuniar penalty would not meet the ends or justice, as not only had it been shown that the assault was committed, but also it was apparently committed without justification. Application was made to have defendant bound over to keep the peace towards McMillan, but His Worship did not think there was any danger of the assault being repeated, and consequently said it was not necessary to bind defendant over, more especially as he might be unable to find the required securities, being a stranger in Auckland.