NEWS OF THE DAY.
The whole Customs duties tor last month amount to £18,600, The Auckland Customs revenue for November was £2853.
Archibald Forbes gave his final lecture at Invercargill last night. The Borough Council of Invercargill has resolved not to come under the new Eating Act this year.
The Benevolent Carnival at Dunedin is nightly crowded, and it is expected that £BOOO will be taken.
Mr J. Manchester is to represent the Waimate County Council on the Timaru High School Board of Governors.
The United States Astronomical party at Auckland, have completed all arrangements, and await the transit of Venus.
Susnicious circumstances in connection with the burning of the Cheltenham sawmill (near Wellington) have transpired, and a detective is engaged on the case.
The Thames Naval Cadets visited Auckland in their launch, to interview the Defence Minister about the new volunteer regulations which threaten to extinguish the corps. The Ven. Archdeacon Harper gave a most interesting lecture on the Transit of Venus in the Barnard street Hall on Thursday evening. The audience was large and attentive.
Mr J. Bathgate, M.H.R., Hon. W. H. Reynolds, Eev. Dr Stuart, and Mr Job Wain are at the head of a movement in Dunedin to give a banquet to Mr Archibald Forbes on Tuesday.
At the adjourned meeting of the Chamber cf Commerce on Monday a report by Messrs M. Jonas and R. Stewart on the Melbourne Refrigerating Works will be submitted. It is to be hoped every member will be present.
The “ Age ” repor s that Mr Gladstone persistently rejected more than one application made by Sir Henry Parkes to be appointed a Privy Councillor. " Cheek ’is powerful everywhere, but after all, it requires to be backed up a little by something else at Home, Sir Henry’s career in New South Wales, doubtless, had led him to conclude that of itself it was everywhere all sufficient.
The following is a return of patients in the Timara Hospital for the month* of November, 1882;—Patients under treatment at date of last return—Males, 16; females, 3; total, 18. Admitted during month—Males, 16; female, 1 ; total, 17. Totals treated —Males, 31; females, 4; total, 35. Discharged during month— Cured—Males, 8. Believed—Males, 2 ; female, 1 ; total, 3, Dead—Male, 1. Totals discharged—Males, 11; female, 1; total, 12. Remaining under treatment— Males, 20; females, 3; total, 23. Out patients treated during month—Males, 16 ; females, 11; total, 27.
The recent cablegrams about the stabbing of a juror in the trial of Hynes, now proceeding, must be incorrect. Hynes was executed on September 11. Mr Field may, however, have been one of the jurors who found him guilty. It will be remembered that the jurors in this case were charged with drunkenness, and that out of this charge arose the case of contempt against Mr Gray, proprietor of the “ Freeman’s Journal.” Fearful bitterness arose out of the charge against the jury, whom Judge Lawson declared to have conscientiously performed their duty, in spite of the charges against them, which were believed to have been got up for a purpose. In connection with the recent gaol returns special attention has been attracted by the case of pne man in Dunedin gaol who received a sentence of three days’ imprisonment for drunkenness. He was sent to Dunedin gaol on tie 24th January, but he did not come out till the 4th August, having thus been detained for nearly seven months instead of only three days. The return shows that he receives from the Visiting Justices successive sentences of “fourteen days, seven days, twenty-one days, six weeks, two months, fourteen days, and one month,” for idleness. It is high time the power of Visiting Justices was limited. Fancy an unfortunate sent to gaol for drunkenness being kept in custody for sixty-four times the length of his sentence.
A little girl, named Amy Richards, has been missing from Woodend since Tuesday. Her hat has been found with blood spots on it. She had left home with her father, who returned alone, and seemed unconcerned . She is 2A years old.
Two peculiar oases came before the Balolutha Police Court on Wednesday. W. Wilson, for indecently assaulting a Mrs Twaddel, was committed for trial, He was a tramp, and called begging for food. When he had been supplied, he tried to assault the woman, who escaped, however, and the scoundrel was afterwards caught by her husband. The other case was one in which a Miss Churnside charged a young man named Mencil with shooting with intent to kill her. Everybody was expecting some delicious bits of sensation to be served up when the affair ended, but to everybody’s surprise, the pair went down to the Registrar and got married while the case was abandoned.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 3021, 2 December 1882, Page 2
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