NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3022, 4 December 1882, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Timaru School Committee will meet this evening at 7.30.

Mr J. Kirkwood is re-elected President of Taltersall’s Club, Auckland, Simonsen’s Opera Company played “Boccaccio ” for eight nights in Dunedin. The salary of the Resident .Surgeon to the Wellington Hospital is reduced to £250 per annum from £3OO. The office is now vacant.

The District Court was this day adjourned by Mr Howley, Clerk of the Court. The date of the adjournment was not stated.

To-morrow evening, at 8 o’clock, meetings re Harbor Board Loan, will be held in the Otaio and St, Andrews' sohoolhouses, respectively. To-night there is a meeting at Geraldine.

The scandalmongers of Christchurch were disappointed of a sensation yesterday. The Presbytery had appointed the Rev. Mr Blake to conduct service at St. Andrew’s Church, in the room of the susoended pastor, Mr Fraser. The latter had, however, declared his intention to stick to his post, and a great crowd assembled. Mr Blake on arriving found Mr Fraser in possession and quietly retired, and thus a scene was averted.

Government are said to have hit upon a plan for reducing cases of absconding by the ’Frisco mail boat to a minimum. It is said the number of persons who thus leave the colony is greater than is generally believed. A cleioctive from each of the chief centres of population in the colony will in future be stationed in Auckland. As they will be well acquainted with everybody in the towns from which they come, any gentleman desiring to slip away quietly, will find it rather a difficult move.

Slade, the -wrestler, publishes a challenge in Auckland to any man in the colony to wrestle him for £IOO a side.

Mr W. Bridson, the choir master of Pilt street Wesleyan church, Auckland, was presented with £IOO by the members on tlie occasion of his removal to Wellington. He is registrar of the Native Lands Court.

The Dunedin Carnival has been a grand success, the attendance being very large. A cricket match in which one side consisted of young men dressed as girls provoked great merriment.

Fred McCabe had an enormous house at Invercargill on his opening night. He is said to be the most extraordinary mimic, wizard and fun maker of the century.

On Saturday night a collision occurred on the Papanui tramway line between a vehicle and the tram. The end of the carriage was damaged, and the vehicle was considerably injured. It is stated that the driver of the latter was slightly hurt.

A man named Gillespie was arrested by Sergeant Morice at Lyttelton yesterday on a warrant issued at Oamaru, charging him with decoying a little girl about five years old from her home. The case is a peculiar one, as the mother of the child had left her husband and came up with the child and Gillespie, intending to go to the North Island together. The case was brought before the R.M. Court at Lyttelton to-day.

Mr Watkins, manager of the Farmer’s Association notifies by advertisement that the Association is prepared to ship for their members (on owners account) to the London market all descriptions of produce including mutton and lambs in refrigerators. It is pleasing to observe that a practical attempt to ship frozen meat from South Canterbury is being made, and the Association deserve credit for launching the industry.

Some few days ago, as Mrs Hazlehurst, of Prebblcton, was removing the tether peg of a calf, the latter knocked her down, and she received a nasty wound which severed one of the arteries in the thumb. At the time no serious result was expected, but latterly symptoms of lock-jaw have been noticed, and the patient has had to be removed to Christchurch, where she is under the care of Dr Prins.

On Tuesday last, at 3 p.ma little girl named Ada Whitlow, aged 6 years, strayed from her home at Woodend, in North Canterbury, and search was made for her from day to day up to Saturday last, when she was found by some boyd on the beach near the mouth of the Waimakariri river. When the boys saw her she was sitting quietly against a flax bush on the sand. The boys did not know that, the child had been lost, but they saw that she was too young to be left on the beach, and one of them lifted her on the saddle beside him, and took her to the nearest house, where she was taken care of. Mrs D. McKenzie, to whose house she had been brought, knew of the missing child, and at once sent for her mother and Dr. Ovenden. As the child had been out for 96 hours without food or shelter, it was feared that even if she recovered bodily her reason would not be restored, as she became delirious, and was screaming and calling out in a most pitiable manner. Latest advices say that under the skilful treatment of Dr Ovenden, who has given the child unremitting attention, she has got over the delirious attack, and is fast recovering. She appears tired >and stiff, but is able to take small quantities of food at stated intervals.