NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3025, 7 December 1882, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Waikato natives are linking udy

tage of the Government offers of lar,'’. The Surrey HMs estate at PonsonV . 1 v> property of the Hon. James Wilson, nas been sold to the Waikato Lanid Company.

Emir Bey is scratched for the Wellington Cup,

The Taranaki Agricultural Show has been highly successful.

The foundation stone of Columbia Presbyterian Church at Oamaru, was laid yesterday with Masonic honors.

Captain Boyd of the Fiako succeeds Mr D. T. Currie, as Dunedin manager of the New Zealand Shipping Company. Mr Currie goes into business.

Watson, for batting, and Powke, for wicket-keeping for Chriotuhurch, in the recent rmtch with the Aucklanders, have received presents from the Club. I Mr Bold, of the Telegraph Department, was yesterday (while driving at Gisborne with Dr Pollen) pitched out of the buggy, but fortunately he was not much injured.

Several Oamaru merchants waited on the Minister for Public Works yesterday, protesting against the new railway tariff as unfair to them. The Minister made no promises.

An assault case came before the B.M. at Christchurch yesterday. A man named Brown, meeting another named Holt at Addington, accused him of being a Fenian, and violently assaulted him. The ease was remanded.

There is a very bad ease of bloodpoisoning at Greymoutb. A girl named Whitmore cut her foot, and the coloring matter of her stocking baa caused bloodpoisoning to ensue. Her life was yesterday despaired of.

The illicit distillation cases in the Wellington, P.M. Court were concluded yesterday. Thompson and Morgan were fined £IOO, or 3 months’ imprisonment,and G. Taylor £2OO or 6 months’ imprisonment.

The meetings throughout the district re the Harbor Board Loan, have been thoroughly favorable to the Board’s proposal, except that at Geraldine. If every voter in the other districts does his duty, there is no fear of the result of the poll.

At Leeston yesterday morning a swagger was found lying in the road with his throat cut. . The unfortunate man had been about the township for three or four days. He was evidently suffering from a weak constitution, and from remarks made to others, it is thought he was deranged.

In the late cricket match at Christchurch between Auckland and Canterbury teams, the Christohurch players scored 310 and the Auckland team 283. Canterbury thus scored a win by 27 runs. It is pleasing to find that though Auckland has been victorious in all the other parts of the co’ony, Canterbury has beaten her northern opponent in the good old English game.

At the Kaiapoi Borough Council- meeting on Tuesday night there was a lively discussion about the slipshod manner in which the auditors had performed their work. They had passed and signed the balance sheet, while it turned out that the rate-book had never been submitted to them.

There was a meeting oE the Floral 'and Horticultural Society last evening, the president Mr I. S. Gibson occupying the chair. The Society resolved to support the request for a public holiday on Anniversary Day, 16th inst. The show will be held in Maclean and Stewart’s buildings, and the Artillery Band be engaged for the occasion.

An application was made to Mr Justice Richmond in Chambers yesterday by Mr H. D. Bell, counsel for the defendant, for the appointment of a Commission to take the evidence of a British Consul at Samoa in the case of Mr W. J. Bunt and Sir Arthur Gordon. Mr Edward Shaw appeared on behalf of the plaintiff, and opposed the granting of the application. After argument on both sides, His Honor agreed to the appointment of a Commission on condition that Mr thaw was allowed the liberty of reviewing the order made by producing evideno .