NEWS OF THE DAY,

South Canterbury Times, Issue 7068, 14 February 1893, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY,

Oounoiliop Burford was oh tha war path last night. He was on his legs to speak to a motion, and repeating himself frequently Councillor O-wers asked leave to retire, and said as he went out he “ would not stay to listen to such stuff." Councillor Bennett soon after asked leave to retire also, but he presently returned, which Councillor Owsrs did not.

The gale of yesterday afternoon blew itself out about six o’clock, a sharp shower falling about 5.30, In the evening the clouds rolled away, and the night was fine, but a little cold for this time of year. Telegraphic communication was interrupted both north and south, the most serious being in the south, where the damage could not be repaired by last night. In the north the wires were soon up again. Our telegrams show that tbe gale was strong and destructive at Ashburton and Christchurch.

The pupils of the Waitnate District High School were yesterday given a half-holiday in honour of their new headmaster (Mr Smyth). At 1.15 p.m. all the classes were arranged in a hollow square in front of the school. Mr Taylor, the chairman of the school committee, and several other members were in attendance. Owing, however, to a terrible squall that came on the children wore marched inside. After being introduced Mr Smyth went round to the various rooms and said a few words to the classes, after which they were dismissed. The Christchurch Press commenting on the conviction of a Mosgiel farmer for stacking hay on a Sunday, says ;—“ A list of exceptions are given (in the Act), amongst them works of necessity or mercy. It appears to us selfevident that the saving of a crop from damage or total loss is emphatically a work of necessity. A few hours’ timely work at a critical period may save many a farmer from absolute ruin. But if he is liable to bo dragged before the Magistrates because in the interests of himself and family he does some necessary work cn Sunday, we repeat, the clause should be so modified as not to apply to such cases.” An excellent object for a present to a friend, a source of repeated pleasures for oneself, is Cassell's “ Foreign Art Supplement to the Magazine of Art,” of which Messrs P. W. Hutton and Co. have received a stock, and sent us a copy. The next best thing to seeing the " pictures of the year" is to see good representations of them, and the art publishers of this decade deserve the grateful thanks of the millions who have no chance of seeing good pictures, for providing them, so cheaply, with the means of obtaining some idea of what the “ pictures of the year " are like. And this they do in these collections of photo'process prints. In the one before us we have representations of the work of no less than 110 artists—French, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Scandinavian, German, Austrian, Russian, and American. The prints are so good as to make one banker to see the original paintings, but as this is for us impossible, we take another look over the prints and feel grateful to the inventors of the photo-proossßSs.

At the meeting of the proprietors of the Union Bank of Australia (Limited), held in London on the 30th January last, a dividend of £110« per share, equal to 12 per cent, per annum, was declared, and about £6(300 was carried forward.

Wc learn from the Evening Post that an error was made in transmitting Justice BichmoDcl’e judgment in the Sydenham licensing case to the southern papers. Instead of “The miserable prejudice which has blinded them ss judges,” the sentence should have read 11 The invincible prejudice,” Ac. At the Borough Council last evening Councillor Burford asked if the ranger at the Domain bad reported the death of two remarkable birds, the pair of penguins given them by Mr Hatch in December last. The mayor replied that there had been no report mads, but he could state that the birds were dead and stuffed, and were a handsomer pair of birds now than ever. It is with unfeigned regret we have to announce the death of Colonel Eichbaum, of Pleasant Point. Driving home on Saturday week he was thrown out of his carriage, and received a concussion of the brain, from which he never rallied. Colonel Eichbaum arrived in the colony by the ship Waipa in the month of December, 1878, and having settled at Pleasant Point, soon began to interest himself in all that concerned the welfare of hie community. A busy man all hie life, he could not spend the evening of hie days in careless ease; and few will venture to say that he ever failed to do well and truly what he had to do. Itts long service for half a century in nearly every quarter of the globs gave him a ripe experience, but the old soldier was as simple as a child in all guilelessnesa, and he has gone to his long rest full of honour, followed by the tearful regrets of a very large circle of friends. UNIVEBSAL PRAISE. Unimpeachable skin authorities, wellknown public men end actresses, to whom appearance is capital, have at one time and another come forward unsolicited to sing the praises of Pears’ Soap.