NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 7076, 23 February 1893, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

At a meeting of the committee of the Temuka District High School on Tuesday it was resolved to. vote for Messrs Storey, luwood, and Salmond, as candidates for the South Canterbury Education Board. It is stated that very complete arrangements are in progress for the Timaru Bowing Club’s ball, which will bring the olub’o season to a close, and that it will be even more comple than the one held last year. The unsettled weather is, we learn, putting a stop to all carting in of grain and stacking. Though the wind yesterday was a drying one. farmers did not do much, being afraid of showers, and there was consequently a good many harvest hands in town for the day. The ordinary meeting of the Loyal Timaru Lodge No. 5308, M.U., was held in the lodge room, last evening, Bro. A. Beswiok, N.G., presiding. One new member was initiated. The sick visitors’ report was regarded as very satisfactory, there being no sickness to report except chronic oases. The receipts for the evening were £l6. Th«re were no fewer than eight tenders I (says the Mataura Ensign) for the borough loan of £2500 at 6 per cent. It wont off in three sections, Mr R- F. Cuthbertsou, Invercargill, taking up 10 debentures of £IOO at £lO4, and five others at £lO3 10s, The (10) go to Messrs John Mac Gibbon and Sons at £lOl 2s 6d. One tenderer offered £9O for ©very £100!

The Lyttelton Times has the following During the last few days six men from the large four-masted ship Hinemoa, now lying at Lyttelton, have been brought in to the hospital. This has given rise to rumours of typhus fever, &0., but enquiry at the hospital show that the men are suffering from influ enea with some typhoidal symptoms. Toe oases are by no means serious, and the trouble no doubt originated in Wellington from the men drinking bad water.

Jhe Press says Shortly before 12 o’clock on Tuesday visitors oo the New Brighton beach were rather alarmed by seeing a middleaged woman, wearing a Salvation Array costume, rush into the sea and carried off her feet by the waves. For some time very little notice was taken of the occurrence until it was noticed that the woman stood a good chance of being drowned, when Mr Searcll, with some other gentleman, went to her assistance and got her on to the beaoh. Dr Hunt was then telephoned for, and on his arrival the woman, who was unconscious, was taken into an adjacent house and attended to. Nothing could be gathered as to her identity, but she was supposed to be a woman from Christchurch. Dr Hunt gate it as his opinion that she had been seized with a fit, which led to her rushing into the sea.

Begarding the tide phenomena observed in Auckland harbour a few days ago, Captain A. Farquhar, of the Thames steamer Rotomahona, informs the New Zealand Herald that on Sunday morning last, while at the Thames wharf, he noticed that at high water, which was at about 8*45 a.m., the tide flowed until it had reached a height of about three inches, when it remained stationary for some time and then came in with a rush. On the Friday evening previous, when leaving the Thames wharf for Auckland, although it was high water time when the steamer left, she just managed to get clear, the tide being so low. The steamer Ohinemuri also had a little difficulty in getting alongside the Thames i

wharf the same evening, though she draws about two feet less water than the Botomahana. Between the Thames and Tapn some men were fishing on the rooks when the tide made a sadden rush in, surrounding the rocks on which they wore on, and leaving them in rather an awkward predicament, for they had to wade to the shore. PUBLIC OPINION. The opinion of the leading skin authorities pJE the world, viz., the late Professor Sir Erasmus Wilson, F. 89., Dr Bed wood, Ph-' D,, F.C.8., F. 1.0., Mr Jobq L. Milton, Senior Surgeon St. John’s Hospital for the Skin, London, etc., unanimously agree that Pears* Soap in the bast soap for the skin and complexion [Advt].