NEWS OF THE DAY.

Bush Advocate, Volume II, Issue 91, 4 December 1888, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

.:■.'.'•.. -~ — -+>-• — -' •; -/• -CapJaincThomas Moore, !an old|Wobd- * ; v'flle settler died on Sunday morning. -; The Norsfwood/Lutheran Church will be consented:* bh'^tbe' lj>th. . A* tea and r --:-&ricßWwiii;bt> given in ! celebration of the everifc.;? ~>. -l »'■■;■' ; - Oamaru is in mourning. • The Earl of • died a>hia residence there yesterday,'aged" 41* ;^ disease. His eldest Bon.'aged 11, takes the title. : The openipgolE the, Waipawa Exhibition Will ta'ke ■' -place" to-morrow and it ;is . r;expected/ihat tnere will be \ai large .'attendance. The railway arrangements - are announced in another column. . '■_ : Senna?' Sir. Henry Wylie Normin, (Governor of Jainaica, ; has been appointed Governor of Queensland." • WoodVille Lawnl Tennis Club will . send a team here on, Saturday, to try concluiii&VWith ttie Darievirke Club. Weihawto 1 thariki'Jilf Bierre, the local agent, for copies /of the New Zealand Insurance, Gompanyjs. calendar for 18§9. The?Minißter Of Lands has- telegraphed HoUfW, -q.-iSmith, ■fttP-K.," thakhefcas r beeh^bliged'foalt^hiSiplans and- go to • Auckland: --He will Visit this district on his return, probably in two or three : weeks. :( •• , '■' ' } ■■ We are informed that Mr Gasson, the • i v.gen^alFlioßt^bf "the-B^ac6nßfield;Hotel at C/ 'MakotuKu, . intends . tc( Supply Christmas hampers at a irery 16 w fate. This is quite a new,:Une..in ,the" ]|ush, and should be •/, pppularitj'';^ */<■ '} '* - ; ' lf '" ?^ - : " ■' _ , ; J^VA^duriouk^oargo^ of live stock passed through. Queenstown (says the Lake „.Wpi^ioiMaUynim^y; a consignment 1 "ofaQOcats, of afi, sorts,, sizes, and colours, de3tiried;for Mount Pisa station, for the purpose of destroying the rabbita on that run. ; A Southland farmer just returned from Great Britain states that at Smithfleld there wer^ /exposed , for ' sale , immense ■, .quantities of rabbits from the Continent and it is suggested that it might not be a bad plan to freeze'our rabbits in the fur and e«nd them Home, Babbitß from France „ sell at from lOd to Is. each wholesale. ■ * Sergeant James. Dalton, originator of the tfHu .•• larrikin," ;( djed at the Royal ParkiiiiLtioij} yictoria, of which he was in oharge, tin Me Hm inst. He, joined ffthe^etoriarpblioe MIB6O/' Three weeks before his death he was- seized with . typhoid fever. He leaves a wife and family well provided for, and was 00 years "■- $ ms)--y{ :.-:u ;-■'<.;:■.■'.:■■ : ' The Rev W; Colenso held a special Service in the Presbyterian Church, Dane"'•.vif'ke/lastf Thursday, when he delivered an interesting address to the congregation. His remarks had reference to recent fatal acoidents in the district, and he impressed upon hiß hearers the necensity for being prepared for a hasty summons from this life. The Waifaidpa Standaid remarks:— As showing the increase which, may be expeoted in sheep returns next season, the following phenomenal lambing speaks volumes — H. Tancred, of Ponati, 105 per cent; Grace Bros., of Gladstone, 106 per cent ; and H. P. Tenuiorangi, 107 per cent. These are very remarkable averages indeed. . Mr Hegh's new flour mill is advancing towards completion. Mr Anders Johansen is the contractor for the work of building the wheel, and Mr Julius Hanson has taken the, contract tq build the mill dam. Mr Hegh's new residence is completed, and the painter is already at work on it. The house contains 10 rooms, and is close to the site of the new flour mill, about midway along the road known as the Danish Hnei We wish this local industry -Bucoess. A meeting of gentlemen desirous of forming , a glee club was held at the Beaconsfield Hotel, Makotuku, on Saturday eveniHg. '< The following gentlemen were present— Messrs Scarfe, Gasson, W. L. Siddels, Chaldicptt,; C. Garforth, H. Smith, junr., and' W. Smith. An apology was received from Mr J*. Fefgusson, who t \vftß unable to attend, but he would bea. member, as would also MrsFer' -guss<?n.. It was resolved to form a glee club, Messrs Scarfe, Cbaldicott. and Garforth to ascertain how many would become jnemberfl. .

'7-/A strange application was made recently in the Adelaide Supreme Court, when a request was made that the verdict ;in the suit of Powell v Powell and Poile might be given effect to, and the marriage dessolved. The case was heard some 25 years ago by the late Chief Justice Hanson and a jury, and it transpired that most of :the $>rions who had he^BLCorineJoted with the triftl Were dead. The applicatiSii ayas adjourned, so that a search might be made for the judges notes and other records of of the case. Ms-Leopold Alamaoher, a Getman corn- i positpr in" the printingibiEfiqe ,<?f Cerf and , Sons, of Versailles, has just come into possession, of, a million, sterling, bequeathed to him by M. Taniiet, of Now Orleans, whose life the fortunatjj compositor had been the means of saving many years. ago. Inearly life M. Tamiet had been a member of the editorial staff of the Journal des Debate ; but he quitted Paris for America in 1849, and founded the Courier dt SanFrancisco. Afterwards he engaged in mining pursuits, arid thus amassed the fortune bequeathed to M. Alamaoher. Instances have been recorded of the remarkable swimming capabilities of cattle, but vrV(W%iUrri Star):Ao riotremembef to have heard ©f such wonderful powers of endurance a» were witnessedjlast week near Orepuki. Mr Erskine was crossing a mob of cattle at the mouth of the Waiau to hiß run, which is situated on the other side of the river, when seven of the beasts were carried out to sea and all hopes of their recovery were given up. This was a few minutes before 12 o'clock. The surprise of those in charge of the cattle can be imagined when at half -past 4 six out of lhe : seven 'beasts landed safely after being in the water over four and a-half hours. The New York correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald writes :— " A wretoh, who was guilty of probably the mosi fiendish crime on r record, has just been sentenced at New York to penal servitude for 27 years. This devil in human formi v ßohan by name, in April 1886, while in a drunken rage, deliberately gouged out one of *his wife's eyes, and Recording jko the : ; testojnny pf two>of his own daughters he afterwards swere again and again that he would ' have her other eye.' On July, 30 of the present year he actually made good his horrible promise. Being drunk and surly on that night he picked a quarrel' with his wife on some trivial pretence, and, rushing savagely; at , her,. jiore her, remaining eye from, the socket. Ahd' 'yet ihis'^ppor. wom^n refused^ to iestfiy against ; her brjij»l : hußbandi and appeared in court to plead for mercy for the wretch who had mad«her blind. • v