NEWS OF THE DAY.

Bush Advocate, Volume I, Issue 42, 11 August 1888, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The time for receiving tenders for Messrs Cowper and Knight's bush felling contract has been extended till Friday next. The specifications may be ssen at ito Advocate Office.

The frame- work of Mr A. Gordon's xievr premises is up. «» ••'••• We hear that some 6£ the present outside mills contemplate joining with the timber company. . ;. :'.'•■ ;A ; A man 'named George Best, 45. years of agej' was killed it-Wood ville yesterday .morning while bushf ailing. A limb fell and knocked out his brains. . France gives the least to charity of any civilised ■ nation, . and ' she has the fewest tramps and beggars. The people mostly own small houses. Mr J. 0. Fraser, of the Daneyirke CoOperative store, ipserts.a business notice in this; issue. The " Co-Operative " is now well stocked with an endless variety of new goods, and will, no doubt receive a fair share of the puhlio patronage. Messrs Nelson Moate and Co., the wellknown tea merchants, have, issued a clever advertisement in the form, of a lithographed extract from the Ohristchurch Press. The work is so well done that it would deceive most people at first sight. During the short time the contractors have had Mr Allardice's new hotel in hand they have made a great show, and the magnitude of the structure can now be judged from the extent of the floor space. A great many men are employed on the job, and with fine weather the progress;of the building will be rapid. Here is a choice sample of American, pulpit oratory. The Eev. Dr W. J. Lee, of Atlanta, said in a sermon— so the local papers say— that "the reason the lions didn't eat Daniel, when he was oast into their den was that he was two-thirds back-, bone and the rest. pure grit." . _. John Glazebfook, a celebrated English philanthropist, died at, Atlanta, Ga. He spent a large sum to help to emancipate the negroes in the United States. He died with the conviction that the condition of the negroes has not been improved by emancipation, and expressed a regret that he spent his money for that purpose. An Austrian chemist claims to have invented a fluid of most destructive properties. This fluid, when brought into contact with the air, after the explosion of a shell in which it had been contained, is transformed into a ,gas, which, being heavier than the air, descends to the ground, killing all men and animals within its reach. J3ome Canadian unearthed in a Toronto broker's shop a portrait of Robert Burns, and became the possessor of the prize for £2. The painting is said to be by Zlae- : burn and dates 1787. The purchaser ex- , peots to receive £2000 for his find, and forwards it to Scotland. The picture is scarcely likely to be by Eaeburn seeing he was in his cradle when Burns, visited Edinburgh in 1887. ' The schoolmaster is not much at home in Portugal, or his pupils are very inapt. It appears (says the Globe) from a recent official report, that of the 15,000 emi r grants who left the kingdom last year only 4261, or about 30 per cent., could read and. write, and it is probably safe to suppose that people energetic enough to seek their fortunes abroad are at least as well taught as those of their class who are left behind. Of the emigrants from Madeira and the Azores only 395 out of 4467 could read and "write. Mrs English, of 11 Margaret Street, Sheffield, was the central figure of a happy party at the Black Swan Hotel, in that town. The guests, who numbered thirty, and had all gone beyond threescore years, met to celebrate Mrs English's 101 st birthday. The old folks had a particularly genial time. With excellent hearing, fair eyesight, with all the other evidences of health, Mrs English assured her friends chat she hoped she would live for several years yet. " I've thoroughly enjoyed myself," she exclaimed, as she rose from the hospitable table. Kyrle Bellew, the English actor, is having an eventful time in the United States. It appears that a young lady, named Henrietta Coffin, became madly infatuated with him. " Kyrle Bellew did not reciprocate her love, and now Miss Coffin is verifying the truth of the words that "Hell has no fury like a woman scorned," by searching for him with a pistol. Bellew is the leading man in Mrs James Brown Potter's company, now performing in Chicago, to which town Miss Coffin has gone. The police there are keeping a sharp eye on her movements, and the actor has the theatre carefully examined for the lady before the curtain rises each night. Mr R. T. Booth, who is now en tour in Australia, quite out-Yankeed'the Yankees ' in the course of an address at a suburb.of Sydney the other day. He said that if any twopenny-halfpenny country went to war, the Australians, English, and Americans are in a position to give them a cuff and put them to bed. The Englishspeaking nations, notably England, America, and Australia, number nearly 100,000,000 souls. He regretted that men thought so much of building 'forts and firing guns ; but let the Russian bear put his paw upon the fair land of Australia, then the British lion, the American eagle; and the Australian kangaroo would rise upas one man, and drive him back ignominously to his, lair. The utterance of these words caused cheering that lasted fully five minutes. The picture of a lion and an eagle and a kangaroo rising up v as one man . is about the finest example of muddled metaphor we have met with for a long time. In connection with the rise in the price of wheat, and the unfavorable prospects of the English harvest on account of wet weather, frequent reference will naturally j be made to the famous St. Swithin theory. Aocording to the legend, in the year 8(32 there passed away the Bishop of Winchester, who is kept in memory green as St. Swithin. He desired that he might be buried in the Minster yard) so that the sweet rain of heaven might fall upon. his grave. The monks, filled with enthusiasm, decided to remove the mortal remains of the saint to the choir, the' date fixed for the ceiemony being July 15. But. the rain descended in earnest, and for forty days the -downpour continued. The .monks saw in this a mystic intervention, and abandoned their purpose. The old rhyme runs thus : — St. Swithin's day, gif ye do rain, For forty days it will remain j . St. Swithin's day, an ye be fair, For forty days 'twill rain nae mair. It may be added that other countries have their St. Swithin's jJScotland, St. Martin of Bouillons ; France, Sts. Medard and (iervais ; Flanders, St. Godelieve ; Germany, the Seven Sleepers. The Norsewood School Committee met on Monday. All the members were pre-* sent, Mr Ericksen in the chair. • The master's report for the past month was read and adopted. The following applications for mistress were received: — Miss Ellen Ewing, Wanganui, Miss Amy W. Arrow, Kaikora, Miss Venelia Halton, Napier, Miss M. J. Thomas, Akaroa, Miss H. J. Grant, Waipawa, Miss M. F. Hall, Gisborne. After carefully considering the applications the committee decided to appoint Miss Hall of Gisborne, to the position as mistress to the Norsewood District School. It was resolved to open the new school with an entertainment, and it was also resolved to authorise the Chairman to buy £'& worth of ornamental trees, to plant round the school grounds. Messrs Andersen and Pettersen was appointed a visiting committee for the ensuing month, and the Chairman and Mr Fredvicksen were appointed an entertainment committee; to carry out the arrangements for the opening of the school. The following aceounis were passed for payment: — O; Torkelsen, £'i Is, for firewood, O. Johansen, £1 15s, fur fencing school ground. •t'hQ meeting then twmnatwl,

The business at the Ormondville R.M. Court on Wednesday was of a light nature and the' sitting did riot occupy much time. The following cases were disposed of :— Anderson v. Lycett and Cross.— Judgment summons £8. Order made in absence of judgment debtor. Olsen v. Lycett and Cross. — Judgment summons £7 7s. Order made for payment at the rate of £2 10s per month. Thomson v. Ericksen.— Claim £16 13s 2d, judgment for plaintiff with costs* Mr Loughnan for plaintiff. Forward v. Egan.— Claim £4> Judgment for plaintiff with costs. Cross v Wagner, claim' 10s 6d. Mr. Gould for defendant. No appearance of plaintiff. Nonsuited with costs £1 3s 6d. Plaintiff Afterwards attended and asked ihat the case be re-in-. -stated. He was ordered to serve notice^ upon defendant's solicitor. Maynard v. Slipper.— Claim £6 for rates. Judgment for plaintiff, with costs 65.. J. W. An-, drews v. Lundqyist.-»-Claiiin £3 Is '6d. ■ Judgment' for plaintiff, with costs. Mr Sheath (for Mr Coates) appeared for plaintiff. _