NEWS OF THE DAY.

Press, Volume XXXVI, Issue 5056, 21 November 1881, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

EM. Coubt.—There wo* do business at the Beiideot Magistrate's Court on Saturday morning.

LtrTHKCOLOSIAI WsXTBEB ExOHASGB.— Sydney, Friday 6Tening.>lhe weather ie gloomy with showers on the south coast, and S.E. and B.W. winds on the east coast, the fine wind haying changed to S.W. during the night. Barometer—Albany, 30.0; Borda, 30.0; Portland. 29 9; Hobart and Sydney, 29.6.

B.M. OotrsT.—The charge sheet this morning comprises seven cases of drank and disorderly, one for destruction of private property, one of lunacy from drink, one charge of larceny, and one for forgery. There are also eleven police summons cues of the ordinary description. Roman's Waxwobkb.— This show did good business on Saturday, the matinee for ladies and children in the afternoon being well patronised. The Australian electrical youth and the talking machine came in for a good share of attention. The exhibition will be continued to-day, and aereral sew musical pieces will be performed.

Isqttbst.—An inquiry touching {he death of Charles Rye, who recently died in the Hospital, was held in that institution at noon on Saturday, before the Coroner and a jury, of whom Mr John Baylee was chosen foreman. It appeared, from evidence adduced, that on the last day of the races deceased, who was intoxicated, got a ride in. one of MilsomV vans to town, and whilst filtering their yard in George street, a wire elotke*ime swept him and H. Oookaley off the Tan on to the footpath, the injuries received rtnpjfying ITye, and information being conveyed to the police that a drunken man waa lying on the paremenVhe wm conveyed to Ine lock-up. Dr; Meikle deposed to ksringiaide • fotimmtem and tbafc death wwolfcd feesfc the effects of tli**e«d«sfc A Twdiot warretoroed m accordance with the medical testanony, with a rider to the effect that the Swnoji mfomii* the fcionedtbe accident.

Thb VOITIBTBBB3. —The s.s. Hinemoa, I with the Canterbury contingent from the| front, will arrive at Lyttelton to-day. » BHSiLFBnrDiHe Machikw.—it is under*] stood that Messrs Howard and Sons, Bedford, England, are Bending out a few itring binding harvesting machines. new machine wa» successfully tried at Royal Society's lwt show, near hat been very favorably reported o^ , machine ie eaid to greatly resemble - of the harvesters now in mc here, bat zaais with stronger parta.

Btthaway.—Some excitement wes caused on Saturday afternoon ab,out three -o'clock, when a horse and bugpj, mines the driver, came rapidly past the Bank of Hew Zsaland from Colombo iteeet Boath, It turned towards the Post-office, and across Cathedral square into Mo Alpine's Hone Repository, and being at borne came to a dead stand, without any injury resulting.

AOADHMY OS Mosic.—The bill of Friday, vix., "Double Dealings," "My Wife's Bβlations," and "Molly's Dilemma," was repeated on Saturday evening to a good house, and the songs and dances incidental to the programme were enthusiastically encored. This was announced as the last performance of the troupe, but these clever artistes having to remain in Christchuroh till Tuesday will make their final appearance this evening. The bill includes an item not hitherto submitted for public approval, entitled " The Drees BβIrearsal." introducing "Tooral Laddie" and " The <Juakers," in which the company have won golden opinions elsewhere. This will be followed by "The Masquerade," the concluding item being "King Henry's Little Game," which has been added by request.

Fbibhdly Societies' Fbtb.—A meeting of the Friendly Sooieties' fete committee wss held on Friday, at the Foresters" Hall, there being a good attendance of delegates. Rβ the Fire Brigade drill competition, it was decided to adopt the conditions a& suggested by the various brigades intending to compete. The amount of the prize was left open, as no reply j had been received from tho Insurance Association. Mr C. Samuels was authorised to ! oolleot subscriptions to augment the prize given by the committee. Tie secretary reported that W. P. Cowlishaw and Charles Clark, Ssqrs., had given special prizes of £2 2s each, Mr Bankin a 121b box of tea, Mr Kerr 1001b flour, Mr Bone a dress piece value 10s 6d, and Mr G. Triggs a canary. It was decided to add a Married Womans' Bace to the programme—lst prize, box of tea; 2nd, 1001b flour; 3rd, dress piece. The secretary was authorised to invite the Lyttelton Orphan and Burnham Industrial Schools to attend the fete. It was decided to admit all juvenile members who march with the procession free. A ground committee, consisting of nine delegates, three from each order, was appointed ; a toy committee was also appointed. It was deoided to iell the right of erecting two publicans' and two confectioners', and one ice cream booth, by publio auction. The officers were appointed a printing committee, with instructions to get the programme published as soon as possible. The officers reported having written to the Colonial Secretary, applying for permusioa to hold an art union under seotion 18 of the Gaming and Lotteries Aot, but had not yet received a reply. The committee then adjourned.

Ltttbltoh Beoatta, 1882.—A meeting of the regatta committee was held in the Colonists' Hall on Friday night, at wbioh Mr J. D. Maopherson's acceptance of the offioe of com* modore was made known. Mr Puflett, the vice-commodore and chairman of the meetings stated that the Union Steamship Gompanw would give a speoial prize of £5 5s for the inrigger race. The hon. secretary, Mr T. Iβ Smith, said that £1114 i had been carried t« the credit of the funds as the proceeds fronft the benefit entertainment given by Mr ancP Mrs B. A. Hart of " Happy Honrs" fame. The leoretary was inetrooted to call tenders for a band of mniic on New Year's D&y, and to write to tbe Harbor Board for the use of the steam tug for a committee ship, and the right to use the end of tbe Gladstone pier for a subscribers' stand; alto, to atk the General Manager of Bail ways if the usual concession would be made in carrying competing boate over tbe lines, and if the use of the raliray yard for booths could be sectored for the day of the regatta. It was decided to dispense with the flagship feature of the regatta, past experience going to show that a flagship was both unprofitable and unnecessary. The opinion was also expressed that for committee purposes the end of the pier would be more suitable than' a steamer anchored in the inner harbor.

Thbatbb Boyai.—Thie place of amnsement was opened on Saturday evening by a company styling themselves the Bohemians. There was a very good downstairs house. The performance oommenoed with the laughable comedy of "Euohred," in wbioh Messrs J. F. Hydea, R. Love, E. Alexander, and the Missel Bessie Vivian and Madge Herriok took part. The eeoond part of the programme was no donbt the draw of the evening, being a piece written by a gentleman of Ohristohnroh, and entitled "Kow Kow," or the "Invasion of Parihaka." Why this title should have been selected is hard to say, for the piece had little or nothing in it about the invasion of Paribaka—in fact, it was only a second edition of "Happy Land/ performed here some time ago. Mr J. P. Hjdes doubled the characters of Sir Gep. Grey and the Hon. W. Bolleston, the make np for each character being very good. Mr E. Alexander was the Hon. J. Hall, but was not «o successful in his make up. Mr B. Love ac Orangitangi Tβ Whiti could eoaroely be called a Buooess, being over boisterous for the Maori prophet. Miss Bessie Vivian as Lady Sweettbyme sang and danoed with her usual ability, and received an encore for her song, " I Shouldn't Like to Tell." Miss Madge Herriok as Fairy Oloudland quite astonished the audience with her singing and dancing. The Misses Hettie Lambrette and Gwynne Herriok had but little to do as Xady Marjoram and Bore Bore. The oomgany appear again this evening, when Miss Blanche Vaughan will make her first appearance in the "Lost WilL"

Obickbt.—On the Lancaster Park ground on Saturday the match between the Midland and Lanoaster Park Olubs was continued. The latter made a much better fight of it in its first innings than was expected, owing principally to Mr Stevens, who pat together upwards of sixty in good style. The match will enter on its third and last day next ; Saturday, and the score will be given when completed.—On the Hagley Park ground the match among the members of the XJ.C.O. fell through, owing to non-attendance of men;— The second eleven of the U. 0.0.0. eoored 79 in then? first innings against the College, W. Fen wick making 25. The College soored 97, with seven wickets down, VI. Cotterill putting together S3, not out.—A matoh between the Addington and Prebbleton Olubs was played on Saturday last on the ground of the former, and resulted greatly in their favor. J. Saddle 14 and O. Taylor 14, were the principal scores for Addiogton; Lyford, with 14, being the only one to make any stand for Prebbleton. The other wickets fell very quickly. J. Wheatly and B. Turner each did good service in the bowling department for Addington. The former getting three wickets for 14 runs and the latter five for 10 runs. The soores were— Addington, 71 j Prebbleton, 29.—A match was played on Saturday last on the Christchurch ground between the Standard Cricket Club and the Addington Youths' Cricket Club, which resulted in a draw in favor of the Standard. Theioores were as follows:— Standard, 98; Addington Youths, 70 for nine wickets.—A match between an eleven of the Bangiora Club and eighteen of the Sef ten Club was played at Balcaim on Saturday. The home team scored 38, and the visitors 62, of which Mr E. E. Good made 30 aisd Mr 0. D'Auvergne 11. Mr Steward bowled Very effectually for the Sef ton Club.

Tebboib Gtthpowdhb Expioshot.—The "Panama Star and Herald " says:—"Details have been received of aterrifio powder explosion at WA«rfrfc", Mexico. The explosion occurred in the Government magazine, in I which several tons of powder were stored, and was caused by one of the guards detailed at the place smoking a cigar within the magazine. The building was situate in the centre or basinets portion of the town. The explosion completely raxed the magazine and destroyed many houses in its immediate vicinity, besides doing considerable damage to a number of others and killing a large number of people. Immediately after the explosion the soldiers and citizens went to work to recover the bodies of those known to have been buried in the ruins. Many bodies have been recovered, among them that of Francisco Sena, the district judge. The number of wonndwl m not j«fc known, as many bodies are said to be still boned under the ruins." A late? message saje:—"The official repO rt on the powder magazine disaster at Mezatlan states that twenty perroni Were , &<) explosion and thirty injured. JJwelre other psriost are mining."

Matotjbhbkh."—Many hearts t OB have been moved by the music of "Kathle 42i Jfovourneen" will learn with regret " Manchester Guardian ") that the gifted author of that famous song (Nicholas Crouch) has not been successful in the battle of life, and is bow, at the age of 73, reduced to the necessity of working aa a vamisher in a Baltimore factory. Hbavt Baihtah, —-The downpou? of rain at the Bluff on the 14th appears to have been something out of the common. A good deal of damage was caused by it, and the drains and culverts were quite inadequate to carry away the volume of water rushing down the hill behind the township. At the pilot station, round to the southward of Captain Thompson's house, about an acre of land upon the hill slipped, bringing trees, rocks, &3., down to the water's edge. Under Messrs Nichol and Tuoker's new wool and grain etores the greater part of the foundation has been washed away, so much so that a carriage end pair could nearly be driven under the flsor of the shed ; and in the front of Messrs Waddel and Oo.'s store a large bole has been made in the road about twenty feet long. Fortunately no damage was occasioned to any of the grain stored at the Bluff, although Messrs Nichol and Tucker will suffer some loss owing to the water having covered some merchandise they had stored on a low level. The train from Invercargill had to stop nearly a mile from the station through damage cauied to the line by the downpour. Aqricuxtttbai, anu Pabtobai Association.—A meeting of the committee of the above association was held on Saturday afternoon, in the offices of the association, at half - past one o'olock. Present—Mr 'J. B. Hill, president (in the chair), Messrs Sutherland, Norman, Henderson, Mcßetb, Gilmour, W. Boag, J. Walls, T. Bruce, T. Duncan, W. E. Ivory, and J. Ferguson. The president read the report of the committee re the proposals of Messrs Joubert andTvropeny in the matter of renting the show grounds of the association, and constructing buildings thereon tor an exhibition. The report recommended that the grounds be let for a period of four months, at £100 a month, and for the term of six months at a sum of £500, payable monthly. Considerable discussion ensued, in the course of which it was pointed out that it would involve breaking up the sward and sowing it afresh at the end of the tenanoy, which would involve the loss of two seasons. The president moved—"That the reoommendation of the committee be adopted," which was duly seoonded by Mr P. Cunningham. It the course of conversation it transpired that the exhibitioners would want to oommence operations at the end of January or the beginning of February. Mr Norman moved, Mr T. Duncan seconded, and it was resolved—"That Meiers Joubert and Twopeny be charged the the sum of £400 for a period of six months." A motion of Mr Mcßeth, seconded by Mr Gilmour —" That the same sub-committee deal with the matter further"—was also agreed to. A letter was then read from the Colombo road Wesleyan Sunday echool committee, asking for the use of the building and grounds for a Sunday sohool picnic on December 22nd and 23rd, and after some conversational discussion the matter was left in the hands of the secretary to arrange, it being understood the new office was not to be used. Ibis was all the business.

Electoeai..—Mr J. T. Fisher will address the electors at the Oddfellows' Hall, Wooleton, at 7.30 p m. on Thursday. Stanmobh ELECTiON.~Mr Cowlisnaw's AHUsEiraNT Association.—A. meeting of this association is convened for four I o'clock this afternoon, at the City Council Chamber, to arrange for the Anniversary Day] arrangements for the forthcoming enow and races at Dunedin will be found in our advertisement columns.