NEWS OF THE DAY.

Press, Volume XLVII, Issue 7546, 8 May 1890, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY.

JlpM) iPßksa. Fauntleroy," at tho Theatre Royal, Is the subject of an excellent critical notice in the new issue of the Weekly Press, by the :«Man in the Fit," who has yery appropridtelygiveu also a description of how the original name part of this piece waa created by Mrs Kendal and a clever little girl pupil. "HandieapperV' Athletic News is of the most interesting kind; ha has the performances of Hempton and Morrison, th% Field's view of G. B. t. haw's hurdle performances, the Oxford and Cambridge sports, and some interesting record breaking, besides all the local and Sydney training news and gossip. Tha very well informed and accurate sketches of Oxford Professors are continued this week, " Professor Freeman and his little ways" being the subject of "An.Ox* omans" pointed criticism. There is a full account of the moa between Kemp and Matterson for tbe Sculling Championship, aad plenty of Sporting Notes by j " Spectator," together with a pen portrait of the popular gentleman rider, Mr Arthur Coventry. The Yeoman has many interesting articles and notes, with a leader on "How to Know Grasses by their Leaves." The adventures and tbe heroio appetite of the young Duke of Orleans are described very amusingly by the Paris correspondent. "My introduction to Peninsula cheese" is the title of a paper in the WaarrigaTa best vain, describing? not only the cheese but the making of it. We must leave unnoticed the contents of the Ladies' Magazine, but we may say that this, like the rest of the paper, is fulTof the beat kind of reading and information* ,

Bismol* HABp^lZi^^ i laity wiU be f«* lljt j j at 2 p.m. t Nslbon Gibls* Colt»« ' Press Association toleffram A »elr_ £ the Board of £*. 'JJ |- y«te S dayap^intedMlsm^. e b tt ColW 8 ' it M.A.,of Christehurch,■ I the Nelson Girls' CoUe^ y £ rin fyal o £ principal having resigned!? ' tho ftaeat { Anothsb Bank at AMn» a , is reported that the Bank A ar --Ii; bf Wales is likely to *m f berley. a \- Old Soldiers.— The ColW *■' toma has reoeived letters of[EL* Cba i for Pensioner P. McDonald. X ?f\ *' Trumpeter W. Ashley, B.A. *"' «** /-, Jl Lsotttbh.—An intereatto* »„, " I "Astronomy" was delivered jJS «, by Mr E. J. Collins, at his S g n t-ka f Tuain street, which waa weU I*?*%. i Lis pupils and their friends F%? f intends continuing the subject I Daibthens I of tha Committee of the kw*%» I held in the Forested HaU,tffi2S I at 7.80. ,BU| «»C 1 Gaocßaa" Association At a § of the Committee of the Gh^ I elation, held yesterday site | unanimously agreed that memW, * * 5 satisfied with last Saturda?r& % « I have no cause to regret f closing at six o clock, | Maori Run.—On Prfckv * i Robert Kaye, one of the elde/fe 8 S * l the Native reserve, near W<vJ ? s °a dispose of his farm stock *Ul . agency of Mr W. Buss 8* j WsATKBB PORBQAST. —CactaJn W Edwin, of Wellington, WemEXS 7 *• f Harbormaster atVtXffti <! yesterday, as followss— "North -, east and south gale, with Sn^L* 4 s next twelve hours, and heavy «*£« Ltttblton Eowiko Cw» ~n„ a i day evening the final heat for fi ir* of Lyttelton's Cup ™Z^g , oompetifcorawere-~B.Sinakii.rf", I and J. Webb (three sal afefe> ! The race resulted in a *£% » who now takes the prise. «*«««», i Tseatbb Boyal.-" Little Lord jw leroy" was repeated last At tbe'SSr Royal. Miss Olive Berkley, whoft? | laid up with the complaint which hasS become fashionable, played the ' Miss Berkley is taller than Mis. <W i Hopkins, and played the part witfc»W dom and a naturalness which roada i" with a good deal of success. Mia. : M. Berkley, wno has also be«a ill appeared in the part of Minna, To-sit ' Miss Hopkins will appear m tt g** ' Lord, and on Friday Miss Berkley *n ! sustain the character. On Saturday aft* 1 noon the first and only matinee pU£' ! ance will be given. • ** | Spbinoston Pobuo LiaaAßT. i annual meeting of the Springston Lita» i was held on Thursday evening, Utf i Gammack in the chair. There t® $ small attendance. The Secretary tea.* statement of receipts aad expending L \ the past year.. The receipts were Ml k j 4dj expenditure£2l 4s, bank bate. $• I 6a 4d. The election of a new Coan_fe_ j was then proceeded with, when feg j Gammack, John Muir, P. Sinclair, J.{w_ W. Kime, J. Marshall, B. Wall, B. &£ and Hy. Kime were elected. Mr P. &> j olair was elected Secretary and Trewuiw 1 and Mr Hy. Kime Librarian. Mmul Woodward and Sinolair were appeiataU) .buy books for the year. A vote vi feafe was accorded to the late Committee, th Secretary and Treasurer, and the Gait* man. Dcnsandel.—-The annual genets! gt&t, ing of the Library and Hall waakl.<a Tuesday evening. There were tM.Jj.bar subscribers present. Mr Parker Water. occupied the chair. The Chairma., ml, the annual report and btdMea*(beet, which showed that the mambsrabip ?M expenditure were much the same ss $w* vious years, and a credit balance of £i I 5 * lid still remained. Tho report mk balance-sheet were adopted. Tho sum oE £A 4a was voted to the Librariaa tot jJMt services, The following ■Committee was elected for the enßning year—Meiars V. Westenra, P. Lill, G. jb\ Wright, B. Bs^ Sees, J. S. Bobins, D, P. Caxneron, 1. Lsck° cad, S. Sherrard, and G. 1 r vote of thanks .was accorded to the ont.going Committee. The new Comaiitfe? then met, when Mr P. Westenra wss reelected Chairman &ni Tceasuser, Mr V, . Lill Secretary (re-elected), and Mr J. SJ Robins Librarian (re-elected), It'ww resolved that fifty volumes should agsis be exchanged with the Gteendala Library The meeting then terminated. Boap Board Elections.—At th*> election on Tuesday last of a member to represent No. 5 Ward on the TempMos Boad Board, Mr John Taylor waa retantf by a majority of 9 votw, the numbswte ing—J. Tavlor 81, W. Savill 22. fU polling for the election of two membOT'fa ; serve on the South Bakaia Iktad Bmi resulted in the return of Messrs W.M.

Lyttelton and G. Vucetich. Stokb.—Oa Friday evening tae awa* versary of the. district Hunduy Sdheol *» celebrated by a tea and public tseutii^ held iv the schoolroom. Tables wmW vided by Mesdames Andersou*, Mere-3 8 ,«» Jack and McLaughlan. Tha pablioffiftfing was presided over by Mr Mewsw, Superintendent of the Sundd*? Sa^j* During the evening addresses were giws by the Bey. D. W. Rodger Bind maa Mauuering. Butcher aud Hasball. v.* Misses Webster and P. WaylsM wfl severalsoloa, and tho Sunday Sebx>lchHf«*rf sang several pieces, led by Milts b, »«* dith, who a so presided at the hfcrmMJVW. Mr Mannerlng distributed the -'nam presents of book*. A pleasing /entow * the meeting waa the presentations,,' New, Testament to each child. W Testaments were the gift of they& Archdeacon Dudley, and each coatwMJ his autograph. A special vote of »»» was accorded to the Archdeacon. V«* of thanks were also given to tho bjk*k»j and the ladies. mt . " » Thb Latjs Mb NASirsiLSKL—The row* of the late Mr S. Nashelaki, who .«• » terred in the Jewish portion of «h* iw Cemetery at New Brighcoo, toes p-*j yesterday. The procession was tee ijW£j ever known in connection with tM «*£ of a member of the Canterbury Jw»;£ congregation. The cortege tot&v&wf*f the late residence of the ; Armagh street, and comprised, M*** many on foot, somewhere . vehicles. On each side of th* -»*£• walked members of tho Canterbury J**g of Freemasons,of which body the W**' Nasheiekiwasan old member. «rjug two mourning coaches, m om « w * were seated the deceased's two *W»? **J hia brother-in-law, Mr Myers, dJ*"fxS: tfa£Bev. A. Chadowaki, J«^\ w>^J_t M. Harris (President of the W* : Congregation), aad Messrs Latfjg Ber|h g a»d ; Ashby, Mt »*$ oldest employees. Iv * s «f AA .„rf. coach were the rest of &<> d( TS employees. Then followed t %_ other friends, including a numbsr or • leading citizens. A laigc n9 ffLL mourners went to tho oouwter/ »^^C and by the time tbe funeral V^SZa reached its destination a large n?f personß had assembled around tas! g-»: Having arrived at the cemetery tM «' which was covered with beautiful wj*^ from sympathising friends «&a J£*» ?• the grave by Messrs Bailin, S. Fbilbtf£ BeUg, J. D. Phillip-, Davis, »f Jgf, The burial service,in£® bre ?/^.^M was conducted by the Bey. * <s£J to in a most impressive fotra. ako F«?*\, *- which the lite Mr Nashelski wm WJg all classes of the community JJJ, feated by the very largo » M *f *£St£ of all denominations wbi> attend ob §S ß ' Rakaia School Cow»2w This Committee held its nontjg sg*J* at Rakaia on Monday. at T a S .Hardy (Chairman), Dowlmg. WJg Liddy, Shaaaen, Oattloy. and Uarifc. master's report showed that the »»» ance waa not so K«d« lfc . f°?S •?& theaveiage attendance being *•*-*„ ,„, there were 208 names on the rou. *» , 'resolved that the tbe Education Act be given eifrc6 attendances of the childreniw«. regular in the lueuw. «Wj »* w ,- solved that Mondayish of Jg&Jfc holiday, ia honor of the Qusjn • It was decided that «VPP»**£J &* vited /or «he oflca «r «r*to*J } school for twelv. accounts were P»sseA*w-P*^ , ' vv *

ttrnKHBAX JBaOttSATION Gbound.—At a _J*Sur efthe burgesses of Sydenham last *?Vta motion to raise a loan to purchase J^ation_ ground was negatived by a Club -The entertain, t by the Dramatic Class ,t*A.* place It was inadvertently anJSlwed for last mght. ™ Avow Steameb.— Intending appltLafcT tot shares in this Company are rv»La *« eend in their applications to the £££ M?H- B* WaSr, 205 Hereford the 12th instant, so that the £_* of building the steamer may be proved with as soon as possible. Cab Dikficoltt.— In accordance withthe resolntion arrived at by themeeto on Tuesday night the Rail«v Station stands were yesterday occupied "'"" l, nendiug tne inquiry which it ■SSiISSSft t~* .tat. to B **~r __„ morning an alarm of fire was r at Rnce's corner. ffihwM unanimously agreed to by all t Attet a lengthy discussion on SSfSla to be framed for the above, the ££ting wa9 adjourned until Monday •"SShTg***- ~ ln our ■ dv «« rf n«' will be f° and a programme of Modern Sports Gala, to y Sf ll i Kt laocastcr Park on the 26th _Z. * The li3t of events is a long one, iinds oi athletic contests £& and for all-comers. Sflow.-This show will .J'Ed toJay at' the Oddfellows' fciatap-B-* Several new , bat , ver y have entered the lists, ZaZss* remarkably fine blooms, many of quite new, wUI be exhibited. As an Steal attraction, Mesdames Garrard and Gibbs and Messrs Appleby, Meares, Carrick Barnett, and Millar will sing a Inmta of part songs daring the evening. Th» Qsseh'b Birthday.—His Worship fee Major having been requested to proSa Monday, May 26th, a public holiday, iTownnmnicated with the Government, fit lHed out that Saturday, Maj 24th, woidd be an inconvenient day on which to celebrate tiie holiday, aud asked the Government, as they had done m 1884, to declare the general nohd»y to be T on Monday, instead of the Saturday. In a Sy, which hia Worship has received, the Government decline to accede to the Cathouc Lttebabt. Society.— On j&Ksday night Mr "Cooper, a memfcerof the above Society, a Jeefcure on "A visit to the Sounds. _Ehe lecturer gave an admirable 4_»C*Jpiiott of our wonderland, and was lodaly applauded. The beautiful photoffraphß, taken by Mr Coooer, were very anccessfully thrown on the screen by Mr Noble. The audience, which included a number of ladies, was a large one. Mr Perceval occupied the chair, and moved a vote of thanks. Mr JB. Lonargan, who seconded the motion, .aid that Mr Cooper was an admirable member of a Literary Society. EirtK Shooting.—The City Guards , held their usual spooti match on Saturday last, Private Jno. Ashton proving the winner/ with a score of 49 points, *w*lth $even shots, at 400 and 500 yards: Private Harding (4 points handicap) also tied for first honors,"the tie being decided by the highest score at the last range, as above. Hand ov Hops.—The Band of Hope, ..belonging to the Church of Christ held a' arery enjoyable meeting on Monday evening last, when the members and friends of tbe St. Asaph street Band of Hope paid a friendly visit. The programme, which; was kindly supplied by the visitors, consisted of songs by Misses Tucker and 'Wooley, recitations by Messrs White, Sogers and Pollen and Miss Hichens; : Hute solo by Mr Seelan; and a dialogue, 'entitled "The Teetotal Barber." Mrß. C. Gilmour occupied the chair, and Miss Tucker presided at the organ. Sakoioba Lttbbabt Institut*. —The £on thly meeting of the Managing Comittee was held on -Tuesday: evening. ]

There was a good attendance, Mr Geo. Buckham presiding. The Treasurer reported the receipts for the month to have been £5 195, expenditure M 12s Bd, credit balance £b 9a 6d. A cunvereation ensued, 'en the popular concert shortly to be 'ia aid ot the funds, and, after arranging, seme small matters in connection therewith, the meeting adjourned. * Tub Akaboa Seat. —The Mail saya:— t?e believe the retention of the boundaries oi the electoral district as at first arranged ■by the Commissioners, means io all proba,mity a big contest for the seat. We hope, tmd believe, that the country is strong enough to return its choice, and certainly if there is a member who could jointly represent a town and country constituency It is Mr McGregor. Still, it is not likely that the member for Lyttelton will be willing to repose on his laurels, or that if he dies that some new aspirant will not arise to serve the great and separate interests of the chief seaport. If so there will be a hard straggle for the coveted honor, and though we anticipate a victory owing to having a larger part of the population of our views, yet it will only be gained by united action, and a couple of aspirants for country honors would throw the ballot into the hands of united Lyttelton. -Messrs Tonks, Norton and Co. bold a veiy large sale at the Imperial Hotel today and to-morrow. The sale commences each cay at eleven o'clock sharp. C.H. Manning's photographic work, as Is now being produced by him, is winning high encomiums from the public, his recent productions, with the most modern ipjaiaoeas aad newest chemicals, giving S»geißcent effects. His work is unsurpassed. Another new and brilliant dispajor photos now on view at studio.— £ s ? Be *' th « leading photoHSfj"? Christchnrch, is takmg such f*®"* B^ 6 Photographs that his studio ia with sitters. Cabinet photos, -«»p«daiea, ia any style. m^-^J ■Ctosnto Movement.—Believing SS? 58 interest and ventilation the movement has received that .■-■»wa. an almost universal public shopping after 6 o\lock *a«oril**f, we were Hilling to give trial; but afte/Jhl gfemnce of the iast two Saturdays, and representations of our - SSSuf! ta t fc fini ifc 8»«"Ply in>Sf,*» movement i. premature, and *BKIK e,eut *** is arranged for the I Crg*» Wa « S3 and the feeling against "SssXSn? B much more general and close our establishment «ft S»ffi butmtend closing-at 9 o'clock •«?Bi«4 6 o'clock every other nrlS 5 niay point out,is a concession on the ffigfW*. Our case is simply this-totSS-T^ 6 o'clock on Saturdays, on UttSS^r flom about 500 customers. .•WKS^ 6 Ufted £80 and *«4Mterff^'^ us Proving one of two I people don't wish us to *msm* **** ? r **•*■ cannot eontUe J » ttw ' we *«st «* ?*wse principal reason, as very 'Bft'»Lrf n " V B ** suburbs and hei i^ af^H m Saturday SfcS?w qaen £y «u»not make their 6 o'clock. We have " J ™ le to study the CiaxoansL £? Convenience of our I a&taKhS? P**t, and when they un- * T« a clock we wili bo very willing !*Sr?,A S0 A N.8.-AS we Tare not Bj££g™« t the Canterbury Grocers' and *tt aSz?.. -Association, and have never by them with regard to SSmm h .-* k S n Saturday, no resolu'fcfiK* £ at bod y is iQ the least bindJsfce. bns "»ess hours, until further S ««S»f , he from 8 o'clock till 9 on g*C J * *g«J 8 o'clock UU 6 every other Bao& - and Co., —-«oitech and Dunedin.—£Advt.]

4 WJ!S_ -"—A deficit of *£k(,i upon the first year's con*^rf* lctoriaa Orchestra. At the ****£& regret was ex- • ere was not more enttu - i^tftiL? 1 * COT^S amongst the meme % ***» and oa the question «®S|»Bn^ lntlaeat of the conductor £-*ttS!i waa ge'-erally admitted that 1 r* S«toT** Mr Hamilton Clarke on a at a salary of Mtfe»Z? B ? a ' an <l *onl4 have to pay !?%. tea gataa weli keep the orchestra **aj, **' «»e best they could for the

Basse's Pot.—The Lancet has added another terror to existence. Acoordins? to our contemporary, " the frequency with which the contagion of parasitic sycosis has been traced to its source in a barber's shop" has become « almost characteristic of the disease." Iv other words, there is not death, perhaps, but certainly the risk of tubercular eruption in the shaving pot, aad it seems that any modern Figaro who for the sharing of his customers uses " unclean brushes," or "a common soap supply" not improbably assists in the "transference of the infectious germs." In the face of such an alarming announcement as this (adds Truth) it is surely not too much for the Lancet to ask the barber of the period to use "for each client a separate portion soap-cream" and to immerse the shaving-brush in boiling water " whioh has been purified by some simple antiseptic." But even then it would appear that the harbor's razor is not above suspicion, seeing that a cut from it " may occasion the transference of even more serious diseases than parasitic sycosis." Under these circumstances it will really not be surprising if there should be a marked recrudescence in the growing and wearing of beards.

TWKNTT-EIGHT LIVES LOST AT SKA.— Lloyd's agent at Ferrol telegraphs that the British steamer Yirent has been abandoned with shaft broken. The captain and eight of the crew were saved and landed at Ferrol. The mate and fourteen men were lost. Ten bodies have been washed ashore at the mouth of the harbor. The Yirent was from Sulina. She was a vessel of 1086 tons, and was built at Sunderland in 18S0. A later despatch from Lloyd's agent states: —"The Virent was being towed by the steamer Irekieve, when the hawsers parted on the night of the 2oth March during a hurricane. The ship was abandoned, but the crew remained on board until the vessel was close to the coast. The captain and eight of the crew arrived at Ferrol on Saturday evening, The first; boat, in charge of the mate, with fourteen of the crew, attempted a landing, but the lifeboat capsized. Six of the occupants were saved. The Virent is a total wreck under Priorino Grande, id deep water. The Dundee steamer Ethel Gwendoline foundered of? Battray Head, Aberdeenshire coast, on Friday afternoon, and seven of the crew of ten men were drowned. Tne crew, nine in number, of the brig Black Prince, of Robin Hood's Bay, landed at Whitby on Sunday morning in their boat. The brig was laden wich coals from Hartlepool for Portsmouth, and when off Skinningrove on Saturday night was run into by a passing steamer, and soon afterwards foundered. The crew took to their boat, aud the weather being calm and the sea smooth, succeeded in making Whitby harbor."

Thb .Reaction in Buenos Atees.— What is called a moratorium, or delay in payment, lasting over twelve months, has been found necessary (says the Daily News oi March 12th) to meet -the commercial situation in Buenos Ayres. The.Latin races which predominate among the "Yankees of the South," as the Argentines love to call themselves, have been in a whirl of speculative excitement for the last two or three years. Land rose in value prodigiously, and prices became thoroughly inflated, because the currency was irredeemable. A paper dollar in Argentine is now worth about Is 7d, whereas its value was over 4s when tiie people had confidence that it would be paid in gold. Stories like chapter? from "Monte Cristo," but well authenticated, have reached London. Merchants and cattle farmers have lived like royal princes of old times. Satin bed clothes, professional attendants to provide -music or dancing, every appliance of ! wanton luxury that reckless extravagance | cohld procure, were taken to; the'land of > these hot-headed plutocrats. The game could not go on for ever, and is, for a year or two at least, ended.

Mb E. Waksflrm>. —- The London correspondent of the Dunedin Star has; interviewed Mr Edward Wakefield at the St." Stephen's Club.— *• Mr Wakefield," he states, "does not propose returning to New Zealand before the end of the year, and seems uncertain whether he will re-enter public life. He found Americans extraordinarily ignorant and laudably curious about the colony. Editors were delighted to take 'copy' from a litterateur of his standing on Antipodean subjects, and Mr Wakefield now finds he has a larger connection with Yankee newspapers than is altogether convenient. Naturally Mr Wakefield made a point of inquiry into the possibility of the flax market in the States. He found the market for New Zealand flax of a carefully dressed character practically unlimited. He is of opinion, however, and so is' one of the principal 'American brokers who crossed with him'to England, that before the flax is submitted to the American market 'it should be redressed in London * and the straw taken off. The Americans have not as yet machinery for this purpose, and do not understand the process as the English do. Mr Wakefield will have a series of articles in the new United Bervice Magazine (edited by Colonel Morris) on Periods iv English History.' This is a favorite subject of his; in fact, whilst in America he lectured thereon before the Columbia College and kindred institutions. Recently Mr Wakefield accompanied Professor Leo Field' on a visit to Queenwood College, in Hampshire, and assisted that eminent ornithologist iv a lecture, on «Wingless Birds.' Mr Field opened the bail with a paper oh'The Great Auk,' Mr Wakefield following with <The Wingless Birds of New Zealand.' The collection of illustrative specimens got together from provincial and Continental museums and exhibited on this occasion was exceedingly fine, and the collegians professed themselves equally instructed, interested, and entertained."

What Protection Dobs.—The Sydney Evening News, in regard to the policy of protection v freetrade, makes the following pungent remarks:—"Protection and freetrade are doing for shipping in the Southern Hemisphere what they did for it in the Northern Hemisphere. Protection wiped the American flag off the seas, and freetrade carried the British flag to every quarter of the world. Here is how Victoria and New South Wales stand:—Victoria owns 125 steamers and 270 sailing vessels for a total tonnage of 80,291 tons; New South Wales 490 steamers and 650 sailing vessels for a total tonnage of 238,438 tons. No wonder the old salts of West Sydney and Bahnaiu keel-haul the protectionist philosophers when they put up for election."

"Thb New Disease."--The British Medical Journal is informed by telegraphic despatch that an official report to the Italian Government denies the existence in Mantua and tbe Italian provinces of the disease spoken of as La Nona, Tbere were four cases which gave rise to the report; three were cases of coma and delirium following typhoid, the fourth was a case of influenza.