NEWS OF THE DAY.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 10043, 23 May 1898, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Only those telegraph offices which are open on Sundays will open for business tomorrow (Queen's Birthday). The hours of attendance are from 9 to 10 a.m. and 7 to 8 p.m. The Telephone Exchange will be open as usual. Bishop Julius held a Confirmation service at St. Mary's Church, Timaru, yesterday afternoom There was a large attendance. A number of Maoris who were present at the tangi at Rangiora returned to their homes in the south of Canterbury on Saturday. Those living on the peninsula left Christchurch by the afternoon train for Little River. A special meeting of the City Council is called for to-morrow, at noon, to consider the balance-sheet and statement of accounts and tho report of the auditor. It is probable that the meeting will be adjourned until 7.15 p.m. on the following Thursday.

Dr. J. W. Anderson, of Christchurch, has been appointed house surgeon at the Wan* ganui Hospital. Mr Arthur Morley, son of the Town Clerk of Kaiapoi, has been selected for a cadetship in the Christchurch City Council office. „ Mr D \ °- M<Ra «. managing editor of the " Financial Times," London, lias been touring the Westralioo goldfields, and after visiting the other colonies will come on to New Zealand. The latest suggestion with reference to the site for the future Wellington Agricultural shows is that about 100 acres of liat land near the hill overlooking the Patent Slip on the southern side of tie harbour, should be secured for the purpose. Mr Andrew Henderson, who met with injuries to his head by either being thrown from or falling off a horse whilst on his way from Pareora Holme station to Tnnani, died at the Timaru Hospital shortly aftei * midnight on Friday. A meeting of ratepayers in tlie Harapstead Town Board district was held in the Ashburton Orange Hall on Friday evening to consider what steps should be taken to procure a water supply for the district. It was decided to approach the County Council with a view to joining the Allenton ward in being proclaimed an irrigation district. The Mayor of Wellington, Mr J. R. Blair claims that the provision of a University for Wellington is the best work tliat has been done by the Government for many years. The Government, he says, will be remembered for it when the din of battle over banking and other Bills is a mere echo. A large painting of Mr Gladstone wasi exhibited on Saturday by Mr Bush in the window of his Cashel street premises, and attracted a great deal of attention, people staying to look in spite of the cold wet weather. The CU'lha "Free Press" state,** "on ths very best authority" that Mr Thomas "Mackenzie will, in three months' time, sever his connection with the various New Zealand Co-operative Associations for which he has been acting as London representative, and rot-urn to this country. Mr Mackenzie's reason for taking this step is that the climate of London does not acres with him. Mr E. W. Hanmer, of Ashburton, has, io common with a large number of others in various parts ol the district, boeu trying the effects of irrigation on a limited scale. His first crop of raspberries were a total failure on account of the drought, and the new canes .were so puny that there was but a poor prospect of a crop next summer. Mr Hanmer accordingly gave them two or three liberal soakings of water with a two fold and highly satisfactory result. Vitality was restored, and just recently a good crop of ripe raspberries were gathered, and the new canes have made most vigorous growth. The commission with reference to the formation of tbe Samaritan Home into a separate institution will commence its sittings at 11 a.m. to-day, at the Charitable Aid Board office. Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M., will preside, and tho representatives of the Charitable Aid Board and the Samaritan Home subscribers will be respectively Mr Geo. Mclntyre and Hon. C. 0. Bon-en. By the mid-day train on Saturday a party of Maoris from the West Coast arrived at Kaiapoi to join in the tangi on the death of the late Mrs Mutu. At tho Railway station they held a most affecting greeting, and again on reaching St. Stephen's pa. Many ol the visitors to the funeral left Kaiapoi by the trains during the day. In connection with the Chrysanthemum Society, the annual meeting of which takes place to-night, it may be mentioned that the Society was established in 1893, and had thirty-seven exhibitors at its first exhibition, and at the one held two weeks ago there were sixty-eight. The Society din. couraged the exhibition of poor blooms, and the result was an improved standard of excellence. It had also in planting the Market reserve, undertaken a most commendable work, and had set an example which might be followed elsewhere with advantage to the place or town concerned. Whilst in Auckland Madame Amy Sher* win addressed a crowded gathering of women and girls in St. Matthew s Anglican School* ro(M_J| The Rev. L. Fitz-Gerald, vicar, pre* sided]! Madame Sherwin gave some excellent ifflvice to girls, referred to the importance of mutual help and forbearance, and eulogised tlie work done by girls' friendly" societies. She impressed on her.hearers the motto of the girls' friendly societies, "Bear' ' ye one another's burdens," and counselled kindness to each other and especially kind-" ness to children. After her address Madame Sherwin sang "There is a Green Hill Far Away," the accompaniment being played by M S_czepanow3ki. " This," said Mr G. W. Russell atYald* ' hurst on Friday night, holding up an irnmenu potato as he spoke, " is Mr Guy'B speech in favour of irrigation." And certainly Mr Guy, when speaking later on, advanced no argument more powerful than this specimen of the results of a plentiful supply of water. - ~ The particular potato exhibited had at one end a small excrescence somewhat larger than a pigeon's egg. This, the local expert* agreed, was the potato as it existed before the application of water. After that appli* cation it began to grow afresh, and developed into a magnificent tuber weighing 2£lb. It Vcame from a section which had .been par- . tially irrigated. From the irrigated portion the crop obtained was at the rate of 14 tons to the acre; the portion not so treated yielded 3 tons per acre. Although the weather was so very unpro*. pitious, there was a very large attendance at the great mantle and dress sale which opened on Saturday at the D.I.C. The demands upon the efforts of the assistants were very heavy. Fortunately the quantities of these special importations are so enormous that fresh supplies at equally startling values will be brought forward daily, thus enabling everyone to partake of the' unusual advantages, though they may not find it convenient to attend tae fj™fj. days of this great sale. 292* A New Directory.—Strangers visiting Christchurch frequently ask, " Where is t Hulbert's?" for they hear of the establish* ment, and naturally want to see it. For their information we now give the address— High street, opposite Strange and Co. s Great Emporium. Hulbert's has often been compared by tourists and now arrivals to the best gents' outfitting establishments at home, and, indeed, at Hulbert's you can obtaiu everything usually to be found in the latter—.the latest things in ties and hosiery, shirts of every description, umbrellas, travelling rugs (warm, handsome and serviceable), tennis and lounge suits, and a bewildering variety of hats, from tbe exclusive looking belltopper to the lounge hat in soft tweed. Travelling trunks, too, we find in all sorts and sizes at Hulberta; dressing gowns, smoking jackets, _ braces, portmanteaux, Gladstone bags, ties in every colour, suitable for ladies or gents, aU ol the very best makes, and at the prices compatible with good quality. •»» For seven days only—Shaw, Robinson and Co. are showing some wonderful bargaina. Tweed dress lengths from 3s lld, velveteens , from ls, blankets from 7s lld, colonial flannel 8""d, table damasks 9J,d, sheetings from 9_d, ladies and children's . toshes at half price, flannelettes from Is IW ; per dozen, men's tweed trousers -f™- 11 lld, worth 8s 6d, colonial tweed suits 2P» , 6d, knitted sox 4£d, and working shifts from ls lld. 213 Cashel street, opposite Press Office. M® Kerosene—3ooo cases, best brands, IW test, 6s 6d per tin, or 13s per case. Hubbard, Hall and Co. -- 69 Special.—lf you require a tonic take the best—Syrup of Hypophosphites. Barnett, chemist, lib bottles 4s 6d, £lb 2s 6d. 2200 The new Perry or Appelby Twin Roller - Chains fitted to Zealandia Bicycles without, extra charge. Highest quality £21. Oakes, * Lowry and Co., Zealandia Cycle Works, Christchnrch.—[Advt.] Excelsior Bicycles. — Built only _ to order, never break down, best of every thing, up to date. Price, £21 gents, £22 ladies Barlow Cycle Co., 48 Manchester street, • next Coker's. 19 Apersonal recommendation is undoubtedly the very best advertisement. This fact J8 borne out by the extensive business transac- % tions in all departments, and especially by the sales of high-class pianos and; organs, a- - the D.I.C, who have recently Bold number- . of these splendid instruments simplythrough the personal recommendations o. delighted and satisfied customers. Every , intending purchaser should see and — B P*2X *j] these instruments and note the prices. 2-w, r j

Messrs May and Joseph Best will be the Nelson representatives at the Agricultural Conference to be held in Christchurch next month. Mr P. J. O'Regan, M.H.R., is to be married this month to a young lady residing in tlie Motueka district, and his constituents at Westport intend to present him with a silver tea and coffee service. Advices received in Greymouth state that Jlr MeDougall, manager of the Greymouth Point Elizabeth Company, now at Home, is very seriously ill A number of friends in Dunedin of the Hon. W. P. Reeves have prepared a hand-somely-designed address, to be sent to him |n recognition of his work on behalf of industrial conciliation and arbitration. Previous to the lecture in the Lyceum last night, the picture of Mr Gladstone was thrown upon the screen, and a touching tribute paid to hi& memory. Concerning him, the words of George Eliot were applied, that he had *' joined the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live in lives made brighter by their presence." A munificent gift has been offered by a well-known New Zealand resident, the Yen. Archdeacon Williams, to the "Victorian Church Missionary Association, which recently took over the work of the Chinese Church of England Mission in that colony. This is the property known as " Hiawatha," The Avenue, Balaclava, purchased at a cost of £2000, for the purposes of a training college. The property consists of an acre of ground and a two storied fourteen-roomed house. The purchase money was provided by Archdeacon Williams, who is an enthusiast in missionary work. The Archdeacon has, in addition, guaranteed £160 for three years for the support of an instructor, and will himself support two Chinese students at the institution, at a cost of £50 a year each. News has been received of the" death of an old Canterbury resident, a real pioneer, Mr John Yon Tunzleman. He and his brother Nicholas explored the Lake Wakatipu district before the days of the discovery oi gold, and took up a run on the west side of the lake. They did well for a time, but a turn of fortune's wheel, followed by the invasion of rabbits, completed their ruin. John, who was an accomplished linguist, secured a position as teacher of languages at Canterbury College, and was" afterwards engaged at Nelson and Wellington. He then became a teacher under the Southland Education Board, but afterwards took a position at Stewart's Island, where his duties there embraced the mastership of the native school and those of missionary in connection with the Presbyterian Church. He left the island for a brief holiday, from .which he was destined never to return. Two of his sons are in Australia. He leaves a widow and six other children. An unusual case affecting a Christchurch resident is reported by the " Otago Daily Times" to have come before Mr E. H. Carew, S.M., the defendant having been arrested as he was about to leave for Christchurch, on a warrant granted upon representations made by the plaintiffs that the defendant was about to leave the colony to evade payment of the claim. The case was that of F. Hatch and W. Williamson v George McAlpine, and was a claim for £23 15s 6d for printing. Mr W. C. MacGregor said there was a good defence to the case, and it was entirely untrue that the defendant had any idea of leaving the colony or evading payment of his debts. George M'Alpine deposed that he had an office in Dunedin, where he had been for some months, and he had also an office in Christchnrch and business there. He had no intention of leaving the colony or evading payment of his debts. The present claim was for £23 15s 6d. He owed these people something, but when his counter claim was allowed for it would be about £8, which sum he had offered them and they bad refused to accept. Mr Moore, for the plaintiffs, said the defendant had been arrested when he was about to leave by the train for the north, because it was believed he was going to evade Eayment of the debt. Mr Carew said he ad declined to issue a warrant in the first instance, and said it would have to be resworn. It was brought up to him again, and he was misled into thinking it had been resworn. He adjourned the case till Monday, and the defendant was dismissed from custody.