NEWS OF THE DAY.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 10129, 31 August 1898, Page 5

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Hi* Honour Mr Justice Denniston left for Hokitika, on circuit, last evening, by the northern boat going via Wellington. His Honour will probably be absent about ten days. The many friends of Mr Hugh Cassidy will be glad to learn that he is recovering from his illness, and in all probability will be about again in a few days. The Christchurch Drainage Hoard has agreed to apply to the local bodies for the payment of their arrears on tho 10 per cent, penalty. The clerk explained that some of the* arrears extended back to 1897 and 1896. A combined meeting of the Diocesan Nominators and the Fendalton Parochial Nominating Board will be held on Thursday next, for tho purpose of considering the appointment of a successor to Canon Stack. The Railway Department has begun sending the can iages on this section to the Addington shops, to be fitted with the new gas reservoirs and.plant. Tho cars are being sent as they can be spared. The minialtiro gasworks at the Christchurch station which are to supply tho cars are now completed. "Christ's College Register" for August contains a portrait of Mrs Maria Somes, foundress of the Somes Scholarships. Among the reading matter are several articles of general interest, and the " Register " maintains its position as one of the best school magazines published in the cplony. At a special meeting of the Fruit growers' Association last night resolutions in favour of the Insect Pests Bill now before the House wore carried, and it was resolved to forwsrd the same to the members for Canterbury, and to ask them to support the Bill so as to ensure its becoming law luring the present session. His Honour Mr Justico Denniston sat in Chambers yesterday and disposed of the cases on the list. A short sitting in bankruptcy was also held, the only order made being an application *for release by the Official As|ianee in. certain cases. The case in re W. G. Chartres' to set aside a deed stood over until next Bankruptcy sittings. A Press Association telegram received from Wellington yesterday states that the Glenelg is bringing the San Francisco mail to New Plymouth, whence it will be brought by train to Wellington to-night. The Rotomahana, leaving ac 11 p.m., takes the South Island bags to Lyttelton. The Glenelg left the Manukau at 1 p.m. yesterday. A liberal ratepayer, living near the Styx, Offered to pay the expenses of the Drainage Board for a day if the members would visit the Buller drain, which wanted Improvement. Bat he qualified this with the addition — provided something was done afterwards. He was convinced if the Board saw it they would immediately provide a remedy or resign. There waa, he asserted, no language to describe the disgraceful condition of the drain. " Not even in Parliament?" interrogated a member. '* Ah, well," rejoined the ratepayer, " they are paid who go there," and members were left to draw their own inference. A Conference of representatives from Various local bodies is to take place at 7.30 p.m. w>-day at the City Council Chambers to consider the Harbour Board's Bill. The representatives so far elected are—City Council, Crs. Gray and Smith; Lyttelton, the Mayor and Cr. Lewin ; Sydenham, Crs. Jacques and Taylor; New Brighton, the Mayor and Cr. Mclntyre; Luiwood, Cra. Marshall and Ayers ; Woolston, the Mayor and Cr. Lord ; Avon Road Board, M.ssrs C. Burgess and A. B. Morgan ; Heathcote Koad Board, Messrs Malcolmson and Taylor; •Spreydon Road Board, Messrs Johnson aud Ell. The funeral of Mrs W. Campion, Prebbleton, took place on Monday and was attended by a very large number of friends from the surrounding district, over fifty vehicles following the procession to the Eave. The hearse was preceded by memre of the Star of Anglesea Lodge, U.A.O.D. Mja Campion was a member of the Presbyterian Church-and took a keen interest in its welfare. She was a scholar, and later a teacher, in the Sabbath school, and was also organist for n number of years. She was of a kind and generous disKsition and-will be greatly missed by a *ge circle of friends. Great sympathy is felt for hor husband and relatives. The mtevment took place at Prebbleton. At a meeting of the Northern Agricultural and Pastoral Association at the Corn Exchange, Rangiora, on Tuesday, the report of the Catalogue Revision Committee was approved. It was deoided there should be no entry for champion certificates. Inreterenoe to a letter from Canterbury Agricultural College, it was decided that the Association's sympathies were with thequestionof students' scholarships, but it regretted that it was not in a position to provide one this year. Ten new members were elected —Messrs B. Topp, J. al Young, F. Horrell, F. Chambers, J. Dowds, H. McTipping, E. Wilder, A. Wallace, J. G. A. Ruddenklau and F. Riuldenklau. It was proposed that one judge be appointed in each class, but an amendment that two judges be appointed ■was carried by a large majority. Mr Home gave notice " That there be a stock parade." I he ommittee then nominated the judges in the .respective sections. The disputed water question between the Ashburton County Council and the proprietors of the Canterbury Mills, may now be: said to have approached a crisis. The mill hands re-erected the dam at the intake on Saturday, and a full supply of water was flowing down the milldam and into the wakanui Creek on Sunday and Monday, While the borough was getting a supply both from the millrace and the new channel just completed by the County Council. As a •natter of fact the borough was getting too much, and it took the water ranger the greater part of Sunday to get rid of it Without an overflow. Yesterday morning the County Council sent up twenty men With a couple of teams and scoops, and after Wowing up the dam with dynamite the men proceeded to remove the debris. They wero then put on with ploughs, scoops, and picks and shovels to completely fill up the channel at the mouth of the intake. By three o'clock in the afternoon the mill «upply was effectually cut off, and in a few jp? v™ u ™ lh o Wakanui "Creek was again dry. r. ne borough is now getting a supply from *he County Council's now race. Litigation between the null owners and the County Louncil may possibly result before the question ia finally settled. McClinton and Thomson's Barilla Soap is what Prof. Kirk recommends. (See advt. tront page.) 7668

The output of butter of tbe Tai Tapu Dairy Company during the year was 321,1251b5. There was no public business at the Rangiora Magistrate's Court yesterday. & With reference to the election of councillors for St. Albans, Mr James Millton has withdrawn his name as a candidate. A meeting of the Northern Agricultural Association was held at Rangiora yesterday, when the judges for the show were appointed and the prize list adopted, together with other business. Mr J. W. Foster, the President occupied the chair. It is reported that the Defence Commission will conclude its sitting at Drtnedin this week. The Commission has already sat at Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. A very peculiar and interesting discovery was made the other day at New Brighton, when Mr Sydney Day came across a totara log, or portion of a tree, 10ft by 2sft, about ten chains from high water mark, away in the sandhills. On consultation with experts the latter stated that probably 100 years or more had elapsed since the timber had been placed there by the sea, which had since receded. Tho City Surveyor, or the Works Committee, have recently been improving— save the mark—the footpath, in the eastern portion of the city .by placing a quantity of clods of eaith on the side next the asphalt. The result is a heap of clay boulders which it is impossible to walk 'on. With the supply ol Kaiapoi grit available, the grading of the side walks would have been far more economically done, as well as affording much more pleasure to pedestrians. The Rangiora Borough Council held a special meeting on Monday evening to consider the Water Supply Act Amendment Bill. The Mayor and all the Councillors (except Cr. Jones) were present, and the newly-elected Councillors took the usual declaration. The Ashburton Borough Council asked the co-operation of the Council in meeting their difficulty with the Ashburton County Council, and it was decided to send a protest to the member for the district and tho Premier on the matter. After some discussion ifc was decided to forward particulars of the Council's position to Parliament. At the Magistrate's Court, yesterday, a man was convicted of, and substantially fined for, being drunk wnile in charge ot a cab. The magistrate, Mr Beetham, S.M., said this was the fourth conviction of the accused for offences connected with his occupation as a cabman. It was highly improper, he thought, that a man oi his character should, by licence, hold a position in which he must necessarily be entrusted with the lives and limbs of members of the public. And, to mark his opinion, his Worship ordered a copy of the record against the man to be forwarded to the Mayor of Christchurch. The Hereford cattle breeders of New Zealand have formed an association. The "New Zealand Times" mentions that Mr James Stuckey, of Te Rangitumau, is the prime mover in the matter. The rules show the objects of the Association to be principally to collect, verify and publish infermation relative to Hereford cattle, taoffer prizes for and to ensure the representation at important shows in New Zealand or abroad of the best specimens of the breed, and to superintend and advise upon sales by auction of the same. The Association has been registered as an unclassified society, with its headquarters at Te Rangitumau, Wairarapa. The ordinary meeting of the committee of the Progressive Liberal Association was held on Monday evening. A draft of the annual report was approved, and it was decided that the meeting should be held in the rooms of the W.C.T.U. on September Bth. Correspondence wa3 read from Mr*T. E. Taylor, JV-.H.1.., and from several corresponding members, one of whom stated that some .of the Crown tenants in his district strongly favoured a proposal that Government should allow them to reduce the capital value of their holdings in good years, so as to reduce the rent in bad years. The secretary was instructed to reply that the Association would regard such a step, as a most dangerous one, and that it was obviously an underhand way of trying to undermine the State system of tenure. The Association was strongly in favour of periodical revaluation, or of the setting up of a Fair Bents Court, either of which systems would meet the difficulty. The committee had also under consideration the action of the Charitable Aid Board with respect to an aged couple who had been peremptorily ordered to go into the Jubilee Home. It was resolved that the Association should enter a strong protest against tho course adopted, and that the Board should be asked to reconsider its decision to withdraw charitable aid. Prizes.—£lsoo to be given away in prizes of ladies' watches, albums, workboxes, workbaskets, &c, by Hubbard, Hall and Co., for Crown brand tea coupons. Next distribution of prizes will be on 31st oi tnis month (August). Hubbard, Hall and Co.—[Advt.l 7 One thousand bicycles annually is now the rate of our productions. Oates, Lowry and Co., largest makers of cycles in New Zealand, Zealandia Cycle Works, Christchurch. —[Ax»v_.J If you require a tonic take the best— Syrup of Hypophosphites. Barneet, Chemist, lib bottle, 4s 6d; £lb, 2s 6d.— [Advt.]