NEWS OF THE DAY.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 10733, 13 August 1900, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Mr A. C.Hanlon, of Dunedin, is to appear fox tli© defence of the young m&a Divers, charged with manslaughter. The workmen employed in making the tramway cutting in the South Town Belt at Timaru'have found two lots of moa boneej the lowest about 14ft beneath the surface. Tlib South Canterbury Hounds were brought up to Christ church on Saturday by Mr Elworthy, and will meet at Rolleston today. Two farms were recently disposed of by Mr J. Douglas dJrom his WaSkao Downs estate iby private sale. The purchasers are Mr Henry Sides, of Kaiapoi, 500 acres; and Mr J. ftliilne, of Kaiapoi, 120 acres. •Mr G. Bryant, who has been for the last sis years clerk in the railway goods shed at Timaru, has been transferred to Ashburton. Presentations were made to Mr Bryant by tike Timaru carters aud carriers, bafor he left for his -new office. Grain crops in the North Canterbury district have come on apace during the past week, as the weather has been more congenial—a fact proved by the early bu&ling into leaf of the weeping willows amd tiie rfr. appearance of wattle blossoni. \ ■v..--Messrs Stevenson and Co., who purchased the Taupo and cargo, have secured a. fair quantity of material from the wreck, and expect to be able to get winches and a quantity of machinery and fittings off. It ftppears the firm have suffered a good deal through petty thieving. Mr G. G. Haldane, of the Railway. Locomotive Superintendent's office, Wellington, intends to leave the New Zealand service shortly to tike up a good position in the railway service of one of the Australian colonies. According to a West Coast paper, the petroleum deposits in the neighbourhood ot Lake Brunner will soon bo prospected and developed. A difficulty has been experienced in obtaining a title owing to a doubt whether the Warden could grant a mineral oil lease within the Midland Eailway reservation. This doubt has now been set at rest and as soon as tho necessary formalities have been overcome boring will be actively prosecuted. . General Kelly-Kenny has a cousin in New Zealand, Mr Kenny, of Westport. In t»e course of a letter received Tecentiy by ««ir Kenny, the General writes:—"Your people from' New Zealand are very fine soidierfs, and have often proved it, particularly in t«3 early part of the war about Colesbe?g. H« adds that he hopes the time will come Boon when 'he can claim a rest to live on Insproperty amongst his own people in Clare. With reference to tlie bequest, of Mrs Hele-n Boyd, of Auckland, who at tor death, about two years ago, left £1000 lor the purchase of statuary for the Albert Park in that city,.the Mayor has communicated with artists in Italy and- France, with a view to procuring information for the b&nefit of the executors. The Agent-General has now been communicated with by u&e executors, with a view to enlisting lus cooperation in getting suitable designs from English and other Continental artists.

The flagship Royal Arthur and the Porpoise will leave Wellington harbour for firing practice outside the heads tins morn, ing. The biff guns will be used at, floating targets towed astern of either ship, mc flagship will then proceed to Sydney, leaving the Porpoise at Wellington to pick up a number of Muejaekets who are undergoing short sentences in Aueklaral and. Welington. The Porpoise, after another week * stay there, will go north again to Auckland, and return to Wellington at a l&»«r date. Slie is likely to remain in New Zealand -waters till October.

The Wellington City Council having recently undertaken to enforce the by-law relative to overcrowding in public halW, » l W. McLean, secretary of the Wellington Opera House Company, wrote to the Lowcil the other night, pointing out that ttte« was considerable overcrowding at tha Ope™ House on the occasion of the recent meeting in reference to the Mount Cook site. A'the meeting was convened and presided ovei by tho Mayor, the communication understood to be (says the "New Zβ**™'■ Times") a gently sarcastic reminder to wu Council that to err is human Mit to ™ T &1; divine. Councillor Izami put a differ** complexion on the matter, however, «hen be moved that the directors of the Opera House be prosecuted for a 1^ 0 "^!° breach of the city by-laws. carried a further stage by Councillor Bai ber (himself a director of the Opera HousCompany) seconding the motion, which irehowever, rejected on th» voices em-e-* laughter. Th'e andications of gold in the Aw-akino district. Taranaki, were discovered by Mr* W T. Allan, who has been employed ior years working in mines on the Thames flewTlte lands affected by the find are Mr F. IredaJe and Mr R. Bnscoe, According to the "Taroneki Herald," it is undergtood that proper agreemmte have been drawn up as between the three, and the W itial steps* thus placed on a , There is to be no attempt to call oIV i lie for funds to prospect the grouwL I parties interested intend to expend their a»« / money in iai endeavour to locate the from wlaich the stone 'has shed. i«» stono tiKi.t has 'bera forwarded- to t-te *»■ savers was found in two separate gullie*, about twenty chains apart, which accounts for the difference in the value of the assay. Some specimens have been sent to »ir aameHector, at Wellington

PHH*""*" ' """" " "" 111 l j\ onli.'fl tncssa-so rpoiMved «t Auckland from announce* the dwth of Mr t$ J. Pnvr.<\ of the bellringer family, aired 33 y<'-- s ' u- . _| .Salvation Army kssps were on a col\ccf% l"" r " :l ' l,ni, T-y i» the streets of the <'f the Indian Famine Relief t \f . ami tin* b;ind of tho Army played yesafternoon for the same object. '*'V large mnnlxr of visitors to the Grand jjsttiw.ii Meeting arrived from the North \,r\he -t<-:umT yestenlay, and it is expected that, tin- number will be further augmented to-^ay-An o'.fl iil'Titity. Mr John Jesson, passed »*•»*' -if sii- ' < !,! i'«'N Monro on Suturdav moming.'atur :i lone and painful illness. " He arrived in Lytt.-ltonin 1856. by the ship Joseph Fletcher. He leaves a large family to mourn bis h^■ Atxmt- tni o'clock yesterday morning CShari--" I.vf'ip, ,in A.lt, on bwrd the Uuun. li'il Ji'.iii one of her yards on to the Jci-k .■!■ 1 broke his right The /j|l wus ftb .iit ZOrt. IU was brought to the fcytwlfon Ctsiial Ward and attended by Dr. J'airnwn. The X«'v Zeaiand Farmers' Co-operative of (..;■■ nterbnry recently invited ajiylicivtii'i'.s f.,r t lit* ut-w issue of 2000 shares β-tncticncd by the annual s»en<.-ral met*in" 'I'fes liM "» Friday last. -»in>ii it was fyuml ih-.tt r>o26 had bttii upplied for. The Bkntfd oi li:wutv* nut on Satunktv and gjictU'tl tin- 2-)00 Hhnves of tl«s i»*ue. Tin- m.-niUrs of tlw liaTjt.ist Church rein have been moving in tho 4ir*cti""' <>:' liif t-rautMin of a church there. Bivpvht, Association h;t« uppointfd a (omniit^ ,, to inui.-t tlu- Lhiwowl )>•,■..pie topight ;u tin- (.iloucfsu-r street Hall to confider th<? .<t'il)j«'Ot, rind take step«, if neceslin*. '■• ."'.'<'in' ,, :i building section and build a tJjUlth an.! school. On We'll.'**'} J" '«*t-, at tlie Waterton \fe«U»yan C'lnneSi, the friends of Mr and Mrs Jas. Croy. «"" »r« teeing for tlie Overdale iittrU-t, in which locality Mr Croy recently mrchfuitul a farm, prcwuted Mr Croy with a gtodstiHii' bat; and traveling rug," while iUi Criy f .is made thf, recipient of a r'clilv tmbroi.lcn-'l spring rucking chair. The eKv. J, D. July K''».rrid in eulogistic terms to the fgJiiabU) work Mr and Mr* Croy had done in cvDiw!ion wilh the. (liiirch, *nnd also of the ready way in wliilli they had always coma iorwai'l to a,ss.<it in any movement wltieh was for the benefit of tho district. The ravins of thw grass jprub are unlertnnntfly wry svrtcvus (write* our Anhburten cor:»s;i".ti h-nt). and farmers are at their ■wit*' «T!«I t<» how to copo with the p«it. It «ii-j thu ;• uhjcot of coriKiJtrabie dinitftKton i»l ii litt'utinjf <:f t-lrc A. and 1 , . AffOciafloTi ,wlu:n varioiw n.niedicft w<xe ftog%t*te(l. Thy ttuthwities at Lincoln O;lItgiy 9fff I»>'l>n ask«l for iidvico on the cubJect, and so is Mr \V. VV. Smith, the eutil'Jt of 'the Domain, a, gentleman who \Hm ft v*rry iiftJTrt;>t« kmwrteitye of the life kabitß t-4 most inaects he han the ieast chance of If 0 i« also to "be asked to read c, eperial -[jiip: -, ! , on the jirra.- : « grub at the next meeting of tho Association. Two oM id*-ntitk's have paused away within thf , ln*t few clays. The first of these, 31rn Ford, who was 86 when she died, arrivfi htre I>>- the ship Captain Cook in Scpfcanber, 1863, beiiit; then a widow with two oliihlrtn. She took the position of matron df the Lytteiton Hospital umler the late Dr. Donald,"Wt in 1873 iraa married to Mr J. Fonl, wiio siirvive« her. IMra Ford was a woman of vuy kindly nature, and made a •sfids cin-lo of frifiulw. The otlser old colonist who has df«l i* 'Mr E. •McDennott, wlio came to tin- colony m October, 1806, in tlio ship Josvph FletcLw. After i-emaining a ■kW* lifr« ho went to Ak.ii.roa, 'but returned ts» Christcliurcli and lived here till his death. Tho ceremony of hoUting the flag was perforated on FriAiy afternoon at the Methveti school, in the presence of a large asK mblage of parents iind friends. The Chairjuau of the .School Committee, Mr George Bkinn. first uddressed tho children and tlieir friends, and Mra Hatty, of Oraigka, then unfusled tho Hag, a Union Jack 12ft- by 6ft, vhicli was subscribed for by the children tfcemsiJves. The school children sang "The Old Flag." led by Mr Gmingt-r. The Methren and playtd, patriotic ah 4 daring tho afteriioon. Addresses were deMrtd by the Key. A. lieavan. the Rev. B. J. Westbrooke, Mr William Morgan, J. P., aad others. Tho visitors and children were afwrnards provided with afternoon tea by the parents. «rut the meeting broke up with ehoera for Mrs Batty, tlie band, and the chairman, Mr Hhann. At the Wealeyan Church, Sydenham, tlio lev. H. Bull, ia a brief talk to young perewas yessterday morning, commenting on the death not cc"that appeared in Saturday's "PrW <A tl)<> Him. John Sargent Turner, rcfoned to the labours of the Rev. Nathaniel ftcti Airs Turner at Whangaxou. from 1823 to 1827. It v.-as the heroic age of missions in Hew Zealand. The Whangaroa natives were *p*cialiy turbulent and ferocious. They were the authors of the Boyd massacre. The mstcr of the Broinptwn. that brought Mr end Mrs Turner from Sydney, declined to fulfil hia agreement to land his iMsseiigera al VVhang&roa, fearing the fate of those on Iward the Boyd, tlio Mercury and the Endeavour, but left them to from the liay *f Wimds as best they could. The final and fatal blow u> thy nmiiou xvas given, in 1827. The late J. S. Turner was then a 'babe hi snrw. Oh January 10th of that yeap, a- detachment (if Hongi's force", under Te Oro, *{>p«ittd before the mission-house. The inSWtfts were violently expelled; house, oharvh, and school were razed to the ground; tW local Ngatihurus and Ngatipoa wore dispersed, and the missionary activities of Weswrdulo were brought to an nbrupt closse, tkmph a little lat<r on the minsion was remnwd at M&ngungu, Hnkiunga. Mrs Nathaniel Turner died at Melbourne in 1893, si the advanced age of 95, and now the son fcofn at th« historical mission house has passed away. Most, gentlemen from the country who run HP to town for the Grand National meeting "fall two birds with mm stone,' a.nd having "daw the racis," mako a tour of the leading •hop*, with * vi»w to procuring such necesawies m are not easily obtainable up conntry. "FfuJbert's" is always a favourite with eech visitors, Ij4t v :ms» they know, from long experience, (hat Hulbcrt's stock only very fcigh-clats (but not necessarily expensive) g«>oiis, jitid have always got the %*ery latest lwrelties in ties, cellars, shirts, sox, braces. liandktTfhieis. gloves, lounge-jackets, umbrella", macintoshes, rainproofs, travelling Wjf«, gbdstwtrs, portmairteaux. and last— hat not least—hats. Hulbert's window display i.i fully equal to anything of the sort in toeidou, not to mention Hydney and Melbourne. And everytlung on ml'e is "good.* , Y«t Hulbert's priw's are by n« means exces*»ve. Holiday"" visitors should certainly not ttink of returning horns without paying a *ri*it to Hulberfc's (opposite Strangc's). 3140 'Wedding Presents.—Largest assortments, ** lowest prices in Christchureh. We are Waking a splendid show in otii* ■windows. Enrrthing marked in plain figures. We &*>ty competition. Fletcher Bros., Direct Importers, Ilia-h street, Christcliurch. — (AdTt.i Hail&hone automatic rubber mndijuards fit •fty bicycle. Sent to any address on receipt °f 8a 6<l. Oates. Lowrj- and Co.. ZealUndia Cycle Works, Christchurch.—Advt. Mr W. K. Sorrell, the popalar pbotof?aph»r, was badly troubled with unbroken chilblains. Ho soaked his feet in hot \fat«r *hrse times, and applied Loaeby's KoohWih *ft«r each fomenting. Result, a compete cuje —(Advt.) The oldest firm in the cyclist trade in Christchurch. and with the "best reputation w repairs, tit reasonable- prices, Boyd and UJouwster street.—(Advt.) Unbroken chilblains almost drive the suf&rers silly. The irritation is of tea %cry great. Loasbv'e Roolibali relieves a ! :n. ti "wtantly, reduces the sweHing, and completely tares in a very short 'time.— {Advt ) Morris, photographer, from Dunedin, Personally ukts all the portraite in Colombo' street. Call and ccc new epecim*ns.—(Advt.) 1 , - 1 1 am enjoys a verj." large sale in . e */,"fii"an<i. and that its fame is spreading »i "proved by the fact that the proprietors , ihe popular tough remedy have this sea.- - ---s <K>n secured orders lroni Westralia. Briabane, / Adebido. Sydney, Melbourne and Fiji. Ad- | nuce Saw Zealand.—(Advt.) ( The gentle mind by gentle deeds is *?°*n» 81,«.k Swan, Butter is easily «atkguished by iv quality. Freeh daily. •—A-drt.

The Mill Islam! is beginning to show si ens of the early spring. A number of the Mowers on n are coning out. Inspector Ellison received word on Saturtuy that two men, wanted on a charge of asrl U ti an ?^ obbe,7 at Dunedin. had been arrested at Timaru. A child, three days' old. died at Mrs 8 Harding-Louse, Kilmore street, t££ " V eVCning - An in 9««t will be held . The City Council will hold their ordinary moetjng this evening, when the perennial subject of the destructor will in ail probability come up for discussion. As giving some idea of the mortality in bouth Africa, Trooper Wilson, speaking the other evening, mentioned that in the one hospital alone in which he was the deaths amounted to fifty per diem. The quarterly criminal cession of the .Supreme Court will open a fc 11 a.m. to-day f beiore his Honour Mr Justice Martin. The calendar this time, though not containing a large number of cases, has several charges of grave offences. There are still a number of holes in the asphalt footpath* of the city, which are to an extent dangerous. If they cannot yet be repaired permanently with asnhalt it would be a great boon to fill up the holes with some chipping?. At present they form a receptacle for water when it. rains, which i« most unpleasant to walk into. In response u> a request from Mr W. Recce. Chairman of the Directors of the Agricultural mid Industrial Hall Company, Lady Ranfurly ha« consented to perform the ceremony of opening the doors of the Hall on the oscasiou. of the Jubilee Exhibition, opening «n November Ist. A cony of tk> first annual report of the Royal Humane Society of New Zealand is to hand. Utsifk's a report of the annual meeting, the pamphlet contains a list of the award-* already given by the socletv, with portraits of tho recipients. In speaking to a representative of this journal. Mr Pitcaithly called attention to the fact that tho tug Lyttelton was losing some £2000 per annum," besides herself, as practically she was worn out. He suggested that if the tug was kept on there should be an increased rate- of towage charged. Mr C. E. Radcliffe brought to town on Saturday a good sample of new potatoes, grown by him at Allendale, Governor's Bay. The seed wits sown. in. April last, and the p&tatoes are ready for the table now, a striking proof of the mildness of the Governor's Bay clinCrte. The fencing round the new Council yard haa been removed, and it is understood it ■will be replaced with a substantial dwarf brick wall. Tho section itself presents rather a peculiar appearance, being covered with a number, of small mud lakelets, the deposits from the irtreet scrapings. A resolution was passed at a meeting of the Typographical Liriort on Saturday, that as the noma Industries' Committee have not seen fit to include printing in the schedule of competitions, this Union cannot entertain five granting of any sum to the funds for Home Industries, and desire to express their strong protest against such an important trade being left out of the schedule. The Rev. J. Holland's classes iheld in the Kaiapoi Church of England Sunday School rooms, numbei eiglily-four members. A visit there oa Friday e-jpning last showed some members of the club engaged at the Roman rings and , trapeee, others with single sticks and the boxiivg gloves, while some preferred quiet games of dominoes, etc. In tho class room Miss Wre:tkes was engaged amid a -heap of patterns giving lessons in wood carving of different kinds. Preparations were being made for the carpenter's bench, at which joining and cabinet-niJSng will be taught. In the vicarage Mrs Htolland had a large class interested in the art of drawing, to which will be added painting. The heaviest expense in, connection with the proposed visit 'of the North Island Maoris on the occasion of the Jubilee is that of food. If tlie Ceremonial or Entertainment Committee were to ask some of the large .. sta-tionholderss it w suggested there should be • nit difficulty in getting beef and mutton, and probably soma of tho merchants and tradesmen of the city would be glad to contribute bread, butter, groceries, etc. ' The amount of money at the disposal of the various Committees to carry out entertainments, etc., will not be large, but they might be able to arrange for what cannot' but be a very interesting visit if ths idea suggested is carried into practical effect. From enquiries instituted on Saturday, we learned from Messrs Strange and Company that their great stock-taking sale is still attracting enormous crowds of Duyers. There is no occasion fer anyone who visits the spackflis warehouses of the firm to azk. '"Where are the bargains?" The bargains stare all comers in the face! The entire premises are full of bargains. No wonder the daily attendance is so large. Such opportunities of picking up useful and also beautiful goods at absurdly low prices but very rarely occur. Many really costly articles were almost given away on Saturday and we understand the same liberal arrangements will be in force this week. Holiday visitors, in town for the races, should certainly attend this remarkable gale. They can take our word for it that they will be both surprised and delighted. 1341 Notwithstanding the large number of cycles dealt with at our great cycle sale, we still liave a number of new and secondhand machines to clear before stock-taking at very tempting prices. We invite inspection at our show-rooms, 226 High street. The Anglo-New Zealand Cycle Co.—Advt. Seeds that will grow, from Nimmo and Blair, Dunedin. Vegetable seeds 3d per packet, flower seeds Id per packet, seed potatoes (all varieties) at lowest prices. Illustrated catalogues free. Fletcher Bros., agents, High street. Christchurch. The trade supplied.—Advt. The value of many patent medicines and medical preparations sold outside the usual run of phj'sicians' prescriptions, has been proved by" usage to be too often in inverse ratio to the length of the advertisements which play such a prominent part in their isale. Heavy adrertising means that the purchaser pays for paper as well as physic. Much more effective than the lengthy interviews of undiscoverable persons who have been brought back from the grave by mvsteriou-a decoctions, is the simple • and voluntary acknowledgment of help received which a* grateful patient will per. in commendation of some remedy which has be?i\ used with efficacy. The following, for instance, is one among many such letters received by Mr E. G Lane,"of with reference to his Creasoted Emulsion: —"Ure street, Oamaru, December 16th, 1896. Mr Lane. —Dear Sir. —Please give bearer my account, also another bottle of Creasoted Emulsion. It is really wonderful the difference it has made to my sister. She is getting quite strong and rosy-cheeked, and -Java she would rather take your Emulsion than those horrid iron pilla.—Yours, faithfully, D. 31. Johnstons.' 80 COAL FOR THE ADMIRALTY. The present coal shipment by the Penarth is? the first that has ever left New Zealand for China. Considerable despatch lias been observed with the loading of tho Penarth. Arriving at Westport on the morning of the 3rd, she drew alongside, the wharf at three o'clock the same afternoon, and on the Bth, having taken in 5469 tons, she left West part for Wellington, where she will brins* her cargo u» to 4COO tons, and will in about 800 tons to fill up her bunker*. The cual famine seems to be prevalent all the world over. A San Franuisco broker's circular, dated July llth. says that the market there is entirely bare of steam grades, and that it is difficult to say where the combined' navks of the world shortly centring in China waters will draw their "fuel from. A good deal may be drawn from Japanese collieries, but the residuum mrt conw from Australia, as British Columbia cannot furnish any at the present time. At the present time the- Westport Coal Company's output is about- 8500 tons per week, but they are endeavouring to increase the output." Our Wellington correspondent learns on good authority that there is » likelihood of four steamers being shortly engaged in taking coal from Westpcrt for the warships.

SPECIAL FEATURES. Our "Literary Column" article to-day will b? found of especial interest. It is an admirably written account, by Miss Constance Barnicoat, of a visit which she paid to Ober-Ammerjjau in June last to witness tlie famous Passion Play. She gives a vivid account of this unique spectacle, and some interesting interviews -with some of the leading characters, who seemed rather struck with the fact that a lady correspondent attended to report the proceedings on behalf of a paper published in such a far-off country as New Zealand. The article will be fouiid oti 3 of to-day's issue.

On page 2 will be found a very interesting despatch from our special war correspondent at the front in South Africa.. He explains the circumstances under which a number of our men left the Contingent to join the provisional mounted police or the colonial service. He also gives an interesting account of the New* Zealanders' meeting with Baden-Powell.