NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 41, 17 July 1874, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Magisterial.— At the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Chiistchurcb, this day, James Carnes for being drunk and disorderly, was fined 10s ; Joseph Robinson for being drunk, and indecent exposure, 20s ; Krcdk Ashfoul for being djuuk at the Kailway btation,2os,

Waste LAnds Board. —Mr J. Murshman has been gazetted a commissioner of the Waste Lauds Board. Reserves. —A number of reserves made temporarily under the 19th clause of the Waste Lauds Regulations are gazetted. Fernside. —The new Episcopalian Church is nearly finished, and will be opened by the Bishop of the Diocese on Monday morning next. Smith’s Combination Troupe— Owing to the non-arrival of the s. s, Phoebe yesterday, this troupe were unable to appear at the Colonists’ Hall last night. Rangers. — Messrs W. Hislop, Timaru Domain, John Storry, junr, Southbridge, and Alexander Dunbar, junr, Lincoln road, arc gazetted rangers under the provisions of the Protection of Animals Act, 1873, Wesleyan Festival. —A rehearsal took place last evening in the Durham street church. Some of the choruses and solos were tried and went very well. Mr Parker presided at the organ. Immigration. —The N, Z. Shipping Company have received a telegram from Dunedin announcing the arrival of the Sussex from London, with 475 immigrants. She is consigned to the company. St. Luke’s Entertainment.— The third of the scries of entertainments in connection with St Luke’s was held last evening, in the schoolroom, when there was a very large attendance, A good programme was gone through satisfactorily. The Domain. —A petition against the alienation of a, part of the Canterbury Domain for the purpose of erecting a college, was handed round for signature in Kaiapoi on Thursday afternoon. Within two hours 83 names of residents in the town and district were attached to it.

Timb Table. —We acknowledge thcreccipt from the chief postmaster, of the combined Australian and New Zealand Time Table for 187-1. It contains, in a neat form, all information required regarding the arrival and departure of the San FTancisco, Suez, and Torres Straits mail steamers. Talisman. —We understand that Mr S. Nosworthy has sold his celebrated entire horse Talisman, by Traducer, out of Azucena, to Mr T. Teschmaker, who intends using him for stud purposes in the Timaru district. The price paid for Talisman was, we are informed, £550. He will be a great acquisition to the district, being a horse of much quality, and having great substance, qualities which ought to ensure him a good season. Benefit. —Mr Frank Towers makes his appeal to the playgoing public to-night, and provides for them a capital bill of fare. He appears as Wormwood in “The Lottery Ticket,” one of the best pieces of comic acting we have seen here. Both as actor and manager Mr Towers has secured the respect and esteem of a large circle of friends here, and as himself and his talented daughter are eti route for England via Melbourne and San Francisco, this will be the last opportunity, at least for some time, that they will have an opportunity of practically showing their appreciation of them. The Domain Encroachment. —A petition to the House of Representatives, similar in effect to that signed by the Mayor the other evening on behalf of the meeting, has been circulated for signature generally in the city during the past two or three days, and over (iOO signatures have been affixed thereto. The Mayor of Lyttelton having requested one for signature to be sent to him, it Has been forwarded, and will be taken to Wellington by Mr Wynn Williams, together with the other petitions. Sunday Observance League. —An association, called the Canterbury Sunday Observance League, has been formed, having for its objects the promotion and maintenance of Sunday as a day of rest. A large and influential provisional committee has been appointed, and it is contemplated to establish branch societies in the various districts throughout the province. A meeting of the committee, for the election of officers and transaction of routine business, will be held in the old Oddfellows’ Hall this evening. Football. —To-morrow afternoon the Fifteen will play the remainder of the club, who will be captained by A. Ollivicr. The club now numbers 114, most of whom are playing members, and if their men turn out they will have an exceedingly strong side. The following are the Fifteen:—Anderson, J.. Bolton, C,, Booth, Cotterill, E., Dobson, Hartland, Longhnan, Lewin, Macquarie (captain), Mathias, Ollivier, L., Thomson, J., Thomson, 0., Waxman. Colors —Fifteen, blue; Club, red. All members are particularly requested to turn out. Pabanui Ploughing Match.— A meeting of the Papauui ploughing match committee was held on Tuesday cveniug, at the Sawyers Arms Hotel, when it was decided to hold the annual match cu Thursday, the 6th August, Mr Thomas Bowe, of the Harewood road, having kindly placed a suitable paddock at the disposal of the committee for that purpose. A subscription list was banded round the room, and a goodly sum was collected, and from the amount of assistance already promised, the committee have no doubt the match will prove a great attraction to ploughmen from all parts. After the transaction of other business of a routine character, the meeting adjourned. INQUEST. — An inquest was held at the Sclwyn Hotel on Tuesday last, before J. W. S. Coward, Esq, coroner, on the body of John Nielson, stated to bo 58 years of ago, who was 'found dead in his hut on the Bangor run the previous Sunday, having been employed as a shepherd on that station. A man named John Herron found deceased lying over a table in the hut dead, and about an hour before this time, deceased had spoken with a man named McMahon, and complained of feeling unwell. Dr Ryrae, who made the post mortem examination, believed the man died from apoplexy, and the juryreturned a verdict of “ Died from natural causes.” The deceased had been in the 2nd Life Guards for 24 years, and was in receipt of a pension. He was one of the picked men who formed the guard of honor at the coronation of Queen "Victoria.

The exodus of the coloured people from Alabama and Georgia continues to excite much comment in those states. A return made to the House of Commons shows that fifty persons admitted to the office of priest or deacon in the Church of England have executed deeds of relinquishments, and enrolled them in the High Court of Chancery, under (lie provisions of the Clerical Disabilities Act,

A German correspondent writes to the “ Pall Mall Gazette —The cause of cremation is making further progress. The furnace intended for the experimental burning of the dead now in building in Dresden is to be completed in a few weeks. Meanwhile a Cremation Society has formed at Vienna under the appropriate title of “ The Urn,” and has obtained the Government’s consent for instituting similar experiments. The furnace to be built in Vienna will be after the design of Professor Reclam, of Leipzig. “The Urn” has a goodly roll of members to show already, and every day is said to witness additions. In Zurich Swiss papers affirm cremation is more spoken of and excites greater attention and zeal than even the proposed revision of the Federal Constitution, on which a vote is about to be taken shortly. A work which ought to possess both ecclesiastical and antiquarian interest will, the “ Athenaeum ” says, shortly be issued. It consists of “The Minutes of the Sessions of the Westminster Assembly of Divines from the 18th of November, 1(514, to the 18th of April, 1648.” Through Lightfoot’s “Journal” and Gillespie’s “Notes of Proceedings of the Westminster Assembly” the public are already in possession of several of the debates of the famous Assembly. A gap, however, exists, which remains to be filled up by the proceedings subsequent to those narrated in “ Lightfoot’s “ Journal, ” and which embrace the discussions during the formation of the Assembly’s Confession and Catechisms. This will be done by the forthcoming volume, which is being printed from careful transcripts made from the originals still preserved in Dr William’s library, and believed to be almost entirely in the handwriting of Adoniram Byfield, one of the scribes of the Assembly. The Messrs Blackwood have, at the request of a committee of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, undertaken the publication of the work, which will be accompanied by an historical introduction, and illustrative notes by Professor Mitchell of St Andrews and the Rev Dr Struthcrs of Prestonpans. With the late change of Government one of the chief grievances of Scotland—namely, the increasing ungeniality of her climate — ha«, says the “ Pall Mall Gazette,” been removed. Since Mr Disraeli’s accession to power the whole country seems to bo bursting into blossom in the most gratifying and extraordinary fashion. At the meeting of the Botanical Society at Edinburgh last week, this remarkable phenomenon was the subject of observation. From the report of Mr M‘Nab, the curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens, it appears that the forest vegetation in the neighborhood of Edinburgh is forward to an extent never before observed at the same date. At present many forest and ornamental trees are in flower—such as the Norway and other maples, various species of elm, willow, alder, birch and pyrus primus. A green hue pervades a large proportion of forest and ornamental trees, such as the horse-chestnut, elm, larch, whitebeam. laburnum, balsam, poplar, and many varieties of thorns. The common thorns arc in full leaf, and one has been scon with the flowers fully expanded. Never before has Mr M’Nab observed a thorn in flower in April. The temperature has been during the past month only three times at or below the freezing point, namely, on the 25th and 26th ult, and on the 4th instant. It is remarkable that there has been an almost total absence of easterly winds, which often prove so destructive to the blossoms of fruit trees, while strong west and north-west winds have prevailed. Mr M'Nab showed the flowers of 236 species of plants, trees, and shrubs picked in the open air on Monday last, a most unusual number at this particular season. The mildness of the spring is evidenced from the fact that young birds, especially thrushes and starlings, have been seen flying about. The ground temperature has also been unusually high. A tortoise which has been in the Botanic Garden for fifty years, and which usually buries itself in the earth in the beginning of October and does not appear again till the second week in April, this year emerged on the 15th of March; a circumstance quite unprecedented in the history of that animal and only to be accounted for by Conservative reaction.