NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2915, 29 July 1882, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Australian Plate Glass Company have opened an Agency in Wellington, The electors of Stanmore are asking Mr Walter Pilliet to resign. There was again a clean sheet at the R.M. Court this morning. It is said that the troops quartered round London, arc using New Zealand meat.

There are now 113 subscribers to the Dunedin Telephone Exchange. The Kupuri (Wellington) Coal Company have declared a dividend of 10 per cent. The monthly output is 3500. The body of Mr Ferguson, the bank clerk recently drowned at Balclutha, has not yet been recovered. Aherne and Williamson have been committed for trial, on a charge of burglary at the Pclichet Bay railway station, and Mr Keith Ramsay’s office.

There are 103 subscribers to the Auckland Telephone Exchange, and a third annunciator for the accommodation of 50 more, is being erected.

The charges of theft against four suspicious characters at Waimato referred to in last evenings issue, were heard yesterday. They were charged with stealing a watch and chain, value £lO, and 18s in cash. The police asked for a remand in order to produce evidence, and the Bench accordingly remanded the case for seven days. The case of bigamy against Samuel Joy is a singular one. It appears that twenty four years ago he married a half-caste woman at Tapuri, who within half an hour after the completion of the ceremony, eloped to the King Country with a Maori lover. In January last Joy contracted a matrimonial alliance with a woman named I’rarnley, who arrived by the Lady Jocelyn, and it is understood she laid the information. Ho was brought up yesterday, and remanded on bail

Winiata’s solicitor, Mr Duf&ur, goes to j the King country with letters from Winiata to his relatives. He counsels them not to avenge his death, which he regards as certain.

A burglary was committed on Thursday night, at the store of Solomon Reid, Kyber Pass, and £l2 worth of jewellery stolen. The thieves were observed and pursued; and they dropped some of the plunder and got away.

The cutter-Bessie arrived on Thursday at Whangarioa, sixteen day from Auckland. She was blown 300 miles out to sea, and hove to for a week. Those on board suffered greatly from want of food and water.

Tenders are invited for the erection of new butchers premises for Messrs Peacock and Geaney. These, when erected, judging from the plans drawn by Mr Duval, will be quite a feature in the town, being very spacious and of good appearance.

The officer in charge of the telegraph station here informs us that cable communication from Shanghai to Japan, has been restored. Messages are taken by steam launch from a temporary station to Amoy, while the branch cable is being repaired. At a meeting of the Christchurch Board of Health yesterday, the necessity for establishing a hospital for those suffering from infectious diseases was discussed, but no action was decided upon. The Medical Officer called attention to the increase of scarlet fever, stating that though at present the cases are not numerous, unless stringent precautions against the spread of the disease are taken, there is every probability that in a short time it will become widely epidemic.

At the half-yearly meeting of the Auckland Gas Company a dividend was declared at the rate of 17 per cent. Mr Vickers stated he had been requested by a number of shareholders to ask if the Directors had followed the example of the Wellington Gas Company in seeking from Parliament power to use the electric light if necessary. The Chairman replied that they had written to the Hon Mr Whitaker on the subject, asking him to see that no injury was done to existing gas companies. No wonder the Electric light is discouraged. But the progress of science will not be retarded by the anxiety of gas shareholders.