NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2927, 12 August 1882, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Mr Scoringe has reocoverod another anchor from the outer anchorage. Mr Binnie, of Maori Hill, Dunedin, has received orders for about thirty of his new gas machines. Major George was chosen President, and Mr B. Tonks, Vice-President, of the Auckland Raoing Club, A new hall for the Canterbury Collcgct has just been completed. It is 80ft long by 38ft wide, with a stage at one end.

A public meeting of subscribers to the Timaru Rebel Fund takes place at the Theatre on Thursday evening next.

Four girls, 14 years old, were sent to the Industrial School yesterday for stealing articles from various drapers in Christchurch. The total number of children at the primary schools of North Canterbury is 16,720, the average attendance being 11,738. Mr Belfield Woollcombe, ex R.M. for this district has left Timaru for Port Chalmers en route for England whether be has gone on a visit.

Walter Sirkett, the tramp, whose body was found a ago in the Auckland harbor, had been heard to express himself as weary of life. The Mayor presided last night at a banquet to Mr Griffin, United States Consul, at Auckland. There was a very large attendance. The local broker advertises that the Mutual Fire and Marine Insurance Company will receive applications for shares up to 24th inst. The New Zealand Agricultural Company, it is stated, lay down forty thousand pounds of poisoned grain monthly on their various runs at Waimea.

The Dunedin Jockey Club is offering a small premium for the best plan of approach to, and exit from totalisators at race meetings. In some cases previously people have almost had the clothes torn from their backs in their frantic endeavors to get to the counters. The electric lady will be on view in the Barnard staeet hall this evening. An interview with the lady has convinced us that the scientifically disposed ought to lose no time in attending her levee. Presents are to be given away during the evening.

A nut for Magisterial teeth to crack. Two Timaru firms have been informed against for not taking out wholesale liquor licenses under the new Licensing Act. They have taken their licenses under the Distillation Act as heretofore, but the civic and country authorities hold that this is not enough. The old license costs £l, the new one £2O. The case comes off on Tuesday.

Although close search has been made I for the body of Fergusson, the bank clerk ' drowned at Balclutha recently, it has not yet been recovered.

Baker’s survey party, who were driven off the Whaiti Kuranui block,near Patetere, have come into Cambridge. By yesterday’s mail the Immigration Officer at Dunedin forwarded nominated immigrants’ applications for ninety three souls, equal to seventy-eight adults. Dr Oxley, a marine dealer, has preferred a claim far £4OO damages against the Wellington City Council for injuries receive! through falling off horseback at night, over nospread metal on the road. Evan Hughes, a miner of Ross, fell yesterday forty feet trom a fluming. Both his arms were broken and he received other injuries, from which he died three hours afterwards.

The report of Mr Cox, Assistant Geologist for New Zealand, upon Humphrey’s Gully mining claim, published in the annual Goldfields Report, in Hokitika, is considered highly satisfactory.

Upwards of one hundred and forty applications have been received by the Wellington Immigration officer to nominate friends at Home. Applications from other districts bring the total up to nearly 250. No official information has yet been received from Dunedin or Christchurch.

Samuel Joy, charged at Auckland, with bigamy, has been further remanded. Enquiries have revealed suspicions of at least four marriages, and it is feared there may be others. The police are able to prove three, but one of his wives is said to have died a considerable time ago.

The inquest on the body of Thomas Mason, barman of the Nevada Hotel, Auckland, who met his death under peculiar circumstances, was adjourned till Monday to enable the police to collect evidence. Dr Hooper was instructed to make a jwtt mortem examination of his body.