NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2953, 12 September 1882, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Messrs Cullmaun, Jackson, Gibson, and Watkins solicit support at the forthcoming municipal election, 1 ; The Borough Council held a protracted sitting last night, rising at 10 minutes to eleven o’clock.

William Wilson, a farm laborer, has been found drowned In the river Styx, north of Christchurch.

The present Khedive of Egypt, with his family, draws £270,000 a year, and a very tolerable income too.

The Sydenham electors intend to ban. quet their representative, Mr W. White, junr., on his return from Parliament.

Nominated immigration is now being largely taken advantage of. There were 323 nominations sent Home from Christ* church by the last Frisco mail.

The steeplechaser, Little John has been purchased by Mr Souness, of Gore. Sporting matters in Dunedin are looking up. The Jbckey Club, in addition to erecting a Peoples’ Grand Stand, intend spending £IOOO on forming a new training course at Forbury. At the settling up on the Dunedin Hunt Club'Steeplechases, the following amounts were paid over :—JV H. Lunh, £6O ; J. Stephenson £7O ; J. Chisholme, £SO; C. Hungerford £25. . ,

The linseed companies uT’Christohurch and Bangiora are about to commence work. There was an effort made to amalgamate the' companies, but it did not succeed.

The children of a Mr Harris, a farmer at Spreydon, were playing with matches yesterday afternoon, and they succeeded in burning their father’s' shed, and a stack of grain worth £250. The Society for the Prevention of cruelty to Annimals, in Christchurch, had a man brought up and fined 20s yesterday for leaving a horse from 2 a.ni. till 11 o’clock at night without food or water.

The Secretary of a country Lodge ,of Druids was fined £1 in Christchurch yesterday for neglecting to send proper returns to the Begistrar-General. He pleaded ignorance of Societies Act. The Christchurch medicos complain that they are not supplied with soap or water at the morgue, and they , ask: whether the authorities expect them to bring their own soap and water when they are called upon to make a post' mortem, examination.

Government have promised to eurvey the proposed railway to the West Coast during the present summer. The North Canterbury people prefer that the main trunk line should be taken on to the West Coast, and so open up a trade in its minerals.

A youthful criminal was brought before the Christchurch Bench yesterday and committed to the Industrial School. He was charged with stabbing his elder brother in the thigh with a pocket knife. The same lad, who is only; ten: yean old, was tried a few months ago for attempting to poison another boy by giving him lollies soaked in a preparation of lead; ; At the Borough Council meeting last night, a letter received asking for certain repairs to a street, was signed “ Yout’s fraternally." The writer’s society correspondence is extensive, and its extent causes occasional mental confusion or ho may have been day-dreaming and fancying himself a Councillor already.