NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3115, 28 March 1883, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

His Excellency the Governor is to be petitioned to release Longhurst, The second engineer of the Rotorua, Mr John Armstrong, died of sunstroke on the voyage from Fiji to Auckland.

Messrs G. M. Snelson, G. Carson, S. Taplin, and the Rev. J. Ross, have been elected members of the Wanganui Education Board.

The case of perjury against Miss Lucy Bolder, in Wellington, has been adjourned to Friday. Bail is allowed, herself in £SOO and two sureties of £SO each.

The Hartley Coal Company, Malvern, have tapped a seam of brown coal 101 feet thick, said to be equal to any yet discovered in Canterbury. Mr E, Shaw has left Wellington for Beefton, to contest the Inangahua seat with Mr Wakefield, who is first in the field.

Mr E. Hendry's dwelling, at Hawera, was burned down on Monday night. The house was insured in the National office for £IOO,

The Dunedin “ Star ” is rough on Mr H. S. Fish, who, as Chairman of the Dunedin Fouth Licensing Committee recently delivered a long address from the Bench, indicating the policy ho intended to pursue. Our contemporary saysMr Fish has consistently been the champion of the trade, and it is well-known that every possible exertion was, on the occasion of the recent elections, made to secure his return. We therefore choose to accept with a grain of salt his declaration of independence, whilst the subsequent portion of his speech and the business done by the Committee demonstrate unmistakeably that the Act will be administered during the current year as during the last—namely, with a most delicate consideration for the licensed victuallers. The usual intimation was given with regard to “ houses of an inferior character — wooden tenements not in a thorough and efficient state of repair but the licensees may, we think, sleep easy in their beds, notwithstanding this cry of “ wolf.”

The St Andrews Public Library is a very popular institution, being much appreciated by residents of the district. The following gentlemen have been elected trustees; —Messrs W. S, Armitage, A. Fell J. Bradshaw, A. Martin, R. H. Rhodes, junr,

Messrs K F. Giay, J. Brown, M. Quinn ( •J. Paterson, J. Blyth, J. Huyhurst, J. Meyer S. D. Basko: , 1 avc been appointed trustees of the Arowhenua Public Cemetery ; and the Mount Cook Road Board is constituted trustee of the Burke’s Pass Cemetery.

According to a proclamation contained in the “ Gazette” of f e 22nd inst the number of members of the Oamaru Harbor Board is inc: cased from twelve to fourteen and the Waimate County Council is authorised to fill the vacancies from the Hakaterarnea and South Waiho Ridings respectively—these districts being included in the Oamaru Harbor District.

The settliug up on the Timaru Regatta took place last night at the Royal Hotel, when £76 were paid in prizes. The Committee afterwards met and the Secretary was instructed to communicate with the Cure Boating Club at Kaiapoi, relative to a letter in the Timaru Herald yesterday in which it was suggested that the course had been made to suit the local crews only, and ask them whether they had instigated the letter, and if not, that they would disavow it.

A violent gale at Fiji on the 17th instdid a great deal of damage to bouses in Levuka, and a woman and child were killed by the falling of a house. The schooner Nautilus was dismasted in the harbor. At Taviuna on February 24, the three-masted schooner Red Coat was wrecked,

Mrs E. Homberg, the sole agent for Dr Hailbron’s worm cakes is at present visiting Timaru, and has taken up her quarters for a time at the Criterion Hotel. She prepares the cakes from the original prescription of Heilbron, her uncle, and she h is shewn us a number of original recent testimonials from Christchurch residents, which indicate that these cakes are very efficacious in banishing worms from the system.

Mr Peter Campbell lectured in Sydney in opposition to the mission of the brothers Redmond. He said that if Mr Gladstone brought in a Bill made by the angels of heaven those rascals would not agree to it. Good legislation would never be accepted by the Irish people as long as they had such men as the two brothers Redmond and Parnell going round the world collecting subscriptions.

Probably the biggest flagstone ever quarried was recently 'laid in front of the residence of Mr R. L. Stuart, New York. It is of river bluestone, and measures 26ft 6in x 15ft 6in in superficies, and is 9in thick. The total weight is 80 tons. If raised on edge it would make one side of a cottage, and is quite smooth in surface. It was quarried in Sullivan County, and after being brought down the Hudson on a barge, was lifted by screwjacks high enough for a wagon to back under it, then drawn to its destination by eighteen powerful horses.

A London paper soys :—The new] Law Courts, since the judges began to sit in them, have been the subject of a series of paragraphs which must have gone far towards persuading the general public that Justice had better draw her robes about her and get back to Westminister with all convenient speed. Hurricanes have been blowing through the courts, icy blasts have issued from gratings which should have breathed out genial zephyrs, judges could not be seen and counsel not be heard, jurymen have been lost,and witnesses have had to be penned up in corridors for want of a proper witnesses’ room.

In an article on the Channel Tunnel, the “Dover Standard’’ states that it understands, “on the best authority, that pressure of a very unusual kind has been brought to bear upon the English Cabinet by the French Government, with regard to the Channel tunnel, and, all hough the secret has been well kept in official circles, that diplomatic courtesy has been strained to the utmost. The argument is that the English Government several years ago gave their sanction to the scheme, and that it is a breach of international engagement to withdraw it now.”

A curious libel action has been commenced in the Melbourne Supreme Court. The late minister of the Melbourne Hebrew congregation, Dr Jacobson, D.D., sued Julius Matthews, a member of the church, for £SOOO damages, for an alleged libel contained in a letter, through which plaintiff alleges be lost his appointment as rabbi. The letter stated that plaintiff wrongfully promised to make a proselyte Jew of, and marry, according to Jewish ritual, one Mr Georgee, a son-in-law of Mr Joseph Jones, for a monetary consideration of £SO ; that he had not kept his word by solemnising the marriage, and that ho had falsely alleged that he only received £2 instead of £25. It transpired that the origin of the case was the secret marriage before a registrar of the daughter of Mr Joseph Jones, who, on hearing of the union, was most anxious that the husband, Georgee, should be received into the Judic of faith. The plaintiff denied all the defendant’s allegations, except that he had asked to be paid, and had received £25 (in addition to a previous gift of £2) upon the occasion when the alleged act of proselytism was performed. The case was proceeding when the maillefr.

The Court Southern Cross, 1.0,F., held its fortnightly meeting last evening at the Foresters’ Hall, After the usual routine business was gone through, the statistics for the five years ending December 31, 1881, received from the Registrar-General of Friendly Societies, were studied. They showed that Court Southern Cross stood the third wealthiest Court in the colony Court Sir George Grey, Wellington, stood first on the list, with £1,900 ; Court Pride of Dunedin, second, with £3898 ; Court Southern Cross, third, with £3771. The election of officers for the ensuing term then took place and after a very keen contest resulted as follows Chief Ranger, Bro. Harris; Sub-chief Ranger, Bro A, Kirby ; Treasurer, Bro. J. T. Bennett (re-elected); Secretary, Bro. W. Worry (re-elected); Assistant-Secretary, Bro. Thos. McGowan ; Minute Secretary, Bro. H. Whittaker (reelected) ; Senr. Woodward, Bro.T. Arscott; Junr. Woodward, Bro. G. Kay; Senr, Beadle, Bro. W. Dunne; Junr. Beadle, Bro. J. Baker (re-elected); Surgeon, Dr Lovegrove (re-elected). One member was initiated and five proposed for initiation. A vote of thanks was passed to the retiring officers. And the officer? elected having returned thanks for the honor reposed in them, tho meeting was brought to a close.

Great Britain has 13,000 registered 1 chemists and druggists, and 23,000 registered medical practitioners. Patent medicine tax realised in 1881, £130,000. Yesterday afternoon half a double shop in Wellington street, Auckland, was burned down. It was insured for £l5O in the Onion office, and the stock and furniture Here insured for £225. ■

The “ Bruce Herald ” states that a family has been poisoned at Kaitangata, but it witholds names and particulars until they are thoroughly authenticated, The draught tournament in Dnnedin lasted till late yesterday morning. The three last left in were Wilson, of Dunedin, Boswell, of Ohristchurch,. and Miller, Oamaru. Wilson beat Boswell and tied Miller, and they agreed to divide the honors.

Mabuku and the other Maori prisoners who were concerned in obstructing the surveys were to be to-day brought up at the Police Court, Auckland, charged with the offence. At the Supreme Court (provided they are committed) Mr Sheehan will defend them.

The ’Frisco mail boat Australia, leaving Auckland yesterday, took (10 saloon and 33 steerage passengers. The Chief Justice of Queensland, Sir O. Lilley, was a through passenger. The vessel takes £IO,OOO in specie for Honolulu, £6239 for San Francisco from Sydney, and £21,435 from Auckland.

The Court of Reviewers for the Levels and Mount Cook Districts sat this morning at eleven o’clock. The cases were heard with closed doors; but judging from the number of surveyors and other parties interested, it was evident that a heap of work awaited them.

A recent London paper says that “in the Bast End of London there appears to be a growing dislike against the Irish population. Thousands of Irishmen and women aie unable to obtain work on any terms, and it is said that within the last fortnight two or three manufacturing firms have discharged some hundreds of their Irish workpeople, in order to replace them by Englishmen.”

It has been often remarked by those m a position to know best, that all must, of necessity (not of choice), eat sundry pecks of dirt, under the name of brown bread, which often contain the refuse of sundry vermin, which does fill but cannot nourish. Pee that your baker furnishes a clean, light, pure loaf. With improved milling, there is no more necessity of using such mixtures. Flour is not its name.— \ Advt.]