NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3120, 3 April 1883, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Kennedy, the Scotch vocalist is again coming to the colonies.

Three thousand carcases have been loaded on the British King. The inquest in Dunedin on the lad Wain is again adjourned. An additional teacher is to be provided for the Christchurch School of Art, which is attended by 431 students.

There were registered at Timaru during the month of March, 44 births, 15 marriages and 8 deaths.

Major Atkinson will shortly confer with Friendly Society delegates in Dunedin on bis national assurance scheme.

The people in Ceylon are delighted at the prospect ot having Sir Arthur Gordon as their Governor.

Mr T. Preston, greengrocer, of Christchurch, when getting out of his cart on Saturday last, broke his leg. The sailors at Lyttelton have held a meeting and decided to accept no smaller rate of wages than £8 or £lO per month.

Mr John Hislop, Secretary to the Education Department, returned to New Zealand yesterday, by the Waihora, the new steamship of the Union Company. A young man named Joseph Sheriff is missing from Takapuna district, Auckland, and as he is somewhat eccentric, there is considerable anxiety as to his fate.

The Christchurch Benevolent Association at their annual meeting yesterday, showed thejreceipts (including a sunsidy of £ for £ from the Government) to be £1862, and the expenditure £llß3, leaving a credit balance of £6BO.

Mr Gordon Matheson’a house at Mornington, Dunedin, was burned down on Sunday morning. It was insured for £BOO in the Australian Alliance, £2OO in the North British, and £IOO in the Standard. Mr Matheson estimates his loss at £2OO over and above the amount of insurance.

The case Hunt v, Gordon (Sir Athur), at Wellington is again postponed to 7th proximo. This is a case in which Hunt sues the High Commissioner of the Pacific for damages for false imprisonment. Dr and Madame Von Leedenfeldt, who recently went up to the Mackenzie couutry to explore the Tasman glacier and ascend Mount Cook, passed through Timarn yesterday e» route for Christchurch. The party found Mr Green’s route of last year now impassable, and went up to Hoohsteller Dome, and took some excellent observetiont and many sketches.

The Customs revenue collected in Christchurch in March, 1882, was £21,777, and in March, 1883, £19,885 ; the beer duty in March, 1882, £1279, and in 1883 £1264. The Customs for the quarter ended March 31st, 1882, amounted to £68,694, and in 1883 to £58,475, The beer duty for the March quarter of 1882 was £3555, and for the quarter of 1883 £3693.

A Mr Fermor Willson addressed a public meeting at Port Chalmers the other evening. the subject being the bar at Otago Heads, and the best means to increase the , depth. Mr Willson does not appear to have engaged the individual attention of his hearers, and the hour getting late, a ratepayer, supposed to be a Good Templar asked—“ Mr Willson, are you going to keep this bar of yours open until twelve 1" At this there was much laughter.

Mr Wakefield is being well received on the West Coast. The Timaru High School Board will nret this evening at 8 o’clock.

Bishop Selwyn arrived yesterday at Auckland from Norfolk Island, by the mission schooner, Southern Cross.

The inquest on Moore, who was found dead the other day on a verandah in Auck land, resulted in a vcidict of “ Found dead without marks of violence,” The ‘school sections’ were oflered at Waimate on Saturday by Mr Freeman. One was bought for a Waimate Library site for £206, another was bought by Mr Hillary for £135. The other sections were withdrawn, the reserve not being reached.

Mr and Mrs Coira of the Royal Hotel, Temuka, entertained some 400 of their friends on Friday night at the Yolunteer Hall. This social gathering was most successful, dancing being kept up till far into Saturday morning. The Hawea on Saturday took 500 casks of tallow to Lyttelton from Wellington for shipment by the British King, but being unable to discharge them on Sunday she had to take them back to Wellington. The statement requires confirmation however.

A meeting of the Waimate Hospital Committee was held on Saturday last to enquire into the circumstances attending the recent amputation of the leg of the boy Fallen, by Dr Chilton. It was adjourned to give an opportunity of obtaining the opinion of disinterested medical experts from Dunedin or Christchurch. The Timaru Hospital return for March shows that the total number of persons treated were, 36 males and 7 females, 43 in all; discharged, 16 males and 2 females, total, 18, 1 male (Robert Moulton) having died. There are at present under treatment 20 males and 5 females, Of outpatients treated during the month there were 9 males and 13 females, or 22 in all.

The annual meeting of the Timaru Fire Brigade was held last night, Captain Amos in the Chair. The Brigade’s balance-sheet showed a credit balance in hand of £1417s lOd. Three new members were elected, Captain Amos was re-elected Captain, Mr Smith Foreman, and it was decided to abolish the office of lieutenant. The Brigade decided to assist Messrs Rose and Whitmore, contractors in the pyrotechnic display which the firm intend making in Timaru to-morrow evening.

TheJTimaru School Committee met last night for the purpose of selecting a Head Master from the twenty applicants for the vacancy in that office, but the statutory notice of meeting not having been given to members, the matter had to be deferred. An application from Archdeacon Harper to be allowed to give religious instruction to scholars in the school, gave rise to a very warm discussion, resulting in its being resolved on the casting vote of the Chairman “ That the Archdeacon be allowed to visit the school to give iustruction to the children after the usual school duties are finished for the day, and to arrange with the Head Master as to the days required.” At four o’clock yesterday morning a fire broke out in a millinery shop in Wynard street, Auckland, occupied by Mrs Mary Scott, who, with a child and five boarders narrowly escaped. One boarder injured his leg by jumping from the verandah. The fire was suppressed after the shop had been completely gutted. The insurance on the stock and furniture was in the South British for £l5O. The entire block, of which the shop forms part, was insured in the Union Office for £IOOO. A man named Hare was found in the adjoinig shop stupified with smoke. A large and influential meeting was held at Tauranga on Saturday night to meet Mr Vesey Stewart prior to his departure for England. A resolution was unanimously passed—“ That this meeting desires to express its fullest confidence in Mr Yesey Stewart, and regret that Mr Barton’s report, which was not in all respects in accordance with facts, should have been the means of winding up the New Zealand Loan Company, which corporation had such large colonising power within its reach.”

An inquest was held on Saturday at New Plymouth on the body of John Rigby, who was drowned on the way to Mokau on Friday. The jury found a verdict that deceased was accidentally drowned while trying to swim his horse round at the Point Pairinike, and added the following rider: “The jury would call the attention of Government to the fact of there being no road beyond the camp to White Cliffs, that travellers to Mokau are subjected to great risk of life by having to go round such a dangerous point on the sea beach.”

The Bluff Harbor Board made a trial of its Priestman’s dredge and the steam barge which carries it yesterday. The result was not encouraging, very little spoil being brought up, the bucket failing to work smoothly. It would not close, and part of tha closing gear gave way. The dredge is on board a twin screw barge of great beam, and with engines of 60 horsepower. The bucket weighs 30cwt, and the dredge crane runs on rails in the bottom of the hold. It is probable that the troubles were the result of want of knowledge of

working, the bucket being dropped heavily in shoal water. The Board intend to try it alongside the wharf before deciding as to reclamation works. Most people think the bottom is unsuited for the dredge.

It has been often remarked by those in 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 contiin the refuse of sundry vermin, which does fill but cannot nourish. Bee that your baker furnishes a clean, light, pure loaf. With improved milling, >here is no more necessity of using such mixtures. Flour is not its name.— FAdvt.]