NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3124, 7 April 1883, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Mr Brown’s house which was burned yesterday, was insured in the Victoria office for £IOO.

The Native meeting at Cambridge, Auckland, was to. be opened to-day. Tawhiao, the Maori King, was expected to attend. In the Geraldine district during the month of March there were registered 11 births, 3 deaths, and 1 marriage. Mr Ebenezer Smith has purchased the balance of the Salado's cargo o! Newcastle coals, and is offering them to the public at very cheap rates. The total value of the exports of New Zealand produce for the year ended March 31st, from the port of Auckland, was £1,026,044.

The South British Insurance Company have made a profit for the past half year of £10,284, and an interim dividend has been declared o£ 10 per cent.

There appears to be general indignation in Dunedin at the result of the inquest on the boy 'Wain, which is virtually to set the parents free, notwithstanding their gross inhumanity. The Timaru School Committee decided last night after a short deliberation, to recommend the appointment to the Head Mastership of the main school of Mr James Scott, the present incumbent.

Byrne, who was supposed to have been concerned in the Phoenix Park tragedy, and who went to Paris out of the way, has his cause espoused by Victor Hugo, who is going to write in his defence. Victor is a splendid knight-errant.

According to advices received by the NZ. Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, New Zealand mutton is selling in London, as follows : Wholesale, say, maximum, 7£d per lb, Ketail—Sheep, 8 Jd; side, BJd ; saddles or loins, 9d; hind quarter, lOd ; fore-quarter, npok, 9£d; legs with breast, 9£d ; shoulders, 9ij; with |a breasts, per lb.

The Selwyn election look place yesterlay, and resulted in the return of Mr Lee. The votes polled were :—Lee 278, Richard--220, McLachlan 140. At Makikihi yesterday, two stacks of iats, belonging to Messrs Quinn Brothers, ■vere found to be on fire, and it is believed hoy were purposely fired by some malicious )r otherwise ill-disposei person.

A Fruit Growers Association is to be formed at Auckland;

The dock-keeper at Auckland has been awarded the bronze medal of the Royal Humane Society of Australasia for saving the life tf a drowning man. A 7-cwt sun fish has been caught in the Dunedin harbor by two fishermen. This ig the third caught in the harbor, one is in the museum.

The British King sailing to-day from Lyttelton takes to Europe a first experimental shipment of silk worm grain from Signor Federli, and it is hoped this will open up a regular trade. The argrioultural statistics for the Counties in Otago south of Dunedin show the following averagesTaieri, 36| bushels of wheat to the acre and 40 bushels of oats ; Tuapeka, 28 bushels of wheat and 47 bushels of oats ; Bruce, 30 bushels of wheat and bushels of oats ; Clutha, 37 bughels of of oats. At Auckland, Te Wetere, Wiwina (Wahanui's brother), Ngahaura, Tehaere (who was assaulted when with the Hurethouse party), and other Ngatimanipoto chiefs had an interview with the Governor yesterday | They were accompanied by Mr Bryce. The chiefs welcomed the Governor, and His Excellency expressed his pleasure at the Ngatimanipotos assisting Mr Bryce in opening up the country and maintaining order. Where was the amiable Te Eooti, on this festive occasion ?

His Excellency the Governor was officially received at Auckland yesterday at 11 o’clock. He made, as usual a frank and cheery reply to the address of the City Council, in the course of which be observed ; —“ In travelling about as I have been for some time in different parts of New Zealand, it has been my good fortune to receive many addresses, so many indeed that I find very often one’s vocabulary almost exhausted in varying the expressions that are suitable. In that 1 am reminded of an address that was once, I am told, presented by a distinguished major of a Scotch regiment to the colonel, who was about to leave the corps. They were neither of them gifted in speech, and on the occasion of the depar* ture of the colonel, who was to be presented with a fine piece of plate, it was : the major who was, deputed to present it. Not being an orator, however, he stood np and said, ‘Colonel, there’s the pig,’upon which the colonel said with an equally diffuse oratory, ‘ Aye, major, and is that the pig V (Laughter.) I should myse'.f much like to adopt that language of brevity on some occasions,

It has been often remarked by those in a position to know best, that all mast, 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. See that your baker furnishes a dean, light, pure loaf. With milling, there is no more necessity of using such mixtures. Flour is not its name f Advt.l