NEWS OF THE DAY

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3126, 10 April 1883, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY

At Olipua in the Timaru district, a new Post Office has b zen opened. Mr B, Maclean, formerly Property Tax Commissioner for the Auckland province, died on Saturday. The Borough Council last night had an astonishingly short meeting, actually rising at 8,30.

A meeting of Wai-iti residents will take place to-morrow evening to discuss the action of the Committee in procuring the dismissal of a teacher.

The Anglican Synod at Napier have resolved to present an address of condolence to the family of the late Archbishop of Canterbury.

A man named John Warnes has been sentenced to six months’ Imprisonment at Auckland for smuggling ashore tobacco and clothing from H.M.S. Diamond.

The Standard and Crusader Cricket Clubs tried conclusions on the school grounds, on Friday afternoon last, the latter winning in one innings and 3 runs to spare.

D. Scallon has been again arrested at Waikato for perjury : n a recent Sridaytrading prosecution, in which he was concerned as landlord of the Nottingham Castle Hot J.

T n the totalisator case at Napier, Cohen, the defendant who gained the action on a point of law, has sent the amount to the Jockey Club to pay whom they choose, [the Club decided to pay it into Court.

A number of agricultural districts in South Australia did not yield more wheat per acre than would give seed for the next crop, and yet they still go on farming in South Australia. Hope is something to live on,but a quarter of a bushel to the acre is enough to drive hope out of a stump. The South Canterbury teachers who have passed the certificate examinations under the Education Department are:—Mr 0. J Cooke, Class D ; F. Bethune and A. Cuthbert, Class E (partial success) ; J. M. Beeoby and Misses M. A. Grant and E. M. Bowley have completed a former examination.

The following are the amounts prid in settlement of the recent races at New Plymouthßussell, £250; Whalley, £150; Keith, £125 ; Pollock, £lO5 ; Standish, £100; Chitham, £SO; McGee, £SO; Harrison, £3O ; Chadwick, £25 ; Woods, £25 ; Hoskins, £25 ; Hendry, £l9 ; and Williamson, £lO.

The Bugby Colony of Tennessee, founded by Thomas Hughes (Tom Brown of Rugby) is now doing so well that it promises to live and be strong. The recent sales of land for fruit raising purposes have been large, and attended of course by an encouraging inflow of immigration, A canning factory is building, the schools aie prosperous, and it looks now as if tbo founder’s hopes might yet be rea ‘sed.

The business people of Hawker, Queensland, according to the *' Northern Argus,” seem determined not to be outdone by the banks. They have intimated that they intend to charge 3d on all bank notes under £25, andjwo rata the same as the bank commission on cheques. They e. dently think if sauce is good for the goose it is also as good for the gander, George Albert Mason, of Toronto, who has just been released from the New York Penitentiary after an imprisonment of seven years and eight months, on a charge of counterfeiting, charges United States detectives with having conspired against him to secure bis arrest and conviction, so as to enable them to secure the release of a gang of counterfeits whose arrest he (Mason) had been instrumental in procuring, for which the detectives received a bribe of 10,000dol.

The territory of the Kroumirs, in North Africa, a fertile country, rich in minerals and wood, became after the French occupation almost a desert, as the nomad tribes took flight. Steps were soon taken by the French to encourage European immigration, each immigrant being offered, free of charge, ground suitable to build a house upon and five or six acres for cultivation. The result has already been that 250 families of various nationalities are established in the country on these conditions, while the number is increasing every day. In the Cambridge case at the Supreme Court, E. S. Walker pleaded guilty on behalf of the defendants to forcible entry. The other defendants were discharged by Judge Gillies as servants acting under Walker’s orders. Walker was ordered to enter into his own recognisance for £SOO to appear at the next sitting of the Court for sentence, If in the meantime is was shown the natives had had their claim for damages satisfied, the fine imposed would just be sufficient to vindicate the law and clear the expenses of the Government. In the event of their claim not being settled, it would then become a matter for consideration of the Court. The charge of alleged perjury against Whaknku was withdrawn, the costs to be borne by the prosecution, as no prima facie case was made out, and the two Justices who committed him did so in the face of the representation of the Resident Magistrate.

A chess exhibition, with living pieces, is 1 o be held in Dunedin shortly.

The tea and concert in connection with I’ie Wesleyan Church will be held this evening. Communication between Port Darwin and Banjoewangi was restored at 8.45 p.m, yesterday.

The endless wire rope tramway to Mornington is workinz well and is largely patronised.

Oapta ; n Jones, ol the steamer Botorua, has gome Home via Meibom je, to bring an “ express ” boat for the Union Company, the Tahapuna. A special steamer is to be built for the Fiji trade, Messrs R. Stout, and Fish, M.EJ.R., are both'going to address the people in Dunedin on Major Atkinson’s pauperism scheme, at an easly date. The Kaiapoi stationmaster, aid the guard of the down train, in connection with the late collision at Southbrook have been reinstated, as it was considered that defective management was the cause of the accident, and not the acts of the officials.

The President of the Christchurch Agricultural and Pastoral Association stated yesterday that in his opinion, the time had arrived for the appointment of a Minister of Agriculture.

A charge against an apprentice of the ship Dumbartonshire was dismissed at Lyttelton yesterday—the ship having sailed and the captain having the boy’s indentures with him. The local agents were held to have ho power in the matter A terrible catastrophe occurred lately at Bombay. An alarm of fire which was wholly groundless was given at. a wool cleaning factory, and the workpeople made a rush to the doors. Twenty-three women engaged on the premises were crashed to death in the throng of people who were struggling to escape.

There was a most provoking delay this morning in commencing the proceedings of the Levels Road Board. The Chairman was at his post to the minute; in twentyfive minutes another member looked in, said "Good morning,” turned on his heel and left, apparently in disgust. A few minutes after, a third turned up, with the intormation that he had seen another member hastening away to the South, He then went in search of the member who had looked in, and thus members spent an hour in chasing one another about town, and it wss not ti’l noon that a meeting was got together, A fancy dress ball was held at Reefton last week. The attendance, the “ Times ’’ says, consisted of some fifteen or twenty couples only, and therefore elbow-room, unlike the raiment of some of the ladies present, was by no means scant. Don Cfcsar de Bazan, /Iphonso the Brave, Henry TH., George HI., and a few minor notables of more recent date, were of course there, in splendor more or less regal, The attendance of queens, princesses, fairies, and shepherdesses was large’ and the female leg divine was very conspicuous, the affair in this latter respect proving a great success.

It has been often remarked by those in a position to know best, that all must, of necessity (not of choice), eat sundry peeks 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 clean, light, pure loaf. With milling, there is no more necessity of using such mixtures. Flour is not its name.— f Advt.l