NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3307, 7 November 1883, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Banks in Timaru will be closed on Friday next, Mr Hutchison. M.H.8., has decided to stand for the Mayoralty of Wellington. The ship Westland’s immigrants at Wellington were yesterday released from quarantine.

A shed belonging to the Waimate County Council has been partially burned down under suspicious circumstances.

There is lamentation among the Auckland bookmakers over Martini-Henri’s victory, for they have all been very hard hit, There is a rush of coal vessels at Greymouth; every available inch of wharf space and every available laborer are engaged. A general meeting of shareholders in the Woollen Factory Company will be held to-night in the Secretary’s office, for the purpose of electing permanent directors. The barque Caberfeidh, which struck on the rocks at the Wellington Heads has received but little injury, only a few feet of her false keel having been carried away. The Christchurch Exhibition Committee have accepted the offer of the New Zealand Electric Light and Power Company to light the exhibition with 150 incandesent and 6 are lights. A concert in aid of the funds of St Patrick’s Brass Band will be held in the Catholic Boy’s schoolroom on Friday evening next. Full programme will be published on Friday. Mr J. D. Kett, licensee of the Grosvcnor Hotel, has given a silver cup to the Tradesmen’s Athletic Club, to become the property of the winner of the greatest number of events at Friday’s sports. The Customs revenue for the colony last month was £122,469, as against £115,690 for the corresponding period of last year. The beer duty last month was £4906, as against £4392 for the preceding month. Judge Ward is expected to preside at the Blue Eibbon meeting on Friday night, and several speakers of note among the teetotallers will deliver addresses. The meeting will be held in the Presbyterian Church.

The sale of privileges in connection with the Athletic Olnb’s meeting on Friday, resulted as follows :—General license booth and gates, £5 and £3B respectively, to Mr Kett; refreshment booth £6, to Mr Ritchie; cards and games £l, to Mr T. J. Kennedy.

The case against James Boreham, in the R.M. Court Oamaru, for collecting a crowd in Steward street, thereby obstructing the thoroughfare, came before Mr Robinson, R.M. on Monday. It was in connection with the recent annoyance of the Salvation Army by larrikins and it was dismissed, the Magistrate holding that the by-law did not cover the offence.

The adjourned meeting of Guthrie and Larnach’s Timber andWoodware Factories Company yesterday, in Dunedin, was attended by only one or two shareholders. The business was purely formal, consisting of the passing of a motion for the appointment of an inspector to inspect the accounts, books, &o„ as provided by the Act.

A criminal information lor libel has been laid at Nelson by Mr Jas, Sclanders (Selanders and Co.) against Thomas A. Mabin, accountant, of Wellington. The libel is said to have occurred in a letter written to a third person, wherein Mr Mabin accused Mr Sclanders of forging a letter from Shaw, Saville, and 00. The information will be heard on Monday next.

A contemporary pays the following equivocal compliment to our morning contemporary :—The “ Timaru Herald” has a confident and trenchant way of dealing with questions that is apt to produce conviction oftener than it ought. It is not easy to resist the unhesitating flow of its argument, and the undercurrent of assumption that no other view of a subject is possible than the one it chooses to take/’

At a meeting ol the Pleasant Point School Committee on Monday evening a request was read from Mr Sutter, M.H.R., for the use of the schoolroom in about a week’s time, for the purpose of delivering a political address. The request was granted. The report of the Inspector (Mr Gurr), was read, and it gave much satisfaction to the Committee, being very favorable.

The first prize in Ada Mantua’s sweep on the New Zealcnd Gap goes to Oamaru, the second to Balclutha, and the third to Tapanui. The first prize in the Melbourne Cup goes to Alexandria, the second to Waipawa and the third to Elbow. Our agent in Dunedin attended the drawing of Ada Mantua’s sweep to see how it was conducted. He says the whole affair was handed over to a committee of subscribers and he never saw anything so fairly carried out. There could be no question as to justice being done to every subscriber.