NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3311, 12 November 1883, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Borough Council will meet this evening.

1 'O’Connor has offered to walk Edwards for £IOO. mm Most of the holiday-makers have returned from Christchurch, sated with enjoyment. Special railway facilities are announced in connection with the Oamaru Agricultural Show. The Railway extension from Hurunui to Culverdon, will be proceeded with without delay. The Governor, who was too ill to attend the ball given in his honor on Friday by the C.J.C., left for Wellington on Saturday afternoon. Mr Carkeek, Government Surveyor, has gone to resume his survey of the Northern Trunk Bailway route. The Government have made satisfactory negotiations with the Natives. The result of the Fiery Cross crushing, at Greymouth, was 1135 ounces of retorted gold from 528 tons. A dividend of two shillings per scrip will be declared, leaving a handsome balance in hand. His Honor Judge Ward continues very ill. He is still staying at the Queen’s hotel and will probably be unable to resume his official duties for a considerable time to come. The Frisco mail has arrived at Auckland and the Hawea, with the Southern portion, left Onehunga yesterday afternoon. It is probable therefore that tbs letters for Timaru will arrive to-morrow night or by Wednesday’s Express. Woodyear’s cirons is coming as the huge posters about town inform the public. The most favorable reports reach us from the towns hitherto visited by the circus. Mr Woodyear was Mr Burton’s agent in days gone by. A mail notice to the effect that the San Francisco mail loaves Timaru to-morrow requires explanation. A boat belonging to the Pacific Mail Company happens to be returning to Auckland, and advantage is taken of the circumstance to dispatch a mail by her.

Oliver beat the Dunedin champion, Cutten, in the three-mile bicycle race at the Athletic Sports in that city on Saturday. The time was 13min 47seos.

The fifty mile walking match between Edwards and O’Connor on Saturday in Christchurch resulted in a victory for Edwards, who completed his fiftieth mile three-quarters of a lap ahead of O’Connor. Time—9h 46Jmin.

At the inquest in Dunedin on Mrs Webb, who cut her throat with her husband’s surgery knife, a verdict of “ Suicide while in a state of temporary insanity induced by depression,’’was returned. The evidence showed she had been drinking, though she had always appeared quite cheerful, and was so the previous evening.

As the s.s. Manapouri was leaving the Wellington wharf for Sydney on Saturday night, she fouled one of the mooring buoys and the chain got wound round her propeller. Divers were set to work and tried in vain to release her throughout the whole night. She did not get clear till about 2.80 yesterday afternoon, when ten fathoms of chain were unwound, and the steamer which was crowded with passengers, got off.