NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3336, 11 December 1883, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Ye Olde Englishe Fayre in Wellington has realised £I3OO.

The Resident Magistrate, Mr J. Beswick met with an unpleasant accident yesterday. He was driving to Temuka in a two wheeled vehicle, and when near the Opihi bridge.the horse stumbled and fell and the occupants, Mr Beswick and a lady, were thrown out. Fortunately they sustained no injury and were able to pursue their journey. The horse cut his knees in falling. A man named Joseph Stewart was found yesterday in an unoccupied building at Westport with his throat cut and quite dead. The Coroner’s jury returned a verdict of suicide whilst of unsound mind from the effects of drink. Deceased was a well-known old West Coast miner.

Mr E. J. Lee, member for Sclwyn, has been dangerously ill for the last week, and on Thursday he was not expected to recover, A change for the better has now taken place, and hopes are entertained of his recovery.

At Dunedin the Society of Carpenters and Joiners have resolved to request the Executive Council of the English Society in Manchester to use every means in their power to prevent any more members of the Society coming to the colony, owing to the depressed state of the building trade. Every effort is being made to push the sale of tickets in connection with the performance of the “ Pirates of Penzance’’ by the Oamaru amateurs. While the request for the Borough Council’s patronage was under consideration last night, a Councillor remarked “ that the play as presented by this company was something altogether exceptional, and that in Oamaru immense crowds had been attracted by it, A very considerable number of drcss-circle tickets have already been disposed of.

Daniel Fiemergan, third-class immigrant per Triumph, who had been at Hobson’s Hotel, Auckland, with Dr Menzies of the Triumph, who has been staying there, has been arrested on a charge of stealing from the doctor’s bedroom his gold watch and chain, pendants, and purse, total value £9l. Dr Mcnzics, after announcing his loss and having the hotel searched the subsequent day, it seems got all the property from Fiemergan, who said he took it for a lark. The detectives were not satisfied, and arrested Fiermergan.

Yesterday afternoon an application was lodged at tho Waste Lands Office, Christchurch, for a gold-mining lease for fifteen years of sixteen and a half acres on the cast side of the dividing range, at the head waters of the Wilberforce river. The Company is to be styled the Christchurch Quartz Mining Company, It is stated that the North Creek Mining Company are to have a trial crushing of half a ton of quartz brought from the Wilberforce. The Secretary of St Patrick’s Branch of the New Zealand H.C.B. Society was fined jEI at the Magistrate’s Court, Christchurch, yesterday, for failing to [supply the Secretary of the Parent Society with the information required by the Registrar of Friendly Societies. The defence was that the branch did not wish to recognise the New Zealand H.C.B.’s, but the H.A.0.8. Society as head centre. .

The Secretary of the Marine Department announces that Government maintains stores on Campbell and Auckland Islands, The Kekeno is now down there. The Stella cannot be spared. The R.M, Court at Temuka, was yesterday the scene of one or two unpleasant occurrences. In the case W. R. Uprichard v. J. Craig, the defendant came in late, and in reply to His Worship, remarked in an insolent tone that be was busy and could not turn customers away. At a subsequent stage, the Resident Magistrate ordered Craig to apologise, which he did. During the hearing of the same case, the reporter of the “ Temuka Leader" making signs to the prosecutor, was ordered to desist, His Worship intimating that if he did not act properly, he would bo turned out of the Court,