NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3364, 15 January 1884, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Donald Dinnie is to appear at the Tradesmen’s Athletic Sports, Dunedin, A service of song, “ Frankey Vivian,” -will be given in the Wesleyan Church this evening.

The Timaru High School classes will re" eume on the 26th inst., under the reduced fee system, The miners at Kawakawa collieries have resumed work on the terms offered by the managers.

Hillahy’s slaughter house at Auckland has been burned down, presumably by an incendiary.

A four-year-old daughter of Mrs Sharp, of Cambridge, Auckland, was yesterday drowned while bathing.

The Working Men’s Club, Wellington, for the half-year shows a credit balance of £3B. The balance of assets over liabilities is £567.

A man named Dennis Ryan is missing at Wellington. He was only discharged from the Lunatic Asylum recently, and it is feared he may have destroyed himself.

At the Magistrate’s Court, Carterton, a charge of rape preferred against a young man named F. Williams was dismissed. Medical examination proved the crime had not been committed.

The Fairlie Creek School Committee have nominated Messrs Stewart and Walcot for vacant seats at the Education Board. Mr Oaskey, Hon Sec., to the Fairlie Creek Sports Committe, has forwarded £2 9s in aid of the school fund.

The Epsom House seminary, Auckland, occupied by General Stoddart, has been burned down. The building was insured for £2OO in the South British, and in the National for £3OO. The furniture, on which there was a risk in the South British for £7OO, was partly saved. The origin of the fire is unknown.

The annual meeting of the Otago Bible Society was held last night. The report showed that affairs were in a satisfactory state. The Governor was in the chair, and in an an address stated the society, daring its 20 years existence, had been instrumental in distributing 30,000 copies of the scriptures. The Kev W. Eonaldson was elected President.

Mr 0. Bright lectured on Sunday evening in the Lyceum, Dunedin, on the “ Salvation Army ” ; and, says the “Herald,” during the delivery of the lecture, a man jumped up to controvert the lecturer’s statements. The chairman warned him that be must keep order, and Mr Bright mentioned that anyone present governed by a spirit of Christian feeling could that evening attend a number of places in the city where their sentiments were uttered, but if they came to the Lyceum they came to hear diametrically opposite opinions. The person mentioned subsequently interrupting was ejected from the building.

A four-roomed house and its contents at I Patutah, Poverty Bay, were burned down on Sunday night in the absence of the family. The insurance was £2OO in the Hamburg-Madgeburg office.

On Friday, application was made from Dunedin to the Colonial Secretary for free railway passes for the crew of the Sarah W. Hunt to Lyttelton, but no reply being received, several kindly disposed gentlemen took their case in hand and obtained for them free passages on one of the Union Company’s boats, and also provided them with pocket money. Yesterday, the following telegram was received from Wellington :—“ lam instructed to state, in reply to your telegram to the Hon. Mr Dick, that the Minister regrets he cannot authorise further expense in respect of the seamen of the Sarah W. Hunt, who being American citizens, should apply to the United States Consul. (Signed) W. Seed.”