NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3488, 10 June 1884, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Bishop of Nelson lectred in W. jllingtoa last night on a “ Visit to Jerusalem.”

Two hundred and twenty frozen rabl dtg were shipped by the steamer Victory wh fch sailed from Wellington yesterday for Home.

The name of the man who was killed at Upper Takjrl on th.e 29th ult., was Jeremiah Dickson. The dmy overturned, and Dickson was suffocated, by a bale of rabbit skins fa'ling on|him.

A ssven-roome id house at Avonsidc, Chiistchurch, occ npied by James Denham, a grocer, was bur ned down last night, Thf> house was insur ed in the Liverpool, Lon . don and Globe for £IOO, and the stock f> or £3OO in the Vic corian office. Denllfen v /as absent at the ti .me of the fire, the cans' e of which is unknown.

A man nattn >d Frederick Nicholls committed suicide at Dunedin yesterday evening, by laldn g laudanum. He had . been drinking heavily, and was brough' ; home drunk during the day. Ho called' his wife into the bed .room, and bidding h< >r goodbye, dranl; (he laudanum, w' gich she thought was wine. He aflenvp , v da came out into tl ie kitchen and smoked gig pipe, dying nor u'ly two hor s aftorwiv t 'da,

! The names of Barbary, list 71b, and Thorntop, lOst, were omitted from the handicap for the Oamaru Steeplechase, to ' be run on the 12th inst !

A seaman named MoMaster has been killed by falling from the rigging of "the barque Himalaya, lying in Auckland harbor. The young man Terry, supposed to have been devoured by wild pigs at Wairoa South, Auckland, has been found in a dying condition. It is believed he was thrown from his horse.

It is rumored in Auckland that Mrs Patterson, landlady of the Fitzroy Hotel, intends to proceed against Mr J. Newman. Chairman of the City East Licensing Committee, for Blander, in having said that young girls were harbored in her house. At the Eesident Magistrate’s Court, Christchurch, yesterday, Margaret George, licensee of the Heathcote Arms Hotel, was charged with failing to provide accommodation as required by the Licensing Act. The prosecutor deposed that he had applied for tea and bed, and was told by the barman there was no tea, and no beds in the house. He admitted that he had been sent by Todhunter, of Vincent and Co., brewers, who own the hotel, and cannot get possession. All the furniture was sold off recently. The case was dismissed with costs against the informant, the Magistrate saying that the machinery of the Court was not to be used for the furtherance of private ends.

As the town-clock struck ten last night Councillor Proctor solemnly rose at the municipal table, and observed—" Your Worship, we have been here three hours now, and may remain another three. I should suggest that coffee he served round.” Or Proctor had hardly re-deposited himself in his chair before the vigilant Town Clerk had darted forth and brought forward out of his stock a white ewer- and a " longsleever” glass and was in a moment at the exhausted Councillors elbow offeiing him a pint of Pareora, which was gratefully absorbed.

Mr Allan Mann’s flour and oatmeal mill at Woodside, Ontram, in Taieri County, together with a laree quantity of grain, was destroyed by fire on Saturday evening. The building was valued at £ISOO, and was not insured. It is calculated that about £6OO worth of grain, the property of Messrs Dackens and a few other persons, was burned, Mr Dackens has an insurance for £3OO on the grain. The mill was the property of Mr Mann, and was leased by Mr Dackens at an annual rental • of £l3O, On Friday and Saturday the kiln was rather heavily fired, and it is presumed that as the fire started in the kiln the woodwork must have ignited. An insur. ance policy for £IOOO existed on the mill till about six weeks ago, when it lapsed.

Lovely Climes. — There are lovely climes and places in which the evening zephyrs are loaded with malaria and the poison of fever and epidemics. To dwell there in health is impossible without a supply of Hop Bitters at hand. These Bitters impart an equalising strength to the system, and prevent the accumulation of deadly spores of contagion. Be sure and see Advt.