NEWS OF THE DAY

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3489, 11 June 1884, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY

In the case of Dunn against Morris, in Dunedin, which was an action for seduction the defendant yesterday made application to have the verdict against him set aside on the ground that he was an infant under t'l years of age at the time he was sued. The application was argued before Mr Justice Williams, who decided that he woo’d not disturb the verd’c'

At Auckland yesterday morning, a man named Jones, a baker, was killed by a cart

running over him.

The Kaitangata coal mine has tern inspected, and the parts in which the fire

still burns, have been blocked. Mr J. R. Fussell, of the local Land Office, has been appointed by His Excellency the Governor, a Land Ranger for the Canter bury district.

A petition is being numerously signed in Christchurch, against any interference with the secular and compulsoiy clauses of the Education Act.

Last week Mr Ansley, of the Shamrock Hotel, started 2 pheasants, a cock and a hen, in the bushes near Judge Ward’s residence, along the Washdyke Road,

A girl named Elizabeth Jackson, aged 13, has been missing from her home at Auckland since Friday last, She is stated to have shown signs of mental aberration lately. It is feared that the steamer H’bion, which left Sydney for Wellington on tbo 3rd inst, has broken down, and the Captain of the Stella has been instructed to keep watch for her.

The Dunedin Banco contains the case for contempt of Court against the “ Evening Star ” in connection with the equity suit Campbell v, Kennedy, particulars of which the “ Star ” recently published. The barque Nighthawk, now lying in Dunedin, will take 150 horses for India for military purposes. It is stated that additional shipments will be sent if this venture is satisfactory.

At the Supreme Court, Napier, yesterday, the case of Edwards, charged with murdering his wife and four children, at Ormondville, came on for bearing. Mr Lee. who defended him, confined his endeavors to proving the prisoner a dipsomaniac, who was quite insane at the time of the murder. After a short retirement, the jury returned a verdict of guilty. The Judge assumed the black cap, and passed sentence of death on the prisoner.

At the adjourned meeting of the Deep Creek Licensing Meeting, held yesterday, Mr J. Watkins was granted a renewed license for his Studholme Junction Hotel, He asked the Committee to request the Government to provide means of access to his house from the station, but they informed him that they had come to the conclusion that they could not move effectively in the matter,

The family of the late E ibert Heaton Rhodes intend to build and endow a Convalescent Home near Christchurch, and to expend £IO,OOO on the building and a partial endowment. Some time before bis death Mr Rhodes handed £SOC D to trustees as an endowment to provide religious ministrations to the sick in hospitals ; to the inmates of gaols and asylums, and for the religious teaching of orphans or destitute children, whether in State institutions or those of the Church. It is stated that under the Deceased Person’s Estates Duties Act, 1881, Mr Rhodes’ estate pays the Government £30,000 duty. The following are the names from which will be chosen the team to represent the South Canterbury Football Club in their match against Oamaru on Saturday at the latter place:—Roid (captain), Lough, Jones, G. Cole, J. Roberts Haylock, King, Shepherd, Sheehan, Shirtclifie, Campbell, Kay, Pigeon, W. Wood, Macintosh, McGninness, Gardiner, B. Tate, and Watkins. Practice W'll be held every afternoon this week in Mr Woollcombe’s paddock at four o’clock, and all players are requested to put in an apearsuce.

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.