NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3495, 18 June 1884, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Mr James Bruce of Timaru, is patenting an automatic grain-drying apparatus. The six sick seamen of the barque Andro Bias are to be taken to Auckland, and placed in the Auxiliary Hospital. At an inquest on Henry Malone, a gum digger who died in the Auckland gaol, a verdict of “ Died from exposure and excessive drinking,” was returned, Mr Fergus, M,H.R„ leaves Dunedin for the North to-day. He gets about only with sticks, having hurt his knee rather severely in getting out of a buggy in Tasmania. A match has been arranged for a quarter of a mile race over eight Rights of hurdles between J. M. O’Connor, of Timaru, and James McFarlane, of Ashburton, The match will come off on July 15.

The Temuka Young Men’s Club was opened by a public meeting on Monday last, Mr E. F. Gray presiding. Avery enjoyable evening was spent, many of the members giving songs, recitations end speeches, On Monday night a fire broke out in one of the bedrooms of the Bridge Hotel, at Waitara, near New Plymouth. It was caused by children playing with candles. It was extinguished, however before much damage was done,

A child four years old, named Brogan, has been drowned in the Waiwera Creek Clutha County. It had been seen by the mother ten minutes previously to her finding it dead. It is supposed to have been playing on the ice,

A man named Bernard Jones, of the Auckland Naval Artillery, shot himself last night with his carbine in his bedroom, owing to a love affair with a girl who was on the point of leaving Auckland. The bullet entered his breast over the heart coming out again at the shoulderblade and striking the wall. It is said be had been drinking. Mr H. W. Hammond, Inspector of Schools for the South Canterbury Board of Education, intends taking up the proprietorship of the S.C. Grammar Schooh vacated by Mr Buechler. Mr Hammond’s long experience in educational matters, his high training as a school teacher and being well-known in the district should ensure a good attendance at his school. The premises are very commodious and the domestic arrangements wi’ 1 . be under the direct control of Mrs Hammond, so that boarding pupils will have every attention.'

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 snre and see Advt.