NEWS OF THE DAY

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3496, 19 June 1884, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY

A man named Bradbrook has had his leg broken, and his collar-bone put out by a slip on the Wenthorne contract of the Otago central railway, At the A uckland Police Court yesterday, Thomas Foley, an ex-Salvationist, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for assaulting one Jane French, and for having no visible means of support.

The New Zealand Shipping Company have received a cable advice that the British King arrived at Eio Janiero on Tuesday, that her refrigerator was working well and her meat in prime condition.

At an inquest on Bernard Jones, of the Auckland Naval Artillery, who committed suicide on Tuesday night on account of a love affair, the jury returned a verdict to the effect that deceased committed suicide while suffering from temporary insanity.

Owing to the continued wet weather the trial of Cockerell and Sons’ cultivator has been postponed till further notice Archdeacon Harper has been during the past week engaged in making his annual visitation in the ecclesiastical district of Geraldine.

At the E.M. Court Geraldine, on Monday, one A. Martin, charged with stealing a 5prong fork and 8 bags of oats, was remanded till to-morrow.

The Auckland Harbor Board have determined to take the control and management of the Eastern and Western harbors, and to administer the Manukau, fore-shore, &c., if permitted by the Legislature to do so. Two apprentices of the barque Examiner, while at Qreymouth, partook of some tinned jam bearing a Hobart label. Not liking the flavor, they did not take much, but both were seised with sudden sickness, and one became so bad that be had to be put on shore on arrival at Lyttelton. His symptoms denote poisoning, apparently the result of eating the jam.

At the last meeting of the Lodge Southern Star, No. 619, S.C., Geraldine, ■he following officers elected for the ensuing year, were installed by Bro J. Hill, M.W.D.G.M., vizßro J. Cunningham, R.W.M. ; Bro Shiers, Treasurer ; Bro Westropp, Secretary; Bro Olouston, D.M.; Bro J. Williams, D.M.; Bro Coltman, S.D.; Bro Patrick, J.D. ; Bro Dunlop, S.W. ; Bro Gould, J .W.; Bro Waller, 1.G.; nnd Bro Pye, O.G.

At a meeting of the Committee of the Otago Rugby Union at Dunedin, last night it was decided to present medals to the Otago representatives in the Intercolonial team, and to communicate with other Unions with a view to arranging some suitable present to Mr Sleigh for his management of all the arrangements. The Union| intend to make application for affiliation to the Rugby Union of England.

The offer made by a Wellington resident to match Hearn, the New Zealand champion sculler, against Honlan, has been accepted by the latter. The match will be rowed in Wellington harbor, over a 3J mile course, and the stakes are to be JE2OOa-side, Hanlan. receiving £SO as expenses for coming here, and two-thirds of whatever is taken in gate money. No date has yet been fixed for the match, but it will probably be rowed towards the end of August.

A number of petty larcenists are about town just now, and their special vocation seems to be stripping clothes linos. Several lines have been stripped lately in and about town. The attention of the police has been called to these depredations, and the offenders will find their game a rather perilous one. It would be well if householders removed temptation out of the way of these prowlers by taking their clothes in at night.

It is understood an action has been commenced in the Auckland Supreme Court to recover from John Adams, proprietor of the Swan Hotel, the money said to have been entrusted to him by Franks while the latter was under the influence of liquor. The transaction in question was the subject of the "lambing down’’ prosecution dismissed by the magistrate on Tuesday last, Franks, who belongs to Wanganui, is a nephew of Major-General Franks, and the £250 deposit receipt was a legacy given to him by his uncle. At the B, M. Court this morning, before His Worship the Mayor, Eliza |Jane Bray, an old offender, against whom there were thirteen previous convictions, was sentenced to 24 hours’ imprisonment, for drunkenness. Eliza stated she intended visiting Dunedin for a season, and His Worship said the police would extend their hospitality to her until the time of her deorder that no unforeseen circumstances might interfere with the carrying out of her design. A telegram from the Thames with reference to the state of the weather there, tays " Rain has fallen here constantly during the last 36 hours, and the Earaka has overflowed its banks and flooded all the town in its vicinity. The damage done so far has not been so great as on the last occasion of a similar flood, but if the rain continues much longer it will be a serious matter. The booms of the Shortland Sawmill Company have broken away, and logs are drifting down the Kaneranga to the sea. The logs on their passage have store in the steamer Futiki, which was lying in the stream. She now lies partly submerged.”

A serious state o! affairs is reported at Salineville, a mining town nest Cleveland, Ohio. The coal banks in the hills on which the town stands have been operated for many years. One afternoon it was discovered that tbe ground immediately about a mine was beginning to crack in several places. Toward night the situation became still more alarming. Next day people were surprised to find portions of their dwellings and yards slowly sinking into the earth. The wells in the neighborhood were found to be bottomless, A large new brick schoolbouse stands on the brow of the hill, and it is tbe general opinion that this will be destroyed. The cause of the approaching disaster is owing to the extra large amount of coal that has been taken from the hill.

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.