NEWS OF THE DAY

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3532, 1 August 1884, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY

The game shooting season closed yesterday, A old identity named Charles Lawson, aged eighty, has just died at Auckland. Ho built the lirst Oddfellow’s Hall in Auckland.

There are thirty-eight entries of candidates for the Auckland Grammar School foundation scholarship, A man named Boyce was run over and killed by a trolly at Auckland on Wednesday. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned.

His Excellency the Governor and suite arrived at Wellington by the Hinemoa from Lyttelton yesterday afternoon. The man who died in the Auckland streets on Tuesday last, has been identified as Frederick Young, a painter, of Dunedin.

The Auckland Stud Company shipped 23 head of cattle, 3 horses and 10 rams by the Rotomahana, which left Auckland for Sydney on Wednesday, A public debate has been arranged to take place at Auckland, between the Rationalistic Association! and the Christian Evidence Society, the net proceeds of which will be devoted to the purchase of books for the Hospital library, The workshop of Donald Cameron, a bootmaker in Montreal Street, Christchurch, was destroyed by fire yesterday morning. The building was insured for £25, and the stock lor £25 in the National office.

At the official declaration of the poll for Motueka yesterday, Mr Hursthouse was declaied duly elected, by a majority of 30 over Mr Kerr. There was one informal vote.

At an inquest ou the body of Jeremiah Savage, who was drowned on the Castle Point beach, Wellington, a verdict of found drowned wae returned. The deceased was galloping along the beach, and it is supposed be wae thrown from bis horse.

During July there were registered at Timaru 41 births, 4 marriages and 12 de.-dhv.

This evening there will be a meeting of the Timaru Political Association, in the

Oddfellow’s Hall, Barnard street, commencing at eight o’clock. James Anderson, the defendant in the breach of promise case to be heard at the next sessions of the Auckland Supreme Court, levanted to Sydney on Wednesday by the s.s. Botomahana.

A very heavy shock of earthquake was experienced at Ahawra, near Grey month, at 10 35 o’clock yesterday morning, accompanied by a loud rumbling noise.

The City Band is making excellent progress under Mr Dickenson. Last night they performed a number of selections in Sophia street, in a most creditable manner.

The Caswell Sound Marble Company have made a test of their machinery, icently constructed in Wellington, and found to work very satisfactorily. Operations are to be commenced without delay.

Mr Andrew Aitkenhead, farmer, of Oamaru, was found dead in bis bedroom yesterday morning. The cause of hie death is not known. An inquest will be held.

At a meeting ot the Wellington Chamber of Commerce yesterday, Messrs E. Pearce and J. E. Nathan were appointed delegates to represent the Chamber at the proposed Conference of delegates, to be held in Christchurch, from the various Chambers of Commerce in New Zealand. Mr O. W. Adams, geodetical surveyor, has just completed at Wellington, observations in connection with the transit of Venus, to determine accurately the longitude of New Zealand. He now proceeds to Auckland to take sidereal observations to determine the latitude of New Zealand and its time xneridan.

A Dunedin telegram says:—At the Cromwell Post-office two of the officials, in counting the letters (moistening their fingers to do so), experienced sickness and internal qualms. It was found on examination, that a packet of strychnine, which was among the letters bad got loose.

A conference between Milner Stephen, the magnetic healer, and three medical men took place at Dunedin yesterday, concerning an alleged case of cure of internal cancer in a woman. The doctors were shown the cancerous growth preserved in a bottle, but required personal inspection. On this being granted, one of the medical men pronounced the cancer to have spread since his previous examination, and to be in no way cured. Yesterday afternoon the remains of a Crimean veteran named Samuel Wilson, one of “ Six Hundred,” were interred in Addington Cemetery, Wilson, who was 54 years of age, was a trooper in the Bth Hussars at the time of the famous charge, but rose to the rank of Sergt.-Major. Up to ids last illness ha was employed at the railway workshops. He was buried without military honors, bat a large number of hi* fellow workmen and others followed his remains to the grave,

A scratch football match will be played on the Waimataitai ground to-morrow afternoon, between the following teams chosen from the members of the B,C. Football Club :—Mackay (captain), Mills, King, Haggett, Kay, Wilson, Lawrenson, Smith, Goodall, Tate, Campbell, Watkins, Gooch, Cramond, Birrell, Wood, Monckton and Mee ; and Reid (captain) Cole, Cook, Cramond, Macintosh, Eichbanm, Jones, Smith, Haylook, Tate, Sheehan, Gardner, Webb, Cole, Stevens, Shury, Biltoa and Hobbs, Play will commence at 2,30 p.m. sharp. I JAt the B.M. Court this morning, before F. LeCren and W, G. Bees, Esqrs., Michael O’Connor was fined 10s or 48 hours’ imprisonment for drunkenness A. MoOaa for allowing a horse to wander at large was fined 5s and costs 7s and 0, Westerman for tethering a horse on the public road, was also fined 5a and costs 7s. M, Peters, J. Smith, P. Stratford, W. Aitken and W. Wilds pleaded “ guilty” to a charge of driving without reins on the Waimataitai road on July 24th last, and were each fined 20s and costs, in all 275, the Bench remarking that this was a most serions and dangerous offence, and the next time any one of the defendants appeared before the Court* they would be fined not less than £5, Easily Pboven—lt is easily proven that malarial fevers, constipation, torpidity of the liver and kidneys, general debility, nervousness, and neuralgic ailments yield readily to this great disease-conqueror, Hop Bitters. It repairs the ravages of disease by converting the food into rich blood, and it gives new life and vigour to the aged and infirm always. See Advt.