NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3789, 29 May 1885, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

As yet no cine has been found to the perpetrator of the jewellery robbery at Wellington. Tho Government were in Cabinet yesterday. Most of the principal measures to be presented to Parliament by Ministers are now complete. The local option poll, as to whether the number,of licensed houses in Timaru should be increased, opened this morning at 9 o'clock and it will close at 6 p.m. Boulton, the prisoner who recently attempted suicide at Mount Eden Gaol by opening an artery, has made another attempt by strangling and been committed to the Lunatic Asylum* At the annual meeting of the Auckland Fibre Company the report stated that the net profit—£677—had been carried forward, making the balance at credit of profit and loss £1497. Mr J. M. Clark and Mr C. B. Stone were re-elected directors-

Mi L. Harper, M.H.R. for Avon, addressed his constituents at Fapanni last night. He avowed himself a supporter of the Ministry as long as they adhered to the policy they enunciated when taking office. He received a rote of confidence. The first annual report on the Lyttelton Sailors’ Home shows that during the thirteen months the institution has been open 440 seamenghave been accommodated there ; the expenditure has been £B9l, and the receipts leave a debit balance of £173.

At the Police Court, Dunedin, yesterday, ten boys, ranging in age from seven to ten years, were charged with stealing HSlbs of raisins. The parents were ordered to chastise the boys. The father of one suggested that the parents should have been summoned, as they would be having babies in Court next.

An inquest was held at Dunedin yesterday, on a five-year-old child, who was supposed to have died from negligence of the parents, but the medical evidence disclosed nothing beyond the fact of the obild having been very weak and suffering from wasting disease. The jury considered the parents were deserving of great censure for not procuring medical attention. A man named Win. H. Lloyd was brought, over from OollingWood to Nelson yesterday and was teken at once to the Hospital. Ten minutes after his admission he died. The cause of death was heart disease. He was about 60 years of age, and had been a miner in the Collingwood district for about 26 years. A telegram received in Wellington yesterday records the total destruction by fire this morning of Prosser’s Hotel, Opunake. The insurances are as follows : —On the building, National Company, £500; New Zealand Company, £500: Equitable, £260; United, £260. On the stock and furniture, Victoria Company, £6OO. No particulars are yet to hand as to how the fire originated. Marriot Sheard, a coalminer, was killed instantaneously in the Brunner coalmine yesterday evening, while working in that part of the mine where the banquet was held when the Premier visited there. Not quite a truck of coal and stone fell on him. He was 40 years of age, and he leaves a widow and seven children.

Tbe totals of receipts and expenditure on the N.Z. Railways for the period ending April 25, were t —North Island, £26,160 8s and £U,763 6s lid ; South Island, £66 911 6s 8d and £35,071 6s 9d. The grand totals were £90,061 14s 8d and £49,824 12s 8L The percentage of revenue over expenditure was 55.32. The Home correspondent of the Auckland “ Herald ” states that shortly after the sailing of the Kaikoura from London, it was. discovered that a tradesman of Cambridge had eloped with a girl in her teens, and deserted a wife and eleven children. He was recognised on board by a sailor and a passenger, who oommnnicated with the wife’s friends. The guilty pair are supposed to have landed at Auckland and|justics is now on their trail.

His Excellency the Governor has informed the Board of Governors of Canter bnry College that under present arrangements he cannot interfere, in regard to the difficulty which has arisen between the Board and the University Senate about the introduction of certain plays of Terence into the pass Latin coarse.

Mr Narse, M.L.0., has recently died at Southland. The deceased was formerly an active politician, but since his promotion to tbe Upper House, 18 years ago, be has not been much before the public. Mr Nurse had formerly seen a gcod deal of service in the Navy, and during his long career in New Zealand he had been a prosperous settler and a useful public man. After considering the determination of the Postmaster-General that tbe mails by the direct steamers should leave Lyttelton every fourth Sunday, the Harbor Board have resolved that unless under special circumstances of emergency, neither the Harbor Board’s pilot, staff, nor the steamtug will be made available to take steamers out on Sundays. Tbe Lyttelton Board also resolved to support the action taken by other Harbor Boards to have an alteration made in the Harbors Act so that the Government should be required to pay wharfage on material imported by them,

A Clean Sweep.— The large pile of short lengths, odds and ends, and remnants of all descriptions of drapery goods, which have accumulated since the commencement of the Monster Removal Sale at Messrs Davies and Murphy’s, the Cash Drapers, will be offered for sale this day and to-morrow (Saturday) at an enormous sacrifice under English cost prices. The room is required, and, as usual, we stick at nothing to effect an immediate clearance. In addition to the above, we will have a grand show of new goods just opened, which have been specially reduced, a glance at which will convince the most sceptical of the genuine saving to be effected by purchasing new and seasonable drapery for a mere trifle.—(Advt.) Wicked foe Cleeotmen.—■“ I believe it to be all wrong and even wicked for clergymen or other public men to be led into giving testimonials to quack doctors or vile stuffs called medicines, but when a really meritorious article is made up of common valuable remedies known to all, and that all physicians use and (rust in daily, we should freely commend it. I therefore cheerfully and heartily commend Hop Bitters for the good they have done me and my friends, firmly believing they have no equal for family nse. I will not be without them.”—Rev. , Washington, D. 0., U.B.A.