NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 4241, 16 November 1886, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Governor and party left Lyttelton for Wellington yesterday afternoonThe Dunedin Finance Company at their meeting yesterday declared a dividend oi five per cent. Agnes Plimmer was yesterday afternoon committed for trial at Wellington for neg’ lectingto provide her infant child with the nece«eariea of life. The Retrenchment Committee of the Dunedin City Council recommended redactions of £IOOO yearly, including £IOO oil the Mayoral salary. The Gas Committee of the Dunedin City Council make several important recommendations, including the reduction |n tiie price toJ7e 61 per 1000 ft. At a meeting held at Christchurch last night a Committee and officers were appointed to start the proposed Boys’ Bilgade. It is estimated that £3OO will be required for the first year's work, Mr William Noble, the temperance orator, has written from Melbourne stating that, in consequence of the serious illness of his wife, he is compelled to cancel all his colonial and American engagements.

At present Mr S. Brown is the only candidate for the Wellington Mayoralty.

: fergeanfc Brookes, who has been in charge of Akacoa for the past three years, died last night after a painful Illness, He had been in the police force since 1875, and was much respected. The Canterbury woolbiokers mot yesterday and resolved to open the wool sales on December 3rd, by which date it is estimated there will be 10,000 bales, mostly Canterbury crossbred, on offer. The condition of the local wool this year is causally light and good.

A meeting of all the country racing clubs ii convened to be held in Auckland to form an association to act independently of the Auckland Racing Club. Action has been taken owing to the rule passed by the Club requiring not less than £3O of added money to bo given for each race to prevent " tota'isator meetings.” A lunatic named Reubsn Scrimshaw, residing at the lower Hutt, made a murderous attack on his mother on Saturday morning. He was subsequently secured and committed to the asylumMrs Scrimshaw is severely bruised. At the Christchurch Resident Magistrate’s Court, yesterday, two men were fined £5 each for playing roulette, and a similar game at the recent Metropolitan meeting. Mr Beetham, the Resident Magistrate, ex. pressed the opinion that the legislation of the totaiisator bad tended to increase betting.

At the Wellington Resident Magistrate’s Court yesterday John Xhoa. Oake, who eloped with Mrs Fiebig from Wellington, and who was arrested at Napier on a charge of having stolen certain property belonging to the injured husband, was brought up and discharged. The next stage in the case will be a suit for the dissolution of the marriage. At tbe R.M. Court this morning, before J. S. Beswick, Esq., 8.M., Mary Ann Oollis, who was charged with being drank, but had been bailed oat, did not answer to her name and she was fined 10s with costs of oab hire. Two other women, first offenders, were fined 10s, and 6s respectively, with the usual alternative. Thomas Adamson, who was evidently still suffering from tbe effects of drink, was ordered to contribute 5i to the colonial revenue. As the. District Court was sitting. His Worship adjourned the hearing of civil oases till next Tuesdey. " Bough on Rats.”—Clears out rats,miceroaches, flies, ants, bed-bags, beetles, in, sects, skunks, jack-rabbits, sparrows, gophers. At chemists and druggists. “Baohn-Paiba.”—Quick, complete cure, all annoying Kidney, Bladder, and Urinary Diseases. At chemists and druggists. Kempthorne, Prosser A oo>, Agts„ Christchurch.

Half asleep.—“ I never,” wrote a young lady to a friend, “go to church or lecture but I am half asleep, end I never know afterwards what the sermon or lecture was about.” It was a plain case of nervous lethargy, produced by want of action of tbe liver and digestive organs. She was persuaded to try American Co,’s Hop Bitters, and now she writes : “ How intelligent and bright are sermons and lectures now, and bow glorious the world we live in is I Dr Soule’s Hop Bitters are indeed a blesslog to me.” Notice Advt.