NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 4978, 10 April 1889, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The borough council employees are now busy laying down asphalt on the footpaths in King Street. The strip is to run from the Commercial corner to the park, and in view of the work being of a permanent nature, the footpath has been reduced or made up, as the case might be, to its permanent levels. With regard to the unemployed question, we are informed by His Worship the Mayor (Mr D. M. Ross) that he has given instructions for work to bo given to some of the men 1 In all probability Mr Ross will confer with Mr R. Turnbull, member for Timaru, to-day, upon the question generally. Mr Halkett Dawson, M.A., rector of the Timaru High School, was yesterday appointed Professor of English and Literature, and lecturer of Political Economy for the ensuing term in the University of Otago. Mr Salmond, L.L 8., has been appointed to the lectureship of Constitutional Law and History. The Spanish Students appeared at the Theatre Royal again last evening, playing before another sparse audience. Notwithstanding this a complete change of programme was gone through with spirit, and those present enjiyed the musical treat very much. The students go north to-day, where wo trust that they will have better fortune than they met with at Timaru.

A lecture on “ Physiognomy ” was given in (he Oddfellows’ Hall, Geraldine, on Monday evening by Professor O. E. Hugo, in aid of the funds of the Geraldine Literary Institute. The chair was taken by the Rev. J. Preston, who in introducing the lecturer stated the object for which the lecture was given. There was a fair attendance and everyone present appeared to thoroughly enjoy the subject of the lecture. At the conclusion a vote of thanks was tendered Mr Hugo for coming to Geraldine to deliver the lecture.

Thus the London Star writes of one of our ex-Qovernors who is now Parliamentary Under Secretary of the Foreign Office : Sir James Fergusson is one of the men who can reduce the inost excited and tragic debate to common ground and the dullest prose. He has a poor vocabulary. He never seems to be certain or what he h saying; ho stumbles through his sentences; and his halting rhetoric is made still more unimpressive by the thick utterance that comes from what is familiarly called “ a flannel mouth.” In a chat about the financial position of the Levels Road Board, yesterday, members complained of the dilatoriness of people in paying their rates. Those who pay promptly, it was remarked, have to pay interest on a bank overdraft for those who do not. The chairman said that at the end of the financial year the bank overdraft, nearly £2OOO, was balanced by the asset of last year’s unpaid rates. If the overdue rates were paid, the board would then only have an overdraft representing their anticipation of the rates for the current year. Mr Rhodes raised the vexed question of “ ward accounts,” in connection with the expenditure on main roads, and on the motion of Mr Jones a return was ordered for next meeting, showing the amounts spent on the several main roads last year.

After the Blackheath match, says a London correspondent, the Pall Mall Gazette , Hatch, and one or two other papers, taking the local man’s broken collar-bone as their text, preached the Maori footballers a sermon on rough play. As a matter of fact, this was the solo accident (her a fractured jaw at Maryport) for which the New Zealanders have been responsible during the lengthy tour. On the other hand, there is scarcely a member of the New Zealand team who has not at one time or another been seriously bent or broken. In fact, in Lancashire Scott could not raise a sound fifteen. There can, however, be no doubt that these unjust accusations of rough play have done harm, and practically accounted for the coolness with which the Maoris wore received when they met England. The annual meeting in connection with the Wesleyan Foreign Missions, will bo held in the church, Bank street, this evening, when the Eev. Isaac Eooney, of New Britain, and a native teacher, will deliver addresses. Mr Eooney is a missionary of twenty-five years experience, having laboured for seventeen years in Fiji, prior to his removal in 1881 to superintend the now mission established by the Eev. George Brown in New Britain and the adjacent islands. He should therefore bo possessed of a large fund of valuable information which should render his address both interesting and profitable. The Wesleyan Church has numerous agents engaged in mission work in those islands, and also in the Fiji, Friendly, and Navigator groups. In the annual mission sermons, preached a few weeks ago, the Eev. Mr Marten read the following statistics, showing the present state of the work under the control of the Colonial Board of Missions: —l7 missionaries, 110 native assistants, 2200 lay preachers, 3600 class-leaders, 26CD day-school teachers, 2700 Sunday-school teachers, 46,000 scholars, over 50,000 church members, and 115,000 adherents. The figures relating to the work amongst the Maoris in New Zealand arc not includsd in these returns.

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