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South Canterbury Times, Issue 5010, 18 May 1889, Page 3

The s.s, Mahinapua leaves for Dunedin on Wednesday instead of Tuesday as usual. The coroner’s jury in returning from 11 viewing the body ” this afternoon indulged in a variety of expressions of disgust nt their experience, and of pity for the doctor who had made a close examination of the body.

Sergt. Major Mason received this afternoon a telegram from Pleasant Point stating that Mary Amy Laura Shepherd, aged one year and eight months, daughter of Geosge Shepperd, farmer of the Point, was found drowned in a tub of water at noon to-day. Tho coroner has decided to hold an inquest on Monday. Viscount Massareene, mentioned in a cablegram to-day as about to cause a disturbance in Irelaad by evictions processes, sits in the House of Lords as Baron Oriel, of Ferrard. Family name Skeffington; oldish family, 1660. His seats are Antrim Castle, County Antrim, and Oriel Temple, Collon, County Louth.

Sparrow and Co, Dunedin, have just delivered for the Oamaru freezing works a pair of steel boilers, each 40ft long and 7ft in diameter, among tho largest ;in New Zealand, they weigh 20 tons a piece. Launceston hospital contains about the same number of patients as Dunedin hospital. At the former drugs and drenches cost about £126, at Dunedin over £IOOO a year The death rale is about the same at both places, A member off the Dunedin Board thinks may be the patients are over dosed at one institution and under dosed at the other.

Napier,—built, the business portion of it, behind a shingle spit, os it were on the safer side of the Washdyfco spit- has just com--1 pleted the erection of a sea wall and esplanade along the town front. The heavy sea of Sunday last capsized some of the parapet, and a good deal of water landed on tho esplanade, but no great damage was done. Dr Barclay, house surgeon, at Dunedin Hospital, reported (he other day that he had on his hands seven members of one family, down with typhoid fever, and it frequently happened that two or three members of one family were on the out-patients list with typhoid. He thought the drug bill would be a good deal reduced if tho dwellings of tho poor were subjected to sharper sanitary inspection.

The Dunedin Hospital Trustees recently had an “ operating theatre ” constructed, which cost over £I6OO when it was furnished for use. For a room and a few tables, washbowls, and other conveniences for taking a fellow’s leg off, this seems a stiff price. At the City Council, speaking of hospital matters, a councillor said there was a tendency in Dunedin to imitate the example of Melbourne, where the hospital was so luxurious that there were no beds for the poor, only for the rich people who could afford to pay for their accommodation. Another councillor remarked that the trustees were going in the direction of impoverishing the hospital by constructing luxurious and unnecessary conveniedces. The harbor seems to be becoming more and more full of fish. Cod are now caught in great numbers, and what with long rows of cod and tubs and boxes of sprats the vicinity of the breakwater is becoming quite a fish market. Fish are so plentiful that they are to be seen thrown away in all directions. Sprats are disgustingly common on the streets; and bunches of cod are to be seen lying in one or two places, thrown away by people who had had a surfeit of fish —of that particular bunch any way. Here is a chance to set a preserving industry g:.ing that should not be lost. Will some one get up a fish packing company ? “ companies ”go off slowly ; call it a‘syndicate.”

Joe Roberts has been committed for trial at Waipawa, Hawke’s Bay, for stealing a pocket book and £2O in notes from a man named McHerra. It appears that the two men stayed at an hotel together one night and occupied the same bedroom. The prosecutor missed hia money next day, suspicion fell on Roberts, and the police got hold of a letter which had been placed in the letter-rack at the hotel, addressed to Roberts, and which, by the feel of it, was supposed to contain bank notes. Such proved to be the case, and when Roberta inquired for a letter ho was referred to the Sergeant-Major of Police. It is alleged that Roberts got up early in the morning, wrote a letter, and addressed it to himself, enclosing the money in the same envelope.

At a meeting of the Wellington Road District Board of Reviewers under the Properly Assessment Act on Wednesday, Mr Travers appeared for the Company, and objected to the val nation of the Wollington-Manawatu Railway Company’s properties, on the ground that they had been assessed on a wrong principle. Ho contended that the purpose for which the property was to be used were not to be taken into consideration when assessing the value, and that the proper basis to be adopted in dealing with the railway was the mere value of the land with what was upon it. The local bodies interested in the valuation were not represented, and the chairman said it was unfortunate for the board that they should have such an able advocate on one side and no one on the other in such an important matter, Eventually it was decided that the matter should bo adjourned until next week, Mr Sperroy undertaking to arrange for counsel to appear. The case will probably come on again on Monday. The assessment on the company’s properties total £135,958.

A meeting of the South]Canterbury Rugby Union was held at the Ship Hotel last evening. Present : Messrs Flint, (chairman} Yelvin,Goodall, McLean and A. 0. Perry. Correspondence was read from the Otago Rugby Union re advisability of sending a Hew Zealand team to England this season, from the Kelson Rugby Union asking what terms they might expect should they play a match with the Union and from tho Canterbury Rugby Union stating that any date in July would suit them for a match in South Canterbury. It was agreed that the South Canterbury Union coincides with the Otago Union in tho opinion that it is not desirable in the interests of Rugby Football in Now Zealand that a team should visit England this season, and tho English Union bo requested to refuse its patronage to any team from this colony visiting England this year, not accredited by the various unions in Now Zealand, It was also decided that 75 per cent of tho gross takings be offered tho Nelson Union to play a match hero ; and that Saturday, July 20th, will be tho most convenient date for the match with the Canter bury Union, Mr Volvin gave notice that ho would move at next meeting that the constitution of tho selection committee bo altered, and that only non-playing members bo .elected on that committee. It was agreed that tho next mooting-bo held at Temuka. Tho meeting thou adjourned with a vote ol thanks Ij tho chairI roan.