NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 5012, 21 May 1889, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

In another column the Ven. Archdeacon Harper, Mr Ziesler, and Mr Granger, trustees of the wreck relief fund, publish a full statement of receipts and disbursements in connection with the fund. To date the unexpended balance is £359 19s Bd, and the statement shows that the fund has been very carefully administered.

It appears that after all a mayor has not been secured for Riverton, as according to the Western Star the nomination which was put in has been withdrawn. On 17 occasions now the returning officer has asked for nominations, but each time without success.

Shipping business being slack yesterday, the harbour board’s staff were busy overhauling the mooring chains at the main wharf. The Priestman crane was engaged in hauling up the heavier chains, which, like the lighter ones, were found to be in very good order. The question of re-naming some of the borough streets, is to come before a meeting of the Timaru Borough Council, at an early date. It is reported that many new names have been suggested, and there is no doubt but that the committee’s recommendations will be looked forward to with interest.

A meeting of the Waimale Caledonian fociety was hold at the Eoyal Hotel on Saturday last. There were present—Mr B. Cameron, president (in the chair), and Messrs Potter, Boss, M. Smith, Middleton, and Jackson. Outstanding accounts amounting to £5 16‘s Id vroro passed for payment. There was no other business.

Yesterday at the Waimate Resident Magistrates Court, before Mr A. Hayes, J.P., Martin Shea was charged with being drunk and using obscene language in a public place. He pleaded guilty to having used the language complained of, but not to having been drunk. After hearing evidence the bench convicted defendant, and ordered him to be brought up for sentence if he remained in the district twenty-four hours longer.

The Timaru Mechanics’ Institute received the first of the regular quarterly shipments of new books yesterday. This parcel contains some CO volumes, and is a very good selection of the latest works of fiction, travel, and biography. Among the fiction are works by Miss Braddon, Mrs Henry Wood, Charles Gibbon, Fanjohn, Besant, Black, Fenn, Blackmore, &c. Lady Brassoy’s Last Voyage, and works by Do Came, Edwards, Churchward, &c., will be found among the books on travel. This shipment will no doubt bo eagerly welcomed by the subscribers. The books will bo ready for distribution to-day. The Beetling Post of Friday last says Mr B. J. Creighton, who has been in town for several days after his visit to the South, proceeds to Auckland to-day, bnt will return here shortly. He does not intend to leave the colony until next month, when he will return to San Francisco, Mr Creighton informs us that he has received a cable message from San Francisco to the effect that the time of the overland transit by railway between San Francisco and Hew York has now been reduced to five days. Ho is confident of being able to convince New Zealand that it is to its interest to continue the San Francisco mail service under the proposed new conditions.”

It is to bo hoped that there is no good ground for the warning thus uttered by the European Mail-.—" If the authorities of (he Australian colonics don’t look out they will find before long that they will have to grapple with almost a worse enemy than the rabbits have been hitherto. French papers inform us that leprosy is spreading in New Caledonia at a frightful rate. It has by no moans the charm of novelty about it. As far back as 1868, a heathen Chinese settled at Tende, whore the cry soon went up, * Room for the leper, room!’ Since then, wo are told, the foe has invaded the mainland in the person of three natives at Lifou, and despite all the efforts of the civil authorities, has not been stamped out yet. It will bo well for the Goverumouts of all the Australian colonies to take proper prophylactic measures at once, or else they may Had themselves before long compelled to face a visitation than which none of the ten plagues of Egypt can bo thought worse. It wants a cordon saniiaire, and a very stringent quarantine for all arrivals from Now Caledonia to kieop the unwelcome guest al arm’s length.”

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