NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 5013, 22 May 1889, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Mr J. W. Payne, advance agent of the famous Payne family of vocalists, pianists, and flautists, arrived by rail from the south last oveuing, and will make arrangements to-day for the company’s appearance in Timaru on the 30th and 31st instant. The Payne family have been doing excellent business down south, and come hero with a splendid reputation.

Mr i.E. G. Rhodes, member for Gladstone, invites his constituents to meet him at the Volunteer Hall, Temuka, on Tuesday next, 28th inst. On Wednesday, the 29th, Mr Rhodes will meet the electors at the Assembly Rooms, Pleasant Point.

This evening the members of the Timaru Rifles will take part in the first of a series of matches with the Morris tube, and from the interest already evinced this new form of “drill” bids fair to become very popular. Practice with the Morris tube improves shooting generally very much indeed, and the various matches should be keenly contested. The price of the ammunition has been fixed at a very low figure.

The following will play for Titnara against Sydenham (Christchurch) on Friday next: Full back, Maclean ; three-quarters, Lawrenson, A. O. Perry, W. Perry; halves, Oxby, Macintosh ; forwards, Matheson, Goodall, Gooch, Stokes, LeCren, Chisholm, Pearee, Perceval, Stubbs. The game will commence at 2 p.m. sharp. Our men showed great want of practice on Saturday against Waihi, and it is hoped the team will be on the ground this afternoon and to-morrow, if they want to get into something like form.

Saturday last was quite a red letter day in the annals of the manly game of football, as far as regards the Waihi Football Club. On that date previous to the members’ departure from Winchester to try conclusions with the Timaru Club they were presented with a handsome flag of silk (red, white, and blue the colours of the Waihi Club), with “ Waihi” emblazoned across it in gold. It is mounted on a black pole with a gilt ornament on top, with gold cord and tassels. The presentation was made by Miss D. W. M. Burn, who made a few appropriate remarks, Ihe captain of the club, Mr T. L. Hart, accepted the flag, thanking the donor for her kind gift. The saltwater baths at the foot of the north mole, present a most curious spectacle just now at low water. The late high tides washed millions of the small fish, which have been so exceedingly plentiful in the harbou r of late, and are commonly known as “ sprat*,” over the sea wall, and these fish now cover the bottom of the bath to a depth of over 12 inches in some places. As the tide runs out the fish get stranded on the silt, and soon die, whilst others struggle about in the pool of shallow water on the inside of the sea wall. The dead fish are rapidly creating a nuisance, and with the light nor-wester blowing yesterday, the smell from them was not the most pleasant to be in the vicinity of.

The usual weekly mooting of the Welcome Eetreat Lodge, No. 44, 1.0.G.T., waa held in the Good Templar hall, Geraldine, on Monday evening last. The lodge was opened in duo form by Bro. W. 8. Maslin, acting W.C.T. After the transaction of routine business, the following were elected officers for the ensuing termW.O.T., Bro. W. S. Maslin; W.Y.T., Sister Pye j F. 8., Bro. G. H. Patrick ; treasurer, Bro. B. Hardy; chaplain, Sister Dunlop ; W.M., Bro. E. Stringer; 1.G., Bro. Hay; 0.G., Bro. T. Baxter ; P.W.C.T., Bro. K. McKenzie. It was resolved—“ That an open meeting in connection with the lodge, be held on Monday evening, July 4th. The lodge was then closed by the W.O.T.

During the discussion on Mr Westgarlh’a paper on Australian finance, read before the. Colonial Institute, Mr Billinghurat, the manoger of the London and Westminster Bank, addressed a few words of warning to the colonies on the subject of their borrow* ings. Ho said that the interest which had to be provided to pay those who had advanced the £160,000,000 of Australasia’s public debt amounted to £10,000,000 per annum. So far the pressure of it had not been felt, because it had not been necessary to transmit the money from the polonies to this country, inasmuch as, through the fre quent borrowings of the different colonies there were generally large sums to their credit at the London banks, which sufficed to pay this interest. But the time must come when these borrowings would cease, and then the £10,000,000 would have to be s nt from the colonies. This could only be done by transmitting their produce. According to the published returns, the exports from Australasia fell short of the imports, and he did not see, therefore, how produce could be provided sufficient to cover the annual sum of 10 millions sterling.

In connection with the rather remarkable case of supposed poisoning by honey at Malata, Bay of Islands, when two young Maoris were poisoned, Mr R. do Thierry informs the New Zealand Herald that, on one occasion, he was travelling along the sea coast with some Maoris, when they fell in with a store of honey accumulated by some wild bees. Mr de Thierry and one of the natives ate heartily of the honey as they found it. Soon after Mr do Thierry was affected with giddiness, and fell down, feeling very ill. The native who had eaten with him was similarly affected. The Maoris promptly adopted remedial measures, such as they had probably tried before in similar cases. They kindled a fire, piled some seaweed upon it, and hold Mr do Thierry amou g the sumes till he became so sick that ho vomited freely. By and by he got better and the native, under similar treatment, also recovered. Mr de Thierry says that the poisoning arises from the bees having access to the karo (pittospomm crasslfolium), a tree or shrub which grows all around the coast of New Zealand. At a certain season a kind of gum exudes from the karo, which the bees use for the wax of the combs. The poison is in the wax, not in the honey. This matter is of importance, for bee-keeping is now general, and the karo is being generally planted, as it makes a pretty and useful hedge. It can stand any amount of stormy weather, and also the spray of the sea.

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