NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 6237, 9 June 1890, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Salvation Army will next week celebrate their seventh anniversary in Timaru. Appropriate services, of which duo notice will no doubt bo given, are to be held in the Beswick street barracks.

Five large stack Gres on the Ninety Mile beach, close to the Washdyke, attracted a good deal of attention early last night from frequenters of the main wharf. The glare from the fires quite lit up the water of the outer harbour.

On Friday afternoon a stack of hay was set fire to at the back of Mr Clinch’s dwelling at Temulsa by some children who were playing there, and the unusmd sound of the fire-bell brought a cowd of people to the spot in a very short time. The brigade turneckout smartly, and the damage was confined to the destruction of the bay. Mr J. Bouldon, secretary of the Timaru Lodge of Druids, returned to Timaru by the express train on Saturday after attending the Druids’ District Grand Lodge meeting at Christchurch on Friday evening. A report of the meeting is given elsewhere, and should be found of interest to the members of the Druids’ and other friendly societies in Timaru.

The directors of the Canterbury Farmers Association met on Saturday afternoon to deal •with applications, of which there were a considerable number, for the post of manager, vice Mr Geo. Shirtcliffo, resigned. The directors decided to appoint Mr 0. H. Inglis, who is now conducting the business of John Inglis, at Christchurch. Mr Inglis will, we are informed, take office in a few weeks time. Just as we expected, when the name of the successful applicant was refused to us by the director’s for publication on Saturday afternoon, it was known by the man in the street in the evening. The Napier Telegraph says :—ln reply to numerous expression of regret concerning the ill luck of Captain Fauquier in the loss of the steamer Ashleigh Brook, we learn from Mr E. Dobson, that that well known and popular captain was not in command of the vessel this voyage. It will be remembered that on the voyage Homo there was a fire on board, the smoke from which so injured Captain Fauquier’s eyes that ho was forced to stay at Homo. Captain Burgess, formerly of the Balearres Brook, was commanding the Ashleigh Brook when she was wrecked off Dassen Island.

A meeting o£ tlie committee of the South 1 Canterbury Jockey Club was held on Saturday evening at the club rooms, Grosvenor Hotel. Present—Messrs Guinness (in the chair), Mahoney, Gracio, Meiklo,, Smith, Simmons, and the secretary (Mr P. W. Eiby). The hon. treasurer (Mr Gracio), submitted his annual report and balance sheet, which the committee considered highly satisfactory, and they were ordered to be printed, and presented to the members of the club at the annual meeting to be held on the 17th inst. Mr Eiby resigned his position os secretary, and it was resolved that his resignation bo accepted with regret. The members of the committee spoke in high terms of praise of the very efficient manner in which the duties of secretary had been discharged, and expressed their regret at losing Mr Eiby’s services. It was resolved that applications be invited for the post of secretary at a salary of £4O per annum. The monthly meeting of the Timaru branch of the Amalgamated Society of Bailway Servants of Now Zealand was held at Messrs Boss, Sims and Co.’s rooms, Eoyal Arcade (kindly lent for the occasion by Mr Boss) on Saturday evening. About sixty members were present, and after transacting routine business, several accounts were passed for payment, and (ho question of remuneration to the secretary settled. The remainder of the evening was spent in making up a scale of hours and wages to be forwarded to the executive committee for their information in preparing evidence for the delegates who are to meet the Commissioners on the 16th inst. A number of unsatisfactory matters were also fully discussed and a report on the whole is to be forwarded with the scale of wages and hours. A vote of sympathy was passed to the officers of the Post and Telegraph Department who were, the railway servants understood, just forming themselves into a union. After passing the ’usual votes of thanks to visiting members and to Mr Boss for the use of the 'room, the meeting terminated. The annual statutory returns relating to the business of the Government Insurance Department for the year ended 31st December, 1899, have been lodged with the Treasury. The figures show new business, for the year amounting to £781,255, yielding an annual new premium income of £23,026. The policies issued included 16 annuity policies' for which the purchase money received was £7573, and the annual payment on which during the lives of the annuitants was £Bl4 18s 7d. The total policies in force at the end of the year were 27,218, insuring £7,326,129, and producing a premium income of £218,609. The total revenue for the year (including £81,386 for interest on investments) amounted to £298,710, showing an increase of revenue, as compared with 1883, of £16,510. The claims arising under policies amounted to £82,951, of which £10,839 represented matured endowment assurances payable during the life of the assured persons. It will be seen that the interest earned from investments in the period nearly covered the whole amount paid for claims. The accumulated funds at the end of the year amounted to £1,582,447, : showing an increase for (he twelve months of , 1 £129,96)9. ,

A southern exchange says: —Mr B-, P. Bngloy has lost a valuable horse through an attack of la grippe. The symptoms, we lenrn, wore identical with those of this epidemic in its worst form. The hor/e was only ill for about 24 hours, when he dropped dead in the stable.

The Government have decided to print and publish an official record of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, 1839-90, comprising a corrected catalogue of exhibits, list of awards, short history of tho exhibition, including accounts of the opening, closing, and other ceremonies connected therewith, and statistics.

The regular meeting of lodge Southern Star, No. 619, 5.0., Geraldine, was held in the Masonic Hall on Thursday, June Btb, Bro. G. H. Patrick, 8.W.M., presiding. A quantity of correspondence was dealt with. The lodge decided to hold a bazaar or conversazione during August or September, all the members present forming themselves into a committee to carry it out. They also decided to call a meeting of all the members of the lodge for Thursday next to take further steps in regard to the matter. After routine business the lodge was closed by the R.W.M. at 9.30 p.m. Wo take the following from the Southland Daily Uewsai Thursday last The stone to bo erected to the memory of those who lost their lives by the wreck of the Emilio is completed, and is now on view in the yard of Mr Fraser, monumental sculptor, Tay street, prior to its removal to the Eastern Cemetery, where it will be, placed over the remains of tho mate John Brownrigg, who died in the hospital shortly after his admission. The stone is of Ruapuke granite, and is in the form of a tablet, resting on a base of Port Chalmers stone, and bearing a suitable inscription, which has been most admirably executed by Mr Fraser. The grave is to be enclosed with an iron railing, supported by four stone posts, and the gravestone, which will always be an object of interest on account of the melancholy disaster to which it bears witness, will bo set up on a concrete foundation.

The annual meeting of the Tomuka Licensing Committee was held on Friday at noon. Present—Messrs Quinn, Meyer, and Allan. Mr Quinn was voted to the chair. The police report having been read renewals wore granted to the Star, Crown, Temuka, Winchester, Wolaeley and Orari Hotels. The report on the Royal and Wallingford hotels being unfavourable, the committee decided to adjourn the hearing of those applications for a week to enable the two absent members to attend. Constable Morton applied to have the evidence taken of witnesses in the cases against Mr MoAteer, of the Royal Hotel. This was agreed to, and tho evidence having been taken down in writing, the committee adjourned.

“ Civis," in the Otago Witness, says:—The new Bishop of Christchurch seems to have a very unepiscopal gift of free speech. Not i much of the ecclesiastical dignatary about him, apparently; some of his reported utterances smack rather of the bargee arguing a disputed fare, or a footballer disputing a “try on.” Good sense and humour are not wanting, bub the language and style are just a little free. All the bettor for that perhaps! I pick out a few examples. The hiabop ootupUiijo tliafc Sunday school teach-, ing “ mainly consists in giving information about Abraham’s great-grandmother’s aunt rather than religion.” Church bazaars are “ rag doll fairs that eminently estimable institution the Y.M.O.A. sometimes “ launches into the world young men like hysterical young ladies” [most true!], whereas the bishop prefers “ fair and square young men —men with biceps, who can pull in a boat and play football, yet live good lives.” A young men’s club for “ the ideal young man who never smoked or played billiards, and did not know a knave from an ace," would be a very tame affair, “ A club of this kind of young men would contain few who would be very happy, and would not be very useful.” The greeting which most of all pleased him at the railway station was that of someone who shouted—-“ Give us a grip of your flipper, old man”—" and he got a grip of my flipper,” said the bishop, with a smile of satisfaction. About the religious difficulty in education, “ are we such a pack of fools i~i New Zealand that we cannot conquer it ? 1 About socialism and the labour movemer-t- the bishop will never bo one to toll the wonting man to " sit down and starve on a mutton bone and wait for the millennium.” By way of peroration to an address from which I pick some of these gems, the bishop said, “ Ladies and gentlemen, I shall keep you wailing no longer, for I want to go home and have a pipe.” A wholesome human style that, for a bishop, isn’t it ? Bishop Julias, I fancy, is bound to nrove a success.

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