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South Canterbury Times, Issue 7270, 25 July 1893, Page 3

i The work of regrading the road by the I Eailway Goode Shod waa commenced fo-day- ( The measles have reached Mount Peel and ( the Scotaburn school has been closed in oonI sequence. • Bad roada and measles are the growls of the greater part of the North Island just now. Heavy rains have made J|tbe roads very bad. Captain Sutter, J.P., dealt with two “ drunks ” this morning, one case being adjourned till Friday j the other defendant, 1 for being drunk in charge a horse was convioted and discharged. The clerk of the weather has been fooling his deputy, Captain Edwin. First he said he would send a northerly gale on Suanay, then he put it off till Friday ; and without other warning flung it upon us to-day—the first nor’ wester of the 1893 94 season. Mr Geo. Thompson, a junior officer of the Colonial Bank, left Timaru to-day for i Queenstown, he having bean “ transferred ” to the bank’s branch there. Mr Thompson will ba missed from our football and cricket fields, he having been an energetic player of both games.

Groat amusement has been shown in town to-day over the the manifest confusion in the minds of certain of the Borough Councilors between “ buffoon " and ** baboon ” The Mayor seems to have been at some pa to make it known that he made the blund or.

The Welcome Estreat Lodge, J. 0.G.T., Geraldine, had a capital “ open lodge ” enteitainmeat Inst night, with music, rccit at ions, and addressees, and the ladies handed round refreshments. The Goad Templar Fall was crowded for the occasion.

The French quarrel with Siam has no doubt been embittered by the irritation of having to negotiate, in bo hot a climate, and with a king bearing auoh a name as ; Phrabat Somdet Phra Paramindr Maha Ohuialonkorn Phra OhulaOhom Klao Phra Chow Tuhua. “ For short,” he is King. Otmlalonkora I.

The alterations of the courthouse building in hand, kept a workman busy with a hammer on some job outside to-day. His Honour Judge Ward first inquired what the noise meant, presently murmured a gentle complaint at It and next aaid it would never do, and directed the court orderly to stop it.

A nor'-wester set in here about midday but did not below strongly 'till 3 p.m., and then not very strongly. Further north it was a howler. The express train ran into a strong gale at Ashburton, and near the Hinds about a mile of telegraph poles were eeen broken down. The wires cross the line in the range of the breach, and the wires bad to be held up to let the train go under The shelter shed at one of the wayside stations in the same locality was upset. In consequent of the damage to the lines our telegraph nows is short to-day. The cable message about the Australians’ match was even cut short before completion.

The concert and dance in aid of the funds of the Fairviaw school came off on Friday last, and in spite of the measles epidemic, wai more successful than had been anticipated. Among the performers were Dr and Mrs Beid, Mrs Holdgate, Misses Donn, and A, M. Cabot, and Messrs J. Holdgate, Rutland, Bllis, and Matheson. After the concert the schoolroom was cleared, when dancing began, and wss kept up with spirit for severe! hours to the excellent music supplied by Mr Davidson. The New Zealand Graphic's political cartoon in the issue of the 22nd shows Sir R. Stout standing up to the hips in a Carol; no Bay of “ Direct Veto,” pulling at the hand of a ooarse-looking lad, labelled “ W.Z.”, who stands on the steps of a bathing machine, and by face awry and angry cry protests, “ I don’t want to go in,” In the machine behind the lad stands the Premier, coat off and vest unbuttoned, —probably not as a preliminary to a strip and a dip, but merely as a concession to hot (political) weather. He looks as if he does not like the water himself, and is not at all inclined to act upon Stout’s request “ 1 say, Seddon, just give him a shove, will you ?” The cartoon is clover, but it does not exactly express the situation, for so far Hew Zealand has not yet shown a wry face at the proposed “ (te) total immersion.” When she doss, it will hardly be the wry face of a lad to be dragged in by Stout or shoved in by Beddon.

The Garrison Sand held a meeting las** evening at which it was decided to hold a social for the purpose of disposing of the rest of the art union tickets. Particulars of the social and drawing of the art onion will be advertised in a few days.

The Minister of Defence haa reported that Colonel Fox arrived in the colony on 2nd May, 1892 ; be completed his report on the 12th June last, the service being I year 2 months 12 days ; amount of salary, £7Bl 18s 4d ; travelling expenses, £3lB 12s 8d ; house allowance, £lll 13s 4d ; cost of report £B7 10s. The terms of agreement were Salary £7OO per annum ; quarters, £ls per annum ; £1 per day travelling allowance when travelling, the engagement being five years from Ist January, 1892, to 31st March, 1895. j The famous report therefore cost £1299 9s 4d.

The Sydney Morning Herald of the 12th instant ssya :—" From private letters which have reached here from New Zealand, it appears that a movement is afoot to organise a sealing expedition to the Antarctic, on the lines of of the recent trip made by the steamers from Dundee, Scotland. The proposal is to fib out two steamers of about the size of the Balaena, one of the Dundee ships, and run acrocs to Graham’s Land, which lies about 7CO miles to southward of Cape Horn. The voyage could be handily performed from New Zealeud. The Balaena is a wooden, built screw vessel, barque rigged, and of 416 tons gross or 240 tone net measurement; and it is contended that as Dundee people purpose forming a company to carry on Antarctic sealing, steamers of the Balaena desopription can be readily provided in New Zealand, fitted out, and worked to greater advantage than is posssble from Great Britain.”

When Madame Sterling was in Auckland no fewer than three deputations of ladies waited upon her to ask her to sing for some charitable purpose. Madame, says the Auckland Serald, was full of sympathy and gush, but pleaded the hardhearted impresario without whose leave and license she could not sing a note. One of the deputations, I believe, appeared on behalf of the Benevolent Society. They told Madame what a good work they were doing amongst the sick and destitute, and how desirous they were to relieve and uplift the degraded and fallen. Madame could not move, out she embraced all the ladies, colled them “ dear sisters,” and told them how heartily she sympathised with them. Holding in her arms one of the ladies who bad made a most affectionate appeal, Madame launched out into a tirade against the trade in intoxicants, saying, as a member of the Christian Temperance Union, that to that cause she traced much of the misery and degradation which a Benevolent Society had to relieve. Had not Madame Sterling been so carried away with her own eloquence, she would have seen smiles mant. ling over the features of all the ladies except the lady she was specially addressing. This lady happened to be the wife a well-known brewer and hotel-keeper.

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