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South Canterbury Times, Issue 8130, 14 January 1895, Page 3

The sitting of the District Court which was to have been held to-morrow is to be adjourned till Wednesday at 11 a.m. His Honour Judge Ward will deal with some bankruptcy and probate cases. -At the Magistrates Court this morning before 0. A. Wray, Esq, S.M. } George Devereaux was brought up on remand from Friday, charged with failing to comply with an order made at the court, Winton, that he pay £4 4s and costs and 10s per week for the support of his illegitimate child. The case was further adjourned till to-morrow when it is expected that a settlement will be come to. Early this morning Mr Tatam, Mr senr., in the employ of Mr N. Dunlop, pt Geraldine, was gored by a bull belonging to the latter, in a paddock, as also, Mr J. Brown, senr., who went to Tatam’s assistance. Tatam, who was unconscious, was removed to Mr Brown’s residence, close by, and Dr Hislop and Mr Dunlop sent for, who found Tatam badly hurt, especially about the head. We have to thank the local agents of the Shaw Savill and Albion Company for copies of their pictorial card calendar for 1895. The calendar has the sailing dates from Plymouth printed in red, and from New Zealand in blue, and a list is given of agents at both ends of the company’s business, England and Australasia, and at ports of call on the outward and homeward route. Coloured drawings are given of the steamers Gothic and Arawa, and the whole is neatly designed and nicely coloured to serve as an office decoration. The Hobart Mercury, commenting on the report that another big loan is contemplated for public works in New Zealand, says :—“Whether the New Zealand people will resist the temptation to revert to the extravagant policy of the past or whether they will throw caution and experience to the winds for the mere sake of the temporary briskness of trade

consequent on the disbursing of borrowed capital, remains to 1 be seen. An onlooker can only contemplate with wonder the temerity with which a section of the provincial press treats the borrowing of a few more millions and the heaping up of fresh taxation as a mere playful bagatelle—a simple scoring on the slate, to be wiped off at pleasure.” A bicycle was stolen from the verandah of Mr W. Beckingham’s house at Attenborough during Friday night. The theft was reported to the police, who at once took steps to check the thief’s progress through surrounding centres as well as seeking for him about the town. This is, we believe, the first theft of the kind in Timaru. , The stolen bicycle turned up again about 1 o’clock this morning, Mr Beckingham finding it placed against his fence. The bicycle was covered with mud and looked as if the person who had so coolly appropriated it had taken a good day’s journey out of it during the wet weather on Sunday. Thus the Taieri Advocate :—W e feel it our duty to explain to our readers the absence of our usual Christmas editorial. We had just a lovely one written. We had traded on the “ brotherhood of man at this festive season,” we had expatiated largely on the virtue of charity, we had made most harrowing references to vacant chairs, been eloquently cheerful about family gatherings and festive boards, cribbed largely from encyclopedia? to prove that Christmas time is held on altogether the wrong date, rung in the “ Peace on earth,” quotation, advised the burying of all hatchets arid recommended everyone to fill their hearts with charity and start the New Year in loving kindness to all men. In fact we had prepared the regular orthodox never-to-be-improved-upon Christmas leader, but our comps would not set it. The foreman told us that when the article was taken off the file the comps threw down their sticks and said that they had set up that sort of rot for a good many years but the worm had turned at last and they wouldn’t set up any more of that sort of dry hash to please the best editor ever born.