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South Canterbury Times, Issue 3143, 18 July 1901, Page 3

Captain Edwin’s forecast- to-day is strong westerly winds, glass rise, tides good, and weather cold. Among the passengers by the Rimutaka, which arrived at Port Chalmers last night, is a steerage passenger, Miss B. Hale, for Thnaru. The Christchurch bye-election is being held to-day, the candidates being Messrs G. J. Smith, C. Taylor, and 'A. H. Turnbull. The first-named has been an M.H.R. A change of weather occurred this- morning. A sharp frost occurred last night, but this morning the sky gradually became more and more thickly overcast, without any wind, and soon after noon the rain began to fall, light but steady. With the change a thaw set in. The total area of land acquired under the Land for Settlements Act, up to the end of March, was 388,493 acres, at a cost of £1,896,971. The land has been disposed of in about 180 farms and 150 workman’s home lots. It was stated in the House of Commons that in time of war Russia provides one surgeon to every 120 horses, France one to every 213, but in South Africa we provided one to every 1200 horses.

The National Rifle Association of New South Wales has sent us a programme and regulations of the Association’s meeting at Randwick in October next, with all details as to prizes, conditions, etc. We shall be glad to show it to any rifleman interested in the matter. All the bank officials in Timaru have signed a formal protest against the passing of the Shops and Offices Bill, as it relates to banking offices, and the protest will be forwarded to Wellington to be laid before Parliament. Several grounds of objection are stated. The amount of overtime implied by the Bill is exaggerated; if passed, the Bill will affect the relations of employer and employee, prejudicially to the latter; the time clauses are unworkable; if overtime is to be paid for, it is reasonable to expect that liberties in regard to exchanges of time, and full pay for holidays and sick leave, will be discontinued.

Old Brown had been to market, and, as usual, got intoxicated. Little Elsie watched him with great curiosity as he staggered past the window. “ Oh, mamma, come and look at Mr Brown. Juse see how the wind’s blowing him about.” A writer in the “ Temple Magazine” says Dr Murray points out in his note to “ InInfer” that those who are interested in the legnth of words will observe that incircumscriptibleness has as many letters as honorificabilitudinity, namely, 22. Tire authority quoted for the former word is one Byfield, a divine, who, in a treatise on Colossians, published in 1615, wrote: “ The immensity of Christ’s divine nature hath . . . incircumscriptibleness n respect of place.” In the recent biography of Dr Benson is an entry from the archbishop’s diary to the effect that the “Free Kirk of the North of Scotland are antidisestablishmentarians ” —26 letters.

May 30th, “ Decoration Day,” was observed as a holiday throughout the United states. There were the customary parades and patriotic orations in every town and village, and flowers were placed on the graves alike of Federal and Confederate soldiers who fell in the Civil War, and of those who lost their lives in the recent war with Spain. One of the most curious features of the day was the attendance of the Chinese Minister Wu Ting Fang at the customary demonstration at the tomb of General Grant. He not onlv attended, but delivered an oration in excellent English. In New York, the chief event of the day was the ceremonial opening or dedication at the University of New York of the “ Hall of Fame,” the cost of construction and fitting up of which has been entirely defrayed by. Miss Helen Gould, are to be recorded for the benefit of posterIn the main hall are 150 panels, upon which ity the deeds of as many illustrious American men and women. . Up to the present only 29 “immortals” have been selected for this honour.

A Liverpool paper says that arrangements have been completed between the Leyland Shipping Company, of Liverpool, of which Mr-R. W. Leyland is managing owner, and the Manchester Liners, Ltd., for the establishment of a joint direct line of fast high-class steamers between Philadelphia and Manchester. The service will be known ns the Manchester-Philapelphia Line. The enterprise, for which additional steamers are being constructed to augment the existing fleet, will be inaugurated’ from Philadelphia next month, and the steamers will load and discharge at the piers of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Co.

The following, related to an English paper by a gentleman of good position, who witnessed the occurrence, will serve as an instance of things which have actually happened in Northern China—A few days after the occupation of Pekin by the allies, a Chinese woman, with her small children, one of them a mere baby in arms, was crossing the Beggars’ Bridge, outside the Chien-mcn gate, in the main thoroughfare leading from the Chinese to the Tartar City, when a party of Russian soldiers came along. The woman was not quick enough, apparently, in getting oqt of the way, so they prodded the mother and baby with their bayonets, and threw them over the parapet of the bridge, into the canal below; and, as the other child, a boy of about five or six years, lay screaming on the ground, one of the Russians seized him by the heels, dashed his brains nut on the marble flags, and flung the body headlong after the others.