NEWS OF THE DAY.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13455, 28 June 1912, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Two children at Otira found a plug of gelignite, and hit it with, an axe. A teiiiiic explosion followed, but the children wore not seriously injured.

Two Shannon Rugby footballers, named Seymour and Healoy, have been disqualified for life for threatening tho referee and using obscene language within the- hearing of a ladies' hockey team. A third player, Cobbler, was disqualified for two years.

At a sitting of the Brightwater Magistrate's Court on Wednesday, before Messrs. W- L. Bird and J. Harris, J.s P., John Lyne was convicted and fined 10s and costs 11s for using insulting language at Wabefield. There was no civil business.

While milking a few days ago, Mr J. B: Parker, of Stoke, was kicked in the face by a cow, a nasty wound being in-, flicted.: . -:-■ :„«,: ■„;. •; ...._....'••..; .-.■:• :•;; .■..' ■■-:*s

. Residents 'of -Nelson "interested in. chess, are invited to attenda meeting of the -^Nelson Chess Club, to be held in Mr. G. F. Dodds' room next Tuesday evening.

It is notified by advertisement that the Mayor has called a m<?eting of citizens to'be held in tlie City Council Chambers on Monday, July Ist, at 8 p.m., for considering the, best method of acknowledging the services rendered by His Lordship Bishop Mules, to the city. All citizens are invited to attend and it is anticipated that a very large number of townspeople will be present.

That th© bicycle- thief is still flourishing in Christ-church (says the "Lyttelton Times") is proved by the fact that, almost daily, owners :>(:-e presenting themselves at the police station to lay information as to a missing machine.