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Timaru Herald, Volume XL, Issue 3198, 26 December 1884, Page 2

Amttbt Races.— Tho annual roco meeting of tho Albury Racing Club takes plnoo at Albury to-day. Waimatb. — The annual sports gathering of tho Wairoate Caledonian Society is to bo held at Waimat« to-day. Official. — A lato Cfaxetta notifies tho appointment of Mr Richard A. Barker as a Commissioner of the Timaru Hospital. SronTiMrt. — Wo publish m anothor column this morning an account of the late Makikilii race meeting. Sottling up takes place tomorrow evening, Spboiai, Tbainb. — The two special trains which passed through Timaru at 1 a.m. and 3 a.m. respectively yosterday morning were well fillod. The first one, bound south, took away a good few peoplo from hero. The other, however, was not well patronised by i Timaru holiday seekers. TIMAIHJ BAItWAT RHyBESHMBNT ROOMS. — Tho Timaru Railway Refreshment Rooms aro adding all the delicacies of tho vegetablo garden to tho tempting and liberal bill of faro already provided, For tho future, lunch will bo served from 12 noon till 3 p.m. — [A DVT.] N.Z GyN.S.C— A general meeting of tho Now Zealand Grand National Steeplechase Club is to bo held at Warner's Hotel on New Year's Day at 8 p.m. Business : To considor notices of motion (1) Thnt the words " other than a qualified hunter*' race" bo inserted after tho word " steeplocbaso" m Rulo 8 s and (2) That Rulo 74 re amnteur riders be rescinded, and that m futuro amateur riders bo elected ovory year. Rbbibbnt Maoisibatb'b Corar, GebalDIHR. — At this Court on Tuesday, December 23rd, 1881, beforo H. O. Baddeloy Esq. R.M., K. 8. Cook, Walter Gargcr, and W. Henov wore obarged with broach of tho Borough by-laws by allowing horses to wandor m tho publio etroots. Tboy woro each Cnod 6s and costs. In ths civil coso W. Davoy v. Q-. Wood, claim, £29 3s Od for wages, Dr. Foster appearing for defendant and Mr Raymond for plaintiff, the plaintiff was nonsuited without cents.

The Wfathbb.— About 11.30 o'clock on t Christmas Eve one of the severest thunder- i storms that we hare experienced here for < years occurred. The rain descended m i torrents for about fifteen minutes, and then 1 continued intermittently for hours. The lightning about midnight was Tery vivid and the peal upon peal of thunder was almost deafening. Early yesterday morning the , «ky cleared, and all day yesterday better 1 weather could not have been wished for. Tub Salvation Abmt. — Most of the ' Timaru contingent of the Salvation Army, including their by no means inefficient band, ' left for Christchurch by the Express train on | Wednesday. On the train were also tho Southern contingents who, we were informed, had two bands with them. Tho Salvationists hold a special jubilee m the Cathedral City this and next week, at which representatives from both Islands are expected to be present. Fobestees' Fktb. — The Ancient Order of Foresters will hold a sports meeting m Mrs Cramond's paddock, off Grey Hoad, to-day. At 10 a.m. the members of the Lodge are to muster at the lodge-room, and after forming into procession will march with the Artillery Band' leading to the ground. This evoning an entertainment will bo held at the Assembly Booms, after which a ball will wind up the day'a amusement. The fete should, if the weather be fine, prove very attractive. Theatre Royal. — Many of our readers will be pleased to hear that Miss Georgie Smithson is announced to appear at the Theatre Royal on Tuesday and Wednesday next, the 30th and Slet inst. Miss Smithson iB called — and justly too — tho great female Maccabe, and if we believe but half what is said and written about her, the entertainment is of a kind rarely to be met with here. Mr J. Smith, advance agent, arrived here yesterday from the North, and is now busy completing arrangements. Good News. — Farmers and others interested m our grain trade will be pleased t« see on referring to our Wellington telegrams this morning that Governmeut has at last decided to do something m the way of lowering the rates for carriage of grain on our railways. We learn.that the tariff will be altered as follows : — The classified rates will remain as at present up to 8 miles ; from 8 to 16 miles the rate will be what is at present the rate for 8 miles, and beyond that distance the present rate will be reduced Is 6d per ton. Oca Bands. — The Artillery Band, m charge of Mr Thos. Perry, and the City Band, under the leadership of Mr Dickenson, enlivened the early morning yesterday by playing Christmas carols. The City Band turned out about 1 a.m., and the Artillery Band about 5 a.m. Both played at a number of private houses, and met with a Christmas reception everywhere. Tbo carols sounded very well indeed on brass instruments, and were thoroughly enjoyed by all who heard them. The carols played by the Artillery Band were " Rising Star," " Grandly Holy Angel," " Glorious Christmas," " Christians Awake," " Hiding m Thee," " Christ Arose," " It is well/ and the anthem " Glory be to tho Father." Cbickbt. — A match will be played between teams chosen from the Ashburton and Timaru Cricket Clubs, on the ground of the latter to-day. The following will play for Timaru :— Birrell, Hughes (2), Smith, Nome, Jones (2), Reid, Mills, Turnbull, Macintosh. Emergency — Haggett. Play will commence at 11.15 a.m. sharp. Luncheon will bo ready nt the Ship Hotel at 10.30 a.m. As the Ashburton team return home by the evening train, players are requested to be punctual. — A match will be played to-morrow on the Geraldine cricket ground between an eleven of the local Club and an eleven of the Timaru Club. Members of the Timara Club who have been asked to play at Geraldine are requested to meet to-morrow morning at the Ship Hotel, at eight o'clock. The following players will represent Geraldine : — R. H. Pearpoint (captain), E. H. Templar, Fred Fish, Frank Fish, A. H. Briscoe, A. G. Cox, F. Bethune, B. Macdonald, W. Macdonold, G. Ward, F. E. Mcoro ; emergency men — A. Erskine, K. Temple, G. Slack and R. Taylor. The match between} Christ College and the Otaio C.C. on Wednesday, resulted m a win for the former on the first innings by 14 runs, For tho College, Harman made 17, and Horns 12, out of a total of 75, and for Otaio, Boyle 14 and Beeves 13 out of 59. Otaio m their second innings put together 70, Reeves and Boyle being the principal scorers. The College had lost one wicket for 27 runs at call of time, Macdonald being not out with 15 to his credit. St. Maby's, Tixabtt. — At this church on Christmas Eve the Christmas carols were, as m former years, sung, and b special service was held. The service commenced about 10.30 p.m., and there was a very fair congregation. After the usual evening service had been about half gone through, the carols were taken. They were as follows : — " See Amid the Winter Snow," "What Boul-inspiring Music," " Tho Kings of Orient," " Christmas Night," and "The First Noel." AH tho carola wore rendered very well, but m tho first and third tho treble parts were rather weak. The Yen. Archdeacon Harper gavo a, short but touching address, and we feel sure tho sentiments he expressed nt its conclusion found a hearty response from many of his hearers. Yesterday being Christmas Day, the church was most beautifully deco rated m every part. The congregation was a large one. The service was a full choral one, and was well suited to the day. The carols were again sung, and went much better than on Christmas Eve. Tho choir also rendered that beautiful anthem " la the beginning was the Word," m a way that showed careful practice ; and that grand old hymn, " Christians Awake," was also sung by tho choir and congregation most heartily. The Archdeacon m his sermon specially dwelt on the birth and early childhood of our Saviour. Tns Deadly Teapot. — "While good temperance people are decrying liquor," says a leading American physician, " they seldom stop to think how much harm is being done by an abuse of a beverage to which many of them are devoted. I just came from attending a easo of a five-year-old bubo who is ruinod for life by its parents indulging m teadrinking. The child became very nervous and dyspeptic, and they sont for mo. I asked them how much tea the child drank. 'About two cups at each meai, and several between meals,' was the reply. You sec," the physician continued, " they let the teapot stand on tbo stove all day. Thus tho tannic acid is extracted, which serves to turn the linings of the stomach into leather, and brings on dyspepsia and kindred diseases. Yes, you will find hundreds of women, young girls, and agod women, and occasionally a man, who have completely ruined their norrous system hy the excessive übo of common tea. It would be n blessing to mankind when a temperance crusade can spare wind enough from its attack on alcohol to assail tea." Usiua the Royal Arms. — The recent prosecution of Messrs Taylor for unlawfully using tho Royal arms, which resulted m a fine of Is, possesses somo general interest, as affording an illustration of one of tho most glaring anomalies of our legal system. The qni tarn information is a kind of hybrid creature, which is neither flesh, fowl, nor good red horring. It acts as a direct incontivc to worthless busybodies who have no business of thoirownto mind, to meddle with tbo affairs of thoir neighbors, usually to very little purpoßO. We learn from tho text-books that tho sharo which tho informer takes m tho fruits of tho litigation is a reward for his superior diligenco ; but tho amount depends not upon the diligenco of tho former, but upon the culpability of tho offondor, and this is, moreover, a kind of diligence which might very well be allowed to go unrewarded. Whcro an offonce - and it is usually a minor offence — is of such a nature that it is nobody's interest to set the law m motion, it is surely better that tho State should take tho prosecution m hand, than that it should delegate its duties to any chance comer. In the presont instance, it wns not protended that tho informer had tho smallest personal Interest m tho mattoir — apart from his hope of dividing the spoil— or that ho was actuated by any desire for the public welfares ; and it may be fairly assumed that, had ho forcscon tho mengro results of his labors, ho would hardly have proved himself so zealous m tho Bervico of tho State. It is quite passible that gvi lam informations may have serrod somo useful purpoao m a less civilised state of society, when there was no such thing as an organised police system,

and when every citizen was expected to take m active part m the maintenance of low and arder. But this mode of procedure hus long 3ince become an anachronism which cannot too soon be abolished.