LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 29, 16 June 1868, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

— _ *. T/raitf/roN Crtoiur, SooißTr.—Tlio uoual weekly prnotloo will bo bold tills ovonlng, At tho Lyttolton Colonials' Hall. LYTTBIVTON VoMJNTKKH AnTIhIKKT,-* TIIO miual Adjutants parado was hold lant night (n tho drill-shod. About thirty members were pronont. Nahhow KflOAPn.—yestorday morning a boy named Taylor had a narrow oncapo from drowning, HowaßonthoJtallwaywharf. and on Groaning a rope, it caught And trlppou him Into tho wator, ho was noon readied, ciud escaped with a ducking. j X,Noiiwion Qiut.— A potition was aont to tho Council last wook respecting 1 tho filthy and disgraceful ntnto of tho footpath*) and roiUI«, Tho Council tout night vofuoort to Moolvo tlio petition, bocauso It wan not proflontod by a Councillor, and aino bocauflo tlio 1 word " dlagracoful " was Insortod In tho potition. As thin word did not reflect upon tho i Council, but on tho ntato of tho rondo, tho Council might have boon a llttlo loss Hquoamish, oapcolally an another potition riont in tho oamo way was taken into consideration and \ attondod tOi

Nosmphbrk ,\Uv«ns,— ;A largo body of water iflfltll^pafldng'/lown tho north branch of tho Walmttk«rjrl.//^li() : A8hl(iy, ycatorday, had subsided- to within a, foot of its ordinary lovel. ■'•V.V:! '„■.■■/'•■■••■.*■ :." X^Tiirksmng,— The present bad weather ;is Borlouoly interfering with tho threshing and dollvory of grain j many of tho roads aro in Hiioh a Htato as to rondor, the shifting of the maohlnoa and caning of grain, for a time At lonflt, a matter/ of Impossibility. Mau. SiaWAT.a / >Afi\L\ri'itui!ON.— Messrs Dal«oty and Co. liavo kindly granted tho uso of their flag Htaff' at; Lyttdton to signal tho arrival of tho English mails, Tho following rtftgn will bo hoisted at tho mast head j—Suoz mall at tho Blurt — Ensign ovor white Panama mall at Wellington— Enßlgn ovor red flag. Waxytomk Kxhimtion.— This exhibition will open at tho old Wcsloywi Chapel, High Strcot, this oyoning, The figures aro forty in number, Amongst which aro thoso of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis. MoKinloy, (loador of tho expedition in HCftrch of Hurkc, Wills, and King) tho DukooC Edinburgh, O'FahoH, Honraud, boiuo of! tho Australian bushrongorfl, &c, A Crowes', BwawTiAr,— Tho Australasian of May 00, has tho I ollowing :— Slnco the suggestion for tho esta illshmont of a roglutry ollico for tho benefit >f clorka in want of situations wa» thrown out in this journal, «ovoral lottors on the a ibject havo anpearod in tho daily papors, am a gnnoral anxiety has boon oxproaflod among thoso interested that such an institution slould bo started. As yot, however, wo imvo lot heard of anything practical having been accomplished, and until somo ono aotlvo-mln led, poraovoring, and nhilanthropioal Individ lal tiikoo tho mattor in hand, tho probability -Ib that nothing .will bo done, Wo aro oonvlnfed the project, if properly carrl«d out, wji uld provo a boon to a cl(iHf) which in, unforfcfinatoly, too largo in this city, although it would bo idlo to oxpoct it to go far to satisfy tho flomundu of ail the clorks out of plaoo in and wound Melbourne, The fact in, tho «uppl« of this description of labour far oxcooda tho demand, and for every vacancy there aro fliundrods of candidates. This ovll might bo partly remedied if young men would loam tofpln their faith ,lois to tho metropolis, mid looik more wldoly round the colony for employment. Numbers hang About Melbourne, Micawborliko, in tho hopos of Bomothing turning up, and spend thoir last nixnonoo unavailidgly, when tho oxcrolno of n littlo onorgy In tl|o prompt removal .of themflelvcH and thel| hopcfl to a loss crowded arotiA might load! to thoir getting, if not the situation thoy sought, at least flomo employ* mont whloh woiud tide over an interval, and poosibly provo J tho forerunner to hotter things, I : ITiwhv Lanoitaob,— Tho Australasian of May 30 flays s-*A foul-mouthod fellow was sont to prison mat Saturday for indulging in filthy language in tho public otrcots. Mr 'Aspinalli who pole tho trouble to have him HOttt tlioft I , ''dCHorvcs tho thanks of tho whole decorduß portion of tho community for 1 , doing bo. It 1b an uncndurablo nniaanco that well - conducted people cannot walk tho fltrcots at any hour of tho day, but foimoolally aftor night-fall, without having their flonao of dooonoy outraged by tho nftßty utterances of thoso human brutcfl wlioßO'Upa novor open for tho purpoeo oil speaking iavo for tho escape of a stream of colloquial jfcoculotico. It is next to imponslblo to tako a lady down Uourko strcot of an evening without fooling tlmt it is nccoooary to apologiao ito her for notßolcoting flomo othor thorouglifaro j and tho pollco aro appurontiy co aooujitomod to tho practice of <!isguwtlng profanity that, unless thoir attention bo flpeel/illy Alreatml to tho offonoo, thoy do not flcom to bo awnro of it. It is always a dlangrcoablo thing to aot an proacoutor in police oaeeni and it involves iv considerable expoudlturo o£ time in having to attend a>) a wltncflfl, no tlmt when a gontloman is public* splrltod onoug)) to forogo his proforonccs for tho milco of performing a duty, such oh Mr Asplnall has dpno, his good oillccs ought to bo warmly aoknowlodgod, and thoy aro hereby acknowledged) accordingly, with tho hopo that othor gontlonion of position will follow no good an oxamplo. Initiation. -»"In tho Quarterly Journal of Science for April,! tho following valuable romarltn on infeoflon are publlflhcdi — Tho Ulontcd Profvflso* 1 Sir Jamos Simpson, In a recant communicat on to ono of tho medical lournalfl, proposes, to ♦ stamp out ' small pox in tho mimo mannc i as tho cattlo plague has boon ntiunpcd out, :; Of course, ho excopts tho process o£ lmmcdfatcly killing tho animal ftttaokod, What lib really means 1a thin — If a oaho of small poi lfi at onco takon in hand, placed in quarantlrb, and only thoso nllowod to approach tho individual attacked who havo already had jjho dWeauo, or been vaccinated, and every (wlolooS clothing in contact with tho dlfloased |K)dy destroyed, you may doty tho oxtonslo^of tho ulsoaso. Tliln in trtio of all tlior infootious diseases. If n child attached with scarlet fevor Ih at onco plac d in v room by ltoelf, and only ;h^o allowed to enter who havo had tho i lstaso, and ovcry precaution takon to destn y tho poison in tho excretions, and in the clothos worn and used by the patient, then 1 10 <\lhomo will not spread. It is a well known fiM that when a oaho of typhus fovor is t iko.i into a hospital, and ovory precaution t Icon to provont tho sproad of tho poinon, it ocldom or novor spreads, It in tho utterly oa olohj and abandoned way in which thcflO pc«(llcittlal dlscnoeft mo treated in tho horn not tho poor tlmt causes thoir spread, and ( 10 desolation that follows. Wlion thoso dlsoAS ss occur, whether it bo in London or other t( woa, no serious efforts are made to 'fltftmp hem out,' a kima-fair* flyotem it ndopta , which, at tho end of the year, is summed ip in such forms on follows !— •< Whooplni cough carrlod off many children all ovor London i and diarlioon, which was tho n ost fatal of the zymotic olkqs, caused 229-M catl;o, Cholera was fatal in 241 caned. Typhio and typhoid foror, &c, in 2174 ; ngaihst 3232 and 2681 in tho two provloue yoarft,'

Lytthlton Hook and Ladder Company. — Tho adjourned meeting of tlio mombors will bo held this evening at the.drill-shwJ, at flovon o'clock. i ' . (. .C TuhLatb Aooident.—Tlio Iray And 'horse*, driven by tho unfortunate n: in Ross, ftt the tlmo of Tifa death, have been washed up on to a spit About 15 clutfna below where tho accident occurred. Tho bod/ of tho man has not been discovered. Kanoioua.— A fan well dinner was givon to Captain Puull by ionic of his friends, at tho Plough Hotel, tnngiora, on Friday evening lust. Tho lon (}, U, Lee provided, with l)r Dudley as vlc< Numerous toast* wore given and aekuowlcdg d, and tho proceedings of a very pleasant < ironing wero rauoh enhanced by nomo capita songa. Tho dinner provided by Mr Ba»slngthwaitc was an excellent one. Cauandinfß. — Notwithstanding the vory unfavourable state of tho weather, there wiih a numerous attendance at tho Town Hall last evening, to greet tho ro-appearanco of Madanid Curandini, hor two daughters-— Roflinn and Fannio— and Mr Walter Sherwin, Tho , published programme was not strictly adhered to, but the pieces substituted elicited every demonstration of approval, and wero in ovory particular worthy of applause Tho pieces which woromoßt admired were " Sing on yo Littlo Birds," and "I cannot mind my Wheel, Mother (which were sung with great effect by MUa ftoslna, who has a soprano vol'io of singular elasticity and sweetness); » Stay with mo, my Darling, stay" (by Mlbb Fannio), « Robin's Iloturn," and " Sweet Spirit, hoar my Prayer (by Miss Koalna), and "The Last Hobo of Summer" (by Madame Caraudlnl). TUo duets by tho Misses Carandial drew forth thunders of applauso. cspeoi* ally tho ono, •♦ Beware, trust nor not, which concluded tho evening's entertainment, Tonight'tt program mo is an Attractive one, and should tho weathor bo fine, wo have no doubt tfioro will be a good house. XlJonouon Seat,,— At tho weekly meeting of tho ChrUtchuroh Cornell held last night, a very handsome and appropriate design for a corporate seal was submitted for consideration by Mr J. C. St.-Qucntin. It consists of a gartor encircling a shield which is surmounted by a white oran*, rifling from a wreath, on tho dexter sldo /a branch of nativo flax, nu,(l on tho sinister lido a branch of English oak. :Tho shield is divided by a St. George's Cross into four qunrtcrings, which aro accupicd by sheaves o*f wheat and tol-toU. The garter bears th©j! inscription •« Christchurch Horough Councli," and tho shield has an nzuro ground. * Tho following is tho doslgnors translation ; — Tho nzuro is an indication tljat Canterbury is a dependency of tho Qrown and the St Qcorgo'a Cross that it I»3an English settlement \ the tol-toto, that tho S borough is situated in the colony of Now Zealand, of which thoao birds aro natives j and tho wheat sheaves, that it is in tho heart of an agricultural- district. The ero«t— whito crano on tho wing— ahowa that savage llfo is giving place to civilisation { and tho flux and oak, a combination of AngloSaxon and native/interests, A difference of opinion existing rfmongst tlic member* of tho Council a« to (ho necessity of changing the present tltlo of tho Council, caused tho con* sidoration of tho design to bo deferred \ but it mot with the approval of all tho members. Mr tft Qucntin is certainly to bo congratulated upon his happy s combination, which speaks equally well for his knowlcdgo of heraldry as his artistic taste. Should tho Council decide upon a now seal, tho design has certainly great olaims upon their consideration, Hkatjicotb Road Boahd. — The usual mooting of tho Board was held yesterday, at tho Board Office. Ferey lloa.il, Present all tho mombors. The minutes of tho previous mooting wcro road and conilrmcd. Letters wore read whioU;h»d been received from the Secretary for Publlo Works in reference to a grant from tho Government for tho purchase of a gravel pit, and also stating that tho Government would allow tho Board to cart from tho stackj of broken stono, near tho Judge's Chambers, forty oubic yards for repairing Colombo] Btrcct south, near tho railway rotor vo, A lettor was also read, which tho Government had received from Mr Tippotts, and referred by thorn to tho Board. Tho writer complained that tho rivor Avon noar Ward's Brewery 1 , was being interfered with by earth being thrown Into it, which would causo a wash of j tho rivor on tho opposite bank and probably alter tho channel. Tha Surveyor's report was read and considered. Ho gave an cstimatoof tho cost of forming tho Avon road, near Mr Stewart's j and also reported upon tho condition of the floodgate, noar Mr Sorutton'a farm, Heathcote Valley, explaining that unless somo steps wcro taken to protect it, tho wholo structuro would bo washed »way, natho rivor had encroached so much at tho point where it Is fixed. The following resolutions wcro then passed :— That Mr Ensor, in conjunction with tho Survoyor, bo requested to solcct a picco of land for a gravol pit, containing about ono and a quarter-acre, and tho purchaso of tho earne. That in explanation of tho letter forwardod to tho- Board, the Secretary for Public Works bo informed that the Board has no rcaoon to iiippoio that tho rivor Avon lino bco!n improperly interfered with in tho work referred to in that letter, And that what has been done in calculated to iniprovo tho road running along tho river. That » sum of not less than £20 bo expended on tho improvement of tho river road roferred to in tho memorial from Mr Stewart and others, on condition that half tho amount expended is contributed by privato subscription. That tho Secretary for Public Works be communicated with, and his attention called to the state of tho floodgate and drain connected with tho I.yttelton and Chriitohurch railway, near Mr Scrutton's, as causing an injury to tho road. That the chairman bo requested to communicate with tho Secretary for Public Works on the state of the Dyer's Pass road, with a view to its repair. After passing Accounts for work done, tho Board adjourned until Monday the 29th instant*

Kaiatoi Swing Bridoe. — A meothg of I ratepayers takes place- this evening, s the ! Krtiapoi Institute, to consider the Provincial Englner 7 * report on this bridge The JUyor will tAke the chair at ,7 o'clock. TiuMra.— Tho Pastoral Times of Maf23 says : — The increasing number of distreaing and deplorable accidents to life in the pasbral district* are beginning to Attract public atention here. Scarcely a week posses by that we do not record one or 'more of these sad cates, mid doubtless there, aro others that ne'er reach the public car. Driven out of ihe more populous districts of Victoria, the tramp crosses tho Murray and trius to mako he&lway in Southern Itiverina. A stranger, possessing no home of hist wn nor friend to greet him on hit) arrival hen lie becomes a prey to misfortune, and of tea <mds his day* on the plain*. It was some |me ago estimated that from 5,000 to 7,000 pet ons were on the tramp in theso districts, extending from the Murray to Fort Bourke, and! a considerable proportion of these never wo ked at all, though they muut hate done soaie blng to earn money to pay for their clothes Tramping has thus become a fixed habit i tnong them, which it is difficult for them to I reak through, if they felt inclined to mako tho attempt. To feed theso men is often a erious tax on the settler's resources, thoug i some of the border settlers hare oxpressc themselves glad to see the tramp?, as they of en furnish sources for procuring labour in cai as of emergency. The physical «talM of th se men differs moat materially — some of tl cm arc dear at the cost of their food; a fen oven arc in tho way, as obstructives rathe; than "helps" as servants? their education too, is equally diverse. Mnny of them are s ignorant as not to be able to read or write, whilst others ore highly educated — masters of the classics. On the back of tho doors of onic of the huts may be at times diacovei id penned quotations from Homer or Virgi or «ome of the English poets, choicely selecte I. Broken-down members of tho legal or i ledicnl profession often tnke service in tho bush. Unable to with* stand (in town) tho t( mptations of tho bottle, they fly into tho At stralian wilds to bury themselves, for a tin o, until they consider that they are steeled against tho seductive powers of grog. The c men are very much to be pitied, and to b< sypathised with j hot it rarely happens tha they become permanent, so far, masters o ' their actions. Haying been enabled to save t good round sum in the squatter's service, th ac men return to town, and having tasted tho first glass, tho old habit returns with increas d violence, and in too many cases they los their lives in the debauch. As a rule, n > man should come into the bush who is not a >Ie to labour, to at least n moderate degree. 1 tuny educated men are not able to contend agi inst a series of advenes of fortuno in tho i terior, and such men should not on any account cross tho Murray. A Traokdt at kio Januiro. — Some seven months ago a family named Cuyas transferred their residence f ran) Monte Video to Rio, and wiih them canio a man of thirty-three years of ngo named Hcitor Monetta, who, having become cnHmouredl ( tho eldest daughter, Genoveva, determln *l to cast hU lot with them, and was hotro lied to tho object of hU affections soon after 1 is arrival hero. According to his tale, upo i tho strength of these intinmto relations c; (sting between them, tho father of tho Cuyas family borrowed at various times wh t money he possessed, and from that time, 10 says, a coldness was manifested to him by tho parents, which finally induced him to leave his residenco in their house nnd re iovo to an hotel. Becoming more nnd i oro annoyed at tho increasing coolnc99 of ithelr connexion, he at last determined to bring matters to a crisis, and ho wroto a note 1 1 tho young lady, ask» ing her to como to sei him in a neighbour's house, tho answer t§ which was that she could not, and did aot wish to see him. Ho waited half an* hour, and then departed, leaving a nojo for the girl. Apparently, however, his' anxiety overpowered ' him, and ho went to tho Cuya's house. There in the kitchen he found the mother, and on demanding whether tho marriage was or was not to take pljtcc, he asserts that she began to abuse him J Ho then appealed to tho girl, who was sitting in tho parlour, but sho remained silent^ and tho mother, still more angry at the appeal, garo him a olap in the face. Furloud atj hU reception, he hurried to his hotel, and, taking a revolver from his trunk, returned to tho Cuyfis house, where, finding tho mother jrepoainir on a sofa, he beat her upon the xaco with his fists, and then nhot her in the shoulder. At her cries Genoveva rushed in, and w«« received with two shots which utid her dying, lie then proceeded towards ihe stairs, bur, returning, shot a younger sister in the lungs and another in the atomiicl), /nnd ran into the street (RozurloV Pursued by the public hue and cry he directed hi* course to Klo DireiU, but as ho still carried Bio revolver in his hand, ho one ventured to stay him, and he was lost in tho nightfall. For, several days no trace of him could be oh'aincdj but at length an intercepted letter revealed tb*t he was staying at the Hotel d'ltalii, at the Botanic-gardens. On tho nftcrnoon of tho 10th, a party of police, disguised ni excursionists, drove to the hotel, and managed to examine tho house and ground* without being suspected, but without finding aioii«!tta. Seventy more men wcro sent onjprom Rio during the night, and by thrco a.m. tho grounds and house were surrounded.! At three tho houso was entered, and »ft|r searching the rooms in vain, he was discovered on the roof, from which, after being summoned, ho came down and surrendered and was taken to tho city. Of the, victims to hit* fury, Genovcvddicd on the day succeeding the catastrophe, but the o|her three, although severely injured, it is believed will recover. -Another daughter, who was fortunately out of the houso at the fatal hour, thus escaped, but the father, who was likewise absent, was so overcome by the shock of tho misfortune which had fallen on him, that he died during the night of tho Bth from an attack of cerebral conges* tien. i

pi" ■■ ' '■ ' .r, *"" — ' Tub QovunNon'o LBrinn,— Tiio Ausircir lonian ot Mar 30, Bayn s—Thoro ia room Uv muoh phiionopbWng ivfc ilif dorflUUir'tf Uueur. Vory ourjoiw pooplo oatuti enough Inquire ■what it yopve«(;ut« ? Wot; l uoelal distinction, certainly, foe there la no jflmit, anii^thcro U 'hardly any condition 'o|ftotoiJ, Anybody who can put on a rennomwiy decent «uit of "-*- black, or a uniform of aay kind, and who will tako with him two c|pd« with hlflnamo "legibly inscribed thereon," la eligible for prcflcntatlon to tho Governor. If you tako tho trouble to read through tho list of ttninen o£ thoso proflontcd—anii wo bcilfcvo moflt pooplo do tako thin trouble— you will find no many dlwopuloWo folkrt;fmong tliom, that if you do nofc (lappt-n to hfivo boon thoro yon will bo dispoßod to conMatulato yourooU! on , having boon absent, I lift i'sx(j«H<;noy in plaocd, on thoso ocoanlonn, in a (uu'i.vlabla situitlon, for ho Imrt to ba etvll to people whom It in not crcdltablo for hdnost porsonn to know. It Is no argument to Clio contrary of thl« truth that tho dUroputiiblc folkt arc in minority j tho fact ntHl temahm that tho most objectionable member" olpocloty may proscnt Jjlmsolf before the Govornorand rcoolvo a vicoyegalacknowlcdgmont of bin prononoo. Tlicho llatd of preaontationn ara regularly sent homo, and they aro thcro rccolrcd an evldeiKwof tho nodal status of thoso included in them. To render them really od rftluo, cither as oyi'lonco of thfi number of accrtatn aocial section* or an wmiitfl of the social distinction of thoso who aro presontod, thoy ouabl/ to bo rcntrlcted to porsonn of good roputo,?ftnd until th«y are ro restricted thoy cannot |ia regarded as other than social mockeries, & Wo know it as a fact ' tliat not a few porsonn In tho mont rcnpcctablo section of thn community studiously absent themselves rather thap bo mixed up with olomentfl that on <wor#; othor occasion thoy carefully refrain from&neetlng. , Oahine B.iaAoiTT.4-A writer on '• Wiso Dogs" says i-»Tho grounds belonging to my houso wcro surrounded by a Jtodge of cactus ' or priokly poar, with a curloiw many-pronged thorn, which it shed lull about its neighbour" hood, Fan used constantly to got; thooo tlionifl Into her fceti and if, when I wao out riding, I saw her limping, , I dismounted and , took out the thornf Sho waited witlv hor paw up for mo to extract it, und always got a put and a "Poor Aid Fan!" on thoso occa. fllons, She had mo a bad habit of running after pariah dogs, tTjut is to nay, dogs without any particular owner, which infest all vll!*gc« in India, and being usually vory muoh knocked — about, und not kfodly used, always oxpoct baft treatment, and aro thoroforo often onvago and ill-tomporod. Aro thoy wlso dogs ? Yes, 1 beliovo All dogs aro; and l luivo Icuowit many cases of sagacity among thoso. For example, they will hunt (I cor of tholr own accord in paolcn, and will purposely jdriv o tho door thoy havo selected to a tank or pond, and mi ooon as the poor beast lion ftikon tho water, a portion of the pack will ground and watch for his landing. But, to return to Fan. To cure her of running af(<jr pariah dogs, I used, if who did ho when I was riding, to dismount, and give her a cutvwith my whip ; not very hard, you know, bin; enough to show her nho .if as naughty a Ond day Fan sot oft after a flour-looklog purlHli| 1 called, but Miss Fan Wftfi too Intent upon her chase to tako any notice for somo tlr io. Whon at lust sho did stop, I got oil! my homo and walked up to her, vory deliberate y, whip In hand, As I got near hor oho 11 tod up ono foot and wont very lame, looking ip pitoously into my faco, aa if fllio was in / rcat pain. I thought no raoro of /logging 1: >r, but called out, " Poor old dog, have you g]bt a thorn in your foot ?" Hut an X stooped t< tako it out, nlio frisked away from mo, and ran oft barking and positively laughing with' gloo at having takon mo In, and changed her punishment into a potting.