NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 185, 12 January 1875, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Catholic Bazaar. —We hear that the receipts at the Catholic bazaar ware £312 in all. .

CONCERT.—A vocal and instrumental concert, in aid of the Catholic schools in the province, will be given in St Patrick’s Hall, on Thursday; 21st instant. THE Cospatrick.—We are informed that there were no immigrants nominated by friends in Canterbury on board the Cospatrick. Lyttelton.—There was no meeting of the Lyttelton Borough Council last night.— The first stink trap was put in opposite the New Zealand Shipping Company’s office today. ALARM OP Fire.—About mid-night last night the fire-bells were rung, and the various engineswere got ready to turn out, but it was found to be unnecessary to take them out, as the cause of the alarm proved to be only a gorse fence oh fire situated on the Ferry road. The Dreadnaught hand engine was taken down, but its services were not required.

American Circus. A capital house assembled last evening at the circus, in response to Senor Gonzales’ appeal, and the whole of. the performances throughout went well- ' The riding of Mr George Gilham and Young America, and the acrobatic feats of Senor Gonzales and Messrs Lewis, Romeo, Hutchins, and others drew: forth loud applause. Mr Eugene Beda the trapeze, and succeeded remarkably .well in the various feats which he went through. Messrs Blow and Ring will take their benefit on Thursday night. These gentlemen propose to give a valuable prize for the best conundrum sent in by any person before that time, and there will probably be a sharp competition for this event. Messrs Blow and King have afforded the public a good deal of amusement at a time when other entertainments have been absent, and we hope a full house will assemble on their benefit night to repay them for their trouble.

Madame Goddakd.—We learn from the Hew Zealand, Herald that “ Madame Arabella Goddard was a passenger by the Cyphrenes for San Francisco, and that the lady will probably give- some concerts in California before going to the Eastern States. This will not be the first occasion of the great English pianiste visiting Americans she crossed the Atlantic to perform at the Boston Musical Festival, an engagement for which she received the handsome fee of 1000 guineas. Of course no such gigantic remuneration could result from Madame Goddard’s visit to the antipodes, but there is reason to believe that both her antipodean tours, the latter of which included New Zealand, have been highly successful in a pecuniary point of view. The net profits of the New Zealand tour alone are stated to have amounted to £2OOO, and for the rapidity with which the tour was executed and its brilliant result the lady was doubtless much indebted to the energy and tact of Mr R. S. Smythe, her business agent, ’

,/ Poet Ch AIDERS ifA-h^AY.—I n a paragraph with reference to the.ruuning of a late train on the Port Chalmers Railway, the Daily Times complains of the scant support accorded to the liberal action of the Government in agreeing to run late trains, and adds the following astonishing piece of information The experiment, however, triumphantly'demonstrated that a train can rhq v safely the dark, and as quickly as .by'-dayHghtr - atid so one objection raised'jagfliust,. train has been effectual 'rembted.l?.--'

Accident in Lyttelton. —A man named Thomas Je\yiss, residing in the- Heathcote Valley, who is employed by Mr Martindale at the tunnel wharf) met,; with(Viaph)ewh%t painful accident yesterday afternoon. He was working at the new wharf when a pile fell on -his chest, knocking him down. When c he was picked up blood was issuing from his ears. Dr Rouse was quickly on the spot, But’we have not ascertained whether the injuriesyvere serious or not. He was taken home upon a stretcher by the 6 p.m. train.

Funeral Reform. —The Church News, in an article on funeral reform, gives the following account of a fu jeral conducted on reformed principles:—“ Very great and general interest is felt in the matter, but no small amount of determination and perseverance will be needed to overcome the inveteracy of custom in these matters. Meantime, one example is worth much talk-, ing. We witnessed, not many days ago, a funeral conducted on what may be called reformed principles. The deepest feeling was manifested, but all display and unnecessary expense, as well as all that is merely gloomy, were studiously avoided. The deceased, a child of four summers, who was mercifully taken out of her sufferings by her Saviour in the early brightness of Christmas morn, was borne to the Cemetery, not in one of those gloomy structures, called mourning coaches, but in an ordinary close carriage. The coffin was of polished wood, without covering and without plate or ’nacription. No pall, no hired mourners, nothing dismal, nothing unbecoming those who are bidden to “sorrow not as those who have no hope.” The mother was there, but not in oppressive black laden with crape, whfchTDn-tliufc-Bultry. day, would have been cruel even to behold, but in cheerful white, subdued by a braiding of black. The choicest of white flowers were thrown into the grave by the hands of the parents, and the only thing one missed was, that the voice of Christian song was not heard before the mourners moved away, having committed their treasure to Him “ Who shall change our vile body that it maybe made like to His glorious body.”

Dunedin High School, —We have been informed by telegraph that Mr Wilson has been appointed English The Daily Times supplies the following particulars At an adjourned meeting of the Education Board, held yesterday (members present— His Honor the Superintendent, in the chair, and Messrs Reid and Turnbull) consideration was given to a minute of the High School Board of Advice. The Secretary, Mr Hislop, presented the minute, which recommended the appointment of Mr Alexander Wilson, M.A., of Aberdeen, to the position of English Master of the High School, and of Mr Edmond De Montalk as French visiting master. The Board came to the following conclusion—“ That in accordance with the recommendation of the Board of Advice, Mr Alexander Wilson, M.A’, be appointed English Master in the High School, and that the salary be according to the terms specified in the former report of the Board of Advice ; and that Mr E. De Montalk, B.A, be appointed Visiting .'French Master to the school on such terms as may hereafter be mutually agreed upon ; that both appointments be for one year, and terminable thereafter at six months’ notice on either side.” The terms referred to provide for a fixed salary of £3OO per year, and onetwelfth of the school fees. The meeting was adjourned for the transaction of ordinary business till Monday next. Mr Wilson was educated at the Grammar School of Aber-. deen, and afterwards at the University of that city. He lately arrived In Auckland from London, where he was for three years the master of a middle-class school. Mr De Montalk was formerly French Master in Nelson College.” ' *

Accidents. —We take the following chapter of accidents from the Timaru Herald of Monday :—A serious accident happened in town yesterday afternoon at about halfpast three o’clock; It seems that Mr and Mrs Murphy and son had just seated themselves in a buggy at their house, near the Hibernian Hotel, when the horse bolted. The animal dashed in a northerly direction along the street and down Arthur and George streets. Upon reaching Messrs Russell’s Store one of the back springs broke, the occupants being immediately precipitated to the ground, Mrs Murphy fell on her head, and was picked up fordead, and Mr Murphy and son were found to have received some nasty cuts and bruises about the head. Mrs Murphy was con veyed to Mr Ross’s house,and Dr Hammond was speedily in attendance on her, but it was an hour before she recovered consciousness. It is feared that she has sustained concussion of the brain. The horse, after the occupants of'the buggy were thrown out, continued its mad career till reaching Mr Martelli’s stables, where it came to a standstill. An accident occurred to a man named Collins, working at Mr George Cliff’s saw mill at Waimate, on Monday last. Whilst passing a travelling bench his left leg was almost cut in two above the knee by the circular saw. Dr Jackson was called in immediately, and as the man was in a very weak state from the loss of blood, recommended that he should be removed to the Timaru Hospital, there being no institution of the sort at Waimate. A subscription list was at once circulated on the injured man’s behalf; the result being that £l7 XOs was collected. The man was conveyed to the Timaru Hospital as recommended. At Waimate, oh Thursday last, 1 «n inquest was held on the body of Frederick Gaitt, aged nine years, before John Studholme, Esq., J.P., and a jury. The evidence went to show that the boy, who was the eon of Mr Gaitt, storekeeper at Waimate, was sent on an errand on horseback, and that whilst returning, his horse struck agajnst the shaft of Mr Andrew Martin’s waggon, causing the rider to fall to the ground, just in front of the waggon. The driver stopped the horses as quickly as-possible, ".but not before one front wheel of the waggon bad passed over the boy’s chest. The boy died almost instantly after the accident. The jury returned a verdict of “Accidental death,” and added a rider that no bl4me whatever was attached to Mr A. Martin, the owner-aud driver of the waggon; ■ i

Teout-Fishing.—As our Acclimatisation Society has recommended the Superintendent to proclaim 'the months of January, February, and ilarch during which fishing may be pursued in the Avon, the .following particulars regarding the success which has attended trout-fishing in Otago may be interesting to some.of our readers: —We understand that ,-thirty-two licenses for brown trout-fishing MyA been; taketf but at the Pr£K vincial Treasury. -The Has as yet been confined to the Water of Leith and the Shag River. In the former stream some fine baskets have occasionally been taken ; but, in the latter, the number of fish that np'to'the presenttime has been -caught is not very great. The kmjd of fly ypich will charm the Shag' River rfbut .has'riot' evidently been yet hit upon. Of the fish being there inconsiderable tJb'' no doubt. Ope Dunedin gentleman, who succeeded in Bringing t6' grass two fine fish, weighing respectively seven and live pounds, reports that, in the lower part of the river, the trout may bC seen about dusk both rising and leaping, after, the white moths 'that are so' abundant. These large fish were 'in finecondition,' And • cat Tup and tasted almost like salmon. ."Their stomachs were’fbund to be full of the white bait which at this season of the year come up the Shag river in shoals ; and it is very fairly concluded that it is owing to this circumstances that the trout do not take the fly readily in this part of the river. There can be no doubt that if trout exist higher up the river, where the whitebait are not found, better sport with the fly will be obtained.. The artificial flies which in the south of Scotland would bring many a speckled beauty to grief seem to have no attraction for the New Zealanders. Even in the Water of Leith a “loch”fly has td be used, and in the Shag river it is thought that nothing short of a “Jack Scott,” or, at least, something like it, will wile the monsters from their pools. Last week a Pleasant Valley resident secured a five-pounder with the fly, and we hear of several fish of smaller size having been taken. , It is satisfactory to hear that salmon trout have been seen quite lately near the mouth, of the river ; and it is to be hoped that Mr Young will succeed in obtaining a few for breeding purposes before

“ Darling, shall we Siamese ? ” said a North Carolina swain. And they hired a parson to solder the connecting link.

The Palmer is a locality (says the Daily Tivies ) which excites a restless feeling in diggers in all the colonies. “ Distant hills look green,” and it is Well that the enchantment should be broken before men risk their money and health. We have been favored with the perusal of a letter from Mr James O’Sullivan,” a miner,; well known fpfthe Queenstown district, who left for the Palmer. He writes, under date November 17th, “• 1 have arrived at Palmerville, and of all the friends‘that left the City of Dunedin, only' two arrived here—the rest remained at Sydney. I have travelled all the colonies, and this colony is worse than all for 1 hardship. For : every man that i« gettibg-gold, there are twenty getting nothing. Times are very black here at present, and are likely to be until the wet season is over—that will be next April. I would not advise any of our friends to come here who intended to come. Horses and, rations cost 60 before I started from Cooktown, besidesmy expenses on the road.” .