NEWS OF THE DAY.
Board of Education. The weekly meeting of the Board of Education will take place this evening at 7 p.m. The Bowen Testimonial,— The presentation plate recently given to the Hon C. C. Bowen by the people of Canterbury is now on view at the shop of Messrs Coates and Co. Colombo street. i Colombo Bridge. —This bridge, which for some time past has been closed against traffic, is now rapidly approaching completion, the heaviest part of the work, viz, the brick piers having been finished, and also a portion of the planking. Steam to Melbourne The Argvs states that the first of the new steamers direct from England, under the auspices of the Australian Direct Steam Navigation Company, will be the Victoria, the largest steamer that has yet been placed in the Australian trade. She is to leave on March 3rd, and is expected to make the passage in forty-five days. Sudden Death. —Mrs Jane Clark, wife of a shoemaker, living in Peterborough street, died very suddenly yesterday morning. About six o’clock Mr Clark awoke and found his wife had fallen out of bed on to the floor, and was to all appearances dead. After arousing some neighbors Dr Campbell was sent for, and on his arriving he pronounced the woman to be dead. An inquest will be held. Interprofessional Boat Race. A meeting of representatives of the various professions intending to take part in the race will be held at the Foresters' Hotel on Wednesday evening. The object of the meeting is to fix the date of the race; As will be recollected, the Banking interest has already scored one win. The Cab Question.— During the week various attempts have been made to settle the dispute between the cabbies and the City Council amicably but all have failed, and the probability is that the cases against Goodyer and M'Taggart, which were adjourned from last week with a view of an amicable settlement being made will come before the Resident Magistrate for adjudication. Lyttelton Borough School Committee.—A meeting of this committee was held on Saturday last. Present—Messrs H. P, Webb, chairman, Hawkins and Grange, Drs Donald and Rouse, The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. Correspondence was then read, and a number of accounts in connection with the building and school opening were passed and forwarded to the Board of Education for their sanation. After some more routine business the committee adjourned.
New Caledonia. — A correspondent of the S.M. Herald, residing at Noumea, New Caledonia, in a letter dated the 11th January, states that the population has been thrown into consternation by the arrival of an official order expelling some of the civil inhabitants, and recalling numerous officials. “Mr Puech (of the firm of Ratoboul and Puech) was one of the persons to be expelled from the colony, Messrs Rataboul and Puech are amongst the principal merchants and importers of Noumea, receiving every two months a cargo from Bordeaux, and owning the schooner Noumea, regularly running between Sydney and Noumea. The same fate was found to bo awarded to Mr S. Sohn, timber merchant and sawmill proprietor (well known in the Australian 'colonies). The other parties to be “expelled,” are Mr Blaise, a grocer; Mr Gassan, formerly storekeeper at the Ducos Peninsula ; and Mr Dussert, a publican. The telegraphic despatch which imperatively directed the recall of numerous officials, and the expulsion of the above-named citizens, also sent an order to close the Masonic Lodge of Noumea, named ‘ L’Union Caledonienne,’ with a distinct prohibition against opening any similar ‘ establishment’ in the colony or its dependencies. Neither motive nor explanation is given for the above detailed acts, and every one is at a loss to find the key to the enigma, considering that all the gentlemen thus dealt with are highly respected and esteemed by the whole population. Two’ months’ grace are given to each party marked out for expulsion, to allow them to arrange their affairs. Several of them intend, it is understood, to proceed to Paris to seek redress.”
Telegraphic. —The Otago is expected to leave Hokitika at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, the9ih. Telegrams for the Australian colonies or Europe, via Java cable, will be received at the telegraph office for transmission to Hokitika, up to twelve o’clock of the 9th inst. The Cospatrick.— A late telegram from London says—“ The fire broke out at midnight on the 17th November, Within half-, an-hour the flames had enveloped the vessel throughout nearly her entire length. The scene was one of the wildest confusion. Only two boats succeeded in getting away. Each contained thirty passengers. These remained alongside the ship until the 19th of November, when the hull was completely burned, and the vessel sank. The two boats then started in the direction of the nearest land. They kept together for two days, when a gale separated them. One of them has not since been heard of : the other was fallen in with by the ship British Sceptre. At that time the boat contained five persons, but two died before the Sceptre reached St Helena.” Fire. —About twenty minutes to twelve o’clock this morning a man named Patrick Moreland, in the employ of Mr J. L. Fleming, builder, Tuam street, while at work in his employer’s shop, saw smoke issuing from the roof of the stables of Messrs J. Clark and Sons, grocers, at the rear of their shop and close to that of Mr Fleming. He at once gave the alarm, and he and Mr Fleming entered the stables, while Mr Rental went on horseback to the Lichfield street station. On Mr Fleming getting- into the stables he saw that the loft and roof were ablaze, but there did not seem to be any fire in the lower portion. He had time, with the assistance of his man, to remove some harness, and in a few moments afterwards the building was enveloped in flames. The bell at the Lichfield station had rung but the alarm at ten minutes to t\v elve, quickly followed by the bell at the Market station. In a very few moments afterwards Supt. Harris was on the scene with the hand engine Dreadnaught on the Montreal street bridge, and a number of the brigade, the hose being laid down in a remarkably short space of time. After trying the engine for a few moments, the force of water did not please Mr Harris, and he sent for and had the steamer Extinguisher placed at the river-bank opposite the Royal Hotel, and ready for the word to he passed along the second line of hose in about fifteen minutes, and the time would have been less if the corporation horses could have been encouraged out of a walk, Fortunately no wind had been blowing, and the moment the water commenced to play all danger was seen to be over. It is impossible to say how the fire originated, as Mr Clark allowed none of his men to smoke about the premises, and no person was seen to leave the stables. The building was insured in the Northern for £3O. Shortly after the alarm. Inspector Buckley and a number of his men were present, and Captain Mitchell and a number of the fire police kept a clear space.
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Globe, Volume III, Issue 208, 8 February 1875, Page 2
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