NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 423, 20 October 1875, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Archdbaconery op Akaroa. —At the sitting of the Synod yesterday, the Primate announced that he had appointed the Rev Canon Willock as Archdeacon of Akaroa. Trout Fishing. —Licenses from the Acclimatisation Society to fish for trout during the coming season can be obtained at the secretary’s office on Saturday nexi. until one p.m. Heathcote Road Board. —Saturday, 30th inst., at eleven o’clock, has been appointed by the above Board for hearing appeals against assessments made in the district. Divorce Cases. —His Honor yesterday appointed a sitting of the Court under the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act, to take place on the 26th inst, at 10.30 a m., to hear matters of fact in the case of Hills v Hills and Stephenson (co-respondent). Cricket. —A match will take place on Saturday next between the Waltham and Eakaia Cricket Clubs, on the ground of the latter. The following players have been selected to represent the Waltham C.C. : C. Frith, W. Frith, Reeder, Thompson, Taylor, Beard, Round, Terry, Blanchard, Frow, and Ball. The Waltham team will leave town by the 6.45 a.m. train. Fire at Kiccarton. reached town yesterday that the Avonhead mill, at Riccarton, was burnt to the ground about one o’clock on Monday morning. Nothing is known as to the origin of the fire, and no one slept on the premises, the nearest house being Mr J. Moffatt’s (lessee of the mill) which is some yards distant, and the previous night everything seemed all safe. MrMoffattwas awoke that morning by a strong glare of fire proceeding from the mill, and in a short time the whole building was enveloped in flames. There were a quantity of wheat and grain in the mill at the time, which it is to be regretted was not insured. The mill and machinery were insured by the owner of the property (Mr Walter Blake) in the National, for £750. Immigration. —The following is a summary of the trades and occupations of the immigrants to arrive per ship Himalaya:— 25 farm laborers, 1 gardener, 16 general laborers, 3 miners, 3 navvies, I shephard, 2 carpenters, 1 sawyer, 3 blacksmiths, 3 engine fitters, 3 bricklayers, 1 mason, 1 carriage builder, 1 millwright, 2 platelayers. Single women 1 cook, 1 dairymaid, 12 general servants, 1 housemaid, 1 lady’s-maid, 4 nurses. Summary —6B male adults, 62 female adults, 17 male children, 22 female children, 13 infants, 182 total souls, 149 i statute adults. Nationality —135 English, 37 Scotch, 10 Irish; total, 182 souls. Diocesan Synod. —The annual session of the Diocesan Synod, of Christchurch, was opened yesterday at noon, in the College Library, by the Primate, when there was a large attendance of members. In the morning, at 11 a.m., a special service was held at St Michael’s Church, and in the evening full choral service was performed at the same church. The prayers were intoned by the Kev H. J. Edwards, the first lesson being read by the Ven Archdeacon of Akaroa, the second by the Yen Archdeacon Harper. The sermon was preached by the Ven Archdeacon of Westland. The choral portion of the service was under the auspices of the Diocesan Choral Association, Mr Neville Barnett presiding at the organ. There was a large attendance. Many people do not know the reason why some descriptions of soap, when being used, cause the hands to smart and feel sore. It is simply owing to the imperfect knowledge of some soap boilers, who not being thoroughly acquainted with the ingredients they are using, do not compound them in a scientific manner, or as is more commonly the case, that manufacturers either try to pass off a spurious adulterated article, or else by using an undue quantity of the cheapest commodities, make one of inferior quality. We are aware that the Star Brand Soap is made on the strictest principles of chemical affinity, and that every care is taken by the manufacturers to produce an article possessing the strongest abstergent properties. All persons, whether old colonists or new arrivals, should use the Star Brand Soap, as it is the best in this market. [Advt.J

Fire. —About twenty minutes past three this morning a night watchman at the Christchurch railway works observed flames issuing from a blacksmith’s shop on tne line, some thirty yards distance from the new narrow gauge carriage shed. He rang the alarm at the Lichfield station, which was shortly afterwards taken up by the man at the Market station. Mr Warner, railway engineer, was one of the first at the scene, and having ordered out the Government engine, steam was quickly got up, waiting his further instructions. Men with buckets of water was placed by him on the roof of a covered carriage way near the burning shop, and seeing the fire isolated he gave instructions for the engine not to be sent down the line. In the meantime Mr Superintendent Harris arrived with the hand engine, followed by the steamer Deluge. Roth engines were placed at a ditch alongside the line, and commenced playing soon, preventing the possibility of the fire spreading, but not before the wooden portion of the building had been consumed. The workshop was merely a temporary one, built of wood and galvanised iron, and used while the permanent shops were being erected. The tools in the shop were destroyed. The total loss is valued at from £BO to £IOO. It is not yet known whether the building was insured, It should be mentioned that Mr Superintendent Harris, finding he could control the fire with the two engines on the ground, sent instructions for the steamer Extinguisher, then on the way, to return to quarters. An annual sum of 40,000 thalers has (the Academy says) been granted by the German Government for the carrying out of the proposed project of having plaster casts taken of all the most important monuments of architecture and sculpture in Italy. The Italian Government have given permission for this work under certain conditions, one being that a copy of every one of the works reproduced should be given towards the formation of a museum of casts in Italy.