NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1290, 8 May 1878, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

City Pboeeety.—Mr Charles Clark will shortly let by tender that centrally situated block now occupied by Messrs llobbs and Co., and others, running round to Cathedral square, and also fronting on Colombo street. Appointment.—Mr H. T. Hill, of the Gloucester street school, has been appointed inspector of schools and secretary to the Hawke’s Bay Board of Education. The salary is £4OO per annum, with £l5O travelling allowance. Mr Hill will enter upon his new duties early next month. The Cheviot Election.—The nomination for the Cheviot constituency will take place at Kaikoura to-day. We understand that Mr Ingles will address the electors at Waikari at 7 p.m. on Friday, and at Waiau at the same hour on Monday. The poll, if demanded, will take place on Friday, May 17th. Cantrebuey Fastohal Rents. The receipts from this source at the Waste Lands Board Office yesterday amounted to £11,980 6 s lid, which added to £18,654 lls 2d already reported, represents a total of £30,635 18s Id to date. There are some few further amounts yet to be paid, but these will not greatly swell the total above given. Upper Riccaeton. —As a proof of the increasing value of land in the suburban districts, it may be stated that at a recent land sale at Upper Riccarl on a five acre section, with a two roomed house upon it, was bought in for £550, and has since changed hands at a considerable advance.

City I mphovements, —Another addition to the business premises in Christchurch will shortly be made, in the shape of a now horse bazaar, to be built by Messrs E. Mitchell and Co. The position selected is a very central one, and the building to be erected will not only lie a great addition to the city as regards architecture, but it will be most commodiously fitted up. The budding will have a frontage of 33 feet to Hereford street and 88 feet to Cathedral square, and the entire length will bo 331 feet. The interior will be fitted up on a new plan, introducing all the latest improvements. There is now a large development in the horse market hero, the existing repositories for the sales every week being crowded. So that it is more than probable that the new establishment will coui« mind a largo trade. The building 'will be couuoeuc-ed on an early date.

IJjMk Clark’s Report. —Ratepayers and persons interested in Mr Clark’s drainage scheme for the city of Christchurch and suburbs can obtained plans, accompanied by explanatory diagrams, from 11. J. Wood and Co., High street. Additions to Lunatic Asylum.—At last tenders are invited for additions to the Lunatic Asylum at Sunnyeide. For full particulars as to conditions, specifications, &e., application is to be made at the ofilce of the Colonial Architect, Wellington, or at the Public Works office, Christchurch, up to noon of Saturday, Ist prox. The Telephone. Arrangements will shortly be made to utilise the telephone in connection with business arrangements. A firm in the city intend removing their place of business to St. Albans, having an office in town, and to connect the two by telephonic wire. A practical trial will thus be afforded of the adaptability of the telephone to business requirements. Dog Show. — A meeting of the committee of the late dog show took place yesterday evening at Morton’s Hotel, for the purpose of winding up affairs in connection with the exhibition. There were present Messrs Disher (chairman), Egan, Dundas, Selfe, and Bennett. The business transacted was of a routine character, and after the accounts in connection with the show were passed for payment, the meeting adjourned. Grain at the Country Stations. —From a return furnished by the Railway Department it appears that the amount of grain at the country railway stations increased on May 3rd and 4th from 39,367 to 39,947 bags. Reckoning sixty bags to the load, the whole amount now awaiting transit is equal to 665 truck loads. The largest amount at any one station was at Northj Waifaki where there was 2834 bags. The Akaroa Railway Trust. — A meeting of the Trust will be held this evening, at Mr Lewis’s new buildings, Hereford street. The change in the place of meeting is to avoid the inconvenience attendant upon the carriage of the plans backward and forward from the office of the Board in Christchurch to the ’place of meeting at Akaroa hitherto u=ed by the Board. Legal. —His Honor Mr Justice Johnston held a sitting in Chambers and in banco yesterday. Judgments were delivered in the cast s of Fuller v the Queen, Johnston v Oxford Road Board, Knapman v District Land Registrar, and Newton and others v Cramond. Some of the judgments delivered were those of Mr Justice Williams, the cases having been heard before him at the recent sittings in banco during the exchange of circuits with Mr Justice Johnston, The Chamber list was also disposed of. A full report of the proceedings appears elsewhere. A second sitting in banco and Chambers has been fixed for Thursday next, in order to dispose of as much business as possible prior to the Judge going to Wellington to attend the Court of Appeal.