Banco SiTTiira,-—His Hono? Mr Jnaftoe Denniston will sit in banco on Thursday aext, at 11 am. JjtttTßx/cQiii Habbob Board.'—The ordif ,XUfixy meeting of the Board takes place at i.l a.m. to-day at lijrttelton. Mb. B. yea* .day. that E. Turnbull, M.H.B. Jfo? Timaru, who is m Cliristchurch aqd suflferr ing frem, ft geferQ waf very much better.
Bbmissiok of Finb,—Oα Monday, at the Supreme Court, Mr Qeo. Payling, who did nofc answer to hie nainQ when TsUled in the panel of the Grand Jury., and was fined i&. appeared ehortily afterwards, and having shown cause, hie Bono? ordered the fine to be cancelled. Hbavy Bains.—On Tuesday there was a very heavy ??& J*t Balmoral, oil the North line, and in a few minufceg the oartway round, the railway station was in a state of flood. It ia probable the sain came from a waterspout, and that it did not extend far inland. Lab OB Question. At a meeting of agricultural laborers at Kaiapoi lelaad last evening , , it was decided, to take steps to obtain a fixed rate of wages at 9d per hour and/eight hours as a eiugle day. A report appears in another column. . I*BBSBNTATION AT KXUIPOI. —Ott Monr day evening, at the EaiapoiFire Brigade i€Jft4ing-rpom. Cojor-Sergeant T. Q 8 welj, of the yolfcnteers, was presented by Sergeant Simpson, on behalf of the Rifles, with a purse of sovereigns, in tokeii of the appreciation in which his service! in connection with the corps were held by the officers and men.
