NEWS IN BRIEF.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 112, 17 June 1914, Page 10

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The ferry steamer Maori brought 36 immigrants ex the lonic from London and also a quantity of mail matter.

' The following contributions to the Ooal and Blanket Fund have been received: —Mrs ttairns 10/-, Friend (New Brighton) 5/-, P. and 1). Duncan £:! ;>/-.

The Alexander Pictures are putting on .» star programme at Kaiapoi to-night. Several excellent films appear in the list "to be presented, which appears elsewhere.

A lecture on Christian science, entitled Christian Science Healing, Spiritual and Scientific, by Professor S. Hering, C.5.8., is to be delivered at the King's Theatre on Saturday next. Yesterday' the schooner Eliza Firth arrived at Kaipara after a passage of about 70 hours. The brigantine Aratapu, which left Lyttelton the same day, made Kaipara about three hours later. The latter sailer some three years ago put up the record time of 52 hours from Lyttelton to Kaipara —an unbroken record for a sailer.

Ellen Hawthorne was charged at the Magistrate's Court to-day (says a Press Association message from Wellington to-day) > that., being a married woman, she went through the form of marriage with George Lake at Christcliurch, She was remanded to appear at Christcliurch on Friday next. Bail was allowed.

There were several complaints made yesterday at Lyttelton about the heaps of mud and slime which had been allowed to remain about since the scraping operations of Monday. The thoroughfare complained of is Norwich Quay, and as late as 6 p.m. yesterday — in fact, this morning—small hillocks of slush were still in evidence, excepting where an unwary traveller had inadvertently walked.

In the Cathedral last night the Rev. Thomas Albert Hamilton, chosen by the Chapter and the Standing Committee to be honorary canon in the place of the Bishop of Waiapu, was admitted to office by the Bishop of Christchurch. The service for the occasion was read by the Bishop at evensong. The canon designate was introduced by the Deau, and after repeating the promises ordained in the service, he received the license of the Bishop and was conducted to his stall in the choir.

Mr T. H. Davey, M.P., has received the following letter from the Hon. R. H. Rhodes, Postmaster-General:—"ln reference to your letter of N(Member 12 last, suggesting six additional sites for slot telephones a.t Christchurch, I have the honour to inform you that it is intended to place a machine at the corner of Cashel Street'and Fitzgerald Avenue as soon as circumstances permit, and' at the corners of Wilson's Road and Opawa : Road, and of Wordsworth Street and Waltham Road at a later date. I regret that the placing of machines in the other positions suggested cannot at present be favourably considered."

The old question between the Government and the City Council as to the control of the sale of Lake Coleridge energy for power purposes was revived at the conference last evening between the City Electrical Committee and the' representatives of the local bodies. Mr Waddell, one of the Riccarton delegates, applied to "Mi* L. Birks, the Government engineer, for information as to whether the Government was likely to hand, over this department to the City Council,-as'well as the sale of energy for lighting. 'Mr ' Waddell'» enquiry did not elicit any fresh information. Mr Birks said that he was willing to discuss the subject at the proper time, but- as the present conference was to deal with, an entirely different aspect of the Lake Coleridge.scheme, he could not discuss it just then.

A detective will leave Wellington for London to-morrow, to bring back to New Zealand the young man, J. A. M'Kinnon, who has been arrested in connection with the Christcluirch Customs frauds.—Press Association.

In the St. Albans Methodist Church last evening the Rev. P. N. Kuight, 8.A., gave an address on "Shall the Cross or Crescent Rule?'' The meeting was held under the auspices of the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Home and Foreign Missions, and the Rev. IT. E. Bellhouse presided. Songs were given by Misses Ford, Bishop, and Holland, and Messrs Harrison and E. M. Edgar. In the Magistrate's Court this afternoon, before Mr T. A. B. Bailey, S.M., Ernest Candy was charged with having failed to supply a horse with proper feed and water. Leonard Candy was similarly charged. Mr Amodeo appeared for the prosecution. After hearing evidence and seeing the emaciated condition of the animal, Mr Bailey fined Ernest Candy £3 and his brother £l.

"We ("Wanganui Chronicle") understand that Mr Massev, a gentleman well known as a superior scene-painter, has been here this week with the intention of bringing a company to this place; but he could not obtain a suitable hall. This is much to be regretted, as we believe Mr Massey intended to enlist in his company some of the best talent in New Zealand. We believe he has not given up the idea, and purposes returning in from two to months, in the hope that by that time some suitable place may be obtainable." — Paragraph published by the "Evening Post" on July 1, 1865.