NEWS IN BRIEF.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 192, 18 September 1914, Page 10

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Wairarapa defeated Otago at Rugby football by 17 points to 8."" The match took place at Carterton. The poll in connection with the casual vacancy on the Board of Governors of Canterbury College takes place on Monday next at 5 p.m. Dr Bradshaw will commence the third term of his course of lectures on music at Canterbury (College on Monday, 28th inst.

One hundred and fifty boilermakers in the naval dockyards, Sydney, have struck, owing to the employment of labourers on boilermakers' work.' An. Association football match was played at Lyttelton yesterday afternoon between teams from the steamers Corinthic and Athenic, and resulted in a win for the Athenic men by four goals to nil. The goals for the winners were notched, by Adams (2) and Howes (2). The following additions to the Open Air Home Fund are acknowledge-d:—-Oxford collection—-Per Mrs McLennan, £8 17/6; per Miss Don, £5 6/-; per Mrs Salt, £1 2/6; employees X. E. C. Freeman, 17/-; subscription from Okain's Bay, 6/-; extra collection Little River Sh., £2 4/6. The opening of the North Beach tramline since its electrification is to be celebrated on Wednesday, September .'SO, by the residents, and the North Brighton Burgesses' Association is making arrangements with the New Brighton Trotting Club for its co-operation in fitly celebrating the occasion. The Chief Postmaster, Christchurch, advises that the instructions recently imposed requiring seven, days 'i notice of withdrawals from the Post. Office Savings Bank are withdrawn, as from the 18th instant, the unexpired notices and those relating to amounts due for payment but not yet paid are to be cancelled.

The subject for the Haben's Prize in 1916 is: "A comparison of the Froebelian and Montessori methods as applicable to the education of average children (a) under five years of age, and '(b) at a later stage of school life, with special reference to the results of actual experiment within the candidate's own observation;" A money order office under the control of the New Zealand Government has been established at Apia, Samoa; the rate of commission-being the same as charged for money orders within the Dominion. This will no doubt facilitate the exchange of money orders between troopers in Samoa and their friends in New Zealand. Two young woman named Berry were injured last night through a collision between a hansom cab and a taxi. Having missed the last car from Riccartos, they were given a lift by a returning cab-driver, but While on the way to town a collision occurred, both the woman being thrown out and receiving minor injuries, whichNwere attended to at the hospital. During the hearing of a maintenance case at the Magistrate's Court this morning, :the male defendant among other things stated that he was troubled with asthma. Pie would bring up blood from his mouth during the night, and he could always tell whether there was a fog or not without looking out of the. window. When his wife came into the witness box she told a different tale, however. Speaking, of her husband, she said: "He will go to bed with a barrel 6f beer under the bed, four quarts at his head, and a pipe in his mouth, so that the room isn't fit to sleep in—thair's his astnnia."

Another patriotic song f ' Good " Old New Zealand," written and composed by Mr Louis A. Benzoin, Christchurch,

has come to hand. It is a local production, it is topical, and it expresses a commendably high opinion of the prowess of this interesting little island. 'Therein"lies' its chief claim to public popularity. The air is simple and tuneful, and the refrain swings along hap pily. It ends with a burst of fine patriotic fervour, calculated to make the crowd want to rise and cheer every time. <<Good Old New Zealand'' is to be sung at the Colosseum to-nio-ht and to-morrow night. -■*»..

™A. Press Association, message from Wellington states that .James Little who was charged w|th committing an aggravated assault on a Chinaman yesterday, was remanded for a week/the victim being m the hospital and unlike y to be able to leave for several .weeks.

MOTOR CYCLES. We have just landed a shipment of King Dick and Singer Mptor Cycles, finished in dove grey, with several improvements. There is no need to dwell on the quality of these motors, as recent results can prove; winning every side car trial except one takes a lot of beating. These victories speak for themselves. Sole Agents—i JONES BROS., LTD., 122 Manchester St. Inspection invited. Catalogue free. iVote. —We have a few good secondhand motors for sale cheap. .243