LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7257, 19 November 1901, Page 3

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tie Kaiapoi Volunteers, under Captain Papprill, went into camp at Kaiapoi last night*. The usual monthly meeting of the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association will be -held to-morrow, at 2.30 p.m. The adjourned meeting of creditors in the estate of ffr H. Davenport, of Ferry Road, will be h-eld! in the Official Assignee^ Office at 11 a.n». on Thursday next. The Oantmbury Centre of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association will hold a special meeting in the Clarendon Hotel next Fridfty evening, at eight o'wook. The great American shipping firm of Peafeddy aawl Co. ifl establishing a branch of its business in N«w Zealand— probably in Wellington. It is understood that Mr Montague Phillips, of Auckland, is to foe !n charge. ' v A special meeting of the Lincoln College Board of Governors will be (held in the Canterbury Agricultural andl Pastoral Association's Rooms to-morrow, to consider the quesbibn of holding a gardteni party after the December examdnationsj to enable farmers and studtents to meet Processor Lowrie. 1 Messrs Tonks, Norton and Co. advertise in this issue tj»t they will sell by 'public auction, in their cooms, Hereford- Street, to-morrow at one o'clock, three I new pianos. The instruments are by higfrclass makers, with all modern iaiprovetnente, and for absolute sale. The same firm will also sell several other new and second-hand piano^ by well-known maker*. Inspection is invited 1 . Under the Shops and Shop Assistants Act Amendment Act, 1901 (now in, force ail chemists' shops may be opened, but^ only for the supply of medicines and 1 surgical appliances, between, the hours of seven and *ine o'clock in the evening, but no longer, ! on the day appointed for <&« closing of ; and any chemist <m»y at any time k the afternoon of a day appointed for the losing of shops, supply any medicines or jurgieal appliances which are urgently required, but he shall then open his shop only for such purpoee. The police authorities in Ghiristohwoh have received a communication' from tine War Office, spring for information in regard to the relatives of J. Seymour. It as stated that he was bom in Chrktdhuroh in 1867. Some time ago he left this city wti went to Auckland, but subsequently wen* to New South Wales. He joined HesiW-s Australian Scouts, late New South Wales Imperial Bushmen, in whdcfi, he became a sergeant, has number being 1044. He was kilßed in tihe field! in South Africa on July 28 of the present year. He has Left £100, to wbioh his next of kin is entitled. This local police aMtbarities will be gkd to hear from relatives of tihie djeoeased man. ' "Anglo-Special" and "Huraber" are ideal bicycles for touring, their great feature being reliability under all conditions of. road ace. weather. Easy terms arranged. Your old wheel taken as part payment. Call and examine our up-to-date models. The Anglo-N.Z. Cycle Coy., D.I.C. and 226; High Street. XLI96 Townend's Sulphur Hair Restorer will positively restore grey or faded hair to its natural colour ; is not a dye. Price 2s per bottle; by post, securely packed, 2s 9d. Townend, Chemist, Christchurcb. 2521 HUDSON'S SOAP makes hardest water as soft as velvet. HUDSON'S SOAP is Sweeb, Quick and Safe. . Sold everywhere in packets. - ' * ' 8946

I The Post Office clock was stopped for an ] hour or two this morning to enable Messrs ' G. Coatea and Co. to put the steel ropes of the weights in place, as tibe reoent earthquakes bad thrown them over the guides. ! At the examination of a Queenstown school the other day (says the " Southland Times") the inspector ohose as a subjec^ for composition, "The visit of the Duke and Duehess of Cornwall and York." One of the scholars distinguished himself by finishing his essay as follows: — "Four were knighted;, but the Hon Richards Seddon is now Saint Richard Sed<don." J It turns out that there was a colonial officer nanied Philip Russell killed in the engagement of the Seventeenth Lancers near Taikastad, South Africa, on Sept. 17. The mistake which confounded him with the son of Captain Russell, M.H.R V of Hawke's Bay, seems to luave been, made by the Cape Town Press. The London " Times " gives , the following account of the matter : — Second Lieutenant Philip Leslie Rmsell, the third officer of the 17th Lancers who was killed 1 , *-was twenty-three years of age, and was the youngest son of the late Hon Philip Russell, of Garngham, near' Ballarcit, Victoria. He left Cambridge Univensity to join the regiment in March of last year.' •