CHRISTCHURCH DAY BY DAY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXII, Issue 8313, 29 February 1912, Page 2

CHRISTCHURCH DAY BY DAY.

Advice has been received by a local stalker from the Hon. D. Buddo, Minister of Internal Affairs, that the deer-stalking season m North Otago will open on April 1, and close on May 20. On Tuesday night a conference took place between representatives ot .North Canterbury grain and wool merchants, and of the General Labourers Union. The presentatives of the Union submitted certain demands, which were discussed. A settlement was arrived at in respect to the majority of the demands, but a few still remain in dispute, and will be discussed later. At the Cathedral-yesterday-evening, 1 the Rev. W. "W. Sedgwick was installed as canon of the Christchurch Cathedral, and the Rev. J. A. Jacobs was instituted Archdeacon of Timaru and Westland. Dean Harper presented the new canon and; the new arfchdeacon to the. Bishop, who, after ordering the sentence of institution to be read, invoked the Divine blessing on each. r The "considerations" given for the transfer of Government leaseholds usually take the form of * cash, but a witness in the Supreme Court yesterday related a, case ■- in which this practice was departed from. The witness said that one of his brothers had drawn the lease' of a grazing run in ballot, but. had been induced by another brother to transfer it, the consideration being a packhorse. A letter was received at the meeting of the North Canterbury Education Board yesterday from N the Education Department' of Manitoba, Canada ,ekpressing a desire to secure messages from Cliristchurch school children, for inclusion in a booklet to be published in Manitoba on Empire Day. It was decided, te grant the request, and to invite the head teachers of schools to procure messages from the children. At thte fortnightly meeting of the Christchurch Women's Christian Temperance Union, held yesterday, a letter was received from Mr Flamank, of Dunedin, thanking the Union for its support of his scheme regarding the appointment of a special teacher to teach sexual physiology to the senior scholars of the public schools of the Dominion. The first of a series of short dinnerhour services was held in the Cathedral yesterday, when the Rev. E. H. Shore addressed a small gathering of business men. The gatherings, he said, were of far greater importance than people were inclined to think, and the influence and power "resulting therefrom went far and wide throughout the city. There were- many grave things in the moral outlook, and the needs of the modern day as regards religion were very great. There were difficulties all about, and it was the work of the Church to dispel all doubts and show the men of to-day the great value- and influence of religion in taeir daily walks ofiife. , \ A story presenting some extraordinary features was told in. the Supreme Court yesterday by the plaintiff in a civil action, a woman of nearly 70. It appeared that in 1889 she left her home owing to domestic infelicity, and disappeared completely from the ken of her family. . She was the ■owner, of a farm of 143 acres, which was then valued at about £30 an acre, and is now valued at anything from £40 to £50. She left New Zealand for Australia, and for 20 years she maintained herself by her own industry, acting at various times as cook and washerwoman. She adopted an assumed name, and seemed to be content to. let fhe years pass without making any claim on her property. It was not until 1907 that she wrote to one of her sons, letting him know that she was still in the land of the living. Another remarkable feature^ of her experience was that out of her none too large earnings she had contrived to pay 5s a week towards > the purchase of* the cottage in which she was living in in an obscure Australian township. She had actually paid off £50 of the purchase money. The old lady was quite bright and cheerful in the witness-box, and did not appear to be impressed with the fact that she had done anything unusual.