THE CITY.
CHRISTCHURCH DAY BY DAY.
The ceremony of opening the new wing of the Presbyterian Orphanage in Blign's lload was performed on Saturday afternoon by the Rev. W. McAra, Moderator of the Presbyterian Assembly. The Rev. Dr. Erwin presided, and there was a large attendance of ladies and gentlemen. The Canterbury Automobile Association held a church parade to East Oxford on Sunday. Many cars, in one of which was the president, Dr. Simpson, left Christchurch about 9 a.m., among the guests being the American athletic team. Mr J. Van der Velden, son of the late Mr Petreus Van .der Velden, is co-operating with the Art Society .to collect and display in the Art Gallery a number of the works of the deceased artist? The exhibition will probably be ready next month, and the public will be admitted free. / In an involved land case at the Supreme Court at Christchurch yesterday, a solicitor giving evidence was asked about an exchange of properties, and his Honour Mr Justice Denniston intervened by asking what was the reason for the- exchange. " The property was mortgaged," said Mr Hosking, K.C., " and it was thought that a freehold without encumbrance would be better." His Honour at once asked: " But where were you going to get a freehold without encumbrance in Canterbury?" It was stated that the unencumbered freehold was in Otago.
The congestion in the ethnological. room at the Christchurch Museum! makes it difficult to accommodate new material, and the additional specimens recently brought from Australia by the curator (Mr E. R. Waite) has emphasised this condition, but by means of-a, new arrangement a larger case has been provided for them, in which the whole of the Australian ethnological objects are now well displayed. In addition to weapons, such as boomerangs, tomahawks, clubs, swords, throwing sticks, and waddies, with their counterpart, the shield, casts of the heads of two Australian aborigines are also shown, and. side by side, one sees casts 'of the heads of two Tasmanians, one being that of Truganini. the Tasmanian woman, who died on May 8, 1876, the last of her race. . ; I
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8742, 16 December 1913, Page 2
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