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Bush Advocate, Volume XXII, Issue 15, 19 January 1910, Page 5

The committee of the Caledonian Society is busy this* afternoon erecting the running track and grounds in gthe running track and grounds generally for their sports gathering on next Wednesday. A scratch cricket match is being played on the Domain this afternoon. The work of erecting the cattle pens on the Domain for the forthcoming A. and P. Show is proceeding apace, Mr Fairhurst and his men making good progress with the scheme. "The Climax" is the latest dramatic sensation in Australia. There are only four characters in the" play (interpreted bv Miss Florence Young, Messrs J. B. Atholwood, Reg. Roberts, and Dion Titheradge), but the piece is said to be intensely interesting. It will probably he seen in New Zealand. The Boy Scout movement was initiated in Dannovirke this afternoon, when between 50 and 60 boys attended at the Recreation Ground for the purpose of being enrolled in the corps. Mr P. B. Fitzherbert, scout master, delivered an address to the assembled boys, in which he outlined the aims and objects of the Boy Scout movement, brieily enumerated the duties and responsibilities of those joining, and then proceeded to form those willing to join into patrols. Something in the nature of a sensation was caused *at the Magistrate's Court in Christchurch a day or two ago (reports the Lyttelton Times), when a barman in giving evidence stated that the instructions given him by his employer were that he was to supply no "prohibition people." There was a moment's silence following the remark, and then Mr C'assidy, who was conducting the examination of the witness, said : "Yoii mean prohibited persons." The court indulged in laughter, and then Mr Cassidv 'amidst a further outburst said that he had corrected the witness because he saw Mr Salter (a prominent prohibitionist) shewing signs of a desire to object to either the statement or the instructions.