NEWS OF THE DAY.

Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7359, 11 July 1889, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY.

CoarPLiarKNTABY Luncheon. —The complimentary luncheon to Mr John Cooke, on the occasion of his leaving for Australia,, which is given under the auspices of the Chamber of Commerce and the Agricultural and Pastoral Association will be given at the Chamber of Commerce, at 1 p.m. to-day.

Ambulance Costumb Oohcjeht.—As will be seen by advertisement elsewhere, the dress circle plan in connection with the above will be opened to-day at 10 a.m. at Messrs Milner and Thompson's music warehouse.

Baseball. —The Hapley Park Baseball Club's game on Saturday will be Earner, Munford, Pollock, Gerard, Dearsley, Frith, Phipps, McKay, and Wheatley ; v Eayner, Spencer, Clarke, Jones, Wheeler, Aauby, Uμ. JSein, amd Gtoed »t2 pan.

Thk"Wkbklt PaKss."—ln W sporting news is remarkably full _f\m teresting. " Spectator " examine H> *$i New Zealand Cup Handicap, «J/ m on the training for the Grand RsfcfoJ!? m and gives a large amount of other _i-» 7 m both home and foreign, including full f| ticulars of the betting done during «. M week. In agricultural matters, if Long's pamphlet furnishes matter* ji m another good article from the Edit-*--. 11 the Yeoman; the Agricultural BepfttiL If furnishes an account of successful ea__ M lage-making at Ashburton • n reviews the Sydenham Poultry Show. M Ladies' Magazine is full of Ohriatohmri. fl and New Z .aland now_, and makes ;a TSft S good substitute for a letter to send to peo__ H at a distance; and the literary anda'tUts H departments are well maintained. In th. H latter we may mention •' First B_se'.» m capable aud instructive baseball comment*. W and in the former a clever and toucidn, story by Archibald Forbes, entitled "-Ik. Old Sergeant." " ™ Charitable Aid Board.—ln artothm column will bo found the report of, meeting of the t. haritable Aid Bqim | whioh was held yesterday. Telephone Extension.—A petatio* bearing seventy signatures, has been % warded to the Postmaster General prayiaj that Greendale may be connected by tdj I phone with the telegraph office at Darfleli As tbe district is an important agricg*. tural one, and a3 there is not a daily bhQ service, the residents would find it a great boon to have 11 telephone station et< tablished in their midst. Change Tree.—There is just nowintht shop window of Mr T. Turner, florut Colombo street, an orange tree bearinsoino good sized ripe fruit. It is certainlyi sight rarely to be seen so far south, and therefore interesting, especially to yom. people. Tho tree is the property of, to* was fruited by, Mr A. Appleby. 'KjjJ needless to state that the plant has betttifc a greenhouse. "WoiIKN'sCHBICTIANTESn'KRANOEUmOI; —A meeting of the above was held yeatet* day. Tlie question of sending fo» at American lady to work in the tt>mper__« cause was discussed, and post posed until next meeting, Mrs Judge Ward wjj; with Mrs Lodge, elected Superintendent ot Evangelistic Work, and Mrs Clark tSuperintendent of Peace and Arbitration versus War. Mrs Shepperd read letter* from Mr Vincent Pyke, M.H.8., about th< women's suffrage question. Teachers' Institute.—A meetingoftha Canterbury Midland Branch of the' N« Zealand Educational Institute was held recently, when there was a fair attendance of members, the President oocupyin* the chair. It was resolved that thethaan of the Institute be given to the Preaidenl and the Vice-President for their action i| connection with the illegal notice of di*. missal received by a member from $v I Board, and that the legal expenses Connected therewith be a charge on the fundi of the Institute. It was decided that tha annual meeting take pl_.ce on July 27th, and that advertisements be inserted i. both uiorning papers. The desirj-bilityol electing the delegates at the annual meeting was affirmed. Mr J. H. Newlyn *ni elected Auditor. Mr Opie promised to km a paper at the next meeting on a subjects vital interest to teachers. Cantebbcbt Society of Arts. —i special meeting of the Canterbury Society of Art* was held yesterday at the roonuW tbe Philosophical Institute. The meeting had beeu called for the purpose of con* sidering the proposal for the incorporation of the Society under the Companies Act, 1882. Mr K. Beetham occUpitd thl chair. To ere was a moderate attend* ance of members. A discussion en* sued as to the position the Society would occupy under the Act, after. - *#*$ioh a motion was carried that it was desirabli that the-Society should be incorporated t, under the Companies Act of 1882. Th.* present Council was then appointed a Coo** mittee to carry out the details of the pro posal. This being all the business tta meeting adjourned. St. Stephens. Ashburton. —The fin! of a series of concerts was held in St Stephen's Church schoolroom, Ashburta, on Tuesday evening. An excellent ■*(_s• gramme of* music and readings was gone through. Songs were contributed;!)!? jfcn Denshire, Mrs* Crisp, Miss Annie 'Qsm, Mr Simmonds, and Mr Kerscl. Mr irfhu. gave a reading. Miss Trauman appeared far the first time before an As-borton audience, and played two piano solos with great taste, being heartily eheotei. Mi Horace Gates was. present, together with the other members of hisstringband,:aji4 contributed two instrumental number*, winning hearty applause. Mr Flemine, in addition to assisting Mr Gates, played two violin solos. The entertainment wai one of the most enjoyable, that rhaafc*ftf held in Ashburton for aome time. ..„,-;•

Zealandia Bbnipit SopifTTi--A geneMf meeting was held at the Druids' HsJllart night of the members of the ®&\m» Sick Benefit Society... There wae a large attendance. Mr J. Froatiek, occupied the chair. The Secretary tm the notice of motion by Mr v McKellowto wind up tbie Society, in consequence ofjM suspension of the operational the. lOTl* Lightband, Allan. and Co. The I£«n™» stated that he understood the ■■,**"& wonld be reopened shortly, if not » uw old place in Some other buildinjf. Upoo this announcement Mr McKelldw arted and obtained leave to withdraw hie SWW». and substituted the following:—" Iα J" event of the late firm of Lightband, JUW and Co. resuming operations "i*"**/ month, the Sick Society shall be coatiniadi otherwiee a meeting to be before Ausrust 12th to aotion." This was seconded and carried. On the motion, <* Mm Turner au<l McKellow, it waa deeWefl " That it is understood by * n, »' that all payments into the suspended from 7th June until mencement of operations. motion of Messrs Turner and.H«WS*5 it was agreed chat no sick memper i*J«| eick pay during the. snepenliflO O '.J». Society. A; vote of thanke to; th* Qtaaman closed the meeting. _. Waimate Countt of ; these harriers was held -et » *f O'Brien's; Crouch Farm, on SataW»»»* i Fully forty-five horseiaen and 4 horsewomen were in the fieU -**±J! I weather, which had beea «bow<W#fg the morning, now cleared up, *»•"» .afternoon wie fine, although *•*«■»» was very slippery. An excellent I"**? wae providlaVand, after, this hadjjg done ample justice to, a start was hw« tne direction of the plantation, «JJJ hare was soon found, bat was iost 8Jg»» almost as quickly. A move wa» n in the direction of 4Jr pubs was speedily found, but ene and croesed the road, and th«_»Tj •a etreight ran for the «*•**£ at Deep Creek. This proved one of the beat runa of Wβ •JJ and after crossing about twenty *"**&& no mean proportions, at ■ <m \ r e-Aar several horsemen, including M* ford, of Timaru, came to gnef, ran into and killed, about eeve* gentlemen only being in at the « iMrrtw, the Master, was Gay, Ehodtfa on Nero, Mr on Maud, Mr Burnley Leap XW Smith Modesty, Mr Eoxbj Huntgmau wae mounted on «Wj * and the Whip on Euflbrd. W^ ASHBUETOM CAtSDOKIAII rf There Was a very large members of the Caledonian $f?5gW their friends at tibe Aenburton o™**£*i& Hail on Tuesday evening, wheat?* of the eea*on "&?*%'„&* Lagmhor Highlanders mustered rf force, whilst there was kilted men from other part* «f Pipers McKay and Eoberteon were and supplied some stirring 9tr * u> * h|| - o iigr Highland, dancers, the i%>o*»l> dancing tieing supplied by TSm Miss Jamiesooi aud Messrs Gat 6B and "Ward. Musical items vfFp&j&t, by Miss Butler, Miss Henry, Mies and Mr Siininonds, * n^ e %tf» Stephenson afcd Jameson; **I%jl-& preeent from allparteof the " Ingleeide " was one of many >gathering" that under tie auspices of the Aahbi»«» j doai&a Society. I

w.ro.-Our Wellington corre"w J, informs us that the Government V? ft SSe a Commission to enquire made against Judge widbfchristie,"he Oamaru bankrupt. n Sals.—The New Zealand Loan Jl Mercantile Agency Company will hold £ nf srrain to-day at 3.30, instead B at the Cbristchurch Wool and q ■' Warehouses, Durham street railway »t iTS. yesterday for the New Zealand

of Labor.—The members of thitbodY whose operations had apparently SiSiet to-night at the Freethought

wlsovic—The usual meeting of the JJS Lodge, 1916 E.G., mil be held this iS£ rttiSe Masonic Hall, Sydenham. TfexiTKS KoTAi.— Despite the very indent weather last night taere was a We bouse at the Theatre when the Hugo wastrels again appeared. To-night they jounce a change of programme. GSRALDIN-E CoCNTT COUNCIL.—At the ««ntWv meeting of this Conncil, held Srdav, it was decided to call for tenders*for restoring the Winchester bricbre to a width of lift and shortening ifcby4oft. The head works of the Orari wrier races were to be proceeded with, the atepayers having agreed to become reiwnsible for the outlay. Palace Kira.—The Kingsley Brothers «oeated their clever bicycle performanceitt jhelini last night, when there was a £ood attendance of visitor. The race between nembers of the Amateur Athletic Assoaation will take place to-night, and the ginesley Bros. wiU aiao ' —Mr Bnncan Wright wntinuea the special services at Kaiapoi •very night this week, and also on Sunday next, morning and evening, as advertised. Ihe gatherings at Papanui were most encouraging. On Monday evening several of the city congregations were represented tt the Papanui Church. JjfIHTBAND, ALIAN AND Co. - At & '~ meeting , of the late employees of this firm • tart night a statement wa3 made by one of the number that Lightband, Allan and 00. would resume business shortly. This news ' wSI doubtless be welcome to a good many. Concert and Tableaux. —A concert and tableaux will be given at the Town Hall, t Papanui, this evening. The programme, irhich appears elsewhere, is a most attrac- • Sre one. OaAJTOE Celebbatiox. —We have been ] requested to state that in consequence of the large number of tickets sold, the tea at ,ifce Free Methodist Church, St. Asaph street, to-morrow evening, under the ausaiees of the Orange Temperance Lodges, , {rifl commence at 5.30, instead of 6 o'clock, 18 previously announced. Twabu Habbor Board. — At yester- • meeting of this Board, the Chairman jtated that Mr Darling had offered, by able, to build a tug answering to the Board's specifications and deliver it at 1 Timaru for j£10,950. It was agreed to icceptthe offer. The Harbor Master reported that during the past month twenty- • jbar steam and four sailing vessels, aggre- ! gating 11.361 tons, had arrived. A bell 'baoy is to be put over the wreck of the "tyttelton. Sa&s op Fxrßnrrxms.— The important 1 ale of furniture afr the residence of Mr -H&meon Davis, Upper Eiccarton, will be

jontinued to-day at 11 a.m. Yesterday '%iate » procession of drags loaded with ■ left the offices of the anc■Jioneers. v; BnaiNo Race.—The following are the ', entries and handicaps for the race at the ; Palace Bink to-night, competitors to wear «thletic costume: — W. Moss and D. - tfstson set., J. Way losec, G. Smart 20sec, LA. Cuff and C. Louisson 25sec, H. Mat--104 and A. Cant 80sec, C. H. Mathias ■ 35*e£3?« D. Kesteven and D. "Wood 4Qsee, Wright 45sec, P. Wood 50sec. The . mat i$ open only to members of the Canterbury Amateur Athletic Club. '..-.■. Dk«h op an Old Identity.—Mrs W. '■ BoUis, th&wife of an old and respected " c fcfeKlent of-Lyttelton, died very suddenly Tuesday at 12.40 pan. The deceased - !adyiad been ailing for some .time, and ! m^:©i%&efl^ : Ma beea i#eudin|:%6rl The death of her son, some seventeen months ago, affected her considerably, and ir&B a blow from which she never really

•Wconrered. Mr and Mrs Hollis arrived in i -Lyttelton in the ship Chariot of Fame on \ltannrf 16th, 1868, and have resided in 'the port ever since. Mr Hollis is a partner , T m the firm of Hollis and Williams, builders, • Lytteltoa. ..; JStpefham Bowling aotj Lawn Tennis k'3um.— This Club intends holding its rvilnul concert in the Oddfellows' Hall, ' Sydenham, on Tuesday, 16th inst., at 8 , p.m'; The Committee have been successful T "ia their endeavora to present to the Sydenhim people an excellent programme. In « fiSeu first part Miss Spensley and Miss Mabel Bell and Messrs W. Izard and A. ; Merton will aing before a Sydenham audi- • eneefor the first time, and, in addition to ] these, Mra Birch and the Eeva. L. M. Isitt ' and P. Monroe, of Sydenham, have kindly ;" consented to render assistance. With such £j J*ell-kno'Wn. names as these, there is every r btospeet of the Oddfellows* Hall being : filled to overfiowing on the occasion of the Jdsoacert. The second part of the pro-

: tnmme consists of the trial scene from ' «J6 a Merchant of Venice," given by the f members of the Trinity Church Y.P. * Dramatic Society. Coaches will leave the ; eqnare before and return immediately tlfterthe concert

... JlosKis Tube Competition.—A match b» completion of the series of two between V the cferks of the Chrietchurch and Lyttel--tea goods department, was fired at the 'Moms tube range of the Gladstone Hotel, ( . Mi Tuesday evening. The final result was ', : «s follows:—Christchurch Goods—First ; ocWetition, 119; second do., 120. LytjMta Goods—First competition, 114'; c Second do., 115. Pull justice was done to tt excellent supper provided by Mr Several toasts were proposed tesponded to, and a very pleasant hour ; «pent ISTCinTBCH Working Men's Clttb. r-Thie Club celebrated its tenth anniver- ; «"yksfc night by a Sam TVeller " swarry" «■{*• we. recreation hall, when there was a * «*£» attendance. Mr Garrard, the Pre- »;' Ijrf B *. ol Ctob, occupied the chair, and we rice chairs were filled by Messrs wutoasead'Hobb. Mr Woodrough, the provided a very excellent spread. ; 4?r n e the evening some capital songs 2«* given "by eeveral members. The c 2?eJswa'of the Club, which has only ••wiUybeea" formed, made its first ap"*?»*w».M.d played a couple of selections ,{S«*>lilj. After the nsaal loyal "■ r *2*- been honored, the following 11 md responded to:—" Success fe B 7? b mi its binders," proposed by -££o ; » Jwobson, Akaroa Mail, and reto by Mr J. S. Wykes; '• The Preresponded to by the Chairman; *«c Trustees of the Club." responded to Vat G. Tombs; " The -Vice-Presideiit respondetl to by Mr H»k?* adMrW - Samuels: "Kindred . "sponded to by the President of Etoir^™ Clnh > " Tn e classes of the responded to by Messrs Scull, Thompson. SchoSeld.and l^avidson; ' ia&Z'K*'" V™ s "'' The Caterer," * ■»-*■ lte .Custodians," closed a most pleaifflM^ evening, everyone present enjoying fff««h» most thoroughly.