LYTTELTON NEWS

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16397, 17 December 1918, Page 5

LYTTELTON NEWS

i SEAMEN'S INSTITUTE. I During tie past week about fifty seamen 1 mad« uso o£ the Seamen's Institute. One Bocial evening was held, musical items being contributed by ilka Page and Master F. Tag®. The weekly Gospel service was oon- , ducted by Mcsdajncs B. Kayo and J. A. I Nowell, in French, for the benefit of tho crew of the French ehip Duqueene. Twonty-threo ships' officers visited tho Institute's club room. THE HOLIDAY. Anniversary Day has for many yeara been regarded as an excursion day in tho port. The crowds ,of picnickers that visited Lyttolton Harbour resorts yesterday showed that these places have lost nono of their charm for holiday-makers since previous years. The morning trains arrived, from ChristcJiuroh with largo complements of pnesengpie, the majority of whom wero ferried across tho harbour to enjoy a. day's outing at Governor's Bay, Purau, Diamond Harbour,' Corsair Bay, and other resorts. MAGISTRATE'S COURT. At the Lyttelton Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr F. G. Norton, J.P., Herbert Pring was charged with the theft,' in July last, of a quantity of silk, valued afe £33, from tho steamer Taimii, wMlo in transit botwoen Wellington and iiyttclton. Pring was arrested on Saturday by Detectives Gfbeon and Quartermain. Some of "tho silk was recovered. Accused was remanded to appear at Christchurch on Friday, bail being allowed, self ,in £100 and one surety of £100. A RUNAWAY HORSE. 4 Jnam-.wuaed T. iSeeeroft suffered am. iajmj to the back of his head yesterday whilst attempting to stop a runaway horse in Norwich quay. The horse, which was att&cbod to a irap, bolted, from the gasworks, and while passing, the poet office, Beecrofi, is trying to stop, the animal, was knocked down by a wheel of the trap. He received attention from Dr. Newell.

DAILY MEMORANDA—TneedaT, Dec. 17. AUCTIONS. W. £. Sim*# sod Co., at 100 Mx&eeonVi road, at 2—Furniture, etc. Jones, MeCroetie and Co., at 7 Tui street, Fendalton, at I—Furniture, property, etc. McKenzia and "Willis, at 292 Cashel street, at I—Furniture etc. R. S. McKenzie and Co, in their rooms, at I—Furniture, eto. MEETINGS, Etc. Armagh street Hall—Maoe's Mission, 7JO. St. Michael's Parish Hall—Lecture by Benr. F. G. Brittan, 8 p.m.