LYTTELTON NEWS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16403, 24 December 1918, Page 8

LYTTELTON NEWS.

T t' • ' PERSONAL. Mr E. R. Curtis has undergone in opw tion in the Christchurch Hospital, tad' i« ■' making satisfactory progress towards recov* ery. MAGISTRATE'S COURT. Mr W. Cleary, J.P., presided it tW - Magistrate's Court, Lyttelton, yesterday * morning, when a seafaring mas, . Joseph Gilson, who had been remanded from"' Christcliurch on a charge of being an idle aad : disorderly per&on, without sufficient raeaoa ' of support, waa further remanded for * week, .with the object of having him Mat to the Addingtou Home. ST. JOHN'S CHUBCH. Special thanksgiving services won* W4 in St. John's Presbyterian Church, LylteV ton, on Sunday last, the Rev. W. T. Todd officiating. Both the Communion eervioe, - held in tlio forenoon, and the Chriatny* vice, in tho evening, vero well attended,. ► SOCIAL EVENING. •' • Mr J. Stanley, who is connected witfc.thl Lyttelton office of Kinsey and Co., Ltd, vm tendered a social evening by tho jnemlxn of tho Lyttelton Club, to theVasMH , sion of hie recent marriage. . The function was not held earlier because the was in use as an emergency Stanley was presented with a hanason* luwc tea servico, as a token of goodwill,' THE LATE LIEUT. / W. Bandsmen throughout tho Domiidat'^nll ; regret to learu that Lieutenant W. &UUWW,; conductor of the Lyttdton ; died suddenly at the Christchurch Ho»JuW | on Sunday night, having previously /own-i* ported to bo making a wew« ery 'from an attack of influenza and pnea* monia. Tho lato Lieut. -Sullivan ponttttd a very fine record aa a ouphdnium;«otait. . During his lengthy career his nmr/WM _v. rarely omitted from the lists ners at band contests. Ho of the contests ,held in the Dominion, tpr , many years past, and was frequently com. plimented by, musical adjTi d ioatoM^°n_?brilliant playing, his. {a .^^ e ' tho woll-known fantasia Song BlKw». IJJ® ( deceased was an extremoly enthuaiastio bandsman, and frequently Rave uwta*,, ous orchestras and bands ir Oiristchnroh. .H» followed the occupation of a^taUor^.and had been in the employ of Mr J.fcab* for the past, seven years. Ha »*v«i» . widow and four children to mourn flute low. - ~