LYTTELTON NEWS.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16884, 12 July 1920, Page 5

LYTTELTON NEWS.

• MAGISTRATE'S COURT, i At the Magistrate'® Court on Saturday, bei for© Messrs w. T. Lester and F. G. Norton, J.P.'a, Thomas Yule waa convicted and I fined 5s for drunkenness. On a charge of [ using obscene language, lie was fined i's in default one month's imprisonment. CONTINUOUS PIANO PLAYING. Mr Albert Steele, •who, at. PsUmerslon ! North, put up a world's record for continuous pia.no pHying, of 93 hours 3S minutes, will commenco, at the Hai*b©ur Light Picture Theatre to-morrow night, an attempt to crea,to a fresh record of 100 hours. Previous to Mr Steele's performance at Palmers'.on North the world's record was held hy Eugene Deschteler, ,who played, fof !>G?t hours. Mr Steele's record of 98 hours 2S minutes was broken at Sydney last week by Albert Baker, who played for 03 hoars. Mr Steele i» attempting to regain the world's championship by breaking 100 hours'. To do this ho will have to play continuously -until midnight on Saturday next, and at no time must his hands leave the keyboard for tiioto than nine seconds. A committee of local residents has been appointed to supervis-e the fea!. MINIATURE RIFLE SHOOTING. At the Lyttelton Club Tango on Saturday evening a match was fired between team? representing tho Lyttelton Club and the Bowling Club, resulting in a win for tho former by CIO points to 532. F. Foster {Lyttelton Club) put up the beet score, making G7 out of a possible 70. THE PICTURES. Marguerite Clarke, in "Little Hoover,'' and Fatty Arbuckle, in "The Garage," arc the principal attractions at tie Harbour Light. Pictures to-night. To-mciTow Earle\ Williams will be eecn in a powerful drama, '"The Hornet's Nest," the support® including episode nine of "Tlic Lightning Raider" and "To Let," the first o£ a serie.3 of English comedies. *~ BILLIARDS. In the inter-club billiard tournament, Lyttelton Club deieated the Bowling Club on Saturday evening by S games to 2. Following are the scores, Lyttelton Club play- ! ers being mentioned first:—S7 Wales 100 v. H. {RhLid 36A. K. Smith SI v. D. Page j 100; H. "Wales 100 v. E. * -Mixlow 41; F.J Collins 100 v. S. Sinclair 62; J. Sargentina i 100 v. J. Gower 64; W. Agar £00 v. J. j Morgan 69; T. Firman 100 v. 13. Sinclair BG; J. Barry 100 v. E. H. Henderson S9; ! A, Eippin 100 v. J. Ltila.ro C 3; T. Gellety I 78 v. W. Hodgins 100. |