General News.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18095, 10 June 1924, Page 6

General News.

The annual meeting of the Christohurch Beautifying Association will be held to-night in the Art Gallery. The business meeeting will be followed by a lantern lecture and musical items. in connexion with the establishment of the iron industry in New Zealand, ft Is interesting to note that new % toes" for the main engine at TaraT.oTTe cement works have been made entirely from Onakaka iron, states a Press Association message from Nelson.

An-angements have been completed for the "Scouts' Own Church Parade," which is to take place at the East Belt .Methodist Church next Sunday. The service is to be conducted by the Rev. E. P. Patchett, Itev. tSL Parr, and Rev. F. T. Read. Scouts are to assemble in Latimer square at nino o'clock on Sunday morning in full uniform (minus staves) and the service is to start half an hour later. I Infectious and other notifiable disI eases reported in the Canterbury and West Coast Health District for the week ended noon yesterday totalled 26, as follows:—Westland: Scarlet fever, 1; diphtheria, 4. Grey: Diphtheria, 3. North Canterbury: Scarlet fever, 6; diphtheria, 3; pneumonia, 1; puerperal septicemia, 3; eclampsia, 1. Ashburton: Scarlet fever, 2; pneumonia, 1. South Canterbury: Pneumonia, 1. ( Cr. H. Paterson complained at yesterday's meeting of- the Waimairi County Council of the manner in which the City Council had carried out the work ol improving Shirley road. '.#ie job had only been patched' up, he said, and in some instances the road was worse now, than before it had been touched. He did not think that the job had been at all well done, althoisgh no doubt the Waimairi County Council would be expected to pay half the cost. . It was decided to send a letter of 1 protest to tho City Council.

'At a meeting of the local branch of the New Zealand Classical Association, held at Canterbury College last evening, six papers composing a "Symposium on "Vergil" were read by members. The following took part: —Mr C. K Bevnn-Brown (Tennyson's Lines on Vergil), Mr W. 1).. Andrews (l'ne Two Shields), Miss Olive M.. llowe (Vergil and Theocritus as Pastoral Poets), Professor H. Stewart (Appendix Vergiliana), Mr R. Dobbin (.i'he i&loguea and Milton's Lycidas), Mr T. W. Cane (Sea Pictures from the Aeneid), Mr T. W. Rowe (Th-j Wanderings of Aeneas). It was reported at yesterday's meeting of the Waimairi County Council that during May no fewer than fiftyeight renewals of electric lamps and insulators, costing £l3 • 2s, had had to be made in the county, because of the mischief of boys throwing stones and others using rifles. The greatest damage, was done between the Styx bridge and Belfast. It was suggested that the reward for offenders, none of whom had up to the present been apprehended, should be increased from £5 to £lO. It was eventually decided to bring the matter under the notice of the police. Humour sometimes relieves the usual business at the Magistrate's Court. Yesterday afternoon the rules of Court procedure were badly bent, if not broken, by a defendant who conducted lits own case, thereby causing considerable laughter. When his one and only witness denied having made, a certain statement to him, he exclaimed "If you say that you're jolly well no good!" He paused and therf, continuing, said, "You can go, , I don't want to ask you anything more after that lot." He then entered the witness box and began: "What I say, your Worship, is absolutely the truth. I come here to tell the truth, not to make my living by telling lies! I swear I'll tell the truth if I never more out of here again!" "Oh, I hope you will move out," said the Magistrate drily.

New and attractively-produced booklets have just been issued by the Canterbury Progress League—one entitled "On Farm and Station, Canterbury, New Zealand," and the other, "Canterbury, the Industrial Centre of New Zealand." A re-issue of the booklet, "Canterbury, New Zealand," has also been made. Of these three booklets 50,000 have been already forwarded to Londcfn, the major quantity for distribution at the Empire Exhibition at Wembley. It is claimed that no other provincial district in the Dominion has done so much as Canterbury in the way of advertising its attractions to the seller and the tourist by means of informative and attractive booklets. The reading matter sets forth the class of information that the man at the other side of the world wants to know, and the booklets are handy in form and profusely and artistically illustrated.

The funeral of the late Mr Thomas Maude, held yesterday, was a private one, only relatives and intimate friends being present. The Rev. Canon Bean conducted the burial service. Nurse Maude, Miss Maude, and Mr 3 Sloman wore the chief mourner,s, and among those present were:—Messrs Stanford (Kaikoura), Bowen, Le Fevre, J. Sloman, T. D. Harman, and the Hon. G. W. Russell.

The Clarence river was in flood, and the ferry punt out of action yesterday, according to advice received by the Canterbury Automobile Association. Mr J. S. Hawkes, the secretary of the Association, stated that the river had risen four feet. He also mentioned that owing, to the bad state of the South road, motorists going that way should cross the railway at Burnlmm and keep on the north side of the line as far as Norwood.

A wide net was thrown by the "Wellington Musicians' Union in naming parties to the award for which they were applying, at the Conciliation Council sitting at Wellington on Friday. Mr Bert Royle expressed surprise that a Wellington match factory had been included. "How are they concerned with music?" he said. "I presume they whistle while they dip the matches." It transpired, however, that a weekly dance for employees was held, and that musicians Were employed. "To New Zealanders, the most interesting tiling about the Riviera is that the principal trees in its many beautiful gardens are natives of New Zealand," said Mr H. E. Vaile, in an address he gave at Auckland. "Hero one sees growing luxuriantly the familiar cabbage-tree, New Zealand flax, and pohutukawa, which, by the way, they have labelled 'from Australia.' There are also a number of trees from Australia, but it is the New Zealand trees that stand out conspicuously." At last night's meeting of the Ashburton County Rugby Sub-Union, the chairman (Mr W. F. Watters) said it was with the greatest pleasure that he moved a letter of congratulation be sent to Mr Alan C. Robilliard upon his selection for inclusion in the All Blacks. Congratulations were also offered to Mr F. B. Robilliard, the player's father, who was for some time president of the Ashburton Sub-Union and an ex-provincial representative player. The public have a general idea that the weather has a great Ileal to do with the earning capacity of the tramways of the city, but comparatively few lire aware of we actual difference in hard cash represented -by a fine Sunday as compared with a wet and stormy one. The last two Sundays experienced in Christcburc-h provide the necessary conditions for such a comparison —June Ist having been wintry and wet and bleak, whilst last Sunday was almost summery in its madness. On June Ist the returns of traffic from all lines totalled £201; last Sunday they totalled £-618—a difference in favour of the fine Sunday of £357. Miss Ada Reeve, principal of the "Aladdin" Pantomime Company, who leaves for Dunedin to-day, received the following letter yesterday from Mr E. Harrison, general secretary of the Dominion Council of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association:—"ln accordance with the decision of the annual general meeting of the Dominion Council of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association, I beg to convey to you hereunder a resolution unanimously carried with acclamation during the opening session on Saturday last: 'The Dominion Council of the N.Z.R.S.A. heartily welcomes Miss Ada Reeve to this Dominion'. It remembers with pleasure and gratitude her good work amongst New Zealand soldiers in or ganising the Anzac Buffet during the war, and trusts sincerely that her stay in New Zealand will bo a very happy one."

Tho presence of Lewis Carroll's Alics at yesterday afternoon's sitting of tho Arbitration Court was all that was ne< essary' to completo the idea that a scene from "Wonderland," or "Through the Looking-G-lass," was being presented. Very solemnly there wore produced from largo cardboard boxes samples of afternoon tea cakes, so that the Court could have made dear to it the difference between an eclair and an oswego. The creator of Alice would have had ample scope for nn excellent bit of satire when tin t-pecimen wedding cake was produced. The attitude of the Court—all muchmarried men —seemed to be: "Take it r.way, it awakens painful memories." At any rate, little enthusiasm was Bhown when it was produced, and what Eiight have been a thrillingly romantic incident proved "a dud." Lewis Carroll would have been, probably, highly delighted with the Court's decision—that tho' Union's interpretation of a certain clause was correct, but that the parties had better get together, and submit an amendment of it in order tc present the young ladios engaged upon decorating the afternoon tea cakes losing their jobs. This is the time of year to keep "Stop-it" handy. At the first indication of cough or cold take it. A_ few doses instantly ' relieves —so quickly does "Stop-it" get to work. One bottle generally suffices to cure even a bad cold. Sold by all ohemists and stores at Is 9d and 3s bottle, or McArthur's, Ltd., Chemists, opp. Ballantyco's. 2 Fruit trees of pedigree strains, including ° apricots, certificated by Teviot Bud Selection Committee. Early bookings necessary. Ivory's Nurseries, Rungiora, or 21 Manchester street, Christcliurch. T4141-0i74 Don't hesitate "a moment when considering moving your furniture. J. M. Heywood and Co., Ltd., are the people to do it for you. —6 . The freehold of the Gnosvenor Hotel, Timaru, was recently acquired by a locally-form-ed company, and this transaction lias caused an impression that the lessee, Mrs Allen, has sold her long lease of. the property. This is incorrect, and the well and favourably known travellers' and residential house will be conducted by Mrs Allen during the remaining years of her tenancy,^

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