LYTTELTON NEWS.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20898, 4 July 1933, Page 15

LYTTELTON NEWS.

ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH. Bishop West-Watson was the preacher at the evening service at St Saviour's Church, West Lyttelton, on Sunday. There was a large congregation. Magistrate's Court. Messrs F. E. Sutton and W. D. Gower, J.'s P., presided at the Magistrate's Court yesterday. Thomas Chambers, a seaman in the steamer Canadian Challenger, was charged with drunkenness and with using obscene language. Accused did not appear and Sergeant D. Wilson explained that he had been bailed out to permit him to rejoin his ship. Fines of 10s for drunkenness and # £2 for using obscene language were imposed. Visit to Lyttelton Recalled. A visit to Lyttelton 32 years ago is recalled by Mr J. Stamper, chief steward of the overseas steamer Canonesa, now at Lyttelton. It was in 1901, and Mr Stamper was then a cook in Messrs McClay and Mclntyre's steamer Induna. The vessel was in port for some time, and Mr Stamper became acquainted with members of a vaudeville troupe which was appearing under the Fuller management at the Oddfellows' Hall, Lyttelton. Mr Stamper states that one of the "turns'* was the Mahers, song and dance artist*, and on the woman member of the duo meeting with an accident whilst rehearsing, Mr Stamper, who had previous experience of amateur variety work, substituted for them for three nights and enabled the pair to dr?w their salary as usual. He gave imitations of Eugene Stratton, a singer of negro songs, who was popular in England at the time. _ After the Induna left New Zealano, she called at Melbourne to load horse* for the troops in South Africa.