IN OTHER CENTRES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 148, 17 March 1908, Page 8

IN OTHER CENTRES.

(BY TELEGKAPII—SPECIAL COUBESEONDENTS.) , CHRISTCHURCH. March. 16. A requisition is in circulation asking Mr. W. J. Dickie, farmer, of Lauriston, to allow himself to be nominated as a candidate in tho Liberal interest for tho Selwyn seat at the. general election.- . A.Word:to Unionists. • ■{ Speaking to a mooting of., workers in Tiniaru last week, J{r. Howard, to tho Christchurch General Labourers' Union, said that the -amount of funds possessed by tho "Onion should bo kopt a secrct, .becauso somo day tho Union might bo fined as the Blackba-H miners had been. Tho latter had bcon fined £75, which was probably just about all tho money they had in hand, and tho workers' Union-hero might havo all their funds similarly taken away from thorn if it was known how much they actually had."-' A Quick Recovery, A quicker or more satisfactory recovery from a period of drought has never been known .in South Cantonuiry than that experienced sinco tho recent rain. Fields, on which a green blade could not possibly bo 'found before tbo wclcomo showers immediately showed sign of very activo life, and .in less thai) a week there was over an inch of growth in grass, and root crops. benefited Tho result is that doleful forebodings' of. dreadful things to ' happen during t-lio coming, winter have all been cast aside, and with grass and- roots gi;owiiiK overy day, farmers ar.o now quite chccrful again. There will bo a lino lot of autumn and _ winter feed, though many held tho opinion ■ beforo the'rain that'it :had hold off too long to permit of any material growth this season. Sheep and cattlo havo advanced in l price, and tho supply of. fat stcck for tho two sets of freezing works; is being wall maintained.-, Unpleasant Streot Incident. ."An unploasant incident occurred in tho stropt last night. By somo.means a'placard, was attached to the back of one "of two girls, who ivero walking in Colombo Strcot towards Cathedral Square. The card immediately • attracted notico, and a crowd auickly gathered. Tho girls were quit.o unaware, of" the oauoo of tho attention they wero receiving, and went on* fooling and expressing tho greatest annoyanco. Tney walked' nearly as fnr' as Armagh Street,., and wero'. quito-uiiablo to cscapo from tho crowd' of ,young men, hilt 'some members of the detective forco noticcd the incident,, and, Detective Ward telling the girls of t-lio placard, it was removed ancl ; disposed of. Some seven or eight hundred persons wore pressing round, and it was somo timo beforo they dispersed, r -