LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Evening Star, Issue 4897, 11 November 1878, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Suez mail is to be delivered this evening.!

One of the Palmer&ton cricketers is said to havuhad 14 stolen out of his coat pocket in on Saturday. The electric light was exhibited' from the Bell Tower on Saturday night, but owing to ■the.night being moonlight it ,\vus not so ssuccesstul as on the previous occasion. Three" thousand eight hundred and seventy 7 five persons travelled on the Octan Beach railway oh Saturday. • A two-roomed cottage at Ravensbourne, occupied by Charles Brener, was burnt down early Yesterday morning, the occupants having a narrow escape. The cottage -was insured an the New Zealand office for Ll3O. A second accident occurred at the review on Saturday. One of the cadets had his hand slightly, injured by his rifle going oh' while he ' had his hand in front of the muzzle. ' Church music was the subject of some discussion at a recent meeting of the Christchurch Diocesan Synod. The * Press' states that Mp Webb brought forward a Bill-to give power to clergymen to appoint and dismios the organists and the choirmasters. He urge.l a number of reasons why the change should (be made; but his arguments were met on-the other side, and it was said that it was a Very unpleasant state of things for the clergyman to know that the organist and choir could introduce any kind of music into the church without his c-.nsent. On the other hand, it was stated that as a rule clergymen knew very little, about music; while it was asserted by those in favor of the change that the same thing held good with vebtrymen. Ultimately, after the matter!had been very fully discussed, the motiou for the second reading was thrown out, and the question was consequently shelved.

Anent a recent case of robbery in lington, the correspondent of the ' Press ’ writes “A Mr Cooper, staying at one of the leading hotels here, recently went to bed living L2OO in L2O-nptes in the pockets of his trousers. The garments wore found on •the stiurs.next morning, but the money had been abstracted. ‘ .Complaint was made to the phlegmatic old Teuton, who runs the establishment, who, instead of assisting his lodger:?, calmly told them to clear out, and not ‘ glf de hotel a bad name.’ 1 I hear they could not even prevail upon ‘ mine host ’ to send fdr the pohce, SO went themselves, and furnislied Information f-ufficleftt to lead to the discovery of of the stolen property in the possession of the night Watchman off the good name, whereof the proprietor regarded as more important' than the property of his guests*” ./*' " } ‘_i —•