TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume C, Issue 11724, 31 October 1898, Page 5

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

The ■ usual meetings in. connection with Gut Father’s Church were held yesterday in the Art Gallery. The subject of the morning address was ■“ Divine Discontent.” In the evening Mr O’Bryen Hoare gave an address entitled “ Fog.” The steamer Penguin, with the San Francisco mail, reached Lyttelton at 2 p.m. on Saturday. The mail bags were at once sent up to Christchurch, and the Post Office officials used all promptness in the sorting. The offico : was kept open until 6 p.m. for counter delivery. At a smoke concert of the Kaiapoi Rifles, , held at the local drill-hall on Friday evening, ex-Lieutenant Simpson presented the i company with a number of enlarged photographs of the Bisley team, the shooting team of the Kaiapoi Rifles, and of the first members of the Kaiapoi Rifles. Taken thirtyfive years ago. • Messrs J. N. Hamer and S. Fitch (assistant Government pomolbgist) arrived in town by express on Saturday evening. Mr G. H. Greenwood, of Teviotdale, arrived from England on Friday. The Rev W. Ronaldson arrived from Wellington by the Rotorua yesterday, and 1 the Hon H. K. Taiaroa by the Penguin on Saturday. The “Canterbury College, Review” for October has just been issued. It contains reports of all College doings, and, in addition, original sketches and jpoems. An article 'of general interest deals with the much-vexed question of educational scholarships, and suggests a method of doing away with competitive examinations. Lata on Friday night it was reported to the police that a house in Ferry Road had been broken into and entered. Upon the matter being investigated, however, it was found that the alarm had arisen through a member of the family, who arrived home late, geting in through a disused doorway in default of the ordinary means of entrance. A thunderstorm passed over the northern .district on Saturday evening, and some heavy showers of rain, fell.’ Coming after the recent rain, the crops had the full benefit of the downfall, and there is now sufficient moisture in the soil to carry them on to December. The grass is growing freely, and agricultural prospects are generally of a cheering character. i The official opening ceremony in connection with the model yachting season on Victoria Lake will be held on Saturday. A letter has been written to his Excellency the Governor, asking him to perform the opening ceremony. Although admission to the ground will be. free, it is probable that a collection will be taken at the gates for the maintenance and the further enlargement of’the lake. At the Lyceum last night, Mr W. W. Collins delivered a lecture on the recent meeting of the Synod, referring especially to the Bishop’s address and the .small number of subjects touched upon. He also dealt with the discussions on gaming, temperance and divorce. The title of the lecture was “ The. Church as a Factor in Moral and Social Reforms, estimated by recent Synod Utterances.” At Oxford,, on Thursday evening, Mr W. J. Bassett was entertained at a dinner at the Town Hall. Mr John Ingram presided, and the guest was presented with an illuminated address, expressive of the deep sense of the ratepayers of his services as chairman of theßoad Board, and in several other public positions which he had occupied. Mi’ Bassett having suitably replied, the rest of the evening was spent in conviviality. Another case of milk fever has been cured by the application of Charlton’s adaptation of Schmidt’s treatment. The subject was a cow owned by Mr P. A. Archer, Peildalton, which was seized by the disorder the day after calving. Mr Charlton was called in in the evening and administered the remedy, the cow being in a bad way. The next evening Mr Archer reported that the cow had been going about and feeding during the day, and was then as well as ever. ■■■ Mr William Wraight, sen., who died at his residence, Dunsandel, on Tuesday last, was a very old Canterbury settler. Ho was bom in Kent, England, in 1815, and came to Lyttelton in 1851, a few months after the arrival of the “first four ships.” He was employed at Riccarton by Messrs Deans Bros., and in 1855 started farming at Upper Riccarton. He went to Dunsandel in 1870. The funeral, which took place on Thursday, was largely attended, Mr Wraight being widely known and respected. The burial service of the Church of England was read by the Rev H. E: Ensor.

The Approaching Holidays.—lntending visitors to the races, the show, and other attractions of Carnival Week, will be interested to know that Hulbert and Co., High Street, opposite Strange’s, are making special preparations for the holidays now so close at hand. Hulhert’s stock of shirts, ties, hosiery, gloves, braces, travelling ranks, portmanteaux, Gladstone bags, also hats of the very latest shapes as now worn in. London and Paris, is unrivalled in, the colony. Hulbert’s is admitted to be in every respect eoual to the leading establishments of the kind in the old world. Just now, the window display of seasonable novelties is well worth inspection. 5025 Special Notice. —We have been induced this season, “ owing ” to our continued increasing trade since coming into Cashel Street, to increase our imports twofold, in addition to which we have secured from the wholesale warehousemen many bargain lots, which have been marked in plain figures, at ridiculously low prices, and all wo ask is that you will read our list through, call and sec the goods, and we feel sure you will be more than satisfied. Shaw, Robinson and Co.. 213, Cashel Street, opposite “ Press ” Office. 92 Buy a gramophone, the' latest and most wonderful home entertainer ever invented. Call-and hear it. Barlow Cycle Co., 48, Manchester Street, next Coker’s. 2164 Dunlop tyres and Dunlop Welch rima are the fastest and most reliable combination in the world; guaranteed for tweho months.—(Advt.) Ladies' Zeulandia and Ataianta bicycles at reasonable prices and easy terms. Oates, Lowry and Co., Zealandia Cycle Works, Christchurch. 26 P

Entries for the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association’s show closed on Saturday, bat detailed information will not be available until to-day. Two men were arrested on Saturday by Constable Cox on a charge of having broken into tiro house of Mr Reynolds, South Belt, during the past week. A THUNDERSTORM. At Wellington on Saturday evening, a heavy thunderstorm, during which the lightning was ‘ exceptionally vivid, raged for several hours. THE MILITIA. The Commander of the Forces is making inquiries from the police in each of the chief centres as to the length of time necessary for the compilation of a list of persons who are eligible for militia service. .SIR GEORGE GREY’S WILL. ■The will of Sir George Grey, executed in November, 1886, is a very brief document. His whole estate totalled £SOOO, which goes to his niece, Mrs Seymour Thorne George, of Parnell, Auckland. A codicil had been added providing for Lady Grey in case Sir George died before her. IMPORTED MACHINERY. Mr R. Duncan, Chief Inspector of Machinery, in his annual report, draws attention tp the large amount of new machinery erected during the year, most of it being for mining pmposes. The boilers and engines have, he adds, for the most part been imported from Great Britain and America, which, militates against the manufacturers and tradesmen .in the colony. “ Every boiler and engine imported means a loss of weeks of good skilled employment, and prevents engineers in the colony making permanent additions and improvements to their plant, asi it would not pay to have this extra costly machinery standing idle. This is/to be regretted, not only owing to the non-employment of tradesmen and loss of business to employers, but also on account of the education that our rising engineers lose. while serving, their apprenticeship through this high-class machinery not being made here. This is a matter that should be looked into. . The whole of the imported boilers and machinery could be made in the colony, in my opinion, not only to equal, but perhaps to exceed in usefulness, the imported article, as the local requirements are better known to those interested in the colony.”