TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12401, 15 January 1901, Page 4

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

It is proposed to form an Old Canterbury Resident*' Society in Wellington, and a meeting of those favourable to its establishment will be held on Wednesday next. At the Magistrate's Court yesterday, two charges against a man of entering the Star Hotel, Ad'diagton, during the currency of a prohibition order against him were adjourned till to-day. The variable character of the weather experienced lately in Wellington (says .the "Post") may be gathered from the fact that on Friday the maximum temperature in the shade'was 60deg, and the lowest 48deg. When the most suitable desi ; .rn for the Wellington Town Hall has been determined upon, the ratepayers will be asked to. sas by vote wjhether they approve the K»asa'in!; <sl & tea for tbft ejsfttiaa ot tie building. - Edward 3>anMs» a toliacconist, was a&EC&s&gf -bjr the Magistrate at WeAingioa yiesterd'a.y of being fraudulently concerned in the evasion of the Customs Act by. dealing with uncustomed and was fined £25, with £7 14s costs. The.Acting-Premier has received a tele-, gram from a prominent resident of Rotorua,; stating that there is general satisfaction in' the district at the report of •Mr Donne dealing with grievances in connection with the new regulations at the Sanstorium. Colonel Sooner ville' donated 'the proceeds of a lecture which he gave recently in Wan-; ganui on his South -African experience .to the Patea-Wanganui Charitable Aid Board. 1 The total amount available, including the Government subsidy, was £53 12s Id. A contemporary states that a recent visi- ■ tor to the ruins of the village of Wairo*,. which was destroyed in the Tartiwera eruptions fourteen years • ago, discovered the mummified body of a cat, which had been kept in a perfect state of preservation, by the volcanic ■ lava. Mr R. Westenra, the Chairman of the Bench at the Police Court yesterday, 1 seemed to have made up his mind that cy j clists in general: were a public nuisance; His remarks, when inflicting a' heavy penalty on a cyclist charged with riding without a light after dark, were very severe, and in two similar cases the same penalty wad imposed. The committee of the Lyttelton Regatta, has presented Captain Wood, commander of the barque Lutterworth, which did duty as flagship during the regatta, with a handsome spirit-stand of oak, with cut-glass . bottles and bearing a silver plate inscribed! with his monogram. Captain Wood did all in his power to assist the Flagship Committee in its work, and his courtesy was greatly appreciated by the committee and its guests. The lower portion of the landing stage at Lyttelton, which receives the Governor's Bay Sunday trippers, is exceedingly green' and greasy. On Sunday a ghtleman, impatient for firm land, jumped from! the boat on to this stage, whereupon, he slipped and'shot across into the water on the. other side. His mishap, while it afforded a little innocent amusement to the ■ onlookers, gives promise of a tailor's.bill and an attack of influenza. A gentleman who was present at the Commonwealth inaugural ceremonies in, Sydney states that a very graceful compliment was paid :to .'the New Zealand troops : taking part in the procession. The stationary bands posted' at intervals 'along' the route played '"Soldiers of the Queen"./ais the New Zealanders passed. That air was, he says, played for the'New Zea! and troops alone. Our men, he considers, bore off 'thai palm for appearance. The-Maoris especially, sat their horses "like, kings," with a dignified impassiveness- exceeding even that of the Indian troops. ' The "New Zealand Times".gE,thers that the freezing companies in Hawke's Bay have not had things their own-way/this , season,, as has neen the ca«e in tha past with regard to the prices of fat sheep. Several Canterbury, sleep-buyers have been; : . operating freely there, but the most extensive purchases were made by Mr John M'Carthy, of Christohurch, who 'during the ; past week sent four special trains of freez--ing sheep to the Wellington Meat Export Company to be frozen for shipment: From one 'station- alone, (one of Mr G; P. Donnelly's) Mr M'Carthy bought 16,000 sheep; We draw the attention of -our'reader* to the twelve-page catalogue in this issue, announcing Beath and Co.'s gpeat summer sale. The. reductions are exceptionally large, as the .whole summer stock must be disposed of, regardless of cost. Carefully study the quotations, and pay a visit at once, as many of the lines will soon be soldi c«t and cannot possibly foe replaced. See windows for bargains. 1988 special Notice to Anglers and the Public generally.—That J. Trist'Sj 230, Cashel 13tree b, opposite Zetland Arms Hctel, is the best house in town for all anglers' requisites. The largest stock of reds in New Zealand to select from. Just landed, ex Tokomaru, new flies, minnows, casts, etc. Note address .-J. Trist, Cashel Street, Christchiirch ; late W. J. Alpe. ' X 2743 Crown Brand Tea Prize Competition. See result on Page 2 of this issue. X 2747 Built to order bicycles fit the rider, cost no more, give complete satisfaction, are rapidly superseding the "stock-built'' bicycles. Oates, Lowry and Co., Christchurch, largest cycle works in New Zealand. X 1571 Ideal Tyres are popular throughout Australasia, because they are lionostly constructed from Moseley's celebrated 'rubber and fabric, are resilient, durable, and carry a liberal twelve months' guarantee. New Zealand Depot, A. G. Healing and Co., 222, Cashel Street, OMistchurek. X 2721 Dunlop Tyre Covers from 15s. Enameliing from 12s 6d. General rep;urs unappro'aobed for quality and fair prices. Bovd's Cycle Works, 191, Gloucester ( Street, Christ- . church. .' 44 The Anglo " Cob " bicycle is designed for the use of elderly and nervous riders, who wish to mount without using the step. A cumber of these machines have been supplied to the order ct prominent Christchurch citizens, who speak very highly of the latest Anglo production. Inspection invited. The Anglo-N.Z. Cycle Company, D.1.C., and 226, High Street. Xl9lß Preserving Jars, Fletcher Bros.' slock. The largest assortment of fruit jars in - M;i;ons fro:-: 2s 3d, jam j:*.ra Is 3d, Tumblers Is ad per half-dozen, pieserving pains from 2s lid; delivery daily* ■Fletcher. Bros., High Street, -X2555 '

The Midland Railway Commission! will pot be able to bold its first sitting until Feb. 1. The highest price for fat lambs at the , -, Hawarden sale last Thursday was 16s 5a,'"'obtained by Mr S. Atkinson, ' A trough. councillor recently, speaking '■ of some obnoxious rights-of-way, said that the Council should "take them up' and "put/them down?' Mrs C. M. Brooke and Mr G. P. Williams are in charge of the concert at trie jEihibition to-night, the programme for \. fabich is advertised. \ 0a Wednesday last Mr and Mrs J. H. £to»tes, of Rangiora, celebrated their goldsn wedding. There were five sons, two > daughters and about twenty grand-children present. . The Auckland yacht Sunbeam, which is Id compete in 'the International Yacht Race »t Sydney on Jan. 26, was sent to Sydney £y the Mararoa, which left Auckland yesterday. A heavy thunderstorm passed over the Rorfchern. district yesterday , afternoon Rain fell in torrents for a short time, and a ere was also a little hail. The crops :thstood the downpour very well, only ght damage being done. 'At the meeting of the City Council last .evening it was resolved to accept Mr W. Smith's tender for a morgue, to cost £531 2s. .The building will be erected on the land in Manchester Street recently purchased to increase the area of the Council yard. On Wednesday last Mr James Quigley ' rent to the Fairfield Freezing Works a draft of fat lambs bred bv him, on his farm on the lagmhor Road, lately purchased from Mr ■ E.. Gates. The lambs averaged 4811 b, and, . sold at per lb at the works, netted Mr Quigley 17s 6d per head. A meeting of citizens will be held in the City Council Chambers this evening to consider what steps shall be taken towards the carrying out of the United Fire ' Brigades' Association Demonstration ana • Conference, to be held in Christchurch an jthe first week of March next. I 'At the City Council meeting last even- ' lag an application from Dr Frengleyto W allowed" to retain the title of 'iublic Health Officer of Christchurch" during his fcbsence in England was received, and it was decided to appoint Dr Frengley honoirary (health officer for the city. Some time between Sunday afternoon tod Monday morning the house of Mr JT. Wyllie, 'Sefton, was entered burglariously, and £l4 in notes stolen. The theft was probably committed during the afternoon, •Mien the family were at church, but the faoney was not missed until yesterday. ' On Sunday the anniversary services in ' Connection with the Kaiapoi Wesleyan (Church were largely attended. _ The •preacher at bcith morning and evening serjvices was Mr G. H. Poole, and in the '■" jfcfbernoon a service was held at which Special musical selections were given. ' ' At last night's meeting of the City ' Council Councillor Clarke on being elected 1 caie of the delegates to the meeting called in accordance with the Shops and Shop [Assistants Act, said: "-Well, your Worship, if I am elected I shall most certainly support a motion, for the Saturday halftoliday in the city." The Mayor of Chriistchurch (Mr W. ftteece) announced at the meeting of the Uity Council last evening that he had decided to call a meeting on Jan. 29, in the Exhibition Building, to consider the question of "harnessing" the Waimakariri. It ftv-as decided that the Special Committee ■ Should make arrangements to have the Council represented among the speakers at jfehe meeting. .At last night's meeting of . the City Council a letter was read from the Hon §L K! Taiaroa, informing the Mayor and ■ Councillors that he desired to present the • Council with a kiwi mat, which had been ' In the possession of his family for seventy Sfwus, and also several other curios. ±he fcountil passed a vote of thanks to Mr Waiaroa,, and decided that the gifts should fee placed in the Museum. ' \ Councillor Gray, .speaking on the quesk«m of the rubbish destructor at last ■ -,Sht's meeting -of the City Council, said ' lithe matter had. resolved itself into a civil fVar, north versus south. The northern members wanted it to be. put in the southern portion of the city, and the taiembers desired to see it erected at the ; - -Lrthern end. This had been a burning ipiestion. he concluded, and more warmth 'Sad been displayed over it than would ever jfce generated in the destructor's furnace. At U meting of. the Kaiapoi Fire Brigade, "held in the Brigade room on. Monday /Evening, the Superintendent, Mr U H. i : Blackwell, presided. The resignation of Wuor-Foreman Djiepenheim, was received! ftribh regret-, after more than 'twenty years Service, and the following promotions were Sunk;, 1 v ' lz -> Junior-Foreman T. G. Blackjlwsll to senior foreman, Branchman; Higgins *© junior foreman, Branchman Packwood, fe th* hand-engine, to branchman on the Waani eogine,' and Fireman Hayman to jbxanciman on the hand-engine. -, *'• On Saturday 'evening there was a large ' " -iprtliering at the Kaiapoi Working ■ Men's jpj*, cn°the occasion of the opening of the hm billiard-room, whidh is part of the Mditions lately made to the club. The ' room .is large and lofty, *'asA contains- a full - sized- table, jnadfl by Luthjohn, of Christchurch, Thie lopening match was played between the ' [President and custodian, and was worn by ■ .the latter by eight points. The table is itighly praised by the spectators and the - players as a very true one. Owing to the pranks of the connecting [bolt between the two'cars of the 8.15 tram ,;irom New Brighton yesterday the passenger's to town were, in the words of the music hall *ong, "getting there by de.grees." On two occasions the bolt slipped through the couplings, with the result that the second car was left some distance in the rear before the driver could be made aware of. .the predicament of a section of ibis tram. The fate of the unfortunate second car ,passengers certainly amused those on the -preceding car, but nevertheless on ' - each occasion the castaways quickly grasp- ■ ed the situation, and by putting their shoulders to the wheel they soon had matters again to rights and to such good purpose were their efforts that despite the delays the tram arrived in Cathedral Square at time-table time. ''■ At the meeting of the. Ohristohurch City Council last evening an application was made on behalf of the Seventh Day Adven- ■ tists for permission to erect their tents in the city. Councillor Gray said that, as - ien'ts had already been erected in a vacant " pection within the city boundaries he thought that a breach of the by-laws had been committed. Councillor Smith said i thab last year the heads of the movement * Jiad had tents erected 1 in Linwood, and had been informed that no permission was necessary. The.idea of the Seventh Day Adventists in holding their meetings' in tents Was simply that such a course was cheaper than -hiring halls and living in lodgings, besides which the people who ponged to the sect could be got together with, greater facility. Some discussion took place, and the matter was referred to a pommittee. EAST BELT BRIDGE, The' bridge over the Avon, for which blans were submitted! by Mr Dobson, -city engineer, at the City Council meeting last ■ evening, and for which the Council granted authority to call tenders, will foe a very substantial structure, capable of standing the heaviest traffic. It is to be of the class known as steel girder, with one opening of forty feet, and two -of twenty-five feet, PLVPLES, BLOTCHES, BLACKHEADS, ted, rough, and oily skin, red, rough hands with shapeless nails, dry, "thin, and falling hair, and simple baby rashes prevented by (jrjTICfIJRA SOAP, the greatest of skin purifying and beautifying soaps, as well a g purest 'and sweetest for toilet, bath, and nursery. It produces the whitest, clearest elcin, tho softesi hands, and most luxuriant hair. Absolutely pure, delicately, medicated, " exquisitely perfumed, surprisingly effective, its sale is' greater than the combined ssiles U all other »kon and jOhseijslicut tha world. ** . >

with ironbark piers and retaining walls. The balustrades will be of wrought iron, and the posts of cast iron. The structure is estimated to cost about £2OOO. DISTINGUISHED LINEAGE. Rahi Karinga, daughter of a noted Maori chief, has died at Ohinemuri. She was a descendant in a direct line from the great Tama Tekapua, captain of the Arawa canoe, which arrived in New Zealand some twenty generations ago. HARVEST PROSPECTS. The Minister of Lands, who has returned to Wellington from the south, reports that everywhere the crops are looking well. The harvest will, he expects, be as bountiful as last year's ; for though the area sown' is less the yield pesr acre promises to be larger, FIRE IN A POSTAL BOX. The other evening smoke, was seen to be issuing from a postal pillar box _at New Plymouth, and on the box being opened it was found that two or three letters were badly burned, and ■■ others more or less so. All of the letter* could, however, be either traced to their, writers or forwarded to their destination. Whether the fire was accidentally or wilfully caused is not known (says a contemporary). NORTH v. SOUTH. A little banter took place at the City Council last evening, when the question of a site for the destructor was being discussed. A motion was proposed that the report of the Sanitary Committee, recommending the central yard site for the destructor, should be adopted, and! an amendment was moved that the destructor should foe erected at the comer of the South Belt and Montreal Street. Several Councillors carried on the discussion, when it became evident that there was about the same number of-speakers on each side, Councillor Gray said that it was ai question of North v. South. The southern members wanted to have the destructor erected in the north, and the northern members wanted it in the south, as far from themselves as possible. THE AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH. The first of the series of celebrations in Sydney form the subject of an exceptionally fin© series of photographs in this week's illustrated supplement of the " Canterbury Times" and they have been reproduced by the favourite half-tone process in a highly successful manner. The larger subjects include a splendidly-equipped body of Hussars passing the German arch, the procession in Macquarie Street, the Governor's carriage, Highlanders passing under the wool arch, panorama of the arrival of H.M.S. Royal Arthur, etc. In all there are no fewer than seventeen of these special photographs, well selected, well. executed', and forming the beginning of a. unique collection, that must necessarily possess great . historic value. . "WHITE, 19." In speaking at Hastings to the Heretaunga schoolboys the other day, on the subject of their personal influence upon each other, Captain Russell recalled to mind his own college days, and the influence which had been exerted upon him by White 19. In the Royal Military College, at which he was educated, cadets hadi their regimental number, and if there were more than one boy of the same name his number was added to the surname, and so was the -boy known. Th.s particular White 19, Captain Russell said, was one of those leaders of boys whom he almost worshipped. Older than the honourable gentleman himself, his doings in the cricket .-field', at' football, and the other college sports were a theme of general admiration and gratification', and now,' although after years of indomitable work, he had developed! into General Sir George White, the heroic defender of Ladysimith, to the speaker the wag still "White 19," an'example of all that a man ought to be.