TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12428, 18 February 1901, Page 4

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

The sea having moderated,' the cabte repairing steamer, Reeorder, returned to Oatus Bav on Saiurdav morning,'and picked up tha men who w ir? left behind. She atucdi m Wellington at eight o'clock: ;„ ■ ■ Theie is a probability of the hnrbouilHeotion for the borough of Gisborae temg upset, on the grounds, firstly, that tha|K«-turning-Officer voted, and secondly,i|hat the count was irregular. |S| ' The trawler Doto has returned horno. Mr .\vson reports'that trawliig , 1B !' vn'tv )!"v 'is txi'tiirnl. The nv.m'pgs dve CAideuee of Rn<«t bottom, andMthe hauls presented a good variety of jnartaffbla fish. ' n

Mr William Pratt has forwarded a cheque ■ for £5 as a donation to the Jubilee Memorial Fund. A Wellington, telegram states that proceedings are to be taken by the Labour Departmenfciagairist all those persons who have failed to register their factories. Mr Justice Denzriston, who arrived in Christchurch yesterday afternoon, will open the civil sittings of the. Supreme. Court at 11 a.m. to-day. Seven cases have been set down for hearing. Chief Judge Davy, and Judge M'Kay, of the Native Appeal Court, with Whatahno, Native Assessor, and staff, arrived from Wellington on Saturday. Sittings of the" . Court will be held at Kaiapoi to-day, to consider Native land appeal cases. The Court will afterwards proceed to Waikouaiti. A meeting 1 of hotelkeepers, brewers and spirit merchants will be held in Hobbs's ■Buildings at 3 p.m. to-day. It is understood that the police are appealing against a decision, of Mr Beetham, in a recent Sunday trading case at New Brighton, and the matter should be of importance to the trade. As a result of surveys made by H.M.S. Egeria some time ago, tho port of San Juan, near Victoria, :n Vancouver Island, has been chosen as the landing-place for the Canadian end of the. Pacific cable. The ■Egeria surveyed as far as Honolulu, and the irtirults have been placed before the Imperial Government. Tiie annual picnic of the employees of the Kaiapoi Woollen Company's Clothing Fac- ■ tory was held on Saturday. .The'picnickers, numbering about 500, went by the 7.45 a.m. 'train to Lyttelton, whence they were conveyed to Furau by the steamers Cygnet and 'John Anderson. " The Woohton .Band accompanied the party. The annual excursion of the Waltham Bchool took place nn "Friday, when a party numbering six hundred and twenty went to'Amberley Domain by special train. The, weather" "was perfect -for picnicing, and sports and games were entered into heartily. Prizes were distributed freely, and the outing was altogether most enjoyable. The Exhibition Concert Company, which is to appear in the Choral Kail on Thursday next, will probably hold a sacred concert in. the same hall on Sunday next. A Miss Clarice Hunt, and Mr' Kilmirn Heron, will then be heard in some of the chief contralto and tenor solos from the best, oratorios. The company will visit Lyttelton, Kaiapoi and Ashburton. The adjourned annual meeting of the Canerbury Industrial Association, which will be held on Feb .28, will, .as is usual, take the form of a supper, and the various sub-com-mittees have been appointed to make the necessary arrangements,for the function. Mr ■ "R. E. M'Dougnll being the only person nominated, will hold the position of President for the ensuing year. The Ven Archdeacon Lingnrd, Vicar of St Luk/s Church, was seized with a faint-' ing lit in the middle of his sermon yesterday morning and had to be removed from the church. The service was closed and Canon Knowles conducted the evening service. The Aichdeacon/ was much better last evening and hopes to be able to resume duty in a few days. The Triennial Movable Conference of the Hibernian Australasian Catholic Benefit Society will open fit Dunedin on Wednesday. The North Island delegates arrived in. Christ church yesterday, and together with the District Officers and the Canterbury delegates, will leave for the south by to-day's express train. The last Conference was held in Christchurch. Mr J. A. Kinsella, Dairy Commissioner, has for the last six weeks 'had a very busy time in the Southland cheese factories, giving practical instruction to the managers. The results. have been very satisfactory, many defects in manufacture having been remedied, and the general quality of the- j output improved. Mr .Kinsella * goes to Akaroa to-day 'to visit the factories in that district. A meeting of ladies 'interested in the promotion of a. Young Women's Christian As-, iociafcion in Christchurch will be held in St Paul's Schoolroom to-morrow afternoon at ;four o'clock. At a meeting convened by Mrs Oatts, of Glasgow, at the Choral Hall on Thursday evening, a number of ladies testified to the need of this Association being resuscitated, and an interim committee j •was appointed. ' j The annual demonstration of the New Zealand Fire Brigades, which this year will bo held in Christchurch, promises to be a '] very large and successful gathering. There j will be about live hundred members of Brigades from other parts of the colony, who will take part in the competitions, for which there are numerous entries. The visitors will commence to arrive on Thursday, and will probably all be here by Saturday night. Tht weather throughout tho colony on Saturday-was generally fine, particularly so t.outh of Christchurch to tho Bluff. Rain had been falling at Cape Bgmont and! Cape Campbell, and passing showers at Greymouth and tha Bealey. There was a heavy swell on the bar at Greymouth, and the sea at Tfokitika was rough. At Wellington during Friday night there was a heavy northwest gale, but south of that the sea was smooth. In the Lyceum Hall last evening Mr W. W. Collins delivered an address,'the first of a. s-eiics, on ''The Religious Novel of the Day." The influence and literature of the middle of last century- leading up to the religious novels of the day were reviewed, and the latest production of Marie Corelli, "The Master Christian," was criti-ci'-jd. The lecturer dealt with the aspersions cisl, on the Church of Borne and the jibes and jeers at modern scientific thought, which ho j-aid wa> done in an attempt to tickle the Imagination of Protestant readers in an cnde:>vomf to set them against every mode cf though* that does not coincide with their o.cn particular doctrines. lhj m:-.;kei"is flooded at the present time v.iJi,,\v.jrthj«'fc» preparations for the hair, JiMJiy of them "being injurious as well as, worthless, hut Hendy'a egg-julep may be'', honestly recommended as a most reliable hair ; ■■'-.■ for beautifying and cleansing the hair. Pritc, Is per bottle. Tlii'ls ele-" Kant preparation may be procured from Strange ;ukl Co.'s, drapers, Christchurch, ■ ;Who are also, side agents for Hendy's Friz*aire, or curling fluid. X 2533 "Famous Humber Cycles."—A shipment tof these justly ceiebiated machines has just been lauded by the An go-New Zealand Cycle Company, and comprise all the newest models as shown by Ilumbers, Limited, at the recent Stanley Cycle Show, .London. Inspection invited at the D. 1.0., and 226, High Si reel. Xl9lß Bicycle repairs equal to the best English 'fuctorv wurk. Brariugs renovated to run equal" fo new machines. Boyd\ Cycle \Vork» Glouci.-•-'■ Street, Christchurch. 44 Built li> older bicycles Jit the rider, cost no more, give complete satisfaction, aro ripidly superseding the "stock-built" hi- •■ cvclt-s. Oate.i, Lowry and Co., Christchurch, largest eyelo works in New Zealand. ' ° " X 1571 Sun Brand Chutney.—Best in the world. Alt grocers. X 2775 . Meal lyres arc popular throughout AustiaiasM, because they are honestly con-fcii-uctcd from Moselcy'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, Christchurch, X 2721 Wedding and Birthday Presents.—We h; ve received a special shipment cf beautiful and useful goods. We are making a splendid show in our . windows; everything marked in plain figures. We tiel'v competition. Fletcher Bros., Direct Importers, High Street, Christehurch. X 2565 Preserving Jars, Fletcher Bros.' stock TV 5 - I:ir"est°assortment of fruit jars in Vht 'cj°if-b; ?I.—ons fro - -: 2s 3d, jam jars !.-< oil, 'iumbiers Is 3a per hail-dozen, pre- .' .Tvlug pans from -2s lid ; delivery daily. Tleteher 8r03., Hujh. Street. X 2565

On Feb. 14 a young woman, named Margaret Ede, aged twenty, died in the Sunnyside Lunatic Asylum. She had been seized with pneumonia on Feb. 6, from which she died on the date stated. An inquest was held on Saturday, the jury in which found a virdict in accordance with the medical evidence. A silly individual, as yet undetected, has been playing ghost in Lyttelton during recent nights. He has appeared in various parts of the town at late hours, and robed in a white sheet. Several persons are anxious to catch a glimpse of the apparition; and if they do, the ghost will have to make the quickest possible use of his power of vanishing. At the Waimate Magistrate's" Court, on Thursday, before Mr Waddell, S.M., Mrs M'Carthy was granted a separation from her husband, who was recently sentenced to seven years' imprisonment, on the grounds of cruelty. The plaintiff will have custody of the three youngest children, and an order was made against defendant's estate for the payment of £1 a week for the wife, and 10s each per week for the children. "About eight o'clock on Saturday evening, Mr S. Williams, the proprietor of a bootmaker's shop at the corner of Gladstone Street and Colombo Road, Sydenham, was lighting one of the incandescent burners in his shop window,'and by.some means the window dressing, of wadding and other light material, took fire. The Christchuroli Fire Brigade was telephoned for, but the fire was extinguished before the arrival of the Brigade. Mr Williams estimates his loss at £SO, which is covered by insurance. A very handy and useful pamphlet of thirty-six pages, entitled "Dairy .Bulletin No. 1," by Mr J. A. Kinsella, Dairy Commissioner, has just been issued' bv the Department of Agriculture. It has'been prepared to meet the need for general Information which is shown by the mass of inquiries which are received in connection -ivth almost every branch <?1 practical - dairy work. The work is written on practical lines, in direct language, and theory is kept j in the background. It is issued more particularly to dairy factory managers, but will be valuable to farmers and dairvmen I generally. The " Bulletin" contains articles on the testing of dairy herds (for yield and value of milk), the supervision of the milk supply and the duties of the factory manager, setting up and operating separators, the separation of milk, pasteurisation, cultures and starters, butter and oheese making and milk testing. The work should be in the hands of everybody concerned in the dairy industry. A NATIVE DISTURBANCE. The " Dannevirke Press" reports a disturbance by Maoris at Mr Henry Carlson's mill at Tahoraite. A party of between forty and fifty Natives, mainly composed of women and children, assembled, and about five chains of the tramway-line was pulled up and burned, and a number of trees felled across the line, as well as an attempt made to destroy a bridge. The ringleader was arrested. The crux of the trouble lies in the fact that the Natives claim that the lease of the land on which the mill stands has expired, and that they therefore have now the right to take possession of it. A REMARKABLE COLLISION. It is extraordinary sometimes how accidents will happen, and this was shown on Thursday afternoon at the Queen's Wharf, Wellington. The steamer Elingamite was lying at the northern end of the outer tee, securely berthed. The Karamea had just come ■alongside, and her crew were making her fast, when it was found advisable to move on a little to avoid a pile that was likely to obstruct the gangway. There was the usual crowd on the quay, waiting to welcome passengers, and not a few persons had already got on board, when suddenly the Karamea forged ahead with considerable momentum, and collided with the stern, lines of the Elingamite, her own nose throwing off sharply and fouling the starboard quarter of her neighbour. The impact was of sufficient force to make the steel hawsers of the Elingamite snap like carrots, and to carry her stern out into the Etream. There was, of course, a great scramble, and as snapping hawsers and springs are not nice things to be in the way of, the crowd on the wharf "took cover," as did those on board both vessels. The Karamea, however, luckily freed the Elingamite soon after engaging her, and the bow of the larger vessel swung out into the stream. It was blowing a gale at the time, and it was only by the most skilful seamanship on the part of the Karamea's crew that the cutting down of the Elingamite was avoided, • and then only, as the saying is, by the skin of her teeth. Damage to the extent of £IOO was done to the latter vessel, but the Karamea's damage, if any, was only nominal. The escape was as marvellous as the accident was unexplainable>. - * - BULLER AND JOUBERT. A renegade English subject, who fought under Joubert in Natal, related in a letter to his mother an interesting) incident of the early part of the war. He says that when Ladysmith was invested, and news reached Joubert's force that General Buller was approaching, the Boer leader massed the burghers and made them a speech. "I have to tell you," he said, " that we now have to face the bravest and finest general in the world, who is accompanied by an army of men who would go through fire and water for Mm. Those of you who fought in the previous struggle with the English I need not tell, I speak of General Buller." As soon as Joubert had finished, a greyheaded Boer, sev-enty-two years of age, stood up. " We think," he said, " that we have on our side the bravest and finest general in the world, and he may be.sure that his men, too, will, if necessary, go through fire and water for him, and in defence of their homes and independence." A COMIC OPERA CITY. A Wesleyan missionary, who. recently returned to England after a visit to West Africa, has given an interesting account of a visit which he paid to the Prince of Ibaddan, in • Yoruba. Ibaddan has a population, practically all natives, variously estimated at between 200,000 and 300,000. So well does the ruler wield the.sceptre, that the morals* of the city would do credit- to one in the full blossom of civilisation. Crime is very rare, and offences' of any-kind- are not prevalent. Should the ruler so far forget himself as to commit an. offence, the British Resident pulls- him up by a tine of anything between £lO and £IOO. Contrary to wes"tern methods, the city is the venue of recreation and rest, and the country districts the business centres. The ruling Prince has acquired the art of -diplomacy, for when the missionary visited him, to return thanks for his kindness to tho native. Christians, this dusky potentate informed him that he was a Christian, and to assure the missionary further, ho repeated tho. Lord's Prayer in Yoruba, and .joined ia the singing of a Christian hymn. On the missionary reimaddng that he was agreea-My surprised to find that the Prince -was a Christian, the ruler pointed out that the city embraced various religions, and that he was wot'only a # Ohristian, but- a Mohammedan and a Pagan. He requested the missionary to assure the Queen of England that he Avas a Christian. —V "I AM DE 'BIND." While King Edward, then, of course, Prince of Wales, was a guest of the Duke of Devonshire, at Chatsworth, during December, a rumour became current that there had been an attack on the Prince of Wales. The police were alarmed at the sight of a welldressed man following the Royal party through the chief entrance. The intruder was seized by a detective, and the situation became apparently more serious when no explanation was forthcoming, the man being unable to speak English. At last, recovering from the shod; caused by ihe-police interference, the stranger uttered the words, "I am de band." lb.seemed that the man.

was a belated member of the band which, had been engaged at Chatsworth all the week. In the neighbourhood, the incident was magnified into an attempt on the life of the Prince, and it was added that the would-be assailant was a foreign Anarchist, and had been arrested with a stiletto in his possession.