TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12537, 26 June 1901, Page 4

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Though most of the cadet corps will! have returned home by this evening, the Normal School will not resume until Monday next. The train from Christchurch to the north! last evening, owing to being heavily loaded, was nearly an hour late in reaching Rangkvra. , In the printed parade state the Wellington College Rifles’ muster was set down at 32. There were 52 on parade, under Captain Turner. During the month of May 2157 hrriveii, in !.the colony, as against) 844 in the samemonth last year. The -deipirbures were 1575, as against 1076. At the big Maori camp at Rotorua five deaths occurred, but most* of the deaths were those of people who had been ailing when they came to the meeting. . ■- Mr Charles Opie, farmer, Darfield, has been nominated as a candidate for memA bership of the North Oxnterbujy Board, of Education at the coming election. The ; Auckland members of Parliament were entertained on Monday night at a supper and concert by the Auckland Cycle Roads League. . They promised' to give a hearty support to the Cycle Boards -Bill next session. ’ A ’ telegram from Auckland state* that St Matthews’ Building Committee has decided to advertise in the four centres for the construction of a new stone church with a spire four feet higher than the monument in London. A conference of considerable Interest to Oddfellows of the Manchester Unity is to be held at Wellington to-morrow, the business being the consideration of ®i proposal to establish % Board of Directors and annual movable committee, for the colony. P.P.G.M.’s J. Marshall and G. Crampton went by the Tarawera last evening to represent the Ashley district. A recent number of the “ Natal Mercury” contained an official statement with regard* to the ■ special gratuity to be paid to the soldiers who have fought in South Africa, It states, with regard to oversea contingents, that residing ia colonies will be paid in their respective colonies. Amounts due to non-effectives will also be adjusted locally in such colony.” A Transvaal flag captured by the: Sixth Contingent on Easter Monday, has been forwarded by'Captain Nigel Markliam to Mr John Menzies, secretary and xr onager of the Northern Club, ’Auckland. In a covering letter Captain Markham states:- ■ “We had a merry gallop, but not: much fighting, our- losses being two officers and two men killed. Give my Mud regards to all friends, and tell them'■l thought’they would like to have a memento of the war.’' The Boer flag is four yards in length by two yards , in width. Only eleven applications have been, made for sections in the Torawahi Hamlet, which is situated, half a mile,,from the Port Hills, near the southern end of (Mombo Street / Thb - laiiiidi has been purdtau&d by , hi© Government* horn Mr J. Freeman, under the Land for Settlements Act, for the purpose of providing small areas for working men, artisans and others. There were thirtyseven sections, and they were offend yesterday for disposal on lease in perpetuity. Only*two of the sections are two acres in extent, and most of them are considerably under one acre. The Land Board will meet to-day to consider the applications. In connection with the Tourist Traffic Department, Mr G. E. AHerton, a journalist,' has been engaged (says the “ New! Zealand Times”) to “write up, describe, and illustrate the various health and pleasure resorts of New Zealand, the routes usually taken by tourists, the best means of travelling, the time required, the cost, the best hotels to. stay at, etc. The work is to be profusely illustrated, so the tourist can;' on referring to the guide, get a good idea of any rout© of travel in the colony, from the Bay of Islands .'to Invercargill, and be able to select. the on® that Will best suit his pocket, his tastes, and the time at his disposal.” M.H.R., presiding at the annual 'meeting of the Salvation Army, at Auckland, v ©aid that at they could . get Air SedAon to _ be general of the Salvation Army-of New Zealand (laughter), and put his energies into social work, the Army would become more beneficial to the colony, and bring Mr Sadden more lasting happiness than all be ha* done for Imperial unity and in sending troops to South Africa. The report on’the social work showed that .51445 had been spent on social homes in New Zealand during the year , ended March 31, and: over £4OO had, been spent in Auckland, Tie total number of oases dealt with during the year was 755. In Wellington a woa-fcman’a hotel had been established, at which 916 beds and. 1620 meals bad been given in exchange for labour done, while 15,148 beds had been) and 21,140 meals supplied. . The “Veldt Lyre,” the newspaper of which a bound l copy was presented to the Premier at the Veterans’ luncheon on Monday, is a -unique production. Conceived on.the veldt at Rhenoster Kop, widiaten on any scraps of paper obtainable, it afforded interest to the troopers in camp on Christmas Night, ISOO, as it does to all New Zealanders to-day in its well-printed form*) Short, interesting articles have been contributed by Lieutenant-Colonel Robin, Lieu-tenant-Colonel Craddock and Lieutenant Banks, and some ■ paragraphs relating. to everyday doings in* camp, and the sketches* entitled “ Editor’s Note-book,” are particu* larly good. About the time the public a tion was written the Contingent member* Were expecting to return to New Zealand, but were much disappointed to find they Would hot be allowed to return for soma time. Their feelings find vent in th« “ Veldt Lyre ” in a well-written article entitled “A Parable,” by an ex-Canadian parson. The Premier, too, does not escape a little irony. Copies of the'paper have been printed for circulation amongst of the contingents and their , and doubtless will be muon, treat

Tli a Tahine from Melbourne and Hobart irrivcd at th© Bluff at 7 o.m. yesterday. Her mails will probably reach Christchurch (his evening. The Right Rev Dr Grimes has been reappointed a member of the Canterbury Ool'jege Board of Governors .by his Excellency the Governor. / Nearly one hundred officers, constables and detectives left Christchurch by special train on Monday night for Dunedin, to be on duty there during the Boyal visit. I The express train from Dunedin last ■Evening did not arrive mrii 9.55 p.m., the delay being due to the Royal train, for which the line had to be cleared. j Tlie usual weekly stock market at AdHington has been postponed till Thursday thi* week, on account of the cessation of goods and stock traffic on all southern lines -yesterday. * , Two heavily laden express trains were despatched yesterday morning for the south, : tm« half'-an-hour after the Royal train had ieparted and the other about'ten minutes .»fter the ordinary express time-table time; • Among the many passengers who went iouth by express train yesterday were several representative pastoralists and farmers, who were bound for (Dunedin, to attend the Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Association's Whiter Show and the Royal festivl- ■ ties. ... L Mr Sutherland j a tobacco expert engaged by the New Zealand Government from. Fiji ;to report as to the suitability of the North Island for tobacco culture, finds that the leal . icould be profitably ‘grown in certain- districts of that island. . r . j Good progress Is being made-with the work of removing the old reading-room at ’ the Public Library, and only a.dismal.dooking framework now remains. ,(3ome of the < timbers are fairly sound, but ..the greater faumber seem to be thoroughly rotten, j 1 The Yen Archdeacon Grace, of Blenheim, has invented a fire-escape in the form of a , Sadder of Eight chain with steel rungs, the ends of which are prolonged and then bent backward. The bent ends of the rungs keep the ladder well away from thjjt wall of the building. } Before tSe Royal train had left Chris fcjhurch yesterday momin g workmen were engaged taking down the stands and platforms, and alittle later men were employed , m the decorations and illuminations. By .*lOOll most of the electric light devices on ribe Cathedral tower had disappeared. j A special meeting of the Board 1 of "irovomors of the Canterbury Agricultural .•College will be held 1 at 11 a.m. on Saturday, for the purpose of confirming the appointment of Professor Lowry to the ; .directorship of Lincoln College, y and for > , relieving Mr Bayne, the present/three tor. ! To prevent the repetition of such an occurrence as that by which the Wellington Terrace School-was destroyed by fire, it has been decided to place -night-watch men in charge of the Christchurch schools which were used for the; accommodation of the Cadets during their stay here, until the reopening of the schools. The annual meeting of shareholders in the New Zealahd Farmers’ Co-operative _ .Association will be held shortly. The ballot-papers for the election, of directors have now been issued, and contain the names of all the old directors, as well as three new aspirants for the . position— Messrs S. Coleman, Leicester Matson and 3T. W/ Smith-Ansted. ■ ... , a t Before leaving quarters at Egjt Christ-' church school the Wanganui Cadets made a presentation to their officers out' of their pocket-money, as evidence of the good feeling existing.' between them, anffi as a recognition of the attention bestowed upon the ' feeding and general comfqrt of the boys by Captain Aitken and Lieutenant Edwards. The formej received a handsome butter-dish 4 and knife, and the latter a gold horse-shoe ; scarf pin.' Sergeant Naylor made the presentation on behalf, .of (ho company. . . i Admiral Beaumont made an official call tn the Maycx of Ohristohuroh at the City Council Chambers on Monday, and was received by the Mayor and the Town Clerk. The Admiral expressed a wish to go over the Kaiapoi Woollen Company’s nulls and factory, but a* the place was closed on account of the holidays, it was impossible to make the arrangements. The Mayor, however, undertook to arrange for a-visit when his Excellency next visited Lyttelton. Mr Rhodes communicated the request to the manager yesterday morning,-and the {company immediately sent on board the flagship a Very handsome Kaiapoi rug as a {present for his Excellency,‘regretting exceedingly that time would not permit of bis monogram being worked on it, as the flagship left at noon yesterday. i Favourable reports on the Government .salmon-rearing operations at Hakateramea ‘have been brought away by"the Inspector of 'Fisheries (Mr Ayson), who has lately reWned from his .first visit to the hatchery ginco the unpacking of the ova. He states . '(says the Wellington “Post”) that the salmon aJe growing and thriving. remarkably 'well,, and he is hopeful that the system adopted will not fail, as its predecessors Kym to have done. An essentia"/feature, :4 -that,' instead of the salmon bctng ; liberated ’at the yearling stage, they will'be kept till > they are two or three years old. As the hatchery seems on present indications to ha ’most suitably located, it is hoped that the ■rearing of the salmon to that stage can be carried on with successful results, after which they should be sturdy enough to hold ■their ' ~ia in the world. 1 For bicycle repairs we specially recommend cyclists to Boyd ana Son, who are combining first-class work with moderate charges. 191, Gloucester Street. Christchurch. Telephone 437. X 2688 In the window of W. J. Dunlop’s shop is to be sten a display of most beautiful jewellery. N.B. —Repairs - of all descriptions done on the premises, 175, High Street, op•posite J. Knight, Butcher, below Clock Tower. X 2815 lr- Sun Brand Chutney.— Piquant, Pe apery, itnd Pleasant. From all grocers.,'' XjS?75 Genuine jewellery sale this day,. at S. Clarke and Co.’s. 148, Colombo Street. All eur new and fashionable stocks of engagement rings, from 10s to £16,, Gold brooches, watches, high-classed, .spectacles, clock*, etc., are re-marked, and offered at tempting prices. Sie our prices, and you will not purchase elsewhere. Clarke and ■ Co., 148, Colombo Street.—(Advt.) Townend’s Bilious and Liver Pills— Keep in Health the Liver, Stomach, Heart, and Kidneys, free the skin of blotches, and purify the blood. Sold everywhere. Price Is. W. P. Towncnd, 183, Colombo Street, Christchurch. , X 2521 The greatest aid to easy cycling under ail conditions of roads and weather, is the twospeed gear fitted to “Anglo-Special” bi- ' cycles. Gear changed instantly while ridilg at any speed, and free-wheel' at will., Call and see this ingenious mechanism’ at the Anglo-New Zealand Cycle Company,' D.1.C., and 226, High Street. J -Xll9B : Good tyres fitted to a bicycle make cycling a real pleasure. Fit “Ideal” tyres and you will have an ideal cycle. Sis years’ trial on the Australasian market have given Ideal tyres a most enviable rep«t»tioE. X 2771 Sun Brand Chutney.—Best in the world. All grocers., The market is flooded at the present time with worthless preparations lor the hair, ■ many of them being injurious as well .as worthless, bub Hendy’s egg-julep may be honestly recommended as a most reliable hair tonic, for beautifying and cleansing the hair. Price, Is per bottle. This elegant preparation may bo procured from 1 JStrange and Co.’s, drapers, Christchurch, who are also sole agents for Hendy’s -FrizBairs, or curling fluid. X 2533 ■ " ■ England’s Latest Cycle Invention.—Free wheel hubs instantly changeable to fixed wheel, without the rider dismounting. The ; first shipment is consigned to Oates, Lowry ; and Co., who'fit the new invention to Ladies’ or Gentlemen’s new Zeaiandia ’’ bicycles'without extra charge. XISTI * On hire for wedding, birthday parties, - etc., cups, saucers, tumblers, cake stands, i kmve*, ifotks and spoons, planer and tea sets, 1 etc., reasonable prices. Fletche? i Br ds., Crockery and Glassware Importers, - High Street. _, _ X2565 f

The regular monthly communication of tine St Augustine Masonic Lodge will be held this evening. The East Christchurch School will resume on Monday morning instead of to-day, as previously arranged. The Mayor and Mrs Rhodes will be “ at home ” at the City Council Chambers on Wednesday, July 3, from 3.30 to 5 p.m. The police require an owner for a parcel of shoes which was found' in. the streets on Saturday night and taken to the -station. The ordinary meeting- of the City Council, wMoh was to have been held on Monday evening, but was adjourned for wont of a quorum, will be held this 'evening. , At the Primitive Methodist Church, Linwood, to-morrow evening, Mr N. Tumor will give a lecture entitled “ Prom Cradle to Gallows,” and there mil also -be a programme of vocal and instrumental music. ... A gentleman who left his bicycle. standing outside the Ohristohuroh railway station yesterday morning while he was seeing .some friends off by the express train, found it missing when he returned, and is anxious ■ to -discover its whereabouts. An error crept Into the parade state of on© of the Cadet corps at Monday’s review. The Wanganui College Cadets were not present, the corps bang from the Wanganui Public School, Captain James Aitken, being the commander. The railway department advertises thavthe express train from Dunedin to Christchurch to-morrow will run forty-five minutes late from Camara to Christchurch on account of the running of the train, with the Duke, and Duchess of Cornwall Lroxn Dunedin to Christchurch. Other alterations on the same day ore also announced,. A kitting of the Arbitration Court will be held to-morrow morning, when the Tanners- and Curriers? dispute will be dealt with. No other business is likely to be brought before the Court, aa his Honor, Mr Justice Cooper, will leave on Monday for the Appeal Court sitting in Wellington. - y V V. , ■ ; In order to give the general public an ‘opportunity of hearing the magnificent band of H.M.S. Ophir, which is giving.two concerts at the Canterbury Halil, it haa been suggested that the naval authorities should be approached and asked to allow the band to play for half am -our to-mor-row afternoon in Victoria Square before the stands used at the Royal demomstration are taken down, ; A meeting of the 'committee formed to arrange for a. social and presentation, to Sydenham troopers was held in the Sydenr lram r -Borough Council Chambers last evening,* when it was reported that a good gramme of songs and damoss had been arranged, and that tickets were selling well. The presentation to each trooper Will take the form of ft gold pendant, suitably inscribed. The social Vail be held to-morrow evening in the Art Gallery. Before the breaking-up of -the Cadet camp a meeting of officers was held dn the Normal School, to consider suggestions,™ connection with the future organisation of a primary school cadet scheme. important recommendations were freely discussed and passed, and it was decided to send these direct ,to the Minister of Education. A hearty vote of thanks was accorded to the Education Board aud School Committees of East a-n-d West Christchurch, for granting the use of schools for quartering the Cadets, mid to the medical staff and people of Christ- : church, for their attention to the juvenile visitors. Brigade-Sergeant-Major M’Donald was also accorded a unanimous vote of thanks by the Cadet officers, for his valu-. able instructions and assistance at the camp, as also were Adjutant M’Phefson and Sergeant-Major Juriss. Teachers who received votes of thanks were Majors Rico and Foster,, Quarter-master- Berlinson, Captains Murray, Hlntz, Hempleman, Lin© and Betlnme. INVITATIONS TO,THE ROYAL RECEPTION. With regard to the statement that many invitations to the Royal reception on Monday afternoon were not delivered, owing to their being a postal holiday, the Chief Postmaster at Christciurclii states that 500 Invitations were posted on Sunday night, and were delivered on Monday, which was nob a holiday aa far as delivery was concerned, Many of the invitations -were addressed to country residents, who were staying in town, and some difficulty was experienced in finding them. Notwithstanding tills, all the Invitations except four or five were delivered on Monday morning. Special carriers were sent out to the review in Hagley Park to endeavour to find those whose addresses could not be ascertained in the city, and ultimately all but three invitations were delivered. A MIGHTY KICK. The late Maori demonstration, says the Auckland “ Star,” disclosed, the fact that it was good for the Europeans generally that'they did not understand the Maori language, and yet in some cases a “good thing.” -was missed. It might have been noticed - that in the Ngatiporou 'dance the natives gave a vigorous Idck with l -great force and unanimity. When making this vigorous demonstration the native? loudly asserted that they were kicking Kruger in the rear. If it is estimated that -each kick represented a force of 501 b, then the concentrated energy of some 350 natives in something like a kick of -about nine tons energy would have kicked Kruger sky high. A -dnemabograph representation of this dance would be an object lesson to the Boers, if the explanation of the high kicking was given at the same time. SOME DISTINGUISHED SAILORS. At least three of the Royal Navy officers and one Royal marine on the Ophir are wea-rinv the Egyptian war medal of 1882. They are Commodore Winsloe,- Commander Nelson-Ward, Lieutenant W. Ruck-Keene, and Major C. Clarke, who is in. charge- of the Royal marines. Commander NelsonWard, who is a descendant of the fifth Earl of Wemyss, and who-'is navigating the Royal yacht, -also has a silver modal awarded to'him by the Italian Government for life-saving services rendered ten years ago, near Gibraltar, to a wrecked emigrant ship bearing a load of Italians. He was then a lieutenant on H.M.S. Rodney. Until within a month of has appointment to the Ophir, Commodore Winsloe was cruising in the Mediterranean, in command cf the Training Squadron. He is an officer with a distinguished service, and has been known to Prince George from the first days or the Sailor Prince’s going down to the sea in ships. The Commodore in those days was flag-lieutenant to the Earl of Clanwilliam. who commanded the detached which escorted the Bacchante in her ‘ circumnavigation'of the world with the two r Sailor Princes. The Commodore wears the Egyptian medal, with the Tel-el-Kebir clasp,” the Khedive’s bronze star, and the o-eneral medal for Africa, with the bar “Vito, 1830.” A COMPLIMENT FROM AMERICA. 'ln a letter, Mr Edward Tregear, the secretary •of the Labour Department, received' from 'the editor cf a leading Ameri- , can magazine the other day the following paragraph -occurs:—“My thanks are due you for the copy of the 1 Canterbury Times’ which you w-ere -so land as to send, and I must say that this paper contains the greatest "amount of interesting matter I have over seen between the pages cf any periodical. Many of the boys hero to whom I have shown it were surprised to, ■ find that in your far-away cmratiy the papers were so very much ' up. ”,

TWO PLUCKY BOYS

Two boy?,: residents of Dunedin, by name Jolm'M’Donald and Charles Modder, have done what perhaps has never, previously been accomplished. That is, to

reach Christchurch by train without a ticket or pass of any kind. Actuated by a desire to emulate the pluck of the two adventurers from Invercargill, but not inclined to risk the drawbacks and sufferings which these adventurers experienced, they sought other means of transit to Christchurch, to be present at the Royal festivities. They boarded a second-class carriage at the Dunedin station' on Saturday morning, and kept a close watch when the assistant guard .passed through the train to collect tickets. Then, with the assistance of some passengers, who took In the sit-nation, they crawled under the seats, and so escaped detection. • What with food and light refreshments supplied to them they had a right royal time on board the train, and successfully dodged the ticket-collector on each official visit to the carriage. They arrived in Christchurch, and were found! by Constable Wootton about midnight, who, with Mr O. E. Bovan Brown, gave them a sujoper and conveyed them to the Police Station. No charge could be made l against them, -but the watchionse-keeper, Constable MG-lone, took charge of them, gave them a good bed and breakfast, and in the morning Mr Inspector Ellison commnnicated with the police in Dunedin about them. Since Sunday they have not lacked friends in Christchurcb, as Mr Beaven Brown has interested himself about their welfare, and they have fared' well, and havo seen all the various functions connected with the Royal visit. , The police sent the two boys back to their homes—on® on Monday night and one yesterday morning. ■ y