TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12538, 27 June 1901, Page 4

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

The Governor in council has reappointed Bishop Grimes to a seat on the Board of Governors of Canterbury College. At the Masfcertoa District Court yesterday Emuly Begaa, of Featiberston, was acquited on a <»rge of perjury. Mr Leonard Maletih&s forwarded iht mm of £2 2s to Mr Wdgrani as a donation to the Jubilee Memowii and Queen's Status Fund. ' A numbfer of the officers of the Ophir and Lot escorts proceeded to Ashbuxtoja yesterday to enjoy some skating on the Domain. During May 118 patients vera admitted to the Christchuroh Hospital, 111 were discharged, and' 11 died, leaving 84 remainiixg on May 31. Mr John Fisher, bootmaker, Brougham Street, Sydenham, and Mr Waiter Newton, upholsterer, Fitzgerald Street, St Albans, have b&em nominated for the vacancy on the Board of Conciliation. The election will take place on Fiiday. Next week's "Canterbury Times" will contain several excellent views of the rooms of the Royal residence in Christchurch. These have been taken by Mr W. E. So::roll, of Colombo Street, who baa a very fine selection of views- of the various .apartments. >....

Mr Alex Webster, the newly-appointed town clerk for Linwood, entered on his duties yesterday. The dispute in connection with the tanming, tfellmongering and allied trades, will come on for consideration again before the Arbitration Court, which will .sit at 11 a.m. to-day. The street decorations are now rapidly disappefiring- under the operations of a large staff of workmen, and Colombo and High Streets are almost denuded of their gay trappings. The third annual meeting of the Canterbury Kennel Club, wtioh was to have beea held dn the Empire Hotel last evening, was postponed to Saturday next for want ' of a quorum. Notices are being served in tie city bj the City Council, stating that the regula-' tion sealed pans must be used. Those per- , sons who do not comply with the notice will to prosecuted. Workmen" are now busy cle-armg up the schools where Cadets have been quartered. All the rooms used 'have been subjected to. a thorough scrubbing, and disinfectants liave been liberally used. •' The Canterbury Gymnastic Club will give its first display of the season'on Tuesday evening next, at the Choral Hall. Ther* are oiovr over ajiundred pupils in the-men and boy classes, and twenty in the ladies' class. i Lyttelton was fairly overrun with juvenile soldiery yesterday afternoon, for several hundred northern cadets arrived about 1 p.m. by a special train from Christohurch in order to embark onrthe s.s. Te Anau, which did not leave till the evening. The stands in Victoria Square and Hagley Park axe being rapidly dismantled, and ia a few days all the timber will be away. The ground has been very much cut up, and considerable work will be required fco put the garden plots in order for spring. The members of the Lyttelton Presbyterian £Jid Wesleyan Churches have arranged to eiitertaih the crews of the men-of-war . at. presenWn port at a concert and coffeesupper, in the local Oddfellows' Hall, tonight, beginning at half-past 7 o'clock. The Mayor, Mr A. E. G. Rhodes, at a meeting of the City Council last night, stated that every function connected with' the Royal visit to Christchurch had passed off as well as had been anticipated, and Councillors and citizens deserved to be congratulated. The public? on the whole, he thought, were quite satisfied with the manner in which the afiair had been managed. The conduct of the crowds in the city had been very good, ' " ■ At a meeting ' of the Auckland Harbour Boaid yesterday r a letter was read from Admiral Beaumont declining to lay the foundation stone of Admiraiiny. House, on the ground that he believed the Admiralty would" not approve, the inference being that the Admiralty considers that the officer in command of a squadron "should remain on' board his ship when in port. 1 The tender of Mr Jenkins of £4995 was accepted for the construction! of the house. The Secretary of the St John Ambulance Association has received l from the examiner the following report of the detached class in first aid connected with the St Michael's Girls'. Friendly Society:—"l found the class much below the average of first add classes in all respects. Misses E. Gault and L. Taylor did well in all the subjects, and" obtained sufficient marks to pass the examination. The other members of the class did not obtain the requisite mumber of , marks." | A special meeting of the City Councillors was held last evening to confirm the resolution to raise a loan of £18,500 for establishing 1 the sealed-pan system, and erecting a destructor. The resolution was unanimously confirmed, on the motion of Councillors J. T. Smith and, C. M. Gray. An ordinary meeting of the Council will be held ora Monday evening. There were' present at the meeting the Mayor (Mr A. E. G. Rhodes), and Councillors W. E. Samuels, J". Clarke, H. Wood, H. B. Sorenson', G. iSimpson, G. Payling, J. T. Smith, R. Maodcnal'di J. M. Taylor,- C. M, Gray and C. D. Morris. A meeting of the Chamber of Commerce and Auckland! members of Paliament, prior to the opening of the session, took place yesterday. The question of land settlement in Auckland province, railway extension and the San Franciso service were discussed, also the question of placing Maaakau Harbour under the Auckland Harbour Board, a.s the preliminary to the construction of an Auckland-Manakau canal. Oa these matters there was a general agreement. An amendment in the Arbitration Act, limiting the powers of the Court asi t( the production of employers' books, 'aw' amendments in the Workmen's Compensation Act, were suggested'. No resolution* were proposed l . Messrs Strange and Company aonounoe that liieir premises will remain ope» throughout to-day fEhursday). 8642 Messrs J. Bailantyn© and Company announce that the usual weekly half-holi-day will not be observed to-day at Dunstable House, their warehouse being open for -business from 9 a*m. till 6 p.m. 8646 Motor Cars.—We want two orders to complete an indent for motor-cars. We an-. tend /ordering by the next Saa Francisco mail. Delivery about November. Oat'es, Lowiy and: Co., Zealandia Cycle and Motor car Works, Christchurch. XIS7L For bicycle repairs w« specially recommend cyclists to Boydi and Son, who ore combining first-class work with moderate charges.'-' 191, Gloucester Street, ChristCfrurcfli. 437. X 2588 In the window of W. J. Dunlop's shop is to be seen a display of m-osb beautiful jewellery. N.B. —Repairs of all descriptions done on the premises, 17&, High Street, opposite J. -Knight, Butcher, below Clock Tower. X 2815 • Sum Brand Chutney.—Piquant, Peppery, and Pleasant. From all grocers. X 2775 Geriuin'3 jewellery sale this day at S. Clark and Co.'s, 148, Colombo Street. All our new and fashionable stocks of engagement rings from 10s to £ls. Gold brooelaes, watches, high-class spectacles, I clocks, etc, axe re-marked, aa.d offered at ' tempting, prices. Sea oar prices, and you will no* purchase elsewhere. O&rke audi Co., 148, Colombo Street.—(Advi.) Townend's Bilious audi Liver PillsKeep in Health, the Liver, Stomach, Heart • and Kidneys, f re-j the skim of blotches, - and purify the blood. Sold 'everywhere. Price Is. W. P. Townend, 183, Colombo Street, Ohristehurch. . X 2521 Ther greatest aid to easy cycling; under all •conditions of roada and weather/ as the two-speed gear fit-ted to "Anglo-Special" - bicycles. Gear changed instantly while ■ riding; at amy speed, and free-wheel at will. Call and eee tSiis ingenious mechanism,, at the Anglo-New Zealand Cycle Company, D.1.C., and 226, High Street. rXII9B Good, tyres fitted to a bicjele make cycling &; real pleasure. Fit "Ideal" tyres and you will ihave an ideal - cycle. Six years' trial on 'the Australasian market' nave given Ideal tyres a most enviable reputation). X 2771 Sun Brand Chutney.—'Best dn, the world. AH-grocers. Tho market is flooded! at tihe present time with worthless preparations for tiio hair, many of them being injurious as well as worthless,'but Hemdy'a egg-julep-may be honestly recommended «s a mosii reliable hair tonic ifor beautifying and cleansing the lair.- Pries, Is per bottle. This elegant 'preparation may be procured from Strange and Uo.'s,. drapers, Chisstahurcb, who are also sole agents for Hewly's FiisBarirs, or curling fluid. X 2533 Lamps.—We jold a large stock of jwftd»' ing, hanging and hand lamps, and wt guarantee to sell oheaper than any other firm in C&ristehurch. Beading lamps from 5s 6d, hand lamps is, chimneys from 3d each, wicks from Id, at Fleteher Bros., Importors of. Lamps, Chimneys, etc, Higi . .Jfitiect, .

Messrs J.■ Fisher, .bootmaker, and W. Newton, upholsterer, Lave been nominated ts candidiates for a scat on the Comaliatkm. Bo*rd of Canterbury. Tfca Lyttetbon Borough Council lasb night decided to promote a Bill in Parliament to •aaible the Council to establish municipal gasworks. A .telegram from Wellingttfo states that the volunteer* returning from Christchurch generally express sattafaction with .{he arrangements and catering in the south. Owing to the running of *he Royal train, «he 7.16 train from Lyttelton to Ohrist- ■ ahureh will not run this evening. A Jipeoial train will leave Ohristohurch for Lyttelton at 10 p.m. Other alterations in the time-table are announced* ■Hie bazaar at Wellington in aid < of the Victoria Home for Incurables, opened by ttjbie DudwK tof Cornwall, assaulted in £3200 being taken. . It is stated that a» Government subsidy of twenty-four sfh'l-. linga in the -pound will be f orthooming, > Before leaving, the East Christchurch jchool, the cadet* gave cheera for the Royal ▼iiitors and for those who ha<J made their »tay in tie school so pleasant and comfortable. ,They also cheered the-oaietaker •ad hie iri£e (Mr and Mrs Footed bad evidently won their hearts. Tbe Mayor of (Mr B. P. Hamhire) wore the Sydenham Mayoral collar kst evening for the first thnte at _ a bonncil meeting, It is of a deep wine »lour,~ witih a isseavy gold tihread ed!grag «hd fringing,- On the front are thuee gold ■badge*/ presented! by the present Mayor, Kndex-Mayora Bowctett and Eadfleld. 14® jaeetang decided that the CousniCiL's seal in gold should be ,ailiix«Mo the collar. At 'She dinner to celebrate tie opening of the Lyttelton Club's new premises lost evening, Mr M'Gregor> a chief petty officer in the Navy, and the photographer attached to the Opbir, offered! to take a photograph of all the members of the club. "39 explained that all photographs taken' foy ihim hadi to be submitted to the King, j \ ihas been arranged that a photograph rfLould be taken >by him at the club's build-' ingt-at 10 o'clock this morning. Councillor Jones moved! at the jmeciting *>f the Sydenihani Borough Council, last evening that the Lighting! Committee should be asked to consider and report iat ' next meeting oh the best *>ystem of lighting the borough. It was quits time the ; Council was .independent of the Gas Com- i pany. There were many'other methods of lighting, and when 'this Gas Company had ! been approachie'd regarding the lighting of the borough it (had replied l but diffidently'. | Counoillor Hadfiold said the Gas Company < should be shown that, it was not supreme. The company had bad thai upp*r hand too | long. The motion was carried, fc. A *reE-knowm authority on horses, who saw the dtead bodies of the animals belonging to the Wairarapa Mounted Rifles which died at Tarawera a few days ago, assures the "Pahiatua Herald" that the corses were not killed through drinking any poison-water. The fact of the matter is, he says, the horses of the Maori troopers were soft and green, and after undertaking & very long journey were allowed! to owr-gorge themselves iwith oats, and then they were permitted' to drink at the stream as long as they liked. Hence several of them succumbed. Lieutenant Jury, however, states that the poisoning was feally due to the horses drinking wate* which had been used for sheep-dip-ping purposes. A few days ago the engineers and crew af tfce R.M.S Gothic subscribed among some £2O in order to place a memorial over the grave of their late cam- ' rade Thomas Stephenson, or Rounsel, who Sell from a train near Lin/wood, and thereby iustained injuries which resulted in his ■ieatn in Lytteltca casualty ward. The memorial selected was a ' gotbic-tappe'd marble headstone, on which clasped bands •were carved in relief, and the ' Inscription: "In memory of Thomas Stephenson (Rounsel), aged 26 years;. greaser on the R.GVL3 Gothic; died tfrom> an acoi-dent on the railway, June B,' 1901. Erected by the engineers and crew." The stone was cut and placed in the Church of Eng'and cemetery !by Mr J. B. Mansfield, sculptor, Manchester Street, and gave every satisfaction to the subscribers. Councillor Forrester reported at the meeting of the Sydemiana Borough lil last evening that on Saturday afternoon a train at the Colombo Street crossing had backed into «v tramoar, and caused considerable damage. He did not know who.was respomsila for the accident, but it had been very nearly attended with loss of Me. . There should be am inquiry into the matter, as to pass over the crossing about dusk was to risk one's life. He would ask the committee appointed to consider matters in connection with the crossing to meet (next Thursday evening to inquire into the matter. Councillor Jones, •aid there had beea a Very marrow escape that day, when a waggon had just escaped destruction. The Mayor said that was an everyday/ occurrence. It was decided that the committee should meet and 7 . discuss the matter. ■ / The address to Princess May by the wives of the Ministers of the New Zealand Government, and to be forwarded to her Koyal Highness, was displayed last night in Mr Barnett'a window, Morten's Buildings. The address, was wngrossed and illuminated by Mr T. S. - Lambert, M.E.A.A., architect, who has every reason to be proud of his work. The lettering is beautiful in every way. The text of the address is written in characters that do not change in imode or tone from th<?-6rst line to the last, coloured capitals being the only,: deviation from the uniformity that ftcterises the whole. From the first scroll line, "Welcome to New Zealand," on'a blue foundation, to the last line of the Ministers' wives' signatures, the address is a rigidly even l amd graceful piece, of writing. The' border starts with the foliage and flowers of the o North Island, and follows down the colony to Southland with typical flora, relieving the story with suitable pictures in medallion. The signatures are j somewhat different from the* published list. Two marked differences will be noted in •Louisa J. Seddon," which was given before as " Janie" Seddon, and ia Mrs W. C. Walker's name, -which she herself wrote " Margaret Walker," rfot " Katherine." The frame is a handsome piece of work'in imitation of Maori carving. -/TROUBLE WITH A TELEPHONE! . Possibly owing to the number .of eleetrio light wires carrying'high tension currents for the numerous illuminations in Wellington, telephones ia several place* ■ lave, during the last few days, been behaving very erratically. In one private .residence on Saturday (says the "Post") the instrument; seemed to take delight in ringing its bell with exasperating frequency. The householder would go to the machine and call out "Are- you there?" and an Exchange officer at the other end* would reply "Yes; what do you want?" "I don't want anything; you rang," the householder would reply. ," I did not; you rang," and then, an altercation -would ensue till both had had enough.- Lara last evening things' came to a climax, w'hen the machine started ringing as though it meant to go on all night. After I)Earing it for a time the 'long-suffering houscholdtj; rose with a sig'h' and tackledit again. He took off the receiver, and the machine hummed and bellowed like a, trumpet. Fearing to disturb the neighbours he replaced the receiver and pressed the button on the top of the machine, which prevents the ball from ringing. There was a flash, and a sheet of flume shet out on either .side, but ts* machine was conquered. Then it stubVrnly

fused to ring at all. On inquiries beimig made. concerning the-above incident from Mr Buckley, Government electrician, that gentleman informed a reporter that there was no element of danger, even if a highlycharged illuminating wire were to come in contact with a telephone wire, as a smaE piece of fusing- wire was connected with every instrument, and any unusual current, on xeaching this fusing wire, would break the connection. The fusing of the wire might cause a flame" as described. Contact between the iUummating and' the telephone wires would not affect the ringer, as .the number of alternations in the former was too great. VETERAN VOLUNTEERS. Amtong the Taranaki veterans who attended the Royal celebrations in Wellingtfon there was (says the "Post") on interesting group, made up of enrolled Volunteers who ■rough* at Waireka. This is stated" to have been the first occasion on-which Volunteers (using the word in its particular application) were under fire b .New Zealand, and is also claimed to ,be the first occasion ton which the " citizen as we know him to-day, did battle "for the Empire. ' The names of the members of this-group are as follows:—Major C. Brown, Captain J. S. M'Kellar, Captara F. J. Mace (N.Z.0.), Lieutenant R. 0. Hamerton (formerly Public Trustee), Lieutenant M. Oorrick, Sergeant John Crozier, privates E.-Armitage, John Langman, Thomas Langman, Antonio Roderiguez (N.Z.C.), G. B. Haigh, Dugald, M'Kellar and P.- Stevens. ROYALTY AND AUTOMOBILES. The "Autocar" states tharb the King recently drove from Sandringbam'to Newmarket in a twelve horse-power automobile. The reads wers dusty, but the King expressed himself delighted with the drive. At Downham crowds collected, and the ying passed down the High Street at a spoedl of from twenty to thirty miles an hour. On former occasion's Ms Majesty made 'the journey by special trate. Th« s*me -journal says- that the Queen has purchased' a 'pretty little carriage" from the City and) Suburbani EJectrio Carriage Company, and! may frequently be »een driving it about the private xoada on the Sandringham Estate. A CONTEMPTIBLE THEFT. A despicable andl cruel theft was, says the "Post," perpetrated upon one of the veterans of the Imperial army who was on a visit to Wellington from Taranaki last week. Sergeant-Major Dufiin, the veteran in question, was in the midst of a crowd on one of the days when the Royal visitors were to pass through the streets, the medals on bis breast showing that he had assisted in the building of the Empire in the Crimea and in India. Close to him stood w young man who entered into conversation with Mm, and who presently asked if ha might for a momesb transfer the veteran's medals to his own breast "just to see how they looked." Pleased that his hard-earned trophies should have called forth admiration, the Sergeant-Major,, in all' good faith and simplicity, handed them to the young man. The next instant the eye of the old soldier was arrested by a passing incident, and in that instant the thief and the medals disappeared. For mean, contemptible robbery this act would be difficult to parallel. '■'.-'•''