TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CVI, Issue 12590, 27 August 1901, Page 4

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

The teachers’ drill class will commence on Sept. 14 at the Normal School. ; The members of the Lyttelton Club intend to hold a progressive euchre match and musical evening at their new rooms to-morrow evening. At the Ashburton Magistrate’s Court, yesterday, Robert MTntosh was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment' with hard labour for stealing a rug, the property of John Buhner. The Ashburton Beautifying Association has appointed a committee of ladies to make a systematic canvass of Ashburton and suburbs to collect funds for the work of the Association. Bishop Grimes, assisted by several of the district clergy, will conduct a jubilee mission at the pro-Oathedtal, commencing on Sunday next, and continuing during the week, morning and evening. In consequence of most of the timber merchants being engaged at the sitting of the Conciliation Board on Thursday, the sale of the cargo of timber by the Jessie Niccol, which was to have taken place then, has been postponed until Friday at 2 p.m. The Dairy Inspector visited Lyttelton yesterday, and seized! a number of cows and calves on a dairy farm on account of their being -said to be diseased. Four cows, a heifer and three calves, wretched looking animals, were placed in the pound as the result of his visit. A heavy fog cam© up and settled over Sumner shortly after mid-day yesterday, and the fishing boats experienced some difficulty in getting in. During the afternoon' a large steamer was heard blowing her fog-horn every five or tea minutes, and then passed 1 on. The fog, which came up towards Christchurch, lifted in the evening. / Air A. J. W. Bunz, organist of St Luke’s, Church, wall give an organ, recital in the Cathedral on Thursday next. The programme will include Bach’s “ Fugue in C,” Mendelssohn’s “First' Sonata,”' Orison's “ Offiertoire,” Guilmamt’s “ Premiere Senate” and “Invocation in B flat," Hoytcs “Andante com Mote” and Bedager’s “Amy’s Little Song.” Air Percy Denton will sing “ If with all your hearts ” and “ Abide with me,” the latter composition being from the pen of Air Phillpob, organist cl St Paul’s, Auckland. Air S. A. Dumbleton, at present manager of the Dalefield Dairy Factory, has (says the “Post”) been appointed a grader of dairy produce 'and cheese instructor to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of All’ James Sawers. He has had a long and successful career as a cheesemaker and factory manager in both islands. It is probable; that he will' be stationed at the freezing works at Aloturoa - during next season. The Agricultural Department ie arranging to station a dairy produce grader at the Bluff during the coming season. Applications' for letters patent with provisional specifications have been accepted at the Patent Office from the following: Alfred Oass, Tic wold, Canterbury, blacksmith, a side-cutting knife for water-race cleaning-plough; Robert Lauchlan t Christchurch, plumber, improvements in apparatus for flushing closets, urinals,. and the like; John Michael Tregoning, saddler and horse-cover maker, and David Andrew Taylor, .storeman 1 , both of Waimate, South Canterbury, improved means of attaching a horse-cover; James Harrington, -112, Cashel Street, Linwood, plumber, improved apparatus for ebargmg tenders of locomotive engines with water. m

At Kaiapoi, yesterday, Dr M’Arthur, S.M., granted three ’old age pensions hj fulL The cool chamber of the Lyttelton Haw hour Board will be closed down for the annual overhaul, from Sept. 2 to Sept 14* inclusive. The committee of. the City Beautifying Association will meet to-morrow afternoon* when the report of the' Executive ana general business will be discussed. For th© concert. &' ia, : terbury Hall on Thursday evening in. aid of the instrument fundi of tlho Stenmoxf -Bandy the programme is excellent and thf tickets are selling well. : ; - - The house belonging to Mrs T. Glaikto destroyed by fire on Sunday night, was insured in the Victoria office W &SCO, and the furniture for £IOO in the same office. The piano was insured in the Imperial-dSo* for £35. The Minister of Public Health has pro unified to have the hot springs near Kawhiq explored and reported on as a place of public health resort, and to bring them- snd the Waiot-omo- Caves (King Country) under the notice pf th© Tourist Department. The Huntervllle. “ Express ” states that in the event of the Patea election being declared void, Mr Haselden will again come forward, for the petition against hi< return contains no reflection on Mr Has elden m Ms conduct of the campaign. At the Timaru Magistrate’s Court jester* day two men were fined, the one 20s, and the other, his employee, 10s, for distributing indecent medical pamphlets. They pleaded ignorance of the contents of tha parcel, which was received from the Christchurch agent of a Sydney firm. Mr Kettle, 8.M., has come to the condo* cion) that no use inflicting small fins© ■ lor drunkenness. In dealing with' a first offender in Wanganui 'he announced- Lis in* tcnlt-ion, of issuing prohibition orders against/: all persons who were brought before hint and were proved to be drinldng to excess* lb was no use, h© said, fining a man ss; sp finis was no deterrent. I- : , A prisoner named Edward Wilson, whq escaped from the Point Halswell prisongang recently, and was re-captured after he had assaulted Constable Glass with atoms* hawk, was brought before the Wellington Magistrate’s- Court yesterday,' and charged! with gaol-breaking, theft of clothes and- assaulfc, and: was committed to trial. A, man named* Petey E, Whittle, charged with robbery at Hatch’s shop, was also committed for trial. A man- named Cnibb, who left Auckland by th© Moure for Lyttelton, went ashore at Gisborne on Sunday. He had behaved- in an eccentric' manner on the boat, being much coorosmied about 'his 'Little son, whom ho said, he had brought with him from T« Aroha, but had l missed when leaving Auckland. During Sunday eight the? man was caught as he was 5a th© act of jumping over th® hotel balcony; yesterday he was committed* to th© lunatic asylum. At the battalion parade in th© show grounds during last October, where' th© C.Y.O. and the Ashburton Mounted Billed were in comp, the Eev W. S. Beany ia the course of a military service, announced \ his intention of getting a memorial! tablet erected an St Mary’s Church, Addington, ia memory of the New Zealanders who had fought ; dni South Africa. Th© tablet baa ; now been completed -by Mr K. Wolfe; and it will he unveiled at, a battalion pared© on Sunday at 3 p.m. As the church is nob toge enough to accommodate the battalion, th® service will be held in the open air, and the Volunteers will afterwards ba marched through th© building in order tot see th© tablet.) A meeting of those’ who had already interested themselves in the matter,' was convened' by the Mayer, at Ms offices, Hereford Street, yesterday, to consider the question of a memorial to the late Mr Chrystoll., - i-Besidies -the Mayor, the following gentlemen were present: —Rev Dr ElmslieT Messrs R. Struttors, A. Scott, T. B. Weston, D. Bates, R. Malcolm, R. -pit* jcaithly and Mr S. Powell, who undertook; to_ ' act aa secretary to the committee. It was resolved that tha gentlemen present tom a committee with power to add to their number. A suggestion was made that the memorial* take the form of a portrait of the late Mr Ohrystall, and that it be hung in some public place, to ba afterwards decided upon. A number of cheques were handed, |n os donations, and the meeting adjopified; until the larger committee should be constitutedThe Mayor will be pleased bo receive the 1 names of any citizens who are willing to act upon the above committee. The Mayor consented to act ns trsasiyer.

A has just been received by the local agents announcing that Messrs Dewar, the, well-known, distillers and members of Parliament, hwvo been appointed bn warrant to supply their famous whisky to the Royal Household. 1938 Messrs Strange and Company aanouuta that their great |tecb»taking sale continues to attract very largo numbers of - buyer* daily, also that this extraordinarily shcoossful sale will only ba continued fer a few* days, longer. Aleaatimo real bargains (special sale conoeeslons) may be secured in aU departments. 2242 A great boon to any firm is to have keem and capable buyera who ate ever on, the alert: for anything new and' novel, or of special interest to the firm they represent, Inj this respect Aiessrs Beath and Co. axe exceptionally fortunate, tlpey are now opening} up their first shipments, which have been bought under most favourable circumstances from the leading manufacturing centres. The goods ore worthy a visit of inspection, being exceedingly good value, in everyway up-to-date, and likely to prove very saleable. X 2867 Anglo-Special Bicycles have several advantages over other makes. One ofthese being a 2-speed gear, changeable from high l to low while riding at any speed, only 8o« added weight, and no extra friction. Inspection of models cordially invited at the Anglo-New‘Zealand Cvde Company.. D. 1.0., and 226; High Street. X 1196. It isn’t the material which goes into youa repaired watch that results in. a perfect job, it is the know how. Anyone ca'a buy the fine kind of material that Clarke and Co, use, but the most valuable, material that can be used in watoh repairing is skill, and the bungler can’t buy it/ Clarke and Co., Jewellers, 148, Colombo Street. X 127- ‘ 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. Pric# Is. W. P. Townead, 183, Colombo Street, Christchurch. ~ ■ K 2521 Good tyres fitted to a bicycle make cycling a real pleasure. Fit “ Ideal ” tyree and you have an ideal cycle. Pi* years’ trial .on the Australasian market have given Ideal tyres a most .enviable to putation. X 2771 Sun Brand Chutney.—Piquant, Peppery, ond Pleasant. From all grocers. X 2775 * The market is flooded at the present time with worthless preparations for the hair, many of them being injurious as‘well a* worthless, but Hendy’s egg-julep may b« honestly recommended as a most reliable hair tonic, for beautifying and cleansing the hair. Price, Is per bottle, gant preparation may be procured from : Strange and Co.’s, drapers, Christchurch, who are also sole agents for Hendy’s Fnw snirs, or curling fluid. X 2535 For bicycle repairs ws specially recoup mend cyclists to Boyd and Son," who art combining first-class work with moderate charges:’ 191, Gloucester Street, ChriahJ church. Telephone 437. X 2533 Lodestar Carbide, petrel, arsenic, miners) naptha, benzine. Henry Markwald, 'Bow 1 '; ton’s Buildings. Telephone 1044. X 2775 Seeds, season 1901, Vegetable Seeds 3d per pkt.. Flower Seeds Id per pkt., seed potatoes. Best kinds in slock. Agent! for Nimmo and Blair, Dunedin, standard seeds. Fletcher Bros., High Street* X2S6S.

Tie Patea election by the Chief Justice and Mr Justice-Wil-liams at Wanganui, On Sept. 24-. The members of 'the Hawke’s Bay football team went south by the express train yesterday morning. They were cheered by • number of Canterbury footballers and gave their battle cry in return.

Tha Wellington Woollen Company’s report and balance-sheet for tho last ten months recommends the payment of a dividend at the rate of 8 per cent, leaving £1553 to be carried forward, while £2500 fa written off for depreciation of the plant and premises, £ISOO added to the reserve and £7OO to the employers’ liability, re■arm

Some of the passengers on one of the trams from Sumner to Christchurch on Sunday afternoon were astonished when, after getting over the Heathcote Bridge, they suddenly cam© to a standstill, while the engine and one car went complacently on their way. It seems that a pin broke, and four cars, full of passengers, were disconnected. Tho guard was Inside the car attached to the engine, and neither he noi iltQ driver ■wixa-’t lu&d Ix&ppeiicd' until a gap of several hundred yards had been made between the cars. Those left behind began to contemplate a walk home, but the defect* was soon pub right, and, the engine returning, the deserted cars were taken in tow again.

THE “CANTERBURY TIMES.” The dairying industry, which is contributing so greatly to the prosperity of New Zealand, furnishes many interesting subjects for illustration in this week’s “Can- . terbury Times ” (to the agricultural department of which notes and articles on dairying are contributed! weekly by a specialist). The pictures include groups of the Dairy Coinmießioner and his staff, and the class at tho Dairy School held recently at Stratford, and of the firbt and present members of tha Government dairying service, and snapshots of several of the incidents of the Dairy School. There axe series of capital illustrations of the Grand National gathering and the Metropolitan Trotting Club’s meeting. Gust and district, Methven School, its scholars and their teachers, and the Timaru Breakwater, showing the effect of the recent gales, furnish a semes of views and portrait groups. A photo of the Council of the Christian Endeavour Union ;s well reproduced, and the officers and committee (oil the Canterbury Athletic and Cycling Club arc presented in miniature.' There are a number of other views and portraits, and the number is a most attractive but, 1 both pictorially and in its literary contents, which are of the usual high-class and Varied character.

A “GUESSER.” Last week, when a case of a young man, ' convicted of attempted pocket-picking, was before Mr Justice Gonolly ait tike Auckland criminal liftings, Chief-detective Grace described the prk-oner as What is known in Bp-mtan-g circles as a “ guesser,” a man who frequents racecourses and gives tips to credulous persons anxious to get the probable winners of the races. The modus operand! of the “ gueaser ” is to “ tip ” the whole of the horses in a race, giving each person who oonsulte him a different horse. Thus pna of the person® advised) must necessarily Win, and th© “guesser” then collects his bojmnaesion from ~ the lucky backer, i His JSfonor said ho thought this -would-surely , only provide a very precarious livelihood for the persons designated “ guessers,” but waa assured) by Detective Grace that quite p number made a good living out of it by Attending race meetings throughout the fcolony. OCHE DECEASED WIFE’S SISTER BILL. Despite its expressed intention to -taka no /jSde on the Deceased) Wife’s Sister Bill, the Government persistently blocks- and shelves ■jlfeto measure (writes the London corresponIfljfflft,' ©Tithe. ‘‘Lyttelton jp«&. m-MMEt majority not only .but throughout the Empire is in favour of ilifc, but again this session has the Govern(taent privily despatched it. Mr W. Hol|tnan Hunt, the painter of the “ Light of ((he World,” has therefore-some ground lor [the warmth of hi® letter to the “Times,” (la which he describes the minority who sys{bematiieally obstructs the Bill as composed fbdf “men who have openly lasted- their (defiance of the opinion of their oonstituenE, men belonging to l an ecclesiastical fcy ■ itself insolently disobedient to : oil iittrity in their Church-.” This party general submission to a doctrine \gainsfc which all science revolts and l which human reason repudiates. It insists that ,i)h» law of the State shall conform itself to 'piedieval canons that are utterly dnoonjlfataot with Christian charity and intellecIjnal freedom.”

GERMAN OFFICIALDOM. ■ Though, on* kndws ’that tiho Gherman Otto&is, like their Buteiam confreres, are Ipceafc sticklers lor ferns and ceremonies, i ■ would 1» -difficult 'to swallo'w the story ’ 14*6..comes from Spanduu, tiro great formg* town war Berlin, were 6b not for the pet that, the -police court proceedings which , tossed! ball-marked -the tala a® true. A Spar.dau working man: recently went to the i Hsgistcar’s Office to announce the birth of I child. The official refused to accept the ‘fcport on the ground that the workman , tots in iib working attire, and not in Sunl»T black! The labourer naturally did not rtho thing from the same point of view, was a less to him to be obliged to'go the Registrar during his hours of work perform this ortiaesDi duty, and ho did . »ct sea why he should lose more by having po dock himself out in his Sunday best for to hour in the midst of Ms morning’s work. He accordingly did not go again; to the Registrar. The police retorted by fining tan 3?- Ho appealed, but the Judge took She view c-f the official, and he has had to pay. At Spandau, therefore, fathers have jo put on their 'best clothes, when they report tie births of their 'children. On tie Other hand, officers of the army always go in, undress “working” costume, and hot in v full-dress. The workers cannot comprehend !h« Registrar’s distinction, nor the decision »f the magistrate. THE BOOTMAJKINGv TRADE. The special correspondent of this Journal, telegraphing from Wellinglon yesterday, _ says that with a ydew of obtaining up-to-date inforpation and machinery regarding Ameri-can-made boots, the Employers’ Association of New Zealand has offered to contribute £l5O towards sending two operatives to .America, and Messrs Skelton and Frostick, ttf Christchurch, and Staples and Compamy, of Wellington, have each promised a donation of £25 towards the object. The Bootmakers’ Federation will appoint the two operatives. The Federal Council, on Saturday discussed the proposal, and favoured It strongjy, providing that the parties axe tale to agree as to suitable delegates.

A VISITOR’S IMPRESSIONS. Mr Donald is apparently much Impressed with what h© saw in the colony Juriug his lecturing tour. In the course of an interview with a Townsville newspaper man he said’:—“l have been all Over New Zealand. I give precedence to no New Zealander in admiration of it. It is in my opinion the beat and brightest little country on earth’. It is not only prosperous, bub as a consequence of prosperity a higher domestic life and greater culture has followed. Take a single illustration. New Zealand buys more books than twice the population of any part of Australia. It can spend twice ns

much, money in entertainments. Whereover you go abroad you find the travelling" Now Zealander out of all proportion to 'the Australians. Its not altogether the intellect of a statesman, but tho carcase of a frozen sheep that has made New Zealand. Take away the sheep and you could not legislate it into affluence in a lifetime. Sir Julius Vogel tried that and failed. Sir George Grey found a happier state of things for his experiments. Mr Seddou, who is at once a fortunate and wise man, got the full flood tide of prosperity and had an easy time as a political pilot. If you want to imitate New Zealand’s advanced legislation', imitate first her developments.”

X A SOCIETY RUMOUR. The Manchester “Daily Despatch” recently published a statement, to which the London “Daily News” gave additional publicity on its contemporary’s authority alone. “The King’s forthcoming visit to Scotland,” it said, “is likely to be followed by the announcement of a social' ©vent of a startling character. H.R.H. the Duchess of Albany will accompany the King on his Visit to the north, and there is reason to believe that her betrothal to Lord Rosebery will be formally announced, either during tho royal visit to Holyrood or immediately after.”

A CONSERVATIVE PROFESSION. The young Scotchwoman, Miss Margaret Hall, has failed in forcing an, entrance to the legal profession. Miss Hall petitioned the Incorporated Society of Law Agents for permission to qualify as a practising law agent under the appropriate statute. Matters seemed favourable in the first stage, for the Society did nob oppose the petition, merely pointing out that, according to inveterate usage and custom, practice in the profession of tie law had been exclusively confined to men. The case was referred to the Court of 'Session for decision, and that ■body unanimously decided against Miss Hall.