TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 16805, 15 March 1915, Page 6

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Tho anniversary services of the Oxford Terrace Baptist Church were held yesterday, the Rev J. J. North preaching both morning and evening to largo congregations.

Tho Wellington Farmers’ Meat Company, states a Press Association telegram from Masterton, has decided to increase the capital by £<30,000 to enable provision to be made for storage capacity at tbe Waingawa works for another 100,000 sheep. A Press Association telegram from Wellington states that Ambulance Saturday was favoured with fine' weather and with very satisfactory financial results. A total of £216 8s 4d was collected, as against £O7 in May last. A meeting of the various tramway organisations of the Christchurch Tramway Board was held on Friday night for the purr ->so of considering the question of entering a team to work for the Queen of the Carnival competition. The proposal was agreed to and a number of sections were set up. The work accomplished by each section will he posted in the car-shed and vicinity so that rivalry will bo promoted among the sections themselves in addition to that which will come generally from, the main competition. Arrangements are now in hand to further the work of the sections.

To have a cart laden with coal crash through one’s roof and a heavy draught horse make its entrance through the side of the house into one’s bedroom is not, fortunately, a common occurrence. The inmates _of a residence in Upper MacLaggan Street, says the Dunedin correspondent of the “ Lyttelton Times,” however, had this experience about midday on Saturday. To facilitate tile delivery of the coal the vehicle had to be backed near a steep embankment, and by Some means horse and cart and all toppled on "to the roof. The horse, falling through the shafts, landed in such a position that tho side of the house had to be partly removed and the animal taken through the passage and out of the front door. A good deal of damage was done to crockery, etc., by the impact, and the iumates received the shock of their lives. Hai-vest thanksgiving services in connection with the 1.-inwood Congregational Church were held yesterday. In the morning tho sermon was preached by the pastor, the Rev H. Allen Job, and in the evening Mr L. M. Isitt conducted' the service before ai largo congregation. Ho. congratulated tho Church and its members on tho very fine display of fruit and harvest products that they showed, and said that it reflected great credit on those who had arranged it so tastefully. The size of the congregations also was very pleasing. They had a hard row to hoe at that end of the town, hut they had been well served by a succession of earnest hard-working pastors. Special music suitable to the occasion was sung and' solofi were contributed at both services by Miss Jessie Sladen and Mr J. Richards. To-night in the church hall the fruit and. vegetables will be sold and the proceeds devoted to tlio Belgian Fund. That Treasured Oil Portrait can be enlarged to make a handsome picture. It will be inexpensive if we do it. Steffano AVebb, Petersen’s Buildings, High Street. Telejihone 1989. X 3 Great mark down sale of Collapsible Push-cars from 39s 6d. The wellknown “ Junior Tourist ” push-cars 1a lovely tan, grey and dark shades, usually £3.- Sale price 555. Also others with, automobile hood, smartest cars in town. 69s 6d, at Drayton’s Emporium, 266, Colombo StreeJk -JS2S

The New Brighton Surf dub will hold a life saving competition on tho New Brighton beach on Saturday for a gold medal presented by Mr P. Mills. • v The appeal by the to the audience at. the Opera House on Saturday night resulted in tho sum of £3 9s 9d being thrown on the stage for the fund in aid of the starving Belgians.

The thirty-fifth annual exhibition of the Art Society will be opened on Thursday at 8 p.m., when the council will receive members at a private view. The exhibition will be opened to tho public on Friday at 10 a.m., and daily thereafter until April 17. The collection of pictures is considered to he well up to the standard of previous years. During tho fire at. West Lyttelton yesterday a dog belonging to Mr A.. V. Williams became frightened at the sight of flames and sought shelter under a meat safe. The animal cried piteously for assistance, and eventually its howls were heard by one of the firemen. who set to work with an axe and by demolishing a fixture behind the safe set the animal free.

A constable in plain clothes who stationed himself at tho big lamp post in .the south centre of Latimer Square between the hours of o and 6 p.m. on Friday last gathered a host of unsuspecting cyclists into his ' trap. Complaints had been made that tho cyclists were becoming a nuisance through their frequent use of the. tracks across the Square and in any case riding on them is n.n offence against the by-law. Quite a large numbed of the victims were ladies and judging by the crowd that assembled to wait the divulgence of their names and addresses Latimer Square was a very popular short cut for cyclists.;

Whether it is better to endure tho pangs of hunger than oat lunch in twenty minutes—that is tho question that arose in tho mind of most of thooo present at tho Napier Supreme Court on Wednesday, when the Chief Justice, Sir Robert Stout, said that about 1876 or 1877- lie was not sure which—Judge Johnson used to say that twenty minutes wa,s amplo time in which to adjourn for lunch. The. times have changed, and though things are supposed to be rushed more now than they used to be in the seventies, Sir Robert Stout decided that an hour was necessary, and adjourned tho Court accordingly. A touching incident occurred outside the Auckland Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday. A case had been hoard and adjourned, in which* a wifo applying for a separation order and maintenance had been telling how her husband had illtreated her. Meanwhile a little girl about three years of ago, who had been living with her mother since the husband line! left home by mutual agreement with his wife, was climbing all over her recovered father, while tho complainant was relating what a bad man ho was. When the case was adjourned the child ran away from her mother, calling out “ Dad 1 Dad!” and had finally to bo taken away another road crying bitterly because she was separated from her father.

Yesterday afternoon at 3.30 there was a narrow escape from a serious boating accident on the Sumner bar. Three yogng men in a> small motor-boat, the Reo, crossed tho bar at high water. After cruising in the open sea they returned, to find that the break on tho bar had become worse. They attempted several times to cross, but each timo were frightened off by breakers, and they turned back. At last a roller broke on tho side of the launch and apparently stopped the motor. Those on the pier could see the occupants of the boat take to the oars. As they were evidently in a precarious position the lifeboat put out, although owing to the want of an efficient alarm it was impossible to procure a full crew. Those-who manned the boat were G. S. Lavie (in charge), F. Lindrose, R. Piercy, O’Neill, E. Wood and W. Carter. Shortly after leaving the pier it was noticed that the engine of the launch had been restarted, and tho services of the lifeboat were not required. Tlie Reo was taken to the slip at Bell’s Baths.

Precautions taken on the East Coast of England are illustrated in a letter received in Wellington from a Chief Petty Officer on one of/the ships guarding tho coast. “ Yesterday,” he writes, “1 had a little adventure. I managed to get ashore on duty, and, missing the early boat off to the ship, found myself wandering through docks, falling over railway sleepers, etc., in the ‘ antiZoppel’ darkness, till suddenly a sentry challenged mo: ‘Advance, friend, aiid give tho password.’ I didn't know it, hadn’t inquired, so this braud-neiv Kitchener’s army zealot came on at the charge, butting only when his bayonet was some one and a half inches off my ‘ wame.’ To ‘ mak siccar,’ he also slipped a cartridge into his rifle, and again demanded the password-, ‘ Quick 1’ I felt quite a little queer witli that sharp jpomt almost tickling my buttons, and sincerely hoped he wasn’t a nervous chap. I had an insane instinct to knock liis bayonet to one side and give him a. clout. But wisely I refrained. But the beggar kept mo there for goodness knows how long, half an hour anyway, with his bayonet point tracing funny little circles round my front as ho grew tired, strictly at the charge,’ till finally relief canic- My uniform was no passport, for they’re ‘ dead nuts ’ on spies on this East Coast now- So I had to hang about till next boat, 8.30 p.m., in the darkness.”

During his recent, to the north, tho Hon A. L. Herdman made a trip through the Urewera Country. From a deputation of Maoris lie found, lie states, that their chief desire is that the Government should amend or repeal altogether the legislation which makes about 675,000 acres of land a close reservation. He was told by those competent to judgo that throughout the reserve there is abundance of timber—totara, rimu and white pineand he himself saw, where the timber had been cleared, acres of land covered with splendid pasture. He saw enough to convince him that some competent judges should be sent into the territory to express an opinion on the value of the land and the timber, “ The natives.” lie added, “ say that they can do little with the land. It is their land and yet it is not theirs. It is reserved for them, but apparentlv they can neither lease, sell, nor develop it, and they are calling out for an alteration in the law. if a road were put through from Rnatahuna to Hopuruahine, at the head of Lake AVaikaremoana, one of the finest tourist routes in New Zealand would be provided. Gisborne. Wairoa and Rotorua would derive direct benefit, and communication would be opened up between the stock markets of the "Waikato and the East Coast. Of course, I did not see the part of the Urewera Country where Rna lives. That, I understand, is situated about, thirty miles from where I passed. He is probably opposed, to any change, but in the country through which T passed T am convinced tliat the natives do want settlement. I understood when T was in the country that tho natives were making arrangements to hold a big meeting to consider the question of settlement of their lands in the neighbourhood of Te Whaiti and Ruatahuna.” To-morrow Messrs A. Armstrong and Company, Drapers, will proceed with the third sale of the series arranged for tlie disposal of Bing, Harris and Company's stock. A special feature will be the inclusion in the Sale of a magnificent collection of Rich, Fashionable Furs—just secured from the manufacturers’ representative. This should prove a decided attraction for the ladijaH

A girl of about fifteen years, who, it is alleged, has been preying on the cash of tlio smaller newsboys about the street, was arrested in Auckland on Wednesday night. It was stated that she had been making a practice of making some excuse for getting tho juvenile paper-vendors to show their cash, and then grabbing what she could arid running away. She came before Mr E. C. Cutten, S.M., on Thursday, on four different charges of theft and was remanded till Monday, to enable her mother to ho present at the hearing. Mumm, tho champagne people, have been ljit pretty badly by the war. They are Germans by birth. and three brothers hold commissions in the Germaji army. When the war broke out one of them, who was in France, was promptly interned, and the others had to join their regiments. Then the _ French Government confiscated their property in France, because they were enemies, and tl),e German Government confiscated their property in Germany because theirs was a French business.

A large German flag adorned the walls of the College Rifle Club’s room at Auckland on Tuesday evening, on the occasion of the,.club's annual meeting. It was explained states the “ New Zealand Herald,” that the flag was found by a party of signallers of the Auckland Divisional Signalling Company, who formed part of the Now Zealand Expeditionary Force at Samoa. The flag was hoisted by tlie German’s on a mast connected 1 with the wireless station, seven miles from Apia, just, before war was declared. It was lowered again by the German wireless officials on the morning of August'29, 1914, the day when the Expeditionary Force from New Zealand, arrived in the harbour of Apia. The same night, at eleven o'clock, a. detachment of the .'frd (Auckland) Regiment took possession of tho stationFour Germans were made prisoners, and the flag was taken from its hidingplace by Lieutenant H. C. Cotton and a party of Auckland signallers, ana' subsequently was presented to the College Rifles Club. New Season's Hockey Sticks now opened up. First-class selection from leading makers. Inspection invited. Lowis and Anderson, 112, Cashel Street. 1898 Sweet Peas and how to grow them. Messrs Hastie. Bull and Pickering are now readv with Bradbury’s Gold Medal Sweet Pea Seeds in handy packets. With each purchase will bo given instruction 3 for culture. • 1898

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