CHRISTCHURCH. September 30,

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8090, 1 October 1894, Page 3

CHRISTCHURCH. September 30,

The Canterbury Amateur Athletic Club held their annual cross-country steeplechase meeting at Sumnor on Saturday. The course was very stiff, and only 6 competitors out of 20 starters finished in the threo«mile event. The race was won by J. H. Jones (250 yards), T. 11. liarkor (275 yards), 2 ; 0. E. Smith (300 yards), 3. Time— 2l mine. 57 2-sths seconds. The three placed men aro all young members of the Canterbury Amatour Athletic Club. An open-air meeting under tho auBpicea of tho Progressive Liberal Association wus hold in Cathedral Square on ' Saturday night, to consider tho administratiou of oharitablo aid in the North Canterbury district About 500 or 000 were present. Reoolutiona were unanimously carried : 1. That in viovr of the growing demand which has been strengthened by tho recent utterances of tho Star for an enquiry into the administration of tho charitable aid system in North Canterbury, this raeeting urges upon tho Minister for J ustico the need for afc once appointing a competont tribunal to conduct an investigation. 2. That this mooting urges on the Government to amend tho existing legislation prior to the close of tho present Bession in tho direction of providing for tho election of Charitable Aid Committees. William de Troy, a well-known early settler, died yesterday at Ilangiora.

The suggestive par appears in the Post : " There are two notable omißsions from tho lost number of the Labor Journal, Neither the Cuatomß returns nor tho return of purrivftln and departures arc given. Thia in ujgnificant. A feature u«ed to bo made of these returns when they vrcro eafciafactory. JNovr they are no longer «o, they are omitted. This is exceedingly oharacLorintic of Minw^HaljoUoj^^^^