CANTERBURY NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12358, 25 August 1903, Page 3

CANTERBURY NEWS.

[HT MtSeHAPH.-OWKCQBBEBPOOTiBBT.].' KI tTOHTJBcna, v Mdiidsr r , . . A LATE "DISAPPEARANCE." ' Mb. A. F, Bikc. of this ~V, who left with , the Tenth .Contingent for South Africa, re-. ■ '■ ;: J«JOd by « W lo,uol«i week ~Hi £w ' , whose sudden and mysterious disappearance ' I : from CBmstchjrch 1M y l3r I £a 4*\ :;. ; anxiety in mining and other c'tclph ' a*. ,! ;ity of the Gcdley H«JTi ASo and ' some time 'a scorch w« Jbnu*.m t?7 IOP - J? j y stonu ,b0 washed ashore. " I.f '■ S» S ,- W r; P^ , obtaia Panicilm of L ■■ «ie method .adopted by the. geriflemair ih 3 K 10 "' which resulted in ,t , of-the eountry, but it is reporlld thft [ »» month ]yin ? hidden *?* a hout 1 Lyltdtoiii, until a favourable opportSniS , ',- [ presented itself ,to get unSSd ; ■ A REPORTED 'ROBBERY. .y *'- ■'■ A .serious robbery is reported to Hi* " .. ttsen plaoo in OhristcJrarA durr£ W ' "" Trees When at was known that an nn . usually large, number of ,flodoajniHo di ß '■': f till Tw' 1 V° W , n '' th ° Polico and detective , . ■:?■P^<•^tept^fc.,Bl}«l^^a■^ w ,tch as, possible J?n :Buqh .pefsbns but were unable to^pre! ■ «F L S -T robberies, * most important - : - of which ■:,» alleged to (have occbrS L .'" Colombo-street on the right. of August 14 ■ ' , A settler frora the Rangiora district Report ' . ed that a « m / totalling several-Jiundtwcf J pounds in notes, wag stolen from him; The ' ' settler m question la stated to have ehang*! ' " ; a cheque for some amount 1™ ' than the mm stolen, receiving the ' ■ ; chief portion in £50 banknote,. He came >" : , to Chnstchutch, and it is reported that he got into the company of , certain strangers, ■'' who, subsequent y, are supposed to have ' ,; gone through" him. .The numbers of (hi ' ' notes are known, and the■■ banks ' hare been •'■ ; Advised. ; Tho police hope, to dearie ■.'■>• whole matter up within a few days. :l : ,■ V PROPOSED DOMESTIC TRAINING V' SCHOOL. ' v • , The Canterbury Women's Institute, which ' : - iias tackled the subject of domestic Wt hold a public meeting on. Friday to discuss • : a scheme for the establishment' of a train- . ing school and boardins-house. Tb, p.^i, cert, Mr*, Page, said that .domestic- servioe ,' was not what it ought to bo, uad " helps" were not treated with enough consideration.; . it ; With reference to the training home scheme - tor domestics, suitablo premises could be rented at £150 a year, if sufficient support ' ? to warrant the building was not forthcom- ■*&. '• i '''" matron should receive a 4 least o™ a y , ear ;' furn i*"re would cost about ■ 5.300, and about £40 a year would bo in- ! ' quired for an assistant tin inmates ali-o to : help. The home should contain,*; on an average about twenty boa- se? ?, if these: were charged 20? per week each, ik profit '■ ''' of 2s 6d per head might be made.'' Mans , girls'might attend as-dAily pupils at, jut* ; s; per week, or 15s with board. ■To im» " ; , prove the conditions of ' domestic service ' ' would be no easy task. There was the question of wages, and women were sq,«ftoo stinted in the matter of money tliafc they could not pay what ought to bo a proper S '' wage. Mistresses said the girls were not worth ' the money, while the girls said the w»goi? '. ,- weranot enough to indue© ,good work.- At' a, later period of the evening, Mrs. * Page said 1 ; that if helps got a fA'illing an hour and, bought. their own meals a-i workmen did ' : the matter would be simplified. It wot'"o;i resolved that it was advisable that a company should be formed to carry out th« ,- k scheme. The prospects of its success axe '' not, however, considered brilliant. ' ;, i . ', i .'J ./'} =—