CHRISTCHUECH NEWS NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2626, 13 July 1904, Page 38

CHRISTCHUECH NEWS NOTES.

(Feom Our Own Corbespoxdent.) CHRISTCHURCH, June 30

Early this morning about a hundred shivering enthusiasts from various parts of Canterbury assembled at Woodend to engage in a stag hunt. The stag which was to provide the lmnt had come down from the ranges in a moment of absent-mindedness, and v, as allegeel to be sustaining M in-self meanwhile, upon the settles' tirnips and other crops. The hunt was under the p:<.trciiago of the Acclimatisation .Society, and was looked forward lo as something unique in the v. ay ot~ hunting. AVhen the party leached Woodend it fa 'led to disco-, er the stag, and, to its consternation and disgusr. \v»i presently informed by the nearest yoke.l that the. animal had been shot by an adjpcenfc farmer, whose land it had exploited, and who had no sympathy with hunt. The indignant huntsmen thereupon surrounded the fanner's house with great strategy, and demanded the stag, dead or a ho; but as tha farmer declined to say whether ho had possession of the stag or not, and refused to allow anybody to search hn prem sts. and otherwise beha\ed in a rude and off-hand manner towards the hunt, it wits compelled to confine il«elf to glaring at him with gr-at cont?nvrt and then going home. Ntatj-hui.tinsr experiences in Canterbury can now be- obtained for the asb ng. aecompaireu by illumining language, from a

number of people

I'litiior the Chriftchurch consumer is a tlis«pli=ficrl and cantankerous gnmibler, or the Chiistc'iurch City Council is killing the ejrctrical goose that Jaj s tho 40-cancllo egg-. At tJI cents, tliero i~ a \ehc-ment dispute 1 boiv-cvn nn«uiEci'i of municipa'.ly-supplicd olcc'nc'iv and aurhoi'ilic-s. Thoro are tv. o 1 Uijmt j't-s. the cori'uni ~i ■>' '.lory and th Ciry rouncil's story, wl'ich elon't uo-\etail a 'vv, hero Tho covruil product 1 * its sc<Tic of pi'ic, itncl stales with gieat ompha | ?'=. that tLev arc- rca-oiubl? and pio^er prici s, and. cor.ii "ncfl \iith tie prices in other lowib, pro modc-t to the \orc;e of boslifu'.nc-s. Tho consumer rciorts, wuh dct-p disgust ami Joud ii:dignation. that lie docn't caro what the councTfi alleged scale of charges arc the pric-e is t^ice as much as gas, and the light isn't half as good, and as the consumer probably knows what he is talking about, seeing that he has to use. the light, and as ho is backing up*his opinion in some, cases by getting an installation of his own, it is high'y probable that the amateur experts ojj tho City Council have raided things up

and picked out the rrronGj price li=t. or el=e I ihe City Counril's bianJ of ele. iriciry is a wiak, uneleirioCif, di uttd brard. v.ith water m it. tli^t ke°-j i on lepk'iir; out of the pip 1"'1 "' | and oilier" -c iifu-iiTj; to H->-.ociato with tho I m.nieinal wince tior.j of tlio civ c aiilhori-

tie--. j L:, -t night. In t!io Lyttelton Council Cl'anibiM- a number of ro-.cknts mai'o a prosonlut >m to iiic Xc/. A 11. Trcjidwol l , wui hr« 'cloned tho c'larcro ot tho Proshy-icr-an Church at Lvtre'ton, owing to iflhcslrh. ? Tiio Mayor "(iit S R. We-bb), who piesitieM sst the pailiiina. in piescitinj- Mr | Troarlvrdl with a pii'-c of sovc-roiyns sub- , e cr'brd by the c.tizens of Lyttolton, lefoircd | to the groat cnoi-gj- c'..«played by him m j various matters connected with the welfare : of the town, and o\prc=--ed the great regiet j which was felt bj- all who knew him at h'.s | leading Lj-ttelton, and hoped that he would j soon be rpstorcd to good health. A very | iarje number of the members and attenI dauts cf St. John's Piesbyterian Church I al=o mot in the Lyltehon Prcsbylerian ! schoolroom to bid farowell to Mr TreadI we'l. Tho Rev. J. Mackenzie, moderator of .the Lytte'ton charge and of the Christcburch ! P -esbytery, who was in the elm>i\ spoke of i the regiet which was felt by the Lyltelton j congregation at the departure of their minister, a regret which was snared by the members of tho Presbytcy, of which Mr Treaclwoll had for 12 years been eleik. I Speaking personally, he deeply felt the Joss | of a very old friend, and hoped that Mr and Mrs Troadwell would have much I happiness in tho future.