CANTERBURY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2714, 21 March 1906, Page 49

CANTERBURY.

A meeting of the Lyttelton Harbour Board wae held on the 14-th to consider the engineer's alternative schemes for the canal to Christchurch. Mr A. Kaye moved that Messrs Coode, Son, and Watthew, harbour engineers, Westminster, London, should be asked to state terms for reviewing the proposals after a personal visit of inspection. To this amendments were proposed rec'omxnending the Harbour Improvement Committee to "obtain the best expert advice and report on the financial aspect to the board, and requesting the High Commissioner to select a, firm of independent engineers, to whom alternative schemes would be referred. After a long discussion amendments were withdrawn in favour of the following motion, which was carried, with one dissentient: — "That without in any way committing the board to any of the schemes in the engineer's report, the board resolves that the Harbour Improvement Committee be instructed to communicate with the High Commissioner, with the object of procuring the best possible expert advice on the possibility and practicability of the schemes set out in the re"port, and also upon any other scheme for connecting Christchurch with the 6ea that may commend itself to* them after inspection of the surrounding country, and the terms on which such report would oe ' obtained, and that the committee be authorised to forward ail necessary papers in connection with the matter." It was also decided to refer the report to the Harbour Improvement Committee, to obtain information »s to the financial aspect of the question, particularly in reference to the canal to Wilson's road, and to supply a comparative cost in connection with the present railway rates. Mr Kaye's original motion was not put. Captain Linn, secretary to the Royal Humane Society, has received an application for the society's recognition of services Tendered by Alister Gordon Sandereon, of Timaru, 16 years of age, in saving the life of Nellie Elua Hunt, of Ashburton, a little girl in her tenth year, at Ashburton on January 25, 1906. The girl had been lifted off her feet by the rapid current of the Ashburton River, and carTied down stream, and it was only the plucky and prompt action, of young Sanderson, under most hazardous circumstances, which saved her from drowning. At a largely-attended public meeting at Geraldine on Friday night Mr F R. Flatman's constituents presented him with an illuminated address. Th« Premier and the Minister of Lands and Sir W. J. Steward were among^tho-ie present. At the Police Court en Monday Louis Ogden, a member of West Christchurch Cricket Club, playing in the Third Grade matches, was fined 40s, in default one month, for having on Saturday stolen £1 12s from the clothes of another player hanging up in the pavilion at Lancaster Park. Many thefts from the dressing room at the pavilion have occurred lately.