CANTERBURY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2842, 2 September 1908, Page 31

CANTERBURY.

The price of butter in Wellington has dropped 2d per lb. The retail price of this commodity is now Is 4d per lb. It is stated on good authority that one of the officers of a prominent "Labour organisation in Christchurch left suddenly on August 21, and when those interested came to examine his books they discovered that there wag a -deficiency of something like £70. All efforts to trace him have up to the present been unsuccessful.

At the Magistrate's Court on August 27 Mrs Winny, aged 81 years, was awarded £60 damages against the Christchurch Tramway Board for injuries sustained by reason of a conductor starting a car before the plaintiff was properly on board. The plaintiff fell and broke her leg. The Canterbury Master Butchers' Association has resolved to increase the retail price of beef by Id per lb from September 1. The advanced price of fat cattle is given as a reason for the incieaae.

Applications have been received by the secretary of the Royal Humane Society of New Zealand (Mr R. Lynn) for awards in tlje- cases of Douglas Hamilton, actor (a member of Mr Frank Thornton's Comedy Company), who on August 12 last saved a woman from drowning in the roadstead at Gisborne, and of Wm, Jones, who on June 2 last saved Percy Martin from drowning at Port Ahuriri, Napier. Capfain Hawkes, of the Union Company's tug Tuatea, and Mr Frank Thornton support the application in Mr Hamilton's case.

Fire associations have been formed in the large timber-growing centres of the United States of America. These associations are organised among the landowners. including the timber men. and some of them are subsidised from the State Treasury. This step has been found the more necessary at the present time, as owing; to the waete which for generations has been one of the obaiacterisfcioa of the trade in America, to ear no&infir pf the havoo wrought by the forest fires— by some people considered to entail even greater lose,— timber has become so soarce in America that every possible means is being resorted to for the protection <« what rejnoinc.