NOTES AND NEWS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 110, 15 June 1914, Page 4

NOTES AND NEWS.

The Canterbury Rowing Club ball has "been fixed for July 8.

Mr ami Mrs Owen Hope, who were in Christchurch last week, have returned to their home at Springfield. Mr and Mrs W. A. Crawford, of Dunedin, who have been staying at Rock Yilla, Sumner, for the past month or so, left on Saturday night for the north, where the}' will spend the winter in different towns.

Colonel Snow and the Misses Snow, and Miss Margaret Richardson, intend leaving for Fiji and the Islands early next month. They also intend visiting Sydney for a month or two before returning to New Zealand. The Rev. and Mrs Brainsby, who arrived in Christchurch from Wellington last week, have gone on to Dunedin, ■where Mr Brainsby is conducting special mission services. Miss C. W. Christie, who last night gave an interesting address on '' The Memory of Past Lives and How to Ecgain It" at the Theosophical rooms, will be farewelled by the society at a «oneert and social eveuing on June 19. Mr and Mrs Leonard Spicer, of London, who were in Christchurch recently, are now staying at the Royal Oak, Wellington, and leave this week for Rotorua. Mrs Platts, of Dunedin, is visiting her sister-iii-law, Dr PJatts-Mills, Wellington.

Mr and Mrs R Byrne returned to -Cliristt'lnireh from the north yesterday.

On Thursday week a social evening is to te held in St. Luke's schoolroom for the parents of the children who are attending the Sunday school in that parish. The social represents rather an innovation, and is designed principally to interest the parents in the work of the school and the religious instruction which the children receive.

The Rev. John Mackenzie and Mrs Mackenzie entertained the members of the choir of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church at the Manse on Friday night. A presentation was made during the evening to Mr and Mrs J. Lawrence, to mark their recent marriage, the ceremony Ijeing performed by Mr Mackenzie, who m so doing referred to the high regard in which both Mr and Mrs Lawrence ; are held. His remarks were supported lay Mr Sidney Williamson (choirmaster), Messrs C. Bills, J. M'Lean, J. M'Leod, and Miss Menzies. Dr Crooke testified W the high standard of. efficiency attained by the choir under Mr Lawrence (who is the organist), and compared it with its less satisfactory condition 14

ot 15 years ago. Mr Lawrence responded

on behalf of Mrs Lawrence and himself, T and the rest- of the evening was devoted ta* music and social converse. The presentation took the form 'of a silver kettle, suitably inscribed, on a stand.

"Albert Cashier," an inmate of the Soldiers' Home at Quincy, Illinois, U.S.A., who had been masquerading as a man for 60 years, and who served as ,a soldier in General Grant's army during the civil war, has just been found to be a woman. Her sex was discovered only when she was under the care of the surgeon. She was born in Ireland 72 years ago, and came to America as a stowaway clad in boy's clothes. When the civil war broke out she enlisted in tlie 95th Illinois Infantry, and participated in some of the bloodiest battles, always behaving with great gallantry. "When the war closed she resumed civil life as a workman, until age and the results of exposure during the war made her unable to support herself. She then entered the soldiers' She has refused to disclose her name or to tell her family history. The King has selected the title of Earl of Chester for use by the Prince of "Wales when he is travelling abroad. This title dates from 1246, when the earldom and its large estates were taken over by the Crown. King Edward travelled on the Continent as Baron Benfrew when Prince of Wales, and as JJwke of Lancaster during his reign. Victoria was known as either Countess of Balmoral or Duchess of Lancaster.

There are few things more maddening to a woman than the discovery that she has left home without her handkerchief! The moment its loss is detected «hc is taken with a violent attack of sneezing, usually in church or in the middle of the main street. A little later on she spills tea down the front of ier best skirt, and almost inevitably

gets a smut on hor nose or a cinder in her eye before she reaches home. There is a small, malignant Fate that attends very capably .to mutters of this kind! According to a diverting account published by an Italian newspaper, the Futurists' much heralded concert in !Mila 11 resulted in a free fight. The Futurists and their adversaries chased one another from the theatre into various cafes, and small battles raged at various points in the city. The concert of "tonal noise," as the promoters termed it, opened with whistling from the uadience, and finally an avalanche of potatoes, cabbages, and. other missiles fell on to the stage. A greengrocer, whose shop faces the Opera House, laid in for the occasion a huge supply of vegetables, as at a previous Futurist concert his stock had been quickly sold out. Eventually the CaraImiieri were called out to stop the fighting.