LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VI, Issue 1808, 29 November 1919, Page 11

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

All the rivers of Canterbury 'were reported clear to-day, except the north branch of the Waimakariri, which is discoloured. The Canterbury Horticultural Society's Roso Show will be held in the Art Gallery on Friday, December 5. Entries will close on Monday evening, December 1, at 9 o'clock. | As Monday will be recognised as St. Andrew's Day* the meeting of the Christchurch Licensing Committee fixed for that day will be held on Monday, December 8. Proprietors of hair-dressing saloons are experiencing difficulty in obtaining a sufficient number of assistants to maintain their businesses at full pressure. For this reason, coupled with the expense involved in complying with recent regulations of the Health Department, one large firm of tobacconists in this city has closed its«saloon. At the Lyttelton Magistrate's Court this morning, before Mr F. G. Norton, J .P., Joseph Delaney was charged with the theft, on July 16, of a dispatch bag, valued at £2, the property of the New Zealand Refrigerating Company. On the application of Senior-Sergeant Jackson, accused was remanded to December 6.

The proceedings in a divorce ease heard-at the Supreme Court yesterday were held up for 25 minutes, owing to the non-appearance of the chief witness for the "petitioner. Aftet an exhaustive but fruitless search in the precincts of the court by court officials and lawyers' clerks his Honour Mr Justice Herdinan adjourned the case for 10 minutes to give the witness a chance of putting in an appearance. Within that time, the witness had appeared with the excuse of having missed a car. It.was definitely stated by a person at Mr W. R. Devereux's meeting* at Tompleton on Thursday evening that the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. W. F. Massey) was one of the largest'shareholders in the Northern Roller .Milling Company, Ltd., Auckland. The interjector was very emphatic in his assertion of the matter, and accordingly the Hon. R. Moore, M.L.C., telegraphed to the Prime Minister at Queenstown yesterday. He received a reply to-day which said that the statement was an absolute fabrication, and that Mr Massey had never owned a share in any flour mill in his life.