THE COLONIST. Published Every Morning. Friday, November 13, 1908. NEWS OF THE DAY.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12398, 13 November 1908, Page 2

THE COLONIST. Published Every Morning. Friday, November 13, 1908. NEWS OF THE DAY.

Anniversary services in connection with St. John's Methodist Sunday School, will take place on Suoday. A public meating will be held next Wednesday. -

Two horses, a chestnut mare and a bay gelding, wbicb have bsea iin-~ pounded, will.be sold at tha city pound at noon to-day by public auction unless claimed "before that hour. The mara has been at the pound about six weeks.

Applications for various teacherahips are invited by the Nelson Education Board.

A lire occurred yesterday afternoon at a two storied sbed_at the rear of a cottaga occupied by Mr J. Onapmau in a lane off Alton street, members, of the police and the Fire Brigade responded promptly to the alarm, and there being a good pressure of water, the flames were soon under control. The shed, wbich was almost wholly destroyed, was used as a washhouse, and the cause of the outbreak is not known, as there had not been a fire in the building since Monday. The house, which is only separated from jfcbe- shed by a few feet, sustained no damage. The is owned by Mr. J. Scott, of the Wood;

The members of the Defenco RifleCluD will tire a match for Mr Maginnity?s trophy at the Toi Toi Valley range to-morrow afternoon. A. full attendanco is requested as a meeting will also be held to discuss matters of importance

On Saturday, November 21st, at their rooms, Messrs Bisley Brrcs. and Co. will hold a dissolution auction sale of 36 properties, including building sites on Henley . Estate, .Richmond, facing Mein JRoad, small freehold farms at Stone, "ranging from 25 aores upwards, suitabla for small fruit-grow me, agricultural fainis from 47 acres, at Lower Mou tere, Waktbeld, and Kobatu ; also grazing run of 2000 acres at Graham.

Smart Silk Houses, 6s lid, 9s Gd, 12s 6d, ios, 17s 6d, 20s, 25s each.— Trathen's.*

The Citizens 1 Band notify their usual monthly concern in the city streets this evening, and on Sunday afternoon the band will render a select musical programme at the Bet taaical Eeserve, under Bandmaster G. C. Mookler.

Messrs Levien and Rollet will holi their usual weekly salu next Saturday at 11 a.m., when tboy will sell (i quantity of groceries, t'urnituro and farm implements.

It is notified in the "Gazette" that tel- graph message boys are not subj ct to the superannuation provisiiins of the Public. Service Classification and Superannuation Amendment Act.

r A !/ % UQ3«'(ia telegram states tbat ac the Presbyterian' General Assembly a discussion ensued on the Rev. Gib=on Smith's book entitled "Ti o Christ of the Cross." A Com mittte consistiiig of the Eevs. Patterdjn (convenor), Jolly, P. 13. Frase'. Elliott, Hewitson, Nesbit, Watr, Uunlop, Clarke, White, White, Gray, Dixon, McKenzie. Hutson, and Messrs Ueid and Muray, »as set up to draft a resolution that would be acceptable to the Assembly on the matter.

. A Pre3S Association message states that at Wairoa eleven natives charged with stealing two cows, valued at £10, were sentenced to six monfhs' imprisonment each, with hard labour.

H2OOO Ladies' Handkerchiefs, just arrival from Belfast, Ireland; beautiful goods. — Trathen's.*

The entries for the Canterbury A. and P. Show this year number 1810.. as against 1747 for last year. Visitors are "docking into Ohristchurch for the show.

. Tho nautical enquiry into the strandirg of the steamer Hawea at Qreymouth resulted m the Cojrfc exonirKting all concerned; and their certificates were returned to the officers; ■■■■■■..■

At a sale of- yearlings at Tattcrsairs,.Cnrisfcchurch, yesterday, the pric'd's obtained were 600, 450, 310, 300, 200 guineas and the others ranged from 30 to 150 guineas.^

A Fielding telegram announces, the deatb of Mr Charles 11. Caynes, the ole'rk of the Kiwitea County Counoil. ' He was a very popular officer.

Mr Watson Heine, optician, announces that he bas extended his stay here till Saturday, 21st JNovembbr. •.".-.■ •

BLadies' Handkerchiefs : Plain, 2d, 3d, 4d, t 6d each. Fancy, 3d to 2s each.— ■ Trathen's.*

.--A telegram from Palmerston North states tbat A. Terry, a flaxmill hand at Linton, cut his throat with a razor on on Wednesday, ilis life is de spaired of.

A Cbristchuroh telergam states tbat on Tuesday thero was no case of drunkenness at the-. Magistrate's Court —so unusual a happening after a holiday tbat the Magistrate, Mr Bishop, remarked with a smile of knowledge : "Some of them have been; lucky!" *

A telegram from Auckland 6tatcs that on Monday a. little girl named. Beat-ice Edmonds met with a serious accident. She wa3 playing at Shelly Beach, Poosonby, when abe fell over' fi^cliff about 25 feet high. Eye witnesses of tue accident state tbac they felt certain that the little girl had been killad, and- they were relieved to find on investigation that she had bad a marvellous, escape, although painfully injured. A medical examination revealed the fact that her left thigh had been broken, and^abe was suffering from shock. She \yas removed to the hospital. ■ ;

Great variety Lace Curtains. 3s 6d, 4s 6d, 6s6i. 9i6d, 12s 6d, to 18s 6 1, at Trathen's.*; . ■

A Press Association message from Wellington states that at the ad- : journed inquest on the infant found ■in the harbour there, the Coroner gave a \erdiut of "found deal in Wellington harbour." There vyas cb. murk of viblen-'e, and no direct evidence to prove that tho child had been born alive.

-Fashionable Striped Zephyrs, Cam^ brics, etc., 7jd and Is yard,atTrathen's.*

vAt Auckland in the Supreme Court yesterday, . Hirini Ngatimo knd Hphepa," a young married Maori couple, irere 'tried for the of theireighteen months' old . child at Otarao. MThe child, it was proved, was 'deliberately, thrown on a firs three times. and died from the burns reoivdd.: The jury found the pris-oners-.guilty of manslaughter, and recommended them to meroy on the ground of religious insanity.

Ladies! Why pay. a price for a slop costume -when you can get a first-class cut costume and materials for a little more, at Harford ■ and Daly's, Trafalgar Street.