NEWS OF THE DAY.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13755, 21 June 1913, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Word has been received at Wanganui that the New Zealand. Ladies' Hockey Association lias accepted the Wanganui Association's application to hold tho 1913 ladies' hockey tourney at Waaganui.

The Wanganui District Nursing League has a credit balance of nearly £oUO. Two. collections were made during the past 12 months, realising £652.

Tho man Patrick O'Donovan, who escaped from th© Terrace Gaol on Wednesday and was,re-captured four hours later, was yesterday sentenced to an additional three months' imprisonment.

Tho soft goods warehouses will bo closod on Monday, being the Prince of Wales' Birthday. An advertisement appears in another column.

A Press telegram states that tho Railway Appeal Board sat at New Plymouth yesterday morning, and heard four cases, judgment in which will bo delivered at Palmorston North on, 25th inst.

Tho Wellington City Council has been discussing a proposal to give tho corporation insurances to a London firm at a reduction o't 10 per cent on ordinary rates, and a remission of the average and warranty clauses. It wa.s decided Jast night, says a Press telegram, that the- Town Clerk draw up a schedule, and tenders be incited irom all insurance firms doing business in Wellington.

Please understand that tho full usual programme will bo given at tho Permanent Pictures to-night. Tho great boxing film, Langford v. McVea, constitutes a second show for which .a separate charge* is made of ono shilling to all parts of tho house.*

Two shows at Permanent Pictures to- j night. Ordinary programme 8 to 10. j At 10.15 tho great sporting film Lang-; ford v. McVea. On© shilling to all: parts of tho house.? '■

Tho management of Permanent Pictures finds that despite the- publicity given, some patrons ore under tho impression that tho .Langford v. McVea boxing 'picture- wiU 'bo _ part of the usual programme. This is not so. A reference, to our advertising columns will show that a full programmo will be given as usual from 8 to 10, when the Theatre will bo cleared, and the boxing film will bo put on at 1®.13 constituting a second and distinct show for whick a charge of one shilling to allparts of tho house wiil bo mado. Tho management has taken this course out of consideration for lady patrons who would not welcome so. largo .a part of the usual programmo being taken up by tho representation of a boxing contest.

Quite separate and distinct from tho ordinary programme tho Langford-Me-Yea fight will bo screened at 10.15 tonight at tho Permanent Pictures.*

Tho public of Nelson will probably 1 not need to bo reminded of the recital to be given in tho School of Music on Monday evoning by Miss Mario Motto, assisted by Miss >hyllis Fell. Those who havo not heard Miss Motto play the violin will recall her name as figuring in the most talented string quartette in England, and as a concert performer of high Continental reputation, and this no'doubt will attract great numbers to tho recital to hoar a performance which it is within tho capacity of few living violinists to equal in brilliance. Those- lew who havo heard Miss Motto play will bo present to bo further delighted with tho mastery she displays in violin music, and to be moved with the ■wealth of expression and feeling which eho imparts to tho works of tho-groat masters through the medium of her Stradivarius—an instrument the'qualities of wliich rank with, tho accomplishments o.f tho artist who plays upon it. In Miss Phyllis .'Fell tho audience will hear a pianisce of exceptional talent, which will bo all the more appreciated on account of its possessor being a Neleonian.

Mr. Alfred Gould advertises ,scmo of the particulars of tho .household furniture to bo sold on account of E. t4rove, Esq., at his residence, Trafalgar street south, noxt Tuesday, 24th. at 1 p.m. Catalogues of tho sals will ho inserted ill Monday's issue of this paper.

A false alarm of fire was given shortly before eleven o'clock last evening. Those who dragged tho reel almost down to the Port, where rumour.said the outbreak had occurred, would probably welcome an example being made of the individual who rang tho bell.

A gas explosion occurred at, Foxton on Thursday in a brick building, about to,bo occupied. Workmen were engaged on the building, and noticed that gas was escaping. A plumber applied a lighted match to a joint, and tin explosion followed which shattered the windows and destroyed a portion of the ceiling. Nobody was seriously injured. Tho damage is estimated at £40.

"The Invercargill Chamber of Commerce passed a resolution last night, says a Press telegram,, viewing with grave concern the almost certain extermination of opossums through tho removal of protection, and urging the Government to re-introduce adequate measures for protection.

A new over-bridge will shortly bo erected in tlae Avdndale station-yard. The bridge will bo 50ft long, and 30ft wide, and will cost about £9UO.

Miss Emily Frances Siddon, of Honloy, has been elected the. first lady chairman of Huddersfield Guardians. She ha« been a member of the board for 31 years.

An old Swiss thaler, or three-shilling piece, c»ined at Bellinzona in tho sixteenth century was put up for sale at an auction at Frankfort recently, and was sold for £618 10s.

Tho choir boys of Brompton and Snainton village churches, near Scarborough, have- gone on strike because they were not invited to a tea given to the adult choristers and lady helpers after a. visit of the Archbishop of York to Brompton Church, where tho choirs united for service. Tho boys consider that an apology is due to them from the church officials.