LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 1892, 26 March 1874, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

-» Thb Intehpbovinctal Regatta. — The regatta takes place to-morrow. Owing to the refusal of the Mayor and City Council to request tho citizens to close their place of business for tho day, it will not bo obsorved as & general holiday in Christchurch. Postal. — The Australian mails per Albion havo been landed at Hokitika, and will be brought to Christchurch by coach due on Saturday, at 4.30 p.m. Lyttelton Harbour. — It iB notified in a Provincial Gazette dated March 24, that Mr A. Reed has been appointed pilot and Mr J*. Galbraith assistant pilot. Rakaia Bridge. — In the New Zealnnd Gezette, of March 19, the ruleß and regulations under which the Rakaia Bridge will be open for ordinary traffic, are set forth by proclamation under the hand of his Excellency the Governor. Good Templars. — A degree session of the Hope Lodge was held in the Temperance Hall last evening, when five members were initiated into the second degree of the order by the P.G.D.W.C.T., Bro. Hutton. There was a largo attendance of ollicera of tho order, and tho lodge was then closed by the Worthy Chaplain in the usual way. St. Albans Library. — A meeting of the committee was held on Tuesday evening, I;he Hon. J. T. Peacock in the chair, when the plans for the library were approved, and the architect was instructed to invite tenders for erection at once. It was also decided to sell thirty feet frontage of the library site, which at preaent has a frontage of sixty-six feet. The Price of Bread. — A meeting of master bakers was held at tho White Hart Hotel last night, for tho purpose of considering the desirability of making an advance in tho price of bread. Mr A. Thiele was voted to tho chair, and after some diacuasion it was resolved " That in consequence of tho rise in the price of flour, fuel, and wages, tho price of bread bo increased to 8d the 41b loaf." Serious Accident. — A serious accident happened at Kuiapoi yesterday afternoon to Mr Charles Rimtuington, farmer, Eyreton. He was driving a loaded dray along the Rangiora and Kaiapoi road, and when between the Sneyd's Arms Hotel and the Girder bridge, he endeavoured to pull his team to tho side of the road to make room for Mr Isaac Wilson, who was driving past. On catching hold of the bridle of the shaft horse, the horse immediately in front of it, or what ia called tho " body horso "of tho team — a young one without blinkers — kicked out and knocked Mr Rimmington under the dray. Ho fell with 'his head close to tho inside of the off wheel, and tho near wheel came on to one of hia thigha and broke it. Fortunately for Mr Rimmington, tho young horse kept on kicking and stopped the dray before tho wheel entirely passed over tho leg, and the shaft horse backed, a liLtle out of the way of its unruly fellow in front, and thus enabled its owner to roll from under the dray. Mr Wilson and others conveyed Mr Rimmington to tho Sneyd's Arms Hotel, and tho former went immediately for Dr Fletcher, who set the leg, but it was rather badly fractured, and other wounds and bruises were inflicted by the kick and fall.

Christchuech Representative Crew. — It is very probable that the Christchurch representative crew will pull in the champion four-oar ontrigger race, with a coxswain. The steering apparatus has not been found to work very satisfactorily, and the services of a coxswain very little over 4st in weight have been obtained should the crew be willing to accept them. Accident. — Mr Hogg, hay and corn dealer, was driving a horse and dray laden with straw along Colombo street, yesterday, when the belly-band of the harness broke and the dray tipped up, causing the horse to bolt. The accident occurred near Mr E. Reece'B, and the horse galloped towards the A 1 Hotel, where it turned into Cashel street, but the off wheel of the dray coming in contact with the end of the footbridge over the side channel, the dray was capsized. On seeing this, Beveral persons ran forward and seized the horse, which, on being released, was found to have sustained no injury.