LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 3420, 27 March 1879, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Football — The opening match of the Eastern Football Club will take place on Saturday on Latimer Square. The following Fifteen will play the Club, viz :— Cooper, Boulton, Keith, Kinvig, Parker (fcaptain), Sheriff, Stringer, Saltmarshe, Wachsmann, Wachsmann, Whitcombe, Allum, Robinson, Bell, Dobson. Emergencies — Hales and Lanauze. Colours of Fifteen — Red and black. Play to commence at 2.30 p.m. sharp.

/Parliament in Christchurch. — The following telegram was forwarded this morning by His Worship the Mayor to the Borough Councils of Dunedin, Invercargill, Oamaru, Timaru, Ashburton, Akaroa, Lyttelton, Kaiapoi, Rangiora, Milton, Palmerston, Port Chalmers, Roslyn, Caversham, St. Kilda, Lawrence, Queenstown, Waikouaiti, Hokitika, Greymouth, and also to the various County Councils in the Middle Island :— " W^ l he glad if you will co-operate with the Ohristchurch City Counoil in urging the Government to have the next sitting of Parliament held at Christchurch, in obedience to a resolution of the House of Representatives last session. The extra expense will be small, and every facility will be given by the people of Christchuroh. Please reply early. — C. T. Ick, ►Mayor."

Football.— The Eastern Football Club play their opening match to-morrow. The Secretary of fche C.F.C. has receivod a letter from the E.F.C. intimating that their opening match is strictly a Club affair, but thafc they will afterwards be happy for any of the members of the Christclmrch Football Club to join them in their Club matches until the season of the C.F.C. commences.

Another Justice of the Peace. — Mr Lewis Edward Nathan was yesterday sworn as a Justico of the Peace.

Oxford Licensing Court. — This Court was further adjourned till April 9 for a quorum of Commissioners, Messrs R. L. Higgins and W. Fisher being the only ones . present yesterday. f Timaru Breakwater. — The contractor j for the erection of the 300-f t mole in the j roadstead commenced by laying the concrete ■ blocks with the steam crane yesterday. A [ largo amount of interest was taken in the | work by tho townspeople, who mustered in i strong force to see the first portable block llaid.

\ Oddfellow's' Fete.— ln another column will be found the handicaps of the principal races in connection with the Oddfellows' fete on Easter Monday. It will be seen tliat in the two mile walking race C. Bowley haa a better show than en former occasions, and it seems probable that he may once more come in a winner.

Mr Landergan. - Yesterday the Rev H. C. M. Watson received a telegram from Mr Landergan, whose arrival in Ohristchurch to fill the post of organist at St John's Church, has been unavoidably delayed. In the telegram, Mr Landergan states that lie will be here about Easter, and promises to send particulars by letter.

TnEATHIcAL.— The new theatrical regime under Messrs Hiaoocks and Hayman will be inaugurated afc Dunedin early next month. A dramatic company collected by them with great care in Australia will open tho Princess Theatre with the moral drama " Ten Nights in a Bar-Room," which is now being played with a largo amount of success in Melbourne.

AsnBURTON Magistracy. — Mr A. Le G. Campbell Resident Magistrate for Temuka, Geraldine, and Ashburton districts, has received notice to remove to Collingwood, in tho Nelson provincial district, where he is to act in a similar capacity. Mr Guinness, formerly a police officer in Canterbury, is to succeed Mr Campbell as Resident Magis-

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Donation to the Kaitangata Fund. — We have been requested to mention that the sum of £25 18s 6d, subscribed by tho men employed on the North Avon drainage works in aid of the Kaitangata relief fund, has been handed over to His Worship the Mayor. Tne item has duly appeared in the Mayor's list of subscriptions, but appears to have escaped tho notice of the subscribers.

The Arundel Collection. — In another column will be found somo particulars relative to the fine selection of tho Arundel Society's publications, consisting of copies of celebrated pictures, recently acquired by the Canterbury Philosophical Institute. The pictures are to be exhibited for the first time afc a conversazione which is to take place in the old Provincial Council Chambers on next Thursday evening.

Bii/diard Rooms in Hotels. — The decision of Judges Johnston and Wiliiams on Tuesday in the appeal case from Timaru, for breach of the Public-House Ordinance, by keeping a billiard room attached to the hotel open after 11 o'clock, has taken the Licensed Victuallers in Timaru by surprise, and thoße who have billiard rooms are making arrangements for detaching them, so that there shall be no direct communication with the hotel.

A Extension of Gas Mains.— The work of saying a gas main along Montreal street south, from the South Belt to the Windmill road, has made such satisfactory progress during the past few days, that more than half the length has been completed. In laying tho, main under tho railway, the men worked during the nighfc, temporary gas gets being fitted up for the occasion. The work was so neatly finished off, that a casual observer would nob have noticed any interference with the roadway.

Fiiee Methodist Sunday School Treat

— Yesterday the children attending the Freo Methodist Sunday School afc Rangiora wero conveyed by train to Amberley, where thoy spent the day in Mr W. Major's paddock, in which they enjoyed themselves in various ways. About 150 were present, including friends and teachers, and on returning all appeared fco have tliorouglily enjoyed themselves. The weather was everything that could be desired, and there was ample provision and plenty of prizes, wliich were provided by subscription.

Fixe Ahts.— The lovers of New Zealand scenery as depicted by the hand of a faithful artist, will bo pleased to loam that Mr John Gully has arrived in Christchurch from tho West Coast. Mr Gully devoted a fortnight to sketching along tho West Coast road, and as a result he brings with him a number of drawings such as will enable him to work out a series of really first-class pictures. These reproductions of the Alpine scenery of New Zealand will be looked forward to with considerable interest, as Mr Gully will doubtless permit them to be exhibited for a timo.

SupiiEMß Coubt.— Their Honors Justices Johnston and Williams sat In Hqnoo yesterday and disposed of several causes on tho list. Their attention was principally occupied by the case of Tho Queen v. Harman, in which it was contended by the Crown that the portion of fche late Lord Lyttolton's estate which is situated in the Colony is liable to a legacy duty. The administrator ;of the estate contended that it Was not liable, as none of the parties interested had any domicile here. The judgment of the Court was in favour of the Crown. Their Honors ; wiU to-day hear the case of Dransfield v. Creyke. '-■■■■

Accidents.— The man Jeffrey, who fell into the boiling vat at tho meat factory Washdyke, on Tuesday last, is still lying in the Hospital in a precarious state, and the medical officer has doubts as to whether he will recover.— Jacob Winkle, in tho employ of Mr Rogers, Timaru, was thrown from a carb yesterday and badly, bruised about the head J The * acoidenfc - occurred" ; -through tho horse! kicking and breaking both the shafts, and precipitating a load of skins upon Winkle.' 1 Dr Williams attended to the wound on the' man's face.— On Tuesday afternoon, a man in j the emplpy^of Mr : Wigley, contractor, was thrown from a threshing maohino, ahd hadi one leg soTeroly fractured. He was romovod to tho Timaru Hospital. Tho accident hapEened through the machine getting into a. Ole in a by-road t and, jerking thej man off. The shafts ; : 6£'P. the machine! were broken. — A woman named Taylor,! while walking to her home at Sumner on;

Monday evening, slipped from a cutting and broke her loft arm. She was conveyed to the Hospital yesterday where she is now progressing favourably.— A man named Brady while attempting to descend from the hayloft of Mr M'Lean's stables, Amberley, yesterday, fell across the stable door and broke his ancle. He was brought to town by tram in the evening, and taken to the Hospital.— Yesterday, the horse attached to Mr M'Rae's cab managed to rub its blinkers off whilst standing in front of Shearman's Somerset Hotel, Ashburton, and bolted over the railway line up Burnett atreet. The animal was stopped before doing any damage to the cab.

The quarterly Conversazione in connection with the Trinity Churcn Youni? Peoples' Association, will be Imld on Friday evening. A Harvest Home Ball will bo held in the Prebbleton schoolroom to-morrow evening. General entries for the Ellesmere Jockey Club Annual Races close to-morrow.

/'RttssiAn Entebpbise.— The Globe hears that the Russian Government, with a view to /the establishment of a mercantile marine in fthe Pacific, is about to grant a subsidy of 350,000 roubles to a Company forming at St : Petersburg to institute regular steamboat •^communication between the Amoor and China and Japan. A clause in the agreement provides that the steamers shall bo manned exclusively by seamen of Russian nationalty. A Beave Girl.— An heroic act has been performed by a young lady at Boulogne, France. A man at work on a Bloop just off the port fell into the water and was sinking fast, when Mdllo Pay, daughter of a local wine merchant, who happened to be on the shore, jumped into the waves, and swimming to the drowning man, rescued him from death. On reaching dry land she received an enthusiastic welcome from the onlookers.

Tbagedian to the Queen. — The London correspondent of the Western Dailg Frets says : — *' I understand that arrangements are being made to resume at Windsor Castle the special theatrical performances which were given before the Court from time to timo during the Prince Consort's period. There was then a properly appointed chief actor to the Court. I believe Mr Henry Irving has received her Majesty's command to officiate in that responsible capacity."

Who is to Biamb ? — A strange story reaches us (Auckland Herald) as to the buoys about which there was so much said during the Taupo inquiry. It appears that on his way to Auckland in tho Rowena, Captain Johnson stopped at the Mount, and went round the buoys with Captain Sellars. So convinced was he of their boing in wrong positions, that on his return to the steamer he sat down at once and wrote to the Har-bour-master, ordering him to remove them immediately to the spots pointed out by Captain Sellars. Comment is needless.

Circumstances Alter, kc— What's in a name ? Well, there is something in a name after all. A canvasser in Dunedin for coal orders, informs us (Bruce Herald) that ho solicited an order for the black diamond from the mother of a family residing in the vicinity of tho Club in vain. Sho would neither be tempted with English, Newcastle, Kaitangata, nor Green Island. Fernhill coal was then spoken of by the enterprising canvasser in his desire to push a trade. " Fernhill," she replied, "Yes, I'll take a ton of the Fernhill coal, I wash for the Club."

Watch and Pray. — Whilo on a voyage recently from San Francisco to Liverpool, the ship Kate Kelloch encountered a storm whicli so alarmed the captain, Mr Bicker, that ho retired to his cabin and passed the time there in prajer, leaving the watching to bo done by those who remained on deck. Captain Ricker returned on deck after tho gale, which had done serious damage to his ship. According to the European Mail an inquiry into his conduct during the storm lias just been held at Liverpool, the Board of Trade accusing him of negligence in giving up tho charge of his ship. On behalf of tho captain ifc was urged that in all probability it was to his prayers that the escape of his ship was due. Mr 'Rothery, beforo whom the inquiry was held, said the Court considered Captain Ricker totally unfit for the duties of a master ; but as there was no proof that his negligence contributed to the ship's injuries they could nofc deal with Ins certificate.

Music Hath Charms.— What the New Zealander terms " a little unpleasantness," occurred afc a performance in the Imperial Opera House, Wellington, during the second half of the programme The baritone singer who sang the " Last Man," being in great voico, quito brought down the gods, and they were not satisfied with his bowing his acknowledgments, but continued fco call loudly for a repetition ; this, a footnote to the programme stated, would nofc bo allowed. The applause gradually became moro deafening, and the gentleman at length stepped forward and eaid " This applause may be meant very kindly, but I don't take it kindly." Tho remark carried weight, and tho peoplo quieted down. Mr Parker, who had previously lost his baton, now slightly lost his temper, and, turning to the audience, said, " I think the conduct of a section of tjhe audienco shows bufc slight courtesy to the amateurs and myself, who arc entertaining you." Tho romark hardly pleased the audience, and was not calculated to add to the conductor's popularity.