Local & General.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4703, 28 May 1883, Page 2

Local & General.

A Letter of Naturalisation lias been granted ' to August Frederick Ferdinand Dittmor, labourer, of Lyttolton. Information was reoeived in town on Saturday ovening tliat the bora at the Bonth Paoifio Petroleum Works had been sunk to a depih of 260 ft, and was passing through, sandstone rook, The s.s. Australia, with the inward Ban Francisco mail, arrived at Auskland early yesterday morning, after a fair weather p:'Bßaße across the Pacific. Her mails were at once transhipped to the Hawea, and this latter boat slartod from Onehunga at 3 p.m. The New Zealand Shipping Company havo received cable advice of the arrival at Plymouth on May 25, of tbo b.s. British King. TJna -hip, therefore, made tho run Home in 47 days inoluding tioa« ocoupied in calling at Bio de Janioro and lit Vinoent. The refrigerating maohinery on board, it is reported, has worked satisfactorily, and the frozen meat is in excellont oondition. There was a fairly good house at th* Theatre Koyal on Saturday evening to witness Rainer'a diorama of the BubsoTurkieh War, and to participate in the gift distribution at the oloso of the exhi* bition. Tlie reoipient of the principal prise, a suite of furnituro, was Mr Sutton, of Walker etreet. The diorama aid gift distribution will be repeated to-night. We understand that a refrigora'iriflrOomJany is projected under tho tide of the nterprovinoiel Frming and Biurajio Com* pany (Limited), for the purpei-n of pur* chasing, freezing and exporting naive game, fish, live stock and general pr :>du< -<*. Ihe ' Oompany also propoie to storti a d freeze , meat, &0., on bohalf of butohers, pro. --re, fish* mongers and othors. The capital is £50,000. It is intended to use all the WBste produota in the manufacture of manures. A Oommittee of tlie leading resident* in Papanui ib organiiing a spries of four musical and elocutionary entertainments, to be held at monthly intervals in the Town Hal), Papanui. Prom tho amount; of in teres* displayed in tbo movement, a_dthe influential list of gentlemen oompooing tho Oommittee. tho entertainments will doubtltpe be of a very superior order. The firat of the eerioi will be held on Friday evening, June 8. The following application for a patent has been made .—George Seton Stenhouse, commission agent, and John Smith, tinsmith, both of Bienheim, fcr "an invention for the purpose of destroying and exterminating rabbitn and vermin, to be knowu ar. Stonhouse and Smith's gaseous self-noting vermin and rabbit exterminator." At a meeting of the Ashburton Coursing j Olub, held on Friday evening, it was decided ' to hold the last meeting of tho Benson on < July 11, and to throw the events ormn to all district!, the fe*s in the All-agsd cm » bes to be £2 2s, and that in the Pupp} Bft -iis £1 Is. There was some other busuius trunßaoted, but it was merely routine. Tho ship Briar Holme, which is lying the stream ready loaded for Kn gland, was this morning observed to be fljirifi* the police flag. On the launoh going off with the police seven of the orew wore given Jin charge for insubordination and refusing to heave anchor. They were to be brought before the B.M. Court this dfto-rr.oan, if tho necessary Resident Magistrate or two JubUoob of the Peace were" obtainable. People are boginning to .find out there ib euuh a place as the Armagh street Depdt. Wo hear with pleasure that the Bey Mr Glasson and Mr Alfred Cox got up a pleasant entertainment on Thursday, May 17. Mrs and Miss Glasson eang somo pretty songs, tho Misses Oox played a duet en iho piano, nnd Messrs Glasson and Oox gave oome humorous readings. The inmates spent a most onjoyable evening and ara very grateful to their kind entertainers. We hear those entertainments are to be repeated fortDightly. On Saturday morning last a young lad named John Lander, working at Mr Luxfcon'a farm, Bangiora, wub in the sob of driving a cow into the bail for the* purpose of milking hor, whon she made a rash baok wards, L*nooking him down and breaking hia ankle. Dr was in attendanoe without loeb of time, and found the fraoture to bs so severe a one aB to necessitate tho adminietration of ohlorofofm, before it oould ba reduced. Iv oarrying out tho opwationhe was assisted by Dr Gordon, and the lad is now doing well. A juvenile branch of Oonrt Woodford, AO.- 1 ,, Kaiapoi, wfs opened on Friday,. May 25, in the Oddfellows* Hall, the O.i*., Bro Blaokwell, in tbe chair, who. with the Oommittco appointed by the parent Cburt, formally openod the meoting, "utter which 35 candidates were initiated into the Order of Juvenile Forestry. The farious offioes were then filled as follows J--0.R., Bro J. Colman ; 8.0.7-1., Bro J. Hoekins ; Seoretary,. B. Burrows; Treasurer, V. Wilaon; S.W., Jamee M'Gifford ; J.W., J. Benaldi ; 8.8,, J. Graham j J. 8., W. Burridge, who will be under the supervision of the Oommittee ap* pointed by the parent Oourt. The Oxford Amateur Dramatio Society gave a vory successful performance in the Town Hall, East Oxford, on Thursday evoniag. Despite the inolemenoy of the weJther, the attendance waß very good. The pieces placed on the stc-go wen> "Robert Mecaire," and " Mcd or Rob Mad." Mr Ooltmou took the p-irt of Macaire, and Mr Thompson that of Bertram, both playing theii- parts capitally, and were frequently applauded. Bsh plays were oarriod out very well, and without a single hitch. The ecenery for tho occasion was especially good ; it was paintod by Mr R. H. Parish. A ball waß held after tho play,, and was likewise a great euccesa. Bonny Jcnn has scoured for lord Boseber the first "ch^io" raoo that has fallen to the lot of the primrose and rose banner, ant. the suoooss will be all the more gratifying to his loidehip from tho faot thafc it haß been achieved with a youngster of his own breeding. Ihe Macaroni stook have been running so well, lately that it is pleasing to know that of the five daughters of that horse to be found in the Colonic*, tlio A uckland Stud Compony posscsß a couple in the shape of Florence Macarthy and Lovebird, whioh two marcs wero among tho lot they purohased from Mr Stead. Mulibran, who ran second to Bonny Jean, is by Consul, who Ijbb only two representatives in the Colonic-*, one of them being the Middlo Park mare FJeurange, dam of Fleur-de-Lys nnd The Jilt. Public interest in the doings of the Salvation Army, appears to bo somewhat on tho increase. The "free end easy" on Saturday evening, attracted an audiecop lsrge enough to fill the hall in every part. The proceedings consisted chiefly of "testimonies" by cortain persons of the good they had reoeived from religion, and admirable order prevailed throughout, Yesterday the early prayer-meeting, or " knco-drill," at 7 am., was attended by about 90 persons. The eerviccß in the morning and afternoon were crowded, and in the evening not only* was the "Salvation Theatre" densely pocked with people, but a crowd of at least a couple of hundred individual-? was collected around the door. A strong foroe of polico waa present, and had the effect of restraining any who might have felt disposed to create a disturbance. During the service Captain Ted Wright took occasion to thank the audience for tho orderly behaviour maintained throughout tho week. It may be montioned that O.ptai'.i Wright is to leave Ohristohurch for Dunedin to-day. I_ib place will be supplied by Captain Bmith, who assisted at the services yesterday for tho first time in Ohristohurch. Thero appears to be already, a disposition on the part of somo persons to oonnect themselves with the " Army," as over twenty reordts have been enrolled sinoe the opening " attaok." Servioes will be held erery evening this week.

•J—— — — ******* lb T. Fraeoe announoea an auotion sale of furniture to take plaoe in Lyttelton to* morrow. Ib H. Allwright will address his oon stitnents at the Oddfellows' Hall, Lyttelton, toj taorrow evening. The Ohristohureh Amateur Orchestral Society will five their last concert of tho -season on Thursday next at the Oddfellows' HalL The Upper Biccarton Ooursing Olub will "hold a meeting on Thursday next, when two •takes will be run. Nominations closo on May 29, at tho Racecourse Hotel. The Bailway Department have giten a gratuity equal to six months' pay to the widow of the engine-driver Mock, who was killed lately at the Dunedin railway station. -Elsewhere it is announced that a Gospel Temperance Mission Meeting will be held at eight o'olook this evening in the Oxford terraoe Baptist Churoh. Bomti interesting addresses are anticipated. The residents of Woolston have organised a brass band io that suburb, and 25 peraona have enrolled themselves as members. The band, which is to be nnder the tuition of Mr Bowles, will hold its first meeting for praotice to-morrow evening. A meoting of the parishioners of the Ohurch of the Good Shepherd, Phillipstown, will be held to morrow evening, at half -past seven, on business ef great importance. It is hoped that all who are interested in the parochial affairs of tbe distriot will attend. The following items appear on the fourth page of thia ijsue:— Tale: "Hannah Peter's Bluen " (to be oontinued) ; Cable News. Sporting: The Oaks Stakes; Adelaide B.C. Autumn Meeting ; Grand National Meeting ; Hunt Olub. Complaints of tho Westmeath's Immigrants ; and Some Humorous Items. Besides tho sum of £50 already sent by the German Consul in Ohristohuroh to the Central Oommittee in Berlin for tho sufferers by tho Bhine inundations, which was collected in Ohristohuroh and its neighbourhood, a furthor •mount, £27 6» Gd, will be forwarded by that ge_riftemsn tor the tame purpose by the outgoing Orient steamer, collected by the members of the German Sooioty in Kumara, Westland. Mr T. F. Byan, of the firm of Sargood, Bob and Kwen, of this oity, on severing hia oonneotion witb, the above, was on Saturday presented with a handsome gold -chain and medallion bearing the following inscription :— "Presented to T. F. Byan by his fellow employees aa a token of their esteem." The above was presented by Mr W. S. Browne, the manager, wbo conveyed the feeling of his late co-partners, and also expressed his extreme regret at losing the servioes of so valued an assistant. Od Saturday evening, about five, Bichard Shaw, engine-driver of Timaru, met with an aooident near the station. He woe engaged •hunting when he accidentally fell off the engine, breaking his ankle bone. He was immediately conveyed home and attended to by a medical man. A rumour had got abroad that an aooident had occurred, and tho officials were frequently asked during tho evening what had happened. They, however, did not, or affeoted not to, know anything about it. Snob a state of things is generally condemned ai ridiculous and wrong. Xhe Oity Counoil are about to place the coffee-stalls of Melbourne under -trioter regulations than they have hitherto been subjected to. The licenses havo grown ■0 valuable that, according to the Mayor, " a fortune" has been made by one peripatetic •vendor of rolls and saveloys, and an interest in a stall has been sold in one if not more instances for as much as would purchase the goodwill of a city hotel. All the while the licensees do not pay sixpenco towards the revenue of the corporation, who, aB a matter of charity, originally granted the privileges in question to infirm or crippled persons who were debarred from getting a living in any other way. In reply to the Mayor, who wished to oancel the licenses at tho end of the year, it was urged that the halt or aged oould not carry on a business which now bud£ed a great publio want, and that it would unfair to olose stalls which the present owners ha~e paid large sums to obtain. It was deoided that the matter should be reported upon by the Legislative Oommittee. — Argus.