Local & General.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4792, 8 September 1883, Page 2

Local & General.

♦ Ihe Lyttelten Brass Band performance! ia he open air will be resumed this (Saturd aj) evening. Ihe annual general meeting of the Midland Canterbury Orioket Olub takes plaoe thia evening at the Oommeroial Hotel, at 8 o'olook. Ihe Ohristohuroh Musioal Sooiety will per* form Mend elßßOhn's oratorio, "St Pau 1 ," in tbe Oddfellows' Hall on Tuesday next at 8 p.m. The annual publio meeting of the Canter* bury Auxiliary of the British and Foreign Bible Sooiety will be held at the Oddfellows' Hall, on Wednesday next, at 7.80 p.m. To-morrow evening service at tho Lyttelton Presbyterian Churoh wDI be held ut 4 p.m., the unusual bour chosen being in oonsequence of the temporary suspension of the supply of gas in the town. Mrs Anna M. L. Potts, M.D., will open her oourse of leotures at the Theatre Boyal, on Wednesday, Sept. 12. The prospeotus of the leotures will be found in our a j vertising oolumns. The Bey Mr Krwin, of Auokiand, is expeoted to preaoh at St Andrew's churcb, to-morrow. The Bey Mr Hoatson, the newly appointed minister from England, will preaoh at tbe Congregational Ohuroh, Philipstown. Another freo leoture was given at Lyttelton last evening by Dr Anna Potts. The subject was " Ihe Brain and the Nervous system." The building was crammed, and the attention oi the oudienoe was from beginning to end thoroughly sustained. The "Merry Thoughts and Happy Moments" Oompany. performed at the Literary Institute, Bangiora, on Thursday and Friday. Ihe weather was against a large attendanoe on the first oooasion, but last evening there was a crowded house. The Company will appear at Kaiapoi to-night.

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'A , Maun M'Alpine and Co., by tbe Wakatipu to-day, ship 12 Clydesdale mares to Bydney. Thoy are all picked animals of the best ouss. Mr B. H. Carew, B.M , of Dunedin, was married at Wanganui yesterday, to Miss Amy Broad, fourth daughter of the late ..harles Broad, 8.M., of Greymouth. At Tattersall's thia afternoon Messrs H. Matson and 00. sold half-a-dozen pure- bred Bt Bernard puppies, at prices ranging between Sgs and l}gs. A well-bred spaniel was sold for£l. MrJ. S. M. Jaoobsen returned from Alford Forest to day, and a meeting of the Directors of the Pioneer and Koh-i-noor Companies was to ha held thia afternoon, but was to be of a private nature. The Besident Magistrate sat for a short time in the Ashburton Court yesterday. He fined a local butoher £1 for drunkenness, and granted a prohibition order against him, ex tending over the County. Several oivil oases were also heard. The foUowing items appear on the fourth Sge of this issue :— Tale : " Misa Garston's cc" (to be continued)} Boys' High Sohool; Jottings from Ashburton; the Bnglish Wayse Getse and Bean Feast ; Literary Notes ; and Mr and Mrs Spoopendyke. Hii Honor Mr Justioe Johnston was ocoupied in the Supreme Court yesterday, from 10.30 a. m. to 3 30 p.m., hearing the conelu* don of the argument in Sture v. Union teamship Company. At the conclusion of the argument, His Honor gave judgment for the plaintiff for £312, with oosts. On Wednesday night a few friends invited Mr A. M. Stack, of the Union Bank of .Australia, to dinner at Wheeler's Hotel, Sefton, on the occasion of his leaving the district. After dinner the Ohairman preeented Mr Staok, on bohalf of his many friends, with a handsome pipe and an address. Last night in tho Presbyterian ' Ohuroh, North Belt, the Bey W. Dinwiddie delivered to a fairly numerous audience, a highly interesting and thoughtfully reasoned leoturo on "the Kingdom of Jesus," its nature, laws, and aims. At tho oloso of the lecture, a collection in aid of the Ohureh Sunday School wu made. It ii satisfactory to reoord that a careful inspection of the sewers by the Drainage' Board officials hu shown that only in one instance has any injury been done to the drains hid down by the Board. Ihis is in the Windmill road, where one of the pipes is euppoied to have been cracked. A portion of the old stone sewer in the Gasworks road, whioh waa pat down by the Spreydon Boad Board, ha* also given way. The following offioers, in oonneotion with the Tai Tapu Band of Hope, bave been elected for the ensuing year :—Superintendent, Mr J. A. Blank; President, Mr B. A*. "Forbes; Yioo-Prssident, Mr J. Griffiths; Seoretary of Executive Oounoil, J. Toss; Xreuurer of Exeoatiro Oounoil, E. W. Hsrriok; Secretary of Working Committee, J. Tois; Treasurer of Working Committee, William Sinclair. Messrs Bennetts and Go. report: — At our land sale-rooms this day we submitted for aale by publio auotion a section Bituated in Harman street, Sydenham, containing a quarter-acre land, witb two houses thereon, and after good competition it was knooked down for £260. We then offered a quarter* aore seotion of land situated in William street, Ferry road. This also met with good competition, and wu sold for £66— or at the rate of £264 pe** aore. We have received the following from the Direotors of the Southern Orsss Petroleum Oompany: -"lhey reoeived a telegram on Thursday stating that the total depth wbb about 600 ft. In reply to a telegram sent yesterday, requesting confirmation or otherwise of the report in Friday morning's paper, their manager stated there is no further news ! dation for thii rumour." A furthsr n from our correspondent is published ■sue. s Ward sat at Ashburton yesholding the usual monthly Dinfourt. The buiiness wu wholly Tuptoy, and the following obtained ;e orders :— - Forguson and Lecky, Fergasson ana James Bradley, ir for payment of costs wu granted estate of George Parkin. Ihe appli* 'or disohargo of late and Maiteri ised on the ground that the Aot had i complied .with, meeting of parents of ohildren ig the Boys' High School, held vy afternoon, a resolution was expressing the thanks of the meet* the Board of Governors for their in permitting the head master, Her, to withdraw his resignation, v sd by a deputation from. -a former *. A vote of tbanks was also passed l£ler for oomplying with the wishes parents of his pupils and withdrawing •{nation, ordinary meeting of the Philo* [ Institute of Canterbury was held iooms of the Institute, on Thurssning. Owing to tho Weather there it a small attendanoe. The PresiProfessor Hutton, oooupied the Dr Lendenfeld and Mr F. Wilding animated for eleotion at the next :. The following papers were taken :— "Revision of the Beoant BhaohiMollusoa of Now Zealand," by the at ; " Notes on Botryohium Lunaria," Kirk, F.L.S. The meeting then oncert was given by the "Bohe* (under Mr 'K. Fleming's direotion) eniog in the Oddfellows' Hall, nection with the anniversary of helstane Lodge, No. 112, U.A.O.D. vourable criticisms that have probeen given of the performances of jver amateurs might be repeated of tertainment last night. Perhaps the g was Mr F. W. Parker's "Clasping ' but this wu by no means the only i was encored. Tho concert was foi* y a farce, and a ball conoluded the anient. The attendance was, for aome lifficult to conceive, not at all numeieetiog of gentlemen desirous of ; the return of Mr Fredoriok to represent the (South-east Ward Oity Oounoil was held at the tei yesterday afternoon. Mr B. N. was voted to the ohair. Mr Hobbs ero wu one remark whioh he had oade with referenoe to him that he to reply to. It had been said that if sleeted he would disturb the harmony 7onnoil. He begged to assuro them > first thing he wonld do if eleoted a to endeavour to work amicably with ir Councillors. It was deoided that esent should form themselves into a tea to oanvus the eleotors of the Dd use their off oris to seoure Mr oleotion. afternoon a man named George (-"gar, was lodged in the look-up at the Depdt, oharged with having kept a g honse in Ashburton. Mr Gauk* it appears, wu employed as a draper town, and was, it is alleged, in the habit [em?ntiag his lawful gaios by illicit derived from a gaming table in k room. Ihis latter fact oame knowledge of the police,, and d it advisable to leave Ashburton in 'hieh he did on Tuesday last.' Con* '. Neill, however, was on the fugitive's and followed him to Christchuroh, t was found he had disposed of his id saddle at Tattersall's, and had gone north. The constable oontinued the nd last night caught hiß man at the • Plains, evidently on his way to He was brought baok to Ohristand will make his appearanoe at the t Magistrate's Oourt on Monday. Mt tribute of respeot wai paid to the i of tho late Mr James Walls, of Island, yesterday afternoon. The eortiyo left deceased's late residence vo o'clook, for the Ohuroh of JL'nglsnd ■y. The liev Mr M'Gregor, Presby* litiister of Kaiapoi, conduoted a ahort service, and delivered an impressive before the procession started. He in feeling terms to the many oalities of deceased, and olosed an • discourse with prayer. A large of Mr Walls' friendi were assembled owed his remains to the grave, includ* y traps, nineteen horsemen, and many ans. On arriving at the cemetery ere met by the Bey Vere- White i of England), who read the service. 00 moro porsons were at the burial It may bo mentioned, to ahow io I

what esteem the deceased was held, that mourners attended from Timaru, Ashburton, Southbridge, Ohristohuroh and Bangiora. Shortly after 5 o'olook last evening a little boy, eight years of age, named Joseph W. Shead, the son of Mr Shead, baker, High street, waa run over by a cart near his fatust's ■hop. The vehiole, whioh belonged to Mr Jf. Jenkins, was driven by ft man named Arohibald Maofarlano, and was proceed* ing down High street at a slow trot. Young Shead, with two other boye, was playing in the road near the oorner of luam street, and when oalled to by the driver seems to have lost presenoe of mind, as he ran direotly in front of the horse, whioh knooked him down. The wheel of the oart pasted over his body, but he was able to rise to his feet, nnd was taken into his father's shop. He was at onoe removed to the Hospital in a oab, whioh was fetohed by Maofarlane, who then went and informed the polioe of the ooourrenoe. At the Hospital the ohild received every attention, but it was not possible to ascertain the full extent of his hurts, though he is supposed to have reoeived some internal injuries. From enquiries subsequently maae by tho polioe, it appears that no blame is to be attaohed to Maofarlane, who is Stated to be a oareful driver. On enquiry at the Hospital this morning it was learned tbat the little sufferer was progrsssing favourably.