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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5186, 17 December 1884, Page 3

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+ Some correspondence is held over. At the meeting of the Christchurch South-east Licensing Committee to-day, ' the license of the Langhain Hotel was | declared forfeited. i At noon on Friday, Messrs Miles and Co. will offer at auction the goodwill of lease and business, horses, carts, &c, in the estate of George Bull and Co. At 7.30 this evening the ceremony of t installing the officers elect of the Crown : Lodge, No. G75, S.C, will take place in the Conyers Masonic Hall, Sydenham. | A lecture entitled "The World that is, and the World that is to Come/' will be delivered by Mr Isaac Selby, at the Fiwthought Hall, at 8 o'clock to-morrow i , evening. i It wa^j decided by the Committee cf the ■ Kaiapoi Borough School to paint the interior of the building during the holidays, . and Mr G. W. Wearing is the successful j tenderer for the work. I A lad named George Toll, who had been , lodging with Mr Selwyn Davis at Woolston, i was committed for trial to-day, charged ; with stealing a silver watch and other articles from the house where he lodged, j At a meeting ©f the Kaiapoi Borough j Council held last evening, it was decided ; to write to the Mayor of Eangiora express- ! ing the regret and deep sympathy of the burgesses of Kaiapoi in reference to the late lamentable accident. i The Directors of the Southern Cross Petroleum Company report the receipt of I a telegram from their works, stating that the depth of No. 3 bore on Friday last was | 4Gsft, the rock being hard and broken, aud the gas troublesome. ! At the meeting of the City Council on ', Monday evening a letter was read from ! Mr William Wilson on the subject of a j | tramway to New Brighton. Therein Mr j | Wilson achieved the feat of constructing a t . sentence containing no fewer than 218 ; words. Only Mr William Wilson, we I j imagine, is capable of ut__ring so many '• i words without an intervening full stop. | On Saturday afternoon last an excellent | I chase took place on the North road at j ; Kaiapoi. Two greyhounds courted a hare ; a considerable distance along the main j street, up to the Swing bridge. When ! I arriving at the approach, puss took to the j j water, and the hounds gave U]) the run- ; I ning; but a retriever noticing the attempted ! j escape, made for the river, and after a good . ' swim, during which the hare dived several j j times in order to evade its canine pursuer, ' puss was ultimately overtaken, the dog bringing his game to land. Yesterday the several Sunday-school- |o: • Kaiapoi held their annual treats. The , Presbyterians spent the day at Mr George I . Kelso's farm, the Wesleyans at Mr T. ', Pashby's, and the Salvation Army and Primitive Methodists enjoyed the hospitality afforded them by Mr Eichard I Evans at Waverley. Each were accompanied by bands of music, and judging , from their happy appearance at the close ; of the proceedings a pleasant day must have been spent by all. ) Mr Turton has received the following letter from Mr T. W. Jones, owner of I Alport's buildings, who is at present in , Hobart : — " Doc. 10 — I write to express

my hearty thanks to you and your Brigade for the promptitude you displayed in extinguishing the fire on my premises, known as Alport's, on Nov. 22, and have enclosed a donation of £5 for the funds of the Brigade. — I remain, &c, Thomas W. Jjnes. At the conclusion of the criminal business at the Besident Magistrate's Court this morning, Mr Beetham, addressing Mr Bullen, said, the Bench wished to congratulate him upon his well-deserved reinstation in his oflice of Inspector of Police. Mr Beetham added, that from what he had known of Mr Bullen during the 20 years the latter had been connected with the police, he had formed a very high estimate :of his zeal and efficiency. Mr Bullen thanked the Bench for their consideration, j At the Eesident Magistrate's Court this morning, a man named Mairs was sentenced to two months' hard labour for insulting a woman in the street by putting his arm ' round her neck. Eichard Chamberlain and : Andrew Black, two men well known to the j police, were sentenced to four months' hard | labour each for assaulting two men in ! Kilmore street and smashing a window. A j woman of bad character, who was in com- ' pany with these men, and apparently acting in concert with them, was sent to ga"l for three months. The Juvenile Oddfellows brass band, under the direction of Mr J. T. E. Terrill, will perform the following programme in London street, Lyttelton, to-jnorrow evening at 8 o'clock : — Quick march, " Balaklava" (Linter) j.fantasia, sacred, " Eeniiniscences of Moody and Sankey " (Linter) ; Caledonians, "Bobbie Burns" (T. H. Wright); polka, "Equilibro" (D. B. Pogson) ; valse, " Pride of the Ehine ;" schottischo, " Golden Hours ;" quick march, " The Old Flag " (H. Eound) ; quadrille, "Autumn" (R. Smith) ; mazurka, "Forget-Me-Not " (H. Eound) ; valse, " Boccacio," Suppe ; finale, " God Save the Queen." The following cp.ble items came to hand yesterday : — lntelligence has been received from Dongola that the mounted infantry, Guards and Camel corps, under Colonel Sir Herbert Stewart, are now advancing on Koiti, near Ainbukol. — The evidence of experts who examined the scene of the explosion under London Bridge tends to show that the damage was effected by means of dynamite. Property in the vicinity of the bridge did not suffer any injury. A disastrous colliery explosion has occurred at Steyrddoop (? Steyerdorf) in Hungary. A .large number of miners were under ground at the time, and seventy of them lost their lives. A regular holiday audience was The state of affairs at the Theatre Eoyal last night, when "The Queen's Favorite" was repeated to a house filled almost as full as it could hold, both'upstairs and down. That Mr S. Grundy's merry comedy was well received, goes almost without saying. Mr Vernon and Miss Ward again met with every mark of popular favour. The comedy has only two nights more to run, for " Mammon," by | the same author, is to be produced on Friday evening next. About 20 minutes to five o'clock yesterday evening, a fire, though fortunately not of a serious character, occurred at a shop in High street south. The damage done was trifling, and the cause is supposed to ibe the flying out of a live coal from the grate. The alarm was given from box No. 16, but the numbers recorded at the different stations were not by any means what they should have been. At one place No. 7 was signalled, at another No. 4, and at a third no signal was given at all. The brigade, however, turned out, and the fire was quickly extinguished. About 11 a.m. yesterday a little girl, two years of age, named Elizabeth M'Ginn, daughter of Johu M'Ginn, who is en.raged on the railway works at Little Eiver, met her death by drowning. The child lived with her 1 mother in a cottage on Mi- Woolerton's property, about two and a half miles from the Black Horse Hotel, Lincoln road. About eleven o'clock her mother missed her, and on looking for her found her body lying head downwards in a tub with some six inches of water in it, about a chain from the house. Every effort was made by the .mother and Mr Morgan, a neighbour, to restore animation, but without success. An inquest will be held.