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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5617, 13 May 1886, Page 3

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! Mr H. A. Adley has been appointed ■ organist and choirmaster at Holy Trinity - I Church, Lyttelton. 1 | The New Zealand Shipping Company's I E.M.S Tongariro, from Plymouth for Port , Chalmers, left Madeira at 3 p.m. yesterday, j all well. : Mr Liddy passed through Christchurch ' to-day on his way to Auckland, whither he . proceeds to arrange for the opening of a. ■ ; season by the Bignold and Allison Company. The members o£ Mr E. M. Taylor'i Sydenham Committee are requested to meet to-morrow (Friday) evening, at a time and place mentioned in an advertisement. At the inquest this afternoon on the body of Cornelius Cunningham, who shot I himself last night, a verdict of " Suicide ; while in a state of temporary insanity" was returned. The Christchurch Orchestral Society's concert, we remind our readers, takes place • in^the Oddfellows' Hall this evening. The ' programme is a most excellent one, and J includes some attractive vooal numbers. i The unsportsmanlike practice of snaring > hares appears to prevail very widely in some parts of the district. No fewer than sixty snares were recently found and de- \ Btroyed on some laud near Southbridge. , It ia a pity that the poachers who set them I were not found also. The building erected by the Harbour Board for the purposes of a kerosene bond on the reclaimed land near No. 1 grain store is now completed, and application ha 3 been made to Wellington for a litense i for the same. The building is constructed 1 of brick, with an iron roof. The walls are ! 12ft high; the length of the store is 55ft, ! and the breadth 25ft. It is notified, by advertisement in this issue that the proceeds of the opening night at St Leon's Circus (Saturday night, j that is) will be generously hand over to the I Mayor of Christchurch for Charitable pur- ! poaea. Those who visited the Circus during its former season here, are fully aware that the nature 9t the performance is ' highly creditable. Therefore, the special entertainment now notified should attract j an unusually large number of spectators, j An accident occurred on Oxford terra*©, ' opposite the Clarendon Hotel, at a quarter to 3 o'clock this afternoon. A Mr Stokes was mounting his horse, and as soon as he got into the saddle the animal reared and then plunged forward, throwing its rider violently on his face in the roadway. Mr ! Stokes was rendered insensible, and was picked up by some bystanders and carried to the hotel. His injuries were apparently not serious, and consisted of a slight j bruise on the head and shoulder. j The Eangiora Choral Society's Managing J Committee held a meeting hist night, Mr , L. Hunnibell, vice-President, in the chair. I The Treasurer gave a statement of ac- j counts in connection with the last concert, and also for the quarter ended March 31, . showing a debit balance on the two of , about £o. The resignations of the conductor (Mr T. G. Smith) and pianist (Mr T. Withers) were received, and on account of this, combined with the fact of the ' meagre support accorded the Society by the public, it was unanimously agreed to wind it up at once, and to meet the liabilities by the sale of the music.

Messrs H. E. May and Co/a new Trade Circular is published in the form of a Supplement with this issue of the Btar. I happened -a writer in Truth says— to visit Windsor the other day when the Queen was holding an "investiture." Several matters struck me with surprise. For one thing, the remarkable freedom accorded to the public of entry to the Castle and its appurtenances. All the open spaces within the precincts, except the quadrangle itself and the private garden, seemed to be free to everybody. The "Windsor children use as a playground the grassy slope in front of St George's Chapel and the region about .the Windsor end of the Long Walk. There is not a gentleman's seat in the kingdom where very much greater exclusion is not maintained. There are plenty of sentries, but they do not interest themselves in the people who lounge about their beats. Here and there, at long intervals, is a benevolent-looking policeman in uniform, whose leading function seems to be to gossip with anyone who will gossip with him. With some practice in that sort of introspection, I could not spot a single detective in plain clothes. '