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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5643, 12 June 1886, Page 3

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♦ I In connection with the Diocesan Mission, '. thanksgiving services are to be held m the Cathedral on Monday and Tuesday. Details ! are given in an advertisement. j An unreserved auction sale of household furniture, &c, will be held be Mr H. J. t Bobs, on Tuesday, in William street, Lower ; High street. J At the Police Court this morning Isabella ! Leckie was convicted of drunkenness, and , as she has a bad record against her, she ; was sentenced to fourteen days' hard ' labour. Mr B. Westenrawas the presiding Magistrate. > A man named James Lee was admitted into the Hospital to-day, suffering from a broken leg. He was riding a horse at Methven, on Thursday, when the animal threw him. The Police have received a telegram from Dunedin, stating that a man named James Shearer has been arrested in that city on a t charge of robbery committed in Christj church. He is accused of stealing a watch : and J612 from a man named Arthur Millar. ' A concert will be given at Lyttelton on 1 Monday evening, at the Oddfellows' Hall, by Mr Towsey 's Lyttelton Glee Class. The programme has been carefully prepared, and, with Mr Towsey's name as a guarantee of excellence, an enjoyable evening may be expected. A good number " of tickets have already been sold. Mr H. Clapcott, Government Insurance Lecturer for the Colony, will deliver a lecture in the Oddfellows' HaU, Sydenham, on Tuesday evening next, as advertised in . another column. We understand that the lectures in the country districts have been ' very successful, and doubtless Mr Clapcott j will have a good reception in the model j Borough. The Lyttleton Garrison Band, under the direction of Mr D. M'Killop, will perform the following programme, weather permitting, next Tuesday night, at the corner of London atreet and Canterbury street, commencing at eight o'clock : — Quick March, " Always Eeady " (E. Newton) ; contest valse, " Fairy Eevelß" (H. Bound); overture, " Symphonia " (Victor Buot) ; schottische, " Bays of Sunshine " (H. Bound) ; valse, " Boccaccio " (Suppt?) ; " Wedding March," from the " Midsummer Night's Dream," Mendelssohn, (H. Bound) j : polka, "Tho Sylph" (H. Bound); schot- ; tische. " (W)right Eound Abont " (Wright ' and Bound) ; quick march, " Brighter Days " (B. Smith) ; God Save the Queen. Whatever may bo the degree of peril involved in the occupation of duelling in Prance, the same business carried on, systematically, in Mexico is " something like." The other day two distinguished residents of the town of Chihuahua satisfied their honour by exchanging ten shots. One of them received threo wounds, each of them j mortal, and the other was killed outright by a shot through the head. In 1834 the average quantity of milk ' taken to London by rail daily in summer j was 88,G03 gallons, and in winter 78,056 gallons. By road the average quantity per diem was 958 gallons in summer, and I' 818 gallons in winter ; while from London cowhouses themselves the daily Bummer supply was about 20,250 imperial gallons, ; and the winter amount 21,000. The average total is set down as amounting to some 110.000 sallons per day. Mr Philip D. Armour ia a very generous man. A clergyman in whom he had confidence ono day asked him t for 30dol to relieve a poor woman whose new-born baby was lying naked in hor one room, where thoro was neither fire nor food. The money was at once handed to tho parson, who afterwards returned it with a note saying that he had " discovered that tbe woman was or ill-repute and the child the result of sin." Mr Armour at once sent word to Mrs Armour, who gave the starving mother and child ample assistance, while : her husband, stamping with rage, shouted ; to his clerk *. " If that scoundrel comes in i here aeain, throw him ont." j At Paris it is said that a Syndicate for tho exportation of Fronch produco will shortly send fl commercial mission to Central Africa, to try and open a market there for manufactured goods. Another j similar mission will go to Tonqur,a, Annul- . Cochin China, and Cambodia.