Local & General.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6713, 28 November 1889, Page 3

Local & General.

Popular Spoets.— A meeting of the Delegates and Committee in connection with these Bports will toe held to-morrow evening at the City Council Chambers. New Zealand Skipping Company. — - The sixteenth ordinary general meeting of this Company will be held on Thursday, Dec. 19, at noon, at the Company's offices, Hereford street. THS ExmBITION ADVERTISEMENT.—ThQ opening of the Exhibition is having an appreciable effect in connection with Australian journalism. The Australasian, for example, besides a plan of the Exhibition building, pnbliahea a fine view of Dunedin. Cathedral Services. — To-naorrow, having been appointed as the day of inter- ! cession for Missions, special services will jbe held in the Cathedral. At-8 a.m., Holy Communion will be celebrated, followed At ; 7.30 p.m. by choral Evensong. The usual service at 5.15 p.m. will not be held. ' Australian Harvest Peospect3.— The ! Deputy-Surveyor-General of South Aub- ; tralia, who is Chairman of the Northern Land Board, hao just returned to Adelaide ! after an extended trip through the North. ! He estimates that the wheat yield in the I twenty-five Hundreds through which he I traversed will range from" twelve to ; fifteen bushels per acre. Bed rust ha 3 I made its appearance, but it ia not likely to [ Beriou3ly lessen the yield. The lato crops I showMJUßtaaore than those -sown^rlier. .'

; RxDENHAar Bp.itish Israel Association. ! ■ — The fortnightly meeting was held on I Tuesday, the President in the chair. • After some routine business, Mr M'Haffie i read his paper on " Tarshisli." As the ! paper TriMJ'a long one, the discussion of it j was postponed. The President promised : to rec-d a p?,per on "Tho Uses o£ the \ Identity/ ! Catholics in the Colonies. — Cardinal i Mai-tin, speaking at Sydney the other day, • ; and referring to the contrast which the ; Komsn Catholic Church, in Australia of j to-day presented to its position of poverty I and privation a little over half a century I a;;o, state!' that there were at tho present j time 800,000 Eoman Catholics in these •i Colonies. ] Attendance at the Exhibition. — The j r-ttendanco on the opening day at the j Dnnedin Exhibition is estimated as foi--1 lows: — Processionists 2510, free passes (to ; exhibitors and attendants) 750, season • tieketholders and choir 5400, paid adiniaj cions SS31 — total 17,521. The attendance ! at the' Melbourne Exhibition of ISSO on ; its opening day was 24,100, and at the j Melbourne Exhibition of- 1838 waa 30,395, I Linyvood Teksis Totjusamekt. — The i Linwood Lawn Tenais Club have received I cxceptioiially large entries for tho open j tournament to bo hold on Saturday nest j.and following Saturdays. la all, 120 i persons have entered for the competition. i and the entries for double and single I events number 81). The entries for the j ■ vavjoiis events are as follow : — Gentlemen's ! doubles 10, gentlemen's singles 36, ladies' i doublcu 0, combined doubles 12, ladies' I siri'gka 10. There are representatives from I tbo Canterbury, Cantevbury College, Lancaster Park, Merivale, Sydeuuata, Sunnier, Kaiapoi, and Linv.-ood Tennis Clubs, besides those not attaehed-to any Club. Tho tournameni will bo the largest ever held in Canterbury, and all the best players will take part in it. Mr llosa has consented to act B 3 haudicapper.