Local & General.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6830, 18 April 1890, Page 3

Local & General.

3 !• I Kaiafoi Sailing Club.— The next heat s for Captain Russell's prize will be sailed f to-morrow, from Askeaton. 3 Thk Weather.— -Light rain fell in the Kaiapoi district during Wednesday night • and yesterday, and, of course, is very » welcome. Tne potato harvest haß now 3 commenced. ! Chairmanship op the Board op Educa- } tion. — At the meeting of the Board of Education yesterday afternoon, Mr H. W. Peryuian was elected Chairman for the > ensuing year. F Runaway. — At 12.30 yesterday, two 3 horses harnessed to an empty dray bolted j from the Produce Company's office at i Kaiapoi, and crossed the bridge at considerable speed. They were stopped, » without damage, near the Mandeville I Hotel. The fact showß that, to their i owner's credit, they were not overworked L even in grain delivery. i School Buildings and the Drainage , Rate. — The Drainage Board having made I a demand on the Board of Education for .£2OO per annum on account of school 1 buildings, as a contribution towards the ■ cost of the Pumping Station, the latter L body obtained a legal opinion to the effect that school buildings are exempt from drainage rates, and at their meeting, yesterday, decided to inform the Drainage 1 Board that they could not entertain the 1 claim. , New Zealand Amateur Athlbtic l Teah. — Word has been received from Auckland that, at a Committee meeting of the Club, the estimated cost of their repre- [ sentative's — Mr ft. B. Lusk — expenses was ' subscribed, and that the total amount i receivable from Auckland by the Aesocia- , tion will now be ,£2O. The Auckland Club has certainly acted generously in the matter. Football enthusiasts are reminded of Saturday's game at Lancaster Park. 1 The Acclimatisation Society. —We publish elsewhere in this issue the list of members of the Council of the Acclimatisation Society, who were elected at the annual meeting on Wednesday evening. It will be seen that the anglerß have secured the return of the whole of their candidates. We hope that now they are so well represented on the Council they will carry out their promises by acting in the beßt interests both of sporb and of the public. During the winter there should be no difficulty in framing regulations for the sale of trout, which, while giving to the public the opportunity of purchasing these fish, will not be detrimental to legitimate angling. . A Find. — Yesterday afternoon a man was rowing down Lyttelton Harbour towards the ketch Clematis, .when he discovered an old black felt hat, inside of which was a child's boot and some calico wrappers, the latter being stained with blood. The articles appeared as if they had not been long in the water, and the matter was reported, to the police. Sergeant O'Malley and Constable Drake took a boat and rowed • over the spot,, but failed to find any other articles. It is supposed; the things found were thrown overboardrfrom one of the steamers coming in or going t out of the harbour. The Biybb-. Steamer and Dredsb. — A meeting of the Provisional Directors of the Avon Steam Packet Company was held yesterday afternoon. The prospectus was adopted and ordered to be printed. It will be issued on. Saturday next. The members of the Drainage Board are in full sympathy with the movement to establish the Company, as they recognise that the dredge will.be an efficient means of clearing the river. The shares are going off well, over, half the required quantity being taken up. It has been decided to increase the capital from .£IOOO to .£ISOO. Mr H. R; Walker was appointed broker, and there is every prospect of the Company being a success. Cbown Laot> Sale. — At the meeting of the Land Board yesterday a ballot was takoa o£ the applicants for unßurveyed land in the Canterbury Crown Lands District, thrown open for selection on April 3, The result was as follows : — First-olass Land— Block VII., Alford, 30 acres at £1 3jj per acre, to Mr B. Baxter ; blocia Y.T* and IX., bush land, Alford, 255 aoie? a f in 2s Gd, Ida A. Peach ; block XI., >',f O rd 80 acres at £1 53, A. E. Peaob-. block XIV light stony land, Spp; x ton, 63 acres 3 roods at £1 10 a, it ary Campbell; block XIV., part ploubfhable land, Spaxton, 80 acres at .£1 10s, Margaret Scott; block XIV., Spaxton, 41 acres at £1 ss, E. Herring ; block XIV., Spaxton, 33 acres at .£1 , ss, J. O'Shea. Second-class Land. — Block X., 25 acres, Alford Forest, 10s per acre, '. and block K. do, 296 acres at 19s 6d, to Ida ; A. Peach ; blocks V. and IX., Spaxton, H acres 2 roods 15 perches at 19s 6d per acre, New Zealand Alford Forest Estate Company ; block X.,)Spaxk>n, 1000 acres at 15s, E. Herring; block XIV., Spaxton, 96 acres, at 17s 6d, New Zealand Alford Estate Company; block 11., Westerfield, 35 acres at 17s 6d, J. Boyle. Christohurch Fire Brigade.— At a special meeting of the Brigade held on Monday evening, and presided over by Mr E. Smith, it was unanimously agreed to grant their patronage to the Garrison Band concert to be held this evening, and to do so in the most practical manner by purchasing forty tickets, and attending in a body, as the firemen think the band deserves better treatment from the public of Christchurch in the way of support than it has hitherto received. If the Volunteers will only follow the example set by our firemen and roll up in a body, the most deserving band in Canterbury will have a bumper house. Chribtchukch Association Football Club. — The opening game of this Club will, be played on the U.C.C. ground, Hagley Park, on Saturday. The following teams have been chosen to play : — Colours : Hamilton, G. Rhodes,' T. Beswick, Hall, Fisher, Gilford, Hatton, Dewdney. Maude, Henderson and Coglan versus (White :) Todhunter, Moss, Reeves, Donaldson, R. H. Rhodes, Smith, Harper, Hassal, Grierson, Raven, Turnbull, Macdonald. Play to commence at 2.45 p.m. sharp. Tea will be provided on the ground. There will be a general meeting after the game to elect officers. The Provisional Committee will be glad to receive the names of intending members' Sydenham First fifteen v. Merivale Firs Fifiesn, on Old Show Grounds : — Patterson, M'Lean, Beese, Fetrie, Donnelly, Thompson, Reilly, Fender, Moir, favage, M'Donald. Gerard, M'Lean. Dynea and M'Conrt. Second fifteen v. Eaßt Christchurch Second Fifteen, on North P«rk:-YouDff, Petrie <2). Smith, Ford, Eohson. Hal>exuel(], Hall, Dowding-, Bitohie, Furdham, Uanoock, Qranthatu, Moore and Bastion. A retired lawyer in the Longhborough County Court claimed five guineas from a farmer for damage to his garden through thistles, caused by the down which blew from the defendant's field, three hundred yards away, in which thousands of thistles grew. The plaintiff was awarded three guineas. Breton sheep are not much, larger than a fair-sized hare. The rush for places in the public service is sufficiently frantic in England, but it iB far more overwhelming in France, where there are said to be upwards of 20,000 applicants for three hundred vacancies which are filled up every year in the department of the Seine. For the post of Qarqon de Bureau at the Hotel de Ville there -were 48.000 applications, three of these situations being vacant.