LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5504, 3 March 1896, Page 3

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A_criON.-TMe3Brs George King and Co. will sell thirty Border Leicester rams and , . sixteen Shropshire ewes at the Addington Yards to-morrow. Cycling.— Mr D. S. Bowman, cyclist, . left Cathedral Square this morning, at two minutes past ten to attempt to break the record from Christchurch to Dunedin at present held by Mr J. Shorland, who did the journey in 2*4.hrs 23min. The Succession Duty Case.— At the conclusion of argument in the case brought in the Supreme Court to decide whether • the estate of the late Mr John Macfarlane, of Coldstream, was liable to succession duty, Mr Justice Denniston resewed judgment. Visiting Firemen. — The first of the representatives of fire brigades from other " parts of the colony, who are to take part in the United Fire Brigades' Demonstration next week arrived this morning, when the teams of the Hastings and Spit. Brigades came.from the north by the s.s. Talune. High Tides— The tideß have been unusually high the last three or four days, especially on the Estuary, where the water was over the road, the Sumner tramway line in 'some parts being covered to a depth of twelve inches or more, while the low land neai- the Heathcote Hotel is flooded. Obanoeism. — The usual monthly meeting of the "No Surrender" Ladies' Orange Lodge was held in the Orange Hall on Friday evening, Sister Foster in the chair. Bro Middleton, Grand Lodge Instructor, was present. One candidate was proposed A for membership, and a committee was appointed to procure a Past President's certificate for. presentation to Sister Middle- ' • ton. 'Z\ .'■''■ yr:Z\ ''..•■• ' ; .' : .' ■, Concert to Seamen.— The lady visitors to the Seamen's Best organised a concert at the Best to seamen in Port on Monday --■.'-. evening; There was a large attendance. Songs were contributed by Mesdames E. Wylie and H. N. Hiskens (encored) Misses Holliss and Clark, and Messrs A. B. , M'Cready and J. E. Collins, and a trio by, Messrs dark and Kenner. Mrs Bromley played the accompaniments. Obituaby. — Ex-detective Doolan, who died yesterday, was born in Tipperary, Ireland, and came tothe colonies in the • early days of the gold fever in Australia. He worked on moßt of the fields in Victoria, ahd came to Otago when the rush ' set in there. He joined the police as detective in 1870, having previously served in the Irish constabulary and Victorian police. He was stationed in various parts of the Auckland Province till 1888, when he was removed to Christchurch as chiefdetective. On the strength of the detective force being reduced, he was transferred to the general police as sergeant, which rank he held until forced to retire through an affection of the eyes. Although successfully operated upon he never thoroughly recovered, and died at This residence at the age of sixty-five years. Society op Abts. — The annual meeting of the Canterbury Society of Arts was held yesterday afternoon at the Art Gallery. The Hon E.C. J. Stevens, president, occupied the chair, and there was a fair r.vtendance of members. The report and ■fcalance-gheet, which have already been published, were adopted. The election of , officers resulted as follows -.—President, the Hon E. 0. J. Stevens (re-elected); vicepresidents,Mr Justice Denniston and Mr W. H. Wynn-WilHatns (re-elected) ; members of council, TBiiss Munnings, Messrs E. D. Thomas, J.M. Madden and W. M. Gibb; secretary, Mr S. D. Barker; hon treasurer, Mr S. Hurst Seager; auditors, Messrs P. Waymouth and N. L. Macbeth. On the motion of Mr P. Cunningham, seconded by Mr Ji Gibb and supported by Mr B. D. Thomas, a very hearty vote of thanks was passed to Captain Garsia for his invaluable services to the Society of Arts. Captain Garsia thanked the members for their kind' appreciation of his , efforts. A vote of thanks to the Chairman brought the meeting to a close. Chinese Competition.— A meeting of fruiterers and others interested in the question of Chinese competition was held in Mr Ayers's auction rooms last evening, for the purpose of receiving the report of the delegates appointed at a previous meeting to represent the various Associations. About thirty persons were present. Mr Ayers occupied the chair, and stated that the delegates had imanimously decided to recommend members of ' the various Fruiterers' Associations to join the AntiChinese League: It was notintendedthatthe different Associations should cease to exist for their own special objects, but that they should Join the League for the purpose of fighting the Chinese competition. It was unanimously resolved that the recommendation of the delegates should be agreed ' to. On Mr Davie's motion it was decided to request Mr Collins, the president of the Anti-Chinese League to convene a meeting of the League, for the purpose of allowing members of the Associations to join. A delegate from the Bootmakers' Union stated that his Union would be willing to assist the League in every possible way. ■