LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6120, 5 March 1898, Page 5

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Annual Picnic. — The annual picnic of the Lyttelton Times and Star staffs is being held to-day, and should the readers of .the Star observe any shortage in its current news, they mil doubtless make allowance tinder the circumstances. Sunday Lecture. — Mr W. W. Collins ■will lecture to-morrow, in the Lyceum, on ." Agnosticism ; an exposition of Agnostic First Principles." Canterbury Frozen Meat Company. —■The annnal picnic of the employes of the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company will be held at Little Eiver on Tuesday. Salvation Army. — The Christchurch Branch of the Salvation Army will hold a series of special harvest festival services to-morrow. On Wednesday evening " The Harvest Field " will be represented with limelight effects. Horticultural Society. — The Christchurch Horticultural Society will hold an exhibition of flowers, fruit and vegetables in the Art Gallery on Thursday. Special prizes, which will be awarded by public vote, are offered for the best table decorations. Bowling. — The concluding matches for the singles and doubles of the Canterbury Bowling Club will be played this afternoon. A meeting of delegates from the Christchurch and Canterbury Bowling Clubs will be held on Wednesday naxt to consider the question of holding a tournament at Easter. Cheviot. — A splendid rain fell all day on Thursday. Yesterday morning it was overcast, but warm, with slight showers. The rain will do an immense amount of good to grass and turnips. The Settlers' Association will meet to-day, when a paper will be read by the president on "Rating on Unimproved Values." Theatre Eoyal. — There was a very good house at the Theatre Eoyal last night, when the emotional drama, Two Little Vagabonds, was repeated by Messrs Williamson and Musgrove's Dramatic Company. The performance went exceedingly well throughout, and was received with every sign of approbation by the nudience. The company's season will C1036 this evening. Sydenhah Presbyterian Church. — The eighteenth anniversary of the Sydenham Presbyterian Church will be celebrated to-mefrrow, when special services will ba held, and hymns suitable to the occasion will be rendered by a choir of eighty voices. The preachers will be the Eev Gordon Webster in the morning, the Rev J. Orchard in the afternoon, and the Rev E. S, Allen in the evening, State Settlements. — The adjourned meeting of the conference of delegates representing various political and labour bodies was held last night in the rooms of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. The chairman, Mr Ensoni, submitted the report of the sub-committee appointed at the previous meeting. After considering a number of claxises, the meeting adjourned furthor consideration of the report till Friday, March 18. Sydenham Gospel Mission. — The annnal harvest festival services in connection with this mission will be commenced tomorrow, and continued on Monday and I'uesday. To-morrow special services will be celebrated in the morning and evening, and in the afternoon the servjee of song, Left Alone, will be given. On Monday evening a musical entertainment will take place, and on Tuesday evening there will be a "harvest home " tea-meeting. Amy Sherwin. — The Amy Sherwin Company will open a season at the Choral Hall on Monday evening, when a programme of fifteen numbers will be presented to the public- Madame Amy Sherwin will sing "OmbraMaiFu" (Handel), "Little Bird so Sweetly Sinking" (G. B. Allen), and " Quand tu Chantes " (Gounod.) Miss Kitty Grindlay will sing " The Promise of Life" (Cowen), "Stars" (Leoni), and "Land o' the Leal." Mr Arthur Deane will sing "The King's Minstrel" (Pinsutii, " The Pilgrim " (Adams), and " Long Ago in Alcala" (Messager). Madame Amy Sherwin and Mr Arthur Deane will sing Newton's duet "The Golden Goose," and Miss Kitty Grindlay and Mr Deane will sing the duet "What's To Do," from Flotow's opera of Martha, Messrs Herbert Stoneham and S. Szezepanowaki will play Terscbak's sonata on flute and pianoforte. Mr S. Szezepanowski will play Greig's " Papillion," and an impromptu of his own R3 soli, and Mr Alberto Zelman will play violin soli from the compositions of Spohr and Wieniawski. Eam Fair. — The Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association's ram fair closed yesterday. The attendance was Email, and business very flat, and even the respectable-looking figures obtained for a few of the stud rams were in reality only inoderato, considering the quality of the sheep. The Christchurch Meat Company's horticultural and agricultural exhibition was added to by contributions from many clients of the company who were so pleased with the previous day's display that they telegraphed to their farms for roots. &c, to be forwarded. Amongst the additions was a collection of b uttou's Prizewinner and Yellow Globe mancolds and long red and white Belgian carrots, from Mr George Rhodes, Meadowbank, which Avould bo a credit to any winter show. Mr W. Strange, who is s*n enthusiast in garden matters, contributed two varieties of runner beans, potatoes, plums, pears, &c, showing the effective, use of Islington fertilisers in this dry season, The other exhibits included a sample of Tuscan wheat, which for quality waE declared to be the best thab has been on view this season ; further contributions oi flowers, fruit and vegetables from Elm. wood, Mr J. .G. Mitchinson and Mi Simpson, and. perhap3 the most attraotiv* of nil, an orchid from Mr F. C. East. £ eylontliil chimp of purple heather was distributed amongst visitors, many o whom had not seqn the like since thej left the " land of brown heath." Mobepork Celebrated Mild-cured Ham nnd Bacon can be had in any quantitie from Hubbard, Hall and Co., Mancheste Street, noxt Milner and Thompson's. 219: ( Towncr.d'r. Celebrated Cinnamon' Cure i Specific for Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis, &c 'old' e very wheio. Price 2s 6d.— £Advt.]

» Acknowledgement. — The treasurer of the St Mary's Home Building Fund desires to acknowledge the receipt of £50 from an anonymous donor. An Owner Wanted. — A gold-mounted greenstone pendant, found on the roadway near the Magistrate's Court on March 1, £ now awaits its owner at the police t station. e Customs Becbipts.— The Customs duties >> (after deducting refunds) collected at l^ Lyttelton during the week ending March 9 4 were as follow: — Spirits, &c, .£1564 e 163 Id-, cigars, &0., £166 os7d; tobacco. I =£585 Os 6d ; wine, £523 19s lid ; ale and a. beer, £38 6s ; tea, £176 08 8d; sugar, , £525 8s 6d; weight, £468 19s 8d; ad '- valorem, £692 3s 9dj other duties, £63 3s 10d; total, £4804. '• Papanui School. — The presentation of I the dux medal to Master T. J. C. Wilkins took place at the school on Thursday afternoon. There was a large "attendance of " parents. An apology for absence was received from the donor of the medal, Mr T. i S. Weston. The Chairman of the commit--3 tee, Mr D. Buntin, in opening the proceedings, referred to the changes in the school staff during the past year. The Sev W. 3 Lee, of St Albans, made the presentation.