LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6273, 2 September 1898, Page 3

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Saturday sixty-four column edition of the "Star" will include the following special features: —'■ Tales and Sketches — In the Grip of Hate, Peace on Hampstead Heath, The Secret of Success, A Curious Core, John Burns: Absentee, Rogues' Beady Resource. LadieV Page-—Madame Patti's Early Life, How they TPropose in Other Countries, The Woman's Bible, The Position of Moorish Women, The Queen as a Housekeeper, The .Author of." The Sorrows of Satan" at Home. ' Reading . for Everybody—Fan and Fancy,"- Notes andNotions, Brief Mention, Band Gossip, etc., and all the latest telegraphic and general newsThe Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association's annual horse parade will be held at the Show Grounds on Saturday, Oct. 1. Messrs J. Grigg and F. M. Wallace were passengiers for the south by this morning's express. Mr J. F. Arnold, who represented the bootmakers at the recent sittings of the Arbitration Court at Wellington, was a pas- I senger by the same train. A combined meeting of the ratepayers of the North-East and South-Wesb Wards who are in favour of Messrs F. C. Gerard and E. Eastwood as members'of the Christchurch City Council, will-be held at the Women's Christian Temperance Union Coffee Rooms, Gloucester Street, at 7.30 on Monday evening. The Christchurch Meat Company has renewed its offer to the Agricultural and Pastoral Association of a fifty guinea trophy for competition at the Winter Show. The trophy will be given for the best collection of farm and garden products shown under any particular Road Board), and grown by farmers resident in that particular Road district, and it will become the property of the Road Board district! which first succeeds in carrying off the prize three times. The Managing Director of the company suggests that the committee of the Agricultural and Pastoral Association should appoint committees in the various Road Board districts to lay before the farmers the objects of the competition, and to collect and take charge of exhibits. The unicycle has at last been used as a passenger conveyance in Christchurch. Its first trial was early this morning, and it would probably never have come off at all, had not a man been found helplessly drunk in- Cathedral Square. No cabs were available, so recourse was had to the tramway sables, where a wheelbarrow was obtained, in which the victim of alcohol was escorted to the lock-np. by a police sergeant and a constable. Whether or not the two latter will get into trouble for using a wheeled passenger conveyance between the hours ol sunset and sunrise without having twc lighted lamps affixed to such conveyance, is a matter which concerns the future. The question of cab-fare will doubtless prove a hard nut for the ordinary J.P. Bench tc crack.

An application made by Messrs Anderson and Son to lease from the Lyttelton Harbour Board the dock, workshop site and two acres in addition, may possibly result in the resumption by the Board of the Lirttelton Recreation Ground, which is held by the Borough Council, subject to six months' notice. The Chairman pointed out at yesterday's meeting that it would be & pity to deprive the Lyttelton people of their Recreation Ground if it were possible to make other arrangements, and on his suggestion the question was referred to the Harbour Improvement Committee. The Mayor of Lyttelton, who has announced his intention of standing for re-election, said that perhaps he might seem out of accord with the spirit of the times, but he thought business should come before pleasure. Still, it was as well that the matter should be fully inquired into, seeing how apt people were to make a scare at election time. This last remark, exhibiting characteristic Scotch caution, raised a hearty laugh. A cleverly - written article, entitled "Jessica's Twenty-four," suitably illustrated, and another, "On a Tanßtem," are among the interesting features in the current number of the " New Zealand Cyclist." The leading article gives useful hints to the everyday cyclist on the question of prevention of road accidents. Racing men will find the progress of the sport all over the •world clearly shown, with special reference to tliis colony. Notes by " Hill-top " on the approaching hill-climbing competition merit perusal. In the ladies' columns, "Altiora" gives useful advice in regard to fashions in cycling.