LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The Christclmrch Football Club's sports, which were to have been held next Saturday on- the Show Grounds, have been postponed indefinitely. Messrs F. W. Delamain, Frank Hyams of Dunedin, and Wallace, of Wellington, •were passengers for the south by the express this morning. A committee meeting of the Avoiv Bowing Club was held on Monday, the captain ( Mr J. MDonald) in the chair. .C'ois respondence was read from the Union Rowing Club relative to co - operating for improving the river, and Messrs F. Fuller, C. Allard and J. M'Donald were elected .is delegates. Accounts were pr.ssed for payment, and the meeting closed. The whitebait are coming up the Avon in very scanty numbers this season, and on the lower reaches of the river plenty of netsmen. j but few fish, are to be seen. It will be remembered that this fish visited the West Const rivers in great profusion a few weeks skju. and fears are expressed that the whitebait have lost their reckonings and followed the wrong coast-line. It is possible, however, that later on in the season more recent arrivals may see fit to modify their course. At Fernside last night, during the time Air R. H. Ferguson (schoolmaster) and family were attending an entertainment in the schoolroom, a thief entered liis house by ii, door left -unlocked, and stole a cashlu'X containing a. bank-book, some papers and: a- small sum in silver; and also a purse containing 4s 9d belonging to Miss Glarcville. the schoolmistress. The cash-box wa* found this morning near the school grounds. ■with the book and papers, but minus the cash.
A yocng girl who was brought- before the Bench this morning charged with attempting to commit suicide in the river Avon, seemed to feel her position very keenly, and was in tears throughout the proceedings. In applying for a remand, Sergeant-Major Ramgay said the girl, though she looked about fourteen years of age, was much older. She Aras quite beyond the control of her parents, -and last evening, as she was walking along the river bank near the Armagh Street 'Bridge with her lover, she had, in conse.«nience of a quarrel, jumped into the river,' The remand apjplied for. was granted.
A telephone office is now open at Woodend, the Hours being from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The office will be closed on Sundays and holidays. A telegram states that the criminal libel case M'lvor v. the editor of the " Kaikoura Star," which was heard at the Magistrate's Court, Kaikoura, yesterday, was dismissed, without the defence being called upon.
The thirty-ninth annual report of the Canterbury Chamber of. Commerce has been issued in pamphlet form. In addition to-tha usual contents, which, of course, embody j the President's address, the scale of mercantile charges adopted by the Chamber during .the year is fully set out. This contains information calculated to be of service to stock-brokers, shipping and commission agents, valuers, wool-growers and others. Mr W. E. Ropers paper entitled " Harnessing Niagara," and the terms of trading and credit which the Chambers of Auckland. .Wellington, Nelson, Dunedin, Invercargill and Canterbury have determined to- bring into operation as from July 1 next, are also published. Both local and colonial statistics from the mest recent sources are given.
At the meeting of rowing clubs, to be held at the Union Rowing Club's Boathouse this evening, to consider the state of the river, a. somewhat new and certainly ingenious idea, will be propounded by Mr F. Fuller, president of the Avon Bowing* Club. A* the original notion of raising the level of. the stream, either by the introduction of water from the Wahnakariri or the erection of dams to bank up the present flow, is liable to the objection that proprietors of low-lviug riparian lands will be injured thereby," Mr Fuller has hit upon another expedient, by wliich, it is claimed, the present level of the water will remain as at present, while at the same time a reasonable depth may be. secured. Put into a few words, the idea is to construct two concrete dams across the river at, say. from one to three miles apart, the tops of tne dams to be 18in below the 'present \racer level Then the bottom of the river between the dams will be dredged to a uniform depth of 3i« below the present wate/ level It is claimed that the dams so constructed would offer no obstacle to boating, and would greatly improve the ™er from eanitary, boating, fishing- and -wjtttetic standpoints. . 1 : .
The members of the ChristcKurch Model Yacht Club intend holding a concert on Friday week, the funds derived from which will go towards the erection of a boatshdi at Victoria Lake. The first scratch races of the season will be sailed on Saturday afternoon, and the formal opening of the season will take place on the Saturday following, when every effort will be made to provide an attractive programme.
Information ha». been received in town that his Honor Mr Justice Denniston, has to take two - cases at Oamaru, in addition to his Timaru work, and it is at present uncertain if he will be able to return to Christchurch before Saturday. If this turns out to be the case, no Chamber sittings will be held tomorrow, but further particulars will probably be available by this evening.
Since the formation of Victoria Lake, model yachts have become quite a common sight there, but last Thursday and again today, those who were in Hagley Park saw a model steamer make its appearance. It is, however, hardly correct to call the httle vessel a steamer, since the propelling power is electricity. She was built by Mr E. Barber, and has a speed: of about four miles an hour. Sh© is fashioned «n tEe lines of Home-going steamboats, has two funnels and four masts, and gives evidence of very careful workmanship.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6290, 22 September 1898, Page 3
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