LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6551, 31 July 1899, Page 3

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

ft • . A Wellington telegram states, that the colonial mails per Orient, of June 28, from Melbourne, were delivered at London on July 30, two days early! The Postal Department- -will pay old age pensions as usual at the Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, August 1 (to-morrow), between the hours of 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. A Wellington, telegram states that the Moana, with the New Zealand homeward mails of July 10, arrived at San. Francisco on Friday morning, the due date. The following have been picked to represent the- Canterbury Athletic and Cycling Club in their match against Christchurch Cycling Club riext Thursday :— Muir, Petriei Green, Black, Berry, Lanham, Leggett, Plunkett, . Wall, Lewis, Cooke, Clarkson, Donoliue, Wright and Milne. , . , The funeral ol the late Constable S. J. PManson took place at Governor's Bay, and was attended by a very large number of friends from Christchurch, Lyttelton and the Peninsula. The coffin was covered with beautiful wreaths, some of which came from the Wellington police. Mr Manson leaves a wife and one son. Mr G. 11. White, foe ten years master of the Gust public school, lias been selected for appointment as headmaster at South Rakaia. The rivers and creeks of South Canterbury were flooded on Saturday by a . heavy rain on Friday night, which melted most of the snow remaining on the coast country. In addition to the awards already published Mr T. E. Hardy- Johnston's Gordon Better, Rata, took second prize in her class at the Dunedin Fanciers' Club's show. Mr J. J. Hamilton, who for some years has had charge of the local branch of the Public Trustee's Office, left fo-r Wellington on Saturday evening to take up the duties of Public Trustee* during the remainder of Mr J. C. Martin's absence from the colony. . The Lyceum was well filled last nighi, ■when a memorial address on Hjlre late Colonel Ingezsol] was delivered by Mr W. W. Collins. A review of his braffiaai career as an orator, lawyer arid' soldier wasgiven, and the amiable .and estimable points in his character were sketched. At the close of the address it was unanimously decided to forward a resolution of condolence to the bereaved family from the Canterbury Freefchought Association. A very, fine two-year-old Tamworth boar, ft direct descendent of the stock imported from England by Messrs Wilson Brothers, Teddington, was recently purchased from Mr Archibald Mnir, Springston, by Mr W. Donald, the well-known judge and buyer of pigs for Mr W. Crossan, Henly, Otago, who has received the pig in good condition. Tie Tarn-worths and tlifiir crosses are in great favour in Otago, as elsewhere, and the industry of pork-raising has increased very greatly in the southern dairying districts during the last two years. Before commencing his sermon at the Cathedral yesterday morning Bishop Julius said that there was a debt of £426 in connection with the Cathedral, and this must be paid. Nothing had been available from the endowments for the past three years, and he would sooner close the doors of the Cathedral ib&n see it get into debt. He did not, however, think there would be any occasion for such a step. He contrasted the special collection recently made from a congregation of two hundred people at Kumara with the collection from 800 people at the Cathedral, greatly to the disadvantage of the latter. The Hons E. C. J. Stevens and H. Gourley, and Messrs C. Lewis, T. E. Taylor, and G. J. Smith, M.H.R.'s, Lieutenant Cooper, and Mr F. C. de Malet arrived from Wellington by the Rotoma3iana on Saturday. Amongst the passengers for the south by Saturday's express were the. Hon H. Gourley, Mr C. C. Rawlins, M.H.R., and the Rev W. Biathwayte. Captains Willis and Davison -went south "by the Elingamifce on Saturday. Mr G. Bisset", of the " Canterbury Times," arrived from Dunedin by Saturday night's express train. By the Rotorua, which left Wellington yesterday morning for LyfeteTbon, Mr R. Meredith, M.H;R., is a passenger. » The story of , the naval career of H.R.H. the Duke of York is well told 1 , with, the aid of a number of exceedingly good pictures, from photographs, in the June number of the " Windsor Magazine," in which, also, Mr J. Foster Fraser graphically describes life in a Lancashire cotton mill. Mr George Cranley contributes a : paper on the Australian cricket team now in England. Mr Herbert C. Fyfe has a charming article, admirably illustrated, on "Birds' Nesting with a Camera." The first of a series of articles by lan Maclaren, on "A Scot's Grammar School," an interesting account of Sir John Furley and his ambulance wori through several European wars, by Mi Leonard W. Lellington, a short story by Bret Harte, " The Secret of Sorriente's Well," the continuation of S. R. Crockett's "Joan of the Sword," and several othei very readable tales, and sketches make up a decidedly interesting number. The illustrations are, as usual, admirable. Bishop Julius preached at the Cathedra] yesterday morning. In the course of hiaddress he said that the Church must be both good and -severe, and that if eithei of these qualities predominated, it woulc bs b;ul for the Church. The Christ of to day was a gentle, meek sort of individual filled with altruistic sentiment, who helc out his arms to everybody, and the moden conception of Christ was not so much th< kindness which comes of strength as tin amiability which comes of weakness. Tin Cliriss of to-day was brought into everj modem controversy and unholy theory, anc was brought in to suit the tastes and pas sions of men whose gospel was rather tin gospel of amiability than that of sincerity or truth. In these modem days the stern ness and grandeur of the character whicl iriiide the true man of God Irad largely diet out and if people began to practise tin severity mentioned in. the text, they shonli ■use it "on themselves rather than on others In the past the Church had tempered it goodness with severity, and he asked thcr.i of the present day to try and realise this. Butter.— Fresh Factory lOd, Black Swai Is. Fresh Eggs lid. Hubbard, Hall ant jo. Z 3B *

Messrs A. L. Beatiae, J. Gray, H. W. Peryiaan, Rev L .M. Isitt, Dr Gane, and the Kaikorai football team were among the passengers who left for the south by the. express this morning. The platform of the Chrisfcchitrch Railway Station was crowded th\s morning with footballers, who had gone to see the last of the Kaikorai team. Hearty cheers were given as the train moved away. The frosts of last week have done considerable damage in the plantations in some parts of the Ashburton County. Large numbers of trees, both wattle and gum, have suffered, and present the appearance of having been, scorched by fire. The young trees are not the only sufferers, as numbers of wellgrown ones, two or three feet in diameter, look as if a bush fire had taken place.