LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7332, 19 February 1902, Page 3

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

.■■>.■ •■•■•■■ ■.••;";, "f ;.- : ■„ In i*e' Tteirttatjon <rf the birth; of a child in W«uingtott; a few dlays ago, the ; IJMrtber'* age ura? set d^wn as fltventy'two yfow, . , ...•' -' ■;■■..•■- •- ■ . ■ th» «smaal nuqi jißd ewe fair, ia connection with the, O^oterbiWT Agricultural and Pastoral Association wUI be held at tije Addington Show Gf oimcls on- Maych 14 aod 161 The entries close on -Maf ch 4. At the Addington Market, to-day, a petition was bring «igned by the butcheWj asking the Oily Council to d«lay the erection of abattoir* at Hernby. -Aboui elxty butchers have already eigned. • A meeting of the t»de irjll be held at the Clarendon Hotel at «i«W> o'clock; to-monw. evening, to Ute further action in tlie master. . Tie G«tr«toa Bft»4 will p% the .following 'proerannane on. tfce Riotunda on ; Thurs* day «>T*j»i&* s— M^T«bt • " ®&t& (MyrbJea " (Ball) ; eelwUon, "Lai Pwipee" (AudcauVj 6j»rw*dß, "Quimmii- ?ngot". (Button); iw«li&, ' " Awf Wiedersenn " (Bailey) ; march, "fNinfOTth'Ga^le" (Ord l! Humeh duet (urowbwe and "ExceWoii" eupJiflnium), kattfcmeu Bfam and; Oibbs fß*He) ? B£le«tJpn,"Th« Belle of Bob«ij3&." (EngUntotYi : i«ww», "The SoMdera of tte Q«w|" {K*ps)| *n4 "Qod Bay« tfle ...;■'.. -■■• : r"' ' The d»t? . of the great, .in Transcaucasia *wa|F.npt t^legirftphediL" Mr Coleridge Fair, who is ' in oharge of the magnetic .observatory^ jiqwey€T#"|" lias, develpped the. fiei?mographio record for the early par^.pf last week, and finds that at dietant vlbient shock occurred on tbe nigbt of Feb. 9. The shock, was a prolonged one, reached Christchnfch about 9,20 p.m. A- very similar shook) of slishtly rp«it«riotenjiity, was recorded a couple of ho\iX9 later, but this was probably the return wave of the Bm* earthquake. ' During UPriday eTeaung Mesiw'tlVloidepite ®PW, h»4 the roisfottune io lose etgh^«se Aeep, Same 600 irere grazing in a jo tie Honelrille district, in which ihere va« a hd«11 gw-vel pit. The Bight ■wa^ wft and 1 cfcormy, and the cheep being ceased by diOgß, -were ultimately driven. into <^ pit, Four -were destroyed by the d<H*Bi' and eeremy-seven were emoihered. "Hie loss was -not -known befor* Sunday, when it wa» found 1 impossible to do tamytlij'n'g in the ira-y of taving the skina, it -\>&ii<z found necewiiry to <bury the carcases witihout delay. fie owners estimate their loss at over £60. Ip iocXLffc: Jwbit of allowingWc^r to roam c district at all hours requires to be pot down. A rather exciting episode was -witnessed *$ Ambwley on Moaday ©venang. "WHle the, 3ate goods tTain to Ohrißtehureh was stocding at the station, an eiderty man, i««Trn as " Liverpool Jack," attempted to mw». befr?*een two of the truoks. He ihad jaj^ feot on to the aecondl buffer of one of the. twAs, -when, the trajn started off. The peopje wfco were standiwr by were vnable to attract t^e attention of the enginerdriver, ted thj .tarn was «ona<pelied to remain in ma perMus position until the train reached j Sef ton, where hp got off wone tibm worse for nifl involuntary' i«Jde. Several of the i [Asn-berlejr people, -thiTjkmg that the man we«W be thrown off the train, followed U <fewß to wb^a-ft they were much ■urwlsed to fbui that he had come to no Mpto, . * • * ' Totrnend's Sulphur Hair Restorer will tdiltlviily rejstpH grey or faded hair, to its Wturftl ooloti^i fa too* dfe. Price 2» per bottle j by pott* sectifely packed, 3s 96 SoWßand. CbMnUfH Ohrjslchurcb, 2521 RegeAt 1 * £«&. severs 4PO acres, Hyde I»ark 400 acres, the Paris Boia de Bou-