LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7415, 29 May 1902, Page 3

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

- ri*- " A start has been made to l form the cycle track through Hagley Park from Armagh Street to the Fendalton entrance. A girl named Jessie Owens left the N Female Refuge clandestinely early on Wednesday movping, and her whereabouts has not been heard of. The North Canterbury Education Board is still experiencing difficulties \n regard to filling positions in country districts. Advertisements calling for applications are now bein}-; inserted in Otago newspapers, A /representative meeting of settlers held at Masterton affirmed the desirableness of establishing a co-operative freezing works in the Ws'irarapa. Substantial support was pror-pised and a committee wa-s appointed to carry out the project. ■ ' . i It has not baen found necessary, so far, to v*"« a- clinker-breaker in connection with the Destructor, a* the dinkcr has not been hard. When raorfe work is done and the fires kept going for longer hours, the necessity for a breaker will probably become apparent. The (Destructor is now working at its full power, and is consuming large quantities '•'of rubbish. To-morrow afternoon members of .Sanitary Committees in the neighbouring boroughs will inspect the Destructor, under the direction of . the Gty Surveyor, Mr A. D. Dobson. . The Mayor of Woolston took the chair Sat a no-Hcense meeting h<?ld in the Oddfellows' Hall on Wednesday evening to hear an address given by Mr T. W. Qlover, of the New Zealand Alliance. Reference was made to the success cf no : license in Clutha, Dovedale and Albertland, in New Zealand, and also in- Vinehmd and Millville, New* Jersey, TJ.^.A-i \n addition to the State of Maine. 'At the close votes of thanks were pwijed to Mr Glover and the Mayor. Messrs W. W. Collins 1 and G. J. Smith, M-H.R.'s for Cliristchurcli, yesterday had) a conference with representatives of the St Albans and Linwood Borough Coiincjls. The boroughs in question desire direct representation upon the Drainage Board, and instructions, have been . given to the solicitors of the respective Councils to prepare a local Bill dealing with the matter. The Jqefil "meJnhers undertook- to give every as\ distance possible towards the passage of the UillA sailor named William John £avis, from the scow Ururoa, was brought before Mt.fl, K Wtbb, J.P., at Lyttelton, to-day, and charged with having refused to obey lawful oomnjands. He admitted having done so, ancl pleaded that he wanted to get away from the vessel- ■ As he had signed on for six months, and part of his term was unexpired, the Bench declined to take bis view of the shatter, and sentenced him to seven days' imprisonment, ordering him to be put on Ijfoard when the vessel sail*. " ' As the parties in. a civil case were leaving the Magistrate's Court this morning the plaintiff ig the action informed one of the witnesses for the defence that he was the greatest perjurer on earth. The witness, resenting this imputatieh, at once returned tq Court _ and %q\4 the Magistrate of the occurrence, asking his advice as to how to proceed under the circumstances. H:_ Worship said that it waa not his business to give adyioe ia such matter?, and advised the injured party to see ai solicitor., Mr MerAltb, M.H-R., addressed the electors. at Kaikoura last night. The attendance was* Jess than one hundred. The only new feature bf his speech was an impeachment of the whole Ministry, except the Hon W. C. Walker and the Hon J. M'Gowan, on the education question', upon which Mr Meredith declared that the Cabinet was unsound. A vote of thanks and confidence was carried by a majority of twenty-six to one, but two-thirds of those present refrained from voting. Townend's Sulphur Hair Restorer will positively restore grey or faded hair to its natural colour ; is not a dye. Price 2s per bottle ; by post, securely packed, 2s 9d. j lownendi Chemist, Christchurch. 2321