LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7504, 11 September 1902, Page 3

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

H Umbrellas to the value of £17,476 were H Imported into New Zealand last year. H The practical examinations of Trinity M College of Music, London, will be cohH ducted by.' 1 , Mr Mistow«ki, Mus. Bac, H Oxbn., in Cbristchurch about the middle of H October. \ \ H T3i#- PoMic Library arrangements have; Hfeeea taken one step. nearer to perfection by , Htae monthly issue _of cards,.; on "which are ■ printed the names of th© ixroks ihat (have HJfeen, added to the library during the month. H?The citrita will be issued to subscribers. In consequence of the railway authoriH tie* not ■being able to provide carriages for H the "whole of the Rangiora Friendly SoH cietie»* party on Labour Day, the H committee met last night and altered the H date of the excursion, to Thursday, Oct. H The Wellington Licensing Cominitt-ee H having postponed^ action with respect to H several hotels which the police and City H Engineer think should be rebuilt', the : S'eaftn Depiutinent is now having a. report made H on the condition of tlie hotels, with a view. H to action. H Counsel: "Your wife, did you say?" H Witness: "Well, I reckon I've got a good H claim to her— l lived ■ with her thirteen H yearp." Counsel : "What's her name?" ■ Witness}. "W«H, I could tell, yjbu^ six. difH ferent" names she's had." Domestic item H eMcited .in Wellington Magistrate's Court H proceedings. H At Dunedin to-diy Margaret^ Jone«i" the H keeper of an oyster saloon, was fined £10 H and coste '28» for selling liquor without H a .license. A second charge' was withH drawn. Similar charges against S. and H £. iQ^rdham, of the Cafe Cecil, and P. and H M. O'Brien, "boarding-house keepers, were H adjourned for a week. . ■ Tb» "Wairarapa Daily Times*' recalls H ,the -^fftct that it was thirty-four, years on H Saturday last since' the battle <si Te NgutuH o-te manu ("Beak of the ;- rßird ") was H fought, when Major Von Tenipsky and a H number of officers were killed, and the I British" sustained such a heavy reverse irt? I the hands of the Maori*. ' ' I Tow'nend's Sulphur Hair Restorer wilT ■ pwot}Velj restore grey or .faded Hair to , its ■ natutaf colour ; is'not a dye. "J*rip.e_at;'per7 H bottle; by post, eecurely packed^" 2s "yd. ' I Tdwilend, Chemist, Chxiatchurch. 2521