LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7568, 28 November 1902, Page 3

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Feilding bakers have raised the price of bread to fourpence a two-pound loaf, owing to the increase in the price of flour.

The telegraph authorities at Bombay advise the local department that the cable between Zanzibar and Mombasa is interrupted.

The General Committee in connection with the Greater Christchurch scheme will meet at the City Council Chambers at 4 p.m. on Tuesday.

The Mayor has received the sum of £40, the proceeds of the sacred concert in aid of th© sufferers by the Elingamite disaster. The money will be forwarded to Auckland.

Through the kindness of Mr W. Recce, the Court of Directors of the Royal Humane Society -of New Zealand has been able to purchase thirty life-buoy®, which are now at the directors' disposal for distribution.

The quarterly general meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, which was to have been held this afternoon, has been postponed until next Thursday, at 3" p.m.', out of respect to the memory of the late Mr R. J. S. Harman.

Upwards of 300 applicatirinsvhave been received by the Health Department for admission to the Government Sanatorium for Consumptives. The Sanatorium will not be ready to receive its full complement of patients till next year.

The plaintiff was nonsuited in the west coast appeal case Earl v. the King, heard in Wellington. Earl obtained a verdict at Hokitika for £800 against the Government, but the nonsuit point was raised, and has now been decided against Hum.

The Dunedin correspondent of this paper •wires that Madame Melba has changed dates. She will now open in Dunedin on -Feb. 18, and sing in CShristchurch on Feb. 20. - For the performance of the opera "Faust," at, Melbourne, on Saturday last, the taikings were £2760. -,' A communication received from London by the San Francisco mail, informed the 'management of the New Zealand Band, which is to tour England next year, that the Crystal Palace Company was prepared to give th© band a five weeks' engagement for concerts at the Palace. The 'stretch, of dry weather before the recent rain has allowed the workmen of the City Council to do a lar^e amount of footpath tarring and levelling-up, much to | the <sditifort of pedestrians. The work has i rot been confined to the centre of the town, but is being carried out in various parts of the city. Mr D. F. Denneny, of < Westport, has | written the following commendation of Hammer in ; the visitors' 'book of the Tourists' Department.— " Just returned from Hamner Springs. The effect is marvellous, and none should miss the first opportunity of visiting "the health resort -and surrouhdirigs." The telegraphic weather report at 9 a.m.' to-day showed that the barometer had fallen in most parts of the, colony. At Auckland the wind was south-west, and the sky ."clear. A north' wind was blowing at Wellington, and the sky was overcast.' At Dunedin and Invercargill the wind was north-west and the sky clear". A telegram from Wellington states that the Maori < leper, concerning whom the Hamilton Hospital authorities made a great agitation some time back, when it was proposed to isolate .him in the hospital grounds, has been removed by his own people to an out-of-the-way spot on the Waikato. The Health (Department will not interfere further. The block tests of fat cattle, exhibited at the Manawatu Agricultural and Pastoral Show, place Mr D. P. Buchan's Hereford bullocks first and . fourth and. Messrs M'Eardy Bros.' Shorthorns second and third. 'Judged alive, the latter exhibits were placed first and second. The judge particularly commended the quality of the Hereford beef. At the Chri&tchurch Magnetic Observatory, at 9.30 this morning, the barometer stood at 29.485. The maximum and minimum temperatures/ during the preceding twenty-four hours were 62.2 and 40.3 respectively. The maximum temperature in the sun was 134.1, and the minimum 'temperature on the grass was 33.3. The rainfall during the previous twenty-four hours was 0.020 in. The barometer was steady. The Wellington City Council has accepted the tender of the Jarrahdalc For-ests and Railway Company, 'Limited, for the supply of upwards of five million feet of timI ber for paving Wellington streets. The price is 16s 4d per hundred. The Council will ask the Western Australian] Government to allow an expert to pass each shipment. The border sets will be stone from Dtury, Auckland, supplied by Mr John iM'Lean at £1 16s 6d per hundred. r There was a large attendance at the Cathedral last night, when Dr Bradshaw gave another organ ' recital. The pro- j gramme consisted mostly of selections from the modern school of composers, and in each case the music was artistically interpreted. Amongst the numbers were Gottschalk's "Meditation," Mendelssohn's " Songa Without Words," Calkin's " Hommage a Mendelssohn," Handel's organ conoerto in B flat, and Rachmaninoff's " Hungarian March," arranged for the organ by Mr T. Best. On. Saturday, Dec. 20, a recital of Christmas music will be given at 3 p.m.

In a case of indecent exposure heard at the Magistrate's Court this morning, the witnesses in support of the allegations were aQi little girls. The first charge against the accused was heard and dismissed, and the yrecoaid being entered upon, and a little girl \>eing brought b&fore the Bench as a witness, Mr Richardson, J.P., the chairman of the Bench, said: — "I think it is a very improper thing to bring children* of this age into Court to give evidence. They are too young to know what they ar© saying." Sub-Inspector Dwyer: "The Act provides that evidence is admissible from children over the age of eight, provided they know that they 'are telling fche truth. TMs witness is eleven years of age, and says she knows the difference between" a truth and an untruth." Mr Richardson : " She does not look that age."

The third annual report of the Royal Humane Society of New Zealand, which will be presented at the annual meting on Tuesday, states that during the year, three silver medals, one silver clasp, two "In memoriam " certificate on. vellum, and nine letters of commendation have been granted. In order to render the functions and objects of the Society still more useful and complete in scope and detail, the directors have deemed it desirable to have a. new application form printed. It is stated that efforts towards restoration of life have not, in many instances, been, persistent enough, nor have those efforts been conducted with sufficient knowledge or intelligence, and this points to the urgent necessity for disseminating information dealing with the proper methods to he employed. The., directors think that the Society is fulfilling in a fairly satisfactory manner, the objects for which it was called into existence, and asks the public generally outside OhristchurCh to give a helping hand, dn order that its operations may be made still more useful.

Finding a nine-leaved "shamrock," a farm labourer at Gronigen, Holland, sent it to Queen Wilhelniina, who accepted the gift, and rewarded the donor -with £2 Is Bd* .. -