LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7623, 5 February 1903, Page 3

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

I ♦ — '■ — I The New Zealand Shippinjr Company, J/imited, has received cable advice of the arrival of the Turakina at Plymouth yester^ _sr. after a passage of forty-one days from .Wellington. j Tha return of expenses of the candidates for the Courtenay seat at the general elecytibn shows that Mr Charles Lewis ex(psnded £6l 10s, Mr John Rcnnie £36 10a 4d, and Mr John Barrett £19 19s. J The South- Island bands which competed %t the Moßterton Contest will arrive in Christchurch, on their homeward journey, ' ( ;e*a Sunday. :'■ ,Mr v Ord-Hume, the contest adjudicator, will accompany them to Christtsmirdh. It is the' intention of the bands J jto giVe an- open-air concert on Sunday'afternoon, conuhencing about three o'clock. Mr Hume will probably conduct the massed t&nde in a selection, or he may wield tbe baton in the performance, • by one of the frauds, of "Un Rallo in Mflscliera." This was specially arranged by Mr Hume lot the Masterton Contest. ' The lyttelton ' Maripe Band will probably meet the bandsmen' on their arrival at Port, and come on i^th them -to Ohristohurcb, where the !DMstohuToh Qwrrißoa Band will be waiting to receive the visitors and escort them to , where the concert will probably be given, jm ihe Eotunda, in Victori-a. Square. The •Jollowing bandf are expected to take part : wSoutbland -Battalion (Lieutenant Mohr) , {North-Ea»t Valley (R. Cook), Kaikorai (R. .Leidlaw), and Woolston (Lieutenant Sid-

The gentlemen who formed the coroner's jury at the recent inquest on a young woman who died at the Hospital, left their fees in the hands of the Hospital authorities, as contributions to the Hospital funds. At the Christchurch Magnetdo Observatory,, at 9.30 a.m. to-day, the barometer stood at 29.727. The maximum and minimum temperatures recorded during the previous twenty-four hours were 72.7 and 51.6 respectively. The maximum temperature, in the sun was 137.1, amd the minimum thermometer on the grass registered 46.5. No rain fell during the preceding twentyfour hours. The gold entered for export from New Zealand during last month totalled 48,770 oz> of the value of £189,681, as oompared With 32,8600z, valued at £127,397, in January of last year — an increase of 15,910cz, of the value of £62,284. Last month's total was made up as follows: — Dunedin, 16,293 oz, £65,925; Greymouth, 12,9040z, £51,591; Auckland, 12,2620z, £42,994; Hckitika, 35610z, £14,244 ; Westport, 2985 cz, £12,020; Nelson, 7650z, £2907. The export of silver last month totalled 62,343 oz, of the value of £6^13, or 25,9870z, of the value of £1816, more than in January, 1902.