MEETINGS OF SOCIETIES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7688, 24 April 1903, Page 3

MEETINGS OF SOCIETIES.

A social gathering in connection with the Lyttelton No-license League wa.s held in the Wesleyan schoolroom on Thursday night. There was a large attendance, and the Heathcote and. Woolston Branches were represented. Tne president, me Rev A. H. Treadwell, occupied the chair. The annual report referred to the success of the League since its formation, and stated that the result of the local option poll showed that the majority of the electors who voted were in favour of no-license. The programme for the evening consisted of ad<kesses by Miss Roberts -and the Chairman, a song by Miss M. Clark, recitations by Mrs Pedlar, Misses Pedlar and Rhind and Mr Yates. Mrs Whitby, on behalf or the League, presented the secretary, Mr A. Foster, with a handsome writing desk, in recognition of his services. After refreshments had been partaken of the Chairman pronounced the benediction^

A Russian, physician asserts that the pain ,'of neuralgia, if superficial, can be relieved afc once by throwing a beam of light from a bright arc-light upon the affected part. Coloured sweets of British manufacture may now be imported into Turkey. ' It has taken nearly two years' to persuade the Turkish authorities that such sweets contain nothing injurious. A mew road for transport by automobile is being constructed in the Congo \ Free State, and at present it extends 460 kilometrec?. The method! pursued is simple enough. All that is done is to drive a herd of forty elephants three >r four times over the track marked out by surveyors. Thfej. level down obstructions a* efficiently