LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7700, 8 May 1903, Page 3

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A tpecial meeting of tfce City Council will be hel4 on Wedteeda-y, at 7.30 p.m., for ihe purp ofle of installing the Mayor. Next week there will te seven meetings Of coTEimitteeg o* the City Council andi a special meeting of the Council itself. A male first offender was brought before Captain Whitby, J.P-, at the Lyttelton Police Court, this morning, convicted of drunkenness and discharged vrith a caution. James Winterburn, aged twenty-three, *ras sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment to-day, at Invercaxgill, for stealing a bicycle from a. hotel. He had been previ<>utly convicted of theft In the Appeal Court, at Wellington, today, a motion for leave, to /appeal to the Privy Council, in the Port Chalmers licensing case, was adjourned to the next sitting (June 5), by consent. The value of produce exported from Gisborne by 'direct steamers for ihe first four »onth« of last year was £118,861, and for the first four months of this year it increased to £238,731, which is nearly double. During a) similar, period last year seven ■ ocean going steamers left Gisbrirne, and ■ during the corresponding period this year H nineteen loaded there. I At the Christchurch Magnetic Observa- ■ tory, to-day, at 9.30 a.m., the barometer ■ registered 30.531, and was steady. The I maximum temperature recorded during the ■ preceding twenty-four hours was 62.9, and H the minimum 43.0. The temperature at I d.30 a.m. was: Dry bulb 46.8, wet bulb 1 45. ; humidity 88 per cent. The maxiH mnm temperature in the sun 'had been H 112.4, and the minimum thermometer on H the grass registered 37.2. The dewfall was I .OOlin, and the wind was south-west. I Considerable interest is being manifested Hln the proposal to establish creameries, or ■ » dairy factory, in the Waikari-Hawarden ■ districts. A meeting at the latter place, ■ feeld last -night, was attended by about H forty settlers, some coming seven sniiles to ■be present. Mr A. Ireland presided. After ■Mr R. Evans and others had spoken, a re- ■ lolution was carried in favour of starting ■ either a creamery or factory, and a comHmitteewas appointed to canvass for sup-■po-rt. The Waitari Committee reported Hthat since a meeting held on Tuesday night Hlast in that township, guarantees of over a ■hundred cows had been received.. H To-day's weather forecast is as follows: wind will be moderate to strong from, the south-east and north-east The barometer will farther fall Hat all places eastwards of Tauranga, Taupo Napier, and rise at all other places.. will be a heavy swell on the easti Hcoast between East Cape and Cape CanrpHbell, and! a moderate sea elsewhere. The will be good on the east coast northHward of Cashpoint and moderate at all places. During the last twenty-four Hhours northward of Napier and New Ply■mouth the barometer has fallen slowly, but has risen everywhere else. Moderate to winds, principally from the eastwith fine weather, have been experiin all parts of the country, and a frost reported from Taihape, Blenheim, TopNaseby and Oamaru. A low presfrom the west will probably pass eastof the meridian of South Cape on