LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7767, 27 July 1903, Page 3

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

■ The Board of Governors d*f Canterbury Go'l&ge will meet 'this afternoon. ' This morning a survey of the ship Emily Resd was made by Messrs F. H. Barns, C. Ferrier and J. Miller. \ . This is the last day for the receipt of Voting papers in connection with the election of three members of the North Canterbury Education Board. The papers cannot be opened for twelve days. •The City Council this'evening will deal •with a report from, the Abattoirs Committee, whic'Ji met on Tuesday evening, and. with other reports and ordinary business. Councillor C. M. Gray, the deputy-Mayor, will preside. . The oil-launch. _ which the Tourist De- , j>a*tment is having built by Mr Logan, of , Auckland, for 'Lake. Waikaremoana, will accommodate between thirty and forty* people, and will cost about £450. It will be sent to the lake in Sept-ember. \.- MrH. A. Bruce, secretary to the Canter- 1 bury Acclimatisation Society^has returned, to Chtistchurch, after having" int&pjS^ed the Minister of Marine in Wellington Jn^j^? gard to netting in Lake. Elleaiiere." M|) Bruce will report to a. meeting of ■ th#Couitffl T'cil of the Association. ' ,;^ Archdeacon S. Williams,of -Te Aute^bas promised Bishop Frodsbnni.JßlOO a year for five years towards the stipend of a tTapa--:, ness clergyman to work,, amongst the Japanese in North Queensland, "thi ideacon recently gave. the Bishop £100 to assist in, restoring the North Queensland Churches "destroyed by a cyclone. The Tramway Board, at its meeting on Thursday, will consider a letter from the Grounds Committee of the Agricultural and Pastoral Association in regard to better transit arrangements aft the. Show Grounds. There will also probably be brought up a report from tie Biccarton-Sockburn Tram Committee on the proposed route in 'that district, and a ■ deputation of Opawa resideat« will wait on the Board irtyjespect to . waking a loop line froto Ferry Kbad. '\ At the Cbristohurch Magnetic Observa-. lory, at 9.30 a.m. to-day, the barometer;, etood at 29.680, and was < then rising. The maximum and minimum temperatures . recorded during the previous twenty-four \ Jiotiri wer^ 46.8 and 32.3 respectively. The * tsmperajture at 9.30 a.m. was, dry bulb 36.V, wet bulb 35.1, humidity 86 per cent. Tto'maximnm temperature in the sun wa^. 93*2, and tben^inimumi thermometer on -the grass recorded 26.9, The rainfall during th« preceding twenty-four hours was nil, -, «nd the wiud was calm,

The New Zealand ' Flour. Millers' Assoj ciation, Limited, has reduced its quotations for bran from £4 to £3 lGs, aud for pollard from £5 to. £4 10s. The City Council's electric light plant was used' for the lighting of a public place for the first time on Saturday ninht, • tie current being supplied to a shop in Colombo Street. (The section of fand at tie comer of Worcester Street and Cathedral Square, adjoining the land on Tv'hick the General Post Office stands, has been cold by the Union Ba.nk of Australia to Messrs W. J. Cresswell and P. A.' Herman. The price is about '£14,500. It is understood that the purchasers will<probably erect on the section a block- of buildings, to'bs used as offices. Two or three s-eals have been disporting themselves, on the New Brighton Beach a few miles south ftf the mouth of the Waimakariri. The body of one,, measuring eight feet in length, was foitnd on< Friday last, near the scene of their gambols, by somß passing traveller.- It is said to have a very fine tkin, which, with the prive obtainable ,if or the fat of the body, ought to; amount to a good sum. It is hinted- that; the seal met with a violent death, and it is possible the police may liave something to say fn the matter, as seals are "■■•among the animals protected by law. , At latest reports, Mr Halstead, 1 tlte Auckland veterinary surgeon attacked- •with .anthrax, as a result of handling specimens taken from the carcases of cattle which died at Mr Latimer's farm, at Pukekohe, was not in immediate danger- The. seizure was apparently due to inoculation' through an abrasion of the skin. The wound has been/ cauterised, and the patient is reported'' to be doing well. There have been further cases among the cattle on the farm, which has been "quarantined." The Government Veterinary Department has cabled to Sydney for a supply of 'Pasteur vaccine, which it is intended to apply to all .the cattle on the farm where the deaths occurred. A telegram from Auckland recently contained complaints, from fruit importers regarding the too J rigorous inspection" of fruit, and the statement that fruit which had been condemned in Auckland had afterwards been passed in Wellington. Mr T. W: Kirk. Government Biologist, Heclajres that the Department makes no distinction in carrying out the method of inspection in any part of the colony. It is impracticable, without going to heavy cost, which would have to be borne by those interested, to inspect every case, but samples are taken from each line, and passed or condemned on that, the inspector being at liberty tr> examine more if he think.* fit. Once fruit is condemned* .it is- never allowed'to "leave the port at which it has been condemned, arid is either destroyed "or properly fumigated. • -^ - .©i A meeting c\f officers" was' -held tdtday in' Colone-1 Slater's rooms to ."make arrange^ ments for the annual ball .held under 'the 1 ' auspices, of-the mounted rifle' corps. There was a. large and representative attendance, and Colonel Slaier presided. It was decided to hold the- 1 ball this year, but owing to certain circumstances it- was desthed advisable to make it a subscription ball, to be held in the Alexandra Hall on.Friday, Aug. 14 (Grand National .w-eek), and to limit the attendance, 'to 200, officers to have priority in 'the nomination of lady friends. Captain Lane was appointed secretary, with Lieutenant Cracroft Wi3/r.oii.(E -ißattery)'. and Lieutenant Becket (C.M.E.) as« assistant eecretaa-ie?; Sub-committees for making the necessary arrangements .were pppointed. and tf. was tind'?rstbod that the Garrison Band would provide the music. The "Rcgis»tvar-General's return of vital statistic?.' for June, shows the number ofbirths in the four chief centres of the coU' ony, with their suburbs, to have been as follows:— Auckland, 157; Wellington, 121; Christohurcu, 102; Dunedin, 74. The deaths- in the same period, with the proportion per thousand of population, were: Auckland, 62, ■■ i:i3; Wellington, 47, ,o.§9j Ctmstchmcli, 51, 1.03; Dunedin, 57, 1.04. The total births amounted to 454 — four less^ than in May— and the deaths yfere 217," an increase of 31 on the preceding month. Sixty-eight of the deaths, or 31.34 per cent, were of children under the' age of five, anl of this number^s7 were under one year of age. Measles were fatal during the month at each of the four centres, two deaths occurring' from this cause at Auckland, and • two at Christchurch, and one death each at Wellington and Dunedin. Influenza caused one death at Auckland and one at Dunedin. Twelve deaths -ware credited to phthisis, and eight to cancer. Mrs Herrick acknowledges receipt of the following to July 16.— Clothing, boots, etc. — Mesdames'Withers, Flaus, 11. W. Englland, senr., Acland, E. Barber, Hammond an $ Thomson (Balmoral), Messrs S. Wilson and J. M.. Turnbull, Miss Hurse, . Fendalton Friend, -MethSfen Friend, Swannanoa and. 'Friend, and Friends ; blankets—Kaiapoi Woollen Company; mattrasses, etc. — Mesdames C. Smith - aad Warren (Clyde Road) ; vegetables ' and potatoes — Messrs T. Archey (manager of the Burriham Industrial School}, G. Treleaven and Lowrey ; meat— Messrs Langdon and Steel, J, Forrester, Christchurch Meat Company .and Mrs Green; sheep— Belfast Frozen Meat Company; dripping and puddings-^-Mrs W. D. Andrews-t; bread— Christchurch Band of Hope and Mrs Gooke ; periodicals— Mrs, F. J. Garrick and friends ; cash donations — Stock Auctioneers' and Dealers' Sports Club (per Mr W. W. Morrow) £5, Orange Society church parade offertory (per Canon Khowles) £3 12s 7d, Country Sympathiser ss,- Mr C. Overton £1 ; Dorcas garments and material . ftotn members of Guild and Friends,' No.- 167 Springburn Dorcas Society, Ashley Sewing Guild and Mrs Dr Foster. • ' To-day's weather forecast is as follows :— J\Vind strong to moderate from between the south, south-west and west, at places north of Napier and; New Plymouth, a gale from between the north-east, north and west after from twelve to twenty hours at all places thence -southward' to Port Chalmers and Queenstown, and from between the north : west and' south-west after ten hours elsewhere. The barometer will further rise northward. -PJ? 'Napier and New Plymouth, and fall at "all other places. The sea will be considerable on all the ■west coast and ot Caps Campbell, arid moderate elsewhere. The tides will behigh on' the west coast-of the North Island: and at Cape Campbell.'good on both coasts of the South Island and bet-ween Cape Campbell and Easfc'Cape, and -..moderate thence" northward. Warninor signals for a northerly gale are -exhibited ab Xugget Point, and will be exhibited' after" sunrise at Capes Campbell, Foulwind and Fare^ well Spir. During the last twenty-four hours northward of Napier and' 'New .Plymouth the oarometer has risen, slowly, but 'thence southward it fell steadily during Sunday, bub lias risen a little since midnight. Moderate to strong westerly wind.') h*ve been "'prevalent. A frost is reported' fcpm Opotiki and Gisbor-he, and rain from most other parts of the North Island. A frost is also reported from the hiph coun-* try of the South Island ; from the Bealey southward. The latest novelty is no -doubt playing cards with scenery. They form quite an interesting little album of picturesque New Zealand views, besides being an' excellent, playing card: As a souvenir of travel or present for friers abroad they have no rival. Every r*ationer and tobacconist in Christohurch sells them at 5s a, pack. 9543;