LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7301, 5 January 1904, Page 3

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

-" ♦ ~~ The Sydenham School Cadiets went into camp fit Governor's Bay this afternoon, H.M.S. Pylades and H.M.S. Lizard will leave Lytteiton on Thursday, not to-day, as had been stated. The schooner Jessie Niccol, which was ■run down and sunk in Wellington Harbour by the JlotoP^hana recently, has been patched" up and raised, and her cargo removed. A telegram froni Wellington states tha<; t-h« mail service referred tp in the cab]e messages last ev^niug, for which t&B AgentGeneral was reported tQ be inviting 1 tenders, is supposed to be a steam service from 1 the colony to Glasgow and West of Eng- / land ports, which was advertised in the colony reoently, LargeVnumbers of camping parties went out of Christcliftrch during the holidays to the West Coast 'Road, and took up,positions in the Otira Gorge or near the BeaJey. A gentleman who returned yesterday states that the season has been an ideal one for camping in those localities, and that a very pleasant time hay been spent by the camperSi - At the Kaiapoi Harbow Board's meeting on Monday evening, the question of improving the navigation of the river was. brought up, and inquiries regarding dredges were ordered to be made, with a> view to taking steps to improve the entrance to the port of Kaiapoi. It was also decided to demolish some of the dilapidated buildings in the vioinity of the b,arhonF. Leo BJink and Charles Stanley appeared at the Punedfa Polipa Court tb is morning, . charged with the theft of two Tjoajee of tobacco from; th» s,s, Invercarffill, on wWoh tijey w^re ?eaniep, Blinfe pjeqt^d; guilty, and turned King's evidence against Stanley, but bis testimony was upßnpported, and waj Uttt with, a djpeot^deniaj;' B^nk was sentenced to nix months' .^prfeoiJinent, aind.gtanley wa^ dwharged, A somewhat important araest was made j ait -Motupiko, in the Nelfon province, to-. dap. A anan calling himself Oripps ww charged witii stea4ing $7 from'£is «n-.l ploy*?, Mr Dsummond. Ait^r a Jong chase on the 'hjlls a clever capture, was effeated at the point of 0 fevoiver, Jt i than transpired: that Oripps is a man named Madigan, against whom a wanrant has been out sine* 1892 for the alleged theft of £36 from; the Hastings Port Office. A North Oantwrbiwy farmer who was iv town to-day, speaking to a reporter, sajd that tie operations, of $% Municip4 Abat-. tqirs were having "a decided effect on'sQnve j fag?pieps t gPhsy cpmplained that Jambs ■ that <had ma up agftins^a post or a fence, and had, 'bejan truia^d weje cond^mn-pd at the institution, and!, as no meat that was not killed at Qopkbijrn conW be epld, there was a serioug Joss. Soine.tim.efl the, ibruised fiesh was. not «s large a« an «gs, j/^t the Ohiriatchurchi.. Magnetio Observatory, a* 9.50 a.m. txwiay, the barometer • stood at 29.479,, and) was falling. The wind was * 'south-east^ and cloud (040) 10. The liaa^umteTOpets.ture during c preosding tw§»ty'feur hourf waj #7,2, and the mm» Bupn 46,5. The teanpeirature at 9-30 a.m. was-r-Dry hnlb 59.5, wet b\4b 57.1, hui»idity 85 per cent. The maximum tempera%lge in ike sun was 135.7. Th© minimum thermometer on the grass wa« 36,,7, The j ain|all was nil. Workmen are employed to-day inside Christohuroh Cathedral; erecting a platform on which the ohoir-etalls aoid ft temporary altasr will be plao«i, in. front of the screen. The work of rejnofinjf the' old chanflel w)JI then be taken in hand, and when the removal is completed the flooring in that part of the building will be/ gone on with. Yesterday the brasi cross which was placed abgy© tfee aJtar, and w^ich, had be©n in position for about tw^oty yeajr§ a va^ tftk €n down. In, consequence of thef» alterations no services will be held in the Cathedral i dau-big this week, but the usual services will be held on Sunday. •

I The Victoria, from Melbourne and Ho- j j bart, arrived at the Bluff this morning, i Her mails will probably reach Christchurch to-morrow evening. It is suited' that the lady teacher in a district high school in Canterbury is having a little dispute with the Education Board in regard to the payment of her salary, she claiming £19 10s more than has been paid to her.