LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7978, 6 April 1904, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

*-r Sir Joseph Ward will represent thfl i Go, vernment, at Dunedin, at the farewell to Lord Ranfurly. A telegram from Auckland states that the River Limits Commission will not visit tte other centre?, and has closed. The Manuka, from Sydneyi arrived at 1 Wellington ithis morning. Her mails wiH probably reach Christchurch to-morro\r. A movement is on foot to establish a New Zealand Referendum League, and a j meeting of members and intending members 1 will be held in Messw Toneycliffe and ! Carey's Buildings, Gloucester Street^ at ! eight oVock this evening. In connection with the robbery ifjpnV'the ! Imperial Hotel, Auckland, Thomea O Connor, who less than a fortnight ago was a porter at the hotel, was charged *<^«J Tvi.th stealing £134. in cash and jewellery va v ued at £194, and was remanded tor « week. The property has not yet beea t* covered. . .'-...■• - The " Taranaki Herald " reports <a ©oinci* dence and' an Tinromantio meeling. On Wednesday of last week » young man wa« brought before the tfew Plyanontfc.Court on a series of charges. Before, ihw oa» was called on another case was dealt witb; apd the defendant in this <sase was charged with, the same offence a» the young man.. BoU» the defendants came out from England- m t!he same ship many years ago, and they load never seen each other since landing in 2Jer* \ Zealand, till they both appeared in tke New ; Plymouth Police Court. One got seven days, without the option, and the other gofc off with a fine. \ ■ Mr Skelton, chief engineer of the Antarctic Expedition, says : — The whoU ship*! company amply swore by tea, and coipoa was an important item. It might interes* the public to know that Ridley^ Teas an 4 Cocoa found their way to tbe AntarcW regions on the relief snip «»». Morning.

Captain Robinson, of H.M.S. Tauranga, haa accepted the invitation of me Executive Committee to be present at the farewell ■ banquet to the Governor to-morrow night. The arbitration proceedings in connection with the taking over of the Christchurch Tramway Company's property by the Board . >ie, taking place to-day. The arbitrators «r« Messrs J. A/ Frostick and H. FriedJaader, and Mr H. P. Maxwell is referee. Mr H. H. Loughnan represents the Board and Mr F. p Wilding the company. the Dunedin correspondent of this paper telegraphs that at a meeting of the Drainage Board complaint was made by the chairaoan, Mr Gleridining, en airman of the works #MBmittee, Dr Coughtrey, and a member of ■ the Board, Mr Mons Clark, of receipt Of an anonymous letter recommending them to resign, otherwise they would be visited ■y financial loss. ' At the Dunedin Police Court to-day fceorge Todd, charged with attempted suitfde by throwing himself into the harbqur, ■^as convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon, a prohibition order being at the same time granted Against him. Patrick Lee wae convicted of •applying lieer and whisky to an inmate of )he Inebriates' Homo at Waitatij and was fined £5 and costs. K The export of gold) from the colony last : month totalled 46,0640z, valued at £172,877, is compared with 53,0990z, of vac value of £202,474 exported in March last' year. The jfcotal export of gold for the quarter was 186,5990z, valued at £485,033, or 84920z : Jtore than the amount exported in the corJteponding quarter last year. During last . month 87,2560z of silver of the value of £9009 was exported. : At the Ohristchurch Magnetio Observatory, at 9.30 a.m. to-day, the barometer stood at 30.376 and was steady. The w*nd wras south-south-west, and' cloud (0.10) 8. Ihe maximum temperature during^ the preoeding twenty-four hours had been 58.9. and the minimum 51.8. The temperature at 9.30 a.m. was— Dry bulb 50.1, ' wet bulb 49.7, humidity 88 per cent. The minimum thermometer oh the grass was 40.5. The rainfall had been .078. ' Cyclists were in evidence at the Magis.tratis's Court to-day, when a batch was brought up for breaches of 'the City Council's by-laws. Several of tne offences consisted in riding through Chancery Lane, and the Bench gave, a warning ,to cyclists generally that they should; walk through that thoroughfare. One of the offenders, ■who came from Dunedn, pleaded ignorance of the by-law, and was fined only ss; while the others were fined 10s. The address to the Governor, to be presented to his Excellency by the Mayor and councillors of the city is a piece of excellent decorative work. The address itself is in grey green old English letters, shaded ■with red and gold, the title 'being on a burnished gold ribbon, pointed in a darker green, the letters in carmine, with a darker shading. In the upper corner of the setting is a photograph of the Council Chambers in medallion, while in the lower corner is a typical view of the Avon. craping the address is a trailing wreath of clematis, very prettily coloured, and other designs of more or less conventional character admirably ■worked, fill in the picture, 'lite address is framed in honeysuckle' with gold slip on a y grey green mount. The whole is the work of the "Lytteltbn Times lithographic department. At the Lyttelton P 2 olice Court this morning, before Mr C. Ferrier, J.P., John Gendall was charged with having used provoking and insulting language to Albert Prescott. The evidence showed that Prescott is engaged to the daughter" of the defendant, who is living apart from his wife under a separation order, which does not allow him to go to ber house after 6 p.m. • On Monday last Gendall went to the house about 8.20 p.m.. Prescott, it was stated, came out of one of the rooms, and defendant used the language complained of. For the defence a son of defendant stated that Prescott had not been in any of the rooms, v, had just come into the house. The Bench bound Gendall over to keep the '' peace for twelve months, himself in £25 and one eurety of £25. Mr Upbam appeared for complainant and Mr Donnelly for defendant.