LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8200, 27 December 1904, Page 3

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Premier is expected to spend his K«w Year holidays on- the West Coast. Mr George Allport, Secretary of Marine, toaid a visit of inspection to the Godley Head lighthouse to-day. The burglars who broke into Mr Grady's lerveller'a shop, in Wellington, stole £50 In cash and £150 worth of jewellery. The French barque Boieldiew cleared this morning for Falmouth, the port for -which she left Sydney about six months ago. It fe expected that she will sail early tomorrow morning. Mr D. St George, chief postmaster at Hokhnka, who had just recovered from the eifectg of a broken leg, had the misfortune yesterday to trip, as he was going to sit on a sofa, and the jar resulted in again breaking the leg in the same place. A partial ioKday was observed ait Lyfctelton to-day. The banks and some offices wero closed all day, while other offices and topat of the shops were shut in the afterboon. Soma hundreds of visitors from Gbristchurch came to the Port during the day, and most of these went by water to Governor's Bay. At the Magistrate's Court Ehis nnroing, before Messrs Sykes and Stirling, Justices of the Peace, three first offenders weie con-, victed and* discharged on charges, of idarunkenness. Reuben White was fined 10s and costs on a similar charge, and James Marriner, who pleaded guilty to i oharge'of having assaulted Thomas Halliday, was fined £1> in default forty-eight hours' imprisonment. > . At the Christchtirch Magnetic Observatory the readings at 9.30 a.m. to-day were:— Barometer 29.744 and falling, maximum temperature during the preceding twenty-four hours 84.8, minimum during the same period 47.9; temperature at 9.30 ft.m., dry bulb 71.6, wet bulb 60.8; humidity per cent 52, minimum thermometer on the grass 42.2. The sky was clear. The wind was nortih -east, and the rainfall Tia^ been niL ' '

The great heat was felt severely by many peopl* in Christchurch yesterday. In a tent pitched in a garden in Hereford Street east, a, candle that had been left in a candlestick on a table., gradually became limp and fell down, a shapeless mass of tallow.