LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8793, 3 December 1906, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A number of improvements have been effected in . the interior of the New Brighton Post Office, particularly itt' connection with the Telephone Bureau, which is now enlarged and more private than formerly. The approximate amount collected mi Wellington on Hospital Sunday was £170, which, with the Government) subsidy, represents over £370. The day was very disagreeable, and rain fell shortly after the proceedings closed. The Sospital demonstration at Hastings yesterday realised _ £104, to which has to be added about £60 collected in the | town on Saturday. > I Few public servants .have more need l of relaxation than^ the attendants in ! our mental hospitals, and of latexyears the amusements and socials provided for nurses and their charges at tha Sunnyside Mental Hospital have been fairly numerous, and have afforded healthy distraction. On Friday a/ musical evening was given in honour^ of the sub-matron, Mies Shelton, who was presented by the officers and staff with a silver service. • A meeting of the Executive Committee of the New Brighton Gala was held „ on Saturday evening, when the Mayor presided. It was decided that the gala should be held on Thursday, January 10, the original date chosen, and that representatives; from the Gala Committee should meet the trustees of the Gala Fund on Monday. A" programme committee was set up, consisting, of Messrs Lees, Neate, Haynes, S^cobeli j and Hooker, who will meet on Tuesday next. A meeting of the Christchurch Women's Christian Temperance Union was held on Wednesday, in, the Young Women's Christian Association Rooms. Mrs M'Donald occupied the chair. Correspondence from Mrs A. Heatley, of the D.unedin Women's Christian Temperance Union, Miss Agnes Slack, world's secretary of the Women's Cristian Temperance Union, and Miss Gertrude S. Smith, president of the."V" Branch, Langley Hill, Derbyshire, /was read and discussed. It was decided that the annual meeting should take the form N of a social gathering. Members were requested to 6end written nominations for local officers and superintendents of departments to Mrs Day, Bligh's Road, Papanui, before December 12. * i

Captain. Edwin's weather forecast, elegraphed at noon to-day, is as folows: — "Strong trinds to gale from beween north and west and south-west^ ; ;lass rise, but fall after twenty hours ; ides moderate; sea heavy on coast ; in- ' lications for rain." ! The Garrison Band will play the folowing programme at St Albans Park o-morrow evening : — March, " Doc klunger " ; overture,' " Sorrow and j Joy , selection, "Faust"; inter- | nezzo, "Hearts and Flowers"; selec-io-n, "Harry Dacre's Songs"; qu-ad-ille, " Hilarius " ; waltz, " Midsummer"; march, "Entry of the Gladia»r." The export of gold from, New Zealand br» the eleven months of the present ear was 510,6900z, of the value; of 52,055,938, which is an increase of 58,1270z, valued at £112,879, compared pith the figures for the corresponding leriod last year. The export for tho eleven months is nearly twice that of :he total for 1886. The quantity of 'old - sent away in 1886 was only £27,07902!, vetoed at £903,569. As a result of the new regulations, he Customs Department at Invercar*ill has received instructions not to ssuG any more permits for the removal >f beer to depots established by brewers ust across the no-license boundary, phis means that when the stocks in iihe depots have been exhausted the >rewers will have to. remove such to not ess than five miles from the boundary. An application by a Dunedin firm for a jerniit has been referred to the head of the Department. Several disorderly scenes, resulting in court cases, arose rom sales of two-gallon kegs, which sent on till a late hour at night. The medal awards in connection with Hie Associated Boards of the Royal Colege and the Royal Academy of Music, London, are now available. In the advanced grade Miss Annie Dawson, Auckland, secured the gold medal (pianoforte). No silver medal was »warded, but Miss Ivy Voegler, Auckland, was next in merit. In the intermediate grade Miss Millie lies, Dunedin, secured the gold medal (pianoforte), and the silver medal went to Mies Ethel M. Hutton, Christchurch (pianoforte), and Miss Doris Heywcod, Wellington (harmony), with Miss Dorothy Browning, Invercargill, next n merit. The exhibitions have yet to be awarded. ,