LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The railway bookings to Ihvercargill r the Winter Show to-day constitute record. 'Messrs Hoaking and Solomon were vorn in at Dunedin as King's Counsel" j Mr Justice Williams this morning, is Honor referred to the excellent >pointment6 that had been made. Captain Edwin's weather forecast, legraphed at noon to-day, is as folws: — "Easterly strong winds to gale, ter twenty hours; glass fall j tides igh; sea "heavy; rain probably savy." The Addington School Committee has commended that steps should be ken to teach geography by means of ntern slides. The Education Board is referred the matter to the inectors. The Union Steamship Company has aced an order with Messrs Doxford id Sons for a 4000-ton turret steamer, le principal dimensions of which will > 316 ft by 42ft. The vessel should >ach tie colony in the beginning of )08: TKe Education Board has received ie district prize medal won in tho lblic school cadets rifle shooting comititions by Sergeant L. Rountree lampstead School). It decided this orning that the medal should be prented by the chairman of the Board. Nicholas Treesider was brought here Mr Justice Williams at Dunedin lis morning, having broken his term* j probation through drink. The pris- ; ler was before the Court last sessions j r breach of probation through drink, id was cautioned ; now he has been. | Nt to gaol for twelve months. The Poultry branch of the Agriculral Department purchased forty-eight the birds which 1 competed in the layg competition at Blenheim. Between em they laid 8930 eggs. They will be etributed among the various poultry ations, with a view to perpetuating eir qualities further afield. Mr R. Stewart, manager for Mr J. Williamson, and Mr Andrew Mack, tended an invitation to the inmates one of the public institutions of iristohureh to be present at the j>errmance of "Jack Shannon" last ght. The outing was very much enyed, and the inmates are very thank--1 for the kindness they experienced. At a. meeting of the. Wellington Inlstrial Association correspondence as read from the- Auckland and Can- : rbury Associations regarding the proeed Customs revision. The meeting scided that the secretary should write the Associations, with a view to ar~, nging a joint conference, to be held Wellington during the session of irliament. The Buildings Committee of the Edution Board recommended this raorng that the St Albans Side School, now rmed into a main school, should be lied " Elmwocd." Some discussion ok place on the point, and finally the atter was referred back to the coniittee, in order that the name " Meriile" might be considered. The new le, school at Greendale will be calledirala. One of the prisoners sentenced at c Supreme Court this morning had a markable piece of good fortune. In slivering sentence, his Honor said, Six months' imprisonment; no, 'elve. Well, as I've said it, six onths; I don't wish, to alter it, but at was a slip. It should have been reive months.'-' So the man went to 101 for six months, and looked corresndingly relieved. The chairman, of the Education Board Ir D. Buddo, M.H.R.) stated this orning that he believed some steps ould be taken to improve the seating ovided for the infant and preparatory aeses of the schools. The Board had en spending a considerable sum of oney on single and dual desks for the gher standards, but he felt that the lange should be commenced in the wer classes'. The small children could, > believed, be properly accommodated rows of four. It is often perplexing to know which, the cheapest house to purchase reAle jewellery from, 6uch as gem ogs, watches, etc. To all in doubt i would recommend Watson, 230, Combo Street, two doors from Armagh xeet. Great attention given to watch pairs, especially fine watches, which quire extra careful adjustment. 2
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8953, 12 June 1907, Page 3
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