LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9112, 18 December 1907, Page 3

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Telegraph Department requests the public to present Christmas greeting telegrams a day or two before Christmas Eve to ensure their delivery in good time. The monthly meeting of the Prison Gate Mission was held at the V.M.C.A. rooms yesterday. The Rev Canon Coates presided. The visitors' reports 'were read and matters of interest to the mission were dealt with. On Saturday next '■- the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society will forward ; a further fonsignment 'of 5000 brown trout fry for liberation in the Cheviot stream, Mr J. Rentoul, of Cheviot, having undea-taken the wor k of liberation. Up to the present, 1225 connections have been, made to the Sydenham water mains, supplying 1260 properties. The amount of electrical power used and the quantity of water pumped during the last four months-have been approximately as follows: — August, 2946 units, 2,415,720 gallons; September, 2666 units, 2,186,120 gallons; October, 3454 units. 4,317.500 gallons; Novem ber, 4416 units, 5,520,000 gallons- to- , tab,- 13,482 units, 14,439,340 gallons. The Board of Governors of Canterbury College and the members of the Philosophical Institute are making arrangements fox a conversazione, to take place in Canterbury College Hall on Monday evening in honour of Lieutenant Shackleton and the officers and ecientific staff-, of the British Antarctic ■Expedition. The members of the recent Snb-Antarctio Islands Expedition irill also be present by invitation, anrf ?hould tho United States Magnetic Surrey Vessel, the Galilee, arrive in Lyttelion by Monday, the survey staff will

The annual general meeting of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants' Sick Benefit Society was held in the guards' room on Anniversary night. The balance-sheet showed that the sum of £638 7s 9d had been paid into the sick and funeral fund, and £544 13s 2d had been paid in sick pay and funeral allowances. "The other expenses were £62 Is 6d, leaving a credit balance of £3i 13s Id. The receipts of the medical benefit fund totalled £60 2s 4d, the expenses £35 4s 6d, and the liabilities £23 2s Gd, leaving a , bafance of £1 15s 4d to be carried forward. Officers were elected for the ensuing year as follows : — President, iMr Haig ; vice-president, Mr Cameron ; treasurer, Mr Mullaney ; committee, Messrs Grenfell, Owen, Doherty, Kennedy, Coard, Jackson, Robbins, Cade and Diffin; auditors, Messrs Kennedy and Munro; secretary, Mr Burrows. Your eyesight is a most precious gift. Do not let it suffer for want of proper attention. I can give you skilled attention, and if glasses ar> required, can give you" them accurately and scientifically adjusted to your special requirements Note address: Walter J. Watson, F.1.0.C., D.8.0.A., London, Consulting Optician, upstairs 230, Colombo Street. ' .^9