LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9214, 18 April 1908, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There will be no issue of the " Star** on Easter Monday. ;

The river at the Bealey is two fee* above the normal, bat is now fafljng. ' A meeting of the Canterbury Shop,! Office and Warehouse Assistants' Unioa will her held on Thursday evening a# eight o'clock in the Trades and Labour Council's large hall, Gloucester Street east.

Fuller's Vaudeville Company gave < bioscope entertainment at the Opera House last evening, when a number of amusing and interesting films were shown. Mr Harry Edwards sang ai number of sacred solos with great suo* cess. The weekly programme will b« changed this evening, when Fred Hv Graham and Nellie Dent will appear.

The special correspondent of thtf "Star" at Oamaru telegraphs thai notwithstanding ' the adoption «f no* license, with a consequent loss of re* venue, the Borough Council, white making more ample provision for in* provenients, has resolved to reduce th^ rates by 3d in the £. The Council has been enabled to do this by the expan< sion of revenue from all sources.

A meeting of the St Albans Gala( Committee was held on Monday even*, ing. The result of canvassing the dis-^ triot far exceeded expectations. Seve< ral events for children were added t<j 'the programme, and it was decided ta purchase toys to the value oi £6. Tlitf secretary reported that large entriei for the sports were coining in -well, and that several prominent amateurs would be competing.

At a sitting of the Juvenile Court to-day a lad, aged ten yearn wa4 charged before Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M., with having sold newspapers in contravention of the City By-laws. Tha boy admitted the offence, but his father, who had been standing ..near him when he sold the paper, denied «U knowledge of the sale, and the boy was convicted and discharged with instruct tions not to repeat the offence. .'.'

"Don't you intend charging thit man with being a prohibited person?" asked Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M., of Station-Sergeant Johnston, just afte* an offending inebriate had been dealt with et the Magistrate's Court this, morning. The sergeant replied that the police could not prove the charge.* " But the ~s\an admitted before me that ho was a prohibited person," retorted; Mr Bishop, " and I don't know what better evidence you could desire." At the Theatre Royal to-night-Pollard's Juvenile Opera Company will produce for the first time in Cnristchurch "The Isle of Bong Bong." which has been received with delight . wherever presented. The plot, which, has already been described, deals with, the adventures of a nobleman's ser-: vant, Gordon. St Bernard, who mas-; querades as his master. Subordinate to the story of Gordon's difficulties is tha adventure of Pequito, the daughter of the "Sultan, of the Floating Isle of Bong Bong." Pequito has been to America for an education, and return* in time to find that her father, th» Sultan, has lost all his property while gambling. In order to get the Sultan's fortune back she masquerades as a famous duellist who is fleeing from justice. *In this disguise she regains the Sultan's estate, but is unfortunately arrested in tne hour of her triumph. For lack of a gaol she is tern* porarily imprisoned in the house on th« estate. While imprisoned she- make* love so successfully to Marjorie, who has the key to her manacles, that Marjorie releases her. Then resuming hex own character and attire she restores the lest fortune to her father. Thai box plan, is now open at the Dresden* and the day sales are made at the Wesfc End, Cathedral Square. j The agony of an aching head drives away every thought of pleasure^ and causes anxiety to the sufferer's friends* Steams' Headache Cure brings quick relief and makes life livable. 19 ' The chief feature of the recent oycl* meeting was the record success of "tSwt riders of Bell cycles, who were su<x cessful in winning the Royal EnfieM Cup, the Easter Wheel Race, the On* Mile Handioap, and the D.C.L. Shield Also, J. Orlowski, on a Bell cycle* lowered the two-mile New Zealand record by ssec, and in the Teams' Raoe^ Campion, Wells and Smith (scr), secured first place, all riding Bell cycle** t . r 3823 j

The doll dressing competition to be held in the Colosseum on June 4 nest, fc evidently attracting considerable attention among the young ladies of t.ie Itoity. The secretary states that appujcations for schedules are arriviag daily. (Entries close on May 14. : The Elite Band will give a programme of music at Hagley Park tomorrow afternoon.. The band has been floing extra practice for the Ten W£, a contest on Easter Monday, and a collection towards the band's travelling expenses will be made at the gates. A variety of marine excursions will leave Lyttelton on Monday. Ihe Union Steamship Company's s.s. Botomahana is to make a trip to ■ Akaroa and back. The s.s. Cygnet will leave in the morning for Port Levy and a sea jbrip off New Brighton. The s.s John 'Anderson is to run to Diamond HaiWr and Purau, and the s.s. Purau will ipry between Lyttelton and Governor's i At the Lyttelton Police Court this Wnorning, before Mesrs J. T. Brice and b. Ferrier, Justices of the Peace, Dunjean Linton, a fireman on the s.s. MaJmka, pleaded guilty to charges of having, on April 16, on the passage of the steamer from Wellington to Lyttelton, flisobeyed lawful commands, and asteaulted Aleck Osborn, boilermaker of )the vessel. It appeared that the man, fcindor the influence of liquor, had fetruck the boilermaker, who had order ghim to attend. to 'his work, had left & stokehold and refused to return to ty when ordered to do so by the chief Engineer. The Court fined him 40s, With a month's imprisonment in dejfault, for disobeying orders, and 20s, with a similar alternative, for the askault, and ordered him to pay costs 7s.