LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9221, 28 April 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Cabinet ha 6 decided to establish telephone communication between Christchurch and Little River. The Council of Defence hae decided that in future no postage allowance will be made by the Defence Department to school Cadet corps. A meeting of creditors in the bankrupt estate of William Miller, builder, will be held at the Official Assignee*, office on April 30, at 11 a.m. The Department of Justice has been authorised to secure a site for a police station at Sydenham, and has decided to invite tenders for a Magistrate* Court at Christchurch. • Tho next quarterly examination for Volunteer officers will be heia at Christchurch and Timaru on June 3. Sample examination papers may be obtained from the Assistant- Adjutant-General, Christchurch. At the elections for school committees for the city and suburbs of Wellington the general feeling was against the Bible in schools, and a majority of the candidates advocating it were rejected. The Domain Board's workmen are busily engaged in putting the site of the late Exhibition in Hagley Park- into order for sowing. The land is being ploughed, hollows are being filled up, and all preparations for the spring grass are well in hand. There was a large audience at the Opera House last evening, and Fuller's Vaudeville Company successfully repeated the enjoyable programme which was inaugurated on Saturday evening. The sketch produced by Mr Graham and Miss Dent was an especially popular item, and the other turns were all well received. Referring to his summing-up of Monday in the farm labourers' dispute, Mr Acland this morning 6tated that when. he had said that he had known shearers who were ready to work on Christmas Day even on Sundays, if permitted, he was referring to what he had known of in Queensland. He did not think that was the case in New Zealand. In speaking of the work of musterem on sheep stations, Mr Acland this morning told the Conciliation Board that the idea that tents were inexpensive was wrong. The wear and tear was so great that the fanner had practically to buy new ones every year. The wear on the mules and the tearing of the tents made it much cheaper to put up huts on the runs. The public servioe appointments confirmed by the Cabinet include the promotion of Mr S. Fisher, Clerk at the Magistrate's Court, Christchurch, and who had previously eighteen years' experience in the Official Assignee's office, to the position of Official Assignee at Dunedin, and the promotion of Mr J. Evans, clerk in the Official Assignee's office, Christchurch,' to be Official Assignee in that city. The final performance of " The We of Bong Bong" attracted a good attendance at the Theatre Royal last evening, and the piece went well throughout. Miss Ella Osborne appeared as Dolores, and played the part, very creditably. She was slightly nervous in the opening lines, but gained confidence as the play progressed. Thie evening "Bluebell in Fairyland" will be revived. Master Norman Mudford will appear as Blib, and Miss Nellie Finlay as Dicky. The annual report of the Lyttelton District High School Committee, presented at the meeting of householder.* last evening, congratulated the echool on its success in the realm of sport, and pointed out that one pupil, A. Reed, had won the Schoolboys' Swimming Championship of Canterbury, and another, J. Laurenson, had won the Canterbury Public Schools' Tennis Championship. Mr Rich, an ex-pupil, had gained, the Half-mile Swimming Championship, andgas a crowning honour, an ex-pupil, Mr W. Webb, was the world* champion oarsman. The competitions for the Government's gold and silver medals for. the best Volunteer rifle shots in each island, will be held in May. A District Order 6ets forth the conditions of the competitions. They are to be confined to the Mounted Rifles, Infantry and Defence Cadet branches of the forces, and the gold medals will be awarded to the men making the highest aggregate scores in the annual classification end marksmen's practice. The silver medals will be awarded to the men making tho highest aggregate in each district^ pi**" vided that the men are not the wieners of either of the gold medals. You can do a suffering friend a kindly service by saying " Steams' Headache Cure will quickly cure that headache." A trial will convince you i(j you have not yet used it youreelf. 24 <,

f Tho Burgesses' Association has dewed to call the attention of the City i_kni_G- to the necessity for enforcing the by Jaws as te due provision for expediting exits from public buildings and ifl&ools. i The annual meeting of the Lyttelton —.censing Committee, which was announced for June 3, will take place on "Wednesday, June 10, as the former date will be a public holiday, the Prince of Wales' birthday. The telegraphic report on Canterbury trout rivers this morning was as follows: — Ashley, Waimakariri and Selwyn, clear; Rakaia, dirty; Ashburton, «.__ branches clear; Rangitata, dirty; iand Opihi and Waitaki, fishable. At the last meeting of the City and Suburban Burgesses' Association the following resolution was carried : — "That this Association will gladly see 3_is Worship the Mayor returned again as the city's chief magistrate, that he jmay, if possible, see the further development of the various municipal enterprises in which during his term of office he has taken a lively interest."