LOCAL ANR GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9302, 31 July 1908, Page 3

LOCAL ANR GENERAL.

A meeting of creditors in the bankrupt estate of Richard Williams, newsagent, Christchurch, who filed his schedule on July 27, will be held at the Official Assignee's office at 11 a.m. on Monday.

The allocation of contributions iu connection with the Heathcote Bridge has been made as follows :— Tramway Board 30 per cent, City Council 11. 60 por cent, Summer Borough Council 19.45 per cent, Heathcote Road Board 19.45 per cent and Woolston Borough Council 19.45 per cent of cost.

The New Brighton Beautifying Association's programme of planting and improvement for the year takes m the two spaces north and south of the pier at present bare sand w&stes. The two enclosures west of these spaces amply justify the proposal of the Association, as both flowers and shrubs are thriving well. To raise the necessary funds it is proposed to have a series of euchreparties and promenade concerts on the pier during the next three or four months.

Kipling's description of Auckland as the last, loneliest and loveliest, is not the opinion Mrs Besant has formed of it says a Press Association message. " In. this citv of yours Nature has given you beauty/' she said during the course of her lecture on "Ideals" last night, " but you are defacing many of the gifts which Nature gave. As I drove through your streets, I saw shops, but they were ugly, and I saw streets, but they were not objects of beauty. This is not educative to the people who live in them, or training the tastes of th© people as they go to and fro."

Although it is announced that prisonmad© goods shall not he imported, this does not prevent good work being done by prisoners for the use of their own Department, says a Press Association message from Wanganui. The prisoners in the local gaol have just completed the erection of a warder's five-room-ed cottage, with the necessary offices, in the prison grounds, the whole work, including painting, papering and plumbing, having been done by prison labour, under the supervision of an officer, who prepared the plans and specifications. Six 'men were employed on the work, /which was done in thirty-seven days of eight hours each.

According to the "Neue 'Freie Press " (Vienna), a company is being formed to provide a floating sanatorium

for invalids likely to derive benefit from a sea voyage, but whose requirements are not — or only imperfectly — met by a voyage on ordinary vessels. Messrs Swan, Hiinter and Wigham, Richardson and Co., of Wallsend (England), have undertaken to build for £100,000 a vessel specially designed for invalids and devoted entirely to their needs. Whereas ordinary vessels are obliged to follow a . pre-established course, and to take storm and sunshine as they may come, the floating sanatorium would go in search of good weather, seek shelter from bad weather and. consult solely the welfare of its invalid passengers. The ship is to be designed to contain a swimming bath, .hydrotherapeutic institutes and a hall for gymnastics and other exercises. All cabins are to be constructed so as to afford their occupants a maximum of direct light and air. The Adriatic, and, in particular, the Austrian Riviera and the Dalmatian coasts, are contemplated as the usual cruising ground of the new vessel.

The best thing for nervous, pale young girls is Stearns' Wine, for it increases their strength, renews and enriches the blood, and sharpens the appetite. It is a' matchless tonic. 15