LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9304, 3 August 1908, Page 3

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

1 The funds of the Coal and Blanket Committee being almost exhausted, no more applications will be received after iAuguet o. A Press Association message from Kelson states that heavy frosts are being experienced nightly, with perfect Weather in the day-time. At the Motueka poultry show, says a Press Association telegram, the South Island championship for ducks was won by Miss M. E. Fleming, of Nelson, frith a Pekin drake. At a meeting of the Northern District Wanganui Education Institute, held at Hawera on Saturday, says a Press Association, message, resolutions were passed : (1) Expressing entire approval of the whole scheme of the new Education Act Amendment Bill, considering it in the best interest of education, and a decided benefit to teachers and pupils; (2) that secondary assistants should have a little more consideration in the matter of salaries ; (3) [that a clause should be inserted, arranging fcr mutual exchanges by with tho approval of the ©ducat ion Board. 1 At the Invercargill Magistrate's Court to-day, says a Press Association message, Mr Cruickshanks, S.M., dismissed a charge of permitting drunken^ ness against John Affleck, licensee of the Wallacetown Hotel. The landlord bf the premises had called regarding retoairs, and had had five drinks,, collapsing suddenly after the last. The MagisItrate held that there must be knowledge, connivance or carelessness on the (part ©f the seller. If a customer beI came drunk but was not allowed to reJmain, the licensee did not permit jdrunkenness. Powell, the landlord, was '.an old hotelkeeper, and was known to \he a man who could carry liquor well. Mr 6. C. Smith, J.P., presided at a fitting of the Lyttelton Police Court this morning. A male first offender, arrested for drunkenness on Saturday afternoon, was convicted and discharged. A man named "William Young, who bad interfered with Constable Williams rtehen he was taking the inebriate aforetaentioned to the lock-up, was convict«©d, severely cautioned and discharged. [William James Johns was fined 40s and J7b 6d costs, with a month's imprisonment in default, for having used obscene language in the railway yard on Saturday forenoon. On a charge of 'drunkenness he was convicted without jjpenaffiy. J At a meeting of the Sumner LifejWat Brigade, held on Friday, July 31, it was decided that the time had arrived when members who had served j ten years in the brigade should be- given some recognition. It was therefore decided that members with five years' seryice should receive the brigade's silver .medal, and those with ten years' the (brigade's gold medal. Designs for .the medals were specially drawn by the eecretary, Mr A. C. J. Cuddy, and were accepted. Correspondence was read from the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, London, which had sent to jthe brigade much valuable Information in regard "to lifeboat work and the say.ing ol life in a heavy sea. The services ! of the Sumner lifeboat have- been utiiisf«d on forty-two occasions, twenty-five illves having been saved, and assistance .'given to fourteen boats that were in Seril, besides many persons who had een rescued single-handed by the captain, Mr J. Day, pilot, Sumner. i Chronic coughs are best treated by Wine, which, by strengthening tho system, enables it to throw ithem off. It does more good than cod liver oil, and tastes as good as fine old port, 17