LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9321, 22 August 1908, Page 5

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

__ «. '- Representatives of the no-license .party will deliver addresses in Cathedral Square this evening. The Supreme Court common . jury called for Monday has been discharged, as it will not be required. A first offender, charged with drunkettuess, appeared before Mr G. A. Lewin, J. P., at the Lyttelton Police Court this morning. He was convicted nnd discharged. Copies of the illustrated booklet prepared in Auckland a*» a souvehir of the visit of the American fleet have been sent to the town clerk, one for each of the City Councillors. . Several of the accompaniments at last evening's popular municipal concert wero played by Miss Katie Young, who interpreted them with considerable, taste and sympathy, "The Great White Fleet" will be the subject of tho Rev L. M. Isitt's address at Trinity Congregational Church to-morrow evening. Mr Isitfc .has just returned from Auckland, and was there during fleet week. Mr John. Marks, an Auckland resident, -claims to have solved the problem of the reversible turbine, and Press representatives who were shown the working model state that it appeared to demonstrate the truth of the assertion, steam being shut off and the en- j gine set in an opposite direction in a few seconds. • A meeting of the executive of the great military revel, bazaar and art union, which are to be held at the King Edward Barracks in September and October, was held on Wednesday. Reports were handed in from the various committees to the effect that good progress is being made. The Structure and Decoration Committee has in hand the work of erecting the stalls and pro 7 viding for the accommodation of visit-^ ors. E\>r the numerous displays and other items which it is intended to give nightly, a space 180 ft long by 40ft wide, with rows of seats on either side, will be provided, and the Entertainment Committee has succeeded in getting together a series of what promise to be unique and attractive items. A meeting of the East Coast Railway League, says a Press Association message from Gisborne, appointed Captain Tucker, M.L.C., a member of a deputation to interview Ministers. The League resolved to send congratulations to the Minister of Public Works on the successful opening of the Wel-lington-Auckland railway, and offering warmest thanks for the activity at present displayed in connection with the Gisborne-Rotorua line. The League suggested further that work for the unemployed exists still on the line, and that the coming summer would enable it to be productively employed. Tt was resolved to send the following telegram to the Hon J. Carroll :— " Railway League offers heartiest congratulations and good wishes on your birthday. Desire to acknowledge and thank you for your good offices in causing that activity now apparent on the line, and which, if continued, must carry it rapidly to a paying point." It was stated that some 130 to 140 men are now employed . On the line. An entertainment of high quality was provided for the public of Lyttelton last night, when a concert party headed by Mr Gladstone Bell performed in the hall of the Lyttelton Club. , From an artistic point of view, the performance was a pronounced success, and the programme was so much to the taste of the audience that it encored almost every number. Those allotted to Mr. Gladstone Bell enabled him to display in marked and very enjoyable manner his powers as a 'celloist — Gustave Jensen's fine sonata for -cello and pianoforte (in which Mr Ernest Empson assisted), a " Nocturne " (ChopinTClenrrel). Schumann's " Traumerei," Davidoff's "Am Springbrunnen," a "' AT nIo r lie " of Rubinstein's, Dunkler's " Reverie " and Popper's " Hungarian Rhapsody." All were finely rendered. Perhaps the most popular was the "Traumerei," played with exquisite delicacy and_ grace. In response to encores, Mr Gladstone » Bell played Squire's "La Priere" and Popner's *•' Spanish Dance." Mr Ernest Empson's pianoforte numbers, Chopin's '• Dewdrop Prelude " and Liszt's " Fantasie Iligoletto." played with much artistic power, received an encore, which Mr Empaon acknowledged by playing Chopin's "Waltz in D Flat." He also divided honours with Mr Gladstone Bell in Jensen's sonata, and aided the success of the 'cello numbers by his judicious accompanying. The vocalist of the party was Mrs Brooks, whose eingiug of " Nearer, My God, to Thee" (Carey's setting), instinct with devotional feeling, gained an emphatic recall, in response to which Mrs Brooks sang charmingly "My Wayward Coon." Her second number, "Little Princess, Look Up" (Amasis), rendered with artistic piquancy, also received an encore, which she acknowledged with a lovely little "Skylark" song. The accompaniments to the songs were admirably played by Mrs Edgar. Zymolo Trokeys strengthen the voice, preventing the irritation which follows a long strain on the vocal chords. They are invaluable to public speakers and 1 • "

! A Press Association message from ! Gisborne says that at the Magistrate's ■ Court to-day Joseph Daiib was fined £10 and costs, in default two months' imprisonment, for selling unauthorised lottery tickets. The Dunedin correspondent of the "Star" telegraphs that Mr R. A. Ban*, .who toured the dominion with the British footballers, intends to publish in about three weeks' time a book entitled '* With tho British Team in Maoriland .* A True Story of the Tour." Another version of the several sensational reports recently published will tfe given. At the Kaiapoi Magistrate's Court to-day, before Mr C. Hansen, J.P., and Mr J. ti, Blackwell, J.P., Benjamin Q'Gonnell was remanded to appear before the Supreme Court in Christchurch on a charge of hdving failed to obey an order of the Court under the First Offenders Probation Act. William Carlyle was fined* 20s, in default fortyeight hours' imprisonment, on a charge Of drunkenness, and on a charge of having used obscene language was sentenced to one month's imprisonment.