LOCAL TO GENERAL

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9513, 10 April 1909, Page 4

LOCAL TO GENERAL

. ' . - ■;■■■■• — ♦ ' ' ;_,. ■■"■■■;,.•"•......•...'.•■ The bread fund .collections vi;Duaedinhave now totalled £175<X : '; r' v The Union Steamship Company trill run an excursion to Akaroa on- M6n- . ; day in connection with the race between Fogwell and'Wtielch. The Maniroa will leave Lyttelton on arrival «f the 8.65 train from Christchurch. - , A Gisborne Press Association tele* gf am says that the Harbour Board has decided to, accept the offer of Messrs Simmon? and Co., Renfrew/ for' a dredge , similar to the Mawhera;, the. new Greymouth dredge, the price being ; >£34;500, subject to accommodation i .«x»-'-.,. tending over two years. ■<- ;■-' K - The a,nnuai demonstration in conned tion with ithe CJanterbury Band of.Hope >'■-.. y Union will take place in the Hagley : Park, on Easter Monday; Th© ; prdces- . sipn will leave Latimer Squarfc at 10.16,---and will march via Madras and Armagh, Streets tot the Park. Alarge programme of sports for young and old has becafc arranged. At three o'clock a public ' meeting will -be- held. ■..:".' { r The cost of the recent Licensing Committee election to the Christchtutffh City Council was £24 15s 3d. In 1906 when, there was a contest thecost to the local body was £207 17» 3d. In, all Licensing Committee elections the fee of the returning-offioer/ and the cost of preparing the/necessary rolls, is paid by the. Electoral Department of. the General Government. r 'At a sitting of the Juvenile- Court" to-day before Mr H W. Bishop, S.M., a youth aged fifteen years was committed to St Mary's Indnstrialn School, Nelson, for having used obscene lan-*, guage. His father was an old age pensioner with a family of twelve, and the police reported that the boy was an . "incorrigible. 7 ' Another lad, against , whom there were" two previous convic-' I tions, was committed to Biirnham In-* ' dustrial School for the theft of -a purse and 10s 6d from the railway station &t Lyttelton and akjo for the theft of a bicycle at Riccarton. At the Juvenile Court this morning Mr;. H. W. Bishop, S.M., • said he was reluctant about taking boys from their ( parents, but he could hot let it go forthi that boys brought , before the Court 1 with previous convictions against them were allowed to go unpunished on the? 1 assurance of parents that better con-, I trol would be" kept over the boys in' I future. He added that 'it was his praor I tice to give parents i every opportunity* ■ to keep their children under parental I control, but if the parents failed in' ■ tiieir obligations it was the duty of the I State to step in and see' to the-neglect- I ed children's welfare. . . > I A large attendance of visitors • was ■ registered at Wainoni Park yesterday. '■ Ori Monday an especially attractive I programme will be given.- \There wiH r I be a Punch and Judy show and loDy ■ scrambles for the children, and a naval I battle 1 will be shown, representing an ■ encounter between German and ,1 British Dreadnoughts. Signer flgnola'« ■ orchestra will play in the .afternoon . ■ and evening. The fireworks display ta I be held at night is to be an especially ■ elaborate one. A feature of the dis>- ■ play will be a battle between airships; ■ and battleships. An open-air concera ■ With Various entertaining items will ■ precede the fireworks, and the scene,) ■ "The Last Days of Poinpeii/' will b*j ■ shown on the island. j H Aged persons are pecaliarly beneißEV I by Steams' Wine, ac it pofflcooooa W> I stimulating jg^ropejtiee Jf^MLi^^B

- 1 , The report on tho condition of the Canterbury Trout rivers telegraphed at c a.m. to-day was: — Ashley, clear; "Waimakariri> Selwyn, Opihi, "Waitaki, fishable; Rakaia, Aahburton and Rangitata, dirty. Shortly after noon to-day a fire ' broke out in a small unoccupied cottage in Dean Street, near North Street, St '•Albans, The motor from the St Albans station, and chemicals from the Lichfield Street and Chester Street stations •went to the scene and soon dealt with the fire. There was not much damage done. \ ( \ '''■■ Tea Connoisseurs.— The pleasing qualities of a tea are .more dependent iipon selection than cost. We have an exceptionally good selection of fine teas in stock, comprising flaroury old-t inie Chinas, autumnal Darjeelings, Invalid Tea (China 1 Buds) and Choicest Hillgrown Ceylons.^ Ridley's,. Christchurch and Wellington. 57