LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10300, 3 November 1911, Page 3

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

All the Canterbury trout streams rtoere clear this morning. ( The local masons havo contributed Uver £3OO to the King George Memorial Home Fund. Tho Radio Station, Wellington, reports that the Moeraki will probably do within wireless range to-night. 1 At Wellington to-day, W. J. Drew and J. M'Crae were fined £2O and costs oil a charge of illegal betting at Trenthnm at the last meeting. The aides were overcast in Otago ' ftnd Southland this morning, and there was a suggestion of rain from the south. Elsewhere the weather in the dominion was tine. Sigtwr Martinengo and other members of tho Vaudeville Company were successful at the Opera House last ?voning, when this week's programme fras repeated. The company will ap•pear again this evening. At the Auckland Police Court to-day {Francis Wallace and Peter Graham, wo firemen employed on the Makura, if ho were charged with resisting and assaulting Constable Dwyer, were sentenced to sis months' hard labour. At a sitting of the Juvenile Court this morning, before Mr T. A. B. Bailey, S.M., two boys aged fourteen years were charged with having set fire to a fence, causing damage to the extent of 10s. The boys had been in the company of two other boys, who, being over sixteen years of age, were tried in the Magistrate's Court. One .of the boys was dismissed and the other ivas convicted and ordered to pay damages ss. The Coronation Hall in Mill Street., Spreydon, which has recontlv been com-£let-ed, was formally opened by Mrs J. >. Hall last evening, wheii there was » largo attendance of Spreydon residents. The hall is a fine large building, and cost about £4OO to build grants of £IOO each being received rrom the Government and the Spreydon Borough Council. The balance of the .money, with tho exception of £7O or £BO yet to be collected, was provided by the residents themselves. Mr D. By Ices, who presided over last evening's cciemony, congratulated the meeting on the splendid effort of the Spreydon people in raising the-required money, and Mr S A Staples, chairman of the Waimairi County Council, also made a few laudatory remarks. After the • formal opening an enjoyable concert was held in the new hall. By tho arrival at Lyttelton this morning of the Union Company's steamors Mararoa and Moeraki tho number of Carnival Week visitors was considerably augmented. Between the hours of 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. tEe No. 3 Vharf donned holiday attire, and the efforts .made b.y passengers to grab their luggage caused no little commotion and amusement. The Mararoa brought down from Wellington 372 passengers, including 34 immigrants who . arrived from London by the Turaldna, while the intercolonial steamer Moeraki landed 137. She also had on board a number of new arrivals who were journeying to Dimedin. To-morrow morning til© Huddart Parker Company's Victoria and the Maoii are due from the north. Both vessels are expected to leave Wellington with a large complement. In order to allow Dimedin people the opportunity of returning to tlieir homes on Sunday the- Victoria will not leave for Dimedin until tho . arrival of the 7.40 i>.m. train.