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Star (Christchurch), Issue 10536, 10 August 1912, Page 7

The New Tenitorial Service Medal has been awarded to Sergeant T. J. Noonan, A Company, Ist New Zealand Regiment, late City Guards, for cwelve yeans' consecutive efficient service. The Woolston Brass Band will play a selected programme of music at Hackthorne Road on Sunday, at 2.45 p.m., under its new conductor. Mr A. Mullinger, L.R.A.M. A collection will be taken up to enable the band to compete at the Dunedin contest in October next. The results of the eighteen nights' play in the Christchurch Friendly Societies' Card Association's tournament are as follows:—Mistlctoo beat Oak of Sydenham, 25-20; Hope of St Albans beat Ridgelv, 24-16; Star of Sydenham beat City of Christchurch, 31-12; Ivy of Linwood, a bye. The belief that a portion of the Samaritan Home Grounds has been set aside as a library site in Addington is not borne out by a letter received by the Mayor to-day from the UnderSecretary of Justice. It states that the Council's inquiry has been received, and the matter is under consideration. A Press Association telegram from Dunedin says that the balance of the five per cent consolidated loan debtntures, Avith twenty-two years' currency, issued by the Dunedin Harbour Board last month, have all been placed at a satisfactory figure. The maximum price obtained was £IOB 15s and the minimum £lO5 10s, the net result being between £lO5 and £lO6 on the issue. The Bee-keepers' Conference closed at Wellington to-day. Mr C. A. Jacobsen was re-elected president and Mr T. E. G. "Ward secretary. The headquarters ivere fixed for Christchurch,'where the next conference will be held. The president conveyed to the conference the regrets of the Minister of Agriculture that he would be unable through pressure of business to receive a deputation from the .conference. Tlie recommendations will be forwarded by letter to the Minister. A Wellington Press Association telegram says:—Supporting the contention of several witnesses before the Cost of Living Commission to the effect that the public was offering increased support to dominion-made footwear, and also that the present tariff is sufficiently high for the colonial boot manufacturer to compete with the imported article, it is announced that a well-known New Zealand boot manufacturing firm contemplates establishing another factory for the" purpose of specialising in the manufacture of medium and high grade boots and shoes.

Mr W. H. Zouch, inspector for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, this morning drew the attention of a reporter to some carcases of pigs at present hanging in a curing establishment in the city, which bear unmistakable signs of having been cruelly ill-treated. They are literally black and blue with bruises, evidently having been struck again and again with some heavy instrument. The back and sides are covered with weals, and there are several dents* on the hind quarters, probably due to kicks. As one gentleman remarked, they look as if they had been dealt blows with a crowbar. Mr Zouch is of the opinion that the animals must have been driven a long distance in a short time, and when they tired they were struck heavy blows, and when they lay down they were kicked until they got up. It is understood that the Society intends to take proceedings against the perpetrator of the cruelty. A largely-attended meeting of the Christchurch Prohibition League was held last night, when the defeat of Mr A. S. Malcolm's Licensing Amendment Bill was discussed at some length. Various speakers expressed strong indignation that a Parliament elected to represent a democracy was so undemocratic that it refused even the email measure of justice embodied in the Bill. It was decided to hold a prohibition rally on Sunday night, in His Majesty's Theatre, to announce the next steps to be taken in the matter. The speakers will be the Revs R. S. Gray, G. Knowles-Smith and S. Henderson, Mr L. M. Isitt, M.P., Mr J. M'Oombs and Mr D. Sullivan. It was also decided to make the coming week a campaign week to secure signatures of electors pledged not to support any parliamentary candidate who refuses justice to the Prohibition Party. Information was received j from other centres that steps were being taken to inaugurate an active campaign in favour of the demands of the temperance party. Satisfaction was expressed at the recommendation made by the Education Commission with reference v to the inclusion in the syllabus of teaching on the ill-effects of alcohol on the system.