LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11671, 11 April 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The following is a list of animals slaughtered at the abattoir durmg -March, the number of carcases condemned being given in parentheses:— Cattle*9lo (11), sheep 9833 (15), lambs 2926 (nil), pigs 1758 (29), calves <tW (nil). ."' -.*■. : \ 'At the Canterbury Society of Artsexhibition on Saturday there was a record attendance. Many of the viaton were, strangers to this city, and expressed themselves well pleased with the excellence of the work and the variety of studies exhibited. Sales were not up to expectations. • The exhibition will be open to-day from 10 a-.m. to 5 p.m. Several farmers who sheared ; their sheep at Mr Johns's shed at Fernside contributed, enough wool to make rip a bale, which was sold by auction for £22 8s sd, for the Eyre County Patriotic Funds, to be paid over in support of the candidature of Miss Manon Addinell, Queen of the North. A special meetinjg of the Woolston Borough Council was held last evening to consider by-laws in regard to -motor traffic within the borough, and a bylaw was passed limiting the speed of motor vehicles, to six miles per hour, over or along Ashbourne Street, in the vicinity of the Woolston School, and to a speed not \exceeding fifteen miles per hour over or along any other street m the borough. The matron of the Children's Convalescent Cottage at New Brighton wishes to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of the following gifts:—Meat, gfom the Belfast- Freezing Works; cakes and papers, Mr Stokes; scones, Mrs Wallace; pears, Mrs R. C.Mason; books, Mrs Cooper: papers, Miss Maynell; plums, Mrs E. Lane: fruit and vegetables. Breeze's Road Church; tomatoes, Mr Holland; tomatoes. Mr Pitts; pears, Mrs Tillyshort. i The secretary of the General Post Office, Wellington, has. advised the | Waimairi County Council that a letter-posting box had been erected at the junction of Briggs,. Kelley's and Hill's Roads, and wag cleared daily at 11.30 a.m. The chairman said that he bad also requested a slot telephone at the corner. A leetter was sent to the Post Office officials thanking them for their prompt :' response. Last evening the Patriotic Motor Carnival Committee held its final meeting to receive the statement of iaccounts in connection with the late Patriotic Motor Carnival, Mr P. R. Climie presided. Mr P. R. Havnian read the statement, whichshowed the receipts to be £544 16s 2-cj, showed" the receipts to be £544 16s 2d. and the expenditure £l9O 19s 7d. Jeavilia a profit for the Patriotic Funds of £353 16s 7d. It was decided! that tlvv whole of the balgace should be paid direct to the Canterbury Patriotic Fund as soon as the auditor appointed by tho Auditor-General had completed the audit. Mr Harman was congratulated on his excellent work as secretary. It was mentioned that for sis months he had devoted considerable iime to tho' carnival, and its'* buci-. crss was largely due to his untiring energy and devoted sendee. Mr Climie was also thanked for his services as chairman. It was decided thai the committee should not disband, -but should held itself in readiness for future effort should occasion arise. Referring to the proposal of tho Tramway Board to erect a tramway shelter on the south side of Cathedral Square, the City Surveyor reported last night at the City Council a3 follows:—"I have carefully examined the roadway and tram lines ii Cathedral Square near the siiov cf the water tank which whs. filled in. 1 am of opinion that any erecticn extending on to the roadway in ihr.s portion would be a great impediment to traffic and make a very dangerous oornei-. Respecting the building itself, I consider it would he very objectionable to permit any solid structure of stone or tirick to be erected anywhere on the roadway or footpaths. Any shelters which arc allowed for waiting passengers should in my opinion be allowed only on the footpaths, preferably whero thev are more than ten feet wide and should bo of a light and skeleton construction, so as not in any way to impede traffic.'' The Works Committee recom-. mends that the Tramway Board should be Informed that the council could not see its way to grant permission for the erection of a shelter which would project on to the street, but that tho council was desirous of assisting to -erect shelters in different parte of the city provided they did not impede traffic. The report was adopted. Booking orders every day for Men's Suits to Measure at o2s 6d-. Armstrong's, Limited'. X Ladies, know lliem to have no equal. '• Martin's Apiol and Steel Pills. Sold by all Chemist* and Stores throughout Australasia. 1 Working Men's Suits, 2os 6d. £9s 6d; Saddle Tweed 1 Trousers, 8:> lid; Overalls. 3s lid; Shirts. 2s 6d, 2s lid, 3s lid. At Armstrong's. X

•The Telegraph department advised at 9 a.m. that all trout streams were clear. The flags on the City Fire Stations were flown at half-mast to-day, in respect to tho memory of tho late es- ' Superintendent Edward Smith. The funeral of the late ex-Superin-tendent Edward Smith will leave Lis late residence, 438, Worcester Street, at 2 p.m. to-niorrow. The funeral will he conducted by the members of the Christchuroh Fire Brigade, and it is expected that some band will be available to play appropriate marches. « Advice has been received from Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd., England, that the following students attending Gilby's College were successful in obtaining shorthand sueed certificates at the rates mentioned:—l2o words per minute. Flora E. Pick and Mary J. Richardson; 110 words per minute, Greta Pitcaithly and Gladys Sowoll; lCp words per minute, Jessie Dalton and Dorothy Nelson; 60 words per minute, Mhriel Cameron and Charles Berg.

Passengers who arrived at Auckland by the Talune from the South Sea Islands are firm in tho belief that the representative of an Australian trading firm—Bums, Philip and Company, Ltd. < —has been appointed liquidator for the D.H. and P.G. Company, the big German trading firm which has recently been "yronnd up. According ,to tho " Star," business men in Auckland who are interested in the island trade say that this is the exact opposite of what they were hoping for. During the past few days they have been* advocating tho appointment of an Aucklahder, "who, while beyond" patriotic reproach, has a good working knowledge of the German'language. Their present fear is that, instead of being attracted to New Zealand, the future trade of tho Toucan Kingdom will bo allowed to go to Australia. The jubilee of the Loyal Benevolent Lodge, Manchester Unity, of Oddfellows, was celebrated last.night, when a banquet was held in the lodge hall, Montreal Street north. About 150 members and friends attended', and N.G. Brother Le Page presided. Congratulations were received from tho Kaiapoi Lodge. The chairman unveiled a roll of Honour, containing the names of three members who had enlisted for Active' service, Brothers R.-A. Allen. A, Dicker andH. D. Moran. The following" toast list was gone through:— "The King,". "The Manchester Unity," ".North Canterbury District and Sister Lodges," "Old Members," * "Kindred Societies," "Medical Officers," "Array and Navy and Allied Forces," "Loyal Benevolent Lodge," and "The Chairman." Songs and recitations were given, and a pleasant evening was spent. ■' No men of military ago will be perEtittfed to play Rugby Union football in Auckland this season if a recommendation from a meeting of delegates from clubs affiliated with tho union is agreed to at the annual meeting on May 5. The delegates unanimously decided at a recent meeting, says the " New Zealand* Herald," that it be a recommendation to "tie annual meeting of the ../ union that no player exceeding twenty years of age in April of this year shall play in the union's competitions. In the course of the discussion on the proposal, it was suggested that plaveis over twenty years of age who had been rejected by the military authorities on account of physical defects might le allowed to play, but the meeting was not in favour of the suggestion, and it was decided to recommend the adoption of a hard and fast rule, otherwise it was feared there would be numerous applications fox "exemptions." Some time ago a. photograph was found in the returned effects of a New Zealand soldier, who was killed in' action-at Gallipoli. The mother, who resides v in Woolston, forwarded the photograph to the editor of the "Canterbury requesting its reproduction in the columns of that journal in the hope that she could by this means establish tho identity of the tidier.; The .photograph duly appeared in the ." Canterbury Tini&s," and the mother has now written to the editor stating that the photograph has been recognised as that of an Auckland trooper who was wounded and sent to England for treatment.' She

has consequently communicated with the soldier and hopes .by this means to ga& some information regarding her son's death. Had it not been for the insertion of the soldiers photograph in the "Canterbury Times" the mother would probably, still have been in ignorance' as-to the particulars of her son's sad end. Public attention has recently been drawn to the results of the operations carried! ont by the Waikato River Board in lowering the general level of the Waikato River. Complaints have been made regarding the increased difficulties of navigating the tributary ■waterways, bat perhaps the most striking effects are to be seen on the great swamps whicb stretch from Mercer to Waerenga, and from Mangatawhiri to Pokeno- This huge area of low fiat country, says the #' New Zealand Herald" is now drier than has ever been previously known* and hundreds of head of cattle are running and fattening in places which were once deemed to be impossible peat swamps. The class of feed springing up naturally on this newly-stocked country and' the fine pasture growing where the settlers have partly drained and surface-sown, goes to prove that these huge areas, instead of being bottomless morasses, are to a great exent sound alluvial flats, which only need a judicious expenditure of labour and capital to turn into high-class grazing and dairying land. Sub-Inspector Johnston, of the Gisborne police, states that when he reached Maungapohatu, in advance of the main body, and informed Rua that very likely the chief would be along soon, referring to Commissioner Cullen, Rua merely answered that it was well that the " big men " should come to him. " Send along plenty of the big men," he said, thus showing that his mana had been greatly raised by the visits ho had had from the " rangatiras" of the pakehas. Had Rua, said the sub-inspector, had.evil intent towards the arresting constables, as has been indicated during the past weeks, he could have acted then, when his numbers greatly exceeded the police. But he was all hospitality and kindness, walked about taking a keen interest in the uniform of tho visitors, and chatting away every now and then to the Sub-Inspector. At the conclusion of one of these conversations Rua tapped himself on the chest, and, without any boastfulness in his tone, informed the Sub-Inspector that he was "the Holy Ghost."