LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12646, 2 June 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Press Association telegram from Auckland states that a robbery occurred on board the Niagara about 8 p.m. on Saturday, when clothing and other articles to the value of £3OO were taken from a saloon cabin. On the matter being reported to the detectives at 9 p.m. they searched the vessel until 2 a.m. without result. While further search was being made this morning one of the articles, a fur coat valued at £l2O, was found floating near the vessel, as though it had been pushed through a porthole. The other articles have been found. The Christchurch North branch of the New Zealand Labour Party passed the following resolution: “That this meeting of the branch strongly protests against the Government’s action in selecting certain C.O.’s to be exiled politically, especially in view of the fact that they have already suffered full punishment for their alleged crime. This action appears peculiarly arbitrary, vindictive and unjust, as by depriving men of their political and civil rights the Government is also depriving them of their moans of livelihood. We believe this penalisation of men who have followed their convictions is a personal and national calamity.” The red, white and blue rings of the Allied sign on aeroplanes were suggested by a delegate to the Returned Soldiers’ Conference ns a universal business sign for all returned men in business. Another delegate replied that a man in business must depend on success through sheer attention to duty and by giving prompt attention to the needs of the public. If a. man expected support from sheer charity because he was a returned soldier ho would he' better out of business. Another delegate suggested that a black cross should he placed on the buildings of businesses of enemy extraction. Tbe whole question was “washed out.” The May number of the Christchurch “ Boys’ High School Magazine,” a copy of which has reached this office, contains a very large amount of school information, besides references to old hoys who fought and fell in the war. Editorial references are made to the changes in the school staff, to tlw increased attendance, school buildings and general prospects. Old boys’ war letters are a very interesting feature of the magazine. A letter from Colonel Garsia is also included. The school record in sports and an account of the annual prize-giving are also fully dealt with and the magazine contains a number of illustrations of old boys who fell in the last stages of the war, of school cricket and football teams and the staff. Hundreds of Christchurch citizens have been cured by Dr Follow’s Pile Cones when every other known remedy has failed. Brice 3s 6d box, from chemists, or direct. Loasby and Co., chemists fopp. Ballantyne’s). X Bring your little boy or girl in to be photographed by Steffano Webb every birthday. More than a year should not elapse between one sitting and another. Petersen’s Buildings, High Street. ’Phone 1989. X “ A morning call ” at the right moment and accurate time day and night is afforded by the “ Big Ben ” 17s 6d, “Sleepmcter” 10s (id, “ America ” 7s 6d, and tbe wonderful “Simplex ’’ 8-day Alarm Clock. All at Mastic, Bull and Pickering’s, Cashel Street.' 11