LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12735, 3 September 1919, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There was a clean sheet at the Magistrate’s Court to-day. A fair sized willow tree on the bank of the Avon River in Oxford Terrace, opposite Victoria Square, unable to bear the weight of the snow, has been uprooted. City Council workmen were busily engaged this morning sawing the tree into lengths. A Wellington telegram states that a number of cases of breaking and entering warehouses and other business places have been reported recently to the police, who have arrested seven boys between nine and fifteen years of age and laid eighteen charges against them. Tho sums alleged to have been stolen by the boys amount to about £4O, but the damage done in the premises entered is considerable On Saturday afternoon the Christchurch Model Yacht Club opened its twenty-fourth season at Victoria Lake, many spectators being present. The club’s first race was sailed, a strong north-east wind favouring good time. The first heat was won by Mr Firth’s O.E-0., with Mv Ruxton’s K.N. second and Mr Jackson’s Awner third; time, 30min. The second beat was won by Mr Bond’s Dorothy, with K.N. second and O-8.0. third; time, 32min. There were eight heats. A Press Association message from Wellington states that the Federation of School Committees’ Associations has adopted its constitution and elected the following officers;— President, Mr A. G. Wallace; vice-presidents, Messrs S. G. Smith (Taranaki), ,1. K. Hornblow (Manawatu), A- E. Evans (Canterbury), and C. J. .Talbot (Temuka); secretary and treasurer, Air 'A. J. White (Wellington) ; committee, Airs Snow (Wellington), Alessrs Pickering (AVairarana), Le Grange (Palmerston North), Potter (Auckland), Brenton aud Rule (Wellington), Ritchie (Dunedin) and Glover (Alotueka). At a sitting of the Juvenile Court yesterday, before Air T- A. B. Bailey, S.M., a girl, fifteen years of age, was cnarged with obtaining goods valued at £2 10s 3d from Kincaid’s. Ltd., by false pretences. Senior-Sergeant Cummings said that the girl was very untruthful. She had put the blame for what she had done on to another girl who was quite innocent- She had been found roaming the streets at three o’clock that morning. There were two further charges of false pretences against her, and a charge of breaking and entering and stealing £5. The .accused was committed to the Christchurch Receiving Home. She was also ordered to pay the value of the goods. A girl, twelve years old, charged with obtaining sums of £1 14s lid and 5s lid by false pretences, was admonished and discharged. A. boy, fourteen years of age. charged with the theft of a canary valued at 6s and a canary valued at £l, was admonished and discharged, and ordered m pay £1 foj the second canary. A child charged with having no means of subsistence was committed to the Christchurch Receiving Home. Hundreds ‘of Christchurch citizen* have been cured by Dr Fellow’s Pile Cones when every other known remedy has failed.' Price 3s 6d box, from chemists, or direct. Loasby and Co., chemists (opp. Balkntyne’s)'. X Have those old-time portraits copied, enlarged or reduced and finished by our permanent process. W© specialise in this and gan guarantee satisfaction. Stelfano "Webb, Petersen’s Buildings. High Street. ’Phone 1989. X “True Temper” "Wheel Hoes. A new line of labour saving Garden Tools at lower prices. Single wheel hoe 21s, hoe, plough and cultivator 37s 6d. Seed drill 27s (kl. See them at Hastie, Bull and Pickering’s. 1