LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19999, 15 July 1920, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Percy Martin Carmichael and John Patrick Walsh, two railway porters charged at the Magistrate's Court at Masterton yesterday with the theft of a case of whisky, valued at £8 16s, the property of the Government, wore each sentenced to one month’s imprisonment. The following . Christchurch candidates were successful in the pharmacy examinations held in Juno;—Section A—P. A. Cornish and J. M. LaurenSection B—II. E. Lawrence, G. V. Wilkinson and A. G. Strachan. Section C—E. P. Shier and 0. H. Farquharson. A .meeting of creditors which v, as to have been held yesterdav afternoon in the bankrupt estate of Samuel Harris, farm manager, Rollcston, was adjourned through lack of a quorum. Bankrupt estimated his liabilities at £57. He stated that ho had been, farming at Weedons about four years ago, ’ and that, owing to bad seasons and a serious accident, he had been forced io sell out at a loss. Ho was now working on a farm at Rollestou, and bad no assets except the furniture in his bedroom. John M’Grcgor, the returned soldier who died suddenly on Sunday night, was buried at the Sydenham Cemetery yesterday. Iho funeral was arranged by the Returned Soldiers’ Association, in conjunction with the Defence Department. Representatives of the association, who supplied the pallbearers, and of Messrs W. Strange and Co., by whom Mr M’Gregor was lately employed, were present, and Messrs Strange and Co. sent a wreath. 'Hie service was conducted by the Rev R. M. Rybnrn, of St Andrew’s Church, and the “ Last Post ” was sounded over the grave. _ Deceased bad no relatives in the Dominion. All his relations reside in Scotland, and the Returned Soldiers’ Association is taking steps to communicate with them. An appreciation of the supreme delight of children in witnessing a pantomime led the doctors of the Christchurch Public Hospital to approach the management of the J. C. Williamson Company with a view to the purchase of a box for yesterday’s performance of ‘‘The Sleeping Beauty,” for the benefit of some of their juvenile patients. When the management learned of the purpose of the transaction, they at once offered the use of two boxes" free of charge; with the result that four little patients—one of whom had never seen even a city before, except from the confines of the children’s ward, and two of whom are unlikely ever to leave the hospital—were, under the care of two nurses, able to drink in the fascinating wonders of the. “panto.” Hundreds of Christchurch citizens 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.. Ballatityne's). X There is a distinctive quality in our wedding groups and portraits that makes them worthy as a record of the Time of your life. Steffano Webb, Petersen’s Buildings, 252, Hiah Street. ’Phono 1989. f Ladies Know mem to have no equal. Martin’s Apiol and Steel Pills, gold by all Chemists and Stores throughout Australasia. X