LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16450, 11 June 1921, Page 8

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Photographs of Christchurch, small and enlarged, are being sent by tho Mayor to Commodore Hotham, of H.M.S. Chatham.

The electrm power will be cut off in the area enclosed by Lincoln Road. Jerrold Street, Sehvyn Street, Moorhouse Avenue and Richmond Terrace from 7 a -Til. to 10 a.m. to-morrow.

During his lecture last night nt the Choral Hall Mr i£ Cairo ” Bradley said that the League of Nations was a failure, and much as he hated war, lie felt that preparation was its only prevention. For Britain and the Empire the only safeguard was the Navy.

At 10.29 o’clock last night the Fire Brigade turned out to a call from the corner of Hill’s Road and Shirley Road, where a marorocaipa hedge was in flames. About 12 feet of the hedge, which was on the property of Mr John Smith, was destroyed. At his lecture last night Mr “Cairo” Bradley paid a glowing tribute to the memory of Samuel Forsyth, a new Zealand V.C Be -aid that he was one of the whitest of men and worked like a Trojan in the line and out of the line. lie was a man that all New Zealand should he proud of, a mar. who served In's country and his God. * e 1 want to say that the present King and Queen are the finest King and Queen who have ever sat on the rhrom» of England,” said Mr “ Cairo ” Bradley in his lecture last night.. “ I know it,” he went on to say, “I saw King George with tears in his eyes as lie bade farewell to the troops at< Colchester in 1914 This dislovalty business is no good. I don’t stand for it, nor do yon.” (Applause).

At the meeting of the Christchurch. Technical College Board of Governors last evening I>r I>. E. Hansen (director), speaking with reference to the attendance at The college, said that it was a rather remarkable fact that there were about twice as many boy student? as girl students. He believed that the average of attendances at technical colleges throughout the Dominion showed that the number of girl students was slightly in excess of the nu i.ber of hoys

A meeting of th© Canterbury branch of the Insurance Officers’ Guild was held on Thursday evening in Messrs Baker Bros.’ rooms, Manchester Street, when an address was given by Mr H. P. Monrant, general secretary for New Zealand. A motion was passed conveying the local members’ confidence in the executive council of the Guild. The meeting terminated with a, hearty vote of thanks to Mr Mourant for his interesting address.

Mr William (Cairo) Bradley, a wellknown missionary who did good work for the troops, in Egypt during the war, opened his Christchurch campaign in tho Choral Hall last night with a, lecture on Egypt and Palestine. The speaker gave very vivid descriptions of his ’ife in Egypt, where he kept open house for the British troops, and narrated interesting incidents of his acquaintanceship with Lord Kitchener and Field-Marshal AUenby. On Sunday at 3 p.m. Mr Bradley will give a special talk to men in Everybody’s Theatre, and on the same evening will address a. general meeting there. A request was preferred to the Government recently that the British Industries Exhibition which is to bp sent to New Zealand should be shown at Dunedin. The Hon E. P. Lee (Minister of Industries and Commerce) informed a reporter of the *‘ Otago Daily ’l imes ” that the matter docs not rest with the Dominion Government but with the British authorities. It was at first intended that the exhibition should visit Auckland and Christchurch only, but a request from Wellington that it should be taken there also was favourably entertained. The request from Dunedin has been forwarded v o Great Britain with a very .strong recommendation that it be granted, but there has not been time for a reply to be received.

One shag has two feet and one bead. If the head is cut off, tho operation does not affect the feet—except from the point of view of the shag (says the “ Post ”). This may appear a statement of the obvious, but it is the important obvious to an acclimatisation society. A reward is paid for tho destruction of shags upon production of something in the nature of a satisfactory death certificate. Most societies have deckled that the certificate should take the form of two feet for each deceased bird—one-footed shags are disqualified. It has happened, however, that a society has accepted the shag’s head as evidence of death. In that case it has not bepn unknown that a shag has had two lives, or, rather, for purposes of reward, two deaths. The feet have been forwarded to one society and the head to another. The ‘Wellington Acclimatisation Society has been accustomed to pay for feet, and on Thursday night it received a claim for a reward for some beads. The council decided that it could not depart from its general practice, since such departure might load to cases of “heads I win. feet you loose,” though there was no such suggestion of any sharp practice in the case under notice.

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