CONDENSED NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17178, 23 October 1923, Page 7

CONDENSED NEWS.

OVERNIGHT SUMMARY. Tite anniversary services in connection with the Kaiapoi Methodist Sunday School were held on Sunday last. At mmight on Sunday a motor-car driven by Hugh M’Donald collided with a sanitation cart standing in Victoria Street. Rangiora. Very few of the walls cf the old Lyttelton Gaol are now let standing, and the work of demolition is proceeding apace. The site will become a school playground. The jubilee gates, which have been erected at the main entrance to the Kaiapoi Domain in Ranfurly Street were officially opened) yesterday morning by Mr J. L. Wilson, one of tbe original members of the Domain Board. *** The fourth annual gathering of the scholars who attended the Kaiapoi Church of England day school, under Mr J. Matthews (1861-1874) was held in the domain yesterday. There was a large attendance of old pupils and their descendants. A five-roomed house in Pacific Road, North Beach, which was owned and occupied by Mr L. Gale, was totally destroyed by fire early last night. Mr Gale and family had gone to an entertainment, and when the fire was discovered shortly after eight o’clock it had too great hold to permit of a save being made. The house was a comparatively new one. At a meeting of the North Beach Burgesses’ Association last night, Mr J. P. Whatman presiding, several speakers protested against the rise in tramway fares. A special committee, consisting of Messrs E. A. M. Leaver (convenor), R. Stringer, Instone and Tooley, was set up to prepare for signature petitions urging the Tramway Board to revert to the original scale of the fares. It was decided to seek the co-opera-tion cf the Burwood and St Albans Burgesses* Association.