CONDENSED NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17182, 27 October 1923, Page 5

CONDENSED NEWS.

OVERNIGHT SUMMARY. The Heathcot© County Council has decided to levy a rate of 3-2Qd in the pound, on the whole of the Mount. Pleasant Riding io juovide interest on a loan of J 2500 for the purchase of electrical equipment lor the riding. Last night the. Heath cote County Council made a special order authorising a Joan of £4OOO at 4$ per cent for 36 i years to erect workers’ dwellings at Mount Pleasant. The order has fetill to bo formally confirmed. At the meeting of the Synod yesterday the Rev H. O. T. Han by stated that arrangements were being made for anv soldiers at the Queen Mary Hospital. Harnner Springs, who de--sirod to attend the Hickson healing mission. Tlie following have been elected members of the Christchurch Dioceson Board of Education :—Dean Carrington. Canon J. de G. Galwey, the Revs E. E>. Malden and E. C. Crosse, Messrs <’. E. Ferris. T. Hughes, W. E. J>. Bishop and W C. Armitage, Mrs C. L Young, Misses M. K. Laurell, M. A'. Gibson and E. E. Law. The Christchurch Diocesan. Synod placed on jecord yesterday its gratitude for the long and faithful services of the late Archdeacon Gosset and passed a vote of sympathy with the widow end family. Pain. had. snow, swollen rivers and occasional bursts of sunshine have, been experienced in the Ashburton Gorge district lately. Lambing has just commenced and it is impossible to give any indication of the state of things in this direction. However, stock generally is fating well and there is now plenty of nice spring feed. E. Bristow, an employee of Mr R. Grimwood, (butcher. Kaiapoi, had the top joints of the two middle fingers amputated yrljile working a sausage machine on Thursday morning. This was a considerable fresh in the', Ashley River, which will r.ot. be fishablei for some days. The Rev AVY B. Pickering has accepted. subject do conference approval, an invitation ( from the Westport Methodist Circuit xo remain in Westport another Tear. • At a Magistral inquiry held at Granitv on Wpdjnomda.v. concerning ro cent fires bv which business premises were destroyed ait Millerton, a. verdict was returned . there was nothing to prove how the. premises caught fire. After two mouths of almost unbroken sunshine, iWestland was visited on Tuesday by sales and rain which continued until Thursday. Rain was badly needed as jgrass was scarce ami butter-fat retunos were down below normal. The work of erecting the new station. overhead bridge and yards at Hokitika is proceeding slowly. It is doubtful whether the station will he completed by the opening date of the exhibition. During the forthcoming exhibition at Hokitika the diamond jubilee of the discovery of the Westland goldfield will be celebrated.. This will be held on .January 9, 10, 11 and 12. . The entries for the Northern A. and T*. Association’s: Show, to be held at ‘Rnngiora. next Friday, total 693, compared with 709 last jear. At Ashburton yesterday Richard Seddon Templeman. seventeen years of age. was convicted of the theft of a pair of boots and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. A fine of £lO. ip; default two mouth's imprisonment was imposed on James .Scott at Ashburton yesterday for being drunk whilst in charge of a motorAlbert Qneree. Lyttelton, was charged at Ashburton yesterday -with having sent liquor into the Ashburton nolicense area without having notified the Court. Defendant was fined 10s and costs.

The Governor-General held an investiture at Government House, Wellington, at 8.30 last evening, at which his Excellency presented to the Honourable Sir Frederick Re vans Chapman his letters patent of knighthood; to Air F. W. Flanagan, Valuer General, a badge as Officer of the Order of the British Empire, to Lieutenant I G. If Clifton, New Zealand Staff Corps, the Military Cross; to Major C. E. Clifton, Porangahau, Hawke’s Ba3', the Colonial Auxiliary' Forces officers’ decoration. His Excellency subsequently entertained relatives and friends of the recipients at a small reception.