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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18643, 24 December 1928, Page 1

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FOURTH EDITION. * SHIELD CRICKET. WELLINGTON, December 14. With 30 more added to the score Blunt, who was batting well and scoring with some very nice oft shots, fell into the same trap as Knight. His score included four 4’s. Monk joined Eastman, and the first hundred went up after eighty minutes’ play. A double change was made in the bowling, M’Girr and Badcock coming on, and Eastman ran to 30 with a neat late cut. Eastman was now shaping confidently, and was putting plenty of power into his shots, his offside play being particularly attractive. Eastman reached 50 in fortyeight minutes. At the luncheon adjournment the score was 157 for three wickets (Blunt, c James b Henderson, 39; Eastman, not out, 68; Monk, not out 20; extras 6.) At 2.15 p.m. Otago had lost three Wickets for 172 runs (Monk not out 25, Eastman not out 76, extras 8). CONDUCTOR INJURED. The conductor of a tram on the Riccarton line, O. E. Kissell, fell from his tram at 1 o’clock to-day, and was admitted to the Hospital with injuries to his head and concussion. When admitted Kissell was not fully conscipus, and the extent of his injuries is not yet known. He is a married man. SCARLET FEVER OASES DECREASE. Twenty-five cases of scarlet fever were notified in the Canterbury health district last week, as compared with thirty-five the previous week. The total number of cases o t infectious diseases of all types for last week is 65, an increase of ten over the previous week. Two deaths from tuberculosis are reported in Canterbury. WAIMAIRI COUNTY COUNCIL. CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS.—The offices of the Waimairi County Council will be closed from December 24th to January 3rd, except from 9 a.m. to 10.30 a.m. on December 28th and 29th and 31st, when the office will be open to receive payments. G. S. COWPER, County Clerk. 6 i / l a DAJbxaret tkift. IWhile a young Christchurch Woman was buying her Christmas presents in one of the big shops on Saturday, a thief cut the leather straps of her bag, which was hanging on her arm, and made off with it. The young lady had been making a purchase, and noticed the theft when she went to pay for the goods. It is the first case of bag-snatching that has occurred this Christmas, d.AliiV STRATFORD RACES. STRATFORD, December 24. In the acceptances for the Stratford races, Lucy Rose was wrongly included in the Douglas Handicap, and Gold. Dawn (7.1) was omitted. UNEMPLOYMENT. There are 311 unemployed on the Labour Department’s books. Three, all married, registered to-day. None was placed. Dunedin Arrangements. Dunedin, December 24. A schedule of the works proposed for the Government grant of £2OOO for relief of unemployment, has been drawn up. It is hoped to make a start on Thursday.