CHRISTCHURCH ITEMS.

West Coast Times, 21 April 1911, Page 4

CHRISTCHURCH ITEMS.

L«E PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COI’YRIuIIT, CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. OBITUARY. CHRISTCHURCH, April, 20. Heindrich Kohn, proprietor of Peterson and Co’s, jewellery business died yesterday, aged 64. , One of the delegates attending the Maori Conference at Rapaki Pa yesterday, died suddenly. He was an elderly man.

MUNICIPAL MATTERS. Municipal politics are now engaging - general attention after 1 the holidays and the campaign is in full swing. There are three candidates for the Cnrislchurch Mayoralty, viz., C. Allison, T. E. Taylor and ;H. T. J. Thacker. There are 32 candidates for seats on the City Council. The latest move has been the formation of a Citizon’s Municipal Association apparently with the object of meeting tho agitation for labour representation. The committee of the new .association has come very late into the field and the Labour organisations have been busy for many weeks. Mr M. J. Miller has been elected Mayor of Lyttelton, ' McGregor Wright for Woolston, and H. J. Marriner for Sumner, R. Wylie for Kaiapoi and E. R. Good for Rangiorta.