NEW ZEALAND NEWS'

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 676, 29 November 1909, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND NEWS'

(By Tolceraob.—Presa AwoelatlonJ -" — : — r " s)'' : NORTH CANTERBURY SCHOOL GALA. AN ELABORATE AFFAIR. ' .Chrrstchurcli, November 27. The annual sports meeting of the North Canterbury Public Schools' Amateur, Athletic Association was'held at Lancaster Park to-day, and was again remarkable for the enormous number of competitors and the large attendance ,of spectators. The day was moderately fine, but %..... strong ; easterly wind was experienced. Th# , programme of tho sports was a most elaborate .affair, and included practically every. khoitn ;; 1 ,: variety of athletics, 'ondithe,youthful compete . tors, especially, the girls, entered into ,tho contests with,refreshing zest. ! Somo of tho,events.:brought out enormous fields,, entries of from 50 / to 100 being nothing uncommon. .The day. opanod with a military marching competition, cod. then. •;> followed tho initial heats in the big not events,' together with the jumping and, other contests,: which occupied the whole o£ the morning. Th» afternoon was'devoted to .the finals, of .events: partially decided earlier in the day, and th« day's activity culminated in massed displays of club and dumbbell exercises, and scan and flag drill. The programme concluded with i march-past by toe cadet battalions. A LINK INjA LONG LINE, '• FIRST DRIVEN.; , Christchurch, November 28. . Tho Hon. T. Mackenzie,! on . Saturday, ' drop# the.first pile of the "Waiau 'Bridge, in the presence of a . largo. number of settlers. frohl the.' '■ districts: interested, - including representatives ~ . from Marlhsrough and Christcnarch. The Min-, ister stated in'his qieech .that it 'was intended to continue "'the ;Waipara-Cheviot line' to, the; » bridge. He was waited upon later, at MTfcnssw ■■ (Cheviot), by a largo and representative depn- > ~ tation, 1 which'urged: upon .him tho necessity of ... the; South Island Main Trunk line being com- ■" plated, and -the Minister undertook to plaoo their representations before Cabinet.' In the evening ne was ientertained. at a banquet bjr the South Island Main Trunk Railway League. TOR BREAKING AND ENTERING, Ch'ristchurch, November 27._ At. the Supremo Court, Mr.. Justice Denniston sentenced' George Sydney Bwant .to. .sue- . months' imprisonment, for breaking and entering at : Tim aru. on' November 20.. His Honour had doubts about the ..object being, theft, and , announced that' if accused: appeared aeam hf ' would: bo treated as a habitual criminal.' ;• ' : SPRING PRODUCTS. Dunedinj November.27.' : ' Early supplies of riew scason's fruit from Ceiv .. . tral Otago are causing a decline in prices. Best strawberries sold, this-morning at 10d-, others at 7d. '.'Chorries are selling at lOd. Now Peoin. sula potatoes bring 2s. per ltu, and Auckland- t grown 10s. per cwt. , DISAPPEARED. 1 ,' . Christchurch, November .. The police authorities are unable to, obtain, any trace of, Arthur Clarkeon,,missed.early this . week. He was last, seen by, Detective Fahey, ~ when.he said he- was going--to. Oamam,. thenoo . to Auckland- and Wellington, but no trace of i him has found in either place. ; ■; RAID ON A BOOKSELLER. , ' ■ Auckland, Norcmbor 27. • Tho'police'raided tho shop of Josiah Conolly, bookseller, .and seized' sixty publications alleged • to bo improper or'immoral.-: They iuso .seized i. t nineteen stereoscopic pictures on the premises of Dennes Bros.i Queen Street.