CANTERBURY NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2381, 23 December 1908, Page 5

CANTERBURY NEWS.

[Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 22. The City Council last night resolved to support Thursday as the day for the Aveekly half-holiday. Councillor 11. H. Loughnan’-has decided to contest the Mayoralty next year. _ The Pope lias informed Bishop Grimes that all Roman Catholics have been dispensed from the obligation of abstinence on New Year’s Day, which this year 'falls on a Friday. (file Sumner Borough Council has decided to support t-lie -Petone Borough’s efforts to have the law amended to make unoccupied land that has been acquired by the Government-! or workmen’s homes subject to the same local rating as private property. The boy..scouts’ movement is progressing rapidly in Canterbury -under the general leadership of Major D. C'ossgrove. Several patrols of girl scouts are now in existence. The movement for both girls and boys promises to be a very big thing before the close of the summer. -Owing to the very large increase of houses in Christchurch, renumbering has become necessary, and 33ft will be allotted per number, a full allowance being made for land not presently occupied by buildings, streets to bo numbered west to east and south to north, according to direction. The bulk of the grain in. Canterbury this year is the largest for several years, and a good many more men t-lian usual are Avanted for the- fields. Early sown crop oats were threshed at Elgin yesterday, the first of the season. "The Board of Governors of Canterbury College decided to ask Mr H. L. James, of the General Assembly Library, Wellington, to undertake tile Avork of reclassifying the books in the reference department .of the public library. They also appointed a committee to -consider the question of the establishment of a chair oi physics. William H. D. Newtli was fined £o and costs to-day for having used an abbreviation, “Dr,” likely to lead people to believe that he was -qualified, as required under the- Medical Practitioners’ Act. NcAyth had an announcement in his window, saying that he did not claim the title “Dr’ in New Zealand, but that lie had practised- as a doctor in -America lot 23 years. -Mr Bishop, iS.'M., said that -personally ho fellt strongly -about quacks using the term in the sense of a man prescribing for people without holding the qualifications necessary, -and this man had none. During the four Aveeks from November 9th to December 6th, 98,99) passengers were carried on the Christchurch tramway. . , A resident of Britain iStreet, North Limvood, -made a gruesome find when digging in the -domestic cabbage patch this morning. His spade struck against a hard object and on removing the soil lie found it Avas a human skull. He pursued his exploration and unearthed niore human remains, probably those of a- native, as there Avas a Maori settlement in that locality some years ago, and as this is not the first skeleton. Avhich has been -found in the vicinity. •- The hones were then taken possession of Ibv a constable and- submitted to the coroner for instructions as to their final disposition. .