DAILY NOTES pROM -WANQANUI1.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 582, 10 August 1909, Page 7

DAILY NOTES FROM WANGANUI.

■' : t-riv W "ii. ffriU'T .'ivWits,\A)ry ; th : ■ i •.. '•(By ; ToloEraph—Special •CurrcsDondont.).:: Wsngsnui, August 0. ■ j.Tiie;death isaririounceS of - a .very, familiar figure r,in':-AVanganui',:'Mji''ChaH<s- , r'Jcffcbttj : fe-to of ; the 57th Regiment ("DicHards"), .aged 77...;. Mr. .Jeffcotfc saw active, service nt Hne "Crimea, ■ India,, and' New Zealand, _ remaining' here when the regiment went Home at .the conclusion, of.the.Maori War. '' _ ' .. A olass of instruction for olEcera and noil-.' commissioned officers of tho • local: volunteers beqan here to-night, and will continue till. ; Friday evening.' Lectures, will be given each evening, and, on lliursday'and Saturday ternoons outdoor ' jnßtruction.in tho shape of field work, and military engineering will bo taken. ' ■ :. . ■...>■ Tho new channel over tho bar which for some" time has, boon forming parallel ; and' close; .to , the" north breakwater lias now sufficiently to allow tho safe passage .of shipping'through' it.: 'Tho schooner Ho'uto' 'waa,towed fe'tlirough it a fow days ago, but . it fra3 not till yesterday that; it 1 was ysed by. £rt^mer^ : ; ; which .trade tere,' 1 'bne'.'enferingi', .aild. three 1 going' out- 1 by. it without difficulty. With the removal of the. Wreck of, tho Charles Edward, .which will b6 done as soon as iiocsible ; a great improvement/in the new channel is bound to result.

• At tho annual-.meeting of the City Band, Mr.. George Buckloy, ■ t'ho. well-known corneti3t, was cJccted conductor, and 5 Mr. F. L. Spurdlo bandmaster. Mr. Buckloy is back his old place in tlio .Garrison Band, but 'tlra'.iritereat in th? junior combination is. such tfet' his/ ; !lias/been given freely to its .■ improvement, and. with . marked _ resiilt-3. A church parade of the local garrison corps was held yesterday.' Three hundred pf all raiiks, half _pf them cadets, were, present. .