DAILY NOTES FROM WANGANUI.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 665, 16 November 1909, Page 4

DAILY NOTES FROM WANGANUI.

.■'•-.;. ■;'..■; THE.IU.s'riNG'CtJEE.-'; ; ' ,;.;> , (By Telegraph.—Special CorreJDondent.l :. . '■■'.-, ■:.•,'.: Wangahui) November 15, Exhibits for ; the Agricultiiral' Show, which opens on Wednesday, are already being placed in position, and visitors ard beginning tonirivei' All atrangenieuts are noiy conlpletiid, and everything points- to the . flxturo' being highly, successtuli , ,'--. .-. ■ . -.'.' !''. ' The local Garrison Ofllcors , Club has been resuscitated, and meetings are being held regularly, taking the fornici: classes of instruction, in which every officer takes his part- as in. structor or critic. It is intended to ■ try ! to arrange forV the grant of frbe;railway , paSSei for country oiheers. for periodical attendance ■.at the clubs meetings. 1 ■':':■ ■■'"!, ■ ~,: , The big' Maori meeting whicliii to Open at Hiruharaipa, , onVthe 'Wanganui■■■; Eiver,' ; oh Christmas -Day, promises to bo one pf. the .bitfgest Native gatherings ever Wld'ih the, Douiiniott, and representatives of all the tribes in both- islands intend to be present to discuss various matters ■affecting' I :Native , interests.- The Maoris, of !this . difitrlct;'! J *ho ;efe!-benfiog ; all' the expense,..are making, great..-preparations i for I the!eventj'which will jdays.. '; , . ■/"■'.■"■■' ■'■■■ ','■..'•'■.■•'. ■V , .' v . : - ':'■'';'.' :■ ■ 'The' fasting cure has not yet-gflho out , of .fashion ■in Wahptanui; a.local business , man '. having., completed', a .fortnight's • abstention from ; food a day or t\rt ago. This, and.in fact, all \ previous. local, records, says th 9 ' "Herald," have; however, been dompletely e'cUpee'd by the,.performance/of n lady resident, in this ■ town, who to-day reached , her •, 64th' day ■'of j 'fast.' , ''The lady in question undertook the fast' for the oUre of rheumatism and internal catarrh, of praotloally; llfeloni? standing,- with the result that the' rheumatism has ■disappeared, and the catarrh has beon lessoned;so ; much as to cause ho' distress. \ Many peoplo are under; the idea that these, "fasts" mean complete vabstentatiOn from ' anything in the way of: fond or drink,' That, of epurse, would be. a fast 6f the Btriotest kind, but it is hot', in what h known- as. the. 1 fasting euro, in. which unlimited use of water or fruit uticfl is:p*rtnitted. The only-nutriment taken by the lady-roferred tp has beon the squeezedoutjmcoof. a lemon or orange daily, with, .-tor: about-.ten dayß of the tinie, a singlo spoonfnl. of malted milk daily. :■ For'all practical ■purposesj-.therefore, her feat htfty be considered a: fast, and those who like their three meals :a day would probably be, satisfied to repurd it _bs such, were, they to undertake it. - The :lady, who. to .bontinne till what is kiiqwii. ';■ "nntural hunper"; returns, is -.in •nxwiHent; Spirits, suffers from no , feeling of weakness, and 'takes gentle exefciso daily*