DAILY NOTES FROM WANGANUI.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 690, 15 December 1909, Page 5

DAILY NOTES FROM WANGANUI.

IBj >Tolctr»ph—Special CnrroiDonttont.ll>. :' Wanganui, December U. 'v Mr. M. Creagh, tlio uewly-appoiutcu '.eugiuecr to 'tlio Gonville-Castleclifi: 'ltamwny Board, !■ -yesterday.'went.over the.proposed.routes, ami '■ lri.tho evening conferred with tlio board, when lie stated the opinion thai there'were no great engineering difficulties, and the line should; not , be expensive to construct. He will prepare a ! rough estimate■ of the cost, 'and forward it from ' Auckland in a fortnight's': , time, ■', as a ; guide, to. the ratepayers; when voting on tho loan proposals. ~" . .' ■■' : 1 The practice , of, white; parents handing ovor thoir children, to Maoris does, not; appear' to bo stamped out yet, for this morning four little . ones,- who had-been deserted by their parents by being put ashore .• at Maori settlements up tno rivor,-were committed .by tlie magistrate to.the Wellington receiving home. It is not an ' uncommon sight here; to see > white! children; 1 who cannot speak a word of ■ English, going about with Maoris. :. • :- - ;•': .'■ .. Tho urgent' need of additional. Court accom--1 modation was commonted on to-day ■by Mr. Kerr, S.M., the court-room being crammed with people huddled together like sheep. He hoped representations would, be made on the subject, and a member of" the Chamber of 1 Commerce who w«s present undertook to bring 1 the matter before that-body. • ■ . . The funeral of the late Mr. W. H.-Barni--1 coat to-day was very largely attended,.both the -Supreme and Maprtrate'e-'.Courts being ad- ' iburned to allow Bench and Bar to pay a last ; tribute of'respect. -::u-V ':• •" > . ■: The statement of receipts and expenditure for tho first twelve months running of the, corporation tramways shows a- shortage of JE523 4s. Tho receipts amounted to .£BB6B 145., and the expenditure to .£9391 18s.' The.statement includes interest and sinking fund for the whole of the year, though as ;a matter of fact .£Bl3 of this was not:paid out of revenue, but out of loan, in accordance with the terms on which tho loan was raised. This, with other charges of a non-recurring nature, make tho position soinowhat bettor'than appears,' but oven'without thorn the result of tho year's working is generally considered satisfactory. The pennyhalf pennv rato is moro than sufficient to cot or the deficit, and in view of tho immense con \emonce the tramways have proved, burgesses aio well satisfied to regard the loss on the year's working in tho light of a for a service they would not now willingly go without. There was a poor man up at Cairns, Who posseaed but n wife and twelve bairns, Whoso wheezing and sneezing was eo far from pleasing, That it gave lira some awfnl bad tarns. In tho nudet of his terrible plight, 'Midst the coughing and barnne at night, He found a friend enre in Woods' Peppermint ' That joo'n put hi* famly all right-Adft, 23 1