DAILY NOTES FROM WANGANUI.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 701, 29 December 1909, Page 9

DAILY NOTES FROM WANGANUI.

r- i/y'- '."'.•'.-•> ; -' i'A ■* December i $01%:. ■S'-Tho vWellingtonV "Navalsishodting /'team,' •which/came :up;here fora matchwitli tha ,'Tnsh'v Rifles,' met ,m th/i disappointment, ais' i the -.weather•■■ion' i Christmas! Day .;was ~siich ■ .as' -'iqi ..make 'V'sho^tinff-;'{ : N"' of i;>,tii6 i- ; i cjuetfj 'i'. The ; following -story i'iS' told',by■-brio ">, of i'tho;local.:paporsV.v'A:';settler;;onM joining'ah' uncompleted gap :ori;,.tha.Kauarapb'arbad/; which obm'es but'bn'the,\Va--■:-Hon i-bf.-invitinglthb,- Hon.;R.- ilt'Konzie,'" ' Mihistor"' for': Roads,- o/' : visit '•: The. the //plucky; ;t)'usli'-pioncbfsV', which : ",th'e''..Gbyeriiment|3 lieart'is'saidltb!Weed for/,.;;He';(B'how,' ills', says, alrSbs't'at" the :.ehd .of ;his ;fiha'ni ,'cial tether, r but.-chis-idntlbbkiiwould;;ba : , ''considerably: ; better?;, if'.'the i'■ Government' ..wero-itbVßhi'ffc" 'and give himi'ft'rbad."' -If.they,do not,;he iwill;havo 'tbiitrafel'-.twenty-one.-milesvto. "get-but of 'his•selection' when lie quits' it;. • as' ; ''ho ':litis had ('to', do;'for,' a .long;timc;; ThcreYarb others iiiithe samo.distnot ,whb :hr'o f inV; ! mucK=:ivifhe "is'ameixi predicament. '. ; Ab'out',;ilOOO;:wbuld. bridge?the:gap, and his"s-'otject;,in-.;' tb' : invito the. -MinisCer■ isj'ta'iptiirlt.but .this;'ttnd a. for .pthbriliiitoestilig,, things .to him.'', ; ■;.,. ' ii I( iis fstatedi here • that ; 'Hagney '• is'", very, 'disappointed -ii iWebb ref using; to' siVb a 'definite; answ&rYto his. till tho Watiganui-/Handicap 'isVavbr.- .;. Ho says :triat -ho'.'himself: Jhns': no::raorb chnnar 'than ,'AVebb"'has;.to 'find "out how ho is ■going ! td ; Tow; next: week, 'and, if Wabb will 'riot accept : now, the.challenge is, off. In ,thb meantime;: ho is.prepared' to row Whelbh :for f£!M a<side. ,at. Wangaiiiii br Foxton;: and a challenge to that effect was 'sent' to tho .Akafoa; oarsman" to-day, and-a prompt reply iwas received;.'• offering to 1 Monday, provided " that ■ Arnst- does., not ■ accept 'Wlielch's.'FresohtVchallenKe'. Hasneydoes liqt '■■ seem ■ willing .to ,'agrca td Akatoa as . .'the"scend''bf the race/ though' he-is .vriiU ihigitb.give:iWholch'tho pick of the other ,'■■ ,\-;ry : -[