NOTES FROM WANOANUI.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 750, 24 February 1910, Page 8

NOTES FROM WANOANUI.

A SHIPPING ANNIVBRSABT.

(By Telezraph:—Srecial Oorrosoondent.)

~. ~ Wanganui, February-23.- : 'Many' defence; cadets, l«fVfor,-Woliing; tonto-day,' travelling in company with- a large' number '- of Taranaki school cadets also on the . way '• to' the Kitchener 'camp. -. A .Maorr- nian named'Paku arid' Hera, liis.'ivife, who it' is, ( allegedhave ' been practising ■ tohungas'.'ih \various' parts of - the .North .Island" foiv a ,'cohsiderable, time, .were- charged, in the.-Magistrate's Court;to-day with tohungaisin. The'evidence for the' prosecution: was to: the: ef-: feet' that' acoused 1 had professed ' to'-' cure •the sick .by,supernatural ':power, and that he had been keeping a''.' niuhber',of■ sick" Maoris in his- house at CastlecliC The' he'anng occupi^-;'all-rthe-afterhpon.' and; the', cf-so was eventually adjourned j till Saturday, • when the,',; defehoe ; • will ."be. heard:-I"-The.'first anniversaiy of the-tnaugura.-,tioh ; of the Wanganui-Wellingtoh service of the Patea Shipping Company was celo-' iterated by, a'social gath'ering' ; .of local. business men,' •at *.'the" r invitationof. .'Messrs.. ;Renner ' and'' Bennett; . : direC- • tors. • The speeches .were, mostly.' on mor-' oantilo 'matters' connected with/Wanga-, riui; air the -speakers testifying to -.- the -great' improvement ' which : the .Harbour. Board had'effected in the navigation of the port. .