25 YEARS AGO

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 70, 15 December 1933, Page 10

25 YEARS AGO

Wanganui’s Electric Cars (From “The Dominion,” December 15, 1908.) ■Wanganui is revelling in unaccustomed electric cars. The service was inaugurated on Thursday last, and at present consists of a single track up the Avenue, round to„the racecourse, and out to Aramoho. At present there*are only four cars —two box and two combination —built on the Christchurch plan, with open ends and the box in the centre. The cars are' broader than those of Wellington, and quite comfortable.. The first accident occurred at Aramoho on Friday night, when a car ran. off the end of the line, (which is not marked by a light) and narrowly escaped being precipitated into the river. The passengers received a shock. The cars are being very well patronised. ' < ♦ » • Jlr. Taft, President-elect of the United States, will visit the Panama Canal in January, hoping by this means to counteract the effect of reports of a disaster to the Gatun dam. which many persons believe, though the reports ha\;e been officially denied. The Austrian Ambassador to Constantinople. the Jlarquis Pallavicini, has resumed direct communications with the Turkish Grand Vizier, Kismil Pasha. It is reported that Austria is willing to financially assist Turkey to construct the proposed railway through the Sanjak of Novibazar. • * * The Canterbury Women’s Institute, at a meeting held on Friday night, resolved to send a letter of sympathy to Jlrs. Pankhurst, one of the leaders of the suffragist movement in London, who was sentenced to a term of imprisonment for an offence arising out of a demonstration of protest against the withholding of women’s franchise. ■ It was also decided to forward a copy of the letter to Mrs, W. P. Reeves, a former member of the institute. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiii