WANGANUI.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIII, Issue 3017, 28 March 1867, Page 5

WANGANUI.

A requisition, signed by oyer 10,0 electors, has 1 been presented to H. S. Harrison, Etqi, requesting! that gentleman to come forward as a candidate for ' the representation of the district in the General As- (j sembly, and he has consented to, do so. Mn, Taylor l has resigned in Mr. Harrisons favour. ' ! Mr. Hutchinson, Editor of 'the (flironkle^ is also, ' it seems, likely to come forward. * , , i ' We"had one of the gales of wind.whiph \ have" been experienced here for many months, on Sunday and" Monday last; /AU through ' Snnday night and Monday morning .especially,- there was a perfect' hurricane, wrecking everything of a light and , loosely fastened character about houses and' homesteads. Gardens have suffered .deplorably, 1 and now look wretched in the light of the calm. 1 sunshine., It is seldom that the, punts dannot cross the river, but there was very ityjle traffic of this kind on the day? mentioned at the t lower ferry; more u 'ihblter Being obtainable at tiie, upper ferry, something waa'done there. The schooner ' Mary Thompson-, 1 ' at anchor in the river, dragged her anchor through the force of the gale, and drifted a considerable way up. If our bridge had been in position, either it or the ship would have come to grief — probably both, which might be accepted as a warning on the point of site. It is gratifying to say that no casualties of a serious kind, so far as ire know, have ocourred. — Wanganui Chronicle, March 20th.