LOCAL AND GENERAL, On and after Wednesday evening next the new light at Jackson's Head will be shown. It is an alternating light, which will give three seconds light followed by three seconds darkness. The light will be 55ft above sea level. Two prisoners were brought before his Honour Mr. Justice Chapman this morning. Thos. Williams, alias Wilson, alias Roberts, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labour on an admitted charge of indecency committed at Wellington. Raniera te Hau was sentenced to eighteen months* imprisonment with hard labour for breaking and entering and thieving at Wairoa. Petone Recreation Ground is gay this afternoon with sports fixtures, including ladies' fancy costume hockey match, Rugby and Association football, drill, and tent-pitching by cadets, the programme having been arranged in aid of the ambulance wagon fund. Mr. VV. G. D. Evans is secretary of -the movement, and additional subscriptions in aid of the wagon fund would be welcomed by him. The Pechugin aeroplane is en exh ; bition this week in the premises lateJy occupied by Lyons's Restaurant, TViihsstreet. Its peculiar and original features I are readily recognisable — the aero-suction central tube ; the propellers revolving in : reverse directions, the flapping wings and the double tail. The flying machine generally has created a good deal of inter- ' cst, and its prospects have been widely discussed. The exhibition will only continue to-day. i Good progress is being made with the 1 erection of the Anglican Church at East- i bourne, in accordance with the design of 1 Mr. F. de J. Clere, and the contractor i (Mr. J. H. Nimmo) will probably com- ' plete his work early this month. The < walls have been built of cammerated ' concrete, a novel feature in church con- ! struction in this district. The building < is lined with oiled jarrah and the roof is * composed of asbestos slates. The church < has a spire. There is to be seating accommodation for 140 worshippers. * A big effoi-t will bo made to raise the | Anchor Shipping Company's steamer \ Koi, which capsized and sank near Nel- •, son on Wednesday afternoon. Yester- ] dny a diver and an assistant left for ] Nelson by tho Pateena in connection j with the salvage operations, and the ' company's steamer Nikau, which was to , have sailed yesterday for Wellington, is ] standing by to render assistance. She ( v. ill be joined to-day by the Kaitoa, which has been diverted from Wellington to Nelson, and the steamer Wavorley is £ also available at the scene of operations, i Probably the Koi will be drawn chore- ] wards. i
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 77, 2 April 1910, Page 4
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