NEWS ITEMS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 157, 19 June 1911, Page 3

NEWS ITEMS.

Of fifty pigs which were recently slaughtered at the Wanganui freezing works, only thirteen were suitable for export. The remainder were more or less affected with tuberculosis. %

Theatregoers will be delighted to read that George Marlow’s brilliant dramatic company, which has just concluded enormously successful seasons in Auckland, Wellington, Dunedin, and Christchurch, will make their appearance in the Princess Theatre, Hastings,* on Friday and Saturday, July 7th and Bth, when that phenomenally successful play “The Bad Girl of the Family” will be produced, also “His Real Wife,’ ’particulars of which will appear in later issues. The Company consists of 38 artists. With thee discovery of the North Pole by Commander Peary most people lost all interest in the exploration of North Polar regions, but there is much work yet to be done in the Arctic more important than Pole-findmg. Early in 1909 Captain Kikkelsen went into the Polar basin to carry out investigations in the neighbourhood of the Beaufort Sea, and as he has not returned it is proposed to send search expeditions to the north coast of Greenland, where it is thought he is waiting a relief vessel. It is known that his own vessel was wrecked last year while he nad a member of the expedition were exploring inland, and it is thus impossible for him to return until help arrives. A great deal of public curiosity was aroused by a harem skirt wedding at St. John’s Church, Invercargill, on Wednesday (says our correspondent), more than usual interest being taken in the eternal question of “What the bride wore.” There is little doubt that more attention was paid to the attire of the ladies than to the ceremony, which was solemnised by Archdeacon Stocker. Afterwards the bridal party was driven to a studio, where a photograph of the whole outfit was taken. A crowd of people (mostly men )thronged in the vicinity to see the party, but the bride and bridesmaids had in the meantime donned ordinary skirts, and their journey from the protographer’s door to the waiting carriage was greeted by a gasp of disappointment.