HAWERA SWIMMING SPORTS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 76412, 13 January 1903, Page 3

HAWERA SWIMMING SPORTS.

O?HE VENEZUELAN ARBITRATpB. R?peived 13, 9.45 a.m. .. NEW YOBK, January 12. ; Mr Bowen. American Minister >it Caracas, who will act as arbitrator for Venezuela, has started-for Waahv ington, Castro and hie colleagues farewelling him. = ■^

Entripa for the various, pvents a»e coming in fast'; the two Wanganui clubs, especially, are entering well for all the pvents. Given a fine day, there is ev«ry prosfecfc b{ ia gobd meetings 1$ Is the intention of fhe Committee to organise races among members of the Club during the summer evening's, «md to give trophies fpr junior races fo* boys trader 14, under 16, and a challenge cujp for r senior -memberß. . Bus should tend' to ) strengthen the interest in the art. Girls races will also be.run qn the same lines as thp boys^races.. "; "*•

An agricultural Jeremiad yrb-o i$ a member of the Levels Cotnrty Cpuncjl (Timftru district), last week exr pressed the opinion that " it was a mutter of two or three years Jttfore the would be debarred grain-gxowing by reason of the SL rvfagea of small birds." The only '* grain oi comfort in view of this sad prophecy is (says the Wellington Times) the reflection that similar lacubrious anticipation* have been ? niade *a% tim^ * oX ifr 9 D *^ years*