LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXII, Issue 9232, 30 September 1880, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mail Notice. — Mails for the Australian Colonies, per Rotoinahana, close at tho Bluff at 11.30 a.m. on Friday, Ist October, Ordinary telegrams will be received at the Telegraph-office here till 9.30 a.m. on the l«t, and urgent telegrams till 10.30 a.m. same day. Returned. —Mr and Mrs Hutchison, and other of the Manawato passengers who were taken back to Wellington after the late accident, arrived in town last night by train, Obituaby.— Mu William Sedcole, a Wellington colonist of long standing, died oa Sunday last, at the ripe age of 92. He was formerly Chief Postmaster at Dover, in England. Cheap Buead. — Householders will be glad to learn that two more bakers, Mr Sain and Mrltiordan, hare lowered the price of bread, which in their establishments will, on and after the Ist of October, be 2id the 21bs loaf, and 5d the 41bs loaf. A Cowabdly Threat. — The Marquis of Waterford was warned not to attend a Royal Agricultural Society's Show. If he went, he would be shot for voting agiinsfc the Compensation Bill, Ho wns present, despite the threat.

A Low Tender. — The engineer's ( estimate for the long tunnel for tlie ] Wainuiomata waterworks, for the City '. Council of WeMngton, waa £3774. The < tenders sent in ranged from £4979 12a 1 down to £1982 13s Bd, which last was i accepted. 1 Prolific Stock. — Wo are informed ' that a ewe belonging to Mr Clinton of : Kaikokopu, dropped five lambs this '. season, and that seven ewes belonging to this gentleman gave seventeen lambs. On the same day that the five lambs ! were dropped one of Mr Clinton's cows dropped two calves. Cook's Gardens.— We notice that the Borough Council have caused a number of benches to be erected in this favourite place of resort, and hare also laid on the water at twp drinking stands. A little judicious planting of rapid-grow-ing trees would make Cook's Gardens a very beautiful spot. In other towns young children are not allowed access to parks and public gardens unless aocompan;ed by grown up persons in charge of them, and the restriction should be put in force here. Yesterday we noticed at least thirty very small boys and girls on various parts of the slopes. The few young trees already planted will inevitably suffer.