LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 11545, 28 July 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The old blockhouse is rapidly disappearing from view, the work of demolition being in active progress. The Artillery Cadets will parade to-night, when a large attendance is requested. Yesterday, at the Police Court, before the R.M., E H. M. Symonds, of Palmerston, contractor, was oharged on the information of Whitworth Eucsell with forging a signature to a feed to H. W. Hole, and obtaining £3 by false pretences. Mr Marshall appeared for the prosecution and Mr Betts for the defence. Mr Marshall applied for an adjournment until Wednesday, as witnesses had to be brought from Patea and Wellington. Mr Betts said the prisoner had been brought from Palmerston, and the witnesses in his favour would be present in half ay hour. He had a substantial defence, and wished to establish his innocence at once It was not possible for him, as a strangei here, to find bail, and it was not fair thai he should be locked up for thnt time. .Q< thought if the eaae ware adjourned defendant should be liberated on his own recog nizances. The case was adjourned unti Wednesday, defendant to be allowed bail himself in £50 and two sureties of £2! aaoh. There is a spark of patriotism apparently left in one of the members of the presen Government. The Hon. Mr Richardsoi stated, when speaking at Rangiora, that hi waß quite aware that Minister*' salariei would have to be reduced, but said tha their expenses could not be cut down. Mr D. Kitchep was yesterday nominatec for the vacancy in Queen's Ward, on th' proposition of Mr Peter Bell, seconded ty Mr R. Ross. There were no other nomina tions. The meeting of the Mangawhero Roac Board wbb held yesterday. PresentMessrs Lees (in the chair), Parker, anc McPheraon. The minutes of the previoui meeting were read and confirmed. A lettei was received from the Wanganui Count] Oouncil, forwarding a resolution respecting the balance of subsidy, go the effect that thi amount was divided in proportion to th( sums spent within the special rating dis< tricts in that road district, as follows J—tr the Wanganui-Murimotu £1690, and th< No. 2 Extension Line £480 ; held over unti next meeting. The clerk ; was instructed tc write to the Ueunty Council for Orown anc native rates, and for a share of the 1886*89 subsidy, now held by the council. It waf moved by Mr Parker, and seconded by Mi McPherson, That the clerk be instructed to order tenders occording to the engineer's specifications for quantities required for th« bridge across the Matatara, the wood to bt heart of totara ; carried. The chairman reported, with reference to the 20 chains of road formation above the Huni Pari Oreekj that the work had not been proceeded withj on account of the weather bsing too bad. A special meeting of the Wanganui County Council was held yesterday, for the purpose of notifying the intention of the council to make a rate of id in the £. There were present — Messrs Poleoa, D. Blyth, McGregor, and J. Blyth. It was moved by the chairman, and seconded by Mr Blyth, "That notio9 be given that it is their intention, at a special meeting to be held on Saturday at 2 p.m., to make a rate of three-farthings in the pound on all rateable property within the county, for one year, commencing Ist April, 1889, and that the same.be payable in one sum on the 24th August, and the rate book be open for inspection." — Carried. It was moved by the chairman, and seconded by Mr MoGregor, ." That the Returning Officer be instructed to hold the necessary elections under Section 93 of 'The Counties Act, 1886.' "—Agreed to. On the motion of the chairman, seconded by Mr McGregor, the places were fixed at which the different elactoral rolls are to be deposited at Upper Wangaehu, Mangawhero, Mateongaonga, Kaukatea, Purua, and Kaitoki ridings. This is how they treat Ministers who "run a muck " with the publio funds in the Hawaiian country :— On the advice ot the ■ new Ministers, Premier Gibson and his son in-law (Hr Hazelton), who had been confine! to the Premier's house under military surveillance, were arrested and put in gaol the day ' Defers the "fceamer left. They were brought up on a charge of squandering public money, and remanded. ; The following is the letter from Mr Buxton, general manager of the Wanganui railway J^ection. to Messrs Allen and Bur» nett, the Exhibition secretaries, to which we alluded yesterday -.—Gentlemen,— l beg to acknowledge receipt of your favour of date, conveying to the officers of this department the thanks of the Exhibition Committee. Permit me on behalf of the railway staff to assure you of our grateful appreciation of the kind feeling which prompted this vote of the committee. We are gratified to find that the inducements offered to exhibitors and visitors have met with the approval of the committee, and we must express our pleasure to think that we have in any way contributed to the splendid succeaa of the Exhibition. I feel that I should be wanting in courtesy were I to omit to acknowledge the cordial manner in which the chairman alluded to the Railway Department in his speech on the dosing night The name of the cadet appointed at the Sanson School is J. W. Trewin, not J. A. Sanson, as it was erroneously given ia our report of the Education Board yesterday. A private letter from a gentleman in Auckland -who takes a keen and active interoßt ia matters political, states that the chances are strongly against the Government carrying a single seat in that city. Bryce notifies in our advertising columno the dates of his political meetings throughout the district. Mr Morgan inserts a similar notification. Good Tern plats ond others interested in the temperance cauae may expect to have a very pleasant reunion in . the Wesleyan Schoolroom to-night, on the occasion of the tea meeting and entertainment to be held in connection with the Southern Star Lodge. The Fevlding Star records the faot that a drunken man was se«n in Manchester street on Monday, being the fi.-st for several months. The Feilding Star says :— As an instance of the remarkable cheapneßß of Chinese labour, we note that in Chinese courts of justice witnesses can be hired at sixpence a« pieoe to testify on either aide of the quest ion al issue, or on both sides for ninepence. This is a wrinkle for local talent. Two football matches were played yesterday on the Collegiate ground. The first was between the High School first fifteen and the Collegiate school third fifteen. This match resulted in a draw,neither side Bcoring. At the beginning of the second Bpell, D. Bell, the school quarter«back,.got a nasty kick in the forehead, which prevented him playing any further. The next match was oetween tho High School third fifteen and the Collegiate fifth fifteen. In thia match the High dchoul were victorious. W. Lind obtained a try, which Doran converted into a g'ak Thus thay won by a goal to nil.

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