LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 11758, 12 April 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

— /- ♦ — .. . _■.'■■ - There' wrb a' clean sheet at tho Police Court yesterday. Mr B. N. Xiffiton, auotioneer, reports holding a successful tale of furniture Testers .day at the Institute, when good prioes were ob'ained. Mr Notman received a telegram ye3terd&y from Miss Amy Sherwin's manager stating that Miss Sherwin would play bere two nights next week. . Monday and Tuesday next will most likely be the dates fixed apon. Mr D&lbedyhll, whose wife is the plain' tiff in tho libel action , referred to in our Dunedin telegrams, was formerly sooountant in the Bank of New South Wales, Wanganui. "■ " Ufaay old settlers will be pleased to hear th. .t the clemency of the Governor has beep ez'endedto J. M. McDonald, of the Wai« ga'ehu, after 17 years' incarceration. McDonald is now old and enfeebled, and no good objeofc would have been served by compelling him to end his days in prison. The joint-Committee of Borough Council and Wanganui County Council met yesterday to consider the question of improving tha approach to the Bridge from tho Avenue. After considerable) discussion it was decided to . remove the whole of the present planking in the approaob, and to replace it with clay sod gravel, the change being made on tbe score o£ durability, and of affording relief to horses. The programme for the Sherwin concert at Napier on Tuesday night contained the following items by Miss Amy Shorwin : - "The Swiss Echo Bong," . "To Hear the Gentle liark," with flute ' rbligato, and a part in the quartette "Spinning Wheel." The Company open here on Monday night next. The Hawke'i Bay Herald says that Napier bears the oharaeter of the musical town par excellence. ' We have been requested to correct an errar whioii j appeared <.in last evening's Herald with reference to the hour fixed for the funeral of the late Mr John Turner Barr. The funeral will start at 3 o'clock this afternoon, from the residence of deceased's father, ia Wilsons treat. The Committee who are ohargeablo with the arrangements for tbe Library tea on the 27th instant have unfortunately bean.unable to seoure the eerviops of Mies Bllei^ Atkins fov the concert. That lady writes .from Feilding that «he bas'aooeptod an engagement in MiBS Amy Sherwin's' Opera 04mpany, and leavss Wellington for Melbourne on the 16th instant. A meating of the Bryce Presentation Fund Committee was held, by permission of MesßM J;.ckßon and Co , as their salerooms in Wanganui yejter4ay, when a resolution was passed that the fund be devoted to the purchase of a private library for Mr Bryce. The intention to boy land was abandoned, for a variety of reasons, one being that a number of sabaoribers, in oarreapon-lonce with the hon. s«c, bad intimated iheir de^ sire that Mr Bryoa's own wishes on the subject should be considered, and that theae were in the direction of the purchase of books rather than land or Government eoourities, as proposed. This was definitely ascertained upon inquiry, and the above refolutiou was the result. Subscribers will be communicated with upon the subject. After some subscriptions had been paid in,' the Committte adjourned till that day foit-. night. A new Stata School jusfc erected in Auckland is built on the otugonal vine ;>! •. A newly.rich womau, being aßkud bow the liked her now houae, replUd with an air of extreme delight: "I like it very muck; it is so cantigious and hinhly adjicent." ° A petition in favour of retrenchment will Bhoitly ho pre-ented to tbe Auckland City Council. It is signsd in red mV, eutf.lsmittio of the bloDd drawn from the unhappy ratspayers. A Parliamentary Union has been formed at Tiirakino, with Mr Franbljn Governor and the Eev Mr Rosa Speaker. Mr Aitbury iits b:on ingtiucted to form a Ministry. Mr J. G. Scott, cf Bulls, who ia Veil in' Wanganui, is about to remove to Pal» mergton.

Mr J. H,. Keesing will submit a large and varied consignment of fruit to auction at bis Mart this afternoon ; to be cold without reserve. He trill alto offer a quantity of superfine tea to public competition, the sale commencing at 2 o'clock. Members of tho Bilwinniog Lidee are reminded that the usual meeting will take place at the Freemasons' Hall at 7.30 this c veiling. Wanganui footballers play a match with Palmerston at the latter place on the 28th instant. The praes in other parts of the colony have a good deal to ray about oomo petition that they suppone <s to be presented to the Mayor of Wangmui to proclaim a holiday on tho occasion of the approaching glove fight. So far as we mow, tho whole thtDg is a canard.- Wo have not yet met with anybody who has even seen the petition. A humane traveller lately ate up tho whole of the provisions at a railway refreshment room, and ns he walked away ho triumphantly exclaimed, " Now, at all events, tha next man that comei will get ! something fresh !" Mr ff. Wi Woon, sheriff, has drawn the follow juJori for service at the criminal sittings of tns District Court, to be held at Pa'merston Worth on Wednesday, Apri. 25th: -Thomas JVaeer, Awahuri; J. 0, Beicbjter, Falmerston ; Thomas Sherwin) Kairanga; B. W. Stallard, Awapuni; G. Richardson, Bsngifcikei j O. M, Bogs, Palmeraton; D. I>. Walker, Bangitikei ; J. Newman, Building ; Hoary Galloway, Kairanga ; Alfred Partridge, Palmerston ; Ihomss HowfOD, Lees' Line ; William Hunter, Palmerston ; E, J, Cotterell, Feilding ; Ben Manaon, Palmerston ; John Brid, Stoney Greek; EzraEreriss, Sandonj J, B. Pringle, Taonui Boad ; Thomas Gore, Carnarvon j B. W Bobert", Stoney Greek ; William Moore, Palmereton ; William Enid, Palmerston; Henry Stewart,,Awaburi; Jaroes Cbokburn, Carnarvon ; Charles Grace; Sandon ; William McMillac, Awa« httri ; Henry Gardiner, Bandon j B, P, Jjinton, Feilding j Henry Waldegrave, Awapuni j -George Beßttio, Balmerßton; Jokn Pawson, senior, Foilding • Georga Dew, Carnarvon ; J<t'> es Norman, Ifeilding; Alexander Farmer, Aorangi ; Henry Sanson, Saodon ; Henry Holmes, Feilding ; Ben Gosling, junior, Feilding; Henry Burrell,' Kombolton Boad ; William Summon. , Feilding ; James Mill«r, Palmerston ; B. J, H. Leigh, Palmeraton. la acknowledging the receipt of a resolution in favour of a retaliatory tariff passed at a recent fair trade meeting in Birmingham, Mr Bright writes : — You may com« plain of hostile foreign tariffs, which lessen our trade to the nations which impose them. We oannol sell as freely.j as we wish to do, and your remedy is to oreate a tariff here, that we may be unable to buy freely. You say, if we are not permitted to sell freely, let us deny ourselves the right to buy freely. Apparently you think one mischief or diaadvantage would be remedied by adding another to it. Is this the policy of men who can roafon or of men who dream ? The following terrible death of a woman is recorded by the Dunsfaa Times as heting occurred in that district last Sunday week : — Bttween 1 and 2 o'clock in the afternoon 'a small cottage, which was occupied by Mrs Hannon, was .observed to. be on fire. A man named Thompson, who was first on the scene, not observing Mrs Sannon about, made a plucky attempt ti reicue her. Entering the honsD he found the unfortu" nato woman, with her olothss in flames, leaning against the parlour table. He en» deavourad to entinguish the flames,. but he had arrived too latt, and all her clothing was completely destroyed, nothing borag left but her stays. Before he was able to carry her outside, life was extinct, Thompson was severely burned about the hands, and had to go into the Clyde Hospital, It i§ supposed that the dress of tho deceased, who is abont 60 years of age, caught fire while she was . working about the stove. This (adds the Times) is the third fatality on three consecutive Sundays— the others being the death of Mrs Adams, who is sup* posed to Have been smothered by the dust of the road, on- which' she fell' in a fit, find the death of James Stratham by foul air in a coalpit. ' Lady Scratohley, willow of the former ' Commissioner of New Guinea, is one of the lucky ones at Broken Hill. Hor brother, Mr Brown, invested £140 op her acoount, and has just, it is stated, sent her £16,0C0 as a result of the speculation. Mr B. 0. Bruce, M.H.B. for Bangitikei, has received the following letter from Mr Hannay, Assistant General Manager for Bail ways :— ln reply to your note of the 2lßt ulfc, I now beg to inform you that I find tho Hunterville line will not be "ready for traffic until early next month, when, immediately it is handed over to us, arrangements .will be made to run a train twice a week. From a private letter from England by last mail we (Grey Biver Argus) learn that Mr Brodie Hoar*, one of the direotors of the Midland Bailway Co, is still travelling through the provinces lecturing upon his .experiences in this Colony. When the last mail left he was at Tunbrideo Wellß. He ia very eloquent on the natural beauties of New Zealand, its equable climate, prolifio soil, varied produots, and many natural ad« vantages. He spares' no paias to convince the people of England that there is no part of the world which is calculated to be a more healthy and agreeable plaoa of residence for natives of Great Britain. But he gives the oik* to Taranaki aud Hawke'a Bay. In his eyes theso are the gardens of the Colony, the fancy spots.- but as he scarcely had time to 806 the whole of the Colony, he: probably knflns nothing much of the Waikato or the Waimate Waine, and other, parts of the North Island of almost equal beauty and fertility. The Colony is much, indebted to Mr Hoare for his able efforts to induce immigration to our shore?. His lectures are calculated to ma^e a lively impression upon the' class of people we are moat desirous of seeing come to the colony — those accustomed to live out of the soil, but who, being no longer able to do ss in a manner satisfactory to themselves owing to the killing competition of American products, would gladly come to a Colony with a much more agreeable climate and a bftter prospect of rewarding them for their labour. IS ia to] be hoped that Mr Hoare's lectures may be as effective as they deierve to he. If the' colony is a .little depressed at present, there is evidence ] that things will improve shortly. All the Wellington papers hive highly complimentary notices of ths strides made by the firm of Baker Broß, one young member of which conducted the successful sale of properties in the estate of a late Mr John Johnston last week. The Press says : — We notice that Messrs Baker Bros., the welliknown and highly-esteemed firm of Wellington . estate and finanoial agenca, have now added auctioneering to their previously extensive business. The steady and prosperous growth of this Srm ha* almoafc been phenomenal. In 1878 Mr 0. A. Baker started operations by opening , an i office for debt collecting, &o. Business gradually but surely inoreased, and other branohe3 and agencies were added to it' mceasitatintf the taking into the firm of Messra Jas. Baker, Horace Baker and W. Ward Baker, and, from a single apartment in the Star Chambers, the operations de» veloped until now they require a complete suite of officos in that building. More recently, Messrs Baker Bros found itneceesarv »r e * tobllßh a London agency, and there Mr Frederick Lavkins, late partner in the firm of Win Mc-Ar!hur and Co.. acts for them. Lattronwe understand, they con. template opening btanohea in the four centres of Hew Zealand, and then it ia expected that a fifth brother, now at collepe will j>ih i them. The firm's fiwt auction sale in Wellington will, -we are informed, be one of the largost erer hold there-, and it is their intention to dioposa of in this way properties only, and not at any time to auotion furuitura or mwshindise. We wish Messrs Baker Bros, the every succsb which tbeir undoubtedly suporior bußiness qualifications entitle them to. In view of (lie uncertainty which attaches to the continuance of the Volunteer movement, we would sirongly recommend members of the various corps to avail themselves of the pre:ent opportunity oE being photographed in u-irorm. ilr Kania, of th e •v»«u> o, h.ss made special preparations for to Ei-s'er EitJling, all photographs being takou at holiday pxices.-mAdv^