LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXIII, Issue 11663, 18 June 1890, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Hon. J. Ballance and Mr George Hutchison, M.H.R.'s leave for Wellington to-day, in order to attend the opening of Parliament. The funeral of the late Mr Richard Kearse takes place to-morrow (Thursday) afternoon, at 3 o'clock, when the Oddfellows are requested to attend. A London cablegram of the 13th inst., I states that at the present time there are 200,000 carcases of New Zealand mutton in store. Captain Edwin wired yesterday afternoon at 4.15 p.m. as follows : North-west and south gale with much colder weather ; after six hours from now glass further rise ; and heavy sea. We notice that Messrs H. I. Jones and Sons have a few copies of Mrs Ellen Davis' book entitled " For so Little." Mr W. C. Watkins, who has accepted an appointment in the Colonial Mutual Association's office at Christchurch, leaves Wanganui on Saturday nest. Mr E. N. Lifßton holds a 'Sale to-day of furniture and poultry, at Mr Trimbles late sale rooms in the Avenue. At tho Police Court yesterday morning Leonard Quarry was charged with furious riding.. He pleaded guilty, but stated that he had been after a runaway beast which had escaped from a mob. His Worship considered it would be hard to say what a man ought to do under the circumstances and he would therefore dismiss the case with a caution. The following will represent the Parikino Native Football Club in their match with the Gordon's second team on Saturday at 3 o'clock sharp:— Nepia Tauri (captain), Henare Pumango, Harihari, Ngahika, H. Tauri, Hinana, Te Matara, Nepia Te Tana, Ngakiri, Teriwanga Utiku Kumeroa, Tahu, Mita, and Manu. A Maori haka will be performed after the match. Messrs Crichton and Newman having removed to their new preihises next door to Mr Peter Bell's, intend holding a monster clearing sale of boots and shoes in order to make room for largo shipments, which are expected every day. It is needless to say that this firm possesses a splendid stock of first class goods. The death is announced of Dr Greenwood, a very old and much respected Nelson settler, who died at Motueka on Sunday, at the ripe old age of 87. The deceased was at one time Sergeant-at-Arms, and leaves several sons to mourn his loss, among whom is our respected townsman Mr J. Greenwood, who has our sincere sympathy in his bereavement. A sudden death occurred at Aramoho yesterday morning shortly after midnight, when a Mr Gurr, slaughterman, dipdjghortly after retiring to rest. The decSHcd had been ailing for some time paßt, but retired to bed in hia usual state of health on Monday night. Information was at once givon to the police, but as Dr. Innes has certified to having attended' him for some time past for heart disease, an inquest is not considered necessary. Dr Grace has replied to the Trades and. Labour Council re the Tramway to the effect that the Company have carried out in good faith the recommendations agreed upon at the conference on the 31st of May, and holds the Council to that understanding which he states was deliberately entered into and fully published. The undertaking in question was that the Company were to have three months to improve traffic, before being called on to make increases to the emoluments of the employes. The company he adds will he quite willing t« improve the position and emoluments of employes at the expiration of three months or sooner if tho traffic warrants it. The council considered the matter last night. Agreeable to numerous solicitations Mr Geo. C. Milne will prodace during his season here, Shakespeare's greathistorical play " Julius Ceasar," in which he will impersonate Mark Antony. In this character Mr Milne has scope for all those sublime touches of oratory, for which he is especially noted, and the support accorded him by the members of his company has been pronounced as of exceptional merit. This production will take tho place of " Othello," which was dated for the second night of the season. Mr Milne made a very great hit in Wellington on Monday, in his impersonation of " Bertuccio," in Torn Taylor's charming drama "A Fool's Revenge," all his versaj tilities as an actor being allowed full play. > We (N.Z. Times) learn that Captain P. J. Barlow, the popular commander of the B.M.S, Taimvi, ha a resigned that position in order to take up a post under the Trinity Board [of London. He will be stationed at Dover, at a salary of .£IOOO a year. The corporation of the Trinity House or Board of Trinity have the control of the lighthouses on the English coast. This Board was incorporated by Henry VIII. in 1514, for the promotion of commerce and navigation by licensing and regulating the pilots, and ordering and erecting beacons, lighthouses, buoys, &o. The Board is governed by 31 elder brothers, of whom one is master, four wardens, and eight assistants; but the inferior members of the fraternity, named younger brethren, are not limited in point of number, every master or mate expert in navigation being admissible as such. At the conference on Monday between the Executive of the Amalgamated Railway Servants' Society and the" Railway Commissioners, the president referred to the popular impression. that the delegates would be marked, but they relied on the honour of the Commissioners. After a lengthy discussion, the Commissioners agreeJ to receive complaints from employes which might be made through the channel of the executive deputation. This was all they asked on this point, and they thanked the Commissioners for their decision. Tho question of boy labour was then gone into, affd the deputation pointed out that the nwnber of cadets taken on was greatly in excess of the vacancies, and in the mechanical department lads were not taught their trades, and in many cases as soon as the boy finished his apprenticeship ho was dismissed. The Commissioners promised to take tho whole question into consideration, and give the executive a reply in writing. They also agreed that, where possible, the shunters employed should be over 21 years. In the case of Robert Higgie v. J. C. Morgan and another, theK.M. gave judgment yesterday morning. With respect to the non-suit point raised he held that the defendants were the stakeholders. The main point was as to whether the •question at issue was one involving interpretation of rules. The race was advertised as one for Maiden horses -'that have never won an an advertised race," which amounted to a definition by the the Turakina Club. Rule 2 said the rules of the W.J.C. would be strictly adhered to, and Rule 4 of the W.J.O, defined a Maiden. It appeared to him that the Turakina Club had made a rule at variance with tho W.J.C. rules, and they had to decide whether the Turakiua Jockey Club rules clashed with those of the Wanganui Jockey Club, and if so, which was to prevail. He did not think it necessary for him to go further and say whether in his opinion the Metropolitan Club was right or wrong in its decision. Rnle 131 said their decision was to be absolutely final, and ho would leave their decision as it stood. Judgment for plaintiff with costs 445, and solicitor's fee 2ls. Two or three years ago, says the Sporting News, a globe-trotting nobleman, the Earl of Dalhousie, came to visit New Zealand. The Government put him, as it does most extinguished strangers, in charge of competent bear leaders in different parts of the colony, and he was taken round and shown things. In the district. of Otago his bear leader was a Mr Brydone, a leading citizen in all matters of farm work, a shining light in stud sheep, prize cattle, or thoroughbred horses. Mr Brydone naturally desired to show Lord Dalhousio one of our finest farirs, and for the purpose telegraphed to Mr Menlove, a famous stockbreeder, that on a certain day he would visit his place with the Earl of Dalhousio. Menlove happened to be away. Mrs Menlove opened the telegram, and in the inno* cence of her heart, knowing that prize bulls are often twenty-fourth Earl of This or sixteenth Duke of tho Other, instead of sending a carriage to the station for two distinguished guests, thought it best to send down a man with a rope and a ring. Tableau at the station — " Please, sur, I be here ; where be the bull?"

Messrs Kerr and Harkness, M.H.R.'s, leave Nelson for Wellington to-day. An Auokland ■wire states that Mr Samuel Jagger, the well-known brewer, died yesterday. A branch of the Postal and Telegraph Officers' Society has been formed at Timaru. We hear rumours that Hie local milkmen intend to reduce the price of milk to 3d per quart next month. Mr James Gray, farmer, at Eyretown (Christchurch), who was thrown from his horse on Saturday, died yesterday from concussion of the spine. The sale by auction of the stock in trade of T. J. Nicholls, tobacconist, was held yesterday by Mr E. N. Liffiton. There was a large attendance of buyers but the prices realized were not high. The examination for the Wanganui Scholarships takes place next Tuesday, at the Wanganui Boys' School. There are 36 candidates entered for: this examination in Wanganui, besides 40 for pupil teacherships. At Palmerston North thero will be 8 scholarships candidatesjand 8 pupil teachers. Mr Crichton, tobacconist, has taken the premises just vacated by Mr T. J. Nicholls, and intends to remove his business there in a few days. The Btand is about the best in the town and should greatly add to the already flourishing business of Mr Crichton's. A Press Association telegram from Nelson says :— The Eer. Isitt's lecture on the American War last night was a splendid success. The lecturer is considered equal to Charles Clark, by one of the largest audiences ever seen in the tieatre. The Bishop of Nelson proposed a vote thanks. _ A good story is told of Emperor William apropos of the Labour Conference. A manufacturer remonstrated with him on the ground that it wasan undue interference with freedom of commerce. " Strange," said the Emporor, " that you did not think free commerce interfered ■with when I sent two regiments of soldiers to pnt down the strikers. However, Ido not mean to seethe working men stretched any longer on the dissecting tabje of the employer." We are informed that the. Draughts match (8 men aside) between the Oddfellows and Druids takes place on Friday night, in the Oddfellows 1 Club room. Players are requested to be in attendance as soon after 7 o'clock as convenient. The Druids team will be chosen from the following players : — Messrs R. A. Campbell, J. Anderson, A. Moseley, J. Laird, P. Anderson, Robson, J. W. Brown, C. Brown, Bruyere, and Kreuse. Mr John Cameron Macdonald, of Waddon, Croydon, the late manager of The Times, who diod on the 10th December last, assigned his estate in New Zealand to Mr John Piercy, of Kaiwhaike, Wanganui, and devised and bequeathed from the period of his death all the residue of his property to Mjss Emma Piercy, of Waddon, whom he appointed sole executrix, and by whom the value of his personal estate has been sworn at *54705. At a well attended meeting of the Poultry and Dog Association , held last evening, there nere present Messrs Spriggens, Jensen, Russell, Sinclair, C. Poynter, Greener, Donald and Buekrell. The association hope to gain the services of one of the best judges for poultry in the colony. A committee consisting of Messrs Poynter and Donald was appointed to arrange about printing catalogues. Several other matters were also discussed and the meeting adjourned. Amongst Saturday's arrivals in port was H.I.M.S. Sporber, a vessel of the gunboat class, which ia bound for the German Pacific station. The Sperb'er is a twin screw vessel of 1120 tons, and has a crew of 113 men under the command of Captain Foss. The visitor is rigged as a three-masted schooner. She mounts eight Krupp guns, and li fitted with a ram stein. The Sperber is on her first ! voyage, and looks a smart vessel, and has made fairly good time from Zanzibar, which poit she left on the 22nd April, I calling in at Port Louis en route. — The Age. The Liverpool Journal of Commerce says: — It is. stated that a brine Bpring has been discovered in the cutting of the Manchester Ship canal near Partington. The water from the spring is being tested in order to ascertain its strength and the probable richness of the assumed salt beds. If the result is satisfactory, boring will no doubt be resorted to. Should it be proved that rich deposits of salt underlie the company's property, the importance of the discovery to the company, not only as regards the development of a salt industry, but also with r respect to traffic on the canal, is manifest. The invitations issued by the Johnson Bros, attracted a largo assemblage to the Oddfellows' Hall last night, The verdict at the end of entertainment was a very flattering one. The fi rst portion consisted of a very clever exhibition of legerdemain, all thetricks being very cleanly manipulated. The second "act" consisted of trapeze business and slack wire walking,and in this department the brothers showed themselves perfect masters of the athletic art. The various performances were given in a most finished manner and desplayed the'most wonderful agility combined with complete familiarity with the trapeze business. The whole performance was interspersed by "funnyisms " by the clown, and concluded with a most laughable farce. Tho entertainment sheuld result in Messrs Johnson Bros, receiving plenty of support. We are glad to hear that the financial result of this very excellent performance was a net amn of .£l7 12s 3d. In all probility Messrs Johnson Bros, will repeat their complimentary performance in a few days, to enable those who' were not present last night to avail themselves of the opportunity of witnessing it.