LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXIII, Issue 11282, 1 June 1891, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

4^ Mr Henry Collier intimates that he has resumed the tuition of r the pianoforte and singing. The usual monthly meeting of the Wanganui Harbour Boardwill be held this afternoon, at the.pfflces'of the Board. Mr F. W. Ward, the late editor of the Sydney Daily Telegraph, is about to proceed to England. The Dobson-Kennedy Company give a performance at Fatea to-night, and at Hawera on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, The steamer Invercargill will leave Invercargill for Coal Island and Milford Sound on Thursday, June 11th. The mail will leave here on Saturday next at 4.15 p.m. We would remind members of the Waitotara County Council that the monthly meeting of that body will be held this morning at 11.30, at the office of Mr H. E. Dymock, Ridgway-street. The schooner Falcon, which arrived in port last Friday from Timaru, with a full load of "Atlas" flour for Messrs Hatrick and "Co., is at present engaged in discharging her cargo, and should get away about the end of the week. Mr T. H. Battle is the successful tenderer for the building to be erected on Taupo Quay, to consist of a capacious shop and dwelling house for Mr Herbert Townrend, plumber j tenders for which were invited for by Mr Pinches, who is the architect for the new structure. The Dobson-Kennedy Company intend playing here again on the 15th of June. The management think so highly of Miss M. Montgomery's comedy-drama, "The Snow Vision," that they are going to play |it in New Plymouth, and here on the 15th of June. The trustees of the Rifle Range have decided to close the butts from now up till about September next. During that time the prison gang will be employed in taking further steps to reclaim the sand. The result of their last efforts should be a sufficient guarantee of the improvement which, -will be effected at the butts during the time stated above. The work of staying the progress of the sand will be conducted under the supervision of Mr N. Beasley. Intimation has been received by the agents in the colony- of the safe arrival at Home of the s.s. Tekoa on Friday last. This is the steamer, it will be remembered, in which Mr J. C. Brechin, son of our respected townsman Mr Brecbin, of the firm of Hogg Bros, and Brechin, accepted a position in the engineering department, and his many friends in Wanganui will be pleased to learn of his safe arrival at Home. . A marriage, of which the contracting parties areboth well-known in Wanganui, is to be solemnised in Wellington on Thursday next, when Miss Samuels, who for some time past was employed as milliner at the establishment of Messrs Nicholas and Remington, will be united in the bondsof matrimony to Mr McAlley, of Turakina. We wish the young couple every prosperity in their wedded life. The next sittings of the Supreme Court to be held in Wanganui will be conducted early in October. There are already three cases of a somewhat grave nature set down for hearing ; they are Frederick Gibson for the larcency '(as a bailee) of a horse j Francis, Kenny, for arson ; and Harry Laing and William Noble, for larceny from the person. By tho time the Court sits the calendar may be considerably increased. The funeral of the late Mrs Franklin, which took place at Turakina yesterday afternoon, was largely attended by the settlers in and around that township, which showed the high esteem in which the deceased lady was held by them. All with whom she came in contact realised that Mrs Franklin was a woman possessed, of many.good qualities, and was especially charitably disposed. Her demise will be very keenly felt by_ the residents in the township of Turakina. The burial service was conducted by the Key. A. O. Williams, who went out specially for that purpose. The Rev. H. R. Dewsbury last eve Ding addressed a large congregation at the Trinity Wesleyan Church, taking for his subject a comparison between this world's provisions and those for the next, and by a masterly argument brought home to his hearers the vast importance of the latter, and the terrible uncertainty of the former. The reverened gentleman announced that next Sunday evening he would give the first of a course of Sunday evening lectures, and that the subject would be " Vision and Prostration," which would be followed the next Sabbath by one entitled " Vision and Power." We would remind the members of the Wanganui Musical and Literary Class that the second meeting of the society will be held this evening, in the Trinity Wesleyan Schoolroom. The item down on the syllabus is a lecture by the President (Rev. H. R. Dewsbury), which will be of an unusually interesting and original nature, taking as it does the form of an account ef a . trip across the most attractive portions of the Continent of Europe. The lecture will be rendered the more enjoyable by the rendition by members of the class of several national songs, which will be arranged as to be appropriate to the country being touched upon by the lecturer. Constable Crozier, the mounted constable of the local Police Force, has been actively engaged since Friday last in instituting a search for the body of the missing fisherman' " 'Busbridge, that of whose mate (Donald Gunn) was found on Tuesday last at the mouth of the Kaitoke stream. The poor fellows evidently made a hard struggle for life, as the body of Gunn, when found, was divested of all superfluous clothing, it being evidently his intention of swimming for it and his hands bore unmistakeable signs of clinging to a rope. It is not now considered at all likely that the body of the other man will be touud, as he may have been washed overboard before his mate when some distance out to sea. A well-known farmer in this district the other day sent a consignment of 36 sacks of potatoes to Wellington for sale thereby a local house. The weight of the potatoes amounted to 2J tons, which realised £2 5s per ton, making the gross proceeds of the consignment £& 3s 9d. Account sales were duly rendered to the consignor of the shipment. Under the heading of charges appeared the following items — commission and guarantee at 5 per cent, 6s Id ; wharfage, labour, receiving, delivery, and rent, say 6s per ton, 16s 2d ; steamer freight from Wanganui, £2 14s 6d ; cartage, 3s j and discount at 2i per cent., 3s Id ; making a total of £A 2s lOd ; thus leaving net procoeds, amounting to £2 0s lid, (for nearly 3 tons of potatoes) to' be received by the grower. Other expenses such as digging and carriage from field — some distance in this case — to the port of Wanganui have also to be deductedbefore tho amount which may be considered the net profits of the consignment, is arrived Jit. We should think that after such a case as that just referred to, it would be a sufficient reason to prohibit any future consignments of produce from this district finding their way into tho Wellington market.

The quarterly sittiners of the Supreme Court in Wellington commences this morning, before his Honor the Chief Justice. We learn that Mr E. Barns has disposed of his horse Kimberley to Mr S. H. Gollan, of Napier, at a satisfactory figure. A local in the Southland Times, referring to Mr Samuel Vaile, is headed, "That Pestilent Fellow." Lady Jersey is patron of the newlyformed University Women's Society. The membership is large. Messrs F. R. Jackson and Company will conducted a stock sale at their Waverley yards to-day. A large number of entries have been received for the sale. The Salvation Army have "opened fire " in Marton, and state they intend to go on holding meetings there till- Judgment Day. Marton is the 68fch station opened by the Army in New Zealand. At Oaraaru, a girl named Margaret Hannieran, while swinging on the school Bwing,"at the Totara School, fell off on her head and died almost, immediately. It is supposed her neck was broken. The North Auckland Cattle- Board have resolved to recommend that a tax of five guineas be levied on every stallion, subject to its having been certified to by a veterinary, surgeon as sound. A Press Association wire from Tt ellington states that at a meeting of the Committee of Priviliges of the Wesleyan Church, it v&3 unanimously decided that steps be taken to secure an Amending Act to the model deed of the church, so as to enable ministers to remain five years in a circuit instead of three, as is the law at present. • Says the Wellington correspondent of Auckland Herald— "l understand that the Judges who can't complete thY- business of their Courts before the close of the present month will have an extension of , time granted to them. Mr Puckey's Court is at Cambridge, Mr Trimble's at Otaki, and Mr Clendon's at Gisborne. Extension, I believe, will bo given to these Courts to clear oil their lists of cases. Mr Hamlin, in his evidence before the Native Land Laws Commission, mentioned a fact which may not be generally known. In two cases in the Hawke's Bay District the names of children yet unborn were inserted in the titles, and the ceremony of " naming the child " was therefore performed a little in advance of the usual occassion. The Feilding correspondent of the Marton Mercury has the following — Mr W. Noble, who for the past-eleven months or more has filled the position of cadet at the Feilding railway station, is to be removed to Wanganui, where, I understand, he will act as a clerk in the managerial office. During his stay in Feilding he has always shown himself a capable and courteous officer, and while regret will be felt at his removal he is to be congratulated on having received what is in tome 6ense a promotion. " Castor," the sporting contributor to the Canterbury Times, made bhe following prognostication for our Steeplechase meeting held last week j they can hardly be termed a success : — " Fleta seems to be the best treated of the horses in the Flying Handicap, and St. Malo should have very little difficulty in appropriating the Winter Oats Handicap. If the Egmont form can be accepted as reliable, Takapau has only to stand up to'win the Wanganui Steeplechase, but one or two of those who fell at Egmont may not agajn meet with accidents, and either Watorbury or Dangerous may be capable of bbating the Egmont Steeplechase winner. Christmas is about the best of those engaged in the Trial Steeplechase; Hiamoe should win the Hack Race, and Dangerous and Rata will probably fight out the finish in the Hunters' Steeplechase. ■ It .is important that all the delegates to the' Wanganui Rugby Union should be present at the meeting of club delegates to be held at Chavanne's Hotel on Friday evening next, as in all likelihood two rather important matters will be decided upon. The one is the protest which has been entered by the Tuiakina club against the second try obtained by the Kaieraus on Saturday last, which was awarded by the referee, for a breach of a new rule (just adopted by the Union), which prohibits every member of a team other than those -who joined in from the first taking part in a maul. The contention of the Turakina Club, which seems a perfectly fair one, is that the secretary of the Uaion should intimate in writing to the secretaries of every club affiliated to the Union such changes in the rules which the Union may from time to time decide to adopt. The other matter to, be discussed at the meeting is, perhaps, more serious, as it is to consider a case of one player striking another in the Junior Cup match on Saturday afternoon, between the second fifteen of the Kaieraus and the second of the Wanganui. Several gentlemen saw the occurrence, and they state that the affair was most deliberate, and in all likelihood the offender will be made an example of by the Union. Messrs A. Hatrick and Co.'s barquentine St. Kilda, Captain Robertson, arrived safely at this port from Newcastle on Saturday afternoon. The St. Kilda was got under way on Saturday, 9th May, and almost immediately heavy seas were experienced, with strong squalls blowing from the south to south-east, which continued till Wednesday, the 13th, when the barquentine Uncle John, bound from Puget Sound to Melbourne with a cargo of timber, was passed within hailing distance. The St. Kilda was then 35 miles north-east of Lord Howe's Island and 300 miles in a similar direction from Sydney! The weather continued squally, 'with heavy seas, up till the 18th, when it moderated somewhat, but still bore a very threatening aspect, and on Thursday, 21st, another heavy gale was experienced with high seas running. On the morning of that day the first glimpse of New Zealand was obtained, Hokianga being sighted at a distance of 30 miles from the shore. From this out light southerly winds prevailed during the run down the West Coast until arrival off the Wanganui bar on Friday afternoon, 29th May, at 4 p.m., too late for the afternoon tide. Captain Robertson decided to anchor in the roadstead till the tide on Saturday afternoon, when, at 2 p m., he brought his smart little vessel (which was drawing>loft 6in aft and 9ft 9in forehead) safely over the bar and berthed her at the Heads Wharf. The St. Kilda brings a full load of Newcastle coal, 100 tons of which will during today be discharged at the Hoads Wharf. Captain Robertson hopes to bring his boat up the river on the afternoon tide, high water being at 5.27. As soon as the inward cargp of coal has been discharged the vessel will be loaded with a full cargo of general produce, which will comprise some 3000 sacks in all, and provided she can take in her cargo she should get away again at the end oorf r jfche week. PERSONS OF DELICATE CONSTITUTION, who are obliged'to abstain from ordinary .Coffee, should try Crease's Taraxacum or Dandelion CoppEE,which is rflcommended by medical authorities as a very valuable beverage for persons who suffer from weak digestion,flatnlency and vervousness. Sold in lib. and Jib. tins, is. and 2s. Please, Sir, is this Hannah's ? Yes, my little man ; what do you want. Please, Sir, Mother wants to know the prices of your Boots and Shoes. All right sonny, just tell your Mother to read this:— Ladies' Kid-button or Lace Shoes from 6s 6d ; Ladies' Kid Elastic-sides from 6s 6d j Ladies' Glaze-kid Elastic-sides from 8s Gd; Ladies' Evening Shoes, 3s 6d; Ladies' Evening Shoes (beaded) from 5s Gd ; Ladies' Pumps from 7s 6d ; Ladies' Carpet Slippers from 2s 6d j Ladies' Felt Slippers from 3s 6d ; Girls' Felt Slippers, from Is; Ladies' Leather Slippers from 3s; Ladies' Glove Kid-button Boots from 10s 6d j Ladies' Goloches, Ladies' German Shoos, Ladies' Shoes, "Pinets" button and laced, Ladies' button and laced Boots, " Pinets." Men's Watertights from 10s 6d; Men's half-Water-tights from 11s 6d; Men's Plain and Nailed Bluchers from 5s 6d j Men's light Balmorals from 10s 6d ; Men's Leather Slippers from 4s 6d ; Men's strong Shoos from Bs 6d j Gent's Pumps from 93 6d. Gent's Tennis Shoes from 5s 6d; Boys' and Youths' half-Watertights 8s 6d, 9s Gd, 10s Gd ; Boys' and Girls' Copper-toes 2s 6d, 3s Gd, 4s 6d Children's Boots and Shoes from 2s 6d. In fact, the best assortment of Walking Boots and Shoes, also Evening Shoes, in the town, at R. Hannah & Go's., Victoria Avenue, Wanganui. First Boot Shop past the Post Office — Advt.