LOCAL, AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11518, 19 January 1894, Page 2

LOCAL, AND GENERAL.

Tho Rosorves Committee cf tho Borough Council meet at 330 o'clock thiti tiftornoon. The Wairero will leave on a special trip for Pipiriki this morning at 10 o'clock. An nntertainment and convorsaziono is to be given in the Marist Brothers School this evening as a wolcomo to the Brothers The Wanganui Lawn Tennis Club havo accepted a challengo from tho Feilding Club for a match to be played at Wanganui on tho 22nd. Miss Willis will resume her music lessons on Thursday, February Ist. Her address is " caro of Mrs A. E, Kitchen, Avenue." The second half -yearly meeting of tho St. John's and Suburban Working Men's Club is called for Thursday next, January 25th. Dr und Mrs Connolly leave for tho Hot Lakes to-day. The doctor, who has not been in the best of health for some lime, hopes to benefit by the change Tho Post says tint the Wollington licensed victuallers will probably hold a meeting this woek to decide upon a plan of action in tho coming licensing election. Mrs Newcotnbe announces that sho will resume her music lessons on Tuesday next, 23rd inst. " Trinity College Music Examination" classes on Fridays from 7.30 to 9.30 p.in , and Saturday afternoons from 3 to 5 o'clockWith this morning's issue Messrs J. Paul and Co. issue a large and attractive insst, referring to their annual sale of surplus stock. Ihe sale commoncts tomorrow, and some genuine advantages are to be offered in every department. The Salvation Aimy advortise a monster up-river picnic for Anniversary Day (Monday next). Tho Waitara has been chattered, and will loave Betts 1 Wha>i at ii a.m. Tho return faro has been fixed at Is, with children half-price, The valuation roll of tho Borough of Wanganui, for the yoar 1801 95, as compiled by Mr Purnell, Town Clerk, shows the total number of properties at 1333, valued at £37,287, a3 against 1222 properties valued at £36,120 for the preceding year. At tho Police Court yesterday, boforo Mr C. C. Kettle, It.M , William Gorman uas convicted of drunkenness in a public place, and was ordored to some up for sentence when called on. Win. McGhop, for having boon found drunk in the Courthouse on Wednesday was similarly treated. 1 Ten brown opossums, some of the progeny of a pair which were liberated in Invercargill about 25 years 1130, wore brought up by the Southern steamer on Tuesday for tho Wellington Acclimatisation Socioty, which intend kbjratn; them on Kapiti ] aland. A number which were set free some time ago on the ' Tararua aid Wainui ranges are believed to bo thriving woll. The Wairarapa Star claims to have the i best authority for saying that tho temperance bodies in Mastorton will mako practically no effort to reduce the number of licensed houses at the election which , takes place in March next. They regard the case under tho existing Act as absolutely hopeless, and prefer wniting for fresh legislation r to expending their energies in a hopeless contest, A very interesting matjh between the Btingitikei and Wanganui Chess Clubs, by telegraph, was played on Wednesday evening in the local office, the Wanganui Club being represented by Messrs Bryce. Hatherloy, Sim, Campbell; and Martin ; ' thoir opponents bsing Messrs Meldrum, Arkwright, O'Lougblen, Marshall, Ashcroft, and Richardson. Messrs Marshall, Richardson and Ashorof t won their games the remainder having been referred to Mr Sexton, of Ashurst, fcr adjudication. Tho members of the Club tender their best thanks b<j the Telegraph Departmont for che use of tho wire, and to Mr J. Poyntcr, for the skilful way he transmitted tho various moves. Following is a copy of the letter sent to Mr Kitchie. of Wellington, by MrJ.G. Wilson, J1.11.U. :— " Bulls (N.1.), January 8, 1891. Dear Sir,— Some time ago you banded me regulations for the bonus for improved machinery for production of New Zealand hemp. Nothing further seem3 to be done by your department, yet the flax trade is at a perfect standstill and nothing is being turned oui. 1 would remind you that for five years now this trade has been promised a bonus. First ifc was £10,000, and now it has dwindled down to £2000. A little energy on the part of your department would surely get the matter settled. I would also point out that the value of hemp exported last )jwc m% £114,(300, a. sivn. raaity eo^uaA. to the dairy export, yet much ha9 been done for the ene industry and nothing for tho other. Might I ask you, on behalf of the millers and those engaged in the trade, to ' gut the bonus oilerud as soon as possible 1 so us to try and put some life into lliu 1 trade, the stoppage of which is a serious i loss to the coast." The noblest career fora woman, according to Walter Bosant, is marriage. More 1 — ho bolieves that '■' if tho question were ' put to any woman who hud lived tho ' matron's life, and her soasnnd daughters, 1 grown up, whether, looking back, she would etill deliberately choose to bo the 1 mother of those sons and daughters, or 1 would become a journalist, novolist, ' teacher, nurso, artist, typewriter, clerk, ' cashier, or any of the many occupations ' open to womon, she would without tho 1 least hesitation, doclara that eLo would 1 prof or tho matron's life as tho noblest and highest lot opon to women. To enrich \ tho world with uoblo children, to givo tho country more brave hands and honest ' loarts— what, in comparison with this, is '' tho indopondonco of tho singlo woman other work — hor average work ? Do not talk about tho isolatod cases of gonius ; 1 Ulk about tho avorage work. That all ' women cannot marry is porfectly true; ! that women are making it ovory day moro ' difficult to marry by taking men's werk is ' also true. Tho American Salesman is not yot 1 annihilated. L st Saturday ovoning ho ■ appoarod at the Princess Thcalw, Westport, au(? tho West Coast Time?, in re--1 porting the proceedings, commonts as follows :-" Of the concert part of the entertainment the less said tho bettor, the 1 performers being vory medoire. The . palesmar, who has a vory glib tonguo, ' then commenced, and induced two rwiidontj lo ffivo him £1 onch, which woro subsequently leturnnd with wjitclms. A i number of irticlcs, of poor ({Utility, were [ thon sold, souio cheap, some at above thoir mark el. value. The Salesman was great on the conlHonce trick, tho donors i receiving tickets fjr their monoy, but r their confidence was sadly shaken, bo- ' causo tho returns given wero "B ruinmagom" jewellery of a very inferior de . scription, and a quantity of medicine. On . the whole it may Le said that tho coDfi- \ deneo triclr was of the usual kind, tho ! audienco loosing both thoir money and . their confidence. Tho Salesman ex r pressed his intention of returning on Tuesday, bnr it is vory doubtful if he '. will do so ; at any rate the confidence , trick is not likely to work again. It is at loast satisfactory to find that the total , sum of money ho received was email, and that he handed £1 la lo Mr Bock for tho . Woiitland Hospital,

A Waipawa correspondent records some extraordinary weights of sheep ileecos in the Hawke's Iky district. A Lincoln ram yielded 331b. of wool, three yearling ewes gave 291b, 2(jlb, and 201b. respectively, and a two-year-old ewe with lamb at foot 211b. ThHB the Queensland Worker :— " All Party Government is a rocord of constant changes brought about by tho sins of the men in power and the exaggeration of those sins by the party outside, who lack tho opportunities of committing any on | their own account." AS the mooting of tho Palmerston Borough Council the other evening it was stated" that the \sater in the reservoir would be insufficient to supply the Borough if the waste at present going on was allowed to continue. It was resolved to inform the ratepayers that in future the water will be cut off in cases where waste is reported. Tho Oamaru hospital trustees, in thoir annual report, state that '' in whatever way it may be accounted for, tho fa6t is apparent that the native-born New Zealanders are recipients of hospital relief in an undue proportion to population considering that all such as aro admittod are comparatively young. It might be interesting and instructive to ascertain if this fact is characteristic of other institutions in the colony, and the reason for itsexistonc6." An American lady who missed by a few j votes being elected Attornay-General of Montana was afterwards appointed Assistant Attorney-General. A few weeks ago, Miss i'illa Knowlcs was sent ington on business relating to the'school lands of her Slate, which was pending in the Interior Department. She hod to make a presentation of the State's claim before six heads of law divisions, and linolly secured a decision in her favour. Another lady, a .Miss Emerson, of San Francisco, bus been appointed Commissioner of t lie United Status Court of Laud Claims. The position is to some extent judicial. Sho will take testimony as an examining officer, and will decide whether the statements made beforo her are relevant and material or the opposite. For several years she Ims conducted a typewriting business. It is generally believed that the temperature at which the cream is churned lias a great deal to do with the amount of water left in the butter ; that if the latter cornea at a high temperature it will retain more water than when churned at a low temperature. Bearing upon this point we find a communication from a dairyman, in which the writer says he made •three ehurnings at different temperatures, the lirst at 7Sdeg., the second at OSdeg., and the third at 52deg. lie sent samples of butter from each of these churnings to Professor Lloyd, the well-known English chemist. The latter found that the butter churned at 78deg. contained 11 91 per cent, water, that churned at 58deg. contuined 12 14 per cent, and that churned at 52deg, contained 12.19 per cent water, showing that the temperature at which churning is done does not necessarily control the percentage of water in the butter. A romantic suicide has taken, place at Montpellier, in the south of France. Francois Kouland, a fancy draper of that town, had the misfortune to lose his sweetheart, who died as long ago as 1886, & ever since then he had suilered from melancholia, and had often been heard to say that he wished he was lj ing beside her in the St. Lazare Cemetery. The other night a grave-digger -was passing through the cemetery, when he saw a great semicircular opening in front of one of the private graves. O;i examination he found that a stone lind been taken out ot the structure, and that, a body was lying on the top of the coffin within. The police authorities wore communicated with, and a number of officials were, soon on the spot with lanterns. A strange sight met their gaze. Upon a coffin was the body of a man, clad in block. In one of his hands, which wen; covered with black kid gloves, was a heavy revolver. It wa.> evident that the deceased, who wns nouo other than the draper, had proceeded with grvai. deliberation. Having snick a pair of Fcicsors in one of the walls, he hung his hat and watch upon them, and then lay 'lown and shot himself in the head. Under the head there \yeru a number of bank notes, togeihsr with a letter stating tliat they were for tho expenses of the funeral. An article appeared in the Live Stock Journal of November 17 which shows the great alteration that has taken place of late years in sheep-breeding in Mio old country. Until a few years ago the longwools were in a large majority in Great Britain, and probably outnumbered the I shortwool sheep by over three to one. The fall in the price of wool and the demand lor small lean mutton has had the effect of causing tho Down sheep to come into favour, and at the present time, it ia stated, they considerably outnumber the longwools. lii referring to the change in the type of sheep the writer of the arlicle remarks;— " We might havo heard 30 to 50 years ago of Leicester for the Leicesters, but we do not now, for there is scarcely a Hock of Leicester sheep kept in the whole of Leicestershire So it lias been throughout the midland counlios, and the Down? —principally Shropshires— have displaced tho once favourite Leicester, which has now been driven into Yorkshire— which is its present stronghold— and some ol the northern counties. The Lincolns arc pretty well confined to their own county, iind the Cotswolds remain the inhabitants oF their native hills without any large following elsewhere." That such a change should have been found proliiable by British formers is a matter worthy the serious consideration of the owners of small Hocks in Australasia.