LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11952, 30 March 1894, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

-^ ' The next Bitting of tho Suprome Couit opens hore on tho 10th April. At a Committee meeting of the Operatic and Dramatic Association hold yesterday it was decided to produce " Kip Van Winkle "on May Bth. A man namod Robert Stanton was summoned at the Police Court for having refused to appear at Marton as a witness in the Karioi sly grog-selling casos. He was remanded to Marton uutil Saturday, April 7th. Messrs Thain and Paul were tbe presiding Justices. A Wellington Press telegram states that Dr. Cahill, of Wellington, who attended the Medical Conference at Napier, is lying thore dangerously ill of typhoid fever. Dr. Henry left yestarday to attend him, and Sir Patrick Buckley, one of Dr. Cahill's oldest friends, also left by 1 tho morning's train.

Stephen Neary appeared before the Bench yesterdiy on the charge of wounding Sergeant Villars. He was further remanded to Thnrsday, April sth. A meeting of the Wanganui Public Museum Committee will be held thia afternoon in the Museum building at 430 o'clock. Business important— arrange opening, _c. John Alexander Angus was charged at tbo Police Court yesterdoy with stealing a watch and chain from O. D. Kirkwood, Tho evidence of G. D. Kirkwood, G. Sleigh, W. Fmdlay, and Constable ' Young was taken, and he was committed for trial at the Supremo Court, which opens here on April 10th. We understand that tho Native Lands Department is undergoing a large retrenchment j allowances are being cut down and the officials ara being saddled with more than their just amount of work. Moreover, it is not the intention of the Government to appoint a Chief Judge in place of Mr Seth Smith. The Committee appointed to carry out tho next Poultry Show will meot at the Fire Bricade Hall this evening at 8 p.m. ThoßO interested are requested to attend, as the Committee have power fo add to their number, and will be glad to wolcome all new fanciers. The object of the meeting is to fix the date of the noxt show and make the nocessary alterations to the schedule. With regard to the recent native obstruction to the river improvement works, Mr A. D. Willis, M.H.R,, hns received a reply to his telegram to the Hon. the Premier, Mr Seddon states that ho has instructed the Inspector of Police to take steps to prevent the law from being violated, and that, as the Government doe 3 not intend to stand any nonsense, the natives will be treated tho same »b Europeans who break the laws. When an editor makes a mistake in his paper, all the world sees it and calls him a liar. When a private citizen makes a mistake, nobody knows it except a few friends, and they come round and ask the editor to keep it out of the paper. Whon a private citizen dies, the editor is asked to publish hiß good qualities and leave out the bad. When the editor dies, the privato citizen says :— " Now that old liar will got his deserts."— American paper. There was a representative meeting of burgesses at tbe Council Chambers last evening to consider and make arrangements for the poll which is to be taken on Saturday week. His Worship the Mayor presided, and during the course cf the proceedings impressed upon those present that the proposed loan would mako no differenco in the rating, but that if tho poll was not- in favour of the loan being raised, there was nothing for it but an increase in the rates. All arrangements were made for the polling of the ratepayers on the 7th, and_ those present exhibited a warm interest in the matter. The following is an extract from the London correspondent of the Auckland Weekly News :— By the way, I believe I ahall fend you out a good many excellont settlers at one time aud another. One family goes shortly and a young fellow, with fair capital, who has been trained to country life, is also going. They came to see me at your London offico, and asked for information and advice, wtich I willingly furnished. They are all the right sort and will assuredly make valuable settlers. They have capital knowledge and good sense. We understand that Messrs Cock and Co. are about to add to their establishment on Taupo Quay by taking in a part of Mr McDuff's premises. By this addition the firm will gain something like 30ft of frontage and 59ft of depth. Mr McDuff iB; increasing his premises by building a ohow-room and paint-room over his present right-of-way, This will greatly improve his facilities for carrying on his business. It is also stated that Messrs Sclanders and Co. contemplate building a large warehouse onthe gr-jund they now occupy. The Women's Political League held their first meeting intheßorough Council Chambers last night. In the unavoidable absence (through illness) of the VicePresident (Mrs Williamson) occupied tho chair. After the minutes were read the Chairwoman made a few remarks congratulating the League on getting into such comfortable quarters after a weary pilgrimage round the town. Very interesting and instructive papers were contributed by Mrs S. Wright on " Domestic Employment of Women,' read by Miss Field j on " Employments open to Women," by a lady member, and read by Miss Blair; "The Political Position of Women, Past and Present," by Miss Steadman; "Colonial Larrikinism," by 'Miss Newcombe, read by Miss Cromer; and "The Need for Being Alive," by Mrs Williamson. The Chairwoman read somo extracts from a pamphlet entitled " The Case against Party Government in N.Z." The functions of clergymen in America appear to be more extensive and exhausting than those of their bretheren on the other side ot the Atlantic. The i\ew York Nation tells an anecdote of a colloquy between two old college class-mates, one of them a clergyman, ten years nfter graduation. They were comparing notes about intellectual growth and their opportunities for it, and the clergyman said grimly—" You -will see at once how much wiser I am than in college, when I tell you that I havo sinco gone to two or three hundred aftenoon teas, have played five hundred sets of tennis with the daughters of my parishioners, have attended many scores of receptions, and gossiped three hours on an average at each, have presided at a thousand or two meetings of Trustees and Boards, circulated a couple of hundred subscription papers, and built three churches, two chapels, and a rectory. I need only add," he concluded, "that in my church tbe wild Western sign, -Don't shoot the organist, for he is doing his best,' has been transferred from the organ-loft to the pulpit." The Otago Daily Times comments on the local ontion poll in the Dunedin district as follows :—" The tamporanco party have undoubtedly achieved a very considerable victory in the Dunedin electorate. As regards the licensing committee, they have succeeded in electing tbe entire numbor of their candidates, and in respect to the issues put to the electors a substantial majority has been obtained for reductions. This latter result is in accordance with general expectation, and amply bears out our fre-quently-expressed opinion that the late licensing committee utterly failed in its duty with respect to reductions. The congience of tho community has been thoroughly roused in regard to the number of publichouses and the conduct of tho traflic in this city, and the large voto cast for absolute prohibition may well be regarded as handwriting on the wall, Wo do not say that tho vote necessarily indicates a future victory for prohibition, but most certainly the two votes, for prohibition and reduction, do indicate a wide-sproad sontiment of dissatisfaction with tho existing slate of affairs, and we aro convinced that nothing short of strictly law-abiding conduct will save tho tratlic from ultimate destruction. Licenses will bo takon from a considerable numbor— presumably twenty-five per cont— of the hotels in the Dunedin district at the next annual meeting, and tho growth or diminution of the prohibition sentiment during the next throo years will largely depend on tho maunor in which the remaining houses are conducted. Tho voting is indubilably a stern warning to the trade to put iis house — or, rather, its bouses in ordor."