LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12120, 8 December 1894, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr J. H. Keesing has a very heavy Hat to get through at his sale to-day. Busineis will commence sharp at 1 30 o'clock.

In the Baptist Church to-morrow the Eev, Mr Peters will preach in the morning on " Christian Fervor " (Rome xri-11) and in tlte e?sni|t/s: on " The New Birth " (John in-3). Mrs Piancis Hodgsos Burnett is laconically described in an aitjlclo on womon writers, as " the mother of Uvo snns and twenty-two novel. 0 ."

At tbo new Gospel Hall, Bell Street, Mr Gordon Forlong will preach on " The Courage of Daniel." The service comjii6nccs at 7 o'clock,and all are interested.

Wo were in error in stating that the Countess of Glasgow was the guest of Mr p, A. KiuU during her brief visit to Wauganui. As a matter of fact Lady Glasgow stayed at Chavanno's Hotel.

The R9V. William Leo, of l'a!ir,ierßton N. arrived in town yesterday, on his way to ' New Plymouth, whore he goes to preside at the Wesleyan district meeting, which commences on Mondsy next.

The Eev. C. H. Garland will ptoach to-morrow morning on "If any man willeth to do hio will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it be of God" (Jorn vn-17) ; and in the evening on "I am come into my garden " (Carticles y-1).

Considerable interest is centred in tho lecture on " Samoa," to be givon by Sir Robert Stonfc in St. Paul's Hall on Tuesday evening next, and those who •wit)] to ensure a seat would do well to secure their tickets beforehand.

Mrs Hooy, head mistress of the Wanganui Infants' School, is again looking after the Christmas interests o£ her little cbarßO?, and will be pleased to recoivi, donations in aid of the annual prizG fund. The appointment of Mr John Redmond to be litutena.it of the •VTangunui Rifle Volunteers, Mr Horiuald Iteyley to be captain of the Turanaki Eifle Volunteers, and Mr William Steela to be honorary captain of the Hamilton Light Infantry Volunteers is gazottod,

The following batch of now book 3 wore received by Mr Hylton for the Public Library by yesterday's 'Frisco mai! :- "Round the Rod Lamp (Doyle), ' Pomona's Travels" (Stockton), " The Green Carnttioc," "Humour of Ireland; 1 (O'Donoglnn), "John Bn\l and Co' (O'toll), " Renshaw F.inniap'a Quest" (Milford). •'The Prodigals" (Oiiphant), "Conspiracy of Silence" (folirore), "A Lost Ideal" (Swan), '• His Vanwhed Star" (daddoct), "Lono Jim" (Hume), and "Tho Eubicon" (Hentonl. Tl o J'uvoml>Gc magazines ate nko to baud.

At a full meeting of the members of the Wesleyan Choir, held last night.Mr Banda! was unanimously elected choirmaster in place of Mr j, Stevenson, resigned. Under Mr Randal's conductorship the choir will no doubt maintain its reputatation as one of the strongest and bebt in town.

The Bey. L. M. Isitt, the well-known prohibitionist lesturer, commences a temperance mission at Napier in the Theatre Royal to.morrow evening, when his subject will be " When thou buildeat a house for thyself thou wilt make a battlement for the roof •" On Mond »y he will lecture on "The temperance outlook"; on Tuesday, "Can we afford to do without the liquor ■ traffic"; on Wednesday, "Woman ; her position and influence"; on Thursday, "Labor v. Liquor"; and on Friday, his closing lecture will be t- W. L. Garrison, slava, Jibarator, and hero."

A curious cas9 of house moving was recently witnessed in Oregon. A man who owned a residence at Seattle, which cost him OOOOdoIs to erect, removed t:> Olympia and did not have sufficient funds to erect another home. He bought a lot and concluded to remove the building be owned at Seattle. Everyone laughed at him, but he persisted.* Rolling the house down to the river, he loaded it.upon a scow, and it was soon at Olympia, a distance of about sixty miles. Then ho had it rolled up on his lot and, strange to say, not a timber was strained nor even a piece of furniture broken, although he had not romoved the contents before starting the house upon its unu6ual journey.

An application was made in the Superior Court at Chioago to restrain Eliza Carson, a lady of eccontric habits, who was left a fortune ten years ago, from visiting England. The lady, it was declared, had a mania for crossing the Atlantic, and in the gratification of this whim spent no less than 80,000 dols— in visiting England and returning again — making the round, trip invariably by the same steamer. She is known on every steamship line, for she has travelled by all the best known Atlantic steamers. During the past twelve months she has crossed every fortnight. Only 20,000 dols. of her fortune is now left, and it is to save this residue from being squandered in the manner described that her relatives have taken action.

The Taieri Advocate says : —It is about lime that the New Zealand Government took decided steps in the mutter of having all New Zealand dairy produce examined and gradnd. We learn from the manager of a dairy fnctorj in the Canterbury districk that last season lhaj forwarded Home a ;hipmont of mixed butter, some 12cwt of which was butter of but medium quality, and never intended'to be represented as anything else. Yet this butter was retailed in London and other places as New Zealand butter of tlia finest quality. This defrauding of the British public by unscrupulous traders hns done, and is still doing, great harm to the colony and to the important industry, dairying, and we trust that in future dishonest traders will not thus be allowed to grow rich at New Zealand's expense.

A lawsuit of an unprecedented nature U entered for hearing in the American Courts, being nothing loss than a claim against Mr Clarence Haight, a Madison Avenue millionaire; for 590d015, for the uae of an incubator, by which it is alleged the lifo of Mr Haight's infant daughter has been saved. The case is said to excite the utmost interest in New yorkv ork society, and the facts appear to be as follows : — In February Jast the child in question war prematurely born, and, Mrs Haight dying shortly afterwards, it was feared that the child would likewise die, In the emorgency recourse was had to a, " baby incubator," which was ob taiucd from a surgical instrument maker, noted for his ingenious devices to meat unu ual circumstances. It is stated that-, thanks to the "incubator," the child's life was preserved, and that wh areas it weighed )O3S than two pounds at birth it is now a bright and healthy infant, likely to do well. The claim is for one hundred and eighteen days' use of the incubator, at 5 dollars aday._ The nature, of this extraordinary contrivance, however, do9s nol appear upon the documents.

Acsording to my ordinary custom all buyers will be given a useful present during this month. Fred H. House, Hatter and Hosier, opposite' English Church — Advt.

HrsTOBY epeated, — Thousands of people saw Charles 1. beheaded in 1613, Yet in all that crowd there was but one man who knew why the blood spurted from the dis severed arteries in the Monarch's neck. That was Dr Harvey, the King's physician Ho had announced the circulation of tlje blood, and in so doingstarted a tremendous scandal. People called him a fool, a meddler, a madman. What a lucky thing it was that the Puritans chopped off their King's head instead of Harvey's. A King more or lessdoes'nt matter, but a ministe.i more or les does. Thank iaerey its safer now to tellnew truths than it was 250 years ago That is why weare not afraid to say CuaEASE's Al Cowee is tho very best procurable— Ad vt.