LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVIIII, Issue 121222, 17 August 1896, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

4*. On inquiry we find that there wore 358 visitors r,o the public mussum hot weok. Mr Aohou Nicholsen wishes us to state that ho is definitely out for the Western Maori Electorate, and will contest the seat against all comers, Mr A. D, Willis authorises us to stato that he has not been offered a seat in the Legislative Council, and that if he were he would not accept it. Sergeant Cullen arrived from Wellington by Saturday afternoon's train, and Constable Carr, who has been temporarily in charge hore, returned to Patea, We have been asked to state that in consequence of tbe Rev L. M. Isitt' b lecture, the usual fortnightly meeting of the Sons and Dauphters of Temperance wili not be held this eveniug. Mr W. L. Carroll, late of Mr T. Ferry's, notifies that he has taken over the oaloon attached to Mr Taylor'a tobacconist establishment, Viotoria Avenuo. _ r Carroll hopes to see all hiß old friends and a large number of new ones. The Orchestral Club's concert takes place in St Paul's Hall on Thursday evening next. Foe some ti_io past the members have had a capital programme in practice, and a genuine musical treat may be anticipated by all who have the good fortune to sneure tickets. In connection with Mr J. W. McLarin's estimate as to the possitdities of the extension of trade with the Waimarino, as stated by him in bis Friday night's address, Mr Hatrick informs as thaf for the year ending 81st July, 46 tons of (Jour/and 21 tonß of sugar were thovexact quantities carried by the steamers, and that not two tons were taken into tbe Waimarino by any other ohannel. The following is the report of the committee of the House of Representatives on Judge Kettle's potition re tenure of office and salaiies of District Court judges and magistrates, as presented to the House last week;—'-' Having again heard Judge Kettle's statement' b,£ his casp, and examined him thereupon, fche committee is strongly of the opinion that tb^p Government should, at an early opportunity, tak.? the whole matter into its careful and favourable consideration." In support of this recommendation, the committee draw the attentnn of the Government to a number of quotations on tho necessity for the independencs of tho Bench of Justice.

Three letters to tho editor are unavoidably held over. Mr Joseph Harkness has announced himself bb a candidate for Egmont in tbe ooming elections. Tho death iB announced at Stratford of tbe widow of the lute Alexanddr Reid, a wel -known Canterbury settler. In the House of Representatives ou Friday night Mr Collins moved as tin amendment: to the Minuter of Lands' proposal re afc' elect Committee to inquire z into matters connected with the Press ' Association, that the inquiry bo limited " to the working uf the Electric Liiiej Act, so far as it referred to copyright telegrams." The amendment was agreed to on the voices. The Wanganui Museum is shortly to be |enriched by the douation of a most interesting and valuable curio. Ifc is the mummy of a sacred cat, found at Beni Hassan, in Egypt, aud dating hack to 8.C., 900. The donor ia Captain G. Burton, R.N.R., of the steamer Rangatira, which is now in poit, and the (mummy was given to him by tho original finder, the R6V Henry Brasß, of Redbill, Surrey. Conside. ing its antiquity, the mummy is in a wonderfully good stato of preservation. • One special feature is the quality of thelinen in which it is swathed. Linen manufacturers in England have examined it and are unanimous in declaring that, in spite of all the machinery and appliances of the present day, such beautifully fine linen cannot he manufactured now. Altogether, the Wanganni Museum is fortunate in obtaining such a unique and valuable curio. — Auckland Star. A quarter of beef t'suwed by a now process inherited by Mr Peck, cbief engineer of the Waitara Freezing Works, by which the colour and fresh appearance of the meat are preserved, was exhibited on Saturday at the Lambton Quay shop of the Gear Company. The process is as follows : - The meat is suspended in air, the degree of humidity of which is regulated, so that the atmosphere is not sufficient! v moist to precipitate a dew, und yet is sufficiently approaching saturation as not tt be able to extract any moisture from thi meat. Ripidity in thawing is caused by the quick circulation of air and tho tompe rature beini; raised to a, point slightly below the melting point of fat. The frozen meat is (aken from the cold storeroom through a door into the tbaw-ing-room and suspended by hooks from the oiling. Airiß drawn byafanii'im tho cold Btore, and ia blown through the room in which the meat is hung, passing on ita way through a tubular trunk, surrounded by hot- water, which raises its temperature about 75 deg, and being blown by the force of the fan through the • suspended meat. As the meat is raised in tamperature so a certain degree of moisture is added to the air, in order that the dew point of the heated air shall be below the temperature of the meat. The following are the boundaries of the WaDganui electorate as notified in the Gazette : — " Wanganui comprisps the whole of the , Westmere and 'Brunswick Ridings of the Waitotara County ; and that part of tha Waitotara Riding of tha county to the eastwardof a line commenc. ing at the south-eastern coiner of the Pakaraka Native Reserve, and proceeding eouih-westeily along tbe eastern boundary of that reserve, nnd a lino in con tinuation thereof to 'he sea, about two miles north of the Okehu Stream ; aho the whole of the Kaitoke and Mataon* gaongo Ridings of Wanganui County ; and thoso portions of the Mangawhero. Kaukatea, and. Purua Ridings of the Wanganui County lying westward of a line starting at the north-eastern boundary of the Upokongaro Block, and pioceeding generally southerly along that boundary and a l° n R the northern and eastern boundaries of tlie Matataia Block to the Makirikiri Stream, thence along that stream and along the oastern boundary of Section 347, the oastern boundary of the Malasngaorlßn Ridipg and tho eastern boundaries of Sections 369, 204, 209, 207, and 270, lkitara Survey District. The Borough of Wanganui' is included in th b electorate."