Local and General

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 11743, 20 September 1902, Page 4

Local and General

The general meeting of the Christ Church Club will be held on Tuesday, 23rd September, at 8 p.m. Business important. The Christ Church Cricket Club will meet on the same date at the same hour.

We have been requested to state that the T.Y.M.I. v. Christ Church football match to-day will be played on the College Ground, and not, as previously announced, on the Recreation Ground.

The sale of work in connectionl with the Primitive Methodist Church will be opened at 3 p.m. on Thursday next by Miss Fraser, M.A., Principal of the Girls' College, and will be continued in the evening and on Friday afternoon and evening. Articles imiay be left at the parsonage during the week.

The concert and social advertised to take place in the Araanioho Wesleyan Church on Monday evening next promises to be very successful. An excellent programme hart been arranged, including songs, recitations, and instrumental items, ay-ith the usual refreshments ab the close. Should the wieatheir bo favourable, noi doubt a, successfu/1 evening will result.

The Alexandra, Cookery Book, published by the ladies of the Primitive Methodist Guild, is now on sale, and in certainly a ■creditable (production. The front cover contains a photo, of Queen Alexandra. There is a, preface dealing" with the object of the book. There are more than 350 tried recipes, supplied by ladie ; s of the town and district. The book should prove J'4 real boon ta housewives, and! we anticipate a ready sale for it. As the proceeds of the sale will be devotedi toi the reduction of the church debt, we wish every success to the venture. The price of the book is o*lo shilling.

At the animal meeting of the Nelson Rowing Club the statements showed a credit, balance of £S2. besides assets to the value of £320. Dr Hudson was elected president and Mr Credworth captain.

Members of the Ladies' Golf Chib who wish to compete in the local championship are asked to forward their names to the secretary or captain before Wednesday, 24-th instant.

The Nelson City Council, by six to five, adopted Mr Mestayers drainage scheme for the city, and resolved to submit the same for the approval of ratepayers. It was also agreed to send the plans to the Harbour Board for approval.

For neatness of "get up," as well as excellence cf quality, the pure meat extract. "Oxine," now offered tw the public by the Aramoho Meat Company, holds |ita awn with the beet imported article. "Oxine" makes a delicious addition to all soups, and should certaiinly be given a trial by the goad housewives of Wanganui.

We have, with regret, to record the death of Mrs Horwood, wife of Mi- T. Horwood, of Taupo Quay, which occurred at the Hospital yesterday morning. The deceased had for some time past been suffering from a serious internal complaint. A few dayst agoijblie underwent a surgical operation at _the Hospital, but without avail. The deceased was 68 years of age, and leaves a husband, well advanced in years, to mourn her loss. To Mr Horwood we tender our sincere sympathy.

Never has a pi'ophet honour in his own ; country; but the sympathies of few will go out to the Australian official meteoro- ; logist. of whom this story is related : —He was marching along a city street in a deluge of rain under a great spreading umbrella when a friend came hurrying up and -said: "Just let me have a look at your umbrella, will you?" The friend took the umbrella from the weather prophet and hastened, off, leaving the owner standing in the rain. "Here, I say, you mustn't take my umbrella." "Oh, that's all right old man ; it's fine and dry. Look' at your weather report in the morning's paper." i

, According to a Wellington telegram the success of the project for sending, a brass band from New Zealand to England is now almost assured. About, half of the debentures which it is Intended to- issue have been taken up, and the canvassers have as yet practically not touched tho South Island or Auckland. From.-prest.nb indications the persons interested consider everything should be ready in a. couple cf months, It is expected the band will consist of 27 performers. It will not enter for competitions in England, but will confine itseM to concerts.

Some regulations under the Municipal Corporations Act are gazetted. It is provided that in case of a new borough being constructed, or the boundaries of an established borough bains altered, the agreement for financial and other adjustments shall be made within three months of the said construction or alteration, otherwise the Governor may appoint a commission to make adjustments. In regard to the recovery of the proportion of cost of any work from a contributing body, it is provided that the adjustment of contributions may be demanded as the work progresses at such intervals1 of not less than one month, as the constructing body may think fit.

Mr Pierpont Morgan's opinion of the Kaiser we have heard, but now the American press is giving what it states' to be the opinion of the Kaiser on Mr Morgan. II; is .supposed to have been expressed by the Emperor to M. Waldeck-Rousseau. "Tv as I could," the Kaiser is reported to have said, "Mr Morgan's conversation failed to reveal to me that he had any. clear comprehension of the vast harmonies: and conflicts of the commercial universe. "American boyish enthusiasm, after his successful combining of the steel interests, magnified Mr Morgan into a sort of financial god. After til© first surprise Mr Morgan rose to the part, and now his ambi^ tion is to remodel the world. But I can]t see where he has a single great idea. His chief merit lay in seizing the right time in which to effect combines on a scale which heretofore nobody had dared to attempt. But in so doing Mr Morgan was rather1 the instrument of irrepressible economic forces than inventive genius."

A Wellington, resident has received a letter from a miner who recently left the West Coast (South Island) for South Africa, which gives a very discouraging account of things there from a labour point of view. The writer was earning 7s a day at Durban repairing railway ■carriages and trucks, but that wage was by no means general, the gi-eat majority of unskilled labourers in the i-ailway service receiving 5s ■per day, although good caiipenters and bricklayers receive 15s and 20s. The railway nien had just been on strike for better pay. and after being "out" for eightdays, went to work on receiving a. promise of a shilling per day extra, landing arbitration. At the date of writing it. was. not possible for workmen to get to Johannesburg, unless they produced a letter promising immediate employment, and signed by some military officer. t Things are much worse at Johannesburg' than in Durban, ■wages being only &s per day, while board costf? £7 10s per month, as against £5 in the latter place. The writer adds that new arrivals are streaming into the country from all parts of the world, and there are at least, fifty applicants for any vacancy, no matter 'what the employment. "The more referencea-you briiv the better if you want to get on." In conclusion. New Zealanders are warned not to tempt foitune in South Africa unless they have means.