LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12715, 29 January 1906, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A first offending inebriate was on Saturday morning fined 55., with 2s. costs, at the Police Court. Captain Edwin wired on Saturday:—, Moderate to strong southerly wiwte; o-lass rL»; tides high; sea considerable. The Government has made the toliowino- school grants.— Martinborougn, , £2oO; Pahiatua, £1300. ,i Messrs. Baddeley, Forlong, and Co., auctioneers, Wanganui, have just opened offices in Feilding, where they have had their stock agents for some time. The firm now have offices from btratford to Feilding. In this way they are in touch with buyers or1 sellers all along the line. No less than 60 petitions for dissolution of marriage, 1 for judicial separation, 1 for a declaration of nullity ot the marriage, and 14 for restitution of conjugal rights were dealt with by the Divorce Court in Wellington lasfe. year. In three cases the petitions were dismissed ; 33 decrees for dissolution of marriage were made, and 9 for the restitution of conjugal rights. 1nJ.905 the number of petitions filed was 76, which was 18 in excess of these dealt with in the previous year. News by the last 'Frisco mail is to the effect that some marvellous- fortunes have fteen made in Wall Street durino- the past year. To name the big winners of the stock market is but; to recount men already rich and known/to the pubrc.Noiiew millidndir€rh*s;wme • up* The' prizes have gone to tfee^same men who get" them; year after'year.-v Such men as. Andrew Car tiegie,- J> <$*ierpont Morgan, J J. HiU^Jiu^ iSchift,; the Vanderbflts, Harriinan and: Johnip "Rockefeller ' haVfe • becomes qso inchi that it is no longer;interestinig-t«-tell; of their addea-wealth. :takes dollarchasers like John W.-Gates; Hoatley, Jefferson M-"- I%y, Chas-;>Mv Schwaba, -or I&ttard Wassennahh tb stir the bWd, and; all;of these have; won minions in tlfe past year*. " *;;

A serious ajceident ,WiU5/ inalTOVv^ everted, on Friday evenjngV .As'the Misses Wilson, or BruttSAVick, were dnying along the Biv.er Bank roa4 ahp^f the Jubliee Home, their horsfe became frightened at an .approaching .; m<yt6c car. One of the young ladies got :oiifr of the trap to hold the horse's head, and the driver of the car, seeing what was the matter, stopped. The horss, however, continued restless, with thd Tesult that the young lady in the trap was thrown out. and the horse, breaking away bolted along the read, being eventually stopped near the Jubilee Home. A doctor was telephoned for, but it' was found that no serious injury had resulted, though the young lady suffered severely for* some time from the shock. . . . .

Information concerning the receipts and expenditure under the Consolidated Fund for the quarter ended Decemt>er 31st last, and published in Friday's "Gazette," shows that the ordinary revenue was £1,979,757, and the territorial revenue £2,038,705, the total receipts being £2,774,669 7s. • 2d. Under permanent expenditure the sum of £1,037,594 l&s. 7d. was appropriated. This includes the Civil list, endowments, and old age pensions fund, and the sum attached to the latter heading is £72,813 14s. lOd. The annual appropriations, which show a small increase on those of the previous year, bring the total to £2.774,669 7s.'3d. The expenditure from the Public: Works Fund was: On railways £192,000, on the utilisation of water power £870, on public buildings £39,558, on lighthouses, harbour works, etc., £903, tourist and health resorts £2647, immigration £3210, roads £44,609. Otherexpenses brought the total to £309,----527.

Regarding the two so-called Nestorian priests who are travelling through New Zealand, Bishop Julius, when seen by a "Press" repiiesritative, sifc&ed that the strangers had called on him, and he had declined to receive them. He knew nothing against these two Oriental missionaries in particular, hut his experience of previous visitors, coming with similar stories-from the same part of the world, had made him very suspicious of them generally. From time to time so-called priests of Oriental churches had paid visits here, and he had. found several of them to' be utter fraunds. There was one standard test of the genuineness; of such missionaries, which the present-visitors to Christchurcli were unable to fulfil. The Eastern patriarchs have definitely undertaken to send through tho Anglican Bishop in -Jerusalem, Bishop Blyth, credentials in all cases in which they sanction an appeal for funds, and these credentials the visitors could not show. "Unless." said Bishop Julius, "these vietine1 Syrians, or Chaldeans,- or whateveVthey may be called, who come to use f iv>fti iiine to time present that credential; certified to by the bishop.of the .1 tfcust my people will hare-no-thing" to do with .them. - - :

■>: harvesting machines are universal!? recognised as the standard m* their line. Agents, Williams and Harper, Wanganui.

The local schools re-opan after th© summer holidays at 9 o'clock this morning. ; , . ■ The Timaru "Herald" contains the following:—Speaking of the harbour at Mr. and Mrs. Thomson's social last* night, Mr. Bowie said there were about 8000 people in,.Timaru, and where f^w> n^ harbour was concerned 4000 of them were engineers, in spite of that an excellent harbour.had been made. > A rather curious entry appears in the last issue of th© Labour Department's journal. This records the fining of a certain employer for paying his hands less than the rates specified in the award affecting his business. The fine, was inflicted a week or two before last election in which he contested a seat— far enough away from his place of business and the scene of his fine—in, the Government, interest. He got a lot of co-operative labourers' votes, too. No doubt they were told the old story which did duty in.a number of districts,, that if the Oppositon got into power wages would go down. It transpires that the railway authorities have now grave reasons for suspecting that the cause of the railway • accident at Momohaki is attributableto the points having been tampered with. The appearance of the points ik> a certain extent confirm this suspicion, and shows that the padlock had been either unlocked or removed, which requirad a special key. A section of the , padlock was found, lying beside th© rail, though whether it had been forced1 or broken off cannot yet b© ascertained. The police are still engaged investigating the affair, and until the' departmental inquiry takes place no further light will probably be shed up? on the matter. ■- -,'_ Says the Wairarapa "Age" :—An ex* ample of the very high tariff for certain classes of goods carried on the Newr Zealand railways has recently been experienced by Mr. C. E. Daniell. He has ju6t imported from England 177" cases of glass, the freight on which, landed at Wellington, was £30 Bs. Id., while the carnage from Wellington on the railways, for 176 oases—one being: still missing—was ss. 7d. The Chamber of Commerce is making representations to the Railway Department in connection with high freights--which country importers have to pay, arid it is the hope of many Masterton business people that the body's efforts; ■ will bear fruit.

A beautiful specimen of artistic work, was on view at Denton's studio on Saturday, which will make an eloquent souvenir of the musical prowess of our champion band Cleverly arranged, around the central figures of ConductoaCrichton, Bandmaster Buckley, and Sergeant-Major Anderson, are excellent photos of the bandsmen and thetrophies won by the band. A record of the performances by this fine musical combination since 1898 is lettered in, and at the lower corners a few or tJm- opening and concluding bars of last year's test salection are printed. TW whole forms a very fine picture, measuring 5 feet 6 inches by 3 feet 6 inches,, and will be presented to the band by Mr. Denton. On Saturday morning, befora Mr.. R. • L. Stanford, S;M., a young man was. charged with having left his wife and ; four children without means of sup- ! port. His wife stated that they had_^ /occupied a place as married couple on JT*^ a country farm,'and had there quarrelled, the "husband clearing out without, even saying good-bye to her. , This* happened last October, and the informant declared that she had neither seen nor heard from her husband untiE she saw him in Court that morning. She had managed to live and keep her family in the meantime on the proceedsi. of the sale of some of the furniture' and a dog, but had only a few shillings left. The defendant denied he had any intention of deserting hia wife* and family; altogether. He said he had gone to a place "where he was w,ell known, and was prepared to take hiswife there," tx>.; live with him if she .would give, over "swearing and carrying^ on a^hjm" whenever he went home^ He^ inie^iiiqned \;that it had been arrange 4 tl^at', they should get a separation t order, but- he expressed himselt willing; t<»|akfel the Magistrate's advioa-ti-j? VtflJnVake it up and live like .'. Tj-eai&galilejb^uigs-; On this undenstand!ing't^ defendant was discharged. hMc! jrEdmonds, the editor of the. vSydney MBulleMn " chatting with a. i.-f;'Star? V interjviewer on the state of things ih Australia, while in Auckland theiflther; •day^eaid they anticipated, .•some•, fat. years in the immediate future.r, Things had never looked so pros.perous for twelve years past. Federationwould iputlaet all the squabbles in^ the States and emerge triumphant." At. present the disturbing element was> principally iNew South Wales, whose-, papers, - controlled by the importers, clamoured for freetrade at all ciosts, and. acted .as obstructionists in consc-^ . guence. Mr. Edmonds said_ that —tKe" ~" ydney people were obstructing the selection of the capital site, demanding: that it should be at Lindhurst, ion the hundred mile limit from Sydney, whereas the rest of the Commonwealth war.feed it at Balgety, half-way between Sydney and Melbourae, and in such a. pasjtion that it would lead to the formation of a new port oa the coast. There would be a considerable strengthening of the position of the Protectionists in the coming session of tha Federal Parliament. The matters to \bediscussed would include the formation of an Australian navy, the taking over of the Northern Territory, the formation of the transcontinental railway(over which Western Australia is somewhat sore), and undoubtedly the revision of the tariff on a protectionist basis. A good deal would depend on the aTnount of support the Labour members would give the Protectionists policy. At presient they were divided in their opinions individually, and voted: according to caucus. '

When the last English mail left the National Memorial Fund to ©f Bernardo amounted to more than £30,000.

Sir Squire Bancroft was unanimously •elected president of the English Actors Association at their annual meeting.

Entries for the sailing race to bo held on Saturday close with the secretary to-morrow (Tuesday) n:ght at the "Chronicle" office.

It is announced by the "British Medi«al Journal" that an ariti-quackery congress is to be held in Paris, next spring. A stoat at Pennyhill, Holbeach (Lincolnshire), killed eleven' turkeys,. thirty ducke, and twenty chickens in a single night.

The larg2st estate of a deceased person on which probate duty was _ paid during the past month is that of the late Mr. John Plimmer, of Wellington —£35,934.

The Wanganui Volunteer Battalion will go into camp for a week on Thursday next at Pntiki. A battalion church parade will be held at Christ Church next Sunday morning.

A notification appears elsewhere to the effect that the Wanganui Meat Freezing Company, Limited, have acquired the old-establishea business ot Messrs. E. Perrett and Sons, as from the beginning of February. The Company's advertisement appears upon page 8. £Dr J. L. A. Aymard has 'been substituting glass for lint in dressing certain kinds of wounds. He describes his experiments at Johannesburg -Hospital in the " Lancet." Taking a piece of thick -window glass, he ground the edges on an ordinary grindstone, and then smeared it with carbolic oil. The glass was placed on a patient instead of lint, and the wound healed up entirely, and, he says, mil leave no trace of a soar. In other cases ©r Aymard used watch glasses, with equally satisfactory results. A great advantage of the method is that it enables wounds to 'be examined without removing the dressing.

At the district meeting of the Wanganui district. 1.0. Q.F., M.U., held at Apiti on Friday last, the notice _ of motion re joining the M.C. of New Zealand was carried by 21 votes to 1. P.P.G.M.'s Bros. I. Salek and S. J. Watson were appointed to represent the Wanganui d.strict at the next meeting of the M.C, which is to be held at Nelson, in April next. The next district meeting will be hdld at Bunnythorpe in July next. The election of officers for the ensuing term resulted as follows: P.G.M., Bro. Pawson; D.G.M., Bro. Thurgood. At the" conclusion, of the business the visiting delegates were entertained at a smoke concert by the members of the Apiti Lodge. -

"In technical or any Other kind of work, the young man who has been trained in a Technical School very soon overtakes and outstrips a man who has practical experience only. Their remuneration at first is no greater than that of the others who do similar work, but in almost all cases it increases more rapidly, and there is practically no limit to their promotion, while the man without technical education, unless in exceptional cases, finds his field of operations greatly restricted." So says Professor Philip Magnus,' M.A., D.Sc, a member of the Moseley Education Commission to the United States. Young men, be wise in time; oiir Technical School commences a new term on Monday, February 5.

In the course of his annual reports presented at the meeting of the Wan-ganui-district, 1.0.0. F., M.U., at Apiti on Friday, the secretary says: "The delegates will remember that a prize of a cash and apron was to be presented to the Lodge which initiated the most members during the: year. This falls to the Loyal Manawatu Lodge, Palmerston North, who initiated 67 members. Feilding comes next with 42. This completes the year of office of Bro. S. J. Watson as Grand Master, and I cannot allow this worthy brother to vacate his position testifying to the great intefe^t.. he always taken in our freWdre*. rtt&k&G : visited all the lodg<3sj irist'ructed;;them in their work, arid at all -TEinies..,has •been most anxious to give- Ms- valuable assistance,''

Thie gift :gi Mrs".'Townend, daughter' br thClato;Mr. :[<G(; Hi;Moore, ; ,to^ tfeev. newly-TOil^ltuted 'Anglican■ ;:parish ■ of Glenmark, (CantePbur^j eompiises,... a ; chufcH,of'ston'e, t to seatiabout.6,oo, .and; i a vicarage of woM, pontaioing eighteen roonls/With "fiftyt*acra|/of land. It: is; anticipatexl that' thd -buildings.. will .'be completed by Tjiext- spring. .Itiis Mrs> Townend's intention; to Jay m\t the. vicarage grounds,*-^and\ t0.,..en.d0w ' the." new parishUwithvali income.of a." year; r By virtue of the provisions of the i General- Synod statttte' relative to private.'benefactionis,; Mrs. ToWnend has the- privilege: of •npmi|iajmg the first ; vicar of the hew.-parish,' and; she has | selected the Rev. J. :M. Whitfehead, vicar of Riccarton, as her appointee. The total cost of the buildings and endowment is £26,000. Mrs. Townend is erecting the church in memory of her father. " -' .

At about 9 p.m. on Saturday a person passing along Harrison Place raised an alarm of tire. Several officers who were in the police station opposite, ran out, and found that a house in Bell street, fronting the police station, was on fire. The fire seemed to be in every room. All the doors and windows were locked. It was feared that children were sleeping in the house, and the police, with the aid of some civilians, burst the back door open, and, by the energetic use of buckets of water, practically extinguished the fire before the arrival of the Brigade. The back portion of the house was the most severely damaged. When the Brigade arrived, a few minutes later, they were soon able to totally extinguish the remainder of the fire. On going through tfod rooms it was found that there was no one on the premises, Mrs. Marshall and family having gone up to town. Mrs. Marshall states that she left the house about an hour before the outbreak, when everything was safe. The theory.is that when carrying a candle through the passage, prior to going ■out. the light must have accidentally caught the' curtains. The building—a five-roomed cottage—was owned by the estate of the late Mrs. Leydon, and f as A^ v. red in the Commercial Union for £200. The furniture was insured m the North Queensland for £100

General Booth has enlarged the Salvation Army Emigration Department. It is expected to send 20,000 people ov©r-seas an 1906. * ■

tin a starving condition, an artilleryman who defended 'tih© guns at the battle of Colenso was {recently admitted to a workhouse in the Isle of Wight.

The Clifton (Bristol) Ladfes' Club debated the question of conscription, and decided that it -was a pressing national necessity.

The new Glasgow Coliseum, to be opened on December .18th next, by iMoss' Empires, Limited, is stated to%be the largest theaJbre in the -world. It will seat 4000 persons, and is the thirtyeighth foal lowned by the company.

Notes to the value of £275 wejre found the other day in a disreputable looking old pocket; which a number of lads were kicking about Commercial Road, Aberdeen, as a football".

Within tihe London area there are in daily us© more than half a million penny-in-the-slot meters, in which a million coppers a day are placed in payment for the gas which is supplied to about 400,000 cooking stoves.

" I am very proud of my father, but I owe him a grude," said Mr Neville Chamberlain at a meeting at Birmingham, " as he has set me such a high standard that 'I find it difficult to keep anywhere-near it.". At the last meet of the East Rent Foxhounds, ttoe Master (Mr Selby Hjowndies) followed the hounds on a bicycle. iHds horse 'became exhausted, and >he borrowed a bicycle from a lad whom he met, and was in at the finish. ■

A sensational rise in the price of cotton has enabled Mr' Joseph Hoadley fro make £200,000 in five minutes on the New York exchange. The market had expected 8,000,000 bales of cotton to be ginned up to 14th November, there were only 7,498,167 bales. There was a made rush to buy; prices <went up 20 points at a time. Then Mr Hoadley turned seller. His total profits on the diays (business are estimated at over £800,000.

A commercial firm in Christchurch recently was rather surprised to' receive from London an advertising card setting out the advantages of the International Exhibition. The front of the card bears a well-drawn representation of the exhibition building, bathed in sunlight and with banners flying from the turrets. In the foreground there is a good picture of the Avon, and on the green banks there, are a large proportion of the 1,800,000 peoEle . who are expected -to visit the Exibition. The advantages of the undertaking are briefly set out on the card.

A Scottish life office sold an annuity to Mar.Pat Malon>&y, and paid, and paid, and paid until they (reckoned his age was about 100, when they sent an.inspector to Tipperai-y to interview the annuitant and to make sure they.were paying tihe annuity to the proper person. The emissary called at the cottage and asked if Mr Pat (Maloney was in; no, he was in the field, ploughing. A centenarian working ploughman se&med rather an anomaly. The insurance man found the field, and a man of about 60 at work- " Are you Mi' (Pat Malony? " " Yiss," "he says, " I am." " Are you the Mr Maloney who draws .the annuity from the ■ Insurance Company?" " Vis, bedad, and me fatter before me."

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