LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 11 August 1908, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Brimlisi mail is expected to arrive to-day. -', -:».•■■••"•;■ Members of tho Old Boys' Association can obtain tickets for the forthcoming ball on application to the secretaries. ; At the Magistrate's Court at, Timarii on Friday a woman was fined £1 and casts for cruelly ill-treating' a cat by allowing her dog to worry it to death. The opening service in connection with tho new church, at Matarawa will take place on Thursday afternoon at 2.30 o'clock. The Kaikoura " Sun," referring to tho August number of . Good Cheer" says:—lt is a welcome- monthly containing much more than its unpretentiousnesg would lead anyone to suppose. There is ' (' cheer" for the wife, mother, and children; helpful hints upon a host of matters —health and household; tales for young and old; the realm of frfshion, with a free pattern of the Dorothy blouse. Tjue to promise, " The Lone Hand ". for August—'Fleet number —is made up largely of instructive literature dealing with the American Fleet, which is at present in Auckland. There are also well produced pictures of every one ot

the ships, and portraits of the principal officers. That splendid serial by/Ambrpsa Pratt, "The Big Fine," is continued, and there are numerous other high-class original stories and pictures. A se-ioiis and at the same time rather curious accident happened in Timara a day or two ago. iVro children under Jivo years of ago, sons of a local doctor, ware, playing " 80-Peep" in their home. Olio oliild put his eyo to the keyhole of a door-and looked through, when- the other one innocently shoved a hat-pin through the keyhole. The pin ran right into the ball. of. the eye that was peeping through, and completely destroyed the sight.

Anticipating an enjoyable evening, devotees- of the '' light fantastic " arc making eager inquiry for tickets to the

i Catholic bazaar social, which will.""be I held on Wednesday- evening in St. Mary's Club rooms, which hare been kindly lent for the occasion. The sup-; per is in the hands of the ladies', which i; sxifficiont guarantee of its excellence. Good music will bo supplied, and as the floor is kn-mvn to be one of the host |in Wanganui, there should bo no fears for the success of the gathering. Tickets can be obtained from the Indies' committee, and from the club's executive. i With reference to a paragraph appearing in our issue of Saturday last, relative to the a-lleged extortionate , practices of a couple of financiers in the | money-lending lino, wo are given to . understand that the statement has been taken by some people as applying to a ' certain duly registered firm of money lenders. Wo are assured by the principal of this firm that the imputation, so far as they are concerned, is altogether uncalled for. Their finn, lie assured us, would ecora to touch business 'of the 300 per cent, order, or to dabble in the slightest degree with transactions of the kind referred to-. -

Tho domestic workers in Dunetim havo formed a union.

Tho Hon. T. Hislop lias consented to contest the Wellington Central gvat against Mr F. M. Fisher.

The Management Committee of tho Wanganui Kugby Union meets at 7.30 this evening.

Our Marton readers will be interested to hear that 6t. (Mary's Dramatic Club will etage the comedy " My Soldier Boy " at Marton on August 20th.

Mr and Mrs Mallinson and their concert party gave their second recital at tho Opera House last evening. There was a somewhat larger audience than on tho occasion of the first concert An artistic treat of a rare ©rder was provided. *

Mis.? Akenei Hei, the first Stateregistered Maori nurse in the Dominion to qualify by examination; has bsen transferred from the Napier Hospital to St. Helen's Maternity Home, Christ.ciiurch, where eh© will undergo a further course of training.

A return of expenses given by a woman in receipt of charitable aid from tho Benevolent Trustees throws som«3 light upon the cost of living in Wellington. Rations had been supplied by the trustees, but even after that the husband's cheque of £7 was almost all gone, tho items being:—Rent, £1 14s • instalment paid on iiirniture smpDiied by board, £1; money borrowed," ss; boy s boots, 15s; girl's boots; 8s Wy infant's boots, 3s 6d; repairs to boots, 2s 6d; clothing for husband, "6a 6d; oilskin, 163j coal, 4s; union fees. 5s 6dtotal, £6 0s 6d. Under the circumstances tho Board decided to discontinue the relief for a time.

A correspondent from Pembroke writes to the " Cromwell Argus," stating that tho keas have been killing a number of sheep lately, as the snow has driven them, down to tie low country, and their deadly work is then more noticeable. Mr Bcaife had seven sheep killed in the paddock in three nights at his Glendhu station recently. If aay person who had doubts about tfoe way these birds kill ghecip by landing on their backs and digging their hago beaks through the skin j\ret above the kidneys, they should pay a visit to tho Wanaka district, when they would soon bo convinced. Mr Tiieo. RnsseJl, of Cattle Flat Btation, shot thirty keas in one day recently.

..-i?9",^ 8 made in Auckland hv » Herald" reporter elicited from wholesale houses the fact that the statements oi Mr T: M Wjlf ok?, M.P., in Parliament, as to tho Standard Oil Company having "cornered" the eupply of kerosene,- were by no means" overdrawn, iho position is that the Standard Oil Company hold a'monopoly fop the eupply of kerosene, which.cannot bo pnr- ; .chased elsewhere. In consebuehce, als »though there is no duty upon the oil, it now costs 8s 8d per €ase s ox st-ore which is considerably higher than when, duty had to be paid. Tho average price la from 7s 8d to 7s lid, but in Auckland at present the* firit-nientioned pricj has to bo paid. There willbe bo further supply, of kerosene for about six weeks> when the price to wholesale Bujers will bo 7s 6d per case; A sboriage of tho commodity is reported in this city, wliich ;fact necessarily,enables the Standard Oil Company to eustain high charges until the next boat arrives with more. Buyers o"f kerosene, in order to securo a bonus, have,., it.appears, to sign a statement to the effect" taat tbey havo not purchased same from'the makers of- any other brand during a certain period: : •'■ .' ' -