LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 3 September 1908, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The monthly meeting of the Gonvil'e Town Board1 was held last night. The report is unavoidably held over.

The Liedertafel gave a most successful concert at the Opera House last evening. Owing to pressure on our space our report is held over till to-morrow.

An old and experienced farmer, speaking to a representative of the "Chronicle" yesterday, described the present season as the best lambing season within his recollection.

. "This Court has very often to ascertain the intentions of persons who never really had any intentions at all." —His Honour Mr Justice Chapman in a will case at the Supreme Court yesterday.

Under the auspices of the Wanganui Literary and Debating Societies' Union, Mr Justice Chapman will deliver a lecture in St. Paul's Hall on Friday evening, the subject, being "Alpine Flowers."

The annual entertainment of the District High School is announced in our advertising columns for the 24th inst. The programme promises to be both varied and interesting. Contrary to custom, the first part of the programme is to be of a general character, and the second to consist of a school operetta. This has probably been necessitated by the operetta being staged by the juniors. We are told that the acting and singing are of a particularly bright and picturesque character.

A well-known public official, whose duties sometimes impose upon him the uncongenial task of dealing with seeniing harshness with a class of people who may be described as the " übiquitous undeserving," has at times been charged with heartlessness. In other words,! it has been: ascribed that "he hath no heart! " The falsity of the accusation was convincingly demonstrated yesterday when, under the able manipulation of Mr F. P. Talboys, the X rays revealed a fully developed organ of the " heartistic." variety doing stalwart work the aforesaid officer's waistcoat.

The Chairman and several members of the Wanganui Hospital Board attended at the Hospital yesterday forenoon for the purpose of witnessing a demonstration by Mr F. P. Talboys of the X rays apparatus which that gentleman has placed under offer to the Board. The .members of the honorary medical staff were also in attendance, and, after Mr Talboys had given a very interesting 1 exhibition of the capabilities of the ap- | .paratu.Sj, a brief conference was held, jat which ""it was resolved to ask the members of the medical staff to report on ,the matter.

The .rainfall taken at Waitotara for the .past, month was 4.25 inches. The mean- fall for the month was 0.13 inches. The maximum fall in 24 hours was 0.91 inches, which was on the 17th, and the minimum was 0.03. The maximum .barometer which was 30.4 inches, j yra4 recorded on the ,14th, and the mini--mum^29.4 inches, was recorded on the 1 28iAiS :'-.'! The maximum thermometer, which %as;ssdeg., was recorded on the ISthj arid" the minimum was 38deg., on thevlStli^. The rainfall for this' last month wag about an inch heavier than that"of.',, August of the two previous .■yeafs^Vpie total for August, 1906, was 3rll ;iifq|ies, and that for- 1907 was 3.41 iriches.".';The month was bright and -rather, ifcold, with a prevailing south wind. J "v ' ■