LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12186, 30 March 1909, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There was a clean sheet at the Police Court yesterday morning..

During the week ending Saturday, March 27th', 493 people visited the Museum. - '■'" Tho Committee of the Chamber of Commerce meets at 10,30 this morning for the purpose of still further considering the Maori camp question.

A Brisbane cable says that a storm at Pittworth unroofed many houses, and seriously damaged the Catholic Church and other, properties.

To-morrow (Wednesday) is the last day on which applications will be received by the Board for registration under the New Zealand Society of Accountants Act, 1908.

A sale of work in connection with the Eastbrook Presbyterian Church will be held on Thursday afternoon and evening next. A fine lot of goods are to be offered for sale, and a successful function is anticipated.

"'Kn appropriation in connection 'with: the People's Building Society was held last'evening. The winning marble proved to be No. 830 3 the owner of which, being the possessor of two shares, becomes entitled to £300 free of interest.

T.Y.M.I. members, who are interested in Rugby, will be pleased to learn that a junior team will carry the Club's colours this season. A meeting will be held in the Club-room this evening at 7.30 sharp. All members and intending members are requested to attend, or send their names to the secretary.

A meeting of the Auckland Stock .Exchange decided to call a meeting' of shareholders of the Talisman Consolidated to discuss the proposals made by the Wellington shareholders for the appointment of two Wellington and one Auckland shareholders as an advisory board for New "Zealand, at a salary of £200 a'year each. This being regarded as part of the scheme to remove the office of the company to Wellington, the motion was carried with two dissentients.

Mr Clement Wragge, who is at present in t Auckland, says, basing his remarks on the results' of the Antarctic experience, that northerly currents may be gradually undermining the high polar plateau of snow and ice, and the time may come in the far distant future when the weight of the» plateau may give way and case a tidal wave producing far-reaching and disastrous results. However, he adds that people need nob worry, as the tidal wave may not occur till after a thousand years.

A lecture on "Banking Reform and Currency" will be delivered in the Museum Hall next Friday evening, April 2nd, by Mr J. B, HoDart, of Wellington, author of "Dominion Banking: What it is and what it does." Those who have heard Mr Hobart lecture on financial subjects give him praise as an outspoken and fearless man in the case of reform. He is never tedious, and can talk about money matters in a manner quite entertaining and instructive. ■ Mr J. T. Hogan will preside as chair- j man. y-\

Authorities quoted in Court are not usually humorous." A flash of Avit, how r ever, lit the drab proceedings of the Wellington Magistrate's Court the other morning. "Your Worship," said counsel, who was engaged on a case about a jibbing horse, "Mr Justice Denniston has made use of quotations from ' Gulliver's Travels,' therefore I think I am justified in quoting Artenms Ward, where he says that a pious man who can drive a jibbing horse for ten miles and not be put back years in hia religion is ripe enough for a better world."

Tha Mangaweka Public Library is apparently in a bad way. The annual meeting was held on Friday, evening, when there were present—Dr. Turnbull, Messrs Heerdegan, Boultbee, Mills, ,7V McLaughlin, Honore, and the press. Tho secretary (Mr Honore) read the balance-sheet, which showed that after paying all dues and demands there would only remain £1 3s Id in hand. Tho position clearly showed that the support forthcoming from the public was not sufficient to keep the doors open. The voluntary contribution box in the reading-room had only collected ?. shirt button, a tin tack, and two dead spiders during the year. The concert held during the year had produced a profit of £17, which had enabled the committee to carry on up to the present. At the usual public meeting, held subsequently, it was resolved that if at the end of another month's trial the nosition has not improved, the Library be closed. -» . ■ ..