LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12244, 18 June 1909, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

: At .the Police Court yesterday morning ' ao/ offender foir drunkenness was finQcjLlOs and costs.

It. is .stated that Mr. George Spriggens lias resigned the position of President of tli« Wangahui Rugby Union.

Tht> Aotea, vthe second ocean liner to ont?r the port, was berthed safely at Nelson yesterday morning. ,In'another i column the Wanganui East Borough Council invites tenders for -supply of. material ami erecting wire ft:-nces.

A successful practice was held on Wednesday night at the Christ Curch Club gymnasium. The plant has been overhauled and this branch will meet a long felt Avant, not only to the Club but to the town. The gymnasium is hold every Tuesday and Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. Members Who intend joining should communicate with the secretary, Mr. D. Bobbins, care W. Hall, as soon as possible.

The following are the judges appointed at the National" Dairy''Show at Palmerston North: Dairy factory produce, Dairy Commissioner and staff; apples, Mr F. Cook, of Hastings; vegetables, Mr A. Booth, of Carter ton; farm roots and seeds, Mr W. Rowe, of Normaaby; homo industries, Mrs Bromley, Weraroa; poultry, Mr J. Casey, of Khanclallah; fat stock, Mr W. McKenzie, of ■■Mastortpn, who will alto judge the horso competitions on the- Thursday afternoon.

"A Message from Mars" at the Opera House this evening. The annual meeting of St.. John's Bowling Club will be held this evening. Tho annual banquet in connection with tho T.Y.M.Ii took place last evening and proved very, successful. A reward will.be given to- the person returning to the "Chronicle" office a pair of spectacles, lost on Wednesday night. " i ■■'■■'. In our report of. the Education Board meeting yesterday morning we inadvertently stated that Mr Spurdle moved a motion relative to obtaining a grant for the erection of an infant's school. The mover was Mr Purnell. It may interest some of our readers to notice in connection with the recent' severe earthquakes in the Riviera, that "Raphael, the astrologer of the 19th century" in his "Prophetic Alliance" or "Messenger" under the "Voice of the Heavens for June, 1909, amongst other predictions says that "earthquakes are also threatened in the Riviera." ";

At Wakanae on Wednesday a football match was played; between the married and single men of the place. A unique feature of the match was the fact that Mr A. Burling, who is 109 years old, kicked off, sending the ball" a dozen yards with a good kick. Mr Burling was driven to the ground by his son, aged 71 years.

St. Paul's Band of Hcpe held their first meeting of the winter series last 'evening, when Mr Atkinson presided over a very good -muster or the children. A pleasant hour Avas spent, the profjramme consisting of recitations by air James and Masters Burniston and WainwrightV songs by- Messrs Baumgart and Naylor, pianoforte solo by Miss Downes. Mr Baumgart at short notice delivered a very interesting address, which was attentively listened to. The convenor Tibpes that members of the congregation will send their children along in full fore© to the next meeting, which will be held in a fortnight's time.

All admirers of a good clean sport should make a point of witnessing, the hockey match on Cook's Gardens' tomorrow. The match is between tne United and St. Paul's teams; i and tne game promises .to -/be the game; of the year. United are t last: year's ' champions, and so far are leading this year. In the first cup match this year they beat the St. Paul's team by thenarrdv/ margin of one goal. Since then, however, both teams have improved, andin the opinion of the critics the ; St. Paul's is the better team. Hockey is but a new game here, and from its fast and necessarily clean play, it is a game to be encouraged. The association does not as a rule charge for admission,, but has now, on account of tte interesting nature of the matches, decided to make th c small charge ■of sixpence. . . '

All of our readers who are interested in tho origin and derivation of our Bible and its place in English literature will doubtless avail themselves of the splendid opportunity, of lieairingj the Rev* A. B. Chappell, M.A., on the subject. Mr Chappell has devoted a very considerable amount of time to tho study of this question and his natural gifts enable him to present the resiilts of his research in a. very attractive manner. For the purposes of hie lecture ho has himself taken some sixty lantern slides which illustrate the various points enumerated "by" the speaker. We anticipate that the Wesleyan schoolroom will be crowded on Monday to hear this- moit interesting lecture. There will bo no charge for ad- . mission but a collection will be made for the funds of tho Bible class movement

In the Supreme Court (in Chambers) at Wellington on Wednesday morning, His Honour Mr Justice Sim was asked to decide a point in regard to the transfer of native lands. It was stated that Mrs Jury, a native woman,-htxd-leased certain lauds from "the Aotea; Land Board, and had subsequently mortgaged the lease to the -United Farmers' Association. The association had exercised the power's of sale contained in the mortgage, and disposed of the lease to Arthur Maurice Campbell, of Wanganui. The District Land Registrar, Mr JBamford, had refused to register the transfer until the Court decided whether the consent of the Land Board was necessary in the transfer to Campbell. His Honour made an -order that the transfer should be registered, and that the costs of the motion (£5 ss) should be paid out of the Land Transfer Assurance Fund. The Land Board, His Honour ruled, was not concerned-in the transfer. Mr Mackay (of Wanganui) appeared for the applicant.

At the monthly meeting,. of the Eltham School Comnirttea> on Monday evening., reference . was made, to the secondary departments- Mr Fitness fiaid he had seen a number of parents in. regard to a g airantee required to provide an adequate salary for an-as-sistant male teacher in,the secondary school. While the parents had nothing io.say against the present teacher, they felt that /the school was. not ;being conducted as it ought to be. They objected to the change of teachers, and ■were not disposed to make up the salary unless the teacher would remain at least two years. The matter is to be brought up again at the next meeting. In the meanwhile all the jjarents are to bs interviewed. The headmaster (Mr Thomas), in a written statement said that h& had been reluctantly compelled to refuse any help whatever from himself to the secondary pupils sines March oi last year, in consequence of instructions to that effect received by him from the WanganmEdijeation Board,. consequently the assistant had to^dalP tho work unaided. It was decided to ask the-Board the reason foi- the bead-, master befng excluded-from the super-' intendence of the eecondary department.

The quesjtiQn,of effecting ari ■ improvement in the Canadian-Australian trans, port facilities is at present .receiving considerable jattentioii in HiawaiiXsays the Auckland Herald),, and business me)i there promse that in the event of anything Deing done they will give.it their hearty support. Mr. W. J. Cooper, of the Hawaiian Promotion Committee, points out that the, present-facilities, so far as Hawaii is concerned, are utterly inadequate, ;,many intending, passengers to America being unable to r get bir,ths,. owing to lack of steamers and sufficient passenger ..accommodation in those -that do run. , v '.^Tlie Canadian-Australian line," he says, "is relieving t)ie ; congestion to a slight degree, but its once-a 7 month service is scarcely adequate to handle the through business between the colonies and America, so that only a few are, able to travel from here on those vessels. It therefore, seems certain that, in case the English line can see its way clear to add a number of new vessels between Vancouver and Sydney, it could count oh considerable support from Hawaii."