LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12257, 3 July 1909, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In another column tenders are invited for ploughing 170 acres at Turakma.

Patrols are reminded of the meeting to bo held on the District High School groiinds this afternoon at 3 p.m. where they will undergo training in signalling. The attention of builders is drawn to an advertisement in another column for tenders for additions to the grandstand at the Waverley racecourse.

Tho Castleoliff Railway Company's Sunday trains will run to-morrow as usual, leaving Wanganui at 2.15 p.m., 3 p.m., and 5 p.m. ; leave Cast'ecliff at 1.45 p.m.,, 2.35 p.m., and 4.40 p.m. Trams connect with all trains. .

.One of the attract'ons cf Ambulance Saturday will be a uiijquo public demonstration of "first aid" efficiency by cleve;- pupils of the Turakina Maori Girls''Collego. This demonstration will bo given in tho window of Mr Wilton's Pharmacy, Victoria Avenue. The -young ladies, in their nurses' uniform", vi 1 give two demonstrations of bandaging, etc., one between 3 and 4.30 p.m., and the other between 7.30 and 8.30 p.m.

Tho usual monthly meeting of tho Wang.imii County Council was held yesterday, but> tho busine'K done was'not of much public interest- Cr Sommervilk; reported having inspected tho culvert at 11 uric Creek and had written to the Mayor of Wanganui East on tho subject. With reference to an account for metal supplied for the Tay'orviHo Road, it Mas resolved that Mr Hatcher be informed that in future he carry out no work except at the Council's instructions.

The following reolution, whi h speaks for itself, was passed at a mooting ot cho Kaetihi No-license League hold on Juno 2Ut: ''That this League, having in view the published report^ of tho recent annual meot'ng of the Taumaninui Licensing Committee and having ascertained from Mr Datipliji the whole circumstances connected with h:s application for a wholesale license, do-r?« express continued a.nd unabated confidoneo in tho integi-ity of Mr Harris in his professional capacity..as well as or>uiM?el for the League in the recent licensing meeting held at Waitara."

Tho Harbour Board Chairman's annual report appears on page 3 of this

issue,

The Alexandra Mounted Rifles, under Capt. Morrison and Lieuts.: Son)'merville and C. G. Russell, arc at present in camp on. tho section adjoining the Recreation Ground, undergoing their annual ten days' training.

The latest additions to the Telephone Exchange are No. 638, Messrs E. Downey and Son, umbrella makers and Labour Exchange, Victoria Avenue, and No. 641, Mr Hector Christie's residence, Wanganui East.

Members of the Maroro Golf Club are reminded of the match with tho Wanganui Club this afternoon. The Maroro brake will leave the Post Office at 1.15 instead of 1.30 p.m. as usual.

Says the "Dominion": Very appropos camo a telegram on Thursday to Mr Varne'y, Director of tho _ Wanganui Technical School, at the conference of Technical school experts in session at tho Education Board office. Members were discussing the pros and coins of insuring technical school buildings and equipment, and Mr Varney had just expressed hie conviction that some provision in that respect was very necessary, when a telegram was handed to him: "Plumbing* shop burned down last night." He eyed it ruefully, and quoted it sadly in emphasis of his previous remarks.

Three Timaru school boys, one aged 12 years and the others thirteen, missed the evening train at Ashburton on Saturday, and set out at four o'clock to walk home, fifty miles. They walked all night, taking occasional rests, and next day tall nearly 5 p.m., when they got a lift over the last three miles. They had nothing to eat except one ■snack taken froni Ashburton, and they reached home tired, hungry, and footsore. The road most of tho way was rough or soft through tho rain.

In another column the D.O.A. at Hawejra invites. tenders for the bankrupt estate of J. E. Wilson, cabinet--maker. The property is situated in the principal business street of Hawera, viz., Hich Street, and has a frontage of 3o feet by a depth of 330 feet. A plan can be seen at the Official Assignee's office. The business is a very long established one and, capably managed, is a very lucrative one. Although in bankruptcy, the estate, even now shows a surplus of some £1300, but owing to the bankrupt being an absentee, with whereabouts unknown/ his Attorney elected to have the estate wound up by a Govern merit official; The stock has been well bought and represents, at invoice price, some- £1400. Undoubtedly the estate will realise 20s in the £ -and a substantial surplus;