LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 16 December 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Garden Fete Meeting to-naght, Council Chambers, 8 o'clock.

■In connection witih <the' .Hilble jn State Schools League, Jtnennbers of tiie general ooimmittee and all sympathisers are requested to meet at St. (Paul g Class-room"at 7.30 to-night. It is stated tlua* one of the ibig soapmanufacturing firms of the Mother Country has 'acquired several lacres of land at Potone for the purpose of establishing works there. . v

It, appears thatf there is an ideia (pre- , vailing .-among cadets tbat there are) !to be no .more parades umbi'l afteir the holida-ys. This is entirely wrong, as •parades' for all cadets in the area tare to be comtiinuel tlntil the 20th. inst., j,when work will !be suspended unftil Jan. 16th —that is, there wall ifce no iparades between Dec. 21st and Jan. l<sth. only. ■ Oadets should" ibear this in niind.

Fishing in the Oroua Aeoliimaitiisiatiion District is reported to be very good juet now, and some good catdhes hlave (xen miade. The lassociation is doditg -all in its poiwer to .build up good ifishing grounds, and to-day am addiitiiomal ten thousand rainbow trout are expected from the Masterton hatdienies. They will ibe liberated1 in the Oroua River.

The applioation of the following retiring pupils and/probationers in,l Wellinigton and Wangamii for admisaioa ttlo the Training. College have been approved. (The number of lapplioants under division A is so great "that the Board will be unable to .admit in 1913 any iB grade appMoanrbs, those who havonot served us pupil teachers or probationers):' Mr el M BathgaAe, Mr J. B. Bennett, Misses L. iCraWb, F. M.1 Curh&m, E. Dfllbinett, E. Hare, M. J .'Haiaise, G. E. Jamieson, E. V. Nicol, M. Walls- and M. Daniel. Miss L. Pemberton, 8.A., has been admitted to the graduate division/

The signiaiinan's box lat the Durae. Hill nagstsaff, in which is stored the bunting aM other 'gear, hiad ia mrram escape from, destruction % fire yesterday morninig. Some piasser-by hlad evidently dropped a match on the ' da-y grass, with the result that the lower po-rtion of the little building was ignited. Fortunately, the fire >w,as discovered before more thian a few boards had been charred.

A lad named Stephen Johnston, eight and a half years of age, had the misfortune to sustain a. broken thigh. on Saturday last as the result of an accident to one of the London ißakery's delivery carts in, which he was riddng. Tho little sufferer wlas removed1 to the hospital, and inquiry' last night elicited th-i pleasing inifo ruination that he was progressing satisfactorily.

Having occasion, to visit the schoolhouse on Saturday evening, Mr 'Nairn, headmaster of the Duriehill School, made the unpleasant Idiscoviery that some mischievous person had dettbe-rate-ly turned on the taps of the school tanks and allowed them to empty. Before leaving the school on Friday evening Mr Nairn had taken the pretiaution to screw down both tapa, so that they could not be easily turned, ibut the oft'eiii■dier had actuaHy-taken tho trouble to knock them loose with ia piece of [wood.

Tho prize giving ceremony in connection with St. Andrew's Sunday School took place yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Oalder distributed the prizes as follows : Lower Division: — Catechism*: Maude' Simpson, Lance Lithgow, Alex. Xisibet and Henry Wilson. Upper. Division : —Oatex-hism: Cora Sutclitfe, Helena Bathgate, Huri Tibbs, Mona Parry, Jessie Scott and Olive Garner. Scripture: Linda Hodge, Thelma Nisbeit and Beatrice Wilson. Scripture Essay: Emily Haase. Attendance: 'Carrie Jackson, May Oornick, Fred Robb, Willie Giarner, Ray Purser, Leslie Giarner, .Thelma Ntisbet, Henry Wilson, Rhoda Hanton, Owen. Corniok, Mabel Hianton., Margaret Elliott, Katie Joslin, David Parry, Helena Biathgate. and Alex. Nisbet. In addition to the above, each of the younger children received tastefully designed mrd.

The police yesterday arrested here a boy on a charge of stealing a coat at Taumarunui.

Titt second article headed " An American Tour," being -a continuation of an account of travel in tlie United States, appears in to-day's issue-

Owing to a lengthy stoppage" of our machinery this morningy we are comipielled to hold over a considerable •amount of reading matter.

Land tax payers 'are reminded that >to all unpaid .tax after to-diay (16t<h), 10 per cent, penalty will (be added. The ♦Savings Bank remains open until 5 p.m. on that date-for the convenience of payers.

The British Antarctic expedition, ship Term -Nova left /Lytteifcon on Saturday morning at 5 o'clock for Captain. Scott's biase in the Antarctic. I'hwa -was ia siaaii crowd on the whaii to see the vessel and officers and crew off, and a cheer from those ashore when the Teri'a Nova «cast off, was heartily answered by those on .the ship.

Dustin's, Ltd., will have a great ■wlindow display of Christmas Oakes and delicacies on Wednesday, 'the 18th, land Saturday the 21st. Some eplendid specimens of the oonlftjotdoner's art are promiised. On December 23rd the huge Christmas cake (too large for the window), .whieh^is literally smothered with coiua, etc ', will be out Iby his. Worship the Mayor at 3 o'clock, and sold to the public iat Is' 6di per 'lib.

The Ruapefou arrived at Wellington on Saturday night from .London with close on 400 passengers, of whom "206 in the third class are iinmiigrantls, 50 being lassiisfted by theiGovernment. These include 20 farmers and farm laibourers, 12 dioimestiic servants, and five wives rejoining their husbands, 'already settled in' the 'Dominion. The Ruapehu also brought the household staff, about 40 in. all 3 and two polo iponies for Lord Liverpool.

Some people have a penchant for young ducks and chickens, and during the past few nights several roosts have been robbed. In Glasgow Street on Friday night quite a numiber of ifotwl were stolen, the midnight marauders bavinig. a desir© apparently for Christmas No doubt due Inquiries will be made by. those c6ncerried as to1 where supplies lare coming from, but in the meantime it would be just las well if those who wish to retain their foiwl exercise extra precaution in safeguarding their .property.

One of the most, ipopular secretaries of A. and P. Associationis on the West Coast (w rrites our travelling repioirrter) is Mr ■Selby Morton, of the Wanganui A. and P. There is no dbg in the manger principle governing Mr Morton's life. Ho is all tihere to assist kindred associatiions, and this was recognised at the Fei'iding A. and P. v'meeting on Friday niight, vyhen in a letter ihe stiated that if a batch of prograimmes were sent along he would endeavour to get as many entries from the 'Wiangjanui district, and «would also come along and render any iaseistance necessary aft the show. -The very kindly spirit that prompted such a generous offer iieceived unanimous approlbation, and the secretary was (authorised to write to Mr. Morton conveying the thanks of the association for his promised (assistance. ) A correspondent coimm>end6 tiho following cutting from the Australian letter in a recent 'issue of the Otago "Dia'ily Times" to the careful consideration of Sir Robert Stout, as having an important tearing upon the system of religious instruction for many years piast in vogue *in that State: "The New South Wales Minister of Justice had on bis hands no less than 26 gaols which are no longer required, principally because of ia reduction in the number of (persons legally qualified-tlo become occupants. Ten years ago there were 2800 lodgers lin these 26 gaols, but now the number has so largely decreased, notwithstanding a big increase in population of the State, that the small ba'lanice i« -mlosb 'economically distributed lamanig other igaols. The Minister ds anxious to find some way of utii'ldsinjg the empty buildings."

The short, sharp "Ip ray!" \vihich has almost entirely supplanted the- Homemiade cheer " Hip! hip, hip, hooray 1" in almost every part of Ilis Majesty's Dominions, does not find favour with the chairman of the Wellington College Board of Governors, Mr A. de B. Bnandon. During the prize distribution the boys igave half a dozen .rousing samples of the first-mentioned fashion, land one of the .best—if volume counts for anything in fthe ancient business of cheerin—was for the Minister of Education (the Hon. James Allen), who /had just outlined a Ifow ideals for th^ I'ads and who strongly counselled them to "play the game" in school arid out of fit. Mr Brandon rose at the condlusion of the Minister's speech and informed the boys that they had. to leiarn how to dio one thing, and ijhat wias how to give a real hearty (British cheer—"mot an lalbfbreviated distortion or nucxlern substitute," of the genuine article.

Tire passage of a foreign .body through human flesih was strangely illustrated by a case which occurred quite (recently in Wellington. A man wias engaged in moving a roll of'linoleum in ia shop, and allowing the roll to fall lagainst hiis shoulder 'before the lifted it 3 he was alarmed to feel a sharp paiin 'as tffiough a ilinife IbQ/ade had been inserted In the front of hie shoulder. As the pain recurred, Jie got someone to feel ;all round the spot, wuth the result that something wias located.'A slight insertion iwith the point ~of a keen-edged pocket knife was made, and about an eighth of an inch under the skin a fish bone, three-quar-ters of an inch in 'length, was located and extracted. How the fish bonel got there is a mystery, for the person concerned could not remember ever having had trouble with one, and even if he had s.wallowed one, how did it find its way into hjis shoulder?—" Dominion."

A final reminder is given of the openair concert by the Garrison Band in the Rotunda tihis evening. The object of this performance is a worthy one, viz, to assist the applied art scholarship fund in connection with tho Technical Collego. The programme to be rendered is a splendid one, and it is seldom that ©yen the Garrison Band gives a more interesting number of selections. Gounod's "Faust" and Weber's "Preciosa" are fine works, capitally arranged, and a'"good test for any ca/p----ablo^band. Among the lighter pieces, that .pretty intermezzo, "la the Shad•ows^. will be given, also "iOavaHeria Rusticana," to be played as a soprano solo Iby Bandsman Frances. The deseriptivo fantasia, "A Sleigh Ride," will (be •given with sleigh ibel'l laocompaniment. The concert will commence at eight o'clock, and a collection will, be taken in aid of the scholarship' fund.