LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12857, 1 February 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We have to acknowledge the receipt of a very handsome calendar for 1913, from the Vacuum Oil Co.

Pillaging has been so bad from the last Home boats that the Dunedin merchants have started to insure against loss in that direction.

Members of the Wanganui Chamber <»f Commerce are reminded of the meeting' to be held in the Borough Council Chambers on Monday evening, the 3rd Feb., at 8 o'clock*.

Nominations closed yesterday fo rthe vacancy on the Castlecliff Town Board. , Two candidates have been nominated, R. G- Firth and Sydney A. Jarrett j l)oth of Castlecliff.- The election will I tal-r; place on Thursday next, Feb. -6, 'and the polling place at the Castlecliff Town Hall from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

At the Magistrate's Court yesterday morn-ing, before MrKerr J ,S.M.,a first,<iffending inebriate was convicted and fined ss. For a second offence in six months Charles Crichton wsas fined 10s or 24 hours. On a further charge ..of breaking a prohibition order, Crichton was fined 10s, or 24 hours in default. He was alowed a day in which to find the money.

The Garrison Band, uiider Conductor Wade, will give the following programme this evening on the vacant section opposite Messrs Purser and Son/s; jjreimises, >whero ;the Fire Brigade Ai*t Union prizes will be on view: Mtanrch, ■"Bendigo" (Bulch); ■overture', ffLa Fete Champetre" (Le Due); cornet solo. ■"Caterpillar and the Rose" (CarSy).; raise; "Coldstream" (Godfrey); selection, "A Waltz Dream" (Strauss); selection, "Souvenir of Savoy" (Rimmer>; valso, "The Quaker Girl" CMonkton).

According to teh annual renort of the Wanganui Public Library, there were . 11,298 borrowers, nad 20,484 books were circulated during the year, .compared with 10.462 and 19,524 for the preceding year. The library has now on its shelves 11,681 books, 6018 being of fiction. During th e year, 523 new books' wore added. The largest number-of hooks l.>ken.-!fmfiiy"ahy subscriber .comprised 497 novels and 53 misfjelalneous, a t<stMM*&£\fil[)n' the financial fsidn, the fiWaW'l-eccJyed £431 13s lldi. —subscriptions £245 Gsv, grants £18-1 Os" Bd, ,sal P of waste" paper £2 6s Bd. After paying expenses the sum of £54 f>.s Id was loft in thp bank. The library's assets total £2223 7s Bd. and tho liabilities £225.

An artist who has brought honour to h.imself .and to New Zealand is Mr (.'. N. Worsley, R.B.A. He is at pre-f-.cnt ova visit to Wanganui, and .art lovers will be pleased to hear that lie proposes in the near future to settle h^re. In the meantime, much interest will bo centred in an exhibition of Mr Worsley's pictures. Several of his watercolour drawings vyill be on view in Messrs R. and K. Tingey's window this (Saturday) evening and on fofiowing days. The drawings, which are for sale, oomnnse street and marine subjects ''» Austria, Italy and England. Mr. Wor.slev.bekl a. most successful exhibition of New Zealand pictures in Bond St.. -London, two years ago. The exhibition was visited by the King <and many of.the-late Governors of New Zealand.

T?o-day is the seventy-first anniversary of' the founding of Nelson province.

The latest addition to the Telephone Exchange is No. 435, Mrs. D. Bayly's residence, Bell Street.

The police have received, complaints that the robbing of orchards has been going on in Mosston and as the result of investigations prosecutions are likely to follow.

Tho shelves of the Wanganui public library hav e been enriched by a very useful set of Government publications, presented by the beneficiaries in the estate of the "late Hon. John Bryce.

The vital statistics for the month of January are as follows: —Births 50 (51), -deaths 23 (11), marriages 12 (15). For the purposes of comparison, the figures for January, 1912. are giveii in parentheses.

A motor car proprietor is sihortly to appear before the Magistrate and charged with aMeged. negligent driving. While manoeuvring his car at tba Post Office cornier on Thursday afternoon, he knocked down, but fortunately did not injure, a man and a woman.

For some years a, Lutheran Church school lias been established at Mar-ton, but the Education Board refused to grant the pupils attending it certificates of exemption as the Chief Inspector wae. not satisfied with the instruction given. An efficient teacher has now been engaged and the Boai'd lias granted the necessary exemption.

Some Jittle time ago the Taranaki Rugby Union established th© Bayly Scholarship, to be awarded to the candidate securing the greatest number of points in both scholarship and athletics. Only one pupil from the Wanganui Education Board competed last year, and the headmasters in thest-. schools are to be written to asking why more pupils did not enter for the scholarships.

The annual general meeting of the Wanganui Public Library, wh^ch was to have b-sen held last evening, lapsed' for want of a quorum. The following will therefore continue to hold office for thia year:—Dr. H. R. Batherly, chairman; Mr G. W. Currie, lion, secretary and treasurer; Rev. A. O. Williams. Rev. H. Reeve, Messrs T. Allison, L. J. Sigley. Geo. Smith, H. E. Dymock, H. B. Watson, Geo. S. Gordon, and C. C. Hutton, committee.

Much inconvenience is being experienced with the discharging of the Kittawa's cargo of coal. The vessel is equipped -with seven winches, but owing to the smallness of the wharf is able to use only two, so that coal handling operations are slower than could, be- desired. While tho work was in progress yesterday, an accident befel ona of the labourers. Through a basket- striking one of the hoppers on the wiharf, a lump of coal was thrown out and hit one of the men working in the hold. He wisi3 rendered -unjeonscious and after, being attended to had to be sent home.

It used to be the custom for teachers who intended to leave the service ot the Wanganui Education Board at the end of the year to resign a month before the holidays, so as to grab all tho pay possible (says the Feilding "Star"). "This was exceedingly unfair to teachers from the training colleges, who were only paid to the end of the year, and the Board decided that resignations would terminate on December 31st in such eases. One young lady teacher, who entered the married state before the end of the year, objected to this practice, and threatened to sue the Board for the January salary. The Board decided to let her sue.