LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12889, 2 August 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

In the..report of'the St.-'Paul's Sunclay «chool building yesterday we omitted to state in giving particulars of the Presbyterian Senior School, to mention that Mr G L. MaclaehLan, the wellknown architect, of Wanganui, was reGponsiblo for the planning. The work is being carried out by Messrs Russell r.nd Bignell. The Napier Education Board warmly '. endorsed tho Dunedii'. Teachers. Tnstituto'.s resolutions re the need of an increased sealo of salaries and passed a resolution regretting that the Minister cannot see his way to deal with the question this session. The capital value of the portion of tho Wiaimarino County which will com. 3 with-! in the rating area for the Wanganui Harbour Loan is £153,853, and the unimproved value £123,281. These amounts were approximate, and were taken from valuations five years, old. The present capital value will be far greater, as several thousands of acres since that date had. been felled and other improvements made. Tho figures for the Rangitikei County on the ratable value wore c£3{>!),----000. * Tho Harbour Board and its officersdo not frequently receive much appreciation for. their services, but: Captain^ Trenton, master 'of the s,s. Ihumata, gives credit where credit is <!ue. In a letter to the Harbour Board, read at hsfc night's meeting, ho said: — " Having discharged th? largest .cargo Landed in Wanganui. I wish to convey mv bost thanks to tho officials of your Board for tho consideration-received at tbfir hands, especially C'tptaiii McT'ltyro. your TlarbourmafitiM", who has pvs'.stod f»io ii overv wav possible. His ndvifo lias been of very great service to me."

A lost purseis.a4vertise(i f°!' Th© Wangairui"• -Harbour District and Empowering Bill will be taken by the Local Bills Committee on Thursday, August 7, when evklsnco will b e heard. A typographical error occurred in Mr. Bruco's" letter on ' the Bible m Schools, published in our yesterday a issue. The sentence affected should read: —" I am very much at rest upon such a matter when I remember that our Lord gave his imprimatur to Moses." To help the .funds of the Orphanage a gentleman is sending a number ot bundles of gooseberry and black currant plants to Williams and Harper's for auction to-day. These plants are all really good kinds, and those who can do with* them will be both helping themselves and the Wanganui Orplianago by attending the sale.

The motion moved by Mr. G. Carson at. tho meeting in respact of the Bibl.? in Schools question at the Opera Houso on Thursday night, was to the effect: — "That a hearty vote of thank?, be accorded to the speaker, and that this meeting demand a referendum upon the Bible in Schools question," and not to the effect that the meeting be plea-, ed to support the Bible in School* scheme, as inadvertently reported in our columns yesterday.

At last night's meeting of the Harbour Board the chairman reported that tho Harbours Confereneo had_ beea held in Wellington, but he had known nothing about it until it was over. He regretted that tho Board was "not represented, for the questions of control of wharves and foreshore had cropped up, and resolutions affecting the same, had been passed. It was decided to t-o ply to a belated communication ■stating that tho Beard endorsed the remits passed by the conference.

Passengers in the night expresses, when crossing the Waimariuo Plains, aro usually asleep in their carriages, but the engine-driver sees some strangy sights, especially in winter. _On Tuesday night last week, while the express was crossing the plains, the moon ros-a behind the lofty truncated cone of Ngauruhoe. All of a sudden the en-gine-driver heard a prolonged roar, which woko people in their bods right down as far as Owhtango, and a pearshaped column of smoke and steam shot up from the crater to a height nearly equalling that of the mountain itself, and was followed by a shower of lava and ashes: It took quite a long time for tho ;:loud to drift away, but it finally vanished in a thin dark streak.

A sliglit alteration to the Aramoho tramway timetable will. come into, force on Monday Tiext, the 4th inst. Cars will leave Calver's corner, Dublin Street and St. John's loops two minutes earlier than at present. XJrder the new iarr.angement cars will arrive at the Heads Hallway at 8 and' 9 ip^.m., from both Glasgow St. and Dublin St. In oi*der to meet the requirements of mid-day passengers cars will leave the Heads Railway at 12 noon and 1 p.m., arriving at Heads Railway iat 1 p.m. and 2 p.m., both the Glasgow St land. Dublin St. routes. It will also be noticed that extra, -cairs will be- run from the Post Office after 10 p.m. The coloured destination lights on Castlecliff cars have been changed from orange to blue. Book time-tables will be ready in a few days, for free distribution. New time-tables Lave been placed in the boxes along the route, and more will be put up in the course of la few days

A serio'.is accident occurred in tho Avenue yesterday morning, when Dorothy, the 10-year old daughter of Mr. G. D. Jones was injured. The little gir) was riding a pony :nto the Victoria Avenue School ground, and when crossing a broken culvert which leads through the gates, the pony foil sand the little girl was thrown ir> the ground.- A fearful gash extendfr-jr th c .l^n^ili of tho girl's leg, w.as ii.i'ictpf! She was talc en ■into-Mrs. HmiV-n'^, next door, mid Dr. Wilson mas .-uiniucrred. After lieing attended to tho eliiki was removed to her homo. i.y'ktp .<.,L~ ; wil] bo confined for w)tv<: time to r,om/>. Tho pony was bad- ! v injured.. This is nr i the first accident Mhi';h Las I'cea caused through the de■■f'tive i-ulv-cit, another accident having ■ ■ ,Do:!rd tliere some time ago. In spite vpeato/T representations to the polities, the culvert has never been .opntrcd. It is to be trusted that now •Ino danger lias beor; forcibly shown no 'iehiv will ho occasioned in having it atUT.ded to.