LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20013, 17 February 1914, Page 24

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Six guineas' worth for one penny, and the penny goes towards the beautifying of your town! That is the essence of the "Chronicle's" Queen of the Carnival Preferential Voting Competition, full particulars of which will be found on page 3.

A disastrous fir© occurred at Okehu on Sunday at midnight, when the new dairy factory lately erected by the Marahau Dairy Company was burned to the ground. The origin of the fire is a, mystery. Pfractically nothing was saved. The insurances are unavailable at present. It is understood that the erection of a new factory will be proceeded with at once.

WOLFE'S SCHNAPPS. A gplendid domestic safeguard

The town clock stopped at 9-23 last evening.

The police were notified late last night that an attempt had been made to enter the house of Mr. Rowley on No. 2 Line.

We wish to call the attention of our lady readers to the advertisement inviting them to meet Dr. Dunn and Mrs. Gifford-Moqre on Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Technioal College.

Through a printer^ error in the Booster the date of closing the entries for the Baby Show was given as the 14th. This should have read the 28th. Wjll mothers please note? Photos can still be taken free of charge in the mornings.

No less than JSOO entries have been received for the Autumn Show on Wednesday, and the competition in some classes is v£rv keen. The number of entries reached more than double figures in more than one instance. For instance there are more than 60 entries for four classes of apples.

An interesting case was brought to a close yesterday, when Mrs. Carroll, proprietress of the " Majrble Bar," at which, soft drinks and ice-creams are sold, was fined 55., with 7s. costs, on a charge of Sunday trading. It was admitted that similar establishments are opened in the cities.

The Tyser liner Star of Australia will complete Home loading at the Wanganui roadstead this morning, and is expected .to weigh anchor for Gisborne at 8 o'clock. Her WanganuLconsignment consists of 25^000 carcases of meat, 700 bales of wool. 300 casks of tallow, and 75 tons of casein. . .

A pleasant little function took place on the Gonville Bowning green last evening, when Mr Win. Lawrie, who had been a. valued member since the formation of the club, land who has now removed to Wellington, was presented with a traveller's companion as a mark of the club's appreciation of his past services and the esteem in which the memJbersheld him. The president, Mr Nixon, made.. the presentation in a happy speech.

The speaker at the Men's P.S.A. Brotherhood; on Sunday afternoon last was Mr C. S. Matthews, who has quite recently returned to Wanganui from tha Moody Training Institute, Chicago, U.S.A. In [handling his appropriate subject, "Mission Work in Chicago," Mr Matthews held the close attention of his audience throughout, especially so when relating his experiences of the particular work-he was engaged in, namely prison visitation and gaol work, some of the references being particularly pathetic.

At the Supreme Court at Auckland yesterday, in the case of Minnie Frewin, a young woman charged with setting fire to a billiard room at Huntly, Mr. Justice Cooper said it had been represented that she was driven by ill-treat-ment from her home by her husband, betrayed by another man and again led astray by the owner of the billiard room. It was an extremely sad case. He did not want to send the woman to gaol, 'and placed her in the bjands of the Salvation Army, Subsequently His Honour -gaVe the* woman some advice privately in >the presence of counsel.

The'revenue gained from the tramways during the month of January was £1,956 7s 7d, made up of £429 17s 6d from the Dublin St. route (car miles traversed 7,628.57), Glasgow St. £525 Is 5d (8,475.71 car miles), Guyton St. £399 4s 5d ((6,035.60 car miles ami trailer miles 397.2), and GonvillejCastlecliff £601 14s 2d (9,593.72 oar miles and trailer miles 1,020.28). The number of passengers carried totalled 216,915, and the total car mileage was 33,154.51. For the same month last year, the passengers numbered 201,881 (an increase for last month of 15,034 passengers) and the oar mileage run was 30,214.70.

It has been found that much of/-the work of the Beautifying Society carried out on tEe hillsides of St. John's Hill* is being destroyed by Borough roadmakers and others. At a meeting of Wanganui Beautifying Society and others interested last night* this was brought up, and it provoked a wa*-*n protest from those who have been so much interested in the beautifying of Wanganui. Mr. Hatrick moved, and it was unanimously carried: "That this meeting of citizens regrets the destruction of the native shrubs and other plants on the St. John's hillside slope between the railway line and the roadway, and respectfully requests that i,o further destruction take place without evidence being taken as to the necessity or advantage in doing so, and^ that in this instance, and any future instance, the executive of the Beautifying Societybe given an opportunity to. oppose any proposal to destroy any beautification work they have been associated with, and that this resolution be conveyed to the Mayor and Council at once." His Worship the Mayor, who was present, assured the Society that_ the Council would support the Society in its object. Other speakers also voiced their opinion.