LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18965, 17 March 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

At Palmerston North last evening there was a try-out of the new elec - trical installation and the results were very satisfactory.

A Dunedin telegram says that a proposal to authorise a municipal loan of £200,000 for street purposes, was carried by a majority of 2 to 1. i t

Waiving their right to poi’pone payment of £20,000 to the Auckland University, under f>ir John Logan Campbell’s bequest, for the foundation <>; a cl;air for agriculture, rhe trustees have notified the registrar that the money will be available on September 30 next.

The steamer Devon, which arrived at Napier on Saturday, reported having lost half her rudder coming down the coast. The vessel will be_ docked at Auckland.

The . Tasmanian Assembly, on the casting vote of the Speaker, concurred with a resolution of the Upper House asking the King to appoint a Governor of Tasmania. The sessior then closed.

A /notor-car containing A. Pidcock and P. Stuart overturned on the road near Warragul (Victoria) and fell down Dead Man’s Gully, pinning the occupants .underneath. Both were killed.

Private advice from Kingston states that the first and second ascents of Mount Tutoko were made on March 4 and 6 by G. Samuel Turner, of Wellington, and Peter Graham, of Waiho Gorge.

When the dock at Port Chalmers was being emptied on Saturday morning after docking th e Tainui, it was discovered that half of the liner's rudder had been broken off and lost. This means a delay of a week at least Meantime the propeller will be removed to ascertain whether the shafting was bent when the rudder was damaged-

The case of Roland Blair, who was, at Auckland, on Friday, sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment for undertaking to mako a bet for a friend in his office, has been taken up unanimously by th 0 telegraphists with whom he worked. They have signed e declaration to the effect that they hav e every confidence and belief in his integrity. In addition they have fdrwarded to the Minister of Justice a very strongly worded telegram demanding Blair’s release, on the grounds that the punishment is out of all proportion to the offence. The telegram bears the signatures of over seventy fellow employees. A reply to the effect that the case will bo immediately investigated has been received.