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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9389, 16 March 1898, Page 2

A smoke concert will be held at the Metropolitan Hotel on Thursday evening in connection with the Begatta. Frank Thornton's Company have booked the Oddfellows' Hall for their Wanganui season of four nights, commencing Monday, 25th April. Mr J. H. Eeesing advertises the sale of household furniture and effects at the residence of Mr Ransom in Bell-street, four doors above Liverpool-street. The sale takes place on Friday commencing at 1 o'clock. It was decided at a committee meeting of the St. George's Swimming and Water Polo Club last evening to hold another carnival on the Ist April, when an attractive programme will be prepared, including several tableaux and two polo matches. We understand that a really excellent programme has been arranged for the concert in St Mary's Hall to-morrow evening, commencing at 8 o'clock. The vocal items will include sentimental and comic pieces, and in addition instrumental selections will be rendered and a number of dances given. In view of the suggestion made at a recent meeting of the local Borough Council that some of the sheet-cleaning work should be let by contract, It is' interesting to note that the Timaru Borough Council, after a tluep years trial of the contract system of street-cleaning, on Monday night resolved to xevert to day labour. Nominations for the Board of Control's Easter Monday cycling and athletic carnival close on Monday, 28th inst., with Mr G. Tuffln, hon. secretary. Intending competitors are reminded that directly they namjflaip f° r a , n y events at the gathering they wjli lieimtitjjed to train on Cook's Gardens track, Uv T. M. Cope- 1 land has been appointed handfeapper for ; all the events, both amateur and cash cycling and running events. A vSTy Bice collection of hymns has, been chosen for Jbe anniversary services of the Wesleyan Sunday' School to be held next Sunday. The chlldrfit,"' a<yiis.t ( ed by t adult friends (vocalists ana' instfu'ineutalista), have been assiduously practising for j the last month or so nnder the baton of Mr W, H, ftijjd, and will no doubt give a good account of fchflfijeMygs. ' A- number | of pretty solos wij} £§ gojjtrjbuted by, several of the young girls, anaUpefreffor-jisl should prove acceptable to the Jargo congregations that are euro to attend, At the Education Board meeting yesterday the Chairman reported that Mr Huddlestone intended to resign his position as instructor in wood carving, etc., at the Technical School. ~lt was decided to establish a sohool on the Mangawhero Road and to take steps to nominate the Bey. J, Boss for a seat on the Council of the Victoria, College. Messrs Pfrani and Lethb'ridgew^e'apjMuiled'to report on the question" °* & PBVgfyffll # feUding. It was rerolyed £o jnyite tenderf for tho supply of desks ftflfl O.W? n <>ry. ; At the Magistrate's Ookrt Ms mfeng. before Mr C. C. Kettfe; %M» 'fhomus Wilkie, junior, was elifti'flod with using insulting language to J. :Hlndl«y. 'His Worship said he was satisfied the offense was proved, but in order to give the boy a chance dismissed the case with a caution, the lad being ordered to pay costs, 7s, William Cassidywas remanded till the 22nd instant on a charge of false 'pretences at Mangamahu, bail being allowed, acoused in £50 and two Buretieß in' £50 each. > A ''drunk" was oonvioted i aod ordered to o3m»»»/« sentence when ca.llect'upon,

The London wool, sales opened yesterday with irregular pricei. Meiinos are firmer and tho built of crossbreds lower. Captain Edwin wiies:— Bolometer rise, sea heavy, tides high ; westerly gales, with rain, may be expected. Members of the Kaieran Football Club are reminded of the practice in tho Drill Hall at 7.30 to-night. Members of the Wanganui Fire Brigade are reminded that the smoke concert on Friday commences at 8 o'clock. The Premier of Victoria successfully underwent a surgical opertaion yesterday, and is progressing favorably. The directors of the Manawatu Railway Company lecommcnd a dividend of 5 per cent. The Cape Otway, which left Auckland on Saturday en route to Vancouver, took 33 saloon and 176 steerage passengers for the Klondyko. The cases against Frank O'Connell, the Wellington constable who was charged with being absent from his beat, and also with being drunk, were dismissed yesterday by the Magistrate, it having been proved that the constable was ill. With Friday's issue of the Yeouin will be published two photo-process blocks of Napier — one a general view of the town, and the other of the breakwater, showing the damaged portions of the costly structure. The Feilding Bowling Club, following up their recent success against Wanganui, met and defeated three rinks from the Palmerston North Club on Saturday last, and were very elated at their victory. The Feilding Club propose sending three I teams to Wanganui on Thursday, 31st inst, to try and inflict another defeat on tho local representatives. Mr Rodwoll is in receipt of a letter from the hon. sec. of the Wayerley Bowling Club to the effect that a mistake had been made in fixing on 17th inst fto-morrow) for their representatives to visit Wanganui, as the engagement could not be kept. Next Thursday, the 24th, is suggested, if it will suit the Wanganui Club. The Waverley players would arrive by morning train (11.30) and leave here at 4 p.m. The visit, a3 suggested, will without doubt be made as pleasurable as possible for our Waverley friends, who may thoroughly rely on participating in Wanganui hospitality. The Farmer hears that a petition is in circulation in Wyndham Presbyterian parish, in connection with the matters that have caused trouble in the congregation for some time past. It is addressed to the Presbyterian Snyod of Otago and Southerland, and prays in effect that that body will direct a full inquiry to be. held at Wyndham into the mattters in dispute between the minister of the parash and a section of his congregation. The petition is being largely signed, it is said, and only the names of the members of the denomination are eligible for signature. Tho annual meeting of the N.Z branch of the Medical Association began at Wellington yesterday. Dr Cleghorn, president, submitted the roport of the Council, which stated that the membership was now 173 and would soon be 200. The balance sheet showed a credit of 4515, and suggested permanent headquarters either in Chi'istchurch or Wellington. Dr Mason, of Otaki, was appointed permanent secretary, and Dr Fell olected president. Dr Byrnes read a paper on a new CD. Act for New Zealand and a discussion followed, which tho opinion was generally expressed that the Act was necessary in the interest of the public health. Sarah Grand has been a contributor of merit to the literary fiction of the day, but in her latest effort " Tho Beth Book," she has eclipsed anything previously written, including '• The Heavenly Twins," " Ideaia," and "Our Manifold Natuie." Clevor in every sense of the word, " The Beth Book " deserves to be widely read, pathos and humour being happily blended, while thioughout there is evidence of a strong insight into human natute, together with a graphic force in delineation. "The Beth Book" is amongst the very latest arrivals at Messis H.I. Jones and Son's, and already there is n rapid demand for copies. Another moat readable and fascinating book is Blackmore's latest work " Dariol," which is also on sale at Messrs Jones's establishment. George Round, an American cyclist performed a most daring and foolhardy feat in Williamstown, America, jnst before the mail loft. Across the Hoosac river, close to the Vesmont Btate line, swings and sways a bridge that makes a persoß shudder when he walks across it. Tho bridge is 180 ft long, and one looks down from it 200 ft to the river beneath, and it was across this structure that Round recently rode at a very fast rate, accomplishing a feat that to those who watched him seemed sure to result in the rider's death. When he told tho people of Williamstown Mass., what he intended doing, they tried to persuade him that his thought was foolhardy. When one stops to think that the pathway aoross the structure for Round to ride when ho attempted to Cross was a straight line of lOin planking their belief seems wise. At the meeting yesterday of the Board of Governors of the Girls' College, Miss E. Krull, visiting teacher, wrote tendering her resignation owing to ill-health. Miss Fraser, the Lady Principal, said she could arrange for a visiting teacher each morning for a salary of £20 per year, and suggested the balance of Miss Krull's salary should bo voted to Miss Currie.— Mr Spurdle suggested that Miss Ethel Bell, an ox-dux of the Girls' College and at present engaged at the Wanganui Girls' School, was well qualified to take up Miss Krull's work. — Sovoral members objected to tho suggested remuneration of £20 a year for a visiting teacher, and the opinion was expressed that it wuuld be better to appoint Miss Bell to the vacancy at a salary of £40 or £50 a year. — After discussion it was decided to leave the matter ts the Chairman and Miss Frasor. A touching scono was witnessed a few weeks ago, saysour London correspondent, at Wilberforce House, the birthplace of William Wiberforco. Bofore leaving Hull the Fisk Jubilee Singers, the descendants of slaves in tho Southern States, paid a visit to the birthplace of the great liberator of slaves, which is now transformed from an old mansion into suites of modern offices. As Mr Thomas Masson conducted the negro singers to the room in which Wiberforce was bom, they stood for a moment with uncovered heads and then bnyst into " John Brown's Body Lies Mouldering in the Grave." Fiom all aides the tenants of the offices rushed to hear the haimonious melody and once more tho Fisk Singers lifted up their voices and chanted in anthem, " Arise and Shine for Thy Light Hub Come." Speaking at the luncheon on his visit to Mosgiel, Lord Ranfurlycoinmantedonthe loyalty shown by Now Zealanders, and wont on to say :—": — " I confess that before I came out I did hear some talk of New Zealand wanting to separate — (cries of ' Oh,' and laughter). I did hear it. It may have been a rumour, and there were separatists no doubt. (Cries of ' No.') I confess I never looked at it as being anything serious, as after all England does not derive orte penny from Now Zealand. It coßt the inhabitants 'of Now Zealand nothing, and what do they dta-ive ? They | derive the advantage of the Army and tho ' Navy of Grest Britain, the advantage of the flag they fly— (hear, hear)— and which flag whereverit flies demands and requires respect to be paid to it. (Applause,) I could hardly, therefore, under those circumstancfcß.'bqUeve (jhat' anybody would mention''f)he VorS 'separation '—would mention it seriously — because, after all, if you have an old relation wMb 'chooses to dispense to you a few thousand ayearand let y°Jf do what you like, it is not human nit-jjrfl tg flaV ' J 'do not wan t the old lady , ' fiijd walk of In mq^f cotiWe. 1 "-(paughter And applause.). 1 ' ' * '' •» r \ \