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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9399, 28 March 1898, Page 2

Mushrooms are plentiful m Wangamii at present. The Supreme Comt sessions commence to-morrow morning at 11 o'clock. Tho Premier anticipates a surplus of £100,000. The Tutanekai succeeded in laying 40 miles of cable m 21 hours. Tho work was expected to take neaily a month. The Governor and Premier left Wellington this morning to attend the native meeting at Hastings. The boy Seaman, whose skull was fractured by a fall from a hoise near Masterton, is dead. The Government has decided that time is too limited to allow them to take part with Great Britain in the exhibition to be hold in 1899, The Government havo appioved of a now combined telegiaph form and envelope similar to those nsod in Europe. They will bo put into use at once. ft.fr IJeesiug advertises a household sale for Thursday next. Amongst the items to be offered is a beautiful piano, almost new, by Haake. J. P. Hargreaves, in his sleep, clambered out of a two-storey window at Timaiu, and fell on to the asphalt pavement. His head and face were cut, but his injuries are not serious. Tho turn-table of the Town Budge was opened this morning to allow of the Manuwai passing up and down, the river steamer taking on board from tho railway whaif a lot of sawmill machinery for Messrs Gyne and Biggs, of Pipinki. The height was taken on boaid for convenience, as owing to the low state of the river the steamer cannot at present proceed on her journey. The chess match Napier v 1 Wanganui by telegraph was concluded on Satuiday evening. Four games are yet unfinished, owing to communication with Napier not being obtained until a late hour. The match will be submitted to the Hon. John Bryco for adjudication. The best thanks of the club aio due to Mr T. Rankin for Ins careful manipulation of the various moves, to Mr Koesing as umpire, and to the Telegraph Depaitment for the use of Hie wire. The wind having gono down somewhat, thico more of tho Championship Regatta ovents were got off at Dunedin o-i Saturday, with the following results :— Maiden Clinker Puiis : Invercargill Railway 1, Port Chalmers 2. Otago R.C. 3. Won by half a length. Junior Clinker Pairs : Invercargill Railway 1, Waiweia 2. Noith Eld also competed. Won by 30 yards. Ladios' Plato : Canterbury (Haidy, Cowlishaw, Ayers and Wright) 1, Dunedin Amateurs 2, Quoen's Drive 3. Four others sfcaited. Won by two lengths, after a good race. Tho barcjnontino St. Kilda was signalled off tl|O bar oarly this morning, and was towed in by the s,s, Manaroa, ai riving at tho town wharf about 12.30 p.m. It appears that on Fiiday evening the barcjueutine sailed for Kapiti and sheltered there till last evening, when she again left at 5 o'clock. Half-an-hour affceiwurda she was picked up by the Munaioa, winch stood by hoi' all night and towed hor over the bar this moiniug. The St. Kildn is leaking slightly, and when she put to sea on Friday she had 22 incheß of water in the hold. In all about 175 tons of coals were thiown oveiboard. Such feats as riding some hundreds of miles on ft cycle in 2,4. hours (vro, of course, boyond a woman's power, but thoro are somo things which a woman oan do whioh are beyond man, She can rido 200 miles without getting out of the train for a drink. She can enjoy an evening visit without smoking a half-dozen cigars, or chewing so many quids of tobacco. Sho can enduro the toitnung distraction of a home full of children, while the husband cuffs thorn all howling to bed before he has been hoilio an hour, Every day q woman cndiu'os a chess that would. n)ake an athletic swoon. Sho is afraid of a mouse, and runs away from a oow, but tho biggest crush in tho world would not Udap hor from tho " remnant" counter at a drapery salo. There was a full muster of members of the Wanganui Football Clubatthoanii"al meeting at Chavannes' Hotel on Saturday night. The election of officers resulted as follows :— President, His Woiship the Mayor (A. Hatrick, Esq.) ; captain, Guy Johnston ; vice-captain, E. J. Le Cren ; lion, secretary and treasurer, H. F. Tilley ; committee, li. Sigley, J. Bruce, N. Blackmore, R. Gallendar and J. Simsj selection committee, Q. Johnston; B. J. Le Oreu, L. Sigley j delegates, G, Johnston, H. J. Le Cien and H. Tilley ; auditor, N, Blackmore The following new members were elected :— E. Lusk, Solomon, 0. Sigley, L. Wright, T. D'Arcv, 11. Harris, Ooe, J. Shaw, Dixon, J. MoVJckers. It was decided to hold a practice match on Saturday noxt. Stories are now appearing in the English papers of the wintor at the Klondike diggings. One correspondent says :—: — " Do not put me down for a liar when I tell you some funny tricks the cold plays upon you. When I startqcl 1 took twelve loaves of bread witl) me, au<J at the first camp \ made Ifoqnd them, f io<sen. 1 put n, loaf in (V pan and put stom.e watfil' on it to. thuw " otl 'i but i(j would qurn before it would thaw. A knife would do no good, for it was. as hard us a brick, so I had to cut my brea.d with a s,aw. just as one would saw a pieoe of wood. With the flsh we catch I do in the same way— rip them down tho middle with a saw and take a hatcliat and chip off the scales. Now here is one you will not believe, but it is true. I took a bucket of water off a stove, and put it right down beside the red-hot stove. The side nexc the stove kept warm but the other side froze solid. Such is life in the Arct'o." In ananje]: t(j tv p^ragrap^ in the locals of the Saturday ;s edjtfon of this 1 paper, which may bo misleading to the public. Captain Crawford writes to state, it was solely" in the interests of his employers he refused to tow the St Kilda! ' Had those in charge 'of that vessel acted at once in response to signals made from the pilot station, she would have required no moi-Q assistance, than the Waitara, which was lying' at tlje' Hqails wharf wajtjng, could'havo given. Evidently 'thqs'e on board did not realise there was any danger, or tljey wquld have exhibited the lieoessary » u,i'fjanti» s^nals, w]]ich woi]ld have recejved piqn^pt attentjqn. Under the circumstances, the towage wquld have b,een hazardous to the Huia, wln'ch, had not a nartjqle qf cajrgo qr ballast qii hoard, and tl)g breeze tljat blew- sq freshly on Friday was, also sufficiently strong to have made an ac.cid.ent possible. Under such dlrcum."staußOS tU<3 o> r nors of \\^ Huja wqul4 nqt haye received any rgmnnara lipn qr compensation from, the insurance, hut wqn!4 Iwe hud tq hear all expanses and casts, The Rev, J. Cooker, who has been deputqd by tho Primitive Methodist Conferenoe tq opera a branoh church lv Wanganui, held his first meeting last evening in tho Oddfellows' Hall at 8.15. Previous to commencing his sermon Mr Cooker said some people might ask "Why are you here ?" He was sorry they had come just now ; he wished they had opened 17 years ago. Better late than never, however. They were here to open a Primitive Methodist Church and conduct services every Sunday. He cordially invited those who did not go to any church to come qlong, T}|ere might bq meinbgrs of their ohurob working in other denominations, They would not be aslted to leave tha body they were associated with ; they would not press them to join, although they would be very glad to see them. If they were happy, he had no desire to upset them. He would like the people of Wanganui to understand, that they ])ad come to staynot a week or two but altogether, even if it took a month, a year, or five or ten years to establish a ohuioh, The rev. gentleman, who is an earnest and forcible, speaker, then gave an able address on the text Revelation - xxi.— 4, his discource was listened to with marked attention.

The barometer at 2 p.m. to-day registered 3D. 10. The thermometer inside was 02°, and outside iv tho sun, 04° There were 1130 visitors to the Museum last week, a fact that betokens increasing interest in the popular institution. Death is busy amongst the Maoils up river, and still another old chief passed away at the pah above Galatea on Friday last. Captain Edwin telegraphed at 12.13 to day :— Baiometer use; bea moderate; tides low ; coldei weather and probably frost to-night. A Pres3 wire fiom Auckland to-day fetate3 that a Maoii chief named Hoki Waugh, 100 >eais old, died at Pehaweia. He celebrated his centenary last December. We learn f 10m the manager of the Hagey Institute that ho has wired to the S.M. at Palmerston Noith guaranteeing to cure Long, the hangman, of drunkenness in four weeks, the Government and Head [nstitute to arrange the feo. On Saturday afternoon a number of interesting laces for tho W.R.C. pair-oar challenge cup and medals presented by Mr S. H. Diew were rowed. Williams and Kebbol defeated Dymock and Andrew by a length ; Fianklyn and Kevr finished a similar distance in fiont of Johnston and Blennerhassett ; A. Lewis and Haycock after a big struggle beat S. Wright aud W. Mahoney by a few feet ; Ward and Lusk suffered defeat at the hands of P. Lewis and Bruce, who won easily. Tilley and Callender were to meet Le Cren and Whitefoid to-night, but cwing to Tilloy being indisposed the race will not eventuate. Messrs Bell, Esau, and Co. intimate their inaugurating display of the season's novelties for to-morrow evening, when our readers may expect to see one of the choicest and mo3t tasteful expositions— a veritable mitUtim in parvo of brilliancy and fashion — which this popular firm have yet essayed, and which will doubtless be appreciated by the ladies. As intimated, the premises will be thrown open from 7.30 to 9 p.m. to the public as one of those pleasant promonades of inspection which have become a feature of the opening of the season's trade with this enterprising young firm who have not been long in earning a name and fame as one of the leading houses in the trade, and deservedly so. Memorial services in connection with the death of Miss Frances Willard, president of the Women's Temperanco Union, wore held last evening in the Wesloyan church and at tho Oddfellows' Hall. Tho Rev. G. Bond, after referring briefly to the life and work of the distinguished lady, delivered a powoiful temperance sermon. The organist (Miss Bassett) played " The Dead March in Saul " as an opening voluntary, and during the service an appropriate anthem was sung by the choir. At the Oddfellows' Hall the Rev. J. Cocker also briefly reviewed the late Miss Willard's life. He stated that she came of an old English stock, her foiefathors landing in America just previous to the ai rival of the Pilgrim Fathers. Hor parents wort Christians of a sturdy and manly type. Till the age of 18 she lived in the buck parts of America, after which she went to Evanstou, and there becamo a btudant in tho University. Miss Willard continued her studies until sho was appointed Dean at tho age of 39, when sho delivered her first temperance addre3s. Afterwards she became editor of the Chicago Daily Post, and was appointed president of the American Women's Temperance Union, a position she hold for 18 years. Whea the English and American societies amalgamated Miss Willard was chosen president. She also editetl the Union Signal. When there was a likohhood of tho Women's Temple being sold for debt, she made up her mind to raise sufficient money to avert tho catastrophe. Sho gave every penny she possessed. A friend promised her 50,000 dollars if sho could raise another 125,000, but she died befoie her aim was accomplished. Though dead, said Mr Cocker, her spiiit was still with us. Iv her woik there was nothing narrow or sectarian. Her sympathies woie wide, stiong, and deep. She was a business woman, a bold and eloquent speaker, and a born leader. She might have lived an easy life, but preferred to spend all hor energies iv the cause sho had at heart. She was not a mannish woman, and he admired either the old or new woman, as long as she was a woman and did not try to be a man. The speaker concluded an interesting reittme of Miss Willard's life by a forcible appeal to his hoaieis.