GENERAL NEWS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10823, 13 December 1902, Page 8

GENERAL NEWS.

The death is reported of Mr Stewart Bates, editor of the Opotiki Herald, aged 58 years. Deceased was greatly respected. Competitive designs are invited by the Oamaru Memorial Committee fcr a Fallen Trboper»' Memorial, to easL .£I2OO. Thcfirst 'prize is .£lO. The 'plans for the nurses' home which it is proposed to erect in Wellington, provide for accommodation for 74 nursos. The Hospital trustees will consider the plans at their next meeting. Mrs Kirkwood, proprietress of the County Hotol, Stratford, has, according to the Taranaki Daily News, -abandoned nor intention of adding twenty rooms' to her hotel, in consequence -of the uncertainty oi the local option poll. The Lyttelton Borough Council on Mon- > day 1 decided to encourage music by offering a subsidy of £5 eacii to the two local bands for* alternate - fortnightly performances during the months of January, February, and March. 'Each band will, if the offer is acceiited, give one performance per month. i , \ We, have received several" copies of '"The Australian Hen," an excellent little journal published in Sydney in* the interests 0f poultry-breeding and rearing. "The Hen contains a. mass of useful information connected with the industry, and should have a big circulation. It is published by, Messrs Harris and Son: Tlie following is, the drawing for the second round " tor the District" Draughts Championship: — 2- lives — Anderson v. Alluni'a; .Armstrong v. Williams; Burnett v*. -Goffe ; [ Walker v. Beadle; l'oung v. Piper. On life — Brann v. Ewing; Kandrup v. Carey; Carrell v. Keegml; Caddy v. llnntor; Higgie v. Smidt; Soler and Watt byes. , v , '"How is it," writes a correspondent in a Mastefton paper, "that I can get as good bread as I would wish to cat in Wellington at 2Jd per 21b loaf? I only left Wellington a few days ago, so that I know what 1 state is a fact. Surely 2d i oji a 21b loaf is a tremendous margin, betwqch , Wellington, and Mastertciu prices of bread?," The remarks apply equally M Wanganui. f ' Mr Carruthers stated px the Now South Wales" Legislative -Assembly on November 10 that according to the best authority in" the Statp there will not be 20,000,000 sheep v left in the State at tho close of"th,e summer. In "1891 there were over 60\000 t OOO. . In addition there have peen heavy losses of large" stock. Tho executive committee ,of the Wanganni Hospital and Charitable Aid Board ha ye accepted the* -j:qH.qw}Hg tenders fqr the year 1903: — Provisions, M. Russell: meat," Caddy and Co.; milk, Q. Millfg^n; firewopd and coal, W. M. Ashton for tiqspital and J. Greaves and Co. for charitable aid; 4 ru g B >^ &■■ Gower; funerak?, Pursc^ and Son; cab hire, C. T. Jefferson. . The Itcv Minor-Canon Bcsley, of- St. Paul's' Cathedral, who. has taken a prominent part in all the great public services of the present .historical year, is an "old boy" of the' Wanganuj Collegiate School. His fine .voice' and finished singing' liave brought Mm into groat request, for all the principal "suiting parts", which form bo , important q, pliasc of a minor "capon's . official duties; he also enjoys a' high ijfcpji- . tation as a preacher/