LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11703, 1 November 1905, Page 5

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

. There was a clean sheet at the Police Court this morning. 1

A lobster canning Tactory is about to be started at OhawaC Otago. Of 93 pupils at the' Timaru Boys' High School this term only fll pay fees, 11 hold Education Board scholarships, 11 High School exhibitions, and 60 are Government 1 free scholars.

The Lower Hutt Borough Council intends to raise a loan of .£52,000 to provide a drainage and sewerage system for the borough, and for >vater supply, sanitation, and street improvements.

Four traction-engines are engaged in the Hinds, Ealing, and Hackthorne districts at present in ploughing. Farmers consider that they can get their land ploughed much cheaper by steam than by horse-powci\ Tlie New South Wales Government Stat. ist gives the acreage under wheat as 2,200,000, an increase of 160,000 acres on last year's return. He anticipates 276,000 acres will be cut- for hay, and thinks that 20,000,000 bushels of harvest can be relied on.

A mischievous act was committed in Lyttelton on Monday night by some evildisposed person, who put a lighted match into the pillar letter-box at the junction of Dublin Street and Norwich Quay. Several letters which -^ro in the box were damaged.

A Tongan correspondent informs -the Auckland Star that>| the whaling station there, managed by Mr Albert Cook, brother to the Messrs Cook Bros., of Bay of Islands, caught fix whales during the six weeks prior to September 28, and got about 36 tuns of oiJj. ,

The Masterton correspondent of the Wellington Post stages that agents are making inquiries will regarC to the wool clip for the coming season. It is said that from lOd to 10-id has been offered, but farmers do not seem to be disposed to accept these offers, owing to the high prices ruling last season. The Italian warship Calabria arrived at Suva from San Franfcisco and Honolulu on Thursday, and after a few days' stay proceeds on to Australia, and then comes on to New Zealand. The Calabria, which is a twin-scrow stool cruiser of 2422 tons, has on board the Due d'TJndine, a member of the -Royal house' of Savoy. The -warship is expected to reach Wellington about the middle of November.

A correspondent writss as 'follows: — "A week or so ago your athletic contributor "Victor" drew attention to the filthy condition of the dressing 6 k € d -on Cook's Gardens, but so far no attempt has been made by the authorities to have the place cleaned out. In its present state the shed is a s?rious menace^ to the public health, and unless something is done towards cleaning it out — particularly the downstairs portion — sonre of the unfortunate cyclists and peds. "Vho have perforce to use it will be stricken with typhoid fever. The Health Officer might do worse than pay a visit to the place*;

Mr Barnard Brown, was yesterday elected a member of the Chamber of Commerce. The Victorian Government has decided to set apart the sum of ,£3OOO for improving the breed of horses in the State.

Tho Agricultural, . Industrial, and Labour Conference, known as the Parliament, meets at Christchurch on February 15th. The fund- for the erection of a medical ward at the Dunedin Hospital is making good progress. .Up to the present .£3619 has been raised' out of the .£4500 required. The Public Works Department has re-

quisitioncd the Labour Department to engage 200 labourers for work on the central section of the North Island Main Trunk Line. At»the Arbitration Court, at Wellington yestsrday, tlie Wellington-Havelock-Mot-ucka Steamship Company was fined £b

for hSving failed to pay a seaman employed on the Manaroa overtime while working at bays in Pelorous Sound.

Amended plans of the proposed Technical School at New Plymouth have been forwarded to the Education Department.The Taranaki Education Board has applied or a grant of ,£2700, and should the Department see its way to provide this sum a creditable building will be erected.

Under the will of Major-General George Nuthall, of Newport, Barnstaple (Eng.), who died .last month at the age of 91. ,£35.000 of his fortune of .£89,221 is left to his servants. The housekeeper, Priscilla Ann Arundel, receives a legacy of ,£15,000, her late master* household effects, his houses, 1 and" 3, Clarence Place, Newport, and one-tlm'd (about .£10,000) of the ultimate residue of his estate.

Tho question of urging the adoption of Saturday as the universal and compulsory half-holiday was briefly discussed by the Chamber of Commerce yesterday afternoon. A motion to that effect was introduced by Mr A. Sutherland, who, however, failed to find any supporters, though several members expressed sympathy with the principle of tha Saturday half-holiday.

At the Criminal Court, Sydney, a few days ago, Alice Stanton, aged 19, a domestic servant, was convicted of stealing from the dwelling of Bertha Willis, North Sydney, money and goods of the total value of ,£4O, and was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment, with light labour. His Honor said he was sorry to see so many cases in which servant girls were accused, and most of them for offences of this kind. "May you be shot as you sit there,"' remarked the prisoner as she passed to tho corridor below sobbing.

At the Wellington City Police Court yesterday, James AA'illiams, a native of Mauritius, was remanded till November 6th on a charge of landing in the- colony, he being a prohibited immigrant. It appeared that the man came to the colony from Sydney as cook of the steamer Blenheim, having shipped at Sydney for the run over. The remand was granted in oredr that tho defendant might be returned to Australia by tho steamer leaving on Saturday.

The Grey River Argus says: "It is won. dcrful the ingenuity of man's mind. At tho Magistrate's Court last Wednesday a man was charged with being on licensed premises during prohibited hours, and explained to the magistrate, without a blush, that ho went into the hotel to get some small change as he was going to church. 'But,' remarked the magistrate, 'It was ir.ls when you were caught, and church goes in at eleven.' No more was said, and tho man paid tho fino without a murmur."

A man named Robert Junes, employed at Meldrum, in the Tc Nui district, cutting scrub, was found on tho tßth inst. by a mate suffering from a shot wound. The mate asked him what ailed him, and ho replied, "I have shot myself." Subsequently he said he was dying, and asked for a drink of water, but before it could be procured he expired. At an inquest concerning the death it was shown that deceased was in the habit of shooting rabbits, and the jury found that he died by accidentally shooting himself.

The Ota?o Daily Times says that tho friends of Mr John Gell, formerly manager of the telegraph station at Wakapuka, will te interested "to learn that tho company formed by him to manufacture his instruments for rapid telegraphy is now on the hig-i road to success. The factory is quite an extensive place, and employs about 20 hands, most of whom are skilled mechanics capable of executing the very fine work necessary in the manufacture of the instruments. The company has spared no expense in fitting up the factory, as it is assured that in a "very short time there will be a very big demand on its output.

At tho meeting of the Chamber of Commerce yesterday a letter was read from the Canterbury Steamship Company asking tho assistance of the Chamber in influencing the Harbour Board to make a reduction in the amount of wharfage in respect to goods shipped to Wanganui and consigned to places along .the coast, whether the goods could be forwarded by rail provided the wharfage charges were reduced. It was jminted out that if the Company's suggestion were given effect to by tfie Harbour Board, a very much larger trade would be carried on. The matter was referred to Messrs G. Caiman, J. H. Koesing, 11. S. G. Harper, C. M. Cresswell, and C. F. Millward, who were asked to report at next meeting.

Tbo pupils of the Wanganui District High School, who some time ago, at the instance of their popular and energetic head master (Mr Jas. Aitken), formed a School Council, will be interested in an interesting social experiment which was inaugurated in New Yor kthe other day, inaugurated in New York the other day, tually turned over by the authorities to the administration of boys, who elected their 'mayor and council." Henceforth it will be called ''Playground City." The charter provides for departments of "police, street-cleaning, finance, athletics, gymnastics, and games." The boys will have almost exclusive control of the park, and it will te the duty of the mayor and council- to maintain good order, cleanly ways, ..and take good care of the public property. The citizens promoting the scheme believe (says. the New York corresponet of tho London Telegrapn) that the training received by the youngsters in the government of the Playground City will serve them well in later years, when they are called to the duties awaiting them as citizens in a "grown-up" city. Boys of all ranks and sizes entered into the spirit of the affair with the greatest enthusiasm. There has been the keenest contest for office, and frequent meetings have been held, and addressed by boy orators in support of different candidates; but an attempt to totally exclude politics from the contest was only partially suc'ccssful. Girls are welcomed to Playground City, but in this year's election no ."woman suffrage" was allowed. The "miiyor" is described as a very intelligent youngster of fifteen, and probably the best all-round athlete in the juvenile community. In thanking the boys for their suffrages, he said: "There has been_a real landslide for the purity of election, 'and the best cause has won."

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