EDISON'S PICTURES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 11910, 5 July 1906, Page 7

EDISON'S PICTURES.

We are advised that owing to the great success of Edison's Pictures in Wcllingtou, necessitating an extension of the season there, the Wanganui season has had to be shortened^ and the Pictures will be shown here on Monday evening next only. Intending patrons will kindly take notice.

Mr W. Holmes will deliver a free lecture in the Druids' Hall on Sunday evening next on "Daniel's Vision of the Night." The lecture will be illustrated by a number of diagrams.

Members of the Irish Rifles are notified by advertisement in another column that a general meeting of the company will be held in the orderly room to-morrow (Friday) evening at 8 o'clock. As the business to be dealt with greatly affects the future welfare of the company, a full muster is requested.

In our report of the Waitotara County foreman's annual statement we made it appear that Mr Dickson had stated' that £1000 spent on the roads ten years ago would then have as beneficial effect as £5000 would at the present ' time. The latter figures should be £2000. The forenan based his calculation on the fact that the traffic on the roads throughput the country at the present time 'was double, in many places treble, and in some places quadruple what it was eight or nine years a?o, and the number of miles of road was increasing each year. A correspondent writes us complaining that the by-law regulating the pace at which vehicles may be driven across the town bridge is not enforced. He asserts that not only horsemen and 1 drivers of vehicles break the by-laws, but motor carmen are amongst the greatest offenders. Another complaint reaches na, and this from the driver of a vehicle, who asks why pedestrians do not use the sidewalk provided for them. He says drivers are frequently inconvenienced through having to make way for pedestrians, and ladies with prams persist in using the roadway instead' 4f the sidewalk. If an accident occurs ho hns no doubt the poor unfortunate drivers will be blamed for their alleged negligence, and he thinks the public should be reminded that there are two partitions on the bridge.