LOOAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 11975, 19 September 1906, Page 4

LOOAL AND GENERAL.

Woodyille expect* to have a bowlia*; club this season. The Girls' College resumed work for the third term yesterday morning.

Hltham dairy factory in the opening week of the season is making 1* tons of butter a day.

According to the Advocate a poisoa fiend is at work in Dannevirke, several valuable dogs having been destroyed.

Eketahuna's centenarian, Mr. Heary Burling, sen., of Waterfalls, is 105 year* of age, and, from all account*, he is good enough for a few years longer.

In the schools throughout the coloay the total average attendance, which ia 1904 showed an increase of 3459 over th» previous year's return, rose in 1905 to 129,265, a number which exceeds the total for 1904 by 3759. The increase for the year thus shown is greater than any occurring since the year 1894.

A deputation from the Greymouth Bo*. ough Council waited on the Harboar Board yesterday afternoon in regard to the stoppage of the survey of Point Elisabeth. The Board, after hearing the deputation, passed a resolution strongly urging on the Government to complete the survey. A large number of settler* in the Tair hape, Utiku, Mangaweka, Mataroa, and Ohingaiti vdistrict are petitioning the Government to grapple with the question of native lands, so that a large area_ia their neighbourhood may Be thrown open to bona fide settlement instead of falling into the hands of speculators.

An exhibition of school work under the supervision of the Education Board is to be held in Palmerston North on 4th October and the two following days. In all probability the Zealandia Hall will be engaged for the occasion. The exhibition is to be similar to that held ia Wanganui last year.

Mr. R. H. W. Bligh has held some successful meetings in Feilding. At oae gathering there th» following resolution was carried:— "That this meeting heartily supports the action ot Mr. Hornsby ia introducing the bill against quacks aad quackery, and that the member for Oroua (Mr. Lethbridge) be asked to support the bill." Mr. Bligh will be in Palmerstoa to-morrow.

Our readers will no doubt note the report of the Tramway* Committee of the Borough Council, which appear* in aaother column. The report deals mainly with formal matters necessary for the obtaining of the Order-in-Council to coa6truct. One sentence requires a little explanation, viz., that stating the maximum fare at 2d a section. This does apt necessarily imply that that amount will be charged to passengers and is merely inserted in order to comply with a provision of the Act which requires the maximum fare to be stated. The 2d will leave the Council a margin to come and go on, in case of necessity, but there is little doubt that the section charge will not be raised above one penny.