LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 12052, 20 December 1906, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

♦** Advertisers please note that the "Herald" will not be published on Christmas or Boxing Days. Entries for the Christ Chuch Swimming sports on Boxing Night close with the secretary (Mr N". L. Percival), box 28, on Saturday, 22nd instant. The steamer Corinna took from New Plymouth on Tuesday 16,004 boxes of butter. Her Auckland shipment consists of 1^74.7 boxes. ■ Eeports from the Otago Central 3istriot state that the country is very parched, and that there will be a scarcity of, winter feed next year. In another column Mr F. A. Harkness returns thanks to those neighbours who, in his -absence, assisted in saving his ef- , fects from the fire at Castlecliff yesterday. Startling news about the Exhibition appears in ' one of the Christchurch papers. "The tadpoles," it is stated breathlessly, ' "in the , Natural History Court, which , have remained for many months in the ( tadpole state, have developed into frogs." Messrs Boss and Glendinning's ware* house at Invercargill was broken into on Saturday uight, and a swag of varied goods — probably worth .£10 — removed. The thief gained an entrance by a skylight. Auckland city is so well supplied with coal from mines at Taupiri, Huntley, and Whangarei that- the Minister for Mines has decided that at present there is no necessity to open' a State coal depot in that city. \ Major Aitken asks us to acknowledge tHe generous action of Mr H. Wilson, licensed carrier, in to convey the Cadets' baggage fjoin the school to the railway station, and bai-k again when they return from the Exhibition camp. Mr Wilson's offer will be much appreciated. . A series of bush lires raged round Invercargill on Tuesday, when the heat was intense, and a northerly "gale raged. The New Zealand Pine Company lost a mile and a quarter of tramway at Mabelbush. and four chains and 4 bridge at Sparbush. No damage to houses or homesteads is as yet reported. A. H. Wilding, of Christchurch, who has been so successful as a tennis player in England, arrived in Wellington yesterday by the Ruapehu. He was welcomed on arrival by members of, the New Zealand Tennis Association, and entertained at a gathering over which the Mayor presided. Mr Wilding went on to Christchurch in the evening by the Paparoa. There 'was an extraordinary shoal of sea salmon in Sydney Harboirf the other night. The fish were pusued .by sharks, porpoises, and kingfish. The salmon made their way up Middle Harbour; on the shores of which many of them beca»e stranded. So closely were the salmon packed that several fishermen, uhing gaffs only, were able to fill their boats in a very short time. The Wellington and Marlborough Cement Company has decided to go- into liquidation, the annual report shpwed a loss of £ 10,349, incurred by the excessive cost of material, heavy charges, and-in-adequate capital. Six thousand three hundred tons of cement were 'sold, but the works never ran to full capacity. THe directors proposed to reconstruct and- remove the works to a source of supply of raw material, but the shareholders decided in favour of liquidation." A sequel to the Dunlop motpr reliabil* ity test occurred at the Coburg Court (Victoria) on November 27th, when Charles B. Kellow and ' William Russell Orimwade were each charged with having furiously driven a motor car along Sydney road on November 14th. According to the police evidence, the defendant's cars passed along the road at a pace varying from 30 to 35 miles, an hour. The defendants were each fined £2, in default 14 days' improsonment.

The Wcetport Coal Company's output last week was 15,134 tons 10 cwt. ▲ four-etorey building will shortly be erected in Crawford Street, Wellington, at a cost of .£OOOO. It is to the order of the Wellington Biscuit Company. The Postmaster-General has just authorised the construction of an additional 1500 mileß of telephone lines, chiefly in the back-blocks. Intending competitors in tlie amateur events — 100 yds and 880yds— at the Christmas Carnival sports mooting are reminded that nominations* close to-night with either Mr J. T. Mvir or Mr D. Hunro. A leather-covered Testament has been discarded after 70 years' continuous service at Wisbech Police Court. A celluloidcovered copy, which will bo washed after each sitting, has been provided. The Japanese training ship Daisei Maru, of the Tokio Mercantile Marine School, left Yokohama for Sydney on October 25th, for the purpose of giving practical knowledge to the school cadets. She is expected to arrive in Sydney about the end of this week. A Press wire states that heavy rain set in at 6 o'clock yesterday morning in the Gore district and continued, with a prospect of more. The farmers arc jubilant, as on the lighter lands and ridges they had been preparing to turn sheep into the crops. The rain will save most of these. Mr Alf. Reynolds, the well-known Ridgway Street hairdresser and tobacconist, has generously donated a pipe to each of the thirty inmates of the Old Men's Home. Messrs Levin and Co. and Messrs Tuck and Co. have kindly supplemented the above gift with sufficient tobacco to allow the iumatcs a stick apiece. At a special meeting of the Borough Council on Tuesday night a letter was received from Mr Chamberlain stating that he expected to be in Wanganui about the middle of January to confer with the Council about the tramways. It was resolved to order two closed cars and three partly open and partly closed cars. In sentencing a man to four months' imprisonment at Auckland last week on a charge of sly grog-selling, Mr Dyer, S.M.. remarked that it was no good imposing fines for that class of offence, and that the day for the infliction of monetary penalties was past. Thus the owner of a missing umbrella relieves his pent-up feelings in the advertising columns of a Wellington paper:— "Lost, stolen, or strayed. Empire Hotel. Will the Gentleman who took my Umbrella from the Writing Room of the Empire Hotel kindly return same when no longer required. My name is clearly inscribed on the handle; a new umbrella given in exchange if desired." During October 6741 co-operative labourers were employed on Government works throughout the colony, 4745 being on railways and 1996 under the Roads Department. Of the 1996, 158 were in the Wellington district. Of the 4745 employed on railways (344 artisans aud 4401 labourers), the North Island Main Trunk line took 94 artisans and 2313 labourers, while 10 urtisans and 358 labourers worked on the Midland line. The trials of the would-be agriculturist. A Hawke's Bay resident recently imported some extra special seed potatoes from England. They were alleged to be "blight proof," and to possess all the horticultural virtues of the potato family. His disgust may be better imagined than described when his blight proof potatoes proved on arrival to be in a condition requiring their immediate consignment to — the city destructor. When the director of the Wellington Technical School (Mr W. S. La Trobe) took office nearly three years ago, the ] school worked 100,000 to 120,000 student hours. Last year the number was 350,000 ; this year 500,000. The day classes for ghildren have been added in the interim. These the director strongly recommended. and they have been adopted elsewhere. This year the school earned £5000 capitation, as against £4000 last year. Mr Bdward Dobson, of Papanui, who completed his ninetieth year on Saturday, is tae oldest member of the Institute of Civil Engineers. He arrived in Canterbury in 1850 by the Cressy, one of the historic '" first four ships," and four years afterwards was appointed provincial engireer. He has been immediately eounetted with some of the largest engineering works in the colony, but has now retiied from the practice of the profession. — Lyttelton Times. I. Mori, vice-secretary to the Chamber 0 Commerce, Osaka, Japan, writes to the lew Zealand Tourist Department thankhg its officials for tJie literature" about ?few Zealand, and informing them that he ,s engaged translating several of the pamphlets for the edification of his countrymen. The advocates of a "white Australasia" might not thank the Tourist Department for its energies in this direction, or Mr Mori for the work he is unHertaking. — Times. 1 The spectacle of one of New Zealand's justices of the Peace wheeling a barrow opposite Taihape's Temple of Justice is '■reating considerable merricent in the minds of passers by, says the Ta ill ape News of Saturday's date. From "early morn till dewy eve" this doughty capitalist is to be seen wheeling his barrow and shovelling like any ordinary navvy. Yesterday his presence was required to adjudicate in a case of obscene language, ana, wiping the beads of perspiration from his forehead, he d#nned his coat, and in a few minutes was translated f ron navvy to presiding justice. At tho cl>se of the case he made for fche scene of his labour and, doffing his oat, resumed his wheeling operations, to (he great amusement of the onlookers. The trade between Vancouver and New Zealand appears to bo improving. The Pondo, which arrived a few flays ago. was fully loaded. A good qumtity of her cargo was for the CanadiaitCourt at the Exhibition, but there wa</also a large consignment of general merchandise. She also brought about 1,30,000 feet of timber for Sydney. TV Bucentaur, now in Wellington, has *>out three hundred tons for that port am Auckland, and has a good supply for /ydney. She is now loading hemp, whijjf will serve as" ballast for the trip to Sythey. After visiting that port the steamer fill come to Lytelton to i load wool, The Eicentaur is due to leave Wellington, her <nal port, on 18th Janu ary.

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