SWIMMING.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 12052, 20 December 1906, Page 7

SWIMMING.

The second race j (100 yards) for the Neverman trophy iA connection with the Christ Church Swimming Club was swum last evening, and resulted as follows: — A. Muller, scr, 1; J, C E. Clapham, 9sec, 2, F. Swan, lOsec, 3. Time, 68sec. Totals to date — Muller 5^ 43wan 4, Clapham' 3. Messrs Swan and Tuck kindly acted as timekeepers. ."Arrangements for the large sports carnival on Boxing night are progressing favourably, and a record attendance is confidently expected; A committee meeting will be held to-night in the clu'broom, and also a rehearsal of "Fun in the Fish Shop," the funny farce to be acted at the sports. Entries close on Saturday next with the secretary, care of Box 28.

Captain Edwin wired at 1.25 p.m. today: — Southerly moderate winds; glass rise; tides moderate. The steamer Putiki last night departed for Gisborn6 with another load — the fourth — of spiral riveted pipes manufactured at the local works for the Gisborne water supply scheme. A. Nelson wire records the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Nixon, mother of t the late Henry Edwards, aged 102. She was a very old colonist, and was widely related. The Wanganui School Cadet Battalion, under command of Major Aitken, left "by special train at 12.30 to-day, en route for the camp at the Cbrietchurch Exhibition. A large crowd assembled at the station to see the boys off. The Banks throughout the colony will observe the following days as ordinary and special holidays: Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 25th, 26th, and 27th insts. respectively and Ist and 2nd January. A dark red glare, reaching high over the hills to the north of Wanganui was observable for a long period last night, and was apparently the glow from a bush fiiej of which there bave been several during the past week.