PERSONAL.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXI, Issue 12187, 7 June 1907, Page 7

PERSONAL.

A rec 'lit G.i/.i'tit' not ilii"-> the ippoiutiucn' ot Mr Alex. Takarangi, of Wanganui, a« an interpreter under the pro\iMi.iu> ot "The Native Land Court Act," .md the "Native Interpreters Classification Ad." Mr D. Mason, who some time ago whs appointed to the position oi assistant clerk at the Magistrate** Couit here, in siifsmuu to Mr Ladley, iu>" again been transferred Inning been piomoled to the );o*>i tion ot clerk to the Murton Court, which position was held by Mr Ladley till his recent resignation. Mr Wyman Ins now taken np Mr Masons dutieo at the local office. Mis-> Austin, who tor v.any years has '>ren in charge ol the dr. sMiiakiuo- department at Musi's .1. Paul nnrl Co.'s, aim Miss Hyres, who ha, been associated witli the same department for many years, left Lyttelton to-day ::t 1 o'< l<>ck iv the Rnathev make a tour ot thf> Old (ounlrv. and pehu, en iouto to London. From London then proceed to New York. Mi?s Austin will return to Wanjamr from New York, but Mirfs Bvreh will remain there with a brother. Mi's Auntin expects to be away alout i-ir months.

Car-tnin Ftlwin wired at 1 p.m. lei-dny — Modi-rate <<> strong easl^rly winrlb, gluM lise slowly, tides low, probably frost tonight. The railway department is installing the electric tablet system between Woodville aud Mastorton. The system will, it is *f»t«l, be in operation in two mouths' Aboiii 'JIM) lous oi ciiccse are import d into Wangan-ii in a year, bo we were in!o'*med this morning. Surely a district lik<» this should be able to produce sufficient ot the commodity for its own consumption. We understand that Mrs Gibson's property of 83 acres, opposite the \Xc*imere Lake, has Ik-ch sold to Mi \V. F. Mcßeth, late of KiwJtoa. Kimbolton. The price realised was equal to .£6O per acre. The property has a large frontage to the Weßtmere-Kai Iwi road, ' and comprises some fine building sites. ] Owing to the present rc-uiarkable senson tU»re i« an abundance ot food and dairy farmers are generally having a good time. As showing the effect of these conditions, the Westmer* cheese factory, instead of dosing for the winter at the end of May a> was expected, will be kept go ; ng for the greater part of«the present month. What might have proved a very serious accident occurred at Aramoho yesterdyy morning, when a horse attached to a trap containing a woman and a man was frightened by a motor car, and plavcd up with such efttcl that he knocked the trap to pieces, the occupauts escaping without herious injury, although considerably bruised. A lot of interest is beiug taken in Ihe football matches to be decided on tho Recreation Ground to-morrow afternoon, when the ColTege play Waverley at 1.30 p.m., tho Old Boys and Wanganui do battle at 3 p.m. on No. 2 Ground, and at th<> same hour the Pirates and Kaicraua will mret on Ilee. No. 1. All these games should be good, and particularly the two fixed to start at three o'clock. At the Police Court this morning a second offending drunk was fined 10b and cosh; in default 48 hours' imprisonment. A parent wa« fined 2s and cost* 7s on each of four charges for failing to send his boy to school, the fines totalling '}Gs. The chargee had been previously adjourned to enable the father to prove that the boy w;is 15 years of age, but he had taken no stcpß to do so. Mr IJ. L. Stanford, S.M., waa on the Bench. The action of bho Government in «>«tab lishing * State Coal Depot in Wnnganui has been amply justified by the business which has resulted. Since the depot had been opt'n, scarcely a month, it has recoir cd no fewer than 1400 orders from locai customers, last week's turnover being 14'tons, and although 500 tons are in the yar' frequent cargoes- are necessary to supplr the demand. The depot has now five carts busily at work, and the average daily number of hands employed m the yard is eight. I', is feared that George Walk, the hoiso man who was severely hurt when SI . Amelia fill with him in th<? hurdle rac<> at Otaki on Monday, may lobo tho sight of his right oye, which was badly injured. Walls is doing »is well as could he expect ed, and the doctor at the Palmerstrn Ho«pi*al — whither the popular rider was taken — lia« every hope of pulling hi" patient through. It -will be remembered that Walla had a very bad «mash tip at the nummor meeting of the Manawatu Club, when Pronpector came down with him, so that lie ha* betn particularly unfortunate lately. At an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders in the Hauvaki Freehold*, Limited, held at the company's office, a resolution passed on May 20th last was confirmed: — That the directors enter into an agreement with William Dawson, of Auckland, to let the mine and property of the company to him on tribute for three years at a royalty of 10 per ceni on the not proceeds derived during the time of the tribute, and, fuithermore. to grant the tribulcr the option within twelve months of purchasing the mine and property Uu j£20,000. "I u'ui going for a ride to .Scd^ebrook thia morning, but when I saw what 1 had to plough tlirough I gave it best." Ihid wa4 the remark of a holiday-making cyclist to a "Herald" reporter this morning when alluding to the state of the River Bank road at Taylorvillo. What he would do were he a school boy having to make a daily trudge through the slush, or a- woman anxioUs to get to town for her shopping 1 we know not, but it would have nrolv ably coincided fairly well with the anathema* daily hurled at the Wanganui County Council by the long suffering residents of that locality. Meanwhile that august body site tight. au<l all 'effort? to rouse it to do something avo met with the chrdnic lassiturlo which so distinguishes it. The question of the want of some proper drainage arrangements for houses on the Taylorville side of the river was brought up at the Wanganui County Council meeting to-day. It was considered that the present system— or rather want of system — was inimical to the health of the residents in that suburb, and that some steps should be taken to remedy the present unsatisfactory state of atfaii'H. One property owner has laid down pipes which carry the drainage from two of his houses on the hill on the Putiki side ofthe bridge into a ditch, which runs past another house, and which a number of people have to pass in order to get to their homes. It win be pasainj strang-c if this dors not lead to serious trouble when the warm weather comes. The Health Officer should make inquiries.