PERSONAL.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 12751, 23 April 1909, Page 12

PERSONAL.

Mr T. D. O. McKenzie, who is wellknown in Wanganui cricketing circles, has beeft 'selected 'by the College Street (Palmerston) School Committee out of four applicants for the second aesistantship there. Mr McKenzie wps a few years ago first assistant at Waverley. Amongst the passengers who left Wellington yesterday in the Corinthic, for London, were Mr W. S. Lincf, and Mr and Mrs J. Murray, of Wanganui.

What is probably a record in. shipping tonnage was established at this port today, when no less than ten, visiting vessels were in port— five steamers and five sailing. VttJ9elsM:heir aggregate registered (not gross), tonnage, being 1775 tone, of -which the sailing vessels accounted for 978 tons. Besides the above the lighter Thistle was also in port, and the scene at the wharf was an' animated one. The large tonnage was not accountable for by a blockage through the wea+'ier conditions, for -all 'the steamers only arrived to-day, and the sailing vessels were all working or waiting- to work cargo. The vessels contributing to the tonnage were the steamers Regulus (227 tone), Storm (186 tons), Stormbird (129 tons), Arapawa (124 tons), and Kennedy (127 tons), the barquentines Alexa (286 ft**), and St. Kilda (189' tons), and the scows Jap (200 tons), Eunice (171 tone), and Whangaroa. (132 tons). To the above should have been added the tonnage of the Jane Douglas, which was due from Greymouth at noon, but which has been detained by heavy weather.

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