LATE LOCALS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXV, Issue 13055, 25 April 1910, Page 7

LATE LOCALS.

A Press wire states that fifteen degrees of frost were registered at Ashburton last night. ' ; Two drunks, one arrested in Victoria (Avenue, and the qther in Taupo Quay, were fined, the usual amount at the Police Court this morning. '. A t The value of swimming -baths in schools is shown by the fact that whereas only 10 girls in the District High School could swim on December 11th of last year, 72 girjs now possess the accomplishment. The Weather Bureau reports as follows; —Wind decreasing southerly moderate to strong; weather probably’ cool and changeable; probably frost to-night; glass'rise slowly; tides moderate; sea considerable.

-The Taranaki Law Society, at its annual meeting last week, : passed a resolution urging the necessity for the appointment of a relieving magistrate for the Dominion. Reference was recently • made bv the Clutha Free. Press to the .case of bush settlers at Batanui who considered they were being harshly treated by officers of the Department .of Agriculture in being c. m polled to destroy patches . of blaolcb >,rry bushes they had hitherto been practically farming for the sake of the fruit. Now Ihc local inspector has gone a step further, a id prohibited fruiterers in Balclutha from selling blackberries. The Tyser line steamer Whakarua had a very smart loading* in, the Wanganui roadstead last week. The steamer arrived on Monday night last and sailed for the Bluff for further loading on Thursday at noon. She took the following cargo from Castlecliff:— 12,355 carcases of lamb. 4539 carcases of mutton, 471 quarters of’ beef, 33 crates of legs and shoulders, 6 crates of kidneys, 813 bales of wool, 394 casks of tallow, no casks of pelts, 27 casks of sausage casings, and 300 cases of tinned meats.

A Victorian candidate for Parliamentary I honours was recently' facetiously;-, asked if- [ the State .Government.iprojjcised to withI draw its annual donation towards the- Mell bourne Cup and Derby Stakes, would he j oppose’ such proposal. Taking it seriously, | and realising that he was .addressing a i sporting assemblage, the candidate °deC ? ar ?J Promptly and, emphatically that he would _ strenuously oppose the subsidy being either withdrawn or reduced in amount.” The poor chap beat a hasty re treat from the front of the platform as his interrogator yelled. “Gain ver silly ''-•■ at !, +vr D A t CF know as they’don't gi re -m----tmnJc? Where wae you brought up?” Gonville ratepayers., who will have the opportunity oh Thursday'next of voting on the proposal to borrow ,£IO,OOO, for public wor]cs,_ will be interested to hear that the following letter has been received ,by the i clerk ,(Mr Fred Bourne) from the Deputy- ’ Superintendent of the State Guaranteed V D S -Sir.-With reference to your Board s application for a propos-’d ITJ f O-000 for the purposes -rrtenta * drainage, and streets improveStp etc> > 1 havo to inform you that the • tr te Guaranteed Advances Board has provisionally approved of a’loan of ,£GOOO for , ai i d supply, hut the other decHned ntained m “ id ‘ a i 5 P licati °n are n P n Thursday afternoon, the Mayoress £w E ’^ chy '’ a “ e * d tlie tho ? vJ I°, ?»■“* the prizes won at tie lecent girls swimming sports. Tjie r> CU P was presented by jf rs A D WiU, s The foliowing is the prize list hip -~ In * lel 7 Nixo " 1 Vera DrabiuT Prizes were i also gained by Ida pno Ti ’, Jcan Bromley, Florne Breed dla Hanton Lily Gonnett, Helen Barnett’ i Myrtle Perrett, Ld Isabel, Aitkem lSel itken and Myrtle Perrett gained Mr J , riarnctt s prize for the first two girk to lean, to swim 75.-yards iu the new Laths f • th ? Presentation, the prize-winners entertained the.visitor to afternoon tea!