LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXV, Issue 13166, 10 September 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Melbourne cable says that the Land Tax debate is making slow progress, and has been adjourned till Tuesday. The-Dutch squadron has arrived at Brisbane. It will visit the various ports of the Commonwealth. A Sydney cable .-.ays that the Slaughtermen’s -Union, has accepted an agreement with the Pastoral Finance Company similar in Dirt’s. The two contracts will absorb about 100 slaughtermen. The lad Brcrcton, who was badly injured at Waverley recently through tho hurdler Claremont falling with him while being schooled. over hurdles, is still in the Patea Hospital, but is improving as well as can be expected. Harry Fallstrom, of Mataimoana, near Waverley,' farmer, was this morning adjudicated bankrupt on the petition of Win. Balfour. The case was dealt with hv tho Registrar of the Supreme 1 ourt. Mr W. H. Cunningham, of Cony ..ml Cunningham, appeared for tho petitioner. Advice has been received in Wellington that George Williams, formerly a hotelkeeper at Blenheim, and previously a member of the detective force in Wellington, lias been arrested in Melbourne on a charge of having deserted his wife in Wellington. Arthur Collier, 1)1, an employee of Urn Horowhcnua County Council, fell 150 feet in tho Otaki Gorge on Tuesday, while working at a root on the road. 'lhe body was recovered from the river with difficulty. He leaves a widow and two young children. He was purchasing a farm at Mangawcka. The question as to where tho next championship regatta will be held is to be settled by the Now Zealand Amateur Bowing Association early next month. The Wellington Bowing Association has applied to have the regatta held on their harbour, while tho Wanganui Association is claiming that tho races should be rowed on tho river here. A woman named Mrs Kcrrisk was badly gi red by a young bull at Manntabi on .Monday. She was in the act of taking a young calf from its mother, when the bull knocked her down and gored her badly She was much bruised about the body and was for a time unconscious. Latest reports show that the injured woman is progressing as well as can ho expected. A correspondent writes ns pointing out that the conditions under.which Mr Travis and Mr Copley recently played at Feilding and Wanganui respectively in the attempt a.t piano-playing endurance record-break-ing .were not the same. He suggests that Mr Travis had a decided advantage in being taken out in the open air, which latter, he adds, is “one of the most stimulating and ‘pick-me-up’ remedies extant.” Sydney’s tram service has reached great dimensions, if not the limit of its growth. On ordinary days about 700 cars are in running in the city and suburbs and on special occasions this number is increased to nearly 000. Over 100 street miles of tram line-s are in use, much of it being double track, and the total number of miles ot tramways is therefore much greater. The average number of passengers carried daily throughout last year was 500,000, and although more than 200,000,000 were carried during the year only eight fatal accidents occurred, giving tha- remarkable proportion of one death to < every 25,000,000 passengers. In the principal streets less than ten seconds clause between the passing of the cars. It is interesting to note that in comparison with the people of London, Sydney people use their trams far more extensively, tho average number of journeys per bead of the population being London 87.1, Sydney 200.8