LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13434, 22 July 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

His Excellency the Governor left Wellington yesterday for Auckland. Lord Islington is to open the new Savings Bank buildines thero to-morrow, and will return to Wellington on Monday evening.

The South Canterbury A. and P. Association paid ,£25 towards last year's salary of the Education Board's agricultural instructor, and will repeat the experiment this year on condition that the instructor <jives three lectures to farmers.

Nearly 5000 subscribers have contributed ,£50,(100 to a testimonial to.be presented to the Prime Minister of England by his constituents in East Fife. The tion will take place at Blebo on July 22, when Mr Asquith will have represented the constituency for 25 years. The Hastings Tribune says a mother sent this somewhat satirical note to' /tho teacher of her small son: "Pardon me for calling your attention to the fact that you have pulled Johnnie's right ear until it. i* getting- longer than the other. Please pull his left one for a while, and oblige hiu mother."

A clergyman, referring to the discrepancy in the attendance of children at secular and Sabbath schools at a Presbyterian Sabbath school social at Balclutha, said he hoped the time would arrive when a paternal Government would make religious instruction compulsory, and that truant officers would bo appointed for Sabbath schools as they were for secular schools.

"Citizen," in a letter to tho Post, joins in the demand for a bettor regulation of motor traffic in busy streets in Wellington. The writer declares that the lives and limbs of children, women, and m»n aro endangered daily by careless or reckless drivers. Ho remarks that the risk is specially great in streets in whjch tho trams run, and he goes as far as "sug» jesting to the Mayor and Council that both motor-cars and motor-bicycles should bo debarred from going at all «n suoh streets."

Among the remarkable photograps published in the last official report of the Federated Malay States Railways were two showing the wreck of a passenger train and the wild elephant which caused it. The animal, apparently frightened by the noise of the approaching train, started to cross the track and was struck by the engine. The force of the impact wab sufficient to throw tho engine and tender from the track. The elephant was almost instantly killed by the force of the blow and thrown into a ditch.

Amongst the recent changes in the ownership of property may be mentioned tho sale of Mr N. Meuli's well-known residences, "New Helvetia," on St. John'a Hill. with about 20 acre* of land. The purchaser ib Mr John McMillan, a promiuent and highly-estecemed setttlcr of Southiiridge, Canterbury, who has taken an active part in public affairs, and is a momner of several local bodies thore. He is a son of the late Mr David McMillan, who years ago represented Coleridge (afterwards merged in Ellesmcre) in the House of Representatives. Mrs McMillan is an erstwhile resident of Wanganui, being a daughter of Mr \V. West, who for many years was headmaster of the old Grammar Sohoool, which stood on the site of tho old Technical Cchool, at tho corner of tho Avenue and Guyton Street. Mr and Mw McMillan are desirous of taking advantage of the excellent facilities afforded in VVan•ranui for the education of their daughters, and this fact has in a measure influenced them to take up their residence here. They will be heartily welcomed. It is the intention of Mr Meuli to erect a bungalow residence on his property at Carlton, on- tho splendid site known as "Carlton Hill," from which an excellent view of the sea, the river, and surrounding country can be obtained.