Wanganui

New Zealand Tablet, 21 August 1919, Page 30

Wanganui

(From our own correspondent.)

August 14. We are having ideal spring weather, the long nights have been topped and tailed and the days are full of sunshine. True we get an occasional reminder that winter is not so very far behind, hut on tho whole there is a feeling of approaching summer. Christmas will be hero before wo know where we are.

Owing to the persistent minors of “no gas” after this or that date, for throe Sundays wo had Vespers, Benediction,, and procession even once, in the afternoon instead of at night. Afternoon devotions are being hold at Aramoho, but in town arrangements are as usual. With regard to our lighting, cooking, heating, power and every other sort of gas, we are still in the throes of suspense. A boat full of coal lies out at the port, but it is tabooed and cannot be unloaded. The Borough Council is helpless, everyone else is about the same, and it would seem that a finger laid on ■ the Inga’s coal will cause as much havoc as did the memorable shot at Sarajevo. Butter, too, is an unknown quantity, and only to-day a Job’s comforter assured us that the bakers are giving up breadmaking, as it does not pay. Undoubtedly we shall be reduced (or elevated) to locusts and wild honey. The Sisters are in possession of the new town convent and are busy getting the place shipshape for the epening ceremony on Sunday. The largo house will take some furnishing however simply it be done, and there are whispers in the air of something gigantic in carnivals one of these days. Returned lately from overseas Sergt. E. Wood, M.M., only son of Mrs. M. Wood, Purnell Street; also Sergt. C. T. McCarthyj eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. McCarthy, Both "soldiers are looking well. Chaplain-Father Gilbert spent a day or two hero this week, but has gone on again. Miss -Gwen Corliss, who has been seriously ill in hospital j is out and about again. Her many friends are pleased to see that she has recovered so well from her illness. a Corporal V. Haydon, Wellington, just home from active service, spent a few days of last week in Wanganui, but has now gone south.