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New Zealand Tablet, 7 October 1920, Page 39

| Wanganui (From our own correspondent./ ■ - • September 30. Very Rev. Father O’Connell has been away in Wellington on Federation business for some days, and is home again to get ready for a jaunt to Auckland. Rev. Father T. McCarthy called in here on his way south last week-end, and Rev. Father Mark Devoy spent some days with us. Miss Bourke, late of the D.1.C., Wellington, Is spending a short holiday here before going to her new berth in Blenheim. Miss E. Morgan, of our local telephone staff, has just returned from a wonderful trip to Ruapehu. A party from Wanganui made the ascent and generally amused themselves ski-ing down. Miss Roche, supervisor at Taumarunui exchange, is home in Wanganui spending part of her annual leave here. Social at Aramoho School during the week, proceeds towards school improvements. :r Unfortunately it was a wretched night, but all the same about 200 people assembled at the hall and spent a pleasant evening in euchre, dance, sing-song, and supper. Miss Florrie Meachem and Miss Mona Grogan lent a little variety to the musical items by singing a song each in French. They got a splendid reception, as also did Miss Henderson, who had to sing an encore. Supper was as usual delicious, Mesdames Coxon, Ahern, and Richardson being in charge here.

The annual Rugby football. match between the Wellington and the Wanganui Marist Old Boys' Football Clubs was played here on last. Monday, Dominion Day, and resulted in a win for Wanganui by 10 points to 7. A try was scored for Wellington by. Williams, and Holland dropped a goal. Tries were scored for Wanganui by Dillon (2). Phil Corliss converting both tries with two splendid kicks from very difficult angles! The visitors were entertained at His Majesty's Theatre on Saturday evening, and went for a picnic up-river on Sunday, going by launch as far as Hipango Park, where an enjoyable clay was spent. - Great praise is due to Mr. Chas. Morgan for the efficient way in which the visitors were entertained, in fact for the way he looked after the welfare of the boys of both clubs. We are having the dreariest weather imaginable, and there is likelihood of floods if the heavens don't stop weeping. The air is full of rumors, and everyone talks of the trouble that is brewing, so we hardly know what the next week is going to see. What a mess this good old world seems to be in, and how desperately tangled everything is. However, we in Wanganui have really nothing to complain of, for there is still a little bit of coal to make gas and cook the dinner. The cars are running again— fits and starts, and a shipment of brown sugar arrived yesterday. ■ The races last" week were a great success, showing an increase of something like £20,000 over last year's, so, perhaps after all, many of our troubles are only superficial and will blow away.