DAILY NOTES FROM WANGANUI.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 674, 26 November 1909, Page 3

DAILY NOTES FROM WANGANUI.

'■■ '. .'-■-■ ■ . . '.-.- \ .' ' ■-.■". '.-.■ : '■'■■ - - ■•'■.: .THE BAEOMETEE OF, BUSINESS.,. . .■', . .(Uy Telenrapu-SDCclal CorreaaonJcul.: . :;■,.';', : , Wanganui, November 25. ; Councillor William.. ltitchio has been reeleot'od chairman' of ' tho AVaitotara Couuty Council, ■•• ■ '■'•'.-■ Tho work of installing the metallic circuit telephone- system, which has been going on in AVanganui tor several months, is now finished as.far as the borough is concerned,, and tho estonsion to -the; suburbs: should, be finishedin about; four weeks.. There.,has. been a remarkable . increase of late; in:the numbor. of telephone, subscribers, while the business of the local' Telegraph Department also shows a considerable increase during the last two months. These facts may bo considered as some indication of a revival in business. Further evidence of this revival is to be found in the experiences; of local land agents, who report a large num. ber of inquiries for land from outsiders in the same period. \ .' ■•.■;•; ' ' .. -:' : . ■ The local State Coal Depot does not expect to be seriously handicapped "by. the strike at Poiut Eliiaheth, having sufficient coal in tho yards to meet, all demands for from two to throe months. ' ; ' ■■'-,■ .-,. .-. . . Those 'in AVanganui who have' been endeavouring to arrango a visit by Mr. AVill Crooks have been informed that his travelling arrangements;through the Dominion were made by the -Australian.'Labour bodies before he left Sydney) and, as..little time is allowed therein for additions to 'the /programme already drawn up, there is not much xhance for an extension of his itinorary. , Tho Methodist District Syned passed the following resolution, by ;27. votes to 9:—"That the committoe's report,, having shown largo majority in each district to bo infavour of an independent conference for Now Zealand, this Synod is convinced that .tho.-time has arrived whqn ; the New Zealand Conforeno should bo ■invested with full powers of self : government, and; recommends" the ensuing conference to adopt tho committee's 'working scheme,- ■ ! to request the noxt general conference to give effect, to, same." ' ■ :; -.-. -