NOTES FROM WANGANUI.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 743, 16 February 1910, Page 8

NOTES FROM WANGANUI.

'■; : -^B--'S'- : S A . CA^^fepi. r:'.i ?-;„i : :;' x ':' : v-lffly.';- Teleeraph.'—Special'..Correspohdentl ?'' .. i'-'■''..'■' ;'■-• Wangariiii,.'February-'ls.'''' ; .The?Eev.-Father Mahoney,?whb. tor• the past- four' years:-has .been attached -to .'St. Mary's Church;here, -was;last)'night' farewelled by? his,.parishipners and presented with: ah .address ;'and 'pursed of'.sovereigns.' A.jvery:-large crowd;'was;.'.present,.;and 'complimentary,-speeches' were ;made testifying to 'the;rev.:gentleinan'B'devotion l to' duty;ahd'Wndly?interestlin'the poor- ihd the ;,ybuhg './people's "{societies.?-..."Father Mahoney.. was -.also!, the recipient of "presentations .-from.'pupils;.of? tho?;;yaribiisCathblibjsch'ools'.' ~-The "'.rev.?'gentleman,' who. jlea'ves.i'for?Wellington; in: -a'.jday.,'ortwb,- will ,bei greatly/'niissed ,here, mbt'-bnly ; by;-.Catholics,'cbn't -.byimembers iof -other denominations;.boing '. deservedly.?csteemed' .byialljsectionsvof .'vthe .community.: •?:.'<;. ', ;!l;he, : .news,cabled:'tbatj.a'-vesseV.fiad .been ';seeh"three ; months?ago off-Marion. Island, wMch-'migh't have!beeh-;the,.missihg.\Wara-tahi.'wasjthe :means of-.starting anfextrabrdinary'jCanard here :yesterday afternoon.' Someone ;started. a.rumour, that. the,':ves-. seli.had ;been.picked':up, much-wcalih- : of detail being put into .the story,, including, the; finding, pf.jsixty.jdead'iipcli.es aboard. .The.headmaster;;of;ono;of the. local schools announced, the news ;to his? pupils, which naturally \gave.;the, rumour ;a frtsh im-, petus;;-. All .the', afternoon-and .evening'the, local ? newspaper'. officers, .were, inundated) with':.inquiries,;.and- in .spite',of their,'re-. peated;..denials, , ;.i.t,',Svas impossible .for ;a' |loug.-.-time to cbnvihce'.vlnquirers'.-that, 'the' affair' was nothing, but' a 'sillyhoa-x.' ■,