NOTES FROM WANQANUI.
■ . * — . (By Teleeraph.—Special Correspondent.! Wanganui, March 11, The firm of H. I. Jones and Sons, bootsellers, celebrated their jubilee yesterday. Mr. J. Ashwell, district agent for the Mutual Life; and Citizens' Co., has received word that he has won tho gold watch presented by the company to the agent showing the biggest return in Australasia for the year. , It is that the eitra tax on the Wanganui Jockey Club's receipts for their recent meeting will realise .£3OO, Steady rain set in last niglit and has continued ever since. This should hiivo a most beneficial effect, as rain was'badly wanted.
A grass fire at Kaiwhaike about fourteen miles up tho river spread to a pretty pieco of shelter bush at the rear of the quarries, and destroyed the same. The Nelson Garrison Band arrived hero to-day, and quite a number of bands aro expected to-morrow, including Petone.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 764, 12 March 1910, Page 5
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148NOTES FROM WANQANUI. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 764, 12 March 1910, Page 5
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