JOTTINGS FROM WANGANUL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 888, 6 August 1910, Page 10

JOTTINGS FROM WANGANUL.

(Bp Tolezraph.—BDeclal Oorresnbndent.l ' ' VVanganul, August 5.

The Native Land Court is still sit-, ting hero, and is occupied with, succession x and partition cases. Tho Court adjourns, to. Now" Plymouth on- August 12, and sits there for a month. It then, visits Taihape, Raetihi, ToEaanu, and. Rotorua in turn. -.

The Hons. Thos. .Mackenzie, ■ R. M'Kenzie, and a large number of Caledonians all over tho North Island havo written expressing their intention _to bo present at the Wangajiui-Caledonian Society's banquet on August 26.

The new telegram forms, adopted by tho Telegraph Department, will be brought into uso in the Wanganui office, on Monday next-

At the annual meeting of the Yfanganui Trotting Club .the - Hon. Jas. Carroll was elected patron aud Mr." C. E. Mackay president. -

Tho deaths are announced of Mrs. M. Connor, who was well known to settlers up the river, and llrs. Corby, wife of Jlr. W. S. Corby, of tho "Herald" literary staff.

The Wanganui Agricultural Association has decided to make a new .departure in dealing with ..exhibits of fat sheep for killing, at shows. These will »9t be killed .on the ground as heretofore, but will bo judged in the pens, prizes awarded, and the sheep then killed and frozen at Wanganui Freezing Works. They will then be consigned to the London agents as soon as practicable aftor tho show, and 6old on. owners' account. The net proceeds will be handed to the owner with a detailed account of tho sales and roturns, and frosh awards will bo made oil the results.