JOTTINGS FROM WANGANUI.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1206, 15 August 1911, Page 3

JOTTINGS FROM WANGANUI.

AN OCCULT CANDIDATE. (Br Tc.lejrauK.—Snccial CnrrcsDondent.t Wanganui, August 14. A certain amount of mystery is attempted to bo cast round Mr. C. E. Maekay's candidature for the Wanganui seat as an Independent Liberal. A correspondent in tho local press offers to givo i's to charity if Mr. Mackay can v provo that hs was not selected to receivo tho local Opposition support at a meeting or that party held about a month ago. Mr. Mackay rejoins accepting the challenge, and offering to produce his proofs directly the £5 is put down. The secondary pupils of the Wanganui District High . School are up in arms against tho proposed disestablishment of the school, and the incorporation of tho secondary department with tho new Technical C-ollege, and are circularising and energetically canvassing parents and friends of the. school for a protest against the proposed change. The new tramway offices are now completed, and tho stall take possession on Wednesday. The contractors have nowstarted Hie additions to the car-shed and power-house. Mr. J. B. Murray, chairman of the Harbour Board, has returned from Wellington, where he has been conferring with Messrs. Holmes and Beynclds regarding the harbour-extension scheme Mr. Murray, who is to report to a speeiai meeting of the. board on Wednesday states that there is a probability of Mr! Holmes visiting Wanganui to inspect the local condition?.. ' The new branch of the Beautifvin" Society, which has been formed at Castle°clilT, made a good start with' the planting of Castlecliff beach, which, it is hoped, will be changed, from a rather 3 dreary sand waste into a much more at- . tractive resort. Two hundred and fifty pino trees, 1000 lupins, and 50 clumps of toi were put in tho ground on Saturday afternoon, and the work will be col {_ tinned for several, weeks by. means of working "bets. 1 *