HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1399, 27 March 1912, Page 6

HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

(From Car Soecial Correspondent.! . *_ | THE DOG POISONING' OUTRAGE. A meeting of those desirous of identifying, and proceeding against the individual who was responsible tor laying poison on the streets of Lower Hutt about the middle of last month, was held in the Mayor's room, Hutt, last night. Mr. E. P. Bunny occupied the chair, and there was a good attendance. Jlr. E. V. Sanderson, who convened the meeting, suggested that a reward of ,£25 .be offered in order to secure a conviction. The question of handing the matter to the police was discussed, but subsequently it was resolved to adopt the suggestion of tho convenor, and advertise in all papers. Those present guaranteed to 'subscribe the amount It was stated that many valuable dogs had been poisoned, and in each case tho symptoms were of strychnine— One little boy had lost four dogs out of live quito recently. .Mr. Sanderson suggested that thore would be more poisoning cases, and tho outrages should be put a. stop to. ; PETONB FIKE BOAED. At a special meeting of the Petonc Fire Board, held yesterday, the tender of Messrs. Southgate and Co., for the erection of the new fire station, was accepted. Tlie clerk was instructed to make application to the Minister for Internal Affairs for authority for the sale of tho present fire, station. The complete' figures havo now beca compiled of tho emigration from England to Australia during 1911:—Queensland, 12,801; New South 'Wales, 10,270; Western Australia, 10,255: Victoria, 5540; and South Australia, 1010. SPEND YOUR EASTER HOLIDAY ON THE WANGANUI RIVER. If you've never visited the Wanganui Ifivcr, there's a treat >n store. Pleasure and enjoyment are studied in every way.Comfortable liver steamers—the wonderful Houseboat near tlie Ohurn Palls—the luxurious I'ipir.iki House, are all replete with those modern conveniences which are nec-?>-ary to/make any holiday enjoyable. Hut the river—\v>rds fail to adequately describe its beauty. Magnificent shadow pictures, beetling cliffs, beautiful stretches of water, fern, and native bush, rnpiiN and falls, all tend to make it the one beauty .spot in New Zealand worth seeing this Easter. For the convenience of tourists, steamers will leave Wanganui tor I'ipiriki at 7 a.m. on Thursday (April I), Good Friday, Easter Saturday, and Master Sunday, returning any day except Suudny. The return steamer each day connects with the Wellington Express at Arn.mnho at noon. A spechl train leaves Wellington on Thursday, the tth April, at midnight, and connects with river steamer at. .Araninho Junction nn Good I'ridav mnniiii',- at 7 n.m., enabling ths touriaf lo reach I'ipiriki. Full particular? of'tare', 'tc are obtainable from all Government Tourist Bureaux, Cook and Sons,.or A. Hitrick and Co., Ltd., Wanga-