WANGANUI JOTTINGS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1631, 24 December 1912, Page 8

WANGANUI JOTTINGS.

(By TolCßrapU.-Specia! Correspondent.) War.nanui, December 23. The twelfth annual North Island championship meeting, conducted by the Wan»anui District Rifle Association, will be held on -the Putiki rifle range on Friday and Saturday next. A large number, of competitors ore expected to take part trom all parts of the district. : _ V... . The caoital value of the Wangamu East Borough' District, which is to be absorbed by tho Wonganui Borough as from January 1. has increased during the past year bv £22, and is now approximately of the annual value of £20.E00. The meeting of the Wanganui East Borough Council, held on Friday last, was probably the last which will lie held by that body. Prior to merging into the. larger borough, councillors torik occasion to paw a vote- of appreciation of Mr. A. Burtons work while he had occupied the Mayoral chair, and the hope was expressed that he would, hlsr on, be Mp.tot of Wanganui. Mr. J. P. ilolloway, who has acted as.Town Clerk, and borough treasurer during tho last three and a half years, was also accorded a hearty vote of thanks.

Last evening tho citizens of Palmerston Hwnl a farewell to.Mr. W. T. Wood, ex-MHJI., and presented him with a pur-so of sovereigns. Mr. Wood is leaving Palmerston to sesk health at a seaside resort—Press Association. Valparaiso has an incendiary sparrow. The other day it picked up a lighted cigarette in the street and earned it to the bolfrey of the University, where it ignited tho straw in some old nests and damaged tho tower. ;...;.. For Children's Hacking Cough at Night, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, Is. 6d.*_