WANOANUI JOTTINGS.
- V.';,.' ■'■■-. . .0, . ■■,-.'' (Bj loleifTapli.—Special Ctyi?coDonfleni;.) •:, ,:.-': Wanganui, January 3. The number of mawiagcs celelirated in , Wangan'ui during 1912 totalled 216.;, Tina is.a record,"'the previous: best being ' lit 1910,:when-191 ; marriages were, cehjbratctl. ■ The nafuraldncrease by birth's over'deaths, is also creator,than, last year, the.figures being-W-aspagoinst 170.' " The. birth's totalled 591; in' 1912,'ri,3,compared with; 560 tho'previous ■year.' ■■'' '" v ■'.." --••--... -.• '! While shearing :at- Mr../ J. M'Hardy's Glenpro station near Riianui, Pat Robert--6011, ! a shearer, shore with the blades 1217 6.hcdp'i,n 5} days, the shearing hours each 'day being, nine. : His- best. . tallies : wero 220, 227, and 228, and runs of 19 lambs in 12-lours and 47 ewes.in li .hours. .;• .;•'•• ■ :, A number of Wanganui;.bowlers left for Auckland ,'to-day_ to ■ participate' 'in the Northern Association's .tourney-, next week.Sonip'half, dozen "deaths, havo occurred amongst the Maoris at. Piriaka within the .last few weeks frqm.so_.rao malgdy. which, is regarded as being mysterious. Several including :Mabris'and Europeans are still suffering fronVtho sam'o complaint'. - ' •' * Miss Battle; sister of Mr. T."H. Battle,: architect, of. Wanganui, died last night after a long ana,painful illness.' Shq was: '. well known and'highly Tespected. '•.The Custom's returns for the port of ■ Wnnganiii show,; an incroaso. of over. . iSßsß9'on : the year's'work in 1912 as compared with. 1911. . :'■■ '■"■ .•'•
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1639, 4 January 1913, Page 15
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200WANOANUI JOTTINGS. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1639, 4 January 1913, Page 15
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