WANGANUI NOTES

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 56, 30 November 1926, Page 3

WANGANUI NOTES

Dominion Special. Wanganui, November 29. One of the outstanding features in connection with the end of the school year functions at. tlie Sacred Heart (.-onvent, St. John's Hill, will be Mozart’s opera, “The Magic Flute,” a most ambitious undertaking for a school. A case where everybody works but father - was related at the Magistrate s Court to-dav, when a separation order was asked for. Complainant said that her husband had only done a few weeks work in four years, and that was helping about Hie boardinghouse which she kept. She offered hint £1 per week if lie would work, and bo replied, "lancy you giving tlie old man 4:1 per week. However, ho did uot close with the offer for spending money, but lived at the boardinghouse, and latterly lie took possession of her bed-sitting-room, and refused to got out of it. Despite the inclemency of the weather (he children nt the Turakina Health Camp are thoroughly enjoying their luo under canvas, and have greatly improved in health as a result of their out door training. To-morrow will be a red letter day at the camp, as the children will be favoured with a visit from tho Minister of Education, the Hon. R. A. Wright. Yesterday afternoon at Long Acre. Herbert Morris Heron, aged 15, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Heron, was accidentally shot by a pea rifle. The lad went shooting with his brother and- another lad. and was getting through a fence when the rifle discharged, and the bullet entered the skull through the lower jaw. At the time of the fatality tho lad was not in the sight of his companion*, but was picked up a few min utes later. Heavy rain and cold, piercing _ winds which assumed almost hurricane-like velocity swept Wanganui throughout the week-end. and caused minor damage to fences and gardens. The higher levels o the city and suburbs, caught the full violence of the wind, and in some qiiartors fences were levelled, while gardens nere transformed into unkempt wildertiesses. , , , ... Both the Inalia and the Invercargill, which arrived in port yesterday from Wellington. experienced exceptionally rough trips on the run up the coast. Although the vessels were fairly well loaded they were tossed about like corks. During Saturday night the gale increased in furv. and the fierce wind lashed the tops of the waves into fury, and kept the ships continually enveloped in blinding spray as high as the tops o the funnels. After cruising round the vessels reached port in safety. Practically all outdoor * port was postponed on Saturday owmc to the unfav ournble climatic conditions. Flora Ellen Williams was charged in iho Magistrate’s Court to-day with theft from P ...„.,..t;n.. to the value of ->1 ss. 9d Tim Mnvulrnlo (Mr. J. S. Bartoni snid lie would defer sentence till to-morrow,