GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 175, 28 August 1909, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

,| A CAI.KDOXIAX BANQUKT. ii % Telegraph.—Press Aaaoeiatii-;,. i, p< Wanganui, Uist Mght. ) The Wanganui Caledonian Society held it* inaugural annual banquet this . evening. The function wins a great success. The visitors, who were present from all part* of the dominion, included lion. Thomas McKcnzic, Mr. R. D. D. Mcl-ean {liawkc's ilay), Mr. W. T. Jennings, .Ml'., Mr. Dive J M.P., and other*. cA\r::r,nri!Y chamber ok commence. Christclmrch, Kight. The Canterbury Chamber of Com. merie celebrated its jubilee birthday toil:iy. when it held Us fiftieth annual meeting. The occasion was made a iiiLci-esting one, and many -e----.en nces were made to the Ch&mber'a '■mall beginning 30 years ago, and o llie progress it lm* niade, and also to the general progress it has watched in Canterbury. Mr. H. .1. MarriniT (president) pr»- ■ ded, and there was n large attendance , f member?. Presenting tit,- annual r<-, ' "rt and balance-sheet, tlie chairman dealt with the causes of the recent oewession in the money market, with the iirop in the price of frozen mutton mid the condition of the wool market. lie ■llso reviewed the working of the C6n .ilia:ion Act. nnd the effect of cheat!,* '■aide rates a-.id touched upon the canal "loject, and the rate of exports from tt! n ° a ? oVf of 1,10 W'torv llf ,hl ' c '""uber during the past fifty