LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XIX, Issue 3197, 19 October 1876, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Official.— Garland Woon, Esq., has received the appointment of Sheriff for the Wanganui district. Wellington College. — Two cases of scarlet fever have now broken out in the College, t-he names and parents' residences of the lads being Yule of Wairarapa, and Cripps of Whareama. Other class rooms have been temporarily obtained, and the pupils are asked to re-assemble. Stop Thief. — Someone of the wrecker class has committed a paltry depredation on board the snag punt, and has abstracted therefrom the gin and chain used in raising snags. We believe there is some clue as to the identity of the offenders. Robbing Peter to Pay Paul. — This is a favourite system with a certain class of gentlemen of the expectant class. Such is generally one of those long lanes which have a sudden and very awkward and unexpected turning. The motto seems to be — " Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof." The theory is pleasantly philosophical, even if unsubstantial. Our Streets. — We presume our Foreman of Works has enough to do at present in the effort to " reorganize " the water supply. But when he is again at leisure, we would remind him that the kerbing of many of the footpaths requires attention, and the footpaths themselves filling up and levelling. In many of the streets whole sections of the kerbing are torn up and left lying across the footpath —an unpleasant obstruction in a dark night. We shope5 hope the necessary repairs will be effecte'd. Departure. — Joseph Giles, Esq., R.M., was a passenger by the Stormbird on Tuesday night, en route for Poverty Bay. The cases into which, with Major Brown, Mr Giles is appointed as a Commission to institute inquiries, concerns some statements made by Judge Rogan, attacking the Native Lands Purchase Department, and impugning the accuracy of certain representations embodied in a paper laid by Sir Donald McLean before bofch Houses of Parliament. Some counter charges preferred by the Native Lands Purchase Department against Judge Rogan are also to be investigated and set right, and it is not impossible that some of the mysterious ways employed by these attaches of the Native Department, their wonders to perform, will be brought to light and explained to the satisfaction of all parties. We look forward with considerable interest to the result of this commission. Odd Fellows' Hall. — To-morrow night Hegarty's Globe Combination Troupe of star performers will open to a Wanganui audience. Their advance agent, Mr G. Gardner, who was favourably known when in the same capacity for Barlow's Circus, has preceded the company, and is now in Wanganui busying himself with the necessary preliminary preparations, and has arranged every detail so that no delay will take place to postpone or interfere with the promised appearance. Since our last notice, we have been favoured with a perusal of the Press critiques on the performances of the Hegarty Combination Troupe, and in all are they most favourably spoken of in each feature of their several roles. Miss Kate Russell is pronounced a vocilist and danseuse of great abilitj', and her character impersonations and histrionic accompaniments are said to be wonderfully perfect, very pleasing, and unusually clever. Then there are Mr E. A. Hart, a comic actor and singer ; Miss B. Harrison, also a lady of superior parts ; Mr John Morgan, an excellent Irish comedian ; Professor Hennecki, an accomplished wizard ; and Miss Burdetta Stella, who takes a prominent part in the suspension trick. With artists of such acknowledged ability, a genuine programme may be relied upon,

Progressing.— Mi.'-J. W. Robinson, we are glad to hear, is doing as well as can be expected. Local Industry.— Mr Crease, grocer in WillisStreet, Wellington, is having a large coffee mill erected. Curr i?ou Diphtheria.— The following euro for diphtheria is copied from the Melbourne 'Daily Telegraph ' : — " One spoonful (tea-spoon) of flour of sulphur in half a cupful of water, to be well mixed, as they will not easily blend, to be used as a gargle, and also to swallow the mixture, and then, closing all the doors and windows, take a red ooal from the fire, and sprinkle aboutateaspoonful of sulphur thereon, holding the same about one foot from the sufferer's mouth, causing him to inhale about four or five good gulps. Described as an infallible remedy." New Zealand Wool. — A correspondent of 'The Colonies,' writing from Philadelphia regarding the Australasian wools shown in the Centennial Exhibition says: — "Great things are hoped fir for the wools of Victoria, ad also of New South Wales and New Zealand. The collection of the latter ha3 disappeared in the most complete manner from the British section of the Agricultural Hal{ since I wrote on its dirty appearance. I have not since been able to discover it ; but in the special New Zealand space, main building, the wool is all that can be desired."