LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XIX, Issue 3198, 20 October 1876, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Cricket. — At a committee meeting held late night, it was decided to play at Wairoa on the Prince of Wales’ Birthday. A scratch match is arranged for Saturday next. Daily to Marton. — Mr Cookery’s coach now runs daily to Wanganui from Marton. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, an 9 a.m., and on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, at a quarter before seven a.m., returning the same day. Theatrical. — The Hegarty Combination Company will appear to night in the Hall, and we have little doubt, from their known ability, and the popularity with which they have been received elsewhere, that they will have no reason to complain of their reception in Wanganui. Railway Imposition. — Says the ‘Advocate’ :— In addition to the mills already noticed as having been compelled to suspend operations owing to the present prohibitive tariff charged for timber on the Palmerston and Foxton railway, we learn that work will not be resumed at Bull’s mill at the Oroua until the present absurd charges are considerably reduced. Divorce Case. — In the ‘Australasian’ just to hand there is an account of the proceedings in the suit for divorce Winter v Winter. The letters which passed between the respondent and corespondent are most unique specimens. An absolute decree nisi has issued. Wellington and its vicinity occasionally crops up through the investigation. It is to be hoped “Birdie” is satisfied with the denounment. Insurance. — We hear a that meeting of local Insurance Agents was convened yesterday, to discuss the several features involved in the contemplated reduction of rates for premium. We have not learnt what decision was arrived at, though we are aware how unfortunate was the coincidence of the water supply being out of order at the very time when its merits were being called into question, from a practical and financial point of view. Water Supply. — The water is on again, and no one knows how the siphon became empty, and how it became full again. The feature in suggestive of the appointment of some responsible and competent person, accustomed to the management of water works, and thoroughly understands the principle of hydrostatics. Too many cooks spoil the broth, and unless the supervision of the water works is entrusted to a capable officer, some fine morning we will awake to learn that through incompetent management our water supply has been tampered with to an extent that will require a heavy outlay to set right. Misrepresented. — The ‘Advocate’ thus seeks to remove an assumed misapprehension :— “With reference to the speech delivered by the Rev A. Towgood at the Diocesan Synod, on the formation of a Church of England Temperance Society, we have been assured by that gentleman that in condensing his speech into a very small compass, the reporter has failed to reproduce what he intended to convey, and that he does not look upon the report as an adequate transcript of his opinions.” We are rather pleased to hear on the authority of our contemporary that the Rev Mr Towgood’s statements were exaggerated in the report referred to. Progress of Public Works. — We collate the following items from our Marton contemporary :— The railway bridge across the Rangitikei at Kakariki is making satisfactory progress, the last row of piles having been driven last week. The formal opening of the Feilding railway was to have taken place yesterday ; the event was to have been celebrated in a manner every way worthy the occasion. The commencement of the year should see Feilding in communication with the rest of the colony by means of the wire. The new goods-shed at Turakina will be finished, we believe, in the course of a week. It is a fine, commodious, and convenient building, with storage capacity sufficiently ample to meet the demands which may be made upon it for the next few months at any rate. Tenders were last week accepted for the construction of the road bridge over the Rangitikei at Onepuheu. Messrs Denbigh and Co were the successful tenderers for the portion over the main stream, which will be a cylinder bridge, and the E. and C. Corporation have obtained the contract for the portion over what forms the backwater in a fresh. We have not heard the exact amount of the tenders, but believe that £5,500 and £1,500 respectively will not be found wide of the mark. The bridge is to be finished in eighteen months.

The Pot Rebuking the Kettle. — Says the ‘Argus,’ the following extract from a leader in this morning’s ‘Times,’ affords a fair sample of the style of the colonial journal :— “But as Mr Travers has now sent a copy of his letter to the ‘Evening Post,’ and some blackguard, acting apparently on his behalf, has alleged that we have suppressed his letter, he can go to Hongkong so far as we are concerned, and will certainly not see his effusion in this morning’s issue.”