LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XX, Issue 3401, 19 June 1877, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Borodgh Council. — To-night the usual fortnightly meeting will take place. Bank Holiday. — To-morrow being the anniversary of the accession of Queen Victoria, the several banks will be closed. Telegraphic. — A station is now open at Amberley, in the County of Ashley. Anniversary. — Sixty- two years ago yesterday the Battle of Waterloo was fought, the decisive conflict which annihilated the power of Napoleon I. Waitotara Highway Board. — Ten ders are called for the fencing of twenty chains of the Kowhatanui road. It will be seen by advertisement that a rate of one shilling in the pound has been struck by this Board. Lecture.— To-niglit, a lecture is to be delivered in connection with the Band of Hope of the Presbyterian Church, in the claßa room, by Mr Harper, a teacher in the Sunday School. The subject chosen, we hear, is one which should prove very interesting, and a large audience is expected. Branch Line. — Tenders for this work must be in before noon to-morrow. There is every reason to believe that it will be taken at a low figui'3, as beside local contractors, others from a distance are also going in for it, and have been busy for some time inspecting, calculating, and making out quantities. Stale. — An A.C. man claims credit for the following, which hs states he concocted at the Hawera races : — "How was • it the Russians could not lick the Turks ? Because they were so used to walking that they could not get into Kars (cars). We saw it in several exchanges a month before that time. Hawera once before claimed a similar honor, to which the aspiring genius was not entitled. Refused. — At the late session of the Licensing Court at Marton, S. Gibbons, of Marton, applied for a license for an hotel, to be erected at the Railway Station, Marton. Mr Maclean appeared in support of the application. He produced the plans, and asked that the consideration of the application might be allowed to stand over until the next licensing clay. The Court declined to accede to Mr Maclean's request, and refused the application. Omission. — Our contemporary last night, when quoting from the Eev James Buller's letter to the N Z. Wesleyan, accidentally omitted to reproduce the concluding clause, which rau thus: — "But I must beg pardon of the Wellington Evening Post, for this (tho writer's soliloquy on the many deaths which had taken place since his departure) is whining, canting, sanctimonious.' God save New Zealand from the blight of an in fa" del Press." Road to the Cemetery.— We hear that there is some probability of our suggestion anent a road to the Cemetery being carried into effect The best, and indeed the only, practicable route thereto appears to be a continuation of Guy ton Street, which is the nearest and, we should say, least expensive road obtainable. To Churton's Creek the street is permanently made, and a few chains of light excavation and forming would do the rest. We trust this source of discredit to the Borough will ba removed. Dismissed. — The case against Constable Warren, for perjury, was heard at Marton on Saturday. His Worship said that the Bench had given the charge due ; consideration, and were of opinion that the charge must be dismissed. At this announcement there was considerable applause, which was immediately suppressed. He had one more remark to make, which was that, the Bench were really in doubt whether a charge of perjury should not issue against Mr Gibbons. The defendant left the Court without the slightest stain on his character. It will be remembered that the case was the outcome of a police prosecution in which Gibbons had been defendant, heard last week.