LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 10229, 22 June 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Weather Telegram. — Captain Edwin telegraphed at 5 p.m. yesterday :— Bad weather approaching between north-east and north and west. Glass falling again soon, and indications of rain.

Chess Club. — There is to be a meeting of persons interested in forming a Chess and Draughts Club, in connection with the Fire Brigade and Fire Police, to-night in the Fire Brigade Hall at 8 o'clock. Rainer's Panorama. — Mr Harry Eastwood, agent for Rainer's panorama, received yesterday afternoon a telegram from Wellington informing him that, owing to unforeseen circumstances, the arrival of the show in Wanganui is postponed for one month from this date. Hydraulic Lift. — The machinery for the hydraulic lift, to be placed in the New Zealand Loan end Mercantile Company's store on Taupo Quay, arrived from Auckland [illegible] [illegible] lower floors of the store.

Wangaehu Elections. — Nominations for the various wards of the Wangaehu Highway District will be received at noon to-day.

Veteran Workers. — There are in Wanganui several persons to whom Father Matthew administered the temperance pledge many years ago in Ireland. Amongst them is a gentleman who signed it on the 23rd October, 1838, at Limerick, and can boast of the personal good and the valuable example derived from 45 years of total abstinence. To such persons as these the Rev. Mr Williams's stirring lecture last night must have come like a trumpet call, to remind them of old times.

Another Prisoner. — There was a lull yesterday in the criminal business of Palmerston, and no prisoner from that town travelled into Wanganui last night, much to the disappointment of persons who had become accustomed to regular consignments from the Manawatu borough. They were, however, somewhat consoled by the arrival in the train, under police escort, of Mrs Hammond, an Otaki lady, who, having purloined a bottle of gin, was sent down to gaol for a month.

Experimental Paving. — Messrs Holcroft and Richards having obtained the necessary permission from the Borough Council will commence this morning paving a portion of the footway in Ridgway-street in front of the Rutland Sample Rooms. The material used will be the hydraulic lime from Messrs Wilson and Co.'s Auckland works, and the pavement will be laid down by Mr James Ross, the representative of the manufacturers, for whom Messrs Holcroft and Richards are the solo agents on this coast. Concrete of this kind was laid down in Palmerston on Tuesday, and at Bulls on Wednesday. In the former place the operations were witnessed by the Mayor and Borough Councillors, and at each town the hydraulic lime gave the greatest satisfaction. The experiment in Wanganui will be awaited with some interest.

Wanganui-Waitotara Elections. — Nominations were received at noon yesterday for the five wards of the WanganuiWaitotara Highway District. In No. 1 Ward, Mr David Peat was the only candidate, and was declared duly elected. In No. 2 Ward, Mr James Moore (nominated by Messrs Richard Davies and A. Tawse) was returned unopposed. In No. 3 Ward (Westmere) the candidates were Mr W. H. Watt, nominated by Messrs John Murchison and James Hair ; Mr Joseph Abbot, nominated by Messrs J. G. Sharpe and John Peake ; and Mr John Stone, nominated by Messrs G. Mitchell and J. B. Murray. Mr Watt's nomination paper was informal, and was rejected by the Deputy Returning Officer, Mr Dudley Eyre. There will therefore be a contest between Messrs Abbot and Stone. In No. 5 Ward Messrs W. Richie and G. S. Robertson were nominated, and here also there will be a contest. The polling will take place on Thursday next.

Y.M.C.A. — The winter course of lectures in connection with this Association was continued last night in the Fire Brigade Hall, by a lecture upon "Father Matthew, the Apostle of Temperance," delivered by the Rev. W. J. Williams, one of the vice-presi-dents. The chair was taken by Mr P. Bell, the other vice-president, Mr Carson, the president, being unavoidably absent from town. The attendance, from some unaccountable reason, was not so large as could have been desired. Mr Williams gave an eloquent and graphic account of Theobald Matthews's career from his youth and collegiate life at Maynouth to his death at the close of the great temperance crusade which he preached all over Ireland and in other of the British dominions. Mr Williams did full justice to the good priest's devotion to the cause, self-sacrifice, singleness of purpose, generosity, warm heart, and restless energy, and to the wonderful success which in those early days, in the second quarter of the present century, blessed his labours on behalf of the temperance movement. We regret that we have no space for a detailed report of the lecture, which, in well chosen language, careful marshalling of facts, and entire sympathy with Father Matthew and the total abstinence cause, constituted one of the ablest lectures yet delivered in Wanganui, and one which certainly was worthy of a larger audience. A cordial vote of thanks was awarded to Mr Willams at the conclusion of his address. In replying to the vote, he expressed his disappointment at the thin attendance, and his regret, particularly, that so few young men attended to show their interest in the Association and its work.

There is nothing known better calculated to invigorate the constitution than Wolfe's Schnapps ; it braces the nerves, tones the functions, and sets the machinery of the frame in healthy operation. — Advt.