LOCAL AND GENERA.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 10236, 28 June 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERA.

School Commutes. — A .meeting of the School Committee will take place at 4, o'clock this afternoon, when tho applications for the post of caretaker will be taken into consideration. Wangandt - Waitotaba Boakd. — The polling for Nos. 3, 4, and 5 Wards of tho Wanganui- Waitotara Highway Board takes place to-day, and very close contests in all three cases are expected to take place. ' The Levy Prosecution. — The Minister of Justice has intimated that the Government decline to pay the costs of the prosecution of L. It. Levy, on the ground that it is provided by law that such costs shall be a first charge on the estate. Naval Bali. — Invitation cards are being issued for the Naval Artillery Ball, to be held at the Drill Hall on Wednesday, the llth July. It is anticipated that 250 people will be present, and that the affair will be a great success. Daiby Factoby. — The certificate of incorporation having been issued at Wellington, a meeting of shareholders in the Dairy Factory Company, Limited, will be held on Saturday, the 7th of July, at 11 a.m , for the purpose of electing the directors, and transacting other necessary business. Haboub Boabd Endowments. — The Minister of Lands has refused the consent of the Government to the introduction of the Bill promated by the Harbour Board. The measure dealt with Crown lands, and the Government assent was necessary. It must, therefore, be dropped for the present session. Making a Fkesh Stabt. — We are rev .quested by the clerk of the Wangauui-Wai-totara Highway Board to state that the: usual monthly meeting (and the first meeting of the newly-elected Board) will be hold on Monday next, at ll a.m. It is, of course, impossible on this occasion to send the usual notices to the members a week before the meeting, for the all-sufficient reason that the Board is not yet elected. ' As Unlucky Musician. — Air Evans' the well-known Wanganui musician, met with a mishap of. a very unfortunate nature, last night. He was walking on the edge of the Eiver Bank, opposite Ctuyton-street, when the earth crumbled away beneath his feet (the bank having been undermined by the fresh), carried him down some distance, plastered him with mud from head to foot, and seriously damaged a .violin which he was carrying in his hand at the time. Shifting a Building. — Messrs Harris and Gerrie, the contractors for removing tho tollhouse from its old site at the end of the bridge to the section adjoining Mr Joseph Cbadwick's! auction mart, have very nearly completed their work, the building having' reached its destination yesterday. The removal was a (ended with extra difficulty, in consequence of the elevated position from which tbe t I (house had to be brought down. It is a substantial and far from unsightly house, and will make a capital oflice for a public body or a professional man, when Mr Chadwick (whose property it now is) has effected the necessary repairs. The Financial Statement.— We havo on this occasion, as we have had in past years, lo compliment the Telegraph Department on the admirably clear and rapid way in which the Financial Statement was sent through the wires and received in Wanganui last night. The statement this year is longer than many of its predecessors, and attains the very respectable length of over 11,000 word?. The wires, three of which were in operation at one time for a part of the night, worked very well, and the whole of the message waa delivered in thiß office by- half-past 11 o'clock. It hod also to be repeated from Wanganui to Hawera and New Plymouth, so that Mr Mountford and his staff of telegraphists had a busy night's work. Putting it to thk Test. — Amongst the scholars who drank in wisdom last week at the feet of Professor Sample was Mr T. A. Bryce, of the Brunswick, and he was so struck with the system •£ traiming which he saw practically explained that he determined to put it to the test. On Saturday lost he operated upon two horses, with the most satisfactory and speedy results. The first was a 5-year-old, which had been partially handled two years ago, and then turned out. Ab it had never been touched since, the animal may justly be regarded as a fit subject for the professor's " system." Mr Bryce informs us that, in less than five minutes, he had the bridle on, and was himself on the horse's back quietly and with perfect ease. To complete hia triumph, Mr Bryce rode it into town yesterday, and the horse appeared to be thoroughly well broken in. The other animal dealt with was a, 3-year-old draught colt, perfectly unbroken, and, in this case also, Mr Bryce quieted and rode it in five minutes. On the principle that an ounce of example is worth a ton of precept, these experiments of Mr Bryce's will be regarded as most valuable. : A. Questionable Boon. — In pursuance of the clause of tho Act, which provides for the bankrupt retaining £25 worth of personal property, the Trustee handed oyer to Mrs L. L. Levy five boxes of articles, deemed by him to represent the statutory allowance. They were immediately soized for debt and taken down' to Mr A. Barns's auction store, but soon afterwards redeemed from limbo by the good offices of Mr Cooke. The five boxes were inspected yesterday by numerous persons, to whom the name of Levy appeared to possess a certain amount of fascination, and the universal opinion was that, whether the Trustee had acted according to the strict letter of the law or not, Mrs Levy has very little to. thank him for. A mere ' miscellaneous collection of rags and fantastic odds and ends was probably never found in any bankrupt's estate in Wanganui, and, unless they were sold in separate lots as ancient curios, it is difficult to seo how they could be worth £25 to anybody. We understand that it is the intention of Mrs Levy's solicitor to test tho question in tho District Court whether the Trustee has properly complied with the Act. Some of the contents of the five boxes are of course of value, but the best judges yesterday seemed to think that the whole collection would be dcau at £5.