LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 11636, 7 November 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

«- Thero was a clean shee. at the Police Oourt yesterday. The ordinary monthly meeting of the Harbour Board takes plaoe thin afternoon. The usual monthly meeting of tho Waitotara Oounty Council will be held this morning. During laßt week three patients were discharged from the hospital, and one died, leaving 18 at present under tre.tment in the institution. l'he revenue collected lasfc week at H.M. Oußtoma office here was as follows : — Ouetoma duties, £201 3s lld, lees refund of I7e, £200 6a lld; beer duty stamps, £38 ls ; light dues, £1 4a lld ; pilotage, £9 18. 10 d.: tolal, £249 lis Bd. The readings of the thermometer on Thurs - day were:— Husaell 63, Auckland 67, Thames 62, Gisborne 63, Napier 65, New Plymouth 61, Wellington 63, Wanganui 67, Nelson 66, Blenheim 62, West* port 59, Greymouth 63, Timaru 57, Oamaru 61, Uunedin 54, Inveroargill 45 Parents are puzzled to flad out why the local school commi .tee altered the Bobool hoars. In tho dark winter mornings the children had to be hurried off to school by 9 o'clook, but now that the seaaon for early rising has come around the time for opening the school has heen extended to 9.30. A change has also been made in the dinner recess, whioh has been reduced from li hours to 1 hour, the committee apparently entertaining the idea that the heat and dust of summer are conducive to rapid trayelling, fast eating, and quick digestion. The Manawatu Times deals in a very grim kind of humour. Beferring to the new stretcher designed by Mr Beattie for hos • pital patipnt. carried in railway vans, the Times evidently thintiK t a good joke to suggest that a practical trial be made by Mr Sanson, a gentleman for whom the paper in question has no very kindly feeling. Mr Gordon Forlong announced, in the oourse of the service at tbe Pire Brigade Hall last night, tbat a new paper is about to be started in Wellington in the interests of Protestantism. The paper will be edited by Mr George Bruoe, brother of Mr R. C. Bruce, M.H.R. The Feilding Star says that the ance of the Greenwood Family was the best it had been its good fortune to witness in Feilding for many a long day, Mr j. Bowler, of Mosefcown, announces , himself as a candidate for the Westmere Hiding in the Wanganui County Council. Mr Dustin announces fchafc he ia now pre« pared to supply ice creams at his establishments in Wicksteed-Btreet and the AvenueMr Hooper's clearing out boot sale is to be extended for another fieri days. The Bailway excursion time-table for the holidays appears in our advertising oolumn?. The Rev C. H. Spurgeon, who has seceded from the Baptist Union, charges many of his ministerial brethren in Baptist and Congregational churches with " adulterating the Gospel." In an article on the '« Down Grade," he says : — "The Atonement is scouted, the inspiration of Scripture is divided, the Holy Spirit is degraded into an influence, the punishment of sin is turned into fiction, and the resurrection into a myth, and yefc theso enemies of our faith expect us to call them brethren, and main* tain a confederacy with them !" Mr Seddon, who is aoting at present as Sir Julius Vogel's lieutenant, describes the poaition of the Opposition as one of " masterly inactivity." Several Wellington merohants clear ad out. a large quantity of tea and other articles from bond last Monday in anticipati >n of inoreased duties. They are now deeply chagrined at their own preoipitat'on. Thi3 is how " Paddy Murphj" warbles upon the parochial politics of Wellington, as shown by the demand for Government fco provide a publio clock :— ■ * .._>_u _r_»__-__rao__L-<;u&7T_vjT_"lxlf UOWitlo The mimbete all i re eiut To riprisint grand principles And views in Porliamint But Willinton it's duty done, For firm as any rock Its people stood for those who would Prove sonnd upon the clock. Borne months ago a ludicrous episode occurred at fcbe works of the Woodbury Tissue Oompany, where bands of paper for photographic use are made transparent by the use of certain solids dissolved in hydrocarbons. The vapour from the liquid had such an effeot upon fche workmen employed, that they reeled about; fche premises in a state of jovial intoxio ation. An accident of the ssme kind is reported from America. At a mill there a pipe of large diameter waa being painted inside with a mixture of benzine and asphaltum, a as precaution againat rust. Sounds of hilarity were heard proceeding from that pipe, and whon the Superintendent of the works peeped witbin he found his men painting each others faoes, and otherwise behaving as lunatics, Itis quite possible that a fatal accident mighc happen in suoh a ease as this, and the use of such fluids as benzine should be guarded by suitable precautions. — Graphic. Advance Westport! Some curiosity was excited on Monday evening by the arrival in town of a truck of coal beautifully decorated with flags and shrubs, the flags showing in iiguros "100,000." Upon inquiry we learn thafc the figures indicate that fcbe Westport Coal Company's output from their ' Coalbrookdale mine from Ist January to | 24th Ootober of this year had reached the reßpeclable figure of 100,000 tons fir 200 days work. Their output for 1886 was 73,809 tons, and it ia estimated their total for this year will not be far short of 123,000 tons, and this for a single ehiffc daily of eight hours, which could easily be doubled if required. When we consider the total production from the coal mines in the colony for 1875 (the returns for 1886 not being vet lssued) was 511,063 tons, Westport may be proud of .ker coal industry, and when the depth of water on the bar increases, as the harbour works advance, a much larger fcrade may be looked for, as up to the present no foreign export has been done. The " imports for the last year were 130.802 tons " South Wales, the balanoe being from the Omted Kingdom and Queensland: there ia « muoh therefore to be said in f a7c . ur ot Dro . fcecfcjng this native industry by imposing a duty on foreign coal, which would eire a J great impetus to ooal-mining and tend fco To Dreasmakers-Wanted-.A thoroughly ri jompetenfc skirt hand Mast possess tttj t n draping. 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