LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 11637, 8 November 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

♦ *£* In accordance with our usual custom, there "will be no issue of the Chuohiolb to-morrow, Prince of Wales' Birthday. Hard lines for the young ladies in " lolanthe." Instead of enjoying the universal holiday to-morrow, they will hare to stay at home with their hair in plaits, ready , for the performance in tho evening. At the Boya' School thia afternoon, a presentation of some valuable works will be made to Mr Hugh Mclntyre, who has been appointed by the Education Board to take charge of th Turakina Valley School. , On Friday last a young man named Bogera, in the employment of Whiteman Bros, near Mongamahu, Upper Wangaehu, bad a narrow escape from drowning. He > had gone out to swim with Mr W. Whiteman in a rather swift part of the Wangaehu, and misjudging his swimming powers, attempted to oroas against the current, but got overpowered in the middle of the river, and was just sinking for the third time, when Whiteman, who had swam ashore. . came back, and shouting to him to keep still, caught him by the hair, but was obliged to let go, as a dog jumped on Bogers, and carried him down stream. Whiteman t quickly caught him again, thia time by the right hand, and dragging him with one hand, swam ashore with the other- Rogers, who was partially insensible* recovered after coming ashore. The youngsters about town were very quiet on Saturday, Guy Fawkes' Day, no B doubt owing to the unfavourable weather, *. but last night they went in for fun to their * heart's content. At the Collegiate School the boys made a very effective display of fireworkp, which was well worth seeing, 1 and attracted some attantion. i Messrs Wrigglesworth and Binns, the well-known Wellington photographers, have two representatives in Wanganui at present, who intend, we understand, to take a number of views of the town, and then proceed up the river on to Auckland, through the Waikato country. . Mr J. W. A. Marchanfc, Commissioner of Crown Landp, held an auction sale yesterday, in the Masonic Hall, of the leases of a number of small runs, when five in the Maungakaretu, and one in the Hewa dis* I triote, we:e sold, comprising 6500 acres, the average rental being Bid per acre. Three of the runs were bought by Mr Whitworlh Rusael, as agent for an Auckland purchaser. For two of them he paid 7£i per acre, and for the other Is per acre. The other two runs were bought by Messrs J. Beard and Ellis, each paying 7£d per acre. The Waitotara County Council seem highly dissatisfied with their Wanganui brethren, who should, they think, keep the bridge in repair, and the Eiver Bank Eoad open. They pasßed a resolution at their meeting yesterday, instructing the clerk to take the necessary steps to impose a toll, which will, they think, bring the others to their bearings. The scale of charges will be as follows : -Every horse Is, every vehicle drawn by one horse 2s, every additional horse Is, every bull, oow, heifer, and bullock 6d, every sheep, pig, lamb, or goat 3d. A cheque was lost yesterday afternoon between 2.45 and 3 o'clock. It was dated the 7th November, numbered 261,773, and was drawn for £11 13s 4d upon the Bank of New Zea'and, Wanganui. being made payable to 133 or bearer. We are requested to caution the public against either receiving or cashing it, as its payment haß been stopped at the bank. That was a funny blunder in the Herald of Saturday night, mixing up his Konor the Chief Justice with Mother Saigel'a Byrup. We understand that the residents of the Upper Wangaehu district, embracing about 300,000 acres o* country, are preparing a ' petition to Parliament not to be included * in the Wanganui Harbour Bating District, i The settlers in the district in question, in order to get to town, have to trarel through the " strip" whioh Mr Ballanca has offered to surrender, and are therefore much more entitled to be left out. The Harbour Board yesterday — two members dissenting — decided that it would be discourteus to remind Mr Ballance that they had any opinions with regard to the harbour rating district, and begged to request that he would do ac he liked in the matter. Mr 9. J. Heffer, for some years Mr J. P. Watt's popular brewer, has now commenced business on his own account in his new Crown Brewery, St Hill-stroet, where he ] assures hia patrons that they will be able to obtain beer of the same quality as that which took first prize at the late Wangasui Jubilee Exhibition. 1 A correspondent of the Taranaki Herald ' bears that Mr Vickei s, of Inglewcod, has recently lost 100 ewes and lambs by death, the cauße he attributes to tbfir citing fuDgus or toadstools, which ij another description of fungus of a poisonous kind. Tho Eaglan mail carrier describes the saurian monster shot; there as being much , larger than any seal, with different teeth, .and a mouth that could ewal ow a man. It i oared like a bull when shot, and could ba heard for a long distance. The native policema 1 , Rawiri, who shot it, gsks £20 for he skin, head, and legs, which aro 1 aropsu qd for Btufling,

The following handicap* have been de« olared for the Oity Biflea Ist claae trophy, to be fired fcr at 5,30 to-morrow morning : — Capt Flyger, S*rgta Johnßtone and Parkes, Corpls Laird and McGonagle, Volunteers Henry, Boss, Lore, and Rimeon, soratah ; Sergt Spurdle, Volb Dewion and Graham, 3 points ; VOI3 Biyth and Seed-, 6 points ; Vol Schulta, 8 points. The 2nd class will fire for their trophy on November 15th, at 5.30 a.m. The following handieips have been allotted j — Vols 0. Laird } Davenport, and Coakely, scratch ; Vols Keen, Mooseman, Peak, Low, and Henley, 4 points ; Vols Simpson, Bason, and Ashor, 7 points; all others, 10 points, Sir Juliue Vogol thinks that members of the Upper House should not put " M.L.O f after their names when signing electioneering letters. He did not fiad f aulfc when the late Minister of Lands,the sponsor of " Fort Ballance," used his name and office and the Telegraph Department to try to prevent the return of Mr James Carroll. — Hawke's Bay Herald. A correspondent of the Melbourne Argus gives in a recent number an account of Naples, Coming to the cemetery he Bays : — "A quiet littie ' God's asre," indeed, is its | Protegtant cemetery, of which I have to find the keeper and his key*. Small as it is the contents are not to be inspected at a rush. It takes more than an bour, studiously passed there,tojsee that which is of interest. Foremost of such is a granite monument of maseive look, on which id seated in a chair the life Bize and evidently well-sculptured effigy of her who lies below, The pourt» rayai is that of a mature and thoughtful woman, in the attitude of a thinker. Beneath it are the words : ' Mary Somerville, 1872. Here also rest her daughters, Martha and Mary.' Perhaps many are as ignorant as I wac up to this time where the most scientifically devoted of all womankind had found a grave. On one side of this tomb lies a daughter of the Ouke of Portland, and on the other side one of Sydney's best known citizens, ' Lebbeus Hordern, of Sydney, JST.S.W., who died Ist November, 1881, at Naples, en route to Australia, 1 . 1 think that I have come to a New Zealand celebrity when I find the name of ' Julias Yogel ' but the record is that this one of that name died at Naples in 1881." Saye the Napier Telegraph : —It is stated by those who are in a position to know, that the export of wojl from Hawke'a Bay this season will be less than it has been for the past seven years. The causes are the hei y mortality amongst list year's hogget) ; ho present lambing not being up to the average ; the long drought of last summer not breaking till May j there was only a weak growth of winter grass that failed tc put the sheep into condition to produce a heavy clip; the winter itself was exoep* tionally severe, there having been more froßt and snow than have been known for years. Added to all the above causes, the weather remains very cold and wet, and the flocks now under the sheers are olipping very light fleeces. The mortality amongat the sheep in the province of Hawke's Bay this winter has been something enormous, some authorities putting the number that have diei at fully 100,000. The reason, of course, is well known, but there is a lesson 10 b 9 learnt from past experience, and that is the necessity for providing winter fe9d for the flocks. In one instance that has come under notice ample provision was made in thia respect by a sheepfarmer, and he has had the satisfaction of seeing a splendid return for his outlay in the fact that his flock suffered comparatively little from mortality, while those of others around were dying by hundreds — P. B. Herald. " Puff " writes in the Press : —Talking about Protection, the farmers' conference at Melbourne demand a 25 per cent ad valorem duty on live stock and meat and agricultural produce generally ! — Yea, isn't that splendid ! New South. Wales is actually supplying Victoria with food ! And the Vicorian farmers want to make food one* fourth dearer than it need be, so as to keep up their profits I— How will the manufacturers like that ? — They "won't like it at all ! They can hardly get along as it is, paying starvation wages! But if these duties are imposed on food, it'll shut up half the fatttories and driva the population over the border ! — If the Government won't let the grub came to the people, the people will go to the grub I— Just so ! II fctut manger, anyhow ! — I see Joyce wants a duty to be put on fruit J — What for 2— To encourage local laziness ! — Local industry, you . mean ?— No, local laziness ! The country folks in New Zealand won't take enough trouble to supply their own market with frnit ! They won't grow good sorts or take any paina to send it to market, so as to compete with. Australian ! — So Joyce wants to puk on a duty to compel the public to buy bid windfalls and any other sort of rot-gut the New Zealand growers ohoose to condescend to sell ! -Yes, but it only shows his blooming ignorance ! Yogel tried ito put a dut/ on fruit last session, and the question was thoroughly threshed out ! It was proved that a duty on fruit would shut up every jam factory in the colony, and so dspriye local fruit-growers of their best and ODly certain market The fruit-growers themselves are dead against it ! — I don't suppose Joyce knows anything about that! He's rather green j A man named Elliott, a farmer living at Beech worth (Victoria) j was riding home from Tumberumba to attend liis wife's funeral, when he was thrown by his horse, and died the following morning from the injuries he had received. flutes amount to 4s 6d in the £ in Oam.ru. Happy Oamaru !