LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 11638, 10 November 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We understood Mr Coventry lies res : gned j Ira appointment as maater of the Waitoiara Bchool. Aucklanders appear reooncled to Wellington aa thß seat of Governinont. They are tryiDg to get Auckland Govern menfc House turned into a university building. Sign of hard time?. Ihero aro said to be 900 empty houses in Auckland. Sign of good times. A dealer in Auckland estimates that there would be £1000 spent in fireworka frivolities during the season. The ways of the Government are hard to understand. While a'l the Post and Telegraph officials were enjoying high holiday, the unfortunate telephone clerk had to do twelve hours imprisonment, -without hard labour, as moßt of the subscribers tcok it for granted that the exchange would be included in the holiday. At the Police Oourfc on Tuesday before R Ward, E<q , 8.M,, Isabella Fowkeß, who had been remanded owing to her suffering from the D T'p, was charged with drunkenness. Sergeant Bissett slated that she had been brought up more on account o? her children, and asked that the case be withdrawn. The E.M. warned the prisoner againt t indulging in drnlr, and she promised to reform. William Bamber was charged with, on the 2nd November, being the owner of sheep infected with lice offered for sale in Messrs Barns and Higgie's sale yauds. He pleaded not guilty. Mr Munro, Sheep Inspector, stated that there wa3 nothing particularjabout the case, but he would like the publio to know that if the ofllanoe were repeated he would ask the R.M. to exceed the minimum penalty. A fine of £1 and cofits was inflicted* James Mayes was fined Is and costs 7s for allowing a horse to wander inside the railway fence. On Tuesday afternoon at the Boys' School Mr H. Mclntyre received from the teachers and pupils a very handsome recognition of their appreciation of his conduct during the nine years he has been connected with the school. The present took the fores of 38 handsome volumes of high class li'erature, embracing the works of Johnson, O. Lamb, Molieu, Ben Jonson, Scott, Shelley, &c. The chairman of the Eduoation Board had been requested to make the presentation, hut was compelled to forego that plaasure, business having called him away to Wellington. The chairman and secretary of the school com* mittee and the Bey Mr Treadwell were also invited, and the presentation had been arranged for 3 o'clock. In consequence, however, of bad weather setting in it was found necessary to alter the arrangements, and the lfov Mr Treadwell presided. Mr Ifecn, in requesting Mr Treadwell to present the books, sketched the unusually Buoceasful career of Mr Mclntyre, both as a pupil and a teacher at the school. He gained a scholarship at the age of 10, and in four (successive yearß was equally fortunate. In hi 9 standard examination he headed the list as 4th, 6th, an* 1 . 6 th scholar. In three of the four examinations under Mr Bindon he has also obtained the position in his class, in addition to which he has passed the Junior Civil Service and the Matriculation examination at the New Zealand University. After Mr Treadwell had'presented the books with a few appropriately encouraging remark;, Mr Fenn, in handing the album, said he fully endorsed the high opinion which the reverend gentleman had formed of Mr Mclntyre during the ten years he had ' known him* Mr Fenn said the highest compliment which he could pay to him was to say that his " word was his bond." Mr McTntyre briefly thanked those present for their kind consideration, and after three cheers were given for Mr Mclntyre, his mother (who was present), r.he teachers, and Me Tread well, the proceedings terminated. Mr Mclatjre opene the Turakiaa Valley School on the llh. We were wrong in calling the Lord han^ollor's part in f< lolanthe " a bass one, It is all written in the treble o'eff, and is a bar tooe part. We also erred in assuming tha i Mr Allen's voice is a tenor one when it is really a high f, me baritone. Messrs Walker and Hatrjok notify ie another column that the? hava a shipment o! Newcastle coal ex Mary Wadley to arrive in a day or two, and it will be sold from the ship's side at greatly reduced rafcei. They also announce that they have on hand a large stock of firewood which is to be sold at exceedingly low prices. The clerk of the weather must hare reserved for us some fine weather at last, at yesterday was a glorious day, and consesequently picnioing was the order of the day. The s.s.- Moutoa took two boatloads to the Good Templars' picnic, and the Heads Hallway was also well patronised, there being some hundreds of people down on the beach.. A number of pnyate pionioe were also held in the vicinity of the town. Some weeka ago the late Colonial Trea: surer stated that arrangements had beet made to place sufficient money to fche credit of the colony in London as to obviate £h< aoeeasifcy for placing the North Island TrunS Riilway loan on the market this year. It now turna ou^t that the money thus referred %o was obtained from the Bank of New Zealand and amounted to the sum of £6 )i),030. The matter was provisionally arranged aboul the middle of September between the Colonial Treasure? and phe bank inspector, subject to ratification by thp Board oi Directors in Auckland. This was com.municated to the Treasurer on the 24th S jp= teßib*r. The advance is made under the terms of the contract which the Bank oi New Zealand has with the Q-orernment, although the amount is nearly to its full extent in excess of the sum which the Treasury was entitled to requite the Bank to supply. The advance was made in two sums of £300,000 each, one being in London and the other in the colony. B >th rre repayable in March. In regard to the ratea paid for accommodation ia the colony the contract rate is 6 per cent., but the bank on this occasion only charges £5 13j 4i pei cent. The money for London had to be remitted by cable, and the authorised rate of exchange in such cases is 2J per cent., but in this instance only 2 per cent., has bean charged. — New Zealand Herald. Frog-spearing is a kind of amusement which, it appears, is indulged in by many aristocratic idlers who are trying to kill the long summer days in country seats in France. An instanoe of this peculiar Had of sport took place in the grounds of the Chateau of Bellancpurt. After luncheon a party of ladies and gentlemen, armed with weapons resembling crossbows, the arrowe being of hazal wood, with iron iance- heads, and attached to the bow by silken strings, co us to enable the frogs to be hauled in, pj?j ceeded to tha bank of a pond. Theu there vraa a great deal of unceremonious stooping down as the frogs appeared, and arrows wee '©boffin all directions, the slaughter being ojnsiderible on the part of those who pursued the spore for tho purpose of bagging game. The interest taken throughout the colony in the recent elections ia shown by the fact that 111,911 votes were recorded against 74,672 in 1884. The total number of names on rolls this year was 175>410, against 137,686 in 1884. Thsre were recorded 60,052 votes for members elected, against 51,^50 votes given for defeated candidates. The Wellington Press says that the chiaf function of the Treasurer in 1887 is to perform the obsequea of the borrowing and •squandering policy of 1878. The Princess Pi-mntalli is acting aa a waiter girl in a second-rate cafe in Vienna, Th s is the lady who, ufter quarrelling with her relatives lately, sang at a London music nail for a livohhood. Elzabeth frarrett, (he unmarried sister of the President o£ the Baltimore and Ohio Railway, ia said to have the nea*; little sum >{ £4,030,000 at her command, and ibj.B is i.joreas'mg rapid y o?ery day. While a marine diver, named M'SHiee, *.■!•» working at the wreck of a sunken yacht if Gj-reenonk receu'ly, an air pipe broke. tro igbt to tho surface M'CHice was uijcnsiblo, and ho died sv few hours later, S-i 1 George Bom en recently resigned the (} ivoramout of JJ.jn^koaa on the ground of !' liealtb, f,nd ; having finally >e!,ired from t'io Colonial service, he will receive a pension of .61500 a year tor tho. remainder of his lifo.