LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12633, 21 October 1905, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

!*" Townspeople will be given an opportunity this evening of .inspecting the new Municipal gas offices, which will bo thrown open for inspection at 7 o'clock.. - ' Upward* of 100 camels have arrived at Perth (W.A.), having been brought from a breeding establishment at Port Augusta. They are to be used for prospecting in the north-west.

-Mr. JyT. Hogan announces that he will speak at St. John's school, Liverpool street,, r on Monday evening next, and at Okoia on Tuesday. Ladies willing .to assist him are invited to meet on Thursday afternoon.

The united prayer meetings will bo continued at St John's Hall all next week' at 7.30. The earnest co-operation 6f all Christian people is asked at tho above meetings or in their own homes, that by prayer the spiritual need oi Wangamu and district may be brought before God.

A largo wool clip from 30,000 sheep in the Gisborne district, which used to sell for sid., and last year realised B^d. in tho colony, was the other day sold in Wellington for cash in the colony for lOd. If such prices are maintained, tho benefit to New Zealand will be enormous. This is the first large sale of tho season.

During the last few months two Palmerston tailors have been adjudged bankrupt, and three others have shut up shop to go in search of other clothier climes. Which causes tho Manawatu "Times" to rise and remark, "Either we dress less than in tho past, or else there used to be too many desirous of dressing us."

The Japanese Administration advises that the military censorship at Ngasaki, which has been, in force sinco February 15, 1904, has now been-can-colled. 'The Japanese Administration further advises that the restrictions on private telegrams from and to Japan, including Formosa and Corea, intimated sth and 6th February, 1904, and subsequent dates ; are wholly withdrawn as from to-day. •