LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12634, 23 October 1905, Page 5

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Potatoes sold up to £11 10s per ton at Dunedin ©n Wednesday last.

It will be twelve months to-morrow since the occurrence of the Dogger Bank incident.

A gold chain bracelet in the Avenue on Friday is advertised for in this issue.

Among the objects of interest from the deep shown <by Mr R. Yarrow on Saturday were some sea eggs.

It is surprising (says the Hastings paper) the amount of ground that s being reserved by the local farmers for planting potatoes this year in anticipation of a good price next season.

The Dunedin " Star," which is generally pretty well unformed on such matters, says that " the general ©lections will probably take place on Wednesday, November 29th."

The "Auckland Weekly News," in its last issue, paid Dannevirko a compliment. Above the words indicating the main street of Dannevirke as a photo of the lower portion of the Avenue, W&nganui.

Mr W. H. Hakes, engineer-in-chief, who retires from the public service on the 31st of March next, will (says our Wellington correspondent) receive an annual pension of £500.

The Chinese friends of Joe Kum Yung, whom Lionel Tenry states that he shot in Haining Street, Wellington,. on the 24th September, have shipped the body of deceased home to China in order that the usual religious rites may be celebrated.

The " Waikato Times " says the Whakamarama Mock, 10,000 acres of bush land of good quality, lying some eleven miles from Tauranga, has been sold to Messrs Keene and Reid, of Wellington, who dntend cutting up the block for settlement.

The plot of a whole six-shilling novel is suggested by the following tragic appeal, which appeared in the "Lucknow Daily Telegraph " :—" Will any gentleman, educated, European, marry (immediately) a young lady to save her from a 'hateful marriage?"

The Ca-t'ec Tiff Railway Company have an advertisement in this issue inviting applications for the position of foremanganger. AH particulars may be obtained at their office, Wicksteed Place, and applications are to be sent in not later than Monday next, 28th inst.

Members of the Economic and Cooperative Building Societies are- reminded that to-night is the,usual pay night for both societies. There will be an appropriation by sale of £300 in each society this evening. Tenders close with the secretary, Mr C. L. Duigan, at 8 p.m. Full particulars as to the loans may be obtained on application to the secretary.

While giving evidence at an inquest at Wellington, Dr Ewart, Medical Superintendent of Wellington Hospital (who was called as an outside witness) stated that he 'had administered chloroform in some ten thousand cases, and •had ihad only two fatalities directly due to the anaesthetic arid two caused by after effects. Statistics kept at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, has shown that the average fatality there was about one in every fifteen hundred cases.

The Cromwell (Otago) paper reports a peculiar occurrence, a resident having suddenly lost the sight of one eye. It happened very suddenly about six weeks ago, 'when lie was reading the paper after tea. He felt something like a flash in the eye, end put the paper down, but did not know the sight was gone titl next morning. There was n« pain whatever. He -went to Dunedin to oonsuit Dr Ferguson, the eminent specialist, and the report received from ham states that the sight has gone for ever, 'but fortunately it will have no ill effects on the other eye.

The proposal to make an esplanade a* Sumner is still being pushed forward (cays the " Lybtelton. "Times "). An effort will be >made to induce the Harbour Board to (reconsider its decision not to consent to the use of the foreshore for the purpose. It is thought that the Board was under a misapprettension, as the strip of its land required is very narrow, being only a few feet wide in some parts. It is understood that the Minister of Marine has stated that he has no objection to the Borough. Council using the foreshore in the manner set out in the scheme. . ..

Of 213 immigrants who arrived from England b/ the Kumara </H Saturday, there were only seventeen farmers, who with their wives and fami'ies made, lip but thirty-five persons. Other additions to the "backbone of the country" were « dairyman and a cattleman. Of tradesmen and mechanics there were about fifty, who with their wives and families 'made a community of eightythree persons. There was also an undue proportion of unskilled labour. The occupations of the immigrants are very various, and among them is one footman There were 201 of English birth, five from Scotland, one from Ireland, and six foreigners.

There were no fewer than 5192 men, of whom only 199 are artisans, engaged during last month upon State co-opera-tive works an New Zealand In September of last year the total number wias 3159, including 185 artisans. Of those bo employed last month, 1963 labourers were engaged by the Department of Roads, and the remainder by the Public Works Department. The North Island Main Trunk Railway works absorbed 51. artisans and 1373 labourers (54 'artisans and 905 labourers were on the works at the same time last year), the Midland Railway 526 men, the Otago Central works 301, and the Blenheim Waipawa works 261.