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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13526, 7 November 1911, Page 7

The coastal officers’ strike is now settled, and the steamers Arapawa. and Kapiti leave Wellington to-night for Wanganui. In Wanganui, at 9 a.m. to-day the thermometer registered 58 and the barometer 29.83. There was a light northerly breeze, and the bar was smooth. In one of his interesting and instructive “Chalk Talks to Children” on Sunday last, Mr Newton Jones, the Loudon S,S. Missioncr, indicated that he had no sympathy with the sentiment of the well-known children’s hymn, “There is a happy land, far, far away.” Ho believed ’that happy land was “not” far away, and he connsoiled his hearers to so live that they would taste some of the joys of Heaven on earth, and not wait till they readied the distant shores that were so often spoken about. In this connection the remark of another visitor to Wanganui is interesting, as showing that wo must indeed bo living in that happy land spoken of by the London Missioucr. Amongst the tourists who came down the river last week were a family of Americans—father, mother, and four children—all of whom were enchanted with the magnificence of the Wanganui Bivcr scenery. They talked and talked of 'the glorious panorama spread before them, and as.one particular l.v fine bit of scenery presented itself to their view, the man turned to his wife and said; “Look hero, mother, we’ll bo disappointed in Heaven after what we’ve seen to-day.” Pew people probably realise that paradise is so close to Wanganui.