LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12144, 21 September 1907, Page 5

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The social in connection with the Mangamahu Hall will be held on Wednesday next.

The euchre tournament played last evening between St. Mary’s and the Caledonian Society was won by the former by 36 to 29. Contractors should note the advertisement from the Government Railway Authorities in another column concerning certain work to be tendered for. Best bacon pigs are now fetching ■d per lb at the Waikato Bacon Factory, Frankton, and this price will rule throughout the present month. Members of the Wanganui Amateur Athletic Club are notified of the annual general meeting which is to be held on Monday, the 30th instant.

The Castlecliff Railway Co.’s Sunday trains will run as usual to-morrow, leaving Castlecliff at 2 p.m. and 4.45 p.m. Leave Wanganui at 2.30 p.m. and 5.5 p.m. Found in the Opera House during the “Mother Goose” sea on, the top part of a pair of opera glasses, a fur necklet, a pair of kid gloves, two ladies’ caps, and breast pin (with heart and chain attached). Owners may obtain same on application.

The annual general meeting of the Aramoho Tennis Club is advertised in another column to take place on Monday evening next, the 23rd instant, in the Aramoho Wesleyan schoolroom. Intending members are cordially invited to attend. It is to be hoped that the meeting will be largely attended.

The secretary of the Wanganui Education Board received the following telegram from the Hon. the Premier last evening :— “In places where children are not included in local celebrations of Dominion Day, the Government desires them to be assembled to salute the flag at 11 a.m., when the declaration of Dominion Day is being read by the Governor.”

The charge preferred against Messrs. George and Kersley by the Inspector of Factories, of knowingly exposing for sale a wire mattress and kapoc bed, the work for which was done in an unregistered workroom, and not labelled with the label required to be affixed by section 28 of the Act, was heard at the Court by Mr. R. L. Stanford, S.M. A fine of £5 was inflicted, with £2 costs.

Death has claimed another old and respected resident of the district, in the person of Mrs. Eliza Morton, wife of Mr. Daniel Morton, of Turakina, and another of Mr. Selby Morton, of Wanganui. Mr. and Mrs. Morton settald at Turakina upwards of forty years ago, and it has been their home practically ever since. The deceased lady, who passed away yesterday in her 70th year, was known and esteemed by a large number of friends throughout the district, all of whom will learn of her death with sincere regret. To the sorrowing husband and relatives we tender our sincere regret.

The pernicious practice of cutting extracts from papers, periodicals, and magazines in the Wanganui Public Library to which attention has frequently been called, goes on unchecked. Yesterday the Librarian (Mr. Hylton) discovered that a complete story, covering fourteen pages, had been torn out of the current number of “The Century Illustrated,” which was only put in the subscribers’ room eight or nine days ago. Last Saturday, again, the “New Zealand Graphic” had not been in the subscribers’ room two hours before the two front leaves had been cut out. Not even the stamping of the pages seems to have any effect in checking this miserable practice. The only thing that will do will be to make an example of one of the mutilators, who, sooner or later, will assuredly be caught. Mr R L. Stanford, S.M., yesterday, heard a claim of Mrs. Bond, a charwoman, to recover the sum of 17s from E. N. Liffiton for work done for him. The plaintiff claimed 14s 6d for cleaning out a 6-roomed house at Eastown, which had just been newly painted and papered, and 2s 6d for cleaning out defendant’s office. Defendant paid 7s into Court, holding that 4s 6d was ample for the cleaning of the house, and objecting to the higher amount on the ground that it was exorbitant, working out at the rate of 29s for a day’s work. He considered he was paying a liberal amount. The plaintiff said she had received £1 on several occasions from others for similar work. The S.M. said the charge made seemed high, though the payment offered by the defendant seemed too low, and he thought the proper amount for the house should have been 12s 6d, with 2s 6d for the office, or 15s in all, a reduction of 2s. The costs amounted to another 6s.

In giving judgment for defendants in the cases of Emile and Paul Fremont, claims to recover £65 and £5 respectively from John Gellatly and the Mataongaonga Road Board, Mr. R. L. Stanford. S.M., held that there was no case against Gellatly. He was glad that he had visited the scene of the trouble, having seen the lay of the land, and he was of opinion that the lagoon was simply flood water, and that its natural outlet was towards Fremont’s, whither it had habitually flowed. Further, Fremont’s land showed that it had been constantly wet, and Mr. Neilson had done the proper and scientific thing in conducting the water off the proposed road in the way he did. He was to be complimented for his skill, for the best engineers in New Zealand could not have advised better. His Worship did not think Emile Fremont had suffered one pennyworth of damage, but on the other hand had his property benefited by drainage. Paul Fremont might have suffered slight damage, but this he could not assess as a question of jurisdiction had been raised which removed the question of compensation from his jurisdiction. He would give judgment for both defendants.