LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 10 December 1908, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A bank holiday" will be observed on Tuesday (sculling championship day).

The blacksmiths of Wanganui , have agreed to close on Tuesday next. Miss Lilian White's punils will pive j p. concert in St. Paul's Hall pn Moniay eyemng:''next.

The exhibition of students' work at the Technical School will be opened at 4 o'clock this afternoon.

In connection with the Wanganui Trotting Club meeting the train arrangements advertised ill another col-

Mr R. T. Bickerton, the well-known .fireworks expert, is to give a j>yrotechnic display in Cook's Gardens on Mon-

day evening next promised.

A rare treat is

The City Band will play outsido St. Paul's Hall this evening before the commencement of the oratorical contest. Tho bandsmen are j>s?ked to meet at tho bandroom at 7.15.

The working members of the Orchestral. Society are reminded that the final rehearsal for the concert on Friday will be held to-night at 8 o'clock at the Opera House.

The annual' distribution of prizes in connection with the'Girls^ College will take place at 7.30 o'clock this evening. Professor and' Mrs Yon Zedlitz will -flfficuite. _ All friends of the College are invited to be-present.

Members of the Wanganui Tennis Club are notified that the match against the Girls' College will now take place on Thursday afternoon, 10th inst., at 2.15 p.m., on the Campbell Street weather permitting. ■\ Wo give a final reminder to those interested that the monster sale of work .and amusements by the Anglican ■Church opens at '2 p.m. to-day'at'iFor-* \dell _. in, the hall." Brakes will '"leave -Jefferson's stables' at 1 and 6 p.m.,' returning after the sale.

Thns^the '/Feilding Star": There is a peculiar triple fitness of things noted in an advertisement "appearing in. the Wangahui papers. Members of the [Choral Society ai*e requested to return copies of ; "The Ancient Mariner to

Mr Marriner at the Museum!

Mr T. D. Cummins (chairman of the River Trust ), with Mr J. T. Stewart (hon. engineer to the/Trjiist) left yesterday for Tailmarunui, where they will confer with the Commissioner of Crown' Lands re leasing the Trust's reserves at the upper end of the river. An opportunity will also be taken for a general inspection of the rivo'r improvement works. -

The .final meeting of the Wanganui Education Board r for 1908 will talie place this afternoon at 3 o'clock. At 4 o'clock the members will attend at the opening of the- Wanganui Technical School exhibition, and iij the evening the"annual prize-giving of the Wanganui Girls' College will take place, when Professor Yon Zedlitz, of Victoria College, will deliver an address.

A. conference Is being arranged between the Directors of the Castlecliif

Railway Co., Ltd., and the Tramways Committee of the Borough Council, •with a riew of arranging a suitable time table for both the trams and the railway so as to conveniently cater for the general public travelling both to and from Castlecliff. The directors of the Hail way Company are also considering the question of installing light serviceable cars with up-to-date- motive power to run in betw<»en the ordinary train service.