LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12398, 20 December 1909, Page 5

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We have to acknowledge receipt of the 1909 Year Book from the RegistrarGeneral's office.

The latest addition to the Telephone Exchange is No. 655, Mr G. S. McGregor's residence, Campbell Street.

According to Sir Joseph Ward, the Public Works Statement will not be brought down to-day, as previously announced.

We have received from Mr Andrew Thompson a handsome wall calendar. Each page is adorned with the picture, of a Maori beauty.

The Castlecliff Freezing Company's employees held their annual picnic up the river on Friday, when a very enjoyable time was spent.

R. Arnst, champion sculler of the world, has cabled to London agreeing to row Ernest Barry, on the Zambesi River in August next on the terms offered by the South African sportsmen.

A meeting of parishioners of Christ Church was held last evening at the conclusion of the evening service. No business, however, was transacted, the meeting being adjourned till to-morrow evening.

Apropos the Polar quarrel, the New York "Sun" has the following : "Jonah stepped ashore. 'I left my records in the whale,' he observed. Anybody who wants to see them can go after them. It was noticed that none questioned his exploit."

Owing to the failure of the magnetic brake to act, two motor cars proceeding south in Dunedin in close proximity, collided, both cars being badly damaged. A chauffeur, who was much cut by broken glass, was the only one to receive injury, though both cars were crowded with passengers.

The Government again sustained a shaking on Saturday night Hitherto the Government, has set its face against waiving the Crown Suits Act in order to enable the Farmers' Co-operative Distributing Company (Wellington) to proceed against the State Coal Department. On Saturday night a motion practically expressing disapproval of the Government's attitude was carried by 30 to 28.

The third annual cadet rifle meeting under the auspices of the Manawatu Rifle Association was held at Palmerston North on Friday. The entries were very large — 110 Primary School and 57 Defence Cadets. The Defence Cadets included Palmerston High School and Napier, Dannevirke and Wanganui Cadets. Wanganui won the Defence Cadets 200 yards and came second in the aggregate. Dannevirke won the five hundred yards, and was first in the aggregate, and first in the teams. Feilding won the School Cadets' aggregate and teams match.

The results of the legal examinations so far as local candidates are concerned, are now to hand. Out of 16 students who sat, four passed. Miss H. Vine passed in four subjects thus qualifying as a solicitor. She is the first lady to have done so in Wanganui, and, we believe, is the second in New Zealand to have achieved that distinction. Mr Hector Christie passed in one subject and has thus passed his final. Mr Allan F. Hogg passed in three subjects out of four in the final section, thus having only one more subject in order to complete. Mr Gilbert Horsley obtained a partial pass for the first section, getting through in three subjects. We tender our congratulations to the successful students.

It is reported that a most successful canvass has been made of this district for shares for the Patea Freezing Works. Practically the whole of the shares required have been applied for, and it is proposed to allot them if possible during the coming week. It is satisfactory to note that a large number of shares have been applied for outside of this district. A number of settlers have approached the directors re going in for a bacon curing works, and the matter will be considered when the directors meet. It is urged that Patea would be an ideal place handy to railway and port, and as there is already a freezing plant and manure plant for treating offal, farmers could start works, much more cheaply by increasing the capital of the Freezing Company. — Hawera "Star."