LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The executive of the Beautifying Society is to take into consideration the planting and beautifying of the plot at the Guyton Street extension adjoining the railway crossing.
All boys who are already scouts, and others interested in the movement, are invited to attend a meeting to be held in the T.Y.M.I. Hall to-morrow (Wednesday) evening, at which steps will be taken to promote the movement in Wanganui. Mr. G. Hatherly, Chief Scoutmaster, will be in attendance.
At last night’s meeting of the committee of the Beautifying Society, a bonus of £10 was voted to Mr. Tucker, Borough gardener. The president, Mr. Hatrick, and the members expressed appreciation of Mr. Tucker’s untiring energies, and also of the great assistance he has given to the Society’s work.
At the Chamber of Commerce meeting last night, Mr. A. Harris wished it to be recorded that he intended to give prominence at the next meeting of the Chamber to the question of revising the railway tariff on the local railway sections with a view to having the many anomalies that exist done away with.
The work of constructing the approach on the town side of the Dublin Street bridge is nearing completion. Over 1300 yards of clay, besides a large quantity of ballast for the tramway, have been deposited in building up the approach. The work of raising the present track on the river bank and connecting it with the rails on the bridge has been finished.
A diocesan conference of the C.E.M.S. is to be opened in Wanganui to-day. The subjects set down for special consideration are: “What is Involved by the Rule of Service,” “The Marsden Centenary: The Man, His Mission. Its Message.” “Retreats and Quiet Days: Their Value and How to Conduct Them,” “The Free and Open Church,” “The Best Use that can be Made of Branch Meetings,” “Bible in Schools,” and “Federations: Their Place in the C.E.M.S.” The delegates are expected to arrive by the 3 p.m. train to-day. They will meet in the C.E.M.S. room at Christ Chruch. If the weather is fine an openair meeting will be held at 7 p.m., and at 7.30 p.m. the Bishop of Wellington, Dr. Sprott, will address the gathering.
A few friends of the late jockey C. W. Ritter, of Levin, who was killed at Christchurch last September, are erecting a handsome memorial to his memory at Levin. Mr. Leslie McMinn, of Palmerston, is the chosen sculptor for the memorial. A sacred concert promoted by the Queen Alexandra’s Own Band and local vocalists in aid of the Stevenson family took place in the Opera House on Sunday evening. There was a very large audience. The A.S.R.S. desire to thank all who assisted, also Mr Will Jameson, who generously gave the Opera House free of charge. Shorthorns are realising good prices all over Great Britain. At the Perth (Scotland) sale. 312 bulls averaged £84 13s 5d — a record. Mr D. Maclennan purchased bulls to the value of £7727 for the Argentine, 170 guineas being the highest price. The majority of the best animals were bought for South America. The heifer sales were also very successful, the general average of the whole sale being £72 9s 2d, or about £9 per head better than in 1913. When opening the case for the defendant in the libel action, Paterson v. Smyth, at the Supreme Court yesterday., Mr T. M. Wilford pointed out that a husband shared with his wife responsibility for any libel she might commit even if he was absent from the country at the time it was committed. Why the law should be such he did not know. Mr. Justice Edwards interjected that Mr. Wilford’s words would be more appropriately used in another place — Parliament. The latest additions to the Telephone Exchange are No. 513, Mrs. Totty, “Brundah,” private board and residence 8, Campbell Street; No. 1041, Mr L. Froment (residence), Okoia (2 rinps); No. 1041, Mr. J. L. Higgle (residence), Okoia (3 rings); No. 1041, Mr. G. R. Jones (residence), Okoia (4 rings); No. 1041, Mr. Frank Jones, “Waikupa,” Okoia (1 long, 1 short rings); No. 1041, Mr. Arch. N. McLeod (residence), Okoia (1 long, 2 short rings); No. 1041, Capt. T. E. Mercer (residence), Okoia (1 long, 3 short rings).
Some very fine hauls of large fish have recently been obtained on the coast. A couple of days ago Mr. McGregor, an Otaki resident, secured off the Otaki beach a very fine groper, or hapuka, probably the largest caught in these waters. It weighed over 100lbs. Gropers are evidently in demand in the north, as Mr. Alward, manager of the Wellington Fish Market, was, on Friday, entrusted with a commission to forward to Auckland per parcel post, a groper, because it could be purchased cheaper at Wellington than in the northern city. The Wanganui Chamber of Commerce held a brief meeting last night. Owing to the inclemency of the weather and the indisposition of many of its staunch supporters, including the President, the attendance was small. It was decided that the matters of raising the subscription and the re-constitution of the Chamber be deferred to the next ordinary meeting of the Chamber. A few unimportant letters, and a copy of the Wellington Chamber’s report was reecived. A communication was received from the Lick-all Connectionless Pump Syndicate, who wrote asking the Chamber to recommend to them a retail cycle concern in South Africa with whom they wished to open business. The Chamber decided to write to the Capetown Chamber of Commerce with reference to this matter. A prosecution, the first of its kind in Wanganui, came before Mr. W. Kerr, S.M., at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning, when an assistant in a local chemist’s shop, for whom Mr. Cohen appeared, pleaded guilty to two breaches of the Opium Act, in that he failed to make entries into a book kept for the purpose. Mr. Walker, Collector of Customs, who prosecuted, said that the prosecution was merely as a warning to the other chemists in town. He had previously warned chemists in 1912 and 1913. Mr. Cohen, for defendant, said that the breaches were not intentional, and that there was no intention to evade the Act, facts which were conceded by Mr. Walker. In imposing a fine of £1 and 7s. costs in each charge, the S.M. remarked that he was satisfied that in these particular cases there was no intention to conceal transactions in opium. He pointed out that if any other chemist came before him on similar charges he would not deal leniently with them. The Borough Engineer (Mr. N. Crofton Staveley) has received from Messrs. Arthur Leplastrier, of Sydney, a plan showing a section of a Roman road discovered at Rochester. England, in 1897. It is supposed that this road was built some time in the third century, as the Romans landed in Kent about 55 B.C., and finally quitted about 410 A.D. In constructing the great highway from the Kentish coast to the North of England, a wooden bridge, built upon piles, was thrown across a river midway between Rochester and Stroud. On reaching the Stroud side of the river their engineers met with a marsh 355 yards wide. This difficulty was overcome by constructing a causeway upon the surface of the marsh. This was shown in the drawing. The depth from the paved surface to the top of the piles was 5ft. 10in., made up as follows :— Paved surface. 7in., gravel, small flints and chalk 1ft. 9in., large flints, flagstone, etc., 3ft. 6in. This formation was found under a layer of post-Roman roads 2ft. 8in. in thickness.
The Feilding Freezing works proposition is being rapidly advanced, and Mr. Hugh Roberts is holding farmers’ meetings in all parts of the affected district. A meeting took place at Kairanga on Saturday, and in reply to questions Mr. Roberts stated that the works would cost £68,000, but that they would not proceed with the scheme until, as stated, £50,000 worth of shares had been applied for. Asked if the company was intended for speculators in addition to farmers Mr. Roberts pointed out that he did not think the Meat Trust, which had been mentioned, would come in for the reason that any shares held over. 2000 did not give a vote. For 2000 shares 15 votes were given. Concluding, Mr. Roberts said that an argument was brought forward at Marton that the district was a cow district, but any land adapted for cows was suited for fattening sheep. There was no doubt of the advantages to be derived by farmers haying the works of their own. Mr. Balsillie referred to the deterioration of animals in travelling. It was his opinion that the whole of their meat should be pooled and sent Home to receiving depots, and instead of being put in the open market they should dictate the price. That would bring them bigger prices. The Danes adopted this process with their butter, stating one price one week and another the following week. There was no doubt that a great deal of their meat was sold as Home meat. He believed that if they were going to succeed something on the liners mentioned should be adopted.
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