LOCAL & DISTRICT NEWS......Part 3 ELECTION OF SECRETARY OF THE PENRITH AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. – On Tuesday one of the largest and most influential meetings that every previously took place in connection with the Penrith Agricultural Society, was held in the Crown Hotel Assembly Room, to appoint a successor to MR. T. BOWSTEAD, who, on account of numerous other important business engagements, had resigned the office of secretary and treasurer. MAJOR HARRISON, of Bishop Yards, was called to the chair. There were two candidates for the office.....MR. H. NEWBY FRASER, of Hay Close, and MR. JOHN HESKETT, of Plumpton Hall. MR. ATKINSON, of Musgrave Hall, Skelton, seconded the nomination of MR. FRASER; and MR. HESKETT was proposed as a suitable gentleman to fill the office by MR. NICHOLSON, of Kirkbythore Hall. MR. J. HOGARTH, of Julian Bower, seconded the proposition. On the vote being taken, MR. HESKETT was elected by an immense majority. The result was hailed with loud cheers. On the conclusion of the committee meeting, which was afterwards held, MR. W. HESKETT proposed a vote of thanks to MR. THOS. BOWSTEAD, who, during the thirteen years he had filled the post of secretary and treasurer, had, by his assiduity, tact, and business ability, raised the society from a state of comparative obscurity to one of prosperity and usefulness. MR. BOWSTEAD made a suitable response. PIC-NIC AT NUNNERY WALKS. – A very pleasant gathering took place on Thursday last in the romantic and picturesque walks at Nunnery, near Staffield. Parties attended from Carlisle, Alston, and Penrith, but the storm of rain which swept over the district deterred the great bulk of the visitors from venturing upon the ground selected for enjoying the amusements organised by an efficient and active committee. The Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry Cavalry Band, wearing their neat uniform, about half-past three o’clock marched to the place of rendezvous, and sent forth a stream of dance music, to the inspiriting strains of which the few youths and maidens present soon “heaved into motion” in the stately quadrille, followed by a merry polka. But before the latter was concluded, the thick murky clouds overhead sent down their watery contents with such persistency that the company were compelled to take refuge in a large barn, in which the terpsichorean exercises were resumed and continued with great vigour until the evening, when a brighter state of things existing outside, the merry party, which had for some time been increased by fresh arrivals, once more turned out into the meadow, and devoted attentions to that attractive and popular old lady, “Aunt Sally”, merry gambols, and earnest exercises to the music of the excellent band, caused the time to pass pleasantly until half-past ten o’clock, when the “National Anthem” resounding amongst the rocks and through the woods announced that the joyous gathering had come to a close.