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Manawatu Herald, 23 August 1881, Page 2

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Apology. — Pressure on our space compels us to omit our usual leading article, and other matter. CASH STORE. — We direct special attention to Mr Honore's advertisement, on the third page. It will be seen he has on hand a large quantity of seeds. Removal.— We understand Mr Kirton, who has for several years occupied the post ef stationmaster at Feilding, is about to be removed to a station on the Hurunui-Bluff line. So far as we have learned, the exact locality has not been fixed, but it is rumoured to be Amberley. The position of stationmaster at Feilding is an (important one, that station being one of the best paying ones on the Hoe. Mr Kirton has fulfilled the duties of his office with great satisfaction to the public, by whom he is regarded »■ a most obliging and c mrteous official, although at the Bame time strict and impartial. His departure will be regretted by all who know him, but we hope to learn he has received the promotion his wor h aud experience merit. Station. — Workmen are at present engage t constructing a carriage way from Clyde a'reet to the rxilwuy station, under the supervision of the District. Engineer. The contractor for gravelling Clyde Btreet and the Esplanade began work yesterday, and appears to b* making good progress.

Correction.— Mr Robinson wishes to correct an iuaccuracy that occurred in our paragraph in last issue relating to ihe river bank road. lustead of saying not a penny bad been spent on the road in question, the expression should have been, " The road has been very much neglected." Progress — Foxton is just now taking a spurt in the matter of buildings. As stated in lant issue, Mr A. J. Whyte is having a large shop and dwelling-house erected next to Temple Cuamberß, to be occupied by Mr E. Osborne as a general store. In addition to this Mr Whyte contemplates building another shop, between Mr Osborne's and Mr Liddell's, which will be occupied by Mr FitzGerald, chemist, another tenant having been obtained fur the present chemist's shop, which will be used as a tobacco and cigar divan, with a billiard room attached, the table being erected in the present County offices. When the two new shops are erected adjoining Temple Chambers, the block of buildings opposite Wliyte'a Hotel, and owned by Mr Whyte, will be an ornament to the town. Still Thhy Come.— Still further improvements are going on in the viciuity of Clyde-street, in the erectiou of new buildings. Mr Andrew Jonson, who is erecting offices for the County G'juucil, opposite Mr Liddell's house, has made a good start at. the job. Workmen were also engaged yesterday putting in the piles for Mr Jenks' new shop and house, adjoining what was formerly Mr Purcell's butcher shop ; while Mr Liddell informs us tUat he intends to at once begin the erection of a building on the corner section, adjoining Mr Jenks' site, in which he will carry on business as commission agent and grain and produce merchant. Besides the above several private houses are going up in different parts of the town, aud writing generally the building trade is exceedingly brisk in the Foxton district. Journalistic— It is stated Mr F de J. Clere, architect.of Feilding,is about to join the staff of the Ilangitikei Advocate, as Bulls and Sandon correspondent. Sale at Otakl— Messrs Thynne,Linton & Co., report as follows : — The sale held last Friday and Saturday, at Otaki, of the effects of the late Dr Hewson, passed off remarkably well, settlers from all parts of the Coast being present, anxious, apparently, to possess some memento of one to whom they had been at times much indebted. The cattle went high. Cows with calves from L 4 10a to L 6 6s, and eight head of young stock, from 6 mouths <o 2 year olds, realised L 3 per head. The horses did not pass off so well. One bay pony mare, broken in to sidesaddle, perfecily quiet, fetched only L 3; oue good upstanding brown horse, L 6; 1 old, quiet draught m*re fetched L 9 ; and a bay pony gelding LI los CM, A handsotue chestnut gelding, broken into harness was bought for LI 3, and a brown unbroken colt went for L 6 10s. Two other young animals fetched 15s and 27s 6d respectively. The books of real value fetched good prices. A lot of old books went for a mere song. The auctioneers report the total amoHut sold to be near L 340. Land Court.— Mr Fenton, Chief Judge of the Native Lands Court, arrived in Foxton on Sunday, from Wellington, overland. He proceeded on to Wanganui per evening train yesterday. Masonic. —The members of the Masonic craft in Foxton, of whom there are some fifteen, contemplate starting a Lodge here. Catalogue. — Mr George Keichardt, of Wellington, whose business notice appears in this journal, has just forwarded to this office a copy of his new catalogue. His stock of music, both vocal and instrumental, appears to be mos; complete. Catalogues may be obtained on application. The Tui. — This favourite steamer, which left Foxton on the 4th instant, was detained on the Coast by ihe bad weather which has prevailed. . She went to Waitara, thence to Manukau. A report of her voyage has been supplied by the purser, Mr Collett, and appea; sin another column. An absurd rumour was circula ed on Saturday evening that the Tui was lost. Any fears on that score were dispelled by her arrival at the wharf on Monday morning. Medical — Dr. Maclachlan notifies in this issue that he will visit Otaki tomorrow ( Wednesday ), nnd every subsequent second and fourth Wednesday in the month, and may be consulted on those days at Mr John Harper's uccomtnodatijn house Coßrkspond^nt. A facetious correspondent at Sundon supplies the following : — " The Sandon Wesleyun Church ought f o be doint? a good work. It has for its pastor an ag«d and experienced Worker, a Bishop for its ciicuit steward, an! it* pulpit is occasionally Bupplied by A f Court." More Law. — '' The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold," describes tlmposi dm of the Sandon Highways Board on "Saturday. The members hud just sat down to dinner at Weight's notel, when the word was paßßed|round, <r The bailiff has arrived with three distiess warrants .'"' Blank amizement sat on the countenances of the •iNMembl^d people, nnd a lively diar.ussion eusued as to who h>H levied. Sure ouough rhere watt the b liliff .seated i i the b v- purlor, aud wheu the < httiruian appeared he •' nerved " him with the gravest manner possible. A lively disfiussiou then sprang 1 np whether the private property of the members couli be seized for the dcV, and opinion wa9 pretty freely balanced whether Air Whiteman's bugjry or Mr Biehop's norse should b allowed to go to satisfy the lemands of the law ! (Tpon tho meeting- of he B iard, however, it wa-> resolved to draw it cheque for the amount, and the bailiff was satisfied. The warraut^ w»re for expenses allowed to witnesses in several ca.ies in which the Board had w ongly sued f-»r rates alleged to be due. The Liberty. —The Christchurch society journal is having rather an unhappy time of it. These society journals are abominable affairs. They publish disgraceful inuendoes, respectiag neither age, sex, nor rank, and incideuts of private life — in many oases purely imaginary — are retailed in their columns, to satisfy a vitiated public caste. Tho editor of the Curistchurch Liberty was thrashed severely a few days ago, and the Court fined the "thrasher" only Is, to mark its sense of the provocation he had received. After that the Timaru correspondent was beaten, and in our latest files from Ashburton we find the following significant paragraph .-—"lmportant to Newsvendoß& —It has been currently reported today that a system of 'Lynch Law ' is to be carried into effect against certain booksellers here who now s«ll a certain Christchurch society journal. We are told also that there is nearly eight feet of water in the reservoir just now." Editors who affect the society journal atyle Bhould take warning. The New Plymouth Harbor Works.— Public opinion in thj P<ttea county ia by no means favorable io the prosecution of the New Plymouth harbor works, if the power to rate the whole provincial district in support of them is continued. The H iwera Star, in a recent issue, referred to this matter as follows: — "The facts set forth by the H irbor luquiry Committee are quite sufficient to show that it is not to the interests of this part of the district that the works should be proceeded with. It is

no wonder if, now that the Waimate settlers see plainly that there is no hope of a colonial harbor being established at a reasonable cost, one and all agree to protest against the prosecution of the work. The details as to the probable cost of the breakwater, put the scheme quite out of court as a local work. Even though it could be completed, so as to be useful, by tl.e expenditure of a further sum of from £100,000 to £150,000, the proposed wharfage charge of 8i per ton, is alone sufficient; to show that the game is not worth t'ae candle. The district may now safely say, we are satisfied, that the undertaking, regarded from a ratepayers' point of view, 'is a bad spec, and the sooner the promoters ja>k-it-up the better.' This is not only our own view, but the opinion of nearly every ratepayer outside of Tarauaki County. There is, however, one point which cannot be too strongly insisted upon, viz., that for a local harbor only local rates and locally raised land fund should be set aside. With Opunake and Patea as local harbors, both nearer and more readily available, it would be a crying injustice to the settlers in this county, to at'empt to levy a harbor rate upon them against their wishes, and without offering a substantial return for the tax lsvied. Prompt action has been taken in this matter by the settlers themselves, and public meetings are to be held at Opunake, Manaia, Normanby, jand Hawera forthwith, to protest against the works being gone on with, aud also to move that in the event of the works not being stopped, the clause empowering the B iard to levy a rate over the Waimate Plains and the Ngaire Road District be repealed." An Old Wreck.— About 12 or 13 years ago, a vessel called the Harriet came to grief outside the mouth of the river, and was piled up on the north beach. What was left of her gradually disappeared in the shingle, aud for the last ten years or so not a vestige of wreck had been visible until Wednesday last, when portion of her hull came into view on the edge of the north beach. These who pay attention to the bar aud the influences which affect the formation and alteration constantly going on iv the shingle beds, regard the exposing of this relic of the olden days as a good sign of the effect of the retaining wall, which they say has a tendency to turn the current of the river along the north beach, and thus scour it away ; otherwise the bones of the Harriet would not have been exposed again. — Grey River Argus. Rather Florid.— The special Parliamentary correspondent of the Taranaki Herald thus describes a scene in the House : " No sooner had Mr Swanson thrown himself into his seat than, pale with suppressed wrath, up rose the member for City E«t, Mr Speight. He went right at Mr Swanson's throat, and gripped him with determined fangs. " The combat must have been highly interesting to patrons of dog fights. — Westport Times. Advertising Pays. —Messrs Farmer and Co. pay the Sydney Morning Herald £30 per week fur one column in the first page of the paper. The owners of the other Sydney establishments grumble at this column being reserved at this figure. Buttermaking. — The following paragraph is going the rounds of the press : — "Professor Church, while lecturing a short time ago to the students of the Wilts and Hants Agricultural College, said that if a quantity cf cream was wrapped in several folds of cloth and buried in the ground, at the end of twenty or thirty hours the water would be found to have left the cream, and the solid particles would, when washed, give a remarkably pure and well-flavored butter. The professor's discovery may possibly cause a revolution iv churning." We know a Westport lady who, three months ago, turned out excellent butter in the manner stated by the professor with the ecclesiastical name. — Westport Times. Apostles and Vagrants.— ln the Police Court at Ashburton recently Constable Smart was giving evidence against a very shady looking man named John Buchanan, charged with vagrancy, and happened to state that he had been three times in gaol, when the prisoner asked emphatically if that was all the proof there was of his being a bad man. "Why," he added, "the Apostle Paul, who wrote the beautiful epistles in the Bible, was more than three times in gaol." Constable Smart seemed puzzled, but not convinced, by the striking parallelism of the cases. Frozen Meat. — A luncheon was given on board the Orient steamship Cotopaxi, to mark the occasion of the first shipment of frozen meat by one of the Oriont steamers (the Cazco) from the Orange Meat Company's works. A large number of gentlemen were present, who are interested in the trade of the port, and sanguine hopes of the success of the frozen meat export trade were expressed. The company afterwards visited the Cuzco, on board of n hich vessel there were 140 tons of frozen meat, consisting of about 4,000 sheep, 100 bullocks (representing 400 quarters of beef), wild turkeys, ox touijues, kangaroo tails, and other sundries. One part of the shipment was a consignment of Australian game, sent as a present to the Lord Mayor of Lmdon. — Sydney Correspondent Ashburton Guardian. Not a Tree-Plantino District.— The Bruce Herald tells us that in the interior of Otago there is a region one hundred miles in diameter where there is not a single native tree growing, the whole country being one enormous grass field. During last year ouly two proprietors in the province of Otago availed themselves of the Government land orders for tree-planting, representing 120 acres planted. It is strauge that pastoral aud agricultural farmers should be so blind to their own interests as to neglect this most important matter.