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Manawatu Herald, Volume VII, Issue 244, 1 March 1889, Page 2

Mr Gardner has convened a meeting of Hempmillers at Foxton tomorrow night it will be to the interest of all to attend. In our Stook and Produce column, whioh overy day receives fresh proof of the convenience it affords farmers, will be found a notice of potatoes that Mr Neylon has for sale. Mr Spelman advertises 1200 well briokg for sale cheap. A flax presser is required for tha Moutoa Mill. The adjourned -annual meeting of the Bakery and Butchering companies are oalled for Wednesday and Thursday afternoons respectively. Bread haß been lowered. This announcement will undoubtedly be received with satisfaction by all. See the. Company's advertisement. An advertiser has lost a grey mare with iron grey foal running with her. A reward of ten shillings will be given for information of her whereabouts or JBI if delivered at Awahuri. :jjjThe Horowhenua County Council are inviting tenders for. the formation of part the main road between Shannon and Otaki. There are nearly two miles to be done, and the work consists in bush falling, clearing and formation. The train arrangements for the Wanganui raoea are advertised. Saturday return tickets will be issued from Foxton, and intermediate stations on the sth instant, available for return till the llth instant. Mr Adams in accordance with his promise, now makes an announcement as to when his bricks will be ready, and the prioes they can be obtained for. See bis new advertisement. We draw attention to Mr Honore's altered advertisement. Palmerston was lighted with gas for the first time last Saturday. Mrs Macarthur the wife of the member for the distriot performed the ceremony of turning it on. Many of our readers will regret to hear of the death of Mr Edward Shaw, at Hawthorne, Melbourne. Mr Shaw was, at one time, distriot Judge and Resident Magistrate for this city, and sat in the House of Representatives as member for Inangahua. Mr Cook lately the agent of the Bank of New Zealand here, and who went to Palmerston to temporarily fill Mr Hanna's post, has now been appointed to WoodviUe, and Mr Scott, who was in charge there, has been promoted to Palmerston. On Monday a man working at Stewart aud Sutton's Mill, Carnarvon had his arm broke whilst trying to clear the tow from the stripper. He was mounted on a horse which he rode straight to Palmerston. He wisely is a member of a lodge, so that he will receive some allowance whilst laid up. On Tuesday Mr Dearlove's team had a nasty smash up. Something started the two horses in the dray and they bolted and ran into a barb wire fence. The horses are both muoh cut about. Inspector Pardy visited Foxton on Batur» day.

At the meeting of the Wanganui Education Board Miss Annie McDougal wrote resigning her position as teacher at Oroua Bridge. Resolved, That came be acoepted. Miss A. Little, assistant teacher at Foxton, wrote resigning her position. The Board accepted her resignation, and resolved to forward certain names to the Committee. Miss Johanna Prendega'st wrote- applying for the assistant teachership at Foxton. Resolved, That the letter be forwarded to the Foxton Committee. The Evening Post says ; — It was very generally expected by the sporting public that the inconsistent form exhibited by Dudu iri the Dunedin Cup nnd Dunedin J. 0. Handicap. would lead to some enquiry being instituted by the stewards of the Dunedin Jockey Club. It will be seen by our telegrams that such an enquiry was held on Saturday night, and that a resolution branding , the running as unsatisfactory, and calculated to give rise to suspicion, but stating that the stewards had no evidence to justify fnrther action, waß passed. All unbiased sportsmen , will endorse the Dunedin unsatisfactory, and a good many are . surprised that the Wellington stewards did not take action with regard to Sultan's running in the Wellington Cup and the Jockey Club handicap at the recent meeting at the Hutt. We see that Mr Williams, • the owner of Sultan — of all persons in the world — has rushed into print to exculpate Mr Cutts, the owner of Dudu. To make the play complete, Mr Cutt's should' now return the compliment arid send a letter to the papers explaining Sultan's running at the Hutt. An invention which may have no slight influence on tne future settlement of the bush lands' of New Zealand is just being patented here and in all the colonies. It is a composition which, when trees are inoculated[with .it, mingles itself with the sap and circulates through every branch and leaf, utterly destroying the life and rendering the standing tree in three month! time dead arid rotten, and so. highly inflamable that when fired it burns away literally root and branch for the fire creeps even down the roots into the ground, consuming them so thoroughly that the land can be ploughed afterwards. It is available also for old stumps, thus doing in a month what nature takes years to accomplish. The process of inoculation is simplicity itself, "requiring little labour, It is simply the boring of a hole about six inohes into the tree with an inoh augur, filling with composition, and afterwards plugging with cork, tough clay or other suitable substance. It has had several trials, and has done effectual .work in all cases, in one instance 700 acres have been cleared with i it, every tree being successfully dealt with. [ This will be welcome news for bush settlers as not only saying muoh labour, but adding to the value of land by a much quicker and more thorough olearance, and by bringing it into an earlier condition for cropping. It is also very inexpensive, not costing more than a few pence even for a large tree. — Evening Post. At the Synod now being held in Dunedin the Bishop of Wellington was elected Primate of the New Zealand Church. «A vote was taken, the result being; — Wellington—Bishops, 5; clergy, IS; laity, 9. Nelson— Bishops, 2; clergy, 6; laity, 13. Auckland— Clergy, 1; laity, 1. A third and final ballot resulted as follows ;— Wellington — Bishops, 4; clergy, 13; laily, 14. Nelson— Bishops, 2, clergy, 7; laity, 9. Auckland— Bishop, 1. The result was therefore that the Bishop of Wellington was elected Primate by a majority of all order. . The Primate-elect made a short address. Tomorrow at ena punctually the salt at Aberdeen House commences. The Auction eers have reoeived positive instructions only to hold the one day sale. We notice that the cattle have been withdrawn, this is fortunate, as .they would have been unhandy in the auction room. The terms are cash. There is no doubt but that there will be a large attendance, as the stock to be sold offers something to suit everybody. The nugait nde of the Moots' business can be imagined when Niz-telly tells us, in his " History of Champagne," that their cellars ar. seven miles in exteut, and conttin twelve million bottles and tweny thousand hogsheads of Champagne, and that their shipments during the Uat nine years have reached the enormoua total of twenty-eight million bottles. Statistics laid on the tablo of the Wellington Harbor Board showed for tbe 12 montha ending 30th June last (and including the wool season 1887 18.38), for the work done at the Waterloo-quay wool jetty, after charging for interest and depreciation, a net profit on the 12 months of working yielded 1L540. The revenue from storage on wool, flax, etc., for the present season, from Ootober 1, 1888. to February |19 1889, amounted to L 2124. Ihe total quantity of wool and flax shippad at Wellington duriog the last foar yea» was as follows; 1885, 62,469 bales; 1889.58,187 balea; 1887, 59,438 bales; 1888, 78.092 bales. Of tbe 78 092 bales, 61054 were wool, and 17,038 flax. In January laat 20 532 bales were shipped, of wbieh 17 61 ) were wool, 2922 flax. Up to the 19th inst, 28.751 bales had been shipped thia year— 23,993 of wool and 4758 of flax, from October, 1888. to January 138*1 intfuaiv*. 15,565 balea arrived by rail,. as against .l2,B49 bales for the while of the previous season (1887-88). Of thin number 16,337 bales were wool, and 1178 flax. The revenue from storage in wool, 1888, was LIB3O '. and the total revenue from storage on general goods wis L 2070. An extraordinary case of hou-ebreilc-ing occurred at Inglewood a fen days ago. Alexander Long, a leading s trer and member of the Town Bo ird, Schoo Committee, .Ac., was oaught com in, out of the window of March's store at midnight- Ha h4ijl. taken from the store 80 straw bats, value £10 12.-1, Ame-ioaii oil • cloths, clock, tobacco, and a varie y "f other artioles iworth over __20. He wai arrested. totda.7. ;«nd brought to New Plymouth, where he will b? charged with breaking *nd entering. He haa a large family, and ie in good ci renin • staocea. He had apparently no motive for the crime. Mr W. H. Levin, who is' retiring from the Board of Direotors of the Manawatu Bailway Company in consequenco of ill health, was presented with a handsome album containing a number of photographic views of some of the most beautiful scenes along the Company's line, by his fellow' Direotors, at the offioe of the company on Thursday afternoon. The presentation was made by Mr John Plimmer, who referred to the ability Mr Levin had exhibited as director and ohairman, and to the great assistance that gentleman had always given the Board. Mr Levin briefly but feelingly acknowledged the gift.— N. Z. Times.