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Manawatu Herald, 29 March 1889, Page 2

There has been a change in porters at the railway station, resulting in the return of Mr Buchan, who filled this position some period ago.

The Palmerston residents and business people are signing a petition to the Railway Commissioners for a daily train.

An engine was landed from the steamer Napier yesterday for Mr Dalton.*

The apple harvest is now on. Mjr'Nye is frequently to be seen shipping hu -produce by tvain, and we have noticed a lot of eases with the Eawaroa brand coming into town by dray. Apple trees will well pay growing, if only ordinary care and attention are gi7«n to them when young.

Patients beware. Have a care. We warn you in time. Dr Foot is anxious to obtain a house, there is not one to be obtained, now then can he be satisfied ? No prize is offered for this riddle. Suppose you xfem in his place, what would you do ? We know. You would carefully seleot the owner of the best house in town, and presoribe fo • him medicinally, bo that shortly the ow lev would visit a happier world, and you would rent the house no longer required by him. T':ie docto.* would not probably resort to snea a course until all Other efforts have failed. At present only caution is needed as to mentioning the capabilities of your house, as he has a surgery nest Messrs Thynne, Liaton A Go's office, and is lodging at WJiv fee's Hotel.

Part of the machinery has at length arrived for Mr Jonson t s launch Ivy. Ha has been put much about by the delay of Messrs Luke & Son to keep to time, and even yet the whole of the order is not to hand, though promised more than a month ago. Hehopes to launoh her tomorrow afternoon.

The shooting season will not afford much sport this year we fear, owing to the number who, directly after: the season opens, if they do not before, will be blazing in all directions. As the season opens later than usual, we would advise any further notices about shooting should be inserted without delay,

The Natives issue a caution against any persons shooting over their land on the south side of the Maaawatu Rive:. 1 opposite Opiki. They seem very earnest in their intention to prosecute trespassers, so we should reoommead caution to sportsmen and others.

On Wednesday and Thursday next the Star Conoert Company appear at the Public Hall. They have lately oeen playing in the South Island, hut we have seen no critiques on their performances. There appears on the programme some acrobatic feats and step dancing, and will therefore meet the views of a good many here. They play on Monday night at Palmerston, and we have taken means to ascertain what is thought of the entertainment there, whioh we shall publish in oar nest issue.

Mr Norwell, the fitter for the Wellington Tweed Company, notifies in another column that he will visit Foxton on the 30th inst, and stay till the Bth April.

We regret m learn that one more of the wounded at the Otaki accident has died, Walter Grant having succumbed to his injuvies in the Wellington hospital on Wednesday morning. ■>

In an interesting aooount of the Lonjbeaoh Estate published by the Christolm oh Press, some striking figures in regard io the productiveness of the sheep on the estate are given. In 1886 and 1887 the percentage of lambs raised from 8000 ewes was 125, while this .season the same □amber of ewes gave the highly satisfactory average of over 129. People outside the colony reading these figures will understand how it is that New Zealand has taken rank as the finest sheep farming country in the world. About half the threshing is through, and the results so far go to show that from the 3600 acres there will be a return of 120,000 bushels of very prime wheat. From one small paddock the average will be a little under 30 bushels per acre, but the average of at least 3000 acres will be over 40 bushels. One padcbok abutting the main road going down from Willomby has averaged 86 bushels, another paddock 45, yejt another 58$, and and better still, another paddook (excepting a small corner of it) has given an average of 60 bushels to thjp^cre.

W» leara from the Manawatu Timea that a fatal aooident occurred in Main ■tr >et Palmerston by which aa old identity in the person of Mvs Cavannah, wife of Mr P. Cavannah of Stoney Creek lost her life on Tuesday night. SUe in company with her husband, was returning home in a brake driven by Mr A. Peebles. Mrs Cavannah was sitting on the side of the brake in front, and when opposite Mr O'Connor's state at Terrace End, she somehow slipped frjpn her seat and fell to the ground. The wheel of the brake passed over her head, completely crushing the •kail and Mating foittnttMoas diftb.

The oases againßt Michael \vlieelerj James Maher, John Dumahey, and Williant McLean Jack, who were charged with having attempted to steal two dozen bottles of English ale, and two dozen bottles of English porter, of the value of £3, the property of the Minister for." Public Works, on March 17, 1889, at Oroua Bridge were heard-at Palmerston on Tuesday. Messrs Fitaherbert and Mellish appeared for the aocussd. Owing to Mr Fitzher jert's contention that as the cases were left at the Oroua Bridge flag Btatidn at the owner's risk, and the owner was not pVdßeoutidg, the .Bench dismissed the cases without prejudice.

■• The s.s. Waverley on one of her last trips to Patea was caught in' the centre of a forming waterspout. Fortunately she was able to steam out be "ore it assumed huge proportions. Four o'Srev waterspouts were seen within 45 minutes, frou which the captain had to Bteom to avoid their trae'e, proving how neAir the ceilh'e ol some great atmospherical disturbance the boat must have been at the time.

.Colonials, no doubt, who have never visited London, have often heai'd o" t'le extraordinary number of persons air* ve>ieles daily passing over London Bridge, aud wondered, perha >s, if the tales u tey nr:e told are true. To decide what has long been a matter oi guess only, a weekly paper called. "Answers " lately made arrange' menfa with t'\e corps of commissionaires and a large staff of mea to remain on Loudon Bridge for 24 hours to count the traffic. The result showed that 111,873 persons passed over the Bridge walking, and t'lat, in ' addition, 45,000 vehicles, oantaining an average of three persona each, also crossed.

Rain has fallen at Sydney but it will not be sufficient unless a really heavy fall takeu place immediately. The lambi ig, even where the conditions a-e favwva'tto, must be poor, aud squatters will ajiia have to face a failure similar to last yea: 1 .

Two days ago one. of Mra Dunne's little boys fell off a horse and put his knee can out* Up to the present the little lad hag had no medical care.

In the railway shed there has just arrived the fii-st shipment of hemp from the AJax hemp mill at Moutoa, owned by Messrs Jaok Bros. The sample appears to be well dressed and of good colour, and as of even a character as the other bales in the s!ied.

The Secretary of the Manawatu and West Coasi Agricultural and Pastoral Association advertises that the annual meeting of this Aisooiation will take place at the Road Board office, Palmerston, on Saturday, 6ili April.

The schooner Clyde arrived this morning alongside the wharf, having been towed over the bar and up the river by the s.s. Huia. The arrival of these two vessels one.-s a startling endorsement of our remacks on the reliability of the reports on t'ae state of the bar, as it is four days before the top of springs, aivl when crossing ten feet of water was obtained all over the bar. The Glyde comes from Brisbane and has a foil cargo of best Brisbane coaln, consigned to her owne:% Mr A. H. Wylds.

Hitherto machines for felling t-ees have been driven by steam power, but this is sometimes inconvenient, especially in thick woods, and eleqtric power has recently been adopted in the Galioian forests. Usually in suoh machines the trunk is sawn bat in this case it is drilled. When tha woocHsof a soft nature the drill bar? a sweeping motion, and cuts into the f muk by means of catting edges on its shies. The drill is actuated by an electric motor mounted on a carriage, w.-uch is brought up close to the tree and shackled to it. The motor is capable of turning round its vertical axis ; and the drill is geared to it in suoh a manner that it can turn through an arc of a circle and make a sweeping out into the trunk. The first cut made tiie drill is advanced a few notches, and another section of the wood removed in the same way, until the trunk is 'half severed. It is then clamped to keep the cut from closing, and the operation continued until it would be unsafe to go on. The remainder is finished by a handsaw or an axe. The current is conveyed to the motor by inT'.lated leads brought through the forest from a generator placed in some convenient site.

Mr David Arnot, son of Sir John Amott Dublin, proprietor of the Irish Times has recently been the guest of the Rev. Father Patterson at Palmerston. Mr Arnott is visiting the colony with a view to selecting a field for Irish emigration. He has visited the Birmingham and Manchester Blocks, and lias now gone on to Nelson. Lady Evelyn Moreton, who is accompanying Lord and Lady Dalamore in their tour, was also the guest of Father Patterson.