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Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 271, 4 June 1889, Page 2

There will be mass in St Mary's church Foxton next Sunday at 8 and 11 o'clock. Evening service at 6.30 p.m. The R. M. Court sits tomorrow at ten o'clock. The Wirokino Road Board meets today, as also the Manawatu County Council. Signs of the times. Palmerston still moving. Mr Hankins is building a new office in the square near the Bank of New Zealand. Mr Longman from Hokitika is erecting a large warehouse in the Main street. There is a rumour floating around Palmerston that two hundred people could not find hotel accomodation in Foxton on Saturday week. We regret that our friends should be so much mistaken. They could not have been here. In one of the railway tunnels in the Gorge an explosion of dynamite took place last Saturday, severely injuring a man working in it. He was much cut about the arms and body and was sent on by train to the Wanganui hospital. We learn that at the meeting of the Licensing Committee at Otaki a license was granted for the hotel at Shannon. At the last meeting of the Palmerston Chamber of Commerce it was decided to ask Messrs Wilson and Macarthur to obtain a return showing the railway returns between Foxton and Palmerston, the returns of wharfages received, the amount derived from storage and handling, for the three months ending the 30th of this month, with the working expenses during the same period. A firm of timber and general produce merchants, Messrs W. L. Luxford & Co. notify that they have on sale large stocks of general produce, timber, stoneware, lime and cement, and coals and wood. The general produce consists of oats, beans, Oaten sheaf chaff, straw chaff, and hay and straw. Owing to the general scarcity of these commodities, an application to this firm might be of very great convenience. Drainers must remember that tenders close on the 6th inst. for cleaning out drains on the Oroua Downs estate, and that tomorrow at 10 a.m. they will be shown what work there is. We direct attention to the altered ad--vertisement of our stationer Mr R. McLean. The new information will be found useful. We have heard that it is the intention of a firm of carriers to start a coach service between Foxton and Shannon. We know that the proprietor has been over the road, and has expressed himself very well satisfied with it, so that in a short time we may find this convenience, so much needed, supplied.

Mr Matthews of the firm of Fitzherbert and Matthews, Barristers and Solicitors, is now in Foxton and will remain until Thursday morning. We understand that Mr Matthews was unavoidably prevented from visiting us as regularly as set forth in the firms advertisement, but that in future he will be in Foxton from Tuesday evening to Thursday morning in each and every week to consult with clients. Mr Andrew Jonson noticing the difficulty there still exists in meeting the demand in the building trade, has now announced his intention of resuming his calling of cabinet maker and builder, in his old premises on the Avenue road. Messrs Stevens and Gorton notify the date and entries for their sale at Palmerston. Aberdeen house bids fair to resume its old commercial standing. For years, in the good old past, it was one of the most frequented stores in the district, and though now shorn of a portion of its old business, the grocery department, yet under the management of the new firm of G. Funston & Co. the drapery trade will be revived in all its best known qualities. Over the leader will be noticed the new advertisement, in which the firm draw attention to their goods, and request a share of the trade doing. We have no doubt but that now it is known that the firm have taken up a regular position and are ready to attend to customers, they will receive many a call from those who previously passed by. The Hawera Star says : — There has been working during the past day or two in a paddock leased by Mr Haughey a potatodigger. The machine, which may be drawn by two horses, but requires three to make easy work, seems to act admirably. The machine is drawn up and down the drills, and forks which are attached to a shaft revolve rapidly at right angles to the drill, throwing the tubers but quickly and effectually. It is estimated that the machine will raise five acres a day, while, if the land be all foul with weeds, it thoroughly scarifies it as well as throws out the potatoes. The machine was brought out from England a year or two ago by Mr Adam Johnson. A warning — A writ has been served on the Hawera County Counoil at the suit of Mr F. G. Arden, claiming £100 damages owing to the plaintiff having met with an accident through the negligence of the County Council in respect of a certain road under its control. A meeting of the County Council is to be convened for Saturday to consider the matter. The Post says : — An important discovery of asbestos has been made by Mr Edward Thomas, a mining expert well known on the goldfields in the Auckland district. Mr Thomas has been prospecting in the Takaka district, Nelson, for some time past, and has come across a lode of asbestos at Mount Arthur, which is considered by Mr Gordon, the Inspecting Engineered of the Mines Department, to be a very valuable discovery. The lode is six inches thick, and the quality of the stuff is said to be equal to that of the best Italian asbestos, which in its crude state is now selling in London at £360 a ton. Mr Thomas has pegged out a large claim, and is now making arrangements for working the ground in a systematic manner. The Melbourne syndicate who purchased the Waiwera Sanatorium property for £22,000 have sent Mr Dunn, a member of the firm of Messrs. Oakden, Addison and Ketop, the largest firm of architects in Melbourne, to survey the estate and lay it off in allotments for building purposes, and to prepare plans for a new hotel and for a wharf. The Syndicate are prepared to spend £4000 on a wharf, and to erect an hotel at an expense of £5000.