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Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 272, 7 June 1889, Page 2

Tenders for scutching and pressing flax mast be sent in to Messrs T. P. Williams & Co before nine in the evening of tomorrow. Owing to the lateness. of the hour Mr Bowe's advertisment was received, we were unable to draw attention to it, last issue, we remind our readers that he threatens to prosecute all who trespass upon his property and cut firewood, or more properly, steal it, from his bush. A horse will be sold tomorrow at noon, at the public pound. Shopkeepers are not very early risers, and are often to be seen sweeping out their premises between eight and nine of a morning. This alone is objectionable, but owing to their taking their time, the city fathers have noticed in what unblushing manner they break all the bylaws made for such cases. As the shopkeepers not only sweep out late, but calmly sweep into the gutters, the waste and dust from their shops, contrary to the bylaw made and provided steps are about to be taken to stop the nuisance. Offenders had better attend, if not they ■will be summoned to attend at the B.M. Court. At the last meeting of the Borough Council a discussion arose on the manner in which tow was carted about the town. No attempt is made to stack it securely, and every where the cart had gone, lay lumps of tow, which prove dangerous to equestrians. It was hoped, that as notice had been taken of the matter, the carters will use more care, otherwise the powers possessed by the Council will have to be used. We notice that a little more light is about to be thrown on the way to the Foxton Family Hotel. The roadmen having established a lamp post in the footpath opposite that well known house. Whyte's Hotel is being repainted. Every building is receiving more attention than usual. Messrs Thynne Linton & Cos buildings, wherein are installed Messrs Leavy and Hamilton, has also been painted. We believe the Post Office is also to be placed in a uove habitable state of repair, and it will be not'before it was wanted. In another column it will be seen that Mr Hillary lias instructed Messrs Thynne Linton & Co io sell by private contract some of his well selected town properties. Mr Hillary i% an old resident, and always kept his faith in the town, and many of the sections he is prepared to sell, were purchased by hici when property fell in value. Tins should show that the prices he is willing to sell at, should meet present buyers, and they should be easily suited. To give some idea of the value of the soil for garden purposes we need only mention that i)r W. Ingrain's well known garden adjoins some cf the sections, and that Mr Stewart's and Mr J. ColeyV gardens are only separated from the property by the width of a road. The sections may therefore be truly stated as offering the pick of the town lands. To any one with a few pounds to spare, the purohase of a section would nean the securing of a comfortable home, as a house could be arranged for through the medium of a building society. We are glad to find that some or at any rate, one, of our hemp millers believes it will pay to see what other districts are doing in the trade. This is the only way the industry will be worked up to a paying ponJ. We hear that Mr K. Gardner has had a run rlown south and is agreeably surprised to find that the fibre prepared in Canterbury is much superior to that dresned around here. Heseoured a sample so that no doubt he will be good enough to let us all have a view of it. We are most creditably informed that notwithstanding cable quotations, a southern miller received advices by the last mail of his fibre fetching £39 15s. Of course this was a really grand sample. With suoh facts before them we are surprised that a trial is not given to the scutchers in use in Canterbury, the tooth scutchers built by Messrs Booth, Macdcnald and Co. and no doubt when we see Mr Gardner he will have some thing to say also on this point. Everyday shows the necessity of more united action on the part of the hemp millers of Manawatu. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agenoy Company Limited .have received the following cable message from its London Office, dated 31st May, 1889 :— " Beef — Market is improved. New Zealand hemp — Medium quality is worth £31 10 per ton. People interested in flax (says the N.Z* Times) frequently inquired at what prices sisal hemp can be produced in Yucatan. The most recently published authorities give about £9 10s a ton' of dressed fibre as the cost at site of production, which is just about the price of flax properly turned out at a good mill. The same paper says:— Yet another rumour is current as to flax, viz., that a Manawatu settler has gone on a visit to the North of Ireland to inspect and buy a new machine, whicht if up to report, will totally revolutionize the flax industry. This machine turns out white fine fibre in two hours from the green leaves — all the present bleaching and drying process of spreading on the fields, and gathering, and carting to the mill would be swept away. Mrs Whyte is advertising for a man to take charge of the stable. Mr Honors having received a direct consignment of china, calls attention elsewhere to the kinds of goods, and the very low prioes at which they are, for sale. A horse and dray for hire, is wanted' Apply to Mr McMillan's store. Messrs Stevens and Gorton's sale of stock at Bulls next Tuesday, is advertised in this issue. KEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES oure Coughs, Asthma, Bronohitis. Medio»l testimony states that no other medicine iso effeotual in the oure of these danger* ous maladies. One Loxenge alone give ease, one or two at bedtime eo«nres rest For relieving difficulty of breathing they •N invaluable. .They contain no opium n«i iw violet* drua Bold by \ll Otaaista i