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Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 279, 20 August 1889, Page 2

We are glad to see from the proceedings of the last meeting of the Wirokino Road Board that that body acknowledged the care and attention Mr Douglas Wallace has previously paid to their business, by again selecting him as their Clerk and Collector nt a little more remunerative salary. In another column will be found the ultered advertisement of Messrs McMillan, Rhodes A Co who direct attention to the tact that they are direct importers and will shortly he showing their new summer drapery. At present they are holding a genuine clearing sale. Their old .busines 3 of flax buyers is being attended toas usua], Mr McMillan has accepted the tender of Messrs Jonson. Hecker, and Leden for the new store that he is about building iv the Main Street. The subject of the withdrawal of an advertisement from these columns under peculiar circumstances we are unable to refer to, thia issue, but probably we shall be able to attend to tlie matter in Friday's paper. Flax cutters are wanted. An advertiser hu*. a tip dray nearly new which he wantb to exchange for a larger one. Mrs Heed has opened an oyster and supper saloon in the the new Bhop in the old tram sheds. We believe thia will be much patronised and the window has been made certainlya attractive. Last Saturday night we understand she was kept very busy. The horse impounded haß been claimed. Mr A. Naunestad expects to be able to commenoe stripping at his hemp mill at Waverley about the beginning of next month. Mr Cook is relieving the station master at Longburn, who is away on sick leave. By the courtesy of Mr Fraser who has the conduct of Mr Leary's business in Foxton, and also by the compliance of Mr r.eary, we have been enabled to offer one more convenience to ova readers. Tonight and in future copies of the Herald can be obtained at Mr Leary's chemist shop. We have to congratulate Mr Brebner on his promotion. We letifl. that he has received orders, to hold himself in readiness to take a similar position to what he holds here in Westport, but at a larger salary. Whilst feeling glad t&bear of Mr Brebner's servioes being appjjwated we are sorry he ia leaving, and WmMc ahwho ha'va had tffrin^i *ith HI be so to.

We are glad to notice that the' increased j activity observable ia business Ori this coast is felt by our contemporary the Manawatu Times as well as by ourselves, as that paper has appeared on larger paper * thftn heretofore And now contains eight < extra columns. It is pleasatit to find that ( there is room for all and tome to spare. j Messrs Clover and Son of Sanson have . an announcement re their new process of j flour. We uiid<if eitttiid that this sample has been tried about here and giveii every satis- f faction. I - We learn that the station master at ; Waipawa will take Mr Brebner's place. Mr E» ft Oorioily; solicitor; of Blenheim, i formerly Attorney-General, has been offered, and has accepted, the Judgeship rebdefed vacant by the death of Mr Justice Gillies. Dean, the levanting Secretary and Treasurer of the Thames Borough Council, waa arrested at Norfolk Island on the schooner Christine, and brought back to Auckland by Detective Herbert. Dean was put on board the Christine 30 miles from Auckland. Ac was known to the passengers as Father Davies, a Roman Catholic priest, bdund for New Caledonia to take charge, of' smile niisslfltl work: He had £70 when arrested. While at Noi'fdlk Island Dean atiended ohurch and behaved well getterftll?. He was brought up at the Auckland Police Court on several charges of embezzlement, and remanded to the Thames. Other places besides Foxton are beginning & find out the class of mcii who assembli\u round a flax district, as the Advovate says : — The Turakina people are desirous of obtaining the services of a resident constable, on account of the rowdy element which is now gravitating in that direction. Even vow, qn Saturday night's espeoiaUy, the people are subject to great annoyance by the disturbance created by swaggers and oliWidert, iiiid when the mills are in full work, which will soon ifc tHe t'i»se ( the evil will be much intensified. We would suggest that some of the inhabitants of • Tura- j kina address the pblice authorities by letter, j signed by as many influential pers6na as possible. A constable ought to be stationed there without delayA The New t.eview.* quoted as a marvel of cheapness, but. -' The Beecham Illustrated Holiday Number " befits.it, for it has In 100 pdges twelve cpifalete tales by such well knowii atitHd r's tis .litotes Payn, C. B. Sims, Hawley Smart, James Gh'geiitfcwd, Sir Gilbert Campbell, Bart., George Manville Fenn, Philip May, and Howard Paul. Moreover, three months' free insurance is guaranteed to the purchaser of every copy, and the lot only one penny. We learn of a new, idea from the Eure. - pean iii India, in disss • The lateat importation is a corset made for a hoi'se'Woman out of soft leather. It is almost without bone, but is firm and flexible. Mr Gladstone carries an umbrella with An olive wood handle, and he buys them at Smith's, in Oxford-street, for about 80.. such; Lord Derby and Lord Rothschild are the two biggest collectors of porcelain in the world. Lord Derby has the largest collection of Crown Derby possessed by anybody. The recent Stuart Exhibition would aeem to have given an impetus to the issue of literature dealing with tha luckless Stuart dynasty, and one of the handsomest volumes of this nature, illustrated with a series of forty plates, will be published in the course of the autumn by Messrs Macmillan and Co. The high class character of the work is assured, from the faot that the letterpress will be from the pen of Mr John Skel ton, C.8., whose work in BlackwOihTs and other um.gu-s.incn appears now . at longer intervals than formerly. In a letter to the Christian World on the -"■abject of his recent visit to the colonies, Dr Hannay says : — " If New Zealand cau keep herself out of the hands of speculative financiers and political adventurers, and patiently develop^her wonderful resources, she will, at ho -distant date, lift her head as the Britain of the Southern Seas, and play no unimportant part in the furtherance of all the high interests which lie near to the heart of tlie mother country." The Thames Star says that a glove fight for £10 aside has been arranged between Mr Moore, of the Moore and Devere Minstrels, and Donovan, the well kuown pugi- ' list. The Catholic Times says: — Tbe New Zealand Sergeant-at-Arms, Colonel De Quineey, is a white-haired, benevolent, and ge.tlemanly-looking man, who has found a haven where he will — unlike hia gifted father— require no opium to send him asleep. Mr Jellicoe, on behalf of Chemis, has laid an information of perjury against Inspector Thompson, and Detectives Camp- . bell and Benjamin, in connection with the evidence given in the Hawkings murder case.. Mr Wilson wants the Postmaster-General to permit letters posted in mail trains to go for the usual postage. Ten thousand American brook char fry have been placed in the Hutt River by the Acclimatisation Association this season, and a small number in the branches of the Ruamahunga. It is proposed to place 5000 brown trout in each of the larger rivers in the Horowhenua County, viz., the Waikanae Otaki, and Ohau, and a number in the small streams, Waitohu, Waikawa, and Tokomaru, besides which a supply will be sent to the P hangina and Manawatu River at the Gorge.