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Manawatu Herald, 15 October 1889, Page 2

A rivst class feeder, also catchers are wanted at the I'apakiri mill. A nursemaid ia advertised for. The-, Manawatn Comity Conneil has an important notice in Ihis issue to County ratepayers.. The Foxton Public Hall is for sale by tender. The barque Weathersfteld, has been so long stranded on the beach near Otaki says the Post, that our readers may have forgotten that efforts are still being made to get her off. Not only is this the case, but we. have much pleasure in stating that, such progress has been made in the work of floating her— under the direction of Captain .1. C. Cooper— that in all probability we shall hear of the vessel being afloat within the next week or so. Up to yesterday she had been m»ved seaward over OOft, and instead of being broadside on, she is | now nearly head to sea. It was expected that she would be moved still nearer to tho sea yesterday evening. Tenders for the different works required i by the Wirokino Road Board close on Friday at noon. The meeting of the shareholders in the Bakery Company will be held at i p.m. to morrow at Thynne Linton »v Co's buildings, the registered oiiiee of the company. Another purchaser of hemp is announced. Mr Wylds ot' Palm erst on being desirous of buying flax of good quality mid will give the highest price for it. Mr Woodhani, the head master of the Foxton State School, commenced his fortnight's leave of absence yesterday, after first placing Mr Bitchier, the relieving master, in charge. The carpenters have pushed on with j McMillan, Rhodes and Co's new store, the walls having been closed in and the roof all covered. Tt. shows up the floor space now far better than when the sides were open. Never, previously to last week, has there, been such a large tonnage of vessels in port, or at any rate, of steam vessels. On Thursday last the Bteamers Napier, Charles Edward, and Queen of the South arrived, aud would have left on Friday, but after steaming to the heads returned, owing to there being too heavy a sea to cross. They i then returned to the wharf, and were followed up the river by the steamers Murray aiv.l Lawrence, so that on Friday, the aggregate tonnage totalled to G47 tons. The | increased trade of the place is well shown by the statement that these boats brought 500 tons of coal, which are all disposed of. Owing to the Lawrence taking stock, the other boats succeeded in only making a slight decrease in the accumulation of the bales of hemp stored at the wharf. The experience of last week points to a certainty of block and confusion when the wool begins to arrive, unless the Railway Department provides further storage accommodation. Messrt Baker A' Co have suffered a heavy loss in the death of the Somnns — Lady Artist foal at Feilding last week. It was five day§ old wh>n it died. Some time previous an offer of £100 was made to Messrs Baker ife'Co for the foal, £80 down, and £70 on foaling, so that they have suffered the full los« of the £100. The Welshmen in the districi ure to be congratulated in living where the patriotic leek flourishes so well. ' Some happy gardener left at out olVice the other day a ■■Sample of three, well bleached, and of great size, the three weighing eight aud a half pounds. Gardeners have always to be on the watch for enemies. Mr Ingram, who had cucumbers in the forward stage of running, informs us that the blight has killed them all. He has therefore to make another start. The Kentish cherry sales have, averagsd this season about £40 an acre. • A white Kangaroo, the first ever known, is on exhibition at the London Aquarium. The extreme durability of certain timbers is little appreciated. In one of the ecclesiastical edifices at Koine trusses of fir were sound after nearly a thousand years of service, and a gate of cypress, conducting to St. Peter's, remained good after the lapse of six hundred years. Some kinds of wood are better preserved uuder water than in dry situation*. Portions of France have been .visited with a plague, of cockchafers, and so great a nuisance did they become- that Governmental aid was requested in destroy! g them. In a single town of the Department of Eure, those deputed for the task gathered liO.ooo kilogrammes of the insects representing 'the immense number of T.6^.000 cockchafers.

The Exors of Thomas Short nave' dofed { ip thteir branch at the Thames, and haw j lecided to send the best of the stock to Mr i ><jrrand here, who therefore expects to be i'*?ry bnsy in & few days unpacking a large ' ilj.l v'tilu&ble' assortment of spring and < (umnier goods. I>irectly the stock arrives j ye shall take steps to felt th*» puMte know 1 nore of what it particularly consists* , ■ Mfcssnr Stevens atiA Gorton announce i sale of the Who!* of the houses > t York Farm Rangitikei. The htte' Mr Hammond kvas well known for his kuowledge of horses, i md buyers can rely on the animals now to \Je Hold without reserve, being oorae of the., best otf i\te coast. The Advoc te sftysnfe Jiuve been informed that Mr Perrett, who bonght Mr Hickford's section! at V.dnipbelltowri for £7 per acre, has again disposed <*f it to Mr P. KoWnnon for £7 10s per acre. Mr Jtickford has decided to take up his residence in thn West Waitapu, having taken up a perpetual lease section there of 040 acres. At a meeting of the Palmerston Licensing Committee on Friday © license was granted (0.1. A. Weight for the Occidental Hotel. It was announced that a writ of idjunction against the granting of a license was granted 1$ the Chief Justice yesterday at Wellington. The "Dunedin City and .Suburban Tramway Company h ye bought Young's palace cars and patent right, the Utter at a nominal figure. Four of the cars have been sold to the Canterbury Tramway. Now that they are free of ojTposition the Tramway Company intend running penny aections. Official retttrnu just received by the Department show that the number of sheep in the Colony, on the Hist of May last . was 15,5188,925, as against 15,042,198. on the same date of last year — an increase, in round numbers, of nearly 350,000 sheep for the year. The Marine Department have received a telegram that the Staffa has returned from the (search on the Three Kings for traces of ihe County of Carnarvon, and reports a thorough nearch, which disclosed no sign of wreckage or crew on tne inland. From Auckland we learn that a notification of the vacancy for the Waipa seat in the House of Representatives was sent to Wellington on Tuesday last for publication in the Government Gazette. Ten days after the appearance of this notice the Speaker's warrant for the new writ will be issued. In the Taranaki Herald appears a notice, signed by more than (U> New Plymouth firms, intimating that their places of business will be closed every Thursday, at 1 o'clock. Lucky employees these, as in this town a laudable effort was innde to provide a half -holiday for the young people employed in the stores, but was unsuccessful | owiug to the action of one of the Btorekeep- | ers refusing to close. We much regret it, as we believe nothing is lost to the employer I by studying the comfort and rational pleasures of his employees. i Our well informed contemporary Typo states that a tax on bachelors was in force for some time in Auckland, in the old provincial days — the proceeds to be applied to : educational purposes. This being very unpopular, a poll-tax was substituted, which met with such violent resistance that it had ! ta be abandoned. The anomalies of colonial legislation would be laughable if they had not a serious side. There are a number of statutes and [ orders in council regarding rabbits. By a rpconf order, cats were included in the category of natural enemies of the rabbit. ' The Oamaru Mail lins looked up tlie law relating to the natural enemies of the i rabbit, and finds it clearly laid down (simply interpreting the term by the new regulation, which has all the force of a statute), that anyone killing, selling, disposing of, or capturing a cat, or allowing one to be found i in his possession by a rabbit inspector or a I constable (unless that he can prove that it I was lawfully in his possession or on his i premises, without his knowledge or consent) I is liablo to a fine of not less- than live 'or more than twenty pounds. And if one 'wants to drown a butch of kittens, or smash | a full grown howler on thp reof with a bpot- : jack, ho must hunt up a rabbit injector j and get a written permit. He may not 'dispose' of cat or r kitten, in anyway. Must not ctfpture one, even if he wants to . get it out. of his meat-safe, without the inspector's permit in writing ! Broadbrim in his New York letter gives the following instance as a splendid case of circumstantial evidence followed by the acquittal of the defendant which took place in Jefferson Market Police Court. William Johnson, coloured, had his wife arrested for assault. William is not a giant, standing in his-shoes only five feet one, while Dinah tarns the scale at two hundred and forty-eight. Judge, said William, dat woman is a terror. Last nite when I cum home she whipped a razor out of her stocking and cum for me. What did you do, said the judge. Fo de Lard, sar, I got, I got up and dusted. What do you say to that, Dinah ? said the judge severely. Dinah lifted her dress to her knee and said, Look jedge, so help me, I ain't had a «tocking on dat leg fur mo'n a year. But she bit me, Jedge, Jedge ; she bit me, William persisted; wh.«n; Dinah roared, Couldn't do it, Jedge ; couldn't do it. Fo de Lord, Jedge I hadn't a tooth in my head. She opened her mouth and there was the proof. The> prisoner was instantly discharged and the judge sentenced William to buy her a new pair of stockings and a full set of teeth. Prince Bismark, speaking at Hamburg, said the peace of Europe was, in his opinion, assured. Remarking upon the. attitude of England, he said it was that of a fat ox chewing the cud instead of a mad hull. An exchange says we are learning more about the potato than was ever dreamed of in all the imaginary beliefs in respect to the various parasites to which it is subject, and there i« probably still more to learn. Every person who bus had potatoes stored through the winter has probably noticed a sort of dry rot affecting some of them. The tuber is found dry. withered, shrunken, and hard. This condition is alleged by Professor Scrilmer of the Washington Agricultural Department to be due to a mipute j thread worm which attacks the potato in its growing condition. The tuber is found to he marked with all pimples on the skin, surrounded by depressions. Thes diseased growths increase in time and cover the entire tuber, which withers, dries, and shrinks out of shape, and becomes of a oorkv consistenof. The cause is alleged by Professor Scribner to be a minute thread worm, one-five-hundredth or an inch long. These worniK have been found occupying the diseased substance in myriads. Whether this is the truecauße or not maybe questioned, for in an analogous case viz,, the hlack kn6t of the plum, similar minute worm* have been found, and yet the disease is said to be of a fungoid origin.