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Manawatu Herald, 25 October 1889, Page 2

We have received from the Government Printer the volume of statutes that passedinto law during the recent Parliamentary session. They have been published with remarkable expedition this year, and, as usual, hi excellent form. From our advertising coitimti4.it will h Heen that the sale by Messrs T. Kennedy Macdonald, A Co. of the properties in the Cook estate is postponed till a, date to be fixed in December next. It says a great deal for the fame of this coast (says the Wanganui Herald), that many enquiries have been made of late for our locally bred horsey. We have mentioned oiie 01' two -that have gone, but among them we did ilol include Mr Paul's Tongavivo who has been, quitted tit about £100, and is now well on his way to Melbourne. As to the filly Omaha, Mr David Scott says she has not been sold, but inquiry was made for her through Mr J. ChttdwicV. (Spectator) for racing in Melbourne. Mr Scott also informs us that he has named his two pronlishig 2-year-olds, Retrenchment (Somnus — Policy) a'lid Dingo (Remington — Cornelia). A man named Botting met with an accident urnv Shannon on Monday. While engaged in huslifalling, a limb of a tree fell on his ankle, breaking the bone. He was taken down to Wellington on Monday evening by train, and conveyed to the Hospital. The Waipavra correspondent of the Napier Telegraph writes : — " There is to be a revolution in the sheaving business this season, as three of the largest runs are going to shear by steam by means of Wolse\ey"s patent, apparatus. Mr Hastie (Melbourne) will run twenty machines; Mr (Tollan, Mangatdrftta. twenty-seven: and Mr C. Nairn, twenty-four. U is estimated that an. equal number of men will be employed as formerly, but they will have to be of the mor« expert and careful kind, while the old fashioned sundowner will have no chance. It is expected that so much more wool will be saved as will pay for the machjue-v itself no trifle in the first season. The despised goat, " the poornian'scow." as she has been called, is in the way of coming once more into favour. M. E. Pion is praising the bearded beast beyond measure in Hevue des Sciences Naturelles Appliques. And for this # reason. . The goat is refractory to tuberculosis. The germs of this disorder do not live in goat's milk as in that of the cow and other animals. Even when inoculated with the disease the goat will not take it. Hence argues M. Pion. for the infant safer food there is not than goat's milk. It requires not to bo boiled; and its composition is such that it needs neither dilution nor sugar. The fair deceivers are still at it: — A gentleman who lives at Islington is providing ladies whose cheeks are hollow with small pads. These pads are attached to natural or artificial teeth by means of tiny gold springs. The price of a face pad is a trifle heavy, like everything else guaranteed to improve the personal appearance. A pair of pads costs something like t ">. The maker of the face-pad said that gentlemen as well as ladies are wearing them. Ona gentleman had never looked anything but cadaverous until he took to the pad. Now his cheeks are rounded like a cherub's, and he looks ten years younger. The curious thing about the face-pad is it* inflexibility. It is made of the same material as the case of a set of artificial teeth. Olive green is the colour of the newest note-papeV. This is stamped with pink, yellow, and 'different shades of green. They have discovered a new use for Judges' of the Supreme Court in New South Wales. "Mamma," the piece with which theinow Conrt Theatre, Sloane-square, was inaugurated towards the close of last year, was recently produced in Sydney by Mr , Frank Thornton, the purchaser of the , Australian rights. The Sydney Morning > Herald, considered the play too naughty for Antipodean audiences, and , said so very plainly. Thereupon Mr Thornton, feeling aggrieved, appealed to 1 his honour Mr .lustice Windeyer in his , private, not his judicial capacity, to day whether this criticism was fair or just. The judge good-naturedly went to the ; Criterion Theatre, sat the piece out, and ' reported that he could see nothing oh- " jectionable in it. — Exchange. , On Monday morning McNaughton and i, the girl Augusta Haas waited on Mr Woon, l Registrar of Marriages, at Wanganui, and wanted to get coupled, but Mr Woon pointed (> ut that the consent of the parents was rel , uired, as the girl is only 16 years of age.

Mr Thy line Ims betn detained at his house the last few days suffering from a severe sore throat. Tt was pretty bad on Wednesday morning, and if he could have secured a J.P. 1o have taken the inijuest for him, most probably he would have been right by now. Hut, there was not a Christian . Passengers have now again a r-hoice of mean.-; by which to travel, as Captain Harvey's new steamer, Queen of the South, is a most comfortable passenger boat, and has what few of the smaller class of steamers have, and thai is a separate saloon for ladies. We should expect during the summer months that she will take a fair average of the passenger trade. The* poundkeeper advertises that toliKUTnw at noon he will .tell two calves. We remind our readers that the Hugo Minstrels appear at the Public Hall tomorrow night and Monday. The following clipping from the Wanganui Herald is worth remarking: — That the Hugo Minstrels are popular was testified last night by the fact that, a certain person passed a half-penny, covered with silver paper, for a shilling at the ticket box. No matter how eager thw said person might have been to see this renowned company, he had no light to work a swindle. As a matter of fact we hear that the delinquent is known, and liiti polk'o will probably interview him this morning. We understand that, a gen-tle-man was standing behinrl him when he passed the sham shilling and at on.-c gave information. The safe robbery at Foxton gives the public, another insight into the recklessness displayed in securing the Government property. For all the good the safes have been at the different railway stations, the one la^t broken into might just as well be papered over tho broken back and painted green, and it will offer the following advantages :— That the cost of repair to the -Department will be small ; that it will be just a< *afp a depositary of money as previously ; and if carried away once more will not give the thieves so much hard work to obtain their living. We have learnt from Mr Gardner that he has been experimenting with a new process of dressing flax, and has succeeded in producing with three hours labour, a thoroughly dres.sed and well bleached sample, and also ready for baling. He has a small bale already made for exhibition at Dunedin. He informs us that the process is partly mechanical and partly chemical. He also believes the cost will not be more, if so much, as dressing by the present system, and to prove his belief in it, he in making alterations so as to do all his dressing by this means. We only hope lie is justified, as the invention promises great things for the industry. Mr Gardner has now b:?en connected with tiax sufficiently long, and is a thorough business man, that wa do not think he would speak so hopefully if he was not really assured. The tenders for the purchase of the Public Hall close to-morrow. At the meeting of employers and employes last Tuesday, an amount, of amusement was caused by one individual who seemed to have great faith in the half holiday movement, in fact the meeting wo ild not, in our opiui ~>n. have been as successful as it was, had thi> gentleman not been present. •• He lieggcd l<Mive to propose" and " begged leave to second," a host of different questions, but judging by the appluuso given him each time, no doubt |he must have been in order. During the evening a motion was tabled for the appointment of a secretary, and on th 1 gentleman refusing to accept the position, the individual in question '• begged leave to second it.'' Of course the meeting was convulsed for a time, but for only a very short time. The well known racehorse, Camomile died at Wanganui at noon, after a short illness, from intlanr.uatijn of the bowels. The owners sustain a severe loss, as only last week he was a:* good as sold for £;10f) lo Mr Keith for Melbourne. New Zealand hemp, on the 20th, was •j noted at K2<> 15s te £30. Mr A. Graham, M.H.K. for Gisborne, has forwarded his resignation as a member of the Houst- (if Representatives to the ■Speaker. Serve him right. Noliurt Wyaft, for disturbing v Salvation Army meeting, usiug obscene language. »uid tvsistisig tl>" police, wus sentenced to 21 days' hard labour, without the np'.ion of a line : and ho was linwl £3 108, or 10 days' imprisonment, for other offence* in conniption with his mi«liehavioiu.