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Manawatu Herald, 5 November 1889, Page 2

At the meeting of the Bowing Club la3t Thursday night, it was decided to ve-instati the old Manawatu Club, under which titl< so many laurels were gained for the district. We hope the glory will be continued. The Bibhop of Wellington will hold service at All Saints (.lunch next - unda, , both morning and evening. The N.Z. Railway advertise cheap fares on the Wanganui bection, also to Wellington, on the Prince of Wales Birthday. Thi tickets will be issued on the Bth, and available till ihb loth. b°ir»t daaa teturt: tickets to Wellington are isbued at 22a. Some ol the residents have complained to n* of the conduct of some persons ridinp along ilio Main-;: i root on Sunday evening. They report thu men to be drunk, to bt racing wildly nlnng, and using both roa< and footpath. We have not heard of an^ action having Ivn taken again.--;, ilu offenders. We learn that the Spovtb Uonimitter have entered inio arrangements with Mi Foley to give his excellent show on Satur day and Monday night next, a share of th< proceeds to be devoted to the encouragement of the sports. After the performanc a capital dance, with excellent music, wil be held at the Hall, ko a pleasant ending oi the holiday >s all arranged for. We have received from the Traffic Mauager a time-table ot the New Z alnnd Go vernment Railv/ays, including aluothc Wei-lington-Manawatu and New Zealand Mid land Railway private lines. The guide has a couple of excellent inap3, and tb«s wholt ih sold for ono ]»nny. We have .to thank the Government pvintev for nixot-het- i>at<h <>t Parliamentary papers. If the Public Hall h:'<l nor bceu eu^aged. it was tbe intention of the lt»;v. Father Patterson jo have had ••nncb-.-i on Saturday night in the Town HaH. We tr-i t c will be ■, >le to i\% another night-, a ] i > ha playing alone, it would be well worth uio admission money.

Sheariiif; commenced this morning at i lie Herriugto'n' station. I v i Garrand notiiic-b tiiat trie alteration* 3 his stort l-fiug completed, he is now t pening up his nov* goods. Out on the Heiringfon run, there if live and d^ng well, a lamb with six leg* 7ie extra •* ■ are abaft his forelegs an' 1 iirdly reach tb tihe ground. The exarai £ ng counsel who asked a witness how man g* a sheep had. was przzied when th ritne a want:d to know whether he wa r iskmg about a d n ad sheep, or a live one, n a d<a\ sheep had only two legs. H Tonid be f arther puzzled about this lamb »'ho. however, if d°ad, could still only j'aim to have two legs. The Eowifig C^b is in luck's way, as ;hey have the M -yor's support for the use Df any land near the river suitable for a boat shed. The Councillors also spoke in fevonr of doing all they could to give the Club assistance. A lady is advertising for th# position of lady-help. Tfta Rrtvoujjli Council me calling for tenders for two uift'ereu't pieces of work — one for painting a schedule of ehfevjes for the Pound, and the other to cigar out certain cuttings through sandhills. Tenders «re to be in by noon of Saturday. Mr Jenkins, the lessee of the old Tramsheda, is quite altering the appearance, and applied yesterday for pennissfion from the Council to evect a verandah in front of part of them. The usual monthly sitting of the R.M. Court will be hpld to-morrow. The Maori arson case will be one of. the many to be heard. A cow, the property of Mrs Coley, was the subject of much adverse criticism at the meeting of the Borough Council yesterday, and the clerk was instructed to carry out the lav/, to abate the nuisance. The tenders received for the erection of a five roomed cottage on the Avenue for Messrs Walsh and Howan were as under. Hecker and Leydon, £37 (accepted) ; A. MusßrovG, £39 : Bacon and Speirs, £45 ; C. Jenkins, .I*s3'. The sea prevails over ihe railway after all, as Mr McLennan has arranged with Messrs McMillan, Rhodes & Co., the agents ofthe Anchor line of steamers, to ship his clip by them. We are glad to learn this fact, as it seemed absurd for the steamer* trading here to throw away such good freight. The first ph>'y>ment will leave on Friday. A fact that may be new to many ratepayers sa> b ihe Wanjjanui Herald has been raised by Mr C. O'Hara Smith, Government Auditor. These gentlemen have an unpleasant knack of finding out the things that public bodies and their servants mußt not do, and he has given the Town Clerk notice that if he takes cheques for rates he does bo at his own rink, and further that the Boroueh Council have not the power to indemnify him. It seems rathpr red tape sh to suppose that th<* Cerk is to tell every business man who nays him by cheque that he must go to the bank and cash it himself but we have no doubt this is what it will come to. During a short discussion last night on the matter it transpired that the Council had not list a penny from bad cheques so fa". but lest the thing should occur the Town Clark does not feel inclined to incur & personal responsibility. Saya"Ontis" in the Eritish Australasian : — I don't think it is generally know that the Lord High Commissioner of thp General Assembly of the Church of Scotland is a very good hand at ingtng " Presbvteriau comic song. " Mr Georgft Grossmith r°lates in bis amusing memoirs of " A Society Clown " that he wa.<? one« asked at a vavty at ' ir Arthur Sullivan's to sing " The Lord Chancellor's enormous patter sonpr." " I could not remember it." he relates, " so Lord Hopetoun. himself a most humourous singer volunteerpd to promnt me. The effect was most lud ; crous. for Lord Hopetoun had really to sing quickly the whole of the sone about one bar ahead of me. After this Sir Arthur sat at the Diano and Lord Hopetoun and myself arrayed ourselves in a ff>w antimacassars and performed v graceful ballet/' — " That is to snv, ■' modestly adds " The Society Clowu,"' "as gracefully ns the circurn stances would uermit. " If the Governor of Victoria wishes to create a sensation inMelbnnrnn societj', he evidently knows how to proceed. A vpmarkable instance of the voracity oi the black shag was recently to be seen in a *hop in Lyttelton, in the shape of two of the common herring or mullet, taken 'rom the throat of a black shag which had htpn nhot. The two fish were 1H inches md 11 inches in length and in addition to ►hese there were two others about equal in size in the creature's gullet. This is s tpxof how great an enemy this bird must b» to the attempts to introduce trout and other fresh water fish into our numerous 'akes and rivers. The Education Department have requested the Board of Education to communicate any suggestions they may have tc tiake with resneet to a possible improvem?nt of the syllabus contained in the regulations for the in^pecti-- n of schools. Th« ■nestion of an alteration in the syllabus hat <lso been broucht before tbo Bo&rd by Mi T. G Wilson, M.H.R.. for Foxton, and the natter is to be fully discussed at the next meeting. A letter of considerable length from Mi S l uck*y, a gentleman who arrived from r i">nflon »o*ne time ago with his wife and fiTiily. W'g read before the lard board cr Thursday. Mr Stnekev, it apieavs, savt the Post, came out to New Zealand in on T'qnence of representations thai he conic a q -lire good land at a r-»a*onable iig-rs md in coiuae of time be settled on Horo vlipiina Block. He i« possessed of means, and as he has had a deal of experience as \ farmer in the oM country, he is a mosl lesirable acquisition to the population oi * y e colony. A fine hou°e for the accomod>'ionofthe family l.as be n erected in tbe township of Levin, and improvements are now b»ing carried out on the ruml land outside the township. Th-ee s-c*ions ie '.Vie township have been offered to him for ■ite, but mi objenion to the transfer hai been made by th»- Commissioner of the Fian<l Bonn] on the ground that it is noi lesirable onn perso should monopolize the unctions, as the intention was to settle as many families as possible on the block, md also that the present owners have not resided on the land lone enough to entitle them to transfer. Mr D. Hutchen, soli; -.itor, appeared before the Board in support of the application, and after some discussion it was decidod to make enquiries on the subject and further consider the m ttei at a special meeting a fortnight hence. The Advocate says : — People are . comtpg from far and near to spy out the Oioua Downs land which is being advertised for sale. We heard of one gentleman from Nelson, who went through the Kopene a few days ago with some others, and who thought previously there was no land anywhere outside Kelson province so good as in the Sleepy Hollow country. He Fans the praises of Nelson right down through Campbelltown ; but when he entered the Oroua Downs Estate the song oeased, and

ie was hot heard to ssjr « wo i about that >art of the country aga-n In ftll the exploraions, but declared that, if a horse went m it one end of the Kopen*; quite lean, he .rouia go out at the otW end fat. He was" ;o wfll plensed whh the land that he d»t«rnined to have a slice of it when the sale takes place. He like many other* wno had ut seen the land was inclined tcr thirnc oiuf. lescviption of it somewhat highly colored, but was convinced by what he saw .that ks richness was oot at all exaggerated. A gentleman who was of the party informs ua mat the Kopene is iike.a sea of green, i-eaching to the horses knees.