Manawatu Herald. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1889.

Manawatu Herald, 8 November 1889, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1889.

Mass will I* held on Sunday at St Mary's Church at B*. in. and 11 a.m.* and evening service at 6. 80 p. m. The Catholics are getting very musical. They intended having a concert here on Saturday only (he hall wa« engaged, bu*at Otak: things have gone smoother, and one will be held in that township. At a football match between Otaki anl Waikanai Clubs, one of the Otnki men, struck an opponent in the eye, when the Waikanai's gove up the game saying 'We came to play football, not to fight. " This seams to ba a departure from the usual rules of the game. The Wellington Education Board ha> found a way to «olve the difficulty of finding funds to erect teachers residence*. They, and Manakau is an instance, erect a cheap four roomed cottage, and deduct £20 a year from the teacher's salary, as rent ! It would pay the Board to build » township if they could let all other buildings at equivalent rents. However teachers' mue'nt grumble. The shearing at the Okaua station was finished on Monday. Mr Davideon has bean fortunate in getting through without a break. Mr Geoffrey Eager of Otaki hurt the calf of hi* leg whilst running the other day. He went to the Wellington hospital for treatment.. Mr Robert Cobb has gone to the Chrißtchuroh Show and has taken for exhibitiou a number of rams and ram and ewe hoggeta. We hope he may bt as ueeessful as he was at the Hawkew Bay A. nml P. Show, where he took the grand champion long wooled ram prize. At Manakau on the railway line thorp. was quite a chapter of accidents a day or two ago. One man named Alfred Wyl-'e cut his knee very badly whilst falling a tree on the side of a steep hill, aud had to go to the Welhngton hospital. On Saturday an ] untoit mate man had a tree fall across his i baok. Ht had to be be conveyed on a i stretcher to the st tion, horn whence he was i takttte Wellington. j

Interact in the Prince of Wales' birthday sports on Monday are looking up, Mr iioward liEving obligingly given a hand some silver bracelet, which can be seen in his window, as* a prize for the Maiden race, and MrCoehas kindly given a bridle for another race The Banks notify a special bank holiday. A band has been secured from Wellington to play at the sports on Monday. The man Frederick Harding charged with stealing a tent in June last and who wan committed for t ial at the District Court, got off, the jury returning him not guilty. An assault oa3d of rather a peculiar cha" racter took place on Wednesday night in a public place and ib likely to form th* subject for inageAtertal investigation. Mr Si M. Baker has Bent in big resignation kb Cleek of the Court and will devote his energies to the supervision of his well known stud. ' The addition to the Manakau school it progressing fivourall/, tid sfcOJld be finished this month. The Advocate informed us that Messrs Austin a d Dearlove's mill wae burnt down the other day, but we aye pleased to say ' this is slightly Inaccurate as Mr Austin assure* ub it is. not. One mill may seem all the same an another mill to the Advocate, but confusion of this nature causes some inconvenience to the parties credited with losses they have not suffered. Measvs C. M. Ross & Co of the lion Marche, Palmerston North iusei-t an inset in this issue, Announcing the at rival of their second shipment of summer goods ex t. s. Tainuu This firm claims to be the largest soft goods importers between Wellington and Wanganui. Their ladies 9htm rooms are claimed to bo the largest also be-t-ween the two towns. The agent for the Queen of the South h s waited upon us ana explained that the rates] of his Bteamers, have not been raised, and that the paragraph we inserted about Mi McLennan's wool had nothing t& do with them, as theyw«M Uot offered the conveyance of ifc He believes that Mr McLennan had secured some special rate which was gone back upon by the agents making «t, and therefore the price might have been raised to iMr McLennan. However as tlia Oroua Downs bales are very sraall ones, being splendidly pressed there may have been reason in quoting slightly lower for this brand, but Mr Young, the agent for the Queen of the South and Napier it very anxious that it should be known that there is no djrterence between the rate df freights i "V.* year and last year. We are very | plt-ased to learn this, as it seemed a nuV i take to discourage trade by (putting on increased charges, especially when such a fine carrying boat as the Queen of the South had just been put on the line. The programme of the Foxton Racing Club appears in this issue. The N. Z. Loan and M. A. Company insert an advertisement, the particulars of which we thall refer to more folly in our next issue. Early potatoes— it certainly sounds peculiar to hear of potatoes being fit now, yat Mr E. Cole has brough to us as nine a sample as could be wished 'or. He informs us he hag a very good crop ready to lift. Services will be held on Sunday at AH Saints, and St Mary's Churches. Mr Greenfield announces that he is prepared to do any brick and cement work. Orders «an be left at Murray';? boarding house. The teller at |the local branch of the Bank of Mew Zealand at Sydney hai suddenly disappeared, and an investigation of the accounts revealed that he had embezzled the >urn of £13,454. The defalcations are attributed to speculation in mining stock. The Bank authorities have succeeded in recovering scrip from the defaulter's broker, representing between £7000 and £8000, and th y expect to get more. At present there ifi no trace of the almcouder. An exchange has the following : — Wellington society has been earthquaked by a terrible scandal in one of the leading churches. A young lady, a prominent church member, and moving in the best society, found it neceßeary to take a trip to Sydney, where she will" stay for a few month*. She was engaged to be married to a well known public man, but her present condition has of course broken off the engagement. An official of the church' who is a married man with a large family' was brought to book, and admitted the charge, but said others were implicated in the trouble, mentioning the names of several prominent men. r lhe news of the scandal came like a thunderclap on society, an ' the affair is now the sensational talk of the Empire City. The position of the Manawatu County Council is neatly alluded to in the following paragraph from the Advocate : — Cv Sacson, to whom *7ae entrusted the xravh ol negotiating the purchase oi She pienmes in Sanson for county offices, which had been built by the Bank of Australasia has made the neeesrary arrangements with Mr Harris, and the Manawatu County Council will now have. offices of their own. The house is excellently wpII fitted for the | rcqui -*ments of the council. It has a re* , sp w'ably official aspect about it which, in it«elf. is worth something to a local lwx'y wis ing to put on an appearance of affluenc > while it has a l«*tg debit account, and the rlace it certain'y dirt ebeip. TV New Zealand Railway Commissioreri hay* made the folk wing additions to rites and fares, to come into fore on Ist January, 1890: — Newspapers will It eonveved at owner's risk at a minimum j charge of 2d for 71b weight for any distance ' up to 75 miles, and so on in proportion ; the charge for lewt for the above distance being Is 3d; a single newspape* will bi conveyed any distance for one hilfp?n> y '. per copy. In fare*, they announce the issue of commutation tioke's. Fifty-trip tiokets are issued tor distances not over i twenty miles, and will be available for one ! month from date of issue ; no reduction ■ will be made in the charge for children, and the tickets will not be transferable ; .; the charge will be at the rate cf— fi.-st . class 7s 6d for two miles, and 5s mo jnd i class. Fifty trip family tickets will be ! issued for distances not exceeding twtn'y '• miles, available for three months ; i\m/ ; will be issued only to heads of families re- j aident in tha neighbourhood of the issuing j station, and are available only for th* tour- : chaser or any member of hie family. ' Iff ft* bers of families are deemed to be pdftifbns living with the purchaser in his Bouse. They will be sold at the rate of— fir»t class, two miles, 10s ; second class, 7s 6d. The New South Wale 3 Railway Commissioners have accepted an offer for the right of advertising on the back of train tickets; the amount being £9500 for on? year's privilege in this respect. It is stated that Messrs Itowm'e <fr Co. are the partiea whose tender has. been adopted. The contract is to be signed on Ist. December, and , advertising will commence on Ist January. ' The arrangement is tor tha contractors io i pay a certain amount „101 each million ■ tickets advertised on. and this sum will - mean a payment of £2500 for twelve ' Months. The payments aie to ba mada I nonthly. (

The famous tenor Mr Sims KeeveH, in his autobiography; gUteß that " a str nge mistake was nude in my uiuslc 1 education. I had been tr lined as a taritone; md it was not nntil after I had sung for some time on the operatic stage that nature and my own self 'consciousness taught me taat I was a tenor. Then have been in3^ances, as I have elsewhere remarked, of singers coming outaa tenors and finding ifmrwards that they had baritone Vdiceß. But apart from my own case I never knew »ny instance of a singer beginning as a baritone and afterwards becoming a tenor antil a few years ago I found that the einilent vocalist, M. Jean de Eeszke, had gone through precisely the same experience." The Anchor line of steamer* insert a notice as to the places they trade to and their agents, who in Foxton are . the well known firm of Messve McMillan, Bhodes A Co. "KEATINCTS POWDER " destroy Bugs, Fleas, Moths, Beetles, and all other insects, whilst quite harmless to domestic animals. In exterminating beetles, the success of this powder is extraordinary It ia perfectly clean in application. See the article you purchase is " Kentings," as imitations are noxious and ineffectual Sold in tins, 6d , Is 6d., and 2s 61 each, by all chemists. DEAF FORTY YEARS. The dfscription of a simple, remedy, by which ]« complete core of deafness and noises in the head of 40 years' standing has been effected, will b» sun; free to any ooe who applies to J. H. Nicholscn, 175 William Street, Melbourne.