Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1889.

Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue II, 3 December 1889, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1889.

At the Committee meeting of the Borough Councillors and the Chairman of the Wirokino Boad Board on Saturday, it was agreed that the Council should contribute £20 towards the maiutainance of the Kereru road, and the Board on their part agreed not to erect a toll gate. The punt was then considered, and Mr G. Kye attended with plans, which were app oved of. and he was requested to get the timber and see to its being seasoned. At the Police Court yesterday a man named t heodore A. Craw n was charg d with having been drunk on Saturday nigut. Aa he had been locked up all the time, the presiding Justice dismissed him with a caution. It is the intention of Messrs McMillan, Rhodes & < o to light up their new store on Friday nieht, for inspection only. No business will be transacted. Mr Langley advertises that he has two quiet milch cows for sale, also a good tip dray. The honorary secretary cf the Fox'o Racing Club requests memben to send 1 in their annual subscrintions. ! Owing to the nuisance straying c ttle cause to the flax, Mr Andrews gives notice that in future all stock found trespassing will be impounded. Joseph and Margaret Monteith were on | Thursday last committed for trial, at Bulls, for the Gr.atford silver robbery. A sharp earthquake was felt hee on Sunday morning about half-past three. The honorary secretary of the Foxton Racing Club infciniß us that the Colonial Secretary has granted a license for the use of the totalisatov at the Club's meeting on Anniversary day. A treat is promised the inhabitants of this district on Saturday night, when a grand variety entertainment, under Mr Oallashion's direction, will be given. Father Patterson will give some selections on the piano, which will be worth all the price of adinistdon, as he is a master of the instrument. The proceeds will go towards erecting a new Catholio Church at Palmtrr Eton..

We insp-cted tho newly f,>r:n?rt courtly I "ad batwoen Shannon an-l Oiaki th ■ other day, but did not y-t far as after a mile and R hn.lf p«\-str liannon the r aI co \ki- to a I rude stop. It i* the corUin-.i-Uion of thU j roßcliiifii, has causfMi biici a tsrrafiiit, and \ inspired Mr Andrews, o.d > of ,{he >nenib;Ts of the Hirowheuua County. Council, to ob-j-'ctt^tiie exp ■ncliture of arty* part of th.; 1 >an on lmtailin^', antil tlio oad' has bt-fn i.3rin,d right through. We ein vn\arj sciiud h..i ahxieiy, «s ii ncvvns un i rr.>r tv j let. through eom.nimicat;^- bo '"J^'«J JiV i It ie sir;;-; ai^, mM mnair.i.ig to do. but we C h also understand t.io nec?ssity that exists of keeping to the twins under which She 1 ,<ftn was raised. AnVliow ! the roJil j I b,Und to be finished l'efo c long, and it will ' luake a remarkably j-r^tty diive. The pjrtiori form?d from SJiannon has evidently been a heavy job, judging by the cuttings and filling? required. There are very pretty glimpses of fern clad gullies, and also of ! the hills on either hand. The road just ! finishes on the fin t near the Messrs A draw's. J house; Mr Carter has created a small township on his property. Close by his house, is the hemp mill he runs with such good results, and a little w y down the river, his eldest son has a neat little cottage under the willows. On the opposite side of the road to Mr Carter's, house, there has been erected t.Wo hew buildings, one for a pi i vale dwelt ling, the other apparently for a boarding house for the hands employed. We noticed some flax in this property which would make any hemp miller's mouth water. The Tuesday half holiday we are glad to notice is taken rational <) vantage of. It was asserted that the employes would spend the day idling about, but Mr Bradcock says his firm are generally very busy then, all the. traps and riding horses being let out. When the night is moonlight a good many go out after tea for a spi along the beach. We know many go on the river, others play cricket, so that it may be said that as yet the employes use the day ro the best advantage to recruit their health from the confinement of the week. We p id a hurried visit to the Soho .Hemp mill ou Saturday, aud was glad to vind the business proving so satisfactory as to necessitate the linn obtaining increased motive power. The engine that has been doing all the work up to now is a splendid little stationary engine, with the boiler certified to eighty pounds pressure. This has been sufficient to work one stripper, a two man scutcher, and a large Californian 1 pump. The quality of '.he iibre turned out at the mill h',s become so well known that the owners claim to receive the highest price | aid in the district for the dressed I article. It is undoubtedly a very nice colour ! and soft, and is well scutched and baled. The baler is evidently an artist and possessed of experience. The mill is situated close to the bank of the Manawatu river, on the land adjoining the Shannon ferry. All the material is carted to Shannon which is about one and a half miles away. On the ground, had just arrived a very good portable engine, which will be at once got into placi\ when another stripping machine will be set up, nd the turn out proportionately increased. Messrs J. Birchlej aud G. Gray are the working partners upon the ground, and Messrs McMillan Ehodee & Co are the others interested in it, and i attend to the sales and monetary portion of the business. The flax is obtained fron the Moutoa estate. The winter has been so wonderfully dry that the flax has betn obtainable every day, which is not what had been expected. Shearing on the Moutoa and Carnarvon Estates was finished last week. The Shmnon for-yman evidently appnci ites the terms upon which lie holds the fe.'o'i aii the ferry boat Las bc-t-n aptly ch-'istened by him "lucky -hot/ When out West, in the old days a respectable gentleman was annoyed, anr" wished to say naughty words, but didn'; j like to, he used to hire a Chinaman to j swear ior him. We have been experi j encing something *^T the sam< feeling about th-i y/.nKtistiT.tion of thi ; ilikiive Dcvurlmenr iflKv {lie d.iya of it> tormation even until now, and we welcome the utterances given vent to by the Wei ! lingti-n Post and Wanganui Herald. W. • cau only applaud, no more, as otherwise } we should not be able to restrain ourselves i as; no place has suffered so much from th ' tactics of the Native Department as Foxtoi •' and tho coast to Waikanae. Tho whol. ] district should hay" been settled over fifteei j years ago, but the Department stood in thi way. It is a frequent remark rnado thai Shannon is going ahsad. We most d cidedly hope it is. but on passing throug' it lttßt week, we failed to notice a very grea Iteration in the town. A new schoolhous has been erected, which sadly wants paint ing, and a couple of small stores are oi sites fronting the railway, but there is : great w nt of compactness about the place. The res dents of Shannon shonld urge th construction of the road to the Wnirarapa as that work would do more to liven th township up than anything, as the tralJic r stock is bo nd to be large, as tho driver would 8 ye the two vexatious tolls on tl; Gorge route. Tho route would also be on of much value to Foxton. A hemp-miller at Takapau, Hawk"' Bay, is advertising for good scutchers. H is willing to pay good wages, or will let th work by contract. The mill is a twt stripper one. A kaka was the object of much interes ; lo a picnic parly noar Shannon on Satur- : da . The bird had s»cimd a convenien est in the hollow of a large tree some distance up the trunk, but though sue \va fully aware of there being p rs'.uis §eafe< near, yet made perpe uul \isits to he: young.»fl ndevidf need liHlp fear Kvon \vh • some tried her presence of mind by flinginj bits of wood at her, she only flew to a tm i a little way off, and soon returned to hay another look at her family. If there wa any nerv usness in her disposition it wa | for her young and not herself, as she neve remained in Ihe nest, where she was wel ■jut of sight, for longer than a few minute*. The tender of Messrs Eircaldie & Stai: b, at £1780, an equivalent to about 11s 7-" in the £ was accepted for Mrs Walker's stock- | in-trade. Benzon, the Jubilee i lunger, has been adjudicated a bankrupt. The Cape Times of 24th October, reports th\t Johannesburg haR been sutfeiing from prolonged drought, whijh is canning great scarcity of food. A correspondent, writing from Johannesburg on the 18th October, says :— " Things here are at famine prices. Three thousand white men are to be discharged to-morrow ; 10,000 men from the mines. The loaf of broad costing 4d in London, 6s here ; everything else in proportion. Coach fares raised ; water >nd food for man and beast getting scarcer every day. Eggs are quoted at 4s , firewood at £5 to £10 ; potatoes £4 to £5 pev cwi, flour, £5 .Is per lOOlbs; paraffin, £() please: butter. 3s Gd to 5s Cd. So serious had the situation b?con:e, that on 22nd Oetnbcr tho (.overninent of the South African Republic an nounced a bonus of £S!l> ench -c ihe Hr« 250 waggons with r>rovjsio.-.s :*achiu{. Johannoibnrg.

Tho membpis of ihn Salvation Army are • not above enjoying tlicnvjelvvs, any mor. thun ot!»m - folks, so they purpose iioliling a n onster c ffue suppm- on Saturday the 14th instant. 1 it-ketp. can bj outaiiii^il ujui Uv Chi f Q.YK'.n; J. Condon. T c railway iransac ions for tlia yaa* sh ny Ihe gro ;^ earning* to be £2,530,000, and tli.' vrn'Ung oxp n«'s £1.634.000 leaving a ivl, caning ot £904,000, which, upon tho capital iuy-stcd in t :ft lines opsn, gives r»'v rt turu C A $± l- L ' v cent, in Maw Jjjuth ValdS. A-ovi..l!«g we n»>-: a ' sui^ b lvJ o a? c e ° x n (=ays the Oamvu Mnil) ft conflm-.. port of puimift ! iotild be made fro'V this di i.-icf- n»xt v.\ ; »fer, p.s 3. c.orßubra'i'f arr*a of land hfi^ b!.-en sown. Oiiiors fuipdfted from California are now mainly used here, for which \v have to pay about 4cT per lb wholesale. Evidently we have yet much i to iearn of hew to make the best use of the | advantages by which we kii: surrounded. i t-ew, if any, countries in the world have been so richly endowed by the Creator as I lin.i New Zealand, and it is, perhaps, that being so blessed, fri* foil t,o value our gifts as we otherwise would do. it h? a . been j said that onions grown in this district will not Weep for any great length of time. We confess to bring somewhat sceptical on the point, for we are of opinion hat the question of preserving onions has not been tested Here as it Should he With the rich land and excellent climate, it is anything but creditable that we should at the presout time be paying some £35 per ton to Americans to grow onions tor ns. A full grown Ho e=s was lately consigned by the Snltau of Zanzibar as a present to I'Oid Lansdowne, and was safely conveyed to the fcoo'logicp.i . Gardens. Calcutta. During a conversation the keepers had an argument as to the fighting abilities of tigers and lions. The tiger's keeper jumped on to the lioness' cage, and lifted up her door, when the tiger leaped on the top of the sleeping lioness, caught her by the throat, and held on for a few minutes, when she died without a struggle. The tiger's keeper has since run away, and cannot be found, which is not snrprising. ■ In the Calcutta High Court recently, Mr ! .Tusticp Norris delivered what is probably ! the shortest summing up made by an Indinn judge. Tt was a case in which two native | prisoners were accused of robbing the complainant on the«Maidan by what is known as the " bead trick." On the case for the prosecution being closed, the accused said they had nothing to say. and his lordship, i in delivering thp charge, said : — " Gontle- | men oi the jury — The prisoners have noth- ■■ ing to say, and I have nothing to s y ; what have you to say ?" And the jury said they were "guilty," | Amongst the English painters whose , works are exhibited at the Dunedin ExI hihition are such well-known men as G. F. | Watts, Sir J. E. iMillias, Sir Frederick ! JVrighton, Sir E. Landseer, and E. Long, all Royal Academicians. Of these, the first-named is well represented by such pictures as "The Spirit of Christianity' (valued at £3000), a potrait of Lord Tennyson,' 'Mountains by moonlight,' l The First Whisper of Love,' and Miss Dorothy Dane.' The first two and last-mentioned of those will well renay a careful study. Of Millais' works, one that is sure to attract •ntich attention is the well-known picture 1 The Evil One Sowing Tares,' which is lent by Sir John Pender, and is valued at £3000. Millias" portrait of Cardinal Newman, tvhieh w s exhibited in the Melbourne Ex'libition, has also been secured. Leighton's chief work is his celebrated "Phryne at Kleusis' which belongs to tho Angio-Aus-■ralian collection. This artist is further •?prosentpd by one or two smaller picture? >f a much less ambitions character. Landwev's work is best illustrate in his famous lieiure o ' Alpine Mastiffs,' which is lonf 'iy Messrs Thomas Agnew and Son, thr apl 1 known English picture dealers- Thif= ■enlly fine work has far move force and •■solid work thiin has been put into th •jicture entitled ' Going to the chase,' in .vh»ch, by thf way, the figure of the lady is painted fy, Millais. A lady in a home paper writes : — I havp been making floral horseshoes and floral >»Hs fnr bridesmaids instead of bouquet?. V wedding is coining oft" shortly, ior which [am going to make floral pickles. They nil be made of pars of corn, or bar'ey vnd cornflowers, if the bridesmaids' dress"? xre of a colour that won't clash with ilue. "KEATIXO'S PIWDE'J" dp 9 rn\ Jua«*. VU'n*, Moths. BbhUhp, and <ll o . h» > i^octs, wiii'R^ qiii'c hsi'mleoß f o f'nmHsli* »iin h. Ir> r\Xtcmin*t,i'!|/ hri'tlff, »)• •«cc as "f th'fl powder ir pxtrt- rdm >iy I p^rtec ly o'e>n in nppli<vri<>n. S>'p th•ic'ft you i U'l-hiio ir " K^ »inp t »." s ni'rttiinw 8' I * rovioiiji ninl in- ff^ctii:*' S..U in tins 61,13 61, and 2h 6 1 each, l\ I chemin p.