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Manawatu Herald, Volume 06, Issue II, 6 December 1889, Page 2

The choir practice at All Saints' Church is postponed from tomorrow night till Wednesday, on account of the Catholic Concert being held on Saturday. Play ihingi are generally reserved for children, but the Court's time was taken up during Wednesday with examining • " Jack in a box." Mass. will be Celebrated next Sunday,) in St Mary's Church Foxton, at 8 and 11, and evening service at 7. Mr Hillary may be regarded as the river pilot, as lately he has taken the steamers Murray and Aorere up to Wirokino. He states that the river is very good, each time the boats getting up without once feeling the bottom. Yesterday the Aorere went up to Seymour's mill with a load of ooal aod brought down some flax and wool.

Oijr readers will notice that Ihe Anchor lino have eionded the time for their return lickuts;, allowing excursionists to wait until aftor Now Year's day.

To-night the new store of Messrs McMillan, IMiodes A Co will be lighted up, for the inspection of iho public, between hali'-pa^t seven and half-past nine. No snles will be made. I'he man WillUm Gilmour atfaa.Murray, charged with an assault on Mrs Cook, was found guilty oy tlie juryi at the fcSuprcinc Court on Wednesday of attempted rape. He was sentenced to 2 years hard labour. November will be marked as tho month in -which tho largest tonnage has been ontercd inwards and outwards at the port of Foilon. The actual number of vessels are [ less, being 21 in and 22 out, but the tonI nage inwards totalled 2104 tons, and. outwards 23*25 tons. We are still advancing A very larga amount of our space this issue is chvotcd to the proceedings at the It. M. Court on Wednesday, but as tho cases hoard arc of much local interest wo believed our readers would prefer the fullest reports, to other outside matter. Lawers round the Court table were nearly as thick as blackberries on a bush, there being in attendance Messrs Kay, Gould, Baker, Fitsiherb«vt, Hawkins and Skerr.l;. The day was warm and at times the solicitors wore, so that "incidents" occured. Mr Kay objected to the manner Mr Baker was questioning a witness, and remarked "he is not a North American Indian." Mr Ba'<er turned the tables by enquiring of Mr Kay " how do you know.'Tenders are invited for 100 chains of drains- Particulars can be had from Mr Wilson, manager of the Moutoa Estate. On Tuesday next Messrs Stevens A Gorton hold their usual sale at Bulls. As a proof of the briskness of the flax trade in Auckland, consequent on the great demand in America, it may be mentioned that an Auckland iirm recently received by cable from New York, an order for a thousand tons of best dressed fibre at £25 a ton f. o. b. in Auckland. . The millers who are executing the order estimate that they will make a profit of ill or t'S a ton by the transaction. A horse, with all the symptoms of hydrophobia, ran through the streets of Chicago, and bit two men and eight horses before he was shot. Some idea of the Shah's travelling expenses may be formed from the statement that Cook's charge for railroad and hotel expenses disbursed on the Shah's account was £25,000. Probably the longest " bee" line railway in the world is that from Buenos Ayres to t!ie foot of the Andes. It covers 340 kilometers, or about 275 miles, and id as straight as an arrow. The highest grade is about three feet to the mile. It crosses no ravine arid no stream, and therefore no bridge. Toward?, tho proposed statue in Brooklyn to the l«ev Henry Ward Beecher a sum of 1 £15000 has beim subscribed. ■• Householders in Dunedin are making a harvest already, owing to the Exhibition, and from a private letter we learn that all kinds of make-shifts arc improvised 60 that accomodation can be provided for the numerous visitors. Everybody, says the writer, who was formerly resident here, are putting their "kids" into their washhouses and coal sheds, and advertising their furnished rooms to let, and they are JrUing nt l>ic; prices. To <* ; .vo v.n i-.l.'i. -\ (•i'-.T.'.in vesid-jnt who le scs a sev.ra-roovuod house with a quarter of an aero of ground, nicely laid out, for which he pays £15 per annum, has just lei his furnished apartmetis at a weekly rental of Kl">, and iv j the ni«iutim*« has put his family in the j out-builrlings, where they will no doubt havo i a good time.

A Pahnci'ston paper writes : — Wo learn that ~S)v frallichan, of Aslnu-st, will take part in an entertainment to be given in Foxton on Saturday evening, in aid of the Palmerston Catholic Church. Ii will be remembered that Mr (ralliclian assisted in au entertainment given in aid of Mrs Slattery, when his Vontriloqiual exhibition was generally admitted to be quite up to the usual professional standard. In this line lie is very clevnr, and is alway-H well received by his audience, whose good fa vonr and applause he invariably secures; Them is reason to anticipate a full house, as a capital programme will be submitted.