Manamatu Herald TUESDAY FEBRUARY 18,1890.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, 18 February 1890, Page 2

Manamatu Herald TUESDAY FEBRUARY 18, 1890.

There is some hitch at, the Qfcaki school about the usual teacher difficulty. . i A fight.' oh Suntla'y night betweeii two" well known residents is likely to form the Bubject of a case .at the next court. . Mr Nixon >8 anxious , that all^ovifeta.tijding claims' against the Church* "of England Fancy Fair, should be handed to him immediately. ... ' Mi 1 Davies is calling tender* for clearing some drains. The ei)trie* for JMessrs. Stevens fliid Gorton's 'sitodc sale appear to-day, and tfiey' ■promise well for a capital Kale, there being 3000 sheep besides most useful cattle, in the list." .. • / The older residents of this town will- remember Mr W. H. Reeves, the son of our old townsman Mr W. Keeveg. A. short time ago he met with a terrible accident' in | Wairarapa, but it is ' jJoasing to observe how kindly tho people have come forward there to help him. In another column we reproduce an account of the proc;tiediu»3. Mr Uecves is now out of the Greytown Hospital. He was taken to M&vtinbqrough on Friday whore he will reside in future. Our readers will ' not forget the auction Mr Snelson holds on Thursday- of tanks, portable boilers, and' billies. W«e have seen samples of these good;; and they are full value for the money. Land may f till be had in Foxton. •• On Thursday next Mr Hnnleon will oiler without reserve, town section 2fi and 55. Section 20 is on the Avuine and is a grand piece of land. Section 55 adjoins the sale yards. There is also a small pipce of land near Mr T. EastonN property. ' A new proposal as regards banking was made by a customer of one of our local banks. He expressed hia astonishment at some of his cheque* having been summarily dealt with, as he had crossed them, which he understood meant an instruction to the banker " to hold till three o'clock !" Manakan, railway line has not been a comfortable place to reside in during the past |few weeks, there hiving been bush lire 3 all around. Some of the residents had to leave their homes from fear of being encircled by fire, or suffocated by{the smoke. A great many had to remain up all night to watch their homes. The n»w school lately erected by the Board caught fire one day, but was fortunately extinguished before any Rerious damage was done. The Committee however found it necessary to employ a watchman for one night. The natives are not the only people who object to the dog tax. A resident of Brightwater, NelKon,occup3'ing a good position, Greenhaugh by name, preferred to "do," fourteen clays ra f 'ier than pay registration fees. ■ Notwithstanding the flax scare in Wellington, quotations in Auckland on Thursday last were— Best clean (Auckland), £22 10, to £24 i g od medium. .£2l to £22 IDs : ordinary, £17 10s to £LS 10». A London sandwich man, who was formerly an officer and a man of large property but for some years past a placard bearer at Is per day has succeeded to an estate of £10,000 a year. It is satisfactory to find that one firm in Wellington still believes in flax, as wo were shown a letter this morning in which a miller was offered an advance of £14 a ton in Wellington, for a clean well {dressed sample. The scare must not have been ' quite so successful as intended, and|is soon bringing matters round to their usual state. Our readers attention is drawn to the detail 3d advertisement of Messrs Freeman R. Jaokson &Co of the sale of the Liddle Estate. The terms are excellent and will enable a buyer to obtain a good site .on easy payments* We. shall refer more fully to the different lots on anobther ccasion. A stripper hand and two feeders are required for various mills. A good house is to be let by tender. The gambling prosecution in Wellington ended in a fiasco, the informations having been faultily laid. • ' ' The passengers in tho night traia on Saturday were much amused. at the public billing and cooing' of a pair of doves. " Love in a cottage " is excellent, but too much exhibition of it, in a public conveyance is apt to make the " sterntr travellers feel small, and thus raise their indignation. "Love on« another" is a beautiful precept, but let it be in private. A Gazette Extraordinary issued on Saturday further prorogues Parlinirirnt until the 27th of March. A well known Wellington resident (says the Evening Press) was very 'much surprised on Tuesday evening hst to find, on entering the front room of his dwelling house, a hole about the size of a five shilling piece burnt right into one of the walls of the room. It was at first thought that one of the children had got hold of a red-hot poker or something and been amusing himself by branding, but the boy stoutly denied having had anything to do with it. After vainly endeavouring to find out the cause for a long time, a thought sfruck the gentleman as he was looking at the spot, and on a closer inspection his suspicions were confirmed. It appears that upon a small table, about a foot from the wall, there was a very powerful magnifying glass (similar onts may be seen in very many drawing-rooms) for looking at photos, etc. Opposite this glass was a large bay window.J and during the day, which had been very hot, the sun had shone through the window and magnifying glass, and thu result was the hole burnt in the wall. Luckily there were no curtains or drapery of any sort near, or the house w uld almost certainly have been burned down and there would not have been a tr-ce left as to the origin of the ffre. People pbsessing these glasses will do well to keep them out -of tho line of the sun's rays. The Itk'ian Consul-General has received a despatch intimating that the King of Italy has been pleased to confer the decoration of tue, order of the Crpwn, of Italy on Mr Ge rgo Fisi>or, the Italian Consulate at Wellington*. , „

I give tU folio.- ing stor_, for the benefit j of railway rofornnvs. The scene i 3 say flashing Mat aBoU' 11 p m. and demands .1 j i>cd. as he .iVvibtora to'ftfc)? at spnejj I t^s.aid why hq. comas so lete, he repUejjl;, •*ysh e o^htS) haye arrived ab * sue *& \ "** 7 aifr*jrtß; Lafthe "Rr "lally^lo* ' tiw.m <l?'ay(,.l him. » c 'topp"i eve ryw'rre, |- and gtop t >M a<) ong at ,tv eoJi. It the \ engineer saw a dog ;g t, at pped the ( whole tr in to look at^big "statiaas 'and J litt'e*"sVa^oEs, Btopp^W*' 1 " drinks, and stop cd for nothing at a 1 bat pure cussedapEiß. I never s w, o-_ befr anything like it. A little me ik nian in tlie comer suggested that he knew a ;lowe) •- r. in. He -vras- ■ftnmediEtely ' jo f J psd»»tf • and blushingly told of a train from Helensvil!e y?hioji a 'few months bapk used to stop regularly near Waikomiti to pick np a basket oi eggs fropi an old women, who setft them to a grocer in town. One day tne train stopped as usual, brit instead of a dozen the old lady had only eleven. " And what do you think the kind-hearted engineer did ?" "Give it up." "Waited till the hen bid the extra egg. Solid fact."— Zaiuel in Auckland Star. VThe Wanganui Herald says ; : — The New Zealand Sliipping CJjwnpany hau had >;sotne;; straffge experiences^ "'Under the lafeihan-" agement an arrangement was made that Mr Joseph Nathan should be the agent in •Wellington, but- as it could not , for some ' reason W" given' effect to he was to receive £400 for doing nothing till such time as the agenoy would drop into his hands. He was to be paid £100 a quarter, and was being p id this sum until the arrangement was knocked on the bead upon Mr Strickland becoming Manager. It is the opinion of many of the shareholders residing in London that the advent of Mr Dawes,. so far from injuring the company, haa saved it< The -directors in the colony knew of the ejfftaordinary arrangement with Mr Nathair, by which he was paid £400 for a so-called breach of agreement, yet kept the matter silent The change of management to London was absolutely necessary to prevent the company from going into bankruptcy, and it would be a very good thing if the New Zealand Board of Directors were abolished altogether. London is soon to have another morning paper* to he called the Paily Grannie. It is, of course au offshoot ol : the Graphic, which, as every one knows, is a Golconda. In tackling daily illustrated journalism, Mr Thomas and his col l ">agues have set 'themselves a touch task, but they have 20 years experience, a million or two of money, a couple of thoußand artists and correspondents all over the world, and machinery specially adapted for the printing of illustrations. The Daily Graphic will be quite distinct from the weekly paper. It will consist of 10 payes, printed in dear, bold tj >c, on good paper price 3d. The leaders will be short; signed articles and interviewers will be features of the new journal ; the ordinary news of the day will be given, and the compost will be iU'ugtrated by rapid sketches. Ths time h;n not yet come, says Mr Thomas, the director of the Graphic, when our special artist at the seat of war san make a sketch that will be reproduced fac-simile by telegraph in a London oflice, but we may be within measurable distance of such a feat. i The latest hospital intelligence from | Timaru says : — The Hospital and Charitable ,Aid Board have appointed a committee to report on the a" vangements of their home, which is a poorhouse, a lying-in-hospital, and founding institution in one, with very impe'fech clagßi^catJon. The bui'ding itsn'f is a mere shell in some pnr's, and cold in tin winter, but as ifc bolon^g to the Gover imc.nt fl'id nob <o the Board, the latter dn not care to 9pend anything upon it, the Government being averse to hand it over. A member gave notice of motion that the Bo.t r d consider if steps cannot be taken to roceive cases of puerperal aepticfvtnina :n an iso'atpd ward or cotage hoßpit;a', to rel'eve the medical proci.itipn^rs from responsibility and other Accouchement jntients? f>-om the risk. There h:ivo been several deaths from this cause in the district, and the Board have just discharged oie treated ou*side the hospital at a cost of £45. A report on the drainage and veutilation of tho hospitnl by two civil eng'.ieers and an architect, shows thiit the former is unsatisfactory nnd the latter still more so. In one vraril tnere is no exit for the air, except by the fireplaces.