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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, 28 February 1890, Page 2

The latest cablegram about flax is most refreshing, it stating that New Zealand hemp is unchanged (the italics are ours). The latest quotations are £34 15a to £35 ! Mr Hrrakins paid a flying visit to this town yesterday afternoon. Mr Hurley was elected a member of the Wanganui Education Board on Tuesday last. The meeting of the Borough Council will not be held on Monday, which is the usual date, but on the following: Monday. The resident Magistrate's court will be held on Wednesday. The Wellington Meat Export Co. give notice that- applications are invited for frozen meat, space in steamers leaving the colony from Ist June to 30th November next. There mftst have been a grand blaze during a firelat the chemical works, Greenwich, when a'thousand casks of petroleum were burned, and graat damage was done. The news from Paris states that a great outcry if being raised at the proposal to engage Sarah, Bernhardt to represent the Virgin Mary in the next Passion play at Oberammergall. The date of representation is fixed for May 26. Considering how well known this actress is, it is hardly to be wondered at. The Borough Council are calling for tenders for installing, and carting. The London Standard remarks that | "lalthough the first report of an expected deficiency in the wool clip of the Argentine was. contradicted by .an Englishman who had 7 been travelling in the country, there ii still ■ reason to belive it was true. The Buehds Ayres Standard repeats the statement, adding that the mortality among sheep in some districts during the cold months has' reached 70 per cent, and that instances of flockmasters who owned three thousand sheep being left with three hundred are numerous. Another Argentine paper, La Prenza, estimates the total lobb of sheep at 20,000,000. Individual flockmasters, it is said, have lost as many as 75,000 each. With respect to the deficiency of the wheat harvest of the Argentine Republic to which allusion has previously been made, we learn that; importation on a considerable scale is bow taking place from Russia and other sources. Moreover, the area of wheat sown has been greatly reduced, in consequence of the disappointing character of the last harvest. We are informed that the reserves placed on the lots ip the Liddell estate are so low, that it is tantamount to giving the property away. Messrs Stevens <* Gorton hold their fiirst Foxton Stock Sale an Tuesday. The entries of sheep are very large and we look most hopefully forward to chronicling the satisfactory Quittance of every line. A meeting of those interested in having some sports to commemorate Ireland's , Patron Saint's holiday, are requested to meet od Tuesday at the Manawatu hotel. We trust to see a good nuufor, as the sports have always been an attraction on this day, in the past. On Tuesday at Pahiatua a boy mv.nvd Robert Yule, son of Mr a . Yul-, the well known sawmiller, met with a serious accident while holding one of hrn faher's hordes in the paddock. It appears the i oor littlo fel'ow had ti d the rope round his arm and the horse took fright, wi h the r*Bult that it tore the arm cl<an of b tween the shoulder and , elbow. The poor fa low only lived abnut three-quarters of an hour after. Dr Christie arrived about an hour after he died* The boy was about 10 y«exs old, -

The Palmefstotl ittik 6i ftlessrs Btevrns & I \ Gorton i 3 fi zed for Thursday rtext nrrd for < which they have large entries. " i Attheß.M. Court, Napier, J. D. Or- , mond was fined £2 and costs for having sheep infected with lice at the recent ram ' fair, . : The shipping add gefleral public will be glad to know that at the telegraph Office are daily posted weather reports received 2 by wire from twelve of the principal observatory stations in the colony. A first clMsa" ptesSer* scutcher and a good cook are wanted at tiid<telt'3 mill Oroua Bridge. The [following has been related to us as a I fast says the Chry&le. Two spielers, unknown [to, one anjnmr, were playing a. gi&ettf cards in i r«Jw% c»rriag« between;^ Wanganui and |Pftlmerstoli Nftft "It'i very odd" remarked on* of them, ft wt have been playing a long time but I havn't seen k sirigle.king." ."That's not to be wondered at," repilefl the other, ".seeing that you have the King of He3rt? ap, your sleeve and I've the other threeio,my boot." ijpso&#sM v^.bi^t to a clowi;^. regard |fj the yalKttty or qtherwise of a warrant of mv prisonment. A Ma'&tf wtfa aentenced about two years ago at Tauranga {diWe«monthi, but «scap>a ( whflsi oo hi? way to pil&n. A law clays since be'surrendtred himaelf at Maketti, when he, waa charged with having, etht&p'e&ttm Uml cuitddy. Thcn?"«oner, howevef.J Mi li&# offered to «rye the three months' imprlßotime*^ rjrreviodsly imposed, and the warrant which n«9f b*cn iianed when the Maori 'vwks, first aaotcueea' was endorsed. The prisoner was brought to the Auckland Gaol, when th» Governor, Mf SestoA,- refused to admit hint, saying that he did tioi fee'ogaise the ©Id warrani, the term of . the tentence kifiti& lpng expired. The question was'theh tateri'Si to Dr Giles, R.M., who said that though Mr Reston was justified in the aourse he had > taken, he (Dr Giles) believed warrant valid, and that it would be a miscarriage of justice if the sentence imposed were not , carried out. He reemtirttettdeA that the Government be coinmuniCßted with on the subject. The Maori has however, since' been released fr«n custody, t A somewhat elf rftotiiinary ramonr ia;g the Post is in circulaf ictt with regard to Te Kooti. It will be renfetabered that when i* Auckland, prior to hi« Stttmpted risit to Pover^f Bay, Te Kooti was WcDrnReived by the members of the Minirtty thati tii Auckland, and was driven about the city by the h&iiie Ministtr, no opposition whatever being offered to hit proposed southern trip. The story How runs that Te Kooti' b object in seeking to visit his friends in Poverty Bay was not an entirely sentimental one, but that he was going there as the etflhsary of a certain powerful financial institution to obtain signatures to various deeds affecting native lands in which it was interested/ the natives concerned having declared that they would not sign without Te Kooti's consent. This fact is said to have been knows wjjjp Te Kooti was the Ministerial guest ' in 'Auckland.

We are informed by Mean Levin A Co. says the Post, that thes.s. Napier, whidb has been trading between Foxton and this port, is to be laid up in Oriental Bay on account of there being insufficient work for her in the flax trade.

Hia Honor the Chief Justice f ranted a rule mai in Chambers on Monday afternoon, upon the application of Mr Jellicoe, calling upon Mr W. H. Robinson, E.M., and P«tectite Kirby, to show cause, within seven days/ why they should not return Jo the Supreme Court the warrant upon which Henry Burton and others were arrested, and why all proceedings taken againßt them under the Gaming and Act should not be quashed, on the ground that the Resident Magistrate acted without jurisdiction and improperly. Mr .Robinson and Detective Kirby were served with a notice to the above effect this morning.

At Croyden Queensland, flour is selling at £70 per ton !

News from Auckland state that after a number of experiments in the treatment of iron Band without the introduction bf any foreign iron, mads at the Onehunga ironworks, bars of first-class quality have been produced.

Builders are notified that Mr Gardner is calling for tenders for the erection of a cottage at Kereru.