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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 2 May 1890, Page 2

The Borough Co_.ncil.will hold its nsual monthly meeting at .tho Library Buildings, on Monday, at 7 p.m. Next Wednesday a sitting of the Resident Magistrate's Court will he held. We are , informed" that there will be a large number of debt casea before the Court. The llanaWatu County Council meet on Tuesday, at Sanson, when probably MiMitchell will get a resolution passe^ re tha Palmerston sewage. •><*■.*..- Messrs Bradcock A Messina are shifting their mill from the Himatangi to the south side ef the Manawatu River, at Wirikino, nearly opposite a quantity of valuable flax the have obtained the right to cut , ob the Vfoutoa Estate. We are glad to learn that the ownors of the Moutoa Estate acknowledge tbe fall in the value of hemp, and have agreed to a considerable reduction in the royalty wbilßt prices keep low. A Gazette extraordinary, published on Tueiday, calls upon both Houses of Parliament tb meet , for the despatch of business, on Thursday, the 19th June. In another colnma Mr Ballinger eaila attention- to the considerable reductions he haa made in some' damaged corrugated iron ; and also the reasonable figures at which other kinds can be purchased. ' We learn that .some of the hempmillers have accepted contracts for the delivery of the dressed fibre on the Foxton wharf at £14 15s a ton. Amongst those who will start are : Messrs' Tennant, Dalton, Lind, Potts,, McM Han (at Carnarvon), and Williams <fe Co. So toi' this is satisfactory, as assuring the employment of a certain amount of labour for the winter. Last week one of Mr J. Walden's dogs caught a weasel at Moutoa. He haa had it stuff*, d. Pity he cannot treat them all in the same way. The Standard says Mr C. Hume, being very much dissatified with his mare Kathleens (Daniel O'Rorke — Milksop, — performance at Foxton, has thrown her out of work. She is still sufiering from the effects of her recent accident on the Palmerston course. At the Wellington races on Saturday Mr Pringle's gelding Ben Bolt (Somnus-Lady Napier) won the treble — Local Handicap, Maiden Plate, and Scurry Stakes— paying dividends of £2 ls, £4 lis, and £3 respectively. The keeper of our local gaol has been in luck's way lately as he managed last week to run in a drunk who had no money, and, who therefore had to accept the alternative of imprisonment with hard labour: the material was cheerfully provided in the shape of chunks of firewood upon which the hard " case " had to burst at for the day. Another drunk gave the constable a chance to get his front-garden dug up. If so much activity is kept up, the police-sta-tion will soon assume a tidily cultivated section. Owing to the strike of the employes of the Great Southern and Western Railway Company of Ireland, the traffic is completely paralysed. The Pall Mall Gazette refers to ithe Opposition as beiDg " all at sixes and sevens," and describes them as " a veritable Ephesian mob." Some little time ago Mr W. H. Levin, aa American Consul here, asked on behalf of ; his Government the Crown Lands Department to furnish him with a return showing the area of land in New Zealand under flax cultivation- A return has been furnished, showing the total ar^a of Crown lands carrying flax to be 119,690 acres ; held by private individuals 179,450 acres ; native lands, 147,262 acre's ; total 446,402 acrea. These figures are only approximate as no actual measurements have evei* been made. In a letter accompanying the return the Department says that with the exception of a few arrears in the southern portion of the Wellington district the only flax remaining in the colony is now grown on the banks of rivers and creeks, and on the margins of lagoons, or in small isolated patches. Up till recently the (Phormium Tenax) was regarded a. a weed, and very large tracts were burnt off and the land brought into Cultivation. — Prt»s. The balance-sheet of the Dunedin Exhibition Company shows a debit of £5000, against which there are the buildings and unpaid calls. Dr McLeod, who was arrested at Napier, has been committed for trial on a charge of bigamy. The charge of criminally assaulting a young woman in hia employ some years ago, fell through, the prosecutrix being unwilling to prosecute, aad the ac cused was discharged. The sporting writer of the Standard, in «m article on Mr White's pair -of Derby colts, statea that, a reoent trial proves them to be only second-raters. Signor . Buce-r, who completed ■ hia forty days' fasting onthe 26th instant, lost 841 b in weight during the task. The first nourishment he partook of was a littlebouillon. Ha has promised to reveal tbe secret of the elixir which, it is said, has enabled him to complete his undertaking with bo much success. A sculling race between F. Bubear, exchampion of England, and R. Brown, of the Clarence River, for £100 a-side, took place on the Parramatta River on Wednesday afternoon. Nearing Niadesville Brown got into Bubear's water, when the latter put on a desparate spurt and steered down on Brown, who endeavored to get away. Bubear was completely cornered, and fouled Brown, who passed the post six lengths ahead. Time, 22min 25-.cc. The race was awarded to Bubear on the foul, bat the crowd hooted him for his tactics.