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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 13 May 1890, Page 2

Mr_ J. H. Richardson has been appointed to Bucceed Mr Frankland fi3 Government Insurance Commissioner, Yesterday- morning th« rangtß were •OTered jfith snow almost to ihe bottom of the lowest hills. We have no time to-day to do more than call general attention to the twin advertisement ,'in what is generally known as Osbbrne'i column on oUr front page. There leems to bt a pa'evage of arms — or goods— , between Funston and Osborne. We believe it bodes good for. buyers. Nearly all our hemp mills are resuming work. The later additions are, Messrs Carter's Sp.elman|s and Russall'a. Probably shortly followed by the Okaua. ' * The mill owned by Messrs Hiokford & Co has been leased to jMr Mudford who is at •work. Another" pound • a ton- • -would set.. every mill at work. If the atern determination advertised by the draper's of this town, to close in a month, is eartitidjout, Ihwe. will be only one draper left-' We know of a g«o 1 store ' for anyone anxious ■to keep the laiton* oonspany. A quantity of grass seed lying on a bush traok otfeted serious temptation to a settler np country .who required, a certain quantity more to finish Tiis sowing. The temptation was too great, the commandment was ignored, and day by day a sack was missed from 'be lot, until the owner removed the balance away. No direct evidence of the criminal could be obtained at the time, so the matter- rested until the warm rains of heaven sprouted the seed. The " borrower" never inspected the b - ed to observe if it tallied with the rest of his paddock, which he had sown in cocksfoot and rye, but the person who had paid for the seed knew that it contained a splend d mixture of his own selection-, of crested dog tail, fes ut, two sorts of turnips, and also rape. After the - grass had had time to develop* the owner of the-missing tacks visited his neighbour's burns, and was. not" powerfully astonished to find that one of them had a paddock part of which wtfs "producing an exactly similar "mixture to that growing on his land. Susi iciou pointed to this man as the one who had "lifted the -missing, sacks, but proof was not sufficient to " make a case " and the-only satisfaction the real owner hsd Was in remarking 'how singular it was that they both should' have chosen identically the same, equal mixture. We are informed the daliqueat was rather astonished at being thus bowled out, and made a mental resolution before taking aeed of othrs buying, to test the mixture first. Aa a difftinguißJied resident of this town wan curving a joint of beef last week, he was rauvh srrpriftd to And a strong nmlb-

tanc« boing gieu to the*', passage of hu knife, which on investigation' proved to be a'two inch \vir.e nail. The beast must have had it imbedeiin hia flesh for sppje period; The animal j^s^ljkjiig for iron : wqrk, «,s' 'n v\i i.icmacb wjis lounci » six inch wire nail, nearly heut in two. Who fed him in his c Hy days? .'.'.'■'■ The owner of the Okaua miHofTpr to respectable persone the opportunity of- .'workin^tlie. mill on terms. Ifull particulrtrw can had on application* At .t^c o'clock a.rri, ou Monday last, we. regret to learn that the. residence of Mr Edward ■ at MoatQu. wr.3 utterly defttroyed' by fire. The daußhtors were »wakeHi>r\ by the sound ol' craeklinß'in the kitchen, and-, they roused thr hemseho d* , The son. Arthur,- Edwards -ilept upstairs, and thefire had got snch a hold* that he was only rescued .by a ladder "being placed to "the upstairs window. - The only furniture saved was'n piano and » few other ftrticleß of furniture, evprything pise was lost. Mrs Edwards wfla in PalrtierSton at the time; Fortunately for tbe fami y a she'd jdear the ■house was not toutheft, into which they sought shelter until daylight. We understand that thpre'was no "insurance nn-tlw?. property. Our contemporary— Typo- -gives us the two following items of news : " The impending political struggle 'is affecting the press, and a new'paperisannotmced.toappear iv the Rangitikei District. It will need to be a well-conducted concern to hold its ground agaiasi, the Advocate." •-' Mr R. S Ha,wki.is has purchased the Wellington Ereuin:f Pre**. We hope that ; in his hand the paper will prove a great "success." The Port says :— Mr Robert Stewart, late stationmaster at Longburn, the terminus of the Wellington-Manaw&tu Railway Compan/a line,' didd at th residence of hia father-in-law, Mr H. j, Pilcher, last evening. The dec aed gentleman, who was hitKh respected at Longburn and in th b city, was obliged to leave duty about two month* age, and he then came into town hoping the changV would -be beneficial, but consumption had obtained too firm a -hold upon his. system, and he .succumbed as Ptated above. Dr.. .Collins has attended him during his illness. 'He leaves a wife and one chUd, and there are many who will sympathise with them in .there lOS9. The autograph fiend has been worrying I Mark Twain. He has called in the aid of the type writer and written a' characteristic letter— " What yon ask toe to do I »m asked to do as often as half a dozen . times a. week. Three hundred letters a year. . . . . I wish" to call your attention to i a thing which has not probably occurred ; to you, and that is Jfchis — that no niau takes i pleasure in exercising his trade as a j pastime. Writing is my trade, and I ex- . oreise it only whtya lam obliged-to. You might make your request of a doctor., or a builder, or a sculptor, and there would be no impropriety in it ; but if you asked either of these for a specimen of his trade, his handwork, he would be justified in rising to a point of order. It would never he fair to auk a doctor fo.i 9)o' of his corpses to remember him by." It appears that the original of Smike— one of Dickens' characters in " Nicholas Niokleby "— is living at Bury St Edmunds. | He is a toy shopkeeper, named Johnston, 1 and, interviewed by a representative of the Bury aud Norwich Post, stated that he is undoubtedly the original " Smike." Tie gave an account of his life at the York- | shire school kept by a Mr Clarkson j(" Sqneors'"). "So badly were we i treated/ Mr Johnston snirl, ■' that we used to break out at night and rob' bean and pea ; stacks in order to supply our vrants and to make up for the deficiencies oi' the larder at the " HalL" Brimstone anil treacle was our medicine, and it was administered by Mrs 'Squeers,' and "he drily added, " a half-holiday was always piven on the occasion." Askefl as 'to -what age he was when he ran away from the school, he replied thut lie was fifteen. Wheu he was old enough to --realise his surroundings there were about forty boys in the school but at the time lie left there were not more than twenty scholars 'receiving instruction " the first class in .English spelling and philosophy " having become proportionately relinked in numbers. The terms were twenty . guineas, which .included hoard, washing, aud everything, not excepting the " flour of Brimstone and molsses," which while purifying the blood had the additional advantage of ■being a Valuable substitute for breakfast and dinner.. • The New Zealand Times Palmevston cc; respondent, writing under date May i^th ssayfl :— " Mcssvs Gledhill and Co., flaxmillers, informed me that, according to London advices .-under the date of 24th February, now * received through their Wellington agents, they are informed that their shipment per Tougariro " was of good bright colour, and well dressed, although a little ' towy ! at the ends, and that with.the exception of this defect the fibre was all that could be desired." The report goes on- "io Say, "We trust price yesterday (February 23) received for this parcel will induce your clients to. ship hemp of this description in, large quantities." The priao realised for this sample as per the accompanying account sales, was £31 6s per ton, In another iettor of ...equal. date the same correspondent says, "they can 'alwajs guarantee £4 to £5 above the average quoted prices for shipments of hemp of Tike quality." This is of gre'st public interest, "showing, as it does, th ; t a comparative jrecent date, and after, the; sudden .fall in price which created such a panuj throughout the district, fibre of this I'liiiiltty shipped by Messrs Gledhill and Co., has* still been able to command a good payable price. An Aiiglo-Indian conoepondent writes illustrating the ingenuity.' of malignerern in the army. .Harelip Ijp.w a certain gunn«r when he waVafe dfljQer in the Bengal Artillery, obtained the nickname of " Cupboard Craob." One day Gunner Crabb went to see the hospital authority on the subject of a strange affection of the back, which compelled him to walk somewhat in the shape of a capital C. Do what he could, he found it, he declared, impossible to itand erect. As there, was heavy nun drill however going on at this time, Dr Tritton formed his own opinion of the caße, and thereupon ordered Crabb Y breakfast to be placed on a high cupboard in the wall, to reach whi h the patient would have to stand erect. At dinner time the cook rep rted (Jrabb's breakfast to be untouched, which he rep aced by a ilinne . At his evening .visit Dr Tritton ordered tho sume treatment to be repeated, and at the next morning visit he found that it had eucceeded, inasmuch as the patient had eaten his dinner, was sitting on hie bed, and declared himself ready fov duty. 1 Cupboard Crabb 1 afterwards conffb-sed h* had tried to deceive ' the old doctor.' but bad found it was ' no go.' :