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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 23 May 1890, Page 2

Our local watchmaker Mr Howard has returned from his holiday. He is afraid his customers hardly expected him back so soon, as ha hae seen rery faw of them. Boulanger has announced his intention of retiring into private life. Thii is about the best thing he ha? done. The Queen of the South towed the schooner Reliance over bar on Wednesday. At the special meeting of the Manawatu County Council on Tuesday the draft leases for the Tramway were considered. Tenders are to be in by next meeting. Mr J. G. Wilson has fixed next Wednes day evening at 7.30 p.m. as the date he will address his constituents in this town. The Qneen'a birthday will be kept on Monday. Mr Gardner has secured a further order for flax, from Japan. Mr.Speira is prepared .to .take « strong youth, to lmxn. ctrpttwUring.

A correction has been made in thu quantity of flax sent by the Alameda it was 1495 bales from Auckland and 145 balc-t from the Soiith: the Hawfces Bay County Council have passed a resolution undertaking to make and maintain the'road to Taupo, via Waipawa and Te Haroto, and build a new bridge aorosa Mohaka, provided Government grant a subsidy of L2SQQ. This new route avoids the worst features of the present Taupo road, of which tourist* com. plain. ¥he hief Justice, in Chambers on Tuesday morning, granted an application that Mr T. Kennedy Macdonald.. should be apJClointed, oifitfftl liquidator, of tile iiangitiiici Fibre Company. ■ At the Wellington Resident Magistrate's Court on Tuesday, Thomas Watson, charged with failing to comply with an order made against him that he ehonld contribute £1 per week toward the support o( his wife, did not appear, and tiis Worship ordered that the defendant should be imprisoned for on 1 c mdufch; The 1 aniouht in aireilr 1 mi stated lo be &Vt. His Worship decided to Btay execution of the warrant for the defendant committal to goal for one week in order to give him an opportunity of paying up the arrears. The Agent-General has sent the Government a communication, dated April the 3rd,- with reference to the hemp market. The substance of the letter is as follows : — " I sent you a telegram on the 25th March that, after a heavy fall, the hemp market had recovered. iPaiOVellington was then from £21 to £24, and, the best £27 10s ; Manila ' current ' was £31 to £33 ; sisal, £25. At yesterday's sale the prices were a follows : — New Zealand, £16 for common, up to L'2s for good ; Manila, £31 ; lisal still £'96. Complaints are always rife as to the condition in which New Zealand hemp is sent away. It seems to " be in vain that the merchants and brokers here have repeated the warnings so eondt&ntly given to their;eorre«pondents In the Colony, to the effect that their market will be destroyed if the hemp is not better dressed and packed, and for my part I am ashamed to go on saying the name thing over and over again. But the fluctuations in the whole hemp market since the New Year have been so strange, and have so completely baffled the most skilled experts, that it is quite natural for the growers to be disheartened. I am endeevouring to bring together lome of the facts which may account in some way for these violent ductuations, but I cannot say that. there is any proapect yet of steadier prioes. . The Court of Appeal made an order on Monday suspending from practice for two years Mr Robert M'Connall, solicitor, of (Jhristehurch, whose case was argued last week. An order was also made that he should pay the costs of the proceedings institunted against him by the Canterbury Law Society amounting to 25 guineas, The N.Z. Times says one of the earliest measures to be introduced in the approaching Parliament session will be the Civil Service Bill. Every effort will be made to carry this Bill, but should it be blocked by systematic obstruction special provision will be made for the re-classifica-tion of certain departments in the Service which particularly need readjustment on the score of inequalities and injustice. What is the moaning of the following " funny little ways " which we learn from Dunedin— that the grocers and merchants have come to an understanding with regard to undue competition. The grocers are to cease marking the price of goods, save bacon, butter, and eggs, the merchants entering into a bond with a penalty | of £50 not to supply any grocers, marking ; the price of goods, the grocers being similarly bound not to deal with the merohants supplying such parties. The Standard suggests that the Bank of New Zealand Hhould be completely re-or-ganised, and that a new bank should be fornred Intake Qjtf^ the excellent banking business, while r!e old institution should aeaume t c form of an assets company and gradually liquidate the present unrealifiable securities. The Economist states that the dividends paid by the Australian banks are the largest i.i the world, while the losdoa are small. The Hawera Star's correspondent says that in the Kaupokonui District the peach trees seem to be wholly recovered from the disease which threatened their wholesale extinction some time ago, and next year we may expect, crops of this luscious fruit in as great, aivabundance as ever. The excellence of the work turned out by Mr George Norton the well-known boatbuilder says the Post is being recognised in various parts of the colony, and he has been favourfd with ordors which will tak.? biro and his staff som« little time to execute. Since hia appointment as custodian j of the Star Boating Club's fine shed he has secured the premises on Waterloo-quay occupied by his predecessor, Mr James Burns and is carrying on business there, his attention at the club house being only required in the afternoon. At the present time he is engaged in building two double scullers for the Manawatu Rowing Club. Bach boat is 16ft long, with a beam of it. 4in and a depth of loiiu, and is built of quarter-inch kauri. Sliding seats are fitted in each. The " boats are intended for pleasure purposes only, and are expected to be fast and comfortable. Mr Norton has just complected a set of 12ft oaru and a set of gun-metal swivel rowlocks for the well-known racing outrigger Dolly Vard&n, which has been in possession of the Manawatu Rowing ('lub for a considerable period, Mr Norton has also several orders for racing boats, bcullf, ami oars from other parts of the colony. The down train from Wanganui to Palmerßton ran off the line atGratford on Monday night. An engine w&s seni, up from Palmerston to bring on passengers, etc., but did not return till 2 a.m. The engine and carriages left the line, the guard's vun only remaining on the rails. A defective point is said to have caused the accident. A number of good stories are current says an exchange concerning the late Baron Dowse and Irish juries, but the majoiity Bound somewhat strong for newspaper columns. His Lordship wan particularly fond of apt quotations, and would constantly run in something appropriate into his summing up. One day he rolled out the well-known line from ' Loeksley Hall' : Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. Imagine his feelings next raorhing when he saw the Cork reporter had rendered it Better fifty years of uhokoe than a circus in Bombay. Yeaterday morning * young man named William Thompson was brought before the Court charged with drunkenness the night before. He pleaded guilty and was lined 5/- and costs 2/-. The tine was paid. Over the leader to-day Mr Wylds announces that he has been appointed sole agen for the Grey Valley Coal Company in this district. He asserts his ability to sell at the lowest current rates. ' The long pending" case of J. W» Stewart v. Jack Bros, came before the Supreme Court iW* afternoon.

We are glad to hear that Messrs CoeJenks « Ooi, are about starting their hemp mill again; All Saints Church, in the mam atreet id now receiving a much needed coat of paint. Mr J. Jenks has the contract. The Manawatu County Council gives notice of the intention to strike a general Count/ and separate distriot rate. The following ia an incident of the recent Auutralian flood :^ John Burgess accomplished a feat that (cays the Argus' correspondent) anyone not being actually a witdesß of it would hardly have credited. Having diVested himself of his clothing, he drove th« mdil trdpj with four korsdfl, B(jr^9« fhe T» lywaldn, abotft fotir miles, amtuau & £WJaj in" plMesi At times »11 one could ccc w»e the horses' ne&ds Utid Burgesi Btanding up on the seat, tl»? trap being cejnpletely covered. Had the horses become entangled in the harness whilst swimming the result would have been disastrous; Mr E; & Kennedy, of Kuntherungie Station, who was going across in a. boat, fiorigrritdkted Burgess oil accomplishing the feat, whidi Be Ventured to assart, not another man in the Australian 1 doloniee would have attempted. Burgess intends taking 1000 head of thePalpaara cattle across next vreek, and anticipates having to swim the whole distance. Pheasants and other game are beeeiniug so scarce in Auckland owing to the exportation! to Sydney that the Frozen Meat Company have agreed to th« request of the Acclimatisation Society and will not freeze any more. Mr Boyle during the period of hiß enforced inactivity in flax dresiing ia improving the shining hour by road metalling, and secured on Tuesdaj two more contracts. ' The new punt now lies at the ferry, but we do not know whether she has been formally handed over to the lessee. 1 At the Justices Court held on Wednesday a prohibition order was made ordering all the hotel keeper*, in Foxton and Shannon, and the wholesale dealers, McMillan Rhodes 6c Co., not to supply Walter Alzdorf with alcholic liquor for twelvemonths. Thus the " Vagabond " on the beauties ] of life at the Bay of Islands .-—Mullet j formß one of the utaple articles of food at Russell. The children coming from the little school house show the advantages of a fish diet, as well as the salubrity of the , place. No one can dony thii. Russell is above all the spot in which to take healthy rest— people with heart disease should liv« here. There would be nothing to excite them. How the publicans and the lawyers manage to live is a mystery. The stores, too, appear never to have any oustmers. When I, the weather being oold, go into the chief store to buy a pair of gloves, I find such a thing is not to be got in Russell. The people ive on mullet and oyster and fresh air, and do not wear gloves nor get drunk. Indeed, the effect of the climate is so wonderful that one of our party a confirmed whisky drinker, finds with astonishment, when he returns to tha Tarawera after a morning ashore at Russell, that he not only has not had a drink but never even thought of one. The latest attraction of the London Zoo is a collectiou of monster lizards, the largest of their clases. They are so large and strong that it is said in India burglars sometimes make use of them, seizing hold of the lizards tail and being drawn by it to the upper windows of a house. Divorceß can be obtained in four hours in Japan by paying 8a down.