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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 30 May 1890, Page 2

Messrs Campbell and Waddell are wanting a catcher and wood-cutters. The Wirikino Mill (Mr Seymours) starts ngain on Monday. We are glad to learn that the Okaua Hemp Mill starts work on Monday ; the Messrs Whitwells having secured the working of the mill. The topsail-schooner Falcon, now at the wharf discharging pipes for the Palmerston sewerage contract, make? tho second vessel so loaded. Pigeons, yet a-while are few and far between, though "shootists" have been many. A friend from Fielding says there are very faw there. We must wait until the snow on the hills drives them down to feed. We are glad to know that Mr Mitchell, one of the representatives of the Awahou Biding, is making an effort to secure a line of road through the Moutoa Estate to Paiaka. It is very much needed. In another column will be found an interesting account of a Hempmillers 1 meeting at Eaglan. The Chairman practically endorses all we have said, arul all that the Association has done. The D.O.A.— Mr G. J. Scott— notifies that the seoond and final dividend of 5d in the £, in George Gray's estate, is now payable. The district has suffered the loss of an old and ssteemed settler in the death of Mrs D. Hughey, which took place on Tuesday evening, at her residence. Messrs Cable A Co*a fine new foundry cm Waterloo quay has just been lighted says the Post by nieau.s of electricity. The installation has been carried out by the Guleher Electric Lighting Company which lias the contract for the street lighting of the City, under the direction of Mr A. IBarron, one of the company's local representatives, and it- has given the utmost satisfaction to the owners of the ironworks. Four large arc lamps, each with an illuminating power equivalent, to 2000 cainllcs, are suspended from the roof of the building shedding a brillant flood of light all . over the promises. Then for the better lighting of those parts -where tine work is carried on, an inoandesa ntlarap isplaced in the pattern shop and in the office, and will be fitted up over every drilling, boring, or planing Machine, and every lathe, making 50 of these lights altogether. The dynamo is on« of the latest Gulcher type capable of working 100 lights, and is driven by the engine manufactured by Messrs Cable to furnish m«tife power to the whole of the foundry. The dynamo is placed on a concrete plat*, and surrounded by a dust proof partition. Above it is a switch board from which «very light about | tht works can be controlled, The new gystem is voted by the foundry employees to b* an immense improvement upon the old style of lighting, and as work is very plentiful at tbe foundry, just now, invo ving a large amount of night work, the electrio light is found particularly serviceable. The Chief Justice devoted Saturday to the trial of the lengthy cases of Stewart v. Jack, and Jack v. Stewart. A decree was made that Stewart deliver to Jack the documents and books set out in the statement of claim and reserved judgement in the counter claim brought by Stewart and the whole question of costs. Some amusement was caused by Mr Hazelden stating that his side appeared as anxious to get rid of the oustody of the papers as the other side were reluotant to receive them now that they knew what they were ; this, Mr Chapman denied, and accepted delivery on the spot. The hearing of the case has occupied four full days, or six separate sittings of the Court.— N. Z. Times. A famine of a most extensive character is being experienced by the natives at Suakim and at Tokar and Kassala. The inhabitants have been reduced to such traits that cannibalismis frequently resorted to. In Suakim alone England is supplying food to two thouani persons daily. Hundreds are dying daily from famine. In another column will be seen a notice of the date that the, Quarterly Tea Meeting in connection with the Primitive Methodist Church, will be held. We are informed that this is to be a regularly recurring festival, the occasional ones having been found so successful. On Friday next, at the Primitive Methodist Church, Mr J. Knott will give one of J. B. Gough's great temperance orations. The Thames Evening Star, Jan. 82nd, 1890, said 'Mr Knott allo *s the subject to absorb his own nature, and for the time being forgets that he ia Mr Knott. Last night's meeting was one of the most thrillinf temperance meetings ever held on the Thames.

Tlie Eomohilxt, refomntf to the Bank of ; Zealand, oousulHrfl it h^« drifted into fl perilous jJdsitlotfj n.Hd S.ctvlses Die Ihtcjiilioii dX the silggested at the nieeting of shareholders in London on the 17th inst. The meeting in question recommended t.ie immediate transfer of the head oftiee to London, additional strong names on the London Board, the placing of the durpltis values of the colonial £ite* arid rireruiaes to the refceiJVe fiiti(i, inA. that the dividends should be confined to moderate amounts until a strong reserre fund is formed. The Argt>s y correspondent saya : — " By a singular coincidence most of the acoounts of the Duke of Manchester's death were immediately followed by an account of how Miss Beßsie Bellwood, the future Duchess in petto (should anything happen to the title), had been regulated to ft certain num* ber of days' imprisonment up at Holloway for failing to pay a debt of £12, she being iv receipt of a steady income averaging £40 a week. After all, Bessie never did not go to Holloway. She preferred to pay- As it happened, one of the songs which she is now singing turns upon the unwillingness with which English people P&rt. At the end of one of the verses Bessie paused, and, looking over the footlights with a dreamy far-off look as of a muiden wandering alone in the forest, said, "And I, too, am not good at parting — but Holloway (changing her voice) oh law ! no, I. couldn't' 's^and 'Hollowly— no, not quite that— Hollowoyj! oh law. it makes me shudder."., .The vast audience rose at her, literally wifcti tears in their eyes, and such a pandemonium of yelling, cheering, shouting, dancing, dofliug, and waving of handkerchiefs followed as has never perhaps' been witnessed on any other non-political occasion. At the end of the ovation the beauteous Bessie was perceived to be herself in tear 9. It has been repeated every night since, but the object of so muoh affectionate iregard has now become casehardened to it.