Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1890.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 1 July 1890, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1890.

A girl is advertised for. The basket advertised for has been found. The Dor Registrar gives notice of hii intention to me after fourteen days. Messrs Jack & Co. hare their mill afain at work. A smart catcher is wanted at a hempmill. To-day the new system of return tickets comes into force. Mr Jonson notifies that he can offer capital board and residence. Some furniture will be Bold after the nursery stock on Thursday. We have to acknowledge the receipt of a batch of Parliamentary papers from the Government printer. We remind our readers that the tree sale is on Tlmrsday. We thank the Railway Department for a copy of t.he time-table for July. Th« Resident Magistrates Court will be held to-morrow. AH the mills are experiencing* much difficulty in getting the fibre dry. The road down Moutoa is in a vert Roft condition, and, if much rain falli, will toon ba almost Impassable.

Mr Carter's mill is hard at it, and though English cablegrams rule low lie is not disheartened. Madam Fredo gave another performance on Saturday night, which was very well attended — the tent being crowded. The Rowing Club sent the "Dolly Varden " out for a cruise on Sunday, being the first time since the club ha 3 been in existence. The delay h*s arisen from want of oars, which have only just been reaeived. Mr and Mrs Palmer arrived at Fozton yesterday by coach from Heatherlea. Mr Palmer entered upon his railway dutien this morning. The football match between Foxton and Otaki did not come off on Saturday, the Otaki men being unable to get up. Next Saturday is now mentioned as the date. Messrs Bradcock & Messina have made * start at their new mill on the bank of the river, by the boating shed. The contractor for the road leading off Purcell street 13 making good progress, and has got a good part of the cutting through the ridge done. Any excuse is better than none 1 A Londoa Insurance Company has refused to pay to a widow the sum of £10,000 upon the death of her husband, who perished in the Quetta diiaster. The Company alltdge that the evidence of death was insuffioient. Last week the district was honoured with a visit of the "representative of a London house, who wanted flax at £16 in Welling- j ton. Some contracts were entered into, but some of the conditions, and especially one providing a penalty in default of prompt ! delivery, were objected to. i In Mr Howard's window will be seen & very handsome «ilook, a present to Miss H. Osborn*. It is I'jiade of dark-green slate, having three pillars on each side of the face, measures 18in long, and is 12in high.. On the base is a silver plate , bearing the following inscription : " Presented to Miss H. Onborne by the members of Primitive Methodist Choir, Poxtou, o'j the occasion of her marriage. "' Fifty horses belonging to the Wellington Tramway Company arrived in town on Sunday afternoon and left again on Monday morning for Rangitikei. It is intended to turn the horsos out to grass in the Ticinity of the Rangitikei Eiver. Trade in Gisborne cannot have been rery j good, aa we learn that the other day the \ book debts in thvee bankruptcy •«t&t«s, pat I down at £2,525 61 2d, were submitted to auction and realised a total of £2 10s. In three other estates the book debts of £!)8 6s brought £25. Murray, Roberts and Co. have received the following cable message from their London house, Messrs Sanderson, Murray and Co., regarding the hemp market: — "Now Zealand hemp has suffered a further decline of fcl per ton." This brings the present London selling price for fair average Wellington quality down to about, ±10 per ton. A telegram from Napier, on Thursday, mentions that the heavy rains of the past week have caused a large part of the plains to be under water. It was from 2ft to 4ft deep in the township of Clive and the surrounding country, but in the night the rivers burst their bars, and the v/ater is now subsiding. The Advocate says it will be pleasant news for persons owning property in the neighbourhood of the Kopani to know that Mr E. J. Martin has driven three pipes in Mr Rowe's property, and has struck an excellent supply of really good water. One of our residents, as is the custom in the district, secured a nice log of firewood on the river-beach and took the usual action to mark proprietorship. A few days afterwards some other resident spied the log, and without consideration for the rights of others, cut the log into short lengths for burning. It wa6 not such a good job as he imagined, as the real owner became aware of his action and carefully watched till the work was done, when he entered upon the scene and carted the wood away. He is much obliged for the labour ; and has only to complain about the size of the pieces, they oeing rather smaller than he would have desired. Another time the cutter will know what suits best. At a meeting of the Dunedin Jockey Club Committee it was resolved that the Hon. G. M'Lean and Mr Driver be appointed delegates of the club to attend the Conference j proposed to be held at Wellington on the loth August, with instructions that t- c committee of the Dunedin Jockey Club in unanimously of opinion that there is no necessity for the formation of any such institution as a New Zealand Jockey Club, and will not allosv any combination of representative! from other clubs to interfere with them in the management of their own affairs. Gore, Southland, posseses a mayor whose fantastic tricks before high heaven furnish a continual theme for newspaper comment. H« is more like a Gilbert-and-Sulivan creation than a ninetaenth.century colonist. Ha threatened, in medieval fashion, to slit the nose of Mr S. Edwards, solicitor, and Witness correspondent, and the man of law and letters hit him in ths «ye. The local justioes, to vindicate the law, inflicted a nominal fine on Mr Edward?, but expressed their magisterial opinion that ho was perfectly justified by the code of honor. — Typo. A new inkstand— just what is wanted— has b«en made in London. It is called the "Isobath" constant-level inkstand, the essential principle of which is that the inkreservoir is completely enclosed, and the small dipping well is always maintained at the same uniform depth by the pressure of a float in the reservoir. Every dip of ink is automatically replaced in the well until the ink is exhausted. By this means the ink is always the right d«pth for dipping, and is always clear and fresh. W« clip the following from an exchange: •< The average Kentuckian is a man of resources, and it is astonishing how much ingenuity he will expend in efforts to lighten labour. The Tiry latest instance of his ciitenest which we are asked to gir» credence to is this : Early last spring a turk«y hatched a large brood of young. The farmer who owned th« hen and brood pi need a bell on the mother, and the young, after they coased to instinctively follow their feathered parent, by f«rce of habit continued to follow the bell. Tha farm«r observing this, took the bell from the hen, and, when he hoed his tobacco, tied it about his own ntck. The young turkeys then followed him up one row and down another, eating the worms from tha plants. They did tha work of five men, and laved tha crop. A communication from the Agent-General on the subject of the hemp market was received by the Government the other evening. Sir Dillon Bell r«fers to the prices which were ruling at the time of writing, and concludes his report as follows : — " There seems to bp&n impression that the American combination, which hat acted so disastrously on the : hemp market here, will noon break up. Some of th« trade oirculars refer to the warning you had directed me to give of probable decrease in future New Zealand production, but I believe it is generally thought that the visible supply up to the end of the present year is too large for the expected decrease in production to hfcta much effect on prices. Tha rtctnt •q'tloii

of stoppages of mills helped to make holders firm, and a good d'jal of our heiiip is held off the market in hopes of a rise." Mr J. B. Wareing, of Temuka, says the Christcharch Prc.xs, has grown a remarkable crop of ox cabbages this season. On an acre he has about 4,000 plants, some of which weigh as mnch as 181bs. Quite a demand has amen for these, and he sends «way about 400 weekly to Timaru, receiving an average of 25b per hundred for them. At this rate he will clear, after allowing a very liberal margin for expenses, at leait £45 for the acre. The land ii part of a well-drained swamp. He has also some excellent parsnips and carrots. Six of the latter averaged B£lbs each, a very remarkable weight. The parsnips were, if anything, too good, one of the men employed to dig them expressing his opinion, " that he might as well be sinking post holes." As an absolute fact they run to such a depth that Mr Wareing contented himself with plowing them out to the depth of ten inches, leaving the balance in the ground.