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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 22 August 1890, Page 2

Mr Golclie, M.H.R., is announced to preaoli at the Primitive Methodist Church on Sunday. Mr Greig, of the Eclipse Mill, invites tenders for cutting and carting green flax at his mill. Tenders to be in by the 27th instant Messrs McMillan, Jthodes & Co. Rive notice that their drapery sale will continue until the arrival of the spring goods. The Manawatu Rowing Club's annual meeting takes place to-night at Whyte'a Hotel, at 8 p.m. A meeting of the lliuV 1 Club is called for to morrow night at 7.80 p.m., nt Whyte'a Hotel. Our readers will notice in our advertising columns that the Oriko Mi 1 is to be let by tender for two years. Mr Osborne has some pure-bred whito Brahma eggs for sale cheap. Very shortly the yearly election of three Councillors will have to take place. Mr Henry Sanson has just completed the purchase of 900 acres of the Kopani portion of the Oroua Downs Estate. Now that the Bank of New Zealand has been renovated Directorially, the dwellings of the Managers are to be. We understand that Mr Jcnks has secured the repapering and painting of the Bank here. Mr Edward Bull, of Bulls, was buried on Wednesday. He died on Monday, after a weeks' illness. He was on old settler in tha district. The Hon. Sir William Fitzhorbert, Speaker of the Legislative Council, completed his 80th birthday on Saturday, when he received many congratulations. The result of the Timaru election was • -Hall Jones, 422; Kerr, 344; Aplin, 88. The official declaration will be made on Thursday. Coal, which is likely to be scarce owing to the labour difficulties, has caused one of oar business firms to take prompt, aofio-p to remedy the evil, more of which will' be known in a few days. A rumour was afloat in London that if a marriage is arranged betwepn the daughter of the King of the Belgians and one of the Prince of Wales' sons, the dowry will be the Congo State. A hint to the Committee of the local Rowing Club. The first Illuminated River Fete At Richmond took place on Wednesday avening, June 11. If properly worked up this might bp made a capital show. The road to Mr Gardner" ?. property across tho Mintoa 13 state sor.m to hi overlooked. a 9 no steps have boen taken to cavrv out the work. We. hopp our Councillors will look further into the question, and make some effort to secure the road being made. A short time ago frequent complaints were made to us of the condition of the Moutoa road leading to the Shannon ferry. Wp are glad to learn that Mr Vite.hell, th" Councillor for the Riding, has had this niece of road attended to; it is now in very fair order. We draw attention to the football match which takes place, tomorrow between th" Oroua Bridge and Fexton. The match i« arranged to take p'aje, at 2 30. p.m. on the racp-cnurse. It k thought that the same will be well contested for, as th ■ Oroua's have just defeated the Feilding seconds. The team to play aewnst Orona, TCridgp Mmnvcow will be nicked from the following. who are requested to be on the ground at 2 o'clock shavn :—C. Ender'w C. Startup. C. Robinson O. Robinson. J. Robinson, J. Armstrong F, Young. L. Colo. w. Medium. Tuera. Hori, F. Howard. .7. Whvt<\ (cant) T. Bi'Mitw. C Svmr,ns. W. Cnok. O. Bar'■><>r. f-. T>v rs, G. Edward, H. Balfour, and R Murray. The Secretary of the Post Office calls for sealed tenders for the deliv<«rv of the Mails between Bulls and Sandon : Bulls, ftomnlvlHown, Osmarvon, Pamwanni, an^ Sooths Ferry; Feildincr and Awahnri. nnd Feildincj. Fnwlprs. and PprnVwtnn; Makino find Cunningham's: Otaki to Railway; and Foxton to Kereru ; for a period of 2 years. Mr Davidson last Wf»»k experience all the discomforts of a capsiz*. He was drivincr inte town with a tand^m-t^am when thu r*ins hrik», and the hors»s. takini n different direction to that desired, deposited the driver outside and rolled the dog-cart over. Fortunately but little, harm was done ; the team h«iner stoned hv the driver of a dray. Mr Davidson got. hi* face and fingers hurt, but looks well enough. k patent taken out by Mr D. H. Pattia. Blenheim. i«, navg a contemnorarv. d#utrfted to revolutionise the New Zealand hemp industry. Th« fibre is extracted Jußt a« it, in in the blad». without damage, and that beint so it will consequently be the. utronzest; fihrfl in the world, but which is undoubtedly the smallest point about it. as, the fibre being extracted that way it is of courq«> a beautiful white filament, no bleechinsr or field work of anrltind rpqnirefl, and the fihro being entire the consequence must be that there will ha no tow. But apart, from t.heso several qualit: eB, it oan be produced for alvuit nnihalf or no of the 1 present process, and about one-third of the motive power is all that is required to that which is at present required. On Tuesday afternoon next a Married v. Single Football Match taJtus place on the raccourse. The following ar« the teams: Maurteti —Full-back Tuora: threeonarters, W. Little. F. Robinson, and J. R. McMillan: half-backs. *V. Hunter and A Fraiier: forwards, J. Rymnns feapt.), W Cook, O. Edwards. T. Nve, W. *fcPhun, A. Shadbolt, T. P. Williams. A. Lan^ey. and H. BradcoeV: emfrg»ncien. T. Winter. ,T. Harris. J. Watts. SiNnT.i!—Pull-bacV. L. Cole; three quarters, J. Whyte (cant), F. Touncr, and T. Brobner: half-baoVi, 0. Stavtnn and R. : forwards, 0. Robinson. J. Robinson. C Robinson. J. ' vm*Mv>n«. C. ttn<Whv. F. Howard. P. H»t>Vm*. H. P^ttnv. ««(t (1 t •»«**§ I mwS'

_ There rae 350,000 member* of vie Spivs- I tion Aumj in f.ho United St' f*-"-A Chinese, in Tientsin, educated in. America, lias started a crusade against the inhuman custom of foot-binding. Bishop and Mrs Selwyn have contributed £3000 towards the cost of an auxiliary steam vessel for the Melanesi&n Mission Service. The press of Berlin is largely in the hands of Jews. At least twenty journals, several of them very popular and widely circulated, are altogether subject to Jewish direction and influence. The capital of Germany has a Jewish population of 90,000. The Canadian Methodist Conference has authorised the establishment of a sisterhood for church-work and evangelisation, on similar linos to a like institution tstablished under Wcsleyan auspices in England. It will interest our readers to ksow that Mr Thompson has opened a cabinet maker's shop, oppoßite Whyte's hotel, and that he i» now prepared to do all joiners and undertakers work. All kinds of jobbing will be done, and pictures framed and glass cut. Tho Havelock correspondent of the Express telegraphed on the I9th " Payable gold w»s struok yesterday morning in a prospector's olaira at Cullenville by Happy Bob and party. The ground was rushed and pegged oft 1 by candle light. Heavy nuggets were obtained. The party in question have been working on the spot for six months. The find is looked upon as an important one. The Victorian Department of Agriculture has imported some seed of a forlder plant, known as lathirua silvextrk. It is stated that at the Woburn Experimental Farm, in England, some of this seed sown on unmanned sandy soil yielded fodder at the rate of 10.J tons to ' the acre. The plant has attracted considerable attention in Germany, where it has bean used for bringing barren sand hills into prohtabla and permanent cultivation. It is also said to be of great use in binding earth embankments, or railway cuttings. Some of the seed will be forwarded to the Experimental Farm at Dookio for cultivation, aud the remainder will be available for fanners dosirous of experimenting. Another precaution is shortly to be taken on the part of nome representative Herlin ladiea who desire to prevent their sisters from leaping tho broomstick hurriedly. With this idea a society has been formed for the " protection of marriageable ladies against improvident and unhappy unions," The new body will have agents" which on aplication will be told off to examine into the " social, pecuniary, and moral condition " of the gentleman who ha 3 wooed his Gretchon. The test of this society will be whether it can do its business discreetly enough without choking off the suitor from sheer fright. The latest discovery of the Victoriau Lands Department chtfde cukine bids fair to throw all the other rabbit destroying compounds into the shade. It is jamreal jam— mixed with powdered strychine served upon a peice of bark or chip of wood. The recipe is simple :— Blb of jam — apple or gooseberry, apricot, raspberry, blackberry, or melon, or in fact any kind of jam— and ioz of powdered strychine, well mixed, half a teaspoonful put on a 3mall piece of bark or wood laid in a ploughed furrow, and the rabbits, if they are numerous, will be found in hundreds cold and stiff next morning. The chief inspeotor states that this recipe has been used with great success for the first time during the last few months, especially in the northern districts of the colony. The extraordinary general meeting of the Foxton Co-operativo Butchering Company, Limited, was held on Wednesday, at the Company's Ortic<\ Thoro was a very good attendance of shareholders. The Chairman of the Company presided. Mr Grower was called on to make his proposal to wind up. and only secured a socon<lftr/»"o /ow/. After a good ma*y speeches the resolution was put and negatived— only two voting f.->r thn motion. Mr Gower took the opportunity to refer in very strong terms to a paragraph about the meeting in our last issue ; bnt we suppose that now, after the result of his proposals, he will acknowledge that we were nearer correct in our estimate of the opinion of tho shareholders than he was. If he is not, nothing further that we can say will convince him. Wo are glad to learn that, with the assistance of the Messrs "Robinson, the affairs of the Company will be carried on as heretofore, exc.pt that a decreased trade will be done to meet the shortage occasioned by the breach of contract committed. The shareholders are to be congratulated on the outcome of the meeting, and tho Directors will no doubt exorcise sufficient precautions in future to prevent the likelihood of being placed in the awkward position they were. It is proposed to make two calls shortly. Pemnants.— Our sale of surplus winter stock having now come to an end, we find as a neoessarv consequence of selling so many dress lengths of that we hare quite an accumulation of remnants, of all descriptions, at Te Aro House, Wellington. Remnants. — These consist of navy series, coloured amazons, foules, tweeds, homespuns, meltons, beiges, fancy checks, fancy •tripes, snowflakes, cashmeres, veilings, merinoes Hack cashmeres, and merinoes, with a variety striped velvets, plushes, velveteens, brocho silks, Ac, at Te Aro House, Wellington. Remnants. — The lengths of these remnants vary 1J yards to 5 yards in silks, velvets, Ac, and from 5 yards io 8 yards in all other materials, most of them are very suitable for children's wear, and many of them in combination would make up into very excellent and fashionable ladies' dresses, at Te Aro House, Wellington. Remnants. — Prices taken at random from our remnant counter show the following reductions :— 3s 0d for Is 9d, 5s 3d for 2s 6d, 7s 3d for 3s 9d, 9s <5d for 4s lid, 8s 3d for 3s 9d, 11* for ss, 12s 6d for 6s M. 15s for 5s 9d, at Te Aro Houst, Wellington. Remnants.— Other prices are— 2s 6d f»r Is, 3a 6d for li lid, 5* fjd /or 2s 3d, 5< lid for 2s 6d, 7s 9d for 2s lid, 7s lid for 3s lid, Hi 6d for 4s Gd, 10 Gd for 6s lid, 13s f d for 7s 6d, 21s for 7s 9d, Ac, Ac. These are but a few of the specimens of reduction taken haphazard from our remnant counter, at the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House, Wellington.