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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 7 October 1890, Page 2

The Queen of the South left on Saturday afternoon for .Wellington with a full load of hemp. Parliament haa been officially dissolved, and a new Parliament convened for Thursday the 18th December. An elderly man, Alfred James Cooper by name, a bootmaker suddenly expired on Thnrsday night in Wellington, whilst reading prayers, of aneurism of the heart. A litfle mild excitement was caused on Saturday afternoon by Mr Ahern's chimney catching fire. However with some neighbourly help the fire was subdued before harm was done. On Saturday afternoon the town was full of visitors, amongst whom we noticed Mr McLennan and the Messrs Pascals. Mr McLennan cheered the supporters of Mr J. G. Wilson by assuring them that there was almost a block vote in Campbelltown for that gentleman. The case of Barber versus the Natiyes at Motuitu which was abandoned on Saturday, will again come on in the Supreme Court, and an injunction has been issued from that Court to the Natives forbidding them to plough or impound stock until the matter is heard. It appears that Mr Greig was the owner of the flax burnt going down the Mauawatu company's line last week, and has sought compensation from the company for the loss. He informs ua that the difference in freights by rail to those by sea, makes nearly £1 a ton, by the time the flax is in the Harbour Board's sheds. The Palnieraton Committae's printer erred somewhat in taste when he prepared Mr Wilson'B addresß, but we were in hopes it would have pasted in silence, however it was not to be, as the Wanganui Herald says : — Mr J. G. Wilson has issued an address to the electors of Palmerston. The address is in deep mourning, and ought to alarm his friends. Wellington during the past week has taken a most prominent position as being the scene of murder* and sudden deaths. There was nearly need to record another unexpected demise, when a little boy named Henry Smith, nine years old, fell over a rocky cliff 120 feet high. Fortunately on being picked up it was found that though the boy was bruised and cut, he had no bones brokenTho funeral of the eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs W. K. Simpson took place on Saturday afUinoon at the Foxton cemetery. The Rev. J. Duncan conducted the 6ervice. A very large number of friends joined the i |>t'o«eKttinn.

Mass Will be held in Fox ton at St Mary's I on i mday next, at 8 and 11 a.m. Evening devotions at 6.30. ; Mr Charles Spring desire 3us to mention that ho is not the Spring against whom a jagdment was obtained on Saturday. A special train will leave Boston for Palmeratoii to-morrow evening at 6.-*;>. to enable those desirous of attending the Wirths' circus, do ng so conveniently. The train will leave Palnierston at 11 p.m., and will stop at all stations both ways. On Thursday evening the Rev. Mr Ward will deliver a lecture at the Primitive Methodist Church, on the religion of Charles Dickens. The Coroner's jury at the inquest on the death of Lily Dean, returned a verdict on Friday, that she was killed by her father while he was in an unsound state of mind. The Standard reports that " The Upper Gorge Bridge is now under going repairs. Its timbers arc said to be in a very bad state indeed, many of them being eomcomplety rotten. Mr Greig, the owner of tho Eclipse hemp mill left yesterday for Napier where he will represent Messrs Booth Macdonald & Co. at the Napier show. During the Labour Conference Mr Millar admitted that the Union in righting the Northern Company had lost i.14,000, but said that as they had caused that company to lose £22,000 they were willing to lose another £14,000 on' the same terms. Cheerful capitalists these Unionists make I The great strike of the shearers of Australia is rapidly breaking up. The Secretary of the Shearer's Union in Sydney states that an order has been issued to 5000 shearers who have contracts to fulfil to return to work. Mr McLean chaffed his hearers at the Labour conference and 6aid " they had been told that the Union Company would be in a corner in a fortnight for want of coal, well, the Union Company would be most happy to soil them a 1000 tons of coal! The Labour conference put in another day's talk on Friday and adjourned to Monday. In the meantime a deputation was arranged to meet Mr McLean to endeavour to arrive at some arrangement to suit both parties. This however i< highly improbable. Friday's Chrmiirh- says :— We- noticed a very tine collection of some hundred horses which were brought down from tho coast lust evening, by Messrs Haggarty Bros. They are all lor the Indian market, and will be shipped off by train to Wellington to-day. A boat of about six tons, half-decked and all roady for sea, barring the sails, was brought from Ashurst to-day, says the Standard and despatched per rail to Foxton where she will be used in the fishing industry. Sha is a strong, seaworthy, serviceable craft, reflecting credit on her builder and designer. She is named ' Ashurst ' and will, we hope have a prosperous career. By an order in Council issued at Wellington on Monday, Rule 299 in the code of Civil Procedure under the Supreme Court Act is revoked, and a new rule introduced as follows : — " Eveiy judgement debt shall carry interest at the rate of £0 per cent, per annum from the time of judgment being given until the same shall be satisfied, and such interest may be levied under any writ of execution upon such judgment." About 70 men are still working at the bi« slips on tho Gorge Line says the Standard but the mass of stuff is so great that but little diminution is yet preceptible. It looks as if a lot more ground above and adjacent to it is likely to come down before long, the formation being very unsound and treacherous. A very interesting scene was enacted in one of Masterton's side streets the other evening, when a gay young benedict, of flirtation renown, was subjected to about as severe a eastigation, at the hands of an enraged brother-in-law as one need wish for in a life- time. The interview has, we understand, had the desired fi'fect.— Wairarapa Daily. i The Foxton Kacing Club authorities are | now having a lop-dressing of manure put ou the bad parts of the course It lias been found that the refuse of the slaughteryards makes a splendid lop-dressing. Where that kind of stuff was put on last year there is now a grand sole i f grass. In another cjluinu parents are warned nottoalloiV their children to trespass in the enclosures on the racecourse. We learn that considerable damage has been recently done by some children, including the destruution of all the glass in the jockeys' room ; panes of glass have also been broken in the stand windows ; half of the hat pegs in the luncheon room have been broken iv halves, and one of the forms has been thrown bodily down from the stand. The authorities of the Club are fully determined to make an example of the first offender caught destroying the Club's property, and parents would do well not to permit their children to play about the course unless iv charge of some responsible person, Mr F. Curtis enjoyed an involuntary bath on Saturday evening as ho dispoitei 1 . himself iv the Rowing Club's outrigger " Electric Jerk." The water was rather rough and filled the boat when he was of! the boulder bank near the boat shed. As the boat filled she gradually sank and left tho rower, for a few moments only, •• half mast high,' 1 after which, with a gentle turn she deposited him wholly outside. Messrs P. Curtis and McKenzie were in tho shed, and they put off to the wrecked man's assistance, and g..t him aafely to shore. Curtis kept hold of the boat whilst iv the water, anil had worked her towards the shore previous to assistance being rendered. What we are coming to soon. A man who had both eyes blacked and his nose bunged up entered the Third street depot the other day and asked of Officer Button : — " How many trains leave tin's depot in a day ?" " Oh, about fifty." " Good ! Get me tiokets to go on the whole blamed fifty, and if there are any specials let me in on 'em, for I ache to get out of tin's town in a hurry I" The Spectator tells of of delightful letter of the Duke of Wellington which has just been unearthed. It runs as follows : — " Strathfieldsaye, July 27th, 1837. Field Marshall the Duke of Wellington is happy to inform William Harries that his toad is alive and well." By way of explanation of this curious despatch we are told that the. Duke in one of his country walks found a little boy lying on the ground and weeping bitterly. Being questioned, the little boy pointed out a toad to which In; had been accustomed to bring food, and which always looked for his conu'ii!? and took the food with gladness. The youngster was about to be sent away to school, and lie told the Duke he feared his •• poor toad " would die, whereupon the Duke promised that it should be fed regularly, and the letter quoted above is said to be oik- of five which the little boy received before he came back for the Christinas holidays to find his toad alive and well, thank': to the care of tho Iron Dn !•:•>. '•

The Pa'! Mall Budget says :— lt seem ( that we are once again to have the " strong man " mania rampant among us. Herr Sandow, who, it will be remembered, defeated amson in a contest at the London Aqvarkm, has unearthed in Westphalia, ftrtd brought to London for exhib tion pur- 1 poses, a gentleman who is henceforth to be j known as " Goliath." This prodigy is said to possess the following peculiarities : — One of his hands will easi y cover a shoulder of mutton ; the rings he wears on his forefinger is in circumference the < size of half-a-crown ; he can span a foot ] from thumb to third finger ; he can easily Ift SOO lbs. at once ; he has never been defeated as a wrestler; and, finally, he is stated to have, in a contest with a mad cow, easily turned it on its back and held it there. An accident of rather a startling nature occurred on Saturday afternoon ou the arrival of the mid-day train. Mr Thomas Mitchell was in the station yard with his dray and two horses, when something, probably the whistle of the engine, started the team and they tore up Harbour Street at full gallop. There were waiting iv Clyde Street a nnruber of vehicles, and it looked as though a very severe collision would take place. The runaway team however displaced their driver before reaching this point, and made too clcse a sheer to the footpath at the corner, and ran the dray against the lamp post which steadied thorn, by overturning the lamp post, dray, and shaft horse. They were then secured. The force must have been something very groat with which they met the lamp post, as it was toru up from its concrete bed, and one. of its arms considerably twisted. The curbing was also torn away. The Town Clerk is busy getting the damages to the Borough property put right, and he informs us. that some light fingered person took the opportunity of the position the lamppost was placed in, to steal the lamp inside, and the wooden fiuial of the casing. On Saturday the sub committee appointed by the Labour Conference for the purpose— Messrs I). P. Fisher, Lornas, Bfiown, Sandford. Winter and J. A. Millar - -met the Hon George McLean on Saturday afternoon, and had an interview, lasting some hours, with him with a view tt» arriving at some settlement of the labour difficulty. The sub-committee submitted their views in the form of five proposals, all of which were discussed as exhaustively as time would permit. The proceedings were not opc-u to the representatives of the press, but we understand that the practical result of the interview was failure (o arrange a basin of settlement. A«i might have been anticipated, the question upon which the sub-committee and Mr McLean were, unable to agree was that of the Unionists working alongside non-Union labour. Neither party was disposed to give way on that question, and there the negotiations seem to have ended. To-day the Conferenoe will resume its sittings at the Parliamentary buildings. ~-N. Z. Time*. What appears to have been a determined , attempt to destroy the steamer Napier bylive oecur*ed yesterday morning says the N. Z. TimtH. The circumstances, as far as can be gathered at present, are as follows :— Shortly after 6 o'clock yesterday morning Mr C. Barber, of the Pilot Department, saw smoke issuing from the steamer, which was moored off the Te Aro foreshore. Constable Johnston 'and Barber launched ono of the Harbour Board boats, and on reaching the steamer they found the fore part of the vessel oh lire. The first thing they did was to smash in the forecastle doov aud with a supply of seawatcv, obtained by buckets, the fire was soon got under. Another boat, shortly after, put off containing Captain Johnson, the Pilot, aud three men named James Laurence, J. Harra, and J. Hoyd, '1 he bulkhead dividing the forehead was eomp etely burnt through, ami the forecastle nnrt a portion of the forehold was completely gutted. It ' appears that no one sleeps on board the steamer, and it is not yet known if anybody was on board on Saturday night. Tho police have the matter in hand and hope shortly *o get some clue as to who wore last on board. On Saturday week, when the Hangitikui Cavalry elected Mr John Stevens, Captain, he stated "he wished to say a few words about the cancelling of his commission. He wrote a letter to the officer commanding the district in the presence of S rgeants Bronghton and McDonell, and believed it was given with other letters to one of Mr Broughton's children to post. However, he knew perfectly well that the letter was written, but if it was posted or not he could not swear, as he had a deal of correspondence at that time, but had a tolerably dear recollection that it was given to be posted as already stated. However, had he been one of the greatest criminals in Her Majesty's service he would have been asked to explain, and not been dismissed in the manner he had. He at least thought that his address might have been asked for from the head-quarters of the troop before such an extreme step was taken. Notwithstanding the action of the Defence Officer in cancelling his commission, he still felt the allegiance due to his country and Queen, and still liked the troop." There appears little doubt but that, as Lieutenant McKenzie remarked, the cancelling of Mr Stevens "Commission" was au unnecessarily extreme measure, even if he had not applied for leave. Ocr arrangements for the present spring ■ season in two of the most important departments in our warehouse are now complete in all their details, at Te Aro House, Wellington. The departments alluded to are dresses aud dressmaking. With regard to the fori mer, we may say that we are now in possession of a very full supply of the most fashionable fabrics for spring wear, and without going into particulars it will be sufficient to say that our Home buyer has displayed excellent taste and judgment, both iii fabrics, and colourings. We invite an early visit of inspection of our beautiful spring ' dv*>z* materials at To Aro House Wellington. Miss Valentine, with ft large staff of dressmakers, stills occupies the commodious site of rooms facing Dixon-atreet, and will be happy to see all her lady patrons as sarly during the season as possible. It would save disappointment if ladies would make their selection as soon as convenient, and plaoe them in her hands at Te Aro House Wellington. Tub dressmaking departments have always been the most successful in the city, and our arrangements for the present season are such as will keep up the prestige already attained in these rooms, at Te Aro House Wellington. Mies Dumont, recently arrived from the studio of Madame Beattie, George-street, Sydney, may be interviewed iv the suite of rooms fronting Cuba-street. In both rooms we are prepared to do the fullest justice to all requirements, so as to ensure the utmost satisfaction with our dressmaking skill at Te Aro House Wellington. Patterns of the new Spring Dress Fabrics will be forwarded with self measurement charts, post free on application to James ; Smith Te Am Honne Wplliwsrton,